Individual Details

Fannie Bowditch Dixwell

(12 Dec 1840 - 30 Apr 1929)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. married Fanny Dixwell in 1872. They had known each other since Holmes was about ten years old, as she was the daughter of the proprietor of the private school he attended. Their marriage was to be childless, and endured until her death in 1929.

Events

Birth12 Dec 1840Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Marriage17 Jun 1872Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Census (family)19 Apr 1910Washington, District of Columbia - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Death30 Apr 1929Washington, D. C.
BurialArlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia

Families

SpouseOliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
FatherEpes Sargent Dixwell (1807 - 1899)
MotherMary Ingersoll Bowditch (1816 - 1893)

Notes

Census (family)

Oliver W Holmes Head M 69 Massachusetts - Justice, U.S.S.C
Fanny B Holmes Wife F 69 Massachusetts
Annie GoughServantF20Ireland
Mary SheaServantF29Ireland
Catherine CollinsServantF29Ireland
Josephine GainneyServantF33Ireland
Norah KingServantF39Ireland

Burial

Plot: Section 5, Lot 7004, Grid VW-36

Endnotes

1. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N437-LM6 : 7 December 2017), Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, 17 Jun 1872; citing , Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,433,030..

2. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMD-KJW : 4 November 2017), Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes and Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, 17 Jun 1872; citing Marriage, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 2,108,898..

3. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH8T-9PT : 11 March 2018), Oliver W. Holmes and Fanny B. Dixwell, 17 Jun 1872; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 818,082..

4. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKL8-NH1 : accessed 25 April 2018), Oliver W Holmes, Precinct 3, Washington, District of Columbia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 49, sheet 3A, family 73, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 150; FHL microfilm 1,374,163..

5. Find A Grave Memorial# 8570878.