Electa C. BAKER

REFN: 883

Mrs. Electa C. Doolittle died in Oakland yesterday at the age ninetyone

years and four months. She retained all her facultys to within a few

months of her death, and read the daily papers and maginizes with the

avidity of a young student.

She was born in the state of New York, and witnessed this country

pass through two victorious wars. Her home was on the shores of Lake

Champlain during the war of 1812 and she witnessed the naval battle

between the British and Commodore McDonough's fleet. She saw the

captured vessels brought to shore dismantled, with thier decks covered

with dead and wounded. She would relate these scenes from memory as

vividly as though they happened but afew month ago. A descendent of

revolutionary stock, she was intensely patriotic, and bid good-by to

several of her descendants who volunteered in the latewar, and never to

return.

She was a granddaughter of a sister of Roger Sherman of New Haven of

revolutionary fame. Mrs. Doolittle came to this state someten years

ago. She was the aunt of Mr. Wm. H Sears, Mrs. Joe T. Hoyt, Mrs. D.H.

Whittmore and Mrs. E. L. Cutter. She has one great-grand-daughter

livingin this city, Mrs. Edith Scott Waters, whose father, Wm. Waters,

has long been connected with Morning Call- San Francisco Evening

Bulletin. July 12 (no date given)

This lady was the mother of Mrs. J. B. REITER of Northville, SD and

H. H. DOOLITTLE of Roanoke. There is just cause for pride in being a

descendant of such a race as are the children of Mrs. Doolittle.

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Roger Sherman ofNew Haven, CT was indeed a signer of the Declaration of

Independence. He continue on in politics and was a U.S. Senator. You need

to find a copy of “Families of Ancient New Haven” by Donald Lines

Jacobus. The

Shermans are on pages1611-1618, and Roger on page 1616.

The book was originally published by the New Haven Genealogist Magazine as

8 volumes 1922-1832, and reprinted as 3 volumes by the Genealogical

Publishing Co., Inc. of Baltimore, MD in 1974. Check genealogical web

sites for anyone who might be selling copies.

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