By Muriel Bristol | July 28, 2024
George Erving Nute was born in Milton, in August 1852, son of John P. and Anna M. (Burrell) Nute.
John P. Nute, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Ann M. [(Burrell)] Nute, keeping house, aged thirty-six years (b. MA), George E. Nute, a farm laborer, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Ida J. Nute, at school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Edwin E. Nute, at school, aged six years (b. NH), and Sarah Nute, aged seventy years (b. MA). John P. Nute had real estate valued at $1,700 and personal estate valued at $925 years. They shared a two-family house with the household of John S. Remmick, works for shoe factory, aged thirty-three years (b. ME), and Lucy A. [(Wentworth)] Remmick, keeping house, aged forty-one years (b. NH). His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles C. Hayes, a mill wright, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), and Jonas S. Laskey, works for shoe factory, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH).
Father John P. Nute died of asthma in Milton, February 5, 1872, aged forty-two years. He was a married farmer.
George E. Nute married (1st) in Nantucket, MA, December 24, 1872, Abby M. Russell, both of Stoughton, MA. He was a laborer, aged twenty years, and she was aged twenty years. Rev. Charles W. Hinch performed the ceremony. She was born in Canton, MA, April 18, 1853, daughter of George L. and Martha A. (Tilden) Russell.
(The child of George E. and Abby M. (Russell) Nute was Edith May Nute (1875-1918)).
Daughter Edith M. Nute was born in Milton, April 11, 1875.
Mother-in-law Martha A. (Tilden) Russell died of paralysis in Stoughton, MA, January 31, 1876, aged forty-eight years, five months, and six days. She was married.
Geo. E. Nute, works in boot shop, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Stoughton, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Abbie M. [(Russell)] Nute, keeping house, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA), his daughter, Edith M. Nute, attending school, aged five years (b. MA), and his boarders, [brother-in-law] Edgar Russell, works in print office, aged nineteen years (b. MA), and Theophilus Harris, aged seventy-nine years (b. MA).
Father-in-law George L. Russell died of hematemesis in Stoughton, MA, October 9, 1883, aged sixty years. He was a widowed operative.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. W.A. Pulsifer to G.E. Nute, land in Milton, $165 (Farmington News, March 9, 1888).
Daughter Edith M. Nute married in Milton, December 24, 1891, Fred L. Brawn, she of Milton and he of Farmington, NH. She was a shoeworker, aged seventeen years, and he was a box maker, aged twenty-four years. William A. Bacon, J.P., performed the ceremony. Brawn was born in Milton, December 25, 1864, son of Joseph F. “Frank” and Sarah (Emfield) Brawn.
Mother Ann M. (Burrell) Nute suffered an injury on a defective sidewalk in Stoughton, MA. She successfully sued the town for damages in 1891. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Ida J. (Nute) Dearden, and another son, Edward E. Nute, lived also in Stoughton, MA.
A Verdict Against Stoughton, Mass. DEDHAM, Mass., May 26. – In the Norfolk Superior Civil Court in the case of Mrs. Ann M. Nute vs. the inhabitants of Stoughton, an action of tort to recover $4000 damages for personal injuries received March 16, 1891, by reason of defect in the sidewalk on Wyman street, Stoughton, the jury returned a verdict and awarded her the full sum asked for $4000 (Fall River Daily Evening News, May 26, 1891).
George E. Nute appeared in a published list of letters awaiting pickup at the Farmington, NH, post office.
LOCALS. Advertised letters at the post-office July 1 were: Mrs. George W. Otis, George E. Nute, Mrs. Uriah W. Hill, W.H. Evans (Farmington News, July 2, 1897).
The Milton Selectmen of 1898 were S.W. Wallingford, G.E. Nute, and F.H. Lowd. The Milton Selectmen of 1899 were F.H. Lowd, G.E. Nute, and E.L. Leighton.
George E. Nute, a farmer, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-seven years), Abby M. [(Russell)] Nute, aged forty-seven years (b. MA), his daughter, Edith M. [(Nute)] Brawn, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), his son-in-law (of eight years), Fred L. Brawn, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), his grandson, Gordon N. Brawn, aged two years (b. NH), and his boarder, H. Oscar Moorhouse, at school, aged thirteen years (b. MA). George E. Nute owned their farm, with a mortgage. Abby M. Nute and her daughter, Edith M. Brawn, were each the mother of one child, of whom one each had one still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Frank R. Cook, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH), and Myra Reynolds, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. George Nute’s sister, Alice, from Massachusetts, is with her for a visit. George Nute recently bought a horse of Allie Laskey at the Branch (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), July 27, 1906).
