Person Record

Metadata

Name

Israel, Mary Sheafe (Cushing), 1813-1903

Othernames

Mary Sheafe Cushing

Born

1813

Birthplace

Boston?

Deceased

1903

Deceased where

Portsmouth?

Occupation

Mary's husband Robert W. Israel, who rose from a clerk in the Merrimack Manufacturing Co. to Superintendent of the new Lawrence Company Mills in 1833.

Father

Charles Cushing of Boston

Mother

Ann Huske Sheafe (married March 12, 1805

Spouse

Robert W. Israel (1809-1847) married Mar

Children

Mary Lewis Israel (b. 1835, married 1865)
Charles Cushing Israel (1838-1856, unmarried)
William Pusey (b. 1838, married Jennie Merrill in 1872)
Josephine (1840-1881) married William McMahon of Boston, 1862
Kate (1844-after 1903) married John McMahon USN paymaster, 1873

Notes

The Cushings may have lived in Great Falls (Salmon Falls) NH in the Greek Revival stone house opposite the mills when he became mill agent at Great Falls from 1834 to 1838.

By 1839 the Cushing family and their three eldest children were living in Little Harbor at the Wentworth Estate, which Mr. Cushing operated as a "gentleman farmer" until he died on August 6, 1849.

Relationships

Spouses: Robert W. Israel (1809-1847) married Mar

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