Fish and Fowl for Weathervane Wednesday

 Todays weathervanes were photographed in Yarmouth, Maine.

These two gilded weathervanes are above cupolas on the Muddy Rudder restaurant in Yarmouth, Maine on US Route 1.  I recently featured a few other weathervanes on this stretch of highway, all unique and whimsical, between the Maine State Visitor Center in Yarmouth by the exit off Rt. 295 and Lower Main Street in Freeport. 

T.J. McDermott created these two weathervanes, which are gilded, three dimensional, wooden sculptures of a bluefish and a great blue heron.  These two shiny golden weathervanes will catch your eye as you travel along Route 1, but to really appreciate the details you need to pull over and take a closer look. 

You can read all about T.J. McDermott and his art in the book Weathervanes of New England by Glenn A. Knoblock and David W. Wemmer, 2018, pages 250 - 253.  McDermott's weathervanes grace many private residences in New England. He also creates indoor sculptures, architectural details, and hand carved signs.  McDermott has a gallery in Portland at 87 Market Street. 

For the truly curious:

Muddy Rudder Restaurant, Yarmouth, Maine: https://muddy-rudder.com/   

TJ McDermott's weathervane website:  http://www.tjmcdermott.com/index.php  

Weathervanes of New England by Glenn A. Knoblock and David W. Wemmer, 2018 available at Amazon.com and at https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/weathervanes-of-new-england/  

Click here to see over 500 other weathervanes featured at Weathervane Wednesday:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Weathervane%20Wednesday    

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Fish and Fowl for Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 26, 2023, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/07/fish-and-fowl-for-weathervane-wednesday.html: accessed [access date]).  

Happy Mother's Day! My Matrilineal Line

My matrilineal line:

My Mom, she graduated from Beverly, Hospital School of Nursing

My grandmother, Gertrude Matilda Hitchings.

She was born 1 August 1905 in Beverly, Massachusetts and died 3 November 2001 in Peabody, Massachusetts. She married Stanley Elmer Allen on 14 February 1925 in Hamilton. They had seven children. 

My great grandmother, Florence Etta Hoogerzeil.

She was born 20 August 1871 in Beverly, Massachusetts and died 10 February 1941 in Hamilton, Massachusetts. She married Arthur Treadwell Hitchings on 25 December 1890 in Beverly, Massachusetts. They had eight children. 

My great great grandmother, Mary Etta Healey, seated in the front row with the baby on her lap.

She was born 19 May 1852 in Beverly, Massachusetts and died 23 July 1932 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  She married Peter Hoogerzeil on 14 March 1870 in Salem, Massachusetts.  They had six children. 

My 3x great grandmother was Matilda Weston.   

She was born October 1825 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, and died 19 August 1909 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  She married Joseph Edwin Healey on 3 February 1848 in Canada.  They had four children.

My 4x great grandmother was Mary Clements.  She married Zadoc Weston in Nova Scotia and had two children. She was his second wife.  My matrilineal line ends here because not much is known about Mary Clements, even though she is part of of my Mayflower application lineage.  I don't know her birth date, death, marriage, or her parents names.  Her husband, Zadoc Weston, is the descendant of ten Mayflower passengers, and he is named in at least two Silver books.  Zadoc was the son of Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson of Plymouth County, Massachusetts.  His first two wives were Sarah MacDuffie and Mary Pratt, and the two Marys are part of the confusion. Altogether, Zadoc was the father of a total of eight children. 

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Happy Mother's Day! My Matrilineal Line", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 10, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/05/happy-mothers-day-my-matrilineal-line.html: accessed [access date]). 

World War I Honor Roll Yamouthport, Massachusetts

This photograph and transcription was sent to me by Terry Eldridge-Murry to post online for The Honor Roll Project.  This project makes the veterans' names available to search engines online for researchers and family members. To learn more see this link to The Honor Roll Project: 
https://honorrollproject.weebly.com/    

According to Terry "The Yarmouth World War I Memorial is located on the Town Green at Route 6A and Strawberry Lane, Yarmouthport, MA.  A Grecian woman long gown and sandals. She is standing with her arms extended and holding a laurel wreath in each hand. The plaque was sculpted by John Francis Paramino and dedicated on September 4, 1926. Beneath each wreath is a list of names of Yarmouth citizens who served during World War I.  The plaque contains the following dedication:

IN HONOR OF THE

MEN OF YARMOUTH

WHO SERVED IN THE WAR WITH GERMANY

1917 1918

[The left side of the plaque is inscribed with the following names:]

ALLEN JOSEPH E.

BAKER ALFRED COLLINS

BAKER FRANK L.

BAKER MERRILL E.

BROWN CHARLS M.

BROWN RAY HENRY

CAHOON MONROE P.

CAHOON WALLACE H.

CAHOON WILLIAM

CAMPBELL VIRGIL W.

CARTER BERNARD SHIRLEY

CHASE ALBERT T.

CHASE ALEXANDER B. JR.

CHASE CARLETON E.

CHASE EDWARD M.

CHASE HARRY M.

CHASE JOSEPH K. JR.

CHASE MILTON

CHASE WARREN H.

CHILDS ALEXANDER G. JR.

COLLINS WILLIAM G.

COTELL HARRIS E.

DODGE RUSSELL C.

ELDRIDGE HENRY B.

ELDRIDGE JAMES W. JR.

ELLIS HAROLD W.

ELLIS JAMES W. JR.

ELLIS WARREN L.

FARRIS RUSSELL D.

GREENE RALPH E.

HALLET THATCHER T. 2ND.

NEBDITCH FREDRICK R.

JOHNSON EDWARD E.

[The right side of the plaque is inscribed with the following names:]

JOHNSON MORRIS L.

