DEWIT, Henrietta Jacoba
1814 - 1871 (56 years)
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Name DEWIT, Henrietta Jacoba Birth 28 Jul 1814 Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana 
Gender Female Birth 28 Jul 1814 Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana Name Henrietta Jacoba de WIT Death 15 Apr 1871 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Person ID I1287 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father DEWIT, Carston Cornelius, b. 25 Jun 1780, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana d. 1 Apr 1827, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana (Age 46 years) Relationship natural Mother DEROCHEMONT, Maria Louisa Suzette, b. 20 Nov 1786, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands d. 30 Nov 1828, Plantation Le Resouvenir, Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana (Age 42 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1805 Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana Family ID F350 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family DEROCHEMONT, George Washington, b. 13 Feb 1813, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 3 Aug 1874, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 61 years) Marriage 16 Feb 1834 Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana Children + 1. DEROCHEMONT, George Washington, b. 8 Jan 1837, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 19 Aug 1910, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. DEROCHEMONT, Louis Leonard, b. 16 Nov 1838, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 5 Feb 1912, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 3. DEROCHEMONT, Charles Henry, b. 2 Sep 1840, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. Aft 30 Aug 1898 (Age > 58 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 4. DEROCHEMONT, Sophia Antoinette, b. 3 Mar 1843, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 15 Jan 1919, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 5. DEROCHEMONT, Henrietta Ann, b. 27 Feb 1845, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 29 Dec 1928, Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 83 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 6. DEROCHEMONT, Benjamin Caziarc, b. 14 Mar 1847, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. Nov 1916, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 69 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 7. DEROCHEMONT, Ann (Charisa LLL), b. 22 May 1850, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 29 May 1910, Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 60 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]8. DEROCHEMONT, John (Carsten), b. 22 May 1850, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 25 Sep 1851, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 9. DEROCHEMONT, Lydia Lowe, b. 1 Apr 1855, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 1936 (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]10. DEROCHEMONT, Cora L, b. 29 Aug 1858, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F484 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 28 Jul 1814 - Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana 
Birth - 28 Jul 1814 - Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana Marriage - 16 Feb 1834 - Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana 
Death - 15 Apr 1871 - Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA = Link to Google Earth
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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
- Benjamin Penhallow Shillabar, brother-in-law to Henrietta, wrote the following tribute to her which appeared in the Portsmouth Journal 17 April 1871.