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Wilson C Tufts
Private, Company B, Age 23, Residence: North Berwick
WILSON C TUFTS was born in 1839 [gravestone] in Farmington, NH [death rec of dau Ida], the son of David and Charlotte (Garland) Tufts. He died in 1882 [g.s.] and was buried in Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, NH.
He married about 1862 to MARCIA E KELLY (also seen as Marsha). She was born 9 Apr,1840 in Limerick, Maine [NH Death Rec], and died on 17 March, 1913 in Rochester at age 72yrs,11mos,8das, from heart disease [NH Death Rec]. An online entry calls her the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Gilpatrick) Kelly. This couple did have a female named
Marsha in the 1850 Limerick, ME census, age 11, and the William C. in same household is prob the brother C.W. mentioned in her obit. Her parents were not listed on death record. Her obit was carried in the 18 Mar, 1913 issue of the Fosters Daily Democrat:
Private, Company B, Age 23, Residence: North Berwick
WILSON C TUFTS was born in 1839 [gravestone] in Farmington, NH [death rec of dau Ida], the son of David and Charlotte (Garland) Tufts. He died in 1882 [g.s.] and was buried in Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, NH.
He married about 1862 to MARCIA E KELLY (also seen as Marsha). She was born 9 Apr,1840 in Limerick, Maine [NH Death Rec], and died on 17 March, 1913 in Rochester at age 72yrs,11mos,8das, from heart disease [NH Death Rec]. An online entry calls her the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Gilpatrick) Kelly. This couple did have a female named
Marsha in the 1850 Limerick, ME census, age 11, and the William C. in same household is prob the brother C.W. mentioned in her obit. Her parents were not listed on death record. Her obit was carried in the 18 Mar, 1913 issue of the Fosters Daily Democrat:
Wilson was, at age 10, living in the 1850 Farmington, Strafford, NH census household of David
and Charlotte Tufts. This couple is the David K Tufts and Charlotte Smith who married in Dover
on 4 Feb, 1825 [VR of Dover p182], and seen in the 1830+40 censuses for Farmington. The
Amos Tufts who lived with Wilson in 1880 Rochester, NH census died in 1900, and record lists
his parents as David and Charlotte (Garland) Tufts. Wilson moved to Berwick, ME by 1860,
seen there working as a carpenter, and living in house of Alvin Spencer. He was also
enumerated in Rochester,NH, as a carpenter apprentice, living with James and Mercy Blaisdell.
By 1862, he had removed to North Berwick, where two of his children were born. He afterwards
moved to Rochester, NH, remaining employed in the carpentry business.
Wilson and Marcia had the following children (surname Tufts):
I. IDA JULIA was born in North Berwick, Maine on 31 Aug, 1861 [death rec] and died at Wentworth Hospital in Dover, NH on 3 Aug, 1911 at age 49yrs, 11mos,3das [NH Death Rec -note, in vr that death date mistakenly written as the 30th], "accidentally burned over 2/3 of whole body". She was buried on 4 Aug, 1911 in Rochester Cemetery. She married in Rochester, NH on 30 Aug, 1879 to FRANK P WOODES, the son of William H and Hannah S (Moodey) Woodes [NH Marr Rec]. He was born 25 Mar, 1854 in Madison, NH and died on 14 Mar, 1922 from apoplexy, at age 67yrs,11mos,1da [NH Death Rec]. He was also interred in Rochester Cemetery. They lived in Rochester and, following the death of his wife, Frank moved to Lynn, MA, where he was a foreman for a shoe shop there [1920 census]. They had two children (surname Woodes):
1. Perley (Pearley) C, born 16 June, 1885 in Rochester, NH and died in same city on 12 June, 1905 at age 19yrs,11mos,27das from tuberculosis [NH VR]. He was single. Gravestone indicates he was/had been in the US Navy.
2. Weldon W; according to census rec's, Ida had two children, one being dec'd by 1900. No dates accompany his stone in Rochester Cemetery.
II. NELLIE A was born ca 1865 in North Berwick, ME and died before 1913 (not in mother's obit). She was married before the 1880 census to JAMES T B EDGERLY, the son of Charles and Maria (Wentworth) Edgerly. He was born in Rochester circa Sept, 1859, and died on 29 Dec, 1891 at age 32yrs 3mos from consumption [Rochester, NH Deaths]. He worked as a shoecutter. His death record says he was married, so Nellie was alive at this time, but I have yet to get a death date for her, but perhaps before the 1900 census (her children in separate households). The NH Bride's Index was searched, but no remarriage found. They had at least the following four children, all born Rochester, Strafford, NH (surname Edgerly):
1. (infant male), born 18 Sept, 1879 in Rochester and died in same on 21 Sept, aged 3 das from congestion [NH VR].