Mother Ann Melissa (Burrell) Nute died of chronic bronchitis in Stoughton, MA, January 5, 1908, aged seventy-four years, four months, and six days. (Her son, Edward Nute, was the informant). Charles L. Swan, M.D., signed the death certificate. (The earlier date – 1898 – that appears on her Milton Mills gravestone is in error).
MILTON MILLS, N.H. The remains of the late Mrs. Ann Nute were brought here Wednesday of last week and buried in the village. Mrs. Nute has for a number of years made her home with her daughter, Mrs. John Deardon, at Stoughton, Mass., where she died. She leaves a son, George Nute of Milton, and a daughter, Mrs. Dearden, besides numerous grand children (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), January 24, 1908).
WEST MILTON. Cora Garland and Annie Cook recently called at the homes of Henry Hayes and George Nute on Nute’s Ridge (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), March 20, 1908).
WEST MILTON. M.H. Plummer of Rochester was at the home of George Nute recently and. in company with Mr. Nute, tried the sport of hunting over the hills here In Milton (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), March 27, 1908).
George E. Nute, a farmer (general farm), aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Abbie [(Russell)] Nute, aged fifty-six years (b. MA), his son-in-law, Fred Brawn, a fireman (leatherboard co.), aged [forty-three years] (b. NH). and his daughter, Edith M. [(Nute)] Brawn, [aged thirty-five years] (b. NH [SIC]). George E. Nute owned their farm, free-and-clear. Abbie Nute was the mother of one child, of which one was still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Frank A. Canney, a laborer (odd jobs), aged thirty-two years (b. MA), and [his brother,] Edwin E. Nute, a farmer (general farm), aged forty-six years (b. NH).
The Milton Selectmen of 1914 were C.S. Philbrick, R.M. Kimball, and G.E. Nute. Near the beginning of their term the Milton Grammar School building was destroyed in a catastrophic fire on Saturday, April 14, 1914. (See Milton Grammar School Principals – 1893-14).
West Milton. G.E. Nute had an ill turn Sunday (Farmington News, October 2, 1914).
West Milton. G.E. Nute spent the week-end at Lake Winnipesaukee (Farmington News, January 15, 1915).
West Milton. G.E. Nute spent the week-end at Lake Winnipesaukee fishing. He has reported very good catches (Farmington News, February 12, 1915).
West Milton. Mrs. Edith Brawn observed her birthday Sunday. She was visited by friends from Farmington and received numerous gifts, as tokens of esteem and sympathy in her present ill health (Farmington News, April 16, 1915).
A Community Fair was held at the Nute Chapel in West Milton in October 1915. (It was the first on what was hoped would be an annual event). Farmer Andrew L. Felker (1869-1946) of Meredith, NH, and market gardener and florist James A. Fletcher (1837-1917) of Farmington, NH, were judges of vegetables, fruit, and livestock; Mrs. Harry Hurd [Cora P. (Canney) Hurd (1872-1961) of Farmington, NH,] was the judge of dairy products; Mrs. Wilbur Jones [nurse Lydia V. (Stanley) Jones (1888-) of Farmington, NH,] was the judge of fancy work and antiques; and Mrs. S.Y. Meserve [nurse Julia S. (Gilman) Meserve (1859-1928) of Farmington, NH,] was the judge of candy, cooked food, and preserves. The judges awarded prize ribbons to George E. Nute for his potatoes, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, oats, pears, apples, plums, grapes, and cranberries The Fair included also a concert and field sports (Farmington News, October 15, 1915).
West Milton. G.E. Nute spent the week-end at Lake Winnipesaukee, fishing (Farmington News, January 28, 1916).
West Milton. G.E. Nute spent the week-end at Lake Winnipesaukee (Farmington News, February 18, 1916).
West Milton. G.E. Nute has purchased a horse (Farmington News, April 14, 1916).
