Hancock, New Hampshire Military Honor Roll World War II, Korea and Vietnam Wars

This honor roll was photographed in Hancock, New Hampshire, near the Pine Ridge Cemetery.

TOWN OF HANCOCK WAR MEMORIAL

WORLD WAR II SEPTEMBER 8, 1939 - DECEMBER 31, 1946

ARNOLD C. BALDWIN

WAYNE W. BALDWIN

JOHN O. BASTILLE

ROBERT A. BASTILLE

JOHN M. BRADLEY

PAUL A. BURNHAM

EDWARD H. BURTT

ELIZABETH BURTT

LEONARD E. CASHION

LEWIS B. CHAMBERLAIN

WILLIAM L. CHUTE

CHARLES E. COLBY

KENNETH H. CRAGIN, JR.

ARTHUR N. DANIELS

ROY E. DORRY

PERLEY W. DUNBAR

CHARLES M. FAIRFIELD

ROBERT L. FISH

GEORGE W. FISHER*

WILLIS A. FOOTE, JR

FREDERIC W. GLEASON

JOHN J. HASS

CLARENCE HANSON

WILLIAM E. HANSON

GEORGE H. HASKELL

RICHARD G. HENSLEY

WILLIS H. HIGGINS

PAUL E. HILL

EDWARD O. HUBBARD, JR

GEORGE J. HUGRON

CHARLES A. JOHNSON

DONALD H. JOHNSON

EARL L. JOHNSON

PERSIS JOHNSON

MERLE B. JONES

CHARLES R. KELLEHER

MELVIN C. LOOMIS

THOMAS B. MANNING, JR

CONRAD MARCOULLIER

HENRY J. MARCOULLIER

OVID MARCOULLIER

WARREN R. PERRY

LESTER W. PHELPS

HARLD E. RICHARDSON

RICHARD U. DEVENS

MILLARD R. SOMES

RICHARD D. SOMES

DONALD S. STEARNS

MADELINE A. STEARNS

STEPHEN A TARR

JAMES A. THOMPSON

VINCENT E. TILTON

CHARLES S. TURPIN, JR

GEORGE B. TURPIN

SHERWOOD D. TUTTLE

EDSON C. WARE

FRED D. WARE

ELIJAH J. WEST

JOHN R. WHITNEY

KOREAN CONFLICT JUNE 20, 1950 - JUY 27, 1954

FREDERICK L. CERES

LAWRENCE DUTTON

MORRIS FAIRFIELD

CHARLES E. HANSON

WILLIAM E. HANSON

RICHARD A. HIGGINS

FRANK E. JOHNSON

MYRON JOHNSON

JEANIE A. JOHNSTON

BRUCE C. KIERSTEAD

DONALD KIERSTEAD

RONALD E. PAQUETTE, JR

NORMAN P. PHELPS

RICHARD W. PHELPS

KENNETH L. PICKERING

ALVAH W. PIERCE

MALVIN E. PIERCE

RAY E. PIERCE

ALMON O. SENECHAL

FRANCIS A. STAHL

WILLIAM C. STEARNS

ROGER P. TERRILL

LLOYD A. THOMPSON

HERBERT C. WERDEN

HOWARD H. WESTON

WILLIAM WESTON, JR

OTIS H. WILDER

VERNON E. WOODS

VIETNAM CONFLICT  JULY 8, 1959 - JAN. 29, 1973

EDWIN E. ADAMS

ERNEST A. ADAMS

CHARLES W. BRADLEY

MICHAEL E. CASS

ROBERT L. CERES

JUNE L. HAAS

PAUL C. DALY, JR

WILLIAM D. EVA

THOMAS FAIRFIELD

RICHARD W. HARRINGTON

RICHARD MAGOON

RAY E. PIERCE

A. BAYARD RUSS, JR*

ROBERT W. RUSS

MARK H. SCHELLING

DAVID SENECHAL

ROBERT STAHL

STEPHEN W. TRIPP

PETER VAILLANCOURT

RENE A VAYENS

TERRENCE WALLACE

ERECTED 2003

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Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Hancock, New Hampshire Military Honor Roll World War II, Korea and Vietnam Wars", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 25, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/05/hancock-new-hampshire-military-honor.html: accessed [access date]). 

