HORATIO NELSON WELCH was born in July, 1811 in Bolton. He was living in Leominster in 1836 when he married ABIGAIL HEYWOOD of Lunenburg. They had one child, CHARLES FRANCIS WELCH, born in Lunenburg. In 1840 the head of the State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester listed his employees: "Horatio N. Welch; Abigail Welch, his wife; age, from 25 to 30. Have been in the Hospital but a short time. Appear well; are capable, industrious, worthy people. Our impressions of them are very favorable." After this mention, the couple disappear for 20 years, and next show up in the 1860 census in Gardner, the town to the west of Leominster. HORATIO was a farmer with a personal estate of $3,000, and CHARLES was a chair maker. Soon after they moved to Stoddard, N.H., where HORATIO became the proprietor of the Central House (a tavern and hotel) and CHARLES joined the army on Sept 13, 1864, and fought in the Civil War. CHARLES headed out to Kansas after the war where he married and had 2 children. Sometime after the first daughter was born, HORATIO and ABIGAIL moved to Kansas. ABIGAIL died there in 1879. After Abigail died, HORATIO returned to Massachusetts where he probably lived in Marlborough with his nephew Charles L. Welch. HORATIO's brother, Phineas Welch, had married Patty Stowe from Marlborough and lived in the home of her parents and inherited the house, known as the Stowe-Welch Farm, when the parents died sometime after 1850. Phineas died in 1870, when his son Charles inherited the house. When HORATIO died Nov. 18, 1887, Charles was appointed administrator of his estate. The inventory of the estate, filed July 22, 1888, came to $1,260.33 in the bank and $20. of clothing.
HORATIO NELSON WELCH was born in July, 1811 in Bolton. He was living in Leominster in 1836 when he married ABIGAIL HEYWOOD of Lunenburg. They had one child, CHARLES FRANCIS WELCH, born in Lunenburg. In 1840 the head of the State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester listed his employees: "Horatio N. Welch; Abigail Welch, his wife; age, from 25 to 30. Have been in the Hospital but a short time. Appear well; are capable, industrious, worthy people. Our impressions of them are very favorable." After this mention, the couple disappear for 20 years, and next show up in the 1860 census in Gardner, the town to the west of Leominster. HORATIO was a farmer with a personal estate of $3,000, and CHARLES was a chair maker. Soon after they moved to Stoddard, N.H., where HORATIO became the proprietor of the Central House (a tavern and hotel) and CHARLES joined the army on Sept 13, 1864, and fought in the Civil War. CHARLES headed out to Kansas after the war where he married and had 2 children. Sometime after the first daughter was born, HORATIO and ABIGAIL moved to Kansas. ABIGAIL died there in 1879. After Abigail died, HORATIO returned to Massachusetts where he probably lived in Marlborough with his nephew Charles L. Welch. HORATIO's brother, Phineas Welch, had married Patty Stowe from Marlborough and lived in the home of her parents and inherited the house, known as the Stowe-Welch Farm, when the parents died sometime after 1850. Phineas died in 1870, when his son Charles inherited the house. When HORATIO died Nov. 18, 1887, Charles was appointed administrator of his estate. The inventory of the estate, filed July 22, 1888, came to $1,260.33 in the bank and $20. of clothing.
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Horatio N. Welch
Died Nov. 18, 1887
Aged 76 yrs.
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