BRACKETT, Esther M

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• Occupation: Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; farmer
• Reference Number: 9426

Notes:

Charles was the proprietor of Cold Springs Farm in Greenland and owned 200 acres of land.
Gladys Chapman reports that he liked the women and that because of his running around, he couldn't pay the mortgage and lost the farm.

Charles married FANNIE about 1886. was born in May 1863 in New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 9425

William + DEROCHEMONT, Henrietta Ann. Henrietta (daughter of DEROCHEMONT, George Washington and DEWIT, Henrietta Jacoba) was born on 27 Feb 1845 in Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 29 Dec 1928 in Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3571

Notes:

In the 1860 Newington census Henrietta, 15, was living in a household with brother Lewis Leonard, 21, and Gee Pickering, 40.

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• Occupation: Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; farmer
• Residence: 1840, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
• Burial: 3 Aug 1874, Newington, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA

George married DEWIT, Henrietta Jacoba on 16 Feb 1834 in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana. Henrietta (daughter of DEWIT, Carston Cornelius and DEROCHEMONT, Maria Louisa Suzette) was born on 28 Jul 1814 in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana; died on 15 Apr 1871 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Henrietta Jacoba de WIT
• Birth: 28 Jul 1814, Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana

Notes:

Benjamin Penhallow Shillabar, brother-in-law to Henrietta, wrote the following tribute to her which appeared in the Portsmouth Journal 17 April 1871.

Death claims the victory when we sadly close
The coffin lid upon the precious dust,
And when we quaiff the chalice of our woes
With tearful eyes and hearts of feeble trust.
But when the anguish of the barb has flown,
And we look up from the concealing sod,
Tracking the path the loved and lost have gone,
We no more turn in anguish to the clod.
We see the Graces that our life has blest
Transferred to where they brighter still may shine;
Unmarred by blight of care, or pain distrest,
In airs beneficent and light devine.
Still holds its sway the undivided bond
That bound our soul below to that above,
As constant still, in its adhesion fond,
As when on earth 't was manifest in love.
Not sanctified, the mourned, but simply good,
Not free from earth's alloy or human taint,
But in the fullness of true womanhood
Was comprehended all that makes the saint.
The dignity, the counsel, sweet and wise,
The lender care, the gentle, loving voice,
The eloquence that pleaded from the eyes,
The thousand acts that made the heart rejoice--
And more than memories--they are still our own,
In the blest influence that they impart;
The loving glance, the tender voice's tone.
Still bide within the chambers of the heart.
We feel the touch of hands that disappeared,
Yet take our own in guidance as of old;
And the bright character that erst endeared,
Illumes and gladdens all it then controlled.
Such cannot die to us: the real lives
In that which made it real while 't was here,
And this grand faith the blest assurance gives,
That though the loved be gone they are still here.
Herein the victory over Death is shown:
The form is but the shrine, of tenure slight,
That may in the attack be overthrown,
While lives the spirit in unfailing light.
B. P. Shillaber