Mary Catherine Johansson
F
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George Thomas Johansson
M
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Maureen Barbara Reardon
F
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(?) Trask
M
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Walter Owen Graham Jr.
M, b. 1920, d. 2013
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| Birth* | Walter Owen Graham Jr. was born in 1920. |
| Death* | He died in 2013. |
Barbara Kennard
F
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Mary Ellen Pirtchett
F
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Mary Anne Thomas
F, b. 1929, d. 2018
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| Birth* | Mary Anne Thomas was born in 1929. |
| Death* | She died in 2018. |
Kimberly Melissa Wyman
F
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Kristen Michelle Wyman
F
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Children of Kristen Michelle Wyman
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Jeffrey Peter Wyman
M
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Barry Michael Conyers
M
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Calista Nizhoni
F
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Emerie (?)
M
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Karen Lee (?)
F
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Amy Jane Caspersen
F
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Quinn Arthur Wyman
M
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Sagan Jeffrey Wyman
M
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Keith Harold Caspersen
M
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Ruth Anna Bowler
F
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John Heber Larrabee
M, b. 20 June 1877, d. 26 March 1954
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Citations
- Percy L. Ricker and Elwin R. Holland, A Genealogy of the Ricker Family (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1996), p.150.
- Evening Star, Washington, D.C., Wedding announcement, 7 Sep 1910, p.7.
- Ancestry, www.ancestry.com, (District of Columbia, Compiled Marriage Index, 1830-1921).
- Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., Obituaries, Death notice of John H. Larrabee, 28 Mar 1954, p.51.
Laura Catherine McCaffrey
F, b. circa 1882, d. 5 April 1953
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| Birth* | Laura Catherine McCaffrey was born circa 1882 in MassachusettsG.1 |
| Marriage* | She married John Heber Larrabee, son of John Larrabee and Lydia Ellen Ricker, on 6 September 1910 in Washington, D.C.G.2,3 |
| Death* | Laura Catherine McCaffrey died on 5 April 1953 in Melrose, Middlesex County, MassachusettsG.4 |
| Their marriage announcement appeared in the 7 September 1910 Evening Star of Washington, D.C. and read as follows:
Miss Laura C. McCaffrey of Cambridge. Mass.. and Mr. John H. Larrabee of Melrose. Mass.. were quietly married in this city yesterday. Mr. Larrabee is assistant chief draughtsman of the hydrographic office, Navy Department, and has just returned from a year's cruise on the United States steamer Eagle, making astronomical observations in West Indian and Panama waters. The bride and groom, after a brief wedding trip, will be at home at 5511 Wisconsin avenue northwest.2 |
Citations
- She was age 47 in the 1930 census of Washington, D.C.
- Evening Star, Washington, D.C., Wedding announcement, 7 Sep 1910, p.7.
- Ancestry, www.ancestry.com, (District of Columbia, Compiled Marriage Index, 1830-1921).
- Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., Obituaries, Death notice of Catherine L. Larrabee, 7 Apr 1953, p.22.
Sarah Helen Larrabee
F, b. 10 July 1884
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|  Photo from the Boston Globe, 6 Jul 1919, p.54, slightly enhanced by Perplexity AI |
| Birth* | Sarah Helen Larrabee was born on 10 July 1884 in Melrose, Middlesex County, MassachusettsG.1 |
| Marriage* | She married William Judson Appel, son of William Appel and Margaret Arend, on 18 September 1913 at Sarah's parents' home at 106 West Foster Street in Melrose, Middlesex County, MassachusettsG.2 |
| In Dec of 1906 there is a newspaper announcement of her engagement to Chester Jay Underhill of Liberty, Missouri, but no record of the marriage has been found, and the record of her 1913 marriage to William Appel says it was her first marriage. Apparently the engagement was broken off as in June 1912 Chester Underhill, then of Melrose Highlands, married Daisy Childs in Liberty, Missouri.
Their marriage announcement appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript on 19 Sep 1913 and read as follows: BEST MAN CAME FROM AFAR — Congo Free State Represented in Bridal Party at Wedding of Miss Sarah Helen Larrabee and William Judson Appel. Miss Sarah Helen Larrabee, only daughter of former Mayor and Mrs. John Larrabee of Melrose and William Judson, son of Rev. and Mrs. William Appel of Madison, N. J., were married at the home of the bride’s father, 106 West Foster street, Melrose, last evening. Rev. Augustus Erving Scoville, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Melrose, performed the ceremony. Mrs. William Edmund Craigie of North Reading was matron of honor and Walter E. Rodgers of the Congo Free State was best man. The ushers were John Heber Larrabee of Washington, D. C., and Harold Atkins Larrabee, brothers of the bride; William Edmund Craigie of North Reading, Clifford O. Smith and L. Vernon Hall, both of Somerville. Nearly two hundred relatives and friends attended the reception. After a wedding trip, the bridal couple will live in Madison, N. J. The bride is a graduate of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, New England Baptist Hospital and the Gordon Training School. Mr. Appel also is a graduate of the Gordon Training School, where he first met Miss Larrabee. He is secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Madison, N. J.
