Mary Ella Somers
1856-1944

Somers and Price Diaries

Mary Ella Somers of Linwood, NJ

and her sister

Susie Price of Northfield, NJ (formerly Bakersvillle)

© Mary Ella Somers Family, John Dilks Editor, Dec 2019

Sister
Susie Price
Susie Burroughs Price
1858-1888

Mary Ella Diaries, 1917 to 1938

A daily Diary of life living in Linwood during these years

1917

1918

1919

1920

1921

1922 (missing)

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937 (missing)

1938

 

MES-home
Mary Ella Home & Farm in Linwood

 

Family 1942
Family Photo 1942-43 [click to enlarge]

 

Mary Ella Somers'

FatherCaptain John Price

Captain John Price
1826-1907

MotherElizabeth Baker Price

Husband
Lewis E Somers
Lewis E Somers
1855-1944

SistersPrice Sisters
Olive - Louie - Lizzie
Price

Olive L Price
1860-1944
Louie S Price
1877-1961
Lizzie J Price
1865-1950

BrotherUnknownWinfield S Price
1821-1926
m. Josephine Reed 1888
c. Myra B Price
1888-1970
c. Winfield J Price Jr
1893-1926

Winfield's WW-1
Letters to his Mother


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Susie Burroughs Price Diary, 1876

An account of my first trip on water
by Susie B. Price

1876
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SonEdSomers
Ed Somers
1881-1956

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Daughter in Law Marie Somers
Marie (Rockelman) Somers
1889-1961

 

PriceHome
Price Home in Northfield



Family 1958
Family Photo 1958 [click to enlarge]

 

 

We, the Great Grandchildren of Mary Ella Somers, take pride in making her (and her sister Susie's) recently discovered diaries public. It is our hope you get as much enjoyment from reading her daily activities as we have. Linwood and Northfield must have been wonderful places back in the 1920s and 1930s, as wonderful as they are today.

It is amazing to this writer that she had such an interesting number of friends and she travelled so often. Her farm activities kept her very busy planting, harvesting and selling flowers, vegetables and eggs in her stand "out front."

And during this period she gained electricity and an indoor bathroom, a refrigerator, a new sewing machine, a new coal fired furnace and purchased a Radio. They were moving into the modern age. And they purchased several new "machines", automobiles to us today.

I remember meeting Mary Ella and Lewis Somers once when I was very young, 2 or 3, just before they passed away. Although I must have been in their presence other times, I can only fondly remember this one time. - John Dilks, December 20, 2019.

Surviving Great Grandchildren:
Dr Lewis Somers, Nancy Somers Marienski, Wm Paul Somers, John Dilks, Robert Boileau, and Cindy Boileau Allegretto.
And with our Children and Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren it continues. Thank you Mary Ella and Lewis Somers. (v3a 2020-03-05)