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Child (surname Raymond):
1. Horatio, born Dec. 1844; died June 21, 1864. ii. CHARLES PRATT, born October 24, 1817; left no issue.
6. iii. BERIAH W., born in Athol, December 2, 1819.
7. iv. WILLIAM G., born in Athol, August 7, 1821; died De- cember 31, 1910.
8. v. FREEBORN R., born January 16, 1827.
vi. NANCY MARIA, born March 18, 1831; married (1) J. L. PIERCE, resided in Geneva, Ohio; married (2) CORTEZ STEVENS of North Hadley, Mass., resided in Ashtabula, Ohio; married (3) RUFUS SCOTT of North Hadley.
Child (surname Stevens):
1. Perlia Fay, married January 23, 1895 at Athol, Charles F. Hawley of North Hadley; both died some years ago.
4. EMERSON® FAY (Artemasª, Solomon1), married NANCY A. FOSTER in 1830. He resided in New Salem, although evi- dently he was in Athol part of the time, since his daughter, Celestina is recorded as having been born in Athol, and the biography of his son, Farwell F. Fay, states that he also was born in Athol.
Children: i. CELESTINA MIRANSKA, born May 2, 1831.
ii. FARWELL F4., born February 17, 1833; died in Boston in May, 1888. For a time he was one of the outstanding young men of the community. After teaching in the Athol grade schools, he became the second principal of the high school, leaving this position to enter Harvard Law School. Admitted to the bar in 1859, he at once began practicing law in Athol. In 1862 he represented this district in the Legislature, but when Athol's aristocratic Company E, 53rd Regiment, was organized, Farwell F. Fay was chosen its captain, serving with the company during the year it spent in the South.
After the war, although he reestablished himself here to some extent, he never regained his former prominence nor the regard in which he had been held in his younger days. Eventually he removed to Boston, where he was but little more successful than in Athol.
Child: 1. William Emerson®, born November 10, 1865; died in 1949 in Brookline.
5. LYSANDER3 FAY (Artemus", Solomon1), born in Athol, May 2, 1805; died in Athol, July 9, 1881; married PRISCILLA E. CHAMBERLAIN of New Salem, int. May 30, 1830.
At the age of 17 Lysander Fay became a school teacher, and is said to have taught in 28 district and select schools and 93 writing schools, having had under his charge more than 4,000 pupils. He was a namesake of Rev. E. Lysander Bascom, long Dastor of the church in Phillipston. Espousing the doctrines
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of the Baptist Church early in life, he was baptized in the summer of 1828 at the age of 23 in the First Baptist Church of Athol. In 1831 he was licensed to preach, and on November 25, 1834, he was ordained as a Baptist clergyman. He held pastorages at South Orange, Erving's Grant, Warwick, Royal- ston, Winchendon, and other places. He resided in a house still standing at the corner of Gage Road and Partridgeville Road in Athol, in a section then known as the Elder Fay District, where he carried on a farm and operated a sawmill a quarter of a mile east of his home. In 1848 he represented Athol in the Legislature and served for several years on the School Com- mittee.
Children:
9. i. ADONIRAM J.1, born June 24, 1831.
ii. SERENO E., born Sept. 12, 1835; married in 1862, EMMA P. HOLTON of Gill. He taught school for some years; engaged in the grocery business in Athol, and was long an active member of the First Baptist Church, serving as its clerk for more than 20 years. Children:
1. Frederick H.5, born in 1867; died June 22, 1900; unmarried.
2. Perley E., born in 1873; married Josie M. Goodale of Greenfield; died without issue in 1939.
iii. LOVINIA E., born August 14, 1836; died about 1868; married Deacon AMOS BRECK of Sterling; had one son.
iv. JOSEPHINE A., born August 13, 1838; died in 1892 in Leominster; married GEORGE A. BISHOP; had four chil- dren.
v. DEBORAH M., born luly 22, 1841; married (1) LEVI BOURNE of Athol, who died in the Army; had one son; married (2) GEORGE WOODS of Leominster.
vi. OTHELLO A., born in Athcl, October 14, 1844; died August 27, 1914; married October 13, 1868, CLARA A. LEE. For a time he was in partnership with his brother Sereno in the firm of Fay & Fay. He was engaged extensively in the lumbering business and was eminently successful financially, leaving a substantial estate.
