Diana M. Straw

   Another name for Diana was Dianna Straw.

  General Notes:

She signed her name Diana Chase on a receipt dated 24 Sept 1858 showing she had rec'd 83.48 as her share of her father's personal estate. Her husband John F. Chase also signed. She may have been the youngest of the children as in her father's Will he names them in what appears to be their birth order and she is named last.

1850 Henniker, Merrimack County, NH
Nathan Chase age 50 NH
Eliza Chase age 48 NH
John F. Chase age 23 NH
Diana Chase age 24 NH [John's wife]

1860 Weare, Merrimack County, NH
John and Diana Chase in residence with no children.

1870 Henniker, Merrimack County, NH
John F. Chase age 42 NH [HOH]
Diana M. Chase age 42 NH [wife]
Sherman Chase age 6 NH [son]
Thomas Chase age 78 [uncle; his son Winthrop deceased in 1866]
Mary Chase age 74 [aunt; she was Mary Dow]

Find A Grave Memorial #149256638
headstone inscription
1827 J. F. Chase 1918
1826 Diana M. Chase 1873
1864 Sherman A. Chase 1882
1851 Harriet C. Chase 1903
1846 James T. Moffitt 1910
1855 Sarah J. Moffitt 1928

Remains relocated from Weare Cemetery [Collins] to Henniker Cemetery in 1905

Diana married John Fulford Chase, son of Nathaniel Chase and Elizabeth (Eliza) Leach, on 14 Feb 1850 in Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (John Fulford Chase was born on 31 Dec 1829 in Henniker Cemetery Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA, died on 14 Aug 1918 in Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire and was buried in Henniker Cemetery Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA.)