Puffer Genealogy

PUFFER, Lucy Olive[1, 2, 3]

Female 1849 - 1920  (70 years)


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  • Name PUFFER, Lucy Olive 
    Birth 17 Sep 1849  Sunderland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
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    Ref# 287  [3
    _COLOR 11 
    Death 1920  MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Sunderland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    North Sunderland Cemetery 
    Person ID I24482  Puffers
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2019 

    Father PUFFER, David,   b. 5 Feb 1807, Sudbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 1871, Montague, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Mother CLARY, Harriet,   b. 12 Nov 1810, Utica, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Dec 1878, Montague, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Marriage 18 Sep 1836  [5, 6
    Family ID F9285  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 ROSE, Truman H.,   b. 18 May 1841, Kingston, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Feb 1904, Gloversville, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 30 Mar 1866  Sunderland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7, 8
    Family ID F5890  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

    Family 2 ANDREWS, Joseph Luther,   b. 28 Nov 1846, Sudnerland, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1918, Putnam County, FL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 8 Sep 1875  Montague, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7, 8
    Residence 1910  New Haven, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Family ID F9277  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

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  • Notes 
    • CT After graduating from the public schools, she was for three years a member of a reading club for college work. She has lived the past few years at 16 Rosette St., New Haven, CT. She has been active in church and various charitable and reform organizations. She is an international organizer of the Sunshine Society and president of the New haven branch, the Cynthia Westover Alden branch since 1901. For one year she was first vice-president of the International Sunshine Society of CT and for ten years president of the CT division. She has been a director of the Associated Charities of New Haven for ten years. She is a member of the Social Workers, the W.C.T.U. and V.I.S. and the World's Peace Army. She joined the church in 1869; was teacher in the Sunday school fifteen years; superintendent of the junior department ten years; president of the Mission Circle for six years; member of the Prudential Committee seven years; member of the Ladies Aid and Centenary Associations for more than 25 years, taking a prominent part in local, state and national conventions. She was for ten years a member of the Woman's Auxillary of the Y.M.C.A.; for five years president of the Traveler's Aid Society; charter member of the Political Equality Club. She studied music for nearly four years at the Conservatory of Music, Springfield, MA.
      She is the author of a book describing ten years of work in the Connecticut Sunshiners. She has been a regular correspondent for a New Haven newspaper for 12 years. In 24 years she has traveled 70,000 miles and written entertaining letters describing her journeys.

      Resided in New Haven, CT.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 154, 242-3.

    2. [S512] 1673-1899: History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, page 488.

    3. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 154, 242.

    4. [S188] Massachusetts Births, 1840-1915.

    5. [S512] 1673-1899: History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, page 487, 488.

    6. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 154.

    7. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 243.

    8. [S541] Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915.

    9. [S444] _1910 United States Federal Census.