Akers, Mary -- Daughter of Emma Caroline Crouch; born 1887

Avery, Evangeline (Watrous)

Avery, Evangeline (Watrous) -- "Taken at Poquonock Picnic Grove about the year 1915 or 16"

Avery, Louis and Evangeline (Watrous) -- Taken in 1931

Benham, Ida (Whipple) -- (1849-1903) Born in Quakertown, lived in Mystic, known nationally as a poet and peace advocate

Bolles, John R. -- (1810-1895) Rogerene descendant, New London attorney, key figure in locating the U. S. Navy base in Southeastern CT, author of several books of prose and poetry, and author--with his niece Anna B. Williams--of The Rogerenes; buried in New London's Cedar Grove Cemetery

Chapman, Esther (Watrous)

Chapman, John Crouch

Chesbro Children (of Daniel L.), ca. 1910 -- Sitting l.-r., Winifred, Jennie, and Lucy; standing, Daniel

Chesbro, Family of Daniel L. -- Taken at the Elisha Haley House, ca. Sept. 1919; back l.-r., Daniel A., Daniel L., Alfred Whipple, Phoebe Whipple, Clara holding Angie; front l.-r., Walter, Lucy, Floyd, Jennie, twins Marybell and Clarabell, and Muriel Whipple. Muriel Whipple Haddon writes of this visit between the two families in her book Homespun Lore (76)

Chesbro, Clara (Crouch) -- Taken ca. age 19

Chesbro, Daniel G. -- (1862-1932) Born in Burnett's Corners; for many years, operated a fruit farm on Flanders Road, Groton

Chesbro, Daniel L. and Clara (Crouch) -- Photo taken at the time they were married, April 1903

Chesbro, Jennie and Daniel -- Brother and sister are shown, ca. 1920, harvesting cranberries in the bog that was located at what is today the juction of Lambtown and Quaker Farm Roads

Chesbro, Lucy -- Daughter of Daniel L. and Clara (Crouch) Chesbro; died ca. age 14, perhaps of appendicitis; buried in an unmarked grave, Lambtown Cemetery

Chesbro, Lucy and Jennie -- Taken ca. 1907

Chesbro, Mary Bell and Clara Bell -- Photo taken ca. 1917; identical twins, daughters of Daniel L. and Clara (Crouch) Chesbro; the family was then living at the Elisha Haley house

Christopher, Louise (Crouch)

Comrie Children, ca. 1920 -- (Back, l.-r.) Claude and Frank; (front, l.-r.) John, Ed, and cousin Walter Chesbro

Comrie, Frank and Geneva (Crouch) -- Taken with children Claude, Grace, and Frank

Comrie, Frank and Geneva (Crouch) -- Taken ca. 1905

Comrie, Frank Jr. -- Taken during the 1920s

Comrie, Geneva (Crouch) with children -- Taken ca. 1918; (back, l.-r.) Frank, Grace, baby Wendell; (front, l.-r.) Claude, John, Ralph, Paul, Ed

Comrie, Grace -- Taken during the 1920s

Comrie, Grace -- Taken ca. 1906

Comrie, Wendell -- Taken ca. 1940

Crandall Family (of Ralph) -- Daughters of Ralph and Rena (Crouch) Crandall. Back, l.-r., Lois, Marion, Mildred, Florence; front, l.-r., Grace, Evelyn, Alice

Crandall, Alice Ada (Watrous)

Crandall, Emerson -- Shown with William Harvey (left); photo taken during the 1920s

Crandall, Mattie (Crouch)

Crandall, Ralph

Crandall, Ralph and family -- Ca. 1918

Crandall, Rena (Crouch) -- Taken ca. 1900, when she was age 15

Crandall, Roy and Emerson -- L.-r., Roy Crandall, Will Harvey, Emerson Crandall

Crouch Children (of Halsey), ca. 1926 -- L.-r., Edna, Everett, Margaret, Lily and Lila (twins); the family lived then at the Hammond House; they moved to California in 1930

Crouch, Alden A. and Lucy (Phillips)

