Post by Doris McCraw
writing as Angela Raines
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| Photo (C) Doris McCraw |
In 1900 Rose E. Bartlett celebrated twenty-eight years of marriage to Ephraim C. Bartlett. The couple, who married around 1872-3 were both from Maine and married in that state. At the time of their marriage, Ephraim was thirty and Rose was twenty-one
It seems Ephraim had returned to Maine from Pueblo, Colorado where he was living in 1873. Rose had started teaching school at age seventeen. However, census records show she left teaching and listed the occupation as a housewife from her marriage forward. You do have to wonder, with her background, what kind of foundation she gave her children as they grew.
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| Copy of Old Birth Record from Ancestry |
The couple had seven children, five who were alive in the 1900 census.
Frank Arthur Bartlett, born 1888 in Colorado, who was a music teacher in Colorado Springs in 1911, died in 1962 in California at the age of seventy-four. He served in World War I as a Sergeant.
Guy Roderick Bartlett, born in 1874 in Colorado, died in 1940, in California at the age of sixty-six. He was married but had no children as far as any records show.
George Powers Bartlett, born in 1885 in Colorado, died in 1974 in Colorado. He was married and had three children.
Harvey Lewis Bartlett, born in Colorado in 1879 died in 1920 in Colorado. He was not married.
Frances Lena Bartlett Hill, born in 1875 in Colorado, lived to be ninety-two and was buried in The Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California. So far, I've not located a spouse for Frances.
The other listed child of the couple is Alice Dell Bartlett. She was born in 1877 and died in 1879 in Colorado.
Rose Ella Powers Bartlett died in 1919 just four days shy of her sixty-seventh birthday. She is buried with her husband who preceded her in death in 1912. Although they married after the end of the Civil War, they were both from the same area in Maine and Ephraim may have known Rose before he served the duration of the War.
For other stories in this Civil War series, click the links below.
John H Long -73rd Illinois - Western Fictioneers
Isabella Long - Prairie Rose Publications
Sgt. James W. Bell - Western Fictioneers
Martha Lynn Bell - Prairie Rose Publications
Captain Richmon Finch- Western Fictioneers
Sarah Jane Durkee Anderson - Prairie Rose Publications
Esther Walker, Part 2 - Western Fictioneers
Esther Walker - Prairie Rose Publications
Alpheus R. Eastman - Western Fictioneers Blog
Helen Rood Dillon - Prairie Rose Publications Blog
Virginia Strickler - Prairie Rose Publications Blog
Henry C. Davis - Western Fictioneers Blog
Chester H. Dillon - Western Fictioneers Blog
Five children? People are definitely having smaller families. When I read about such families moving around I do wonder how many people we meet, pass in the street, or even know in our daily lives are actually related to us and we don't even realize it.
ReplyDeleteI would agree. I knew of some, but as I dig deeper, more keep showing up. It also looked like most of her children did well. Doris
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