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records exist of his ever having been molested or persecuted in any way because of his loyalty.
Coincident with the close of the War for Independence, Dr. Lord removed to Westmoreland, New Hampshire, where he died at the age of eighty-four years, his wife surviving him by ten years.
Children:
i. JOSEPH5, born April 17, 1730; he took title to much of his father's lands in Athol; he served in the Revolution.
5. ii. WILLIAM, born May 3, 1732.
iii. MARY, born May 2, 1733; she seems to have returned to Athol in 1770 as the second wife of Deacon AARON SMITH.
6. iv. THOMAS, born January 17, 1736.
7. v. STEPHEN, born February 17, 1737.
vi. SARAH, born July 5, 1740; married Judge THOMAS CHANDLER of Vermont.
vii. NATHANIEL, born June 18, 1747.
viii. MARIAM, born November 24, 1752.
5. WILLIAM“ LORD (Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born May 3, 1732; died - ; married September 22, 1760, MARY PRESTON.
Children:
8. i. WILLIAM“, baptized August 2, 1761.
ii. SARAH, born December 30, 1762; died January 25, 1849; married at Orange, October 14, 1787, DANIEL HARRINGTON.
iii. HANNAH, baptized August 9, 1765; died August 21, 1765.
9. iv. PRESTON, baptized May 3, 1767.
v. REUBEN, baptized April 4, 1773.
6. THOMAS LORD (Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born January 17, 1736; died December 3, 1810; married Nov- ember 6, 1760, LEONARD SMITH, born April 3, 1744; died in 1821, daughter of Ephraim and Martha (Scott) Smith. Ephraim Smith was formerly of Hadley, Mass., and an original Proprietor of Pequoig.
Thomas Lord had service in the Seven Years' War; was a private in Captain John Fry's Company in the Expedition of 1758 at Lake George, and in 1759 during the invasion of Canada. He was one of the Minute Men from Athol who marched to Lexington, April 19, 1775 being sergeant of the company. In 1776 he is rated as a Lieutenant, and when the Bennington or Burgoyne Alarm came in 1777 he raised an Athol Company and hastened over the Berkshire Hills to the scene of combat, being credited with service as the army pro- ceeded southward after the triumph of Saratoga. Returning . to Athol, he was most active as a recruiting officer, at times.
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giving his personal note to meet recruiting expense and sol- diers' pay.
Thomas Lord does not seem to have been active in the diffi- culties incident to the division of the town and the establish- ment of the District of Orange, although his farm at the north end of Brickyard Road was adjacent to the line of the new municipality. Subsequently he meekly requested to be set off into the new district, but his request was refused.
Captain Lord died December 3, 1810, and the following September his widow married Stephen Stratton, whose wife had died the preceding November, and lived the remainder of her days at his home off South Athol Road. Both Captain Lord and his wife are buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, where in 1886 their grandson, Ethan Lord, erected a substantial monu- ment marking their last resting place.
He was a slave-owner for a time.
Children:
10. i. ASAG, born October 1, 1761.
11. ii. JOSEPH, born October 28, 1763.
iii. RHODA, born March 1, 1766; died November 27, 1798; married January 28, 1798, JOSHUA MYRICK.
Child (surname Myrick): 1. Rhoda, born April 12, 1798. iv. ABEL, born July 9, 1769; died July 26, 1770.
v. ABIGAIL SCOTT, born July 7, 1772; married May 27, 1788, ABIJAH ELLIS of Orange. vi. ABEL, born March 12, 1774; died October 3, 1799.
12. vii. THOMAS, born January 17, 1780.
13. viii. JOTHAM, born June 4, 1783.
ix. LEONARD. born October 21, 1784; married January 6, 1803, ASAPH OLIVER, son of Aaron and Lucy, born June 1, 1782. Thev removed to Chateaugay, N. Y. after a short residence in Stratton, Vermont.