KELLEY ALBERT H.

KELLEY CHESTER B.

KITTILA OTTO E.

KNOWLES ALLEN H.

KNOWLES JAMES JR.

LEWIS J. CARLETON

MARCHANT ALBERT H.

MATTHEWS JOHN H.

MATTHEWS KENNETH

MONTCALM JOSHUA A.

O'BRIEN CHARLES A.

O'BRIEN RICHARD S.

OTIS EDWARD V.

PERRY LINCOLN F.

PINKHAM RAYMOND E.

RUSHTON CLARENCE C.

RYDER ARTHUR S.

SCHWAB WILLIAM A.

SCHWAB WILLIAM A. JR.

SHERMAN ZOETH A.

SILVER LEON L.

SIMPKINS NATHANIEL S. JR.

*SIMPKINS WILLARD S.

SWIFT PAUL M.

THACHER ENOS

THACHER THOMAS C. JR.

THACHER WILLIS

TRIPP FRANK C.

TRIPP HERBERT C.

VOORHIS CHARLES D.

WHITE CHARLES H.

Surname Saturday ~ GORHAM of Massachusetts

John Gorham (1620 – 1675) is my 11^th great grandfather.  He is not the son of Ralph Gorham, who arrived in New England aboard the Phillip in 1635. The first record of John in New England is in 1643, just months before he married Desire Howland, the daughter of John Howland of the Mayflower.  After marriage they lived in Marshfield, then Yarmouth where he ran a grist mill, wharf and was also a tanner.

Captain John Gorman served in King Philip’s war in the winter of 1675, where he was injured when his powder horn, attached to his belt, exploded.    Then he was exposed to harsh weather and developed a fever.  He was brought to Wannamoisett in Rhode Island to the farm of John Brown.  He died there, and was buried on the Brown farm in the burial plot on 7 March 1675.  His wife is also buried with him.

Their daughter, Desire Gorham (1644 – 1700) is my 10^th great grandmother.  She married John Hawes in 1661.  He was a “cutler” by occupation, and an ensign in the militia. They lived in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod. By 1700 John Hawes was appointed Captain of the militia. He served in the legislature in Boston in 1698. John Hawes died after having his leg amputated.  I descend from their eldest child, Elizabeth Hawes (1662 – about 1732), my 9^th great grandmother, who married Thomas Daggett of Martha’s Vineyard.

Some Gorham genealogy resources:     

           

John Howland of the Mayflower: Volume I: Documented Descendants Through His First Child Desire Howland and her Husband Captain John Gorham, by Elizabeth Pearson White, 1990.

Capt. John Gorham of Barnstable, Mass., compiled by Henry S. Gorham, 1931, 18 volumes

"Gorham Family," Boston Evening Transcript, (in their famous genealogy query column) 15 May 1916

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, by Amos Otis, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1991

"Howland History Still Lives in Wannamoisett," by Clinton W. Sellew, The Howland Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp 10-11, March 1999

My GORHAM lineage:

Generation 1: John Gorham, born about 1620 in England, died 5 February 1675 in Swansea (now East Providence, Rhode Island); married on 6 November 1644 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Desire Howland, daughter of two Mayflower passengers – John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.  She was born 13 October 1623 in Plymouth, and died 13 October 1683 in Barnstable. Eleven children.

Generation 2: Desire Gorham, born 2 April 1644 in Plymouth, died 30 June 1700 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts; married on 7 October 1661 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to John Hawes, son of Edmund Hawes.  He was born about 1635 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and died 11 November 1701 in Yarmouth.  Eleven children.

Generation 3:  Elizabeth Hawes m. Thomas Daggett

Generation 4:  Elizabeth Daggett m. John Butler

Generation 5:  Keziah Butler m. Samuel Osborn

Generation 6:  Samuel Osborn m. Sarah Wass

Generation 7: Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12:  Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

My HOWLAND "Surname Saturday" blog post:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-howland-mayflower.html   

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ GORHAM of Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 26, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-gorham-of-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]). 

Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Spooky Skeleton for Halloween!

Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post every week.  I started out by publishing only weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes from all over New England.  Sometimes these weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are very unique.  Often, my readers tip me off to some very special and unusual weather vanes.

Today's weather vane is from somewhere in Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weather vane #282?  Scroll down to see the answer...

Photo by Sara Campbell

There is an interesting story behind this weather vane!  It is located at the Edward Gorey House museum on Cape Cod.  I've been there because I'm a big fan of Edward Gorey's illustrations.  I've been a fan since I was a little girl and I saw the Gashlycrumb children's books, and later when he did the animated sequences at the beginning of each episode of Mystery! on PBS TV.   In the museum you will find this weathervane on the wall at the foot of a staircase in Gorey's home.  (Yes, that is an upside down doll on the staircase.  There are lots of odd and weird exhibits in this museum)

photo by Vincent Rojo

Why is the weathervane on the wall?  Well, it seems that Gorey had a metalsmith make the original weathervane from his illustration, and he installed it on the barn behind the home.  It was stolen. So he had the metalsmith make a new one, but it was never put back on the outside, and it was found inside the barn after Gorey died on 15 April 2000. 

In 2006 the museum had the metalsmith make a third weathervane, which was auctioned off as a fundraiser.  You can have a weathervane made for yourself if you contact the museum.  The metalsmith, Steven Swain, will make one for you, which arrives with a numbered copy of the print. (See below for contact information)

This weathervane is a black steel, two dimensional skeleton, after the sketch by artist and illustrator Edward St. John Gorey (1925 - 2000).  

