I74345: Katherine FOSTER (20 MAR 1943

Katherine FOSTER

20 MAR 1943 - 1 JUN 2015

BIRTH: 20 MAR 1943, Roswell, Chaves Co., NM
DEATH: 1 JUN 2015, Waterville, Kennebec Co., ME

Father: Walter Herbert (Jr) FOSTER
Mother: Hazel Gertrude CAMPBELL

                                                                                                          _Stephen (Jr) FOSTER _+
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                                                                                    _Stephen FOSTER _____|_Adeline DRAKE _______
                                                                                   | (1825 - 1909) m 1854  (1800 - 1855)        
                                                        _Ernest Montgomery FOSTER _|
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                                                       |                           |_Betsey G. WOODMAN __|______________________
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                               _Walter Herbert FOSTER _|
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                              |                        |_Caroline L. BANTON _______|
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                              |                                                    |_Nancy R. WILLEY ____|_Nancy BENNETT _______
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 _Walter Herbert (Jr) FOSTER _|
| (1919 - 2007) m 1942        |
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|--Katherine FOSTER 
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Martha A. FRANCIS

25 DEC 1848 - 9 NOV 1926

BIRTH: 25 DEC 1848, Wayne Co., KY
DEATH: 9 NOV 1926, Tom Bean, Grayson Co., TX

Father: Samuel FRANCIS
Mother: Sibby SOUTHWOOD

Family 1 : George Thomas TROXELL

MARRIAGE: 5 JAN 1870, Wayne Co., KY

+Ader TROXELL

                                                                                                _William FRANCIS __________+
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                                                                          _Thomas FRANCIS _____|___________________________
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                       _Simeon Justice FRANCIS _|
                      | (1818 - 1878) m 1840    |
                      |                         |                                               _Ambrose HAMMON ___________+
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                      |                         |                         _John HAMMON ________|_Ann MORGAN _______________
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                      |                         |_Jane HAMMONS __________|
                      |                           (1773 - ....) m 1800   |
                      |                                                  |                      _John AMBURGEY ____________+
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                      |                                                  |_Margaret AMBURGEY __|___________________________
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 _Samuel FRANCIS _____|
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|                     |                         |                        |_Frankie SPROULS ____|___________________________
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|                     |_Cassie Barnham SMITH ___|
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|--Martha A. FRANCIS 
|  (1848 - 1926)
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Arthur GOWER

[12798]

CA 1728 - ____

BIRTH: CA 1728, Norfolk Co., England

Father: Robert GOWER
Mother: Margaret HARRISON

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Ebenezer HUTCHINGS

25 SEP 1815 - 15 DEC 1866

OCCUPATION: ship carpenter
BIRTH: 25 SEP 1815, Penobscot, Hancock Co., ME
DEATH: 15 DEC 1866, Penobscot, Hancock Co., ME