2. Emma E was born about 1883, and died at age 6 on 2 June, 1889 in Rochester of aedema of lung [NH VR; Roch. Deaths]
3. Wilson Charles was born on 14 Dec, 1884 [WWI Draft Reg Card], and died on 24 Oct, 1931 at age 46yrs,9mos,27das from apoplexy. He is buried in Rochester Cem. He was married on 7 Nov, 1908 in Rochester to Elizabeth May Litchfield, the daughter of Vincent H and Rose Etta (Rogers) Litchfield [NH Marr Rec]. He lived in Rochester, working as a fire cleaner for the B + M Railroad. He was blind in his right eye [Draft Card]. In the 1900 census, he was living with his grandfather Charles Edgerly. According to census records [1910-30 Roch. censuses], they had three children: Edgar C, Gladys L, and Harold Eugene (b.4 Nov,1909, died 22 Sept,1946).
4. Eugene Fred, born 28 Apr, 1887 [WWI, WWII Draft Reg Cards; "a son, 4th child" Gen Rec of Strafford Cty v29 no3, p36]. He died in Akron Summit, Ohio on 25 Dec, 1959, age 72 [OH Deaths]. In the 1900 Rochester census, he was living with his Uncle Silas Edgerly. By 1917, he was living in Akron, Ohio, working as a secretary for the Young Men's Christian Association [WWI Draft Card]. In 1942, he was working for the Akron Clinic. His death rec says he was a physician. He married, but I haven't looked further into this family.
III. ALICE M, born April, 1870, likely in Rochester,NH [1870 census]. With her parents in 1870-1880 Roch. censuses. She may be the Alice M who was married to WALTER YOUNG prior to 1888, when first child born. Their whereabouts after this date is unknown.
1. Walter Eugene Young was born 6 Apr, 1888 in Rochester, NH [Gen Rec of Strafford Cty, v30 no1, p14; WWI Draft Card]. He married circa 1908 (2 yrs in 1910 - did not see in NH VR) to Edna M Olson, born in Rochester to Norway natives Olaus and Christina Olson (Olson grave photo here). When first married, Walter was a shoemaker, but later worked in the "moving picture business", and was a theatre proprietor living in Farmington, NH [WWI, WWII Draft Reg Cards]. Farmington vr shows a son born to them there:
ii. Walter H Young, 2nd child, born 4 Oct, 1920
IV. LEWIS CUSHMAN, born 22 Feb,1873 [WWI Draft Reg Card], Jan, 1873 [1900 census], or 1874 [gravestone] probably in Rochester,NH. By 1900 census, he had moved to Farmington,Franklin,ME. His widowed mother was living with him. About 1903 [7yrs in 1910] he married a LYDIA NELLIE (called Nellie Rose Tufts on Draft Card) in place not yet known, but they were living in Danvers,MA in 1910, Beverly,MA in 1918 and Salem,MA in 1920. According to gravestone, Lydia was born in 1877 and died in 1929. He worked as a stitcher in shoe factory, while Nellie was a keeper of a lodging home in the 1920 census.
