Mary Ann Smith Daniels
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Nov 1839 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 11 Oct 1920 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 2
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: diabetis
Parents
Father: Timothy A Daniels (1807-1893) 3 4
Mother: Azubah Moody (1805-1899) 3 4
Spouses and Children
1. *Washington Franklin Pierce (19 Mar 1835 - 31 Jan 1925) 1
Marriage: 7 Feb 1858 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 5
Status:
Children:
1. Franklin Vaughn Pierce (1875-1899) 1 6
2. Emma Smith Pierce (1857- ) 7
3. Ellen Vaughn Pierce (1878- )
Notes
Medical:
age 80-10-13
Mary Ann Smith Pierce 2
Melville Nehemiah Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1882
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Lucy Grove Smith (1885 - ) 8
Marriage:
Status:
Nancy Holbrook Daniels
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 7 May 1822 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
Baptism:
Death: 18 Jun 1822 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John L Daniels (1783-1845) 4 10
Mother: Hannah Atwood (1786-1867) 4 10
Nathan Cole Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 May 1835 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 11
Baptism:
Death: After Mar 1894
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain John Williams Daniels (1809-1864) 9 12
Mother: Polly A Cook (1815-1896) 12
Spouses and Children
1. *Maria Gould Bacon (25 Jun 1836 - Mar 1894) 13
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Freeman Bacon Daniels (1863- ) 14
Notes
General:
1863 seaman, WellfleetMarriage Notes (Maria Gould Bacon)
of Franklin, MA 1889
Olivia Daniels
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Dec 1844 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 16
Baptism:
Death: 1922
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Timothy A Daniels (1807-1893) 3 4
Mother: Azubah Moody (1805-1899) 3 4
Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Dow Freeman (6 Nov 1839 - 11 Mar 1896)
Marriage: 31 Dec 1866 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Status:
Olivia Daniels
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 21 Aug 1826 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
Baptism:
Death: 4 Jan 1883 - Cambridgeport (Cambridge), Massachusetts 17 18
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth 17, 21 Aug 1827
Parents
Father: John L Daniels (1783-1845) 4 10
Mother: Hannah Atwood (1786-1867) 4 10
Spouses and Children
1. *Sylvanus Nicholson (1 Jun 1821 - 9 Nov 1886) 19
Marriage: 11 Nov 1845 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 20
Status:
Children:
1. Andrew Stubbs Nicholson (1846- ) 21 22
2. Elizabeth Susan Nicholson (1848- ) 23
3. Marie L Nicholson (1859- ) 24
Notes
General:
"Ilivia Daniels, wife of Sylvanus Nicholson, born Aug. 21, 1827, passed away Jan. 4, 1883. She made home happy." 17
Polly Atwood Daniels
Sex: F
AKA: Pollie A Daniels 25
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Feb 1850 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 25
Baptism:
Death: 7 Sep 1917 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 26
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: angina pectoris 26
Events
• Alt Birth, 1852
1852-1917, Oak Dale cemetery
Parents
Father: James Munroe Daniels (1820-1896) 9 27
Mother: Ruth S Kennedy (1821-1899) 27
Spouses and Children
1. *Jesse W Hopkins (1842 - 3 Mar 1935)
Marriage: 27 Apr 1873 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Melissa F Hopkins (1874-1949) 28 29
2. Thomas K Hopkins (1877- )
3. James E Hopkins (1882- ) 30
4. Hopkins (1885-Cir 1885)
5. Alice Normal Hopkins (1886-1918) 31 32
6. Clarence Augustus Hopkins (1890- ) 33
7. Blanche Morton Hopkins (1893- ) 34
8. Roy Clayton Hopkins (1895-1969) 35
Notes
Medical:
age 67-6-5
Polly D. Hopkins
Rebecca Daniels
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1809
Baptism:
Death: After 1870 - Lowell, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Timothy Bascom (27 Dec 1806 - After 1870) 37
Marriage:
Status:
Sharon Clare Daniels
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Jun 1945 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 38
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Stephen Sylvester Daniels (1910-2002)
Mother: Clarice Dunham Bell (1911-1968) 39
Stephen Sylvester Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Aug 1910
Baptism:
Death: 3 Jan 2002 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 044-09-5593 in Connecticut
Spouses and Children
1. *Clarice Dunham Bell (6 Aug 1911 - 7 Sep 1968) 39
Marriage: 7 Apr 1940 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 40
Status:
Children:
1. John Myles Daniels (1941- )
2. Sharon Clare Daniels (1945- )
3. James Leon Daniels (1951-1962) 41
Susan C Daniels
Sex: F
AKA: Susanna C Daniels
Susie Daniels 11
Individual Information
Birth: 1846 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1932
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain John Williams Daniels (1809-1864) 9 12
Mother: Polly A Cook (1815-1896) 12
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Daniel Webster Atwood (12 Jun 1841 - 16 Nov 1886)
Marriage: 15 May 1864 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Effie May Atwood (1865- ) 42
Thomas K Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Nov 1845 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 25 43
Baptism:
Death: 3 Oct 1848 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 44
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: fever 45
Parents
Father: James Munroe Daniels (1820-1896) 9 27
Mother: Ruth S Kennedy (1821-1899) 27
Notes
Medical:
age 4
b Wellfleet
parents James & Ruth Daniels
repeated record:
cod dysentery
age omitted
b Wellfleet
d 1 Oct 1848?