Child:
1 LULU D., born November 7, 1871; married CHARLES W. PRATT, November 4, 1891. Child: (urname Pratt): a. Othello Fay, married Pearl M. Walker, October 3, 1917; resides in Hollywood, California.
10. vii. PRISCILLA E., born September 19, 1847.
viii. CLARA L., bern June 17, 1851; married Joseph Slate, October 15, 1868; resided in Edinburg, Illinois; three children, Fay, Bertha, Ernest.
6. BERIAH W.3 FAY (Jonas", Solomon1), born in Athol, De- cember 2, 1819; Married October 1, 1868, HATTIE L. BAL- LARD, daughter of Daniel and Dulcenia (Brown) Ballard of Wendell. He studied at New Salem Academy, and in the years
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immediately preceding the organization of a high school in Athol he taught select school here. Subsequently he became a successful surveyor, doing much work in towns throughout the area. In the Legislature of 1865 he represented the district of Orange, New Salem, and Warwick, and held nearly every office in the town of New Salem.
Children:
i. HARRY Ward4, born June 13, 1877; unmarried. He followed his father's profession for some years, and has for nearly twenty years been one of the Board of Select- men of New Salem.
ii. BEATRICE A., born June 14, 1882; married November 5, 1921, NATHAN J. HUNTING, a land surveyor and long prominent in town affairs in Shutesbury.
Children (surname Hunting):
1. Martin Ward, born November 19, 1923; married August 9, 1947, Roberta Summerville of New York State; he teaches chemistry and mathematics at Eastern Nazarene College in Wollaston, Mass .; no children.
2. Fay Emma, born July 28, 1925; is assistant in- structor in science in the Quincy Hospital, Quincy, Mass.
7. WILLIAM G.3 FAY (Jonas2, Solomon1), born August 7, 1821, died in Athol, December 31, 1910; married (1) October 20, 1846, EMILY S. KING of New Salem, who died January 9, 1849; married (2) August 13, 1850, SARAH E. HAVEN of Athol, who died October 16, 1909; married (3) April 27, 1910, SARAH L. YOUNG.
He was a member of Captain Fay's Company E, 53d Regi- ment, serving in the Civil War, and was a bootmaker by occu- pation.
Child by second wife: i. SARAH JANE4, born December 31, 1851; died June 12, 1857.
8. FREEBORN R.3 FAY (Jonas2, Solomon1), born January 16, 1827; died in Athol, April 27, 1865; married LUCY AUGUSTA FOSTER, June 4, 1849. He enlisted in Company E, 53d Regi- ment, serving as Surgeon's Orderly with the regiment in Louisiana.
Children: i. WALDO E.4, born in Athol, December 10, 1850; married May 29, 1889, ETTA E. KING; died July 31, 1930.
Child:
1. HAZEL L.", unmarried; beginning in 1919 she taught in the Athol High School for two or three years, then going to the Providence High School, where she has taught for twenty-five years.
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11. ii. LEONA, born July 31, 1852.
iii. HELEN, born September 5, 1853; died in Athol July 17, 17, 1909; unmarried.
iv. FLORA A., born August 21, 1854; died February 16, 1855.
9. ADONIRAM J.4 FAY (Lysander3, Artemas2, Solomon1), married ALTEMIRAH A. SMITH, daughter of Lynde and Fanny (Morton) Smith, November 23, 1854. He died April 4, 1925.
Children:
i. CHARLES L.", born January 28, 1865; married EDITH L. FLETCHER, November 25, 1885; died February 7, 1942.
