3. “She ever maintained her Christian integrity and was a lady of remarkably genial and social temperament , uniting firmness and decision of character with mildness of disposition . She was a true wife, a faithful mother, and a constant friend , and an useful member of society. For nearly sixty years she was the queen of a Christian home, and with her husband she was ‘not forgetful to entertain strangers.’ She will be missed, not alone by her husband and children, but by her neighbors to whom she was always ‘ Aunt Abby.’” Excerpted from the Stonington Mirror , June, 1886
4. “ Miss Elizabeth Greenman, 90 of 51 Greenmanville Ave., died yesterday at her home. Miss Greenman, a retired school teacher, was a member of one of Mystic’s old shipbuilding families.” “ She was graduated from Wellesley in 1892 and took postgraduate courses at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For 45 years she taught in the Boston area at the Boston Latin School and various elementary schools. She retired in 1938. Miss Greenman in her younger years was active in the League of Women Voters.”