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(V) Joshua Kendall, son of Joshua Ken- dall (4), was born in Woburn, February 9, 1747. He settled in East Sudbury, then ad- joining Watertown, and was the only one of the name at that time in the vicinity. He lived on the road from Bigelow's Corner to Way- land Center. East Sudbury (incorporated 1780) became the town of Wayland, March II, 1835. Kendall lived there until about 1785. He married December 6, 1770, Mary Rutter, born April 8, 1744, daughter of Joseph and Mary Rutter. (See Rutter). Joshua was a soldier in the revolution, corporal in Captain Nathaniel Cudworth's company, Colonel Abi- jah Pierce's regiment, on the Lexington alarm. (VI) Paul Kendall, son of Joshua Kendall (5), according to all obtainable evidence, was. born, probably at Wayland, in 1775 or 1783. (Both records given by the family). He died February 22, 1825. He settled in Watertown, a town adjacent to Wayland, and followed his. trade as tailor there. One of the family tradi- tions is that he was born while his father was. at the battle of Lexington. On his return, when he was told of the birth of a son, some one said: "Who knows but he will be a Tory ?" "Rather than that," the father said, drawing his sword, "I would run this through his body.' As a corporal the father would have worn a sword, and we know he was at Lexington April 19. Some of the family became Shakers and lived at Harvard, Massachusetts. Paul Kendall married. June 23, 1804, Susan Carter. born October 7, 1779, died April 23, 1858, daughter of Ephraim and Ame ( Reeves) Car-
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ter, of East Sudbury, now Wayland. He was then of Watertown, she of East Sudbury, but the fact that he married an East Sudbury woman is another evidence that he belonged to the Kendall family of that town. Ephraim Carter, born September 1751. was son of Jona- than and Susanna Carter of Sudbury. Chil- dren, born at Watertown: I. Henry Lewis, born June 25, 1805 : died at Providence, Rhode Island, July 10, 1883 : married Mary Andrews, of Dighton. 2. Susan Carter, born February 20, 1807; died unmarried, May 9, 1882. 3. Hiram, born April 28, baptized July 2, 1809; died August 13. 1864; married Lydia Talbot, of Dighton. 4. Eliza Carter, born June 24. ISII, died February 6, 1892 ; married at Prov- idence, Alfred Hicks, son of Captain Radcliffe and Elizabeth Hicks, of Providence, and had Mary Jane Hicks, who married William Session. 5. George, born March 12. bap- tized July 4. 1813; married Mary Dean, of Providence ; died October 10, 1864; both he and his wife died of yellow fever. 6. William. born June 14, 1815, baptized July 16, 1815: died aged ten. 7. Benjamin Franklin, born August 18, 1817: died November 4. 1860; married Julia Ballou. 8. Jane White, died un- married. 9. Francis, born January 12, 1822 ; mentioned below.
(VII) Francis Kendall, son of Paul Ken- dall (6), born in Watertown, January 12, 1822, died March 20, 1904, at his home at the corner of Church and Fayette streets, Watertown. His birthplace was in the house that stood on the site of the prsent post office building. He had a common school education. He left home at an early age and went to work. In 1851 he returned to his native town, where he lived the rest of his life. He engaged in the woolen business in Boston, and for many years was a partner in the well-known firm of Richardson, Kendall & Company. He retired from busi- ness a few years before his death. He was an active and useful citizen of his native town, supporting every movement for the moral, spiritual or material welfare of the town, and taking part in every public affair and move- ment of importance for half a century. To the very end he evinced the most commend- able public spirit. He was especially energetic in the trying times of the civil war in his sup- port of the government and the soldiers in the field. He was at that time on the board of selectmen, and again in 1880 and 1881. Dur- ing his last term of office the quarter-millenial celebration of the founding of the old town of Watertown was celebrated, and he took a
prominent part in organizing and carrying out the details of that memorable occasion. He was called upon to serve the town in various other positions of trust and honor from time to time. He lived unostentatiously a life filled with deeds of kindness and charity. Nobody responded more freely or quickly to calls for public or benevolent purposes than he. Ile was a friend of the poor, a man much beloved by his neighbors and friends. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest members of the First Parish Church ( Unitarian) of which he had been a member thirty-eight years, and for thirteen years president of its board of trustees. He was an active member of the Watertown Historical Society and of the Uni- tarian Club. vice-president of the Union Na- tional Bank of Watertown, and trustee of the Watertown Savings Bank. He married, August 17, 1847, Margaret Vantine Hatha- way, born at Dighton, Massachusetts, March I, 1817, died at Burlington, Iowa, December 30, 1892, daughter of John and Mrs. Hannah (Coen) (Sherman) Hathaway of Boston. Her father was a Boston merchant, and at one time an alderman in that city. ( See Hath- away). Children : I. John Hathaway, born at Boston, July 29, 1850 : married. December 21, 1881, Mary L. Sherfey, of Burlington, Iowa ; children : i. Francis Hathaway, born July 31. 1885: ii. Margaret: iii. Arthur Sherfey, born May 31, 1892; iv. Paul, born October 17, 1894. 2. Francis Paul, mentioned below.
