Death record names cemetery. Her husband was that Benj. Veasey called Jr, clear when they moved in with his parents. Once their children were born, three generations were in the same house. For decades, their Veasey family would farm near the north edge of Brentwood.
Epping was the next town north. She had been raised. Epping was where north Brentwood peopleoften shopped, with her father's occupation in Epping once given as "merchant".
Her husband's cousin, W H Veasey (William H Veasey), farmed to their west, raising three daughters, no sons. The so-called Town Farm was in the opposite direction, to everyone's east, almost in Exeter. Later called the County Farm, in reality, it was mainly a seniors' home, mixed in with others. Brentwood and Epping's mother town had been Exeter (Did a local history say the town never incorporated?) Exeter had academies to inspire the public high schools in New England.
The local train depot was at Exeter, letting the young leave for elsewhere. Brother Oliver took his four children to the emerging factory belt in the next County southward (to Lynn, in Essex County, MA) , then returned, without the children. This sister of Oliver, Hannah, would be far longer-lived:
DEATH RECORD---Age 80 years and 29 days. Resident of Brentwood for 57 years. Pneumonia for 9 days before death. Parents, Orlando Morrill of Epping, who had been a merchant, and Mary Clifford of Brentwood. Widow of Benjamin Veasey [the junior, resident of Brentwood his whole life].
SOURCE: handwritten, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
Card One-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-HQ8?i=1991
Card Two-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-765?i=1992
Card Two said burial at "Brentwood", a name for the newer town cemetery also called Tonry. Physician and undertaker from Epping.
Unlike those of relatives dying decades earlier, her death record was not retrospective, but done at time of burial. (Familysearch says records were sent to the state, kept at the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.)
COMMENTS: The two twinned cemeteries used by Veaseys and Morrills in Brentwood are old (Tonry) and oldest (Veasey), at Brentwood's center, directly across from each other, on Middle Road, by the old central church that still stands (Congregational Church, folded into the UCC).
The recent Benjamin Veaseys were buried at Tonry, their elders in Veasey Cem., also called the "old town cemetery", according to Findagrave. The older one's half acre was donated to Brentwood town by the first Benjamin Veasey in Brentwood, the patriarch who had married Deborah Blake. That first Benjamin and Deborah were among the Brentwood residents to petition Hampton/So. Hampton/ Hampton Falls to have their own church, the town of Brentwood allowed to separate from Exeter as the parish separated from its different mother. The request to separate was judged as due to a new congregation wanting the convenience of a church closeby, not due to unhappiness with the old church's ministers, nor due to a desire to splinter religiously, so was granted. The request was said to be written in that Benjamin's hand.
Both of her daughters went elsewhere, one leaving home early, the other, late. Daughter Antoinette arrived in Iowa (Kossuth County) not long married, right after the Civil War.
A Dorweiler (in-laws to this Iowa-born writer) would change her middle name to Antoinette. Was this after wondering, with Hannah's daughter, Antoinette, about the way in which the two families had been French? (Frenchness ruled out Veazey as a spelling, as Zs in French were often silent.)
Veasey and its less common substitutes, Vesey and Vesci, were in an old book of those surnames dating back to the Norman French era. Not all French immigrating to Britain had been Norman ("Northmen", Viking descent). Some or many would have been of a German-Celtic mix, the Franks and the Walloons. The Dorweilers had kept track of the specific way in which they had been mixed French. Those burying the Dorweiler patriarch in Kossuth County (in Garfield Twp cemetery, east of West Bend and south of Algona) were careful to have the town of Lommersum put on his gravestone. As it faded, the old town name was not recarved, weakening the slab, but painted inside the old carving, by descendants.
Lommersum had the distinction of being under the Spanish and the French, before ending under the Prussian north German nobility, after Napoleon's defeat. Each set of new rulers left its stamp on name spellings. Vesci would be the oldest spelling, as the most similar to Latin?
Why marry a Robinson? There were many Robinsons locally, in Brentwood, more than any other surname, when a map of the county (Rockingham) and its property owners was made in the 1850s (view at loc.gov, Library of Congress).-Antoinette's neighboring relative back in NH, William H. Veasey, had been off to the Civil War, too. Like Antoinette, he, too, had married a Robinson after the Civil War. William and Antoinette's children would be doubly related, but not first cousins.
TOO MANY DOUBLE COUSINS? Hannah's children and Oliver's children were doubly-related, one parent, a Morrill, the other , a Veasey. The children of nearby WH Veasey were kin to both sets. Such cousins can be extra-close, "best friends" at school, if in the same grade. However, Oliver wanted to move or had to move, not clear. (William Veasey and Mary Veasey Morrill would both name a daughter Helen, as if they had talked about how they liked that name. Had there been a Helen or Helena in the news? Helena Augusta Morrill would meet and marry a man down in Essex County, MA, a consequence of her father Oliver's move.)
There would be more "doubly relateds", coming from William's house. Two of his daughters, Helen R. and Sarah A., married men from nearby, both named Sanborn. (Helen Veasey's groom was Elmer E., son of J. Warren Sanborn, while her sister Sarah's groom was instead a son of Oren and Esther J. Sanborn, named John A.)
Did Oliver take a look around after wife Mary's death, wonder if too much intermarriage had made the gene pool risky? Anticipating his children might have only relatives to marry, was that a reason to not to merely quit farming, if he had lost his strength, but to move away?
None of his daughters would marry an old neighbor. None would marry someone with a surname matching in-laws. What about his son Oliver E? He is hard to research, maybe came "half-back" from Mass., to nearby Kingston NH?
