When Marcia Elizabeth Wait was born on 7 January 1826, in Highgate Center, Highgate, Franklin, Vermont, United States, her father, Edmund A Wait, was 30 and her mother, Hannah Wilson, was 27. She married Edwin William Skeels in 1843, in Sheldon, Franklin, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Highgate, Franklin, Vermont, United States in 1860. She died on 2 February 1878, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Highgate Falls Episcopal Church Cemetery, Highgate Falls, Highgate, Franklin, Vermont, United States.
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English: variant of Waite .
History: Thomas Wait came to MA from England in 1634. Samuel Wait (1789–1867), a Baptist clergyman, was born in White Creek, NY, organized Baptists in NC and helped found what became Wake Forest College (1838).
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