Nutfield Genealogy

This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery in Londonderry, New Hampshire

Henry Moor, M. A.

departed this life Feb 14, 1798

AEtat 34

A lecture silent, but of sovereign power

To vice, confusion; and to virtue, peace

Virtue alone has majesty in death

Henry Moor was the son of William Moor and Martha Mack of Londonderry. He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1787, and from Dartmouth College in 1793. He was the first preceptor of Groton Academy (now known as the Lawrence Academy at Groton) from 1793 – 1796 for a salary of $745.83. Following his brief teaching career Henry Moor was a merchant in Londonderry, and died unmarried at age 34. Obviously, he must have been a Freemason.

The St. Marks Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons is located at 58 Broadway in Derry, New Hampshire. According to their website, they were granted their charter in 1826, and met above James Thom’s grocery store in East Derry, which at that time was still Londonderry. This is too late to have been the lodge where Henry Moor belonged. I wondered where he became a Freemason?

The New England Historic Genealogical Society’s subscription website www.americanancestors.orghas a data base of Massachusetts membership cards from 1733 – 1990. I didn't find Henry Moor listed there.

According to the website of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, the first meeting of New Hampshire Freemasons was on 8 July 1789 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to create a Grand Lodge for the state. Many local lodges were involved in this decision, so I’m sure that there must have been a lodge near Londonderry, or perhaps near Dartmouth College, where he became a member. For example, St. John’s Lodge, No. 1 in Portsmouth was gathered in 1736, one of the oldest Masonic Lodges in the USA.

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Every Wednesday for more than two years I've been posting photographs of weathervanes located in or near the Nutfield area (the former name for the land where Londonderry, Derry and Windham, New Hampshire are now located). Most are historically interesting or just whimsical and fun weathervanes. Today's weathervane can be seen somewhere in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts. Have fun guessing where you may have seen this weather vane.

Do you know the location of weather vane #123? Scroll down to see the answer....

Today's weather vane can be seen on top of the New Balance Factory building on Merrimack Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts. This very large clock tower is visible for miles around the Merrimack Valley, and is only one foot smaller than Big Ben in London. It is the second largest four sided clocktower in the world. It is part of the former Ayer Mill, which was the home of the American Woolen Company, built in 1909. The American Woolen Company owned 60 woolen mills in New England, and "in the 1920s it controlled 20% of the nation's woolen production."

The American Woolen Company closed in 1955. The Ayer Mill clock tower fell into disrepair, but was saved in 1991 when the community raised over $1 million to restore the clock. The Essex County Community Foundation, New Balance Corporation, and the Wood and Ayer families continue to maintain the clocktower.

Essex County Community Foundation, information on the Ayer Mill Clock Tower
http://www.eccf.org/ayer-mill-clock-tower

"Ayer Mill Clock Tower, A Lawrence Icon, turns 100", Eagle Tribune, Lawrence, Massachusetts, by Keith Eddings, 18 September 2010
http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x1561144158/Ayer-Mill-clock-tower-a-Lawrence-icon-turns-100

Click here to see the entire collection of Weathervane Wednesday posts!

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

We were in Spain last week, visiting my husband’s family. I had no plans to do any genealogy research during this trip, since we were planning to just visit family for a short time. However, fate intervened!

On our second morning in Madrid I opened our email to find a message from a gentleman in Barcelona who had seen my family tree on line, and he had a common ROJO 3^rd great grandfather with my husband. We immediately emailed him back and forth, and found out his parents were from Sinovas, where the ROJO family originated, and where my father-in-law was born and baptized.

Within a day we compared this new cousin’s family tree with my husband’s (thank goodness for having a private Ancestry.com tree online I could access with my iPad). We also contacted some cousins we knew from Sinovas and they sent us the name and phone number of the parish priest. It took several phone calls to make an appointment to meet up with the priest to see the parish records. It took a few more phone calls to find a cousin to drive us to Sinovas, about two hours north of Madrid in the province of Burgos. The next day we were on our way!

The gate to the city of Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Spain

We met up with the priest in the village of Aranda de Duero. He was pastor in both villages, but since Sinovas is so small (population 132) he keeps the books at the bigger church in Aranda . We had looked at the books of baptisms, weddings and burials once before, about fifteen years ago. This time we brought our digital camera, and we had all the time we wanted to look at the books in the church office while the priest celebrated a mass. He then invited all of us to go to see the church in Sinovas, since he was preparing for a funeral there that same afternoon.

Vincent's uncle's baptism and marriage records

Vincent's face when we found the marriage record

of his 3rd great grandparents!

Of course, we took him up on his offer to see the church in Sinovas. It was built in the year 800 as a garrison tower, and had been modified over the years. Sinovas is only 3 km from Aranda (less than 2 miles). We explored the church yard, too, which was built in 1883. Before that, burials took place under the church floor.

San Nicolas de Bari church, Sinovas, Burgos, Spain

The tower was built in the 800s, the central part

of the church has a ceiling dated in the 1200s

Generations of Rojos were baptized in this font

After all the exploration we treated our cousins to a feast of roast suckling lamb, the specialty of Aranda de Duero. Vincent enjoyed his visit to the “Land of the Rojos” very much. He hadn’t been there in at least a decade. We found enough information on the Rojo family to connect to his new cousin, and we had photos of dozens of Rojo baptism, wedding and burial records from the parish records. Most of the early books had been removed from Sinovas to be stored at the Archbishop’s archives in the city of Burgos, another two hours north.

This is the house in Sinovas

where Vincent's Dad was born

Roast sucking lamb cooked in a beehive oven

in Aranda de Duero

Family legend says that Moises Rojo, Vincent's grandfather

was locked in a wine cellar like this before his

execution during the Spanish Civil War in 1936

I can already see that on our next trip to Spain we’ll be taking an overnight trip to Burgos to visit the archives. It will be our second trip. To read all about our first trip, click HERE, and you will know why we have such incomplete records on the branch of the family from Sinovas.

