Edmund Sargent Straw

  General Notes:

per C.C. Lord's History of Hopkinton, NH Edmund always lived in Hopkinton and was a farmer. He was an ensign of militia one year [40th regt; 4tyh CO of Inf under Capt James Morrill] and a captain two yrs. In 1878 he was a representative to the General Court.

1830 Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH Wm Straw HOH 1 male 1820-25 [Rufus B.] 1 male 1815-20 [Elias A.] 1 male 1815-20 [Edmund] 1 male 1800-10 [Milton] 1 male 1780-90 [Wm HOH] 1 female 1820-25 ? age 5-10 1 female 1800-10 ? age 20-30 1 female 1790-1800 [wife Charlotte]

1840 Hopkinton, Merrimack Copunty, NH Wm Straw HOH 1 male 1820-25 [son Rufus B.] 1 male 1810-20 [son Edmund S] 1 male 1780-90 [Wm HOH] 1 female 1810-20 - unknown- 1 female 1790-1800 [wife Charlotte]

census 1850 Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH William Straw age 63 born NH Charlotte Straw age 58 born NH Edmund Straw age 30 born NH Jane Hazen age 19 born NH William Palmer age 13 born NH Joseph Cilley age 19 born NH

NEHGS MA VR first marriage of both 29 Sept 1853 Amesbury, MA Edmund S. Straw age 33 to Emeline Kelly age 29

census 1860 Hopkinton, Merrimack County NH Charlotte STRAW c1792 (mother of Edmund) Edmund S. Straw c1820 Emeline c 1824 (his wife) Nyra c1854 Maria c1857 Henry c1852

1870 Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH Edmund S. STRAW age 50 NH Emeline age 46 MA Nina A. age 15 NH Maria G. age 13 NH Henry H. age 10 NH

census 1880 Hopkinton, Merrimack, NH Edmund S. age 61; farmer; born c1819 NH; parents born NH Name: Edmund S. STRAW Age: 61 Estimated birth year: <1819> Birthplace: New Hampshire Occupation: Farmer Relation: Self Home in 1880: Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Head of household: Edmund S. STRAW Father's birthplace: NH Mother's birthplace: NH also: Emeline age 51; born c1829 MA; parents born MA Maria G. age 23; single; born c1857 NH Henry H. age 20; single; born c1860 NH

1900 Greenfield, Franklin County, MA Edmund S. STROW born Dec 1819 NH; widowed Henry H. born Sept 1860 NH Myria G. born Feb 1858 NH Alice Crowell born June 1886 NH [d/o Nyra Straw and Smith Crowell - Henry's neice]

cemetery location per NEHGS

Find A Grave Memorial 83465219

Edmund married Emeline Kelly, daughter of Stephen Kelly and Hannah Bartlett, on 29 Sep 1853 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (Emeline Kelly was born on 19 Dec 1823 in West Amesbury, (now Merrimac) Massachusetts, died on 8 May 1893 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire and was buried in New Hopkinton Village Cemetery Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA.). The cause of her death was apendiccity [appendicitis?].