Julia Sullivan
Emigrant Ancestor
Julia Ann Sullivan was born in the southern part of Ireland in November of 1861. When she was sixteen, she emigrated to America with her parents, Florence and Mary Margaret Sullivan.
Julia was twenty on the 1880 Census of East Providence, Rhode Island and working as a domestic servant. On January 23, 1881, she married Arnold Frederick Cole in Sacred Heart Church, East Providence. Julia and Arnold were the parents of five children, Mary, John, Charles, Arnold and a child who died as an infant. Julia was the mother of another child, my grandmother, Harriet Maragarete Cole. Harriet was the daughter of Charles William Cole.
Julia and Arnold lived in East Providence most of their lives, near the Seekonk River. Arnold was an oyster boat pilot at a company nearby.
Julia died in East Providence at the age of fifty-six on December 5, 1915.
