Anniversaries - May 6 - May 12

*Updated July 29, 2012 to add women's married name (maiden name in parenthesis)
Here are this week's ancestor anniversaries.  If you know of someone's event I miss let me know.  

Birthdays:

Edgar Osman Dewey (great grandfather) May 9, 1846 in Brighton, MA
Joseph Saxton (8th great grandfather) May 9,1656 in Stonington, CT
Simeon Alden (5th great grandfather) May 10, 1740 in Bridgewater, MA
Mary Edna (Harmon) Tompkins (great grandmother) May 11, 1870 in Peel, New Brunswick CAN

Mary Edna (Harmon) Tompkins

Marriages:

Martha Allen and Thomas Carrier (8th great grandparents) on May 7, 1664 in Billerica, MA
          (Martha was executed as a witch in 1692)

Deaths:

Mary (Scudamore) French (9th great grandmother) died May 6, 1681 in Ipswich, MA
Elizabeth (Scott) Loomis (9th great grandmother) died May 7, 1696 in Windsor, CT
Patience (maiden?) West (8th great grandmother) died May 8, 1725 in Plympton, MA
George Phelps (9th great grandfather) died May 8, 1687 in Westfield, MA
Isabelle (Straw) Page (6th great grandmother) died May 9, 1838 in Groton, VT

Edgar Osman Dewey (great grandfather) died May10, 1890 in Boston, MA
Joseph Farnum (4th great grandfather)  died May 10, 1824 in Mont Vernon, NH
Elizabeth (Langdon) Fernald (7th great grandmother) died May 11, 1740 in Kittery, ME
Eli Robbins (3rd great grandfather) died May 11, 1864 in Spotsylvania, VA
          Died at the Civil War Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Abigail (Bryant) Bryant (8th great grandmother) died on May 12, 1715 in Plymouth, MA