s/o James & Ruth Daniels 45
Timothy A Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Mar 1807 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 4 9
Baptism:
Death: 29 Oct 1893 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 4
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: chronic encephalitis 46
Parents
Father: John L Daniels (1783-1845) 4 10
Mother: Hannah Atwood (1786-1867) 4 10
Spouses and Children
1. *Azubah Moody (18 Jan 1805 - 30 May 1899) 3 4
Marriage: 28 Nov 1830 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 47
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Ann M Daniels (1833-1835) 3 4
2. Elizabeth B Daniels (1835-1849) 3
3. Timothy A Daniels (1838-1893) 4
4. Mary Ann Smith Daniels (1839-1920) 1
5. Albert B Daniels (1843-1845) 3
6. Olivia Daniels (1844-1922) 4 15 16
Notes
General:
Timothy A. Daniels, born in 1807, is a son of John L. and Hannah (Atwood) Daniels. He was in Boston several years engaged in the oyster business, after which he followed the sea, in the fishing business, about twenty years, being master of vessels a part of the time. He was a merchant at Wellfleet about ten years, since which time he has lived retired. He married Azubah, daughter of Joshua and Polly (Pierce) Moody. Their three children are: Timothy A., Mary A. and Olivia.Medical:
1844 mariner, Wellfleet 4
age 86-7-23
Timothy A Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1838 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1893 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Timothy A Daniels (1807-1893) 3 4
Mother: Azubah Moody (1805-1899) 3 4
Timothy A Hapgood Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Jan 1860 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 25
Baptism:
Death: After 1928 - of Boston, Mass.
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Munroe Daniels (1820-1896) 9 27
Mother: Ruth S Kennedy (1821-1899) 27
Spouses and Children
1. *Bertha L (Est 1862 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Flossie May Daniels (1880-1891) 27
William Witherell Daniels
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Aug 1857 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 25 48 49
Baptism:
Death: Oct 1929 - Barrington, Rhode Island
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Munroe Daniels (1820-1896) 9 27
Mother: Ruth S Kennedy (1821-1899) 27
Spouses and Children
1. *Margaret Bryant (Est 1870 - )
Marriage: 1890
Status:
Notes
General:
"William Witherell Daniels, aged 72, for 27 years the superintendent of the D. Atwood Oyster Company of Barrington, died at his Church street home this month, after an illness of more than four years. He was the som of the late James Munroe and Ruth Kennedy Daniels, and was born in 1857 in Wellfleet. He married Miss Margaret Bryans of West Barrington in 1890, and is survived by his widow, also a brother, T.H. Daniels of Boston. His funeral was conducted by the Rev. William Worthington, retired, of Providence, and burial folled in the Prine Hill cemetery.
When seven years of age Mr. Daniels made his first fishing trip, with an uncle, and thereafter went to sea with the fleet. During the well remembered blizzard of 1888, the fishing smack Mattie Atwood, on which he was a mate, foundered of the Delaware coast. In December 1887 a cargo steamer bound for South America, on which he was an officer, foundered off Hatteras. With other survivors he was picked up by a passing steamer and brought to New York and having lost everything he owned, his fare back to Wellfleet was paid by friends. After his second shsipwreck he gave up the sea, moving in West Barrington, where he was employed for Boston and Providence firms. He was made superintendent of D. Atwood & COmpany in 1898. He was widely known having many friends in the maritime circles, as well as in his native place." 50
Sheila Margaret Dann
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1911 - Camberly, England
Baptism:
Death: 20 Nov 2006 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *R I W Westgate (14 Sep 1904 - 27 Jul 1988)
Marriage: 1934 - England
Status:
Notes
General:
Cape Codder obit:
Sheila M. Westgate
Author, active with Monomoy Theatre
CHATHAM-Sheila Margaret (Dann) Westgate, 95, died Nov. 20.
