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The Gershom (8) Collier family tombstone in the High Street Cemetery, Haydenville, Mass. Note that the spelling on the stone is "Collyer," unusual for the Mass. branches of the family. Gershom died in 1871, and his widow, Sarah (Cowing), had married (2) Livingston S. Bartlett before May 16, 1874. On that date Sarah and daughter Viola Belle Collier were the first 2 of 139 people drowned in the Mill River Flood, caused by the collapse of a dam above the village of Williamsburg. Livingston Bartlett survived and lived until after 1920. Photo by Eric Weber.
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