Person:Olive Butterfield (4)
Olive Roselle Butterfield
b.2 Oct 1853 Butternut Ridge, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence, New York, United States
d.20 May 1946 Canton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States
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m. 11 May 1852
  1. Olive Roselle Butterfield1853 - 1946
  2. Isadore Butterfield1858 - 1903
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Name[1] Olive Roselle Butterfield
Gender Female
Birth[1] 2 Oct 1853 Butternut Ridge, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence, New York, United States
Death[1] 20 May 1946 Canton, St. Lawrence, New York, United StatesEast Main Street
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Death of Mrs. Olive Butterfield Holcomb

St. Lawrence Plaindealer, Canton, N. Y., Tuesday, May 21, 1946

Mrs. Olive B. Holcomb died at the home of her son, John M. Holcomb, on East Main Street, at 11:45 yesterday morning. Mrs. Holcomb was originally from Pierrepont, the Butternut Ridge neighborhood, as she was the daughter of those early settlers, Benjamin and Lucy Butterfield. She was born October 2, 1853, and would therefore have been 93 this coming October. In her earlier life she moved to this village and for many years sang in the Universalist Church choir. She married John A. Holcomb of this village. He died in 1923.

Mrs. Holcomb's grandparents, Ephraim and Mehitable Lewis Butterfield, were married in Vermont in 1804 and came to Clinton County in this state about the time of the War of 1812. He served as a Minute Man along the border in that war. In 1815 the Butterfields moved to Pierrepont where they settled on the farm which Judson Butterfield, one of their direct descendants so recently sold. Their son, Benjamin, married Lucy Plumley Proctor in 1852 and they lived in the Butternut Ridge neighborhood. It was there that their daughter, Olive Roselle, was born in 1853. Throughout her earlier years she was greatly troubled with cataracts of the eyes. But this condition was corrected. Her marriage to her brother-in-law, John A. Holcomb, occurred in(sic) October 3, 1905, her sister having died a few years previously. Rev. G. M. Gerrish, Universalist pastor, performed the ceremony in the church.

A sister of Mrs. Holcomb's was Mrs. Minnie Langdon, wife of Henry Langdon, and thereby the connection with that family. A brother, Myron, died not many years ago in this village.

Among those surviving are the son, John M. Holcomb with whom she made her home, and a nephew, Earl M. Butterfield of this village, and a niece, Mrs. Marion Smith, of Parkersville, West Virginia.

J. H. Butterfield of this village is a cousin.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Death of Mrs. Olive Butterfield Holcomb, in St. Lawrence Plaindealer
    p.5 col.3, Tuesday, May 21, 1946.

    Old Fulton NY Postcard Website

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