CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1826-1861 - Providence RI - no Charles Burgess in miscellaneous directories
1862 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles, painter, 71 Cranston [Providence
Directory 1862].
1863 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles, painter, boards 104 High
[Providence Directory 1863].
1865 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles S, painter, bds 104 High [Providence
Directory 1865].
1866 - Providence RI - no Charles Burgess [Providence Directory 1866].
1866 Jul 2 - Charles S Burgess & Mary A Wiggin married [Providence RI City
Records 8/216].
1867 May __ - Bell Burgess b Newmarket NH 1st c/o Charles F Burgess laborer
of Newmarket [NHVR].
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1866 Nov 11 - Letter from May Foster in Providence to Mary A (Wiggin)
Burgess in Newmarket NH:
Providence Nov 11th '66
Dear Mary,
I was not intending to write you just now for I had thought to punish you
for your negligence in writing me. but there are some things I want to tell
you so much I cannot be revengefull any longer. we are all well and happy.
Charles is here with holes in his stockings as big as your head. he thinks he
needs a wife. I would mend them but he dont bring them here until he puts them
on. Debby is up to Mrs Lesters and will oversee the cleaning of your tenement.
it is a very good room and very pleasant and I hope you will enjoy it. Oh
Mary I wish you had been here thursday night. it was Margarets birthday and I
got up a suprise for her. 16 Ladies of us walked in with groceries and other
valuables. and a more astonished Woman you never saw than Margaret was. she
was almost crazy the next day. she thinks she has enough to last her as long
as she lives, so I feel that I have done one good deed that will long be
remembered by her. all went that I invited except Barbary and she was not well
enough to go. I have just finished preserving. I have had 4 spells since you
left and finished friday with quinces, but it is so warm I am afraid I shall be
troubled to keep it. I have got my sewing and cleaning almost done so if you
were here with work I could help you. Charles says if flannel is cheaper there
than here you had better buy some, for under garments he means. I have a nurse
engaged for you.
I think it is best to be in season dont you. Mr Weeden has been very sick
but is better now. Mrs Weeden is very well also all your Friends. Cate is
going to Conn. will be gone for some time. the Children go to dances yet.
Frank is anticpating a nice time Thanksgiving. I suppose you are. Charles
says you are coming to Providence but I shall not believe it untill I see you.
for you make such long visits there is no believing when you will come. he
says you have a new bonnet that is very pretty. I have made a few but I turn
them away for I dont get time.
I think I will close now as I shall see you soon
Give my love to your Mother and tell her I hope to get acquainted with her
when you are housekeeping.
Charles has been trying to look over my shoulders and I have written in a
hurry, so excuse all mistakes
Please write.
[a pencil note in another hand on the back of the letter reads: "This letter
was written by Ant May Foster to mother Burgess, when mother Burgess was living
with her Father in Newmarket NH waiting for Bell to be Born." This note was
apparently written by Maybelle (Burgess) Buzzell, d/o Mary (Wiggin) Burgess].
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1867 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles S, clerk, boards 65 Cranston St
[Providence Directory 1867].
1867 May - Bell Burges, d/o Charles F Burges, b Newmarket NH [Newmarket Town
Records p183].
1868 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles S, clerk, boards 65 Cranston St
[Providence Directory 1868].
1871 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles S, (Pray & Burgess), grocers, 239
Cranston St, h 95 Dexter [Providence Directory 1871].
1871 Jan 11 - Charles S Burgess was issued membership cert #519 in Hope
Lodge No 4 in Providence RI [per original certificte].
1872 - Providence RI - no Charles or Sidney Burgess. Lester Bros. Grocers
(James C & Levi A) 114 & 118 Cranston [Providence Directory 1872].
1873 - Newmarket NH - Burgess, Chas S, grocer, hs Grant Rd, Newmarket
[Newmarket Directory 1872]. This Grant Rd is the one on which the Wiggin
family lived, Joseph F & Lois (Hayden) Wiggin, which he left to Nannie & Ned,
etc. It is also the house where aunt Joe was born and died [per Wilma T Regan,
c1970].
