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!BIRTH: from Mass. Vitals (abstract in poss. of Edith Frampton) 1853, Vol. 74,
Pg. 173, #510
!DEATH: from Mass. Vitals(photo copy in poss. of Edith Frampton): ; buried at Pine Hill Cemetery, Lot 8,9,10, Sec. B.
Birth record says her father Horatio N. Sweet was a soap boiler. Death
certificate says she was 67 years, 5 months, and 22 days old when she died of
Lobar Pneumonia and Myocarditis. Personal information was supplied by Henry N.
Horton (son).
1860 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster (post office Harvard); FHLC#0,803,530, page 133, sheet 535, enumerated on the 12th of July 1860; line 17, dwelling 1064, family 1099:
H.N. Sweet, 36, m, soap manufacturer, re $2,500, pers $500, b. Mass
Frances Sweet, 33,, f, b. NH
George N. Sweet, 11, m, b. Mass., attends school
Emma F. Sweet, 7, f, b. Mass., attends school
Claria Sweet, 4, f, b. Mass.
Clarissa Sweet, 67, f, b. Mass.
Thomas E. Burditt, 21, m, b. Mass.
Charles Farmsworth, 15, m, b. NY
1870 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster; FHLC#552,152, page 36, enumerated on the 2nd of July 1870, dwelling number 289, household number 307, line 24:
Horatio Sweet, 46, male, white, soap manufacture, value real estate $5,300, value personal property $2,000, b. Mass
Frances Sweet, 43, female, white, keeping house, b. Mass.
George Sweet, 21, male, white, working in soap shop, b. Mass.
Emma Sweet, 17, female, white, at home, b. Mass.
Clara Sweet, 14, female, white, attends school, b. Mass.
1880 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster; FHLC#1,254,563, enumerated on the 21st of June, 1880, enumeration district 813, page 37, sheet 312A, line 10, dwelling number 281, household number 314:
Horton, Marcus A., w,m, 31, married, occ Wheelwright, b. Conn, father b. Conn, mother b. Rhode Island
Horton, Emma, w,f, 27, wife, married, keeping house, b. Mass., father b. Mass., mother b. New Hampshire
Horton, Clara B., w,f, 4, dau, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass.
Horton, Henry, w,m, 2, son, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass.
Horton, Harold, w,m, 7/12, b. Oct, son, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass.
The Frost family says Emma brought up her daughter Clara to help with the housework and to scrub the kitchen floor with sand. The kitchen floors had fairly wide boards of soft wood then 5" to 9". After you scrubbed with sand you swept up the sand. Marcus and Emma were prosperous enough to send Clara Blanche to the new Fitchburg Normal Schook, beginning in 1895. She took a two year course, did well, and continued on for an additional one year advanced course.
1900 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster town; FHLC#1,240,692, enumerated on the 8th & 9th of June, 1900, enumeration district 1640, sheet 4B, line 72, dwelling number 79, household number 94:
Horton, Marcus A., head, w,m, b. June 1849, 50, married 27 years, b. Conn, father b. New Hampshire, mother b. Rhode Island, occ wheelwright, unemployed 8 months this year, can r/w, can speak English, owns mortgaged home
Horton, Emma F., wife, w, f, b. apr 1853, 47, married 27 years, has had 4 children, all still living, b. Mass., father b. Mass., mother b. New Hampshire, can r/w, can speak English
Horton, Henry N., son, w,m, b. Nov. 1877, 22, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass., can r/w, can speak English
Horton, Rena E., dau, w,f, b. Dec. 1883, 16, single, b. Mass., father b. Conn, mother b. Mass, at school, attended school 10 months this year, can r/w, can speak English
1914 - After the death of their daugther Rena Cogswell, they took her child (abandoned by its father) and moved with their son Henry to Springfield, Mass. Henry had attended the Stratton Business College in Boston and was employed as a bookkeeper with the Springfield Foundry.
1920 federal census, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Easton township; FHLC#1,820,682, enumeration district 23, sheet number 4, dwelling number 76, household number 76, line 38, (no house number) Center Street:
Horton, Marcus, head, rental, married, white, 69, married, can r/w, b. Connecticut, father b. U.S., mother b. U.S., can speak English, occ: none
Horton, Emma, wife, female, white, 65, married, can r/w, b. Massachusetts, father b. Massachusetts, mother b. New Hampshire, can speak English, occ: none
Horton, Henry N., son, male, white, 41 single, can r/w, b. Massachusetts, father b. Connecticut, mother b. Massachusetts, can speak English, occ: bookkeeper in shoe factory, earns a wage
Cogswell, Harold, grandson, male, white, 7, single, attends school, can r/w, b. Massachusetts, father b. Massachusetts, mother b. Massachusetts,
In East Bridgewater they lived at the Forge Pond end of Union Street, down the hill, near the high school. A problem was that Marcus was losing his eyesight to cataracts. He had difficulty dealing with the young Harold Cogswell who threw sand in his eyes. So it ended up that Marcus was invited to live with his daughter Blanche on Summer Street. Marcus' wife Emma, son Henry, and Harold Cogswell lived in North Easton in a stone house on Center Street. Easton is immediately to the west of West Bridgewater.
From Marjorie DeMayo/Chuck DeMayo's records. Bossy person, unpleasant with Marcus. Didn't want to bother with Marcus when he was blind. Lived next door to Harold Cogswell. Part time, mostly lived in E. Bridgewater in house Marcus bought. Vigorous woman. Nice old woman in her own way. Lived downtown with Grandpa until she moved in with the Frosts. Didn't drive. Rochester relatives (Sweets) came to see her and stayed a night or two. Uncle Bill says she was quiet.
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