Ancestors

Ann Hanavon

Ann was born in Ireland, about 1834 by her age at death, 1839 or 1841 by the censuses. Both her parents were Irish. She came to America in 1851, by her own census return of 1900. Her maiden name and her Irish county are unknown.

She married Phillip Hanavan, and by 1861 they were at Holcomb, in the town of East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York. Their daughter Mary was born there in June 1861, Henry about 1866 and William about 1868. Phillip bought land on Lot 75 of East Bloomfield in 1864 and 1865, about fifteen acres in all. He was alive in June 1875 and dead by March 1880, when the surrogate's court granted Ann administration of his estate.

The 1880 census found her widowed at Holcomb, thirty-nine, with her three children, and her occupation written against her own name: Farmer. Mary married Thomas Neenan in 1886.

In the 1880s Ann married again. Her second husband was Richard Smith, an Irish-born farmer of Hopewell, a dozen or more years older, a widower with children of his own. By March 1890 she was "Ann Smith of Hopewell," and with her three children she sold Philip Hanavan's land for $1,800.

Richard died by April 1900, with Ann as one of his executors. That June she was living on her own in Canandaigua village, a widow again, with her twelve-year-old grandson. In August she made her will and named her daughter Mary executor.

She died at her home on Clark Street, Canandaigua, on 3 June 1902, aged sixty-eight. She was buried in St. Bridget's Cemetery, East Bloomfield, under the name Ann Smith. The settlement of Richard Smith's estate paid for her keep and her funeral, and set aside $45 for her headstone.

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Cite: Heirology, "Ann Hanavon (d. 1902)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/ann-hanavon-1902-7e5571.