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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...

Patricia Fanning
Mar 24, 20231 min read


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...

Patricia Fanning
Mar 17, 20231 min read


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...

Patricia Fanning
Mar 10, 20232 min read


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...

Patricia Fanning
Mar 3, 20233 min read


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...

Patricia Fanning
Feb 24, 20232 min read


First Death Recorded in Norwood
Joel Weatherbee (1798-1872) Elizabeth “Betsey” Graham Weatherbee (1796-1876) David Weatherbee (1832-1833) On March 9, 1872, Joel...

Patricia Fanning
Feb 17, 20231 min read


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...

Patricia Fanning
Feb 10, 20231 min read


Norwood's First Historian
Francis Tinker (1816-1896) R. Elizabeth Hutchinson Tinker (1825-1915) Orra Gertrude Tinker (1872-1880) Francis O. Tinker, apothecary and...

Patricia Fanning
Feb 3, 20231 min read



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Patricia Fanning
Jan 20, 20232 min read


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...

Patricia Fanning
Jan 13, 20231 min read


Lewis & Roxa Guild Multi Generational South Dedham Roots
Lewis Guild (1786-1829) Roxa Morse Guild (1792-1879) Oliver Guild (1815-1836) Born on February 18, 1786, Lewis Guild was the son of...

Patricia Fanning
Jan 6, 20231 min read


Cabinet Maker & Tanner of Early Norwood
John Dean Chickering (1836-1915) Amelia H. Cokley Chickering (1839-1862) Mary N. Currier Chickering (1844-1873) Walter Dean Chickering...

Patricia Fanning
Dec 30, 20221 min read


Johnson Gravesite Restored
George W. Johnson (1801-1874) Nancy Morse Lewis Johnson (1806-1886) H. Willie Baker (1872-1879) Lewis E. Warner, Jr. (1878-1878) George...

Patricia Fanning
Dec 23, 20223 min read


A Colonial American Family
John Morse (1753-1825) Mary Lewis Morse (1761-1832) Mary E. Morse (1787-1827) Jabez Morse (1797-1831) Hannah Bird Morse (1801-1827) Mary...

Patricia Fanning
Dec 16, 20222 min read


Isaac & Nabby Ellis, 19th Century Paper Maker
Isaac Ellis (1790-1844) Abigail “Nabby” Fairbanks Ellis (1795-1836) Isaac Ellis was born on August 25, 1790. He was the son of Oliver...

Patricia Fanning
Dec 9, 20221 min read


Hannah Sumner Newman Metcalf (1715-1796)
Hannah Sumner was born on May 8, 1715 in Roxbury. Her parents were Edward Sumner and Elizabeth Clapp Sumner. Hannah was one of twelve...

Patricia Fanning
Dec 2, 20221 min read


The Scourge of Dysentery
Dysentery is an infectious disease characterized by nausea, abdominal pain, inflammation of the intestines, and extreme diarrhea...

Patricia Fanning
Nov 25, 20222 min read


Eliphalet & Betsy Fuller Early American Farm Family
Eliphalet Fuller (1796-1872) Elizabeth Richards Sumner Fuller (1800-1885) Eliphalet Fuller was born in 1796. His parents were Eliphalet...

Patricia Fanning
Nov 18, 20221 min read


Everetts of South Dedham; Early American Patriots
Captain Abel Everett (1756-1813) Mary Smith Everett (1760-1801) Abigail Guild Everett (1765-1842) Cyrus Everett (1805-1820) Abel Everett...

Patricia Fanning
Nov 11, 20222 min read
