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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Paroles of the Army of Northern Virginia . (search)
Maria del Occidente.
[A paper read before the Medford Historical Society, Nov. 21, 1898, by Miss Caroline E. Swift.]
BUT little is known of the early life of Maria del Occidente.
She was a daughter of William and Eleanor (Cutter) Gowen,
Her father, William Gowen, was a son of Hammond and Mary (Crosswell) Gowen, of Charlestown, and a grandson of Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth (Ford) Gowen, of Charlestown.
Her mother, Eleanor (Cutter) Gowen, was a lineal descendant of Richard Cutter, who with his mother, widow Elizabeth Cutter, was one of the early settlers of Cambridge. and was born in Medford in 1794.
Her father was a man of cultivated tastes; he had many literary and professional friends, and held various public offices in Medford.
He was a goldsmith by profession, and seems to have been in reduced circumstances the last years of his life.
The family moved to Boston while Maria was an infant.
Her father died when she was fourteen, and at the age of sixteen she became