The alternative to moving was to delay marrying until past child-bearing age (Hannah's daughter Abra M Veasey) or to not marry at all (Hannah's son Washington M Veasey). The sad thing? Both children lived a very long time, just like this Hannah. What if any observed as dying too young was not due to a bad gene? What if it was something else?
Her pneumonia was short, a correct diagnosis. Someone back in Norway, an in-law of this writer's spouse, only half-jokingly, spoke of a bad pneumonia "that lasted three hundred years", then of discovering the culprit had been TB. Tuberculosis was making the rounds in NH, too, not called that yet, as no one knew it was a germ that did well inside an overcrowded house, not a bad gene, causing too a family's repeated too early deaths.
Oliver had had three generations together inside his house. Anyone seriously sick could give "whatever" to others. The era was one with no vaccinations against diphtheria (killing several of neighbor William Veasey's children). They had no antibiotics to cure TB. Pasteurizing (substituting hot pudding and cocoa, for unheated raw milk from strangers' untested cows) would cut the spread greatly, but could not cure those already with it. Infected mothers not breastfeeding children would stop the spread inside a family. (Thinking marriage was the problem was due to not noticing an infected mother was breastfeeding. Infected milk, human or cow, was the danger. This was despite the antibodies in raw milk, human or cow, normally being beneficial.)
(MORRILL-VEASEY Specifics-- Family Tree
SCENARIO 1-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were siblings. (Both were children of Benj Veasey the Sr, and his wife Elizabeth Graves.)
SCENARIO 2-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were cousins. (Hannah's neighbor was William H Veasey, a known son of that Jonathan Veasey who married Anna Stevens. If that Jonathan and Ben. Veasey the Sr were brothers, then William was a cousin to Hannah's spouse. If William and Mary Veasey were siblings, then Mary was another cousin.)
Sister-in-law Mary Veasey died in 1854. She and Oliver were censused together in Epping (1850 US Census). His four children were present, soon to be half-orphans. Listed after them were two older Morrills matching Hannah's and Oliver's parents in age. Their mother Mary G was clearly named. Their father Orlando was written as using a nickname not seen elsewhere. A sister of Hannah and Oliver, also called Mary, was listed after a "hired man" or boarder.
Again. with one parent a Morrill and the other a Veasey, the children of both Hannah and Oliver were some sort of "double cousins". Oliver went to Lynn, Essex County, to have a less active job than the previous farming. Remarried, but maybe aware he was dying, he returned to his birthplace of Epping for his death and burial, none of the four children who went to Lynn of record as buried at Epping. His first wife and an early child were there. His and this Hannah's parents, Orlando Morrill and Mary G Clifford, were buried there as well..
Hannah had had more children, but only two survived her. Son Washington Morrill Veasey, who took over the family farm, cared for by her daughter, Abra Morrill Veasey, who would not marry until after the rest had died. ( Abra was the feminine version of Abraham, given to daughters by multiple of Hannah's Morrill relatives, their burials scattered, up into Merrimac County, where some Morrills born before Orlando had gone to set up a saw mill.)
Another daughter, Antoinette Robinson, of Algona, Iowa, died young, in 1882. She had Hannah's only grandchildren, three in number, one named Abra, for her aunt.
Lots of Robinsons had been Veasey neighbors in Brentwood, congregated around the main church and the villaged area at the southeast. Antoinette's husband was not of a surprising name, Jonathan W Robinson, aka John, also NH-born. His first business effort in Iowa was running a retail hardware business in Algona (Kossuth County). Once widowed, he then remarried and had some more children, his second wife an Ohio-born a Dayton, whose family had moved to the Waterloo area of Iowa.
Hannah's husband, Ben Veasey, had his last census in 1860, when his parents were also still living and in the farmhouse . Hannah and Ben's son, Louis, died while tiny.
The usual Puritan-influenced biblical names seen in the area produced Abra, but the names Louis and Antoinette were a contrast. Their Frenchness was a reminder that the original spelling of her husband's family name was Veasey with an S, not Veazey with a Z. Veasey can be found in old book of names dating back to Norman French times, when Vesey and Vesci were also seen, Vesci resembling Walloon, a very old version of French that was latin-like. The letter Z was often silent when at the end of French words, so Veazey would not have been used. Clerks, stonecarvers, and descendants at a distance, however, if they heard the name said, but had not seen it spelled, would sound-it-out by British rules, using a Z making it tempting for Veasey males moving to other states to just leave it with a Z.
SUMMARY. If Epping was more of a Morrill place, then Brentwood had been Veasey territory about as long, but was in decline that way.
Her spouse and father-in-law were the last of the Benjamin Veaseys.
Neighbor W H Veasey had daughters that lived, but no sons. His father, the third of four Jonathans, had lived closer to the Brentwood church He had moved to Exeter, while the fourth Jonathan replaced him on the farm nearer the church. The Civil War changed things, caused moves once sons had seen other places. One son of the third Jonathan moved to Vermont then DC, becoming Wheelock Veazey, then his nephews followed suit, dispersing and turning into Daniel B, Herman W, and Anson E Veazey. The family of his Herman W. put a stone at Tonry, "in memorium", but with no death record locally, so maybe he was buried down in Norfolk, Virginia, a place with naval yards, with his daughter Olive.
Hannah's one son to survive, Washington Morrill Veasey, took care of the farm for her when she was widowed, took care of the farm after she died, was long-lived, stayed single, so had no children, died locally. His caretaker sister eventually married, died elsewhere, her spouse returning her body for burial, also had no children. There was no one left to maintain their family stones?
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Copyright by JBrown, Austin Texas, Sept & Oct, 2021, with permission given to FindaGrave for use at this page. Relatives may also use portions in private materials for their families, with quote marks and if citing the source.
