Rhoda Goldthwait
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Rhoda Burt Goldthwait (1809 - 1879)

Rhoda Burt Goldthwait
Born in Longmeadow, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Died at age 70 in Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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386 Rhoda Burt, b. Jan. 23, 1809; d. unm,, aged 70, Aug. 29, 1879. She was a woman of strong character and of eminently unselfish life. After the death of her father and mother, whom she had affectionately cared for in their declining years, she devoted herself to the interests of her brother’s family, occupying an important place in the large household of her brother William, and deeply attached to all her nephews and nieces, who regarded her, in return, with warm affection. [1]

Daughter of Erastus Goldthwait and Hannah Colton. Sister of Jonathan Hale Goldthwait and William Colton Goldthwait.
Lived with William C. Goldthwait (her brother) and his wife Julia, plus their children, in the 1855 + 1865 Massachusetts Censuses.
She died of dropsy of the heart.

Sources

  1. Goldthwaite genealogy : descendants of Thomas Goldthwaite, an early settler of Salem, Mass., with some account of the Goldwaite Family in England. Goldthwaite, Charlotte, b. 1832 Publication date 1899 Publisher Hartford : Hartford Press https://archive.org/details/goldthwaitegenea00gold/page/52/mode/2up pp.155-159
  • A genealogical record of the descendants of Quartermaster George Colton in the North America Family Histories Collection
  • Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988
  • US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1950-1885




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