2010 blog post on the archives of Burgos
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/02/archives-of-archbishop-of-burgosspain.html

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This is a short post about looking at the original documents when you are researching your family tree. If you cannot get to the actual document, a scanned image will be second best. This is why.

Here is the Town Clerk's Records from Beverly, Massachusetts. I'm researching the HICKS family, sometimes spelled HIX in the vital records. My 4th great grandmother, Susanna Hix (1768 - 1859) was born in Beverly, but her death record did not list her parents. I suspect that her parents were the Abraham and Sarah HIX listed here. The records list two children, Joanna and Abraham, who might be her older siblings. I found evidence in the records of four other siblings (marriages and deaths), so I know that all the births were not recorded. Abraham died in 1767 in Beverly (listed in the VRs).

While wondering about Abraham and Sarah, I noticed this note above the entry for the HIX family, written in teeny tiny lettering. This message is not transcribed in any other record of the Beverly records, it is only available when looking at the actual book in Beverly or at the scanned image of the Town Clerk Book available at FamilySearch.org.

This message says:

"Dec 19 1757 a warrant was issued "to warn Abraham Hix to depart out of the town be being an inhabitant of Plimoth in the County of Plimoth"

If you are unfamiliar with the term "warned out", it was a complaint issued by towns who did not want to support paupers or those asking for assistance who were not proper residents of the town. The "warning out" did not mean that the constable escorted them out of the town limits, but after being warned the town would no longer support this family.

It was also a very good clue to Abraham HIX's origins. I did find him in the Plymouth, Massachusetts records, and his parents before him were Abraham HICKS and Desire TROWBRIDGE.

While patting myself on my back about this good fortune in reading the note, I also noticed another note, in the same teeny weeny handwriting, in the bottom margin of the page

This note read:

"Trisse Lovett, daughter of Susanna Hix born January 31, 1790"

Did you notice that this message lists the mother (my 4th great grandmother) under her maiden name, five years before her marriage to Josiah STONE. I have not found a marriage between a LOVETT and Susanna HIX, so I am assuming this was an illegitimate birth for now.

Unless I find another note in another record book.

And I'll be sure to check the marginalia!

These images are from "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1627-2001," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22577-3712-91?cc=2061550&wc=M947-HBG:n2079469534 : accessed 31 Oct 2013), Essex > Beverly > Births, marriages, deaths 1653-1890 > image 239 of 589.

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LOOMIS

The Loomis Homestead, oldest house in Windsor, Connecticut
from the website Historic Buildings of Connecticut
http://historicbuildingsct.com/?p=8582

Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper from Braintree, Essex, England who came to New England with his wife and children on 11 April 1638 aboard the Susan and Ellen from London, England and arrived in Boston on 17 July 1638. He resided first at Dorchester, Massachusetts and then removed to Windsor, Connecticut.

Joseph Loomis was granted land near the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers. His land was called “The Island” because every spring it flooded, but the house was built on high ground.

My Loomis Genealogy:

Generation 1: Joseph Loomis, born about 1590 in Braintree, Essex, England, died 25 November 1658 in Windsor, Connecticut; married on 25 August 1614 in Messing, Essex, England to Mary White, daughter of Robert White and Bridget Allgar. She was born 24 August 1590 and died 23 August 1652 in Windsor.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Thomas Loomis, born 1624 in England and died 28 August 1689 in Windsor; married on 1 November 1653 in Windsor to Hannah Fox, daughter of Henry Fox. She died 25 April 1662.

Generation 3: Mary Loomis, born 16 January 1659 in Windsor, died 11 May 1695; married 3 April 1679 to Michael Taintor, son of Michael Taintor and Elizabeth Rose. He was born 12 October 1652 in Branford, Connecticut, and died 19 Feb 1731.

Generation 4: Michael Taintor m. Eunice Foote

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Mary Loomis, born about 1620 in Shalford, died 19 August 1680 in Windsor; married about 1637 in Windsor to John Skinner, son of William Skinner and Margery Trotter. He was born about 1590 in Braintree, England and died 30 October 1650 in Hartford, Connecticut. She married second to Owen Tudor on 13 November 1651.

Generation 3: Joseph Skinner m. Mary Filley

Generation 4: John Skinner m. Sarah Porter

Generation 5: Aaron Skinner m. Eunice Taintor

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn (see above)

For more information:

The Descendants of Joseph Loomis who came from Braintree, England in the year 1638 and settled in Windsor, Connecticut in 1639, by Elias Loomis, New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, 1870 (available to read online at Archive.org)

The Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, and his antecedents in the Old World, by Elisha Scott Loomis, 1909 (available to read online at Archive.org)

The History of Ancient Windsor, by Henry R. Stiles, Vol. II , Somersworth: New Hampshire Publishing Co., 1976, pages 432-433.

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AMERICA'S COST OF FREEDOM

MILITARY ACTIONS 64

KILLED IN ACTION 652,224

WOUNDED IN ACTION 1,541,278

NON HOSTILE DEATHS 660,603

"THE BATTLE IS NOW JOINED ON MANY FRONTS

WE WILL NOT WAIVER; WE WILL NOT TIRE;

WE WILL NOT FALTER; AND WE WILL NOT FAIL."

PEACE AND FREEDOM WILL PREVAIL

GEORGE W. BUSH

COMMANDER IN CHIEF

SEPT. 11, 2001

THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED TO

ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST

AND WILL LOSE THEIR LIVES

IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST

TERRORISM.

DESCHENES PARK

NAMED IN MEMORY

AMEDEE DESCHENES

NASHUA

AUTOMATIC RIFLEMAN

CO. I. 103rd INFANTRY

AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES

IN THE

WORLD WAR

COMMENDED FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY

IN ACTION AT XIVRAY, FRANCE.

