Jane Kirby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1636 - of Dartmouth, Plymouth colony
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Death: Bef Jul 1707 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Lander (1613 - 11 Nov 1675)
Marriage: 2 Jul 1654 - Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
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Children:
1. Mercy Lander (1651-1654)
2. John Launders (1653-1737)
3. Richard Landers (Cir 1660- )
4. Hasadiah Lander (1674- )
John Joseph Kirby
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1920
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1. *Eleanor Rose Bagni (Est 1930 - )
Marriage: 9 Oct 1948 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 1
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of Wellfleet, 1948
Octavia S Kirby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Oct 1868 - Cape Canso, Guysborough, Nova Scotia
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Death: 3 Apr 1896 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Snow cemetery, Truro
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Spouses and Children
1. *Isaiah T Hatch (Sep 1857 - 3 Aug 1917)
Marriage: 16 Nov 1894 - Truro, Massachusetts 3
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Children:
1. Hatch (1896-1896) 2
Notes
General:
d/o William Burton Kirby and Clara ColeMedical:
age 27-5-5
died suddenly
Noreen Kirlin
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1930
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1. *James Mayo (Est 1925 - ) 4
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1. Jean Mayo (1953- )
John Kitchery
Sex: M
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Birth: 1825 - New York
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1. *Nancy (1829 - )
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Status:
Children:
1. Rachel Kitchery (1848- )
2. Louisa H Kitchery (1856-1857)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Nancy)
1850 US census, Wellfleet
in the household of David & Betsey Baker:
John Kitchery, 25, mariner, born NY
Nancy Kitchery, 21, b NY
Rachel Kitchery, 2, b NY
Louisa H Kitchery
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Mar 1856 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 13 Oct 1857 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 5
Burial:
Cause of Death: canker
Parents
Father: John Kitchery (1825- )
Mother: Nancy (1829- )
Notes
Medical:
age 1-7
surname unclear
parents John & Nancy
Rachel Kitchery
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1848 - New York
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Father: John Kitchery (1825- )
Mother: Nancy (1829- )
Ellen Kitila
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1921 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Death: 30 May 2008 - Centerville (Barnstable), Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Alfred W Childs (Est 1920 - )
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Barnstable Patriot obit
Ellen Childs, 86
Centerville – Ellen (Kitila) Childs, 86, died May 30, 2008, at Cape Heritage Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Sandwich.
Born in Sandwich in 1921, Ellen was a lifelong resident of West Barnstable, where she started her family with her late husband, Alfred W. Childs. In 1977, they moved to Centerville, where they would live for the next 30 years.
Ellen is survived by her daughters, Judy E. Smith, Janet H. Cobb and Marjorie M. Barthelmes, as well as her grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Her son, Donald W. Childs, passed away in 2006.
Graveside burial was held at Crocker Park Cemetery in West Barnstable, on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at 1 p.m.
Anna Kittredge
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1842 - New York
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Death: 20 May 1922
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet 7
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1920 Anna Kittredge sold property to Emma Lane in WellfleetMedical:
age 80
brought to Wellfleet
buried with Benjamin Witherell family 6
Elizabeth H Kittredge
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1831 - Epping, New Hampshire
Baptism:
Death: 1856
Burial: in Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham
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Spouses and Children
1. *Benjamin Franklin Allen (25 Jan 1815 - 12 Apr 1887)
Marriage: 3 Jun 1851 - Waltham, Massachusetts 8
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Notes
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1851 of Waltham
d/o Theodore Kittredge (1801-1879) & Harriet Winslow Pickering (1805-1891)
Harriet "was the "daughter of the distinguished Rev. George Pickering, one of the founders of Methodism in this country, and among the first to preach it in Massachusetts."
Theodore Kittredge was a physician, as was his father and his father's father. His father was George Kittredge who lived in Epping, N. H. His father's father was Benjamin Kittredge (1741-1776).
Theodore (1801, Epping, N.H. - 1879, Waltham, Mass.) graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1823. In 1832, he moved to Waltham, Mass. and practiced medicine there until his death in 1879 (except for one year in Bath, Maine).
He married Harriet Winslow, whose father was one of the founders of Methodism. Theodore was also enthusiastic about Methodism. In 1833 he began leading "class meetings" to spread Methodism. These had originally been led in Waltham, Mass. by Charles Barnes from 1820-1825, but ended because many members moved to Lowell, Mass. Around 1829, Marshall Livermore began leading the Waltham meetings anew, followed by Marshall Jones, and then by Theodore Kittredge. Sometimes they used the Masonic Hall on Main St. for their services, as well as schools on Elm St. and School St.
His brother George was a physician and a Congressman from New Hampshire, and his brother Charles was a druggist.
