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Female Mary J. Colby Click to view Mary J. Colby in the family tree

Mary J. was born on April 30th, 1841 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire.  Mary J.'s father was Sargent Colby and her mother was Ruth Ann Colby.  Her paternal grandfather was Samuel Colby and her paternal grandmother is Sarah Partridge. She had ten brothers and six sisters, named Willard M., Matthew H., Horace S., John S., George B., George S., Caleb S., Franklin Pierce, Orren E., Edward H., Melinda A., Emeline B., Sarah E., Lucretia P., Susan M. and Louisa M..  She was the sixth youngest of the seventeen children. She had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Henry S. and Mary J..  She died at the age of 74 on July 25th, 1915 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.


Mary J.'s family with Henry Johnson Tirrell

‌Mary J. and Henry Johnson were married in a religious ceremony on January 1st, 1862 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.  They had two sons and four daughters, named Edwin Johnson, Jesse W., Emma A., Minnie C., Blanche M. and Ruth Anne Florence.

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