Father: Charles HUTCHINGS
Mother: Sally WARDWELL

Family 1 : Eliza Ann PERKINS

MARRIAGE: 12 OCT 1843, ME

                                                                                                             _Enoch HUTCHINS ________
                                                                                                            | (.... - 1698) m 1667   
                                                                                       _Jonathan HUTCHINS __|_Mary B. STEVENSON _____
                                                                                      | (1684 - 1746) m 1720  (1651 - ....)          
                                                   _Charles (The "Patriot") HUTCHINS _|
                                                  | (1742 - 1834) m 1764              |
                                                  |                                   |                      _Joseph WEEKS __________+
                                                  |                                   |                     | (1670 - 1741) m 1696   
                                                  |                                   |_Judith WEEKS _______|_Adah Edith BRIAR ______
                                                  |                                     (1696 - 1742) m 1720  (1666 - 1702)          
                       _William HUTCHINGS ________|
                      | (1764 - 1866) m 1786      |
                      |                           |                                                          _Jacob PERKINS _________+
                      |                           |                                                         | (1685 - 1770) m 1712   
                      |                           |                                    _Joseph PERKINS _____|_Lydia STOVER __________
                      |                           |                                   | (1717 - ....) m 1739  (.... - 1717)          
                      |                           |_Mary PERKINS _____________________|
                      |                             (1745 - 1797) m 1764              |
                      |                                                               |                      _Eliakim WARDWELL ______+
                      |                                                               |                     | (1687 - 1753) m 1711   
                      |                                                               |_Abigail WARDWELL ___|_Ruth BRAGDON __________
                      |                                                                 (.... - 1760) m 1739  (1691 - 1760)          
 _Charles HUTCHINGS __|
| (1786 - 1845) m 1806|
|                     |                                                                                      _Samuel WARDWELL _______+
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|                     |                                                                _Eliakim WARDWELL ___|_Sarah HOOPER __________
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|                     |                            _Daniel WARDWELL __________________|
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|                     |                           |                                   |                      _Samuel ( Sr.) BRAGDON _+
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|                     |                           |                                   |_Ruth BRAGDON _______|_Mary MOULTON __________
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|                     |_Mercy ("Mary?") WARDWELL _|
|                       (1770 - 1837) m 1786      |
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|                                                 |_Sarah STAPLES ____________________|
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|--Ebenezer HUTCHINGS 
|  (1815 - 1866)
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|                                                                                      _Eliakim WARDWELL ___|_Sarah HOOPER __________
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|                                                  _Daniel WARDWELL __________________|
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|                                                 |                                   |                      _Samuel ( Sr.) BRAGDON _+
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|                                                 |                                   |_Ruth BRAGDON _______|_Mary MOULTON __________
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|                      _Josiah WARDWELL __________|
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                      |                            _Samuel WESCOTT ___________________|
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                      |_Hannah WESCOTT ___________|
                        (1766 - ....)             |
                                                  |                                                          _Jacob PERKINS _________+
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                                                  |                                    _John PERKINS _______|_Lydia STOVER __________
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                                                  |_Olive PERKINS ____________________|
                                                    (1738 - ....) m 1762              |
                                                                                      |                      _William PEARCE ________
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                                                                                      |_Elizabeth PEARCE ___|_Mary BEALE ____________
                                                                                        (1717 - ....) m 1736  (.... - 1730)

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Charles Morgan KNAPP

[42945]

4 JUL 1921 - 19 APR 2013

BIRTH: 4 JUL 1921
DEATH: 19 APR 2013

Father: Ralph Newell KNAPP
Mother: Anna HEMENWAY

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 _Ralph Newell KNAPP _|
| (1888 - 1972)       |
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|--Charles Morgan KNAPP 
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|                                             |                          |_Sarah GLEASON ______|_Hannah ROWELL ______
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|                      _Charles Asa HEMENWAY _|
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                      |                                                   _Nicholas YOUNG _____|_____________________
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                      |                        _John Alson YOUNG ________|
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                      |                       |                          |                      _Benjamin BUCK ______+
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                      |                       |                          |_Ann D. BUCK ________|_Phoebe HERRICK _____
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                      |_Mabel Floretta YOUNG _|
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                                              |                                                 _Samuel B. DYER _____+
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                                              |                           _David F. DYER ______|_Abigail FOGG _______
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                                              |_Sarah Elizabeth DYER ____|
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                                                                         |_Sally H. HAYS ______|_____________________
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In 1923, when he was only 2 years old, and his mother was pregnant with his sister Marjorie, the family took a summer road trip from Seattle to North Carolina, leaving the day after school let out in June, spending one week with grandparents in N. Carolina, and returning just in time for school to start in the fall. There were no paved roads outside of cities at that time. The family camped in a canvas tent and slept on cots. Chuck's love for the outdoors, for traveling, and his fascination with cars were sealed for life on this trip!

He graduated from West Seattle High School in 1938 at the age of 16 and enrolled in Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington) where he received a B.S. degree in Chemistry. While in Walla Walla he worked in the pea harvest, sang in the Whitman Glee Club, was a member of TKE fraternity, and developed a social consciousness as he saw Japanese friends be forced into internment camps. Charles became a conscientious objector to WWII.

In 1942 he entered Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, to study for the ministry. While there he developed a close relationship with other ministerial students, and with their Theology Professor Roland Bainton, who was also a Whitman grad and from Eastern Washington. The summer after finishing at Yale, Charles worked on staff at Camp Pratt, a YMCA camp for inner city boys on Staten Island. It was there that he met Rita Rowe, from Norridgewock, Maine, who would become his bride and wife of 67 years. Together they maintained life-long friendships with classmates and friends who had also worked on staff at Camp Pratt that summer.

Chuck and Rita were married June 30, 1946 and settled into their first parsonage, in Aroostook Larger Parish, not far from the Canadian border in the potato country of Northern Maine. Chuck and one other minister served five tiny rural churches over a distance of about 1000 square miles. The Knapp's first child, Kristan, was born in 1948. Later that year they relocated to Dover-Foxcroft in Central Maine. Two more children were born there, Timothy and Andrew. Chuck applied himself to vegetable gardening, becoming a legendary producer of food for the family, especially his Kentucky Wonder green beans. During these years, The Knapps, who were always interested in cross-cultural exchange, hosted many foreign students in their home for holidays.

