PUFFER, Dexter Richardson^{[1, 2]}

1829 - 1908  (79 years)

• Name	PUFFER, Dexter Richardson
  Birth	8 Dec 1829	Lowell, MA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 181215392
  Ref#	290  [2]
  _COLOR	11
  Death	23 Dec 1908	West Newton, MA   [3, 4]
  Burial	Jamaica Plain, MA
  	Address: Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory
  Person ID	I33016	Puffers
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2022

  
  

  Father	PUFFER, James Bowdoin,   b. 22 Aug 1790, Sudbury, MA d. 31 Dec 1865, Sudbury, MA (Age 75 years)
  Mother	RICHARDSON, Persis,   b. 14 Mar 1793, Sudbury, MA d. 14 Oct 1860, Sudbury, MA (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1815	Sudbury, MA   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F9670	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	THOMAS, Mary Jane,   b. 23 Dec 1838, Bangor, ME d. 12 Mar 1927, Newark, NJ (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	26 Sep 1859	Bangor, ME   [3, 7, 8]
  	Published in the Piscataquis (ME) Observer 6 Oct 1859 p3: "MARRIED---In Bangor, 26th, by Rev. A. K. P. Small, Dexter R. Puffer of Boston, and Miss Mary J. Thomas, of Bangor
  Residence	1880	Boston, MA   [9]
  Children	1. PUFFER, William Lewis,   b. 15 Jul 1860, Sudbury, MA d. 8 Mar 1948, Laconia, NH (Age 87 years)   2. PUFFER, Dexter Thomas,   b. 6 Dec 1861, Cambridge, MA d. 5 Mar 1862, Cambridge, MA (Age 0 years)   3. PUFFER, Mary Persis,   b. 4 Mar 1863, Sudbury, MA d. 18 Oct 1904, South Framingham, MA (Age 41 years)   4. PUFFER, Frederick Eugene,   b. 25 Jun 1864, Sudbury, MA d. Aft 1940, MA (Age > 77 years)   5. PUFFER, Herbert Richardson,   b. 22 Aug 1870, Boston, MA d. 14 Feb 1873, Roxbury, MA (Age 2 years)   6. PUFFER, Robert,   b. 17 Oct 1871, Boston, MA d. Aft 1940, MA (Age > 70 years)   7. PUFFER, George Winslow,   b. 26 Sep 1872, Boston, MA d. 8 Jan 1949, Patterson, NJ (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F8913	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was in the Sudbury draft in the Civil War. He resided in Boston, Sudbury and finally in West Newton, MA, where he died. He was for many years in the wholesale dry goods business in Boston.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 158, 243-244. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 158, 243. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 244. [S356] Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915. [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page 253. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 157. [S480] Maine Marriages 1771-1907. [S740] _Newspaper Announcement, Sun-Journal, Lewiston, ME, 16 Mar 1927, page 11. [S386] _1880 United States Federal Census.