Douglas Coles Marcy

Family/Spouse: Mary Elise Tollison. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin Wallace Marcy
2. Ella Katherine Marcy

Notes:

Died:
Bart Marcy (Barton Coles Marcy, Jr.), 77, passed away December 9, 2017. Born in Oneida, NY, he spent his youth in East Windsor, CT. He attended Suffield Academy, Wake Forest University (B.S.), and the University of Connecticut (M.S.). Always an outdoorsman and environmentalist, he spent his entire career as an ichthyologist and environmental consultant. While at the Essex, CT Marine Lab, he participated in the first study of the effects of nuclear power plant cooling water on the riverine and coastal environment. He continued his research for NUS Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA and Aiken, SC. At his last job at Westinghouse Savannah River Site, he led the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) program, and also continued his fisheries research. He was a founding member of the Friends of the Edisto (FRED) and wrote many papers and books on fisheries biology, the last of which was Fishes of the Edisto. He most recently lived in Summerville, SC in the Del Webb community where he advised the Fishing Club on stocking their lagoons for recreational purposes. In addition to his wife Joan Lang Marcy, Bart is survived by his son Douglas Coles Marcy and daughter-in-law Mary Elise Marcy, grandchildren Benjamin and Ella Kate of Charleston, SC and his sister Elaine Campbell of Canaan, NH.
The family will receive friends from 1PM-2PM on December 19 at the McAlister-Smith funeral home, 2501 Bees Ferry Road Charleston, SC 29414, where his memorial service will be held at 2PM at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Friends of the Edisto, www.edistofriends.org/join-donate.
Arrangements entrusted to McAlister-Smith Funeral Home, 2501 Bees Ferry Rd. Charleston, SC 29414.

Barton + Joan Corry Lang. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barton married Gertrude Arlene Lasbury on 6 May 1939. Gertrude (daughter of James Newton Lasbury, Snr. and Grace Townsend) was born on 13 Apr 1915 in Connecticut, USA; died on 5 Jan 2009 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave ID: 62058760
• Occupation: Farmer
• Alt Birth: 16 Mar 1877
• Military Service: 12 Sep 1918, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

NOTES FOR JAMES NEWTON LASBURY:
1910 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 151B
Lasbury, James, head, 33, married 6 yrs, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Grace, wife, 23, married 6 yrs, 2 births 2 living, ME, Maine, Eng
Hazel, dau 5, CT
Helen, dau, 3, CT

Ezra Gilman Townsend, father-in-law, 71, wd, ME, Eng, Eng, wool sorter

1920 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 136A
Lasbury, James N, head, 43, married, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Grace, wife, 38, CT, ME, ME
Hazel, dau, 15, CT
Helen, dau, 13, CT
James, son, 8, CT
Gertrude, dau, 4, CT

1930 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Lasbury, James N, head, 53, 1st married at 25, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Grace. wife, 44, 1st married qt 18, ME, ME, ME
Hazel, dau, 25, CT
Helen, dau, 23, CT
James, son, 18, CT
Gertrude, dau, 14, CT

James married Grace Townsend on 19 Apr 1904 in Connecticut, USA. Grace (daughter of Ezra Gilman Townsend and Deborah Annie Ramsdell) was born on 23 Nov 1885 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA; died on 6 Apr 1962 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Jonah
• FindaGrave ID: 62058752

Notes:

The following was derived from recollections of Gertrude Lasbury Marcy, daughter of Grace Townsend Lasbury and from Gladys H. Warren (from Marilyn Macdonald)

James married Grace Townsend of Old Town., Maine on April 19, 1904. Grace's father was Ezra Gilman Townsend, born 7 Jun 1838, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA and worked for years as a wool sorter for Chapin Humphrey. He died on 23 Feb 1914, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Her mother was Deborah Annie Ramsdell, born in 1841 in Lincolnville, Maine and worked at the old "National House" as a table girl. She died on 5 Jun 1893, Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA.

Deborah's mother died very young on the family farm in Hudson, Maine. Deborah's father was a sea captain and sailed around Cape Horn (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy and the Lasbury genealogy). He was killed on the wharf at Winterport, Maine by a man who was indignant at not being hired. He struck him with "brass knuckles" in front of the people assembled to see the ship sail. Grace had four sisters, Nellie, Hattie, Maud, and Annie (age 9 when Grace was born) and two brothers, Charlie and Frank. Charles was killed by lightning and worked for Brown Thomson Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Maud and Grace thought the world of each other (14 months difference in age). The family called them "Sol" and Jonah".

Grace was born on November 23, 1885 (likely in or near Bangor, Maine) and died at age 77 on April 6, 1962 in Broad Brook, Connecticut. She came to Connecticut with her family at about age 6 (based on Annie coming to Connecticut at age 15). Grace and Maud lived with their Sister Harriet Chase on Evergreen Avenue upon coming the Hartford. She was an apprentice dressmaker in Bangor, Maine (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy). Her sister Annie was a dressmaker and was put on the first floor of the dress shop as a hemmer because of her good looks. On the Connecticut tobacco farm, Grace cooked and baked on an old wood and coal stove in the early years, often a complete 3-5 course dinner twice every day for 4-6 tobacco farm hands and never complained. Grace loved to garden, sported large flowery hats and made the best molasses cookies and fresh bread with molasses almost every day. She was an accomplished horsewoman and often drove her horse to South Windsor, Connecticut to see her sister Maud Graham on Graham Road.

James and Grace had three girls, Helen, Hazel and Gertrude (youngest child) and James Jr. Helen and James Malcolm Macdonald had two children, Marilyn Steele and James Malcolm Jr. Hazel and Burt Simmons had one child, Elizabeth Jane, and Margaret and James Lasbury had daughter Suzanne Peck Simmons (no relation to the above family) and son James III. (See page 202 for more details of Lasbury Family Genealogy).

Reference
"The Life of Annie M. Warren, written by Gladys H. Warren (her daughter-in-law) May, 1961, research from Marilyn Macdonald. (Annie was Grace Lasbury's sister).