Genealogy Data Page 123 (Notes Pages)

Note: Linda was born in Nantucket on October 27, 1885. After graduating from high school, she went to Framingham Normal School and taught school in Dover where she met Ward Winfred Battelle. She married Winfred Battelle in Dover in 1911. After their twin daughters, Rachel and Miriam, were born in 1912, they returned to Nantucket and made their home on the Burgess Farm on the Polpis Road. The twin girls were three years old. Later they returned to Dover to care for Ward's aging parents at their Farm Street property. This property was left to Ward when his parents died. In between living in Polpis on Nantucket, and the move to Farm Street after Ward's parents died, they moved to Holliston where Ward was superintendent of a farm where delinquent boys were sent for hard labor. More on this can be found under Notes for Rachel. Rachel cared for both her parents in their declining years at her home in Framingham. Linda died on July 26, 1982, in Newton, MA, at a nursing home. She also lived for a number of years at the Christian Science Home in Boston or Chestnut Hill. Notes from Rachel Battelle: "My mother came to Dover as a teacher of grades 1-3 in a one room schoolhouse, then located in the triangle of land between Farm, Glen, and Wight Streets. Father was a town assessor, and met my mother at a wedding in the Dover church. I remember vividly the long ride to school in my grandfather's horse-drawn school 'bus.' Also from Rachel: "We graduated from Simmons College when we were 20 years old." Notes for WARD WINFRED BATTELLE: *The following are notes by Rachel Battelle (Limric) Priestley regarding Highland Cemetery in Dover: Dover was the birthplace and Highland Cemetery the burial site for several generations of the families of Battelle and Bartlett. George Battelle and Anna Bartlett Battelle, Miriam and Rachel Battelle's Grandparents, and Ward Winfred Battelle and his wife Linda Burgess Battelle, are buried in Lot 152. (Ward and Linda are buried in a double cremation box.) In the adjoining Lot 153 are Miriam and Rachel Battelle's Great Grandparents, Albert Bartlett and Dolly Ann Williams Bartlett, and their Great Aunt Lennie Bartlett. The two lots share an engraved monument. *There are other Battelles in our line buried there, also. ( N. B. Wood) * Also by Rachel Battelle: "My twin sister Miriam and I were born in Dover on the longtime family property at 114 & 116 Farm Street, lately the Lucien B. Taylor home (1987), which our parents built when first married. The home was adjacent to our grandparents' home (George Battelle and Anna Bartlett Battelle), now owned by Charles R. Niles (1987)."[:ITAL]

The following notes are from a recorded conversation with Rachel and Carl Priestley in Dover at their home on January 18, 1993. Facts are from Rachel's recollection: "The house where Mim and I were born in Dover was built by Grandpa and Grandma when they were first married. It was before you come to the place they lived in later on Farm Street." 'We were born in the Dover house and then we moved down to Polpis in Nantucket. There was the war, (WWI), and they thought Father was going to be drafted. Mother owned this farm, it had been given to her.":IT] (deeded to her by Walter Burgess: Grandpa, by farming would receive an agricultural exemption from the draft. N.B.W.) "It was here that Mother became pregnant with one of our brothers. She got pneumonia during that epidemic and survived, but the baby didn't. That child is buried in Nantucket and I think our other brother is, too."