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Table of Contents, The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 46, no. 1 (Jun 2013):1.
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Shubael and Rebecca (Larriford) Starns and Their Ten Children
by Ernest Eugene Whitney, CSG # 19681 (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ernest Eugene Whitney, "Shubael and Rebecca (Larriford) Starns and Their Ten Children", The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 46, no. 2 (Sep 2013):12-29.
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by Ernest Eugene Whitney, CSG # 19681
Table of Contents, The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 46, no. 2 (Sep 2013):98.
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Shubael and Rebecca (Larriford) Starns and Their Ten Children
by Ernest Eugene Whitney, CSG # 19681 (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Ernest Eugene Whitney, "Shubael and Rebecca (Larriford) Starns and Their Ten Children", The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 46, no. 2 (Sep 2013):145-171.
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by Ernest Eugene Whitney, CSG # 19681
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Ernest Eugene Whitney is a descendant of Sarah (Starns) Hatch. He lives at 60 Yacht Club Drive #202, North Palm Beach, FL 33408, solicits corrections and may be contacted at [email protected].
Jane N. Ryan, "Last Words: The Stories Behind Probate Records and the Will of Charles Henry Wood of Meriden", The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 46, no. 4 (Mar 2014):250-266.
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Wills and probate records are not only rich sources of genealogical information, but they are also windows into the human side of what might otherwise be dry data. An interesting will can lead you down unexpected paths. Whether or not the individuals you meet are directly related to your genealogical interests, their stories provide background and flavor to the period you are researching.
What follows is not intended to be and extended genealogy of one family, but rather a snapshot of the people and circumstances surrounding one rather curious will. In this case, the will of a Meriden bank teller led from a family that lived in Bermuda and Maryland to a home for indigent boys in Connecticut and then to the upper echelons of business and finance.
Charles H. Wood of Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, signed his will on 19 March 1906. In it he bequeathed to his "beloved wife, Honora C. Wood," the use of one third of all his property, real and personal, for her use during her life. The rest of his estate he left to Burtrand [Bertrand] A. Page of Hartford, to hold in trust for his son Edwin P. Wood. He gave instructions that Page ws to use the interest and as much of the principal as necessary for the support and education of Edwin, and whatever remained was to be turned over to Edwin when he reached the age of 21. However, should Edwin die before that age, the property in its entirety was to be given to his wife.
What follows caught my interest:
- In justice to my wife, whom I call beloved because she is so, than whom no husband ever had a better wife nor child a mother, I desire to say to those who will make it their concern, that the strict statuary share of my estate herein give to my wife and the like selection of my friend Burtrand A. Page to be the trustee of my boy's inheritance are prompted by the desire to safeguard my boy's interests from the danger to which they would be exposed if my wife were in absolute control of them. Not that I think my wife loves our boy less than I do, but her unscrupulous aunt Rose W. Smead seems to exercise over my wife an influence which nobody can explain, under which my wife is ready to turn over to her aunt all that she possesses under a mistaken notion that all that she may ever get belongs to her aunt of right for services for which
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- in fact my wife has too dearly paid already. To remove my boy's inheritance beyond the reach of Mrs. Smead's conscienceless influence -- to save my wife from her own misfortune -- I have done what a discriminating world will justify. Lastly in addition to appointing Burtrand A. Page my trustee as in paragraph third, I do hereby appoint the said Burtrand A. Page to the the executor of this, my last will and testament.[1]
The will of Charles H. Wood was accepted into probate on 23 June 1913. The inventory of his estate came to $5,216.02, not a huge fortune, but certainly enough to give a young lad a good start.[2]
I was especially intrigued by this rather outspoken will because I had run across the family of Bertrand Page while researching my own family.
CHARLES H. WOOD
Charles Henry Wood was born in Meriden on 9 Jul 1871, the son of Henry B. Wood and Alice E. Pomeroy.[3] Henry Wood and Alice Pomeroy had been married just the year before, on 6 September 1870.[4] In 1880 they lived in Meriden: Henry Wood, 36, Britannia worker, wife Allex [Alice], 30, son Charles 9, and son Nelson, 4. All were born in Connecticut.[5]
On 2 August 1899, Charles H. Wood married Miss Nora [Honora] Catherine Whitney in an evening ceremony held at the Watkinson Juvenile Asylum and Farm School in Hartford.[6] Nora was the niece of Edwin B. Smead, the first principal of the school.[7] The school hall was decorated with goldenrod and hosted a party for some fifty guests. The newlyweds then spent two weeks honeymooning in the Adirondacks.
