The obituary of Ordway Morrill reads, "In Bridgewater, June 12, Dea. Ordway Morrill, aged 36--leaving an afflicted widow and five orphan children to mourn an irreparable loss. As a neighbor he was kind and friendly, and as a member of the Freewill Baptist Church, his death will be deeply regretted."

[1]New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).

[2]1830 US Census , Bridgewater NH, p. 5a.

[3]New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette (Concord, NH), 25 July 1836, p. 3.

[4]New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to marriages, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975-6).

[5]1850 US Census , Bridgewater NH, p. 138b.

[6]Marti Kuplin, Tombstone Inscriptions of Turnpike Cemetery, Bridgewater N.H. (Email message to the author, with photos, April 27, 2004).

[7]ibid.