Forebears and Bears

I have previously written about my great great aunt Addie Taylor of Yarmouth for the Ancient Cemetery Project and use my research findings here in this post.  The flush stone in the Ancient Cemetery appears to lie alone, yet in considering the nearby stones, one discovers she is buried close to her parents Franklin Howes Chase and Julia Etta Covil.  The stone provides a birth and death year which in fact are confirmed in her May 1967 obituary in the Dennis-Yarmouth Register. Mrs. Addie Taylor died 19 May 1967. She was born in Middleborough and lived much of her life in Yarmouth on North Main Street with her niece Mrs. John (Gertrude) Crosby. The Social Security Death Index for Addie Taylor of Barnstable Massachusetts, age 94, also reflects date of death as May 1967; birth date of 23 February 1873. Pictured from left to right (probable): Mrs. Lila Holway, Violet Morgan, William Morgan and Addie Taylor . An entry in my own family records (Birthday Book of Lila Holway, 1913, South Yarmout

             Vernon Dwight Morgan was born 22 April 1906, delivered by Dr. Parker, at Yarmouth Farms -- by the railroad bridge across from Bass River. He was the only child of William and Violet Estelle Vernon (Chase) Morgan.   A sister, Pearl Vernon, had been born on 7 November 1904 but died the same day. By his own words, Vernon acknowledged an indigenous ancestry, an ancestry which has indeed been confirmed by vital and public records. Vern Morgan was also a Mayflower descendant many times over, as well as a descendant of Yarmouth's first settlers including Chase, Howes, Hawes, Nickerson, Hopkins, Crowell, Ryder, Gorham, and Baker.    He died in 1991 at the age of 85 and is buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery in South Yarmouth with his wife and parents. Vernon Morgan gave much of himself to his town, wearing many hats over the years.  He was involved in multiple civic and social organizations and served as Yarmouth Postmaster from 1946 to 1967; he was elected  and served as  presi