This print is for sale at the Edward Gorey Museum website

http://www.goreystore.com/shop/hol06/edward-gorey-skeleton-weathervane-print 

There is a nice story about this weathervane at this link:

http://goreyana.blogspot.com/2012/07/skeleton-weathervane.html   

The Edward Gorey House Museum

8 Strawberry Lane

Yarmouthport, Massachusetts

http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/    

email:  edwardgoreyhouse@verizon.net    

Sara Campbell, genealogy blogger at Those Who Came Before Us:

http://rememberingancestors.blogspot.com/

Steven Swain, Steel sculptor- 

http://www.fryingpangallery.com/steve-swain

More photos from inside the Edward Gorey House:

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Spooky Skeleton for Halloween!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 26, 2016,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/weathervane-wednesday-spooky-skeleton.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BATCHELDER of Hampton, New Hampshire

BATCHELDER / BACHILER / BACHELLOR / BATCHELLER

The memorial at Founder's Park, Hampton, New Hampshire

A LITTLE BAND OF PIONEERS

UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF

REV. STEPHEN BACHILER

OF SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND

SEEKING A LARGER LIBERTY

IN OCTOBER 1638

SETTLED IN THE WILDERNESS

NEAR THIS SPOT

TO PLANT A FREE CHURCH

IN A FREE TOWN

THEY WERE JOINED IN 1639 BY OTHERS

AND IN THAT YEAR

THE TOWN WAS INCORPORATED

TO DO HONOR TO 

THE FOUNDERS AND FATHERS OF HAMPTON

TO EXALT THE IDEALS

FOR WHICH THEY TROVE

AND AS AN INSPIRATION TO POSTERITY

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED

OCTOBER 14, 1935

UPDATE - 10 September 2018 - see the 3 part series that updates this lineage.  Part 1 is at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/batchelder-family-do-over-part-1.html 

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Stephen Bachiler, my 11^th great grandfather,  graduated from St. John’s College in Oxford, England in 1585 and became the vicar of the Church of the Holy Cross and St. Peter in Wherwell, Hampshire, England.  He was a “non-conformist” and was dismissed from his church.  In 1608 he went to Leyden, Holland with the separatists.  He came to New England on 5 June 1632 on board the ship William and Francis.  He was over 70 years old at the time, and traveled with some of his grandchildren.   Of his own children, only two daughters, Theodate Hussey and Deborah Wing, later came to New England.

First he went to Lynn, where he was the first minister, from August 1632 until 1636.  Then he was in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, in 1637 and Newbury in 1638.  From 1638 until 1641 he lived at Hampton, New Hampshire where he founded another church.  He separated from his wife, Mary, and asked the court for a divorce, and then, about age 93, he left for England.  The court records in York show her being branded with the letter A on 15 October 1651, for adultery.  The Reverend Bachiler died nearly 100 years old in London and was buried on 31 October 1656.

Another one of my 9^th great grandfathers, Rev. Samuel Skelton (1623 – 1695), the first minister at Salem, Massachusetts, said of Rev. Bachiler “Little has come down to us concerning him,  owing, it is said, to the fact that he differed about clerical associations and other subjects from most of the principal persons in Massachusetts."   He was a follower of the “Old Puritan” religion, and the new 17^th century form of Puritanism in the New World was different from the Jacobean form.  Perhaps this is why he wandered around New England and settled in New Hampshire, away from the Puritan authorities.

There are many other stories and interesting associations between the Rev. Stephen Bachiler and other early settlers and ministers in New England. There are too many stories to tell them all here in a short blog post. Please see some of the sources listed below if you would like more information on his life.

More BATCHELDER resources:

Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume 1, pages 61 – 69.

Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy, by Frederick Pierce, 1898. Also online at Archive.org

Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, Founder, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/DESCENDANTS-OF-REV-STEPHEN-BACHILER-FOUNDER-HAMPTON-ROCKINGHAM-CO-NH-364188593479/timeline/

The Lane Memorial Library in Hampton, New Hampshire has a webpage for Rev. Stephen Bachiler and it contains many useful links to biographies, journal articles and other research: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilertoc.htm

There is a discussion group for descendants of Rev. Stephen Batchelder at Genealogy Wise:  http://www.genealogywise.com/group/batchelderfamily

Some Notable Descendants of Reverend Stephen Batchelder from Wikipedia

Leon Leonwood Bean (L. L. Bean)

Lady Randolph Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill

James Dean

Major General Henry Dearborn

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot)

Gerald Ford

Louis L'Amour

President Richard Nixon

Daniel Webster

John Greenleaf Whittier

Nathaniel Hawthorne (now you know how he got the idea for "The Scarlett Letter") 

My BATCHELDER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Rev. Stephen Batchelder, born 1560 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England, died about 31 October 1656 in London, England; married first to Ann Bate, about 1586 in Wherwell, (mother of 10 children and I descend from two of them); married second to Christian Weare on 2 March 1624 in Abbotts Ann, Hampshire, England; married third to Helena Unknown, widow of the Rev. Thomas Mason on 26 March 1627 in Abbotts Ann;  married fourth to Mary Unknown, widow of Robert Beedle,  in 1648 in Beedle Wherwell, Hampshire, England. 

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Nathaniel Batchelder, born about 1590, died 1630 in the Netherlands; married to Hester Mercer, born about 1602 in Ypres, Belgium, died before 1631 in the Netherlands, mother of five children.  She was the daughter of Jan LeMercier and Jeanne LeClerc of Normandy, France.

Generation 3: Nathaniel Batchelder, born about 1630 in England, died 1710 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married on 10 December 1596 to Deborah Smith, daughter of John Smith and Deborah Parkhurst.  She was born before 1645 at Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, and died 8 March 1676 in Hampton, New Hampshire.  Nine children, and I descend from two of them.  He married second to Margery.  He did not come to New England, but some of his children did settle there.

