August Birthdays from Mary Jane Kellam's Birthday Book

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 Here are the August birthdays included in Mary Jane Kellam Hankins' birthday book. 




August 3
Florence E. Main

Florence Eliza Main was born 3 August 1866 in Hankins, Sullivan County, New York, the daughter of Zalmon Smith Main and Mary Hankins. She married William Albert Martin (1866-1937), son of William Albert Martin and Eliza A Barker on 12 May 1898 in Binghamton, Broome County, New York. She died on 15 May 1940 in Los Angeles, California. Florence Main was Mary Jane Kellam's husband William Lucas Hankins' first cousin. 





August 5
Ralph William Hankins 1927
Ralph William Hankins was born on 5 August 1927 in New York City. He was adopted in 1928 by Francis William Hankins and Evelyn Clara Call. Ralph died on 21 August 1997 in Schwenksville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was Mary Jane Kellam's oldest grandson. 

August 6
Mary L Davis Birthday




August 7
Sarah Carroll, Port Jervis NY
Possibly Sarah Shaver who married Dr. Oren A. Carroll in Andes, Delaware County, New York. They lived in Port Jervis, Orange County, New York starting 1868. She may have been born in 1822 and may have died in 1908. Mary Jane Kellam's husband's mother was a Shaver from Andes, Delaware County so this may be a family connection noted in the birthday book. 




August 16
Mary Crowley Birthday

August 18
Mary Lukins   Hankins, NY  1817
Mary Kellam, daughter of John Kellam and Jane Ross, who was born in 1817. She married Derrick Lukens (1811-1871). Mary Kellam Lukens died on 3 September 1886. In 1870, the Lukens family lived in Bethel, Sullivan County, New York. In 1880, Mary, a widow, was living with her daughter Carmoitha and son-in-law Paul Ross in Manchester, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. According to her gravestorn, Mary was age 69 years and 16 days old when she died, which calculates to a birthdate of 18 August 1817. Mary Kellam Lukens was Mary Jane Kellam's paternal aunt. 




August 22
Mrs. Paulina Davis    Long Eddy
There appear to have been two Mrs. Paulina Davis' in Sullivan County, New York in the second half of the nineteenth century. One was married to Robert, the other to Simon. Census records place both in Fallsburgh, Long Eddy is in Fremont. so I don't know which (if either) Paulina Davis this refers to. 

August 23
C.L. Washburn   Lake View, PA



August 27
Margaret M Bogenn[?iy]  Mifflinburg, PA

August 27
Mrs Jane Brown   1841



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