Eastham, Wellfleet and beyond


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picture Caroline Snow

      Sex: F

Individual Information
          Birth: 24 Apr 1801 - Harwich, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 24 Jul 1802 - Harwich, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Old Burying Ground, Brewster
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Captain Sylvanus Snow (1774-1804)
         Mother: Olive Bangs (1774-1847)


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Caroline Snow

      Sex: F

Individual Information
          Birth: 25 Sep 1803 - Brewster, Massachusetts 1
        Baptism: 
          Death: 20 Aug 1871
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Captain Sylvanus Snow (1774-1804)
         Mother: Olive Bangs (1774-1847)

Spouses and Children
1. *Elijah Cobb (27 Jun 1799 - 2 Sep 1861) 2 
       Marriage: 1825 - Harwich, Massachusetts
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Helen Cobb (1829-      )

Notes
Marriage Notes (Elijah Cobb)
Elijah Cobb, born in 1799, in Brewster, was the oldest son of Captain Elijah Cobb. He went to Boston at the age of sixteen, where after a few years he became a member of the firm of Cobb & Winslow, wholesale grocers. The last few years of his life were spent at the old house in Brewster, where he died in 1861. He married Caroline, daughter of Captain Sylvanus Snow. Their two sons\emdash Elijah W. and Alfred S.\emdash are deceased. Five daughters are living: Caroline O., Helen, Mary L., Aunette T. (now the widow of Freeman Cobb) and Emily C. Helen married James A. Dugan, who was a Harvard graduate and a teacher of private schools. He died in 1860, aged thirty-three years, leaving four children: Caroline A., James W., Stephen I. and Theodore F. Dugan.

Children
Caroline Olivia Cobb b: 5 JUN 1826 in Harwich
Elijah Winslow Cobb b: 24 NOV 1827 in Harwich
Helen Cobb b: 11 NOV 1829 in Harwich
Mary "Mercy" Louisa Cobb b: 27 FEB 1833 in Boston
Alfred Sylvanus Cobb b: 18 JUL 1836 in Boston
Annette Theresa Cobb b: 20 JUL 1838 in Boston
Emily Cunningham Cobb b: 5 DEC 1840 in Boston
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picture Catherine Snow

      Sex: F

Individual Information
          Birth: 25 Sep 1826 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 4
        Baptism: 
          Death: 15 Jul 1858 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
         Burial: in South Wellfleet cemetery
 Cause of Death: dropsy of brain

Events
• Alt Birth, 18 Sep 1825


Parents
         Father: Solomon Snow (1795-1870) 5
         Mother: Eunice Cole (1796-1865) 6 7

Spouses and Children
1. *Ebenezer C Paine (11 Nov 1823 - 21 Jul 1898)
       Marriage: 13 Apr 1848 - South Wellfleet, Massachusetts 8
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. James Houghton Paine (1852-1946) 9
                2. Paine (1856-1856)
                3. Catherine Paine (1858-      ) 10

Notes
Medical:
age 32-9-27
married
father: Solomon Snow 11 12

picture Celia Stangworth Snow

      Sex: F

Individual Information
          Birth: 4 Mar 1872 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 14
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1959
         Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Captain Frederick Walstein Snow (1837-1925) 15 16 17
         Mother: Adaline Allen Higgins (1836-1913) 16 18

Spouses and Children
1. *Arthur H Lee (1875 - 1955) 13 
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Margaret S Lee (1912-2008)


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Charles Snow

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: 1834 - Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Nathaniel Snow (1803-1876) 19
         Mother: Betsey R Lincoln (1813-1894)

Notes
General:
1850 mariner, Wellfleet

picture Charles H Snow

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: 1839 - (Orleans, Massachusetts) 20
        Baptism: 
          Death: Between 1904 and 1913
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Calvin Snow (1818-1892)
         Mother: Matilda Cole (Est 1820-1887) 20

Spouses and Children
1. *Patience E Small (Est 1842 - 1 Jul 1913) 20 
       Marriage: 1860 - (Harwich, Massachusetts)
         Status: 

Notes
General:
Apr 1904 "Mr Charles H. Snow of Boston is in town looking after his cranberry swamp."

picture Charles Lee Snow

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: 26 Mar 1777 - Eastham, Massachusetts 21
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Doane Snow (1740-      ) 22
         Mother: Apphia Crocker (1750-      )


