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(VIII) Edwin A. Freeman, son of Elisha Edwards Freeman (7), was born March II, 1828, at Worcester, Otsego county, New York. He was educated in the public schools and learned the trade of carpenter. He followed the building business until the war broke out. He enlisted August 8, 1862, in the Twenty-third Wisconsin Volunteers in the Civil war. He was taken sick and ordered to the hospital at St. Louis, January 22, 1863. He died on the hospital boat and it is sup- posed that he was buried on the bank near some landing or else in the river itself. He married, September 18, 1850, Fanny Jaycox, of Waterloo, New York, born September 18, 1832. She is living and in good health. Chil- dren: I. Edwina Adaline, born November 29, 1851, married, February 22, 1871, Durell Foster. 2. Roxzina, born February 22, 1853. 3. Benjamin Franklin, born September 23, 1854, mentioned below. 4. William Elisha, born August 30, 1856. 5. George Wallace, born April 4, 1858. 6. John Henry, born January 14, 1860, died September 8, 1860. 7. Alfred Miller, born July 13, 1861, died No- vember 12, 1861. 8. Edwin A., Jr., born November 17, 1862. All these children are deceased with the exception of Benjamin F.
(IX) Benjamin Franklin Freeman, son of Edwin A. Freeman (8), was born at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, September 23, 1854. He lived in his native town, and attended school there until he was eleven years old. Then he lived
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two years at Albany, New York, and three years in Syracuse, New York. He worked on various farms while acquiring his school- ing. At the age of sixteen he became a traveling salesman in the employ of the firm of Trowbridge & Jennings, photographers, who made a specialty of copying pictures and portraits. He worked at this business two years and for E. C. Veeder, photographer, Rochester, New York, for two years. At the age of twenty he went on the road again for Chase Brothers & Stone. After two years this firm was dissolved, but he continued to work for Mr. Stone two years more. In 1876 Mr. Freeman went to Boston with Mr. Stone and was with him in business for two years. In 1878 Mr. Freeman started in business on his own acount in a small photographer's wagon, located in Union Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. He became established in business there and eventually opened a studio at the corner of Perkins and Lincoln streets, Somerville. After two years he took larger quarters at 42 Broadway, where he was lo- cated for nineteen years. At the end of that period he moved to his own building which he now occupies, 22 Broadway, Somerville. This is a business block, containing four stores and three apartments, one of which Mr. Freeman occupies himself, together with the business office and reception rooms on the second floor; studio, finishing, printing and toning rooms on the third floor. Mr. Freeman has not confined his artistic ability to photography. He is an artist of note in pastelle painting, having studied under Car- nig Eksergian, whose studio is at 175 Tre- mont street, Boston, and whose home is also in Somerville. During the past year he has had commissions for the portraits of ex- Mayor Chandler, City Treasurer John F. Cole, George I. Vincent, the city clerk, Major Hodgkins and George O. Proctor. In his photographic department he has been very prosperous, enjoying the patronage of the best families of that section. He has been especially successful with children's por- traits. He is a member of Soley Lodge of Masons, Royal Arch Chapter, Somerville Historical Society, Sons of Veterans, Veteran Firemen's Association. In politics he is a Republican. Treasurer of the Somerville Fourth of July Association, and has been for six years a director of the Winterhill Co- operative Bank. He married Anna A. Bald- win, daughter of Amos H. Baldwin, of Vol- ney, New York. Children: I. Clinton, died young. 2. Fanny, born June 10, 1885, gradu-
ate of Somerville high school, 1904; member of Professor Sargent's physical culture class at Harvard University, class of 1907. 3. Edwin A., born December 10, 1886, graduate of the Somerville high school, class of 1906. Both children are gifted and trained musi- cally, and are skillful players.
