PERSONAL DATA SHEET- Matilda Norman-Short

PERSONAL DATA SHEET

Matilda Norman
If French, family name may have been Normand

BORN: 28 July 1825 in Boston, Suffolk Cunty, MA
No records for Matilda's place of birth appear to coincide with one another, though most of the time she indicates she was born in French Canada. However, other census records list Ohio and Vermont. Her obituary states she was born in Boston and shortly thereafter moved to Montreal. She was said to have been orphaned in 1833 at which time she was raised by her grandmother in Bakersfield, though whether the maternal or paternal grandmother, is not known.

MARRIED: 30 June 1842 in Bakersfield, Franklin Co., VT
Pension records indicate she was married here by John Morse, Justice of the Peace.

DIED: 06 January 1902, Brownsdale, Mower Co., MN
Was living with her only son George at the time she passed away.
Obituary on file

RESIDED: Born in Boston, MA but very early in her life moved to Montreal. At the age of eight (1833) she was left an orphan and raised by her grandmother in Bakersfield, VT; After marriage in 1842 lived in New York and Vermont where they sold their property and bought land in Illinois. In 1861 came to Minnesota to the village of Winona and after her husband's death, lived in Whalen, Rushford and finally Brownsdale where she came in May of 1891.

BURIED: Greenwood Cemetery - Brownsdale, MN

SPOUSE: Short, Martin 1823 - 1864

CHILDREN:

Mary Marie Short - born about 1849 in Illinois
Elizabeth June Short - born 01 Nov 1853 in Addison County, VT.
Eunice Matilda Short - born 15 August 1859 in Shipman, Macoupin Co., IL
George McClellan Short - born 08 May 1862 in Saratoga, Winona Co., MN

CENSUS RECORDS:

1860 Fed Census - Macoupin Co., IL

1865 State Census - Winona County, MN

1870 Fed Census - Winona Co., MN

1880 Fed Census - Winona Co., MN

1883 Saratoga, Winona, MN Pensioners

1900 Fed Census - Mower Co., MN

OTHER SOURCES: Widow’s Pension Records; Obituary - The Mower County Transcript, Austin, MN Wed. Jan 15, 1902.

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