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Violet Thayer (Otis)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: November 16, 1962 (91)
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Church Otis and Margaret Sigourney Otis
Wife of Rev. William Greenough Thayer ("Twill")
Mother of Violet Otis Parker; William Greenough Thayer, Jr.; Lieutenant Sigourney Thayer; James Appleton Thayer; Robert Helyer Thayer and 2 others
Sister of Harrison Gray Otis; William Sigourney Otis; Herbert Foster Otis and Margaret Sigourney Smith

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About Violet Thayer

Title Some account of Capt. John Frazier and his descendants: with notes on the West and Checkley families Author Josiah Granville Leach Publisher Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co., 1910 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized Oct 16, 2007 Length 138 pages

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106. VIOLET OTIS,5 daughter of William Church Otis by his wife Margaret Sigourney, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, 1 January, 1871; married, 1 June, 1891, Reverend William G. Thayer, born at New Brighton, Massachusetts, 24 December, 1863; son of Robert Hilyer Thayer by his wife Hannah Fuller Appleton. Mr. Thayer was graduated at Amherst College in 1885, and at Cambridge Divinity School in 1889, when he was ordained to the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He then became a Master at Groton School, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1894, when he was appointed Head-Master of St. Mark's School, at Southborough, Massachusetts, which position he still retains. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, and in 1906, received the honorary degree of A.M. from Columbia University.

Children of Reverend William G. and Violet (Otis) Thayer:

202. i. Violet Otis Thayer,* born 1 June, 1892.

203. ii. William G. Thayer,' Junr, born 18 June, 1893.

204. iii. Sigourney Thayer,* born 24 March, 1896.

205. iv. James Appleton Thayer,* born 20 May, 1899.

206. v. Robert Hilyer Thayer,* born 22 September, 1901.

207. vi. Margaret Thayer,* born 12 February, 1905.

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Violet Thayer's Timeline

1871
January 17, 1871
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1892
June 1, 1892
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1893
June 18, 1893
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1896
March 24, 1896
Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
1899
May 20, 1899
Massachusetts, United States
1901
September 22, 1901
Southborough, Worcester County, MA, United States
1905
February 12, 1905
Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
1911
November 1, 1911
Southborough, Worcester County, MA, United States
1962
November 16, 1962
Age 91
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States