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"Wave on, old tree, wave on, In all thy grandeur and thy grace, Wave on, as thou hast ever done, Blessing the human race."
Mr. Adelbert Mead congratulated the company on the success of the day and related some reminiscences of his boyhood with regard to his honored sire. The little girls sang, Miss Lucie M. Patch, accompanist, and Mr. Mead in his own happy words, in behalf of the friends, presented Captain Taylor with a gold- headed cane, and Mrs. Taylor, a sum of money representing a pair of gold-bowed spectacles. Captain Taylor, with heart overflowing with gratitude for the love that prompted the gift. responded in his genial manner. Just three years and one day from that time Captain Taylor suddenly passed away. He was a man like his father, of noble and generous impulse and strict integrity of character. The old homestead, retaining its name for two hundred years without interruption, is still owned by a descendant, Mrs. D. W. Cobleigh.
Solomon Taylor, mentioned in the early part of this sketch. and his wife, Anna Whitman, were the parents of ten children : Anna, Mary, born Nov. 5, 1780,- Mrs. Silas Hoar's mother,- Elizabeth, Solomon, John, Mercy, Susanna, Daniel, Jane Whit- man, and Sally Brewer. Anna married Aaron Pollard, of Lancaster, and removed to Boston, where they reared a large family. Mary married Silas Wetherbee. (See Wetherbee family.) Elizabeth was unmarried: Solomon married, and died in Westford, leaving no children. John married Sarah Burditt, of Lancaster, and they have several children. Mercy married Joseph Randall, and settled in Boston. They have four children. Susanna married John Lowell, a sea-captain, of Bath, Me., and they have two children. Daniel was killed. when eighteen or nineteen years of age, by the caving in of
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the bank of the old turnpike which he was engaged in build- ing. Jane Whitman married Oliver Davis, son of that Oliver who was selectman and assessor in 1833, and '34, and brother of Eli Davis, of Littleton. Sally Brewer married Robert Alden, of Boston, and of their five children, three daughters and an only son are settled in Washington, D. C., and the remaining daughter is married and resides in Marlborough.
Solomon Taylor, the father, lived upon the old Oliver Taylor farm until 1798, when he removed to Harvard.
Jonathan and Lucy ( Whiteomb) Taylor were the parents of three children, Lucy, Harriet and Mehitable. Lucy married Gibson Willard, of Chesterfield. N. H. They lived and died in Massachusetts. Harriet married Elisha Hill, of Chesterfield, where they lived and died. Mehitable married a Mr. Wilson, and moved to Nebraska, where they died. Whitcomb, their only son, smart and enterprising, is now living in the place where his parents spent their later days.
Lovell and Mercy (Rand) Taylor were the parents of four children, Mercy, Lovell, Oliver and Frances Ann. Mercy married Silas Davis, of West Acton, lived there a few years, and then went to Charlestown. Simon, their youngest son, graduated at Harvard, and is now Counsellor at Law in Boston. Lovell married Mary Ann Moore, of Rockbottom. He died young. Oliver lives at the old homestead in Stow. Frances Ann married Henry Gates, of Stow, a wealthy farmer in that town.
The Silas Taylor family of one hundred years ago have descendants living in Acton. The family were very active in all that pertained to the interest of the town in early years, having served the town in many positions of publie trust. Several of the slabs in the lower "burying-ground " bear the names of members of this family.
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CHAPTER XIV.
WETHERBEE FAMILY - WHITCOMB FAMILY - JOHN READ
WHITCOMB - WOOD FAMILY - DEA. M. E. WOOD - GEORGE C. WRIGHT.
THE WETHERBEE FAMILY.
