STEADMAN, Jessica Mary

1914 - 1999  (84 years)

• Name	STEADMAN, Jessica Mary
  Baptism	1914	St Peter's - Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Birth	9 Oct 1914	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Address	Address: 27 Eastman Street Dorchester, MA 02125 USA
  Also Known As	Jessie Miethe
  Phone	617-825-3928
  Residence	Between 1954 and 1998	27 Eastman St, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Death	8 Apr 1999	Lowell General Hospital - Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Burial	12 Apr 1999	Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts   [2]
  Notes	[JohnSteadman.FTW] Provided by: John B. Lisle Jessie STEADMAN was born in Boston on 9 October 1914 as the seventh child of Ira Malcolm STEADMAN and his wife Jessie MacMaster. She contracted Polio when she was 18 months old, probably from her cousin Hugh STEADMAN. Polio was a continuing struggle through her life. Her father was killed in a trolley accident when she was two and she was raised by her mother in Dorchester. Her mother died in 1938, and later that year she married Bernard Miethe of Dorchester. In the summer of 1954, they purchased the house at 27 Eastman Street that his father bought in 1903 and that he had been born in. He died just after Christmas in 1956. She continued to live in the house until 1998 when she could no longer manage living there. She had started having blackouts, and she broke her hip a few years before. She had had a pacemaker. But she developed a weakening of her legs that was ascribed to "old polio syndrome". In 1998 she moved to an assisted living home, Chelmsford Crossing, in Chelmsford, MA, near her son Frank's home. She was doing well until getting the flu in late January. Between her heart and the flu, her body weakened substantially and, except for a week at a nursing home in Billerica, she spent her last weeks at Lowell General Hospital. Jessie died about 4:00 am on Thursday morning, 8 April 1999, at Lowell General Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts. Jessie had been sick for about twelve weeks before her death. About two weeks before her death she had gone from the hospital to a nursing home. After about 5 days she had a relapse and was readmitted to the hospital. She had a stroke during the night on Tuesday. She was waked at the Scally-Trayer Funeral Home in Dorchester on Sunday, 11 April 1999 from 4pm to 8pm. All of her children and grandchildren were there along with most of the Miethes, a number of her STEADMAN relatives and lost of her former neighbors from Eastman Street. Her funeral was on Monday, 12 April 1999, at 9:00 am at Holy Trinity Church in Boston with Father O'Regan presiding. She was buried at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline in the Miethe Plot with her husband.
  Person ID	I009648	Kyle and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2010

  
  

  Father	STEADMAN, Ira Malcolm,   b. 26 Apr 1878, Belleisle, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, CANADA d. 7 Nov 1916, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 38 years)
  Relationship	Step
  Mother	MACMASTER, Jessie,   b. 1 May 1879, Queensville, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, CANADA d. 29 Jan 1938, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 58 years)
  Relationship	Step
  Marriage	4 Sep 1902	Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F01864	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MIETHE, Bernard Joseph,   b. 25 Jul 1908, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA d. 26 Dec 1956, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	21 Apr 1938	Holy Trinity Church - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. MIETHE, Carolyn Marie Therese,   b. Private  [Father: Private]  [Mother: Private] + 2. MIETHE, Virginia Ann,   b. Private  [Father: Private]  [Mother: Private] + 3. MIETHE, Francis John,   b. Private  [Father: Private]  [Mother: Private] + 4. MIETHE, Bernard Francis,   b. Private  [Father: Private]  [Mother: Private]
  Family ID	F02143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S0052] Personal Communication - Jessica STEADMAN Miethe, (1990-1999). [S0041] Personal Communication - Carolyn Miethe Lisle, (1965-1999).