Ora B Onderdonck
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1920
Baptism:
Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Russel Edwin Temple (Est 1920 - )
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Status:
Children:
1. Russel Edwin Temple Jr (1950- ) 1
Mae I O'Neil
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Sep 1911 - (Chelsea, Mass.)
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Death: 1 Oct 2003 - Manchester, New Hampshire
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 026-14-7938, Massachusetts in Massachusetts
Spouses and Children
1. *Louis C DeGroot (5 Aug 1912 - Nov 1970)
Marriage: 30 Nov 1930 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 2
Status:
Children:
1. Lorraine DeGroot (1932- ) 3
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of Chelsea, 1930
Mary O'Neil
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1828 - Ireland
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Death:
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Notes
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1850 US census, Wellfleet:
Mary was 22, born Ireland, living at the hotel of Thomas Holbrook, perhaps as help for James & Tamsen Fifield, who were listed above her.
Eugene O'Neill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Oct 1888 - New York City, New York
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Death: 1953
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Cause of Death:
Notes
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Joneill.htm
Eugene O'Neill was born in a New York hotel on 16th October, 1888. The son of the famous actor, James O'Neill, Eugene spent most of his early years on tour with his father. This nomadic life and his mother's drug addiction had a profound impact on his development.
O'Neill was eventually sent away to a Catholic boarding school but he rebelled against being taught by nuns and monks. After a spell at Betts Academy in Connecticut he went briefly to Princeton University. Seeking adventure he went on a mining expedition to Honduras before becoming a sailor in 1910.
After a failed marriage to Kathleen Jenkins, O'Neill attempted suicide. He recovered only to discover he contracted tuberculosis and when he was released from a sanitarium in June 1913 he decided to become a playwright.
In 1915 a group of left-wing writers including Floyd Dell, John Reed, George Gig Cook, Susan Glaspell and Louise Bryant, established the Provincetown Theatre Group. A shack at the end of the fisherman's wharf at the seaport of Provincetown was turned into a theatre. On 28th July, 1916 the group performed O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff. This was followed by The Thirst with Louise Bryant taking the lead role.
John Reed attempted to help O'Neill get his work published. He sent a copy of Tomorrow to Carl Hovey, the editor of the Metropolitan. He wrote to Reed: "I've read O'Neill's story and agree with you that he can write. This thing is genuine and makes a real man live before you." However, Hovey rejected the story because he believed the story had a "lack of either plot or a situation with suspense enough to carry the reader beyond the first pages." Later, Waldo Frank managed to get the story published in the Seven Arts magazine.
George Gig Cook, who emerged as the leader of the Provincetown Theatre Group, believed that O'Neill was a dramatist of great promise and over the next three years ten of his plays were performed including The Fog (1916), two anti-war plays, The Sniper (1917), In the Zone (1917), The Long Voyage Home (1917), Moon of the Caribbees (1918), Shell-Shock (1918), and The Emperor Jones (1920), a play where a black actor plays the central role.
O'Neill initially concentrated on writing one-act plays but it was his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon (1920), that established his reputation as a dramatist. This play won a Pulitzer Prize and was followed by Anna Christie (1921), The Hairy Ape (1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924), The Great God Brown (1926) and Strange Interlude (1928).
Always a heavy drinker, O'Neill's health deteriorated during the 1930s. Also suffering from Parkinson disease, O'Neill wrote little during this period although in 1936 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In 1940 O'Neill wrote the autobiographical play, Long Day's Journey Into Night. The action takes place during a single day in August 1912 at the summer home of the Tyrone family. The members of the family are the father, an actor, the drug-addicted mother, an alcoholic son and his younger brother suffering from tuberculosis (based on O'Neill himself). The play explores the tragic nature of family relations but was not performed during O'Neill's lifetime.
The Iceman Cometh (1946) was the first new play of O'Neill's to be performed for twelve years. One of his favourite plays, O'Neill claimed it was an attempt to portray man as a "victim of the ironies of life and himself".
Eugene O'Neill died in 1953. Long Day's Journey Into Night was first performed in 1956. The following year it joined Beyond the Horizon and Anna Christie in winning the Pulitzer Prize.
(1) Floyd Dell, Homecoming, (1933)
In Provincetown in 1915 he (George Cook) found an unknown young playwright, Eugene O'Neill, whose little one-act plays were superb and beautiful romanticizations and glorifications and justifications of failure. And now George's life had what it needed; his life was henceforth lived under the aegis of Eugene O'Neill's plays, which is dreamed of bringing to the Village and producing there.
In (1926) George Cook had come to a crisis in his life; he was spiritually centered in the plays of Eugene O'Neill, and now the young playwright had decided to deal directly with Broadway, refusing to allow the Provincetown Players to put on his plays before they went uptown. This was an entirely reasonable decisions on his part, but it broke George Cook's heart. In February, the Provincetown Theatre suspended operations, and a month later, George Cook and Susan Glaspell sailed for Greece.
(2) Susan Glaspell wrote about Eugene O'Neill's play, Bound East for Cardiff at Provincetown in her book, Road to the Temple (1923)
I may see it through memories too emotional but it seems to me I have never sat before a more moving performance than our Bound East for Cardiff, when Eugene O'Neill was produced for the first time on any stage. Jig was Yank. As he lay in his bunk dying, he talked of life as one who knew he must leave it.
The sea had been good to Eugene O'Neill. It was there for his opening. There was a fog, just as the script demanded, fog bell in the harbour. The tide was in, and it washed under us and around, spraying through the holes in the floor, giving us the rhythm and the flavour of the sea while the big dying sailor talked to his friend Drisc of the life he had always wanted deep in the land, where you'd never see a ship or smell the sea.
(3) Heywood Broun wrote about Bound East for Cardiff for the New York Tribune (30th January, 1917).
Here is a play which owes more to the creation of mood and atmosphere than to any fundamentally interesting idea or sudden twist of plot. Eugene O'Neill has written several short plays about the sea. He strikes a rich vein, the old Kipling vein.
(4) William Bullitt saw the letters that Eugene O'Neill wrote to Louise Bryant during their affair in 1915.
If the letters were sincere, and they sounded so, O'Neill was certainly at one time violently in love with her. His letters to Louise were wails of despairing, unrequited love. Louise burned them - without sign of emotion - merely because she believed that the private emotions of individuals were not the concern of anyone else.
So far as I know, Louise was never in love with O'Neill. She thought he had talent, felt sorry for him, and tried to help him. She described to me his frequent fits of drunkenness and his suicidal inclinations. On more than one occasion she helped literally to pick him out of the gutter.
(5) Art McGinley, talking about Eugene O'Neill in the 1920s.
Gene was a periodic drinker, and once started wouldn't stop - I guess he couldn't stop - until he was really sick. He was the most trying morning-after drinker I've ever known. He would gloom up and not say a word, or else talk of suicide, he was so disgusted with himself. But when he stopped drinking, he would work around the clock. I never knew anyone who had so much self-discipline.
(6) Agnes Boulton, Eugene O'Neill's second wife, wrote about him in her book, Part of a Long Story (1958).
He never seemed to be what is called drunk, but there would be some sudden and rather dreadful outbursts of violence, and others of bitter nastiness and malevolence when he appeared more like a madman than anything else.
Shannon O'Neill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1969
Baptism:
Death: 18 Mar 2012 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death: house fire
Events
• Obituary, , Cape Cod Times in Cape Cod Times
Shannon O'Neill, 33
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA) - Sunday, April 1, 2012
EASTHAM \emdash Shannon O'Neill, 33, of Eastham, died unexpectedly in a tragic fire at her residence on March 18, 2012.
She was a graduate of Nauset Regional High School, and Computer Training, Quincy, Mass. She also attended Cape Cod Community College.
She is survived by her parents, Dianne and Dennis O'Neill; brothers Timothy O'Neill and Terence O'Neill; paternal grandmother Dorothy O'Neill of Dennisport, Mass., and Jensen Beach, Fla., and her maternal grandfather Harold J. Dusoe of Freetown, Mass., and Jensen Beach, Fla. Shannon was part of a large loving family that included many aunts and uncles; and many cousins.
At the time of her death, she was employed with Community Systems and had just launched a new career with Viridian Energy as an associate. Shannon had a special talent working with disabled adults and her kindness and enthusiasm was infectious. She was a young woman who always made time for anyone that asked and her spontaneous hugs, winks, and kisses were loved by all who were lucky enough to receive them. She never judged, she only encouraged; she challenged and inspired you to be the best that you could be. Shannon adored beaches, sunsets, skiing, music, tarot readings. Every adventure with Shannon was like no other; she made you feel as if you were the center of the universe. Any encounter with Shannon left a footprint on your heart.
There will be a memorial Mass at our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet, MA 02667, and funeral services are being handled by Nickerson Funeral Homes, Orleans, MA 02653, both at a later date, which will be announced.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made at any Cape Cod 5 or may be mailed to: O'Neill Family Fund, c/o Cape Cod Five, P.O. Box 86, Orleans, MA 02653, Attn: Paige Pennypacker.
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Woman, 33, dies in Eastham house fire
[photo] EASTHAM -- 031812 -- Firefighters spray foam at the scene of a fire that engulfed the home at 4 Gimlet Way.
Cape Cod Times/Christine Hochkeppel
By Karen Jeffrey
kjeffrey@capecodonline.com
March 19, 2012
EASTHAM \endash The parents of a 33-year-old Eastham woman say she was the victim of a fire that destroyed the family home late yesterday afternoon.
"It was our daughter who died, we don't know the details," said Dianne O'Neill in a brief telephone interview this afternoon. "We're on our way home from Vermont and this is very difficult for us."
Shannon O'Neill's body was found on the second floor of the house at 4 Gimlet Way around 8 p.m. Firefighters were called to the blaze shortly before 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
The cause of the fire, still under investigation by Eastham police and fire departments, state police and the state Fire Marshal's office, has not been released.
When firefighters arrived on the scene the house was 70 to 80 percent involved in flames, according to a press release from the Eastham Police and Fire Departments. The fire was brought under control within an hour of firefighters arriving on scene.
There is no fire hydrant on Gimlet Way, a cul-de-sac located north of Route 6, just off Massasoit Road. Tankers from other departments were called to provide extra water at the scene. Firefighters from Truro, Wellfleet, Orleans, Brewster, Chatham and Harwich were called to assist in fighting the blaze and filling in for Eastham station coverage.
By mid-day today there was no sign of life at the house except for a small pot of yellow flowers placed at the end of the driveway of 4 Gimlet Way, underneath the police tape that surrounded the property.
The home was burned down to the rafters and the chimney stood exposed high above what was left of the walls. Three cars, three boats and an in-ground swimming pool surrounded the charred home. An American flag still flapped off the back porch.
Shannon O'Neill, a 1996 graduate of Nauset High School, worked most recently as salesperson for Viridian Energy, according to her Facebook page.
"We are casual neighborhood friends. All I can say is the parents were away for the weekend," said Carol Johnson, a resident of Gimlet Way. "It's a terrible tragedy."
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said this morning that more information might be available later today.
Staff writer K.C. Myers contribute to this story.
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Eastham fire ruled arson
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA) - Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Author: JON OFFREDO and KAREN JEFFREY
EASTHAM \emdash Investigators determined that the fire that killed a woman in an Eastham home on Sunday afternoon was deliberately set.
State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan and Eastham Fire Chief Glenn J. Olson said Monday afternoon that an investigation determined that the fire at 4 Gimlet Way began on the main floor of the home and that it was arson.
"Investigators believe they know who set the fire and that the public is not at risk," Coan said in a prepared press release.
The victim was 32-year-old Shannon O'Neill, an Eastham native who had returned home after spending time in Arizona.
"She missed the water too much. She had to come back," Dianne O'Neill said Monday evening of her daughter.
Shannon was a bubbly, outgoing young woman with a good spirit, her mother said.
Dianne O'Neill and her husband went to Vermont over the weekend. She said her daughter was always concerned about the long drive and their safety and had given her a small coin that was supposed to bring her luck.
"'Take this mom and put it in your pocket,'" Dianne O'Neill remembers her daughter telling her. "That's how she was. She was very thoughtful."
Standing outside a neighbor's house where they were staying, a few homes down from their own, she pulled the coin out of her pocket. It had Chinese characters etched on it and a hole in the middle.
"(It) didn't bring me any luck," she said.
Dianne O'Neill said they got the phone call Sunday afternoon that the house was on fire, but it was a little while before they found out Shannon was in the house.
"It's a tragic, tragic loss," she said. "I don't know anybody who has been through something like that, and to lose your child ... it's just unfathomable."
O'Neill graduated from Nauset Regional High School in 1996 and had just started a new job working in sales for Viridian Energy.
"She was all excited. She was going to make a lot of money," her mom said.
When firefighters arrived on the scene the house was 70 to 80 percent involved in flames, Eastham Fire Chief Glenn Olson said. The fire was brought under control within an hour of firefighters arriving on scene.
The 1½-story house, designed by O'Neill and her husband, Dennis, was burned down to the rafters, and the chimney stood exposed high above what was left of the walls. Three cars, three boats and an in-ground swimming pool surrounded the charred home. An American flag still flapped off the back porch.
The body was found on the second floor of the house around 8 p.m. The cause of death is being determined by the Office of the State Medical Examiner and investigated by the Cape and Island District Attorney's Office.
O'Neill said her daughter had a lot of moxie, and she was bewildered that Shannon didn't get out of the house.
She said it didn't make sense and thought something went terribly wrong.
"She would have clawed her way out of that house. She has just got too much spunk, way too much spunk."
Staff writer K.C. Myers contributed to this report.
Carlton Edmund Orcutt
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 May 1900 - South Wellfleet, Massachusetts 4
Baptism:
Death: 29 Aug 1901 - New Dorchester 4
Burial: in Boston, Massachusetts
Cause of Death: marasmus 4
Parents
Father: Frank E Orcutt (Est 1870- ) 4
Mother: Nellie E Griffin (Est 1870- ) 4
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Death record clearly says "New Dorchester," but apparently means Dorchester, Mass.Medical:
age 1-2-29
David Orcutt
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Dec 1720 - Hingham, Massachusetts
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Death: 10 Jun 1757 - Hingham, Massachusetts
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Father: Thomas Orcutt (1677- )
Mother: Jane Emerson (1679- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah (Cir 1740 - 12 Oct 1818)
Marriage: 1749
Status:
Children:
1. Reuben Orcutt (1754-1814)
2. Kezia Orcutt (1756-1801) 5
Ebenezer Orcutt
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Mar 1703
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Death: Sep 1757
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Spouses and Children
1. *Deliverance Kingman (11 Feb 1697 - 7 Dec 1785)
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Father: John ORCUTT b: BEF 18 APR 1669
Mother: Mary BEAL b: 6 Mar 1665/66
Frank E Orcutt
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1870
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1. *Nellie E Griffin (Est 1870 - ) 4
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1. Carlton Edmund Orcutt (1900-1901) 4
Hannah Orcutt
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1788 - (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
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Death: 20 Aug 1822 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Old North Cemetery, Truro 6
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Father: Reuben Orcutt (1754-1814)
Mother: Hannah Dyer (1757-1823)
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Thomas Watkins (20 Dec 1782 - 25 Sep 1855)
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Children:
1. Reuben Orcutt Watkins (1807- )
2. Rebecca Dyer Watkins (1810-1873) 7
3. Olive Watkins (1812- )
4. Hannah Orcutt Watkins (1815-1864)
5. Eliza Watkins (1815-1891)
6. Sally Watkins (1819- )
7. Martha Dyer Watkins (1822-1892)
John Orcutt
Sex: M
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Birth: 25 Feb 1700
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Death: 7 May 1781
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1. *Desire Kingman (Jun 1690 - )
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Father: John ORCUTT b: ABT 1666/67 in Scituate MA
Mother: Experience PRATT b: 8 JAN 1672 in ? Weymouth MA
Kezia Orcutt
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Jun 1756 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 9 Sep 1801 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Old North Cemetery, Truro 8
