Sunday’s Obituary – Clara E (Burke) Shackford of Newburyport (1860-1941) (Blog 470)

Newburyport Daily News, 18 April 1941

Mrs Clara E Shackford, 80 died
at her home 64 Bromfield street this
morning  She was born in New-
buryport a daughter of John Burke and Mary (Sayward) Burke She
was the widow of Charles H Shack-
ford and leaves a daughter Mrs
Grace N Hills and a son Charles
Corliss Shackford whose home is at
Medford Hillsdale five grandchildren
and one great grandchild The fune-
ral will be held at the home Sun-
day at 2 30 p m

Clara, the daughter of John and Mary Nelson (Sawyer) Shackford was born July 31, 1860 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.  She was 21 when she married Charles Henry Shackford, a shoe operative.  He then became a barber, was elected to city council, and was a prominent member of the American Yacht Club with the title of Commodore.  About 1916, Charles became an invalid.  Clara became his caretaker for the next twelve years before he died in September 1928.  In 1930 and 1940, Clara and her daughter Grace who was also a widow were living together at 64 Bromfield, in Newburyport .  She died in 1941 and was honored with the above obituary.

CHILDREN:

Charles Corliss Shackford (1882-1947) – inspector at lumber company, married Florence Hey

Grace N Shackford Hills (1886-1940) – married Forrest Glover Hills

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SOURCES:

1870 United States Federal Census, Essex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Newburyport, Page No 31, dwelling 236, family 279, John Burke; digital images, Ancestry.com(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 May 2018).

1900 United States Federal Cenus, Essex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Newburyport, enumeration district (ED) 415, Sheet No 8, dwelling 155, family 171, Charles H Shackford; digital images, FamilySearch(http://familysearch.org : accessed 18 April 2018).

1920 Unites States Federal Census, Essex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Newburyport, enumeration district (ED) 224, Sheet No 3A, dwelling 61, family 64, Charles H Shackford; digital images, Ancestry.com(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 May 2018).

1930 United States Federal Census, Essex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Newburyport, enumeration district (ED) 5-214, Sheet No 3A, dwelling 56, family 61, Clara E Shackford; digital images, Ancestry.com(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 May 2018).

1940 United States Federal Census, Essex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Newburyport, enumeration district (ED) 5-276, Sheet No 1B, Home Visited – 17, Clara E Shackford; digital images, Ancestry.com(http://ancestry.com : accessed 6 May 2018).

“DEATH OF MRS CLARA SHACKFORD,” Newburyport Daily News (Newburyport, Massachusetts), 18 April 1941; digital images, Newburyport Public Library(http://newburyport.advantage-preservation.com : digital images 17 April 2018).

Massachusetts, Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915, , Clara Eva Burke, b, 31 July 1860; digital images, FamilySearch(http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 7 December 2017).

Massachusetts “Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980,” index book, Ancestry.com(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 September 2013), Clara Eva (Burke) Shackford d. Newburyport 1941.

Massachusetts, Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915, MARRIAGES REGISTERED in the City of Newburyport for the Year eighteen hundred and eighty two page 327, Charles H Shackford m Clara E Burke, 29 March 1882; digital images, FamilySearch(http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 30 March 2014).

“U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995,” database, Ancestry.com(www/ancestry.com : accessed 6 May 2018), Charles H Shackford, Newburyport, 1925.

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Sunday’s Obituary – Mary Ann Shackford, Daughter of David and Lydia (Short) Shackford Dies of Scarlet Fever (Blog 362)

Here’s the little that we know about Mary Ann Shackford, the daughter of David and Lydia Eva (Short) Shackford who died at too young an age.

She was born July 19, 1859 in Newburyport.

She was listed in the 1860 census with parents David and Lydia, siblings Emily (age 5), Charles (age 3), and Sarah E (age 10).

She was listed in the 1865 census with siblings Sarah J (age 15) and Charles Henry (age 8) – we’re not sure why sister Emily, age 10 who was alive was not listed in this census with the family but perhaps she was living elsewhere due to financial reasons or perhaps she just got missed.

Newburyport Daily Herald, 13 Apr 1869

Her death was recorded in the City of Newburyport on April 10, 1869, cause scarlet fever and the April 13, 1869 Newburyport Daily Herald included this notice in the DEATHS section of the newspaper announcing that the funeral .  We hoped to find an additional notice about the sadness of a death of a nine year old but unfortunately did not find another other articles regarding young Mary Ann.

SOURCES:

1860 United States Federal Census, Essex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Newburyport, Page No 16, dwelling 115, family 135, David Shackford; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed 27 August 2016).

1865 Massachusetts State Census, Essex County, population schedule, Newburyport, dwelling 1, family 1, Lydia Shackford; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 16 August 2014).

“DEATHS,” Newburyport Daily Herald (Newburyport, Massachusetts), 13 April 1869; digital images, Newburyport Public Library (http://newburyport.advantage-preservation.com/ : accessed 4 September 2016).

Massachusetts, Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915, , Mary Ann Shackford, 19 July 1859; digital images, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 4 September 2016).

Massachusetts, Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, , Mary Anne Shackford, death, 10 April 1869; digital images, Family Search (http://familysearch.org : accessed 10 August 2013).

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Tuesday’s Tip – Newpaper Article Tells Us Details about Charles H Shackford (Blog 321a)

We LOVE newspaper articles because we learn details about a person or family that we wouldn’t find in a vital record.

