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Note: Home in 1910 Somerville Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts Home in 1920 Somerville Ward 7, Middlesex, Massachusetts Home in 1930 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts Home in 1940 Weymouth Town, Norfolk, Massachusetts In 1960 36 Saxony Rd Framingham, Massachusetts Name: Edward H Rideout Residence Year: 1925 Street address: at Somerville Residence Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Occupation:�tab�Cigars Publication Title: Boston, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1925 A Plantagenet descendant and a recognized descendent of the pilgrim William Brewster by the Mayflower Society. Ancestors that arrived on the Mayflower Richard Warren 1578-1628 William Brewster 1566-1644 Mary Brewster 1569-1627 Graduated from Somerville High School 1921. He majored in chemistry at North Eastern University but quit school after three years to open up a tobacco shop (he never smoked). At North Eastern he met Edena Leola Strout his wife to be who worked in the schools office. On Mar 29 1928 he hired on with the Ford Motor Company Somerville Plant as a parts clerk where his ability to remember numbers amazed fellow workers. (Retired 1963) He could remember the part number of every part in every automobile that Ford had ever built. He quickly advanced up the management ladder where he was in charge of all material for the Somerville assembly plant. In WWII he was an Air Raid Warden and a Lt. Col. in the Army Reserves but was never called up. He and Leola bought the house at 131 Clinton Rd. Weymouth MA April 8, 1929. They also owned many properties on Cape Cod including a cemetery lot at the South Chatham Cemetery which they never used but has a stone. AKA Bethel Cemetery Lot # 3 West 1/2 Block D. He died of Alzheimer's, Edena took care of him at home until the very last week when she could no longer care for him. He and Leola are buried at Serenity Gardens, 13655 Wilcox Rd. Largo Fl Abbey Unit 42E Deed 1542 See tombstone here http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=rideout&GSfn=edward&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=11&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=11680128&df=all& Edward's great granddaughter Jennifer Rideout became a member of the DAR using James Rideout as the veteran. Other granddaughters only have to submit the Request for Records form ( it's available on dar.org ) with her name (Jennifer Rideout Golz) and her National Number, 827908. Then when they get the records, they just tie in their connection they don't have to trace all the way back.
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