Individual Details
Mahala Yerxa
(14 Mar 1815 - 10 Oct 1889)
Events
| Birth | 14 Mar 1815 | Douglas Parish, York, New Brunswick, Canada |  | ||
| Marriage | 8 Sep 1835 | Samuel Dow |  | | |
| Census | 2 Apr 1871 | Canterbury Parish, York, New Brunswick, Canada | | | |
| Census | 4 Apr 1881 | Canterbury, Canterbury Parish, York, New Brunswick, Canada | | | |
| Death | 10 Oct 1889 | old age - Canterbury, Canterbury Parish, York, New Brunswick, Canada | |||
| Burial | Lower Meductic Cemetery, Lower Meductic, York, New Brunswick, Canada | |
Families
| Spouse | Samuel Dow (1810 - 1886) |
| Child | Milne L. Dow (1835 - 1918) |
| Child | Charles Perley Dow (1837 - 1909) |
| Child | Emma M. "Amy" Dow (1839 - 1902) |
| Child | Gideon Yerxa Dow (1840 - 1933) |
| Child | Amaziah M. Dow (1841 - 1928) |
| Child | Archibald F. "Archie" Dow (1842 - 1891) |
| Child | Barbara Yerxa Dow (1844 - 1862) |
| Child | Ruth E. Dow (1846 - 1912) |
| Child | Joanna Dow (1847 - 1900) |
| Child | Jane Lydia Dow (1849 - 1944) |
| Child | John Yerxa Dow (1850 - 1931) |
| Child | Thursa Dow (1851 - 1897) |
| Child | Samuel Howard Dow (1853 - 1923) |
| Child | Alice E. Dow (1855 - 1917) |
| Child | Asa Norman Dow (1858 - 1931) |
| Child | Frances Loretta Dow (1860 - 1934) |
| Child | Dudley James Dow (1863 - 1935) |
| Father | John Yerxa ( - ) |
| Mother | Joanna Sarah Merrithew ( - ) |
| Sibling | Susan Ann Yerxa (1812 - 1889) |
| Sibling | Frances "Fannie" Yerxa (1809 - 1884) |
Notes
Marriage
They were married by Rev. Gilbert Spurr, Baptist minister, in the presence of Moses Hillman and Richard J. Clark.Census
Mahala Dow was enumerated in the Samuel Dow household, female, age 56, born in New Brunswick, Baptist, of English origin, and married.Census
Mahala Dow was enumerated in the Samuel Dow household, female, age 66, born in New Brunswick, C. Baptist, of English origin, and married.Endnotes
1. Robert Piercy Dow, The Book of Dow: Genealogical Memoirs of the descendants of Henry Dow 1637, Thomas Dow 1639 and others of the name, immigrants to America during Colonial Times (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1929; reprint, Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 699.
2. Robert Piercy Dow, The Book of Dow: Genealogical Memoirs of the descendants of Henry Dow 1637, Thomas Dow 1639 and others of the name, immigrants to America during Colonial Times (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1929; reprint, Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 692.
3. "Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946," Ancestry.com, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2019), digital image, "Marriage Record," p. 32, entry 1, Dow/Yerxa; Gabriel Drouin, comp.; Institut Genealogique Drouin, Montreal, Quebec.
4. 1871 Census of Canada, Parish of Canterbury, New Brunswick, Schedule No. 1 - Nominal Returns of the Living, district 179, subdistrict K, division 2, 12, dwelling 33, family 38, Samuel Dow household, line 4, Mahala Dow ; digital image, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2019); Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Roll: C-10382.
5. 1881 Census of Canada, Parish of Canterbury, New Brunswick, Schedule No. 1 - Nominal Returns of the Living, district 30, subdistrict K, division Canterbury, 23, dwelling 74, family 82, Samuel Dow household, line 5, Mahala Dow ; digital image, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2019); Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Roll: C_13182.
6. Ancestry.com, Find-A-Grave, database with digital images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 6 December 2019), Memorial No. 54635267.
7. Lower Meductic Cemetery (Meductic, Canterbury Parish, York, New Brunwick, Canada; Main Street), Samuel and Mahala Dow family monument; personally viewed by Dale Walter Mower, 1 December 2014.