♀Addie M. Blanchard

Addie M. Blanchard (born November 1869) was a child of Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, who, a Find a Grave index gives, died at the age of four on 8 October 1874. She was the grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of her grandfather George Wesley Blanchard (1868–1939).

Early life

She was the second of the four children of Wesley Blanchard (1844–1908) and Eldora M. Webster (1846–1913), who lived at Lewiston, and was born in Maine only about sixteen months after George. The census taker who visited the family in the second ward of Lewiston on 25 June 1870 listed her at six months and noted that she was born in November, which places her birth in November 1869. Her father was working as a store clerk. A memorial of the Webster family published in 1904 gives her as Addie Eldora, which is her mother’s first name, and records her birth as 3 January 1870 and her death as 9 October 1874; Find a Grave and FamilySearch also give 1870 for her birth. A Find a Grave index gives her death on 8 October 1874 and her burial at Lewiston. A compiled genealogy places Edith’s birth two years after her death, and Channing’s six years after it.

After her death

When her aunt Ida Alice Blanchard died in 1900 and left $300 each to Addie’s three surviving siblings, Addie was not named; she had been dead for twenty-six years.

Notes

Dates and name

The census year runs from 1 June 1869 to 31 May 1870, so a child of six months in June 1870 who was born in November was born in 1869. The census is preferred to the 1904 memorial and to the index entries, which give 3 January 1870 or simply 1870. The memorial’s 9 October and the index’s 8 October for her death are one day apart. The tree writes her name as Addie M.; the memorial and the indexes write it Addie Eldora.

A different Addie

A Find a Grave memorial for Addie M. Blanchard (1861–1923), buried at Plymouth, Massachusetts, is not hers: that woman was born a Stone and married a Blanchard.