Alfred TREFETHEN0292
(31 August 1814 - 10 December 1882)
Married Sarah Jane COLLINS & Elizabeth McNIGHT
PARENTS: Abraham TREFETHEN0296
(around 1790 - March 1824) and Elizabeth MELOON
Events:
Born in New Castle, New Hampshire
Died in Newburyport, Massachusetts [Source 64: Death Certificate] 'from Paralysis';
Buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport
Married Sarah on 19 November 1844 in New Castle., New Hampshire. She was born on 20 October 1825, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. [Source 64]
Fisherman (son's birth certificate has Mast maker [1850])
Source 64 places them (he & Sarah) in 1880 Plaistow, New Hampshire [New Hampshire Soundex]
Elizabeth was born about 1833, in Scotland, daughter of John & Ann. A widow when she married Alfred. She died on 31 October 1890 of Cancer in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Served Captain Josiah Hadley's Company at Fort Constitution, from 04 April 1861 to 9 May 1861 alongside his brother Abraham TREFETHEN0675. He enlisted on 19 December 1862 & mustered the next day. He was a Corporal in 48th Reg. MA Vol. Infantry. Mustered out on 03 September 1863. [Massachusetts Civil War Records]
Resided in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before 1851 (from son's birth info.)
(SOURCES: 19, 36, 62, 64)
SOURCES:
19. New Hampshire Soldiers & Sailors: Ware of the Rebellion, Register of, pps. 90, 1219 Augustus D. Ayling, Adj. Gen.; Concord, New Hampshire; Ira C. Evans, Pub. Printer; 1895.