When their son William Jr. was born in Boston in Sep 1914 the birth record stated that his parents were residents of Madison, N.J.
In March 1916 they were living in Fall River, Mass. when they applied for a passport to travel overseas, first to England, and then to Africa for missionary work. They had become members of the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), one of the most aggressive and expansion-oriented Protestant missions operating in West Africa in the early 20th century. That year they were posted to the Mission's Sanitorium on the Jos Plateau in northern Nigeria. Later census records indicate that their daughter Esther was born in Africa while they were there. The couple did interant preaching among the indigenous population and made their first convert whom they referred to by his Hausa name Dan Borno. Dan Borno helped them in translation work. They missionary spoke in Hausa while he translated their speech into Irigwe when they preached to the local population. He also helped them with the translations of Bible portions into the local language. Eventually his time in this area took a toll on William's health - which happened to many missionaries in this undeveloped area - so he went on a furlough in 1919, from which he did not return again to the Jos Plateau. Sarah was involved in the work as well. Women worked mostly as teachers, nurses and language translators.
The family arrived back in New York on 10 Jun 1919 on board the S.S. Adriatic sailing from Liverpool, England. The next month the Boston Globe published a long article about their three years in Africa that began: Former Mayor John Larrabee of Melrose has as visitors at his home just now his daughter, Mrs. William Judson Appel, her husband and two children, who have just arrived from Nigeria, 800 miles inland from the coast of Africa where, for three years, the family have lived in the midst of various tribes of natives. The little girl of the family, six months old, was born in Africa and this is her first visit to a civilized land. The Appels have been in charge of a sanitarium or rest house for the Sudan Interior Mission, which started work in the interior of Africa 25 years ago. The country was then closed to white men, but the missionaries worked in from the port of Lagos, with Kano as the objective point in the interior. Kano is now the terminus of the British railroad, which runs from the coast port. Ten years ago the missionaries established the rest house at Miango for the use of their missionaries who became sick or otherwise incapacitated from work or who needed a vacation from living in the native villages and compounds. The compound lived in by the Appel family for three years is on a plateau 400 feet above the surrounding country and 40 or 50 miles in diameter. Mr. and Mrs. Appel have a son, 5 years old, who speaks the language of the natives and can rattle off jargon that nobody but his father and mother can understand. None of the natives speak English, so the missionaries have to learn their language. The language usually spoken is the Hausa tongue. The article went on to describe the lives of the natives in some detail, included photos of the couple and their children as well as two shots in the native village. A link to the full article is in the footnotes. It concluded: Mr. and Mrs. Appel are to go back to the African station if Mr. Appel’s health improves. He has a heart trouble which forced him to give up the work for a time, at least. They did not end up going back.
The 1920 census found William and Sarah and their first two children living in Marshallton, Delaware where both of them were teachers at the Ferris Industrial School of Delaware and living on campus. The school was a state-run reform and industrial training institution for delinquent and dependent boys, operated by Delaware in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Located on a large rural campus west of Wilmington, it emphasized manual labor, vocational skills, and discipline as a means of rehabilitation and social reform.
In 1930 the family was living at 2115 Bryant Avenue North in Minneapolis, Minn. where William's occupation stated he was a minister of a German Baptist church.
The 1940 census states that in 1935 they were living in Milwaukee, Wisc., but in 1940 they were living in at 455 Central Ave, Block A in Brooklyn, NY. William was a minister in a church at that time.
When William filled out his World War II draft application in Apr 1942 they were living at 455 Evergreen Avenue in Brooklyn, which was the address of the Second German Baptist Church. He was descdribed as being 5' 9" tall with blue eyes, gray hair and a ruddy complexion. His son Samuel filled out the form in Jun 1946 and gave his father's address as his next of kin, and it was the same address in Brooklyn.3,4,5,6,7,8,9 |
| FamilySearch Family Tree page: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/9VNF-1CG. |
Citations
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Births, Scanned image on ancestry.com, Melrose 1844, p.182.