Mrs. Westgate was born in Camberly, England, the daughter of Brigadier General W.R.H. Dann and Margaret Smith. In 1934 she married R.I.W. (Bill) Westgate, a Rhodes scholar and Oxford graduate from Canada, whom she had met at the University of Western Ontario. She moved from Shropshire to Cambridge, Mass., where Mr. Westgate was an instructor in classics at Harvard University and Radcliffe College. They moved to Andover when her husband went there to teach at Phillips Academy. Mrs. Westgate started a play reading group and worked with students interested in acting, including Tony Perkins. In 1947, when Mr. Westgate became headmaster of St. Bernard's School, the couple moved to New York City. There, she organized the school library and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University in remedial reading and testing.
In 1971, they retired to the old house they had bought in Chatham in 1940. Mrs. Westgate was active with the Monomoy Theatre, acting in several plays and serving as a board member. She designed the memorial garden for Kathleen Stafford who directed the theater's Shakespeare plays for many years.
A keen genealogist of her own Anglo-Irish roots, she and Anna Lowell Tomlinson researched and compiled the "Vital Records of the Town of Chatham, 1696-1850," published by the Chatham Historical Society in 1991. She also wrote the book, "Cattleboat to Oxford," a compilation of her husband's letters from England in the 1920s and 1930s. After Mr. Westgate's death in 1988, she and her family and friends created the Westgate Teachers Fellowship Fund, which provides funds for Chatham faculty seeking to enrich their teaching.
In 1993, with the support of the Friends of Monomoy Theatre, Mrs. Westgate and her daughter, Diana, organized a concert of opera arias and duets. The success of that concert led to the formation of Cape Cod Opera, which now performs fully staged operas.
She is survived by her son, Michael of Chatham and Boston; her daughters, Diana of Pittsfield, N.H. and Katherine Pascual of New York City; her sister, Norah Rodgers of Hobart, Tasmania; one grandson; and one great-granddaughter.
A memorial service is planned for July 2007. Memorial donations may be made to Monomoy Theatre, 776 Main Street, Chatham, MA 02633.
Dorothy Dannenberg
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1913 - Manhattan, New York
Baptism:
Death: 1 Dec 2008 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Philip Sterling (12 Jul 1907 - 11 Sep 1989)
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
General:
Cape Codder obit
Dorothy Dannenberg Sterling
Author, historian
WELLFLEET--Dorothy Dannenberg Sterling, 95, died Dec. 1 at her home.
She was the author of more than 35 books for young people and adults on subjects ranging from natural history, documentaries of African American voices, and biographies of significant 19th Century women and African Americans. During the 1950's she broke new ground by writing Freedom Train: the Story of Harriet Tubman, the first full-length biography of an African American woman written for children
Born in Manhattan, she attended the Special Opportunity Class for Gifted Children at P.S. 165 in New York, then the Dalton School and then Wellesley College for two years, returning home to complete her bachelor's degree at Barnard College. Graduating in 1934, she worked as an editor for Art News and then joined the Federal Writers Project, where she met Philip Sterling, a journalist, whom she married in 1937. They collaborated in rearing two children, writing several books, and participating together in nearly every social and political cause of their time: for fair housing, school integration, civil rights, and environmental preservation; against atmospheric bomb-testing and the Viet Nam war. Their collaboration lasted 52 years, until Philip's death in 1989.
From 1941 to 1949, Mrs. Sterling worked on Life magazine, where she honed her research skills and economical writing style. Frustrated at Life's glass ceiling -- women remained "researchers" and men got the bylines-- she resigned and used her experience and inside knowledge to write critically about Life, Time Inc, and their founder, Henry Luce. Her book-length manuscript attracted interest from various publishers, but each eventually refused it. The reason emerged 20 years later when Sterling used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain her FBI file. Her thick file, much of it blackened with redactions, indicated that the FBI had visited each publisher urging them to reject the book because Ms. Sterling was a member of the Communist Party. Following this frustrating episode, Sterling, by then living in Rye, New York, turned toward less subversive topics. She produced children's books with mild titles, such as Sophie and Her Puppies (1951) and Billy Goes Exploring (1953)\endash photo essays with Myron Ehrenberg. Her subjects tended to match the ages and interests of her children and thus progressed to mysteries, The Cub Scout Mystery (1952), Brownie Scout Mystery (1955), and then to nature \endash with children's books about the seasons, plants, insects, and caves, some with photos by Ehrenberg, others with watercolors by Winifred Lubell.
