Twombley Family

My grandmother, Eva B. Tyler (later Twombly) and her mother, Rhoda (maiden name Tibbetts) Tyler, taken in Silver Lake, NH circa 1912 or 13. Mrs. Twombly lived to be 97 years old, and prior to her death, was the holder of Madison’s Boston Post cane for several years. When she died, the cane was passed on to her younger sister, Lora Tyler Leavitt Gray. They were the daughters of James Wentworth Tyler, a local merchant who dealt in land, timber, and selling ice to Boston. Born in Freedom, NH, Mr. Tyler was a selectman in Madison and also served for many years on the town's Board of Education, having been a teacher in Boston before he moved to the country in 1895 to give his children a better life out of the hustle and bustle of the city.

My grandfather, Albion Twombly from a photo taken with his schoolmates at the High Street School in Madison, NH circa 1895 or 6. My grandfather (who was born on Nov. 2, 1889) grew up to be a butcher, and worked out of a shop next to his house, which still stands across from the ball field in Madison. He also served as a selectman for many years before his death on October 11, 1956.

This photo taken in Silver Lake around 1913, or most likely before my grandmother, Eva Tyler Twombly (holder of Madison's Boston Post cane before her death in 1989 at the age of 97), married in 1914. This is a group of her relatives on her mother's side. I do not know some of the individuals in the picture. The second lady seated in the front row is Laura Etta (maiden name Tibbetts) Knox (for whom my beloved aunt, Laura Twombly, was named), next to her is Nellie Tyler, whose later married names were St. Pierre and Campbell; next is my grandmother, Eva Blanche Tyler (later Twombly); the woman immediately behind her, with her hands on her shoulders, is her mother, Rhoda (maiden name Tibbetts) Tyler; I don't know who the man next to her is (probably Burt Lyman, husband of the woman wearing the white blouse to his right), the woman in the white blouse is Harriet Newell (maiden name Knox; daughter of Laura Etta above, who was named for her grandmother); the woman to her right is Harriet Newell (maiden name Hobbs) Tibbetts, mother of Laura Etta and Rhoda. Those are all of the people in the photo that I can identify.

My grandfather, Albion Twombly, and his sisters, Jennie Marion and Lucy Serepta Twombly, from a photo of them with their schoolmates at the High Street School in Madison, NH, circa 1895 or 6. They lived on a farm at the top of High Street.