Epping was the next town north. She had been raised. Epping was where north Brentwood peopleoften shopped, with her father's occupation in Epping once given as "merchant".
Her husband's cousin, W H Veasey (William H Veasey), farmed to their west, raising three daughters, no sons. The so-called Town Farm was in the opposite direction, to everyone's east, almost in Exeter. Later called the County Farm, in reality, it was mainly a seniors' home, mixed in with others. Brentwood and Epping's mother town had been Exeter (Did a local history say the town never incorporated?) Exeter had academies to inspire the public high schools in New England.
The local train depot was at Exeter, letting the young leave for elsewhere. Brother Oliver took his four children to the emerging factory belt in the next County southward (to Lynn, in Essex County, MA) , then returned, without the children. This sister of Oliver, Hannah, would be far longer-lived:
DEATH RECORD---Age 80 years and 29 days. Resident of Brentwood for 57 years. Pneumonia for 9 days before death. Parents, Orlando Morrill of Epping, who had been a merchant, and Mary Clifford of Brentwood. Widow of Benjamin Veasey [the junior, resident of Brentwood his whole life].
SOURCE: handwritten, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
Card One-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-HQ8?i=1991
Card Two-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-765?i=1992
Card Two said burial at "Brentwood", a name for the newer town cemetery also called Tonry. Physician and undertaker from Epping.
Unlike those of relatives dying decades earlier, her death record was not retrospective, but done at time of burial. (Familysearch says records were sent to the state, kept at the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.)
COMMENTS: The two twinned cemeteries used by Veaseys and Morrills in Brentwood are old (Tonry) and oldest (Veasey), at Brentwood's center, directly across from each other, on Middle Road, by the old central church that still stands (Congregational Church, folded into the UCC).
The recent Benjamin Veaseys were buried at Tonry, their elders in Veasey Cem., also called the "old town cemetery", according to Findagrave. The older one's half acre was donated to Brentwood town by the first Benjamin Veasey in Brentwood, the patriarch who had married Deborah Blake. That first Benjamin and Deborah were among the Brentwood residents to petition Hampton/So. Hampton/ Hampton Falls to have their own church, the town of Brentwood allowed to separate from Exeter as the parish separated from its different mother. The request to separate was judged as due to a new congregation wanting the convenience of a church closeby, not due to unhappiness with the old church's ministers, nor due to a desire to splinter religiously, so was granted. The request was said to be written in that Benjamin's hand.
Both of her daughters went elsewhere, one leaving home early, the other, late. Daughter Antoinette arrived in Iowa (Kossuth County) not long married, right after the Civil War.
A Dorweiler (in-laws to this Iowa-born writer) would change her middle name to Antoinette. Was this after wondering, with Hannah's daughter, Antoinette, about the way in which the two families had been French? (Frenchness ruled out Veazey as a spelling, as Zs in French were often silent.)
Veasey and its less common substitutes, Vesey and Vesci, were in an old book of those surnames dating back to the Norman French era. Not all French immigrating to Britain had been Norman ("Northmen", Viking descent). Some or many would have been of a German-Celtic mix, the Franks and the Walloons. The Dorweilers had kept track of the specific way in which they had been mixed French. Those burying the Dorweiler patriarch in Kossuth County (in Garfield Twp cemetery, east of West Bend and south of Algona) were careful to have the town of Lommersum put on his gravestone. As it faded, the old town name was not recarved, weakening the slab, but painted inside the old carving, by descendants.
Lommersum had the distinction of being under the Spanish and the French, before ending under the Prussian north German nobility, after Napoleon's defeat. Each set of new rulers left its stamp on name spellings. Vesci would be the oldest spelling, as the most similar to Latin?
Why marry a Robinson? There were many Robinsons locally, in Brentwood, more than any other surname, when a map of the county (Rockingham) and its property owners was made in the 1850s (view at loc.gov, Library of Congress).-Antoinette's neighboring relative back in NH, William H. Veasey, had been off to the Civil War, too. Like Antoinette, he, too, had married a Robinson after the Civil War. William and Antoinette's children would be doubly related, but not first cousins.
TOO MANY DOUBLE COUSINS? Hannah's children and Oliver's children were doubly-related, one parent, a Morrill, the other , a Veasey. The children of nearby WH Veasey were kin to both sets. Such cousins can be extra-close, "best friends" at school, if in the same grade. However, Oliver wanted to move or had to move, not clear. (William Veasey and Mary Veasey Morrill would both name a daughter Helen, as if they had talked about how they liked that name. Had there been a Helen or Helena in the news? Helena Augusta Morrill would meet and marry a man down in Essex County, MA, a consequence of her father Oliver's move.)
There would be more "doubly relateds", coming from William's house. Two of his daughters, Helen R. and Sarah A., married men from nearby, both named Sanborn. (Helen Veasey's groom was Elmer E., son of J. Warren Sanborn, while her sister Sarah's groom was instead a son of Oren and Esther J. Sanborn, named John A.)
Did Oliver take a look around after wife Mary's death, wonder if too much intermarriage had made the gene pool risky? Anticipating his children might have only relatives to marry, was that a reason to not to merely quit farming, if he had lost his strength, but to move away?
None of his daughters would marry an old neighbor. None would marry someone with a surname matching in-laws. What about his son Oliver E? He is hard to research, maybe came "half-back" from Mass., to nearby Kingston NH?
The alternative to moving was to delay marrying until past child-bearing age (Hannah's daughter Abra M Veasey) or to not marry at all (Hannah's son Washington M Veasey). The sad thing? Both children lived a very long time, just like this Hannah. What if any observed as dying too young was not due to a bad gene? What if it was something else?
