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Patricia Fanning
Jun 16, 20232 min read
The Morrills move to Highland
Sarah Bond Tidd Morrill (1829-1861) Samuel Morrill (1804-1878) Sheldon Collins Morrill (1875-1877) After Highland Cemetery was...
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Patricia Fanning
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Thomas & Mary Dean Lawrence
Thomas Fisk Lawrence (1840-1910) Mary F. Dean Lawrence (1852-1926) Thomas Fisk Lawrence was born in Acton, Massachusetts on November 25,...
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Patricia Fanning
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Andrews Family Gravesite Restoration
Joel Andrews (1777-1820) Levina Morse Andrews (1780-1804) Chloe Everett Andrews (c1783-1820) Hannah Andrews (1775-1830) Joel Andrews was...
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Patricia Fanning
May 26, 20233 min read
The Norwood Brass Band
The origins of Norwood’s first band date to before the town was incorporated. During the Civil War, the Eighteenth Massachusetts...
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Patricia Fanning
May 19, 20231 min read
Talbot Family of Neponset St.
Curtis Talbot (1798-1884) Hannah Fuller Andrews Talbot (1815-1835) Emeline Fisher Talbot (1806-1877) Curtis Talbot was born on November...
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Patricia Fanning
May 12, 20231 min read
British Emigration to South Dedham
Rhoda Hoyle Parker (1806-1859) Rhoda Hoyle was born in England on January of 1806. She was the daughter of Josiah Hoyle (1775-1818) and...
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Patricia Fanning
May 5, 20231 min read
Isaac & Nancy Morse Chamberlain South Dedham Farm Family
Isaac E. Chamberlain (1798-1871) Nancy Morse Chamberlain (1815-1848) Mary Chamberlain (1813-1893) Isaac Ellis Chamberlain was born on...
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Patricia Fanning
Apr 28, 20231 min read
South Dedham, East Walpole, Morse's Tavern
David Morse, Jr. (1787-1852) Nancy Gay Morse (1787-1849) David Morse, Jr. was born on August 25, 1787. He was the son of David Morse...
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Patricia Fanning
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Moses & Catherine Sumner and Daughters
Moses Sumner (1800-1862) Catherine Gay Sumner (1803-1899) Moses Sumner was born on July 23, 1800 to Nathaniel Sumner and Elizabeth Smith...
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Patricia Fanning
Apr 14, 20231 min read
Iconic Slate Stones, Nathaniel & Miriam Lewis
Nathaniel Lewis (1691-1752) Miriam Draper Lewis (1701-1757) Born in Dedham on May 25, 1697, Nathaniel Lewis was the son of Barachiah...
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Patricia Fanning
Apr 7, 20231 min read
Lavina Littlefield, Twice a Widow
Abijah Fairbanks (1778-1810) Lavina Littlefield Rhoads Fairbanks (1780-1861) Elizabeth Fairbanks (1807-1827) Lavina Littlefield was born...
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Patricia Fanning
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Early Gravestone Practices
Headstones and Footstones at Old Parish A headstone is placed at the head of the grave to identify the person who is buried there. It...
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Patricia Fanning
Mar 24, 20231 min read
Oliver Fisher Marries Judith Fisher & Olive Smith
Oliver Fisher (1771-1834) Judith Fisher Fisher (1775-1801) Olive Smith Fisher (1774-1857) Rufus Fisher (1808-1834) Jason Fisher...
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Patricia Fanning
Mar 17, 20231 min read
Warren Guild: A Sudden Death
Warren Guild (1807-1848) Warren Guild was born in 1807 and christened on July 24, 1808. He was the son of Joel Guild and his wife Hannah...
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Patricia Fanning
Mar 10, 20232 min read
Morse Legacy: John Edwin & Roxa Fuller Morse
John Morse (1791-1861) Roxa Fuller Morse (1794-1844) Maria Bullen Morse (1816-1886) John Morse (1819-1819) Caroline A. Ellis Morse...
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Patricia Fanning
Mar 3, 20233 min read
Fortifying Dorchester Heights; South Dedham Patriots Answer the Alarm
After the skirmish at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, and the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed’s Hill) in June, British...
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Patricia Fanning
Feb 24, 20232 min read
Harrison Rhodes: Wheelwright, Tanner, Hoseman
Harrison P. Rhodes (c. 1830-1907) When Harrison Rhodes died on February 19, 1907 of pneumonia at 75, he had been in failing health for a...
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Patricia Fanning
Feb 17, 20231 min read
First Death Recorded in Norwood
Joel Weatherbee (1798-1872) Elizabeth “Betsey” Graham Weatherbee (1796-1876) David Weatherbee (1832-1833) On March 9, 1872, Joel...
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Patricia Fanning
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Rebecca Lewis Richards, Early Colonist
Rebecca Lewis Richards (1734-1777) Rebecca Lewis was born on October 16, 1734. She was the third child of Nathaniel Lewis and Miriam...
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Patricia Fanning
Feb 3, 20231 min read
Norwood's First Historian
Francis Tinker (1816-1896) R. Elizabeth Hutchinson Tinker (1825-1915) Orra Gertrude Tinker (1872-1880) Francis O. Tinker, apothecary and...
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