1873 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles S, house 22 Diamond [Providence
Directory 1873].
1874 - Providence RI - Burgess, Charles S, clerk, 46 Brigham, boards 298
Cranston [Providence Directory 1874].
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[1874?] Mar 27 - Letter from Charles S Burgess in Providence to wife Mary A
(Wiggin) Burgess [in Newmarket NH?]:
Providence Mch 27
My dear Wife doubtless you are anxious to hear from me and I will write a
few lines. I am taking Kings Medicines and I think they are doing me a great
deal of good I feel a good deal better my vitals does not distress me so bad.
I do not Know what I shall go up to but shall so Some thing soon have got the
things all Stored in a good room where they will be Safe will write again
Yours x| CS.B.
love to all Write Soon
[This letter is not fully dated, but appears to have been written shortly
before he died. It appears that he was packing up and storing their belongings
with the intention of going to Newmarket].
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1874 Oct 3 - Charles Sidney Burgess, clerk, white, male, married, died
Providence RI ae 36y 10d of cancer of the stomach, s/o Earl Burgess & Deborah
____ [per certified copy from State Office, Providence].
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1874 Oct 31 - Letter from Holden O Hill in Providence to Mrs Mary A (Wiggin)
Burgess in Newmarket NH:
Providence Oct 31st 1874
Dear Mrs. Burgess.
I have attended the Duty assind me & hearin Return you the Bills all of
which I have paid Dr Anthony had a bill of Some medicines amount Forty cts
which I paid & have one dollar & ten cts left
Mr Potters Bill $142.00
Dr Brinn " 54.00
Mr Osgoods " 35.00
Dr Anthonys " 6.40
ministers " 5.00
Organist " 3.50
Sexton " 3.00
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Amount Paid $248.40
Leaving a Balance of $1.10 which I send to youThere was a Rent bill handed to me yesterday by a Mr Drinn amounting to
$12.75 Dated March 26th 1872. he asked me if I would pay I informed him that I
would not he asked me to speak to you about it he said that you could doo just
as you liked about it he should never doo any thing about it
I thank you very kindly for the Confidence you placed in me a pearfict
Stranger to you to Settle up your accounts for you I should got around sooner
if I hadent got Two Brothers sick to atend to I received the Money Tuesday the
27th the Draft was ordered on the 27th for yrs to the amount of $1786.00 I
believe which you will Receive in a weak of two you must excuse mistakes in
writing for I am in a hurry
Yours etc Holden O Hill
P.S. I have found out why you did not get the Dispach Mr Spink. sent the
dispach to Mr Joseph Whiggin New market & they informed him that there was no
Pearson by that name there and the Telegrapher hear dropt a note in the Post
office hear for Mr Mitchell he was the pearson that left the Dispatch at the
office, but he went to Bristol the same day & didnot get the note that was the
way it happened you didnot get it Mr Spink is a rather poor spellar
Holden O Hill
Mr John K Lesters House caught afire to day. the one where he lives it
burnt considerable in the Cellars caused by sutt burning in the ChimneyThe family story told about the death of CSB is that Nannie, his wife, went
home to Newmarket to have aunt Joe (There is a discrepancy here because
Josephine was born 17 Aug 1873 and CSB didn't die until Oct 1874). She did not
get word of his death until several days late and didn't get to his funeral.
The Holden O Hill who settled the affairs in Providence was apparently an Odd
Fellows lodge brother. Thus CSB never saw his second dau according to the
family tradition. Mary used the $1786.00 insurance money to buy a house in
Newmarket on Grant Rd next door to her parents. She paid $900.00 for the
house. She went to work at a shoe factory at Wadleigh's Falls. No trace of
the shop remains, but it was powered by the falls there. Her daughters Belle
and Josephine also worked in that shop, and that is where Bell met Arthur
Chester Buzzell whom she later married. Belle and Arthur moved to Newfields NH
where he worked in Fifield's Machine Shop. They made steam engines for
sawmills and boats. Belle and Arthur's son Charles Lester Buzzell got his
names from CSB and the Mr. John K Lester mentioned above who was a good friend
of CSB and Mary. Bell and Arthur's dau Rana married Paul Mayhew and had a son
they named Eldon Burgess Mayhew. Charles Lester Buzzell had a granddaughter
who was born Feb 16th, the same day as Mary Adelaide (Wiggin) Burgess, so the
gd was named Marlene Adelaide Burklund. Thus several names from the CSB family
have been carried down which suggests that there were good feelings in the
family regarding CSB even though he and Mary were separated much of the time.
