Hannah Belknap (Twitchell) Bickford (1810 - 1894)

Born 4 Jul 1810 in Bethel, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Nathan Bickford — married 13 Sep 1828 in Milan, Coos, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died 14 Dec 1894 at age 84 in Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Hannah was born in 1810. She was the daughter of Cyrus Twitchell and Eunice Belknap. She married Nathan Bickford on September 13, 1828 in Milan, New Hampshire.^[1][2] She passed away on December 14, 1894 in Milan,^[3] and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, there.^[4]

Eight children are listed in her will, all of whom received one-eighth of her property:^[5]

1. Mrs. S. V. Pettingill
2. Sullivan T. Bickford
3. Charles P. Bickford (deceased, heirs received property)
4. Mrs. Betsy A. Wheeler
5. Nathan Bickford
6. Mrs. Sophia Vincent (deceased, heirs received property)
7. Mrs. Addie Baldwin
8. Alphonso Bickford

Sources

1. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDVW-W2F : 24 January 2020), Hannah B. Twitchel in entry for Nathan Bickford, 1828.
2. ↑ Fahnestock, Catherine Bickford. Three hundred fifty years of Bickfords in New Hampshire. Cottonport, La. : Polyanthos, 1971. pp. 669-671
3. ↑ "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSKW-YVF : 22 February 2021), Hannah B Bickford, 14 Dec 1894; citing Berlin, Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,060.
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208974712/hannah-belknap-bickford : accessed 08 February 2022), memorial page for Hannah Belknap Twitchell Bickford (4 Jul 1810–14 Dec 1894), Find a Grave Memorial ID 208974712, citing Hillcrest Cemetery, Milan, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by lazacann (contributor 48441824) .
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data:New Hampshire County, District and Probate Courts.

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• Milan Bicentennial Committee. Historical Notes of Milan, New Hampshire. Littleton, N.H. : Courier Print Co., 1971. pp. 105, 125
• Lapham, William Berry. History of Bethel : formerly Sudbury, Canada, Oxford County, Maine, 1768-1890, with a brief sketch of Hanover and family statistics. Augusta, Me. : Press of the Maine farmer, 1891. p. 635
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWZ6-9H7 : 22 December 2020), Hannah Bickford in household of Nathan Bickford, Milan, Coos, New Hampshire, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7WL-5N5 : 18 February 2021), Hannah Bickford in entry for Nathan Bickford, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH56-QM7 : 3 January 2021), Hannah B Bickford in entry for Nathan Bickford, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRX-GVY : 19 February 2021), Hannah B Bickford in household of Charles P Bickford, Milan, Coos, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district ED 35, sheet 80B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,762.