Children of which we have record are (all surnamed Oliver):
1. ABEL, born August 7, 1803.
2. LYONDER, born April 13, 1805.
3. ASAPH, born December 29, 1806.
4. GARDINER A., born January - 1809
5. THOMAS L., born -
Asaph Oliver above named came into this territory as a civil engineer and worked on the layout of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad 1845-48.
14. x. GARDINER, born April 3, 1788.
15. xi. ABSALOM, born June 3, 1790.
7. STEPHEN5 LORD (Joseph4, Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born February 17, 1737; married April 1, 1760, MARY MOR- TON.
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Children:
i. STEPHEN", born June 15, 1760; died January 26, 1764.
ii. ICHABOD, born November 27, 1762.
ii. SAMUEL, born February 9, 1767.
iv. BENJAMIN, born April 14, 1769.
v. JOHN, born April 19, 1771; died August 22, 1774.
vi. JOSHUA, born June 18, 1775.
8. WILLIAM" LORD (William", Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas", Robert1), baptized August 6, 1761; died November 22, 1838, married (intentions) November 6, 1785, CLARINA (CLARISA) CADY.
Children: i. SAMUEL, born September 21, 1786. ii. CLARINA, born September 14, 1788; married (intentions September 17, 1815) THOMAS SOUTHWORTH.
16. iii. CYRRELL, born June 26, 1791. iv. PERSES, born July 23, 1793. v. BETSEY, born June 15, 1797. vi. ALVIRA, born February 7, 1800. vii. JUSTINE, born October 28, 1802. viii. AZUBAH, born October 4, 1805. 17. ix. WILLIAM, born April 22, 1808.
9. PRESTON® LORD (William3, Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), baptized May 3, 1767; married August 2, 1789, REST
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Children: i. RAND7, born March 11, 1790. ii. NABBY, born December 27, 1791. iii. LEVI, born September 24, 1793. iv. MILLY, born June 19, 1795. v. LOUISA, born March 27, 1797. vi. RESTY, born February 9, 1799. vii. PRESSEN, born December 30, 1800; died January 20, 1830. viii. EUNICE, born June 20, 1803. ix. EUNICE, born January 28, 1805. x. WILLIAM CHANDLER, born June 17, 1807.
10. ASA" LORD (Thomas", Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas2, Rob- ert1), born October 1, 1761; died in Orange, November 20, 1849; married August 25, 1785, LYDIA HUMPHREY, who died September 13, 1828. Like his father, Asa was a soldier in the Revolution.
Children:
i. LOIS, born January 27, 1786; married (intentions De- cember 16, 1808) STEPHEN RANDALL of New Hunting- ton, Chittenden County, Vermont.
Child (surname Randall):
1. ANDREW J., who removed to East Kendall, New York, and had four children: i. Louisa L., married Conkling; ii. Harrison L .; iii. Stephen W .; all lived in East Kendall; iv. Augusta J., married Northrop, lived in Reading, Michigan.
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ii. LYMAN, born August 9, 1787; married (intentions March 28, 1814) CLARISSA TUTTLE.
Child: 1. CLARISSA L., married - CASWELL; removed to Parkersburg, West Virginia.
iii. LOUISA, born March 1, 1802; died unmarried November 9, 1887.
19. iv. LORENZO, born March 1, 1802.
11. JOSEPH® LORD (Thomas", Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born October 28. 1763; died in Orange, July 1, 1832; married (1) ESTHER JOHNSON, who died September 21, 1807; married (2) September 15, 1805, UNITY W. RUGGLES, born March 9, 1780; died February 10, 1840.
Children by first wife:
20. i. LUTHER, born December 9, 1788. ii. VASHNEY, born May 19, 1791. Children by second wife: iii. ESTHER, born August 15, 1809.
iv. PERSIS, born Auoust 15, 1813; married (1) April 13, 1837, MOSES DEXTER, born January 26. 1811; died December 22, 1846, son of Benjamin and Betsey (Legg) Dexter.