(VIII) Francis Paul Kendall, son of Fran- cis Kendall (7), was born at Watertown, March 18, 1854. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of his native town, and at the Brooks School. corner of Tremont and Win- ter streets, Boston, where he was graduated after a three-year course. He then went west and worked for a year on John Bruin's stock farm. He returned for one year and then went to Kansas and took up a government claim in the township of Florence. Here he spent five years growing corn and wheat and raising hogs. He sold his farm and removed to Indian Territory, where he engaged in cattle trading and herding on his own account. He spent about seven years in the cattle business at Dodge City. Kansas, and a year at Flor- ence. After spending a year in California he returned to Massachusetts, and in 1895 bought a hundred acre farm, known as the Valley Field farm, formerly belonging to the Wellington family, in Lexington, a place of much historic interest. He has paid especial attention to his dairy, having forty cows or more of various
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breeds. He deals also in horses and is counted an expert judge of horses. He is a Unitarian in religion and a Republican in politics. He married, November 15, 1888, Frances Aline Webber McGinnis, born July 26, 1868, at Louisiana, Missouri, daughter of Thomas and Clara (Webber) McGinnis, of Louisiana, Missouri. Her father was a carpenter and contractor, a veteran of the civil war. They have no children.
HATHAWAY John Hathaway, the immi- grant ancestor, born in England, came to America at the age of eighteen, in the ship "Blessing," sailing in July, 1635. He must therefore have been born in 1617. He was before the gen- eral court June 6, 1637. He settled in Barn- stable, Plymouth colony, and was living in Taunton in 1649. He was a member of the Plymouth military company in 1643. Once he was arraigned before the court at Plymouth for "lending a gun to an Indian." He was residing at Barnstable in 1656, and later re- moved to Yarmouth. He was admitted a free- man in 1670; bought a tract of land at Free- town, lot No. 18, in 1671 ; was constable 1676 and 1690, at Taunton; often on the grand jury : selectman of Taunton 1680 and 1684; deputy to general court at Plymouth 1680 to 1684 and in 1691, and to general court of Massachusetts 1696-7. He had a brother Joseph Hathaway, living in Taunton, admitted a freeman 1657. The home of John Hatha- way finally was in what is now Berkeley, known as the Farms, just north of where the lands abuts on the Great River. The site of his house was marked by an iron tablet in 1889 by the Old Colony Historical Society. His will, dated August 3, 1689, proved Feb- ruary 15, 1696-7, bequeathed to wife Eliza- beth : sons Thomas, John, Gideon and Edward ; daughters by a former wife, etc. He married first, Martha -; second Elizabeth who died before 1693; third, Ruth
died September, 1705. Children : Abra- ham, born 1652. 2. Thomas. 3. John, Jr., born August 16, 1658; inherited his father's land at Freetown. 4. Hannah, born May, 1662. 5. Edward, February 10, 1663. 6. Gid- eon. The Old Colony Historical Society rec- ords, vol. vi, p. 80, in an article on the Hatha- way family, gives sons Isaac, Ephraim (men- tioned below ), Abigail, married James Phillips, and Rebecca, who were not mentioned in the will.
(II) Ephraim Hathaway, son of John Hath-
away (1), born in 1668, died before 1719; married, about 1690, Elizabeth Talbot. He lived at Dighton. Among his children was Ephraim, mentioned below.
