Sources

Name: Mrs. L Studdiford McChesney
Birth Year: 1841
Death Year: 1906

Source:

Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Based on entries that first appeared in Literary Yearbook (1906-1913), Literary Yearbook and Author's Who's Who (1914-1917), Literary Yearbook (1920-1922), and Who's Who in Literature (1924-1934). Two volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1979. (WhLit)

Herringshaw's national library of American biography; by Herringshaw, Thomas William

Name: Mrs. Elizabeth Studdiford McCHESNEY
Comments: McCHESNEY, MRS. ELIZABETH STUDDIFORD, author, was born April 29, 1841, in Monroe, Mich. She is the author of Under Shadow of the Mission, a Memory of Santa Barbara.
Page: vol. 4, p 88 [1]

Family tree

VAN HORN-SMITH-MYERS-ST. CLAIR FAMILY TREE

    Mary Elizabeth "Libbie" Studdiford
    Spouse: Joseph H. MacChesney
    Father: William Van Horn Studdiford
    Mother: Jane Ann Southwick
    Children: Dorothy "Dora"
    Birth: 29 Apr 1841 Michigan, USA
    Death: Oct 1906 Lexden, Essex, England
    Residence: 28 Nov 1859 New York City, New York, USA

death

FreeBMD

Name: Mary Elizabeth S McChesney
Registration Year: 1906 Dec. Q
Age at Death: 65
Registration district: Lexden
Volume: 4a
Page: 425

Probate

Calendar of the Grants ...

Name: Mary Elizabeth Studdeford Mc Chesney, widow
Death Date: 24 Oct 1906
Death Place: "old Thatch" East Mersea, Essex, England
Probate Date: 14 Nov 1906
Probate Registry: Ipswich

to Dora Greenwell McChesney, effects £27 6s.