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Descendants of Nathaniel Piper

582. CHARLES AMOS⁹ PIPER (JOHN HAMILTON⁸, BENJAMIN Y.⁷, JOHN⁶, THOMAS⁵, NATHANIEL⁴, THOMAS³, NATHANIEL², JOSIAS¹) was born July 31, 1891, and died August 16, 1974. He married ANNIE BELLE DAME 1919. She was born Abt. 1891, and died Unknown.

Child of CHARLES PIPER and ANNIE DAME is:

760.

MYRA SUSIE¹⁰ PIPER, b. Private.

583. FRANK FERNELD⁹ PIPER (JOHN HAMILTON⁸, BENJAMIN Y.⁷, JOHN⁶, THOMAS⁵, NATHANIEL⁴, THOMAS³, NATHANIEL², JOSIAS¹) was born April 21, 1909, and died March 26, 1986. He married MARJORIE T. SABINE Private. She was born Private.

Children of FRANK PIPER and MARJORIE SABINE are:

761.	i.		JOHN HAMILTON¹⁰ PIPER II, b. October 16, 1934; d. December 31, 1985.
762.	ii.		DEBORAH MARILYN PIPER, b. Private.

584. ETTA AUGUSTA⁹ PIPER (DAVID EVERETT⁸, DAVID⁷, TIMOTHY⁶, THOMAS⁵, NATHANIEL⁴, THOMAS³, NATHANIEL², JOSIAS¹) was born July 12, 1863 in Center Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH, and died June 22, 1927 in Center Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH. She married GEORGE AVERY PIPER II Abt. 1883 in Wolfeboro, Carroll, NH?, son of MARK PIPER and SUSAN LOVERING. He was born September 27, 1850 in Wolfeboro, Carroll, NH?, and died March 18, 1932 in Wolfeboro, Carroll, NH?.

More About GEORGE AVERY PIPER II:
Comment 1: Nancy Lane Piper's "Piper Geneology"1/1995
Comment 2: says death was Nov 1. 1889. Also iden-
Comment 3: tifies Cappie L. Bradley as wife with son
Comment 4: b 8/2/1888

Children are listed above under (406) George Avery Piper II.

585. JOHN FRANKLIN⁹ PIPER (DAVID EVERETT⁸, DAVID⁷, TIMOTHY⁶, THOMAS⁵, NATHANIEL⁴, THOMAS³, NATHANIEL², JOSIAS¹) was born November 07, 1880 in Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH, and died June 17, 1967 in Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH. He married NELLIE FRANCES STAPLES January 24, 1903 in Tuftonboro, NH?. She was born December 24, 1885 in Parsonfield,York,ME, and died April 09, 1978 in Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH.

Notes for JOHN FRANKLIN PIPER:
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 14, Ed. 1, Tree #2434, Date of Import: Jan 31, 1999]

January 25, 1994 - Following are my (Stephen Forrest Piper) memories of Grampie Piper:

Grampie was a big man, as were two of his sons i.e, Preston and Lester.
As long as I can remember, he had a walrus type mustache and was bald. I remember he had reading glasses which he used whenever he read. He always sat in the same chair in the dining room -- a rocking chair by the window which looked out onto the driveway.

He was a farmer with cows, pigs, chickens and a garden. His home, now known as the Piper Homestead, was sold to the town of Center Tuftonboro
sometime after 1985 when Preston Piper died. The Homestead now serves as the Town offices. The home had been in the Piper family for several generations. The barn was connected by an enclosed wood shed -with a four hole outhouse - to the kitchen door. (We always entered the house through the shed and kitchen whenever we visited; never through the front entry..)The cows wintered in the barn; Grampie and his sons used the shed as entry to the barn during the winter months.

I have a map in my geneology files which shows that, at one time, the Piper family owned land all the way from Center Tuftonboro to Lake Winnepasaukee. Grampie's father sold off parcels of land and Grampie sold more during his lifetime, e.g., the adjacent Tuftonboro cemetery where the Piper families are buried was once part of the homestead. Mom (Doris Evelyn Pennell) has also told me that one could travel all the way from the Piper Homestead to the Lake on Piper lands at one time.

Grampie was not one to hug and love children. I have nothing but happy and fond memories of him but hugging was not one of his characteristics. I suspect he ruled with a firm hand. His was a happy family - I have a lot of happy memories of him and the family - but his children showed him a great deal of respect. They never questioned him about his actions. For example: Grampie owned a four door Model A Ford; I remember it as a child (in the 30's) and he still had it when I was in college (the late 40's). Only he drove it. Whenever the family travelled somewhere, he would drive his car - usualy alone - and the family would travel in another vehicle.
One evening in the late 40's, he had an accident late at night and the car was damaged. He had gone off of the road and hit a tree. He had a few cuts and bruises but nothing serious. To this day, no one in the family knows how the accident happened. No one would ask him!!

Grampie was a real Yankee. Very independant and one with a long memory about people who had crossed him in some way. For example, I remember, as a child in the 30's, that Grampie's house had electric light fixtures in all of the rooms. I also remember that the lights were never used and that kerosene lamps - and Alladin lamps - were in the house and in the barn. I never questioned this but surmised, as I got older, that he could not afford the electricity (these were the depression years).

Later, after I had moved to California and returned for a visit - in the mid-fifties - the lights were on, they had a refrigerator and they had an electric stove. I commented on this to my father (Forest Everett Piper) after we had left. Dad said that this had started in the early 30's when Rural Electrification was initiated. The government came through and installed electric poles through Center Tuftonboro. Grampie wired the house and hooked up. When the first electric light bill came, it stated that the bill was to be paid at the collection agent's home. The collection agent was a farmer with whom Grampie had had a dispute. Grampie ordered the electricity disconnected and refused to be hooked up until the agent died -- in the 50's.