In 1955, the family packed everything into a cross-country moving van, and headed West in their new stripped down, basic brown 1955 Chevy, to settle in Almira, a wheat-farming town of 398, just south of Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington State. While living in Almira their fourth child, Jonathan, was born. The tiny Almira Community Church served everyone except the Lutherans who had the only other church building in town, and the Catholics who had to drive 12 miles to attend mass in a neighboring community. Chuck moved sprinklers and drove school bus to make ends meet. Along his bus route he spied the body of a 1924 Model "T" Ford rusting beside an old barn. He bought it for $1 and spent the next twenty years happily restoring it to original specifications and dependable running order. He used to joke that his antique car was the same age as his wife!

The next church Charles Knapp served (1961-65) was in Dayton, Washington, just 30 miles from Walla Walla, in a wheat-farming town that also had a Green Giant cannery employing migrant workers to harvest asparagus and Southern college boys to harvest peas. One of Chucks outreach projects was a drop-in community center at the church for the college boys who had come to town to work. He introduced them to a more tolerant and racially inclusive Christianity than many of them had previously encountered in their home states.

In spring 1965, after 20 years of parish ministry, Charles accepted a position as Director of Camp Menucha, a retreat in the Columbia River Gorge at Corbett, owned by First Presbyterian Church of Portland. His Yale classmate, Jack Merner, had recommended him for the job. It was a perfect fit for both Chuck and Rita. Over the next 12 years they developed the underused property into one of the busiest ecumenical conference centers in the region, attracting not only religious groups, but also non-profits in human services, the Arts, and the human potential movement. One of their proudest accomplishments was the founding of the Creative Arts Community, a gathering of artists to work in various disciplines to share, teach, and create together over a week or two. The program continues today, 47 years later. The Knapps enjoyed visiting Menucha two years ago during a Creative Arts summer session. At Menucha Charles mentored many young people who came to work there, introducing them to new ideas and opening doors to their potential growth.

During their years at Menucha Retreat & Conference Center, Chuck & Rita learned of their daughter's sexual orientation and identity as a lesbian. With Ann and Bill Shepherd, friends from First Presbyterian Church whose daughter Susie had also just 'come out' to them, they recognized a need and founded a support group for parents of gay people. Over time Parents of Gays evolved into PFLAG Portland. When the group first attempted to put a small classified ad into The Oregonian, they were refused with the excuse that The Oregonian was a 'family' paper. Chuck & Rita also developed and taught a curriculum for congregations in the United Church of Christ (UCC) to use in studying the idea of becoming Open & Affirming, a decision made by each congregation about consciously welcoming LGBT members. As Moderator of First Congregational UCC Portland, Charles Knapp led the consideration of this decision and in 1991, it became the first Open & Affirming congregation in the Central Pacific Conference of the United Church of Christ. Chuck continued as a quiet, but steady UCC teacher/leader through the efforts to defeat Ballot Measure 9, personifying the 'straight, but not narrow' LGBT ally ideal.

By 1978 changes in leadership at First Presbyterian dictated another move for The Knapps . . . this time into Portland where they purchased their first home. Investing sweat equity they soon nearly doubled the square footage of their Mt. Tabor bungalow, also building raised garden beds and a rockery wall for Chucks veggies and Ritas roses. Charles worked at this time as Building Superintendent at Floating Point Systems, an innovative computer company that was constantly on the move expanding and changing its physical plant. About 1992, he became the Gate Keeper and Volunteer Coordinator at Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, when Rita took the position of Wedding Coordinator there. Although Chuck semi-retired about 2007, he continued as Ritas Wedding Assistant, often personally cleaning the lawn of goose droppings before a wedding party arrived. At the Garden, he also performed wedding ceremonies and oversaw the physical set-up for many wedding parties until 2010 when Rita took time off for heart surgery.

Charles began to have problems swallowing about this time. He was diagnosed with throat dysphasia meaning that his muscles were not able to protect his airway from food or drink, and he developed aspiration pneumonia frequently. When he could not eat enough to maintain his weight, he opted to take nutrition via a feeding tube. For about 11 months before his death, he did not take anything by mouth. This was a challenge for him, but he never complained about how difficult his life had become.

