Mary Bridges Canedy Slade

SLADE, Mary Bridges Canedy. b. Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts, 18 January 1826; d. Fall River, 15 April 1882. One of thirteen children born to William Barnabas Canedy (1784-1855) and Susan Hughes Canedy, née Luther (1787-1858), she married (1850) her pastor at Fall River, Albion King Slade. They had five children. She was a school teacher, and Assistant Editor of the New England Journal of Education (see https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40201609). She wrote material for teachers: for primary schools, Children’s hour. Containing dialogues, speeches, motion songs, tableaux, charades, blackboard exercises, juvenile comedies, and other entertainments; for Grammar and High Schools,...