Lineage A1:

Generation 4: Nathaniel Batchelder, born 24 December 1659 in Hampton, died about 1745 in Hampton Falls; married in 1685 in Hampton to Elizabeth Foss, daughter of John Foss and Mary Berry.  She was born in 1666 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and died in 1746. Nine children.

Generation 5:  Josiah Batchelder, born 1 July 1695 in Hampton, died 9 October 1759 in Hampton Falls; married on 31 January 1723 to Sarah Page, daughter of Francis Page and Hannah Nudd.  She was born 18 October 1698 and died in May 1781.  Six children.

Generation 6: David Batchelder, born 13 January 1736 in Hampton Falls, died 11 March 1811 in Hampton Falls; married on 24 July 1760 in Hampton Falls to Elizabeth Swett, daughter of Benjamin Swett and Elizabeth Norton.  She was born 1742 in Hampton Falls, and died 12 August 1769.  Five children.  David married second to Mary Emery on 1 January 1771 in Newbury, Massachusetts and had eight more children.

Generation 7:  Elisha Batchelder, son of David Batchelder and Elizabeth Swett, born 10 June 1763 in Hampton Falls, died 11 October 1813 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire; married Sarah Lane, daughter of Samuel Lane and Hepzibah Sleeper.  She was born 24 March 1769 in Hampton Falls, died 27 Feb 1819 in Pittsfield.  Four children.  Three children. 


NOTE 10 September 2018 -  The generations below do not descend from Elisha Batchelder.  Jonathan Batchelder, my 4th great grandfather, is the son of Nathaniel Batchelder (1732 - 1778) and his wife Mary Longfellow (1735 - 1814). 

Generation 8:  Jonathan Batchelder, born about 1800 in Hampton, died before 4 November 1847 at the Concord State Asylum, Concord, New Hampshire; married on 11 February 1822 in Belmont, New Hampshire to Nancy Thompson.  She was born about 1804 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and died after 1847 in Warner, New Hampshire.  Two children.

Generation 9:  George E. Batchelder, born 13 August 1822 in Chichester, New Hampshire, died 3 April 1848 in Chichester; married on 7 September 1845 in South Boston, Massachusetts to Abigail M. Locke, daughter of Richard Locke and Margaret Welch.  She was born 10 September 1825 in South Boston, and died 15 January 1888 in Chichester.  Two children.

Generation 10:  George E. Batchelder, born 8 October 1848 in Chichester, died 28 July 1914 in Cambridge; married on 28 October 1869 in Chichester to Mary Katharine Emerson, daughter of George Emerson and Mary Esther Younger.  She was born 25 December 1847 in South Boston, and died 23 April 1932 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.  Nine children.

Generation 11:  Carrie Maude Batchelder, born 22 September 1872 in Chichester, died 21 January 1963 at the Sea View Convalescent and Nursing Home, Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 1 November 1892 in Essex, Massachusetts to Joseph Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears.  He was born on 24 September 1870 in Essex and died 12 March 1932 at the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.  Five children.

Generation 12:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage A2:

Generation 4: Abigail Batchelder, born 28 December 1667 in Hampton, died 14 November, 1736 in North Hampton; married on 4 November 1689 in Hampton to John Dearborn, son of Henry Dearborn and Elizabeth Marrian.  He was born 10 October 1666 in Hampton, died 22 November 1750 in Hampton. Eight children.

Generation 5:  Elizabeth Dearborn m. John Garland

Generation 6:  Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke

Generation 7: Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace

Generation 8: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

Generation 9: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder (see above)

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Ann Batchelder, born 1601 in Wherwell; married John Sanborn about 1619 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Three children.  She married second on 20 January 1632/3 in Strood, Kent, England to Henry Atkinson.

Generation 3:  John Sanborn m. Margaret Page

Generation 4: Jonathan Sanborn m. Elizabeth Sherburne

Generation 5: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 6: Hepzibah Sleeper  m. Samuel Lane

Generation 7: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ BATCHELDER of Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 17, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/surname-saturday-batchelder-of-hampton.html:  accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Ebenezer Crosby and Sarah Richardson, Chebogue Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

This tombstone was photographed at the Chebogue Cemetery, at Town Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

EBENEZER CROSBY

DIED

Nov, 1863

aged 91 yrs

SARAH RICHARDSON

DIED

Oct. 1823

Aged 47 yrs

CROSBY

Ebenezer Crosby is my 4th Great Grand Uncle, son of Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson.  He was born in 1772 and died on 13 December 1863 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He married Sarah Richardson, the daughter of Reuben Richardson.  He was the brother of my 4th great grandmother, Rebecca Crosby (b. 1789), who married Comfort Haley (1787 - 1874).  Ebenezer lived to be 91 years old, which was quite a feat in those times!

Ebenezer Crosby, senior was an early settler at Chebogue.  He arrived in Nova Scotia with his parents, Jonathan Crosby and Hannah Hamblin, with the six families that sailed up the coast from Connecticut.  The Crosby family originally lived on Cape Cod, and they are Mayflower descendants.  You can see a blog post with a photo of Jonathan and Hannah Crosby's tombstone in the Chebogue cemetery HERE.

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http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/tombstone-tuesday-ebenezer-crosby-and.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Abigail (Allen) Haley, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

This tombstone was photographed at the Chebogue Cemetery, at Town Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

In memory

Of

Abigaile Heley

Wife Of

Mr. Comfort Heley

Died June 16, 1799

Aged 39 years

My daughter trying to decipher this very worn tombstone

Abigail Allen was the daughter of Jeremiah Allen (b. 1728) and Eunice Gardner (b. 1724), born 23 July 1753 in Manchester, Massachusetts, died 16 June 1799 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  She married Comfort Haley on 21 July 1777 in Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He was the son of Ebenezer Healey and Grace Bullen, born 1754 in Brimfield, Massachusetts, died 15 May 1821 in Chebogue.  Their parents were planters, resettled in Nova Scotia from New England after the expulsion of the Acadians.