JUNE 16, 1918

WOUNDED SEPT. 12, 1918 AT ST. MIHIEL

DIED OCT. 1, 1918

DEDICATED TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

U.S. ARMY

DEDICATED TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

U.S. MARINES

DEDICATED

TO ALL NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

U.S. NAVY

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

U.S. AIR FORCE

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

COAST GUARD

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

SEA BEES

ERECTED BY THE CITY OF NASHUA

IN SINCERE GRATITUDE

TO THE MEN AND WOMEN

WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY

ON LAND, AT SEA AND IN THE AIR

DURING WORLD WAR II

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

NURSE CORPS

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

WAC

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

W.M.C

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

WAVES

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

W.A.F.

DEDICATED

TO ALL

NASHUANS

WHO SERVED

IN THE

SPARS

ACKLEY JAMES WILLIAM

AKSILOWICZ JOSEPH S

ALVANOS ANTHONY

ANRUSKEVICH ANTHONY T

BALUKEVICIUS WALDO

BANKOWSKI JOHN W

BARDWELL KARL H

BARTIS MICHAEL P

BEAULIEU ALPHONSE G

BEAULIEU ARTHUR

BECHARD RAYMOND T

BEGNOCHE DOLLARD E

BELANGER RAYMOND E

BERUBE GERARD L

BILODEAU HENRY F

BLOUIN REAL J

BOIRE PAUL A

BORGHI LEONARD A

BOUDREAU NORMAN A

CARON ROBERT N

CARON ROGER H

CHARAIT ALBERT A

CONLEY CHARLES H

COOK MILTON E

COVEY ARNOLD D

DEMONTIGNY GERARD E

DESJARDINS LEO P

DOBROWOLSKI JOHN W

DOUCET ALFRED R

DUBUC ROBERT L

DUDLEY FRANCIS R

DUFFINA JOSEPH ARCHIE

DUGAN ROBERT E

DUQUETTE HECTOR L

DUMAIS DENNIS G

ENGLISH CLIFTON J

FANOS MICHAEL A

FARWELL DONALD C

FORD LEON C

FRANCOEUR ROBERT A

FRNACOEUR ROGER R

FRASER RAYMOND H

GEDDES LEONARD H

GENDRON WALTER F

GILMORE ROBERT P

GIOTAS ARTURE J

GODDEAU HAROLD F

GRAVELLE RAYMOND H

GRENIER ADELARD E

GRIGAS JOHN F

GUICHARD ALFRED W

HALL GILBERT

HARDY ALBERT V

HARGREAVES JOHN R

HOLM MAURICE JR.

HOUGH WARREN C

JEREMICZ ANTHONY

JOYAL ROGER G

KOZLOWSKI STANLEY A

KEYSER PAUL W

KIMBALL CLYDE E

LABBEE DORIUS G

LABOMBARDE WILLIAM H

LANGLOIS RUDOLPH A

LAPLANTE KENNETH D

LAPOINTE ANTONIO L

LATWIS EDWARD

LAVOIE ALCIDE J

LAVOIE PAUL M

LEFEBVRE CONRAD E

LESSARD CONRAD J

LEVESQUE NORMAND R

LEVESQUE WALTER T

LINTOTT GUY H

LYON ERNEST W. JR.

MAJOR GEORGE A

MARTINEAU JOSEPH R

MAYNARD ROLAND J

MERCIER NORMAND C

MOREAU RAYMOND A

MULVANITY CREIGHTON F

NADEAU ALBERT J

NASH ROGER B

NEVILLE WILLIAM P

NOEL PAUL R

NUTE ALAN G

NUTE WILLIAM E

O'BRIEN FRANCIS J

OUELLETTE ALBERT H

PARKER BENJAMIN D

PEASE KILBURN G

PINET LIONEL A

PITARYS SOTERIOS J

PLEET ROLAND A

PSILOPOULOS STEVEN

RESAVAGE CLEMENT

REYNOLDS RAYMOND M

RIGNEY LEROY P

RIOUX NORMAN D

ROUSSEL ROGER S

ROWMAN THEODORE

ROY GERARD

SACKOVICH ALEXANDER

SANFORD HOWARD E

SEYMOUR RAYMOND W

SHOKAL WILLIAM V

SHORTELL JAMES A

SHUBELKA MICHAEL F

SIMARD RAYMOND G

SIMARD ROSARIO A

SLATUNAS STANLEY

SOUCY ALBERT J

UPHAM RAYMOND

VATICONIS VETO S

WHITNEY WARD P

WIDENER MARY A

WILCOX DONALD J

WILKINS EARLE W

WOODGER GEORGE E

YUKNEWICZ WILLIAM

ZERBINOS ALEXANDER

DEDICATED NOVEMBER 11, 1953

DEDICATED THIS 24TH DAY OF JULY 2001

IN HONOR OF 50 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

IN DEFENSE ELECTRONICS

1951 BAE SYSTEMS 2001

We protect those

who protect us

Our name has changed. Our mission lives on.

We Protect Those Who Protect Us

IN SUPPORT OF

THE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR ARMED FORCES

NASHVILLE

HISTORIC DISTRICT

HAS BEEN ENTERED IN THE

NATIONAL REGISTER

OF HISTORIC PLACES

BY THE UNITED STATE

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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The Londonderry, New Hampshire Common has War memorials and honor rolls for the
Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam

The Honor Roll project collects transcriptions of the names of the veterans on military honor rolls seen in parks, schools, public buildings, books and other places all over the USA and abroad. You can read the complete list at this link:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/honor-roll-project.html

Or you can see them at this Pinterest board

http://www.pinterest.com/geneabloggers/military-honor-rolls/

Twice a year, for Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day, genealogy bloggers photograph and transcribe these honor rolls, and publish them on the internet. The act of transcribing these names makes them available to be found by search engines such as Google, Mocavo and others. Family members searching for genealogical or military information on relatives, ancestors or friends will be able to see the honor rolls, read the names, and learn about their family’s military history.

