Description:
White cotton baby's dress with sleeves, which descended in the Stebbins family. There a note in the file from Florence Stebbins Shaw (Mrs. Albert E. Shaw) of Webster, Massachusetts: "The tucked petticoat and the other long baby dress belonged to Carrie Lamb Ward - daughter of Laura Stebbins and Thomas Lamb." The daughter of Zabina Stebbins (1797-1879) and Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1877) of Deefield, Laura Stebbins (b.1837) married Thomas Melvin Lamb (1830-1881) of Worcester in 1860, where they then lived. Their daughter, Carrie Stebbins Lamb (b.1862) married George William Ward (1858-after 1930) of Worcester in 1881. Born Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966), Florence Stebbins Shaw married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) who married Mary Elizabeth MacMahon (1858-1919) of Providence, RI, in 1880; granddaughter of Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885) and Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) of Deerfield; and great granddaughter of Zebina Stebbins and Ruby Graves Stebbins.
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