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Marriages, Scanned image of original record, Melrose 1913, p.660.
- Newspapers.com, www.newspapers.com, ("Liberty Man to Wed Massachusetts Girl," The Kansas City Star, 30 Dec 1906, p.2, <https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/188184613/>).
- Ancestry, www.ancestry.com, (Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, <https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1171/images/vrmmo1833_c1796-0378>, scan of original marriage Underhill - Childs marriage record).
- Newspapers.com, www.newspapers.com, (Best Man Came From Afar, Boston Evening Transcript, 19 Sep 1913, p.3, <https://www.newspapers.com/article/boston-evening-transcript/188195884/>).
- FamilySearch, www.familysearch.org, (United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99X7-C4Y9>, scan of passport application has date and place of birth).
- Samuel Sani Abdullah, A History of Christianity in the Jos Plateau Area During the Period of British Colonial Rule in Nigeria (1900-1960) : a Thesis Submitted In Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in Historical Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg (Johannesburg, South Africa: University of Johannesburg, 2019), pp. 93, 103. Hereinafter cited as History of Christianity in the Jos Plateau.
- Ancestry, www.ancestry.com, (New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957, <https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7488/records/4040839985>, scan of original passenger list).
- Newspapers.com, www.newspapers.com, (Back From Darkest Africa, The Boston Globe, 6 Jul 1919, p.54, <https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/188198511/>).
William Judson Appel
M, b. 19 September 1885, d. 19 August 1972
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|  Passport photos for their 1916 trip from New York to Nigeria, West Africa to do missionary work. |
| Birth* | William Judson Appel was born on 19 September 1885 in Rochester, Monroe County, New YorkG.1,2,3 |
| Marriage* | He married Sarah Helen Larrabee, daughter of John Larrabee and Lydia Ellen Ricker, on 18 September 1913 at Sarah's parents' home at 106 West Foster Street in Melrose, Middlesex County, MassachusettsG.4 |
| Death* | William Judson Appel died on 19 August 1972 at home, 1955 Dallas Road NW in Salem, Marion County, OregonG.5 |
| FamilySearch Family Tree page: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LY9M-LXK. |
| His obituary appeared in the 21 August 1972 Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon and read as follows:
Dr. William J. Appel, 87, 1955 Dallas Road NW, a longtime minister for the German denomination of the American Baptist Convention and the Northern Baptist Convention, died Saturday night at his home. Born in Rochester, N.Y., he moved to Salem nine years ago following his retirement, serving as interim pastor at several Northwest churches. His career included three years as a missionary in China, a tour as chaplain aboard the Navy battleship USS Brooklyn, pastorships in Minneapolis, Minn., and Milwaukee, Wis., assistant general secretary of American Baptist Convention headquarters in Milwaukee, pioneer ministering for the Northern Baptist Convention across the U.S., and four years service with the Northern Baptist Church mission for refugees in Salzburg, Austria. Surviving are daughters Mrs. Helen Laube, Marlette, Mich., and Mrs. Grace Hiller, Greenlawn, N.Y; sons Bill of Long Beach, Calif., John of Huntington Beach, Calif., Rev. Paul Appel, Corning, N.Y., Rev. Sam Appel, Camden, N.J., sister Freda Appel, Philadelphia, Pa. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Riviera Baptist Church, Rev. S. Donald Ganstrom officiating, interment at Restlawn Gardens. Arrangements are by Barrick mortuary. The family suggests contributions to a memorial fund at the church.6 |
Citations
- Family Search Family Tree, http://www.familysearch.org, (United States. Military Records | Brooklyn. Military Records, World War II draft card, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68F9-WX9>).
- FamilySearch, www.familysearch.org, (United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99X7-C4Y9>, scan of passport application has date and place of birth).
- Ancestry, www.ancestry.com, (New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957, <https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7488/records/4040839985>, scan of original passenger list that includes his date and place of birth).
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Marriages, Scanned image of original record, Melrose 1913, p.660.
- Date and place of death from obituary.
- Newspapers.com, www.newspapers.com, (Obituary of William J. Appel, Statesman Journal (Salem, OR), 21 Aug 1972, p.27, <https://www.newspapers.com/article/statesman-journal-obituary-for-william-j/188158668/>).