(III) . Ephraim Hathaway, son of Ephraim Hathaway (2), born in 1692, died in 1771 ; married about 1716 Ann -. Among his children was a son Ephraim, mentioned be- low.
(IV) Ephraim Hathaway, son of Ephraim Hathaway (3), born in 1719, died in 1816; married, first, -, in 1752; second, Han- nah (Shaw ) Walker, and had son John, men- tioned below.
(V) John Hathaway, son of Ephraim Hath- away (4), born in Dighton, in 1757, died in 1830; married 1781, Levinia Trafton, born 1763, died 1836. He had a son John, men- tioned below.
(VI) John Hathaway, son of John Hatha- way (5), born in Dighton, in 1786, died in 1857. He removed to Boston. He married, in 1809, Hannah (Coen) Sherman. His sec- ond daughter, Margaret Vantine, born at Dighton, March 1, 1817; married at Boston, August 17, 1847, Francis Kendall (see Ken- dall) ; resided in Watertown, but died at Bur- . lington, Iowa, December 30, 1892.
The surname Dole is of French DOLE origin, but it has been in use in England since the time of the Nor- man Conquest in 1066. Originally a place name, the first ancestor in England was pre- sumably from the city of Dole across the chan- nel. The particle de, meaning "of" or "from,"" was originally used in this and other names of its kind that became surnames a few hun- dred years later by merely dropping the pre- position.
(I) Richard Dole, immigrant ancestor, born in England at Ringworthy (now Range- worthy ), near Bristol, England, baptized there December 31, 1622, was the son of William Dole, and grandson of Richard Dole. He was apprenticed by his father after the family had removed to the adjacent town of Thornbury to John Lowell or Lowle, a glover of Bristol. When John and Richard Lowell and their father, Percival Lowell, came to Massachu- setts in 1639 they brought Richard Dole with them and they settled at Newbury with Dole as clerk. But when still a young man he en- gaged in business for himself as a merchant, displaying great industry and enterprise. He deposed in 1676 that he was aged about fifty- two years. He became an extensive land-
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owner and left an estate valued at eighteen hundred forty pounds, a large sum for his day and locality. He built his house on the north bank of the river Parker just below the Oldtown bridge, as now located. He was of marked ability and upright character, influ- ential and highly respected as a citizen and Christian. He married, first, May 3, 1647, Hannah Rolfe, daughter of Widow Rolfe. His wife died November 16, 1678. He mar- ried, second, March 4, 1679, Hannah Brockle- bank, widow of Captain Samuel, and she died September 6, 1690. He married, third, Pa- tience Walker. His inventory filed just after his death is dated July 26, 1705, and adminis- tration was granted July 30 of that year. Children, born at Newbury: 1. John, August IO. 1648. 2. Richard, September 6, 1650. Anna, March 26, 1653, died July 6, 1653. 4. Benjamin, June 14, 1654, died young. 5. Joseph, August 5, 1657, commanded one of his father's vessels. 6. William, April II, 1660. 7. Henry, March 9, 1663. 8. Hannah, October 23, 1665, married May 18, 1692, John Moody. 9. Apphia, December 7, 1668. mar- ried Peter Coffin. 10. Abner, mentioned be- low.
(II) Abner Dole, son of Richard Dole ( I), born in Newbury, March 8, 1672, married, November 1, 1694, Mary Jewett, who died November 25, 1695, and, second, January 5. 1699, Sarah Belcher, of Boston. His second wife died July 21, 1730. His will was proved January 20, 1740. Children born at Newbury : I. Henry, October 28, 1695, mentioned below. 2. Nathaniel, March 29, 1701. 3. Sarah, Jan- uary 14, 1703, married Jonathan Woodman. 4. Abner, May 11, 1706.
