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Note: Birth announcement in "The Chronicle", Bound Brook, NJ Friday, August 17, 1906 states: "Harry J. Wells was as lively as a kitten on Wednesday, because of the birth of a daughter that morning. Harry says it tipped the scales at 14 pounds". Clifford Sofield and Mary Wells were 2nd Cousins. After the death of her mother and father, Mary Eveline Wells was taken care of by her grandfather William H. Durling, Sr., until December 31, 1917 at which time she was sent to the Children's Home Society, a Presbyterian orphanage in Trenton, Mercer Co., New Jersey. Obituary Mary E. Sofield BRADENTON, Fla.--Mary E. Sofield, 75, of West 14th Street, died yesterday (Jan. 28, 1982) at St. Peters's Medical Center in New Brunswick, N.J. Born in Bound Brook, N.J., she formerly resided in Middlesex, N.J., and South Plainfield, N.J., before moving to Bradenton 13 years ago. She was visiting her daughter, Agnes Perwoznik, when she died. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Bradenton and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Pierce Hose Co. No. 3 in Middlesex. She was the wife of the late Clifford Sofield, who died in 1972. A son, Clifford Jr., died in 1980. She is survived by a son, Thomas of South Plainfield; two daughters, Agnes Perwoznik of South Plainfield and Doris Garman of Dunellen, N.J.; 20 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Arrangements are by the James W. Conroy Funeral Home in South Plainfield.
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