Notes
Note for: Herbert Devaney, 8 NOV 1928 - 1 SEP 1989 Index
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Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from A through L, Date
of Import: May 18, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.60300.160]
Individual: Devaney, Herbert
Birth date: Nov 8, 1928
Death date: Sep 1, 1989
Social Security #: 027-20-1589
Last residence: 02745
State of issue: MA
Notes
Note for: Robert Devaney, 31 OCT 1934 - 14 OCT 1971 Index
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of Import: May 18, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.60303.49]
Individual: Devaney, Robert
Birth date: Oct 31, 1934
Death date: Oct 1971
Social Security #: 027-24-0931
Last residence: MA 02745
State of issue: MA
Notes
Note for: Leo Roger Pimental, 10 SEP 1919 - 16 FEB 1994 Index
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Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date
of Import: Jun 21, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.44332.61]
Individual: Pimental, Leo
Birth date: Sep 10, 1919
Death date: Feb 16, 1994
Social Security #: 013-16-7203
Last residence: 02744
State of issue: MA
Notes
Note for: Christie Hannah Marsh, 4 FEB 1896 - 1 MAY 1985 Index
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of Import: May 18, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.60299.121]
Individual: Devaney, Christie
Birth date: Feb 4, 1896
Death date: May 1985
Social Security #: 026-28-6787
Last residence: MA 02745
State of issue: MA
Notes
Note for: Norrie Lomas, - Index
He died after serving in World War I from gas poison used in war with
Germans. He joined the Canadian Army. (He was not naturalized.)
He ran a butcher sthop on South Water Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts,
with his brother
Notes
Note for: Joseph Marsh, 3 JAN 1862 - 1936 Index
A 1935 newspaper article was run about Joseph Marsh's pet bird, Polly,
which escaped a house fire. Here is the story in its entirety:
Polly, Unsinged, Broods a Mite As She Reflects on 'Close Shave'
Except for a slight melancholia which she may shake off any time,
Polly, 18-year-old sole pal of Joseph Marsh, 73, seemed like herself
today after the fire at 55 Morton Court in which she was imperiled.
Joseph Sylvia of 863 South Walter Street, former occupant of the house,
got the parrot out unsinged and won the plaudits of firemen and
spectators.
Her green feathers radiant after a morning bath, Polly refused to
be interviewed. Her septuagenarian master, recalling the fire, said that
his pal "didn't know what it was all about," and that she has since been
uncommunicative and depressed.
"She talks the refined and the unrefined language," Mr. Marsh said.
"But I have heard neither since, even though I did expect the latter as a
natural aftermath." Inconveniences caused by the blaze have been
overcome and the parrot is back in her usual sunny spot in the kitchen.
Polly has had a pleasant and interesting life since Mr. Marsh
received her from a son, Henry, in the Navy a score of years ago. Like
most tars, Henry has visited foreign lands and acquired bird pets. He
returned with two, give them to his father, but one soon died.
The parrot had become so attached to home that Mr. Marsh had her
trained to leave the house, to flit and flutter from one mill chimney to
another, and to return promptly to meals.
Her tastes in these later years have run to the best, Mr. Marsh
said. In fact, she takes everything from soup to nuts, and if the faire
is not quite to her satisfaction, she will take a few bites out of the
tablecloth. Very rarely is she angry, yet there is one instance on record
when she upset the dinner dishes.
The son, Henry, donor of the bird, is now in civilian life in
Boston. Another son and three daughters maintain homes elsewhere.
Mr. Marsh came here in 1988 and for many years was a mule spinner.
His last employment was in the Potomska Mills.