Children:
1. GEORGE F.", born December 13, 1889; married Myrtie M. M. Millett, January 1, 1914; died De- cember 23, 1923.
Children:
a. Dorothy A., born March 20, 1916; married Harold C. Peterson, June 28, 1952.
b. Edith G., born May 10, 1917; married Edgar Ward Temple Hume, November 20, 1941; three children, Jeffrey, born Jan. 25, 1947; Brent, born March 15, 1948; Michael, born Sept. 16, 1952.
c. June, born July 2, 1923; married Elmer O. Dame, February 28, 1943; two children, Gerald S., born October 16, 1947; Janet E., born December 20, 1950.
2. RUSSELL JUDSON, born June 24, 1886; unmarried; resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
3. RENA M., born September 6, 1891; married Claude Edgerly, November 25, 1912. Resides in Nutley, N. J .; three children, Fay, Eugene, Charles.
ii. ROSA, born July 13, 1872.
iii. CLARENCE, born July 24, 1879. -
10. PRISCILLA E.4 FAY, born September 19, 1847; married September 12, 1872, CHARLES F. TANDY; died March 30, 1937.
Children (surname Tandy): i. CHARLES EUGENE, born September 15, 1873; married March 4, 1897, GERTRUDE MARIA STOCKWELL,. daughter of Winfield S. and Ellen A. (Jones).
Children:
1. Gladys Lelia, born May 12, 1898; married July 9, 1923, Clarence W. Jones. Child (surname Jones): Priscilla May, born June 22, 1931.
2. Mildred Stockwell, born March 13, 1899; un- married.
3. Marjorie Eveleen, born January 6, 1900; married October 6, 1922, William E. Closson. Children (surname Closson): a. Willian Marjorie, born May 31, 1923; b. Faye Helena, born September 25, 1926; c. Eugene Everett, born October 2, 1928.
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4. Clifton Winfield, born October 2, 1902; died March 13, 1952; married November 1, 1930, Clara Salls. Children: a. Jane Gertrude, born August 22, 1932; b. Winfield Thayer, born December 25, 1938; c. Susan Clara, born April 17, 1946; died August 28, 1950.
5. Spencer Eugene, born November 15, 1904; married (1) June 16, 1926, Helena Doubleday, who died February 16, 1927; married (2) October 13, 1934, Grace Perry. Children (by 1st wife): Norman Edward born January 13, 1927; (by 2nd wife): Helen Mae, born April 6, 1936.
6. Thenis Gertrude, born October 8, 1907; married August 21, 1921, Luther Williston Mackenzie. Chil- dren (surname Mackenzie): a. Jean Thenis, born January 18, 1932; b. David Williston, born July 30, 1934; c. Edward Tandy, born April 30, 1947.
7. Thelma Ruth, born October 6, 1912; married March 4, 1934, Joseph E. Lillie. Children (surname Lillie): a. Joan Bernece, born August 13, 1934; b. Joseph Elon, born October 3, 1940.
8. Huber Wilbert, born October 28, 1914; married May 18, 1941, Margaret Doubleday. Children: a. Ferne Carol, born June 1, 1943; b. John Robert, born February 13, 1948; c. Dana Myron, born March 25, 1950.
9. Marcia Priscilla, born November 3, 1919; married (1) March 9, 1940, Frederick Smith, who died February 9, 1946; married (2) February 12, 1949, Laurence G. Fisher. Children by first husband (surname Smith): a. Charles Frederick, born Septem- ber 8, 1940; b. Carl Edward, born June 12, 1943.
ii. WILBERT CLIFTON, born February 1, 1875; died Septem- ber 12, 1949; married June 20, 1925, FLORENCE HUNTER; no children.
iii. RUTH L., born May 26, 1886; died March 25, 1949; married August 2, 1911, ARTHUR E. LUCE.
Children (surname Luce):
1. Eleanor Faye, born March 27, 1915.
2. Phillips E., born April 10, 1917.
3. Alvin A., born May 26, 1919.
11. LEONA4 FAY (Freeborn R.3, Jonas2, Solomon1), born July 31, 1852; married FRANK A. GATES, April 23, 1873; died August 30, 1922.
Children (surname Gates):
i. HENRY L., born April 5, 1874; married February 13, 1900, MARY A. DUVAL.
