Documentation for Stillman G. Stanley and Eva Maria Higgins


Death Data

According to the gravestone of Eva Maria (Higgins) Stanley, she was 34 years and 1 month at death. Assuming that the death date on the gravestone is correct, the age at death on the stone is not. The records of Eden (now Bar Harbor) reported her to have been born on 8 April 1859, and the 1860 census of Eden gave her age as 1 year, an age consistent with the birth record. A birth in April of 1859 would have made her date at death around 37 years and 1 month, not 34 years and 1 month.