(III) Henry Dole, son of Abner Dole (2), born in Newbury, October 28, 1695, married, November 13, 1728, Mary Hale ; second, Octo- ber 4, 1742, Elizabeth Dole, daughter of Sam- tel. He lived near the homestead of his father in Newbury in what is now Byfield, then called Oldtown. Children born in Byfield par-
ish of Newbury : I. Henry, November 3, 1729, died November 13, 1736. 2. Samuel, August 30, 1731, died August 31, 1736. 3. Jeremiah, May 2, 1733, died September 7, 1736. 4. Mary, October 5, 1737, married, De- cember 2, 1762, Thomas Cross. 5. Saralı, May 25, 1739, married, November 8, 1759, John Poor ; died August 17, 1819. 6. Moses, August 23, 1740, mentioned below. 7. Eunice, August 1, 1743, married, January 26, 1765, John Thurston. 8. Henry, September 12,
1748.
(IV) Moses Dole, son of Henry Dole (3), was born in Byfield parish, August 23, 1740. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Thomas Mighill's company, Colonel Timothy Jackman's regiment, assigned to guard Gloucester harbor and the brig "Mercy," bound to Boston, brought in by Captain Man- ly. Children baptized in Byfield parish of Newbury: 1. Moses, Jr., December 17, 1769. 2. Ilenry, May 5. 1771, mentioned below. 3. Levi, born 1773, baptized May 2, 1773. 4. Mary, September 8, 1776. 5. Hannah, Sep- tember 17. 1780.
(V) Henry Dole, son of Moses Dole (4), was baptized in Byfield parish, May 5. 1771; married Phebe Spofford, born February 17, 1772, daughter of Moody and Huldah ( Spof- ford ) Spofford. Children of Henry and Phebe (Spofford ) Dole, born in Byfield parish: I. Sally, married Samuel Cheney ; settled in By- field. 2. Henry, born 1800, mentioned below. 3. Moody Spofford, died March 11, 1887 ; married Mary Jewett.
Moody Spofford, father of Phebe (Spof- ford ) Dole, was born June 24, 1744, son of Colonel Daniel Spofford ; married, October 16, 1766, Huldah Spofford, born November 10, 1744, daughter of Deacon Abner and Sarah (Coleman ) Spofford ; he married second, June 3. 1716, Miriam ( Flint) Putnam, who died in 1830; they resided in Georgetown, Massa- chusetts, and he was deacon of the First Church there. He was for many years justice of the peace, representative to the general court 1701 to 1704, 1708 and 1709, was archi- tect of Windsor, Vermont, Andover, Haver- hill and Rock bridges, churches in Andover and Groveland and elsewhere, and lieutenant in the revolution. He died December 23, 1828, aged eighty-four, and his wife died November 18, 1805 ; ten of their children lived to maturity, all dying before 1850.
Colonel Daniel Spofford, father of Moody Spofford, and son of Captain John Spofford, born April, 1721, died April 26, 1803 ; mar- ried, 1741, Judith Follansbee, daughter of Francis and Judith (Moody) Follansbee, of Newbury; settled in Rowley, now George- town ; his wife died there February 28. 1779, aged fifty-nine; he married second, Betsey Emery, daughter of Captain James Smith, of West Newbury ; she died May 11, 1784, aged forty-seven ; he married third, Phebe (Thurs- ton) Jewett, widow of Rev. David Jewett. Colonel Spofford built and occupied the house owned by the late Sewell Spofford, near the old homestead. He was colonel of the Seventh
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Regiment of militia, Essex county, and served in the revolution on the Lexington alarm, April 19,1775, was representative to the gen- eral court in 1776, delegate to the state consti- tutional convention of 1780, was deacon of the church in 1781, and was architect of sev- eral churches.
Captain John Spofford, father of Colonel Daniel Spofford, and son of John Spofford, born in 1678, died October 11, 1735, at George- town : married first, February 15, 1700, Dorcas Hopkinson, born February 26, 1676, daughter of John Hopkinson, of Rowley ; second, Sarah Poor, of Indian Hill, widow of Ezekiel Hale, of Newbury, his fourth wife, her predecessors being Ruth Moody, of Pipestave Hill, Mary Sargent, of Amesbury, and Sarah Balch, of Bradford.
John Spofford, father of Captain John Spof- ford, and son of John Spofford, the immigrant, was one of the original settlers on Spofford Hill, now Georgetown, Massachusetts. He married, March 9, 1675, Sarah Wheeler, who married second, Caleb Hopkinson, Sr., of Bradford, now Groveland, June 12, 1701, and died October 24, 1732, aged eighty.
