♀Laura Eva Harvey

Laura Eva Harvey (1869–1951) was a music teacher and school principal at Mount Carmel, Wabash County, Illinois, and a Mount Carmel Register notice of 20 June 1931 reports that she married Samuel Weaver Nutt there in her sixties, and she later lived in Ohio. She was a daughter of James Harvey (1821–1896) and Eleanor Tougas Lovellette (1830–1898), and the great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of her great-grandmother Julia Esther Harvey (1857–1951).

Teacher at Mount Carmel

She was born at Mount Carmel in June 1869, the sixth of the seven children of the physician James Harvey and Eleanor Tougas Lovellette, all seven of whom are named in the obituary of the youngest, Orian Ross Harvey, in 1908. At the census of 1900 she was single and a music teacher, living at Mount Carmel in the household of her sister Julia and Julia’s husband, the lawyer Robert Thomas Wilkinson. When Orian’s obituary named his brothers and sisters in June 1908, it still called her “Miss Laura Harvey” and listed her among those of Mount Carmel. By 1931 she was principal of the Longfellow school there.

Marriage and Ohio

On 20 June 1931 she married Samuel Weaver Nutt (1861–1945) at Mount Carmel. A Find a Grave memorial gives him as a native of Clinton County, Ohio, and the records show no children of the marriage. When her sister Julia died at Mount Carmel on 30 March 1951, the obituary printed the next day named the surviving sister as “Mrs. Laura Nutt of Dayton, Ohio”. Laura died three weeks later, on 20 April 1951, according to a Find a Grave memorial, which buries her at Centerville Cemetery, Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, in her husband’s plot.

Notes

The 1900 census gives her birth as June 1869. A Find a Grave memorial gives 1865, as does the 1870 census, which lists a Laura aged five in her father’s household; the tree keeps 1869, which rests on the census in which she is enumerated as an adult.

The memorial names her Laura Evangeline Harvey Nutt. The tree keeps Eva, the name in the 1900 census, and Evangeline is probably the full form of it. The memorial’s age at death, 85 or 86, follows its 1865.