Eunice Grover was born 19 March 1805 at Islesboro, Maine. She was the daughter of George W. Grover (1784 - 1870) and Lydia Stockbridge (1784 - 1867), the oldest of seven children, two sisters and four brothers.
She married Dr. Nathaniel Pendleton 7 April 7 1823 at Islesboro, Maine. They moved to Winter Harbor, Maine in mid-1830s. Her parents, and all of her siblings, except her brother George, also moved to Gouldsboro. Her sister Mary married Nathaniel’s brother Samuel and lived in Prospect Harbor.
Nathaniel and Eunice had fourteen children of whom three lived to adulthood. They adopted a son, Charles William, in 1841.
Eunice died 26 Mar 1891 in Winter Harbor. She is buried with her husband and children in Greenwood Cemetery, Winter Harbor, Maine.
According to her great-granddaughter, Eunice was “a small woman, with snapping brown eyes, and a snapping temper, too.” (Earl, Myra Smith. Fond Memory: A Maine Coast Reminiscence. Brunswick, Maine: Biddle Publishing Company, 1993, 37.)
