(1870)
FLETCHER, LYDIA A. (MORRILL), the wife of Samuel
Prescott Fletcher and the daughter of John Morrill, died at age 39 on 9/12/1870.
MORRILL, WILLIAM C., died at age 36 on 8/7/1870.
He was the son of John and Hannah Morrill.
ROBIE, ICHABOD, died 10/25/1870 at the age of 87.
He is buried in the Lower Intervale Cemetery.
(1871)
BLODGETT, MARY (SANBORN), the wife of Joseph French
Blodgett, died 2/13/1871 at the age of 73. She was the mother of four children.
Burial was in the Turnpike Cemetery.
DEARBORN, SARAH BARTLETT, maiden daughter of Samuel
Dearborn and Elizabeth Bartlett, died 5/24/1871. She was 68 years old.
MELVIN, WALTER, died 6/5/1871 at the age of 82.
His first wife, who predeceased him was the daughter of Noah and Dorothy
(Clifford) Phillips. His second wife, Abigail Stewart died at age 82.
PERKINS, DOLLY (LANCASTER), second wife of Jacob
Perkins, died 10/16/1871. She was
the mother of 13 children.
ROBIE, JEREMIAH S., died 3/10/1871.
He was nearly 58 years old. He
is buried in the Lower Intervale Cemetery.
WELLS, MARY A. (CURRIER), the wife of Hiram Thompson
Wells, died at age 48 12/18/1871. She
was the mother of one child, a son, Hiram Freeman Wells.
(1872)
DEARBORN, GEORGE PERKINS, died 7/18/1872.
He was the son of Samuel Dearborn and the first husband of Elizabeth
Farley Drake. They had one
daughter, Lenna M., who died in 1876.
EATON, MOSES CURRIER, died 3/29/1872.
He was the son of Jesse and Eleanor (Page) Eaton.
He was born in Wentworth 9/26/1838.
He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1865 and was a physician in
Warren and Wentworth until 1869, when he moved to Plymouth and practiced his
profession until his death. He was
married to Ellen Louisa Ward and they had one child, a son, Arthur Ward Eaton.
FRENCH, CAPTAIN JONATHAN, died at the age of 60 on
5/25/1872. He was born in Salisbury
in 1812 and came to Plymouth with his father in 1834 and step-mother.
He was a farmer and lost his first wife in 1836, leaving at least two
children (sons), possibly more.
GLYNN, STEPHEN, died 9/9/1872 at the age of 75.
He was born in Killconen, County Galway, Ireland in 1797.
He came to America about 1821. He
married Sarah B. Clifford in 1835 in Watertown, Massachusetts.
In 1840 they moved to Rumney and then Plymouth and settled on the Rideout
farm. He was a Protestant, an
industrious farmer, and a respected member of the town.
In 1851, after the death of his first wife, he married Prudence Clement
of Hollis. He had four sons with
his first wife, Sarah.
REED, SUSAN (CUMMINGS), the widow of Joseph Reed, died
9/19/1872. They were married in
1813. He was a farmer in Lower
Intervale. Susan and Joseph were
the parents of six children. Two of
their sons were named Joseph; one only lived a year and died in 1820, the second
was called Joseph Henry Reed and lived about five years. He was the youngest child born to them. The entire Reed family is buried in the Lower Intervale
Cemetery. Susan Reed was 76 when
she died.
WEBSTER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, was born in 1795 and died
12/10/1872. His second wife was Ann
Walker, the daughter of Peter Walker and Bathsheba Johnson.
(1873)
EASTMAN, GALEN, died 7/1/1873 at the age of 31.
He was the son of Galen Fay Eastman and his second wife, Rebecca Small.
Young Galen was the 10th of 13 children.
He served with the 12th New Hampshire Infantry and he was
unmarried.
HOBART, PETER, died 11/10/1873. He was the son of Peter
Hobart and Abigail Dearborn. He was
born 12/7/1777 and was married to Eleanor Johnson. He was a farmer in Plymouth and the father of five children.
MORSE, SARAH (CHAMBERLAIN), the wife of Stephen Morse,
died 12/21/1873 at the age of 87. Sally, as she was known to family and friends,
was the mother of nine children. She
is buried at the Turnpike Cemetery.
MORRILL, HANNAH H., the wife of John Morrill, died at
age 67 on 3/8/1873.
(1874)
ADAMS, CHARLES W., died in Concord on 11/5/1874.
He was the 6th of eight children born to Moses Adams and his
wife, Miriam Rideout. His three oldest siblings died as infants, as did the 7th
child, Louisa H. Adams. His older
sister, Floretta Rose (Adams) Binford, died three weeks after his death. When
Charles died he was only 45 years old.
BINFORD, FLORETTA ROSE (ADAMS), the daughter of Moses
Adams and the wife of Samuel Binford, died 11/28/1874 at the age of 49. She was
the 4th of eight children. The
first three died as infants and the 7th child also died young.
