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Note N6994 Index

Charles was a plasterer. Mary was a seamstress.

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Note N7000 Index

Frank worked as a superintendent in the woolen mill in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

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Note N7001 Index

Fred was a house painter in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

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Note N7010 Index

Mabel was born in Canada about 1891. She came to the United States in 1909, and was naturalized a US Citizen in 1910.
Nelson was a factory worker, in a local shoe factory.

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Note N7011 Index

Harry operated an upholstery business in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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Note N7014 Index

In 1900, Eli and Lillian were living in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he worked as a house painter.

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Note N7017 Index

Caroline might be the Caroline Scribner (age 18, born in Illinois) living in 1870 with the Thomas Welch family in Henderson, Sibley County, Minnesota (NARA Microcopy T132, Roll 10, Borough of Henderson, Page 3-4, Dwelling 23, Family 23).

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Note N7020 Index

Percy was a Machinist.

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Note N7021 Index

In 1920, Ralph was working as a Winder in a thread mill in Windham.

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Note N7022 Index

Rodney was a Draftsman.

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Note N7025 Index

Samuel was a farmer and a woodsman. He died from an accidental wound suffered while working in the woods at Errol, New Hampshire. Laura "brought up the family with very little help from any one."

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Note N7034 Index

Marion worked for 15 years as a cook at Lee Academy before moving to North Berwick. She loved to cook for all of her family and was affectionately known as "Nana Blake."

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Note N7035 Index

Charles was born Charles Egger in Schenectady, New York. His father died when Charles was about one year old. His mother was thus thrown into poverty so severe that she was unable to care for Charles. So, in a heart-rending move, she placed Charles in the home of a Mr. Fowler, whose name Charles took for himself thereafter.
Charles arrived in Benona about 1870 and went to work as a lumberman, then as a millworker. It was while he worked at Charles Mears' lumbermill at Silver Lake that he met Melvina. After their marriage, they lived at Silver Lake for several years, then, by 1895, they purchased a 40-acre farm in Benona Township. In 1912 they moved again, to a 40-acre fruit farm in west Benona. In their later years, their son, Charles, took over the operation of the farm, and they moved to a home next door to sister Annie in Shelby, where they spent their last years.

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Note N7037 Index

Francis and Elizabeth sailed to America from London, England, in 1837 aborad the steamship "Mediator." They first lived in Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, where Francis continued in his trade of carriagemaking. It is said that, in England, he had made carriages for the entire royal family. He was an expert carriagemaker, and his services were always in great demand. After a few years, thet moved to Marshalltown, Iowa (rejoining Hiram and Matilda) where they lived the rest of their lives (Battin and Moscrip, PAST AND PRESENT OF MARSHALL COUNTY, IOWA [op.cit.], 583).