Mary Ann Mais was born in New York City, of Welsh and English stock, the daughter of Baptist clergyman Rev'd. Charles Mais (b. 1784 in Kingston, Jamaica) who grew up in England, and who lost his life nursing cholera patients during that horrific summer epidemic of 1832 in New York (where as many as 800 souls per week perished). Her mother was Mary Phillips from Wales.
As a girl she attended school at Greenwich, New York.
She married Almeron Weller Whitehead on Christmas Day, Dec. 25th, 1833 in Hunt's Point, Westchester county, New York.
Almeron & Mary Whitehead emigrated from NY with their 3 children from about 1836-37 and located on the south shore of Elizabeth Lake on 160 acres in Sec.33 of Waterford Twp., Michigan, and Mary "was a splendid acquisition to the neighborhood. She did not know anything about housework, but had a determination to learn. What she lacked in the art of cooking, she made up in hospitality and sociability."
The Whiteheads had 9 children, 6 who survived into later adulthood, namely:
Mary, who died aged 16 years;
Emma, who married Levi Bacon, Jr.;
Richard H., who enlisted in Company A, 5th Reg., Michigan Vol. Cav., on August 16, 1862, at Clarkston, Michigan, for three years, was made 1st sergeant in May, 1864 and was killed while in action at Haw's Shop, Hanover County, Virginia, May 28, 1864;
Jane Mais ("Jennie"), who married Mortimer A. Leggett;
Alvin H., who married Julia C. Leggett;
Isabel, who married John Allen Bigelow, of Birmingham, Oakland County;
Anna May (who died at age 34), the wife of Hugh J. Hunt;
Dr. Charles M., who was killed in a railway accident; and
Almeron H., who married Emma S. Bodine and became founder & editor of the "Birmingham Eccentric" newspaper.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead were consistent members of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
As a girl she attended school at Greenwich, New York.
She married Almeron Weller Whitehead on Christmas Day, Dec. 25th, 1833 in Hunt's Point, Westchester county, New York.
Almeron & Mary Whitehead emigrated from NY with their 3 children from about 1836-37 and located on the south shore of Elizabeth Lake on 160 acres in Sec.33 of Waterford Twp., Michigan, and Mary "was a splendid acquisition to the neighborhood. She did not know anything about housework, but had a determination to learn. What she lacked in the art of cooking, she made up in hospitality and sociability."
The Whiteheads had 9 children, 6 who survived into later adulthood, namely:
Mary, who died aged 16 years;
Emma, who married Levi Bacon, Jr.;
Richard H., who enlisted in Company A, 5th Reg., Michigan Vol. Cav., on August 16, 1862, at Clarkston, Michigan, for three years, was made 1st sergeant in May, 1864 and was killed while in action at Haw's Shop, Hanover County, Virginia, May 28, 1864;
Jane Mais ("Jennie"), who married Mortimer A. Leggett;
Alvin H., who married Julia C. Leggett;
Isabel, who married John Allen Bigelow, of Birmingham, Oakland County;
Anna May (who died at age 34), the wife of Hugh J. Hunt;
Dr. Charles M., who was killed in a railway accident; and
Almeron H., who married Emma S. Bodine and became founder & editor of the "Birmingham Eccentric" newspaper.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead were consistent members of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Mary Ann Mais was born in New York City, of Welsh and English stock, the daughter of Baptist clergyman Rev'd. Charles Mais (b. 1784 in Kingston, Jamaica) who grew up in England, and who lost his life nursing cholera patients during that horrific summer epidemic of 1832 in New York (where as many as 800 souls per week perished). Her mother was Mary Phillips from Wales.
As a girl she attended school at Greenwich, New York.
She married Almeron Weller Whitehead on Christmas Day, Dec. 25th, 1833 in Hunt's Point, Westchester county, New York.
Almeron & Mary Whitehead emigrated from NY with their 3 children from about 1836-37 and located on the south shore of Elizabeth Lake on 160 acres in Sec.33 of Waterford Twp., Michigan, and Mary "was a splendid acquisition to the neighborhood. She did not know anything about housework, but had a determination to learn. What she lacked in the art of cooking, she made up in hospitality and sociability."
The Whiteheads had 9 children, 6 who survived into later adulthood, namely:
Mary, who died aged 16 years;
Emma, who married Levi Bacon, Jr.;
Richard H., who enlisted in Company A, 5th Reg., Michigan Vol. Cav., on August 16, 1862, at Clarkston, Michigan, for three years, was made 1st sergeant in May, 1864 and was killed while in action at Haw's Shop, Hanover County, Virginia, May 28, 1864;
Jane Mais ("Jennie"), who married Mortimer A. Leggett;
Alvin H., who married Julia C. Leggett;
Isabel, who married John Allen Bigelow, of Birmingham, Oakland County;
Anna May (who died at age 34), the wife of Hugh J. Hunt;
Dr. Charles M., who was killed in a railway accident; and
Almeron H., who married Emma S. Bodine and became founder & editor of the "Birmingham Eccentric" newspaper.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead were consistent members of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
As a girl she attended school at Greenwich, New York.
She married Almeron Weller Whitehead on Christmas Day, Dec. 25th, 1833 in Hunt's Point, Westchester county, New York.
Almeron & Mary Whitehead emigrated from NY with their 3 children from about 1836-37 and located on the south shore of Elizabeth Lake on 160 acres in Sec.33 of Waterford Twp., Michigan, and Mary "was a splendid acquisition to the neighborhood. She did not know anything about housework, but had a determination to learn. What she lacked in the art of cooking, she made up in hospitality and sociability."
The Whiteheads had 9 children, 6 who survived into later adulthood, namely:
Mary, who died aged 16 years;
Emma, who married Levi Bacon, Jr.;
Richard H., who enlisted in Company A, 5th Reg., Michigan Vol. Cav., on August 16, 1862, at Clarkston, Michigan, for three years, was made 1st sergeant in May, 1864 and was killed while in action at Haw's Shop, Hanover County, Virginia, May 28, 1864;
Jane Mais ("Jennie"), who married Mortimer A. Leggett;
Alvin H., who married Julia C. Leggett;
Isabel, who married John Allen Bigelow, of Birmingham, Oakland County;
Anna May (who died at age 34), the wife of Hugh J. Hunt;
Dr. Charles M., who was killed in a railway accident; and
Almeron H., who married Emma S. Bodine and became founder & editor of the "Birmingham Eccentric" newspaper.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead were consistent members of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Inscription
"MARY ANN MAIS
WIFE OF
Almeron Whitehead
and daughter of
(Rev'd Charles) Mais
BORN
Oct.16, 1810
DIED
Sept. 28, 1874
AE 64 Y'RS"
husband Almeron's inscription is below, very eroded:
"A.W. Whitehead
BORN
Sept. 20, 1808
DIED
Oct. 15, 1883"
Gravesite Details
dau. of Rev. Charles and Mary (Phillips) Mais; wife of Almeron Weller Whitehead
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