_Henry MANSFIELD __
_Henry MANSFIELD __|_Hannah TUTTLE ____
_Henry MANSFIELD ___|
| | _James BIBBER _____
| |_Thankful BIBBER __|_Joanna BAILEY ____
_Joseph H. MANSFIELD ____|
| | _Hezekiah HILL ____
| | _Ebenezer HILL ____|_Eunice COLLINS ___
| |_Rachel HILL _______|
| | _Ambrose HAMILTON _
| |_Lucy HAMILTON ____|_Deborah SOULE ____
_Joseph Greely MANSFIELD _|
| | _Job BENNET _______
| | _Stephen BENNETT __|_Mary HARRADEN ____
| | _William S BENNETT _|
| | | | _James SOULE ______
| | | |_Rachel SOULE _____|_Martha CURTIS ____
| |_Mary Elizabeth BENNETT _|
| | _Alexander ROSS ___
| | _John ROSS ________|___________________
| |_Serena H ROSS _____|
| | _Ambrose HAMILTON _
| |_Dorcas HAMILTON __|_Ruth SAWYER ______
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|--Myron Lemont MANSFIELD
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| ___________________
| _John FITTS _______|___________________
| _Samuel FITTS ______|
| | | _Patrick GOOGINS __
| | |_Eleanor GOOGINS __|_Marie ROGERS _____
| _Joseph G FITTS _________|
| | | _Patrick GOOGINS __
| | | _Joseph GOOGINS ___|_Marie ROGERS _____
| | |_Eleanor GOOGINS ___|
| | | _Thomas WESCOTT ___
| | |_Susannah WESCOTT _|_Margaret DAVIS ___
|_Addie M FITTS ___________|
| ___________________
| ___________________|___________________
| ____________________|
| | | ___________________
| | |___________________|___________________
|_Phoebe JENKS ___________|
| ___________________
| ___________________|___________________
|____________________|
| ___________________
|___________________|___________________
statistics. Birth and death dates are from her list.
My information regarding Addie Fitts Mansfield and her descendants was
gleaned from telephone conversations with Addie's husband's daughters
by his second wife, Printha and Gertie in Jan 1991.
. Printha relates that Myron had a very short marriage in his youth to a
woman named Lizzie and that they had a son, Kenneth. Lizzie took Kenneth
with her, but Myron wanted to fight to keep the child. His new wife, Mary,
however did not want to raise the child, so Myron gave up the fight. Printha
does not think that they kept in touch, but that just before WWII, Kenneth
looked his father up at the mill in Stockport and that they spent a weekend
together.
. Myron was for years superintendant of the same textile mill in Yarmouth
where her father was. Myron had a reputation for excelence in the mixing
of dyes.
The 1930 census for district 41, Stockport, Columbia Co., New York
(Ancestry.com image page 3 of 34) lists Myron J. Mansfield on Chester
Ave., renting for $18 per month, not owning a radio, age 32, first married
at age 26 [this would actually be his age at his second marriage. He had a
child by his first wife, Lizzie, at about age 20], he and parents born in
Maine, machinist at a woolen mill, not a veteran.
. Mary P., wife, age 32, married at age 25, born in New York, parents born
in Germany.
Following is a letter, dated 25 Aug 1983, Yarmouth, Maine, from Doris
Mansfield (Myron's cousin) to Myron's half sister, Viola:
".....I'm glad you wrote as it gives me a chance to tell you about Myron. He
has been coming down twice a year for several years and when he was
here in the Spring of 1982 he told me he had been bleeding from the
rectum during the Winter. He promised me he would see his Dr. as soon as
he got home which he did and was told to see a Surgeon as something
was wrong. I didn't hear from him after he went home and in Sept. I
wrote to him again, in Oct. and in Nov. I called his house several times
and got no answer and the letters not answered or returned. I sent a
Christmas card and said PLEASE drop a line so I will know how you are.
He called me just before Xmas. He said he went into the hospital on Labor
Day and got home just before Thanksgiving. He had a Clostomy?? and
they found spots on his liver. He had gained 18 pounds and got around the
house with a walker. The Dr. wanted him back for treatments in Jan.
which he did and went down hill fast. He left the hospital in March and
was in a Nursing Home until he passed away April 6. I think the Dr. was
wrong to try any more treatments when the liver was already effected.
.....A woman called me the morning of April 7 and told me he had gone, he
asked her not to write or call until after he went because he didn't want
to worry me. I asked her who she was and she said her Mother's sister
was married to Mary's brother Anthony. She wrote me three or four
letters but I did not care for her. Myron mentioned his friends and Mary's
family but these people were never mentioned by him. . .
.....[Here Doris talks about Myron's wife, Mary. I have included that part of
the letter in Mary's notes.]
. . . The husband of this woman came to Yarmouth one night after I had
been out for the evening. I got a call he was in Yarmouth and wanted to
come over and see me. I was curious as to what he wanted so I told him
to come. I didn't like him either. According to them, he [I don't know who
"he" refers to] had never told them anything about his family, only his
cousin Doris.
.....I enjoyed him, Myron, we were not so apart in age. I was 78 and he was
85. He usually came on a Wed. and I had a nice home cooked dinner when
he got here and then Thurs. he took me out. We always went to the shore
for a nice seafood meal, then he left early the next morning for home. He
was most faithful to Mary; he drove 12 miles twice a day to the Nursing
Home to feed her noon and night.
.....I have wondered if Bill was still living, he was 4 years older than
Myron, I think.". . .
.....[Here Doris writes about her cousin, Charles Baker, and I have included
that part of the letter in his notes.]
...... . . .Now I must close and do a little garden work. I have a smaller one
than usual but fresh cukes and beans, corn, etc. tastes awful good. We've
had a funny year, lots of rain all Spring, hot and dry through July and Aug.
I dread winter but I love the fall.
....I hope you can read this, I write worse every day.
..........................................Cousin
.............................................Doris Mansfield