After their return to Meriden they set up housekeeping at 104 Wilcox Avenue. The 1900 census shows Chas. H. Wood, 28, and Honorah, 27, married nine months, no children. Living with there were Charles's parents, Henry B., 56, and Alice, 50, and his brother Nathan, 23. Charles was a bank teller, and evidently he was sufficiently well paid that they could afford a servant, Jennie Anderson, 26, born in Sweden.[8]
The elder Woods soon moved to another location, living first at 37 Elm Street in 1901 and five years later at 60 Crown Street. Nelson moved to Brooklyn, New York, in about 1904. Charles H. Wood, teller at the Home National Bank, remained on Wilcox Avenue.[9] By 1910, Henry B. and Alice C. Wood, 66 and 60, still lived at 60 Crown Street, while Charles and Nora with their son Edward [sic], 9, and two servants lived at 55 Wilcox Avenue.[10]
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Charles H. Wood died in 1913, not yet 42 year old.[11] His mother, Alice (Pomeroy) Wood, died the following year,[12] and his father, Henry B. Wood, died on 28 August 1929 at age 85.[13] All three were buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Section F, in Meriden.[14]
HONORA C. WHITNEY, BELOVED WIFE OF CHARLES H. WOOD
Honora Catherine Whitney, daughter of George Orrett and Mary Jane (Jones) Whitney, was born in Bermuda on 20 October 1872.[15] Honoroa, or Nora, as she was then called, immigrated in 1878, arriving with her family in New York on 12 August 1878.[16]
In 1880 she lived with Rose and Edwin B. Smead in Baltimore, Maryland. With them were her sisters, Cecile, then 5, and Nelly, 10, as well as a young man identified as D. W. Smead, 19. All four young people were listed as the son and daughters of Edwin Smead and all were given his last name; all were born in Bermuda except Edwin, who was born in Massachusetts, and Nelly,. According to the census, Nelly was born in Maryland, as was her mother. The father of the three girls as well as the parents of D. W. were born in Bermuda, not Massachusetts. With the Smeads lived Edwin's brother-in-law F. A. R. Whitney, and several teenaged cousins named Cooper, all born in Bermuda.[17]
Although identified as the daughters of Edwin Smead, Honora and her sisters Cecile and Nelly were actually his nieces. These relationships are outlined in family obituaries and wedding notices.[18] The relationship of Nora's father, George Orrett Whitney, within the Whitney family has been unclear.[19] However, these same newspapers indicate his likely position in the family.
George and Mary Whitney are listed in the 1870 census for Snow Hill, Maryland, at which time he was 32 years old; this gives 1838 as his calculated year of birth.[20] Newspaper articles identify his daughters as the nieces of Edwin and Rosa Smead, suggesting that George Whitney and Rosa Smead, wife of Edwin, were siblings, though the Whitney family genealogy does not identify them as such.[21]
Rosa (Whitney) Smead was the daughter of David and Ann Whitney of Bermuda.[22] The Whitney Research Group and birth notices from Bermuda newspapers show that a son was born to David Whitney on 7 June 1837,[23] which means that Rosa was a sister to that son. While the name of the son born in 1837 is not given in the birth notice, the date of this birth certainly fits that calculated for George Orrett Whitney.
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Honora's mother, Mary Jane Whitney, the wife of George O. Whitney, died in Baltimore on 22 September 1880.[24]
Honora's aunt and uncle, Rose and Edwin B. Smead, moved to Hartford, Connecticut, in the early 1880s. They joined the First Church of Christ in Hartford in December of 894, also appearing in the city directory for that year.[25] Honora soon followed, joining the same church in June of 1886.[26] By 1895, she was a teacher at the Watkinson Farm School.[27] She met Charles H. Wood of Meriden, as mentioned above, they married in 1899.
