Source: Greenwich Press: Thursday, February 3, 1938.
Lifelong Resident of Greenwich Will Pass Day Quietly
Miss Louisa Mead will be 96 years old next Tuesday, passing another landmark in a life which has seen more changes in Greenwich than any other living native. Miss Mead was born before the Mexican war, was a young woman when the Civil War broke out, and has seen two other wars since then. More concerned with the history of Greenwich, where she was born in 1842, Miss Mead lives with her three younger sister in a house on West Putnam Avenue which stands on the same tract on which her ancestors settled in Greenwich.
No party is being planned, according to one of Miss Mead's sisters. Miss Mead will pass "a very quiet day," surrounded by her immediate family. Not as well as she was a year ago, she may receive a few friends if the family sees fit.
Miss Mead was born in the predecessor of the white house where she now lives, the daughter of the late Mary and Joseph Mead. A descendant of the earliest Mead's in Greenwich, she is the great-granddaughter of Capt. Matthew Mead, Indian fighter of Revolutionary times, after whom the local Sons of the American Revolution is named.
Miss Mead's home stands quietly among the industrial and commercial buildings which have grown up on all sides. Across the street is Pickwick Theatre, and yet Miss Mead has never been to a motion picture theatre. She is the last survivor of the women of Greenwich who sewed the flags displayed in greenwich during the Civil War, and who knitted socks and clothing for the boys at the front.
She resides with three sisters, the Misses Emma, Lillian and Eva Mead, four survivors of a family of eight.
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