Catherine B. (Tufts) Alvord (1833 - 1913)

Born 20 Oct 1833 in Westhampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Cyrus Dwight Alvord — married 3 Feb 1852 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA

Died 12 Apr 1913 at age 79 in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Biography

Catherine B Tufts was born 20 Oct 1833 at Westhampton, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Caleb Washburn Tufts (abt.1806-abt.1872) and Beriah (Alvord) Tufts (1807-1865).

She married first, 3 Feb 1852 at Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Cyrus Dwight Alvord. They had 2 children, born at Williamsburg, Massachusetts ^[1]:

1. Adelaide Almeda Alvord, b. 13 Dec 1855; unmarried
2. Olive Jane Alvord (24 Apr 1858 - 23 Aug 1861)

This family resided first at Williamsburg, Massachusetts, then by 1860 at Bridgeport, Connecticut ^[2].

At the 1870 census, Catherine (by then widowed) and her daughter were counted in Williamsburg ^[3].

Catherine married second, 25 Oct 1877 at Williamsburg, Massachusetts, William S. Brown (1841 - 1908) ^[4]. They were enumerated in the 1880 census of Williamsburg, where they remained ^[5],^[6]. By 1910, Catherine was again widowed, still in Williamsburg, her daughter Adelaide residing with her ^[7].

Catherine B. (Tufts)(Alvord) Brown died 12 Apr 1913. Her grave is in Village Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA ^[8].

Sources

1. ↑ A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. (1908), no. 1346: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/458/mode/1up
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH5T-XKX : 18 February 2021), Catharine Alvord in entry for Cyrus D Alvord, 1860.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD3C-RHW : 29 May 2021), Catherine B Alvord, 1870.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4QR-7YK : 9 November 2022), William S. Brown and Catherine B. Tufts Alvin, 1877.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH6G-5GW : 14 January 2022), Catherine B. Brown in household of William S. Brown, Williamsburg, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9RR-HPJ : 22 January 2022), Catharine B Brown in entry for William S Brown, 1900.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2V3-VND : accessed 2 December 2022), Catherine B Brown, Williamsburg, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 724, sheet 6A, family 155, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 594; FHL microfilm 1,374,607.
8. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #69445092