| Name |
Sophronia Jane Maybee |
| Birth |
25 Mar 1866 |
Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
1871 |
Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada [2] |
- 4, Eli William Maybee, M, 46, M, Ontario, E Methodist, German, Farmer
5, Jane Maybee, F, 42, M, Ontario, E Methodist, German
6, William Jarvis Maybee, M, 19, Ontario, E Methodist, German, Farmer, attended school
7, Edith Mellisa Maybee, F, 17, Ontario, E Methodist, German, attended school
8, Deborah Ann Maybee, F, 11, Ontario, E Methodist, German, attended school
9, Saphrona Jane Maybee, F, 5, Ontario, E Methodist, German
10, Victoria Adna Maybee, F, 2, Ontario, E Methodist, German
Tenant prt Lot 29, Concession 6, 11 ΒΌ acres, 3 houses, 8 barns, 3 carriages, 3 wagons, 2 ploughs, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 swine
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| Census |
1881 |
Hope Township, Durham County, Ontario, Canada [3] |
- Eli Maybee, M, M, 56, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German, R. Farmer
Jane Maybee, F, M, 52, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German
Debora A. Maybee, F, 21, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German
Sophronia J. Maybee, F, 15, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German, at school
Victora A. Maybee, F, 12, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German, at school
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| Census |
18 Apr 1891 |
Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada [4] |
- Eli Maybee, M, 64, Mar, Head, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist, gentleman
Jane Maybee, F, 60, Mar, Wife, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist
Sophronia Maybee, F, 25, Daughter, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist
Victoria Maybee, F, 22, Daughter, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist
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| Witness-Death |
16 Jun 1894 |
Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada [1, 5] |
| Residence |
1899 |
95 Gerrard Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [6] |
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| Census |
31 Mar 1901 |
Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada [7] |
- Jane Maybee, F W, Head, W, Jan 25 1829, 72, Ontario rural, English, Canadian, Methodist
Sephonna Maybee, F, W, Daughter, S, Mar 25 1867, 34, Ontario rural, English, Canadian, Methodist
Victoria Maybee, F, W, Daughter, S, Aug 2 1868, 32, Ontario rural, English, Canadian, Methodist
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| Census |
Jun 1911 |
Charles Street, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada [8] |
- 19 Maybee Jane, F, Head, W, May 1831, 80, Ontario, English, Methodist, Income
20 Maybee Sophronia, F, Daughter, S, Aug 1866, 44, Ontario, English, Methodist, Income
21 Maybee Victoria, F, Daughter, S, Apr 1864, 42, Ontario, English, Methodist, Income
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| Census |
4 Jun 1921 |
Baldwin Street, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada [9] |
- Jane Maybee, owns a 7 room brick house, Head, F, Wid, 92, born in Ontario, father born in Ontario, mother born in Ontario, Canadian Nationality, English origin, Methodist, Income
Sophronia Jane Hains, Daughter, F, Wid, 55, born in Ontario, father born in Ontario, mother born in Ontario, Canadian Nationality, English origin, Methodist, Income
Victoria Adelia Maybee, Daughter, F, S, 52, born in Ontario, father born in Ontario, mother born in Ontario, Canadian Nationality, English origin, Methodist, Income
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| Anecdote |
25 Jan 1929 |
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada [10] |
- STILL HALE AND HEARTY, LOCAL LADY CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Eli Maybee, Baldwin Street, Is Tendered Reception On Centennial Anniversary Today
Three Children Present For Occasion And Many Congratulatory Messages Received
Today, Friday, January 25th, a disagreeable winter's day which seems of little importance to many, will always be remembered by Mrs. Eli Maybee, [23] Baldwin Street, Port Hope, who is celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth. A fitting reception was held today and many friends called to congratulate her.
Friends from a distance, or those who could not call to visit here, sent congratulatory messages by telegraph, telephone and letter, so, with those who came and the others who sent gifts and messages, Mrs. Maybee was well remembered by a large circle of friends.
Mrs. Maybee is still able to be around her home but is handicapped by failing sight. She had a severe attack of la grippe two years ago which weakened her considerably but she has gained her strength to a great extent so that she is remarkably well for her advanced years.