It is a simple, easy project. However, it brings unexpected joy to searchers who did not know their ancestors were in the military, or did not know the specific military history, or sometimes they did not even know the town where their ancestors lived. Seeing their family member’s name on an honor roll can be the beginning of finding more genealogy data, military records and historical information.

Here are this year’s contributions:

Bill West, from “West in New England”

The Abington, Massachusetts World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam Honor Rolls

http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-military-honor-roll-project.html

Carol Bowen Stevens, from “Reflections from the Fence”

The Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan World War I Honor Roll

http://reflectionsfromthefence.blogspot.com/2013/11/remembering-court-house-lawn-memorial.html

Sara Campbell from “Remembering Those who came before us”

Cooperstown, New York, World War I Honor Roll

http://rememberingancestors.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-memorial-in-cooperstown.html

Pam Seavey Schaffner

Cincinnati, Ohio US Marine Corps Memorial

http://diggingdowneast.blogspot.com/2013/11/honor-roll-project-us-marine-corps.html

Wendy Grant Walter
Harwich, Massachusetts World War I and World War II Memorial
http://www.fromatozophar.com/2013/11/harwich-ma-world-war-i-world-war-ii.html

John Tew
Wallingford, Connecticut Civil War Honor Roll
http://filiopietismprism.blogspot.com/2013/11/military-honor-roll-project-november-10.html
Wallingford, Connecticut World War I Honor Roll
http://filiopietismprism.blogspot.com/2013/11/military-monday-veterans-day-november.html

Elyse Doerflinger
Lomita, California Veteran's Memorial
http://elysesgenealogyblog.com/honoring-lomita-veterans/

Steve Dow
Newington, New Hampshire's War Memorials
World War II and Korea
http://www.cwcanneycamp5.org/1/post/2013/11/newington-new-hampshires-memorials.html
Wars from 1745 to 1918
http://www.cwcanneycamp5.org/1/post/2013/11/newington-new-hampshires-war-memorial.html

Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Nashua, New Hampshire, World War II Honor Roll and other War memorials
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/railroad-square-nashua-new-hampshire.html

from Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter http://blog.eogn.com/
The Troy, New York World War II casualties
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/WWII_Soldiers/WWII-Soldiers_Introduction-Index.htm

Sent to me Kelly Reeve Griffith “The People in the Pencil Box” Blog http://kelzagenie.blogspot.com/

Illinois State Archives 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/honorroll.html

(searchable database contains “the locations of the burial places of soldiers, sailors, marines and army nurses from any of the wars of the United States and are buried in Illinois”)

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More Veteran’s Day events online

Did you know....?

The military records website Fold3.com has an honor roll this week to honor your ancestors who were veterans in every US conflict. You can participate by adding photos, stories and information to the veterans on their list. Click here:

http://www.fold3.com/wall/?hootPostID=440cbc7845db43d6fd2cd4e3d0011257

The crowdsourcing gravestone photography website BillionGraves.com is rewarding the participants who upload the most photos from a military cemetery this weekend. The prizes will $25 Amazon gift cards to the top three people. Click here for details:

http://blog.billiongraves.com/2013/11/veterans-day-giveaway/

Ancestry.co.UK (United Kingdom) is providing free access to 3.6 million military records until November 12th. To search click at www.ancestry.co.uk/start_military

The Canadian version of Ancestry.ca will also offer free access to military records until November 12^th.

Check out the Pinterest Board hosted by Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers “Our Gratitude Shall not Sleep- Military Ancestors” at this link:

http://www.pinterest.com/geneabloggers/our-gratitude-shall-not-sleep-military-ancestors/

At the time I’m writing this, there are 77 pins with photos of military veterans, mostly ancestors.

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A tribute for Veteran's Day
(there are no individual names on this Civil War Monument)

In January 1889 the Nashua City council voted "For the erection of a Soldier's Monument and appropriation not exceeding twelve thousand dollars." By March the Committee appointed chose a design present by T. M. Perry, of the Frederick & Field Quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts.

A cornerstone holding a time capsule was laid on 30 May 1889 by the Grand Master Masons of New Hampshire. It was Decoration Day (now called Memorial Day). There was a parade up Main Street to Abbott Square where the monument was to built. Several long addresses, prayers and speeches were given. You can read all about the festivities and a transcription of the speeches in the book below (pages 32 - 39). On pages 39 to 40 you can find a list of the items placed in the cornerstone, too. This was followed by more orations and speeches!

The Monument was finished and dedicated on 15 October 1889, just 10 months after the vote to build it. I'm pretty sure that a project of this magnitude would take a bit longer in Nashua today. It was built of Quincy granite with bronze statues and plaques, so I'm also sure that it would cost much more than the $12,000 today, too. There was another parade, with viewing platforms and more speeches, and you can read them, too, in the book mentioned below on pages 97 - 120.

This photo is from page 68 of the

book mentioned below.

The sword is now missing.