After her husband died in 1913, Honora moved from Meriden to Hartford.[28] There she lived with her son Edwin P. Wood and worked as a substitute teacher.[29] She continued to live in Hartford until 1925.[30] She does not appear in the listing for 1927 or 1928 city directories, but she reappeared in both the 1930 census and the Hartford City Directory for that year: Honora W. Wood, 57, widowed, born in Bermuda, lived at 943 Asylum Avenue.[31] She soon left for Cleveland, Ohio;[32] by 1935 she had moved to Philadelphia.[33]
Society news for Meriden reported that Mrs. Charles H. Wood, then of East Orange, New Jersey, and formerly a resident of Meriden, visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Boyle at Allen Hill Farm in 1938.[34] The 1940 census shows her still living in East Orange, where she was guest at the Hotel Edgemere.[35] Her frequent moves during these later years correspond to moves her son Edwin Wood made (see below).
Honora (Whitney) Wood, wife of Charles H. Wood, died in East Orange, in early June of 1951. She is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden.[36]
EDWIN P. WOOD, SON OF CHARLES AND HONORA
Edwin Pomeroy Wood was born in Hartford on 9 October 1900.[37] He is listed in the 1910 census, living with his parents in Meriden.[38] He attended Hotchkiss Preparatory School in Lakeville, Connecticut.[39] In 1917, he started working for Travelers Insurance Company in Hartford.[40] He continued to live in Hartford with his widowed mother Honora until 1924,[41] but by 1925 he no longer appears in the Hartford Directory. Only Honora is listed.[42]
According to an article in the Meriden Record,[43] Edwin attended Cashiers Training School in 1924, completed a four-week course in life, accident, and group insurance in 1927 and was assigned to the Travelers branch office in Erie, Pennsylvania. The article continues to say that he became a cashier in the Williamsport, Pennsylvania, office and then was transferred to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1927, where he is listed in the 1928 city directory (E. P. Wood, salesman for
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Travelers Insurance Company) and in the 1930 census.[44] By 1935 he had moved to Philadelphia and was working for the company as a field assistant.[45]
Edwin visited Bermuda in 1922 and again in 1935, no doubt to see his mother's relatives, though Honora herself does not appear to have gone with him.[46] He married late in life, still being single at age 34 when he traveled to Bermuda in 1935. Five years later he had a wife and child. The 1940 census for East Orange, New Jersey, lists the family of Edwin P. Wood, 39, born in Connecticut; his wife Evelyn, 29, born in Massachusetts; and their daughter Barbara,3, born in New Jersey. He was an assistant cashier in the insurance industry and earned $3,000 in 1939 and had income other than his salary.[47]
Edwin P. Wood, assistant cashier, and his wife Evelyn B., are listed in the Newark, New Jersey, city directory for 1938 and 1942, living in East Orange.[48]
Edwin Pomeroy Wood died 1 April 1963.[49] He is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery in Meriden, Connecticut.[50]
EDWIN B. SMEAD
Edwin Billings Smead was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on 19 January 1849, the son of Jonathan Smead and Lucy Adams.[51] He attended Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusett Amherst) and was a member of the first graduating class in 1871.[52]
He moved to Baltimore, Maryland,[53] where he was an officer of the House of Refuge and later worked in the coal and grain businesses.[54] He lived there for fourteen years. In 1874, he married his first wife, Annie Elizabeth Whitney.[55] Annie, the daughter of David and Ann (Wood) Whitney, was born on 20 December 1838 in Bermuda.[56] She died on 25 January 1877, age 36, and is buried with her baby, Edwin Jr., in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.[57] On 30 October 1879 he married Annie's sister Rose, or Roselvina, Whitney. They had one child, Edwin 2nd, who was born and died on 5 November 1880.[58]
Although Edwin had no surviving children, he managed to acquire an extended family by his marriages to the Whitney sisters. His children, according to the 1880 census, included a son, D. W. Smead, 19, and three daughter, Nelly Smead, 10; Nora Smead, 8; and Cecile Smead, 5. All of these children were born in Bermuda except Nelly, who was born in Maryland. That they were note Edwin's biological children is shown by their ancestry: each child is reported to have a father born in Bermuda, while Edwin was born in Massachusetts.[59] Also living with Edwin and Rose were three cousins surnamed Cooper, ages 12, 14, and 16,
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and his brother-in-law F. A. R. [Frederick Adolphus Ress[60] Whitney, 29. All were born in Bermuda.