- According to "History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Volume 3," edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co, 1890" 9
George Lyman Kittredge
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Feb 1860 - Boston, Massachusetts
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Death: 23 Jul 1941
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Children:
1. Henry Crocker Kittredge (1890-1967)
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Kittredge, George Lyman (28 Feb. 1860-23 July 1941), professor of English, was born in Boston, the son of Edward Lyman Kittredge, a storekeeper, and the widowed Deborah Lewis Benson. Kittredge went to Roxbury Latin School in 1875 and to Harvard to study classics in 1878, supported by money from friends. At Harvard he came under the influence of Francis James Child, the first professor of English at Harvard and a pioneering scholar in ballad literature. After graduating Kittredge became in 1883 a Latin teacher at the Phillips Exeter School in Exeter, New Hampshire. There he met Frances Gordon, daughter of another teacher at the school; they married in 1886 and had three children.
Kittredge, who had been working privately under the direction of Child and had spent a year of study in Germany (1886-1887), began teaching in the English department at Harvard in 1888 and was appointed full professor in 1895. He taught principally Shakespeare, Chaucer, English and Germanic philology, and Old English. His classes were famous, and he became a legendary figure in undergraduate mythology (his graduate classes were notably more relaxed and informal). He lectured on texts line by line, answering appropriate questions from students in minute philological detail, and kept his classes in awe with a mixture of genuine erudition and pedagogic trickery (he always brought his remarks to a close walking down the aisle and out of the lecture hall as the hour bell tolled). He cut an imposing figure, white-haired and white-bearded from the age of 40, handsomely patriarchal, an inveterate cigar smoker; he always dressed in a pale-gray suit and carried a cane, with which he would remove offending undergraduate headgear; he was ever conscious of his dignity and lived in a barely suppressed fury at any slight that might be offered to his favorite authors, himself, or the English language.
He was never chairman of the English department, nor did he ever take a Ph.D. "Who would have examined me?," he is reputed to have replied when asked why he lacked a doctorate, but honors and honorary degrees were showered on him throughout his life. In 1913 he was presented with the Kittredge Anniversary Papers and in 1917 was named first Gurney Professor of English Literature. Two high points in his career were the address on Shakespeare that he gave on 23 April 1916 in the Sanders Theatre at Harvard at the request of the president and Fellows of Harvard College, and the Northcliffe lectures on Shakespeare that he gave at University College, London, in 1932. The latter were followed by a triumphal tour throughout England, as the foremost American literary scholar of his day, and the award of an Honorary Litt.D. at Oxford. His retirement in 1936 was a public event, announced in the Boston newspapers; he toured the United States in 1937, lecturing on Shakespeare, a kind of royal progress.
Kittredge's first published work was the revision, with James Bradstreet Greenough, of Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar (1888), but he soon began to emulate F. J. Child, his great teacher. His Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus (1894) was modeled directly on Child's study of Chaucer's language, and Words and Their Ways in English Speech (1901), a nontechnical account of English word formation, etymology, and semantic change that he wrote with Greenough, was dedicated to Child's memory. His edition of Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1904) is a work of the first importance in making Child's formidable scholarship more accessible to the general reader. Meanwhile, he was doing other editorial work (the Latin Arthur and Gorlagon, 1903) and much occasional work as a writer of reviews, encyclopedia articles, and school textbooks, such as The Mother Tongue (1900), a primer that he wrote with Sarah Louise Arnold, and An Advanced English Grammar (1913).
Another area of activity, again pioneered by Child, was in the study of folklore and folk history. The Old Farmer and His Almanack (1904) is a popular collection of New England folklore, but Witchcraft in Old and New England (1929) is a lavishly annotated compendium consisting of three long and substantially researched chapters (on medieval witchcraft, English witchcraft and James I, and the New England background to the Salem witch trials of 1692, the last two published separately some years before) filled out with chapters of a more anecdotal kind on broader topics. The book is written, as always, in a lively and engaging way, and the tone is wise, benevolent, paternal, authoritative: "common misapprehensions" were meat and drink to Kittredge. But, though "historical understanding" is constantly invoked, there is little sense of historical contingency or change: like folklore, witchcraft for Kittredge is universal and identical whether found among our forefathers, "uneducated folk today," or "contemporary savages" (p. 23).
Kittredge's greatest importance, however, is as a literary scholar and critic. A Study of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (1916) is a classic of its kind, a study of the relationships of the sources and analogues of the great fourteenth-century English poem, based on a division of the poem into plot elements that are then traced back to their different origins. The technique is that of historical phonology, textual stemmatics, or folktale motif analysis, all of them quasi-scientific forms of investigation that have remained influential throughout the twentieth century. Kittredge concludes by arguing that Gawain is derived directly from a lost French original in which the major plot elements were already combined.