Her pneumonia was short, a correct diagnosis. Someone back in Norway, an in-law of this writer's spouse, only half-jokingly, spoke of a bad pneumonia "that lasted three hundred years", then of discovering the culprit had been TB. Tuberculosis was making the rounds in NH, too, not called that yet, as no one knew it was a germ that did well inside an overcrowded house, not a bad gene, causing too a family's repeated too early deaths.
Oliver had had three generations together inside his house. Anyone seriously sick could give "whatever" to others. The era was one with no vaccinations against diphtheria (killing several of neighbor William Veasey's children). They had no antibiotics to cure TB. Pasteurizing (substituting hot pudding and cocoa, for unheated raw milk from strangers' untested cows) would cut the spread greatly, but could not cure those already with it. Infected mothers not breastfeeding children would stop the spread inside a family. (Thinking marriage was the problem was due to not noticing an infected mother was breastfeeding. Infected milk, human or cow, was the danger. This was despite the antibodies in raw milk, human or cow, normally being beneficial.)
(MORRILL-VEASEY Specifics-- Family Tree
SCENARIO 1-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were siblings. (Both were children of Benj Veasey the Sr, and his wife Elizabeth Graves.)
SCENARIO 2-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were cousins. (Hannah's neighbor was William H Veasey, a known son of that Jonathan Veasey who married Anna Stevens. If that Jonathan and Ben. Veasey the Sr were brothers, then William was a cousin to Hannah's spouse. If William and Mary Veasey were siblings, then Mary was another cousin.)
Sister-in-law Mary Veasey died in 1854. She and Oliver were censused together in Epping (1850 US Census). His four children were present, soon to be half-orphans. Listed after them were two older Morrills matching Hannah's and Oliver's parents in age. Their mother Mary G was clearly named. Their father Orlando was written as using a nickname not seen elsewhere. A sister of Hannah and Oliver, also called Mary, was listed after a "hired man" or boarder.
Again. with one parent a Morrill and the other a Veasey, the children of both Hannah and Oliver were some sort of "double cousins". Oliver went to Lynn, Essex County, to have a less active job than the previous farming. Remarried, but maybe aware he was dying, he returned to his birthplace of Epping for his death and burial, none of the four children who went to Lynn of record as buried at Epping. His first wife and an early child were there. His and this Hannah's parents, Orlando Morrill and Mary G Clifford, were buried there as well..
Hannah had had more children, but only two survived her. Son Washington Morrill Veasey, who took over the family farm, cared for by her daughter, Abra Morrill Veasey, who would not marry until after the rest had died. ( Abra was the feminine version of Abraham, given to daughters by multiple of Hannah's Morrill relatives, their burials scattered, up into Merrimac County, where some Morrills born before Orlando had gone to set up a saw mill.)
Another daughter, Antoinette Robinson, of Algona, Iowa, died young, in 1882. She had Hannah's only grandchildren, three in number, one named Abra, for her aunt.
Lots of Robinsons had been Veasey neighbors in Brentwood, congregated around the main church and the villaged area at the southeast. Antoinette's husband was not of a surprising name, Jonathan W Robinson, aka John, also NH-born. His first business effort in Iowa was running a retail hardware business in Algona (Kossuth County). Once widowed, he then remarried and had some more children, his second wife an Ohio-born a Dayton, whose family had moved to the Waterloo area of Iowa.
Hannah's husband, Ben Veasey, had his last census in 1860, when his parents were also still living and in the farmhouse . Hannah and Ben's son, Louis, died while tiny.
The usual Puritan-influenced biblical names seen in the area produced Abra, but the names Louis and Antoinette were a contrast. Their Frenchness was a reminder that the original spelling of her husband's family name was Veasey with an S, not Veazey with a Z. Veasey can be found in old book of names dating back to Norman French times, when Vesey and Vesci were also seen, Vesci resembling Walloon, a very old version of French that was latin-like. The letter Z was often silent when at the end of French words, so Veazey would not have been used. Clerks, stonecarvers, and descendants at a distance, however, if they heard the name said, but had not seen it spelled, would sound-it-out by British rules, using a Z making it tempting for Veasey males moving to other states to just leave it with a Z.
SUMMARY. If Epping was more of a Morrill place, then Brentwood had been Veasey territory about as long, but was in decline that way.
Her spouse and father-in-law were the last of the Benjamin Veaseys.
Neighbor W H Veasey had daughters that lived, but no sons. His father, the third of four Jonathans, had lived closer to the Brentwood church He had moved to Exeter, while the fourth Jonathan replaced him on the farm nearer the church. The Civil War changed things, caused moves once sons had seen other places. One son of the third Jonathan moved to Vermont then DC, becoming Wheelock Veazey, then his nephews followed suit, dispersing and turning into Daniel B, Herman W, and Anson E Veazey. The family of his Herman W. put a stone at Tonry, "in memorium", but with no death record locally, so maybe he was buried down in Norfolk, Virginia, a place with naval yards, with his daughter Olive.
Hannah's one son to survive, Washington Morrill Veasey, took care of the farm for her when she was widowed, took care of the farm after she died, was long-lived, stayed single, so had no children, died locally. His caretaker sister eventually married, died elsewhere, her spouse returning her body for burial, also had no children. There was no one left to maintain their family stones?
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Copyright by JBrown, Austin Texas, Sept & Oct, 2021, with permission given to FindaGrave for use at this page. Relatives may also use portions in private materials for their families, with quote marks and if citing the source.