West Milton. Gordon Brawn of Athol, who has been spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brawn, returned to Massachusetts on his motorcycle Memorial Day. During the first two hours of the trip he covered 80 miles (Farmington News, July 16, 1916).
West Milton. G.E. Nute has received bis threshing machine and is threshing grain (Farmington News, September 8, 1916).
West Milton. G.E. Nute and E.E. Nute spent several days the past week at the lake, fishing (Farmington News, March 16, 1917).
Abbie Mansfield (Russell) Nute died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Nute Ridge Road in Milton, July 29, 1917, aged sixty-four years, three months, and eleven days. She had resided there for thirty-five years, i.e., since circa 1881, with her previous residence having been in Stoughton, MA. M.A.H. Hart, M.D., signed the death certificate.
IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Nute. The death of Mrs. Abbie M. Nute, wife of George E. Nute, which occurred at her home at Nute Ridge at a late hour Sunday night caused a season of mourning throughout the community. The end came suddenly at the age of 64 years, after only two days’ illness of a paralytic shock. The deceased was born in Canton, Mass, the daughter of George and Martha (Tilden) Russell. She has been a resident of this town 35 years and had won a universal friendship. She was wholly devoted to her home and family and her death has fallen with a deep shadow which has cast a gloom over this circle, consisting of the bereaved husband, one daughter, Mrs. Fred Brawn; a sister, Mrs. Alice Pope of Avon, Mass.; three brothers, Walter, Herbert and Edgar Russell, all of St0ughton, Mass.; and one grandchild, Gordon N. Brawn, who resides at the Nute home. Funeral was held from the home Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock, with Rev. D.A. Gammon officiating. The remains were taken to Milton Mills for interment in the family lot. Following is the list of floral tributes: Wreath of roses, marked “Wife,” from husband; pillow, marked “Mother,” Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brawn; spray rose, Gordon Brawn; anchor, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Nute; spray white roses, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Manchester; large spray white asters, brothers and sister, Stoughton, Mass.; spray purple asters, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Pratt, Stoughton; spray pink carnations, Mrs. Sophia Dearden, Stoughton; spray white asters, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parker, Stoughton; wreath, marked “Auntie,” nieces and nephews; spray pink carnations, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Fall; spray mixed flowers, Mrs. Rogers and family; wreath sweet peas, girls of Thayer-Osborne stitch room; double spray sweet peas, Inasmuch society; double spray sweet peas, John and Nellie Brown; spray, Emma Barber (Farmington News, August 3, 1917).
West Milton. Mrs. Fred Brawn is critically ill at her home (Farmington News, October 4, 1918).
Daughter Edith M. (Nute) Brawn died of influenzal pneumonia on Nute Ridge Road in Milton, October 5, 1918, aged forty-three years, five months, and twenty-four days. She had been sick for eleven days. She was a married housekeeper. P.G. Greeley, M.D., of Farmington, NH, signed the death certificate. (See Milton in the News – 1918).
In Memoriam. Mrs. Edith M. Brawn. In the untimely death of Mrs. Edith M. Brawn, which occurred at the home of her father, George E. Nute, at Nute Ridge early last Saturday morning, the community and the little family circle was most sadly afflicted. Mrs. Brawn succumbed to pneumonia after ten days’ illness of influenza, at the age of 43 years. She was a native and lifelong resident of Milton, with the exception of about three years spent in Massachusetts. The deceased was the only child of George E. and Addie M. Nute. Since the death of her mother, a year and a half ago, she had kept the home for her father and presided over the duties of the household with the same care and regard for those about her that was characteristic of her well-ordered life. For several years she was employed in the stitching department of the Thayer Osborne Shoe company and was recognized as one of the most skilled and competent operators in her line of work. During her employment in Farmington, she made many friends who unite with those in her native town in expressing the loss which all have sustained in her passing. She was an indefatigable worker and possessed those attributes of kindness and charity that many have cause to remember as memorials to the life that has answered the final summons. Mrs. Brawn was united in marriage to Fred Brawn 26 years ago last December. She is survived by her husband, one son, Gordon N. Brawn of Portsmouth, and her father. She was a valued member of the Rebekah lodge at Milton Mills. Funeral was held from the home Tuesday afternoon at 1.30 o’clock, with Rev. Ballantine officiating. Burial was in the family lot at Pine Grove cemetery. Bearers were members of the immediate family. Following is the list of floral tributes: Pillow of ferns and roses, marked ”Wife,” Fred L. Brawn; crescent on stand, roses, ferns and asters, marked “mother,” Mr. and Mrs. Gordon N. Brawn; wreath of roses, marked “Daughter,” George E. Nute; wreath of roses, pinks and ferns, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Nute; large anchor, roses, pinks and ferns, Mrs. Rodger and family; large spray gladioli and ferns, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Fall; wreath, pinks, asters and galax, from relatives in Brockton, Mass.; wreath of pinks and ferns, from relatives in Stoughton, Mass; wreath on stand, roses and ferns, from shopmates and friends in Farmington; pillow of roses, lilies and galax, Sunrise Rebekah lodge, No. 79, Milton Mills; wreath, galax and ferns, Ronald McGregor and family; spray gladioli and ferns, John Brawn, Nellie Brawn, Miss Gertrude Burd; wreath, galax and ferns, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Manchester; crescent, galax, pansies and ferns, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McGregor and family; spray asters and pinks, Henry B. Hayes; spray gladioli, Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Collin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Burnham (Farmington News, October 11, 1918).
