{"id":10794,"date":"2026-02-15T13:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:35:16","slug":"walter-s-avery-1857-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/?p=10794","title":{"rendered":"Walter S Avery 1857 \u2013 1883"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Avery-John-Levina-Elmer-E-Abner-T-Charles-C-and-Walter-S-Headstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Avery-John-Levina-Elmer-E-Abner-T-Charles-C-and-Walter-S-Headstone.jpg 556w, https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Avery-John-Levina-Elmer-E-Abner-T-Charles-C-and-Walter-S-Headstone-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Walter S Avery Headstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ancestry:<\/strong>&nbsp; John Avery;&nbsp; John Avery;&nbsp; Joshua Avery, Rev War;&nbsp; John Avery;&nbsp; Richard Avery;&nbsp; Richard Avery, Jr.;&nbsp; Richard Avery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Born:<\/strong>&nbsp;February 21, 1857 in Sandwich Ma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Father:<\/strong>\u00a0John Avery; (1825 \u2013 1872) (John Avery &amp; Elizabeth Chase)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mother:<\/strong>\u00a0Levina Taylor; (1826 \u2013 1910) (Abner Taylor &amp; Joanna Chase)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Died:<\/strong>&nbsp;March 3, 1883 in Falmouth Ma, at 26 yrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Buried:\u00a0<\/strong>Pocasset Cemetery; area A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Occupation:<\/strong>&nbsp;Iron Moulder, Farmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Married:<\/strong>&nbsp;February 27, 1881 in Sandwich Ma. by O.H. Murray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>To:<\/strong>\u00a0Frances\/Fannie L. Baker; (1865 \u2013 1952) (Lewis Almon Baker &amp; Emily W. Mecarta); Frances\/Fannie married (2) Frederick Howard Burgess (1865 \u2013 1937) (Edmund C. Burgess &amp; Betsey W. Ellis) on Abt.1886; Frances\/Fannie &amp; Frederick are buried together in Pocasset Cemetery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Children:<\/strong>&nbsp;1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0George Taylor Avery; (December 18, 1881 \u2013 March 15, 1970); Married (1) Sylvia Alma Gibbs (1883 \u2013 1968) (Phineas Gibbs, Jr. &amp; Emma Corey Crowell) in Cataumet Ma. on December 27, 1903; They were divorced; Sylvia married (2) Leslie Blossom Rogers (1882 \u2013 ?) (Zemira B. Rogers &amp; Melissa P. Small) in Brockton Ma. on November 29, 1911 &amp; married\u00a0(3) Sanford Edward Alger (1878 \u2013 1957) (Charles Sanford Alger &amp; Ellen F. Dunbar) prob. in Brockton Ma.; Sanford married (1) Jennie May Jackson (1880 \u2013 1944) (Charles Henry Jackson &amp; Helen L. Whiting) in Brockton Ma. on November 5, 1900; Sylvia had no children from her 3 marriages; George married (2) Anna R. Schneider (1885 \u2013 1954) (Robert A. Schneider &amp; Margaret Kegal) in\u00a0Pocasset Ma.\u00a0on June 16, 1914; They had 3 children; George &amp; Anna are buried in Pocasset Cemetery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry:&nbsp; John Avery;&nbsp; John Avery;&nbsp; Joshua Avery, Rev War;&nbsp; John Avery;&nbsp; Richard Avery;&nbsp; Richard Avery, Jr.;&nbsp; Richard Avery Born:&nbsp;February 21, 1857 in Sandwich Ma. Died:&nbsp;March 3, 1883 in Falmouth Ma, at 26 yrs. Occupation:&nbsp;Iron Moulder, Farmer Married:&nbsp;February 27, 1881 in Sandwich Ma. by O.H. Murray Children:&nbsp;1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avery-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10795,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}