Death record names cemetery. Her husband was that Benj. Veasey called Jr, clear when they moved in with his parents. Once their children were born, three generations were in the same house. For decades, their Veasey family would farm near the north edge of Brentwood.
Epping was the next town north. She had been raised. Epping was where north Brentwood peopleoften shopped, with her father's occupation in Epping once given as "merchant".
Her husband's cousin, W H Veasey (William H Veasey), farmed to their west, raising three daughters, no sons. The so-called Town Farm was in the opposite direction, to everyone's east, almost in Exeter. Later called the County Farm, in reality, it was mainly a seniors' home, mixed in with others. Brentwood and Epping's mother town had been Exeter (Did a local history say the town never incorporated?) Exeter had academies to inspire the public high schools in New England.
The local train depot was at Exeter, letting the young leave for elsewhere. Brother Oliver took his four children to the emerging factory belt in the next County southward (to Lynn, in Essex County, MA) , then returned, without the children. This sister of Oliver, Hannah, would be far longer-lived:
DEATH RECORD---Age 80 years and 29 days. Resident of Brentwood for 57 years. Pneumonia for 9 days before death. Parents, Orlando Morrill of Epping, who had been a merchant, and Mary Clifford of Brentwood. Widow of Benjamin Veasey [the junior, resident of Brentwood his whole life].
SOURCE: handwritten, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
Card One-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-HQ8?i=1991
Card Two-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-765?i=1992
Card Two said burial at "Brentwood", a name for the newer town cemetery also called Tonry. Physician and undertaker from Epping.
Unlike those of relatives dying decades earlier, her death record was not retrospective, but done at time of burial. (Familysearch says records were sent to the state, kept at the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.)
COMMENTS: The two twinned cemeteries used by Veaseys and Morrills in Brentwood are old (Tonry) and oldest (Veasey), at Brentwood's center, directly across from each other, on Middle Road, by the old central church that still stands (Congregational Church, folded into the UCC).
The recent Benjamin Veaseys were buried at Tonry, their elders in Veasey Cem., also called the "old town cemetery", according to Findagrave. The older one's half acre was donated to Brentwood town by the first Benjamin Veasey in Brentwood, the patriarch who had married Deborah Blake. That first Benjamin and Deborah were among the Brentwood residents to petition Hampton/So. Hampton/ Hampton Falls to have their own church, the town of Brentwood allowed to separate from Exeter as the parish separated from its different mother. The request to separate was judged as due to a new congregation wanting the convenience of a church closeby, not due to unhappiness with the old church's ministers, nor due to a desire to splinter religiously, so was granted. The request was said to be written in that Benjamin's hand.
Both of her daughters went elsewhere, one leaving home early, the other, late. Daughter Antoinette arrived in Iowa (Kossuth County) not long married, right after the Civil War.
A Dorweiler (in-laws to this Iowa-born writer) would change her middle name to Antoinette. Was this after wondering, with Hannah's daughter, Antoinette, about the way in which the two families had been French? (Frenchness ruled out Veazey as a spelling, as Zs in French were often silent.)
Veasey and its less common substitutes, Vesey and Vesci, were in an old book of those surnames dating back to the Norman French era. Not all French immigrating to Britain had been Norman ("Northmen", Viking descent). Some or many would have been of a German-Celtic mix, the Franks and the Walloons. The Dorweilers had kept track of the specific way in which they had been mixed French. Those burying the Dorweiler patriarch in Kossuth County (in Garfield Twp cemetery, east of West Bend and south of Algona) were careful to have the town of Lommersum put on his gravestone. As it faded, the old town name was not recarved, weakening the slab, but painted inside the old carving, by descendants.
Lommersum had the distinction of being under the Spanish and the French, before ending under the Prussian north German nobility, after Napoleon's defeat. Each set of new rulers left its stamp on name spellings. Vesci would be the oldest spelling, as the most similar to Latin?
Why marry a Robinson? There were many Robinsons locally, in Brentwood, more than any other surname, when a map of the county (Rockingham) and its property owners was made in the 1850s (view at loc.gov, Library of Congress).-Antoinette's neighboring relative back in NH, William H. Veasey, had been off to the Civil War, too. Like Antoinette, he, too, had married a Robinson after the Civil War. William and Antoinette's children would be doubly related, but not first cousins.
TOO MANY DOUBLE COUSINS? Hannah's children and Oliver's children were doubly-related, one parent, a Morrill, the other , a Veasey. The children of nearby WH Veasey were kin to both sets. Such cousins can be extra-close, "best friends" at school, if in the same grade. However, Oliver wanted to move or had to move, not clear. (William Veasey and Mary Veasey Morrill would both name a daughter Helen, as if they had talked about how they liked that name. Had there been a Helen or Helena in the news? Helena Augusta Morrill would meet and marry a man down in Essex County, MA, a consequence of her father Oliver's move.)
There would be more "doubly relateds", coming from William's house. Two of his daughters, Helen R. and Sarah A., married men from nearby, both named Sanborn. (Helen Veasey's groom was Elmer E., son of J. Warren Sanborn, while her sister Sarah's groom was instead a son of Oren and Esther J. Sanborn, named John A.)
Did Oliver take a look around after wife Mary's death, wonder if too much intermarriage had made the gene pool risky? Anticipating his children might have only relatives to marry, was that a reason to not to merely quit farming, if he had lost his strength, but to move away?
None of his daughters would marry an old neighbor. None would marry someone with a surname matching in-laws. What about his son Oliver E? He is hard to research, maybe came "half-back" from Mass., to nearby Kingston NH?