Abigail Allen is my 5th great grandmother. She is a direct descendant of William Allen (1602 - 1678) an early settler at Manchester, Massachusetts and my 9th great grandfather.  My mother's maiden name is Allen, a direct descendant of this same William.  Although Abigail Allen is also in my mother's lineage, it is from a different line, through the Healey's who left Nova Scotia and came back to Massachusetts, and settled in Beverly, Massachusetts. A double Allen line. 

Abigail died at age 41 (although the gravestone says she was 39 years old), and had seven children.  After Abigail's death, her husband Comfort Haley remarried to Hannah Ellis (1765 - 1862) in December 1795 and had seven more children.  Hannah was 30 years old, the widow of Stephen Tinkham, and Comfort was 41 years old. 

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The URL for this post is

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/tombstone-tuesday-abigail-allen-haley.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ HAWES of Duxbury and Yarmouth, Massachusetts

HAWES

Edmond Hawes was baptized in Solihull, Warwickshire, England on 15 October 1613, the son of Edmond Hawes.   He was apprenticed to a “cutler” (knifemaker) named Edward Warnet, and his records can be found in the London Company of Cutlers according to the Great Migration sketch of his life.  Edmond Hawes was a passenger on the James, which left Southampton, England about 5 April 1625.  His first residence in Massachusetts was the town of Duxbury.

He was made a freeman in Duxbury on 3 March 1644/5, and then removed to the town of Yarmouth by 1643.   He held many offices, which can be found in the Plymouth County Records, such as deputy, auditor, constable, selectman, and various committees.   The Plymouth County Records also record many land transactions in Duxbury and Yarmouth, and his will dated 5 May 1692 and proved on 20 July 1683. 

The name of his wife is unknown, and he had only one child, John, born about 1636, who married Desire Gorham, the granddaughter of John Howland the Mayflower passenger.  All of Edmond Hawes descendants are eligible for membership in the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

John Hawes died in 1701, after having his leg amputated .   As a young man he had been brought before a jury on 5 March 1600/1 for accidentally causing an injury in a friend he had been wrestling.  He was found “not guilty” and released.   He grew up to also be a cutler, and served as a representative to the General Court.

The best sources for information on Edmond Hawes are The Great Migration, by Richard Charles Anderson, Volume II, pages 247 - 250.  Another good source of information is the book Edmond Hawes of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, by James William Hawes, 1914.  The Howland books published by the Mayflower Society’s Five Generation Project would also have the descendants of John Hawes and Desire Gorham. 

My HAWES genealogy:

Generation 1:  Edmond Hawes, son of Edmond Hawes, baptized 15 October 1613 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England; died 9 June 1693 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts; married with one known, surviving child.

Generation 2: John Hawes, born about 1636 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, died 11 November 1701 in Yarmouth; married on 7 October 1661 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Desire Gorham, daughter of John Gorham and Desire Howland.  She was born 2 April 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and died 30 June 1700 in Yarmouth.  Eleven children.

Generation 3: Elizabeth Hawes, born 5 October 1662 in Yarmouth, died between 25 December 1732 and 13 February 1734 in Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard;  married on 22 January 1684 in Bristol, Rhode Island to Thomas Daggett, son of Thomas Daggett and Hannah Mayhew.   He was born about 1658 and died 28 August 1726 in Edgartown.  Ten children.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Daggett m. John Butler

Generation 5:  Keziah Butler and Reverend Samuel Osborn

Generation 6: Samuel Osborn m. Sarah Wass

Generation 7:  Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner m.  Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10:  Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Visit with the Ghouls and Goblins at the Edward Gorey House

When I was a child one of my friends owned the ABC book The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing.  It was written by Edward Gorey and published in 1963.  It is a satire of children’s books, told with a morbid sense of humor that might remind you of “The Addams Family” or more modern humor.  In the 1960s and 1970s it was considered quite inappropriate for children.  But we loved it as kids, and pored over the pages, and scoured the library for more books by Edward Gorey.  His books were very popular with children, although they were not specifically written for children. 

Millions of people are familiar with Edward Gorey’s cartoons and humor through the opening animated sequences at the beginning of the PBS series “Mystery”.  They have never seen one of his books, which are extremely collectible, and mostly out of print now.  He also illustrated books for other authors.  Many of his smaller stories and cartoons have been republished in a series of books called Amphigory, 1972; Amphigory Too, 1975, Amphigory Also, 1983, and so on. 

Wikipedia’s sketch of Edward Gorey includes a list of the many pseudonyms Edward Gorey used for his books.  Most of them were anagrams, and some were just silly puzzles, like Ogred Weary, Mrs. Regera Dowdy and E. G. Deadworry.  See this link for the complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey

If you are on Cape Cod you can visit his house, which has been turned into a museum to his artwork.  It is located at 8 Strawberry Lane in Yarmouthport, Massachusetts and looks like a quaint and traditional New England home, but is full of weird and wonderful examples of Edward Gorey’s humor.   Proceeds from ticket and gift sales go towards several New England animal welfare organizations and to the Tufts Veterinary School.  It is not commonly known that Edward Gorey was an advocate for animal welfare.   

Edward Gorey's kitchen has been converted into a "gory" art gallery

Edward Gorey was born in Chicago on 22 February 1925 and Died 15 April 2000 in Hyannis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.  He graduated from Harvard University in 1950, and studied art for one scant semester at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.  Gorey’s influence is part of the Goth subculture, and reprints of his books, dolls and posters of his art can be seen in giftshops around the world.  His legacy lives on through his artwork.

