Mary Wells Morris

Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, statue of Mary Wells Morris, April 2011

Mary Wells Morris (September 4, 1764 – November 6, 1819) is the person that Wellsboro, Pennsylvania is named after. She was born in Burlington County, New Jersey.[1] She moved to Tioga County with her husband Benjamin, her son Samuel, and her daughter Rebecca. They were Philadelphia Quakers. They became the first residents of the Wellsboro.[2] She remained in Wellsboro until she died on November 6, 1819; she is buried with her husband in the Wellsboro Cemetery.[3]

Recently a life-size bronze statue was erected in her honor. Despite not finding any remaining images of Mary Wells, the designers of the statue crafted a likeness based on surviving images of her mother.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania - 200 th Anniversary of Laying Out of Wellsboro, Tioga County PA - 2006". joycetice.com.
  2. 1 2 http://www.wellsboropa.com/pages/welcome/history.php
  3. ↑ "Alonzo Lee BICKERS/Maria Louisa BOURNE". pennock.ws.
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