Ellen (Mary Ellen) Sears
8 Sep 1868 - 1952
bornCalifornia, USA
diedArizona, USA
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BiographyFarmer.Came to Tempe c1880.
Enrolled at the Territorial Normal School in 1886.
After her husband died, she managed a dairy farm and took in boarders to support her family of eight children.
Owned 80 acres in section 22, in 1924.
Lived on 8th Street, c1910; lived at 1050 S. Farmer, c1913; lived at 805 S. Mill, c1914; lived at 24 W. 9th Street, 1927, 1940.
OSB 8
BIO-Sears
BIO-Hardin
TH-120.09, Ellen Stewart Hardin, Remembering (1983)
Benjamin C. Harris obit, TDN, Apr 1974
Eldon Henry Harris obit, Phx Gaz, May 1972
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, p. 86
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Tempe CD, 1906-1915
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1940
HPS-164; TH-231
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