Mabelle M. Bradford

(31 July 1873 – 15 May 1918)^{1, 2}

Mabelle Maria Bradford Greaves
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q124291045

Herbaria curate few specimens collected by Mabelle Bradford, and all specimens found thus far were collected on a single weekend — Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 June, 1890.  It is not known if Ms. Bradford had a continuing interest in botany, or if her specimens were a result of a single outing with a companion or group of botanists. A search for other specimens collected in the same county and date revealed no specimens collected by other people.  Ms. Bradford would have been about 17 years old in the summer of 1890.

Specimens collected by Mabelle M. Bradford (found as of 14 January 2023):³

Specimens curated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU):
Aralia nudicaulis  USA: Massachusetts: Franklin County: Buckland  date: 31 May 1890 (NCU accession # 368284)

Specimens curated by Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (GH):
Lamium maculatum  USA: Massachusetts: Franklin County: Buckland  date: 31 May 1890 (barcode GH00749303)
Galearis spectabilis  USA: Massachusetts: Franklin County: Buckland  date:  31 May 1890 (barcode GH00728507)

Specimens curated by Missouri Botanical Garden (MO):
Trillium erectum  USA: Massachusetts: Franklin County: Buckland  date: 31 May 1890 ( barcode MO 103298796)

Specimens curated by University of Wisconsin, Madison (WIS):
Galearis spectabilis USA: Massachusetts: Franklin County: Buckland  date: 31 May 1890 (v0367137WIS)
Cypripedium acaule  USA: Massachusetts: Franklin County: Buckland  date: 1 June 1890 (v0379442WIS)

Mabelle (or Mabel) Maria Bradford was the daughter of Lyman Albert Bradford (1842-1892) and Anna Thankful Ranney Bradford (1841-1920).^4,5  She was born in Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts.  Lyman was a carpenter, and after his death, Anna was the proprietor of a grocery store in the community of Buckland.^{6, 7}  The 1900 census lists Anna Bradford as head of household, and Mabelle living with her and working as a bookkeeper.  The census also lists John Greaves as a boarder in the household.⁷  He was born in England in 1862 and trained as a physician in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.⁸ Mabelle and John Greaves were married on 27 July 1904.⁹  They adopted a daughter, Hazel Irene Greaves (1909-2006).^10,11

Mabelle Bradford Greaves died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 44, on 15 May 1918.^2,13

“For many years Dr. Greaves had an office in Shelburne Falls [Franklin County, Massachusetts] but gave it up several months ago on account of illness.”  John Greaves died at age 57, on 7 November 1919, leaving their daughter, Hazel an orphan at age 10.⁸

According to the 1920 census, after her parents’ deaths Hazel Greaves lived with her maternal uncle and his wife, Frank and Gertrude Bradford, and her maternal grandmother, Anna Bradford, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.¹²

SOURCES:
1. “Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX4C-GCW : 12 November 2022), Mabel Maria Bradford, 1873.

2.  “Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGQ-MQTQ : 17 July 2020), Mabel Maria Bradford Greaves, 1918; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com

3.  SERNEC Data Portal. 2024. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on January 15.

8.  Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108806451/john-george-greaves: accessed 15 January 2024), memorial page for Dr John George Greaves (5 Aug 1862–7 Nov 1919), Find a Grave Memorial ID 108806451, citing Plain Cemetery, Ashfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Anonymous (contributor 47283828).

9.  “Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4CS-Q3Q : 17 December 2022), Dr. John G. Greaves and Mabelle M. Bradford, 1904.

10. Year: 1910; Census Place: Buckland, Franklin, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_588; Page: 15a; Enumeration District: 0490; FHL microfilm: 1374601.  Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

11. “United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKTL-CWR9 : Wed Oct 18 17:37:27 UTC 2023), Entry for Mrs Hazel G Greaves Pray and John G Greaves, 10 Mar 2006.

12. Year: 1920; Census Place: Hudson, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_710; Page: 20B; Enumeration District: 168. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

13. “Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KB8C-BBK : 31 August 2021), Mabelle M Greaves, 1918.