Lydia Ellen Ricker
F, b. 2 February 1856, d. 18 May 1890
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| Birth* | Lydia Ellen Ricker was born on 2 February 1856 in Somersworth, Strafford County, New HampshireG.1,2 |
| Marriage* | She married first John Larrabee, son of John Larrabee and Sarah Jane Kimball, on 18 September 1876 in Milton, Strafford County, New HampshireG.3 |
| Death* | Lydia Ellen Ricker died of pneumonia on 18 May 1890 in Melrose, Middlesex County, MassachusettsG.4,5 |
| Burial* | She was buried in Wyoming Cemetery in Melrose.5 |
| She also went by the nickname of Nellie. |
Citations
- Percy L. Ricker and Elwin R. Holland, A Genealogy of the Ricker Family (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1996), p.150.
- Death record says place of birth was Great Falls, N.H., which was a part of Somersworth.
- Marriages, New Hampshire Vital Records, Concord, NH.
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Deaths, 1890, v.410, p.220, no.37.
- Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/, (Lidia Ellen “Nellie” Ricker Larrabee, <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167076953/lidia-ellen-larrabee>, includes photo of gravestone).
Thomas Aloysius Salmon
M
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Lucy M. Conlon
F
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Elmer F. Richardson
M, b. circa 1926, d. 2015
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| Birth* | Elmer F. Richardson was born circa 1926. |
| Death* | He died in 2015. |
Frances E. Cole
F
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Donald Robert Kirk
M, b. 23 July 1934, d. 22 August 2015
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| Birth* | Donald Robert Kirk was born on 23 July 1934 at Salem Hospital in Salem, Essex County, MassachusettsG.1 |
| Death* | He died of pneumonia and cardiorespiratory failure on 22 August 2015 at North Shore Medical Center - Salem Hospital in Salem, Essex County, MassachusettsG.2 |
| Burial* | He was buried on 27 August 2015 in Annunciation Cemetery in Danvers, Essex County, MassachusettsG.2 |
| When they married in Jul 1962 Donald was an electronic technician and Claire was a dental hygienist and they were both living at 5 Suffolk Avenue in Swampscott.
When Donald died in Aug 2015 they were living at 98 Village Post Road in Danvers and his occupation was given as electronics engineer. It further said that he was a Korean War veteran. |
| His parents were living at 5 Suffolk Avenue in Swampscott, Essex County, MassachusettsG, when he was born. |
| His obituary appeared on the website of the Peterson-O'Donnell Funeral Home in Danvers, Massachusetts and read as follows:
DANVERS- Mr. Donald R. Kirk, 81, of Danvers, formerly of Swampscott, died Saturday, August 22, 2015 at Salem Hospital surrounded by his loving family after a lengthy illness. He was the beloved husband of Claire H. (Gill) Kirk, with whom he shared 53 years of marriage. Born in Salem, Donald was the son of the late Henry F. and Susan F. (Nolan) Kirk. He was raised and educated in Swampscott and was a graduate of Swampscott High School. Upon graduation, he entered the United States Army and proudly served his country. He was a longtime resident of the Town of Swampscott prior to moving to Danvers in 1998, where he has since resided. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Kirk was employed as an engineer with E G & G in Salem for many years. He was a devout communicant at St. Mary of the Annunciation Church in Danvers and a longtime member of the North Shore Computer Society. An avid gardener, Donald also had a great love and gift for carpentry and built his own cabin cruiser which he, his wife and family enjoyed immensely. Above all else, he was devoted to his family and especially enjoyed summers on Crystal Lake in Gilmanton, NH. In addition to his loving wife, Donald is survived by his children: Michael Kirk and his wife Shawna of Beverly, Debbie Kirk of Saugus, and Kevin Kirk and his wife Kim of Matthews, NC. He was the loving papa to Nolan Kirk of Beverly and Caroline, Aiden and Grace Kirk all of Matthews, NC. He was the uncle to Jason Romano and his wife Julie of Belfast, ME and Jessica Doyle of Naples, FL. He was the brother-in-law to Kathie Pelley of Naples, FL. He was predeceased by his beloved grandson, Cameron Kirk and his brother-in-law, Jim Pelley. ARRANGEMENTS- His Funeral will be held from the Peterson-O'Donnell Funeral Home 167 Maple St. (Rt.62) Danvers Thursday at 8:15AM followed by his Funeral Mass in St. Richard's Church, Danvers at 9AM. Relatives and friends invited. Burial in Annunciation Cemetery.3,4 |
Citations
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Births, 1934, v.94, p.131.
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Deaths, 2015, v.92, p.14.
- Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., Obituaries, Obituary of Donald R. Kirk, 25 Aug 2015, p.B6.
- Website Source: Peterson-O'Donnell Funeral Home website, <http://hosting-25014.tributes.com/obituary/show/Donald-R.-Kirk-102776681>, date viewed 4 Feb 2020.
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