Wrentham, Massachusetts Korean War and Vietnam War Honor Rolls

This honor roll erected for the Korean War and Vietnam War veterans of Wrentham, Massachusetts was transcribed by Sandy Dahfred, and photographed by Richard S. Marsh.  They both submitted it for inclusion in the Honor Roll Project website:  https://honorrollproject.weebly.com/  

WRENTHAM KOREA ERA VETERANS

WALTER AFHOLDERBACH, JR.

DAVID A. BARIBEAULT

FLORENCE BENNETT

JOHN C. BENNETT

RONALD J. BLODGETT

LESTER C. BONNELL

ALFRED G. BROWN

RICHARD A. BROWN

OWEN M. BRYANT

JOHN CAFFERKY

NED CAMPBELL

HAROLD E. CARLANDER

HOWARD E. COOK

RALPH CROWTHER

BORDEN DAVID

CLIFTON B. DAVIS

BERNARD D. DERY

FRANCIS A. DERY

DONALD R. DOLAN

ROBERT E. DOLAN

GEORGE H. DULEY

RICHARD W. ENEGREN, SR.

CHARLES K. ESTANO

ROGER FARRAR

WILLIAM R. FERMANO

WILLIAM C. FIELD

FRANCIS T. FINN

JOHN A. FOSTER

ROBERT S. FRANCIS

ALBERT J. FULLER

RAYMOND C. GARDNER

ALAN W. GEORGE

LEO J. GLADU

ANTONIO A. GOMES

FRANCIS W. GRADY

JEROME O. GROSS

FRANK W. GUILD

DOUGLAS H. GUY

JOHN D. GUY

ROBERT A. HALL

CHARLES E. HAZARD

ROBERT H. HEINZ

JOHN HOGARTH, JR.

WAYNE F. HOYLE

BENJAMIN F. HURD

DAVID T. JONES

FRANCIS JORDAN

JAMES A. JORDAN

HUGO KALLIO

JAMES J. KERRISSEY

*HARVEY J. KIPPING

*HOWARD KLEINKAUF

DAVID W. KNAUBER

MARGARET LANDRY

PAUL L. LANDRY

ROLAND LAPLANTE

ERNEST E. LARSEN

HENRY LEWIS

DAVID G. LIBBEY

FREDERICK J. LYNCH

WILLIAM X. LYNCH

EDWARD A. MACDOUGALL

DANIEL H. MACLEAN

FRED A. MADER

THOMAS S. MCDERMOTT

RONALD F. MCNAMARA

WENDELL J. MCNAMARA

JANE E. METCALF

ARTHUR H. MEYER

*KENNETH A. MINER

REGINOLD A. MINER, JR.

GEORGE A. MITCHELL

RICHARD L. MORIARTY

FREDERICK T. MORSE

LESTER J. MURPHY, JR.

KENNETH R. OLSON

HOWARD W. PAINE

JOHN A. PETERSON, JR.

HAROLD A. PITTSLEY

EDWARD E. POLES, JR.

EDWARD J. PROTEAU

ROBERT E. PROTEAU

GEORGE F. REAGAN

RICHARD H. ROBISTOW

ROBERT J. ROBSON

ROBERT P. ROGUSKI

ROBERT ROSS

*HANS P. SAKS

*DWIGHT E SAVILLE

CARL W. SCHWALBE

JOHN WIGNALL

ROBERT A. SHEPARD

LAWRENCE SILVERMAN

PETER D. SORROW

WALTER J. SORROW, JR.

THOMAS F. STANTON

HENRY STATKIEWIEZ

ARTHUR W. STEVENS

JOHN W. STOBBART

DAVID L. THOMPSON

ARCHIE R. TOZIAN

JOHN S. TRICKEY

DOUGLAS J. TURNER

NORMAN R. TURNER

MILTON WADE

JAMES WARD

FREDERICK A. WARREN

EDWARD L. WATERMAN

KENNETH WATERMAN

ALBERT F. WATSON

MILTON R. WEBBER, JR.

DAVID WEBER

HAROLD W. WHEELER

CHARLES E. WHITMARSH

JAMES B. WINWARD

ROBERT B. WHYTE

HAROLD A. WOOD

JOHN G. WOODHAMS

LOYD I. WYLLIE

MORSE, GEORGE E.

