Individual Details

Melinda Prouty

(7 Mar 1801 - 23 Aug 1874)

Melinda (Prouty) Lamson (1801-1874) married Nathaniel Lamson, an owner of the Lamson and Goodnow Cutlery Company in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1833. When their only son, Nathaniel (pictured here), was born in 1841, this portrait of mother and child was painted by Joseph Goodhue Chandler (1813-1884), of South Hadley, Massachusetts. Mr. Chandler, who painted seven members of the Lamson family, frequently signed, dated, and identified both the name and the age of the sitter(s) on the back of his canvas.

Events

Birth7 Mar 1801West, Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage25 Aug 1833Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Nathaniel Lamson
Death23 Aug 1874Shelburne Falls, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

Families

SpouseNathaniel Lamson (1805 - 1866)
ChildNathaniel Lamson (1841 - 1907)
FatherElisha Prouty (1753 - 1810)
MotherPrudence Wilder ( - 1842)
SiblingDaniel Prouty (1777 - )
SiblingLois Prouty (1779 - )
SiblingJoshua Prouty (1781 - )
SiblingElisha Prouty (1784 - 1852)
SiblingIsaac Prouty (1786 - )
SiblingJason Gill Prouty (1789 - 1828)
SiblingJames Prouty (1792 - )
SiblingLydia Prouty (1794 - 1796)
SiblingLydia Prouty (1796 - )
SiblingAnderson Prouty (1798 - 1800)
SiblingBenjamin Prouty (1803 - )

Endnotes

1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 34.

2. Boylston (Mass.), Boylston (Mass. : Town, Franklin Pierce Rice, Vital records of the town of Boylston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1850, Original from the University of Michigan (F. P. Rice, 1900), p 40; digital images, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 26 June 2009.

3. William Judson Lamson, Descendants of William Lamson of Ipswich, Mass., 1634-1917 (New York: Higginson Genealogical Books, 1917), 234; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 4 December 2009.

4. William Judson Lamson, Descendants of William Lamson of Ipswich, Mass., 1634-1917 (New York: Higginson Genealogical Books, 1917), 234; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 4 December 2009.