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The life of Hannah Thayer Pope
Biography
Hannah Thayer was born at Bridgewater, south of Boston in Massachusetts, in June 1772. She married Freeman Pope in 1795, and the couple made their home in the community later known as Enfield, Massachusetts, in the Swift River valley later cleared for the Quabbin Reservoir.
The Pope genealogy lists eleven children born between 1796 and 1817, including William Ruggles in 1803. Hannah died on August 19, 1817. That same register dates the birth of her youngest child, Caroline Thayer, to the day of Hannah’s death. No cause of death is established by those entries.
Her memorial inscription describes her as being in her forty-sixth year. It preserves her connection with the Pope family and the Enfield community in which she raised her children.
Her memorial is now associated with Quabbin Park Cemetery at Ware, where graves from the reservoir towns were relocated.
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Children with Capt. Freeman Pope
A life in dates
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Family household — Community later incorporated as Enfield (1816).
Community later incorporated as Enfield (1816)
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Probable death locality — Community later incorporated as Enfield (1816).
Community later incorporated as Enfield (1816)
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Birth and marriage connection — Historical Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Historical Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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Probable later reinterment association — Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Massachusetts.
Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Massachusetts
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Family records
- Canonical PROD, revision 116
- Location evidence: person 245
- Retained family research and archival source findings