Bodurtha: Samuel, Martha and Elmer, 1896
<div dir="ltr">Martha "Mattie" Morgan (Fenn) Bodurtha</div>
<div dir="ltr">Born: 3/13/1855, Wallingford, Conn.<br />Married: Samuel Salmon Bodurtha, 12/14/1877, West Granville, Mass.<br />Died: 8/24/1934, Agawam, Mass.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Children: Elmer Fenn Bodurtha, b. 12/19/1884, Agawam, Mass.; d. 8/21/1963, Agawam, Mass.<br /><br />Mattie taught at the West Granville school c. 1874-77. During this time she boarded with the Ripley family. After her marriage to Sam Bodurtha (a cousin of Eleanor (Bodurtha) Ripley), she moved to Agawam, Mass. From 1903 until the mid-1930s, the family owned the "Elm Shade Dairy" farm on Silver St., in Agawam.<br /><br />The photo of the family is dated 1896.<br /><br />The West Granville school is shown on the 1870 map at <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/34234/archive/files/28529c2a1025e03db5629902ede40465.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1659571200&Signature=pwYSgU9xyFLFPb1iMGW3qAkICLI%3D">THIS LINK</a>.<br /><br /></div>
1896
Stephen K. Bodurtha, Granville, MA
Robert Magovern, Agawam, MA
Digital Images: Copyright Stephen K. Bodurtha, 2022
Couple In Model T Ford (Bodurtha?), 1915
A couple in a Model T Ford at the Nelson farm on West Hartland Road in West Granville (now gone). They may be members of the Bodurtha family.
1915
Photo generously donated by Robert Hague, 2020.
Original Photo: George Aldrich
Digital Image: Granville Library Historical Room and NCCHP, 2021.