Crouch, Alden A. and Lucy (Phillips) -- "Taken Sept. or Oct. 1926, at 34 High Street, Mystic, CT"

Crouch, Alden A. and Lucy (Phillips) -- Taken during the summer of 1914, with daughters Mary and Lunella, "Fanny Packer Place," New London Road, Mystic, CT

Crouch, Alden A. and Lucy (Phillips); with Earl Crandall -- Taken in Mystic, ca. 1916; grandson Earl Crandall died ca. 1927 in Mystic, age 14, in a fall from a bicycle

Crouch, Alfton

Crouch, Anna and Mary

Crouch, Augusta (Chapman)

Crouch, Chauncey

Crouch, Chauncey and Family -- Taken ca. mid-1940s; for a list identifying the people pictured, click here

Crouch, Chauncey and Family -- Taken ca. 1950; for a list identifying the people pictured, click here

Crouch, Frederick

Crouch, Halsey -- Taken ca. 1920 "with his boxes of peaches on Bureau St., now Harbor, in Santa Ana," CA, shortly before his return to CT. Janet Filbeck writes, "My grandfather owned all the property that ran along the Santa Ana River almost to the beach off of Harbor, and he sold all of it to go back to CT. Grandpa was known for his peaches at this time and won many ribbons at the fairs." Shown also are children Everett (left) and Edna

Crouch, Halsey and Eva (Berg) and Family -- Taken ca. 1942. Back, Margaret W. Crouch; middle, l.-r., Lily A.(twin), Edna V., Lila V.(twin); front, l.-r., Everett I., Eva L., Halsey J., and Thelma J. Crouch

Crouch, Halsey and Eva (Berg), 1914 -- Taken at the time of their marriage

Crouch, Herbert and Anna (Crouch) -- With children Edwin and Lillian, 1914

Crouch, Herbert and Family -- Taken Aug. 1930; front, l.-r., Theodore, Raymond, Edna; back, l.-r., Anna, Edwin, Herbert, Harold, Evelyn

Crouch, J. Richard -- Son of Silas and Julia (Peckham) Crouch; died 1919, age 18

Crouch, Jane (Olin)

Crouch, John and Alice (Hall) -- Youth leaders for many years in Quakertown Church

Crouch, Joseph Lewers and Group -- Taken at Matunuck Point, RI, probably ca. 1940; l.-r., Leon Crouch, Eleanor Crouch, Rose Whipple, Harry Whipple, and Agnes and Joseph L. Crouch

Crouch, Joseph S. and Martha (Chapman) -- Joseph was a blacksmith and became blind in one eye when a piece of steel went into the eye; later he lost his sight in the other eye as well

Crouch, Joseph S. and Martha (Chapman) and Family -- Back row, l.-r., Mabel Estella, Halsey Joseph, Rena Martha, Milton Willard, Grace Louise

Crouch, Joseph S. and Martha (Chapman) and Family -- Photo taken ca. 1943; (back, l.-r.) Milton Crouch, Phyllis Crouch, Halsey Crouch, Eva (Berg) Crouch, Mildred, Leslie (Mildred's husband), Grace Crouch, Alvin Watrous, Lila (Crouch) Bruce holding son Emerson, Thelma Crouch, Dorthea Crouch; (front, l.-r.) little boys Dean Crouch and Vernon Bruce; Joseph and Martha (Chapman) Crouch

Crouch, Levi

Crouch, Lila and Lily -- Taken at the Hammond House, 1920s

Crouch, Lucy (Phillips) -- Taken ca. age 16

Crouch, Margaret Augusta -- Youngest child of Frederick and Augusta (Chapman) Crouch. She died Jan. 5, 1897, shortly before her fifth birthday; her parents returned home from the funeral to the news that their oldest child, Sylvia (1871-1897), had just died

Crouch, Martha (Chapman) -- With children Mabel and Milton

Crouch, Martha (Chapman) -- Shown with May Phillips and others

Crouch, Martha (Chapman), 1879

Crouch, Mary -- Taken ca. 1914 at the "Fanny Packer Place," New London Road, Mystic, CT; Mary wrote: "The cat is Mr. Heath's cat that lived next to us. The cat saw the camera and nothing would do till I took him up so he could have his picture taken"