Jolin Spofford, immigrant ancestor, was a proprietor of Rowley before 1643; was born in England in 1612; married Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Thomas. Jolin Spofford died 1678, leaving a large family from whom all of this surname are descended.
(VI) Henry Dole, son of Henry Dole (5), was born in 1800 in Byfield parish in the town of Rowley, Massachusetts. He married first, Lois Rogers, and, second, Lettice (Bickford) Vance, a widow, who died in 1881. He died in Georgetown, Massachusetts, in 1877. He was a shoemaker by trade and followed that calling in his younger days. He learned the business of undertaker and was for many years engaged in that business. He was a prominent citizen of Georgetown and well known in that section. His only child, by first wife, was George Henry, mentioned below.
(VII) George Henry Dole, son of Henry Dole (6), was born in Georgetown, Massachu- setts, August 28, 1836. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Dummer Academy, Newbury, Massachusetts. He worked at the trade of shoemaker in Hav- erhill for several years, and in 1872 was ad- mitted to the firm of J. H. Winchell & Com- pany, one of the best known and most enter- prising firms in the city of Haverhill, and con- tinued as a manufacturer in this firm for a period of twenty-one years. Mr. Dole retired
from the firm in 1892, and at the present time (1908) is a member of the firm of Dole & Childs, undertakers. Although not engaged in active business since 1892, he has had vari- ous property interests to look after and has been for the past ten years a director of the Haverhill Trust Company. He is a member of the board of trade. Mr. Dole is an influ- ential Republican; he was president of the common council for two years, having been appointed in 1883, and was city marshal in 1893-94. He was a member of the Electoral College, in 1904, at Boston. He and his family worship in the Centre Congregational Church of Haverhill. He is a member of Saggahew Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Haverhill Coun- cil, Royal and Select Masters ; Haverhill Com- mandery, Knights Templar ; of the various bodies of Scottish Rite to the thirty-second degree ; Mutual Relief Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 83; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Haverhill; Pentucket Club ; Haverhill Historical Society.
Mr. Dole married, 1859, Lucy Mary Howe, daughter of Moses Wood and Mary (Cheney) Howe. Children, all of whom are graduates of Haverhill high school: I. Charles E., born January 2, 1862, cashier of the First National Bank of Haverhill. Married, September 8, 1891. Eliza Noyes ; children : i. George Elmer, born July 24, 1893: ii. Howard Noyes, born July 5, 1896. 2. Elizabeth E., born October 16, 1865, graduate of Emerson College, Bos- ton ; student of Cornell University ; teacher of elocution for several years at the Conservatory of Music at Ithaca, New York. 3. Albert Wood, born August 5, 1873, resides with his parents.
John West, immigrant ancestor, WEST born in England, 1624, settled in Saybrook, Connecticut. He was fined in 1649 with various other good citizens
for violating the statute against selling guns to the Indians. In 1663 he surveyed for the colony the line between Saybrook and Killing- worth. Children: I. Deacon Francis, born about 1660-70; lived in Stonington and Tol- land, Connecticut : children : Samuel, Joseph, Amasa, Zebulon, Pelatiah, Christopher. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Ebenezer (?), of Lebanon.
(II) John West, son of John West, born 1660-70, died November 17, 1741. He re- sided in Lebanon, Connecticut. He married Deborah -. Children, born at Lebanon :
Gereza 26. Dola.
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I. Jerusha, December 17, 1708. 2. Hannah, July 13, 1710. 3. Nathan, November 10, 1712; married Jerusha Hinckley. 4. John, March 12, 1715 ; mentioned below. 5. Priscilla, Sep- tember 10, 1719, died 1730. 6. Solomon, born March 15, 1723. 7. Caleb, July 3, 1726. 8. Amos ( ?), married July 21, 1738, Sarah Cut- ler, of Watertown.