 

*KILLED IN ACTION

 

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WRENTHAM VIETNAM ERA VETERANS

EUGENE A. ALSWORTH

IVAN APSIT

RICHARD T. ARMITAGE

GEORGE T. ATWOOD

RAYMOND A. ATWOOD

LANCE M. AUTHELET

KARL BACKLUND

JOE F. BARNHILL

RAYMOND BENNETT

DAVID BINNEY

GEORGE E. BORMET

THEODORE W. BORMET

GUY BOUDETTE

ALVIN H. BOWERS

ARTHUR H. BOWERS

WILLIAM J. BRADELY, JR.

MARK E. BRIERE

DENNIS L. BROOKS

FRED W. BURKEL

ALAN G. BUTTON

MICHAEL CANNON

ROBERT K. CASAVANT, JR.

WILLIAM J. CLARK, JR.

JAMES D. CONRAD

DAVID A. COOK

EDWARD P. COOK

STEVEN DANIELS

JOHN P. DAVIS

JONATHAN R. DAVIS

WARREN O. DAVIS

RICHARD DESCHAMPS

ROBERT DESCHAMPS

WILFRED DESCHAMPS

HAROLD DOLE

EDWARD J. DONOVAN

ROBERT E. DONOVAN

GARY D. DOW

HAROLD T. DOYLE

KENVIN W. DUNN

GERALD L. ECKHART

BRADLEY J. ENEGREN

CHARLES K. ESTRANO, JR.

JON FALGHREN

STEVEN J. FARQUHARSON

ROGER M. FARRAR, II

WALTER D. FARRAR

RAYMOND W. FERLAND

DANIEL W. FIELD

RALPH M. FIELD

ROBERT R. FISHER

DONALD FLEURY

SHARON FLEURY

KENNETH P. FOLEY

DOMENIC S. GEORGIO

ROBERT J. GIANNETTI

ROLAND E. GOGUEN

FRANCIS GRADY

FRANCIS J. HAINEY

ROBERT A. HALL, JR.

FRANK C. HAMILTON, III

WILLIAM P. HAMILTON

MARC R. HARNOIS

JAMES HARPER

CHARLES L. HARRINGTON

THOMAS HARRISON, JR.

DAVID C. HATCH

**ERIC L. HATCH

STEVEN HATCH

RICHARD DENNIS HEDTLER

PETER O. HEFRON

ROBERT O. HEFRON

WILLIAM HELFIN

DAVID L. HERAULT

MICHAEL HERRON

CHARLES W. HERVEY

*DUANE J. HEWITT

WAYNE W. HINTON

ROBERT W. HOBBES

EDWARD PAUL HOLLAND

JOHN L. HOOPER

BERNARD J. HOPKINS

ROBERT P. HOPKINS

ROBERT H. HUGHES

ROY E. HURD

RICHARD J. JOHNS

WILLIAM S. JORDAN

DARRELL S. KEIGHLEY

ALBERT KEMPTON

ARTHUR KEMPTON

FRANCIS J. KENNEDY

ROBERT E. KING

ROBERT E. KINGHLEY

JASON KONOWITZ

RAYMOND KRATOVHIL

PAUL LANDRY, JR.

DOUGLAS J. LANERGAN

MICHAEL J. LARKIN

WILLIAM J. LARKIN

EDWIN M. LARSEN, JR.

JOSEPH M. LEBLANC

CAMILLE A. LEGLEY, JR.

ROBERT W. LENGEL

KENNETH JENKINS

DEXTER J. POWER

EDWARD LEWICKI, JR.

