Son of Samuel and Olive Hovey (Bartlett) Bartlett.

Manomet lost its oldest resident by the decease of Harvey Bartlett. He was the son of Samuel Bartlett and Olive Hovey Bartlett, and was born in Manomet, Sept. 8, 1806. He has had four brothers and

five sisters, of whom two sisters and two brothers survive him. They are:

Mrs. Harriet M. Bartlett of Manomet; Bowen Bartlett of Westfield, N.J.; Mrs. Abbie Bartlett Avery and Frank Bartlett of Manomet. Mr. Bartlett remained a bachelor all of his life. He spent his early years in

his native place, then he moved away and made his home in New Bedford many years. The last

part of his life he made his home in Manomet with his sister, Mrs. Avery, at whose house he passed away, Dec. 30, 1898 at the ripe old age of 92 years, 3 months, and 22 days.

Mr. Bartlett was remarkable for several things. He was remarkable for his extra-ordinarily bright memory. It is said that in all his business transactions he never wrote a line to remember things by.

His mind was his note-book. He retained this wonderful memory almost to his very last breath.

It was always a beautiful sight to see all his relatives and friends applying to him for information, advice, and counsel. Owing to the brightness of his mind, his interest in the daily affairs of life and happenings in the world never waned. He knew of the late Spanish-American war just as much as any

hot-blooded young man of twenty-five. Mr. Bartlett was also remarkable for his honesty and integrity. The principles of his life were sound. He never made his principles subservient to policy. He always bewailed the prevailing tendence in many quarters towards dishonesty and fraudulence. "Straightfowardness and conscientiousness in words and dealings" seemed to be his motto.

His religion consisted of the Golden Rule, which he had rendered in his own peculiar version as,

"Do to others as you would have done to yourself."

Mr. Harvey Bartlett was also remarkable for his considerateness of the neccessitous.

He was always ready to help the worthy poor who applied to him for assistance.

He was not a self-centered man. He bewailed the prevailing iniquitous watchwork of

" Eash man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost."

The funeral services were held at the house of Mrs. Avery, Jan. 2, 1899, and were conducted by

Rev. Francis Moon of Chiltonville, (Plymouth) Mass., and Rev. Haig Adadourian. The latter read the Scripture selections, and the former made some appropriate and helpful remarks, offered the

prayer and pronounced the benediction. The interment was at the local cemetery.

Source:

"Dying, And, Behold, We Live.'

or

Obituaries of some Manomet people who entered into

their rest between November 4, 1897, and January 9, 1899.

By Rev. Haig Adadourian - Published, 1899

https://archive.org/stream/dyingand

beholdwe00adad#page/n5/mode/2up

Vital Records of Plymouth has a middle name on Harvey's birth:

Harvey Stetson Bartlett, born Sept. 8th 1806, son of

Samuel Bartlett (John's son) & Olive his wife [p. 346]

Harvey's gravestone does not include this name or have a middle initial.

Note:

Manomet is a seaside village of Plymouth, Massachusetts.