Children (surname Dexter):
1. JOSEPH LORD, born January 7, 1838; died February 28. 1902; married October 7, 1858, SARAH J. WOODS.
Children:
a. FRANK E., born December 25, 1859; married August 15, 1883, CORA H. LEE, daughter of Solon W. Lee, who died August 15, 1888. Children: i. Edith L., born December 20, 1883; married - Norton; now divorced and living in Lynn, Mass. ii. Robert Lee, born April 16, 1887; graduated from Cornell; married October 9, 1912, Barbara Bates, daughter of George D. and Abbie (Sheldon) Bates; had a daughter, Jane, who married J. Weston Abar.
b. FRED ABBOTT, born October 17, 1862; died August 26, 1921; married February 26, 1884. He was an industrialist and leading citizen of Orange, president of the Orange National Bank. Child: i. Bayard Putnam, born in Orange April 14, 1884; died in Miami, Florida, February 6, 1941; married July 22, 1914; had one son, Frederick A., born No- vember 12, 1914; married November 27, 1937, Ruth Caroline Anderson.
2. REMEMBER, born December 11, 1841; married Louisa Sheldon, September 29, 1868.
12. THOMAS LORD (Thomas", Joseph', Josephª, Thomas2, Robert1), born January 17, 1780; married (intentions Septem- ber 21, 1800) DEZIER WARD of Orange. He was a tavern keeper in Athol; in 1811 swapped with Zachariah Field for his
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farm in Northfield. He lived and died on Northfield Street. Thomas and Dezier Ward had at least four children, and prob- ably others; Mrs. Asa Albee Ward was their granddaughter, and her son, Will Ward, is buried in Silver Lake Cemetery, Athol.
Children: i. AARON™, born June 18, 1801. ii. NABBY, born July 9, 1803; married (intentions March 21, 1817) STEPHEN WARD. ili. THOMAS CHANDLER, born March 1, 1805. iv. FRANKLIN, born March 1, 1808.
13. JOTHAM" LORD (Thomas", Joseph4, Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born June 4, 1783; married April 24, 1805, JULIA ALLEN of Orange, born June 23, 1784.
Children:
i. HIRAM”, born October 6, 1806; died of consumption; he was a clarinetist.
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ii. ETHAN, born August 9, 1808.
iii. JAMES T., born November 3, 1810; died January, 1811.
iv. ABSALOM, born January 1, 1813; married (1) CHENEY; married (2) - , of Holden, Mass .; had two children by second wife, one of whom was killed in Worcester and the other at Clinton Depot. Ira operated a livery stable in Phillipston, later removing to Jonesville, where he died.
Child: 1. ALLEN *.
22. vi. EMORY, born in New Salem, July 16, 1818.
vii. JAMES ALLEN, born September - --; married December 7, 1848, Rosella Young, daughter of Reuben and Me- hitable (Marsh) Young who was born in Athol November 1, 1817; died in Templeton, July 20, 1868; he died February 9, 1871. One child: Rhoda Lord, born -; married Charles Stoddard of Gardner, June 24, 1879.
viii. JOTHAM, born August 23, 1823; died in 1892; married MARTHA A. LYMAN.
Children:
1. ALICE SIMONETTI*, born December 9, 1850.
2. WILLIAM ALLEN, born December 18, 1865; died April 11, 1935.
3. Daughter, born March 6, 1868.
4. ALBERT LYMAN, born - died October 14, 1948.
(All died without issue).
14. GARDINER® LORD, born April 3, 1788; died November 24, 1869; married (1) March 4, 1813, NANCY YOUNG, daughter of Samuel Young of Chestnut Hill, who died Jan- uary 14, 1814; married (2) March 2, 1815, SALLY SMITH, born September 10, 1789, a native of Truro, Mass., whose father had lately removed to Phillipston, then Gerry; she died November 16, 1871. Nathaniel Young, brother of Nancy (Young) Lord, was engaged to Sally Smith, but died before mar-
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rying her; Sally (Smith) Lord named her first son Nathaniel Young, after her former fiancé.
Being one of a large family whose father's means were limited, Gardiner was obliged to earn his own living, working as a farm hand and hostler until his first marriage, in 1813; at that time he went to his wife's home to live, continuing on the farm until his death.
