Name: Aimee Nora Goodhue
Born: 9 September 1879 in Castle Hill, Maine
Child: Carlton Edward Fitzgerald (1912–1912)
Died: 17 August 1955 in Auburn, Maine
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Auburn, Maine
 

 

I have gone in circles trying to figure out exactly how William Henry and Mary Ann (Raven) Goodhue's youngest child's name was spelled because on various records it ranges from "Annie" to "Aimee" to "Ammie" to "Amiee" and back again. She predeceased her husband, so I thought the best source I could find would be her gravestone, but unfortunately, she doesn't have one! According to cemetery records, she's buried in the same lot as her parents in Oak Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Maine, but there is just one monument there for her parents. The most recent and most clearly written consensus I can draw from looking at the obituaries for her and her husband is that she spelled it "Aimee."

Aimee's earliest record is the 1880 census, where she (looking like Ammie or Annie) appeared with her parents and two older siblings on lines 12–16 in the image below:

1880 US Census — Castle Hill, Maine
1880 US Census — Castle Hill, Maine

Her "official" birth record states that she was born in 1881, but that can't be true since she had appeared on the 1880 census. A note on the record accounts for the inaccuracy, as the information was given by a neighbor in 1940, some 60 years after the birth.

Maine Birth Record — Amy Goodhue
Maine Birth Record — Amy Goodhue

By 1900, both of Aimee's parents and her brother, Frederick, had died and only her sister, Ida, remained. Aimee was living in an Auburn apartment with Ida and her husband, Herbert Royal. Note that this record also has her birth year wrong, stating that it is 1880. See lines 13–15 in the image below:

1900 US Census — Auburn, Maine
1900 US Census — Auburn, Maine

On 27 November 1901 in Auburn, Aimee married Lewiston, Maine native Edward Franklin Fitzgerald, who was working at the Continental Mill on Oxford Street. Here's their marriage record:

Marriage Record (front) — Edward Franklin Fitzgerald and Aimee Nora Goodhue
Marriage Record (front) — Edward Franklin Fitzgerald and Aimee Nora Goodhue 
Marriage Record (back) — Edward Franklin Fitzgerald and Aimee Nora Goodhue
Marriage Record (back) — Edward Franklin Fitzgerald and Aimee Nora Goodhue 

Here's a newspaper mention of the wedding:

Notice in The Lewiston Daily Sun, 28 November 1901
Notice in The Lewiston Daily Sun, 28 November 1901

The 1910 census of Auburn shows Edward and Aimee living in an apartment at 29 School Street in Auburn. They're spread over the two following pages, with Edward on the last line in the first image and Aimee on the top line of the following image:

1910 US Census — Auburn, Maine
1910 US Census (part 1) — Auburn, Maine
1910 US Census (part 2) — Auburn, Maine
1910 US Census (part 2) — Auburn, Maine

Aimee's first and, as far as I can tell, only pregnancy ended in tragedy. Carlton Edward Fitzgerald was stillborn on 14 December 1912. The cause of death was listed as "difficult labor."

In 1920, Aimee and Edward were living at 27 Orchard Street in Auburn. They're on lines 98 and 99 in the image below:

1920 US Census — Auburn, Maine
1920 US Census — Auburn, Maine

The Fitzgeralds were still living at 27 Orchard Street in 1930, as evidenced by lines 26 and 27 in the image below:

1930 US Census — Auburn, Maine
1930 US Census — Auburn, Maine

The couple appears halfway down the right-hand column on this page from the 1935 City Directory:

City Directory — Edward F. and Aimee G. Fitzgerald
City Directory — Edward F. and Aimee G. Fitzgerald

In 1940, the couple was still residing at 27 Orchard Street. See lines 18 and 19 in the image below:

1940 US Census — Auburn, Maine
1940 US Census — Auburn, Maine

Aimee's sister, Ida Casey, died in 1946 leaving Aimee as the last living descendant of Mary Ann Raven and William Henry Goodhue. 

The 1950 census for Auburn shows Edward still working at the shoe factory at age 70 and the couple still residing at 27 Orchard Street. See lines 20 and 21 in the image below:

1950 US Census — Auburn, Maine
1950 US Census — Auburn, Maine

Aimee passed away at 27 Orchard Street on 17 August 1955 at the age of 75. Her obituary was printed the following day in the Lewiston papers:

Obituary of Aimee G. Fitzgerald in Lewiston Daily Sun, 18 August 1955
Obituary in The Lewiston Daily Sun, 18 August 1955

A brief notice about her funeral services was printed a few days later:

Funeral Notice for Amiee G. Fitzgerald in Lewiston Daily Sun, 22 August 1955
Funeral Notice in The Lewiston Daily Sun, 22 August 1955

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