103. Samuel Rogers⁶ Newcomb (English⁷, William⁸, Peter⁹, Hezekiah¹⁰, Simeon¹¹, Andrew¹² , Andrew¹³ Newcomb) was born in Bernardston, Franklin, MA 7 December 1827. Samuel died 16 March 1880 in Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH, at 52 years of age.

He married twice. He married Mary Jane Thomas 1 December 1853 in Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH. Mary was born 3 August 1834 in Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH. Mary was the daughter of Gideon Thomas and Desire Masters. Mary died 29 December 1871 in Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH, at 37 years of age. He married Cristine Connellia Hildreth 3 July 1872 in Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH. Cristine was born 6 February 1842 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, NH. Cristine was the daughter of Africa Hildreth and Mary (Polly) Blanchard. Cristine died 2 March 1899 in Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH, at 57 years of age.

Samuel Rogers Newcomb and Mary Jane Thomas had the following children:

104 i. William Wallace⁵ Newcomb was born in Bernardston, Franklin, MA 24 April 1854. He married twice. He married Bessie Louise Houghton 1 January 1879. Bessie was born 10 February 1862 in Brattleboro, Windham, VT. Bessie was the daughter of George Hartwell Houghton and Sarah Maria Thomas. Bessie died 31 Aug 1904 at 42 years of age. He married Julia Ada Smith 17 March 1906. Julia was born 15 September 1865 in Winchester, NH. Julia was the daughter of Orson Grover Smith and Augusta E. Streeter. Mr. Newcomb was a jewler (watchmaker) and optician. William and Bessie had the following children:

• Edith V. Newcomb b. 9 May 1881 Brattleboro, VT. D. 30 Nov 1898 Boston, MA at age 17 of Meningitis.
• Guy Houghton Newcomb b. 20 Apr 1884 in Brattleboro, VT. m. Ruth Burr Damon 2 Jun 1909 in Fitchburg, MA. She was born in 1884 to Herbert Arthur Damon and Nellie Evelyn Burr.
• Mildred Bessie Newcomb b. 8 May 1888 Vermont. M. Edward Russell Wilson, Insurance Agent, on 14 Sep 1911 in Fitchburg,MA. Edward was b. 1887 in Hartford, CT to Charles F. Wilson and Gertrude H Hawkins.
• Raymond Wallace Newcomb b. 12 Aug 1886 Vermont. Raymond attended Amherst College and Ohio State University, graduating in 1910. In 1911 he accepted a government position and was sent to the Philippine Islands for three years. After his return he worked in Chicago and New York City before starting his own Veterinary practice in Bellows Falls, VT. He died 14 Mar 1919 of Pneumonia in Rockingham, VT. Raymond married Mabel A Stowell 11 May 1911 in Orange, MA. Mabel was born in 1887 to Carlon N. Stowell and Hattie M. Stratton and was working as a Stenographer at the time of her marriage. They had Stanley Stowell b. 28 Jul 1912 in Manila, Philippines; Elliott Houghton Newcomb b. 10 Feb 1915 in Chicago, IL, and Harriet Elizabeth b. 6 May 1918 in Bellows Falls, VT..
• Mildred Bessie b. 8 May 1889. Married Edward R. Wilson on 14 Sep 1911. They lived in Fitchburg, MA.
• Ruth Newcomb b. 3 May 1904 Boston, MA

• Louise Newcomb b. 25 Apr 1907 Fitchburg, MA

105 ii. Herbert Samuel Newcomb was born in Bernardston, Franklin, MA 3 November 1855. Herbert died 4 September 1857 in Brattleboro, Windham, VT, at 1 year of age.

106 iii. Charles Herbert Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 21 August 1857. He married Annie S. Smith 27 November 1884 in Wardsboro, VT. Annie was born 27 Mar 1860. Annie was the daughter of Moses A. Smith and Sarah Emily Corbin. Charles was a machinist and a farmer; resided, Hinsdale, NH until 1901, when he removed to Wardsboro, VT. Charles died 21 May 1903 of Tuberculosis in Wardsboro, VT. Charles and Annie had the following child:

• Carl Stanley Newcomb b. 24 Jun 1887 in Hinsdale, NH. He married Mabel Williams on 16 Sep 1913 in Suffield, CT. Mabel was the daughter of Francis Williams and Sarah Lennord. Carl died in October 1963.