Additional Source Data:
1850 Farmington,NH census
1860 Berwick (pg 14)
1860 Rochester,NH (pg 31)
1870 Rochester,NH (pg 50)
1880 Rochester,NH (pg 11) dist.B hh 68/94
1900 Farmington,Franklin,ME (p 5B)
1900 Roch, NH wrd-2 (pg 24B): hh 552/560, Wilson liv w/ gr-father Charles Edgerly
1900 Roch, NH wrd-3 (pg 4B): Frank and Ida Woodes in hh of farmer Stacey Colomy
1910 Danvers,MA (pg 11B)
1910 Roch, NH wrd-2 (pg 4A): hh 70/70 Wilson Edgerly and family
1910 Roch, NH wrd-6 (pg 10B): wid Marica liv 83 Portland St w/ Frank + Ida Woodes
1910 Rochester wrd-4: Walter + Edna Young liv w/ her parents
1920 Rochester, NH wrd-2 (pg 5B): Wilson Edgerly and family liv 35 Upham St
1920 Salem wrd-2, Essex,MA: renting at 26 Brown
1920 Lynn, Essex,MA wrd-5 (pg 9A): Frank Woodes, wid, liv w/ John + Eva Coleman
1930 Roch, NH wrd-2 (pg 4B): Wilson Edgerly and family at 35 Upham
1952 Salem, MA St Dir: A Blanche, wid of Lewis C, liv 12 Pleasant
-Civil War Pension Index: Wilson filed 1882 (app #444,810, cert #363,099 in NH); Maria E filed 1884, 1 Sep (app #319,174 cert #234,393 NH)
- Vital Records of Dover, NH 1686-1850 by Dover Historical Society reprint c1990 Heritage
- History of Rochester, NH by Franklin McDuffee, p237, GAR Sampson Post #22 "W C Tufts 27th Maine"
- The Genealogical Record of Strafford County (pub by Strafford County Gen Society), carried Rochester vital rec's in vol 29 and vol 30
- Rochester, NH Death Records 1887-1951 by Rich'd P Roberts c2006 Heritage Books
- Rochester, NH Births 1887-1926 (town rept collection) by Strafford Cty Gen Soc (Dover,NH lib)
- Correspondence, July 2008, w/ S.Shay (Tufts desc)
Wilson and Marcia had the following children (surname Tufts):
I. IDA JULIA was born in North Berwick, Maine on 31 Aug, 1861 [death rec] and died at Wentworth Hospital in Dover, NH on 3 Aug, 1911 at age 49yrs, 11mos,3das [NH Death Rec -note, in vr that death date mistakenly written as the 30th], "accidentally burned over 2/3 of whole body". She was buried on 4 Aug, 1911 in Rochester Cemetery. She married in Rochester, NH on 30 Aug, 1879 to FRANK P WOODES, the son of William H and Hannah S (Moodey) Woodes [NH Marr Rec]. He was born 25 Mar, 1854 in Madison, NH and died on 14 Mar, 1922 from apoplexy, at age 67yrs,11mos,1da [NH Death Rec]. He was also interred in Rochester Cemetery. They lived in Rochester and, following the death of his wife, Frank moved to Lynn, MA, where he was a foreman for a shoe shop there [1920 census]. They had two children (surname Woodes):
1. Perley (Pearley) C, born 16 June, 1885 in Rochester, NH and died in same city on 12 June, 1905 at age 19yrs,11mos,27das from tuberculosis [NH VR]. He was single. Gravestone indicates he was/had been in the US Navy.
2. Weldon W; according to census rec's, Ida had two children, one being dec'd by 1900. No dates accompany his stone in Rochester Cemetery.
II. NELLIE A was born ca 1865 in North Berwick, ME and died before 1913 (not in mother's obit). She was married before the 1880 census to JAMES T B EDGERLY, the son of Charles and Maria (Wentworth) Edgerly. He was born in Rochester circa Sept, 1859, and died on 29 Dec, 1891 at age 32yrs 3mos from consumption [Rochester, NH Deaths]. He worked as a shoecutter. His death record says he was married, so Nellie was alive at this time, but I have yet to get a death date for her, but perhaps before the 1900 census (her children in separate households). The NH Bride's Index was searched, but no remarriage found. They had at least the following four children, all born Rochester, Strafford, NH (surname Edgerly):
1. (infant male), born 18 Sept, 1879 in Rochester and died in same on 21 Sept, aged 3 das from congestion [NH VR].
2. Emma E was born about 1883, and died at age 6 on 2 June, 1889 in Rochester of aedema of lung [NH VR; Roch. Deaths]
3. Wilson Charles was born on 14 Dec, 1884 [WWI Draft Reg Card], and died on 24 Oct, 1931 at age 46yrs,9mos,27das from apoplexy. He is buried in Rochester Cem. He was married on 7 Nov, 1908 in Rochester to Elizabeth May Litchfield, the daughter of Vincent H and Rose Etta (Rogers) Litchfield [NH Marr Rec]. He lived in Rochester, working as a fire cleaner for the B + M Railroad. He was blind in his right eye [Draft Card]. In the 1900 census, he was living with his grandfather Charles Edgerly. According to census records [1910-30 Roch. censuses], they had three children: Edgar C, Gladys L, and Harold Eugene (b.4 Nov,1909, died 22 Sept,1946).
4. Eugene Fred, born 28 Apr, 1887 [WWI, WWII Draft Reg Cards; "a son, 4th child" Gen Rec of Strafford Cty v29 no3, p36]. He died in Akron Summit, Ohio on 25 Dec, 1959, age 72 [OH Deaths]. In the 1900 Rochester census, he was living with his Uncle Silas Edgerly. By 1917, he was living in Akron, Ohio, working as a secretary for the Young Men's Christian Association [WWI Draft Card]. In 1942, he was working for the Akron Clinic. His death rec says he was a physician. He married, but I haven't looked further into this family.
