Mary L. Hillson
Mary L. Hillson (b. Lees) (1877-1913) was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island,
and died in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her immediate family had emigrated from England
to the United States in the 1860s. She married Robert Hillson, an upholsterer, in Fall
River in 1900. Hillson's older sister, Emma Lees, helped found the Fall River Christian
Science Institute in 1886. In 1888 Hillson wrote to Mary Baker Eddy from Fall River that
her family wanted to join the Church of Christ (Scientist). It is unclear whether or not
the family joined the church at that time; however Emma later joined The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1895. Hillson was a member of
the Rebekahs, a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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Mary L. Hillson
Mary L. Hillson (b. Lees) (1877-1913) was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island,
and died in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her immediate family had emigrated from England
to the United States in the 1860s. She married Robert Hillson, an upholsterer, in Fall
River in 1900. Hillson's older sister, Emma Lees, helped found the Fall River Christian
Science Institute in 1886. In 1888 Hillson wrote to Mary Baker Eddy from Fall River that
her family wanted to join the Church of Christ (Scientist). It is unclear whether or not
the family joined the church at that time; however Emma later joined The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1895. Hillson was a member of
the Rebekahs, a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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