RAYMOND P. LEWICKI

RICHARD J. LOCKWOOD

KEVIN F. LOONEY

MICHAEL LOUCKS

WILLIAM N. LOWE

GARY MACLACHLAN

ALAN MAGUIRE

BRUCE MAGUIRE

STUART MAGUIRE

BRIAN MAHONEY

EDWARD MALCOLM

JOHN M. MALONEY

RICHARD L. MANCHESTER

GEOFFREY P. MARKS

GREG MARKS

EDWARD MCGARRY

JOHN D. MCGILL

ROBERT J. MCINTYRE

GARY MCLACKLAN

BRIAN MCLEAN

RICHARD A. MCNAMARA

ROBERT A. MCNAMARA

JEREMIAH J. MEEGAN

THOMAS MEEGAN

ERNEST E. MERRILL

ROBERT C. METCALF

DOUGLAS MILLER

RAYMOND E. MILLER

ALFRED R. MINASIAN

JAMES F. MINER

BRUCE MITCHELL

ROBERT K. MOREAU

RONALD NADEAU

LEO D. NICHOLS

LEE A. NIGHTINGALE

KENNETH F. OLIVA

DOUGLAS W. OLSEN

RICHARD F. OLSON

THERESE O’NEIL

CHARLES S. PAPPAS

PAUL E. PAQUETTE

JAMES R. PASQUANTONIO

MARK F. PECKHAM

CHARLES W. PERRY, JR.

EDWARD C. PERRY

JOSEPH PETECKI

LINDA PETRIE

DAVID PICARD

MICHAEL A. PIERCE

WILLIAM H. PIERCE, III

DAVID R. ROSS

RICHARD G. ROSE

EDWARD E. POLES, III

BARRY L. PORTER

GLENN R. POWER

PETER W. PRESTON

WALTER L. PRESTON, JR.

THOMAS H. PROBERT

FRANCIS J. RAGUICCI, JR.

CHARLES W. RICE, JR.

CHARLES W. RICHARDSON

ARTHUR J. ROBINSON

EDWARD L. ROBITAILLE

ROBERT R. ROONEY

LEE ROSS

NICHOLAS R. SACCO

RAYMOND A. SAMPSON, JR.

DAN R. SCHNORBUS

KEVIN J. SCHNORBUS

PAUL SCHWALBE

JOHN L. SEASTRAND

MARK J. SEASTRAND

MATTHEW G. SEKULA

GARY S. SHEA

JOHN F. SHEEHAN, JR.

MARK J. SHEEHAN

BRUCE M. SMITH

THOMAS R. STIGALL

PHILIP TAGERMAN

ROBERT P. TAYLOR

LEE P. THOMPSON

WILLIAM R. THURSTON

WILLIAM J. TOOMEY

CLIFFORD A. TOPHAM

RICHARD TOPHAM

*ROBERT W. TOPHAM, JR.

MARK CHARLES TWARDZICKI

TIMOTHY F. VALLELY

H. JOHN VILLEMAIRE

BEN V. WALKER

MICHAEL WALKER

JAMES WARD

WILLIAM J. WARE

GREGORY WATERS

DAVID C. WEBER

MICHAEL WELIK

LELAND O. WELSH, JR.

FREDERICK WHITE

WALTER D. WILLET

ROBERT J. WINN, JR.

PAUL WISNIEWSKI

EDWARD C. WITHERELL

LOYD I. WYLLIE

 

*KILLED IN ACTION

**DIED, WAR INJURY AT HOME

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Sandy Dalhfred, Richard S. Marsh, Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Wrentham, Massachusetts Korean War and Vietnam War Honor Rolls", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 20, 2021, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/05/wrentham-massachusetts-korean-war-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

A New Historical Marker at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire

 

PINKERTON ACADEMY

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Incorporated in 1814, Pinkerton Academy is the

state's largest independent high school and is

one of the oldest. Since its founding "for the

purpose of promoting piety and virtue and for

the Education of Youth." notable faculty and

alumni include: poet and Pinkerton teacher 

Robert Frost (1906 - 11); Alan Shepard (1940), the 

first American in space: Brian Thacker (1963), 

who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions

in the Vietnam War; and Tricia Dunn (1992),

who won a gold medal for ice hockey at the 1998

Winter Olympics.                      

OLD ACADEMY BUILDING

Southwest of this marker stands Pinkerton Academy's

first schoolhouse.  It was built in 1815 through

efforts of trustees John Porter and brothers John

and James Pinkerton.  The building opened its doors

on December 4, 1815 and by June 1816, Pinkerton's

enrollment consisted of 44 boys and 27 girls from

N.H. and surrounding states.  Moved from its

original site in 1886, the Old Academy Building

survives as Pinkerton's only original structure.

It has served many functions, such as the home

of the Alumni Association and the school's archives.

