Individual Details
Maria Teal Peel
(19 Feb 1848 - 7 Jan 1899)
Events
Families
Spouse | William Henry Prouty (1846 - 1910) |
Child | Iris Gertrude Prouty (1878 - ) |
Child | Louise Prouty (1880 - ) |
Father | Joseph Peel ( - ) |
Mother | Marilla De Putrin ( - ) |
Sibling | Abbie Jane Peel / Piel (1844 - 1879) |
Notes
Census (family)
Joshua Prouty M 74 Massachusetts, no occupationWilliam 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 StatesMaria 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, 1899Suicide 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.