Some of The Descendants of
William Thomas
of Marshfield, Plymouth Colony
by 1636

Eighth Generation

CALVIN8 THOMAS, Jr. (Calvin7, Nathaniel6, Edward5, Isaac4, Nathaniel302, William1) was born at Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on 1 February 1825 a son of Calvin Thomas and his wife Lois Maria Washburn,[1] and died at Freetown on 28 November 1863.[2] He married at Freetown on 4 June 1848 HOPE ANN RICHARDSON.[3] She was born at Freetown on 28 January 1830, a daughter of William B. Richardson and his first wife Elizabeth Clark.[4] She died at Fairhaven, Bristol County, on 15 December 1912.[5] Hope married second, after publishing marriage intentions at Fairhaven on 4 September 1865 NEWELL R. RAYMOND.[6] He was born at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on 29 July 1811, a son of George Raymond and Priscilla Shaw. He died at Fairhaven on 8 July 1881.[7] Newell Raymond had previously married at New Bedford, Bristol County, on 26 November 1834 CELIA NYE BRADFORD.[8] She was born at Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on 28 January 1814, a daughter of Cornelius and Mary Bradford.[9] She died at Falmouth on 6 January 1860.[10]

Calvin Thomas and Hope Ann Richardson both grew up on farms in Freetown. Calvin was 23, Hope 18, when they married. The 1850 Census reported them in Freetown, immediately before Calvin's parents:[11]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. Birthplace Other
14. Calvin Thomas, Jr. 23 M laborer MA
15. Hope A. Thomas 18 F MA
16. Ellen M. Thomas 1 F MA

A second child, Frank, was born in 1851. The 1855 State Census reported Ellen, age 6, living with her paternal grandparents.[12] I have not found Calvin, Hope, or Frank in that census. The 1860 Census reported Calvin, 36, stone cutter, and Ellen, 11, living with Calvin's parents.[13] I do not find Hope or Frank in that census.

Calvin Thomas, Jr., enlisted in the 47th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteer Infantry, company D., on 6 September 1862. After some training, they sailed to New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving on 31 December 1862. They were stationed at Metairie Race Course from March to May, which proved to be an unhealthy location. On May 19 they moved a couple of miles upriver from New Orleans, to Camp Parapet, which had become a center for African American refugees from slavery. The Massachusetts 47th did not see action. When their term was up they were transported up the Mississippi River to Cairo, Illinois, and by railroad to Boston, and were discharged in 1 September 1863.[14] Eight weeks later Calvin Thomas, Jr., died from chronic diarrhea.

Frank Irving Thomas died at Fairhaven on 15 February 1865 from artero spinal meningitis.[15] The state census on 1 May of that year reported Ellen, age 16, living with her Grandmother Lois and her Uncle Charles and his family at Freetown.[16] Again, I do not find Hope Ann in the census. On 4 September of that year, Hope Ann Thomas and Newell Raymond published at Fairhaven their intentions to marry. The record called her "H. Annie Thomas," and stated both persons resided at Fairhaven.[17]

Ellen's grandfather died in 1865, and her grandmother died in 1866. As Ellen's marriage record in 1868 gave her residence as Freetown, she probably continued to live on the family homestead with her Uncle Charles and his family.

Newell Raymond, a blacksmith from Falmouth, had four children by his first wife, the youngest being ages seven and fifteen when he remarried. He became a widower five years before he married Hope Ann. The 1870 Census reported them living in Fairhaven, a family of three: Newell, 59, blacksmith, Anna, 37, and Edgar, 12, the youngest child from his first family.[18] The only child born of this second marriage, Annie Newell Raymond, was born in December of that census year.

The 1880 Census reported this family at Fairhaven:[19]

Line Name Race Sex Age Related MS Occupation B FB MB
19. Raymond, Newell W M 68 M blacksmith MA MA MA
20. Raymond, Anna W F 48 wife M keeps house MA MA MA
21. Raymond, Anna N. W F 9 daughter S school MA MA MA

Newell Raymond died in 1881 from gastric ulcers.[20] Daughter Annie married in 1893 William Alton. The 1900 Census reported the William Alton family on Water Street, Fairhaven, consisting of William Alton, 31, Annie his wife, 29, their son, Newell Alton, 1, and a boarder. In the same dwelling, but listed as a separate household, was Hope A. Raymond, 67.[21]

The 1910 Census again found the William Alton family at 44 Water Street, with H. Annie Raymond, 77, maintaining herself as a separate household in the same dwelling. The Alton household was reported as follows:[22]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
2. Alton, William E. head M W 40 M1 MA MA MA engineer, bleachery
3. Alton, Annie N. R. wife F W 39 M1 MA MA MA embroidery, at home
4. Alton, Newell R. son M W 11 S MA MA MA None [school]
5. Alton, Joseph father M W 69 Wd MA MA MA janitor, public school
6. Shapleigh, Herman lodger M W 58 S MA MA MA mason, building

