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Note: 1880: Census, Waldo, Main, District 74

1865: Census, Belfast, Waldo, Maine

Occupation: Master Mariner
Occupation: Fisherman 1850
Census: 1850 Pg 73a, Vinalhaven, Waldo, ME
Note: age 28 1
Birth: 1822 in ME 1
Census: JUL 1860 Pg 43 (369) Ln 4, Belfast, Waldo, ME
Note: age 41 1
Occupation: Seaman JUL 1860
Census: JUN 1870 Ward 1 Pg 25 Ln 16, Belfast, Waldo, ME
Note: age 50 1
Occupation: Master Mariner JUN 1870
Census: JUN 1880 Ward 1 ED 74 Pg 2 (219b) Ln 36 Northport Ave, Belfast, Waldo, ME
Note: age 60 1
Occupation: Branch Pilot JUN 1880

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Vinalhaven, Waldo, Maine

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Belfast, Waldo, Maine

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Belfast, Waldo, Maine

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Belfast, Waldo, Maine

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McFarland, Elizabeth (b. ABT 1838, d. 4 FEB 1891)

Note: The Olean Democrat (Olean, New York) > 1887 > March > 10

The Olean Democrat, Thursday, March 10, 1887

The wife of George Oakley, who recently removed from Hinsdale to Clinton street, is insane and will be taken to an asylum.

Included in the packet was a letter written by Elizabeth “Lizzie” McFarland Booth Canfield Oakley’s son, written from his perspective. In part it says:

I will be 44 years old on the 22 day of May coming. I was born in Eldred, McKean Co. Pennsylvania in May 1874. I am a farm laborer, P.O., RFD 3, Franklinville, Cattaraugus Co. N.Y. I have lived in this locality most of the time since I was 12 years old. My parents were named Calvin Booth and Elizabeth Booth and her maiden name (was) McFarland. I have here the marriage certificate of my parents showing their marriage on the 10 day of October, 1870, both of Manchester, Manchester County, Iowa. This certificate gives their names as “Mr. Calvin W. Booth” and “Miss Lizzie McFarland.” (Certificate badly torn and portions missing, but the names and date of marriage is as above stated, Examiner)

My mother was married three times and no more that I ever knew about, and her first marriage was to my father, and my father died in Eldred, Pa. when I was four years old, but I Can’t tell the exact date, but about 1878, I think. Mother next married (Samuel) Augustus Canfield and I think in Eldred, Pa. It was one year after the death of my father. Said husband died in Eldred, Pa., and of pneumonia and about one year after their marriage. She was next married to George W. Oakley, and I understand in Bradford, Pa., but I do not know the date. Oakley was a soldier and a pensioner and they lived together as man and wife in Olean, N.Y. and also near Ischua, this county. My mother Lizzie Oakley became insane while living with Oakley in Olean, N.Y. and was sent to the County Home for the Poor and Insane, and Dr. Bartlett of Olean, N.Y. made the examination as to her mental condition, and think he is dead now. It was when I was 12 years old that my mother was sent to the Home at Machias, N.Y. No, I never saw my mother after she was sent to that Home. Yes, I understand at that time insane persons were kept at the County Home at Machias, which was before the Hospital for the Insane was opened at Gowanda, N.Y. No, I never learned that my mother was sent to the Hospital for the Insane in Buffalo, N.Y. She was sent to Machias and she died there as I learned. I have no personal knowledge of her death, but at the time she was said to have died I was living with Alfonso Winters, dead, near here, and I lived with him about 9 years, which was from the time I was 12 until I became 21 years old. I heard of her death in this way: John Canfield, a brother of my mother’s second husband, told Winters of her death and Winters told me and that was about two weeks after she had died as I understood, and I then and there cut the year of her death in a piece of tin and tacked it up in Winter’s barn so as to have the year correct; that piece of tin is still there, and when Edith C Oakley, the claimant, wrote me for a statement as to the death of my mother, I went to that barn and took the year from that date cut in that piece of tin, and it was the year 1894….

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Buffalo, N.Y.
March 13, 1918

Superintendent State Hospital
Gowanda, N. Y.
Sir:

TO aid the Bureau of Pensions in the settlement of pension claim, No. 1077556, please state hereon, or on separate paper with the return of this letter, whether or not you have a record of having had in your hospital a patient named Lizzie Oakley who is said to have been sent to some Asylum about the Spring of 1887. Her husband was named George W. Oakley at that time. Her full name is said to have been Sabra Lovina Elizabeth Oakley, formerly the widow Canfield, nee McFarland, generally called Lizzie Oakley at the time she became insane.

If you find that she was there please furnish me a transcript giving the date of admission and date of death or discharge or transfer. It has been stated that she was at one time in the Poor Home of Cattaraugus Co., N.Y. at Machias, N.Y.

The enclosed envelope does not require postage. Thanking you in advance for any information.

Very respectfully
N.B. Miller
Special Examiner

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Eldred, Mckean, Pennsylvania