George Boman was only 46 years old when he died in Seattle on December 19, 1890. He had grown up in Tennessee and after fighting in the Union Army in the Civil War, he never went back home. He journeyed across the USA and spent the last fifteen years of his life in Seattle, where he became a prosperous businessman with investments in real estate. He married for the third time in 1885 and seemed happy, but Boman’s life and his marriage were cut short by death.
After George’s death, the widowed Mary Boman, age 35, was able to continue on much as before, because George had left her in comfortable financial circumstances. George & Mary had a house on Woodland Park Avenue North on the edge of the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle. They lived together with Mary’s parents, her brother Edward, and her nine-year-old son from a previous marriage.
Early in the year 1891, Mary Boman kept herself busy with completing the plan which George had started, for an even larger new house on the same street. In the process of buying furniture for the new house, Mary became romantically involved with the salesman at the furniture store, Harry Donald.
This blog post is the fifth and final article in the series about the life of George Boman. In this article we will see what happened to his widow Mary after his death.
Mary Boman’s card of thanks published in the Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper, December 22, 1890.
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