Elizabeth (Reynolds) Potter (1881 - 1954)

Born 30 Apr 1881 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 Jun 1954 at age 73 in Santee, San Diego, California, United States

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Biography

My foundation for listed changes based on completed work by Carol Purinton

Elizabeth Reynolds: (Edward Grindall 7th, Grindall 6th ,Grindall 5th , John 4th , Benjamin 3rd , Nathaniel 2nd , Robert 1st ) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on 30 April 1881. She died in Santee, San Diego County, California, on 27 June 1954. She married (1) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1901, Henry Forrest Purinton, son of Bradbury G. and Sophia Tilton (Dolloff) Purinton. He was born, probably in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in September 1869. They were divorced in Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire, on 1 April 1914. She then married (2) at Laconia on 20 January 1917, Raymond Allen Potter, son of Charles L. and Emeline (Plant) Potter, born in Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, on 21 April 1890.

In 1897, Henry was a printer, living at 17 Court in Exeter. He was one of hundreds who were injured by the 1898 tornado (broken nose and leg) on the 4th of July at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. Several years later, Elizabeth graduated on 14 June 1899 from Hampton Academy, Hampton, New Hampshire. She and Henry were married in 1901, and they had two sons. After marriage, they were residing at 42 Rindge Avenue W. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1902, when their second son was born.

Not much is known about Henry‟s whereabouts in the intervening years. He died at 18 Bulfinch Street in Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 September 1935 at the age of 66 and was buried a week later at Mt. Hope Cemetery in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

By the time of the 1910 United States Census, Elizabeth and her two sons were living in Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, with Elizabeth‟s sister, Dorothy, and her family.Three years after Elizabeth‟s 1914 divorce from Henry, she married Ray Potter. On Ray‟s 1917 WWI Draft Registration Card, he listed his occupation as a machinist at Laconia Car Company in Laconia, claiming an exemption from service due to a physical disability (completely missing left thumb). In the 1916 Laconia directory, Elizabeth was a compositor for the News & Critic , which was located on Gove Court. A 1923 Sanborn map shows a printing company just two buildings away from the Laconia Car Company‟s machine shop, also on Gove Court. According to family photos, Elizabeth and Ray, and her two sons, March and Robert (and March‟s new wife, Olga), lived together in Concord during some part of the 1920s.By 1930, Elizabeth and Ray had joined her youngest son, Robert, in California.There Elizabeth and Ray lived until she died at the age of 73. She was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, next to her grandfather, Rev. Grindall Reynolds.

It is not known what became of Ray after Elizabeth‟s death

Sources

• Moment of Awareness: Discovering Grindall Reynolds’ Descendents Are My Ancestors by Carol A. Purinton. ( on-line) pdf format. http://files.ctctcdn.com/44942b87001/1c6a2b1d-e660-49aa-9b02-fde6df225143.pdf.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #45783606 Elizabeth (Reynolds) (Purinton) Potter. Citing Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by cap624 (contributor 47007905).

• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass., Chestnut Path, Elizabeth Potter headstone.

Source S39

Author: Joseph Dow

Title: History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892

Publication: Name: L. E. Dow; Date: 1893;

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Vol. 2 (581-1104): genealogical and biographical

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Notes

Note: #N2184

Note N2184Lottie A., m. Edward Reynolds, of Concord, Mass. Ch. Dottie W. Elizabeth (Dow - p599)