Edwin and Rose moved to Hartford, Connecticut, in the early 1880s.[61] In May of 1884, Edwin assumed duties as the first principal of the Watkinson Farm School, where he served for nearly thirty-two years. He wrote a twenty-page book about the Watkinson Farm School titled Twenty-Five Years With The Boys, published in 1909.[62] The school buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on 23 March 1995.[63]
Edwin wrote of his life at the school with Rose,
- They unitedly cherished the four hundred homeless boys, who came at varying intervals to the Watkinson Farm School, of Hartford, Connecticut, being their family, and parental head, having been its principal from the inception of the school, in May, 1884, to his honorary retirement, Feb. 1917.[64]
Following the death of his wife in 1915, Edwin moved back to Greenfield, Massachusetts,[65] where he lived with his sister, Sarah Smead, in a new home built on the site of his family's homestead.[66] There he worked on the genealogy of his family, a book which was published in 1928,[67] the year before he died.
Edwin B. Smead died on 10 June 1929.[68] His obituaries list two surviving nieces, Mrs. Bertrand A. Page and Mrs. H. W. Wood, both of Hartford; and four nephews, Lewis Smead of Greenfield, Massachusetts; Preston Smead of Rochester, Massachusetts; Herbert Smead of Orange, Massachusetts; and Merrill Smead of New York.[69] According to the Springfield Republican, he was to be buried in the South Cemetery at Greenfield Meadows.[70] However, a photograph of his gravestone in the Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, as well as those of his two wives, can be seen at Find-A-Grave.com.[71]
ROSA WHITNEY, WIFE OF EDWIN B. SMEAD
Roselvina (Rose or Rosa) (Whitney), sister of Edwin's first wife Annie, was born in Berrmuda on 20 May 1842. She was the daughter of David and Ann Whitney.[72] In 1870 she was 28 and lived in Baltimore with Ann Whitney, 50, Anna, 26, and Frederick, 24.[73]
After Rose married Edwin B. Smead on 30 October 1878, they continued to live in Baltimore. Although Rose bore only one hild and he died at birth,[74] she evidently served as mother to her nieces and nephews from Bermuda.[73]
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The SDmeads move to Hartford, Connecticut, where E. B. Smead first appeared in 1884.[76] Roselvina (Whitney) Smead and her husband, Edwin B. Smead, were admitted to the First Church of Christ in Hartford in December of 1884.[77]
In 1910 Rose and Edwin, then 62, traveled to Bermuda. They arrived back in New york on 25 April on the Bermudian.[78]
Roselvina (Whitney) Smead died on 5 September 1915. She is buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. According to Edwin, she lies there next to her mother and sister.[79]
BERTRAND A. PAGE, FRIEND, TRUSTEE, AND EXECUTOR
Bertrand Archer Page was born in May of 1873,[80] the son of George W. and Mary Jane Page and the brother of DeWSitt Page.[81] I first came across Bertrand Page while researching the life of my great-great-grandmother, Ellen Augustine Todd. Her second husband was George W. Page of Meriden, Connecticut.[82] The Meriden city directory for 1872 lists two men by this name, George W. Page, teacher, and George W. Page, metal turner.[83] Bertrand was the son of the teacher while my ancestor married the metal turner.
Bertrand Page was not only a friend of Charles H. Wood, but he was also his brother-in-law. Bertrand married Cecile Somerset Whitney, the sister of Honora Whitney, on 27 October 1898.[84] Cecile was born in Hamilton, Bermuda, and was the daughter of George and Mary (Jones) Whitney of Snow Hill, Maryland.[85]
Cecile Page, wife of Bertrand A. Page, died at home on 18 November 1940.[86]
Bertrand A. Page died at his home on 30 July 1941.[87] As vice-president and director of the Travelers Insurance Company, he was quite well-to-do; his estate was valued at nearly a quarter of a million dollars.[88] But this was not exceptional in the Page family.'