KING
Thomas King the immigrant an- cestor, was born about 1600, in
England, probably in Shaston, Dorsetshire, where his brother Peter King the elder made his will May 30, 1658. This will was proved December 9, 1658. It mentions Thomas, leaving him ten pounds, giving his residence as New England. Peter had tene- ments in Stower Provest, etc. He mentions also a sister Frances, Grace Lush, grandchil- dren Joseph and Mary King, sons Joseph and Peter, Jr., and his wife Grizel. Another Eng- lish will, that of Elizabeth, wife of Richard Lee, an abstract of which is given in the Gen. Reg. for 1896, page 529, men- tions the wife of Thomas King, in New England, as Ann, although Ann, the first wife of Thomas, died December 24, 1642, at Sudbury, and the will is dated some years after. If this is the Ann, wife of Thomas King, mentioned, and no other is known of this name, she was . Ann Collins before her marriage. Thomas King settled in Sudbury, as early as 1642. After the death of his first wife he married second, December 26, 1655, Bridget Davis, widow of Robert Davis; she died a widow, March I, 1685. Children : I. Peter, mentioned below. ' 2. Elizabeth, men- tioned below. 3. Thomas, born December 4, 1642; died January 31, 1645.
(II) Peter King, son of Thomas King (I), was born in England, and came to Sudbury with his parents about 1642. In 1657 he was of age, and was one of the original twenty- one petitioners for the Marlborough grant. He received twenty-two acres November 26, 1660, in Marlborough, and settled there 'near King's Pond, in the third squadron. He was a man of prominence; deacon of the church; deputy to the general court 1689-90; and on the committee to erect the second meeting house. He died August 27, 1704. No record appears of his marriage or of any children except his adopted son, Samuel, mentioned below.
(II) Elizabeth King, daughter of Thomas King (I), was born about 1635, in England, and was brought to America with her brother Peter, probably by their parents. She married
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in Sudbury, November 8, 1655, Samuel Rice, who was born 1634, son of Edmund Rice, the pioneer, who settled in Sudbury in 1638. (See Rice family sketch.) She died October, 1667, when her sixth child was an infant. Be- fore her death she gave to her brother Peter King her baby boy, Samuel. For many years this boy was known as Samuel King, alias Rice; and his children were similarly desig- nated. The Christian name Rice, mentioned below, has been common in the families of his decendants.
Samuel Rice (2), married second, Septem- ber, 1665, Mary Brown, who died June 18, 1675, and third, December 13, 1676, Sarah Hosmer, widow of James Hosmer, Jr. He died February 25, 1684-5, aged about fifty-one years. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth (King) Rice: i. Elizabeth Rice, born Octo- ber 26, 1656; married Peter Haynes. 2. Han- nah Rice, born 1658; married Jonathan Hub- bard. 3. Josuhua Rice, born April 19, 1661 ; married Mary 4. Edmund Rice, born 1663; married Ruth Parker. 5. Esther Rice, born September 18, 1665; married Hubbard. 6. Samuel Rice, born Octo- ber 14, 1667; mentioned below. Children of Samuel and Mary (Brown) Rice: 7. Mary Rice, born August 6, 1669. 8. Edward Rice, born June 30, 1673-4. 9. Abigail Rice, born March 10, 1673-4, married Palmer Goulding. IO. Joseph Rice, born May, 1678; married Mary Townsend.
(III) Lieutenant Samuel King, alias Rice, son of Samuel Rice (2), and foster son of his uncle, Peter King (2), was born at Sudbury, October 14, 1667, and died there November 13, 1713. John Rice, of Sudbury, was guar- dian of the five minor children. of King until 1720, when Moses Rice, of Worcester, was appointed for some of them, after the death of John, September 6, 1719. Lieutenant King, alias Rice, married Abigail Clapp, of Milton, Massachusetts, she died February 17, 1729-30, at Sudbury. Children: I. Peter, born 1695; mentioned below. 2. Ezra, born May 22, 1697 ; settled in Worcester, where severay chil -. dren were born to him. 3. Mindwell, born May 16 1699 (?). 4. Samuel, born March' 24, 1701. 5. Thomas, born March 25, 1703. 6. Edward, born August 4, 1705. 7. Eliza- beth, born April 29, 1707.