Mrs. Maybee was born in Prince Edward County in 1829 and came here a bride of sixteen in 1845, and resided in Hamilton Township, just half a mile east of Noble Brown's corner for eighteen years, the first nine in a log house, and then in a frame they built. Just previous to coming to Port Hope they lived at Dale for 5 years.
Mrs. Maybee went to school with the late Senator Wm Kerr and his brother John and was a lifelong friend of his. The late Senator Kerr, father of Crown Attorney Kerr of Cobourg, also came from Prince Edward County.
THREE CHILDREN SURVIVE
Mrs. Maybee has a great line of descendants, some fifty of the fifth generation. Out of the original family, only three survive. Mr. Maybee passed away in 1894 and only three out of eight children remain. They are Dr W J Maybee of Richmond, VA, Mrs. W J Harns and Miss Victoria, the youngest daughter, at home. Besides the three children, there are 11 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren. She has been a Methodist and took an active interest in the church. She was a regular attendant at church services until the last twelve years. Mrs. Maybee takes much interest in the papers read to her and especially enjoyed our article taken out of the Daily Guide of fifty years ago.
Eighty-three years ago a little country church, in the county of Prince Edward, was the scene of a gathering of friends and neighbours who had driven in from all over the countryside to attend the wedding of the sixteen-year-old daughter of George Snider, prosperous farmer respected citizen, and descendant of the purest United Empire Loyalist stock in the country.
It was a popular wedding, for not only was the bride one of the most comely belles of the district, but the groom, despite the fact he hailed all the way from the little settlement 60 miles away, which was coming to be known as Port Hope, was well known in Prince Edward County on account of frequent visits to the home of George Snider.
The bride of that occasion is Mrs. Eli W Maybee, who is still hale and hearty, and in possession of all her faculties, she is celebrating her 100th birthday today. She lives in Port Hope within a few miles of the farm to which young Eli Maybee took her as a bride so many years ago.
With her are the three surviving members of the family of eight she reared from childhood. Her son, William Jarvis Maybee, the eldest of the family had come all the way from Virginia to be present at the celebration, and to visit again, as he has done year after year, his two sisters, Jesse [Sophrona] and Victoria.
Victoria, who is still Miss Maybee, and Jesse [Sophrona], now Mrs. Jesse Harns, have remained with their mother through her advancing years. Ten years ago they congratulated her on her ninetieth birthday. They did not expect to celebrate many more anniversaries then, but today they invited the Guide to return again next year to celebrate the first anniversary in her new century.
Mrs. Maybee has aged little in the last ten years. She is still up and about the house and her shoulders are bowed only ever so little beneath the burden of the years. She is indeed a remarkable woman. Smiling and good-natured, she greets her guests, talks and laughs with them. They do not have to shout at her as she hears perfectly.
Mrs. Maybee's son, W J, as he is called at home, told that his mother was a great-grandmother for he himself is the grandfather of his daughter's two children in Virginia where he has been state superintendent of child welfare work for the past 28 years.
The Maybee family is old UEL stock, Mrs. Maybee's husband, who died more than 30 years ago, being the great-grandchild of Tobias Maybee, who fought in the Revolutionary war in the thirteen states on the loyalist side, and afterwards migrated to Ontario when the States declared their independence of the mother country. The Maybee family before that was the descendant of an older family which forsook France at the time of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre and settled in Holland, later coming with other Huguenots to New Amsterdam, now New York.
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| Witness-Obituary |
7 Oct 1930 |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada [11] |
- Celebrating her 101st birthday only last January, Mrs Eli Maybee, Port Hope, passed away on Saturday morning at the residence of Miss Victoria Maybee, her youngest daughter. Born in Prince Edward County in 1829, she came to Port Hope as a bride of sixteen in 1845, living in the Hamilton township for eighteen years. Before coming to Port Hope she lived at Dale for five years.
Three of Mrs Maybee's eight children survive: Dr W. J. Mabee of Richmond, Va; Mrs W. J. Harns and Miss Victoria at home. Eleven grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren also survive. Mr Maybee passed away in 1891.
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| Reference Number |
6258 |
| Death |
13 Apr 1931 |
Port Hope, Durham County, Ontario, Canada [1] |
| Burial |
15 Apr 1931 |
Port Hope Cemetery, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada [1] |
| Person ID |
I6226 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1866 - 1931 (65 years)
