Sixteenth Generation

8208. Ada Elizabeth "Betty" Novelle was born about 1921 in Massachusetts, USA. She appeared in the census in 1930 in Medford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA. She appeared in the census in 1940 in Medford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA. Betty died Heart failure due to complications from diabetes. on 3 February 1987 at the age of 66 in Medford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA. About 1930 Mary was brought from a foster home in Peabody, Massachusetts to the home of John Morrissey and his wife on Ridgeway Road in Medford, Massachusetts. Ada had been living with the Morrissey's since she was an infant. Apparently, the Morrissey's called Ada Elizabeth, Betty or Betty Ann for short. The sisters were raised as foster children by the Morrissey's until the age of majority (18 years old.) My mother, Mary, came to regard Mrs. Morrissey as her mother.

Francis McLaughlin, son of Nathaniel McLaughlin and Margaret Bibby Adams, was born in 1918 in Massachusetts, USA. He appeared in the census in 1920 in Somerville, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA. He died in 1972 at the age of 54.