A TRIBUTE TO THE

MEN OF NASHUA,

WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY

ON LAND OR SEA DURING

THE WAR OF THE

REBELLION, AND AIDED IN

PRESERVING THE INTEGRITY

OF THE

FEDERAL UNION

A.D. 1861 - 1865

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ERECTED BY THE

CITY OF NASHUA

A.D. 1889

The City Seal for Nashua, New Hampshire

"THE UNION OUGHT TO BE CONSIDERED AS

A MAIN PROP OF YOUR LIBERTY, AND THE

LOVE OF THE ONE OUGHT TO ENDEAR TO

YOU THE PRESERVATION OF THE OTHER"

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS

"OUR FEDERAL UNION: IT MUST BE PRESERVED"

ANDREW JACKSON

"LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER,

ONE AND INSEPARABLE"

DANIEL WEBSTER

"THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD, WE TAKE

INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR

WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE

OF DEVOTION- THAT WE HERE HIGHLY RE-

SOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE

DIED IN VAIN- AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF

THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEO-

PLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"LET US HAVE PEACE"

U.S. GRANT

SINKING OF THE ALABAMA BY THE KEARSARGE, JUNE 19, 1864

A book about this monument:
An Account of the Soldiers' and Sailor's Monument Erected by the People of the City of Nashua, Nashua, NH: James H. Barker, City Printer, 1889
You download this book from Archives.org or read it online at this link:
http://archive.org/stream/accountofsoldier00nash#page/n7/mode/2up

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Every Wednesday for more than two years I've been posting photographs of weather vanes located in or near the Nutfield area (the former name for the land where Londonderry, Derry and Windham, New Hampshire are now located). Most are historically interesting or just whimsical and fun weather vanes. Today's weather vane can be seen in in a National Historic Site, somewhere in Massachusetts. Have fun guessing where you may have seen this weather vane.

Do you know the location of weather vane #124? Scroll down to see the answer....

When you visit the Adams National Park in Quincy, Massachusetts, you are seeing the homes of TWO presidents! The first is the home where John Adams raised his son, John Quincy Adams, and the second is the larger estate home where John Adams retired, and where his son, John Quincy Adams, built the Stone library. It holds over 14,000 volumes of books, and was designed to be fireproof and separate from the wooden house known as "Peacefield". It was built in 1870 after a request in John Quincy Adams's will, in a medieval style, different from the very New England style farmhouse and estate.

Adams National Historical Site http://www.nps.gov/adam/index.htm

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Wattannick Grange Hall, No. 327

This building was originally the Hudson, New Hampshire Town Hall, built in 1857. According to the book Hudson, New Hampshire by Laurie A. Jasper, Acadia Publishing, 2000, page 24 "The Wattannick Grange began holding meetings in the building in 1921. The original organization split in two, and Hudson Grange number 11 held meetings near the Bridge area of town. The Town of Hudson sold the building to the Wattanick Grange for a small sum in 1963, and the Grange continues to use the building."

The Wattannick Grange Hall is located on 327 Windham Road, Hudson, New Hampshire, across the street from the former site of Benson's Wild Animal Farm and Zoo. Just behind the Grange Hall you can see the remnants of the former Boston and Maine Railroad track bed. In the past, residents of the area could often see exotic animals being paraded from the nearby train station to Benson's, which opened in 1924 and was closed in 1987.

Click below for a 2011 post about the two Grange Halls in Londonderry, New Hampshire
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/02/londonderrys-grange-halls.html

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FOOTE

from the Foote Family Association website www.footefamily.org

I have two separate FOOTE lineages. Last year I wrote up a Surname Saturday post for my lineage from Pasco Foote (about 1608 – 1670), who lived in Salem, Massachusetts. You can read it at this link:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/04/surname-saturday-foote-of-salem.html

Today I’m posting about my immigrant ancestor, Nathaniel Foote (1592 – about 1644) of Wethersfield, Connecticut. There is no proof that the two Foote families are connected genealogically.

Nathaniel Foote was born in Shalford, England. He had an amazing number of interesting relations and ancestors in England, including a first cousin who was Sir Thomas Foote, the Sheriff of London in 1649 and also Lord Mayor of London in 1650. Nathaniel was apprenticed to a grocer as a young man. He married Elizabeth Deming, whose brother John Deming was also one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Mary, Nathaniel’s sister, married John Hewes and had three children who came to Roxbury, Massachusetts. (Joshua Hewes, Elizabeth Hewes married Ralph Hemingway, and Pheobe Hewes who married Richard Gorde ).

By 1633 Nathaniel Foote and his family had arrived in Boston and then Watertown, Massachusetts. By 1635 he was one of the first settlers to Wethersfield. Nathaniel Foote received a ten acre house lot on Broad Street, and the owner of several other grants of land nearby. His house lot is now a public park on Broad Street in Wethersfield.

In the early days at Wethersfield there were many conflicts with the native Indians, and the Foote family suffered several losses, including a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren taken captive, and another grandchild killed, another daughter and three grandchildren killed while her husband and another two children were captured.

Nathaniel Foote died in 1644 and his widow, Elizabeth, married Thomas Welles, who was later the Governor. Although Nathaniel died intestate, Elizabeth’s will names her children and grandchildren, and she left a large piece of land to her son Robert Foote.

For more information on the FOOTE family, see The Foote Family, by Nathaniel Goodwin, 1849 and Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Wethersfield. There is a sketch of Nathaniel Foote in the Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Volume II, pages 540 -544 and there are also three articles mentioning the Foote family in The American Genealogist, Volume 58, 165 – 167; Volume 71, pages 149 – 150; and also Volume 72, page 49 – 55. There is an active Foote Family Association of America and website at www.footefamily.org

My Foote Lineage:

Generation 1: Nathaniel Foote, son of Robert Foote and Joanne Brooke, born about 21 September 1592 in Shalford, Colchester, England and died before 20 November 1644 in Wethersfield, Connecticut; married about 1615 in England to Elizabeth Deming, daughter of Jonathan Deming and Elizabeth Gilbert. She was born about 1593 in Shalford, died 28 July 1683. She married second on 2 March 1645 in Wethersfield as the second wife to Governor Thomas Welles. Eight children.

Generation 2: Nathaniel Foote, born 5 March 1619 in St. James, Colchester, England and died about 1655 in Wethersfield; married about 1646 to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Samuel and Smith and Elizabeth Smith (they were both Smiths). She married second to William Gull. Four children.

