Photo #110546
Last Name: Fox
First Name: Mavis
Middle Name: E
Subject's City: Portland
Subject's State: ME
Subject's County: Cumberland
Subject's Country: United States
Date: 1921-1940
Photographer: Wight
Photographer's City: Portland
Photographer's State: ME
Nee:
Type**: B&W
Comments: Mavis E Fox (Nee: ) | Portland ME United States | 1921-1940 | Comments: Mavis Fox, circa 1937
This photo is from the Ethel Wight Studio, Portland, Maine.
This negative envelope says, “Miss M. Fox, Maine General Hospital, Portland, #698.”
Why I believe this to be the individual.
• The 1938 Portland City Directory lists Mavis Fox, a student nurse at 22 Arsenal residing at the same address. (The address for the Maine General Hospital was 22 Arsenal.)
• The 1940 Census lists eight individuals named Mavis Fox.
1. Mavis H. Fox – 11-year-old – Too young
2. Mavis Fox – 20-year-old in New York – Too young.
3. Mavis Fox – 20-year-old wife in West Virginia.
4. Mavis Fox – 14-year-old daughter in Tennessee – Too young.
5. Mavis Fox – a 10-year-old daughter in Kentucky – Too young.
6. Mavis Fox – a 17-year-old daughter in Tennessee – Too young.
7. Mary [Mavis] Fox – a 16-year-old daughter in Pennsylvania.
8. Morris [Mavis] Fox - a 32-year-old daughter in South Carolina, working as a nurse. She also lived in South Carolina in 1935. – Possible.
• The Portland Press Herald reported that Miss Mavis Fox returned to the Mass. General Hospital, where she is a student nurse. In May 1948, January 1949, and December 1949. Her father is Charles Fox of Elm Street, Kezar Falls.
o The 1940 Census indicates Charles G Fox and his daughter Mavis live in Parsonsfield, Maine. Parsonsfield and Kezar Falls are about 7 miles apart. This Mavis is 11 years old in 1940 and is undoubtedly the Mavis Fox reported about in the Press Herald in the late 1940s
• Mavis E. Fox of Lovell, Me married Norman Gray of Fryeburg on 28 May 1938.
o The 1930 Census shows Norman H Gray, born about 1912, living with his parents John H and Ethel M. Gray.
o The 1930 Census also shows Mavis E Fox, the daughter of Arthur G and Clara A Fox, living in Lovell, Oxford County, Maine. Mavis was 17 in 1930.
Alternative individuals
1. Mavis Fox, born about 1908 in South Carolina, was a nurse in 1940. She also lived in South Carolina in 1935, and I have found no connection of this Mavis to Maine.
Tentatively Identified
This is most likely Mavis E Fox, born 21 April 1912 in Lovell, Oxford County, Maine, to Arthur G. and Clara A. Fox. She married Arthur Heald Gray on 28 May 1938. She died on 28 May 1943. I have been unsuccessful in finding Mavis in the 1940 Census, and I have been unsuccessful in finding any connection between this Mavis and nursing.
Digital Image Only?
Everyone Listed In This Photo:
Mavis Fox