107 iv. Briscoe Thomas Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 1 August 1859. He was a jewler. He married Mary Alma Green of Foxboro, MA on 7 Feb 1885 in Mansfield, MA. She was born in 1860 to Enos W. and Elizabeth L. Thayer. They had the following child:

• Victor Ernest Newcomb b. 8 Oct 1888 in Attleborough, MA. He married Adelaide S Fairchild on 15 Jul 1911 at Harvard, MA. She was born 1889 to Eugene Fairchild and Lillian Brown. They lived in Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey. Children: Virginia Newcomb, Bettina Newcomb, and Richard Fairchild Newcomb.

108 v. Mary Gertrude Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 9 June 1863. In 1880 she was living with her uncle Calvin Newcomb in Matawan, New Jersey. She married Peter Bennett on 22 Feb 1882 in Matawan, NJ. Peter was b. 24 Nov 1862 in Browntown, NJ to Daniel Bennett and Elsie Warne. They had the following child:

• Walter D. Bennett b. 14 Aug 1884 in Browntown, NJ. M. Clara B. Wooley in Morganville, NJ on 11 Aug 1901.

109 vi. Ida Desire Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 3 April 1866. Ida died 3 July 1910 in Oakland, CA, at 44 years of age.

110 vii. Fred Ernest Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 23 June 1870. He married Ellen R. Schragle 26 September 1899 in Fitchburg, MA. Ellen was born 1 Jan 1879. Ellen was the daughter of Ernest F. Schragle and Nellie A. Cutting. Fred is an expert steam fitter; resided, Fitchburg, where children i and ii were born; later, Newport, NH, where third child was born.

• Ernestine Lucinda Newcomb b. 13 Jan 1901 Fitchburg, MA.
• Russel F. Newcomb b. 19 Dec 1903 Fitchburg, MA. Died 19 May 1939 Spartanburg, South Carolina. M. Pouline Jones.
• Charlotte Ida Newcomb b. 1909 m. Orville Leroy Brophy, physiotherapist, on 6 Feb 1943 Newport, Sullivan, NH. He was born in Titusville, NJ to Joseph Brophy and Anna Moore.

Samuel Rogers Newcomb and Cristine Connellia Hildreth had the following children:

111 viii. Lotin Samuel Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 5 April 1873. He was employed as a printer at his brother's firm (E.L. Hildreth). He died in Brattleboro on 26 Jan 1908 from Tuberculosis at 35 years of age. He married Harriet Mather 18 April 1899 in West Brattleboro, Windham, VT. Harriet was born 31 Dec 1864 to Cotton Mather and Seraph Perlee Whitaker. They had the following children:

1. Della Perlee Newcomb b. 13 Aug 1901 in Brattleboro, VT
2. Lotin Mather Newcomb b. 21 Jun 1903 in Brattleboro, VT
3. Helen Elizabeth Newcomb b. 3 Oct 1904 in Brattleboro, VT. She died 16 Feb 1907.

112 ix. Herman J. Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 17 October 1874. Herman died 12 August 1875 at less than one year of age.

+ 46 x. Ella Cornelia Newcomb was born 6 May 1878.

113 xi. Walter Lemuel Newcomb was born in Brattleboro, Windham, VT 10 August 1879. Walter died 29 Nov 1960 in Brattleboro, VT after suffering with senility for a number of years. He married twice. He married first, Elizabeth May Cobb on 14 January 1909. She was the daughter of Etwell E. Cobb and Susie Morgan. She died 12 July 1911 of Typhoid Fever just six months after thier marriage. On 25 Feb 1913 Walter married (second) Ida Belle Hillman in Mobile, Alabama. Ida was born in Michigan in March 1890 to Tom D. and Rosina Hillman. Walter and Ida had the following child:

• Bertha Jane Newcomb b. 24 May 1914 in Fitchburg, MA. Bertha married Horace Lester Stevens, (b. 12 Apr 1909 Farmington, Nova Scotia to Charles Stevens and Phoebe Mullock), on 27 Jun 1953 in Gill, MA. She died 11 Apr 2000. Horace died 22 Mar 1974.

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