Middleboro Obituaries

Vermont Chronicle of Dec 26, 1828.
DEATHS
In Stow (VT), Mr. Ebenezer Blossom, 83.
Here is some additional information on Mr. Blossom:
On 16 Feb. 1779 Ebenezer Blossom of Middleborough, cordwainer, sold for L45
 to [his brother] Elijah Blossom, "all that land in Freetown of which my Honoured
 Father, deceased, died seized of that fell to me in the Division  of sd. Estate,
 my 1/8th share (always excepting what was sold for the payment of
debts, and what is now set off to our Mother's thirds.)"
  A roll dated at Middleborough, Sept. 1778, shows that Ebenezer Blossom served as
 a private in Col. Ebenezer Sprout's regiment (Mass S&S 2:214).

*submitted by Helen Benter of CA

Obit of Enoch Drake.  He died March 11, 1914.
ENOCH DRAKE DEAD
Aged Resident of Middleboro Passed Away - Was Well Known as a Hunter of Birds
MIDDLEBORO  March 12 (1914) - Enoch Drake, aged 90, a well known resident, died
 at his home at North Middleboro last night.
He was a native of this town, born June 18, 1823.  His parents were Enoch and
Lucy (Leonard) Drake.  His earlier years were spent as a shoemaker and carpenter,
following the latter trade through his life.  He was also a professional bird
hunter years ago, shooting for the Boston and New York markets.  Then he could get 25 cents
each for woodcock and quail and 40 cents each for partridge.  Mr. Drake followed hunting
until 1909.
A large family and many relatives survive.

Alfred Tinkham, retired drug firm executive

MIDDLEBORO - Alfred F. Tinkham, 81, of 120 Pleasant St., died unexpectedly on Wednesday (15 Feb 1978) in St. Luke's Hospital.

He was a native of the town, son of the late Charles S. and Emma (Andrews) Tinkham.

He was a retired superintendent of the Potter Drug and Chemical Co. in Malden, where he worked for 35 years. Mr. Tinkham was a graduate of Middleboro High School, class of 1914, and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, class of 1916, where he served on the board of directors for 20 years.

During World War I, Tinkham served in the Medical Corps. For 35 years he lived in Melrose, returning to Middleboro in 1962. He was a member of the Malden American Legion and an active member of the Titicut Parish Congregational Church, where he was a deacon and on the Parish and Finance Committees. He was also a member of the Titicut Parish Green Association.

His survivors include his widow, Mildred (Drake) Tinkham; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Conant of Hingham; two sons, John of Virginia Beach, Va., and Donald of Phoenix, Ariz; also five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Rev. Paul Lauffer will officiate at funeral services at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the Titicut Parish Congregational Church. Interment will be in Titicut Parish Cemetery."

"In North Middleboro, 20th inst., Mrs. Lucinda P., wife of Elijah Alden, aged 62 years, -- months"

"In North Middleboro, 18th inst., Mrs. Mary B. Shaw, wife of Ebenezer Shaw, in her 60th year.

How solemn and yet how pleasant the reflections on this dispensation of divine providence. Mrs. Shaw was early endowed with qualities which rendered her peculiarly amiable. In life she manifested an unusual gentleness, meekness, and loveliness; but more fully did every humble, peaceful and christian grace illuminate her pathway, after the glorious work of grace, which was enjoyed in the place under the ministry of that faithful servant of Christ, Rev. P. Colby, in 1824. In this work she was deeply interested and gave herself first to Christ and afterward to the church. In her walk before the world, she ever exhibited much of the power of sovereign grace, in moulding her soul in the image and likeness of her blessed Redeemer, and this eminently qualified her for all the relations of life. Before the world, her family, and the church, her humble, quiet, and peaceful walk manifested much of the evidence of Christ the King of Glory reigning within, and reflecting his own image and likeness in her life and conversation, and especially that overcoming faith, displayed so vividly in her last months, preparing her to endure patiently all the alotments of divine providence, under her last painful and forlorn disease (scirrhus of the stomach) to converse about, and arrange her own funeral, and to meet her last enemy with so much composure and pass his iron gate so fearlessly to be forever with the Lord. - In all these respects her faith shone conspicuously." ----------------- She is buried in Titicut Cemetery, North Middleboro.

Obit of Ednah Drake, died in 1924.

"EDNAH W. DRAKE, NO. MIDDLEBORO, IS DEAD, AGED 80

North Middleboro, Feb. 11.-
Ednah Williams Drake, 80, of Centre street, died Sunday afternoon at his home, after several years of failing health. He was born, had always lived, and died in the house in which he was born.

He was the son of Enoch and Lucy Eaton Drake, was educated in the local schools and after leaving school engaged in farming and had followed that profession all his life. His wife died about four years ago. He is survived by two sons, Horace and Ernest M., both of this place, a daughter, Mrs. Louise Bennett of Mexico Me., three brothers, Enos and Albert of Middleboro and Walter of North Middleboro, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild."

*The above obits submitted by John Tinkham of VA

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