Individual Details

Vera Marguerite Esler

(20 Sep 1885 - 31 Mar 1966)

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.

Events

Birth20 Sep 1885Rahway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Marriage4 Jul 1911New Jersey - Fred Pemberton Abbott
Residence1 Jun 1915Relation to Head of House: Wife - Buffalo Ward 23, Erie, New York
Residence1920Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife - Worcester Ward 9, Worcester, Massachusetts
Residence1930Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head - Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
DivorceAbt 1950Fred Pemberton Abbott
Death31 Mar 1966Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Families

SpouseFred Pemberton Abbott (1888 - 1968)
ChildFrederick Esler Abbott (1912 - 1983)
ChildRobert West Abbott (1913 - 1982)
ChildConstance Abbott (1916 - 2008)
ChildDonald Knowles Abbott (1918 - 1986)
ChildJohn Tappan Abbott (1920 - 1989)
ChildWilliam Van Winkle Abbott (1921 - 1938)
FatherWilliam Francis Esler (1858 - 1935)
MotherMartha Amy Tappan (1861 - 1941)
SiblingElma Tappan Esler (1883 - 1954)
SiblingMartha "Polly" Rita Esler (1890 - 1986)

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, New Jersey, Marriage Index, 1901-1914 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016).

2. Ancestry.com, New York, U.S., State Census, 1915 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 06; Assembly District: 02; City: Buffalo Ward 23; County: Erie; Page: 20.

3. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1920; Census Place: Worcester Ward 9, Worcester, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_752; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 319.

4. Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002), Year: 1930; Census Place: Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 0011.