PUFFER, Pvt. George Gibson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Ref#: 237
• _COLOR: 11
• Milit-Beg: 8 Jul 1864, MA
• Milit-End: 27 Oct 1864, MA

Notes:

He was educated in the public schools.
Civil War Veteran, he enlisted, Jul 8 1864, in Co. E ., Sixth Mass. Vols., and was discharged Oct. 27, 1864.
Since 1868, he lived at Ayers, MA. He was for many years engaged in the transportation of milk in charge of cars running between Stow and Boston, Littleton and Boston, and Pepperell and Boston. He followed farming for a number of years and was engaged in business in Ayer as a coal dealer.
Since 1889 he has devoted himself to care of his real estate and the supervision of real estate for others. He was a Republican and was road commissioner. He is a member of the Unitarian church has was trustee for 18 years of George S. Boutwell Post, G.A.R.

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George married SPRAGUE, Ellen Louise on 1 Jan 1868 in Littleton, MA. Ellen (daughter of SPRAGUE, John and SANDERSON, Lydia) was born on 11 Aug 1835 in Littleton, MA; died on 14 Mar 1914 in Ayer, MA; was buried in Ayer, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: May 1900, Ayer, MA
• Residence: 1907, Ayer, MA
• Residence: 1910, Ayer, MA
• Residence: 1914, Ayer, MA
• Residence: 1927, Worcester, MA

Notes:

Graduate of the Ayer High School in 1886, of the Emerson School of Oratory, Boston, in 1893. Named after her grandmother, a devout Unitarian and substantially wealthy.

Mabel, a white heiress, and her black handyman, Arthur Garfield 'Honey' Hazzard planned to marry, but her family found a compliant judge to declare her mentally incompetent, not only breaking the engagement but, conveniently, seizing control of her assets. Ann Hagedorn, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 543 pp .

She owned a cottage on Sandy Pond, Ayer, MA where she stayed during her conflict with family over her marriage plans.


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Graduate of the Ayer High School in 1886, of the Emerson School of Oratory, Boston, in 1893. Named after her grandmother, a devout Unitarian and substantially wealthy.

Mabel, a white heiress, and her black handyman, Arthur Garfield 'Honey' Hazzard planned to marry, but her family found a compliant judge to declare her mentally incompetent, not only breaking the engagement but, conveniently, seizing control of her assets. Ann Hagedorn, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 543 pp .,



Residence:
a stenographer

Family/Spouse: HAZZARD, Arthur Garfield. Arthur (son of HAZZARD, William W. and LEW, Mary I.) was born on 2 Jan 1881 in Lowell, MA; died after 1942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]