So far back as we can trace them, there seem to have been three Wetherbee families settled in town, though perhaps. could we trace the line a little farther, we should find - what is supposed to be the case - that there were only two families originally, and that the heads of these were brothers. Phine- has Wetherbee, whose father, John Wetherbee, was here as early as 1717, or 1727. settled on the farm where Silas Hoar now lives, and was ancestor of the line of Silas, Simeon, Nor- man and probably Charles Wetherbee. The farm has been in possession of the family from very early times, and descendants of the eighth, ninth and tenth generations in the persons of Mrs. Lucy (Wetherbee) Hoar, her daughter, Mrs. Mercy (Hoar) Wetherbee, and the children of Mercy (Hoar) and Charles T. Wetherbee, are now occupying the old homestead. The house now standing was built more than 150 years ago. There are old deeds and wills of the time of Queen Anne in possession of the present family. A remote ancestor of the family, becoming alarmed lest he should in some way lose his wealth, is said to have hidden a large sum of money upon the estate. The story has been handed down from one to an- another, and later generations have sought for the rumored wealth, but, although at one time the sum of $30 or $40 was found in a drill-hole in a rock, with a bullet placed over it, nothing more has ever been discovered.
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Silas and Betty Wetherbee were the great-grandparents of Mrs. Lucy ( Wetherbee ) Hoar - wife of Silas Hoar - who is the oldest representative of this branch of the Wetherbee family now living in town. Her grandparents were Simeon and Mary ( Robbins ) Wetherbee, and her parents, Silas and Mary (Taylor) Wetherbee, daughter of Solomon and Anna. The first Silas Wetherbee gave the meeting-house lot in 1775 ; he was much interested in both church and distriet when they were in their infancy. He was selectman in +1783. Silas and Mary were the parents of fourteen children : Simeon, born Nov. 4. 1800 : Stillman, Andrew, born Jan. 21, 1804, Silas Whit- man, born Feb. 16. 1806, Daniel. Emory, Mary Ann, Susan- nah Lowell, Solomon Taylor, who died young, John Robbins, Lucy, born June 21, 1820, and Clarissa, her twin, who died in infancy, Eliza Jane Brewer, and Mary Randall. Simeon married Persis Whitney : Stillman married Elizabeth Sargent. of Stow, and their only daughter married Simeon Green, of Harvard. Andrew married Mary Sargent and settled in town. Of their eight children only four are now living. Augustine resides in Acton, and his widowed mother, Mrs. Mary (Sar- gent) Wetherbee, is now living, at the advanced age of eighty- eight years, in Gardner, Mass. Silas Whitman married Mary Sargent, sister of Elizabeth, and went to Stow, afterwards settled in Boxborough. He died about eight years ago ; his wife died several years before, and of their eight children, only two are now living. Mrs. Jane E. Tuttle, of Fitchburg, and Stillman Wetherbee, of Chelsea, Mass. Daniel married Naney Bulke- ley, and had no children ; Emory married Hannah Dyer, of Lowell. He died young, leaving no children. She lived to the age of eighty years, and died in the autumn of 1889. Mary Ann married George Dolby and went away from town ; Susannah Lowell married Thomas Johnston, of Boston, and they had one child. Mr. Johnston died in 1888, and Mrs. Johnston in 1889. They are buried in the cemetery on the hill. John Robbins Wetherbee married Nancy Goodwin, of Boxborough, and settled in Bolton. They have eight children. Lucy married Silas Hoar and settled on the old homestead
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place, where seven generations of the Wetherbee family had lived before her. They have an only daughter, Mercy, who married Charles T. Wetherbee -of another branch of the Wetherbee family - and they have three children. Harry L., Charles L., and Daniel. Eliza Jane Brewer married William Eaton, of Clinton, and they have three children. Mercy Ran- dall married Stillman Houghton, of Worcester. They have one son.
Simeon and Persis (Whitney) Wetherbee were the parents of seven children : Andrew, Simeon, Caroline, Samuel Nor- man. Silas, Edward, who died in infancy, and Edward. An- drew married Nancy Wheeler, of Littleton, settled in town, and removed to Stow; Simeon married Caroline Blanchard, and settled in town ; Caroline married Oliver Mead, of this town ; Samuel Norman married Caroline Wheeler, of Stow, and settled on the farm where his father had lived before him. They have two children living, Mrs. Elsie Davidson and Dora. Silas married Mary Parmenter, of Marlborough, and resides in that place ; Edward married Susan Withington, and they, with their two children, Persis and Alfred. are residents of Box- borough.