Generation 3: Nathaniel Foote, born 10 January 1648 in Wethersfield, died 12 January 1703 in Wethersfield; married on 2 May 1672 in Springfield to Margaret Bliss, daughter of Nathaniel Bliss and Catherine Chapin. She was born 12 November 1649 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died 3 April 1745 in Colchester, Connecticut. Nine children.

Generation 4: Eunice Foote, born 10 May 1694 in Weathersfield; married on 3 December 1712 to Michael Taintor, son of Michael Taintor and Mary Loomis. Four children.

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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HERE AT NEW BOSTON, N.H.

ROGER W. BABSON

AND HIS ASSOCIATES

PIONEERED

IN ACTIVE RESEARCH

FOR ANTI-GRAVITY

AND A PARTIAL GRAVITY

INSULATOR

1959

This traffic island in the middle of New Boston, New Hampshire hides a secret!

Under the plants and bushes is a monument to anti-gravity.

I have been a fan of John J. Babson’s book The History of Gloucester, 1876, since it contains much genealogy information and historical stories about my ancestors. In learning more about the Babson family, one of my favorite members has to be Roger Ward Babson (1875 – 1967). He went to MIT, and worked for investment companies and invented Babson’s Statistical Organization in 1904. His interest in business theory led him to found Babson College in Massachusetts, Webber College in Florida and the now gone Utopia College in Kansas. He is famous for predicting the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression. On September 5, 1929, just a few weeks before the crash he gave a speech “Sooner or later a crashing is coming, and it may be terrific.”

Roger Ward Babson was also an odd character; he founded the Gravity Research Foundation in 1948, convinced that science could learn to harness gravity. They also experimented with theories on anti-gravity and gravity insulators. He built a headquarters for this foundation in the little village of New Boston, New Hampshire because he was convinced it was far enough from civilization to survive a nuclear bomb in Boston, Massachusetts. The Gravity Research Foundation still exists, and it gives a prize every year for the best essay about gravity. Don’t laugh because Steven Hawking is one of the prize winners (see, he’s not just a character on The Big Bang Theory).

Another odd interest of Babson’s was the early settlement in Gloucester, Massachusetts known as Dogtown. He hired stonecutters during the Great Depression to carve inspirational mottos on the boulders throughout Dogtown. You can still walk through this area today and read the boulders which say things such as “Keep out of Debt”, “Help Mother” and “Prosperity follows service”, as well as marking the location of Dogtown Square and the cellar holes of colonial era homes.

A "Babson Boulder" at Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts

There is a Babson Museum in West Gloucester dedicated to James Babson, the first Babson in Gloucester, Massachusetts who was a cooper. The museum is a cooperage, built in 1658. Roger Ward Babson is a distant cousin to me through his ROGERS and WHIPPLE ancestors.

I would love to photograph all these monuments to anti-gravity and gravity research, but as you can see below, someone has already done that. Here is a list of all the colleges with the Anti-Gravity Monuments (none are the three colleges he founded, nor his Alma Mater the Massachusetts Institute of Technology):

Colby College in Waterville, Maine

Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont

Keene State College in Keen, New Hampshire

Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts

Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts

Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts

We found this monument at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts

THIS MONUMENT HAS BEEN

ERECTED 1964 BY THE

GRAVITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

ROGER W. BABSON FOUNDER

IT IS TO REMIND STUDENTS

OF THE BLESSINGS FORTHCOMING

WHEN SCIENCE DETERMINES

WHAT GRAVITY IS, HOW IT WORKS

AND HOW IT MAY BE CONTROLLED

For the truly curious:

The Babson Historical Association http://babsonhistorical.org/ Museum, genealogy and other Babson information and Images, including the Babson Family Association and Reunion.

http://www.oddthingsiveseen.com/2010/03/anti-gravity-monuments.html from the Odd Things I've Seen website, this is the post that got me driving around New England looking for these monuments. There are photos of all the monuments at this page.

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/stone-wall-stories-3-dogtown.html my blog post about looking for the Babson Boulders in Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts

http://cowhampshire.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/9/3/2208378.html A blog post about Roger Ward Babson, from Jan Brown’s blog “Cow Hampshire”, it includes a genealogy of the Babson Family.

The Gravity Research Foundationhttp://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/
Try your luck at writing a prize winning essay on gravity, or anti-gravity, just like Stephen Hawking

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This gravestone was photographed at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The broken wheel is a symbol of a the end of the circle of life. It is also appropriate here because it is the grave of Charles I. Brown (1859 -1914), a Manchester carriage maker and woodworker. He lived at 999 Auburn Street and died at the Elliott Hospital. This is ironic because Auburn Street no longer exists, and was approximately where the parking garage of the Elliott now exists.

Other people also buried here at the Brown family plot are Charles's wife, Myrna A. Jacobs (1862-1947), and his children (Nina Brown, Florence Brown, Ethel Brown wife of A. W. McLaskey, Rev. Roland Brown and his wife Marcia F.).

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Every Wednesday for two years I've been posting photographs of weather vanes located in or near the Nutfield area (the former name for the land where Londonderry, Derry and Windham, New Hampshire are now located). Most are historically interesting or just whimsical and fun weather vanes. Today's weather vane is a very historic building in Derry, New Hampshire. Have fun guessing where you may have seen this weather vane.

Do you know the location of weather vane #125? Scroll down to see the answer....

Today's weather vane can be seen on the Adams Female Academy building on Lane Road in Derry, New Hampshire. It is a feather, probably representing a quill for writing. The Adams Female Academy was founded in 1824 by Jacob Adams "to be located within one hundred rods of the East Parish meeting house in Londonderry" (in those days the entire town was Londonderry, later divided and the East Parish became the town of Derry). This one of the first all female schools in New England, and it had several famous teachers, including Mary Lyon who later established the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary which is now Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Mount Holyoke is the oldest woman's college in the United States. The Adams Female Academy in Derry is now a private residence.