Crouch, Mary -- Shown holding, probably, nephew Floyd Chesbro; in front, nieces Clara Bell and Mary Bell Chesbro; taken at the Fanny Packer House, New London Road, Mystic

Crouch, Mattie and Lunella

Crouch, Milton -- With his daughters, Phillis M.and Dorothea; holding Dean Crouch; taken ca. 1940

Crouch, Nathan and Jane (Olin)

Crouch, Nathan and Jane (Olin)

Crouch, Phoebe and Jessie -- Daughters of Frederick Crouch; taken during the 1880s

Crouch, Sidney and Blanche (Phillips)

Crouch, Silas

Crouch, Silas and Julia (Peckham) -- Silas made the wedding gown worn by his wife in this photo

Crouch, Stephen J. -- (1888-1970)

NEW ! Crouch, Timothy Levi and Family -- These twenty photographs were taken at the family Thanksgiving celebration, November 1940, by Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano

Crumb, Lunella (Crouch)

Davis, Betsie (Whipple) (Crouch) -- Taken ca. 1900; Betsie herself applied the two spots of ink to this photo in order to hide her hands

Haddon, Charles and Muriel (Whipple) -- Shown at their wedding, June 25, 1960, at the Groton Heights Baptist Church

NEW ! Haddon, Muriel (Whipple) -- Taken ca. 1930. Excerpts from her autobiographical memoir may be read by clicking here

Hammond, Albert

Hammond, Margaret (Whipple) -- (1842-1914) Adminstered the Mystic Oral School during the 1880s and 90s

Harvey, Rachel

Harvey, William -- Shown with Emerson Crandall (right); photo taken during the 1920s

Harvey, William -- L.-r., Roy Crandall, Will Harvey, Emerson Crandall

Hurlbutt, Evelyn Eugenie (Whipple)

McGuigan, Clara (Hammond), ca. 1870 -- (1863-1964) Physician, long-time superintendent of the Mystic Oral School, compiler of the genealogy The Antecedents and Descendents of Noah Whipple

McGuigan, Clara (Hammond), ca. 1875

McGuigan, Clara (Hammond), ca. 1880s

McGuigan, Clara (Hammond), ca. 1880s

McGuigan, Clara (Hammond), ca. 1920s

McGuigan, John and Clara (Hammond)

McGuigan, John and Clara (Hammond), ca. 1890

McGuigan, John and Clara, 1891 -- Clara Hammond married fellow physician John Ignatius McGuigan on July 21, 1891

McGuigan, John Ignatius

McLeod, Mildred -- Taken ca. 1920; daughter of Murdick and Caroline (Prosser) McLeod

Nichols, Clyde and May (Phillips) -- Taken ca. 1913

Nichols, Doris and Lucile -- Taken ca. 1918; daughters of Clyde and May (Phillips) Nichols

Nichols, George and Rachel (Watrous) -- Photo by Ruth (Nichols) Cook

Olin, S. Riley and M. Alice (Watrous)

Olin, Samuel Riley

Phillips Children (of George E.) -- Taken Oct. 26, 1922, probably in CA; l.-r., Blanche, Bessie, Palmer, Bertha. George Elmer Phillips was an evangelist. His granddaughter, Fern (Crouch) Wilner, writes, "As a little girl, Mom [Blanche] learned to play the tambourine and joined her parents in leading singing during their revival meetings"

Phillips, Abiah (Chapman)

Phillips, Edna

Phillips, Fenella and Amy Chapman

Phillips, Frederick and May -- Photo taken of brother and sister ca. 1910

Phillips, George

Phillips, George and Mary (Harvey) and Family -- Back, l.-r., Palmer, George Elmer Phillips, Mary Eliza (Harvey) Phillips, Bertha; front, l.-r., Blanche, Bessie

Phillips, George and Sylvia (Crouch)