Bertrand's brother, DeWitt Page, vice-president and director of General Motors, had died the year before, leaving an estate estimated at well over twelve million dollars.[89] The estate of DeWitt's widow, Mae Rockwell Page, was valued at more than twice that amount.[90]
PUTTING THE STORY IN CONTEXT
The nineteenth century was a time of extremes -- extreme wealth and power at one end and extreme poverty at the other: industrialists, financiers, robber barons,
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factory workers, immigrants and the homeless. It was also a time of awakening social consciousness and philanthropy.
The Watkinson Juvenile Asylum and Farm School, and example of such philanthropic endeavors, was funded by a provision in teh will of Mr. David Watkinson of Hartford (1778-1857). The trustees first met in 1860, but the school was not extablished until the 1880s.[91]
The Watkinson School provided a home-like environment where orphaned, neglected, and at-risk boys could live, learn independence, earn money, and gain the skills necessary to support themselves. In addition to traditional education,it featured training in carpentry, forging, construction work and horticulture, even providing a greenhouse for student instructioon.[92] The institution offered support for twenty-five boys free of charge, with space for more if they were able to pay three to four dollars per week.[93]
In 1900, the staff of Watkinson numbered sixteen employees, including an assistant superintendent, clerks, matrons, a cook and a laundress, and farm laborers. Together they served fifteen boys ranging from twelve to seventeen years of age who lived on the farm.[94] It was certainly a very labor-intensive institution at that time. But by 1910 the staff living on the side appears to number ten, with thirty-two boys in their care and three youths in residence who worked elsewhere.[95]
Why would Charles H. Wood have felt that Rose Smead was "unscrupulous" in requesting money from Honora? I doubt it was due to financial need. While operating expenses for the Watkinson Farm School must have been high, it opened with funds totaling well over $200,000,[96] surely enough to provide adequate compensation to the superintendant. Yet perhaps the high staff to youth ratio about the time Charles Wood wrote his will made for tough times.
I suspect Honora felt she owed much to Rosa and Edwin, who, after all, claimed her as their daughter after Honora's mother, Mary Jane Whitney, died in 1880. She might have attempted to repay her obligations to an extent greater than Charles was comfortable with.
1. CAPT. DAVID WHITNEY, b. prob. Bermuda abt. 1811; d. Grenada, 29 June 1854; m. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 19 July 1832, ANN WOOD WHITE, youngest daughter of WILLIAM WHITE. They had ten children, three of whom are discussed in this article. Further information on Capt. David and his family can be found online at whitneygen.org.
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Children of Capt. David and Ann Wood (White) Whitney:[97]
| i. | HONORA SUSANA WHITNEY, b. Hamilton, Bermuda, 26 Nov. 1834. | |
| 2 | ii. | Son, b. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 7 June 1837. |
| 3 | iii. | ANN ELIZABETH WHITNEY, b. Pembroke, Bermunda, 20 Dec. 1838. |
| iv. | WILLIAM WHITE WHITNEY, b. Pitts Bay, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 6 Jan. 1841. | |
| 4 | v. | ROSELVINA WHITNEY, b. Pembroke, Bermuda, 20 May 1842. |
| vi. | FREDERICK ADOLPHUS REES WHITNEY, b. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 29 Nov. 1844. | |
| vii. | THOMAS LEA SMITH WHITNEY, b. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 29 Nov. 1844. | |
| viii. | DAVID JOHN WHITNEY, b. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 28 Sept. 1848. | |
| ix. | SUSANNAH TYNES WHITNEY, b. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 11 Marcy 1851. | |
| x. | AGNES ISABELLA WHITNEY, d. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, 29 Aug. 1857, age 5. |
Evidence provided in this article's section on Honora C. Whitney suggests that the son born 7 June 1837 is
2. GEORGE ORRETT WHITNEY, b. abt. 1838 according to the 1870 census, d. prob. Jan. 1899;[98] m.(1) Snow Hill, Md., 10 June 1869, MARY ANN JONES, daughter of Capt. THOMAS B> JONES; d. Baltimore, Md. 22 Sept. 1880;[99] m.(2) Bridgeton, N.J., 2 Nov. 1893, Joanna H. Sjoemaker.[100]
Children of George Orrett and Mary Jane (Jones) Whitney:
| i. | Daughter, b. Snow Hill, Worcester Co, Md., 23 Jan. 1871. | |
| 5 | ii. | HONORA CATHERINE WHITNEY, b. Bermuda, 20 Oct. 1872. |
| 6 | iii. | CECILE SOMERSET WHITNEY, b. Bermuda, 5 Sept. 1874. |
| iv. | THOMAS JONES WHITNEY, b. Whale Bay, Bermuda, 25 May 1876; d. Snow Hill, Md. age 3 months. |
3. ANN ELIZABETH WHITNEY, b. Pembroke, Bermuda, 20 Dec. 1838; d. prob. Md., 25 Jan. 1877; m. 12 Nov. 1874, EDWIN BILLINGS SMEAD of Greenfield, Mass.