The ancestor of another branch of the Wetherbee family settled on the farm where John H. Whitcomb now lives, and one of the family, for at least four generations. has borne the name of Samuel. Samuel, who was the son of Samuel and Sarah Wetherbee, and Betsey, his wife, were the parents of seven children : Charles, Betsey, Sally, Lucinda, Lucy, Dolly and Samuel (1807-72). Charles, Lucinda and Lucy died young. Betsey married Daniel Houghton, of Harvard ; Sally married Ephraim Whitcomb, of Littleton ; Dolly married Joel Hayward, of Ashby, and Samuel married Maria Fletcher for his first wife, and for the second, Naomi Chandler, of Maine. Samuel and Naomi (Chandler) Wetherbee were the parents of two children, -- Maria, who married John H. Whitcomb, and is settled on the old Wetherbee place (their children, Ralph and Ira, are the fifth generation that have occupied it), and Charles T., who married Mercy Hoar.
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Phinehas, the ancestor of a third branch of the Wetherbee family, was quite an old man in 1770, and owned the farm where W. H. Furbush now lives. His son, Phinehas, owned the place in 1783. The first house. of logs, was built in the second field north of Mr. Parker's, the original grant of land containing something more than 200 acres. Old deeds show that they were in quite good circumstances for those times, owning not only this land, but making quite large money trans- actions. As an illustration may be mentioned the fact that the first Phinehas Wetherbee paid $1000 to a man in Littleton as a substitute in the army, 1775-1778. They were active and interested in town and public affairs. The first deed describes the land as being in Littleton, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the tenth year of the reign of George the Third. Mr. Augustus W. Wetherbee. the last and only representative of this branch in town says, " I have heard my grandfather speak of the first of the family, and how they often saw the Indians looking into their windows at night." I quote also from his Centennial speech : "It is something more than one hundred and sixty years since my ancestors broke the soil and built their cabin in the field just back of the house now owned by Mr. Parker, and for one hundred and fifty-five years they lived there and at the old homestead where Mr. Furbush now lives and tilled those same acres; and there was I born, and here have I lived the most of my life. In yonder graveyard. one of the first stones erected is to the memory of one of my ancestors. Well do I remember the stories of my grandmother, of the early settlers' struggle with the Indian and wild beast, of how they used to go to market on horseback, with their saddle- bags on before and a carcass or two of veal or mutton strapped on behind. the roads mere cart paths then ; of how they used to come up to worship God on this very spot on which we now stand, on horseback. the husband riding before, and the wife and two or three children on a pillion behind."
Phinehas Wetherbee had seven children : John, Daniel, Phinehas, Betty. Caty, Dolly and Hannah. John Wetherbee born Apr. 19, 1783, married Linda Wood, born May 17, 1784,
OLIVER WETHERBEE.
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Oliver Wetherbee.
and they had three children, Oliver, John and Lucinda. John Wetherbee, Sr., was very energetic and enterprising, but at the age of twenty-three, after over-exertion in fighting a fire in the woods, took a severe cold, which resulted in paralysis of his right side, so that for twenty-eight years he could not walk a step, and for fifty-eight years he was able to do very little. He acquired, however, quite a property, owning half of the original farm. He was town treasurer for quite a number of years, and was especially interested in church affairs. He died May 18. 1864 ; his wife, Linda, died March 2, 1863.
OLIVER WETHERBEE.
Oliver, son of John and Linda Wetherbee (1805-1875). married Mary Whitcomb, and they had three children, Jona- than Kimball Wood, Martha M. and Marietta C. Mrs. Mary (Whitcomb) Wetherbee is still living, at the age of eighty-four years, with her son Kimball, who married S. Jennie Tuttle and resides at South Acton. Kimball Wetherbee commenced work with the Tuttles, at South Acton, as a clerk, and worked his way up to his present position, one of the firm of Tuttle, Jones and Wetherbee. He has been much in town office, and has been several times a candidate for the General Court. Martha M. Wetherbee (1839-1865) is said to have been " One of the best of women, active everywhere, a splendid teacher and musician." Marietta C. (1850-1880) married Charles B. Stone, and had one daughter, Elma, who died in 1890, at her father's home in West Acton.
