The above photograph of David Greenough was published in the Halifax Evening Mail on September 30, 1922. He was my great grandmother Arabella Mitchell’s brother-in-law from her first marriage to Isaac Gaetz Greenough. David and Isaac’s parents were George Greenough and Annie Baker (so they are blood relations to me through Annie’s line).
The Greenough family are Acadian, and I believe the original surname was Grenon. Some of them ended up in the Petpeswick area along Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.
After Arabella Mitchell and Isaac Gaetz Greenough were married, the couple moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts. David Greenough and his wife Martha Christy lived here, as well. Both David and Isaac were lathers (workers who installed the framework systems on ceilings and walls for plastering).
David and Martha had several children including an actress known as Peggy Marsh (you can read all about her here: https://www.jazzageclub.com/the-curious-tale-of-peggy-marsh/499/)
I don’t know what became of their marriage, but they appear in separate households in the 1930 United States census. She is buried in Malden, Massachusetts whereas he is buried in Musquodoboit Harbour, NS. David Greenough sadly spent the final six months of his life at the Halifax County Home and Mental Hospital and died in 1941.
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