1870 TO 1879 OBITUARIES

 

 

(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.