Harriet Abigail Houston and William Edwin Hitchcock

WILLIAM EDWIN HITCHCOCK was born March 21, 1854 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont,⁶²⁹ and died December 19, 1933 in West Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts.⁴⁵⁵⁴ He is buried in Evergreen Cemetey, West Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts.⁴⁵⁶

He married HARRIET ABIGAIL HOUSTON in 1894, daughter of MARIA STURGES and JOHN HOUSTON JR. She was born August 7, 1862 in Denmark, Lee, Iowa,^{40, 629} and died in September, 1941 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts.⁷⁰⁸ She is buried in Evergreen Cemetey, West Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts.⁴⁵⁶

• Descendant Reports
  • Samuel Houston Descendant Report (Ancestor of Harriet A. Houston)
  • Samuel Fields Descendant Report (Ancestor of Harriet A. Houston)

Children of HARRIET ABIGAIL HOUSTON and WILLIAM EDWIN HITCHCOCK:

1. HENRY PORTER HITCHCOCK, b. November 22, 1894, Vaddukoddai, Ceylon, India;⁷³⁷⁷ m. SOPHIA ELLEN STROHMEYER; d. December 23, 1986.¹¹²⁴⁴
2. RICHARD ALBERT HITCHCOCK, b. October 30, 1898, Jaffna, Ceylon, India;⁷³⁷⁷ d. March 8, 1986, Dade County, Florida.⁹⁹
3. JOHN DAVID HITCHCOCK, b. April 7, 1909, Jaffna, Ceylon, India;^{56, 11246} m. MARION ALICE PRAHL on June 15, 1946 in Laramie, Albany, Wyoming¹¹²⁴⁶; d. November 21, 2003, Laramie, Albany, Wyoming.^{56, 11246}



Personal Information

• Harriet Abigail Houston was a member of the Denmark Congregational Church, Lee County, Iowa. ⁷⁴⁸⁴

Education

Newspaper Articles

Vermont Phoenix, May 29, 1903¹¹²⁴¹

Prof. William E. Hitchcock and family, consisting of wife and two children, arrived in town Friday. He is professor at a college in Ceylon. He arrived in New York about three weeks ago, having visited his brother, Justus, in Medway and his sister, Mrs. Grow, in Springfield, this state. He spoke in the church Sunday morning upon his work and the condition of the natives and missionary success in the part of the island where he is. Mr. Hitchcock has been away from the country 12 years at the present time, having spent several years there previously. He left Wednesday for Iowa, where his wife's mother lives. He expects to remain in the country a year or more.

Obituaries

Boston Herald, December 20, 1933⁴⁵⁵⁴

PROF. HITCHCOCK RITES TO BE HELD TOMORROW

Was Retired Foreign Missions Secretary

[Special Dispatch to The Herald]

WEST MEDWAY, Dec. 19—The funeral of Prof. William E. Hitchcock, retired, will be held at the West Medway Congregational Church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Lawrence R. Howard, pastor, will officiate, assisted by Dr. Alden Hyde Clark, secretary of the American board in charge of foreign missions in Ceylon and India.

Prof. Hitchcock, who was in his 80th year, died at his home this morning. He was born in Westminster, Vt., and educated at Westboro high school, class of 1875, and Amherst College, B. A. 1879 and M. A. 1882. For 40 years he served under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Ceylon.

Prof. Hitchcock first went to Ceylon in 1880 as a tutor at Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai, Ceylon. He was later given life appointment under the board, and worked as mission secretary, treasurer, and business agent, with headquarters at Uduppiddi. Prof. Hitchcock was retired and place on the Roll of Honor in 1925.

Mr. Hitchcock is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hattie Houston Hitchcock; three sons, Henry Porter of Maryland, Richard Albert of the Public Library, New York City, and John David, doing graduate and research work at the University of Minnesota; and a sister, Nora Hitchcock of West Medway.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 11, 18803408	Denmark, Lee, Iowa	John Houston Maria Sturges Harriet Abigail Houston Warren Henderson Houston Laura Maria Houston Mary Emily Houston Asa Turner Houston
April 3, 19303489	Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts	Harriet Abigail Houston William Edwin Hitchcock John David Hitchcock