Mary Tyler was a notable Unitarian active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Women's Relief Corps and a founder of the Women's Industrial Exchange, but she is most famous as Mary of Mary Had a Little Lamb. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1806/03/22 | Mary Elizabeth Sawyer is born and raised on a farm in Sterling, Massachusetts. | Home | Sawyer Homestead | Sterling | |||
| 1816/00/00 | Mary adopts a sickly lamb that has been abandoned by its mother. As it grew stronger, the lamb begins to follow her everywhere. At the Redstone School (built 1798, now at Longfellow's Wayside Inn) Mary hid the lamb under her desk. | Life | Longfellow's Wayside Inn | Sudbury, MA | |||
| 1832/00/00 | Mary Sawyer joins the McLean Asylum of Somerville staff as an attendant. She worked for many years as the matron at the McLean Asylum and her husband, Columbus Tyler, was steward for about 40 years. | Work | McLean Hospital National Register District | Belmont, MA | |||
| 1835/00/00 | Mary Elizabeth Sawyer marries Columbus Tyler. The couple built a large home in Somerville. | Home | First Unitarian Church | Somerville, MA | |||
| 1844/00/00 | Somerville First Unitarian Church is established (dissolved in 1975). | Founding Member | First Unitarian Church | Somerville, MA | |||
| 1876/07/00 | Mary Sawyer Tyler donates a pair of socks her mother had knitted from her lamb's wool. The socks were unraveled and bits of them were sold along with Tyler's autograph to benefit the Meeting House. | Benefactor | Old South Meetinghouse | Boston | |||
| 1881/09/14 | Columbus Tyler dies in 1881 and bequeaths his estate to the First Unitarian Church, effective upon Mary's death. She died in 1889, and her home was used as the church parsonage until it was sold in 1921. | Widow | First Unitarian Church | Somerville, MA | |||
| 1889/12/11 | Mary Elizabeth Sawyer Tyler passes away. She is buried in Mt Auburn Cemetery near Boston. | Died | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge | Cambridge, MA |
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