William T. Davis, Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, vol. 2 — Charles S. Lilley

Gives the marriage as 4 April 1891; the 1921 obituary says 14 April.

Statements this record supports

C-014 — Charles Sumner Lilley (born Lowell 13 Dec 1851, eldest of three sons of Charles and Cynthia (Huntley) Lilley; public schools and private tutors; learned carpet designing at the Lowell Manufacturing Company; read law with Arthur P. Bonney; admitted Middlesex bar June 1877; Boston office with G. A. A. Pevey 1880–88; alderman 1879; state senator 1880–81 and 1886; Governor's Council 1884) was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court by Gov. William E. Russell on 29 November 1893 and resigned 1 January 1900. A halftone portrait (profile, bearded) appears in Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England (1900), vol. 1, p. 121.
C-048 — Judge Charles S. Lilley died Saturday evening 16 April 1921 at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, after a brief illness; his funeral at 236 Fairmount Street on 20 April 1921 was attended by many jurists; burial in the family lot, Lowell Cemetery. The 1921 obituary records that he married Clara Bonney on 14 April 1891 and that their daughter was 'now Mrs. Dunbar of West Newton'.