III. ALICE M, born April, 1870, likely in Rochester,NH [1870 census]. With her parents in 1870-1880 Roch. censuses. She may be the Alice M who was married to WALTER YOUNG prior to 1888, when first child born. Their whereabouts after this date is unknown.
1. Walter Eugene Young was born 6 Apr, 1888 in Rochester, NH [Gen Rec of Strafford Cty, v30 no1, p14; WWI Draft Card]. He married circa 1908 (2 yrs in 1910 - did not see in NH VR) to Edna M Olson, born in Rochester to Norway natives Olaus and Christina Olson (Olson grave photo here). When first married, Walter was a shoemaker, but later worked in the "moving picture business", and was a theatre proprietor living in Farmington, NH [WWI, WWII Draft Reg Cards]. Farmington vr shows a son born to them there:
ii. Walter H Young, 2nd child, born 4 Oct, 1920
IV. LEWIS CUSHMAN, born 22 Feb,1873 [WWI Draft Reg Card], Jan, 1873 [1900 census], or 1874 [gravestone] probably in Rochester,NH. By 1900 census, he had moved to Farmington,Franklin,ME. His widowed mother was living with him. About 1903 [7yrs in 1910] he married a LYDIA NELLIE (called Nellie Rose Tufts on Draft Card) in place not yet known, but they were living in Danvers,MA in 1910, Beverly,MA in 1918 and Salem,MA in 1920. According to gravestone, Lydia was born in 1877 and died in 1929. He worked as a stitcher in shoe factory, while Nellie was a keeper of a lodging home in the 1920 census.
Additional Source Data:
1850 Farmington,NH census
1860 Berwick (pg 14)
1860 Rochester,NH (pg 31)
1870 Rochester,NH (pg 50)
1880 Rochester,NH (pg 11) dist.B hh 68/94
1900 Farmington,Franklin,ME (p 5B)
1900 Roch, NH wrd-2 (pg 24B): hh 552/560, Wilson liv w/ gr-father Charles Edgerly
1900 Roch, NH wrd-3 (pg 4B): Frank and Ida Woodes in hh of farmer Stacey Colomy
1910 Danvers,MA (pg 11B)
1910 Roch, NH wrd-2 (pg 4A): hh 70/70 Wilson Edgerly and family
1910 Roch, NH wrd-6 (pg 10B): wid Marica liv 83 Portland St w/ Frank + Ida Woodes
1910 Rochester wrd-4: Walter + Edna Young liv w/ her parents
1920 Rochester, NH wrd-2 (pg 5B): Wilson Edgerly and family liv 35 Upham St
1920 Salem wrd-2, Essex,MA: renting at 26 Brown
1920 Lynn, Essex,MA wrd-5 (pg 9A): Frank Woodes, wid, liv w/ John + Eva Coleman
1930 Roch, NH wrd-2 (pg 4B): Wilson Edgerly and family at 35 Upham
1952 Salem, MA St Dir: A Blanche, wid of Lewis C, liv 12 Pleasant
-Civil War Pension Index: Wilson filed 1882 (app #444,810, cert #363,099 in NH); Maria E filed 1884, 1 Sep (app #319,174 cert #234,393 NH)
- Vital Records of Dover, NH 1686-1850 by Dover Historical Society reprint c1990 Heritage
- History of Rochester, NH by Franklin McDuffee, p237, GAR Sampson Post #22 "W C Tufts 27th Maine"
- The Genealogical Record of Strafford County (pub by Strafford County Gen Society), carried Rochester vital rec's in vol 29 and vol 30
- Rochester, NH Death Records 1887-1951 by Rich'd P Roberts c2006 Heritage Books
- Rochester, NH Births 1887-1926 (town rept collection) by Strafford Cty Gen Soc (Dover,NH lib)
- Correspondence, July 2008, w/ S.Shay (Tufts desc)
Mrs Marcia Tufts, widow of Wilson C, dropped dead last evening at about 11 o'clock at her
home on Knight St. The cause of her death was heart trouble. The dec'd was born in Limerick,
Maine, but had been a respected resident of Rochester for 40 years. She is survived by a
brother C W Kelly of North Berwick, and one son, L C Tufts of Danvers, MA