Phillips, Josiah -- Taught school; served in the Civil War

Phillips, Mary and Amy Chapman -- Taken during the 1930s

Phillips, Roy C. -- (1888-1947) Graduated from Brown University and the University of Wisconsin; taught Romance languages in several colleges; led the young people's choir at Quakertown Hall during the 1930s; burried in Brewster's Neck Cemetery, Preston, CT

Phillips, Roy C. -- Taken ca. 1895

Phillips, Roy and John -- Photo of the two brothers taken ca. 1888

Phillips, Walter

Phillips, Walter and Mary (Chapman)

Prosser, Joseph and Julia (Watrous)

Prosser, Joseph Jr. -- Shown with Philip Watrous (right)

Schultz, Joyce (Watrous) -- (1932-1998) Shown at a Lambtown School reunion during the 1950's; married the Rev. Irving C. Schultz

Shafer Family (of Alonzo)

NEW ! Shafer, Alonzo and Family, ca. 1912 -- Taken ca. 1912, in front of the Nathan Watrous House

Shafer, Effie (Whipple) and Doris (Whipple) Whipple -- Photo of the two sisters taken ca. 1913

Shafer, Herbert and Bertha -- Taken ca. 1910; children of Alonzo and Jessie (Binley) Shafer

Stark, Florence Ruth (Watrous) (Whipple) -- Daughter of Joel and Nellie (Prosser) Watrous, born in Westerly, Rhode Island, 1896

Stark, Louise Sophia -- Taken at age 16; she is the daughter of Florence Ruth Watrous and William Russell Stark

Watrous Children (of Nathan), ca. 1940

Watrous, Angie (Chesbro)

Watrous, Arthur and Julia (Crouch)

Watrous, Austin

Watrous, Bessie (Phillips) -- Shown with Edith Watrous (left); photo taken July 1926

Watrous, Carey and Phoebe -- Photograph of the two sisters taken in Novermber 1940, by Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano; from the Library of Congress

NEW ! Watrous, Edith -- (1909-2000) Two photos, one from ca. 1950, the other from 1996; pages from her autograph book, containing notes by many people associated with Quakertown during the 1920s and 30s; tribute written by Pearl Watrous

Watrous, Edith -- Shown with Bessie Phillips (right); photo taken July 1926

Watrous, Elias and Mary (Phillips)

Watrous, Elisha L. and Jennie (Chesbro) -- Shown with Louise and Elisha Richmond, 1931

Watrous, Elisha, Maxon, and Paul -- Photo of the three brothers taken ca. 1924

Watrous, Everett and Bertha (Chesbro)

Watrous, Everett and Bessie and Clifton -- Taken ca. 1894; the three oldest children of Stephen and Cynthia (Crouch) Watrous

Watrous, Families of Nathan and Zephaniah -- Photo taken 1945 at the Zephaniah Watrous House, Lambtown Road Ext.; back, l.-r., Raymond, Ruby, Myllis, Florence, Sterry; front, l.-r., Wesley, Morris, Ellis, Stanley

NEW ! Watrous, Family of Elias, 1924 -- Taken probably in Sept. 1924, following the death of Elias

Watrous, Family of Elias, 1945 -- Photo of the family of Elias Watrous, taken in 1945. Back row, Bessie (Watrous) and Nathan Watrous; Zephaniah and Eva (Chapman) Watrous. Front row, Lucy (Watrous) Crouch; M. Alice (Watrous) and S. Riley Olin; Roscoe Watrous

NEW ! Watrous, Family of James, Jr. -- James, 3rd, Alice, Noyes, Cynthia, Mary, Beulah; ca. 1930

Watrous, Frederick and Angie (Chesbro) -- Fred Watrous (1898-1965) was long-time pastor of the Quakertown Church (now Ledyard First Assembly of God)

Watrous, Frederick and Angie (Chesbro) -- Photo taken ca. 1920, around the time they were married

Watrous, Frederick L. -- Taken in 1914

Watrous, Frederick L. -- Taken on Christmas Day, 1964

Watrous, Gertrude -- Teacher in Lambtown School for many years

Watrous, James and Cynthia (Whipple) -- Photo taken ca. 1890

Watrous, James and Elizabeth (Crouch)

