Marriage of Persis Salisbury

Bar Harbor, Maine

 

Persis Marston Salisbury

                                                                                            Married

Mary G. Crothers

BIRTH: 26 Nov 1895, New York

NICKNAME: Funny Nana

BIOGRAPHY: 

        Mary's Father was also born in New York, and her Mother was born in Ireland. She married Persis Marston Salisbury in 1917.

        At the time of the 1920 Census, Mary G. was 24 years old, and living at 36 Greeley Avenue, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME (Series: T625; Roll: 642; Page: 139; District: 4), with her husband, Persis (34), an electrician; her father-in-law, Marston B. (67), widowed, and listed as head of household; and her daughter Marion G., 2 years and 1 month old.

        At the time of the 1930 Census, Mary G. was 33 years old, and living at 36 Greeley Avenue, Bar Harbor, ME (Series: T626; Roll: 832; Page: 246; District: 3), with her husband, Persis (44), an electrician, listed as head of household wife; her daughter Marion G. (12); her daughter Isabel F. (9), and her father-in-law, Marston B. (78).

DEATH: Mary died at the age of 85, on 7 Feb 1981, in Bar Harbor, ME. 

 

CHILDREN

Marion G. Salisbury

BIRTH: 1918, Maine

BIOGRAPHY: 

        At the time of the 1920 Census, Marion G. was 2 years and 1 month old, and living at 36 Greeley Avenue, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME (Series: T625; Roll: 642; Page: 139; District: 4), with her Father, Persis (34), an electrician; her Mother, Mary G. (24); and her grandfather, Marston B. (67), widowed, and listed as head of household.

        At the time of the 1930 Census, Marion G. was 12 years old, and living at 36 Greeley Avenue, Bar Harbor, ME (Series: T626; Roll: 832; Page: 246; District: 3), with her Father, Persis (44), an electrician; her Mother, Mary G. (33); her sister Isabel (9); and her Grandfather, Marston B. (78).

 

Isabel Florence Salisbury

BIRTH: 3 May 1920, Maine

NICKNAME: Nana (to grandchildren)

BIOGRAPHY: 

        At the time of the 1930 Census, Isabel was 9 years old, and living at 36 Greeley Avenue, Bar Harbor, ME (Series: T626; Roll: 832; Page: 246; District: 3), with her Father, Persis (44), an electrician; her Mother, Mary G. (33); her sister Marion G. (12); and her Grandfather, Marston B. (78).

William Erskine Dillon

        Isabel married William Erskine Dillon (b 5 Oct 1921, Naugatuck, CT), who had served in the Army Air Corps, in WWII combat over Europe, flying out of England, as a tail gunner, in a B24 heavy bomber.

Bill and Isabel

        They had a son William Erskine Jr. (b 1943). 

Billy Jr. - 1943

        After the war, Bill worked for the Bristol Company, in Platts Mills, CT, and the family lived on Field Street, in Naugatuck, CT.  In the 1960's, Isabel and Bill moved to Woodbury, CT, and eventually bought a home at 20 Ridgewood Road, in Woodbury.

Bill and Isabel Dillon - 1968

        Their son, William, married Karen Kosko (b 1946) on 18 Apr 1964, in Naugatuck, CT.

Bill and Karen

        Bill and Karen had two children: Edward William Salisbury (b 1967) and Barbara Jean (b 1970). 

Edward and Barbara Jean

 

        Edward married Heather Marie Chute, on 14 Oct 1995.

 

Edward and Heather

They have a daughter, Flannery, born in 1996.  In 2004, Heather gave birth to identical twin daughters: Molly Salisbury, and Mary Isabel, who was stillborn.

Flannery and Molly

DEATH: Isabelle died on 10 Sept 1996 in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the age of 76.

BURIAL: Isabel is buried with her husband, William (d 2 Mar 1997, Woodbury, CT), "back home" in Salisbury Cove, Maine, at the Leland Cemetery.

 

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