In August of 1915 Annie (Raymond) Alton ate some poisonous mushrooms and died.[23] She was forty-four years old. Two years later, her widower, William Alton, married widow Alice (Kerr) Woodland. The 1920 Census reported William Alton, 51, engineer for a bank, at 33 Laurel Street, Fairhaven, with his wife, Alice, 42, a native of Scotland, Alice's daughter by her first marriage, Ruth Woodland, 11, and William's father, Joseph Alton, 77.[24]

Newell Alton, the son of Annie (Raymond) and William Alton, was reported in the 1920 Census living in San Francisco, California, working as an organist for a theatre.[25] He married in April of that year Violet Ethelyn (Edrington) Woodman. Violet had married Corry U. Woodman in February of 1918. He joined the Army and died in December of that year in California. In 1940 Newell and Violet were lving in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, where Violet owned a beauty parlor.[26]

Calvin Thomas and his wife Hope Ann Richardson had the following children:

  1. ELLEN MARIA9 THOMAS b. at Freetown on 27 April 1849.
  2. FRANK IRVING9 THOMAS b. at Freetown on 7 August 1851; d. at Fairhaven on 15 February 1865.[27]

Hope Ann (Richardson) (Thomas) Raymond and her second husband Newell Raymond had the following child:

  1. ANNIE NEWELL RAYMOND b. at Fairhaven on 27 December 1870; d. at Mattapoisett, Plymouth County, on 1 August 1915; m. at Fairhaven on 6 September 1893 WILLIAM ELMER ALTON, b. at Sandwich, Barnstable County,on 5 October 1868, d. at Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on 1947, child of Joseph B. Alton and Sarah Ann Lloyd. William m(2). at Fairhaven on 2 June 1917 ALICE K. (KERR) WOODLAND b. at Edinburgh, Scotland, on 1877, d. at Fairhaven on 1960. Alice m(1) about 1904-5 ROBERT E. WOODLAND b. at Ireland on 6 August 1875, d. at Dartmouth, Bristol County, on 20 December 1915.[28] Annie and William had the following child:
    1. Newell R. Alton b. at Fairhaven on 4 August 1898, d. at Los Angeles County, California, on 9 February 1941; m. at Oakland, Alameda County, California, on 1 April 1920 Violet Ethelyn (Edrington) Woodman b. at California on 28 September 1898, d. at Orange County, California, on 11 July 1986. Violet had m(1). at Jefferson County, Texas, on 17 February 1918 Corry U. Woodman b. at Texas on 6 November 1886, d. at Riverside County, California, on 4 December 1918.[29] Child of Newell and Violet:
      1. Lorraine Alton b. at Los Angeles County on 29 December 1921.[30]

Newell Raymond and his first wife Celia Nye Bradford had the following children:

  1. CORDELIA A. RAYMOND b. at Falmouth on 27 August 1835; d. at Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, on 30 April 1915; m. at Falmouth on 13 january 1853 LEANDER BAKER, b. at Falmouth on 3 September 1826, d. there on 6 January 1909, child of Davis and Lydia Baker.[31] Children of Cordelia and Leander:
    1. Marie S. Baker b. at Falmouth on 1 September 1856.[32]
    2. Osborn R. Baker b. at Falmouth on 23 January 1864.[33]
  2. MARY C. RAYMOND b. at Falmouth on 1842.[34]
  3. JOSEPH N. RAYMOND b. at Massachusetts about April 1850.[35]
  4. EDGAR RAYMOND b. at Falmouth on 12 October 1857.[36]

