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 Dr. Elbridge Monroe, Mary Hempstone, Edward Monroe, Mary Hempstone, Charlotte Bell & Lucretia B. Johnson - Feeding Hills, MA Posted by:  neoc1
N 42° 04.214 W 072° 39.906
18T E 693163 N 4660212
The graves Dr. Elbridge Monroe, Mary Hempstone, Edward Monroe, Mary Hempstone, Charlotte Bell, & Lucretia B. Johnson, all of whom drowned in flood resulting from the Mill River Dam Disaster, are located in Springfield St. Cemetery, Feeding Hills, MA
Waymark Code: WMWCCY
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/13/2017
Views: 1
Dr. Elbridge Monroe Johnson, his wife Mary Hempstone Johnson, their three children Edward Monroe, Mary Hempstone, and Charlotte Bell Johnson along with his mother Lucretia B. Johnson were all were swept away and drowned. Dr. Johnson was born in Feeding Hills, MA and after the Civil War settled in Williamsburg, MA to practice medicine. He was at home at the time of the flood because he was very ill.
The grave of the Johnson Family is located in a family plot marked by a red granite obelisk inscribed: JOHNSON. Four faces of the obelisK are inscribed:
E.M JOHNSON, M.D.
BORN MARCH 3, 1837
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MARY FRANCES HEMPSTONE
WIFE OF E.M. JOHNSON M.D.
BORN FEB. 17, 1842
EDWARD MONROE
BORN APR. 10, 1866
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MARY HEMPSTONE
BORN JULY 10, 1868
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CHARLOTTE BELL
BORN MAY 15, 1870
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CHILDREN OF DR. E.M. & M.F.H.
JOHNSON
DAVID S. JOHNSON
BORN JAN. 28, 1806
DIED NOV. 5, 1872
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LUCRETIA B. WIFE OF
DAVID S. JOHNSON
BORN OCT. 19, 1809
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MARY OCTAVIA
DAU. OF D.S. & L.B. JOHNSON
BORN APR. 25, 1846
DIED SEPT. 2, 1857
DR. E.M. JOHNSON, WIFE, THREE
CHLDREN, AND MOTHER, WERE SWEPT
AWAY AT WILLIAMSBURG, IN THE GREAT
DISASTER OF MAY 1874.
HE GRADUATED AT HE NEW YORK
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
IN 1862. SERVED WITH CREDIT AS
SURGEON IN 2ND MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENTAL CAVALRY
DURING THE REBELLION. SETTLED IN
WILLIAMSBURG, MASS., IN THE FALL OF 1865.
HE WAS A DEACON IN THE CONGRE-
GATIONAL CHURCH, AND PROMINENT IN
RELIGIOUS MATTERS, CONSCIENTIOUS
AND UNIVERSALLY BELOVED, AS A MAN,
PHYSICIAN, AND CHRISTIAN.
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In 1865 The Hampshire Reservoir Company build a dam three miles north of Williamsburg, MA on the east branch of the Mill River. The dam was built for corporate mill owners for the sum of $35,000. It was 42 feet above the bed of the stream, holding back 90 acres of water with an average depth of 24 feet.
On May 16, 1874, the dam collapsed. It was determined at an inquest that poor supervision and faulty workmanship of the contractor, caused the dam to give way. Water swept down through Williamsburg and the villages of Haydenville, Leeds, and Skinnerville. The disaster cost included: 144 lives lost, 750 people were made homeless, and damage to buildings, personal property, bridges, dams, roads, factories, and mills amounted to over one million dollars. One third Williamsburg was devastated in the largest disaster in New England of its time.
Type of Death Listed: Accident
Website (if available): [Web Link]
Cause of death inscription on headstone: Not listed
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