(IV) Peter King (alias Rice), son of Sam- uel King (3), was born in Sudbury in 1695; died April 9, 1739. He came to Worcester before 1720, and lived doubtless with Moses Rice, of Worcester. He married first, at Wes- ton, February 15, 1719-20, Elizabeth Flagg
daughter of Benjamin Flagg (born 1662, died 1741) granddaughter of Thomas Flagg (1643-1695-see Flagg family sketch). She died October 5,
1722, and King
married second, March . 25, 1723, at
Sudbury, Elizabeth Graves. He never used the "alias Rice" after coming to Worces- ter. He lived there until about 1723, after the death of his first wife. Children of Peter and Elizabeth (Flagg) King: I. Samuel, born at Worcester, December 8, 1720. 2. Benjamin, born at Worcester, March 25, 1722; mentioned below. Children of Peter and Elizabeth (Graves) King; all born at Sudbury : 3. Experience, married John Ball, of Concord. 4. Elizabeth, born June 22, 1725. 5. Abigail, born April 20, 1728. 6. Ebenezer, born January 26, 1729-30; whose son Peter was born at Sudbury, February II, 1757.
(V) Benjamin King, son of Peter King (4), was born at Worcester, March 25, 1722. He was taken to Sudbury when an infant, after the death of his mother, and lived there until the death of his father in 1739, when he returned to Worcester to live with his guar- dian Benjamin Flagg, appointed September 28, 1739. When he came of age he deeded to this uncle Benjamin Flagg, Jr., his rights in the estate of his grandfather, his uncle having agreed to support his grandmother, Experi- ence Flagg, widow of Benjamin, the re- mainder of her life. This deed was dated June 30, 1744, and another of the same date of similar purport was given to Benjamin Flagg by Experience Ball, of Concord, sister of Benjamin King. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain James Gray's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's regi- ment, giving his residence as New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and Ashby, Massachusetts, adjoining towns, in 1776. He went from Mason, New Hampshire, in 1775, in Captain Ezra Town's company, Colonel James Reed's regiment. He gave his age as fifty-three, his height five feet six inches, complexion dark, eyes blue, occupation farming, birthplace Worcester, residence Mason. He was in Colonel Marshall's regiment as of New Ips- wich, July 15, 1776, and in Captain James Heron's company, Colonel Hazen's regiment, in 1778. His record is found in both Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire Revolutionary archives. He settled in New Ipswich before 1755, and bought a farm there, near Saw Mill brook. He sold to Abijah Smith, of Leomin- ster Massachusetts, in 1764, what is still known as the Smith lot, and then removed to Mason, New Hampshire. His name was on
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the tax list January 27, 1777, for the last time. He died in the service late in 1778, and years afterward his widow was a pensioner. She removed to Maine with her son Benjamin in 1779, and located at Winthrop and Mon- mouth, Maine, west of Gardiner. Her son Benjamin located ten miles east of Gardiner. She died at Winthrop, January 6, 1819. Ben- jamin married, November 3, 1745, Sarah Tay- lor, of Townsend, Massachusetts. Children : I. Benjamin, Jr., born May 23, 1749; men- tioned below. 2. Sarah, married Amos Dakin, of Mason. 3. Elizabeth, married Nathan Floyd, of Hope, Maine. 4. Silence, married Peter Hopkins, of Winthrop, Maine. 5. Mary, married Huse, of Winthrop. 6. Ebenezer, born at Mason, February 22, 1768 ; married Mehitable Robbins, of Winthrop. 7. Samuel, married Susanna Brainerd, of Winthrop.
(VI) Benjamin King, Jr., son of Benjamin King (5), was born at New Ipswich, May 23, 1749. He was brought up as a farmer, and followed that occupation through life. In 1779 he came with his mother, brothers and sisters, to Maine, and settled ten miles east of the town of Gardiner, on the Sheepscot river, at a place then called Ballstown, of which the name was changed in 1807 to its present name of Whitefield. The locality became known as King's Mills, from the fact that King built a saw mill and grist mill on the excellent water privilege at this point. He also engaged in trade in addition to his business as miller and farmer, and had an interest in a vessel which was captured by the French early in the nine- teenth century and figured in the French spoliation claims, although congress has never appropriated money to reimburse the owners or their heirs. He died at Whitefield, Maine, August 30, 1801, his death being caused by a falling beam while raising a building. He married Ruth Bartlett, who died at Whitefield, Maine, September 23, 1802. Children : I. Peter, married Mary Glidden. 2. Elijah, mar- ried Bethiah Philbrick. 3. Benjamin, born August 6, 1776, died November 23, 1866; mentioned below. 4. Moses, married Lydia Peaslee. 5. John, died unmarried. 6. Rice, married Lavinia Hopkins.
