Charlotte Smith Webster

   Cause of her death was "canker."

  General Notes:

She was of Amesbury, MA per VR MA

Find A Grave Memorial# 71833143
Charlotte Smith Webster Straw, born September 9, 1823 in Amsbury, Mass, daughter of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Fisk) Smith, her father was a Sea Captain.
She married Ezekiel Straw on April 6, 1842 and moved to Manchester, NH
Her first child Albert Ezekiel Straw born in 1847 died in 1847. He is not noted in the lot book of the Valley Cemetery, but in the first burial records found at City Hall, during an expansion of the facility.
Her second child Charlotte Webster Straw born in 1848, married William Howard, she died on November 8, 1903 from nepheritis, she is buried in the Straw Lot in Manchester lot 1166-1. She had 3 children Albert born March 1847, William, born 1879, and youngest a daughter Sarah Cheney Howard born in October 1883, died June 12, 1903 is buried with her mother and grandparents in the Straw lot, 1161-2. It was noted that this death assisted her mother's death. Her death certificate states she died from "nepheritis"
3rd child, Herman Foster Straw born 12/31/1849, carried on his father's work in the Amoskeag Mills
Her 4th child, Ellen "Nellie" Straw, born 02/16/1852 died December 31, 1926, she was married to Henry Martin Thompson, they had one child Albert born 2/16/1874 (became a mechanical engineer) Henry worked as an agent Manchester Print Works and then as an agent in a Mill in Lowell, Ma. he died from a self inflicted gun shot wound to the head January 4, 1901, in November of that year she took an extended (one year) trip to Paris.
Charlotte W. Straw, the Governor's wife and mother to 4 children in 5 years died March 15, 1852 one month after the birth of her last child Nellie. Her death certificate states she died from Canker a sore inside the mouth which is an infection, often gets to the brain and causes death.
She is also not noted in the Valley Cemetery lot book and neither is her husband Governor Ezekiel Straw, however, newspaper accounts indicate that they are there.

Charlotte married Gov Ezekiel Albert Straw, son of James Brown Straw Sr. and Mehitable Fisk, on 6 Apr 1842 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (Gov Ezekiel Albert Straw was born on 30 Dec 1819 in Salisbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 23 Oct 1882 in Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire and was buried in Valley Cemetery Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA.). The cause of his death was "softening of the brain."