George E. Nute acted as executor and then administrator of the estate of his recently deceased daughter, Edith M. (Nute) Brawn, a victim of the Spanish Flu epidemic.
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. The subscriber has been duly appointed by the Judge of Probate for the County of Stratford, executor of the last will and testament of Edith M. Brawn, late of Milton, in said County, deceased, intestate. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to exhibit them for adjustment, and all indebted to make payment. November 14, A.D., 1918. George E. Nute, Executor (Farmington News, November 15, 1918).
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Strafford, SS. Court of Probate. To the heirs at law of the estate of Edith M. Brawn, late of Milton, in said County, deceased, intestate, and to all others interested therein. Whereas George E. Nute, administrator of the estate of said deceased, has filed in the Probate office for said County the account of his administration of said estate: You are hereby cited to appear at a Court of Probate to be holden at Somersworth, in said County, on the 18th day of February next, to show cause, if any you have, why the same should not be allowed. Said administrator is ordered to serve this citation by causing the same to be published once each week for three successive weeks in the Farmington News, a newspaper printed at Farmington, in said County, the last publication whereof to be at least seven days before said Court. Given at Dover, in said County, this 21st day of January, A.D. 1919. By order of the Court, WILLIAM W. MARTIN, Register (Farmington News, January 24, 1919).
WEST MILTON. George E. Nute and his brother Ed and a party of friends are enjoying the ice fishing at the lake (Farmington News, March 14, 1919).
George E. Nute married (2nd) in Farmington, NH, March 29, 1919, Emma M. Barber, both of Milton. He was a widowed farmer, aged sixty-five years, and she was a domestic, aged seventeen years. Samuel S. Parker, J.P., performed the ceremony. She was born in Newport, NH, in 1901, daughter of William J. and Melvinia S. (Babbitt [Barbeaux]) Barber.
George E. Nute, a farmer (owner), aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census, His household included his wife, Emma M. [(Barber)] Nute, aged eighteen years (b. NH). George E. Nute owned their farm on Nute’s Ridge, free-and-clear. His house appeared in the enumeration between those of Henry B. Hayes, a farmer (owner), aged sixty-six years (b. NH), and Albert J. Goodwin, a teamster (owner), aged sixty years (b. ME).
Gorden Brawn, a machinist (navy yard), aged twenty-two years (b. NH), headed a Portsmouth, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Martha [(Rodgers)] Brawn, aged twenty-two years (b. Scotland), his father, Fred L. Brawn, a laborer (ship yard), aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and his lodgers, Andrew Murphy, a waiter (restaurant), aged thirty-four years (b. Greece), Theodore P. Lambros, a salesman (restaurant), aged thirty-four years (b. Greece), and John Tsitouros, a cook (restaurant), aged twenty-five years (b. Greece). Gordon Brawn rented their apartment at 64 Cabot Street. Martha Brawn had immigrated in 1910.
WEST MILTON. George Nute and wife spent the week-end at Ogunquit. Mr. Nute greatly enjoys fishing (Farmington News, October 20, 1922).
