Emma Frances Robbins, the daughter of Wells and Emma Baldwin (Youngsman) Robbins was born December 1843 in Antrim, New Hampshire. She married Joseph Henry Lyman Cogswell. on October 18, 1861 at the young age of 17. Her husband had enlisted in Company I of the New Hampshire 7th Infantry. Joseph died of pneumonia only three months later on January 4, 1862 while serving in the 7th Infantry.
About three years later, on February 12, 1865, Emma married Byron W Shackford the son of Edrick and Caroline (Huntoon) Shackford. Byron, a blacksmith died six months later on Sept 19, 1865 of typhoid fever leaving Emma, a widow at the age of 21.
After the death of her second husband, Emma who had been living in Canaan moved to Concord where she worked as domestic servant and housekeeper for Daniel C Allen’s household. While living in this household she applied for and was granted a pension as the Army widow of Joseph H L Cogswell. She was paid at the rate of 16, then 20, 25, and 30 during the last year of her life.
Name Cogswell [crossed out, jsp] Shackford Emma F
Certificate No 12255 ARMY WIDOW Law: Civil War
Name of Solder Joseph H L Cogswell
Service Pri 27″ N H Vol Inf
Class Rate 16 Date of Commencement 16 May 1901 Date of Certificate 3 May 1902
Act of March 3, 1901
Class Inc 20 Sept 8 1918 Date of Certificate Sept 27 1916
Class Inc 25 Oct 6, 1917
Inc 30 May 1, 1920
Transferred from CONCORD
Died April 9/21 Bureau notified Jul 23 1921
Former Roll No 1091 Oct 3, 1918
Emma remained in Concord until 1920 when she moved to Lyme where she died at the age of 77 on April 12, 1921 of arteriosclerosis and bronchitis’s. She was buried in Dorchester.
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1850 United States Federal Cenus, Grafton County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Dorchester, page 235, dwelling 1708, family 1803, Wells Robbins; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 5 November 2017).
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