Mary Lydia Mooers was born on March 17th, 1830 in Blissfield, New Brunswick to John Mooers and Mary Frances Small. She was the 6th of 12 children. According to birth records, the family seems to have jumped between Blissfield and Miramichi, but I suspect this is a artifact of the way things were recorded. Mary married Lewis l. Green in a Baptist Church on April 10th, 1848 in Blissfield, NB. Mary had just turned 18 and Lewis was 14 years older then her. Their first son, Alfred Alonzo Green, was born on September 14th, 1848 in Mirimachi, NB, only six months after their marriage. Their first daughter was born on September 14th, 1850 in Blissfield, NB.

he 1851 Canadian Census shows Mary and Lewis living in Blissfield, NB with their children Alfred and Elvira. Lewis was a farmer and Shoemaker. Their next child, Margaret Green was born on September 5th, 1852 in Miramichi, NB. Alma Hannah Green was born in Miramichi, NB on October 24th. 1854. Alfretta Lola Green was born on June 9th, 1857 in Miramichi, NB. Their next son, David W. Green was born on February 27th, 1861 in Miramichi, NB. The 1861 Canadian Census shows the family living in Blissfield, NB with Lewis listed as being a farmer.

Devoice documents show that Lewis abandoned Mary Lydia and the family on December 28th, 1862. This was while she was pregnant with their last child. Mary Agnes Green was born on April 22nd, 1863 in Miramichi, NB. Soon afterward, Mary Lydia and the children immigrated to the United States and moved to the Ludlow area. Her father had moved to Ludlow, ME between 1848 and 1850 and I suspect Mary Lydia was joining them. Mary Lydia's daughter Margaret died, at age 11, in Houlton, ME after the move.

Mary Lydia had another child, Ernest Walter Lightbody with John Lightbody on November 19th, 1868 in Ludlow, ME. She filed for Divorce from Lewis L. Green on December 10th, 1868 in Houlton and the Divorce was granted in February of 1869. John Lightbody filed his intent to marry Mary Lydia in March of 1869. There is an 1870 U.S. Census record of John living with a Margaret Lightbody and children in Ludlow, but this does not seem to match this John/Mary family. John and Mary Lydia's last child, Margaret Lightbody, was born on June 22nd, 1872 in Ludlow, ME. The 1877 Land Ownership Map shows John owning land next to Mary Lydia's brother Peter Mooers.

To the Hon Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court now sitting at Bangor within and for the County of Penobscot, October Term, 1868.

Lydia Green of Ludlow in the County of Aroostook respectfully libels and gives the court to be informed that on the 10th day of April, 1848, at Miramachi in the Province of New Brunswick, she was lawfully married to one Lewis L. Green by the Rev. James Tozier, that she lived and cohabitation with her said husband in this State and has alway behaved herself as a faithful and chaste wife: that she has had by him six children, viz: Alfred, aged 22, Elvira, aged 18, Alma, aged 14, Alfraetta, aged 11, David, aged 9, and Agnes, aged 6. And your libelant shows to your Honors that the said Lewis L Green, regardless of his duty, after their said marriage became drunken and dissolute in his habits. Neglecting to provide for your libelant and the family. Treated her with great unkindness and cruelty, frequently made threats to kill her, and finally on the 28th day of December 1862, without cause wholly deserted your libelant, and has never returned to her or furnished her any support.

Wherefore your libelant prays that the bonds of matrimony between her and her said husband may be dissolved and that the care and custody of the five minor children, because of unfitness and character of their father, may be decreed to her.

And the said Lewis L. Green, residing out of this Stare, and in parts unknown to your libelant, she prays the court here to order such notice of the tendency of this libel to be given him, as the court shall adjudge proper returnable at the February term of said court in Aroostook County, 1869.

December 10th, 1868

Lydia Green Her X Mark

Attest. C. M Herrin

It is not surprising that he didn't show for the hearing, as the notice was posted in the Houlton Pioneer and he wasn't in the area. The divorce was finalized in February 1869. She received custody of Elvira, Alma, Alfretta, David, and Mary Agnes.

This libel was entered at the present term of this court when it was proved that the following notice was daily given and published in said Aroostook Pioneer, together with said libel in December, 1868 and January, 1869. To wit: State of Maine Penobscot, ss. Sup. Jud. Court, October Term 1868. On the Foregoing libel, the Court orders that the said libelant give notice to the said Lewis L. Green of the tendency thereof by causing an attested copy of said libel and this order thereon, to be published three successive weeks in the Aroostook Pioneer a newspaper printed at Houlton in the county of Aroostook, the last publication thereof to be at least thirty days before the last Tuesday of February, 1869. That he may then appear before the Justices of said Court to beholden at Houlton within and for our county of Aroostook on the last Tuesday in February, 1869. And show cause if any he has why the prayer of said libel should not be granted.

Witness, John Appleton, Esq. at Bangor, this 12th day of October 1868

E.L. Brett, Clerk Aline copy of libel and order of Curt thereon; Attest

E.L. Brett, Clerk. And the Defendant though solemnly called to come into court did not appear but made default. And now it appearing to the court that notice had been given as ordered, on the 6th day of the term after mature deliberation it is considered by the court, that the prayer of said Libelant be granted and it is hereby ordered and decreed that the bonds of matrimony here before existing between the said Lydia Green and Lewis L. Green be, and the same are hereby dissolved, and the custody of the five minor children be decreed to the libelant as prayed for.

Branch

• Generation 4(3rd Great Grandparents): Lewis L Green and Mary Lydia Moore

  • Generation 3(2nd Great Grandparents): Frank H Washington Carpenter and Elvira A Green

    • Generation 2(Great Grandparents): Amos Putnam and Cora Margaret Carpenter

      • Generation 1(Grandparents): Ervin Earl Putnam and Mary Gertrude Connelly

        • Generation 0: Robert Ervin Putnam and (Florence) Caroline Wright