Elijah Burt Treat (1850 - 1934)

Born 13 Nov 1850 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Amanda Curtiss — married 23 Apr 1873 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT

Descendants

Died 19 Jul 1934 at age 83 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Elijah Burt TREAT was born 13 Nov 1850 in Oxford, New Haven, CT and was christened 17 Sep 1854 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT. He was the 6th of 8 children of Captain ATWATER BRYANT TREAT & ELIZABETH ANN TERRELL.

Elijah married Sarah Amanda CURTISS on 23 Apr 1873 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT. These are their known children:

1. Jennie May TREAT (1874 - 1894)
2. Florence Louisa TREAT (1877 - 1930)
3. Mary Henrietta TREAT (1881 - 1954)
4. Atwater Curtiss TREAT (1883 - 1955)

Elijah's occupation was listed as a Farmer, schoolteacher

Public Service: Town auditor, clerk for Board of Health, Justice of the Peace, school district clerk & treasurer, Board of Education secretary, assessor, trial justice, assistant town clerk, deputy registrar, road inspector, treasurer of Oxford Public Library, director of Pines Bridge Cemetery Association; at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, served as Sunday School teacher, senior warden, treasurer and clerk

Elijah passed away on 19 Jul 1934 in Oxford, New Haven, CT and was buried in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT. ^[1]

OBITUARY: Obit source unlabeled, probably The Evening Sentinel, Ansonia, CT. Jul 20, Oxford:

Elijah B. Treat, 83, one of the most prominent residents of this town, died at noon, Thursday, after 16 weeks illness. He had been a member of the Oxford board of education for the past 49 years and was its secretary 35 years. He was chairman of the Democratic town committee for many years and was judge of the local town court several terms.

He owned a large farm and worked on it up to the time of his last illness, although age had kept him from doing many of the heavy tasks of the farm of late. He was member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and was its senior warden for a long time. He was a regular attendant at the diocesan conventions.

Mr. Treat took an active part in the Oxford grange. He was formerly Oxford correspondent for The Republican.

He is survived by one son, Atwater Treat of Oxford; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Chatfield of Seymour, and several grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2:45 p.m. Sunday at St. Peter's church. Rev. H.S. Douglas will officiate. Burial will be in Oxford.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 12645548

W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 107. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/107.html.

W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 193. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/193.html.

W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 114. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/114.html.

W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 104. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/104.html.

W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 111. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/111.html.

Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford, Available at (http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm) (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #138. "138. Treat DeBisschop Homestead 1796." A map, photographs and information about this house on Chestnut Tree Hill Road, Oxford, CT, can be found in this book. He grew up in this house.

Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.

1860 Oxford Census.

1870 Oxford Census.

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFC5-HD9 : 29 July 2017), Elijah B Treat, Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district ED 45, sheet 245D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0103; FHL microfilm 1,254,103.

1900 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

1910 Oxford Census.

1920 Oxford Census. Living w/ son Atwater.

1930 Oxford Census.

Elijah B. Treat’s Diary for 1869, Transcribed by Dorothy A. DeBisschop. . http://www.our-oxford.info/Elijah_B__Treat_-_1869_Diary.html.

Elijah B. Treat’s Diary for 1873, Transcribed by Dorothy A. DeBisschop. . http://www.our-oxford.info/eb-treat-1873.html.

Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), p. 84. . " 1884 ... Town Officers ... Auditors - E. B. Treat." http://www.oxfordpast.com/p84.html.

Elijah Burt Treat. http://oxfordpast.net/pho5890.html.

David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #5. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan5.html.