Monatsarchiv: Januar 2021

The Shepard family connections

My familial connection to the Shepard family is through my paternal grandmother Helen Mead. Joanna Elizabeth Mead (1842-1914), a first cousin of mine (four generations removed), was born 1842 in Brattleboro, Vermont. She married Augustus „Gus“ Shepard Sr. (1836-1913), a … Weiterlesen

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A Showgirl You Should Know: Faith Bacon “the World’s Most Beautiful”

Faith Bacon, 6th cousin of my grandpa, E. Stanley Wires. Our earliest common ancestors are Henry Wallbridge and his wife, Anna Amos. She is also, like me, a descendant of William Brewster, of Plymouth fame. Faith Bacon was born in … Weiterlesen

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Fitch of Milford, Massachusetts

My great, great grandmother, Cassandra Eastman (Morrill) Fitch, died of „insanity“ 20 days after her husband, George Washington Fitch, on New Year’s Eve, 1878, in Milford, Massachusetts. George died of apoplexy (a stroke).

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The Henry Family of Hopedale, Massachusetts:

Parkside Dairy Farm The farm at 200 Dutcher Street started as simply a small home farm of very little acreage. My grandparents, J. Charles and Nettie M. Henry bought the land from grandpa’s uncle, John S. Mead of Milford and in … Weiterlesen

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