George Nute, a farmer (general farming), aged seventy-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eleven years), Emma [(Barber)] Nute, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and his boarder, Harlan Lamper, a laborer (farming), aged thirty-nine years (b. NH). George Nute owned their farm on Nute’s Ridge [which was not valued]. They had a radio set. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Fred Downs, a laborer (ice house), aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and Douglas Blanchard, a farmer (general farm), aged thirty-five years (b. NY).
Gordon N. Brawn, a machinist (navy yard), aged thirty-two years (b. NH), headed a Portsmouth, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty years), Martha R. [(Rodgers)] Brawn, aged thirty-two years (b. Scotland), his children, Winifred M. Brawn, aged ten years (b. NH), Gordon F. Brawn, aged four years (b. NH), and Janet E. Brawn, aged one year (b. NH), and his father, Fred L. Brawn, aged sixty-three years (b. NH). Gordon N. Brawn owned their house at 24 Melbourne Street, which was valued at $5,000. They had a radio set.
Son-in-law Fred L. Brawn died of arteriosclerosis at 24 Melbourne Street in Portsmouth, NH, May 19, 1930, aged sixty-five years, four months, and twenty-four days. He was a widowed stationary engineer.
DEATH RECORD. FRED L. BRAWN. Former resident of Altoona, died at the home of a son, Garden Brawn of Portsmouth, N.H., on May 19. He was born in Farmington, N. H., in 1867, a son of Joseph F. and Sarah (Emphfield) Brawn, former residents of Juniata. Surviving are the son at whose home he died, three grandchildren, and four sisters, Mrs. William Taneyhill, Mrs. D.A. McCracken and Mrs. R.A. Davis, all of this city, and Mrs. Ida Cherry of Trafford, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. McCracken have just returned home after attending the funeral (Altoona Mirror (Altoona, PA), May 26, 1930).
WEST MILTON. Mrs. George Nute entertained relatives over the week-end (Farmington News, April 22, 1932).
George E. Nute died of apoplexy on Nute Ridge Road in Milton, November 17, 1933, aged eighty-two years, three months, and twelve days. He was a married farmer. M.A.H. Hart, M.D., signed the death certificate.
IN MEMORIAM. George E. Nute. In the death of death of George E. Nute, which occurred at his home at Nute Ridge, West Milton, last Friday, the town of his birth and lifelong residence lost one of its most estimable citizens. The deceased was an uncomplaining sufferer through four years of illness, during which he was cared for most tenderly by his wife. He was 82 years old his last birthday and was born in Milton Mills, the son of John P. and Ann (Burrell) Nute. He shared his birthright with one brother, Edward Nute, whose death occurred several years ago. Mr. Nute had been a resident of West Milton for over 60 years and was universally known in the town he had served as selectman and as a man identified with politics and civic affairs. He was the last of his family. During a short period of his life, he was connected with the shoe business in Stoughton, Mass., and during this time he affiliated with Stoughton Lodge of Odd Fellows. For many years he was one of the successful milkmen of the village and for most of his active lifetime he followed the occupation of farming. Subsequent to the death of his first wife, which occurred in 1917, he married Miss Emma Barber, who survives him. He also leaves a grandson, Gordon Brawn of Portsmouth, and three [great-] grandchildren. The funeral services were held from the home Tuesday afternoon, with Rev. E. Lincoln Bigelow, pastor of Nute chapel, officiating. Remains were taken to Milton Mills for burial, and bearers were Leon Knox, Arthur Jewell, Percy Place and George Hackett, representing the Odd Fellows (Farmington News, November 24, 1933).
Horace A. Wentworth and Emma M. (Barber) Nute oversaw the Hare Road summer house of Hollis E. Goodwin, a Dover, NH, box manufacturer.
WEST MILTON. Horace Wentworth and Mrs. Emma M. Nute have entered the employ of Mr. and Mrs. Holie Goodwin at the summer home of the latter on the Hare road (Farmington News, May 18, 1934).
Father-in-law William J. Barber died of bronchial asthma in Newport, NH, April 10, 1935, aged fifty-seven years, five months, and nine days. He was a married shoemaker.
Emma M. (Barber) Nute married (2nd) in Newport, NH, July 2, 1938, Horace A. Wentworth, both of Milton. She was a widowed shoeworker, aged thirty-six years, and he was a divorced millwright, aged forty-four years. Rev. Frank R. Doore performed the ceremony.
