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826 SOUTHEASTERN" MASSACHUSETTS
in his business and social relations formed an
unusually wide circle of pleasant acquaintancesliip
and wlio in the more intimate associations
of private life was a deliglitful companion, a
deeply loved friend. His life was shorter than
the normal, but long enough for him to bless
many
of liis fellow men with the radiated in-
fluence of his sunny temperament and to earn
for him a lasting place in the happiest memor-
ies of those he loved. He died Jan. 29, 1861,
and was laid to rest in Swan Point cemetery,
of which he was one of the founders, having
been among the earliest to take an interest in
its promotion and establishment.
The New Bedford Evening Standard of Jan.
29, 1861, said: "We regret being called upon
to announce the death of Benjamin R. Almy,
Esq., a prominent and well known merchant of
this city, which took place at his residence
about eleven o'clock this forenoon. He was
attacked with an apoplectic fit on Sunday afternoon
last (Jan. 27th), from which he did not
rally. He would have been fifty-one years old
on the 22d of next month. A wife and seven
children, and an entire community are left to
mourn the loss of an upright and honest citizen."
Mr. Almy was first married, in 1832, in Tiv-
erton, R. I., to Hannah Evans, born July 9,
1805, in Freetown, Mass. She died Sept. 10,
1848, in Providence, R. I., the mother of six
children: William Humphrey, born in Scituate,
R. I., Nov. 22, 1832, wlio died in Providence
in February, 1875; Benjamin Franklin,
born in Tiverton June 10, 1834; Thomas Jefferson,
born in Providence April 7, 1836; Martha
Frances, Mrs. Wiswall, born in Providence
Aug. 17, 1839; Annah Evans, born in Providence
April 22, 1843, who married Joseph Azarian;
and Frederick Steuben, born in Providence
Nov. 21, 1847, who died in August,
1848.
On Nov. 15, 1849, Mr. Almy married (second)
Emily Mandeville Cummings, who was
bom in Dartmouth June 25, 1827, daughter of
Benjamin and Cynthia (Smith) Cummings,
whose record appears elsewhere in this work.
To Benjamin R. and Emily M. (Cummings)
Almy were born five children: Walter, born in
Providence, R. L, Dec. 29, 1850, died Aug. 13,
1906; Clarence, born in Barrington, R. I.,
Aug. 15, 1852, married Anna Kirtley Bowen,
and died July 6, 1883 Emma ; Cummings, born
in New Bedford July 4, 1854, died July 12,
1855; Harry Atherton, born in New Bedford
Aug. 8, 1857, died Sept. 2, 1860 ; Ernest, born
in New Bedford, Mass., June 20, 1859, died
July 4, 1859.
Mrs. Almy, through her mother and grandmother,
is also an Almy descendant, her line
of descent from William Almy for six generations
being the same as that of Mr. Almy. In
the seventh generation, Mary Almy, daughter
of Tillinghast and Hannah (Chase) Almy, was
born in Dartmouth, May 23, 1780, and died
March 26, 1829. She married Oct. 2, 1800,
Henry Smith, born July 16, 1777, who died
July 16, 1813. Their daughter, Cynthia Smith,
born Jan. 9, 1802, in Dartmouth, married
Jan. 27, 1820, Benjamin Cummings, born
April 7, 1797, and their daughter, Emily Mandeville,
married Benjamin R. Almy.
STUDLEY. The
sented in Rockland
Studley family, repre-
for more than three
quarters of a century by the late Gideon
Studley and, at present, by his son and namesake,
has had honorable as well as lengthy
connection with the affairs of that community.
Active and successful in business, intelligent,
progressive and public-spirited, they have indeed
been valuable citizens of the town and
forceful, if quiet, factors in its best ment.develop-
Studley is an old English surname of the
County of Kent and Yorkshire, the seat of the
family in the latter being at Studley Park,
near which are the ruins of the celebrated
Fountains Abbey, a famous place of resort for
travelers. Two families of this name appear
early in New England history, one in Boston,
and the other in Sandwich.
(I) Benoni Studley, of Sandwich, Mass.,
was in that part of Scituate now the town of
Hanover, and his house on Hanover street,
which was built in 1702, was the oldest that
was standing in the town in 1853. He married
Abigail, daughter of John Stetson. He
died suddenly, Nov. 14, 1746, and his widow
passed away Feb. 1, 1758-59, aged eighty-two.
Their children were : Abigail, bom Aug. 13,
1702 (married Joseph House) ; John, bom
Feb. 25, 1704; Joshua, born in August, 1707;
Gideon, born May 5, 1710 (died Aug. 3,
1734); Sarah, born March 31, 1716; Benoni,
bom July 15, 1720.
(II) Joshua Studley, son of Benoni and
Abigail (Stetson) Studley, born in August,
1707, married March 6, 1735, Lydia Pratt, of
Pembroke. She died July 9, 1759, and he
died July 15, 1760. Their children were:
Gideon, bom May 15, 1738; Lydia, born Jan.
16, 1740 (died May 6, 1740) ; Abigail, baptized
June 28, 1741 (married Daniel Crocker,
and died in September, 1779) ; Joshua, bom
Sept. 26, 1742; Joanna, bora Jan. 13, 1744