Richardson County NeArchives Biographies.....Avery, Mary Virgie 1875 - 
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Mary Virgie Avery

Mary V. Avery was born at Ocean View, Sussex County, Delaware, May 9, 1875. Her
father, William McClentic Hudson, who was born at Ocean View, July 27, 1845, of
English ancestry, has been a bookkeeper, teacher, and farmer. He is an
interested church worker and an enthusiastic temperance advocate.

Her mother, Mary Holloway (Hudson) Hudson, who was born at Roxana, Delaware,
February 27, 1847, and died at Lincoln, Nebraska, October 4, 1919, was a devoted
homemaker. Although her education was elementary she was vitally interested in
the education of her children.

Mrs. Avery attended a country school until 1890 when she entered the Humboldt
High School, graduating in 1894 and teaching in a country school one year after
her graduation. In 1895 she studied at Banks Shorthand University, in
Philadelphia. She has attended the Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1920, when her
older daughter, Gladys entered the university, and the University of Arizona,
1926, when her younger daughter, Zola, entered the university and Mrs. Avery
needed to change climate for her health.

A farmer’s wife, Mrs. Avery has engaged in many civic and social activities. She
is president of the county and local W. C. T. U., attending the national
convention at Indianapolis in September 1929 as delegate from four counties;
district corresponding secretary of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society; state
secretary of Bequest and Devise; and temperance secretary of the Richardson
County Council of Christian Education.

Aside from her home and social duties she has held various business positions,
among them; teacher; assistant bookkeeper and stenographer for the Crane Ice
Cream Company, Philadelphia; and stenographer and typist for the Humboldt Steam
Mills, Humboldt, Nebraska.

On March 25, 1903, she was married to Charles Orlando Avery at Humboldt,
Richardson County, Nebraska. Mr. Avery, who was born at Humboldt, August 17,
1868, is descended from English ancestors on the paternal side and from French
and Pennsylvania-Dutch settlers through the maternal line. To this union were
born three children, two of whom are living: Gladys, born July 9, 1904, a high
school teacher, who married Ralph H. Fletcher, high school superintendent; Zola,
a graduate of the University of Nebraska, and a teacher of home economics, born
September 17, 1909; and Roger, born June 14, 1914, who died June 19, 1914.

Mrs. Avery is a member of the Humboldt Methodist Episcopal Church. Her hobby is
reading. She is a Republican but the principles and character of the candidate
determine her vote. She has been a resident of Nebraska for forty-seven years.
Residence: Humboldt.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932

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