Child:
1 FRANKLIN, has two daughters.
ii. ARTHUR C., married April 7, 1900, ALICE LOUISE SMITH.
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Child:
1. JAMES WINFRED, born January 24, 1907; married March 23, 1935, Alyce A. Brigham; resides in Methuen, Mass .; no children.
iii. RALPH W., born June 3, 1880; married MELVINA DUVAL.
Children:
1. LAWRENCE R., born June 29, 1903; married November 22, 1941, Doris Emery Lino.
2. HERMAN W., born July 11, 1904; married May 24, 1927, Lillian M. Palmer.
3. HERBERT H., born November 21, 1905; married Mav 24 1927, Maria Cummings.
4. NORMAN H., born December 12, 1915; married June 18, 1938, Geneva H. Pond.
5. EVELYN J. L., born January 18, 1908; married July 2, 1927, Benjamin W. Skinner.
6. DORIS H., born July 22, 1912; married John A. McDonald.
7. MILDRED G., born October 11, 1917; married July 2, 1938, William K. Whittemore.
iv. FREDERICK L., died young.
v. HARRY JOHN, died young.
vi. FREEBORN FAY, born in 1885; served from Athol in World War I; he is said to have died in 1939 in a Vet- erans' Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.
vii. CARL FOSTER, died young.
viii. ROBERT AUBREY, died young.
ix. ANNIE MAY, born in Petersham, March 4, 1889; died in Athol April 18, 1953; married (1) WILLIAM LaROSE; married (2) November 11, 1926, AUSTIN STOWELL.
Child by first husband (surname LaRose):
1. WILLIAM JOSEPH, born February 6, 1910; resides off Winter Street, Athol.
Children by second hus- band (surname Stowell):
2. BARBARA, born March 5, 1927; married in 1948, Jason Bowers.
3. RICHARD, born March 21, 1929.
x. DORIS HELEN, married June 16, 1912, FRED E. PRES- COTT; resides in Townsend.
Children (surname Prescott):
1. FREDERICK LEON, born January 19, 1915.
2. EDITH MAY, born September 26, 1916.
Joseph Fay's Family
1. JOSEPH FAY, married ABIGAIL TWICHELL, June 3, 1773.
Joseph Fay, brother of Solomon, was a native of Wales, who settled in southern central Massachusetts, coming to Athol from Westboro about 1760; he was a soldier in the Revolution.
Children:
2. i. JOSIAH2, born March 10, 1774.
ii. NEHEMIAH?, born December 1, 1776. Went to New York State in early life.
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ili. DOROTHY, born December 14, 1778; married February 7, 1799, DANIEL ELLINWOOD, Jr.
Children (surname Ellinwood):
1. THOMAS, born September 13, 1800; married Persis F. Ball, November 13, 1825; died June 6, 1840; had one child, Frederick T., born May 13, 1827.
2. MARIA, born July 2, 1802; married Ezra Sargent of Putnam County, Georgia, December 12, 1824.
3. BELINDA, born November 9, 1804; married Calvin Kelton, Jr., int. April 10, 1829.
4. ROHENA, born April 13, 1807.
5. ABAGAIL FAY, born April 13, 1812.
6. AUSTIN, born November 10, 1814; died February 4, 1816.
7. DANIEL AUSTIN, born December 6, 1816; died September 26, 1883; married (t. r. David A. wdr.) Priscilla A. Mann of Petersham, December 9, 1846.
Child:
a. Austin Farnsworth, born May 5, 1842; died April 15, 1870. His daughter, Rebecca Farns- worth, born May 18, 1870; married Osman H. Casavant; no issue.
