GIVN *Ola
SURN Nundal
GIVN John
SURN Wolgamott
DATE 18 JAN 2001
TIME 18:55:17
GIVN Elizabeth
SURN Rench
DATE 18 JAN 2001
TIME 18:53:04
Was a photographer at the time he married Ellen Hynes. Later he was listed
as an employee of C.W. Sayward, manufacturor of doors, sash, blinds and stairrails; dealer in lumber, glass and putty; also custom planing and sawing.
Loc. Central St., Wood.stock, Vt.
Family tradition has it that he cut himself while doing carpentry work and the wound didn`t bleed much, though he died of consumption, could that have been caused by "blood poisoning" or massive infection?
Have not as yet found date of a divorce or an annulment from Mary Jane Heath of
Barnard; but the marriage to Ellen is recorded in the Woodstock, Vt town records.Sources: Marriage Record, Windsor County Business Atlas, Death Cert
I remember her as a sturdy kindly old lady that my parents and I used to visit at least once a month, usually every other week, until she died suddenly in her 86th year when I was 12. At that time, her home was just before (bridge on the left of the house) the covered bridge across the OtterQuechee river as you leave Woodstock for Bridgewater. That bridge was removed in the late 1930`s and replaced by a concrete-steel girded one on the right of the old house, where it is as of this writing (Route 4 ). After marrying widower Peter Gobie she lived in the house on the left just before (east side) the bridge leading to the Pomfret road by the Lawrence Rockefeller mansion. This was the home visited by my father when he was a young boy. When married to Charles Rice their home was located on the site where the stone Catholic Church is now (on the road from the Woodstock Inn to the Woodstock Country Club ie. Vermont rt 106).
She had 3 children by her first husband Charles Rice who died in his 39th year. Son George, although married for a period of time, had no children.
Her daughter Elsie died at age 14.
Henry, her youngest Rice child, had only the one, her grandson Gerald Henry whom she doted on for the rest of her life.
She married widower Peter Gobie and had a 4th child, Harold, who was married to Bessie Riley (sister to Mammie, wife of J. Parke Goddard, owners of the areas largest Bakery in the 1930`s of Claremont, N.H.) had no children.It was then understandable that when great grand child Gerald Jarvis Rice came along her love and attention only multiplied.
The tradition of solo summer visits by a young grandchild continued. Her attic was an adventure in itself: Civil War paraphernalia (if only I`d saved
some !), probably belonged to her brother whom I believe was Michael Hynes from Castleton who served in the 2nd Vermont Regiment of the famous Old Vermont Brigade; articles from the 1st WW (Harold Gobie was a supply officer and went to France); Boy Scout equipment; a cylinder Edison record player that worked (we still have it), boxes of cylinder records including my favorite: "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly"; bags of marbles for playing "keepies" with other boys; just about the whole collection of Zane Grey books, books by James Oliver Curwood and Jack London about the far North ( I could take home one each visit to keep); baseball bats and gloves; hatchets and jackknives old fish poles and the like. Even a small deerskin covered dolls chest lined with a Vermont newspaper dated 1812, probably saved from the Angell family.In the late 1930`s a teenager named Eddy Riley lived in her home. The Boy Scout equipment and the baseballs, bats and gloves were probably his. I remember vaguely that he was from the city and needed a loving place to live. I also seem to recall he had been in the CCC program of the depression, perhaps, but when the war started he was gone. I believe he survived and had a family but I dont know where. Admiral (retired) Warren Cone, a class mate of Eddy`s and now a fellow Rotarian of mine, tells me he believes Eddy was in the Merchant Marine during the war. The fact that Harold was marries to a Riley might have played a part in his being in the household, but I just dont know.
The only thing I can remember as being slightly less than ideal about those visits was the fact that Grandma`s failing eyesight would sometimes cause her to leave little pieces of eggshell in my morning "egg on toast". To this day I think lovingly of her whenever I bite down and feel the grit of a hidden piece of eggshell. GJR
Died of consumption at age 14
LDS shows Elsie E. Rice born April 4 1882 Woodstock, VT; daughter of Charles Elliot Rice and Mary Jane Heath !!??