The alternative to moving was to delay marrying until past child-bearing age (Hannah's daughter Abra M Veasey) or to not marry at all (Hannah's son Washington M Veasey). The sad thing? Both children lived a very long time, just like this Hannah. What if any observed as dying too young was not due to a bad gene? What if it was something else?
Her pneumonia was short, a correct diagnosis. Someone back in Norway, an in-law of this writer's spouse, only half-jokingly, spoke of a bad pneumonia "that lasted three hundred years", then of discovering the culprit had been TB. Tuberculosis was making the rounds in NH, too, not called that yet, as no one knew it was a germ that did well inside an overcrowded house, not a bad gene, causing too a family's repeated too early deaths.
Oliver had had three generations together inside his house. Anyone seriously sick could give "whatever" to others. The era was one with no vaccinations against diphtheria (killing several of neighbor William Veasey's children). They had no antibiotics to cure TB. Pasteurizing (substituting hot pudding and cocoa, for unheated raw milk from strangers' untested cows) would cut the spread greatly, but could not cure those already with it. Infected mothers not breastfeeding children would stop the spread inside a family. (Thinking marriage was the problem was due to not noticing an infected mother was breastfeeding. Infected milk, human or cow, was the danger. This was despite the antibodies in raw milk, human or cow, normally being beneficial.)
(MORRILL-VEASEY Specifics-- Family Tree
SCENARIO 1-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were siblings. (Both were children of Benj Veasey the Sr, and his wife Elizabeth Graves.)
SCENARIO 2-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were cousins. (Hannah's neighbor was William H Veasey, a known son of that Jonathan Veasey who married Anna Stevens. If that Jonathan and Ben. Veasey the Sr were brothers, then William was a cousin to Hannah's spouse. If William and Mary Veasey were siblings, then Mary was another cousin.)
Sister-in-law Mary Veasey died in 1854. She and Oliver were censused together in Epping (1850 US Census). His four children were present, soon to be half-orphans. Listed after them were two older Morrills matching Hannah's and Oliver's parents in age. Their mother Mary G was clearly named. Their father Orlando was written as using a nickname not seen elsewhere. A sister of Hannah and Oliver, also called Mary, was listed after a "hired man" or boarder.
Again. with one parent a Morrill and the other a Veasey, the children of both Hannah and Oliver were some sort of "double cousins". Oliver went to Lynn, Essex County, to have a less active job than the previous farming. Remarried, but maybe aware he was dying, he returned to his birthplace of Epping for his death and burial, none of the four children who went to Lynn of record as buried at Epping. His first wife and an early child were there. His and this Hannah's parents, Orlando Morrill and Mary G Clifford, were buried there as well..
Hannah had had more children, but only two survived her. Son Washington Morrill Veasey, who took over the family farm, cared for by her daughter, Abra Morrill Veasey, who would not marry until after the rest had died. ( Abra was the feminine version of Abraham, given to daughters by multiple of Hannah's Morrill relatives, their burials scattered, up into Merrimac County, where some Morrills born before Orlando had gone to set up a saw mill.)
Another daughter, Antoinette Robinson, of Algona, Iowa, died young, in 1882. She had Hannah's only grandchildren, three in number, one named Abra, for her aunt.
Lots of Robinsons had been Veasey neighbors in Brentwood, congregated around the main church and the villaged area at the southeast. Antoinette's husband was not of a surprising name, Jonathan W Robinson, aka John, also NH-born. His first business effort in Iowa was running a retail hardware business in Algona (Kossuth County). Once widowed, he then remarried and had some more children, his second wife an Ohio-born a Dayton, whose family had moved to the Waterloo area of Iowa.
Hannah's husband, Ben Veasey, had his last census in 1860, when his parents were also still living and in the farmhouse . Hannah and Ben's son, Louis, died while tiny.
The usual Puritan-influenced biblical names seen in the area produced Abra, but the names Louis and Antoinette were a contrast. Their Frenchness was a reminder that the original spelling of her husband's family name was Veasey with an S, not Veazey with a Z. Veasey can be found in old book of names dating back to Norman French times, when Vesey and Vesci were also seen, Vesci resembling Walloon, a very old version of French that was latin-like. The letter Z was often silent when at the end of French words, so Veazey would not have been used. Clerks, stonecarvers, and descendants at a distance, however, if they heard the name said, but had not seen it spelled, would sound-it-out by British rules, using a Z making it tempting for Veasey males moving to other states to just leave it with a Z.
SUMMARY. If Epping was more of a Morrill place, then Brentwood had been Veasey territory about as long, but was in decline that way.
Her spouse and father-in-law were the last of the Benjamin Veaseys.
Neighbor W H Veasey had daughters that lived, but no sons. His father, the third of four Jonathans, had lived closer to the Brentwood church He had moved to Exeter, while the fourth Jonathan replaced him on the farm nearer the church. The Civil War changed things, caused moves once sons had seen other places. One son of the third Jonathan moved to Vermont then DC, becoming Wheelock Veazey, then his nephews followed suit, dispersing and turning into Daniel B, Herman W, and Anson E Veazey. The family of his Herman W. put a stone at Tonry, "in memorium", but with no death record locally, so maybe he was buried down in Norfolk, Virginia, a place with naval yards, with his daughter Olive.
Hannah's one son to survive, Washington Morrill Veasey, took care of the farm for her when she was widowed, took care of the farm after she died, was long-lived, stayed single, so had no children, died locally. His caretaker sister eventually married, died elsewhere, her spouse returning her body for burial, also had no children. There was no one left to maintain their family stones?
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Copyright by JBrown, Austin Texas, Sept & Oct, 2021, with permission given to FindaGrave for use at this page. Relatives may also use portions in private materials for their families, with quote marks and if citing the source.
