Emeline Lewis
American, 1841 - 1915
BiographyEmeline Lewis was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1841 to Winslow and Emeline Lewis. Her father was a physician. Emeline and Arthur Cheney (1837-1878) were married on October 9, 1860 in Boston. They spent time in that city for Arthur's work as a representative of the Cheney Silk Mills, and Emeline largely lived there after Arthur's death in 1878.
According to "Joy is the Banner: The Life of Ethel M. Cheney Thorne," by Olive Floyd and Samuel Thorne, Emeline and Arthur had no children of their own. When a family friend died shortly after giving birth to a baby girl, the Cheneys took her in. The baby was born Mary Eliza Lee and renamed Ethel Mary Cheney. The adoption was completed two weeks after Arthur's death.
According to "Joy is the Banner: The Life of Ethel M. Cheney Thorne," by Olive Floyd and Samuel Thorne, Emeline and Arthur had no children of their own. When a family friend died shortly after giving birth to a baby girl, the Cheneys took her in. The baby was born Mary Eliza Lee and renamed Ethel Mary Cheney. The adoption was completed two weeks after Arthur's death.
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