Floretta’s brother, Charles died just three weeks before she passed
away.
PEBBLES, JAMES, Jr., died 5/17/1874 at the age of 80.
He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of James and Martha
(Haskell) Pebbles. He participated
in the War of 1812. Junior
married Sarah Sloper of Orford in 1819. He was a blacksmith and a farmer, and came to Plymouth in
1862. They made their home in the
Lower Intervale and that is where he is buried, in the Lower Intervale Cemetery.
PENNIMAN, JOSEPH, died 5/25/1874.
He was the son of Nathan Penniman and in the Stearns History of Plymouth
he was listed as Joshua instead of Joseph.
He was born in 1810 and lived in Boston. He
lost his sight and subsequently lived in Plymouth and Rumney, where he died,
unmarried in 1874. He is buried in
the Turnpike Cemetery.
REED, GEORGE CUMMINGS. DIED 9/8/1874.
He was the oldest son of Joseph Reed and Susan Cummings.
He is buried in the Lower Intervale Cemetery. He was 60 years old.
(1875)
DRAKE, JOHN AYER, died 3/22/1875.
He was married to Emeline D. Pike.
FRENCH, SARAH F. (MORRILL), the second wife of Jonathan
French, died at the age of 57 on 10/10/1875.
She was the mother of four children and stepmother to his two sons by his
first wife.
LOWD, JAMES, a well-known painter, died 7/12/1875.
He was the 9th of 11 children born to George Lowd and Betsey
Merrill.
MORSE, ARTHUR, died 11/13/1875. He was 75 years old and unmarried. His parents were Samuel Morse and Sarah Webster.
MORSE, BENJAMIN, the son of William Morse and Ruth
Homans, died at the age of 51 on 12/1/1875. He was unmarried.
WORTHEN, SARAH GRACE (LOVEJOY), the widow of Ephriam
Worthen, died 12/30/1875. They were
married in 1833 and came to Plymouth in 1837, living near Currier Hill.
Ephraim was a farmer. He
died in 1861 of tuberculosis.
(1876)
DEARBORN, LENNA MEDORA PERKINS, four year old daughter
of George Perkins Dearborn, died 12/15/1876.
She was only five months old when he father died.
EASTMAN, JOHN B., son of Galen Fay Eastman and his
second wife, Rebecca Small, died 4/30/1876.
He was born in 1853 and was unmarried.
He and his brother, Galen, who died in 1873, are buried in the Lower
Intervale Cemetery. John was 23
when he died.
ELLIS, MARTHA, daughter of Ichabod Ellis and Nancy
Bickford, died in Plymouth on 5/12/1876. She
was unmarried. She is buried in the
Ellis-Dearborn Cemetery on Reservoir Road.
MORSE, ELIZA G. (COCHRAN), the first wife of Samuel
Monroe Morse died 7/27/1876.
(1877)
CHANDLER, ETHEL FAY, 7th child of John
Chandler and Helen Mar Leavitt, died of whooping cough on 4/10/1877.
She was born on 6/6/1876 and was only 10 months old when she died.
COCHRAN, HARRISON MARDEN, died of tuberculosis
5/26/1877. He was born 3/17/1841,
the fifth of six children born to Robert Cochran and Harriet Gill, his first
wife. Harrison Cochran was not
married.
FLETCHER, FRANK WEBSTER, son of Samuel Fletcher and his
second wife, Betsey Jane Webster, died of hydroecepholus on 11/11/1877.
He was two months old. He
was called “Frankie,” by his family.
HAZELTON, MARY AUGUSTA, daughter of Wilson Ward Hazelton
and Josephine Mahala Hall, died 12/15/1877 of pneumonia.
She was 12 years old.
MC QUESTEN, CHARLOTTE (ELLISON), the wife of Oliver
Spalding McQuesten, died 7/6/1877 of dropsy from heart disease.
She was the mother of four children.
MORRISON, CLARA A. (CORLISS), the wife of John Stoddard
Morrison, died 11/8/1877 at the age of 34, of dropsy of the heart.
She and John were the parents of three children.
MORSE, ABEL WEBSTER, died on 2/6/1877.
He was 83 years old and unmarried. His
parents were Samuel Morse and Sarah Webster.
His brother, Arthur, also unmarried, died in 1875.
REED, FREDDIE HASTINGS, the 6th and last
child of William Hastings Reed and Mary E. Moses, died 2/16/1877.
He was 17 months old.
STAFFORD, ANNA COIT MABEL, was born 1/12/1861 to Isaac
Duane Stafford and Harriet Ann Ward. Anna died 8/15/1877 of tuberculosis at the
age of 16.
STEVENS, LOUISA (ELLSWORTH), wife of Enos Stevens, died
of pneumonia at age 66 on 4/11/1877.
