Wilson C Tufts
Rank: Pvt Co: B Age: 23 Residence: North Berwick Birthplace: Farmington, NH Occupation: Carpenter
Married/Single: M Height: 5' 7” Eyes: Blue Hair: Br Complexion: Lt
WILSON C TUFTS was born in 1839 [gravestone] in Farmington, NH [Descriptive Roll], the son of David and Charlotte (Garland or Smith) Tufts. He died in 1882 [g.s.] and was buried in Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, NH.
He married, in Somersworth, NH on 13 July 1861, 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 72 yrs, 11 mos, 8 das, from heart disease [NH Death Rec]. She was likely the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Gilpatrick) Kelly. This couple had a female named Marsha in the 1850 Limerick, ME census, age 11, and the William C. in same house is probably 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:
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
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:
I. IDA JULIA TUFTS 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 49 yrs,11 mos, 3 das [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 67 yrs,11 mos,1 day [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 Woodes, b. 16 June 1885 in Rochester, NH and d. in same city on 12 June 1905 at age 19 yrs,11 mos,27 das from tuberculosis [NH VR]. He was single. Gravestone indicates he had been in the US Navy.
2. Weldon W Woodes; 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 TUFTS 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 32 yrs, 3 mos 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), b. 18 Sept 1879 in Rochester and died in same on 21 Sept, aged 3 das from congestion [NH VR].
2. Emma E Edgerly, b. about 1883, and d. at age 6 on 2 June 1889 in Rochester of aedema of lung [NH VR; Roch. Deaths]
3. Wilson Charles Edgerly, b. on 14 Dec 1884 [WWI Draft Reg Card], and d. on 24 Oct 1931 at age 46 yrs, 9 mos, 27 das 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, d. 22 Sept 1946).
4. Eugene Fred Edgerly, b. 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 as a manager. His wife was Edith E. They had two daughters with them in the 1930 census: Ruth Iley and Esther Rosina.
III. ALICE M TUFTS, born April 1870, in Rochester,NH [son's marr rec; her marr rec to Foss and Dame]; died in Rochester, NH on 15 Oct 1898, aged 29 yrs, 5 mos, 25 das, from child bed fever. Listed with her parents in 1870-1880 Roch. censuses. She is likely the Alice M who was "married" (no marriage record has been found) to WALTER YOUNG prior to 1888, when first child born. On 28 Feb 1889, in Rochester, NH [NH Marr Rec], Alice was married to CLARENCE A FOSS. The son of Dallas and Ora (Moulton) Foss, he was born in Dover, NH. They divorced on 11 Sept 1893. She would remarry on 30 Dec 1893, in Rochester, NH, to EDWIN F DAME, the son of Charles H and Abby H (Plumer) Dame [NH marr rec].
Alice had one child, with Walter Young [Walter E's obit mentions he was an only child]:
1. Walter Eugene Young, b. 6 Apr 1888 in Rochester, NH [Gen Rec of Strafford Cty, v30 no1, p14; WWI Draft Card]; d. 15 May 1956 in Rochester, NH [obit, Farmington News, 5/17/56]. He married in Dover, NH on 18 Dec 1907 [NH Marr Rec] to Edna M Olson, born in Rochester to Norway natives Olaus and Christina Olson. She was born in 1887 and died in 1988 [gravestone]. They are both buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Farmington, NH. 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]. They had two children: i. Norma A Young; marr Leston E Gray. ii. Walter H Young, b. 4 Oct 1920
IV. LEWIS CUSHMAN TUFTS, born 22 Feb 1873 [WWI Draft Reg Card], Jan 1873 [1900 census], or 1874 [gravestone], in Rochester, NH; died in 1948 [grave]. By 1900 census, he had moved to Farmington, Franklin, ME. His widowed mother was living with him. About 1903 [7 yrs 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. Lewis secondly married, on 22 Oct 1932 in Exeter, NH, BLANCHE M (MAYHEW) SWAIN, also a widow. She was the daughter of Otis S Mayhew and Harriet A Hussey, born in Milford, Maine.
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)
He married, in Somersworth, NH on 13 July 1861, 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 72 yrs, 11 mos, 8 das, from heart disease [NH Death Rec]. She was likely the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Gilpatrick) Kelly. This couple had a female named Marsha in the 1850 Limerick, ME census, age 11, and the William C. in same house is probably 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:
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
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:
I. IDA JULIA TUFTS 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 49 yrs,11 mos, 3 das [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 67 yrs,11 mos,1 day [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 Woodes, b. 16 June 1885 in Rochester, NH and d. in same city on 12 June 1905 at age 19 yrs,11 mos,27 das from tuberculosis [NH VR]. He was single. Gravestone indicates he had been in the US Navy.
2. Weldon W Woodes; 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 TUFTS 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 32 yrs, 3 mos 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), b. 18 Sept 1879 in Rochester and died in same on 21 Sept, aged 3 das from congestion [NH VR].
2. Emma E Edgerly, b. about 1883, and d. at age 6 on 2 June 1889 in Rochester of aedema of lung [NH VR; Roch. Deaths]
3. Wilson Charles Edgerly, b. on 14 Dec 1884 [WWI Draft Reg Card], and d. on 24 Oct 1931 at age 46 yrs, 9 mos, 27 das 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, d. 22 Sept 1946).
4. Eugene Fred Edgerly, b. 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 as a manager. His wife was Edith E. They had two daughters with them in the 1930 census: Ruth Iley and Esther Rosina.
III. ALICE M TUFTS, born April 1870, in Rochester,NH [son's marr rec; her marr rec to Foss and Dame]; died in Rochester, NH on 15 Oct 1898, aged 29 yrs, 5 mos, 25 das, from child bed fever. Listed with her parents in 1870-1880 Roch. censuses. She is likely the Alice M who was "married" (no marriage record has been found) to WALTER YOUNG prior to 1888, when first child born. On 28 Feb 1889, in Rochester, NH [NH Marr Rec], Alice was married to CLARENCE A FOSS. The son of Dallas and Ora (Moulton) Foss, he was born in Dover, NH. They divorced on 11 Sept 1893. She would remarry on 30 Dec 1893, in Rochester, NH, to EDWIN F DAME, the son of Charles H and Abby H (Plumer) Dame [NH marr rec].
Alice had one child, with Walter Young [Walter E's obit mentions he was an only child]:
1. Walter Eugene Young, b. 6 Apr 1888 in Rochester, NH [Gen Rec of Strafford Cty, v30 no1, p14; WWI Draft Card]; d. 15 May 1956 in Rochester, NH [obit, Farmington News, 5/17/56]. He married in Dover, NH on 18 Dec 1907 [NH Marr Rec] to Edna M Olson, born in Rochester to Norway natives Olaus and Christina Olson. She was born in 1887 and died in 1988 [gravestone]. They are both buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Farmington, NH. 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]. They had two children: i. Norma A Young; marr Leston E Gray. ii. Walter H Young, b. 4 Oct 1920
IV. LEWIS CUSHMAN TUFTS, born 22 Feb 1873 [WWI Draft Reg Card], Jan 1873 [1900 census], or 1874 [gravestone], in Rochester, NH; died in 1948 [grave]. By 1900 census, he had moved to Farmington, Franklin, ME. His widowed mother was living with him. About 1903 [7 yrs 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. Lewis secondly married, on 22 Oct 1932 in Exeter, NH, BLANCHE M (MAYHEW) SWAIN, also a widow. She was the daughter of Otis S Mayhew and Harriet A Hussey, born in Milford, Maine.
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)