Click here to read a previous blog post about the Adams Female Academy:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/03/adams-female-academy-1824-derry-new.html

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Does your employer give you a Thanksgiving turkey? Or maybe it happens on Christmas with a turkey or a holiday bonus? How long ago did this tradition start?

from the Saturday Morning Citizen, Beverly, Massachusetts
Saturday, November 27, 1886
via GenealogyBank.com

Peter Hoogerzeil (1841 - 1908) was my Great Great Grandfather. He owned an express company, with many employees, in Beverly, Massachusetts. It was fun to find this little mention of him in a local newspaper.

My husband has worked for the same company for 30 years. It started as a small local engineering firm, and has grown to be merged by several international companies. When the company was small, and only in New Hampshire, the management would distribute turkeys to the employees at Christmas. Rain or Shine. Or snow! Here's Vincent distributing turkeys in 2007. Now his company is very large and international, so they give out turkey certificates. It is still appreciated, and many employees donate them to food banks.

Vincent, in the snow, passing out turkeys to employees

It seems to me that today many companies and businesses are taking away from their employees on Thanksgiving, instead of rewarding them. They make them work on the holiday, and pay them starvation wages, without bonuses or turkeys. It reminds me of Scrooge in Dicken's A Christmas Carol. In the end, Scrooge saw the error of his ways and rewarded his employee, Bob Cratchit, with a day off, a salary raise and a generous bonus- as well as a large prize winning fowl from the poulterer around the corner. That story was written in 1843.

Do you have any evidence of your ancestors' generosity to employees, or their receiving gratitude from their employers in years past? Does this tradition still continue today? The media today is full of reports of companies taking the holiday away from their employees, and one company even asked for donated cans to feed their their employees, instead of giving a gift to their employees themselves [Company shall remain nameless here].

Remember that even Scrooge gave Cratchit a turkey, and let him take the holiday off to be with his family.

Library of Congress image (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b18267 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b18267
22 November 1912, men walking home from work after a company raffle with their Thanksgiving turkeys

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Fifty years ago today, on 22 November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I thought it might be a nice idea to have a good memory of JFK instead of dwelling on the murderous act.

On 25 January 1960 the Massachusetts Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy came to Nashua for the first campaign stop for the 1960 presidential elections. It was his first official election speech, given during a snowfall in front of the Nashua City Hall. This was the first announcement that he was running for president. In those days, the primary was held in March, and the campaigning began just a few weeks ahead of time. Today the politicians gear up for the New Hampshire primaries years in advance. In 1960, the New Hampshire Primary was on March 8th, barely six weeks later!

IN MEMORIAM

PRESIDENT

JOHN FITGERALD

KENNEDY

ON JANUARY 25, 1960

THIS CITY HALL PLAZA

WAS JOHN F. KENNEDY'S

FIRST CAMPAIGN STOP

IN THE NATION FOR

THE PRESIDENCY OF

THE UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA.

On the back of the pedestal are words from JFK's inaugural address:

LET THE WORD GO FORTH

FROM THIS TIME AND

PLACE, TO FRIEND AND

FOE ALIKE, THAT THE

TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED

TO A NEW GENERATION

OF AMERICANS - BORN

IN THIS CENTURY, TEM-

PERED BY WAR, DISCIPLINED

BY A HARD AND BITTER

PEACH, PROUD OF OUR

ANCIENT HERITAGE."

JOHN F. KENNEDY

JANUARY 20, 1961

Click here for a link to a 2010 Nashua Telegraph article about the 50th anniversary of this event:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/560476-196/50-years-ago-nashua-greeted-jfk.html

On 23 November 2011, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney stood right behind this statue during his campaign during the New Hampshire Primary season, but never once mentioned Kennedy. Both candidates were from Massachusetts, and both experienced religious prejudice. Perhaps Romney would have been more successful if he had taken a few moments to mention the man on the pedestal? On 18 February 1992 Bill Clinton made a campaign stop at this very place, and he won his bid for the highest office. Yes, he mentioned Kennedy's legacy in his speech.

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SMITH

Samuel Smith and his wife and four children sailed from Ipswich, England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony on board the ship Elizabeth in April 1634. They first lived in Watertown, and then were in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1635.

In the records of Wethersfield Samuel Smith is called “The Fellmonger” because he was a fur trader and a tanner. He was also part owner and builder of the Tryal, which might be the first ship built in the Connecticut colony. Around 1659 he removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he appears in the records as “Lieutenant Smith”. The regicides Whalley and Goffe supposedly hid in Smith’s home in Hadley. (Seven men who signed the death warrant for King Charles I were known as the Regicides. Edward Whalley, a relative to Oliver Cromwell, and his son-in-law, William Goffe, escaped to Boston in 1660. They lived openly for a while until orders arrived for their arrest. They fled to the New Haven colony, and then to Hadley where they lived for fifteen years.)

The only compiled genealogy about this family is Lieutenant Samuel Smith and His Children by James William Hook. The sketch for Samuel Smith is found in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634 – 1635, pages 396 – 402. There is an article about the identity of Samuel Smith’s wife, who was Elizabeth Smith, in The American Genealogist, Volume 32, page 195 “The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield”. The Smith family is listed on board the Elizabeth in NEHGS Register, Volume 14, page 329, Hotten’s Original Lists of Persons of Quality pages 280 and 282, Pope’s Pioneers of Massachusetts. There is a short sketch about Samuel Smith in The History of Whately, Massachusetts.

My Smith genealogy:

Generation 1: Samuel Smith, born about 1602 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, died 16 Jan 1681 in Hadley, Massachusetts; married on 6 October 1624 in Whatfield, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth Smith, born about 1602 and died 16 March 1686 in Hadley. Six children.