Child of Edwin Billings and Ann Elizabeth (Whitney) Smead:
| i. | EDWIN SMEAD, JR., b. and d. prob. Md., on or about 25 Jan. 1877. |
4. ROSELVINA WHITNEY, b. Pembroke, Bermuda, 20 May 1842; d. 5 Sept. 1915; m. 30 Oct. 1879, EDWIN BILLINGS SMEAD.
Child of Edwin Billings and Roselvina (Whitney) Smead:
| i. | EDWIN SMEAD, SECOND, b. and d. 5 Nov. 1880. |
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5. HONORA CATHERINE WHITNEY, b. Southampton Parish, Bermuda, 20 Oct. 1872; d. East Orange, N.J., July 1951; m. Hartford, Conn., 2 Aug 1899, CHARLES H WOOD, b. Meriden, Conn., 9 Jul 1871, d. 1913.
Child of Charles H. and Honora Catherine (Whitney) Wood:
| i. | EDWIN POMEROY WOOD, b. Hartford, Conn,, 9 Oct 1900; d. prob. N.UJ., 1 April 1963; m. EVELYN (_____).
6. CECELE SOMERSET WHITNEY, b. Southampton Parish, Bermuda, 5 Sept. 1874; d. West Hartford, Conn., 18 Nov. 1940; m. Hartford, Conn., 27 Oct. 1898, BERTRAND ARCHER PAGE, b. May 1873; d. West Hartford, Conn., 30 July 1941. Children of Bertrand Archer and Cecile Somerset (Whitney) Page:
1 Meriden, Conn. Probate Records, 50:561-2 (FHLF 1403322, item 1). [p. 260] metioned in his obituary: "E. B. Smead Dies Suddenly In Greenfield," The Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.), 12 June 1929, p. 15, viewed only 11 Aug. 2013 at U. S. Census Historical Newspapers, [p. 261] Courant (Hartford, Conn.), Aug. 3 1899, p. 7; pqarchiver.com. "E. B. Smead Dies Suddenly In Greenfield," The Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.), 12 June 1929, p. 15, viewed online 11 Aug. 2013 at ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "Mrs. Bertrand A. Page Dies After Long Illness," The Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.), 19 Nov. 1940, p. 4, viewed online 11 Aug. 2013 at Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003, Ancestry.com. "B. A. Page of Travelers Dead at 68," The Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.), 31 July 1941, p. 4, viewed 11 Aug. 2013 at Ancestry.com, Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003. "B. A. Page is Dead; Insurance Aide, 68," The New York Times, 31 Jul 1941, Obituaries, p. 17, viewed online 11 Aug. 2013 at Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003, Ancestry.com. [p. 262] 29 Honora W. Wood, widow of Chas. H., sub. teacher, 1919 Hartford Directory, p. 748; she is listed between Margueritta and Olin Wood, out of alphabetical order. School teacher: 1920 U.S. Census, Hartford, Hartford Co., Conn., MF T625-182, p. 16A ED 74. She is indexed at Ancestry.com as Hanora. [p. 263] July 1935, list of U.S. Citizens aboard the "Monarch of Bermuda", Arrival: New York, MF T715, roll 5676, p. 141, line 19; viewed only Oct. 6, 2013 at Ancestry.com. [p. 264] direction of Rev. Francis Goodwin, President (Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Printing Co., 1909), information online at worldcat.org/title. [p. 265] 2012 by Dave Crouse. [p. 266] 97 wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_David_(c1811-1854). Bermuda Index, pp. 1505-1506. Copyright © 2020, Robert L. Ward and the Whitney Research Group. |
