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Patricia Fanning
- 2 days ago
- 3 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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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Patricia Fanning
- Jan 20
- 2 min
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Patricia Fanning
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Ellis Farmers and Yeomen in Early South Dedham
William Ellis (1780-1852) Olive S. Fisher Ellis (1767-1837) Willard Ellis (1785-1866) Mary Morse Ellis (1788-1827) William Ellis and...
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