Edith Blanch Barber was born in Maple Ridge, Southampton, York, New Brunswick, Canada, to John and Eleanor Barber, hardworking Presbyterian lifetime farmers with a large family. She emigrated from New Brunswick to New Hampshire in 1909, a shoe shop employee, marrying Frederick Chester Fraser, of Presque Isle, Maine in Plymouth, NH. She was counted in the census of 1910 in Littleton, NH with her sister Jessie Garceau’s family, while Fred worked in the woods. The Frasers lived in Sugar Hill, Lisbon, NH, where their children were born. The family moved to Brookline, Vermont where they owned a dairy farm by 1930. In 1937 Edith and Fred moved with their son, Alex and daughter Geraldine, to the East Unity farm they bought on the corner of Gilman Pond Road and Unity Springs Road. Edith Fraser’s diary indicates her love of her pup, Teddy, as well as a great interest in the first steps of her grandson, gardening and preserving, picking berries, long walks, the farm life, chocolates, and reading. She died Nov 14, 1940 in the Claremont General Hospital. The Christian Science service was read by Harold Ransom at her funeral service in the Newton Funeral Home in Newport, NH. Edith (Barber) Fraser was buried in the East Unity Cemetery on the Gilman Pond Road near her home and family.
Edith Blanch Barber was born in Maple Ridge, Southampton, York, New Brunswick, Canada, to John and Eleanor Barber, hardworking Presbyterian lifetime farmers with a large family. She emigrated from New Brunswick to New Hampshire in 1909, a shoe shop employee, marrying Frederick Chester Fraser, of Presque Isle, Maine in Plymouth, NH. She was counted in the census of 1910 in Littleton, NH with her sister Jessie Garceau’s family, while Fred worked in the woods. The Frasers lived in Sugar Hill, Lisbon, NH, where their children were born. The family moved to Brookline, Vermont where they owned a dairy farm by 1930. In 1937 Edith and Fred moved with their son, Alex and daughter Geraldine, to the East Unity farm they bought on the corner of Gilman Pond Road and Unity Springs Road. Edith Fraser’s diary indicates her love of her pup, Teddy, as well as a great interest in the first steps of her grandson, gardening and preserving, picking berries, long walks, the farm life, chocolates, and reading. She died Nov 14, 1940 in the Claremont General Hospital. The Christian Science service was read by Harold Ransom at her funeral service in the Newton Funeral Home in Newport, NH. Edith (Barber) Fraser was buried in the East Unity Cemetery on the Gilman Pond Road near her home and family.
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