Dad was a family man and so we spent most Sundays - as I grew up through grammer school, junior high, high school and college - at Grammie and Grampie Piper's. It was about a hours drive north through Alton Bay and Wolfeboro to Center Tuftonboro. A farm is a great place to play. My father's yougest brother -Stanley - was only three years older then I. He was my tutor on things to do on a farm - and we did them all. I always enjoyed going there. One or more of Dad's brothers and sisters would be there and, on July 4th and Thanksgiving, everyone would be there.

I remember Grampie sitting in his rocking chair listening to a crystal radio set. Later, he had a battery (6 volt car battery) operated radio that he and the family would listen to. The dining room table always had an alladin lamp sitting on one end along with cut glass tumblers filled with knives, forks and spoons. There was salt, pepper and sugar there too - and, invariably, a box of Postum. Grampie liked to drink Postum (yuck!).

The homestead was built on sandy soil and it was impossible to dig a well for water near the house. In a field across the road, at the foot on Meeting House Hill, was a shallow well. This well was on Farmer Hersey's farm. Apparently Grampie had an agreement with farmer Hersey because that was the well we used. Grampie, or one of his sons or daughters, would take two pails (I would tag along), cross the road, climb the stone wall and hike down the trail through the field to the well. The well had a wooden cover over it which had to be slid to one side.

The well itself was rock lined and probably only six feet below the ground. Grampie would hook one of the pails onto a long pole which laid there. He would reach down into the well to fill the pail. After he had filled both, we would slide the cover back over the well, hike back to the wall, climb over it, back across the road, through the shed and kitchen into the pantry where the pails were set on the counter next to the sink. (The sink drained through a pipe in the wall and into a long trough outside that ran the water about ten feet away from the house before dumping into a small cesspool.) This was the source of water for drinking (cold and good), dish washing and bathing.

In the late 40's, after World War II, Dad and Uncle Bernard arranged to have a truck load of cement pipes - about 3 foot inside diameter - brought to the homestead from a pipe factory near Nashua, NH. Dad, and all of the brothers, came to the homestead on a Saturday and started digging.They dug down about six feet before the sandy sides started caving in.Then, they pushed one of the pipe sections into the hole. With the pipe standing on end, Bernard and Dad took turns digging inside the pipe. As they dug, the pipe kept settling. As it lowered, the other brothers would fit a pipe section on top of it. They hit water after about 20 feet.

Dad was digging when they first hit water. He had a rope tied around his waist and the other end was tied to the bumper of Carl's car. When the water started gushing in, Dad said he would have been sucked down if it had not been for the rope. He lost the shovel - the handle of which they had cut off so it could be used inside the pipe. They put a wooden lid on the well and fitted it with a red hand pump. The well is still there today, next to the driveway.

More About JOHN FRANKLIN PIPER:
Cause of Death: Stroke
Comment 1: My grand-father!Never let anyone drive him
Comment 2: anywhere; drove his Model A Ford any-where
Comment 3: he went--often alone. Went off road once;
Comment 4: family was afraid to ask him what happened
Ethnicity/Relig.: Protestant
Medical Information: No Cancer, No Addictions, No Alzheimer's, No Mental illness, Diabetes
Occupation: Farmer, Caretaker of Tuftonboro cemetery.
Personality/Intrst: Stern
Residence: Tuftonboro,NH

More About NELLIE FRANCES STAPLES:
Cause of Death: Old age
Comment 1: Peripheral vision in late years; retina
Comment 2: deterioration.
Comment 3: Good health until the end.
Ethnicity/Relig.: Protestant
Occupation: Housewife and mother of big family.
Personality/Intrst: Firm persona: dry sense of humor.
Residence: Center Tuftonboro, NH

Children of JOHN PIPER and NELLIE STAPLES are:

763.	i.		FOREST EVERETT¹⁰ PIPER, b. November 14, 1903, Wolfeboro, Carroll, New Hampshire; d. September 20, 1967, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire.
	ii.		LESTER MCKENZIE PIPER, b. September 1905, Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH; d. October 1936, Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH.

More About LESTER MCKENZIE PIPER:
Cause of Death: Unknown
Comment 1: Was 37 at death
Comment 2: Never married.
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Tuftonboro.NH

764.	iii.		BERNARD FRANKLIN PIPER, b. March 10, 1908, Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH; d. February 17, 1993, Wolfeboro, Carroll,NH.
	iv.		PRESTON HERBERT PIPER, b. July 30, 1910, Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH; d. 1985, Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH.

More About PRESTON HERBERT PIPER:
Comment 1: Lived with parents; never married.
Comment 2: Enjoyed baking and cooking.
Comment 3: Broke arm badly as young man; arm deformed
Comment 4: badly; limited ability to do manual work.
Residence: Piper Homestead in Tuftonboro, NH

AVON S. PIPER, b. 1916, Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH; d. 1916, Tuftonboro, Carroll, NH.

More About AVON S. PIPER:
Comment 1: Stillborn.

765.	vi.	BERNICE ELLEN PIPER, b. Private.
	vii.	CARL RAYMOND PIPER, b. Private; m. BARBARA GOULD, Private; b. Private.
766.	viii.	DORIS ELIZABETH PIPER, b. Private.
767.	ix.	ALICE NELLIE PIPER, b. Private.
	x.	NORMAN HOWARD PIPER, b. Private; m. JUNE BEATRICE KENNISTON, Private; b. Private.
768.	xi.	STANLEY WILLIAM PIPER, b. Private.

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