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Marriage: Children:
  1. Clinton Parker Cole: Birth: 4 AUG 1858. Death: 18 FEB 1859

  2. Flora Martha Cole: Birth: 29 OCT 1859 in Worthington, MA. Death: 12 AUG 1918 in Elmwood, IL

  3. Jennie Mariet Cole: Birth: 29 AUG 1861.

  4. Charles Edward COLE: Birth: 2 OCT 1863 in Elmwood Twp, Peoria, IL. Death: 2 FEB 1945 in Peoria, Peoria, IL


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Sources
1. Source:   Cutter's Genealogical & Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts

Notes
a. Note:   From Cutter's Genealogical & Personal Memoirs:
  [Note: No mention of first wife and our grandmother, Rachel A. Leete]
  He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He went to Illinois when a young man, but a few years later returned to Massachusetts and engaged in the manufacture of baskets at Knightsville, about four miles from Huntington Center. He was also in the business of manufacturing sleds and toys in partnership with his cousin and the firm was very successful. His later years were devoted to the insurance and collecting business in Huntington where he lived for forty years, and was one of the best collectors in Massachusetts. In politics, Mr. Cole was a Republican, but was never active; in religion he was very liberal. He was a member of no fraternal organizations, being devoted to business and his own home. He married, October 5, 1867, Helen Louisa Rude, born December 10, 1846, at Huntington, daughter of Elias and Louisa (Sanford) Rude. They had no children. His widow resides in the home at Huntington.
  Elisha's Obituary
  ELISHA B. COLE
 WILL BE MISSED
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 Prominent Citizen Suddenly Stricken
 with Death While in Springfield
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 VERY UNIQUE CHARACHTER
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 Was Outspoken and Radical on Many Points
 but with Much of Sterling Worth
  "The community was shocked early Saturday evening by the message received by friends here announcing the sudden death in Springfield of Elisha B. Cole. Although Mr. Cole had suffered from a severe rheumatic attack during the previous night, no apprehension of a return of the difficulty or of any serious indisposition was felt by himself or by his family. He expressed himself as feeling perfectly well Saturday morning and took the 11 o'clock car for Springfield to attend the presentation of The Land of Nod in Court Square theater in the afternoon. It was immediately following the witnessing of this play that seated in the lobby of the theater building he was taken severely ill and asked Robert Pease of this village to get a doctor speedily. This Mr. Pease did, through Manager Gilmore, and Dr. Ralph Ober arrived promptly. Mr. Cole was urged to go to a hospital, but insisted on being taken to the home of aquaintenances at 15 Margaret street, and a cab was summoned. On arrival at the house, Mr. Cole was urged by his physician to lie down, and complying, he essayed to go upstairs for that purpose; it was just as he was starting up the flight that the collapse came, from which he never rallied, but died in a few brief moments. Recognizing from the first the seriousness of the case word was promptly wired to his friends here, and Dr. C.H. Mace and Miss Belle Cole left for Springfield, but death occurred before their arrival. The body was brought home in charge of Undertaker C.H. Roadstrand Sunday afternoon.
  Elisha Brewster Cole, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Cole, was born in the town of Worthington April 23, 1835. He received a common school education in the schools of his native town. He was first married to Miss Rachel A. Leet of Elmwood, Ill, by whom he had three children, all of whom survive. They are Mrs. Flora Nickerson, Mrs. Jennie Kershaw, and Charles E. Cole, all of Elmwood, Ill. in which state the deceased lived for some years before coming to Huntington. Mr. Cole was twice married, the second time in 1867 to Miss Helen L. Rude of this town, and has been a resident of Huntington about 40 years. During all this time the deceased has been a conspicuous figure in civil affairs, generally favoring all wise expenditures which augured for enterprise, seldom absenting himself from any annual or special town meeting.
  While never admitted to the bar he has conducted quite an extensive law practice in the courts through power of attorney and has proved himself a keen and well-informed advocate. For several years Mr. Cole has managed as an opera house and public hall the building on the corner of Main and Pleasant
 streets, and has brought to the town some excellent musical and dramatic talent. Always alert in business he has been a successful salesman of both wagons and pianos, and has done much in the line of money lending accumulating quite a considerable property in these ways. His enjoyment was mainly in the comforts of his pleasant home on Pleasant street, in which he has lived for 25 years and where he was a royal entertainer of many friends. Besides the widow, the adopted daughter, Miss Belle, and the sons and daughters in the west there are surviving five grandchildren and one greatgrandson, Wm. Roy Kershaw, and a brother and sister, J.S. Cole of West Springfield and Mrs. C. S. Parsons of Springfield. The funeral was largely attended from the house Tuesday at 2 p.m. Rev. Webster L. Hendrick of the First Congregational Church, conducting the service. A quartet consisting of H. W. Munson, L.F. Hardy, Mrs. E. T. Little, and Mrs. M.R. Fiske, sang three selections and there was a profusion of flowers. There were present from out of town John S. Cole of West Springfield, Lawyers J.W. Steele and E.H. Lathrop, Mrs. J.E. Mackey, Miss Lillie Rowley, Mrs. Hitchcock, Eugene Ward and Nathan D. Bill, all of Springfield; Dr. Oscar DeWolf of Chester, Clinton De Wolf of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carrington of Pittsfield, Mr. and Mrs. O.W. Sandford and Lewis Pease of Westfield, J. Warner and J. Halsey Searle of Northampton, A.S. Searle of Hadley, Geo. Searle of Easthampton and Zadoc and George Clapp and James Anderson of Springfield. The bearers were Messrs. D.W. Stowell, H. Willard Munson, D.W. Stowell, H. Willard Munson, Wm. Goudreau, M.R. Fiske, James Axtell, and Geo. H. Beals. The burial was in Norwich Bridge cemetery."
  In the Hampden County Ledger, April 17, 1908, is the following "Mrs. Jennie Kershaw and Chas. E. Cole of Elmwood, Ill. son and daughter of the late Elisha B. Cole, arrived in Huntington, after a trip handicapped by delays, at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. They will remain a few days with friends."


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