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George Weston Wadleigh1,2,3

ID# 23848, (1835 - 1910)
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Parents:

FatherSimeon Hayes Wadleigh (2 Jun 1809 - 1 Jan 1848)
MotherJane Bartlett Sleeper (30 Jul 1813 - 14 Nov 1871)
Chart MembershipDescendants of Gideon Cobb
Family IndexesThe Cobbs of Pawlet Vermont

Key Events:

Birth: 1835, Sanbornton, New Hampshire,4,5,6
Marriage: 11 Apr 1863, Boston, Massachusetts, Adelaide Remington (b. Jan 1845, d. 17 May 1915)7,8
Divorce: bef 1869, Sophia Lucinda Adelaide Remington (b. Jan 1845, d. 17 May 1915)9,10,11
Death: 17 Oct 1910, Long Island Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,12
Burial: Long Island Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts,12
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Narrative:

George Weston Wadleigh was born in 1835 in Sanbornton, New HampshireG.4,5,6
     He was probably the male age 5 to 10 listed in the household of his father, Simeon Hayes Wadleigh, in the 1840 Federal Census of Bristol, Grafton Co., New HampshireG.13
     His father died on 1 Jan 1848, when George was about 13 years old.14,15
     George appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Bristol, Grafton Co., New HampshireG, in the household of his mother, Jane Bartlett Sleeper.16
     He drove horse-drawn vehicles, being described variously as coachman, teamster, and hack driver.17,18,19
     George married Adelaide Remington, daughter of John Henry Remington and Betsey Mariah Stevens, on 11 Apr 1863 in Boston, MassachusettsG, with Rev. A. A. Miner offciating.7,8
     A couple listed on the 1865 State Census Boston, Suffolk Co., MassachusettsG, enumerated 1 May 1865, may have been George and Adelaide. They are shown as boarding at a hotel operated by James C. Hill, with about 30 other guests. But there is reason to question whether it was them. The male is listed as George W. Wadleigh, age 32, born in New Hampshire, which would be correct, allowing for a two-year error in age. But his occupation is listed as clerk, while all other records show George as a coachman or teamster. The female is listed as age 19, which would be correct for her, but the name is shown only as "W" and birth place as New Hampshire, neither of which would be correct for her.20
     George and Sophia were divorced, before 1869 apparently as she had resumed use of her maiden name by then.9,10,11
     George appeared on the 1910 Federal Census of Boston, Massachusetts, at Long Island Hospital G, enumerated 30 Apr 1910, listed as an inmate.21
     George died on 17 Oct 1910 in Long Island Hospital, Boston, MassachusettsG, at age ~75, of phthisis (tuberculosis.)12 He was buried in Long Island Cemetery, Boston, MassachusettsG.12

Children:
     There were no children with Sophia Lucinda Adelaide Remington

Citations

  1. [S12242] Jane Wadleigh household, 1850 U.S. Census, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, shows name as George Wadleigh.
  2. [S12241] Register of Marriages, Massachusetts, 164:33, 1863, no. 580, Boston, George W. Wadleigh and Adeline L. Remington.
  3. [S12245] Musgrove, History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire..., II:445, shows name as George Weston.
  4. [S12242] Jane Wadleigh household, 1850 U.S. Census, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, shows age 15 and state.
  5. [S12241] Register of Marriages, Massachusetts, 164:33, 1863, no. 580, Boston, George W. Wadleigh and Adeline L. Remington, shows age 25 at marriage 11 Apr 1863, town, as Sanbornton, and state.
  6. [S12245] Musgrove, History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire..., II:445, shows year, and town, as Bristol.
  7. [S12241] Register of Marriages, Massachusetts, 164:33, 1863, no. 580, Boston, George W. Wadleigh and Adeline L. Remington, shows date, town, and officiant.
  8. [S12249] Land Records, Castleton, Vermont, 15:344, George W. Wadleigh and Adelaide S. Wadleigh to John H. Remington, shows her as his wife.
  9. [S12271] Castleton news item, The Fair Haven Journal, 28 Aug 1869, shows her name as Miss A. L. Remington.
  10. [S12245] Musgrove, History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire..., II:445, shows him as unmarried.
  11. [S12339] "M'Kinney's Answer," Cleveland Plain Dealer, 16 Jan 1892, shows she claimed to have been divorced from "Wadley" and he admitted that to be fact.
  12. [S7827] Death Register, Massachusetts, 1910/18 (death):673, 1910, no. 9528, Boston, George W. Wadliegh.
  13. [S12244] Simson H. Wadley household, 1840 U.S. Census, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.
  14. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 63267986, Simeon Hayes Wadleigh, shows date. According to creator's notes, based on an inventory of interments at Homeland Cemetery by Jane Westfall.
  15. [S12245] Musgrove, History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire..., II:445, shows town.
  16. [S12242] Jane Wadleigh household, 1850 U.S. Census, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.
  17. [S12241] Register of Marriages, Massachusetts, 164:33, 1863, no. 580, Boston, George W. Wadleigh and Adeline L. Remington, shows occupation as coachman.
  18. [S12245] Musgrove, History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire..., II:445, shows occupation as teamster.
  19. [S7827] Death Register, Massachusetts, 1910/18 (death):673, 1910, no. 9528, Boston, George W. Wadliegh, shows occupation as hack driver.
  20. [S12246] James C. Hill household, 1865 Massachusetts State Census, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, Boston.
  21. [S12243] Long Island Hospital, 1910 U.S. Census, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts.

 

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