A new New Hampshire state highway historical marker was unveiled at Pinkerton Academy late last year, but due to the pandemic we just visited this sign recently and took photos.  The marker is located on Bypass Route 28 (19 North Main Street) in Derry, next to the Stearns building and the access road for the athletic fields, across from Pinkerton Academy Drive. Set your GPS for N 42 degrees 53' 745" and W 71 degrees 18' 866"  

There was a dedication ceremony for the new marker last December with Pinkerton Academy Headmaster Timothy Powers, State Senator Regina Birdsell, trustee Mark Laliberte, and Derry Historical Museum staff member Mark Mastromario from the class of 1979 Pinkerton Academy. The ceremony was carried by local media. 

This new historic marker is number 266.  You can see a complete list of all the New Hampshire historical highway markers at the website for the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources (see below).  There are a total of four historical markers in Derry:  #48 for General John Stark on Route 28, #58 for the Scotch Irish Settlement (in front of the First Parish Church on East Derry Road),  and #126 for Robert Frost's farm (on Route 28).  

This is a two sided historical marker!  I don't know if this is new or not, but I'm going to start checking other local historical markers to see if they have more information on the reverse!  What have I been missing?!

The little red convertible 

exploring Derry, New Hampshire

For the truly curious:

Julie Huss, "History Unveiled at Pinkerton Academy", Eagle Tribune newspaper, 7 December 2020, article accessed online 28 April 2021: https://www.eagletribune.com/news/new_hampshire/history-unveiled-at-pinkerton-academy/article_a81e9df2-1bd6-55af-83c1-281e1872a72d.html    

The website for the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources:   https://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/   

Pinkerton Academy website:  https://www.pinkertonacademy.org/  

Another Nutfield genealogy blog post about Pinkerton Academy: 

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/04/200th-anniversary-of-pinkerton-academy.html  

and the genealogy of John Pinkerton, one of the founders:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-pinkerton-tombstone-tuesday.html  

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A New Historical Marker at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 18, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-new-historical-marker-at-pinkerton.html: accessed [access date]). 

New Castle, New Hampshire Memorial to Those Lost at Sea

 

This monument is located at the park called Great Island Common in New Castle, New Hampshire. This is the only town in New Hampshire made up entirely of islands off of the city of Portsmouth between the Piscataqua River and the Atlantic Ocean.  It is also one of the smallest towns in our state, with about 1,000 people. New Castle was founded in 1623 and originally called "Great Island", and was a parish of Portsmouth.  

(front of the obelisk)

TO THE

MEMORY OF

CITIZENS OF

NEW CASTLE

LOST AT SEA

(next side)

EBENEZER YEATON

age 52

EDWARD MARTIN

age 51

WILLIAM AMAZEEN

age 49

JOHN H. GERRISH

age 33

JAMES P. BAKER

age 30

ROBERT T. MARTEN

aged 21 yrs

SAMUEL HALL

aged 15 yrs

lost with the

Inez near the

Isle of Sable

April 1847

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JOHN YEATON

aged

Lost from the Nebraska

on Georges Banks

Feb, 15, 1861

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JOHN TARLETON

age 31

Lost from the Helen Eliza

off the coast of Nova Scotia

May 4, 1864

(next side)

BENJ. TREFETHEN

aged 34 yrs

BENJ. HUNT

aged 33 yrs

WM. AMAZEEN

aged 27 yrs

NATH. B. DAVIS

aged 20 yrs

Perished on the 

Balerma near Prince

Edward Island in the storm of

Oct. 3, 1851

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CHARLES SMITH

Aged 20 yrs

Lost from the

Mexico from Boston

for Westport, N.S.

Oct. 1, 1851

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CALVIN D. WHITE

aged 21 yrs

Lost from the

Eliza from Boston

for Baltimore

Nov. 17, 1854

(next side)

SAMUEL BATSON

aged 46 yrs

GILMAN HILLIARD

aged 34

HENRY YEATON

aged 27

RICHARD THOMPSON

age 24

JOHN MELOON

aged 20

ELIAS J. HUBLEY

aged 20

MESHACH B. COUSINS

aged 17

Lost with the Nile off the

coast of Nova Scotia

April 16, 1860

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HORTON O. CARD

aged 26

Lost with the Portsmouth

from Ireland

Oct 1867

According to the placard mounted next to this marble obelisk:

"In 1856, under the direction of then minister, Rev. Lucius Alden, this marble obelisk, created by J. Wentworth & Co., was placed in the New Castle Congregational Church's garden plot east of the present-day church.  It was described like this: "Here is the neat little church edifice, around which is a white open fence, enclosing a refreshing green spot, handsomely laid out with gravel walks, mounds, flower beds, and ornamented with trees, shrubs, vines and flowers.  And in its midst a handsome marble monument."

