Mary Elizabeth Whitmore was born on October 18, 1853 to Isaac Stanley and Rachel S. (Robinson) Whitmore in Tremont, Maine. She was a sister to William Holden Whitmore and to Rebecca (Whitmore) Lurvey Carroll, matriarch of the Carroll clan in Southwest Harbor. Mary married John Lenzey Stanley (1841-1922), son of Peter and Sarah (Newman) Stanley, on June 5, 1870.
They had 4 children: Isaac Foster (b. Dec 1, 1870), Everett George (B. Sept 1, 1874), Fred Lenzey (1876-1880), and Nellie May (b. Sept 28, 1878).
Mary Elizabeth (Whitmore) Stanley died on February 21, 1924 in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
“Whitmore - Mary Elizabeth (Whitmore) Stanley (1853-1924),” Southwest Harbor Public Library, accessed October 4, 2024, https://swhpl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/8679.Item 3618