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Photographs of Plainfield People

Rosina Crosby Willcutt in 1907, in the room reserved for her–by deed– when her son took over the property.
Bertha Gurney Packard – mother of William A.
George Dalrymple – ca. 1916 First WWI soldier to be an amputee, lost a leg. Lived in Chedda’s house (1978) PHS#103-35

Thomas Packard and friends on Govenor Hill, building the new barn. ca. 1909 – 1. Cyrus W. Packard 2. ? 3. Tom Packard 4. John Dalrymple 5. Harry Packard 6. ? PHS#103-24
“Ned” Edwin Latham Atkins, son of Edwin A. and Mary E. Latham Atkins; grandson of Elisha and Temperance Atkins PHS#1982.32
The Mathersons

Joseph Beals Jr. and Cyrus Winfield Packard ca. 1892 Camp 55, Sons of Veterans of the Civil War, Plainfield, MA
Ethel (Bird) Billings ca. 1907
Ethel (Bird) Billings at 3 years old. ca. 1890

Bela Dyer and his third wife, Mary (Nash) Dyer PS#103-50B
Laura Wilcutt
Walter Joy Gurney, son of Armelia White Gurney. ca. 1869 PHS#103-50f

Edwin Atkins ca. 1891
Jacob Porter
Albert Birdca. 1925 PHS#1983-34

Charles A. Nash
Harold S Packard and daughter, Mari (Packard) Stevens ca. 1895 PHS#103-38
The Beals Family – Standing Albert Chester Beals,John Chester Beals, Lillian Roche Beals – seated – Lucinda Elizabeth White Beals, Albert Chester Beals, Jr., Lillian Dorothy Beals, Benjamin Enderson White ca. 1900

Center School, Plainfield, MA From left to right: Mary Thorton (May Burt), Earl Dunham, ?, Vern White, Mari Packard (Stevens), Ethel Bird (Billings), ?, Harry Dunham, Roy Bartlett, teacher was Frannie Abbey from Ashfield. Included in photograph are six State boys from Lester Parker’s ca. 1897
Jeannelle Warner, 88 years old, whose father built the Billing’s homestead, currently the Steele’s
Darwin Beals

Tom Lawson’s Family
Anne Sears m. Bob Streeter PHS#1982-30
Elizabeth (Clark), Will, Alice C. and William Gardiner PHS#103-102b

Mary Thorton at 18 years of age. ca. 1905
Amelia White Gurney, daughter of Samuel and Polly White PHS#103-50d
Mr. and Mrs. (Elizabeth Clark) William Gardiner and Mrs. and Reverend Solomon Clark PHS#103-102a

Bela Dyer
Ruth and Hester Sears
South School Left to right: State boy, Leon Burt, State boy, Elisha Kinney, Rob Clark, Etha Clark, teacher, Flora Rice, Mabel Burt (Montgomery), Leo Demers, Ada McCLoud, Ashley Burt, ? Demers ca. 1907

Plainfield boys in front of the Brick Store. Could be a baseball team. c.1915. Courtesy of Mary Connell.

 

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