(VII) Benjamin King, son of Benjamin King (6), was born at Mason or New Ips- wich, New Hampshire, August 6, 1776. He received his education in the common schools, and helped his father on the farm until about the time of his marriage, when he bought of a relative two hundred and fifty acres on the east side of the Sheepscot river, Maine, situ-
ated about a mile from the center of what was called the Six Mile Strip. Here he settled and cleared his farm. He was a butcher, and followed that trade in addition to general farming. He built the first brick house in Whitefield, Maine, he and his brothers burn- ing the bricks. He also had charcoal pits for the making of charcoal, a profitable industry before the era of anthracite. The farm later was sold to the town for a poor farm, but is now owned by Fessenden Turner. King was large and powerful in physique. Late in life he was injured by the kick of one of his oxen, causing a severe lameness and eventually death. He died November 23, 1866. He was a member of the Whitefield Baptist church. In politics he was a Whig. He was a member of the old Lincoln Guards at Whitefield. He married Ruth Eunice Glidden, born at Alna, Maine, October 27, 1780, died at Whitefield, December 17, 1877. Children : I. Mary, born July 29, 1803, died July 9, 1854 ; married Jos- eph Clark, merchant and shipbuilder of Waldoboro, Maine. 2. Benjamin, born July I, 1805, died at Pittston, Maine, May 18, 1892 ; married March 1, 1835, Jerusha Lennen, who was born September 6, 1812, and died in Guthrie county, Iowa, August 23, 1896; he was a maker of edged tools, guns, etc., black- smith and farmer, a gifted mechanic. Chil- dren : i. Kendall Curtis, born July 4, 1835; ii. Ira Wyman, married February 18, 1864, Lucetta Gibson and had eight children; born October 10, 1836; iii. Charles Fiske, born November 24, 1844, died young; iv. Charles Randall, born November 5, 1845, married first Ona Wilson; second, Anna L. Sinn, and had seven children; v. Irving Alphonso, born March 27, 1848; married first, July 1, 1870, Eliza J. Little; second, Ida Jane Butler (di- vorced) ; third, July 6, 1887, Nancy M. Pink- ham. 3. Joseph, born April 18, 1807, at Whitefield; died December 16, 1903, at West Liberty, Iowa; ship carpenter and farmer ; master of Nicholas Cooper's shipyards at West Pittston, Maine, later of Charles Cooper's yards at Bangor, Maine ; removed to Iowa in 1857, and engaged in farming ; mar- ried first, December 23, 1832, Elmyra Choate, born February 21, 1807; she died at West Liberty, Iowa, March 4, 1880 ; married second, Mary (Brown) (Adams) Watson. Children, all by the first wife: i. Zelotes, druggist, born July 13, 1834, died October 12, 1902 ; married December 25, 1860, Abba R. Campbell, of Fountain Green, Illinois, and had one daugh- ter, Mrs. Anna Andrews, of St. Paul, Minne- sota. ii. Mary A. C., born January 21, 1838,
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died May 18, 1906, at Burlington, Iowa ; mar- ried T. M. Campbell, of Fountain Green, and have Thomas K. Campbell and Mrs. Minnie G. Holbrook, of Lincoln, Nebraska. iii. Dr. Elbraidge Harrison, born September 10, 1843; married December 5, 1867, Florence R. Elliott, who was born October 30, 1847, died at Mus- catine, Iowa, October 3, 1893; served in the Union army in the civil war; graduate of De- troit Medical College and practised at Musca- tine, Iowa. (Children : Elliott R., born July 12, 1869, married January 17, 1895, Dora Wright; Elmyra, born February 24, 1872, died March II, 1872 ; Albert A., born July 14, 1873, is with United States army in Philip- pines ; Ellen Elliott, born January 15, 1878; Joseph Choate, born November 20, 1882, is with United States cavalry, second lieutenant, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas ; Miriam Man- ning, born July 22, 1886, married January 17, 1906, William G. Ried, of Red Wing, Minne- sota.) Dr. Elbridge Harison King married second, October 30, 1895, Mary Exo ; no issue by second marriage. 