Kittredge's work on Chaucer has been of much more far-reaching and long-lasting importance. It began early, with his brilliant essays, "Chaucer's Pardoner" (1893), "Chaucer and Some of His Friends" (1903), and "Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage" (1912), and the best of it is enshrined in the six lectures that he gave at Johns Hopkins in 1914 and published in 1915 as Chaucer and His Poetry. Here, in a wide-ranging survey of Chaucer's principal poems, Kittredge propounds his belief in Chaucer as a great dramatic poet and a master of psychological realism: as Bradley was to Shakespeare, so is Kittredge to Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde is a "masterpiece of psychological fiction" and "the first novel, in the modern sense, that ever was written in the world, and one of the best" (p. 109). The Canterbury Tales is a "Human Comedy," principally interesting for its dramatic revelation of the character of the pilgrims: "the Pilgrims do not exist for the sake of the stories, but vice versa. Structurally regarded, the stories are merely long speeches expressing, directly or indirectly, the characters of the several persons" (p. 155). This view of Chaucer's two major poems has been enormously influential, and Kittredge's book is still widely read. Kittredge's technique is to present himself as an authoritative guide to the poems, serenely confident of all the eternal verities of the human condition, warm, optimistic and reassuring in his humanity, and genially dismissive of other views or of the possibility of conflict or disturbance within the poems (the salacious comic tales, or fabliaux, are never mentioned). The reading is characterized by Kittredge's inimitable grace and ease of style, dazzling simplicity, and fatherly certainty. Even when no one is left who believes what he says, everyone will want to read what he writes.
Kittredge's lectures on Shakespeare, for which he was perhaps most famous in his day, found their way into print only through a series of annotated editions of single plays, culminating in his one-volume annotated Shakespeare (1936). But he will be chiefly remembered as a critic of Chaucer, as a legendary Harvard cult figure, and as the teacher of generations of American medieval scholars, including John Matthews Manly, Karl Young, Carleton Brown, and John Livingston Lowes.
Bibliography
A large Kittredge archive is in the Widener Library at Harvard University, including college prize papers, lecture notes, class readings, and notes by eminent students (including those of F. N. Robinson, 1891-1892) from his Chaucer lectures. All of Kittredge's major full-length publications are mentioned above. His most important independently published essays are as follows: "Chaucer's Pardoner," Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1893, pp. 829-33; "Chaucer and Some of His Friends," Modern Philology 1 (1903-1904): 1-18; "The Date of Chaucer's Troilus," Chaucer Society, 2d ser. 42 (1909); "Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage," Modern Philology 9 (1911-1912): 435-67; "Chaucer's Lollius," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 28 (1917): 47-133. Clyde Kenneth Hyder, George Lyman Kittredge: Teacher and Scholar (1962), is a full-length biography. A briefer notice is in Rollo Walter Brown, "King of the Anglo-Saxons," chap. 4 of his Harvard Yard in the Golden Age (1948). See also James Thorpe, Bibliography of the Writings of George Lyman Kittredge (1948), and a valuable brief biographical introduction by Bartlett Jere Whiting to the 1970 reissue of Kittredge's Chaucer and His Poetry. An obituary by J. L. Lowes is reprinted in Harvard Scholars in English, ed. W. J. Bate (1992).
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Henry Crocker Kittredge
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Jan 1890 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 22 Feb 1967 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
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Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941)
Mother:
Notes
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Biographical note from Sturgis Library, Barnstable, Mass.:
Henry C. Kittredge was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 4, 1890. His undergraduate life was spent at Cambridge Latin School and the Noble and Greenbough School. He enrolled in Harvard in 1908 and graduated in 1912. From 1912 until 1916 he was an instructor at Adirondack-Florida School where the Winter and Fall terms were held in the Adirondacks and the Summer term in Florida. He was called to St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire in 1916 as an instructor in English.
On November 28, 1917 he married Gertrude (Patsy) Livingston and the following year he was made an Infantry Lieutenant serving in the U. S. Army in France during World War I. Upon his discharge, he returned to St. Pauls where he served as Head of the Lower School, Vice Rector and became Rector in 1947. Among his honors was being elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1935 and Honorary Degrees from Trinity College in 1938 and Yale in 1954.
Upon his retirement in 1954, he moved to his beloved Barnstable on Cape Cod where he was a lifelong summer resident and which he referred to as his "ancestral home". Proof of this love were books that he authored: "Cape Cod, it's People and Their History" (1930), "Shipmasters of Cape Cod" (1935) and "Mooncussers of Cape Cod" (1937) published by Houghton Mifflin. Henry and his wife, Patsy, bought three or four sections of marsh ranging from 25 to 60 acres. They also purchased three cranberry bogs and the vast majority of their holdings were donated to the town for conservation purposes.
