- Electa C Baker Doolittle
Birth 1797 in New York
Death 19 July 1887 in Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, USA
OBIT:
Mrs. Electa C. Doolittle died in Oakland yesterday at the age ninety one years and four months. She retained all her facultys to within a few months of her death, and read the daily papers and magazines with the avidity of a young student. She was born in the state of New York, and witnessed this country pass through two victorious wars. Her home was on the shores of Lake Champlain during the war of 1812 and she witnessed the naval battle between the British and Commodore McDonough's fleet. She saw the captured vessels brought to shore dismantled, with their decks covered with dead and wounded. She would relate these scenes from memory as vividly as though they happened but a few month ago. A descendant of revolutionary stock, she was intensely patriotic, and bid good-by to several of her descendants who volunteered in the late war, and never to
return.
She was a granddaughter of a sister of Roger Sherman of New Haven of revolutionary fame. Mrs. Doolittle came to this state some ten years ago. She was the aunt of Mr. Wm. H Sears, Mrs. Joe T. Hoyt, Mrs. D. H. Whittmore and Mrs. E. L. Cutter. She has one great-grand-daughter living in this city, Mrs. Edith Scott Waters, whose father, Wm. Waters,
has long been connected with Morning Call- San Francisco Evening Bulletin. July 12 (no date given)
This lady was the mother of Mrs. J. B. REITER of Northville, SD and H. H. DOOLITTLE of Roanoke. There is just cause for pride in being a descendant of such a race as are the children of Mrs. Doolittle.
Doolittle, Electa C. .. died in 1887 .. age 91 .. 1887D-1173
daughter of Amy Sherman (sister of Roger Sherman/New Haven)
Amos Baker
Birth 02 Feb 1750 in Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island
Death 1814 in Horicon, Warren, New York, United States
m David Doolittle (1796-1870)
Roger Sherman
b 19 Apr 1721 near Boston Massachusetts
first mayor of New Haven Connecticut
Revolutionary War historical figure
d 23 Jul 1793
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