COLBATH, William Elvine

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• Occupation: 1910, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; shoe cutter
• Occupation: 1920, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; chauffeur
• Occupation: 1930, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; vending machine company

Fred married PRAY, Elizabeth Shillaber on 1 Dec 1897 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of PRAY, Mayhew E and DEROCHEMONT, Lydia Lowe) was born on 10 Aug 1879 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 15 Jun 1951 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 6188.R.

Notes:

Mayhew's birth record was filed from Haverhill in 1851. In 1860 Mayhew was still in Haverhill with his father and family. By 1870 Mayhew was a milk peddlar in Portsmouth.

Mayhew married DEROCHEMONT, Lydia Lowe on 23 Oct 1873 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. Lydia (daughter of DEROCHEMONT, George Washington and DEWIT, Henrietta Jacoba) was born on 1 Apr 1855 in Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1936; was buried in Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3583

Notes:

Living next door to widow Maria L Caziarc in the 1880 census were Mayhew Pray, aged 28, wife Liddea 25 (Maria's niece), Mabel 4, Benjamin 2 and Lizzie 10 months.

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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