Person:Mary Maxwell (2)

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Mary Elizabeth Maxwell
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Name[1][2] Mary Elizabeth Maxwell
Gender Female
Birth[3][2][4] 29 Apr 1877 Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States
Marriage 21 Jul 1892 to Elmer Ellsworth Decker
Death[4] 12 Jan 1947 Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States

Donna Corcoran on Ancestry. com has as Mary Elizabeth Maxwell. Born April 29, 1877. Died Jan. 12, 1947. Born and died in Flint, Michigan. Also has: Burial:Flint Memorial Cemetary,Mt.Morris Twp.,Genesee Co.,Mich. Cause of Death:Uremia and Heart Disease

When they moved to the house on Reynolds St.,Flint, she was a midwife, for a local doctor, he would call her and tell her a lady was ready to go into labor and she would go to the woman's home and wait for the Dr., or deliver it herself and stayed around to help the woman and her baby. She was short of stature, 5'or less, but, must have been pretty strong, to keep up with 13 children, she had babies for 25 yrs.,

References
  1. Carolyn Hubbard.
  2. 2.0 2.1 1910 Census of Edwards Township, Ogemaw County, Michigan
    p. 260.
  3. 1930 Census of Flint, Genesee County, Michigan ED number 89
    p. 2B.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Mary Elizabeth Maxwell Decker, in Find A Grave.