Individual Details
Flavilla Ellis "Villa" Bailey
(23 Apr 1865 - 2 Apr 1948)
Events
| Birth | 23 Apr 1865 | Hunterstown, Quebec, Canada |  | ||
| Immigration | 1869 | from Canada, | | ||
| Marriage | 24 Dec 1890 | Bangor, Penobscot, Maine - Horace Burton Mower |  | | |
| Census | 11 Jun 1900 | listed as a 35 year old married white female (wife) in the household of Horace B. Mower. | | ||
| Census | 28 Apr 1910 | Pushaw Road, Bangor, Penobscot, Maine | | | |
| Census | 19 Apr 1930 | listed as a 64 year old white female, widowed, head of household, owning a home worth $3,500 | | ||
| Death | 2 Apr 1948 | cardiac decompensation due to hypertensive heart disease | | ||
| Burial | 5 Apr 1948 | |
Families
| Spouse | Horace Burton Mower (1864 - 1902) |
| Child | Marion Eva Mower (1891 - 1983) |
| Child | Harris Eugene Mower (1893 - 1985) |
| Child | Grace Emily Mower (1896 - 1943) |
| Child | Hazel Jane Mower (1898 - 1899) |
| Child | John Martin Mower (1899 - 1918) |
| Child | Horace Burton Mower Jr (1902 - 1986) |
| Father | Harris Bailey ( - ) |
| Mother | Jane Kincaid ( - ) |
Notes
Marriage
They were married by Mr. Newman Matthews.Census
Villa E. Mower was enumerated as head of household, a 45 year old white female, widowed, mother of 5 children with all 5 still living at the census date, her birthplace is listed as Canada (American citizen), her parents birthplaces are both listed as Maine, her occupation was as a housekeeper at home, he was able to read, write and speak English, her home was a farm owned free of mortgage. Other members of her household were Marion E. Mower, Harris E. Mower, Grace E. Mower, John Mower, Burton Mower, John Walsh (a boarder, 44 year single white male, an Irish immigrant, his occupation as a farmer), and Melvin H. Mower.Endnotes
1. 1900 U.S. census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, Ward 5, enumeration district (ED) 78, 12A, Pushaw Road, dwelling 250, family 279, line 47, Villa E. Mower; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, 1854 rolls.
2. State of Maine, Reel 45, Record of a Death: Villa E. Mower; microfilm Ea768d.
3. 1930 U.S. census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, Ward 4, enumeration district (ED) 10-11, 17A, 31 Sixteenth Street, dwelling 374, family 435, line 37, Villa E. Mower; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2017); Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls..
4. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 75.
5. "Married," Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier, 25 December 1890, p. 2, col. 3; digital image, American Ancestors (www.americanancestors.org : accessed 10 May 2008), Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers.
6. 1900 U.S. census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, Ward 5, enumeration district (ED) 78, 12A, Pushaw Road, dwelling 250, family 279, line 47, Villa E. Mower; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, 1854 rolls.
7. 1910 U.S. Census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, Ward 5, enumeration district (ED) 143, sheet no. 13A, Pushaw Road, dwelling 302, family 335, Villa E. Mower household, line 29, Villa E. Mower; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 September 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls.
8. 1930 U.S. census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, Ward 4, enumeration district (ED) 10-11, 17A, 31 Sixteenth Street, dwelling 374, family 435, line 37, Villa E. Mower; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2017); Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls..
9. State of Maine, Reel 45, Record of a Death: Villa E. Mower; microfilm Ea768d.
10. Ancestry.com, Find-A-Grave, database with digital images (www.findagrave.com : created 27 April 2009), Flavilla Ellis (Bailey) Mower, Memorial #36439326.
11. Maple Grove Cemetery (Bangor, Maine; corner of Pushaw Road and Church Road), Villa Bailey, wife of H, Burton Mower, gravestone, Lot 32; personally viewed by Dale W. Mower, 29 May 2011.
12. State of Maine, Reel 45, Record of a Death: Villa E. Mower; microfilm Ea768d.