Oliver Wetherbee commenced teaching when about twenty years of age and became quite a noted teacher. He was elected to town office soon after he was twenty-one, and nearly all his life held office, either as selectman, assessor, town clerk or treasurer, often more than one, and for many years was school superintendent. He and his brother John were early interested in military affairs, both belonging to the company in town as long as it existed, John holding the rank of first lieutenant. They were both much interested in musie, playing together in church and in private for nearly forty years, more than thirty
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years in church. Oliver Wetherbee was chorister forty-four years, and church clerk eighteen years. Both were active in political and public affairs.
John Wetherbee (1807-1874) married Louisa S. Brown, who died several years ago. They were the parents of two children : Francis Wood, who died in infancy, and Augustus Winslow.
AUGUSTUS WINSLOW WETHERBEE.
Augustus Winslow, son of John and Louisa Wetherbee, born Sept. 1, 1839, married Hattie Lane (1844-1884), daughter of Simon P. and Clarissa (Gregg) Lane of Windham, N. H., Jan. 1, 1870. and settled in his native town. He graduated from the Pepperell Academy in 1861, worked with his father on the home farm until 1865, engaged in the produce and com- mission business in Boston for two years, and then learned the business of carpenter and builder, in which occupation he is engaged at the present time. Mr. Wetherbee is interested in all that pertains to the town, and has held various positions of usefulness therein. He was sent Representative to the General Court from the 33d Middlesex district in 1881, and was chair- man of the Republican town committee for a period of ten years. He is especially interested in church affairs, and has held the position of chorister of the Congregational church for many years. He has also served as clerk and treasurer thir- teen years, and as Sunday-school superintendent three years. For eighteen years he has been a member of the school board,- four times its superintendent,- and for fifteen years, secretary of the Farmers' Club. Mr. Wetherbee, whose name appears among those of our soldiers, served in the late war three years. He enlisted in Co. B .. 32d Reg't. Mass. Volunteers, November 26. 1861, and was discharged November 26, 1864. He was with the Army of the Potomac in the 2d Brigade, 1st Division. 5th Army Corps, from Harrison's Landing to Weldon R. R. Petersburg, Va., and served two years as commissary sergeant of the 1st Division.
Lucinda Wetherbee (1821-1882) married John W. Phillips, a noted architect. He superintended the erection of several
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fine buildings in Lowell, among them the new jail. He was an Englishman by birth. They are both dead. also John HI., their second child : the others. William W., Josie and Charles. are living in Jonesville, Wisconsin.
Phinehas Wetherbee, of West Acton, is the son of Daniel Wetherbee, brother of the first John Wetherbee.
JOHN WETHERBEE.
Levi Wetherbee, the father of John Wetherbee, was a brother of Simeon Wetherbee, the grandfather of Mr. Jerome Priest and Mrs. Silas Hoar, and lived on the farm now owned by Mr. E. B. Cobleigh. He married Dorithy, daughter of Phinehas Taylor, who lived many years ago upon the Bur- roughs' place. She was a woman of considerable physical strength and ability. Mr. and Mrs. Wetherbee were the parents of five children : Levi, Mary, Lucy, Silas and John. Mary and Silas died young. Levi, born June 25, 1785, married Sally Wetherbee of Ashby, and their only daughter, Susan, married J: Colburn Graham, now of West Acton. They have one daughter, Mariette, who married James Coburn and resides at home. Luey Wetherbee. born Mar. 27, 1791. married Samuel Stevens,- fifth son of Benjamin and Lucy, born in Boxborough, Aug. 27, 1791. a cabinet maker, -- and went to Marlborough, where their only child, Levi Wetherbee, was born. They afterwards removed to Bolton, and here, after a residence of only six months, Mr. Stevens died and his widow returned to her father's home in Boxborough, where she lived until her son's marriage, when she went to reside with him upon the adjoining farm, now occupied by Deacon S. B. Hager. She remained with her son until her death. He removed to a residence on the West Acton road, near the Joseph Hayward homestead, but the house being burned, -- the old cellar wall may still be seen,- he removed to West Acton, to the house now occupied by Mr. Varnum B. Mead, which he built. Dec. 15, 1841, Levi Wetherbee Stevens married Lucy Ann Patch, of Marlborough, and their only daughter, Mary Lucy, married Albert B. Brown. Mr. Stevens married for his second wife,
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Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Hayward, of Boxborough. Of their three children only one is now living, Warren Arthur, who married Miss Emmie Ireland, of Littleton, and with his wife and son, resides at Robert's Crossing, Waltham, where he is station-agent. Mr. Stevens' third wife was Roxanna Hall, daughter of Deacon Enoch Hall, of West Acton ; the fourth, Mary Croston, of Haverhill. Mr. Stevens is a carpenter and builder, and a finished workman. He has erected quite a number of houses in the village of West Acton and vicinity, among them, that upon the Aldrich place which Arthur Blanchard now owns. one upon the Edwin Stone place, Dr. Dodge's, and a new double house in which he resides at the present time. In former years Mr. Stevens was always active in the various village enterprises. having been on the school board, and president of the Lyceum.
