When Mary Elizabeth Van Wart was born on 26 July 1837, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Isaac Van Wart Jr., was 35 and her mother, Sarah 'Sally' Clarke or Clark, was 35. She married Samuel Lothrop Churchill on 1 October 1857, in Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States in 1900. She died on 5 November 1912, at the age of 75, and was buried in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States.
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