Mary Emma Harlan (1877-1942)

Mary Emma Harlan was born on 26 January 1877 in Pennsylvania. She died on 13 December 1942 in Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania from uremia.

Mary Emma Harlan's death certificate

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, 14 December 1942
   After a long illness, Mrs. Emma Harlan Boswell, 65, of 145 West Dorrance street, Kingston, died in General Hospital yesterday morning. She was the widow of James Boswell.
   Services will be conducted in Paul H. Phillips funeral home, 365 Wyoming avenue, Kingston, tomorrow at 2. Rev. Dr. George M. Bell of Dorranceton Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Hollenback Cemetery.
   Mrs. Boswell was born in Wilkes-Barre and at an early age moved to Scranton where she was educated in Marywood College. She returned to this city, where she lived for 25 years before locating on the West Side.
   Surviving are these children: James H. Boswell and Thomas K. Boswell, Kingston; Mrs. Harold E. Haines, West Philadelphia, and Miss Effie Boswell, at home, and two brothers, Sidney Harlan, Rapon, N. H., and H. C. Harlan, Harrisburg.

PARENTS

James Henry C. Harlan

Mary Jane Wilson

SPOUSE

James H. Boswell

CHILDREN

James Harlan Boswell

Ann McRae Boswell

Effie Enterline Boswell

Thomas Kemp Boswell

SOURCES

• Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, 14 Dec 1942
• 1880 census, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
• 1900 census, Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
• 1910 census, Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania 
• 1920 census, Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
• 1930 census, Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
• 1940 census, Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania