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Note for: Charlotte Wilcox, - Index

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BREAKTHROUGH: I had spent many years searching for my long-lost relatives in the west. One day, after my book (Whither thou Goest, iUniverse, Inc., 2001) came out, Charlotte Ware contacted me by e-mail. She said she was the wife of Darley Ware, Jr., whose father, Darley Ware, is the husband of Wanda Ware, a granddaughter of Eva Beardsley Wood. Eva was the daughter of my great-grandaunt, Mary Jane Simpson Beardsley Moss. I had already written the book [above] about Eva’s 1878 journey west in a wagon train from Wells Bridge, New York, to Walla Walla, Washington Territory. Eva had traveled with her mother (Mary Jane), her father (James Theodore Beardsley), and her sister (Frances [“Frankie”] Susan Beardsley). In the spring of 2003, I traveled out west myself and met Bud Wood, one of Eva’s grandsons. He (and sometimes his wonderful wife Shirlie) graciously spent an entire day of his life filling me in on many of the missing pieces (to me) of what happened to Eva and her family after she got married and moved away from Walla Walla. I later transcribed the audiotapes we recorded.
---Patrick D. Simpson.

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Note for: Catherine Putnam, 4 Apr 1805 - 1874 Index

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Catherine was the oldest of 11 children.

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Note for: Jesse Putnam, 3 Apr 1788 - 10 Feb 1861 Index

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      Col. Jesse Putnam lived and died on his ancestral farm in Danvers, and with many of his family is buried in the Putnam cemetery near Asylum station in Danvers. This cemetery is known as the "Daniel and Jesse Putnam Burial Ground." In it are the remains of most of the descendants of Thomas Putnam who have lived on or near his original farm. Here in the old tomb, now overgrown, was laid the body of Ann Putnam of witchcraft memory.
        The sixth of seven children, Jesse Putnam was constantly improving the farm inherited from his ancestors, and early obtained the premium offered by the Essex County Agricultural Society for the best managed farm in the county. He was an active temperance man in principle and practice, never supplying his men with the liquor customary in those days. His independent character was shown in many ways, especially in his active anti-slavery work and other moral and political reforms. His title of colonel was obtained during the war of 1812, he having commanded an artillery company stationed at Beverly, although he was never in actual service.
        In church affairs he was ever to the front in contributing financial and moral aid to every good cause. He had united with the First Church in 1832 and was a constant attendant. In town affairs he was frequently called upon to take a prominent part and held many official positions. His character was strongly marked. Generous, brave, hearty in his friendships, fond of children and of fun, thoroughly in earnest in whatever he undertook, hospitable and kind to the poor, he was a typical American country gentleman.

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Note for: Joseph Putnam, 14 Oct 1739 - 9 Mar 1818 Index

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Joseph was the fifth of ten children.

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Note for: Elizabeth Merriam, 14 Nov 1784 - 20 Sep 1887 Index

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Mrs. Putnam was as remarkable a woman as her husband was a man. She was of inestimable service to him and their long married life was unmarred. Living to a great age she retained her faculties to the last. On her 102d birthday, surrounded by her descendants, she received her many friends, and enjoyed the occasion us much as any, being keenly alive to all the affairs of the day. At the time of her death she was the oldest woman in Essex County.

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Note for: Dr. Charles Walton Purcell, 2 Nov 1908 - 11 Nov 1944 Index

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     Place:   Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh, Wake, NC

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     Dr. Charles Walton Purcell was Capt. M.C. U.S.A.A.F. in the US Air Force. He was killed during World War II.