By 1916 the garden no longer existed and the obelisk had been moved to Riverside cemetery.  In 1997 the obelisk was moved to this location on the New Castle Town Common.  This is unfortunately, only a small sample of the New Castle men who have been lost at sea." 

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "New Castle, New Hampshire Memorial to Those Lost at Sea", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 11, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/05/new-castle-new-hampshire-memorial-to.html: accessed [access date]). 

Bucket List Genea Meme Revisited 2021

 

Back in 2012 Jill Ball, the blogger at Geniaus www.Geniaus.com ,  had started a meme that was rather fun.  She encouraged us to list our favorite genealogy bucket list items.  I played along, and posted it online at this link:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/01/bucket-list-genea-meme.html  

I recently revisited this old blog post, and it was fun to see what I put down nine years ago. For #1 I mentioned RootsTech as a conference I wanted to attend - and I'm proud to say that we went to RootsTech 2013 the very next year.  That also meant that #16 (the library I most wanted to visit) could be crossed off my bucket list, too, because I visited the Salt Lake City Family History Library while we were at RootsTech.  I even met Jill Ball at that RootsTech conference - win win for everyone! 

Several other items could cross off my bucket list were #6 (I went to the Netherlands in 2017), #9 for a place of worship I'd like to visit (I saw St. Pieter's Kirk in Leiden in 2017), which also meant that #11 (an ancestral town I'd like to visit and I wrote down Leiden) can be crossed off, too.  

#10 was the cemetery I most wanted to visit, and I had listed the Westminister Memorial Park in California where my grandparents were buried.  I was fortunate to visit there in 2015. 

The tech toy I most wanted back then was an iPad (#14) and I got one soon after that blog post.  The most expensive book I wanted then (#15) was The Great Migration series by Robert Charles Anderson, which is now on my bookshelf.  

It's time to revisit this list!

Here is my 2021 version of the Bucket List Genea Meme.  Some items are still the same, some have been updated, some crossed off on my old list.  Please post your list on your blog or in the comments below!  Jill's old rules were:

Things you would like to do: Bold Type

Things you haven't done or don't care to do: plain type

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1.    The genealogy conference I would most like to attend -   The Southern California Genealogy Society Jamboree  (I've been twice, and liked it more than any other conference I've attended)

2.    The genealogy speaker I would most like to hear and see is - Judy Russell (yes, I've heard her, met her, had dinner with her, but can't get enough!)

3.  The geneablogger I would most like to meet in person is - still Kathleen Brandt from a3Genealogy (we still have not connected in person after all these years)

4.  The genealogy writer I would most like to have dinner with is - Robert Charles Anderson  (I think my old choice of Elizabeth Shown Mills would scare me now if we discussed genealogy)

5. The genealogy lecture I would most like to present is - Anything Mayflower (yes, I've gotten over my fear of speaking in public)

6.  I would like to go on a genealogy cruise that visits Scotland (I've now done the Netherlands which was on my old bucket list)

7.  The photo I would most like to find is - still my great grandmother Isabella Bill

8.  The repository in a foreign land I would like most to visit - is still the British National Archives

9.  The place of worship I would most like to visit is All Soul's in Leeds, Yorkshire where my grandmother worshipped before coming to the USA in 1915. 

10.  The cemetery I would like most to visit is - Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston (Just before the pandemic I found several ancestors and relatives buried there, so this should be easy!)

11.  The ancestral town or village I would like most to visit is Leeds, Yorkshire, England. 

12.  The brick wall I most want to smash is Elizabeth Lambert's (1775 - 1834) ancestry (my 5x great grandmother from Boston)  Still on the list.

13.  The piece of software I most want to buy - nothing comes to mind.

14.  The tech toy I want to purchase next is - a NEW iPad.

15.  The expensive book I would most like to buy is - nothing comes to mind.  I just received a bunch of nice books. 

16.  The library I would most like to visit is -  NEHGS (the New England Historic Genealogical Society) after the pandemic!  