Child by first wife:
i. NANCY, born January 14, 1814; died August 14, 1833; unmarried.
Children by second wife:
23. ii. ABIGAIL, born November 6, 1816.
iii. NATHANIEL YOUNG, born November 5, 1820; died April 30, 1876; married (1) February 11, 1847, SARAH MILLER of Phillipston, who died September 16, 1854; married (2) September 11, 1855 his cousin, ELVIRA R. (BRIGHAM) GOODNOW of Whitingham, Vermont; no children. In early life he assumed the care of his father's place, which he occupied until his death. He was one of the committee in charge of laying out Silver Lake Ceme- tery, and was one of the first to be buried there.
iv. SARAH SMITH, born July 30, 1822; died August 18, 1906; unmarried.
v. GARDINER, born February 26, 1824; died November 1, 1899; married March 18, 1868, MARY BARKER of Oswego, New York, born August 6, 1834. In early life he learned the shoemaker's trade, and was for several years identified with the firm of F.G. & C.L. Lord & Co., boot manufacturers. He was Deputy Sheriff for 30 years, and was one of the Selectmen of Athol in 1864, 1889, and 1890, and also served for several years as Overseer of the Poor.
Child: 1. WILLIAM G.&, born September 7, 1871.
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vi. FRANKLIN G., born October 4, 1827.
vii. CHARLES LEONARD, born December 26, 1832; died May 14, 1892; married (1) September 23, 1860; LOTTIE A. WIGHT, born 1840, died 1872; married (2) April 18, 1876, ELDORA BURNETT of Holden, Mass., born in 1844; died August 2, 1926. He learned the shoemaker's trade, and was engaged with his brothers in the manufac- ture of boots. For a few years he carried on a crockery and furniture business on Exchange Street, finally selling out due to failing health.
Children by first wife: 1. ARTHUR8, born in 1861; died in 1862.
2. MILTON KIRKE, born October 20, 1867; died September 21, 1889.
15. ABSALOM" LORD (Thomas5, Joseph4, Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born June 30, 1790; died May 16, 1846; married (intentions March 15, 1816) CLARISSA HODGKINS of Pel- ham. They lived on South Athol Road near Sanger Brook.
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Children:
i. CHESTER™, born November 2, 1817.
ii. ABEL, born May 31, 1819; died in 1880; married May 25, 1842, ADALINE FAY, born in 1811, daughter of Josiah Fay.
Children:
1. ESTHER FATIMA", born November 3, 1844; mar- ried George M. Amsden.
Children (surname Amsden):
a. Lillian, born Sept. 19, 1869; married Webster A. Waite, Nov. 15, 1912; died March 14, 1932.
b. Warren E., born Nov. 20, 1871; died in N.Y. State, Jan. 1929.
c. Frank J., born Aug. 26, 1874; married Mar- garet O. McClellan, October 21, 1903; died March 17, 1946.
2. LAURA L., born November 17, 1846; died May 28, 1909; married - Corbin.
iii. MARY, born January 29, 1821.
iv. LUCY, born August 18, 1824; died May 23, 1910; mar- ried March 18, 1851, ASA NEWELL.
Children (surname Newell):
1. CORA O., born April 10, 1854; died May 6, 1917; married Charles F. Gourlay.
Children (surname Gourlay):
a. Chester N., born in 1881; died June 24, 1914.
b. Frank P., born in 1882; died January !, 1925.
c. Nina J., born in 1886; died June 28, 1912.
d. Hazel V., born August 24, 1891 in Man- chester, New Hampshire; married Arthur Livermore.
v. HIRAM, born November 18, 1829; died January 18, 1830.
vi. SARAH, born January 3, 1832; died May 20, 1884; mar- ried July 1, 1871, FENNO THORPE.
vii. JOSEPH, born December 30, 1833.
16. CYRRELL LORD (William", William", Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born June 25, 1791; married March 19, 1833, BETSEY L. BRYANT.
