Eliza J BENEDICT

Notes:

Specifics on birth and death dates for Eliza and William are per OneWorldTree.

Her obit says that she and William moved to “a farm near Morris, Grundy County, Illinois” in 1846.

Eliza married William H AYRES on 7 Jan 1834 in New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut. William (son of Frederick AYRES and Rebecca SEYMOUR) was born on 17 Jun 1811 in Connecticut; died on 27 Feb 1899 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1880 census, he and his wife and daughter were living with his parents in Saratoga, Illinois.

According to his daughter Mae’s death certificate, he was born in Connecticut.

Buried:
Fred H, Mary L, Marion R, Mae L, Max B, and Gertrude M share a gravestone.

Frederick married Mary Ellen LEACH about 1873. Mary (daughter of Morgan Mordecai LEACH and Margaret ENIX) was born in 1850 in West Virginia; died on 1 Oct 1927 in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; was buried in Newtown Cemetery, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Mary, age 1, in the 1880 census.

She had had two children, neither still living, in the 1900 census. She had had 8 children, five still alive, in the 1910 census.

At her death, she lived at 4604 N. Oakland in Philadelphia. She died at Philadelphia General Hospital from cancer of tonsil and chronic cystitis.

Birth:
her gravestone says 1878

Died:
age 60 years, 4 mos., 22 days according to her death certificate

Buried:
Fred H, Mary L, Marion R, Mae L, Max B, and Gertrude M share a gravestone.

Mae married Marion Ransom CLEMENTS on 18 Oct 1896 in Illinois. Marion (son of Josiah S CLEMENTS and Nancy WHIPKEY) was born on 5 Aug 1873 in Illinois; died on 27 Dec 1948 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; was buried on 30 Dec 1948 in Newtown Cemetery, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Stenographer

Notes:

She was the informant for her grandmother Mary Ellen Ayres’ death certificate. At that time, 1927, Eleanor and Mary Ellen lived at the same address: 579 Bath in Bristol.

Unmarried and living with her parents in Philadelphia at the time of the 1930 census. She is a stenographer for a patent leather company.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bank Teller

Notes:

Unmarried and living with his parents in Philadelphia at the time of the 1930 census. He is a bank teller.

Notes:

Not at home in the 1930 census.

Died:
auto accident

Buried:
Fred H, Mary L, Marion R, Mae L, Max B, and Gertrude M share a gravestone.

Notes:

Unmarried and living with her parents in Philadelphia at the time of the 1930 census.

Still unmarried and living with her father and siblings in Philadelphia in the 1940 census.

Gertrude M Johnson on her gravestone.

Buried:
Fred H, Mary L, Marion R, Mae L, Max B, and Gertrude M share a gravestone.

Family/Spouse: JOHNSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was 4 months old in the 1910 census.

Not at home in the 1930 census.

He died of a heart attack at his home in Upper Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. He was a supervisor in power transmission. He was married. The informant for his death certificate was Wanda E Clements of Lonsdale.

Family/Spouse: UNNAMED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clerk, Machinery Manufacturer

Notes:

Unmarried and living with his parents in Philadelphia at the time of the 1930 census. He was a clerk for a machinery manufacturer.

Notes:

He was 7 months old in the 1920 census.

Died:
SSDI last residence

Notes:

In the 1940 census, she was 17 years old, lived at home with her father and siblings, and worked 40 hours per week in a restaurant as a waitress. She had had three years of high school.

The 22 year-old Joyce Sorensen was a housewife living in Lynn Twp, Moody County (P.O. Colman) in the 1945 South Dakota census. She had a high school education and claimed no church affiliation. Lorell was not listed in that census so he may have been away in the Navy.

She and her husband lived in Africa for 2½ years teaching farming methods.

Birth:
her obit said that she was born in Bucks County

Joyce married Lorell L SORENSEN on 2 Mar 1944 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Lorell (son of Elmer Skonning SORENSON and Agnes HOLM) was born on 19 Jul 1921 in Lynn, Moody County, South Dakota; died on 14 Feb 2005 in Brookings, Brookings County, South Dakota; was buried in Colman Cemetery, Colman Twp, Moody County, South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]