BENJAMIN, born May 2, 1819. I think he was the one who in 1840 lived on the farm at easterly end of Vaughn Road.
iv. MATILDA, born July 7, 1781; married January 18, 1807. SENECA ELLINWOOD; resided in Erving, Mass.
v. BENJAMIN, born September 14, 1783; went to New York State in early life.
vi. ABAGAIL, born October 20, 1785; died March 21, 1810; unmarried.
vii. SALLY, born July 11, 1788; went to New York State in early life.
viii. SETH, born July 1, 1791; married LUCY ADAMS of New Salem, int. April 10, 1819.
ix. HANNAH, born February 12, 1794; married GEORGE MASON of Warwick, int. May 12, 1814.
x. LUCINDA; died July 2, 1849, aged 53; unmarried. xi. NABBY
2. JOSIAH2 FAY (Joseph1), married September 18, 1798, MOLLY WARD.
Children:
i. ESTHER W.3, born May 28, 1799; married March 8, 1821, JONATHAN STRATTON.
Children (surname Stratton):
1. ELEANOR, born December 5, 1822; married January 3, 1849, Amos T. Stratton. Children:
a. Mary, born August 17, 1852; died July 9, 1934; unmarried.
b. Myron A., born August 17, 1852; died Octo- ber 16, 1920; married Emma J. Ball, May 17, 1878; one child, Mabel A., born July 14, 1879; married May 17, 1898 Clarence E. Deane; had one child, Marvis A., born March 24, 1900; married August 3, 1920 Bernald F. Coffin; no issue.
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c. Myra A., born August 21, 1856; died Febru- ary 22, 1939.
2. LUCENA, born May 11, 1825.
3. JOSIAH HENRY, born May 18, 1829; married Lucy H. M. (Peckham) Reynolds, January 27, 1883; died January 11, 1906; no issue.
3. ii. JONATHAN WARD
iii. MINERVA, born December 11, 1803; married JAMES OLIVER, September 20, 1829, and was the mother of Dr. James Oliver; died August 16, 1873. (See Oliver Family)
iv. POLLY, born March 16, 1806; married SYLVESTER STOCKWELL. (See Stockwell Family).
v. JAMES SULLIVAN, born May 18, 1808; married (1) MARY B. FARRAR of Petersham; married (2) HARRIET A. TWICHELL, May 31, 1848.
Child by first wife:
1. James Humphrey4, born February 1, 1839; died January 21, 1906 without issue.
Child by second wife:
2. Mary Abbie, born August 30, 1852; married Amos Blanchard, September 22, 1892; died probably in South Royalston.
vi. ADALINE, married ABEL LORD (See Lord family).
vii. BETSEY, born January 27, 1814; died February 21, 1816.
3. JONATHAN WARD3 FAY (Josiah“, Joseph1), born April 26, 1801; married September 11, 1828, MARY L. BABBITT.
Children:
i. REBECCA L.
ii. JOSIAH
died young.
iii. MARTHA CLEMENT
iv. JOSEPH F.1, born October 3, 1830; died in Athol Novem- ber 27, 1892; married MARION ESTELLA PRATT, December 22, 1875. He enlisted in the 27th Mass. Regiment in the Civil War, serving in the Regimental band. They had a daughter, Eudora M., born March 13, 1878, who married C. Frank Doolan; 5 children: Richard Fay, born June 5, 1906, a World War II casualty; Kenneth Edward, born December 22, 1907; Marjorie Lois, born March 28, 1916; Robert Lee, born June 18, 1917; C. Francis, Jr., born April 10, 1924.
v. ABBIE ANN, born January 31, 1837; died July 2, 1917; married April 7, 1857, CHARLES S. LAMB who was born December 25, 1834.
Child (surname Lamb):
1. Lena, born February 11, 1859; married November 29, 1876, Fred Turner; died July 2, 1917. Child (surname Turner):
a. MABEL I., born November 1878; married July 23, 1898, Michael J. Noonan.
Child (surname Noonan): (1) Clifford Edward, born October 23, 1898; married October 13, 1930, Helen Peal. No children.
iv. LEVI B, born July 17, 1843; married HATTIE SMITH, daughter of Gamaliel Smith; died April 23, 1930. He served during the Civil War in Capt. Farwell Fay's Co. E,
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53rd Mass. Regiment. Returning to Athol, he was a barber for a time; later, in company with Orrin F. Hunt, he operated in lower Main Street a sales stable of horses, cattle, and vehicles, carrying on the business alone for ten years following Mr. Hunt's death in January, 1890. In 1900 he was elected president of the Athol Savings Bank and occupied this position for thirty years. In 1914 Levi B. Fay was the Republican nominee for Representative, being defeated by the Progressive candidate, Fred W. Cross. His home is now the American Legion Home.