( III) John West, son of John West (2), born in Lebanon, Connecticut, March 12, 1715 ; married there, November 8, 1738, Rebecca Abel. They lived at Lebanon, Connecticut. In June, 1768, he went to Strafford, Vermont, to settle with other Connecticut families among the pioneers of that town ; among them were Ezekiel Parrish, Frederick and William Brisco, Peter, Thomas and James Pennock. James Pennock and wife Thankful came in June, 1768, with the sons from Gorham. Connecti- cut. He had part of the John McGove farm, not far from the present copper mine and the old burying ground. Children, born at Leb- anon : I. John, August 8, 1739, probably the John West of Vershire, Vermont. 2. Daniel, mentioned below, December 31, 1741. 3. David, February 4, 1744. 4. Rufus, May 16, 1745; died young. 5. Abel, born May II, 1747. 6. Hannah, September 2, 1749. 7. Dorothy, October 1, 1751, at Tolland, Connec- ticut. 8. Rebecca, at Tolland, April 7, 1755.
(IV) Captain Daniel West, son of John West, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Decem- ber 31, 1741; married a daughter of James Pennock, mentioned above. In 1772 he pur- chased the Barnes farm at Strafford, Vermont, whither he went with his father. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and also in the revolution. He was in Captain John Alger's company from Strafford. He had the rank of captain in the militia afterward, and was very prominent in the town. He died Octo- ber 26, 1804; his wife died September 22, 1801. Children: 1. Gilman, mentioned below. 2. Daughter, married Herman Brown, of Strafford. 3. Betsey, married John Bacon ; lived on Levi Bacon farm in northeasterly part of the town. In 1790, according to the federal census, he and his son Gilman were the only heads of the family of this surname living in Strafford. Daniel West had three males over sixteen, four under sixteen, and three females in his family, while Gilman had two males over sixteen, four under sixteen, and four fe- males in his family. According to the same census there were the following heads of fami- lies of Vershire, in which the family also settled: Ebenezer West, Ebenezer West, Jr.,
John West, John West, Jr., Jonathan West, Joseph West, Samuel West. John, Samuel, Thomas, Williston, William and Barnett West were soldiers in the revolution from Vermont. Daniel West doubtless had other children be- sides those mentioned, not less than ten, as indicated by the census.
(V) Gilman West, son or nephew of Cap- tain Daniel West, born at Strafford, Vermont, March 8, 1772, died February 8, 1852. He was brought up on his father's farm, and had but little schooling. He left home at the time of his marriage and settled near West Pond in Strafford. He lived for a time in Vershire, where some of his children were born. He was tall and erect in bearing, having a very dignified appearance. He and his wife attend- ed the Free Will Baptist church. According to the census, Gilman West, who had a large family in 1790, must have been an uncle, and born as early as 1740. Gilman married twice. Children of first wife: 1. Gilman, drowned ; married Almira Osborne, of Westmoreland, New Hampshire ; children: i. Mary, married Ethan M. Ruggles, of Dalton, New Hamp- shire ; ii. Lauretta ; iii. Edwin, married Margie L. Ames, of Piermont, New Hampshire, (chil- dren: Frank E. and Mildred). 2. Asa, a merchant in New York City. 3. Lathan. 4. Daniel ; children : i. Angeline, married Benja- min Hurst (children: Elizabeth Hurst, mar- ried Rev. O. N. Bryant, and Benjamin Hurst) ; ii. Sarah, married Hersey. Children of second wife, Ruth ( Tucker), who was born at Henniker, New Hampshire, April 9, 1782. daughter of Ezra and Hepzibah ( Pressey) Tucker. 5. Ezra Tucker, born February 12, 1815, mentioned below. 6. John, married twice; had son Charles by second wife. 7. Mahala, born May 26, 1816; died November 22. 1868; married March 17, 1846, James Marsh; children: i. Mary Ann Marsh, born August 29, 1848, married January 1, 1867, Morris Titus, of Vershire, and had Bertha Azalia Titus, born February 11, 1868 (mar- ried Charles West, of Tunbridge, and had Harold, Beatrice Ruth, and Arthur James West), Alice May Titus, born May 2, 1871, died October 20, 1896 (married November 6, 1889. William Bugbee, of Springfield, Ver- mont), Gertrude Belle Titus, born December 15, 1873 (married February 27, 1900, Charles W. Ames, of Norwich, Vermont, and had Morris G. Ames, born February 14, 1901, and Warren C. Ames, born May 13, 1903), Ray- mond Titus, born June 28, 1877, and Gladys Florence Titus, born January 3, 1884 (married
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