Military Monday – Emma (Robbins) (Cogswell) Shackford Receives Widow’s Pension (Blog 459)

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.

SOURCES:

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).

1860 United States Federal Census, Grafton County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Dorchester, Page No 86, dwelling 705, family 686, Wells Robbins; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 November 2017).

1870 United States Federal Census, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Concord, dwelling 60, family 80, Frances Shackford in home of Daniel Allen; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 November 2017).

1880 United States Federal Census, Merrimack County, population schedule, Concord, enumeration district (ED) 169, Page No 11, dwelling 85, family 120, Emma F Shackford in home of Daniel C Allen; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 November 2017).

1900 United States Federal Census, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Concord, enumeration district (ED) 152, Sheet No 15, dwelling 339, family 378, Emma F Shackford in home of Daniel C Allen; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 5 November 2017).

1910 United States Federal Census, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Concord, 194, dwelling 39, family 58, Emma F Shackford in home of Daniel C Allen; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 5 November 2017).

1920 United States Federal Census, Grafton County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Lyme, enumeration district (ED) 58, Sheet No 4, dwelling 88, family 91, Emma F Shackford boarder in home of Ezra B Alden; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 November 2017).

New Hampshire, New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FSVP-QB4, Emma Robins Shackford, 9 April 1921; index and digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ : accessed 20 May 2013).

New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947, , Joseph H L Cogswell, 4 January 1862; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 November 2017); New England Historical Genealogical Society. Citing New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire.

New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FSLH-XZK, Byron W Shackford, 19 September 1865; digital images, FamilySearch, New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947 (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 28 May 2014).

New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947, , Byron W. Shackford and Emma F. Cogswell, 23 February 1865; index and images, Family Search (http://familysearch.org : accessed 21 December 2015).

New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947, , Joseph H. L Cogswell and Emma F. Robbins, 18 October 1861; index and images, Family Search (http://familysearch.org : accessed 21 December 2015).

“United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933,” digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1832324 : accessed 18 September 2013), Emma F Cogswell Shackford (Robins); citing Pension Payment Cards, Bureau of Pensions and Veterans Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C..

Treasure Chest Thursday – Shackford’s in Carter’s 1895 History of Pembroke, N.H. (Blog 332)

Today while searching for sources for Ann Martin Shackford’s marriage to Isaac Fitts we had three tremendous finds:

Rev N. F.Carter’s History of Pembroke, N.H. written in 1895 which stated that Ann Shackford married Isaac Fitts and included a lot of information about her ancestry.

James Hill Fitt’s 1869 Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America which stated that they were married April 1, 1841 and provided some great information about their children.

FamilySearch’s description of the Fitts-Weston Family Bible which was filmed in 1971 and is at the Family History Center in Salt Lake City which stated that they were married and gave a marriage year.

Interestingly we have not found a marriage record in FamilySearch or Ancestry.  While all the documents were interesting, because our focus is on Shackfords, we’ll share our transcription of The Shackford Family, page 295 Carter’s History of Pembroke, N.H. It’s clearly a treasure and great starting point for those researching Shackford Family Historians!  The blue highlights refer to previous blogs about some of the Shackfords mentioned.

CXX. THE SHACKFORD FAMILY.
1. Theodore1 settled in Allenstown; m. Mary Bartlett; and d. 14
Oct. 18, 1809. She d. 1 Apr. 1807. Ch:
2. Sally2 b, 1755; m. 1755, David Richardson of Allenstown; d. 15 Apr.
1842 (CX111, 12).
3. Theodore2 b. 7 July 1770; m. (1) Dorothy Kimball (LXXIV, 52) (2)
Hannah Field.
(3) Theodore 2 (Theodore1) was b. 7 July 1770 in Chester; m. (1) 27
Nov. 171, Dorothy, dau. of Michael Kimball, (2) 15 Mar 1824,
Hannah Field of Merrimack; and d. Nov. 1844. His 1st w. was
b. 16 May 1772, and d. 29 Oct. 1822. Ch:
4. John3 b. 27 Aug 1792; m. Susan Gibson
5. Susanna3 b. 6 Sep. 1795; d. 10 Feb 1809
6. Samuel3 b 17 Mar 1799 d. 5 Apr 18?6
7. Nathaniel3 b. 22 Jul 1801; m. Abigail Bailey
8. Betsey3 b. 16 Oct 1805; m. 10 May 1827 Mark Richardson of Pembroke
(CXIII, 28)
9. Susannah3 b. 7 Nov 1800; m. James Morrison (XCVII, 24).
10. Leonard Kimball3, b. 23 May 1814; d. 6 Dec 1824
(4) John3(Theodore, 2 Theodore1) was b. 27 Aug. 1792; m. Susan
Gibson of Newburyport, Mass; res. Pembroke. Ch b. in Pem-
broke:
11. Edrick; 4 m. 25 Dec 1837, Caroline M. Williams of Hocksett; res.
Canaan; d.
12. Ann;4 m. Isaac Fitts, res. Nashua
13. Adeline; 4; m. John F. Gilbert of Pembroke; d. (LV.2)/
14. Catherine;4 m. ——Wilson; res. New York
15. Wallace;4 m.; res. Nova Scotia
(7) Nathaniel3 (Theodore, 2, Theodore1) was b. 22 Jul 1801; m Abi-
gail Bailey. Ch:
16. Leonard; m. Lydia——; res. Cambridge, Mass
17. Mary4; m. res. Charles Emerson; res Allenstown
18. Bailey;4 m; res. Boston, Mass.
19. Jane;4 m. Nathaniel Chapman of Greenland; d.
20. Charles;4 m. —Dow; res. Boston, Mass.
21. Nellie;4 m. John Gilman Bartlett; res. Allenstown
22. Betsey;4 b. June 1831; d. 27 Jan 1832.

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SOURCES:

Carter N. F., Rev, History of Pembroke, N. H. 1730-1895: In Two Volumes, Vol. II.-Genealogical (Concord, N. H.: Republican Press Association, 1895), page 295; digital images, Hathi Trust (http://babel.hathitrust.org/ : accessed 17 March 2016

Family data, Family Bible, Fitts–Weston family Bible records, 1784-1924, microfilm of typed transcript of original available at Family History Center, Salt Lake

Fitts James Hill, Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America (Clinton: Wm J Coulter, 1869), page 26-27; digital image, HathiTrust (http://babel.hathitrust.org/ : accessed 17 March 2016.

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