Children: 1. KATE L., born June 8, 1870; resides (1952) at the Hotel Bellevue in Boston; unmarried.
2. LOTTIE, born May 14, 1877; died October 7, 1883.
Two others of the Fay name have long been residents of Athol. Bartlett Fay was an Irish immigrant who settled first in Lancaster, later coming to Athol. He was a Civil War veteran, and left many descendants, but was not related to the Solomon or Joseph Fay families.
Henrie C. Fay came here long ago from Montague and operated a hardware store and later an insurance agency. He also was not related to the original Fay family.
The Fish Family
The pioneer of this family in Athol seems to have been SAMUEL FISH, who in 1793 journeyed from Worcester to Athol in an ox cart, bringing his wife and her furniture, several pieces of which are still preserved by the family as choice antiques. Samuel located first on Lyons Hill, later at 2123 Petersham Road, and finally at 479 Chestnut Hill Avenue.
About two years after Samuel Fish's arrival in Athol, he was followed by his father, SIMEON FISH, who purchased the Freedom Street water power, which had been developed long before by the Kendall family. With this he acquired the entire Lower Village section of Athol, extending from the Y.M.C.A. to Main Street Bridge, to Traverse and South Streets on the south, and the river to the north.
1. SIMEON FISH married in Mendon Tabitha Taft, a mem- ber of the Taft family of southern Worcester County. In Mendon he had been a citizen of prominence, among the offices held by him being that of Deputy Sheriff. From Mendon he had hastened to Cambridge on the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775, and later had been one of the little band which besieged Ticonderoga under Ethan Allen, and is said, perhaps erroneously, to have demanded the surrender of
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the fort "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Conti- nental Congress."
Children:
2. i. SAMUEL2
ii. HANNAH, born May 15, 1779; married JOSHUA SMITH,. January 8, 1799.
Children (surname Smith):
1. MARIA, born June 4, 1800.
2. POLLY B., born February 6, 1802; died March 7, 1803.
3. LEMIRA, born April 19, 1804; died May 16, 1806.
4. LUCY, born March 11, 1806; died August 12, 1835; unmarried.
5. ADIN HOLBROOK, born June 19, 1815; married (1) Mary C. Adams of Orange, November 19, 1837,. who died January 22, 1842; married (2) Louisa M. Adams of Orange, March 2, 1843.
Children:
a. Martha Jane, born May 10, 1839; married Jonathan W. Sawyer, May 15, 1859. Children (surname Sawyer):
(1) Mary Jane, born May 26, 1861, mar- ried Lemuel H. Smith, January 1, 1885; child, Stanley Sawyer Smith, born February 25, 1887; married RUTH E. HANSON, June 2, 1910; Children:
(a) Rachel Hanson Smith, born June 15, 1911, married Regi- nald E. Brackett, November 26, 1936; has an adopted daughter, Charlene Elizabeth, born January 25, 1943.
(b) Mary Sawyer Smith, born Au- gust 23, 1919; married Carl. Evert Olson May 18, 1946, has two children: Stephen Sawyer Olson, born August 3, 1950; Wendy Mary Olson, born August 8, 1953.
(2) Orrin, born October 2, 1863; married Ada E. Hardy May 28, 1888. No issue. He died July 2, 1918.
(3) Everett, born January 30, 1869; long a merchant in Athol, Chairman of its Board of Assessors for forty-two years; died November 27, 1948; unmarried.
b. Ellen Elizabeth, born September 15, 1840; married Jonothan Davis of Sterling, September 8, 1863; died November 28, 1882.
Children (surname Davis): (all born in Sterling)
(1) Louise Sophia, born June 10, 1864, died December 14, 1951.