His extra curricular activities embraced the Barnstable Finance Committee, Barnstable Historical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Tavern Club of Boston, Harvard Clubs of Boston and New York, Trustee of Sturgis Library and Chairman of the West Barnstable Memorial Foundation.
Henry died peacefully at his Pine Lane home in Barnstable on February 22, 1967. His large collection of papers, manuscripts and books were donated to the Sturgis Library by his wife.
Dr Theodore Kittredge
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: May 1775 - Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 18 Sep 1798 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
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"In memory of Doct'r Theodore Kittredge, son of Mr Benjamin & Mrs. Rebecca Kittredge of Tewksbury, who died Sept. 18, 1798, aged 23 yrs. & 4 months." 12Medical:
age 23-4
Karl Henry Klein
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Jun 1924 13
Baptism:
Death: 11 Sep 1944 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 13
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Henry Klimm
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Mar 1884
Baptism:
Death: May 1974 - Hyannis (Barnstable), Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 033-32-6951, Massachusetts in Massachusetts
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Henry W Klimm Jr (1916-2006)
Henry W Klimm Jr
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1916 - Hyannis (Barnstable), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 10 Aug 2006 - Falmouth, Massachusetts
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Father: Henry Klimm (1884-1974)
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Spouses and Children
1. *Edna L Lannquist (2 Mar 1916 - 7 Nov 2000)
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Notes
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Barnstable Patriot obit:
Henry W. Klimm Jr., 90
Falmouth - Henry W. Klimm Jr., 90, died Aug. 10, 2006 at his home.
He was the husband of the late Edna L. (Lannquist) Klimm. They were married for 65 years.
Mr. Klimm was born on a houseboat in Hyannis Harbor. He was raised in Hyannis and graduated from Barnstable High School. He lived in Falmouth for more than 60 years. A lifetime commercial fisherman, he began fishing with his father in high school. He owned 12 fishing boats during his career and had several custom-made. He also fished with his son and grandsons on various boats.
Mr. Klimm collected more than 800,000 squid for the Marine Biological Laboratory for scientific research. He also worked for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which chartered a series of his custom-built boats, Captain Bill II, III and IV. He was also instrumental in developing a long-line fishing program in the U.S.
In 2001 the MBL named its dock off Waterfront Park the Henry W. Klimm Jr. Pier.
He retired in 2004.
Mr. Klimm was a longtime member of the Masons and Odd Fellows.
Survivors include a son, H. William Klimm III of Falmouth; a granddaughter; two grandsons; and two great-grandchildren.
Services were private.
Memorial donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice.
Elizabeth Knapp
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Feb 1784 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Death: 13 Jun 1822 - Boston, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Honorable Lemuel Shaw (9 Jan 1781 - 30 Mar 1861) 14
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Elizabeth Knapp Shaw (1822-1906)
2. John Oakes Shaw (1820-1902)
Notes
General:
Father: Josiah KNAPP b: 22 MAR 1753 in Newton?
Mother: Mary FAIRSERVICE b: 19 NOV 1755 in of Boston
Frederick Bruce Knapp
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Aug 1918
Baptism:
Death: 22 Dec 2001 - Chatham, New Jersy
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 121-05-6904, New York in New York
Spouses and Children
1. *Clara Louise Watson (10 Sep 1915 - 27 Jun 2008)
Marriage: Jun 1951 - New York City, New York 15
Status:
Herbert Russell Knapp
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Jul 1879
Baptism:
Death: 26 Jan 1959 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 16
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Notes
Medical:
age 79-6-11
Herbert Russell Knapp
Clarissa Kneeland
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1789 - (Sandisfield, Mass.)
Baptism:
Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Sparrow Snow (20 Dec 1786 - )
Marriage: in (Sandisfield, Mass.)
Status:
Children:
1. Lucretia Snow (1812- )
2. Betsey Snow (1814- )
Sources
1. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1948.
2. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association).
3. Hyannis Patriot (Hyannis, Mass. [archives to 1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable]), 20 nov 1894.
4. Jean Mayo-Rodwick, Rev. John Mayo and his Descendants (2001).
5. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1843-1859 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 2:94. frequently differ from other records
6. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1922.
7. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 45.
8. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Waltham.
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11. Stanley W. Smith, "Records from the Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Mass." (Mayflower Descendant, vols 10, 11, 12), 231.
12. Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 19.
13. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1944.
14. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 67:326.
15. Provincetown Advocate (Provincetown, Mass. [1918-1967 archives online at Provincetown Library]), 21 Jun 1951, p1.
16. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1959.