52 Ancestors: #51, Charles Sukeforth, Christmas Day Child

On Christmas Day in 1818, my great-great-great-grandmother, Polly Miller, presented her husband Robert with a bouncing baby boy, my great-great-granduncle Charles.¹ Born in Washington, Maine, Charles was the eighth of the ten children I believe belong to this family.

Marriage of Charles Sukeforth and Elizabeth Fitch, 1850

Charles married Elizabeth Fitch on 29 November 1850 in Jefferson, Maine.² It appears, however, that they had "gone to housekeeping" sometime earlier, as on 29 August they were enumerated as a household in Washington in the 1850 census.³

1850 U.S. census, Lincoln County, Maine, Washington, Charles Suckforth household

Charles and Elizabeth had two children:

1. Etta L., b. 1851, married Hiram Chaplin
2. John A., b. 1856, married Melissa Overlock

Charles lived his entire life in Washington, first as a cooper (in the 1850 census), then as a farmer (later censuses). He died of apoplexy on 4 March 1902,⁴ and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Washington with his wife, who died in 1911.⁵

Charles and Elizabeth Sukeforth monument, Maple Grove Cemetery, Washington, Knox County, Maine

(Note: This post is in response to Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" challenge at No Story Too Small.)

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SOURCES

1. Maple Grove Cemetery (Washington, Knox County, Maine), Charles and Elizabeth Sukeforth monument, read and photographed by the author, 14 Aug 2012.
2. "Washington, Knox County, Maine, Marriages, 1811-1869," Original Records of Maine Towns and Cities: Town of Washington, digital images (pdf), CD-ROM, (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2005), p. 32, Mr Charles Sukeforth and Miss Elizabeth Fitch, 29 Nov 1850.
3. 1850 U.S. Census, Lincoln County, Maine, Washington, p. 575/37 (penned), p. 288 (stamped), dwelling 269, family 269, Charles Suckforth household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Jun 2012).
4. “Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922,” database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 Jun 2012), Charles Sukeforth, 4 Mar 1902.
5. Maple Grove Cemetery, Charles and Elizabeth Sukeforth monument.