(2) Mariah Smith, born September 22,- 1866, died March 2, 1945.
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(3) George Adin, born July 5, 1868, died October 1, 1890.
(4) Alice Jane, born January 15, 1873.
(5) John Abbott, born July 5, 1877; married Maude Harmon Shattuck of Worcester, November 1, 1904.
Children:
(a) Jonathan, born October 7, 1905; married Elisabeth Mad- dison of W. Somerville, Mass., November 15, 1933; had two children, John Maddison, born May 16, 1937, and Robert Shattuck, born January 10, 1939, in Sterling.
(b) Mabelle, born September 26, 1907.
(c) Evelyn Elizabeth, born No- vember 18, 1909; married in Sterling, April 10,
1937, Charles Hyde Cowles of All- ston, Mass .; had three chil- dren born in Needham, Davis Olmsted, born February 12., 1938, Deborah, born April 7, 1940, and Amy Elizabeth, born July 19, 1946.
(d) George Shattuck, born De- cember 8, 1911; married in Groton, Mass., November 16, 1935, Mary Elizabeth Fletcher of Stow, Mass .; three children, Dix Fletcher, born October 18, 1937, George Abbott, born November 28, 1938 and Mary Louise, born March 18, 1945, all born in Sterling.
c. Mary Adams, born April 11, 1847; married November 13, 1871, Edgar T. Hansen; no issue.
d. Henry Waldo, born April 15, 1850; died June 25, 1920; unmarried.
e. Lucy Maria, born April 15, 1855; married Leory C. Parmenter, June 21, 1876; died May 14, 1921.
Children (surname Parmenter):
(1) Bertha, born April 28, 1880.
(2) Ruth L., born March 24, 1882; died September 20, 1900.
2. SAMUEL2 FISH (Simeon1), died in Athol July 23, 1834; married at Worcester, August 22, 1793, BETSY KINGSBURY who died March 16, 1858. As has already been stated, Samuel Fish, the eldest of the children of Simeon Fish, was the pioneer of the family in Athol.
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i. JOSEPH3, born in Athol, December 21, 1793; married ire October, 1818, NANCY CROSBY, who was born in Athol, July 12, 1798. Early in life he removed to Putney, Vermont.
4. ii. JASON, born February 14, 1796.
iii. NANCY, born April 28, 1798; married (1) DANIEL H. FELTON of Athol, who died March 19, 1819; married (2) June 21, 1821, HENRY LEE, son of Jonathan and Sally (Haywood) Lee, born June 11, 1786, died July 29, 1845. (Grandparents of the late Frederick H. Lee of Athol and the late Wilson Horatio Lee [See LEE family] of Orange Conn.) iv. FRANCIS, died in infancy.
v. LUCINDA, born March 26, 1803; married EBER GOD- DARD and lived on Chestnut Hill at the west end of Gulf Road. Mrs. Helen Stevens of Athol, who died April 5, 1951, was her descendant.
vi. BETSEY, born May 25, 1895; married SAMUEL NEW- HALL, the first landlord of the Pequoig House. C. Stanley Newton and his daughter, Sybil B. Newton, the children of the late Arthur N. Newton, Gordon B. Newton, and Chandler N. Newton are her surviving descendants.
vii. SALLY, born June 9, 1807; married her cousin, HENRY FISH, and had two sons, Ezra W., and Samuel, both of whom died without issue.
viii. SAMUEL, died January 16, 1863; was for many years su- perintendent in one of the Amoskeag Mills in Manchester, N. H.
ix. ESTHER, born January 25, 1812; married LABAN MORSE. Sumner L. Morse and his children and the children of the late Henry T. Morse are her descendants. (See Morse Family).
x. LUCIA, born July 20, 1814; died without issue June 16, 1891; married (2) JOTHAM D. OTTERSON, long a mill superintendent in Clinton, Mass. After his death, she re- turned to Athol, living with her sister Sally until the latter's death, when she bought the house built by Henry A. Burgess at 44 Upland Place.
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