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HENRY
SPENCER PARMELEE 1844-1902 Spencer "Thomas" Thomas, Henry, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, John, John |
![]() Henry was born in Ohio but grew up in New Haven, Conn., New York City and Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a member of the 1st Connecticut Cavalry, Co. B., and lost his right hand April 6, 1865 -- three days before the Civil War ended -- at the Battle of Sailor's Creek, near Farmville, Va.
Henry became a board member of the Fair Haven & Westville Railroad trolley line, and, by the 1900 census, its president. He and his wife, second-cousin Mary Frances Parmelee [1851-1918; Andrew Yelverton, Alfred R., Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, John, John], and their three children lived at 28 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, with a seamstress, maid, cook, waitress and laundress, three of whom were born in Sweden. On Sept. 28, 1902, he was aboard his yacht, the schooner Alert, anchored off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, talking with some friends when he suddenly died. He and his family are buried at New Haven's Evergreen Cemetery. |
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