Betsy Straw

   Another name for Betsy was Betsey Straw.

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Genealogy of Ellen Straw Thompson 1897

Find A Grave Memorial 11184258
Jeremiah Flanders, from, Hopkinton, N. H., having purchased lot eleven, range six, in 1807, and having subsequently cleared the land and built a house upon it. married a wife (Betsy Straw, Hopkinton, N. H. ) March 14, 1809 and commenced housekeeping. He occupied this house until about the year 1822, when he built a two story house which was among the first two story buildings in the town.
Mrs. Flanders was accustomed to repair to a log camp, which her husband had built two years earlier, to do her weekly washing. The camp occupied a site at the foot of the slope close by the brook east of the house where Edwin Preble now lives. On one occasion a downpour of rain through the capacious chimney of sticks and mortar put out the fire. A neighbor's boy, who was making a friendly call, was sent a half mile to get fire to rekindle with. That was before the invention of friction matches. It was no uncommon thing to send to a neighbor's house for coals of fire to kindle anew.

Betsy married Jeremiah Flanders, son of Jeremiah Flanders and Miriam George, on 14 Mar 1809 in Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (Jeremiah Flanders was born on 18 Aug 1783 in Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, died on 26 Mar 1848 in Garland, Penobscot County, Maine and was buried in Greeley Cemetery in Garland, Penobscot County, Maine.)