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Note: !BIRTH: certificate #1877:4:26:23; vital records; Acton, Massachusetts;; diary of Mary E. Spaulding Teele; photocopy owned by Martha Croasmun, Rexburg, Idaho; original in Acton, Massachusetts Historical Society;; cemetery marker !MARRIAGE: certificate #1898:5:13:2; vital records; Acton, Massachusetts;; Shattuck family Bible; photocopy owned by Martha Croasmun;; wedding announcement;; Gould Family, by Effie G. Bowen, photocopy owned by Martha Croasmun !DEATH-BUR: certificate #1927:5:15:26; vital records; Acton, Mass.;; cemetery marker; Acton;; obituary owned by Martha Croasmun !CENSUS: 1900 Middlesex Co. Mass; Acton; Roll 655; Federal Archives, Waltham, Mass;; 1910 Middlesex Co. Mass; Acton; Roll 594; Federal Archives; Waltham, Mass. Ernest Teele passed away last week Thursday afternoon at the Homeopathic hospital in Boston, where he had been for the past month for treatment. He was the son of the late William and Mary Teele and was born in this village 49 years ago, having lived here all his life attending the public schools and graduating from the Acton High, also from the Saxton's River academy in Vermont. He married Miss Mattie Shattuck, who with six children all of the village survive him and who will miss him greatly in the home circle. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church last Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. Rev. Mr. MacKellson of Waverly, assisted by Rev. Mr. Batstone, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holt sang "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and "Lead Kindly Light," favorite hymns of the deceased. Burial was in the family lot in Mt. Hope cemetery. --obituary Ernest Teele passed away at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston last Thursday where he had been several weeks undergoing treatment for pernicious anemia. He had not been well for some time before he went to the hospital. Mr. Teele was born in West Acton in 1878. He graduated from the Acton High School at fifteen years of age and the following year attended the Academy in Saxton River, Vermont, from which he graduated at sixteen years of age. He married Miss Martha Shattuck and settled down here, taking up farm work. Mr. Teele was a Deacon in the Baptist church and a great worker there. --obituary Father wore a beard because his jaw had been deformed when he was kicked by a horse; his face was very sensitive to pain after that. He was really too frail for farm work; family tradition states that his pernicious anemia was caused by his using no protection while spraying fruit trees.(Remembrances of Ruth Rice). I can remember my mother saying my father as each child came along favored the baby. But not me - Sumner always in his eyes was the one. That didn't bother me tho. Thru life there were so many nice thing my mother did just for me. The one that really was the most - after Ernest was born she had hoped for a girl who would mean as much to me as I had to her. My grandfather Teele died early 1923 (my father Feb 1927). The one time I remember going alone with my father was to see my grandfather. And you can't have any idea how important I felt that day. Maybe I was eight years old. And of course that was only going across railroad. I've never told anyone all this before, but felt you would like to know. One thing more - when I came home from shcool in the first grade and told my mother each wonderful thing I have learned; the others used to say, "Oh mother knows that." But she used to say, "You each had a chance to tell me, and now it's Ruth's turn." Again I felt special. --letter from Ruth Rice, 1975
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