Brother Samuel enlisted from Barrington on 30 Aug 1862 at age 37 as a Private in Company F, 13th Infantry, He received a disability discharge six months later on 29 Jan 1863 in New York City, NY.
E N G A G E M E N T S: Fredericksburg, Va. Dec. 11-16, 1862
Getty’s Night Assault Dec. 13, 1862
Samuel returned to the family farm in Barrington but remained an active member of the George A. Gay G.A.R. post in Newmarket. He and his Sister Sarah Caswell (neither of whom ever married) worked on the family farm for years. Samuel died on Christmas day age 72 in 1898 of apoplexy. Sarah later moved to Newmarket and worked in town as a housekeeper. At 82, she died of heart disease, leaving everything in her will to her brother James. Both Samuel and Sarah are buried in Riverside cemetery.
Brother George enlisted with James on 11 Aug 1862 at age 29 as a Private in Company E, 13th Infantry, and received a Disability Discharge 7 Oct 1863 at Portsmouth, VA.
E N G A G E M E N T S: Fredericksburg, Va. Dec. 11-16, 1862
Getty’s Night Assault Dec. 13, 1862
Siege of Suffolk, Va. Apr. 10 to May 4, 1863
Providence Church Road, Va. May 3, 1863
Like James, George was born in Barrington and resided in Newmarket; his service was credited to the town of Newmarket. In 1860 he married Hattie B. Jewell, a mill operative. (They divorced in 1889.) By 1866 he was operating a billiard parlor with his brother James. George and his family lived on Spring Street. Like his brother, he was active in the G.A.R. serving as Post Commander. Unlike his brother , who was a staunch Republican, George was an active member of the Rockingham County Democratic Club. A volunteer on the town Fire Department, he was assigned to the Tiger Engine Company. Like his brother, he received his military pension in Nov 1883 ($4 per month and $955 in arears = 2021 value of $ 24,629).
After his brother Samuel died, George lived and worked on his sister Sarah’s farm in Barrington. He died on Dec 30th 1901 at the Rockingham County Farm of “general paresis” (muscular weakness caused by nerve damage or disease; partial paralysis); he is buried in Newmarket. He and Hattie had four children, all born in Newmarket:
Frank J. (1865-1894) While living in town, he was an active member of The Sons of G.A.R. He married Florence M. Turner in Somerville, MA and worked as a RR switchman in Boston. He died at age 28 of “phthsis” (today called tuberculosis). Brought back to town for burial, he left a widow and three young children.
Lorie G. (1869- ?) married Judson Ramsdell (b. 1868—?) In 1899 Judson was a railroad brakeman), in Somerville, MA in 1899. In 1910 Lorie worked in a factory, and her mother Hattie was living with her family.
Hattie L. (1871-1957) Hattie in 1890 married James H. Smith, a clerk with the Newmarket Manufacturing Company. He had to resign due to poor eyesight, and he started selling bakery & pastries in town made by a company in Raymond. He also sold oysters and clams. By 1910 Hattie was a dressmaker and James worked with a veterinary. They later moved to Raymond with their daughter Adelaide. When Joseph died in 1915, Hattie moved to Lynn, Mass and worked as a stitcher in a shoe factory for several years living with her daughter and her daughter’s husband Frederick Palmer. The all lived with Hattie’s widowed sister Lorie Ramsdell.
Alice (1877-1883) Alice died at age 6 of Scarlet fevor