Children:
24-A. i. EMERSON*, born August 31, 1833.
17. WILLIAM LORD (William“, William“, Joseph', Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born April 22, 1808; married ADELINE WALES.
Children:
i. ADMIRAL'.
ii. FERNALDO LAFAYETTE, born in Orange in 1834; died October 2, 1921; married ABBIE BILLINGS, who died May 25, 1882, aged 51. He enlisted as a private in the Civil War on August 27, 1862 (residence Athol, painter, age 28); mustered in August 28, 1862; reenlisted January 1, 1864; was wounded and taken prisoner March 8, 1865, at South West Creek, North Carolina; was exchanged March 27, 1865, and mustered out June 15, 1865.
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Children: 1. ABBIE SOPHIA, born 1856; died June 4, 1913.
2. FRANK F.", born November 6, 1857; died August 10, 1921.
18. LEVI LORD (Preston", William“, Joseph4, Joseph®, Thomas2, Robert1), born September 24, 1793; married NANCY CAMPBELL.
Children:
i. ELIZABETH J.S, born June 27, 1826; died November 15, 1908; married December 27, 1848, LEONARD WARD of Orange, who died December 17, 1877.
Children (surname Ward):
1. WILLIAM LEONARD, born January 26, 1852; died September 4, 1918.
2. EDWARD LEVI, born September 18, 1868; died June 11, 1917; married MARY A. POPE, who died June 11, 1941.
ii. JOHN HENRY, born October 17, 1835; died March 27, 1916; married HARRIET GODDARD, born 1842, died 1924, daughter of Mason Goddard.
Child:
1. HARRIET GRACEº, born Nov. 11, 1871; died July 16, 1951; married (1) CHARLES W. GODDARD, born 1869, died 1906; married (2) Dr. JOSEPH ARTHUR SMITH, July 17, 1945.
Child (surname Goddard):
a. ERROLL W., married Hazel Hale of Athol, daughter of Burton W. and Flora (Ames) Hale; died in 1953; no children.
iii. JAMES W., born in 1838; died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1908; buried at Athol; no children.
19. LORENZO LORD (Asa", Thomas5, Joseph4, Joseph8, Thomas2, Robert1), born March 1, 1802; died November 12, 1850; married November 9, 1825, OLIVE MOORE, born Feb- ruary 6, 1799; died October 31, 1859.
Children:
i. LORENZO PHILANDER$, born March 27, 1827. He was one of the many young men who in 1849 were lured by rumors of abounding wealth in the California gold fields. Shortly after his arrival there, he wrote home from Stock- ton, but was never heard from afterwards.
ii. ASA HUMPHREY, born February 24, 1829; lived in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
iii. EMILY MARIA, born December 2, 1830; married WHITCOMB; resided in Holbrook, Mass.
Child (surname Whitcomb): 1. HENRY J., born December 2, 1857.
25. iv. JULIA ANN, born July 10, 1832.
v. MARTIN VAN BUREN, born June 28, 1837; died Febru- ary 2, 1876.
vi. OLIVE MOORE, born January 16, 1840; died September 3, 1882.
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20. LUTHER LORD (Joseph®, Thomas", Joseph4, Joseph®, Thomas2, Robert1), born December 9, 1788; died September 20, 1844; married SARAH THAYER, born in Douglas, Mass., June 24, 1801.
Children:
i. LOUENSA R.8 (or LAUSINDA R.), born July 26, 1826; died September 17, 1902; married EMORY WILLIAMS, who died November 30, 1894, aged 72 years.
ii. VASHNI, born August 20, 1828; died October 28, 1854; married BETSEY WHITE, who died February 5, 1904.
iii. LUTHER, born November 14, 1830; died in Athol, Octo- ber 12, 1925. He was representative for a silk mill in New York.
iv. JEROME J., born January 7, 1838, in Orange; died April 25, 1882; married September 2, 1867, in Greenfield, CAROLINE ELIZABETH KNAPP of Petersham, who died August 29, 1921.