For example this notice appeared in the The Fitchburg Sentinel on June 28, 1883:

Liberation Notice
I this day give my son, Charles H. Shackford, the time during the remainder of his minority, and I shall neither claim any of his wages or pay any debts of his contracting after this date.
EMELINE E. SHACKFORD
Fitchburg, June 27, 1883 je27 st

From vital records, we know that Charles, the youngest son of Nathaniel and Emeline (Lovering) Shackford was born on June 13, 1867 and was ten when his father died on March 14, 1877.  Charles’ oldest brother Albert married in 1879 and had moved to Vermont and elder brother Elmer had moved to Boston and was working on the railroad.

In 1883 when this liberation notice was published, Charles was 16, the only child living at home with a widowed mother and was working at the Simonda Manufacturing, a company which made saws and machine knives.  He was boarding with his mother at 5 Green street in Fitchburg, Mass. By 1885 he was still employed at Simonda Manufacturing and mother and son were living at 115 Myrtle in Fitchburg.

Without the newspaper article we wouldn’t know this aspect of the relationship between Charles and his mother.  We don’t know who initiated the Liberation Notice – perhaps Charles wanted to ensure he kept his salary or his mother wanted to ensure she didn’t inherit his debts or this was some sort of requirement for young employees.

We do know that Charles married Elmira Isabelle Holman in Keene, New Hampshire on May 17, 1886 and died of typhoid fever nine months later on Feb 14, 1887.

Charles was only 19 years old, had been working since he was at least 16, had probably been supporting his mother, and had a new wife. He was buried in Keene with a very nice gravestone.

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SOURCES:

Fitchburg Directory, Containing a General Directory of Its Citizens, Business Directory, New Map, Street Directory, City and County Register, Etc. No. XI, For the Year Commencing January 15th, 1883 (N.p.: Price, Lee & Co, 1883), page 137, Emeline E Shackford; digital image, Google eBooks (http://books.google.com : accessed 28 June 2015).

Find A Grave, Find A Grave, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 17 July 2014), Charles H Shackford, Find A Grave Memorial# 100804479

Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, BIRTHS registered in the Town of Fitchburg in the year 1867, Charles Hiram Shackford, 13 June 1867; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 July 2013); Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records.

Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, , Nathaniel Shackford, death, 14 March 1877; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 July 2013); Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts

New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FSLH-X89, Charles H Shackford, 14 February 1887; digital images, FamilySearch, New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947 (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 6 June 2014).

New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947,” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 July 2013), Chas H. Shackford m. Elmaria Isabel Holman May 17, 1886.

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Amanuensis Monday – In 1858, Nathaniel Shackford of Pembroke Asks For Custody of His Son Albert Eugene Shackford (Blog 321)

On November 18, 1858, Nathaniel Shackford of Pembroke, New Hampshire told the Worcester County court that he was the father of Albert Eugene Shackford who was being kept at the Nashua House on Lincoln Street in Worcester by his wife Emeline E (Lovering) Shackford.

To the Hon Henry Chapin Judge of
Probate and Insolvency within and for the County of Worcester
Respectfully compains
That Nathaniel Shackford
of Pembroke in the State of New Hampshire
that he is the father of a child of the name
of Albert Eugene Shackford that said child is of
the age of twenty one months; that said child
is unlawfully restrained of its liberty and kept
from the custody of him the said Nathaniel
Shackford by Emmeline E. Shackford wife of
said Nathaniel Shackford and mother of said
child at the Nashua House (so called) on Lincoln
Street in said Worcester, that the said Nathaniel
Shackford is of sufficient ability to support
said child & is anxious so to do but is unable
to obtain the custody of said child he being
restrained by said Emmelline E Shackford –
and the complaintaint further says that the
said Emmeline E. Shackford is not a proper
person to have the control and custody of
said child – Wherefore he prays that a write
of habeas corpus may be issued to bring the
the body of said Albert Eugene Shackford before
your Honor and to summon said Emmeline
E Shackford to appear to show the cause of
detaining said Albert E Shackford from the
custody of said Nathaniel Shackford,
Worcester Nov 18 1858 Nathaniel Shackford
Subscribed & Sworn to before me
Admin Mazer
Justice of the Peace
Let a writ issue
returnable at the
probate office fortwith

The Judge Henry Chapin required Emeline to bring her son Albert to the court and issued a decision that custody of Albert E Shackford shall be bestowed to Emeline E Shackford, the mother.

The Lowell Daily Citizen published an article on Nov 23, 1858 related to this case with a blunt statement stating that the suit disclosed that Nathaniel was a common drunkard.  Two years later Nathaniel enlisted as a Private into the 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry stating he was 41 years old (we believe he was 60) and was discharged for disability three months later on Dec 13, 1861.  He then reunited with Emeline and had two sons, Elmer Ellsworth Shackford born Sept 1862 and Charles H Shackford born June 1867.  After Nathaniel died in 1877 Emeline filed for a pension and was listed in many directories as the widow of Nathaniel H Shackford.

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SOURCES:

Massachusetts, Worcester, , “Worcester County, Massachusetts, Probate Index, Vol. 1 & 2 A – Z, July 1731-1881,” ancestry.com, http://ancestry.com (: accessed 17 August 2013), Albert E Shackford

Massachusetts, Worcester, , “Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881,” New England Genealogical Historical Society, http://www.americanancestors.org/ (: accessed 15 February 2016), Albert E Shackford Case 52989

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