[commentary from Wilma T Regan c1970].
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1897 Mar 28 - Exeter NH - Mary A Burgess & B W Buzzell were admitted to
membership in the Exeter Baptist Church, Rev Ansley E Woodsum, minister [Hist
of the Bapt Ch, Exeter NH 1800-1900, 1901 p117; B W Buzzell would be Maybelle
(Wiggin) Buzzell, per Wilma T Regan].
1901 - Exeter NH - Burgess, Mrs. Mary A, widow Chas S, h 9 Sanborn St
[Exeter Directory 1901].
1904 - Exeter NH - Burgess, Mrs. Mary A, widow Chas S, h 9 Sanborn St
[Exeter Directory 1904-5].
1908 - Exeter NH - Burgess, Mrs Mary A, ho, 11 Parker; Belle (m Bussell),
ho; Josephine (m Howard), ho; Chas L, clk; Rena R, stu [Exeter & Hampton Census
& Business Directory 1908 p156].
1915 - Exeter NH - Burgess, Mary A, widow of Charles S, bds 93 Main.
According to the street directory the heads of household at 93 Main St were
Miss Mary I Tilton & George M Howard [Exeter Directory, 1915-17].
1926 Jan 2 - Mary A Burgess ae 83y 10m 16d d Haverhill MA & brought to
Newmarket NH for burial [Newmarket Annual Report].
1924 - Exeter NH - Burgess, Mary A, widow Charles S, h 4 Locust; Burgess,
Mary A, Miss, bds 4 Locust ave [duplicate entry?]. The street directory shows
only George M Howard as head of household at 4 Locust Ave. Paul M Mayhew was
head of household at 9 Locust Ave [Exeter Directory 1915-17].
1926 Jan 2 - Mary A Burgess of Exeter NH d at 75 Auburn St, Haverhill MA;
formerly resident of Exeter for 11 yrs; ae 83y 10m 16d; b Quincy d/o Joseph
Wiggin b unk & Lois Hayden b Quincy; cerebral hemorrhage; informant Mrs George
Howard, 4 Locust Ave, Exeter NH [MAVR].
1926 Jan 2 - Mary A Burgess d Exeter ae 83-10-16 b Quincy MA widow d/o
Joseph Wiggin & Lois Hayden [Exeter Town Report].
1926 Jan 22 - Mrs Mary A Burgess, widow of Charles Sydney Burgess, died
Saturday afternood, January 2, in her 83rd year, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs Samuel S Smith, Haverhill, Mass., whith whom she had made her home for the
past year. Mrs. Burgess' death was largely due to a shock she received about a
year ago. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Jan 5, at two-thirty o'clock at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. George M. Howard, Exeter, with whom she had
made her home for several years prior to going to Haverhill. Services were
conducted by the Rev. Charles D. Maurer, and were largely attended. Floral
tributes were many and beautiful. The bearers were Messrs. George M. Howard,
Samuel S Smith, sons-in-law; Lester C. Buzzell, a grandson; Paul M. Meyhew, a
grandson-in-law. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Newmarket, in the
spring [Exeter News-Letter Fri 22 Jan 1926].
1926 Feb 9 - Estate of Mary A Burgess who d Haverhill MA 2 Jan 1926 at 75
Auburn Street. Admin granted to George M Howard & Paul M Mayhew. Real estate:
none. Personal property: $900.00. Deposit in Savings Bank $824.48. Paul M.
