Individual Details

Maria Teal Peel

(19 Feb 1848 - 7 Jan 1899)

Events

Birth19 Feb 1848Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage23 Feb 1869Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - William Henry Prouty
Census (family)1870Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - William Henry Prouty
Census (family)1880Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - William Henry Prouty
Death7 Jan 1899Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Families

SpouseWilliam Henry Prouty (1846 - 1910)
ChildIris Gertrude Prouty (1878 - )
ChildLouise Prouty (1880 - )
FatherJoseph Peel ( - )
MotherMarilla De Putrin ( - )
SiblingAbbie Jane Peel / Piel (1844 - 1879)

Notes

Census (family)

Joshua Prouty M 74 Massachusetts, no occupation
William H Prouty M 23 Massachusetts, works in Boot Sho[
Maria L Prouty F 21 Massachusetts, keeping house
Abbie J Peel F 26 FW, Massachusetts, Last? Post Master

Census (family)

Wm H Prouty Self Male 33 Massachusetts, United States
Maria L Prouty Wife Female 31 Massachusetts, United States
Iris G Prouty Daughter Female 1 Massachusetts, United States
Louise Prouty Daughter Female 0 Massachusetts, United States
Bridget Conley Other Female 28 Ireland

Death

The Reading Eagle, Monday, January 9, 1899
Suicide Suicide's Sequel.
The Mother of Young Hammond's Sweetheart, Brooding Over His Death, Kills Herself.
Spencer: Mrs. Maria Teal Prouty, wife of William H. Prouty, of this place, committed suicide by strangling herself with a small silk handkerchief.
Mrs. Prouty was the mother of Miss Iris Prouty, whose sweetheart, Henry Hammond, shot himself to death on Friday last. the young couple were to have been married. The only cause discovered for Hammond's suicide was his extreme bashfulness, which, it was thought, made him seek death rather than undergo the ordeal of a marriage ceremony.
Mrs. Prouty was deeply attached to young Hammond, and it is believed that her mind was unsettled by brooding over his death.
(http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xcAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LZ0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6523,2270445&dq=prouty&hl=en)

Endnotes

1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 118.

2. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 118.

3. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 118.