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Charles Tilton Snow

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: 16 Apr 1880 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 24
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1965
         Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Captain George Albert Snow (1853-1933) 17 23 25
         Mother: Lucy Emery Newcomb (1856-1901) 23 26

Spouses and Children
1. *Georgena M (1902 - 1981) 23 
       Marriage: 
         Status: 


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Charles W Snow

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: 23 Sep 1855 - Truro, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1936 - Truro, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Snow cemetery, Truro
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Ephraim Snow (1810-1895) 27
         Mother: Jemima Knowles (1814-1897)

Spouses and Children
1. *Abbie Hughes (1858 - 1919)
       Marriage: 13 Oct 1878 - Truro, Massachusetts
         Status: 


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Governor Charles Wilbert Snow

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: 6 Apr 1884 - Spruce Head, Maine
        Baptism: 
          Death: 28 Sep 1977
         Burial: in Spruce Head, Maine
 Cause of Death: 


Parents
         Father: Forrest Alwin Snow (1860-1920) 28
         Mother: Katherine Faber Quinn (1859-1905) 29

Notes
General:
Occupation: Taught English, Wesleyan College
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1 term
Cremation: Forest Hill Cemetery, Sprucehead, MA

Marriage 1 Lola Jeanette Simmons b: UNKNOWN in Rockland, ME
Married: 23 FEB 1922 in Middletown, Conn
(fegrimes)
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National Governors Associatio web site (nga.org)
Connecticut Governor Charles Wilbert Snow

Born: April 6, 1884
Died: September 28, 1977
Birth State: Maine
Party: Democrat
Family: Married Jeanette Simmons; five children
Religion: Protestant
School(s): Bowdoin College, Columbia UniversityPeriods in Office: From: December 27, 1946
To: January 8, 1947
Military Service: Army, World War I

CHARLES WILBERT SNOW, Connecticut's 58th governor, was born on White Head Island, St. George, Maine, on April 6, 1884. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1907, and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1910. He worked as an Eskimo teacher and reindeer agent in Alaska from 1911 to 1912. During World War I he served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army. Snow had an extensive teaching career, teaching at numerous universities and writing several volumes of poetry. In 1940 he served as president on the Connecticut Association Board of Education. Snow entered politics in 1946, as an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate. He won election to the Connecticut lieutenant governor's office, serving from 1945 to 1946. On December 27, 1946, Governor Raymond E. Baldwin resigned from office and Snow, who was lieutenant governor at the time, assumed the governorship. He served in this capacity until January 8, 1947. In 1951 he served as a state department lecturer in Europe and the near East. He also served as educational commissioner and chairman of the Middletown Board of Education for more than 30 years, and was influential in founding the Middlesex Community College. Governor Wilbert Snow died on September 28, 1977.

Sources:

Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 1, Westport, Conn.; Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols.
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Sources


1 George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online at Google Books and archive.org]), 60.

2 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 26. Brewster. (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 913.

3 Philip L. Cobb, History of the Cobb Family (1907.)

4 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:129. the children of Solomon Snow jr. and Eunice his wife.

5 Bowman, Records from Cemetery near South Wellfleet Church (Mayflower Descendant).

6 Bowman, Records from Cemetery near South Wellfleet Church (Mayflower Descendant), wrong year.

7 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 47. 1902 #16.

8 Barnstable Patriot (Barnstable, Mass
archives 1830-1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable), 26 Apr 1848, p3.

9 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 34.

10 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 51.

11 Kenneth Cole, South Wellfleet Cemetery (Wellfleet, Mass. Rich Family Association).

12 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1843-1859 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 97. frequently differ from other records

13 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 3, lot 53A. Arthur H. Lee & Celia S. Snow.

14 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 17.

15 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 24: Wellfleet (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 821.

16 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 18, lot 5. Frederic W. Snow families.

17 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:165. The children of Ambrose and Polly Snow.

18 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:127. the children of Thomas Higgins junr and Thankful his wife.

19 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:71. Solomon and Lavina Snow family.

20 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 23. Orleans (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 783.

21 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 33:81.

22 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 90 (MD17:33). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.

23 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 2, lot 4 (Thomas E. Newcomb family).

24 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 25.

25 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 37.

26 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 46. 1901 #18.

27 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 201.

28 Rootsweb.com, harpswell.

29 Rootsweb.com, haruspex (DB Robinson).


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