For the truly curious:

The Gorey Fan blog “Goreyana”   http://goreyana.blogspot.com

The website for the Edward Gorey House, Yarmouthport, Massachusetts  http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/

The famous genealogist and archivist William Addams Reitwiesner worked out Edward Gorey’s ancestry at his website, click here http://www.wargs.com/other/gorey.html   He has many New England ancestors including HEWITT, GAY, HODGKINS, ANGELL, and WILKINSON (from Rhode Island).

You can also see another version of Edward Gorey’s family tree at Geni.com, along with a long biography.  Click here for the link http://www.geni.com/people/Edward-Gorey/6000000017781338501

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Surname Saturday - Hull

HULL

Please see an important update at
 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/12/surname-saturday-hull-update.html

The Isles of Shoals are
six miles off the coast of New Hampshire

My 9x great grandfather Joseph Hull was a minister.  He left a great paper trail.  Ministers can be dream ancestors for genealogists because of the plethora of records.  He graduated from Oxford on 14 November 1614 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.  He served as curate at Colyton in Devonshire.  Later he was ordained in the Church of England on 14 April 1621 as called to be rector at Northleigh in the Diocese of Exeter.  During this time period he began to believe in “non-conformist” ideas.  There is no record of his marriage, and his wife’s name is known only as "Agnes".   This is odd, considering how much other information is known about Joseph Hull’s life.

Reverend Hull led 106 people from Somersetshire (about 20 families, his wife, 7 children and 3 servants) and arrived in Massachusetts on 7 June 1635.  He was a freeman in Weymouth in September 1635 and preaching in a church as an Episcopalian, but causing dissention.   He moved to Barnstable in 1639 and Yarmouth in 1641 (both towns are on Cape Cod) but was temporarily excommunicated by Governor Winthrop because he left Weymouth without asking permission. 

By 1643 he was the minister in York, Maine.  By 1652 he was back in Launceston, Cornwall leaving all his children but one In Massachusetts.  In 1662 he was “ejected from the rectory of Buryan, Cornwall County, England.”  Again he came to America and this time went to New Hampshire.   He first served as minister at Oyster River (now the city of Durham, New Hampshire) and then settled as minister at the fishing colony on the Isles of Shoals where he remained until his death in 1665.  Although he moved around New England and back and forth across the Atlantic, he left enough of a paper trail along the way for historians to follow his movements as a minister. 

The Hull’s Company ship had a list of passengers compiled by John Porter, deputy clerk to Edward Thoroughgood on 20 March 1635.  They left from Weymouth, England and named their settlement in Massachusetts after this port. 

The Hull Genealogy:

Generation 1:  The Reverend Joseph Hull was born about 1595 in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England, and died 18 November 1665 on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire.   The name of his wife is known only as Agnes.  Seven children all born in England:

1. Joanna, born about 1620, married first to John Bursley, second to Dolor Davis who is my 10x great grandfather with his first wife, Margery Willard.

2. Joseph, born about 1622

3. Tristram, born about 1623, married Blanche Unknown (see Bill West's post at this link: http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2011/12/bad-blanche-hull.html )

4. Temperance, born about 1626, married John Bickford

4. Elizabeth, born abut 1628 (see below) my 8x great grandmother

5. Griselda, born about 1629, married James Warren

6. Dorothy, born about 1631, married Oliver Kent

Generation 2: Elizabeth Hull, born about 1628 in Northleigh, Devonshire, England, and died 30 November 1706 in Dover, New Hampshire; married about 1643 in Northleigh to John Heard, who died 17 January 1689 in Dover.  Fifteen children.

Generation 3.  Mary Heard, born 26 January 1650 m. John Ham

Generation 4.  Mercy Ham m. Richard Nason

Generation 5. Richard Nason m. Mary Thompson

Generation 6. Mercy Nason m. William Wilkinson

Generation 7. Aaron Wilkinson m. Mercy F. Wilson

Generation 8. Robert Wilson Wilkinson m. Phebe Cross Munroe

Generation 9. Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 10. Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

Accounts of the Reverend Hull’s life can be found in the History of the Township of Durham, New Hampshire by Everett S. Stackpole, Lucien Thompson and Winthrop S. Meserve, 1913, in the book The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend, by Lyman V. Rutledge, 1965, and in The Isles of Shoals: An Historic Sketch by John Scribner Jenness, 1975.   A good account of his early years in Massachusetts can be found in Volume 1 of The History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1923, and page 73 lists the passengers in the Hull Company ship.

There are sketches of Rev. Hull’s life also in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, 1999, Volume III, pages 452 – 460 and also in Ancestral Lines by Carl Boyer, 1998, pages 318 -324.

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Serendipity Week #2 A Civil War Hero

This past week, several interesting emails and comments have led me to make several interesting genealogical breakthroughs in my research.  Today I am focusing on the second story- # 1.) about a painting, 2.)  a Civil War Veteran,  and  3.) a letter between two teenage girl and boy in the 1840s.

Last week I received an interesting email from Michael Collins, the Commissioner of Public Services and Engineering for the City of Beverly, Massachusetts.  He had found my blog stories about my Great Great Grandfather Joseph Edwin Healey and had some information for me that was quite exciting.

I had an 1860 Federal Census from Beverly that listed Edwin Healey as a mariner, living with his wife and family.  In the 1870 census I couldn't find him alive, and his wife Matilda was listed as a widow living alone.  I couldn't find any Joseph Healey serving in the Civil War from Massachusetts, and I thought that perhaps he had died at sea, since there were no death records in Beverly or in the Massachusetts Vital Records.  I had many family members who had died at sea, and they were not found in town or state records. 