Mayhew, appraiser [Rock Co NH Probate 301/433, 309/38].MISCELANEOUS ITEMS:
Uncle Geo Howard was related to Mrs Wm Seward (of the drug store family), so
I asked Gertrude Sewell Snell one day if she knew when Aunt Joe's birthdate was
- that "we had conflicting info" - and she found it listed in her mother's (now
deceased) birthday book as 17 Aug 1873. We can't all be wrong on that date
[per Wilma T Regan, c 1970].
There is no marriage record on file for Charles S Burgess & Mary A Wiggin
between the years 1856 thru 1870 in Massachussetts [per report from State Div
of Vital Statistics].
There is no marriage record on file for Charles S Burgess & Mary A Wiggin
prior to 1900 in New Hampshire [per report from State Bureau of Vital
Statistics].
There is no estate on file for Charles S Burgess in Providence [per report
from the Probate Court, City Hall, Providence].
m 1866
FAMILY RECORD:
Earle Burgess - s/o Jacob 6 Burgess & Mary Ames; b 18 Nov 1806; m Aug 1835
Deborah Anthony; d Nov 1854. Child:
a) Charles - b 16 Sep 1838.
[Memorial of the Family of Thomas & Dorothy Burgess, who were Settled at
Samdwich, in the Plymouth Colony in 1637, 1865].
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Earl Burgess - (Jacob 7, Thomas 6, Thomas 5, Edward 4, Thomas 3, Thomas 2,
Thomas 1); b 18 Nov 1806 Foster RI; d Nov 1854; m 3 Aug 1835 Thompson CT
Deborah Anthony (b c1806 Providence RI; d 1859). Child:
a) Charles Sydney - b 16 Sep Pomfret CT; d 1874 RI; had child b c1858 and
another b c1860.
[per Paul F Burgess, 12305 Harbor Drive, Woodbridge VA 22192,
pfburgess|netzero.net, 3/2001].CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1850 - Brooklyn CT - 126/134 Earles Burges 45 m butcher (no real estate) b
Boston MA; Deborah Burges 40 f b North Providence RI; Charles S Burges 12m b
Pomfret CT. Also note living next door? 126/135 William Foster Jr 33 m teacher
b Brooklyn CT; Mary S Foster 30 f b Pomfret CT; James A Foster 4 m b Brooklyn
CT; Frank M Foster 6/12 m b Brooklyn CT [Census].
1869 Dec 25 - Burgess, Deborah, widow of Earl, d ae 58y [Index to Providence
Birth, Marriages & Deaths 12/136].
1869 Dec 25 - Deborah Burgess d Providence RI ae 58-11-23 at 28 Lester
Street wid/o Earl, b Pomfret CT d/o Benjamin & Susan Anthony, disease of brain
[RI Death Records 1869-1872, mfilm F-78-A82, roll 46].
m 1888
FAMILY RECORD:
Arthur Chester Buzzell - s/o Lemuel R Buzzell & Emily Frances Gear; b 22 Apr
1858 Durham NH; d Durham 22 Apr 1897 ae 35 [sic?] of consumption; bur Riverside
Cem in Newmarket NH; liv Durham 1860, 1870, Newmarket NH, Front St in Exeter NH
1894; machinist, shoemaker 1888, 1897; worked as edge setter at Gale shoe
factory in Exeter; when his illness was quite advance he went home to live with
his mother so she could care for him in the fall of 1896 & his wife went to
work in the Gale shoe factory in Exeter; the head stone for ACB in Riverside
Cem in Newmarket was erected by Blake Hill who was the admin of the estate of
Emily F (Gear) Buzzell, the mother of ACB; the gravestone reads "A C Buzzell
1853 [sic?] - 1897"; m at Newmarket by D W C Durgin clergyman 7 May 1888 to
Mabel Florence Burgess (b Newmarket 24 May 1867 d/o Charles S Burgess & Mary A
Wiggin); Maybelle liv Newmarket 1880 & 1888, Exeter 1894; she was a shoe
stitcher & housewife; she worked at a shoe factory at Wadleigh's Falls after
her father died, and met Arthur C Buzzell there; she m2 at Exeter 8 Apr 1909 by
Rev Ansley E Woodsum to George E Garland ae 64 (b Epping NH; s/o Eben T Garland
& Mary A Willey). Children:
a) unm - stillborn; bur in a wooden cigar box.