17.  The genealogy related book I would like most to write is (still) Descendants of Thomas Wilkinson

18.  The genealogy blog I would most like to start would be about - (No other plans for more blogs)

19.  The journal article I would like most to write would be about - no plans to write an article

20.  The ancestor I would most like to meet in the afterlife is - probably my Dad

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Bucket List Genea Meme Revisited 2021", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 4, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/05/bucket-list-genea-meme-revisited-2021.html: accessed [access date]). 

Exploring Tewksbury, Massachusetts Old Center Burial Ground

I was reading a manuscript by Jan Koso of the MACE family genealogy, and delighted to learn that a branch of the Mace family left the Isles of Shoals and relocated to Tewksbury, Massachusetts.  My daughter married a young man from Tewksbury, and they now live there.

According to the Find A Grave website some members of the Mace family were buried at the Old Center Burial Ground in Tewksbury.  I knew that my daughter lived two houses away from a cemetery, and after consulting some maps I found the Old Center Burial Ground across the street from the larger cemetery. I waited until the spring weather arrived to check it out.  Early spring is a lovely time to explore cemeteries - before the poison ivy appears, before the snakes come out to bask, no autumn leaves obscuring the ground, and before the grass grows too long to hide the ticks. 

I brought my granddaughter along to explore with me.  She had walked through the larger, newer cemetery to walk her dogs with her Dad, but had never explored the tombstones.  We discussed the fact that some "old" family members were buried there (which brought up a lot of questions in her five year old mind), and she told me she could help find the gravestones because she knew the letter "M".  We were off to a good start!

We discussed the names on the stones we found, and the engravings.  My granddaughter was particularly interested in the engravings. We discussed the soul's head effigies (they looked like the skull heads in the Disney "Coco" movie), the weeping willows, and the portraits inside the little coffin shapes on these New England gravestones dating from the 1700s to the early 1800s.  It was difficult to read some of the inscriptions, especially for a 5 year old, so the next time we go cemetery exploring we will try the burial ground across the street which dates from the 1800s to today (burials are still taking place there).  The inscriptions will be easier to read.

A neighbor to this cemetery saw us exploring, and he kept his "social distance" by shouting to us about the Thomas Marshall buried in the corner of the cemetery with his three wives.  Of course we just had to run over and check out this interesting little plot!  My granddaughter was fascinated with the idea of someone having THREE wives!  We found that the tombstones for Mary and Phebe were labeled "2d wife of Mr. Thomas Marshall" and "3d wife of Mr. Thomas Marshall" but we never found wife #1.  My granddaughter thought maybe wife #1 ran away!  We'll have to look into this family history!

Memento mori
In Memory of
Mrs. Mary Marshall
2d wife of Mr.
Thomas Marshall
who died July
7th 1770. In
the 47th year 
of her age.

I asked my granddaughter what was her favorite part of exploring the cemetery that day.  She said she loved all of it, but her favorite tombstone at the burial ground was the only one with flowers.  We thought that someone must have loved that one special person very much to have planted flowers (crocus bulbs) that lasted almost 200 years later.  She also said that the broken tombstones made her sad, because no one could read them anymore.  Although this is a very old burial ground, we only saw two broken tombstones.  

And we found the Mace family, too, after all this exploring. 

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To Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Exploring Tewksbury, Massachusetts Old Center Burial Ground", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 27, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/04/exploring-tewksbury-massachusetts-old.html: accessed [access date]). 

Mace Family, Tewksbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

 These tombstones were photographed at the Old Center Burial Ground in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

IN
memory of three
Children of Mr. Benjn &
Mrs. Rebekah Mace
died
Jonathan Feb 1802
AEt. 20.  Joel died Jan. 7, 1816
AEt.   Eli died Feb. 12, 1820
AEt. 29

In memory of

Mr. BENJAMIN

MACE,

who died

Nov. 30, 1828

AET. 82.

In memory of

Mrs. REBECA

widow of Mr.

Benjamin Mace,

who died 

March 31, 1829

AEt. 70. 