4. Rice, born May 2, 1809; mentioned below. 5. Judge Royal, died young. 6. Eunice, died young. 7. Hiram, born September 25, 1817; died at China, Maine, August 22, 1863, a blacksmith by trade ; married, July 19, 1843, Sarah A. Glid- den, who was born February 7, 1823, died November 14, 1865. Children : i. Horace E., born June 1, 1844, died January 1, 1868 ; mar- ried July 31, 1864, Sarah V. Robinson, and had a son, Herbert E. Robinson, born June 17, 1866, died November 7, 1906. ii. Ruth Amanda, born August 31, 1852. 8. So- phronia, born November 13, 1819, died Feb- ruary 25, 1905 ; married, December 28, 1847, Samuel Kennedy, of Whitefield, Maine. Chil- dren : Augustus L., born March 18, 1849; Solon B., born November 15, 1850 ; Calvin F., born November II, 1852, died November 12, 1874; Wilder F., born January 3, 1854 ; Will- iam H., born October 13, 1856; Horace J., born November 14, 1859; Miles L. and Annie M., born January 5, 1862; Miles L., died October 30, 1862; Walter A., born May 18, 1865. 9. Abigail, born May 3, 1823; died at Wellfleet, Maine, May 1, 1888; married Bar- zillai Kemp, sea captain, who died June IO, 1901, leaving one son, Albert King. 10. Ruth Ann, born August 18, 1827; married first, October 26, 1845; Miles Larabree, who died in September, 1847; second, April 18, 1849, William H. Manning, who died at Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, November 22, 1882; collector of customs of the port of Gloucester, Massachu- setts.
(VIII) Rice King, son of Benjamin King (7), was born at Whitefield, Maine, May 2, 1809. He attended the common schools and Lincoln Academy at Damariscotta, Maine, until eighteen years of age. He worked on the farm also. After completing his school- ing he taught school during the winter terms and worked on his father's farm at other sea- sons. When he married he came into posses- sion of the farm, but later sold it to his sisters. He bought a farm of about seventy acres near the center of Whitefield, and car- ried on general farming and stock raising until his death, February 25, 1864. His son, Charles R. King, now owns the farm. Dur- ing the last years of his life he was an in- valid. He was an active member of the Whitefield Baptist church; in politics he was first a Whig, then a Republican. He was road surveyor of the town, and when a young man belonged to the state militia. He mar- ried July 1, 1838, Abigail Norris, who was born at Whitefield, May 17, 1807, and died at Somerville, Massachusetts, 1898, daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah Norris. Her father was born September II, 1774, her mother August II, 1777. Her father was a farmer. Children: I. Albert Henry, born April 15, 1841, living at Somerville, Massachusetts, unmarried. 2. Martin Luther, born April 21, 1843. 3. Charles Harrison, died February II, 1847. 4. Harriet Louisa, died January,
I888. 5. Charles Rice, born June 17, 1850; married April 2, 1875, Theresa S. Tibbetts, of Whitefield; children: i. Charles Arthur, born October 5, 1877, died April 21, 1878; ii. Albert Edward, born May 30, 1879, died February 22, 1880; iii. Grace Louise, born December 25, 1880; married June 1, 1905, Charles L. Joslyn, of Somerville, Massachu- setts; no issue; iv. Inez Maud, born August 17, 1882.