Watrous, Joe, Lucy May, and June -- Taken ca. 1925; youngest children of Austin and Lucy (Prosser) Watrous

NEW ! Watrous, Louis and Dorothy (Hipp) -- Taken at their wedding; from the center of the photo, moving right, the adults are Dorothy (Hipp) Watrous (bride), Louis Watrous (groom), Marjorie (Watrous) Crandall, Joseph Crandall, Bernice Watrous, Cornelius Watrous

Watrous, Louis and Dorothy (Hipp)

Watrous, Lucy (Prosser)

Watrous, Lunette -- Unmarried; 1857-1921; known as "Aunt Net"

Watrous, Mabel (Crouch) -- Taken ca. 1910

Watrous, Mary (Phillips)

Watrous, Maxon -- Shown with a group of preachers from Zion Bible Institute during the 1930s; Max is second from the left

Watrous, Maxon

Watrous, Nathan and Bessie (Watrous) -- Shown ca. 1917, with Florence and Stanley

Watrous, Paul

Watrous, Paul and Elisha -- Photo taken just after the Hurricane of '38. The two brothers are standing on a New London rooftop

Watrous, Pearl

Watrous, Philip -- Shown with Joseph Prosser, Jr. (left)

Watrous, Phoebe (Olin)

Watrous, Priscilla -- Founder of what is now the New Life Christian Fellowship, of Ledyard, CT. Shown here ca. 1915, sitting on the horse Noah at the Joesph Morgan House on Sandy Hollow Road

Watrous, Ruby

Watrous, Stanley -- Taken mid-1920s

Watrous, Stanley, Florence, and Morris -- Sitting by the wisteria vine on the south side of the Nathan Watrous House, ca. 1920

Watrous, Stephen and Cynthia (Crouch) -- Stephen Watrous (1864-1930) founded a pentecostal church in Quakertown (now Ledyard First Assembly of God)

Watrous, Stephen and Cynthia (Crouch) -- Photo taken ca. 1929; shown with children Paul and Edith

Watrous, Sterry -- Taken in Oct. 1981, "by John Campbell's wall... built [by Sterry and his brother Raymond] in 79 through first part of 81," on Shewville Road, Ledyard, CT

Watrous, Wallace and Mary (Hawk)

Watrous, Wesley -- Taken ca. 1997; shown with some of his earth-moving equipment, etc.

Watrous, Wesley -- Taken Dec. 1, 1938, when he was age 15

Whipple Children (of J. Alfred) -- Photo taken ca. 1908; l.-r., Ralph, Fred, Muriel, Floyd

Whipple, Alfred P., Jr. -- (1939-1959) Active in athletics and student government at Norwich Free Academy, attended Brown University, died climbing Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire

Whipple, Allen and Alice Gertrude (Crouch) -- Photo taken 1895; children Jane, Clara, and Harold

Whipple, Allen and Alice Gertrude (Crouch)

Whipple, Delight (Crouch) -- (1835-1905) Sister of novelist Julia Crouch; wife of Enoch Whipple. Carved on her tombstone in Ledyard Union Cemetery is the name by which she was known to many, "Aunt Lottie"

Whipple, Doris (Whipple) -- (1906-2000) Shown on the day of her marriage to Floyd Eldon Whipple (1902-1979), March 16, 1925

Whipple, Doris (Whipple) -- Photo taken in the early 1920s; picking cranberries

NEW ! Whipple, Doris (Whipple) -- Photo taken in 1925. To read an autobiographical memoir of Doris Whipple's childhood in Quakertown, click here

Whipple, Doris (Whipple) -- Taken ca. 1920, in front of the house where she grew up

Whipple, Doris (Whipple) and Effie (Whipple) Shafer -- Photo of the two sisters taken ca. 1913

Whipple, Doris (Whipple) and Muriel (Whipple) Haddon -- Photo of sisters-in-law taken on Doris's wedding day, March 1925

