Alanson Banks Stearns and Mary Lucia
Works Stearns are Dottie
Stearns Wenzinger's paternal grandparents. Dottie's father, Eric Swain Stearns, was the youngest of Alanson and Mary's three children.
Alanson Stearns was born in Hopkinton, MA, on January 7, 1862. He was one of nine children of Gilbert Stearns and his wife, Lucinda
Grandy Stearns. Alanson died on August 23, 1932.
Mary Works was born in Southborough, MA, on November 15, 1862. She and Alanson were married on July 22, 1885, in South Framingham, MA. Mary died on July 12, 1936.
Both Alanson and Mary were 34 years old when their son Eric was born in 1896. According to the official
birth record, Alanson was working as a grocer at the time.
Excerpt from the Stearns Geneaology Book 1901:
In 1885, Alanson and his brother, Frank, bought out the country store, and are still proprietors of the "Cyclone Grocery Store," doing a business of over sixty-five thousand dollars each year.
From the Framingham Gazette, of February 22, 1901:
The first of the "Red Light Evenings" for members and friends was observed at the Y.M.C.A. on Tuesday evening. Mr. A. B. Stearns gave an illustrated lecture on Historic Massachusetts, which pleased as well as instructed all present. Mr. Stearns has a talent for description, the illustrations were good, and the evening was more enjoyable than a lecture by any professional talker."
The 1920 U.S. Census (taken in January of that year) shows that Alanson B. Stearns was an "inmate" at the Westborough State Hospital in Massachusetts.
The 1930 U.S. Census (taken in April of that year) shows that Alanson B. Stearns was a "patient" at the Westborough State Hospital in Massachusetts.
Descendants of Alanson and Mary Stearns
Lura May Stearns Hart Reilly (b. Jul 16, 1889, d. 1969)
Spouse (1): Harold C. Hart
Son: William Hart
Spouse (2): Thomas William Reilly
Son: Thomas William Reilly Jr. (b. 1929, d. 1984)
Carl Alanson Stearns (b. Jul 10, 1893), d. xxxx)
Spouse: Ethel Louise
Purslow Stearns (b. 1894, d. 1976)
Daughter: Elizabeth ("Betty")
Stearns Hoskyns (b. 1922, d. 1992)
Eric Swain Stearns (b. Apr 30, 1896; d. Dec 30, 1984)
Spouse: Alma
Carey Stearns
Son: Russell Carey Stearns
Daughter: Dorothy June Stearns Wenzinger
Daughter: Barbara Ann
Stearns Walters
Alanson Banks Stearns and Mary Lucia Works Stearns are Dottie Stearns Wenzinger's paternal grandparents. Dottie's father, Eric Swain Stearns, was the youngest of Alanson and Mary's three children.
Alanson Stearns was born in Hopkinton, MA, on January 7, 1862. He was one of nine children of Gilbert Stearns and his wife, Lucinda Grandy Stearns. Alanson died on August 23, 1932.
Mary Works was born in Southborough, MA, on November 15, 1862. She and Alanson were married on July 22, 1885, in South Framingham, MA. Mary died on July 12, 1936.
Both Alanson and Mary were 34 years old when their son Eric was born in 1896. According to the official birth record, Alanson was working as a grocer at the time.
Excerpt from the Stearns Geneaology Book 1901:
