Oliver Leonard Nash (1830 - 1904)

Born 9 Sep 1830 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died 11 Jul 1904 at age 73 in Troy, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Candyce Fulford [send private message]

Biography

Oliver was born in 1830.^[1]

Page 4 of New Hampshire Sentinel, published in Keene, New Hampshire on Thursday, January 2nd, 1862, announces that Oliver L Nash has been mustered into Company F, Sixth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers on 1 Oct 1861.^[2][3] He served for 1 year, 3 months, and 6 days, mustering out on 7 Jan 1863.

He married Ruth Rebecca Coombs, daughter of Anthony and Martha (Coy) (Ritter) Coombs of Winchester, New Hampshire, on February 1, 1865. She bore him three children. She passed away in Winchester on March 17, 1882.^[4]

On September 9, 1883, he exchanged vows in Brattleboro, Vermont, with Florence Mable Perkins of South Royalston, Vermont. She was the daughter of Horatio and Mary Ann (Richardson) Perkins. Florence and Oliver had two sons, both dying young. Florence contracted tuberculosis and died in 1893 in Troy, New Hampshire,

At the age of 67, Oliver married Mary Ellen (Whitney) Damon of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, a divorcee. She was just 22.^[5] They had a son, born in Troy, New Hampshire,^[6] who lived 5 days.^[7] A second son, Oliver Leonard Nash, Jr. was born in Troy on 18 January 1900.^[8]

Oliver (Sr.) passed away in 1904,^[9] and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, Winchester, New Hampshire.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ "New Hampshire, U.S., Birth Records, 1631-1920"
   Birth Certificates, 1631-1919; Archive: New Hampshire Department of State; Location: Concord, New Hampshire; Credit: The Original Document May Be Seen At the New Hampshire Department of State
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61833 #150321954 (accessed 18 April 2024)
   Oliver L Nash was born in about 1830 in Chesterfield.
2. ↑ "New Hampshire, U.S., Civil War Service and Pension Records, 1861-1866"
   Original data: New Hampshire, Civil War Service and Pension Records, 1861-1866. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: FamilySearch, 2017
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61896 #6403 (accessed 18 April 2024)
   Name: Oliver L Nash; Military Age: 31; Birth Date: 1830; Birth Place: New Hampshire; Military Date: 1 Oct 1861; Military Place: New Hampshire, USA.
3. ↑ "1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census"
   The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Series Number: M123; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Record Group Number: 15; Census Year: 1890
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8667 #360000 (accessed 18 April 2024)
   Oliver L Nash in Troy, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA.
4. ↑ Online Book: "A history of the town of Sullivan, New Hampshire, 1777-1917", by Seward, Josiah Lafayette, and published c1921
5. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLX6-443: Sun Mar 10 22:09:06 UTC 2024), Entry for Oliver L. Nash and Mary E. Damon, 1897.
6. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL58-7D9: Sun Mar 10 17:18:58 UTC 2024), Entry for Walter A Nash and Oliver L Nash, 12 January 1898.
7. ↑ "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS2Y-LXD Sun Mar 10 07:08:17 UTC 2024), Entry for and , 1898.
8. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL58-7CS: Sat Mar 09 12:34:29 UTC 2024), Entry for Oliver Leonard Nash and Oliver L Nash, 18 January 1900.
9. ↑ "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSV4-3NR: Sat Mar 09 20:16:48 UTC 2024), Entry for , 1904.
10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128299835/oliver_leonard-nash: accessed April 18, 2024), memorial page for Oliver Leonard Nash (Sep 1830–1904), Find A Grave: Memorial #128299835, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by Anonymous (contributor 47283828).

• "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSV4-3NR: Sat Mar 09 20:16:48 UTC 2024), Entry for, 1904.