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Hi Tom: It's me again: I have the Chatham MA vital records book and I found a death record for a John Eldredge born 1803, died 1874 in Chatham and is married but drats, it doesn't say to whom. I cannot find a marriage between John Eldridge and Ruth Nickerson Nickerson either, but this couple is living together in the 1860 Eastham and 1870 Chatham Census. In 1860 Ruth's children George W.(Washington) and Maria Nickerson (Ellis, she married Jonathan Ellis in Dennis)are living with her and they are teenagers. Ruth dies in August 6, 1907 in the home of her daughter Maria Nickerson Ellis and is buried in Dennis MA.I found the death record from my NEGHS online records. She is buried under the Nickerson name. Her spouse is listed as Michael Nickerson who was her first husband and who died in 1856, so perhaps John and Ruth never married or if they did,maybe the children did not want her buried under the Eldridge name as being they were teenages living with John and Ruth, it could be a chance they didn't get along.If you would like a copy of this death record, I can email to you off list.I don't even know if this John who died in Chatham and is the son of Bearse Eldredge and Rebecca is mine. I have nothing to go by but his first marriage which tells me nothing but that he is from Chatham and that according to the 1850 Lyme CT census he is in the 30-40 age bracket. Not a lot to go on. The divorce claims he left my grandmother, but family lore has other things to say yet no one knows how old John is. Last spring when I went back to CT, I found a newspaper notice in the Norwich CT Herald, Feb. 1838, which listed the marriage of this couple Dr. John F. Eldridge to Mary Ann Chadwick Jan 25, 1838. I think the Dr. is a typo as I have not been able to find any Dr anywhere, although the subsequent John Eldridges/Eldredges in our family almost aways have the "F" for a middle initial. Hmm. Just don't know. Kinda makes me want to wake up the dead and make them talk!
Cheers
Carol
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