Marble, Frances Atkinson (1851-1911)

Name:

Marble, Frances Atkinson (1851-1911)

Born:

05/14/1851

Birthplace:

Concord, NH

Died:

06/25/1911

Death Location:

Bridgeport, CT

Residence:

Concord, NH 1851-1854
Newtown, CT 1858
Bridgeport, CT 1876, 1880, 1888, 1890, 1910

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Teacher and Co-Principal (along with Mary Miner) of Bridgeport High School, which opened in 1876.

Father:

Marble, Newton Epaphoroditor (1808-1881)

Mother:

Freeman, Sarah Huntington (1825-1854)

Relations:

Siblings:
Marble, Francis Atkinson (1848-1850, Concord, NH)
Marble, Frederick Parker (1853-1854, Concord, NH)
Half-Siblings:
Marble, Mary G. (1858-1874; b. Newtown or Fairfield, MA)
Marble, Frederick Parker (1860-; b. Newtown or Fairfield, MA; school teacher)
Partner: Mary J. Minor (or Miner) (c.1853-; b. MA). Mary and Frances are two of the original teachers at the Bridgeport High School, and were residing together in Bridgeport by 1880, through at least 1910 (1880 census, 1888 passenger list to Liverpool, England, 1910 census).
Parents: Sarah Huntington Freeman (1825-1854; b. Dover, NH; d. Concord, NH) & Newton Epaphoroditor Marble (1808-1881; b. Bradford, MA; d. Newtown, MA), then of Concord, NH. They married in 1847, in Taunton, MA. By 1858, Newton E. Marble married a second time, Mary Gillis (c.1824-; b. MA), and was listed as an Episcopal minister in Newtown, CT, by 1860 (census) and retired by 1880 (census).
Grandparents: Frances Atkinson (1797-c.1878) and Asa Freeman (-1867), married 1819, res. in Dover, NH. Elizabeth Parker and John G. Marble.
Great-grandparents: Abigail Pickering (1770-1838) and William King Atkinson (1765-1820), heir to the Atkinson property; Mary Woodman and Joseph Marble.
Great-great-grandparents: Abigail Sheafe (1744-1805) and Hon. John P. Pickering (1738-1805), of Newington and Portsmouth, NH; Mary Wendell and William King of Portsmouth, NH.
Great-great-great-grandparents: Jacob Sheafe; John Wendell; Abigail Atkinson Osborne (1702-; cousin of Hon. Theodore Atkinson IV) and Cpt. William King.

Spouse:

(none)

Children:

(none)

Notes:

SEE ALSO (first cousin): Pike, Martha W.
SEE ALSO (second cousin): Appleton, Lucy Frances
SEE ALSO (second cousin): Appleton, Alice Atkinson
SEE ALSO (grandmother): Atkinson, Frances
SEE ALSO (grandmother's brother): Atkinson, Theodore King
SEE ALSO (great-grandfather): Atkinson, William King
SEE ALSO (great-great-grandfather): Pickering, John

Cecil H. C. Howard, Compiler. Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America. (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1897), 127, 248, 388.

John Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. Volume I. (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1878), 300-302.

Village Cemetery, Newtown, CT