(1878)
BARROWS, REV. LORENZO DOW, the son of Isaac and Hannah
(Carpenter) Barrows, died of kidney disease on 2/18/1878.
He was born in Windham, Vermont on 7/1/1817.
He married Minerva E. Chase on 6/23/1839.
They were the parents of three children.
CILLEY, JOHN W., died of tuberculosis on 3/29/1878.
He came to Plymouth from Hebron in 1853 or 1854.
He was blind for several years. He
married Sarah Bruce, daughter of John Bruce and they were the parents of three
children.
CILLEY, SARAH (BRUCE), the wife of John W. Cilley and
the mother of his three children. She
was born to John Bruce and his first wife, Sally Kennedy. Sarah was the third and last child from that marriage. Her
father remarried and had four more children with his second wife. Sarah died in
Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1878, probably while living with her son, Gustavus
and his wife, Josephine P. Harvey.
CURRIER, LAURA R. (REED), first wife of Daniel Hoag
Currier, died of tuberculosis 12/18/1878. She
was the daughter of Joseph and Susan (Cummings) Reed.
She and Daniel had three children, the first two who died in infancy are
buried in the Lower Intervale Cemetery.
EASTMAN, REBECCA (SMALL), second wife and widow of Galen
F. Eastman, died at age 67 on 5/1/1878. She
is buried in the Lower Intervale Cemetery.
RYAN, ELIZABETH R. (ELLISON), second wife of James Ryan,
died 3/3/1878 of tuberculosis. She
was born 6/28/1805, the daughter of John Ellison.
And was the mother of six children with James.
SELLINGHAM, JACOB, died at age 72 of pneumonia.
His death occurred on 3/11/1878. He
was born 10/1/1804 in Stewartstown, the son of Henry Sellingham and Amy Brainard.
He was married to Mahala Stevens on 6/10/1832 and they had three
children. He was a carpenter by
trade.
SELLINGHAM, GEORGE HAZELTON, died 3/11/1878 at the age
of 35 from acute mania. He was the
son of Jacob Sellingham and Mahala Stevens and was born 11/7/1842.
He was a mechanic by trade.
STAFFORD, MARY WARD, died 7/2/1878.
She was the daughter of Isaac Duane Stafford and Harriet Ann Ward.
She was born 9/16/1863. She
was not quite 15 years old when she died.
STEVENS, SARAH (DRAPER), died at age 94 of acute
diarrhea on 5/25/1878. She was the
mother of seven children.
STRAW, MARY (AVERY) died of palsy on 8/30/1878.
She was the widow of Dudley Straw, who died in 1860.
WHITNEY, EMMA J., unmarried daughter of Kimball Whitney
and Eliza Johnson, died 7/14/1878 of tuberculosis. She was born 1/8/1844.
(1879)
CHANDLER, ERNEST ROY, youngest of eight children of John
Chandler and Helen Mar Leavitt, died of spasms on 4/22/1879.
He was only four days old.
CLAY, MARY ANN (GILMAN), died 8/4/1879 of liver cancer.
She was the wife of Jonathan L. Clay and the daughter of Caleb and Mary
Ann (Bailey) Gilman. She and
Jonathan were the parents of six children. She was 51 years old when she died.
CRAWFORD, CLORA CHASTINA, daughter of Cephas Robbins
Crawford and his first wife, Eliza Jackson, died 7/9/1879 of phthisic.
She was the first born of three children.
CURRIER, LAURA (REED), the wife of Daniel Hoag Currier,
died 1/9/1879 at the age of 53. Two
of her sons died very young; one in 1850, the other in 1852.
They are all buried in the Lower Intervale Cemetery.
DEARBORN, MARY EMELINE, died of tuberculosis 3/28/1879.
She was the daughter of George Dearborn and Hannah R. Cheney.
She was born 9/30/1850 and was 29 years old at the time of her death.
She was unmarried.
EMERSON, SARAH, the daughter of Nathaniel Emerson and
Sally Lovejoy, died at the age of 92 on 5/25/1879. Her gravestone lists her name as Sally, as does Stearns
History of Plymouth. Sally was a
popular nickname for the name Sarah. Sally
(or Sarah) was unmarried and is buried in the Lower Intervale Cemetery.
GEORGE, WILBER ORIN, fifth child of Washington George
and his second wife, Louisa Abbot, died of tuberculosis on Christmas Day, 1879.
He was born 5/25/1845 and was unmarried.
MORSE, PERLEY O., five year old son of Charles Morse and
Susan J. Boynton, died 12/2/1879. The
Stearns History of Plymouth gives the year of death as 1870.
MORSE, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Morse and Sarah Webster,
died 5/6/1879. He was 83 years old
and had been widowed twice; in 1837 and in 1865.
POWERS, RUEBEN, died 5/7/1879. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in 1796.
Married to Jemima Blodgett and had two children.
He was a farmer and a good citizen.