WEST MILTON. Mrs. Horace Wentworth recently was hostess to a wedding party from Newport, among whom were several former residents of our community, Mrs. William Barber, her three daughters, Clementine, Evelyn and Lena, and two sons, Charles and Ray (Farmington News, January 19, 1940).
Horace Wentworth, a repairman (leatherboard), aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Emma [((Barber) Nute)] Wentworth, a stitcher (shoe shop), aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and his daughter, Geneva Wentworth, aged eight years (b. NH). Horace Wentworth owned their house on Nute Ridge Road, which was valued at $450. They had all resided in the “same place,” i.e., Milton, in 1935. Their house appeared in the enumeration between those of Martin G. Wentworth, a farmer, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH), and E. Lincoln Bigelow, aged fifty-two years (b. MA).
Mother-in-law Melvina S. (Barbeaux) Barber died of hypertensive heart disease in Unity, NH, April 1, 1940, aged sixty-three years, and twenty-two days. She was a widowed housewife. H.C. Sanders, M.D., signed the death certificate.
WEST MILTON. Horace Wentworth has been on the sick list and in care of a physician (Farmington News, August 4, 1944).
Horace A. Wentworth, a farmer (farm), aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Emma M. Wentworth, a fancy stitcher (shoe factory), aged forty-eight years (b. NH), and his daughter, Geneva M. Wentworth, aged seventeen years (b. NH). They resided in the “1st house on right” on Nute Ridge Road (when “Proceeding South on Nute Ridge road from intersection of Nute Ridge Road and Farmington Rd”).
Grandson Gordon N. Brawn died in Laconia, NH, October 10, 1959, aged sixty-one years.
Recent Deaths and Funerals. GORDON N. BRAWN. PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Gordon Nute Brawn, 61, of Alton Bay, formerly of this city, died Saturday at the Laconia Hospital. A native of Milton, N.H., he was born Nov. 30, 1897, son of Frederick E. and Edith Nute Brawn. He had been employed at the Kittery Naval Shipyard for many years, retiring in 1949. Mr. Brawn was a former member of Osgood Lodge, I.O.O.F., and the North Congregational Church, both of this city. Mr. Brawn is survived by his wife, Mrs. Anna Brawn two daughters, Mrs. James P. Healy, this city, and Mrs. Joseph W. Saurman, Eliot; a son Gordon F., this city, and 11 grandchildren (Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME), October 11, 1959).
Horace A. Wentworth died of coronary thrombosis in Milton, February 26, 1962, aged sixty-eight years. He was a married millwright (fibre mill). His widow was Emma M. Barber. George G. McGregor, M.D., signed the death certificate.
DEATHS. HORACE A. WENTWORTH. West Milton – Horace A. Wentworth, 68, was stricken last Monday with a fatal heart attack while shovelling snow for a neighbor. He was born in Albany, Aug. 7, 1893. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Emma M. (Barber); two sons, Harry W. of No. Rochester, Donald W. of Rochester; one daughter, Geneva Wheeler of Laconia; two brothers, Russell and Grover Wentworth of Rochester; four sisters; Mrs. Eunice Jackson of West Milan, Mrs. Francina Beane of West Milan, Mrs. Hattie Wentworth of Littleton, Mrs. Zelma Bunner of Rochester, 13 grandchildren, one great grandchild, several nieces and nephews. Mr. Wentworth has been a resident of West Milton for the past 43 years, coming here from West Milan. He was a mill wright by trade and worked at the Spaulding Fiber Co., in North Rochester before his retirement. Funeral will be conducted at the Peaslee Funeral Home, 32 Central st., Farmington, Thursday, 2 p.m. with the Rev. Robert Dugan of the True Memorial Baptist church in Rochester officiating. Burial will be in Milton Mills in the Spring (Farmington News, March 1, 1962).
Emma M. ((Barber) Nute) Wentworth died in 1979, aged seventy-seven years.
