HOWE, Nellie & aunt TABER, Nell (Worcester MA)

 

Nellie Flora HOWE,
Sept 1910, age 6

IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: N. Flora Howe

PHOTO TAKEN: Louis Oliver Studio, Worcester MA, Sep 1910

PHOTO ACQUIRED: Dec 2022 South Florida Fairgrounds Antiques Festival

This is Nellie Flora Howe, born 1903 in Worcester MA to parents James Forrest HOWE and Mary Elizabeth TABER. She had an older sister Elizabeth Isabel Howe (b. 1902).

Mother Mary Taber had a sister Nellie Florence Taber, whose photo was also purchased at the same time as her niece's photo. The parents of Mary and her sister Nellie were Jesse P. TABER (1850-1932) and Ellen "Nellie" WILLOUGHBY (1853-1917).

1910 CENSUS > MASS > Worcester > Worcester > 38 Lovell Street

• HOWE, James F., head, 32, married 8 yrs, born in NH of NH parents, asst mgr U.S. Steel
• HOWE, Mary E., wife, 33, m. 8 yrs, born in MA of CAN and NH parents
• HOWE, Elizabeth E., dau, 7, born in MA
• HOWE, Nellie F., dau, 6, born in MA

Nell Florence TABER

Interestingly, the next house the census-taker visited was 2 Englewood, just around the corner, and that was the home of little Nellie's grandparents, and her aunt Nell also lived there.

1910 Census > MA > Worcester > Worcester > 2 Englewood

• TABER, Jesse P., head, 60, born in Canada of Canadian parents, house building contractor
• TABER, Nellie A., wife, 56, born in NH of NH parents
• TABER, N. Florence, dau, 28, born in MA, no occupation

Nellie married in 1924 Roger Bryant. Her sister Elizabeth married Charles Alvord.

Nellie Bryant died 10 Dec 1992 at age 89. She and her husband are buried next to her parents in the Hope Cemetery, Worcester Mass.

Aunt Nell TABER (1881-1952) married in 1911 to George Manning HARDY (1874-1958). They had 2 daughters, Ruth E Hardy (1913-1916) who died at age 2 1/2, and Dorothy E HARDY-PHELPS (1917-1958).