Fales, David, Nancy, Ann Rebecca, a First Baptist Church Family

First Baptist Church, South Dedham/Norwood ca. 1885

Site of First Baptist Church Washington & Vernon Sts. as it appears in 2023

David Fales (1808-1889)

Nancy L. Morse Fales (1812-1893)

Ann Rebecca Fales Wilde (1850-1874)

David Fales was born on June 22, 1808 to Nathaniel and Rebecca Everett Fales of Dedham. At the time of his birth, the family was living in New Hampshire.

On August 17, 1834, David Fales married Nancy L. Morse, the daughter of Isaiah and Lydia Morse of Walpole.

Boston Evening Transcript Sep. 9, 1884

The couple had five children: Harriet (1833-1911), Albert (1839-1884), William H. (1845-1911), Charles (1847-1926), and Ann Rebecca (1850-1974). All lived to adulthood and married.

In 1858 when the First Baptist Church of South Dedham was organized, David Fales was chosen as one of its first Deacons.

David and Nancy’s daughter, Ann Rebecca Fales, married George Wilde of Boston on April 27, 1871. She died on March 26, 1874 of a blood disorder, at the age of 24, shortly after the birth of a son, Albert C. Wilde. Ann Rebecca Fales Wilde was interred in Old Parish Cemetery.

David Fales died on November 24, 1889 in East Bridgewater of heart disease. His widow, Nancy L. Morse Fales, passed away on December 15, 1902 in East Bridgewater of pneumonia. They were both interred in the family lot.