Interred 4/6/1849
Aged 50 years
Widow of Ware, Jr.
Father: Mark Pickard
Mother: Mary
Mary Lovell Pickard, after caring for dying parents and grandparents, married th Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. ; nursing Henry after he took ill, while also caring for their children and his children from a previous marriage. Following the death of her husband, she settled in Milton, where she tutored three children of John M. Forbes along with her own. The cottage at "Greenhill" on Milton Hill, where she lived and taught school, was built for her and the family by Forbes at the foot of his land on Adams Street. According to Mary's granddaughter Mary P. Winsor, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes hoped that "their children would learn not only their regular lessons, but something of her principles and the simple way of life."
Three of Mary's daughters, Emma Forbes Ware, Harriet Ware, and Ann Bent Ware, were also involved in teaching at "Greenhill". When their mother became too ill to teach, Emma took on "the labor of the school." Of Mary's last illness, one of her children wrote that the sick room "...was the brightest spot on earth."
Aged 50 years
Widow of Ware, Jr.
Father: Mark Pickard
Mother: Mary
Mary Lovell Pickard, after caring for dying parents and grandparents, married th Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. ; nursing Henry after he took ill, while also caring for their children and his children from a previous marriage. Following the death of her husband, she settled in Milton, where she tutored three children of John M. Forbes along with her own. The cottage at "Greenhill" on Milton Hill, where she lived and taught school, was built for her and the family by Forbes at the foot of his land on Adams Street. According to Mary's granddaughter Mary P. Winsor, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes hoped that "their children would learn not only their regular lessons, but something of her principles and the simple way of life."
Three of Mary's daughters, Emma Forbes Ware, Harriet Ware, and Ann Bent Ware, were also involved in teaching at "Greenhill". When their mother became too ill to teach, Emma took on "the labor of the school." Of Mary's last illness, one of her children wrote that the sick room "...was the brightest spot on earth."
Interred 4/6/1849
Aged 50 years
Widow of Ware, Jr.
Father: Mark Pickard
Mother: Mary
Mary Lovell Pickard, after caring for dying parents and grandparents, married th Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. ; nursing Henry after he took ill, while also caring for their children and his children from a previous marriage. Following the death of her husband, she settled in Milton, where she tutored three children of John M. Forbes along with her own. The cottage at "Greenhill" on Milton Hill, where she lived and taught school, was built for her and the family by Forbes at the foot of his land on Adams Street. According to Mary's granddaughter Mary P. Winsor, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes hoped that "their children would learn not only their regular lessons, but something of her principles and the simple way of life."
Three of Mary's daughters, Emma Forbes Ware, Harriet Ware, and Ann Bent Ware, were also involved in teaching at "Greenhill". When their mother became too ill to teach, Emma took on "the labor of the school." Of Mary's last illness, one of her children wrote that the sick room "...was the brightest spot on earth."
Aged 50 years
Widow of Ware, Jr.
Father: Mark Pickard
Mother: Mary
Mary Lovell Pickard, after caring for dying parents and grandparents, married th Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. ; nursing Henry after he took ill, while also caring for their children and his children from a previous marriage. Following the death of her husband, she settled in Milton, where she tutored three children of John M. Forbes along with her own. The cottage at "Greenhill" on Milton Hill, where she lived and taught school, was built for her and the family by Forbes at the foot of his land on Adams Street. According to Mary's granddaughter Mary P. Winsor, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes hoped that "their children would learn not only their regular lessons, but something of her principles and the simple way of life."
Three of Mary's daughters, Emma Forbes Ware, Harriet Ware, and Ann Bent Ware, were also involved in teaching at "Greenhill". When their mother became too ill to teach, Emma took on "the labor of the school." Of Mary's last illness, one of her children wrote that the sick room "...was the brightest spot on earth."
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