Child:
1. PALMER JOSEPH9, born in Petersham December 4, 1882; married (1) in Pepperell, April 26, 1916, Marguerite LaPoer, who died August 29, 1940; married (2) in Petersham, September 26, 1942, Edith Mabel (Chism) Knowles; he is now Assistant Postmaster at Petersham.
21. ETHAN' LORD (Jotham", Thomas", Joseph4, Joseph®, Thomas", Robert1), born August 9, 1808; died April 11, 1889; married September 6, 1836, THANKFUL RICHARDSON of Swanzey, New Hampshire, born January 17, 1813; died October 27, 1891. In his twentieth year he left home and came to the Factory Village to begin life for himself. His. loyalty and love for his parents became evident when his father, having lost a number of cattle by disease, was forced to mort- gage his little farm. This misfortune weighed heavily on Ethan, and at the end of his first year's service he carried home his entire earnings, one hundred dollars, and gave them to his father to pay off the mortgage. For more than 50 years Ethan Lord carried on a saw mill and grist mill on Freedom Street. At the time of his death in 1889 he owned some of the most desirable property in Athol. He was identified with the old First Church until the founding of the Second Unitarian Church, of which he became an earnest supporter.
Children: i. LUCIENS, born October 11, 1840; died Sept. 24, 1916; married Sept. 30, 1868 Delia M. Pierce of Royalston who was born Sept. 29, 1844 and died March 6, 1915. Children: 1. EDWIN EVERETT', born 1869; died 1874.
2. DELIA ELIZABETH, born Feb. 9, 1878; married October 8, 1901 Dr. Carleton E. Fletcher, a dentist in Baldwinsville and died July 20, 1903. No issue.
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ii. SABRA JULIA, born February 6, 1843; died February 24, 1934; married September 15, 1871, Dr. VERNON O. TAYLOR; lived in Athol, Lowell, and Providence.
Child (surname Taylor):
1. LUCIEN E., born June 24, 1872; married twice; no children; resides in Brookline, Mass .; a graduate of Brown University, and long in charge of the Catalog- ing Department of the Boston Public Library.
iii. ETHAN, born July 11, 1849; died April 8, 1882; un- married.
iv. MARY AURELIA, born December 10, 1856; married JOHN L. EARLE, who was once a clerk in a dry goods store and later operator of a livery stable.
Children (surname Earle):
1. ERNEST L., born August 4, 1886; married April 16, 1918, Bernice I. Brock; is employed at the Water- town Arsenal.
Children: a. Elizabeth B., born May 20, 1920. b. Ernest L., Jr., born May 24, 1922.
2. RALPH LUKE, born August 19, 1888; died De- cember 22, 1938; married Mae Wilcox; had five children all of whom died without issue except Eleanor Lord Earle, who was born September 8, 1909.
26. v. WALLACE, born November 22, 1857.
22. EMORY LORD (Jotham", Thomas3, Joseph4, Joseph3, Thomas®, Robert1), born July 16, 1818; died November 17, 1884; married (1) - EDDY of Greenfield; married (2) Sep- tember 9, 1840, REBECCA L. SPEAR, born in New Salem; he ·was a pail-maker.
Child by second wife:
i. FREDERICK E.S, born ; married December 21, 1882, EMMA F. STRATTON of Winchendon, born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire.
Child: 1. MYRON FRANCIS', born March 21, 1888; married March 19, 1917, HAZEL HUDSON HARRIS, born February 10, 1893.
Children:
a. ROBERT EMORY10, born January 1, 1918; invalided home from Army in World War II because of stomach ulcer.
b. RICHARD BOYNTON, born August 28, 1919; married October 11, 1947, Elizabeth Jane Goodwin, born March 20, 1921. He served three years and two months with the Army Air Force, 29 months in Africa and Italy as PFC, serving as Armorer and later Supply Clerk with 15th Air Force; received nine Bat- tle Stars and the Presidential Citation.
c. DONALD SPEAR, born June 16, 1923; had three years' service in Navy V12 at Harvard and in Army Air Force, 2nd Lt., B26 and B24 pilot; was awaiting flying orders on V J Day.