Epping was the next town north. She had been raised. Epping was where north Brentwood peopleoften shopped, with her father's occupation in Epping once given as "merchant".
Her husband's cousin, W H Veasey (William H Veasey), farmed to their west, raising three daughters, no sons. The so-called Town Farm was in the opposite direction, to everyone's east, almost in Exeter. Later called the County Farm, in reality, it was mainly a seniors' home, mixed in with others. Brentwood and Epping's mother town had been Exeter (Did a local history say the town never incorporated?) Exeter had academies to inspire the public high schools in New England.
The local train depot was at Exeter, letting the young leave for elsewhere. Brother Oliver took his four children to the emerging factory belt in the next County southward (to Lynn, in Essex County, MA) , then returned, without the children. This sister of Oliver, Hannah, would be far longer-lived:
DEATH RECORD---Age 80 years and 29 days. Resident of Brentwood for 57 years. Pneumonia for 9 days before death. Parents, Orlando Morrill of Epping, who had been a merchant, and Mary Clifford of Brentwood. Widow of Benjamin Veasey [the junior, resident of Brentwood his whole life].
SOURCE: handwritten, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
Card One-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-HQ8?i=1991
Card Two-- Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L9-765?i=1992
Card Two said burial at "Brentwood", a name for the newer town cemetery also called Tonry. Physician and undertaker from Epping.
Unlike those of relatives dying decades earlier, her death record was not retrospective, but done at time of burial. (Familysearch says records were sent to the state, kept at the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.)
COMMENTS: The two twinned cemeteries used by Veaseys and Morrills in Brentwood are old (Tonry) and oldest (Veasey), at Brentwood's center, directly across from each other, on Middle Road, by the old central church that still stands (Congregational Church, folded into the UCC).
The recent Benjamin Veaseys were buried at Tonry, their elders in Veasey Cem., also called the "old town cemetery", according to Findagrave. The older one's half acre was donated to Brentwood town by the first Benjamin Veasey in Brentwood, the patriarch who had married Deborah Blake. That first Benjamin and Deborah were among the Brentwood residents to petition Hampton/So. Hampton/ Hampton Falls to have their own church, the town of Brentwood allowed to separate from Exeter as the parish separated from its different mother. The request to separate was judged as due to a new congregation wanting the convenience of a church closeby, not due to unhappiness with the old church's ministers, nor due to a desire to splinter religiously, so was granted. The request was said to be written in that Benjamin's hand.
Both of her daughters went elsewhere, one leaving home early, the other, late. Daughter Antoinette arrived in Iowa (Kossuth County) not long married, right after the Civil War.
A Dorweiler (in-laws to this Iowa-born writer) would change her middle name to Antoinette. Was this after wondering, with Hannah's daughter, Antoinette, about the way in which the two families had been French? (Frenchness ruled out Veazey as a spelling, as Zs in French were often silent.)
Veasey and its less common substitutes, Vesey and Vesci, were in an old book of those surnames dating back to the Norman French era. Not all French immigrating to Britain had been Norman ("Northmen", Viking descent). Some or many would have been of a German-Celtic mix, the Franks and the Walloons. The Dorweilers had kept track of the specific way in which they had been mixed French. Those burying the Dorweiler patriarch in Kossuth County (in Garfield Twp cemetery, east of West Bend and south of Algona) were careful to have the town of Lommersum put on his gravestone. As it faded, the old town name was not recarved, weakening the slab, but painted inside the old carving, by descendants.
Lommersum had the distinction of being under the Spanish and the French, before ending under the Prussian north German nobility, after Napoleon's defeat. Each set of new rulers left its stamp on name spellings. Vesci would be the oldest spelling, as the most similar to Latin?
Why marry a Robinson? There were many Robinsons locally, in Brentwood, more than any other surname, when a map of the county (Rockingham) and its property owners was made in the 1850s (view at loc.gov, Library of Congress).-Antoinette's neighboring relative back in NH, William H. Veasey, had been off to the Civil War, too. Like Antoinette, he, too, had married a Robinson after the Civil War. William and Antoinette's children would be doubly related, but not first cousins.
TOO MANY DOUBLE COUSINS? Hannah's children and Oliver's children were doubly-related, one parent, a Morrill, the other , a Veasey. The children of nearby WH Veasey were kin to both sets. Such cousins can be extra-close, "best friends" at school, if in the same grade. However, Oliver wanted to move or had to move, not clear. (William Veasey and Mary Veasey Morrill would both name a daughter Helen, as if they had talked about how they liked that name. Had there been a Helen or Helena in the news? Helena Augusta Morrill would meet and marry a man down in Essex County, MA, a consequence of her father Oliver's move.)
There would be more "doubly relateds", coming from William's house. Two of his daughters, Helen R. and Sarah A., married men from nearby, both named Sanborn. (Helen Veasey's groom was Elmer E., son of J. Warren Sanborn, while her sister Sarah's groom was instead a son of Oren and Esther J. Sanborn, named John A.)
Did Oliver take a look around after wife Mary's death, wonder if too much intermarriage had made the gene pool risky? Anticipating his children might have only relatives to marry, was that a reason to not to merely quit farming, if he had lost his strength, but to move away?
None of his daughters would marry an old neighbor. None would marry someone with a surname matching in-laws. What about his son Oliver E? He is hard to research, maybe came "half-back" from Mass., to nearby Kingston NH?
The alternative to moving was to delay marrying until past child-bearing age (Hannah's daughter Abra M Veasey) or to not marry at all (Hannah's son Washington M Veasey). The sad thing? Both children lived a very long time, just like this Hannah. What if any observed as dying too young was not due to a bad gene? What if it was something else?