Generation 2: Elizabeth Smith, baptized on 28 Jan 1627 at St. Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England and died after 1701; married about 1646 to Nathaniel Foote, son of Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming. He was born on 5 March 1619 in Colchester, Essex, England and died in 1655 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Four children.

Generation 3: Nathaniel Foote m. Margaret Bliss

Generation 4: Eunice Foot m. Michael Taintor

Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner

Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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When I was a child one of my friends owned the ABC book The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing. It was written by Edward Gorey and published in 1963. It is a satire of children’s books, told with a morbid sense of humor that might remind you of “The Addams Family” or more modern humor. In the 1960s and 1970s it was considered quite inappropriate for children. But we loved it as kids, and pored over the pages, and scoured the library for more books by Edward Gorey. His books were very popular with children, although they were not specifically written for children.

Millions of people are familiar with Edward Gorey’s cartoons and humor through the opening animated sequences at the beginning of the PBS series “Mystery”. They have never seen one of his books, which are extremely collectible, and mostly out of print now. He also illustrated books for other authors. Many of his smaller stories and cartoons have been republished in a series of books called Amphigory, 1972;Amphigory Too, 1975, Amphigory Also, 1983, and so on.

Wikipedia’s sketch of Edward Gorey includes a list of the many pseudonyms Edward Gorey used for his books. Most of them were anagrams, and some were just silly puzzles, like Ogred Weary, Mrs. Regera Dowdy and E. G. Deadworry. See this link for the complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey

If you are on Cape Cod you can visit his house, which has been turned into a museum to his artwork. It is located at 8 Strawberry Lane in Yarmouthport, Massachusetts and looks like a quaint and traditional New England home, but is full of weird and wonderful examples of Edward Gorey’s humor. Proceeds from ticket and gift sales go towards several New England animal welfare organizations and to the Tufts Veterinary School. It is not commonly known that Edward Gorey was an advocate for animal welfare.

Edward Gorey's kitchen has been converted into a "gory" art gallery

Edward Gorey was born in Chicago on 22 February 1925 and Died 15 April 2000 in Hyannis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. He graduated from Harvard University in 1950, and studied art for one scant semester at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Gorey’s influence is part of the Goth subculture, and reprints of his books, dolls and posters of his art can be seen in giftshops around the world. His legacy lives on through his artwork.

For the truly curious:

The Gorey Fan blog “Goreyana” http://goreyana.blogspot.com

The website for the Edward Gorey House, Yarmouthport, Massachusetts http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/

The famous genealogist and archivist William Addams Reitwiesner worked out Edward Gorey’s ancestry at his website, click here http://www.wargs.com/other/gorey.html He has many New England ancestors including HEWITT, GAY, HODGKINS, ANGELL, and WILKINSON (from Rhode Island).

You can also see another version of Edward Gorey’s family tree at Geni.com, along with a long biography. Click here for the link http://www.geni.com/people/Edward-Gorey/6000000017781338501

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These tombstones of the Chandler family plot were photographed at the Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, New Hampshire.

Buried here at this plot:
Henry Chandler (1850 - 1900_
Abigail J. Bond Chandler (1839 - 1903)
Annie B. Chandler (1865 - 1964)
Sallie M. Chandler Hill (1867 - 1950)
James W. Hill (1867 - 1940)

The sister, Mary Gould Chandler and her husband George Gould are interred in the Gould mausoleum nearby.

This impressive Chandler monument is at the same plot. Here lie Henry's parents, George Byron Chandler and his wife Fanny Rice Martin, and a brother, Byron. George was the son of Adam Chandler and Sally McAllister of Bedford, New Hampshire. He was a bank president, and also sat on the board of many other banks. Fanny was the daughter of Banjamin F. Martin (Amoskeag Paper Mill) and Mary Rice. George's first wife, Flora Daniels, died on 31 May 1868 in childbirth, and she and the baby are buried at the Valley Cemetery. Another son, Alexander, son of Fanny is also buried at Valley.

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Every Wednesday for two years I've been posting photographs of weather vanes located in or near the Nutfield area (the former name for the land where Londonderry, Derry and Windham, New Hampshire are now located). Most are historically interesting or just whimsical and fun weather vanes. Today's weather vane can be seen Derry, New Hampshire. Have fun guessing where you may have seen this weather vane.

Do you know the location of weather vane #126? Scroll down to see the answer....

Today's weather vane was seen at a private residence on Lane Road in Derry. It is on top of a cupola above a detached garage. This is a nice three dimensional pheasant, with a beautiful copper or bronze patina. There are six great weather vanes to see on Lane Road. Most of these weather vanes are the usual weathercocks or running horses, but the Adams Female Academy building with the quill pen weathervane is on Lane Road, too.

Click here to see the entire collection of Weathervane Wednesday posts!

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Tombstone Tuesday ~ Henry Moor, M. A., d. 1798 Londonderry, New Hampshire

Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Mill Yard Landmark

Researching the Family Tree in Spain

Why it is so important to read the marginalia!

Surname Saturday ~ LOOMIS of Windsor, Connecticut

Railroad Square, Nashua, New Hampshire, World War II Honor Roll and other War Memorials

2013 Veteran’s Day Military Honor Roll Project Contributions

The Soldiers and Sailor's Monument, Nashua, New Hampshire

Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Presidential Library

Photo Friday ~ The Wattannick Grange, Hudson, New Hampshire

Surname Saturday ~ FOOTE of Wethersfield, Connecticut

Anti-Gravity, History, Rocks, Finance, and Genealogy

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Brown, at Manchester, New Hampshire

Weathervane Wednesday ~ A very Historical School

Thanksgiving Turkeys

JFK in Nashua, New Hampshire

Surname Saturday ~ SMITH of Wethersfield, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts

Visit with the Ghouls and Goblins at the Edward Gorey House

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Chandler, at Manchester, New Hampshire

Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Game Bird