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23. ABIGAIL LORD (Gardiner®, Thomas", Joseph4, Joseph3, Thomas2, Robert1), born November 6, 1816; married December 4, 1836, JOHN WOOD, born July 1, 1814, youngest child of John and Zerviah (Woodbury) Wood of Royalston, who died August 28, 1863. He was engaged to Nancy Young Lord, daughter of Gardiner and Nancy (Young) Lord; she died at the age of 19, and he married her half sister, Abigail. He erected the gravestone for Nancy Young Lord.
For many years John Wood was Justice of the Peace and was also Superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School, re- maining on the home farm until his death. All of his three sons served in the Civil War.
Children (surname Wood):
i. NANCY LORD, born July 18, 1838; married October 14, 1864, Lieut. BENJAMIN HAMMOND BROWN, who died October 14, 1910.
Children (surname Brown):
1. Charles H., born February 3, 1865; died in Win- chendon, July 11, 1950; married September 25, 1888, Annie E. Rowe of Boston. In early life he was employed by his distant kinsman, J. W. Good- now of Jamaica Plain; later he was in business for about five years in Worcester, returning to Royal- ston, where he was for many years manager of the Raymond Farm on the west road to Fitzwilliam. He was chairman of the Selectmen of Royalston for 42 years, and held many other positions of trust in the town. In 1949, when forced by ill health to re- linquish his responsibilities, he resigned fourteen positions of a public or semi-public nature in Royal- ston.
Children:
a. ALFRED H., born in Worcester in 1890; mar- ried Edith M. Hager, born January 18, 1895. Children: 1. Eleanor M., born March 31, 1919; 2. Jeane B., born October 19, 1922; died October 5, 1926; 3. Roger H., born March 11, 1935.
b. IRVING F., born June 19, 1893; died Octo- ber 5, 1946.
c. ROSE MILDRED, born June 2, 1895; married® July 10, 1917, Omer F. Landon. Child (sur- name Landon): Doris.
d. GERTRUDE E., born May 29, 1903; married June 28, 1927, George L. Miller. Children: (surname Miller): 1. Janet; 2. Richard.
e. EDWARD R., born September 4, 1905; married September 21, 1940, Gertrude E. Newton. Children: 1. Nancy, born February 27, 1944; 2. Richard A., born May 2, 1949.
2. FRANK H., born November 21, 1866; married (1) March 6, 1895, FLORENCE FORBES RUGGLES of Fitchburg; married (2) HEYWOOD; no issue; resided in Pasadena, California; died Nov. 11, 1953.
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3. WILLIAM L., born May 1, 1868; died in Chelsea, February 28, 1940; married June 4, 1894, SADIE E. SKELLEY of Chelsea; no children.
4. BENJAMIN E., born November 15, 1869; died in Winchendon June 13, 1941; married June 28, 1899, SUSAN JOSEPHINE GEDDES of Winchendon; no children; associated with firm of Demond & Brown Chair Co. of Winchendon.
5. ISABELLE E., born March 2, 1875; married August 17, 1898, Rev. AUGUSTUS M. RICE of Sturbridge; no children.
6. ARTHUR H., born March 9, 1877; died October 4, 1944; married June 14, 1905, FLORENCE MAY RITCHIE of Fitchburg. He was Treasurer of the Fitchburg Savings Bank. His widow remarried and resides in Fitchburg.
Child:
a. Robert Arthur, born June 23, 1912; died July 28, 1913.
ii. HENRY S., born June 30, 1840; married January 26, 1864, SARAH C. BEMISS. He enlisted in the Union Army, Co. I, 25th Mass. Regiment, remaining in service for a little over two years when he was discharged November 6, 1863, by order of the Secretary of War. His discharge was granted after the death of his father and brother in order that he might return to care for his blind mother, which he did until her death on March 1, 1905. He died in 1916.
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