Individual Details

Mary was a daughter of Justus Worcester who came to Iowa from New York state and settled in Marshall County, IA and later moving to Grinnell. Justus was a cousin of Joseph Emerson Worcester, the compiler of Worcester's dictionary.
Before her marriage Mary was a teacher. She and her husband John were the parents of six children.

Sources:
Parker, Leonard Fletcher, History of Poweshiek County, Iowa, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1911, pp. 344-348.
1910 U.S. Census, Powesheik County, Iowa, population schedule, Grinnell City, enumeration district 114, p. 26B.
For more about Mary and her extended family, see the following website:
ClearfieldDescendants.com

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Birth	17 May 1856	Le Grand, Marshall County, Iowa
Census (family)-shared	28 Jun 1860	(Justus Worcester and Sarah Carpenter) Le Grand, Marshall County, Iowa
Census (family)-shared	6 Jun 1870	(Justus Worcester and Sarah Carpenter) Le Grand, Marshall County, Iowa
Census	5 Apr 1940	Grinnell, Poweshiek County, Iowa
Death	17 Jul 1951	Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
Burial		Hazelwood Cemetery, Grinnell, Poweshiek County, Iowa

Spouse	John Harper Patton (1856 - 1935)
Child	John Harper Patton Jr. (1884 - 1939)
Child	Homer Emerson Patton (1887 - 1951)
Child	Edward Carpenter Patton (1890 - 1972)
Child	Mary Edith Patton (1891 - 1987)
Child	Esther Ann Patton (1895 - 1993)
Child	Paul Worcester Patton (1897 - 1970)

Father	Justus Worcester (1821 - 1892)
Mother	Sarah Carpenter (1825 - 1895)
Sibling	Justus C. Worcester (1847 - 1879)
Sibling	Laura Arabella Worcester (1850 - 1938)
Sibling	Martha Maria Worcester (1853 - 1941)
Sibling	Adda Celeste Worcester (1859 - 1940)
Sibling	Byron Franklin Worcester (1862 - 1863)
Sibling	Othello Judson Worcester (1863 - 1938)
Sibling	Alma May Worcester (1866 - 1954)
Sibling	Frances Adelma Worcester (1868 - 1962)

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