Arthur Hathaway
and his wife Sarah Cooke
and Some of Their Descendants
Tenth Generation

LYDIA EMELINE10 HATHAWAY (Adiel9, John8, David7, Love6, Savory5, Simon4, Arthur3. John2, Arthur1) was born at Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on 16 July 1890 a daughter of Adiel H. Hathaway and his wife Julia Reed,[1] and died at Hyannis, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on 28 June 1964.[2] She married at Fairhaven on 12 November 1912 LEROY ASHTON DUNHAM.[3] He was born at Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on 19 September 1889, a son of Leonard F. and Azuba S. (Hammond) Dunham.He died at Pocasset, Bourne, Barnstable County, on 26 May 1952.[4]

As a young woman Lydia Hathaway worked as a milliner, and lived on Myrtle Street in Taunton. That is where she met Leroy "Roy" Dunham, who also lived on that street.[5] Lydia moved back to her parents' home in Fairhaven, and in 1912 she circulated a petition on Sconticut Neck, asking the Selectmen of Fairhaven to get electric lights on the Neck[6] (Electricity did not reach the neighborhood until the 1920s).

Roy moved to Sandwich, Barnstable County, where he worked as a foreman in the Sandwich Freezer, which froze and stored locally caught fish. Daughter Doris reported: "He used to tell about walking from Sandwich to Fairhaven to court my mother."[7]

After marriage Leroy and Lydia lived in Sandwich. They moved to New Bedford, Bristol County, then Taunton, Bristol County, as Roy changed jobs. Then in September 1927, they moved to Dennisport, Dennis, Barnstable County, where Roy ran a gas station. Daughter Gene remembered him delivering groceries for the Economy Grocery Store in Dennisport in 1936. Then they moved to Fairhaven in 1939, and he worked for Fibre Leather with Lydia's sister Leita.[8]

In 1943 Roy came down with tuberculosis and became a semi-invalid. The Doctors gave him six months to live, but with Lydia's help, he lived 12 years. Roy, Lydia and daughter Gene moved to Rochester, Plymouth County,, where they tried to run a chicken farm. It was too much for Lydia, so they sold out. With the help of Mac, Adiel and friends, they built a home on a lot behind daughter Doris' home in Dennisport.[9]

In the Spring of 1952 Lydia and daughter Doris both became widows. Lydia continued to live behind Doris until Lydia's death 12 years later. Daughter Gene wrote, "Mother was a hard working woman all her life and nothing was easy for her."[10]

Daughter Doris Dunham graduated from Dennis High School in 1931,[11] and married in 1937. Her husband, John Garfield, was a trawl fisherman; he had two boats, and in the off-season did carpentry. He died at the age of 37 from hemoechromotosis, a rare disease caused by a faulty metabolism.[12] He left Doris a 38 year old widow with children ages 13, 9 and 4. Doris built and managed a beauty shop beginning in that year, to support her family. She operated the beauty shop until her retirement in 1971, both her daughters worked in the shop, which she passed on to her daughter Sharyn.[13]

Daughter Gene graduated from Fairhaven High School. She waitressed from 1956 to 1964, later was a bookkeeper and receptionist for her second husband's television repair business and after his death was a secretary at Pyrofax Gas, Hyannis.[14]

Lydia (Hathaway) and her husband Leroy Dunham had the following children:

  1. DORIS ASHTON11 DUNHAM b. at Sandwich on 25 August 1913;[15] d. there on 26 September 2013;[16] m(1). at Dennisport, Dennis, on 12 September 1937 JOHN SEARS GARFIELD,[17] b. at Dennis on 27 December 1913, d. at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 15 March 1952.[18] m(2). at South Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Barnstable County, on 29 September 1957 CLARENCE M. BURGESS,[19] b. at Hyannis on 1 January 1922, d. at Tavares, Lake County, Florida, on 10 August 2003.[20] Children of Doris and John:[21]
    1. Nancy Doris Garfield b. at Dennisport on 18 July 1938. m. at South Dennis, Dennis, on 4 October 1958 David A. Boessé b. at Hyannis on 2 March 1939. Children of Nancy and David:
      1. Lori Jean Boessé b. at Hyannis on 10 Novembver 1964
      2. Juli Ann Boessé b. at Hyannis on 30 March 1970.
    2. John Stanley Garfield b. at Dennisport on 21 September 1942; m(1). at Hyannis on 7 April 1964 Joan Basset b. at Hyannis on 28 March 1942; div. on 21 March 1979; m(2). at South Yarmouth on 14 November 1979 Marcia Dorr b. at Washington, D.C., on 7 August 1945. Children of John and Joan:
      1. Suzanne Garfield b. at Hyannis on 18 January 1966.
      2. Sherri-Ann Garfield b. at Hyannis on 22 July 1967.
      3. John Steven Garfield b. at Hyannis on 14 May 1970.
    3. Sharyn Aleta Garfield b. at New Bedford on 23 January 1948; m(1). at Hyannis on 11 May 1968 William S. Siebenmann b. at Hyannis on 20 August 1947; div. on March 1976; m(2). at Yarmouth on 20 October 1979 Donald I, Meyer b. at Norwood, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, on 15 February 1942. Child of Sharyn and Donald:
      1. Trevor Jon Meyer b. at Hyannis on 27 September 1981.
  2. GENE A.11 DUNHAM b. at Taunton on 21 April 1926; d. at Wareham, Plymouth County, on 11 August 1999;[22] m(1). at East Sandwich, Sandwich, on 24 June 1945 RICHARD EWELL THOMAS,[23] b. at Sandwich on 21 November 1926, d. on 7 November 2001,[24] div. August 1958.[25] m(2). at Wareham on 31 December 1966 BRUCE STEWART RAYMOND,[26] b. at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on 1 August 1924, d. at Falmouth on 22 April 1988.[27] Richard Thomas m(2). ELSIE V. ________ b. on 25 June 1934, d. on 29 March 2011. Children of Gene and Richard:[28]
    1. Merrideth Gene Thomas b. at New Bedford on 10 July 1947, m. at Cotuit, Barnstable, on 20 January 1973 Stephen Craig Hamblin b. at Hyannis on 11 March 1947. Child of Merrideth and Stephen:
      1. Craig Charles Hamblin b. at Falmouth on 11 November 1978.
    2. Elizabeth Lydel Thomas b. at Hyannis on 17 July 1948; m(1). at Hampton, Virginia, on 18 December 1971 Alfred Lazatti b. at Weisbadden, Germany, on 14 April 1949, div. 1976; m(2). at Kingsville, Kleberg County, Texas, on 14 April 1978 Edwin Albert Guillotte, Jr. b. at Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, on 10 May 1939; Edwin m(2). at Bexar County, Texas, on 31 July 1992 Carolyn Whitwell b. about 1946-7. Elizabeth had the following children by an unidentified father:
      1. George Gene Thomas b. at Falmouth on 28 November 1968.
      2. Kioka Thomas b. at Falmouth on 17 February 1970.
      Elizabeth and Alfred had the following child:
      1. Alfred Lazatti, Jr. b. at Hampton on 18 December 1971.
      Elizabeth and Edwin had the following children:
      1. Edwin Albert Guillotte III b. at San Antonio, Bexar County, on 22 July 1978.
      2. Jason Wayne Guillotte b. at San Antonio on 3 August 1980.
    3. Kathleen Allison Thomas b. at Hyannis on 8 June 1951; m. at Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, on 2 August 1969 William Anthony Maynard b. at Brookline, Norfolk County, on 29 February 1944; separated 1972; m. again at Sandwich on 2 August 1977. Kathleen and William had the following child:
      1. Richard Ronald Maynard b. at Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, on 22 February 1970.
      Kathleen and an unidentified father had the following child:
      1. Jessica Lea Briggs b. at Augusta on 30 August 1972.
    4. Richard Ewell Thomas, Jr. b. at Hyannis on 19 May 1952; m. at Augusta on 30 October 1971 Diane Maheux b. at Augusta on 22 March 1952.

NOTES

1Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 19 September 2017), vol. 403, p. 106, e. 13, Fairhaven Births, 1890, Lydia E. Hathaway.
2Letter from Doris Hathaway Garfield Burgess, to Charles A. Maxfield III, 16 August 1985; held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
3Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, v. 610, p. 178, e. 57, Marriages Fairhaven 1912, Dunham-Hathaway, ; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 7 September 2019).
4Letter, Doris Hathaway Garfield Burgess to Charles A. Maxfield III, 16 August 1985.
5Letter; response to questions; from Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond, to Charles A. Maxfield, about September 1985; held in by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
6Fairhaven Star, 13 April 1912.
7Letter; response to questions, Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond to Charles A. Maxfield, about September 1985.
8Letter; response to questions; from Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond, to Charles A. Maxfield, 30 December 1985; held by , [address for private use].
9Letter; response to questions; from Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond, to Charles A. Maxfield, 30 December 1985; held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
10Letter; response to questions, Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond to Charles A. Maxfield, about September 1985.
11Ibid.
12Letter, Doris Hathaway Garfield Burgess to Charles A. Maxfield III, 16 August 1985.
13Ibid.
14Letter, response to questions, Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond to Charles A. Maxfield, 30 December 1985.
15Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, v. 614, p. 25, e. 24; Births, Sandwich, 1913, Doris Dunham.
16"Doris (Garfield) Burgess," obituary, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 13 October 2013. Found at Find a Grave, Swan Lake Cemetery, Dennis Port, Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Created by wintercape (findagrave.com accessed 7 September 2019).
17Letter from Eleanor Hathaway Pease Brunelle, to Charles A. Maxfield, 26 March 1985; held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
18Letter, Doris Hathaway Garfield Burgess to Charles A. Maxfield III, 16 August 1985.
19Letter; response to questions, Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond to Charles A. Maxfield, about September 1985.
20Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 April 2017), Clarence M. Burgess, 014-16-2619. "Clarence M. "Jr." Burgess, Jr.," obituary, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 13 August 2003. Found at Find a Grave, Swan Lake Cemetery, Dennis Port, Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Created by wintercape (findagrave.com accessed 7 September 2019).
21Letter, Doris Hathaway Garfield Burgess to Charles A. Maxfield III, 16 August 1985.
22"Gene A. Raymond," undated clipping, 1999, from unidentified newspaper; Genealogical Collection of Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, provided by Pauline H. Krumbholz Maxfield. "U.S. Social Security Death Index," Gene A. Raymond, 019-20-9171.
23Letter, Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 August 1985.
24"U.S. Social Security Death Index", Richard E. Thomas, 028-14-3388.
25Letter, Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 August 1985.
26Ibid.
27"U.S. Social Security Death Index", Bruce S. Raymond, 029-14-7523.
28Letter, Gene Dunham Thomas Raymond to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 August 1985.

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Fairhaven Star. Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

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Raymond, Gene Dunham Thomas. Letter; response to questions. About September 1985, to Charles A. Maxfield. Privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

________. Letter; response to questions. 30 December 1985, to Charles A. Maxfield. Privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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