Ermina Janette French and Charles W. Classon

CHARLES W. CLASSON was born in 1859 in Massachusetts, and died November 10, 1927 in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire.²³⁷⁶

He married ERMINA JANETTE FRENCH on December 17, 1879 in Antrim, Hillsborough, New Hampshire,²³⁶³ daughter of ELIZABETH INCHES DAVIS and ABEL HARKNESS FRENCH. She was born October 19, 1860 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts,²³⁹⁸ and died September 27, 1938 in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire.²³⁷⁶

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  • ? Haskell Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • William Brown Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • John York Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • William Graves Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • John Smith Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • Capt. Jerathmeel Bowers Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • Daniel Shed Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • Moses Baron Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)
  • Walter Tybbott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ermina J. French)

Children of ERMINA JANETTE FRENCH and CHARLES W. CLASSON:

1. GERTRUDE L. CLASSON, b. December 16, 1882, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire;²³⁶⁰ d. December 19, 1952, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire;⁵⁰⁵⁴ bur. Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire.⁵⁰⁵⁴
2. WALTER H. CLASSON, b. January 7, 1886, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire;^{2360, 5054} m. ALICE HAZEL WESTON on June 12, 1907 in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire²³⁶³; d. December 18, 1946, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire.^{2376, 5054}
3. EFFIE JEANETTE CLASSON, b. March 22, 1889, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire;²³⁶⁰ m. LESTER IRVING HARVEY on June 2, 1914 in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire²³⁶³; d. October 12, 1953, Laconia, Belknap, New Hampshire.^{2397, 5054}
4. MARIAN R. CLASSON, b. January 17, 1894;²³⁶⁰ m. JAMES FRANCIS FIELD on November 12, 1919 in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire²³⁶³; d. October 23, 1956, Massachusetts.⁵²⁴²
5. LESTER WALLACE CLASSON, b. July 11, 1898, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire;^{2376, 2360} d. July 15, 1898, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire.²³⁷⁶

Personal Information

• Ermina Janette French was a member of the Universalist Church. ²³⁹⁸

Obituaries

Fitchburg Sentinel, September 29, 1938²³⁹⁸

Deaths

Mrs. Ermina J. Classon

Mrs. Ermina Janette (Harkness) Classon, widow of Charles W. Classon, died Monday night after a long illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lester I. Harvey, 16 Hill street, Nashua, N. H., where she had made her home for the past 10 years. She was an attendant of the Universalist church and a member of the Ladies' Howard circle of that church.

Mrs. Classon was born in Fitchburg, Oct. 19, 1860, a daughter of Abel and Elizabeth (Davis) French Harkness. She had been a resident of Nashua for over 50 years.

Survivors are her four children, Miss Gertrude Classon, Walter H. Classon, Mrs. Lester I. Harvey and Mrs. James Field, all of Nashua; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and two brothers, Menzell French of Hudson, N. H., and Walter French of Hudson, N. H.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
July 7, 18702384	Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire	Abel Harkness French Elizabeth Inches Davis Alonzo H. French Menzell Stuart French Ermina Janette French Walter Cummings French
June 17, 18802380	Antrim, Hillsborough, New Hampshire	Abel Harkness French Elizabeth Inches Davis Alonzo H. French Menzell Stuart French Ermina Janette French Walter Cummings French Charles W. Classon
June 9, 19002385	Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire	Charles W. Classon Ermina Janette French Gertrude L. Classon Effie Jeanette Classon Marian R. Classon Walter H. Classon
April 19, 19102386	Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire	Charles W. Classon Ermina Janette French Gertrude L. Classon Effie Jeanette Classon Marian R. Classon
January 7, 19202387	Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire	Charles W. Classon Ermina Janette French Gertrude L. Classon Marian R. Classon James Francis Field
April 2, 19302388	Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire	Lester Irving Harvey Effie Jeanette Classon Philip Classon Harvey Ermina Janette French