Her pneumonia was short, a correct diagnosis. Someone back in Norway, an in-law of this writer's spouse, only half-jokingly, spoke of a bad pneumonia "that lasted three hundred years", then of discovering the culprit had been TB. Tuberculosis was making the rounds in NH, too, not called that yet, as no one knew it was a germ that did well inside an overcrowded house, not a bad gene, causing too a family's repeated too early deaths.
Oliver had had three generations together inside his house. Anyone seriously sick could give "whatever" to others. The era was one with no vaccinations against diphtheria (killing several of neighbor William Veasey's children). They had no antibiotics to cure TB. Pasteurizing (substituting hot pudding and cocoa, for unheated raw milk from strangers' untested cows) would cut the spread greatly, but could not cure those already with it. Infected mothers not breastfeeding children would stop the spread inside a family. (Thinking marriage was the problem was due to not noticing an infected mother was breastfeeding. Infected milk, human or cow, was the danger. This was despite the antibodies in raw milk, human or cow, normally being beneficial.)
(MORRILL-VEASEY Specifics-- Family Tree
SCENARIO 1-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were siblings. (Both were children of Benj Veasey the Sr, and his wife Elizabeth Graves.)
SCENARIO 2-- Mary Veasey and Hannah's spouse were cousins. (Hannah's neighbor was William H Veasey, a known son of that Jonathan Veasey who married Anna Stevens. If that Jonathan and Ben. Veasey the Sr were brothers, then William was a cousin to Hannah's spouse. If William and Mary Veasey were siblings, then Mary was another cousin.)
Sister-in-law Mary Veasey died in 1854. She and Oliver were censused together in Epping (1850 US Census). His four children were present, soon to be half-orphans. Listed after them were two older Morrills matching Hannah's and Oliver's parents in age. Their mother Mary G was clearly named. Their father Orlando was written as using a nickname not seen elsewhere. A sister of Hannah and Oliver, also called Mary, was listed after a "hired man" or boarder.
Again. with one parent a Morrill and the other a Veasey, the children of both Hannah and Oliver were some sort of "double cousins". Oliver went to Lynn, Essex County, to have a less active job than the previous farming. Remarried, but maybe aware he was dying, he returned to his birthplace of Epping for his death and burial, none of the four children who went to Lynn of record as buried at Epping. His first wife and an early child were there. His and this Hannah's parents, Orlando Morrill and Mary G Clifford, were buried there as well..
Hannah had had more children, but only two survived her. Son Washington Morrill Veasey, who took over the family farm, cared for by her daughter, Abra Morrill Veasey, who would not marry until after the rest had died. ( Abra was the feminine version of Abraham, given to daughters by multiple of Hannah's Morrill relatives, their burials scattered, up into Merrimac County, where some Morrills born before Orlando had gone to set up a saw mill.)
Another daughter, Antoinette Robinson, of Algona, Iowa, died young, in 1882. She had Hannah's only grandchildren, three in number, one named Abra, for her aunt.
Lots of Robinsons had been Veasey neighbors in Brentwood, congregated around the main church and the villaged area at the southeast. Antoinette's husband was not of a surprising name, Jonathan W Robinson, aka John, also NH-born. His first business effort in Iowa was running a retail hardware business in Algona (Kossuth County). Once widowed, he then remarried and had some more children, his second wife an Ohio-born a Dayton, whose family had moved to the Waterloo area of Iowa.
Hannah's husband, Ben Veasey, had his last census in 1860, when his parents were also still living and in the farmhouse . Hannah and Ben's son, Louis, died while tiny.
The usual Puritan-influenced biblical names seen in the area produced Abra, but the names Louis and Antoinette were a contrast. Their Frenchness was a reminder that the original spelling of her husband's family name was Veasey with an S, not Veazey with a Z. Veasey can be found in old book of names dating back to Norman French times, when Vesey and Vesci were also seen, Vesci resembling Walloon, a very old version of French that was latin-like. The letter Z was often silent when at the end of French words, so Veazey would not have been used. Clerks, stonecarvers, and descendants at a distance, however, if they heard the name said, but had not seen it spelled, would sound-it-out by British rules, using a Z making it tempting for Veasey males moving to other states to just leave it with a Z.
SUMMARY. If Epping was more of a Morrill place, then Brentwood had been Veasey territory about as long, but was in decline that way.
Her spouse and father-in-law were the last of the Benjamin Veaseys.
Neighbor W H Veasey had daughters that lived, but no sons. His father, the third of four Jonathans, had lived closer to the Brentwood church He had moved to Exeter, while the fourth Jonathan replaced him on the farm nearer the church. The Civil War changed things, caused moves once sons had seen other places. One son of the third Jonathan moved to Vermont then DC, becoming Wheelock Veazey, then his nephews followed suit, dispersing and turning into Daniel B, Herman W, and Anson E Veazey. The family of his Herman W. put a stone at Tonry, "in memorium", but with no death record locally, so maybe he was buried down in Norfolk, Virginia, a place with naval yards, with his daughter Olive.
Hannah's one son to survive, Washington Morrill Veasey, took care of the farm for her when she was widowed, took care of the farm after she died, was long-lived, stayed single, so had no children, died locally. His caretaker sister eventually married, died elsewhere, her spouse returning her body for burial, also had no children. There was no one left to maintain their family stones?
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Copyright by JBrown, Austin Texas, Sept & Oct, 2021, with permission given to FindaGrave for use at this page. Relatives may also use portions in private materials for their families, with quote marks and if citing the source.
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