By 1954, her writings turned to political subjects. She learned through her work in the local NAACP, that an African-American boy could not get his hair cut in Rye and observed how each winter brought fire to the slum housing in neighboring Port Chester, New York. Sterling started to notice that the myriad biographies for children did not include a single one about a black woman. So she researched and wrote Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman and convinced her editor at Doubleday to publish it. Next came Tender Warriors \endash another a photo essay with Ehrenberg based on their Spring 1957 trip through the South, interviewing children and families who needed the protection of Federal troops to integrate public schools. This book documented the beginning of the end of Jim Crow and formed the basis for Mary Jane (1959)\endash her fictional account of a black girl in a newly integrated school.
And from then on, as the Civil Rights Movement surged forward and her children reached adulthood, Sterling stayed with her subjects \endash 19th Century American heroes and heroines unrecognized because of race and sometimes gender \endash writing now for young adults and finally for full adults. She produced Captain of the Planter \endash the story of Robert Smalls, a slave who captured a Confederate gunboat and sailed it to the Union side; The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885, a black man who managed to get himself admitted to Harvard Medical School \endash over the protest of his classmates. The black women included Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, plus lesser known but powerful voices, in We are Your Sisters (1984). Sterling also admired and wrote of white women \endash abolitionists and suffragists, such as Lucretia Mott (1964) and Abby Kelly Foster (1991), who were her moral and spiritual forbearers. What had begun as a lonely exercise ultimately gained recognition, bringing Sterling the Carter G. Woodson Award from the National Council of Social Studies, an award from the Philadelphia Library Company, and an honorary degree from Brown University (1995).
In the early 1970s, Sterling moved with her husband to Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where they had often summered and where she had written The Outer Lands (1967), a guide to the natural history of Cape Cod and the Islands, illustrated by Winifred Lubell. After Philip's death she continued alone in their house near the shore. There, in her eighties Sterling participated in one more struggle and wrote one more book.
The struggle arose when some of Sterling's summer neighbors with houses above the dunes took offense at the town's shellfishers cultivating the flats below and tried to block their access. Sterling wrote to the Cape Codder, noting that recreation occurs at high tide when the nets are under water and that truck tracks are obliterated by each incoming tide. She pointed out that aquaculture fits Wellfleet's history, is ecologically sound, and helps the town's economy. When the owners remained unconvinced, Sterling invited the shellfishers to use her right of access. Eventually the shellfishers prevailed in state court, and in gratitude they held a ceremony where her road meets the beach. Over donuts and coffee, they thanked her and named the cut "Sterling Pass", marking it with a granite bench inscribed with a quote fromher Outer Lands.
Sterling's final book, Close to My Heart (2005) was a memoir of her political life, whose long-term goal had been socialism. The epilogue, written at 90, contains this report: "The other night, sleeping restlessly, I rolled over on my Med-Alert. Somewhere an operator was notified \endash who called me. Unfortunately my hearing aid was on the night table, and I failed to answer; so, following protocol, she called Wellfleet's Fire & Rescue squad, who sent a man to check me out. Of course, he had been here for other late-night misadventures, so he felt ok opening the unlocked front door and stealing silently in for a peek. When, standing at my bedroom door, he heard my regular breathing, he crept back out, left a note, and returned to the station. If I can't have world socialism, then a village of such kind and sensible people is very satisfying."
Dorothy Sterling is survived by her children, Peter, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, and Anne Fausto-Sterling, Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, as well as by two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Cynthia Darby
Sex: F
AKA: Cynthia Williams 51 52
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Apr 1777 - Truro, Massachusetts 53
Baptism: 24 Aug 1777 - Truro, Massachusetts 54
Death: 20 Feb 1849 - Bucksport, Maine
Burial: in North Bucksport Cemetery 55
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father:
Mother: Sarah Newcomb (1747-Cir 1817) 56
Spouses and Children
1. *James Nichols (17 Jun 1777 - 1 Jun 1825) 57
Marriage: 3 Nov 1795 - Truro, Massachusetts 58
Status:
Notes
General:
birth "Cynthia Darby, daughter of Sarah Williams"
"Inscriptions of Gravestones at No. Bucksport,Maine"
Died "aged 73 yrs at the residence of William G. Chase, Esq.", from Bucksport Deaths.
Mary Darby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1644
Baptism:
Death: 16 Mar 1706 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Nicholas Nickerson (10 Aug 1628 - 26 Mar 1682)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. John Nickerson (1664-1745) 59
2. Nickerson (1666-1667)
3. Mary Nickerson (1668-1746) 59
4. Sarah Nickerson (1674-1723)
5. Patience Nickerson (1682- )