Whipple, Fenella (Phillips)

Whipple, Fenella (Phillips) with Millicent Crandall -- With niece Millicent Crandall

Whipple, Floyd and Doris (Whipple) -- Shown on their wedding day, March 1925

Whipple, Floyd and Doris (Whipple) -- Floyd and Doris and their wedding party, March 1925; Ralph Whipple is best man; Muriel (Whipple) Haddon is maid of honor; flower girls are Marie Watrous, Elinor Whipple, and sisters Mildred and Dorothy Whipple

Whipple, Floyd and Ralph -- Taken on Floyd's wedding day, 1925

Whipple, Harold

Whipple, Harry and Rose -- Taken at Matunuck Point, RI, probably ca. 1940; l.-r., Leon Crouch, Eleanor Crouch, Rose Whipple, Harry Whipple, and Agnes and Joseph L. Crouch. According to Clara McGuigan, brother and sister Harry and Rose had "unusual business ability," and with their two siblings (Ira Whipple had four children, none of whom married), they ran several hugely successful businesses

Whipple, J. Alfred and Family -- Photo taken ca. 1920; back, l.-r., Muriel, Fred, Ralph, Floyd, J. Alfred; front, l.-r., John, Phoebe

Whipple, J. Alfred and Phoebe (Crouch)

Whipple, James Eldon -- Shown with his granddaughter, Barbara Hurlbutt

Whipple, Jeduthan -- Photo taken in 1916 or 1917, when he was in his 89th year

Whipple, Jennie (Williams) -- Shown with her granddaughter Gladys (Whipple) Watrous

Whipple, Jessie (Crouch)

Whipple, Jessie (Crouch); with Ralph Whipple and Chauncey Crouch -- Sister and brother, shown with baby nephew Ralph (son of sister Phoebe and her husband Alfred Whipple)

Whipple, John

Whipple, John and Jessie (Crouch) and Family -- Children, l.-r., are Earle, Marjorie, and Alice

Whipple, John S.

Whipple, John S. and Jessie (Crouch) -- Missionaries for the Metropolitan Church Association in rural India

Whipple, John S. and Jessie, with Jennie Williams Whipple -- Taken at the home of James and Jennie Whipple, Long Cove Road, near Gales Ferry, CT

Whipple, Jonathan -- (1794-1875) He devised a method to teach the deaf to read lips and speak, leading to the founding of the Mystic Oral School; he was an advocate of temperance and peace, as well as a teacher, stonemason, butcher, farmer, and editor. His Autobiography may be read on this site

Whipple, Lucy -- Daughter of Noah Whipple; wife of Jonathan Whipple, Jr.

Whipple, Palmer and Fenella (Phillips) -- Taken with son Milton, ca. 1900

Whipple, Phillip

Whipple, Phoebe (Crouch)

Whipple, Ralph -- Died at age 26 of Bright's Disease, Aug. 1927

Whipple, Samuel Austin -- (1864-1922)

Whipple, Samuel G. and Elizabeth (Watrous)

Whipple, William Crouch and Family -- Son of Noah and Content (Crouch) Whipple, William and his family left Quakertown ca. 1850, settling in Illinois, Iowa, and finally Oklahoma. This photograph was taken ca. 1883. Back, l.-r., Hannah, Oscar, Orva, Orin, Louisa; front, l.-r., Hannah (Geer) Whipple, Earnest, William Crouch Whipple

Whipple, William Crouch and Hannah (Geer)

Whipple, Zachariah and Family -- Photo taken in 1904; for a list identifying the people pictured, click here

Whipple, Zachariah and Family -- Photo taken ca. 1910

Whipple, Zachariah and Family -- Zachariah himself is not shown in this photo, taken ca. 1917, possibly at the time of his death; the little girl holding the kitten is Cynthia (Watrous) Harvey

Whipple, Zerah C. -- (1849-1879) Founder of the Mystic Oral School

Williams, Alwilda (Crouch)

Williams, Joseph -- Husband of Alwilda

Wolff, June Hulda (Watrous)