However, Mr. Collins said that Joseph Edwin Healey enlisted in the Navy in 1861, and he was killed aboard the USS Mound City at the Battle of Saint Charles, White River, Arkansas in 1862.   As the Public Services Commissioner he said "My quest is to document the veteran squares in the city of Beverly and when I came to Healey Square, I turned up the details here.  The intersection of Cabot and Judson is known as Healey Square.  This is right next to the Cabot Theater.  I hope I have the right person.  If so, you should know that he was honored as a hero.  My goal is to raise awareness of the veterans for whom we have dedicated squares.  In this case I would be replacing the existing wooden sign with a new cast sign.  I hope in the end to have a web page dedicated to each square."

Mr. Collins also sent a photo of Joseph Edwin Healey's civil war tombstone.  I never knew this existed, since I had no death record to point to a cemetery.  He was also buried next to a tombstone that read "MOTHER" (I assume this was Matilda?), and his son and daughter-in-law.  All this was nearby to Healy Square, which, another big surprise, was very close to where the family lived on 43 Bartlett Street in Beverly!  My mother knew her own grandmother, who grew up in this house, and no-one ever spoke about Healey Square being named for a family member!

Mr. Collins has a Veteran's agent, Jerry Guilebbe,  researching the archives in Worcester for the Civil War records.  The cemetery lists Joseph as "lost at sea, GAR".    I was close thinking he was lost at sea, but I never knew he was lost during the Civil War.  On a list of the casualties for the USS Mound City, he appears to have been listed as "Edward Healey", just like on his tombstone.

If this isn't enough serendipity for one story, it turns out that Mr. Collins worked in the same city department as my Uncle Don (from the story about Beverly's Lynch Park).   His efforts to research and document all the Veteran's Squares in the City of Beverly are a wonderful project.  He also told me "For the last several months I have had my staff scanning cemetery records and creating a database and that helped here.  We are back to the early 1900s.  Should make everyone's life easier when done."  I hope to find out if that database will be available to the public, since Beverly was founded in the early 1600s and there might be hundreds of thousands of descendants interested in that cemetery information!

I hope to get to Beverly soon to see the Healey family plot, visit Healey Square and perhaps see if the local library has any newspaper records of the story behind Great Great Grandpa's Veteran's Square sign.  Thanks to Mike Collins and Jerry Guilebbe, I have found a part of my genealogy that is a nice surprise to my whole family!

Genealogy:

Generation 1: William Hele, born about 1713 in Cornwood, Devonshire, England, died 18 November 1683 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; married on 15 August 1661 to Phebe Green, daughter of Bartholomew Green and Elizabeth Unknown, born about 1629 (one of five wives!)  Four children by Phebe, thirteen children in all. 

Generation 2: Paul Healy, born about 1664 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died 3 December 1717 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; married about 1695 to Elizabeth Unknown.  Fourteen children.

Generation 3: Ebenezer Healy, born 21 January 1708 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, died 14 February 1777 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married first to Grace Bullen, daughter of John Bullen and Sarah Underwood, born about 1727 in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Eight children. 

Generation 4: Comfort Haley, born 1754 in Brimfield, Massachusetts, died 15 May 1821 in Chebogue, Nova Scotia; married on 21 July 1777 to Abigail Allen, daughter of Jeremiah Allen and Eunice Gardner, born 23 July 1753 in Manchester, Massachusetts, died 16 June 1799.  Seven children. 

Generation 5: Comfort Haley, born 9 October 1787 in Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died 3 December 1874 in Chebogue; married on 12 August 1808 in Chebogue to Rebecca Crosby, daughter of Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson, born 19 December 1789 in Yarmouth.  Eleven children. 

Generation 6: Joseph Edwin Healey, born 12 August 1823 in Belfast, Maine or Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died 19 June 1862, killed when the USS Mound City was sunk at the Battle of Saint Charles, Arkansas; married on 3 February 1848 to Matilda Weston, daughter of Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements, born October 1825 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died 19 August 1909 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Four children.

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
 

Amanuensis Monday - Rev. Ingram E. Bill, Jr. of Oberlin, Ohio

In 2005 my father's cousin sent me this four page brochure about Rev. Ingram E. Bill, Jr's Lectures.  He found it whilst cleaning out another cousin's house, and he didn't know who this Rev. Bill was, but since our common great great grandfather was Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill (1805 - 1891) of Billtown, Nova Scotia he thought it would be of interest to me.  I knew right away who this lecturer was since I had worked on the Bill family tree.  There were five men named Ingraham/Ingram Ebenezer Bill in this family!

The first Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, born 19 Feb 1805 in Billtown, Nova Scotia, died 4 August 1891 in St. Martin's, New Brunswick, was a Baptist minister.  He married Isabella Lyons in 1826 and had five children, including the second Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, Jr. born 8 April 1836 in Billtown, and died after 1887.   He was a missionary in New Zealand and pastor of the First Yarmouth Baptist church in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He married Eleanor Pike in England in 1869.  He also served as a Baptist pastor in Caribou, Maine and in Ohio and New Brunswick. 

This second Rev. I. E. Bill had a son Reverend Ingram Ebenezer Bill (our third character!), born 23 November 1871 in Hampton, New Brunswick.  He died sometime after 1930, where I lose track of him after the 1930 census.  He married a woman named Blanch and had a daughter named Sarah about 1903.  This is our lecturer from the brochure.  He must have been a wonderful speaker because he began to give sermons at an early age.  I found this in the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, from the "Saint John Globe" newspaper dated July 24, 1886:  "Probably the youngest preacher in the world is I.E. BILL, only 12 years of age, who preached a sermon on Sunday 27th ult. at St. Martins (St. John) He is the son of Rev. I.E. BILL who is the son of Rev. I.E. BILL, D.D."  He graduated Acadia College in Nova Scotia and from Oberlin in Ohio.  I found him listed in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota census records as a minister, but also listed as a speaker and lecturer on several vaudeville brochures in Chicago!