(IX) Martin Luther King, son of Rice King (8), was born at Whitefield, April 21, 1843. His education in the common schools was supplemented by a course at the Pitts- ton (Maine) Academy, and in the Bryant & Stratton Business College, Portland, Maine. While going to school he assisted his father on the farm, and later he taught school dur- ing the winter, and continued farming the rest of the year until he was twenty-three years old, when he removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and entered the employ of Peasley & Tibbitts, grocers. After working as clerk for three months he bought out the interest of Mr. Tibbitts, and the firm name became Peasley & King, and their principal
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place of business Somerville. In 1872 he bought out the interests of Mr. Peasley, and since then was in business alone until Febru- ary, 1906, at 33 Central Square, Somerville. On that date he sold the business to his brother, Charles R. King. Mr. King built his residence at 107 Cross street, Somerville, in 1880, and made his home there as long as he remained in business. In February, 1906, he removed to his present farm, which has been known as the Mill Pasture, in Woburn, con- taining fifteen acres of tillage. He raises small fruits and berries for the markets of Stoneham, Winchester and vicinity. The house was built by the Wellman family. Mr. King is a member of the Perkins Street Bap- tist Church of Somerville, of which he is deacon and superintendent of its Sunday school, and has been a member of its parish committee. He is a member of the Somer- ville Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was president in 1904-5, and was member of its building committee when the present building was erected. In politics he is a Republican, and has often served as a dele- gate to nominating conventions of his party from the city of Somerville. He was a mem- ber of the Somerville common council in 1887-8. He was one of the most popular and influential men in social life in Somerville. He was made a member of Hiram Lodge No. 32, Free Masons, of Gardiner, Maine, Sep- tember 13, 1866, and is at present a member of John Abbott Lodge, of Somerville. He is also a member of Somerville Chapter, Roal Arch Masons, made October 10, 1871; and of De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, Somerville. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen; was formerly a member of the Royal Arcanum; is trustee of the Somerville Home for Aged, and also for the Somerville Children's Home Association. He was president of the Boston Retail Grocers' Association for two years, and a director twelve years.
He married first, August 10, 1870, Ann Eliza Tibbetts, who was born at Whitefield, Maine, August 21, 1846, and died December 22, 1877, daughter of Andrew and Eliza Ann (Cheney) Tibbetts. Her father was a farmer. Children: 1. Lillian Tibbetts, born July 20, 1871 ; married June 1, 1904, Thomas. F. Bird, of Somerville; have daughter Geraldine, born August 6, 1907, died September 19, 1907. 2. Florence Gertrude, born August 30, 1880; clerk in the office of secretary of state, Bos- ton.
He married second, October 17, 1894, Mrs.
Margaret Ann (Beaton) Tibbetts, born North Edgecomb, Maine, June 8, 1847, daughter of William W. and Naomi (Dodge) Beaton. William Beaton was a stone contractor and proprietor of a quarry.
(IX) Charles Rice King, son of Rice King® (8), was born at Whitefield, Maine, June 17, 1850. He received his education in the com- mon schools of his native town and at East Pittston Academy, East Pittston, Maine. At the age of fourteen his father died, and it fell to his lot to help continue the work of the farm. During the years from 1871 to 1875 · he spent the winter months in the employ of his brother-in-law, Fred H. Tibbetts, in West Somerville. Mr. Tibbetts was the proprietor of an express and freight business between Somerville and Boston. In 1875, after his marriage, he returned to the farm in White- field, and continued there until 1890. He also carried on a grocery and provision busi- ness, having a store on the farm. He sold the store in 1890 to Fares E. Ware and Oc- tober 14, 1890, returned to Somerville to enter the employ of his brother, Martin L. King, who owned a grocery and provision. store at Central Square, Somerville. He con- tinued in this position until January 30, 1906, when he purchased the business and good will of his brother. He enjoys a large local trade in Somerville and vicinity. He still retains the ownership of the homestead at Whitefield, some seventy acres of land. In .. 1897 Mr. King built a tenement house at 9 Prospect Hill avenue. Mr. King is a mem- ber of the Perkins Street Baptist Church, and has served in the office of deacon. for three years, and is at present treasurer of the par- ish. He is an associate member of the Somerville Young Men's Christian Associa- tion. He was superintendent of the Whitefield Baptist Sunday school several years. He is a. Republican in politics, and was school agent. and selectman of the town of Whitefield sev- eral years. He is a member of Paul Revere Lodge, No. 184, Odd Fellows, of Somer- ville ; of the Ancient Order of United Work- men, and of the Retail Grocers' Association. of Boston. He married April 2, 1875, Ther- esa S. Tibbetts, who was born at Whitefield, Maine, daughter of Andrew and Eliza Ann (Cheney) Tibbetts, of Whitefield. Her father was a farmer there. Children: I. Charles Arthur, born October 5, 1877; died April 21, 1878. 2. Albert Edward, born May 30, 1879, died February 22, 1880. 3. Grace Louise, born December 25, 1880, married June I, 1905, Charles. L. Joslyn, of Somerville; no,
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