When Eliza Ann Pomeroy was born on 29 March 1851, in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, William Delano Pomeroy, was 23 and her mother, Eliza G. Richards, was 20. She married George Francis Abbey on 26 October 1870, in Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in 1925, in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (of Norman origin; mainly Devon and Dorset): habitational name from any of various places in northeastern France named with Old French pommeroie, pommeraie ‘apple orchard’ (collective of pomme ‘apple’). The name was established in Ireland in 1573.
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