Mary O (Singer ) Whitlock

Mary Whitlock
in the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Mary Whitlock
Birth Date: 7 Oct 1848
Death Date: 21 Jul 1900
Age at Death: 51
Cemetery: Oak Cliff Cemetery
Burial Place: Derby, Connecticut
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.
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Birth: Oct. 7, 1848
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Jul. 21, 1900
Derby
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA

A daughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (the sewing machine inventor/improver, of NY) and Mary Ann Sponsler (of PA)...

She married Sturges S. Whitlock in Derby, CT on 16 Oct 1867. They had 3 children, 2 surviving to adulthood:
1. Charles, b.Oct 1868; d.Jun 1869 (infant)
2. Olive Vouletti, b.1870 (Mrs. Walter Randall)
3. Mary Lillian, b.1872 (Mrs. Alton Terrell)

"The Los Angeles Times" in late Jan 1890 said:
Mrs. Sturges Whitlock arrived with 2 daughters (Misses Lillian and Vouletti Whitlock) at "The Raymond" (Hotel) in Los Angeles on January 22, 1890, coming west on the Southern Pacific RR.
The girls married a few years after this novel trip out west.

Her husband Sturges eventually was elected as a state senator for Connecticut.

Family links:
Parents:
Isaac Merritt Singer (1811 - 1875)
Mary Ann Sponsler Foster (1817 - 1896)

Spouse:
Sturges Selleck Whitlock (1844 - 1914)

Children:
Charles Whitlock (1868 - 1869)*

Siblings:
William Adam Singer (1834 - 1914)**
Lillian C. Singer (1837 - 1912)**
Isaac Augustus Singer (1837 - 1902)*
Jasper Hamet Singer (1846 - 1922)*
Mary Olivia Singer Whitlock (1848 - 1900)
Charles Alexander Singer (1850 - 1852)*
Alice Eastwood Merritt LaGrove (1852 - 1890)**
Julia Ann Singer Herz (1855 - 1923)*
Caroline Virginia Singer Foster (1857 - 1896)*
Charles Alexander Mathews (1859 - 1883)**
Adam Mortimer Singer (1863 - 1929)**
Winnaretta Eugenie Singer De Polignac (1865 - 1943)**
Washington Grant Singer (1866 - 1934)**
Paris Eugene Singer (1867 - 1932)**

*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling

Burial:
Oak Cliff Cemetery
Derby
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA

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