People

  • 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

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

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

  • Crouch, Alden A. and Lucy (Phillips); with Earl Crandall -- Taken in Mystic, ca. 1917; grandson Earl Crandall died ca. 1927 in Mystic, age 14, in a fall from a bicycle

  • Crouch, Frederick

  • Crouch, Levi

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

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

  • Phillips, George and Sylvia (Crouch)

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

  • 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

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

  • NEW ! Watrous Family, 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

  • Watrous, Angie (Chesbro)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • NEW ! Whipple, Alfred and Phoebe (Crouch)

  • 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

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

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

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

  • 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, Samuel G. and Elizabeth (Watrous)

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

  • NEW ! Whipple, Zachariah and Family -- Photo taken ca. 1907

  • NEW ! Whipple, Zachariah and Family -- Photo taken ca. 1910

  • NEW ! 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

    •   Sign posted beside Col. Ledyard Hwy.

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    Places / Events

  • Noah Whipple's Farm by the "Punch Bowl" - This picture was painted for Dr. Clara Hammond McGuigan by one of the students of Mystic Oral School

  • NEW ! Nathan Watrous House -- Photo taken ca. 1930; Roscoe Watrous is shown riding a tractor featuring an "old farm engine" or "putt-putt engine"

  • Fred Watrous's Garden Center -- Photo taken ca. 1952

  • Meeting House of Many Gables -- Built by Elder Zephaniah Watrous (1785-1858) from timber felled by the "September Gale" of 1815; site of religious meetings and home of the Elder; destroyed by fire during the 1930s

  • Quakertown Hall -- Building where religious meetings were held ca. mid-1800s-1938; destroyed by the Hurricane of 1938

  • Quakertown Hall, mid-1930s -- Shown are Evelyn Crouch, Ruby Watrous, and Edna Crouch

  • NEW ! Quakertown Church -- Photo taken during the early 1950s

  • Quakertown Church -- Photo taken ca. 1960

  • Christmas Program, 1951 -- Quakertown Church

  • NEW ! Quakertown Hall Youth Picnic -- Photo taken during the 1930s

  • NEW ! Family Picnic, ca. 1920

  • NEW ! Fourth of July Picnic, 1948


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