Lillian May Stevens
(1917-1938)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Lawrence Edward "Bug" Raven

Lillian May Stevens 3 4

  • Born: 5 Dec 1917, Waterville, ME 4
  • Marriage (1): Lawrence Edward "Bug" Raven on 1 Jul 1935 in Montville, ME 1 2
  • Died: 19 Sep 1938, Belfast, ME at age 20 5
  • Buried: Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterville, ME

bullet   Cause of her death was car accident.

bullet   FamilySearch ID: 2C19-QG1. Find a Grave ID: 73760383.

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bullet  Events

• Census, 14 Jan 1920, Waterville, ME. 3

• Census, 22 Apr 1930, Unity, ME. 6

• Newspaper Article: Bangor Daily News, 21 Sep 1938, Bangor, ME.
Camden Man Charged with Manslaughter
BELFAST, Sept. 20 -- (AP) Libeus E. Wardwell, 65, Camden, was held for grand jury action today on a manslaughter charge growing out of the motor accident death of Mrs. Lillian Stevens Raven, 19, of Thorndike.
Mrs. Raven died early today of injuries received in an accident in Knox last Friday. Wardwell was driver of a car involved, State Trooper Roland Faulkingham alleged.
Wardwell pleaded not guilty and to charges of reckless driving and passing a stop sign, but Municipal Court Judge L. Ernest Thornton found probably cause.

• Obituary: Bangor Daily News, 21 Sep 1938, Bangor, ME.
MRS. LILLIAN RAVEN
BELFAST, Sept. 20 -- Mrs. Lillian Raven, 19, wife of Lawrence Raven, of Thorndike, and mother of three children, who was critically injured in an automobile accident in Knox a few days ago, died yesterday in the Waldo county hospital, where she had been taken after the accident. Her brother-in-law, Harold Raven, of Brooks, who was also in the accident, is said to be improving.

• Newspaper Article: Bangor Daily News, 13 Oct 1938, Bangor, ME.
Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter, Pays $500 Fine
Libeus B. Wardwell of Camden, indicted on three counts, was arraigned today on the charge of manslaughter, this case growing out of the automobile accident in which Mrs. Lillian Raven later died.
Wardwell pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter, and paid a fine of $500. The other two counts of reckless driving and passing a stop sign, were not brought up today.


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Lillian married Lawrence Edward "Bug" Raven, son of William Henry Raven and Naomi Pearl Carmichael, on 1 Jul 1935 in Montville, ME.1 2 (Lawrence Edward "Bug" Raven was born on 14 Jun 1915 in Washburn, ME,7 8 9 died on 3 Feb 1994 in Waterville, ME and was buried on 21 May 1994 in East Knox Cemetery, Knox, ME.). The cause of his death was pneumonia.


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Sources


1 Maine State Archives, "Maine Marriages, 1892-1996," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Jul 2012), entry for Lawrence Raven and Lillian Stevens.

2 Maine Maine State Archives Lawrence Raven-Lillian Stevens; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Jan 2021).

3 1920 U.S. census, Aroostook, Maine, population schedule, Waterville, enumeration district (ED) 75, sheet 14, p. 14B, dwelling 236, family 306, Maurice J. Stevens; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 2 May 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625, roll T625_644.

4 Maine Maine State Archives, Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922, Lillian May Stevens; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com: 2 May 2012).

5 Maine Maine State Archives, death certificate (1938), Lillian M. Raven; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Jan 2021).

6 1930 U.S. census, Waldo, Maine, population schedule, Unity, enumeration district (ED) 0028, sheet 8A, p. 15, dwelling 201, family 207, Maurice J. Stevens; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 14 Jan 2021); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626, roll T626.

7 1920 U.S. census, Waldo County, Maine, population schedule, Knox, enumeration district (ED) 135, sheet 5, p. 5A, dwelling 100, family 100, William H. Raven; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 Oct 2011); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625, roll T625_649.

8 Maine Maine State Archives, Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922, Lawrence Edward Raven; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com: 8 Oct 2011).

9 Maine Maine State Archives, Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922, No Name Carmichael; digital image, "Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922," Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com: 16 Jun 2019).


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