Third Generation

6. Charles Dyer EDDY was born on 1 October 1829 in Providence, RI. Resided at: Bristol, RI in 1850 . In 1850 he was a Seaman. He died on 22 August 1903 at the age of 73 in Bristol, RI.¹⁴ Charles was buried at New Section, Lots #833-834 in North Burial Ground, Bristol, RI. Information from 1850 Census, Bristol, RI. Microfilm 841, page 9036. He was a seaman living with his parents in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. He and his family were living in Bristol in the 1870 Census. He had a personal estate valued at $5000 and was listed as a master mariner. Other information is that he was a master with the Usher fleet. A.T. and T.J. Usher engaged in an extensive export and import trade with Cuba, importing large quantities of molasses that was converted into rum by one of Bristol's two distilleries. One of the major exports was onions, with Bristol County raising from 100,000 to 150,000 bushels of onions a year. The old saying among growers of onions was: "What the smut and worms don't take, the Ushers will."

In the 1880 Census, the family was living in District 67, Bristol. Charles was a ships master and suffered from dyspepsia.

Charles is listed as living in building with Jonathan Slade and family. He's listed as a grocer in the 1876-77 Bristol Directory with store at corner of Church and High Streets, a clerk in the 1881 Directory, a foreman at the National Rubber Company in 1887, and as a junk dealer in the 1888 Bristol Directory. In the 1900 Census, he is listed as a watchman. In 1891 he was appointed Collector of Customs for the District of Bristol and Warren ("Men of Progress in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Boston: New England Magazine, 1896, p. 26, in which his picture appears). He lived at the corner of Church and High Streets, the house he built after retiring from the sea, above his grocery store. The 1900 Census lists him as having been born in 1828 and living with his daughter Grace and her husband Charles Henning.

Source for Eddy family tree is "The Eddy Family in America." He's mentioned on pages 525-6 of the Eddy family genealogy, 1930.

His daughter's obituary refers to him as Captain Charles D. Eddy and his wife as Sarah W. (Bennett) Eddy.

He was Collector of Customs for the Bristol and Warren District, to which he was appointed in 1891. He was a master of vessels in foreign trade for 14 years.

Rhode Island Vital Records lists his date of death as 22 August 1903. He was a widower, retired, living at Church and High Streets in Bristol. Cause of death was paralysis. His physician was W. Fred Williams, and the undertaker George W. Simmons. His parents were Cyrus and Phebe Eddy.

He had a large stone in the Old North Burial Ground for several generations of Eddys. The stone reads: "Charles D., 1829-1903, his wife, Sarah M. Bennett, 1842-1882, Sadie M. Eddy, 1875-1888, Charles Henning, 1858-1910, his wife, Grace Dyer Eddy, 1868-1953, his mother, Eunice D. Eddy, 1803-1846, his father, Cyrus B. Eddy, 1808-1876." The stone is roughly in the center of the cemetery NNW of the John H. Leonard plot and SE of corner of Mt. Carmel street.

A Charles D. Eddy had a daughter, Mary E., who died 6 January 1857, age 12. A different Charles D.? Sarah Martin BENNETT and Charles Dyer EDDY were married on 9 March 1862 in State Street Methodist Church, Bristol, RI.

7. Sarah Martin BENNETT was born on 16 April 1842 in Bristol, RI. She died on 26 January 1886 at the age of 43 in Bristol, RI.¹⁵ She was buried at New Section, Lots 833-834 in North Burial Ground, Bristol, RI. She died of pneumonia. Her parents were listed as Albert and Sarah M. Bennett. She was living on Church Street when she died. Her birth date calculates to May 12, 1842, based on being 43 years, 8 months, 14 days old at death.

Children were:

3	i.	Mary Eunice EDDY.
	ii.	Grace Dyer EDDY was born on 25 November 1868 in Bristol, RI. She died in 1953 at the age of 85 in Bristol, RI. She was buried at New Section, Lots 833-834 in North Burial Ground, Bristol, R.I.. She was later town clerk in Bristol, R.I. She doesn't appear in the 1910 Census. In the 1920 Census, she and her husband were living at 159 High Street, Bristol. According to the 1930 Census, she was head of household (no one else in household) living at 159 High Street in Bristol, occupation listed as none.
	iii.	Sarah Martin EDDY was born on 22 August 1875 in Bristol, RI. She died on 18 August 1888 at the age of 12 in Church Street, Bristol, RI. She was buried at New Section, Lots #833-834 in North Burial Ground, Bristol, RI. She's buried in the Charles Dyer Eddy plot and listed on the common gravestone. She died of typhoid fever, which also claimed her grandmother 5 days later. Was she born August 22 or August 24? She was 12 years, 11 months, 25 days old when she died, which figures to August 24.