Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860-June 1, 1927) – Lives Our Ancestors Left Behind

A Brief Overview of Lizzie

Lizzie Andrew Borden was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. She was the youngest daughter of Andrew Jackson Borden and Sarah Borden and lived her entire life in Fall River. Lizzie attended church and taught Sunday School, and was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Lizzie had an elder sister Emma and another elder sister who had died in infancy. After Sarah’s death, when Lizzie was less than three years of age, Andrew remarried to Abby Durfree Gray in 1865. In 1884, Andrew gave his new wife’s half-sister a house, this action would be objected and fought over by …

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