Benjamin Mace, the son of Daniel Mace, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts on 26 November 1746 and died in Tewksbury on 30 November 1828.  He married Rebecca French in Tewksbury on 22 April 1777.  She was the daughter of Jonathan French and Rebecca Gray, and she died 31 March1829. They had eight children all born in Tewksbury:

1. Rebecca, born 4 August 1777 and died in Tewksbury 1 October 1843

2. Benjamin, born 12 September 1779, and died at Lexington, Indiana on 12 August 1826. He married first to Mary Jones Hardy about 1804 in Brentwood, New Hampshire, daughter of Peter Hardy and Dorcas Jones. He married second to Mary Ross of Lexington, Indiana on 7 November 1823 or 1824. 

3. Jonathan, born 9 March 1782, died in Tewksbury 23 February 1802

4. Ira, born 11 June 1784, and died in Sandown, New Hampshire after April 1843.  He married Sally Fellows on 14 January 1813 in Hampstead, New Hampshire. 

5. Isaac, born 11 June 1784 and removed to Perry, New York with his wife Adella Unknown. 

6. Judith, born 2 October 1788, married in Tewksbury to John Carter, died in Tewksbury 6 January 1861

7. Eli, born 25 February 1791, died 3 February 1820, served in the Revolutionary War

8. Hannah, born 11 June 1793, married Deacon Josiah Kittredge 29 December 1812, died 9 May 1828 at Amherst, New Hampshire. 

9. Abigail, born 6 April 1796, married Stephen Hill in Billerica, Massachusetts May 1816, and died there 18 January 1829.

10. Abraham, born 1 September 1798.  He married first Betsy Johnson of Tewksbury about 1823 (intention filed in Tewksbury on 27 September 1823). He married second to Mary Johnson, intention filed in Tewksbury 30 October 1830.  He married third about 1860 to Harriet N. Gage, daughter of John Gage and Dorcus Merrill.  

11. Joel, born 1 December 1800, died in Tewksbury on 7 January 1816.

Thank you to Jan Koso for his manuscript on the Mace family for this information. According to his manuscript, Benjamin Mace is my half first cousin, 8 generations removed.  We both descend from Robert Mace (1652 - 1732/3), an early settler on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire. Robert Mace had two wives, and I descend from his second wife, Hannah Gibbons, and Benjamin descends from the first un-named wife. 

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To Cite/Link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Mace Family, Tewksbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 20, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/04/mace-family-tewksbury-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]). 

Patriot's Day

Patriot’s Day, 19 April 1775

The Lexington Minute Man Statue
Photographed on 19 April 2000 - The 225th Anniversary of the Battle

“On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;

Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day and year”

                                From The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The year 1975 is one I always remember because it was the year I decided to trace my family tree.  I was only thirteen years old, and I lived in Massachusetts.  It was the prelude to the nation’s Bicentennial celebration, and in 1975 Lexington and Concord celebrated the 200^th anniversary.  There were re-enactments going on all around me that year, including the Knox Trail, Evacuation Day, Bunker Hill, etc.  One of the first discoveries I made while tracing my family tree was to find my MUNROE ancestors who were at the Battle of Lexington.

On 19 April 2000 we took our daughter to see the 225^th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington re-enactment, which involved getting to the Lexington Green at o’dark hundred to get a good spot right by the ropes which marked off the battlefield.  The battle begins every year at dawn.  It was a very odd feeling to watch your family members being shot and killed at a battle re-enactment.  You can read about that experience at this link… 

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/04/battle-of-lexington-re-enacted.html

Did you know that 2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of this famous battle?  Plans are already underway to commemorate this event.  The website Revolution 250 has been set up for this anniversary https://revolution250.org/  

Here are some old images from our family slides that I digitized, showing our visit to the 225th anniversary re-enactment in Lexington.  The quality is poor, but it brings back memories of that event…

Originally the eight men who were killed at the Battle of Lexington were secretly buried,
later they were re-interred on the Battle Green under this obelisk.
I always bring flowers for this spot, because two 5th great grand uncles are buried here,
Robert Munroe (1712 - 1775) and Jonas Parker (1722 - 1775) (married to Lucy Munroe).
 These two uncles were also the first two men to fall at the Battle of Lexington,
also veterans of the French and Indian War. 

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Patriot's Day", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 19, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/04/patriots-day.html: accessed [access date]).