Mr. John Wetherbee, born Nov. 7, 1800, and Mrs. Susan- nalı (Hayward) Fairbanks, of Gardner, Mass., second daughter of James Hayward. of Boxborough, were united in marriage by Rev. J. Warren Cross, Nov. 20. 1838. Mrs. Wetherbee brought with her to Boxborough two sons by a former marriage. James Hayward and Sewell Fairbanks. James H. married Anna M., daughter of Ira and Susan (Piper) Gibbs, of Boston. Their only child, J. Hayward, died when only five years of age. Mr. James H. Fairbanks. the father, died Aug. 23, 1865, aged 34 years. Sewell married Caroline, daughter of Ai Blood, of Boston. The names of their five children are as follows : Fannie B., James L., Carrie I., Emma F., and Bertha M. The two last named died in infancy. The mother died Feb. 13. 1875. Mr. Fairbanks married for his second wife, Mrs. Carrie J. (Brown ) Boyt, of Denmark, Iowa, daughter of Joseph Brown, of Groton, Mass. Mr. Sewell Fairbanks died at Boston Highlands. Mar. 7. 1891, aged 58 years, and 4 months.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wetherbee settled on the home farm, and their three children, Ellen A., Susan A. and Emmaetta F., were all born at the old homestead. Mr. Wetherbee was Orderly Sergeant in the Military Company in Boxborough as long as it existed, and his regimentals,- lace-trimmed coat,
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hat, and sword .- are still in possession of the family. He was one of the financial " pillars of the church " in Boxborough. always giving liberally as God had prospered him, for the sup- port of His cause. Mr. Wetherbee removed to West Acton in 1855, where he died July 31, 1858. His wife died the same year, Oct. 13, 1858. Their children reside in West Acton at the present time. Susan A., the second daughter, married Mr. Delette H. Hall, son of Deacon Enoch and Emeline (Hosmer) Hall, of West. Acton, of the firm of Hall and Sons, Wooden Ware Manufacturers, and they have four children, Eugene L., Bertram D., Etta R., and A. Stanley Hall. Ellen A. and Fannie E. Wetherbee reside at the home place where they have always lived since going to West Acton - with the exception of six years '75-'81 spent in Boston in charge of their brother's house after his wife's death - the house having been previously built
by, Mr. Wetherbee, to rent. Having been left orphans when the youngest daughter was only eight years of age, the eldest, then but fifteen, became, as it were, the head of the family, keeping them all together under the home roof, and exercising towards her younger sisters the watchfulness and care of a mother. Miss Fannie E. Wetherbee is teacher of the infant class, and superintendent of the whole primary department, consisting of four or five classes with their teachers,-connected with the Baptist church. Mrs. Hall and her husband have been mem- bers of the choir for a long time, and all three are actively engaged in church work.
THE WHITCOMB FAMILY.
