Welcome Yeaw

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Welcome Yeaw

Birth
Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Death
21 Jul 1864 (aged 77)
Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Old Section 12 Lot 267 Yeaw Family
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A resident of Scituate and Foster Rhode Island, Killingly, CT and Northboro MA. He made and installed water wheels, owned farms at Foster and Scituate. Later he sold his R.I. Property and moved to Northboro. He rented property on Main Street there, and built and maintained water wheels at the local comb factory on Mill Pond, several Grist Mills, a woolen mill, and a cotton mill, all within walking distance of downtown. When the Civil War started 5 of Welcome's sons went off to serve. When he died in 1865 all were still living, but 1 would die and three would be severely handicapped by the end of the war.
Welcome was the father of David (1813), Lydia (1815), Welcome Tyler Nelson (1817), James Blackmar (1819), Farnum (1823), William Henry (1827), Asher Austin (1829), Mary Ann (1831), Sanford (1834), Daniel Alonzo Young (1836), Elizabeth Ann (1838), Sarah Maria (1840), Jesse Lilly (1842) and Daisy.
A resident of Scituate and Foster Rhode Island, Killingly, CT and Northboro MA. He made and installed water wheels, owned farms at Foster and Scituate. Later he sold his R.I. Property and moved to Northboro. He rented property on Main Street there, and built and maintained water wheels at the local comb factory on Mill Pond, several Grist Mills, a woolen mill, and a cotton mill, all within walking distance of downtown. When the Civil War started 5 of Welcome's sons went off to serve. When he died in 1865 all were still living, but 1 would die and three would be severely handicapped by the end of the war.
Welcome was the father of David (1813), Lydia (1815), Welcome Tyler Nelson (1817), James Blackmar (1819), Farnum (1823), William Henry (1827), Asher Austin (1829), Mary Ann (1831), Sanford (1834), Daniel Alonzo Young (1836), Elizabeth Ann (1838), Sarah Maria (1840), Jesse Lilly (1842) and Daisy.