A fourth I. E. Bill was my great grandmother's brother, born on 14 April 1859 in Saint John, New Brunswick and died young on 9 October 1876 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  He was the son of Caleb Rand Bill and Ann Margaret Bollman, grandson of the first Ingraham Ebenezer Bill.   The fifth male descendant named Ingraham Ebenezer Bill was born in 1858 in Billtown, Nova Scotia.  This last I. E. Bill was nephew to my 2x great grandfather Caleb Rand Bill, son of his brother William Cogswell Bill and Ethelinda Dodge.

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A transcription of the brochure:

Ingram E. Bill, Jr.
of Oberlin, Ohio
[photo]
Illustrated and Popular Lectures--
"The empire of the Great Lakes,"
"The Land of Evangeline,"
"The Wtich City, or the Heart of Old New England,"
The Book of the Twentieth Century,"
"The Elements of a Christian Nation."

THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE
OBERLIN COLLEGE, APRIL 18, 1891

Rev. I. E. Bill, of Oberlin, is a speaker of unusual attractiveness
and brillancy.  He knows how to make his thoughts very interesting, and
I take great pleasure in giving this word of warm appreciation.
JOHN HENRY BARROWS, D. D.
President of Oberlin College
President Chicago World's Parliament of Religions

"MR. BILL has a pleasing and unique way of putting things.
The clear cut analysis of his thoughts, a fund of illustration, and
with all a strain of humor which is continually rising to the sur-
face, combine to make him a popular speaker."
THE TRIBUNE, Oberlin, November 1900

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THREE ILLUSTRATED LECTURES
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"The Empire of the Great Lakes"
The industrial and social development of the Great Lake Region of
North America.
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"The Witch City, or the Heart of Old New England"
Quaint, gray, historic Salem, the birthplace of "The Scarlet Letter"
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"The Land of Evangeline"
This is the forest primeval.  The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garment green, indistinct in the twilight
Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic.

These lectures are illustrated by original steroptican views,
which are thrown upon a fifteen foot screen.  The views are
made entirely from photographs taken by the lecturer himself and
have been prepared expressly for Mr. Bill by the Edmonson Co.,
Cleveland, who are artists in their line.
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"The lecture by Rev. Ingram Bil, Jr., Wednesday evening
was a great treat; brillian, scholarly, witty and full of good things."
THE BAPTIST BULLETIN, Lorain O., May '01
OBERLIN, O., April 22, 1901.....

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For more information on the Bill family please see my previous blog posts:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/11/amanuensis-monday-reverend-bills.html

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/10/amanuensis-monday-reverend-i-e-bills.html

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/04/tombstone-tuesday-billtown-cemetery.html

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Haleys Buried at Chebogue, Nova Scotia- Tombstone Tuesday

Some of the Haley family members buried at the Town Point Cemetery, Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  This burial ground is located down the road from the Chebogue Congregational Church.  This is a beautiful location, on a point of land surrounded on three sides by the sea.  Unfortunately, the stones are quite weathered because of the ocean air and weather.  The Haley family relocated from Yarmouth, Massachsuetts, on Cape Cod, to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

In Memory

Of

Mrs. Abigail Hele

Wife of

Mr. Comfort Hele

Died June 16, 1799

Aged 46 years

Abigail Allen was born 23 July 1753 in Manchester, Massachusetts, and died 16 June 1799 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  She came with her parents, Jeremiah Allen and Eunice Gardner, to Nova Scotia in 1766.  Abigail married Comfort Haley on 21 July 1777, probably in Chebogue. 

In memory of

Mr. Comfort Healy

who died May 15, 1821

Aged 67

Hear what the voice from Heaven proclaims

For all the pious dead

Sweet is the savior of their names

and soft their sleeping bed

Them while ye hearing heart strings break

How sweet my minutes roll

Immortal paleness on my cheek

And glory in my soul 

Comfort Haley was born in 1754 in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and died 15 May 1821 near Chebogue, Nova Scotia.   He was the son of Ebenezer Haley and his second wife, Grace Bullen.  Ebenezer took his family to Nova Scotia in 1762 and settled on Shurliffe's Point. 

Hannah

relict of

Comfort Haley

d. Jan 17, 1862

Aged 92 yrs

11 mos 13 days

Hannah Ellis was born 4 February 1765 in Chebogue, Nova Scotia, and died 17 January 1862 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  She was the daughter of Ebenezer Ellis and Hannah,  settlers who had removed from Sandwich, Massachusetts. Hannah married Comfort Haley in December 1795 as his second wife.

In Memory of

MARGARET

wife of

Ebenezer Haley

who died 1st July 1828

in the

25th Year of her Age.

Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims

For all the pious ready

Sweet is the savor of their names

And soft their sleeping head

Margaret Hilton was born about 1803, and died 1 July 1828.  She was the first wife of Ebenezer Haley, son of Comfort Haley and Hannah Ellis, and they married on 8 January 1822 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  Margaret was the daughter of Henry Hilton.

Martha,

wife of

Jeremiah Haley

born

16th Aug, 1786

died

22nd Mar, 1852

Martha Shurtliffe was born 16 August 1786, and died 22 Mar 1852, daughter of Henry Shurtliffe.  She married Jeremiah Haley on 1 September 1807, son of Comfort Haley and Abigail Allen. 

Click here for a story I wrote about the Chebogue Town Point Cemetery
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/05/tombstone-tuesday-chebogue-nova-scotia.html

Old Cemetery at Chebogue Town Point, Nova Scotia
GPS coordinates N43 46.61 W 66 05.907

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