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Parents
Father: David Orcutt (1720-1757)
Mother: Sarah (Cir 1740-1818)
Spouses and Children
1. *Daniel Paine (27 Jul 1748 - 25 Jan 1802)
Marriage: 22 Apr 1777 - Truro, Massachusetts 5
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Children:
1. Reuben Orcutt Paine (1777-1833) 9
2. Thomas Paine (1779-1860)
3. Daniel Paine (1784-1830)
4. Huldah Paine (1788-1840) 10
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father: David Orcutt, 31 Dec 1720 Hingham - 10 Jun 1757
mother: Sarah, b 1724
Reuben Orcutt
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Oct 1754 - Hingham, Massachusetts
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Death: 16 Sep 1814 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial: in Cemetery #1, Provincetown
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Parents
Father: David Orcutt (1720-1757)
Mother: Sarah (Cir 1740-1818)
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Dyer (23 Sep 1757 - 13 Nov 1823)
Marriage: 17 Aug 1779 - Truro, Massachusetts 5
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Children:
1. Hannah Orcutt (1788-1822)
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Reuben Orcutt was elected Provincetown selectman in 1784 and served 2 years.
stone:
In memory of
Mr Reuben Orcett
who died Sept'r 16th
1814 in the 60th
Year of his age 11
Thomas Orcutt
Sex: M
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Birth: 2 Oct 1677 - Scituate, Plymouth Colony
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1. *Jane Emerson (1679 - )
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1. David Orcutt (1720-1757)
Charles A Ordway
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Oct 1861
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Death: 7 Jan 1931 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 12
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Cause of Death: bronchial pneumonia
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age 69-2-20 12
Joseph M Ordway
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1807 - of Boston, Mass.
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Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca F Atwood (2 Dec 1810 - 6 Dec 1838)
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Status: apparent broken engagement
2. Mary Atwood (13 Oct 1824 - )
Marriage: 1840 - (Brewster, Massachusetts)
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Jean Orgelman
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1927
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1. *William J Cooper (13 Jun 1925 - 7 Dec 2007)
Marriage: 1947
Status:
Ormsby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1917 - Truro, Massachusetts
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Death: 1917 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Truro Congregational cemetery
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Parents
Father: Lieutenant Commander Addison Nutter Ormsby (1891-1960)
Mother: Jennie Joseph (1882-1939) 13
Abigail Ormsby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1755 - Taunton, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Benjamin Webb (22 Nov 1721 - 17 Oct 1795)
Marriage: 1778
Status:
Lieutenant Commander Addison Nutter Ormsby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1891 - Malden, Massachusetts
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Death: 3 Feb 1960 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Truro Congregational cemetery 13
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Addison W Ormsby (1857-1929)
Mother: Ada L Snow (1862-1947)
Spouses and Children
1. *Helen Mildred Boudro (6 Oct 1895 - May 1980)
Marriage: 1 May 1951 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 14
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2. Jennie Joseph (1882 - 28 Mar 1939) 13
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1. Ormsby (1917-1917) 13
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Coastguardsman
In command of stations at Race Point, Orleans, Cahoon Hollow, Pamet River. Final station at Newport News.
obit Provincetown Advocate 4 Feb 1960, p7
Sources
1. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1950.
2. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1930.
3. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1932.
4. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 46. 1901 #15.
5. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 129.
6. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), #529.
7. Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm). badly organized
8. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), Rev. Jude Damon's notes.
9. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 128.
10. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), lot 145. Daniel P. & Abagail H. Higgins family.
11. Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 28. Provincetown (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 971. .... Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
12. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1931.
13. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association).
14. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1951.