NOTES

1East Freetown Cemetery, East Freetown, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Calvin Thomas, II. Bertha Harriet (Tirrell) Maxfield, Family Record of Charles Pope and Ellen (Nelly) Thomas Maxfiield. Notes compiled before 1938; privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
2Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 16 September 2017), vol. 165, p. 100, e. 23, Freetown Deaths, 1848, Calvin Thomas, Jr. East Freetown Cemetery, Calvin Thonas II.
3"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 37, p. 90, e. 2, Freetown Marriages, 1848, Thomas-Richardson.
4Freetown, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), "Massachusetts Vital and Town Records,", Records, 1795-1847 Number 3; 217; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2016).
5Massachusetts Archives, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, vol (1912) 36 Deaths, no. 503, Hope A. Raymond, 1912; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 29 May 2017).
6Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), "Massachusetts Vital and Town Records,", Births, Marriages and Death, p. 118, Marriage: Raymond-Thomas, 1865; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 May 2018).
7"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 328, p. 90, e. 26, Fairhaven Deaths, 1893, Newell Raymond.
8Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts: to the year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1932. 1932, 1941), v. 2, p. 434.
9Oliver B. Brown, Vital Records of Falmouth, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island, 1976), p. 13.
10"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 138, p. 8, e. 2; Deaths: Celia Raymond.
11Seventh Census of the United States: 1850,, population, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 308, p. 156B, household 297, Calvin Thomas [Jr.] family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 January 2016); NARA Microfilm Publication M432; Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
12Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1855 Massachusetts State Census, population, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, v. 6, p. 13, household 4, Calvin Thomas family; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 5 April 2018); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
13Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 492, p. 659, household 1661, Calvin Thomas family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 November 2014); NARA microfilm publication M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
14Massachusetts Adjutant General, ed., Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 volumes (Norwood, Massachusetts: Norwood Press, 1931), v. 4, p. 404. Further information on the regiment from wikipedia
15"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 183, p. 82, e. 7, Fairhaven Deaths, 1865, Frank Thomas.
16Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1865 Massachusetts State Census, population, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 5, p. 524, household 8, Lois M. Thomas family; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 9 April 2018); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
17Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Holbrook Research Institute, Births, Marriages and Death, p. 118, Marriage: Raymond-Thomas, 1865.
18Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 603, p. 253A, household 514, Newell Raymond family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 November 2014); NARA microfilm publication M593, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
19Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 66, roll 522, p. 64C, household 410, Newell Raymond family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2016); NARA microfilm publication T9; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
20"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 328, p. 90, e. 26, Fairhaven Deaths, 1893, Newell Raymond.
21Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 104, p. 2A, household 29, Hope A. Raymond; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2016); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
22Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 112, roll 574, p. 1A, household 1, H. Annie Raymond; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 May 2020); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
23Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, 1915 Deaths, v. 50, certificate 53, Annie Alton.
24Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 27, roll 682, p. 12B, William Alton family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 May 2020); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
251920 Census, San Francisco, California, ED 266, roll 140, p. 7A, household 2, hotel managed by Peyton Hart.
26Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, enumeration district (ED) 19-523, roll 243, p. 14A, household 346, Newell Alton family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 May 2020); NARA microfilm group T627.
27"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 51, p. 87, e. 32, Freetown Births, 1851, Frank Irving Thomas; vol. 183, p. 82, e. 7, Fairhaven Deaths, 1865, Frank Thomas.
28Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 223, p. 95, e. 2, Fairhaven Births, 1870, Annie Newel Raymond; vol. 433, p. 139, e. 18, Fairhaven Marriages, 1893, Alton-Raymond; vol. 205, p. 19, e. 72, Sandwich Births, 1868, Willie E.Alton. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, 1915 Deaths, v. 50, certificate 53, Annie Alton; 1915 Deaths v. 17, certificate 520, Robert Woodland. Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics "Massachusetts Vital Records Index to Deaths [1916–1970]," digital images of index, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 May 2020), William Alton, 1947; Alice (Kerr) Alton, 1960. Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," digital images, American Ancestors (american ancestors.org : accessed 13 May 2020), v. 643, p. 200, e. 32; Marriages Fairhaven 1917; Alton-Woodland.
29"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 475, p. 160, e. 46, Fairhaven Births, 1898, Newell R. Alton. State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, Ancestry (ancesty.com : accessed 27 May 2020), Newell R Alton, 1941; Violet Ethelyn Alton, 1986. California Department of Public Health, "California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 May 2020), Alameda Co., 1920, p. 480; Alton-Woodman; courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com. "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database, Family Search (familtsearch.org : accessed 27 May 2020), Jefferson Co., 1918, Woodman-Edrington. "World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 May 2020), Corry Uncas Woodman; citing : National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C., microfilm record group M1509: Imaged from Family History Library microfilm, Los Angeles County, California, no. 158. California Department of Health and Welfare, "California, Death Index, 1905-1939," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 May 2020), Cony V. Woodman, 1918.
30California Birth Index, 1905-1995," Arvado L Alton, 1921.
31Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, 1915 Deaths v. 8, certificate 444, Cordelia Baker. "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 69, p. 9; Marriages 1853 Falmouth; Bakus-Raymond; 1909 Deaths, v. 40, certificate 400; Leander Baker. Vital Records of Falmouth, Massachusetts, p. 3.
32"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 96, p. 9, e. 31; Births Falmouth 1856; Mariah Baker.
33Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 168, p. 9, e. 2; Births Falmouth 1864; Osborn R. Baker.
34Vital Records of Falmouth, Massachusetts, p. 107.
351850 Census, Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, roll 304, p. 425A, household 519, Newell Raymond family.
36"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 105, p. 13, e. 38; Births, Edgar Raymond.

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