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Alice Grinnell Peirce

Female Abt 1836 - 1917  (~ 81 years)


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  • Name Alice Grinnell Peirce 
    Born Abt 4 Oct 1836  New Bedford, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female 
    Died 25 Nov 1917  New Bedford, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Buried Rural Cemetery, New Bedford, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I05741  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Seabury Peirce,   b. 30 May 1812, New Bedford, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Mar 1873, Orange, VT Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Mother Phebe Remington,   b. Abt 1815, Tiverton, Newport Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1 May 1865  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Married 10 Dec 1834  New Bedford, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Family ID F02193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Charles Russell Hicks,   b. Abt Feb 1834, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft Jun 1900  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Married Abt 1858 
    Children 
     1. Emma Russell Hicks,   b. Abt 1859, Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 May 1924  (Age ~ 65 years)
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F06886  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 William W. Harps,   b. 27 May 1845, Nantucket, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft Jun 1900  (Age > 55 years) 
    Married 11 Feb 1886  New Bedford, Bristol Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Notes 
    • This was a second marriage for both the groom and the bride.
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F05864  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • See notes for her first husband, Charles Hicks.

      In the 1900 Federal Census, Alice is married to William Harps and is living at New Bedford, MA. The census gives her age as 50 and her date of birth as Oct 1849; however, she is actually about 64 years old, since she was born in 1836.

      Her middle name was probably Grinnell. Alice died at the age of 81y 1m 21d, of cerebral hemorrage, on 25 Nov 1917.

      Alice is buried at Rural Cemetery in New Bedford, MA. This cemetery lot has family members of the surnames Remington, Pierce, Briggs, Swift, Harps, Achorn, & Akin. It is next to the lot of David Pierce, his two wives, and other extended family members.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012438] Federal Census of 1 June 1850, Tiverton, RI.

    2. [S012590] Birth date calculated from age at death.

    3. [S013093] New Bedford Deaths.

    4. [S012563] Vital Records of New Bedford, MA to the Year 1850, Vol. II, 438.

    5. [S012620] The Pierce Project web site.

    6. [S013572] Email from Mike Bessette, dated 29 July 2006.