The first of the Whitcombs came from England some time previous to 1633, and settled in Dorchester, Mass. There seems to be a number of branches, so far as we have been able to trace them. Ephraim Whitcomb, Sr., was born in Littleton about 1700, married Parthias Wheeler, of Stow, in 1731, and settled in Nashoba,- a part of Littleton. Ephraim Whitcomb, Jr., and Hannah, his wife, settled on the farm of his brother Daniel - where Mr. Ephraim Cobleigh now lives - and were the parents of nine children : Moses, Reuben, Lucy, Ephraim,
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Hannah, Samuel. Peter. Martha and Joel. Of these, Reuben married and settled in Harvard : Hannah married and went to Gardner to reside : Samuel lived in Boxborough a number of years after his marriage. and three of his children were born here : he then removed to Littleton. Lucy married Paul Hay- ward, Jr., and settled on the place where Mr. N. E. Whitcomb now lives. They had twelve children.
Ephraim - Capt. or Lieut. Ephraim Whitcomb, both titles having been given to him - married Katherine, daughter of Boaz Brown, and settled on the farm where his father-in-law, Boaz Brown. resided, and afterwards built the brick house which stands there at the present time. Mr. Benjamin S. Hager now owns and occupies this estate. Of their eight children, three - Ephraim. Joel and Joab - were unmarried ; Betsey married Benjamin Houghton and settled in Harvard. They were the parents of three children - Henry, who died in early manhood : John, a provision dealer at West Acton ; and Ephraim, a farmer in Harvard, formerly, but now working at the carpenter's trade. Hannah married Daniel Cobleigh and settled on the old Cobleigh place, opposite Mr. Wright's present residence. The old homestead has long since gone to decay. Three sons - Ruel T., Daniel W. and Ephraim B .- are now living in town. Katherine married Oliver Russell and went to Harvard. Edward married the daughter of Jeremiah Tuttle. Sr., of Littleton. Martha married Daniel Whitcomb, and settled in Boxborough, on the place now occupied by Mr. J. A. Walker, who married one of the daughters. There were six children,-James Henry, who lost his life in the late war : John, who married Maria Wetherbee, and settled on one of the old Wetherbee places in Boxborough ; Betsey (Mrs. Walker) ; Sarah. who married Jacob Priest, and is now living in Harvard ; Anna Luella, who married Marshall Wilder and resides in Clinton, Mass .. and Martha Jane, who died when quite young.
Martha or Patty. daughter of Ephraim Whitcomb, Jr., married Ephraim Taylor and lived on the Burroughs place. After the death of her husband, she, with her four children - Ephraim. Joel. Reuben and Isaac - went to New York to live.
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Joel, son of Ephraim Whitcomb, Jr., married, and resided on Burroughs place after Ephraim Taylor. They buried several children. Joel Whitcomb, Jr., is living at West Acton.
Moses, son of Ephraim Whitcomb, Jr., married Anna Hay- ward, of Boxborough. Of their twelve children several died in infancy. Of nine who lived to mature years, Sally married, and went to Ashby; Betsey married a Tenny and went away from town ; Daniel, to whom we have before alluded, married Martha Whitcomb, and settled on the present Walker place : Mary married Oliver Wetherbee and settled on the old Phinehas Wetherbee place, now W. H. Furbush's ; Lydia married for her second husband, Mr. Peters, father of George L. Peters, of Stow, and made her home in Boxborough ; they had three children. Moses, Jr., married Martha Cotton, of Boxborough, and settled on the old Whitcomb homestead. where Ephraim Cobleigh now resides. They buried several children. There are five remaining,- Edwin Whitcomb, Mrs. Hannah Conant, Mrs. Caroline Hosmer and Mrs. Maria Hend- ley, of Littleton, and Frank Whitcomb, of West Acton. Annie married Mr. Harry Hoar, of Littleton. Paul married Hannah Bent, of Stow, and went away from town; they had two sons. John -Col. John Whitcomb- married Maria Good- win for his first wife ; they had no children. He married Sarah Emory for his second wife, and of their five children, one died in infancy. Nathaniel Emory married Abbie Blanchard, and lives on the old Paul Hayward place. in Boxborough ; John married Nellie Rand, and went to Fitchburg ; Maria married Charles E. Smith, and died in Holden, in 1890 ; and James married Edna, daughter of Mr. Granville Whitcomb, and resides in Fitchburg. Col. JJohn Whitcomb married Mrs. Eliza A. Hayward for his third wife.
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