b) Charles Lester - b Newfields NH 14 Aug 1890; m Clyde Lind Brown .
c) Lorana Lutevine "Rana" - b Newfields NH 7 Apr 1893; m Paul Mayhem.
d) Perley Morton - b Exeter NH 18 Aug 1894; d Exeter 17 Aug 1896 ae 2y; bur
Newmarket NH.
[summary by LCT].
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Arthur C Buzzell - s/o Lemuel R 6 Lemuel 5 Samuel 4 William 3 John 2; m 7
May 1888 Maybelle F Burgess. Children:
a) Charles Lester - b Durham 14 Aug 1890.
b) Lurana L - b Durham 7 Apr 1892?
[Rev Herbert L Buzzell mss, NEHGS].CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1888 May 7 - Arthur C Buzzell of Newmarket ae 30 shoemaker b Durham s/o
Lemuel R Buzzell farmer b Durham (?), marr at Newmarket by D W C Durgin
clergyman of same, Mabelle Burgess of Newmarket ae 20 b Newmarket d/o Charles
Burgess clerk b Newmarket & Mary, 1st marr for both [NHVR].
1889 May 29 - South Newmarket NH - the Newfields orchestra gave a dance at
the Town Hall; violins - M M Hoyt, G Hoyt & G Tarlton; coronet - C C Kimball;
clarionet - F Davis; bass viol - A C Buzzell [Exeter News-Letter of 24 May
1889].
1890 Aug 21 - South Newmarket NH - Mrs A C Buzzell gave birth to a son
[Exeter News-Letter of 22 Aug 1890].
1894 Aug 18 - male Buzzell b Exeter 4th c/o Arthur C Buzzell & Mabel F
Burgess; father b Durham & mother b Newmarket [Exeter Annual Report].
1896 Aug 17 - Perley Morton Buzzell d Exeter ae 1-11-28; b Exeter; s/o
Arthur C Buzzell & Mabel [sic] Burgess [Exeter Annual Report].
1896 Aug 16 - Perley M Buzzell d Exeter ae 2y s/o Arthur C & Mabelle F
Buzzell [Exeter News-Letter 21 Aug 1896].
1896 Aug 17 - Perley Morton Buzzell d Exeter ae 1-11-28 of convulsions; b
Exeter; bur Newmarket; s/o Arthur C Buzzell & Maybelle Florence Burgess [NHVR].
1897 Apr 22 - Arthur C Buzzell d Durham ae 38 [Strafford County NH Directory
1900].
1897 Apr 22 - Arthur C Buzzell d Durham ae 38 shoemaker b Durham s/o Lemuel
Buzzell & Emily Gear b Madbury, consumption [Durham Annual Report].
1897 Apr 22 - Arthur C Buzzell d Durham ae 35 b Durham shoemaker consumption
bur Newmarket s/o Lemuel Buzzell farmer b Lee & Emily Gear b Madbury per Dr J S
Roberts of Newmarket [NHVR].
1898 - Arthur C Buzell, h Vine, Exeter [Kittery, Greenland, Newington, and
other towns, Directory, 1898].
1901 - Mrs mabel F Buzzell, widow of Arthur C, h 9 Sanborn St [Exeter NH
Directory, 1901].
1909 Apr 8 - George E Garland ae 64 b Epping s/o Eben T Garland, married at
Exeter by Rev Ansley E Woodsum, Maybelle F Buzzell ae 42 b Newmarket d/o
Charles Sidney Burgess & Mary A Wiggin, 2nd marr for both [Exeter Annual
Report].
