Caroline J. Rand

   Cause of her death was varioloid.

  General Notes:

research of Jane O'Connor Foster:
Caroline married first to _________Bridge and had one known daughter by him [Lucretia B. Bridge] By 1850 Lucretia is living with Caroline's sister Cynthia Rand Sapulding; Caroline had married in 1845 to Thomas Akeley Straw a millwright from Stowe, Vermont. In the 1850 census it shows the family in Stowe with several children. Thomas had been widowed when he married Caroline and all of the children were from his wife Phebe whio died in 1844 except the two youngest whose mother was Caroline.
She was to have seven children by Thomas.. Albert P. died at age 10 mos but the others all lived to adulthood including her daughter Lucretia. Caroline died in 1857 of a mild form of small pox.

per cem records she was ae 39y when she died. Cause of death: varioloid (mild form of smallpox)
also buried in the same plot as she are:
Rose D. Straw b. 1852 d. 1919
Albert R. Straw b. 1849 d. 1925; m Emma Herron b. 1857 d. 1940 (she was in the Woman's Relief Corps)
H. Jennett Straw b 1853 d. 1905; m F. O. Burt

An adjacent plot shows a Lois Straw Wright b 1894 and died 1946 who married Ernest E. Wright born 1892 and died 1978

Find A Grave Memorial# 66014649

  Medical Notes:

a mild form of smallpox in persons who have been previously vaccinated or who have had the disease before

Caroline married Bridge.

Caroline next married Thomas Akeley Straw, son of Jonathan Straw and Hannah Moody, on 19 Jan 1845. (Thomas Akeley Straw was born on 2 Aug 1808 in Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont, died on 30 Apr 1887 in Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont and was buried in Old Yard Cemetery Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont, USA.). The cause of his death was heart disease.