Ellis Perry Westcott, who was born on February 9, 1871 in Seekonk, Massachusetts, operated a dairy business in Seekonk for 38 years and chaired the town’s Board of Selectmen when he died on May 8, 1937. He was a descendant of Stukely and Juliana Westcott in the eighth generation: Ellis Perry Westcott8, William7, Valorus6, Jonathan5, Samuel4, Benjamin3, Jeremiah2, Stukely1.
Ellis married Hannah Margarette Barquist on November 11, 1899. In the 1900 U.S. Census enumeration for Seekonk, Ellis is listed as milk dealer; Hannah, as a teacher. Their son Ellis Royden Westcott was born on April 30, 1901. After his father’s death, Ellis Royden Westcott continued Westcotts Dairy until it was sold in 1949.
Father and son were both active in the formative years of the Westcott Society, participating in an organizational meeting in Providence in 1933. Click the photo to enlarge it; Ellis Perry is fifth from the left in the middle row, his brother William Marr Westcott is the last one in the back row, and Ellis Royden’s wife Cynthia is third from the left in the front row.
| Promotional items from Westcotts Dairy in the Westcott Society Collection include a bottle cap, business card and a calendar cover; click the cover to enlarge it. |
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Ellis and his wife are buried in the Lakeside-Carpenter Cemetery in East Providence, Rhode Island. The head stone also bears the names of Hannah’s brother and sister-in-law, John and Louise Barquist, and Ellis Royden Westcott and his wife Cynthia:
Sources: Betty Acker, “Ellis Westcott,” 2006; census records on Ancestry.com; FindaGrave.com; Edna Lewis, The Westcott Family Tree, 1999 (Index numbers 963 and 1509).