Charles enjoyed reading books all his life, and was often moved by poetry, new hymns, or classical music. The last book he read was the biography of Pete Seeger, In His Own Words, told through letters Pete had written over the course of his entire life. Chuck was very excited about this book because it chronicles the era in which he also lived. A life-long lover of dance, Baroque music, and live theatre, Charles was surrounded by family and friends singing, reading poems, and telling stories as his soul peacefully departed this earth, returning to the Source of Love, and on to its next great adventure.

Charles is survived by Rita, his wife of 67 years, and daughter Kristan (partner Janna) of Portland, sons Timothy (Melodee) of Wilsonville, Andrew (Lo) of Salt Lake City, and Jonathan (Holly) of Seattle. Also surviving him are grandchildren Charlene (Brian) and their daughter Elliot Mize of Ellensburg, Washington, and Daniel (Angela) and their daughters Olivia and Zoey Knapp, of Wilsonville, Charles brother James Knapp of Wenatchee, Washington, brother-in-law Fred Jones of Pt. Angeles, Washington, and many cousins, nieces and nephews, as well as his church family.

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Maria SCHIMMEL

10 MAR 1577 - ____

BIRTH: 10 MAR 1577, Dauerheim, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Family 1 : Heinz PFORTNER

MARRIAGE: 1602, Dauerheim, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

+Martin PFORTNER

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Francis SMITH

CA. 1606 - ____

BIRTH: CA. 1606, Colchester, Co. Essex, England

Father: John (Bland or) SMITH
Mother: Isabel (Isabel) (Esbell) DRAKE

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|--Francis SMITH 
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|                                                                                                    _William DRAKE ______
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|                                                                              _Thomas DRAKE _______|_____________________
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|                                                        _William DRAKE ______|
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|                                                       |                     |_Agnes BUTLER _______|_____________________
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|                                  _William DRAKE ______|
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|_Isabel (Isabel) (Esbell) DRAKE _|
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Jacob WHITCOMB

4 SEP 1741 - 8 JUL 1747

BIRTH: 4 SEP 1741, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA
DEATH: 8 JUL 1747, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA
BURIAL: Beechwood Cemetery, Cohasset, Norfolk Co., MA

Father: Israel WHITCOMB
Mother: Hannah KENT

                                                                                              _John WHITCOMB ______+
                                                                                             | (1558 - 1648) m 1620
                                                                        _John WHITCOMB ______|_Ann HARPER _________
                                                                       | (1588 - 1662) m 1623                      
                                             _Robert WHITCOMB _________|
                                            | (1628 - 1704) m 1661     |
                                            |                          |                      _Henry COGGIN _______+
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                                            |                          |_Frances COGGIN _____|_Joane BORIDGE ______
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                       _Israel WHITCOMB ____|
                      | (1661 - 1733) m 1700|
                      |                     |                                                 _Ralph CUDWORTH _____+
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                      |                     |                           _James CUDWORTH _____|_Mary MACHELL _______
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                      |                     |_Mary Elizabeth CUDWORTH _|
                      |                       (1637 - 1699) m 1661     |
                      |                                                |                      _John GOODMAN _______+
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                      |                                                |_Mary Sarah GOODMAN _|_____________________
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 _Israel WHITCOMB ____|
| (1701 - 1787) m 1728|
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|                     |                      _Samuel STODDER __________|
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|                       (1672 - 1729) m 1700|
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|                                             (1647 - 1693) m 1666     |
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|--Jacob WHITCOMB 
|  (1741 - 1747)
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|                                            _John KENT _______________|
|                                           | (.... - 1690) m 1662     |
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|                      _Ebenezer KENT ______|
|                     | (1680 - 1752) m 1703|
|                     |                     |                                                 _George GRISWOLD ____
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|                     |                     |                           _Francis GRISWOLD ___|_Dorothy JAMES ______
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|                     |                     |_Hannah GRISWOLD _________|
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|_Hannah KENT ________|
  (.... - 1782) m 1728|
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                      |_Hannah GANNET ______|
                        (1684 - 1767) m 1703|
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Martha WINGATE

[46343]

30 MAR 1718 - 9 MAR 1758

BIRTH: 30 MAR 1718, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH
DEATH: 9 MAR 1758, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH
BURIAL: Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH

Family 1 : John S. WEEKS

MARRIAGE: 10 NOV 1737, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH

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[46343] Find A Grave memorial 114380884 offers: "Martha is the daughter of Joshua Wingate and Mary (Lunt) Wingate. Wife of John Weeks. Married 10 Nov 1737 Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH. They had 10 known children."

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