1916 Mar 29 - George E Garland d Exeter ae 71-5-21; b Epping s/o Eben T
Garland & Mary A Willey [Exeter Annual Report].MISCELANEOUS ITEMS:
Cem incsription, Riverside Cem, Newmarket:
Maybelle F Burgess, wid/o A C Buzzell, wife/o Samuel S Smith - b 24 May
1867; d 4 Jun 1926.
m2 George E Garland, m3 Samuel S Smith
Sources:
Other : Garland, Garland Genealogy, 1897, p37
Sources:
Other : Garland, Garland Genealogy, 1897, p37
m 1869, m2 1909 Maybell F Burgess
FAMILY RECORD:
George E Garland - b 1844; m 1869 Hannah Tuttle; res Epping NH. Children:
Stephen M - b 1870, d 1870; Susan A - b 1871; Edwin T - b 1973 [Garland,
Garland Genealogy, 1897, p81].CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1862 Sep 19 - George E Garland of Exeter, ae 18, priv, mustered into Co E
13th Reg NH Vol Inft; mustered out 21 Jun 1865; pro Corp 1 May 1865 [Thompson,
13th NH Vol Inft..., 1888].f
1909 Apr 8 - George E Garland ae 64 2nd marr, b Epping s/o Eben T Garland &
Mary A Willey, m at Exeter NH by Rev Ansley E Woodsum, Mabelle F Buzzell ae 42
2nd marr, b Newmarket d/o Charles S Burgess & Mary A Wiggin [Exeter Annual
Report].
1916 Mar 29 - George E Garland d Exeter ae 71-5-21; b Epping s/o Eben T
Garland & Mary A Willey [Exeter Annual Report].
1916 Mar 29 - George E Garland d Exeter ae 71-5-21, Union veteran.
Mr George E Garland d at his home on upper Front St in his 72nd yr; in
failing health for a year or more; b Epping 8 Oct 1844 s/o Eben T Garland &
Mary Willey; on 5 Aug 1862 while a res of Exeter he enlisted in 13th NH Reg in
which he served until disch as a corporal 21 Jun 1865; memb of Albert M Perkins
Post in Epping; house painter by trade; liv in Exeter for last 25 yrs; leaves
wife, son Edwin T Garland, dau Mrs Susie A Hardy of Wilmington MA, brother Rev
Fred Garland of Minnisota, sister Mrs Frank Rowell of Brentwood [Exeter
News-Letter of 31 Mar 1916].MISCELANEOUS ITEMS:
Garland Lot #335, Exeter Cemetery near Arbor St entrance:
1) Sallie E Monroe - d Lynn MA 6 Feb 1868 ae 75y
2) Our Little Stevie.
3) Susie A Garland - d 23 Aug 1868 ae 21-7-0.
4) Mary G Willey, wife of Eben T Garland - d 7 Apr 1908 ae 86y.
5) Eben T Garland - d 27 Nov 1881 ae 62y.
6) double headstone:
George E Garland - 8 Oct 1844 - 29 Mar 1916, memb 13th Reg NH Vols.
Hannah E Tuttle, his wife - 19 dec 1849 - 5 Feb 1908
7) on opposite side of lot
Mrs Susan M Hardy - d 11 Dec 1939 per caretakers records, but no stone.
8) one or two empty graves.
9) Marion E Garland - 1907 - blank.
10) Mabel A Garland - 1875 - 1958.
11) Edwin T Garland - 1873 - 1954.
12) also on this lot?
Lillian E Smith - 1896 - 1929.
Ruth E Smith - 1919 - 1919.
John F Smith - 1923 - 1928.
Sources:
Other : Garland, Garland Genealogy, 1897, p21
CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1909 Oct 5 - Dona Gamlin ae 29 2nd marr, b Canada s/o Wm Gamlin & Mary
Blair, m at Exeter NH by Walter E Burtt JP, Annie Brigham ae 21 1st marr, b
Exeter d/o Orange S Brigham & Ida Glover [Exeter Annual Report].
CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1909 Mar 30 - George A Elliott d Exeter NH ae 48-7-27 single, b Exeter s/o
Daniel W Elliott & Katherine Keefe [Exeter Annual Report].