Individual Details

Vera was an interesting person. She played piano and taught lessons as an adult. Her youngest son died in his late adolescence and she was deeply affected by that. She wrote a small volume after his death (''Billy: A Boy Comes Home'') which she kept put away until someone read it and encouraged her to have it published (which was done in 1963). It is an inspirational volume imagining what Billy's time in heaven was like. Vera and Fred Abbott were divorced (I believe when the children were all young adults or late teens) and Fred became persona non grata. He remarried and lived in Missouri, but after he suffered a stroke he was in a nursing home in Maine that was near their oldest daughter Constance. Vera spent her last days in a nursing home in Foxboro, Massachusetts near her son Robert and his family.

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Birth	20 September 1885	Rahway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Marriage	4 July 1911	Fred Pemberton Abbott
Death	March 1966	Foxborough, Massachusetts

Spouse	Fred Pemberton Abbott (1888 - 1968)
Child	Frederick Esler Abbott (1912 - 1983)
Child	Robert West Abbott I (1913 - 1982)
Child	Constance Abbott (1916 - 2008)
Child	Donald K Abbott (1918 - 1986)
Child	John Tappan Abbott (1920 - 1989)
Child	William Van Winkle Abbott (1921 - 1938)
Child	Martha Abbott (1923 - 1923)

Father	William F Esler (1858 - 1935)
Mother	Martha Amy Tappan (1861 - 1941)
Sibling	Elma Tappan Esler (1883 - 1954)
Sibling	Martha "Polly" Rita Esler (1890 - 1986)