Charles Harvey Orr

1891-1963 · Groton, Caledonia County, Vermont

Born 1891, Groton, Caledonia County, Vermont

Died 1963

Father: Robert Harvey Orr

Mother: Sarah Violet Whitehill

Children include A.

Charles Harvey Orr was born on 1 March 1891 in Groton, Caledonia County, Vermont. He was the fifth of six children of Robert Harvey Orr and Sarah Violet Whitehill. His father farmed at Groton. Both families had come from Renfrewshire in Scotland: the Orrs to Ryegate in 1774, the Whitehills in 1798. His brother Leslie Harold Orr and his sister Grace L. Gibson both lived in Ryegate.

On 24 September 1913 Charles married Edna Almeria Crane of Barnet, the daughter of Denzil Mansfield Crane, a farmer at McIndoe Falls. His older brother William James Orr had married her older sister Grace Mary Crane in 1902. Charles and Edna lived in Barnet. Their son Dorman Charles Orr was born there on 7 May 1915, and their daughter Almeria Gertrude on 24 January 1920. She carried her mother's middle name.

William moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1919, and Charles and Edna later moved there too. Charles lived in Greenfield for about thirty years and worked as an inspector at GTD, the Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation, which made thread-cutting tools. In April 1950 he and Edna lived upstairs at their house in Greenfield. He was 60 and working as a gage inspector. Their son Dorman, 34, a lathe operator, lived downstairs with his wife Margaret and their children Dorman L., Charles L. and Mary J.

Charles retired in 1960. On 8 May 1963 he was visiting his daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Chase, on the French King Highway in Gill. He collapsed, apparently while trying to prime a pump, and died of a heart attack, aged 72. The Greenfield paper headed its notice "Charles Orr Dies During Gill Visit" and gave his address as 180 Davis Street. He is buried in Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Section 37, Lot 15. The stone is carved ORR, with "Charles Harvey 1891 1963" and "Edna A. Crane, his wife, 1887 1972".

Parents

Robert Harvey Orr 1838-1911 Sarah Violet Whitehill 1852-1924

Children

A. Gertrude Orr (1920-1986)

Sources

Memorial of Almeria Gertrude Orr Chase (24 Jan 1920 Barnet, Vermont - 11 Jan 1986 Gill, Massachusetts), Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Section 27, Lot 32; Find a Grave memorial 114969551.

Memorial of Charles Harvey Orr (1 Mar 1891 Groton, Vermont - 8 May 1963 Gill, Massachusetts), Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Section 37, Lot 15; Find a Grave memorial 145593802.

1950 United States census, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, enumeration district 6-31, sheet 21, lines 13-19; National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov.

Find a Grave, memorial 145593802, Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Section 37, Lot 15; photograph added by Judy Winn Graves, 2015.

Edward Miller and Frederic P. Wells, History of Ryegate, Vermont (St. Johnsbury: Caledonian Company, 1913), Orr genealogy, pp. 485-487.

Frederic Palmer Wells, History of Barnet, Vermont (1923), Orr entry, pp. 573-574.

Groton Times (Groton, Vermont), 12 May 1933, page 1, "Death of Denzil M. Crane"; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 46970395, added by Anne, 2022.

History of Ryegate, Vermont (1913), Orr genealogy, p. 487 (HathiTrust hvd.32044025031204); History of Barnet, Vermont (1923), pp. 573-574 (HathiTrust wu.89067958520); 1950 US census, Greenfield, ED 6-31, sheet 21 (NARA); Find a Grave memorial 145593802, with obituary text and stone photograph.

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