References:
Find a Grave. (2024, June 12). Edith May Nute Brawn. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/271436738/edith-may-brawn
Find a Grave. (2024, June 12). Gordon Nute Brawn. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/271436841/gordon_nute_brawn
Find a Grave. (1913, July 31). George E. Nute. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/114692762/george-e-nute
Find a Grave. (1913, July 31). John P. Nute. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/114692589/john-p-nute
Find a Grave. (2013, July 31). Emma M. Barber Wentworth. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/114692952/emma_m_wentworth
Joseph Cook, a farmer, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Lydia Cook, keeping house, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), Mary A Cook, a teacher, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), 
Simon Wentworth, a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (“Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1870) Federal Census. his household included Frances [(Cook)] Wentworth, keeping house, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Elmer E. Wentworth, at home, aged nine years (b. NH), and Walter Wentworth, at home, aged seven years (b. NH). Beard Wentworth had real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $800.
Barnes devised also to his sons, Henry C. Barnes, Arthur M.L. Barnes, and Edwin S. Barnes. Son Henry C. Barnes received the large worsted picture of “Peter the Great Saved by His Mother,” a large silver pitcher, and his grandfather’s Masonic regalia. Son Arthur M.L. Barnes received a worsted picture of “Feeding the Horses,” and a silver cream pitcher present to his grandfather by the St. Andrew’s Lodge of Boston, MA. Son Edwin S. Barnes received two worsted pictures, one of a child in a carriage with a dog, the other of a Scottish peasant’s house interior, as well as a gold watch and chain and silver-keyed cocoa flute. He devised all the rest and residue of his estate in shares to his wife, Lura A. Barnes (4/10), sons Henry C. Barnes and Arthur M.L. Barnes (1/10 each), and Edwin S. Barnes (4/10) and a trust fund (Suffolk County Probate, 664:46).
Sarah A. (Walker) Witham of Milton made her last will, September 10, 1900. She devised $1 each to her nieces and nephews, George M. Walker, Aza Walker, Charles Walker, Reuben Walker, John Walker, Frank Walker, Clarrie Lord, Angie Hanson, Mary Shaw, Emma Morey, Nellie Gifford, Martha Foss, Louisa Gaynor, and Eliza A. Walker. She devised $100 to the Milton Mills Methodist Episcopal Church for repairs to the church and parsonage, as might be needed. She devised all the rest and residue of her real estate, personal property, and bank accounts to her adopted daughter, Lura A. Howland, who she also named as executrix. Hiram Wentworth, Frank D. Stevens, and 
(A John Howland was enumerated in the Crawford Grant as a hotel painter, aged twenty-eight [eighteen] years (b. Canada), in 1880. John J. Howland was resident in Carroll, NH, and had just attained the statutory twenty-one years of age, when he was naturalized in Lancaster, NH, in November 1881. At the time of his 1899 marriage certificate, he resided still in Carroll, NH. It seems more likely that he clerked for – and seasonably commuted to – the Crawford House at Crawford Notch, rather the Crawford House in Boston, MA. (Both were accessible by train)).
Charles T. Haines appeared in the Rochester, NH, directory of 1900, as a spinner for the Gonic Mfg. Co., with his house at 13 Maple street, Gonic. Son-in-law Ernest S. Osborne appeared as a student at Tufts medical school, Boston, with his house at 13 Maple street, Gonic.
Halton Rex Hayes of 108 Charles Street, Rochester, NH, registered for the WW I military draft in Rochester, NH, June 5, 1917. He was a shipper for Swift & Co., aged twenty-three years (b. Rochester, NH, December 29, 1893). He was single, of a tall height, with a slender build, slightly balding light brown hair and light blue eyes.
Robert P. Laskey, a traveling salesman (meat packing), aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Concord, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Agnes S. [(Smith)] Laskey, a candy packer (candy), aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), and his lodger, John A. Nugent, a shipping clerk (meat packing), aged twenty-one years (b. ME). Robert P. Laskey rented their apartment at 64 Washington Street, for $22 per month. The Laskeys had resided in the same place, i.e., Concord, NH, in 1935, while their lodger had resided in Lewiston, ME, in 1935.
Robert P. Laskey served in the U.S. Army-Air Force, a precursor to the current U.S. Air Force, between June 19, 1942 and December 28, 1945. He attained the rank of Technical Sergeant. He appeared as a Staff Sergeant in a roster of the 315th Bomb Wing; he was in the 485th Squadron, which was a part of the 315th Bomb Wing. They flew Boeing B-29 bombers from Guam in 1945.
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