Savory Collins Braley

   Cause of his death was cancer.

  General Notes:

Richard Braley notes:
Savory Collins Braley was born on Feb 23, 1844. He was the eighth of 11 children born to Benjamin and Mercy Westgate. The eleven were: Laura, Nathaniel, William (lived 5 weeks), Mary Ann, Sarah Jane, Maria, Serena, Savory C, Henry, Emma A, and Benjamin. This was according to the genealogy. The 1850 census, done on August 28 of that year, does not show Emma but does show Susan. The 1860 census of Acushnet shows Emma but not Susan. This apparent confusion could have been a census taker issue.
Savory is shown twice on the census of Acushnet in 1860. He is shown as living at home and as living at the farm of Ellis Mendall, working as a farm laborer.
Of the children of Benjamin and Mercy, Savory was the only one to serve in the military during the Civil War. He served two enlistments. The first began on Sept 19, 1862. He was in Company D, Mass 47^th Infantry Regiment. He mustered out on Sept 1, 1863 in Readville, MA. This indicated he likely did not go anywhere during this period. He entered as a Seaman and mustered out as a Corporal. His second enlistment began on March 2, 1864 as a Private. He mustered out at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas as a member of the 3^rd Massachusetts Cavalry, on September 28, 1865. He was promoted to Full Sergeant. The unit history shows they sailed from Boston to New Orleans and then campaigned up to Winchester, Virginia where they were involved in the critical battle of Belle Grove. The unit then went west to Kansas for mustering out. This service is verified in a special schedule of surviving soldiers, sailors, and marines, and widows etc. done as part of the 1890 census. By that time, he had been living in Boston, MA for several years.
On December 5, 1865 Savory married Sylvia Hammond. His occupation on the marriage record was shown as mariner. Sylvia was born on August 16, 1845 to George and Mary Ellis Hammond. He was a carpenter. She was born in Rochester, MA. The Hammond family was living in Rochester, MA in 1860. The 1865 census of Marion, MA shows her living in a combined Hammond/Ellis home doing housework.
It is interesting that within 3 months of his discharge Savory is married. The record show a close relationship between the Hammond and Braley families. Savory's older sister Mary Ann was already married to John Hammond, Sylvia's brother.
The 1870 census shows that Savory, Sylvia and their first two children, Susan (Susie) Belle and Frank S were living in Acushnet. They were living close to John and Mary Ann and four children. They also were close to Savory's brother Henry and his wife Josephine, and their son.
Savory and Sylvia were to have six children. The youngest were twin boys, Willie A and Charles K were born in August 1875 in Wellfleet. Willie died on Aug 7, 1876 and Charles a week later on August 14. Both died of cholera shortly before their first birthday. It appears that within a few years Savory and Sylvia moved to Boston as they are shown there in the 1882 Boston City Directory along with Frank S.
Mattie B was born 1871 in either Acushnet or Eastham. On April 1, 1891 she married Lawrence Tiernan. He was 36 year old cab driver. She was 20. They were married in Chelsea. Mattie died on Nov 14, 1896 at the age of 25. She died from pulmonary tuberculosis. She had three children. Charles Sumner Tiernan was born on June 21, 1891. Celia C was born on October 30, 1892. She died on August 29, 1893 from cholera. Edith Julia was born on December 20, 1893.
John K Braley was born in Wellfleet in March 1874. He was living in Hyde Park when he died at age 19 of fibroid phthsis on April 4, 1893. The 1892 Boston City Director shows that he was a gateman for the Old Colony Railroad. He was not married.
Frank S was born on April 11, 1869 in Acushnet. He married for the first time on November 30, 1895 to Clara Betsy Howes of Dennis. She died in Dennis on June 22, 1896 of acute nephritis. Savory was working as a section master for the Old Colony Railroad. Frank was working for the railroad as well. The 1882 Boston City Directory shows the family living on Hyde Park Ave. Also working for the railroad was Hugh Thomson Kennedy. On July 18, 1900, Frank married Catherine R Kennedy, Hugh's daughter from his first marriage. This was his second marriage and her first. They had five children: Savory Charles, Jan 1, 1902; John Kennedy, April 11, 1904; Jane (Jean), March 14, 1907; Frank Alexander, Oct 2, 1908; and Hugh Thomson, Oct 7, 1911. Frank died on April 21, 1944 and Catherine on December 25, 1944.
Susan Bell was born on April 13, 1867 in Marion (some records show Acushnet, but the birth record shows Marion). She married Joseph Ellis on August 3, 1898, who was 9 years younger than Susie. They had three children, Elmer F born about 1899, Mattie Bell born October 6, 1901 and named for her sister. A son, Walter, died on March 12, 1906 at the age of 1 year, 10 months of Broncho-pneumonia. They were living in Bourne by the time Walter was borne.
The 1900 census, done in June 1900, shows Frank S, Susie and her husband Joseph and son Elmer, and two Tiernan children, Charles and Edith, living with Savory and Sylvia. What happened to Lawrence? It also appears that Savory and Sylvia may have adopted Charles and Edith.
The 1910 Bourne census shows Charles Sumner Braley, same birthdate, living as a border in Bourne. Records show he married Gladys H. (?) in 1914. The 1920 census for Bourne. The 1930 census shows them living on Shore Road and that he was a house painter. The 1940 census is tricky. The Bourne census show Charles Sr. as married but living as a border. Gladys H Braley is living as a housekeeper in Danielson, CT. She has a 5 year old son Earle and is divorced. It is not clear that they are the same. Charles Sumner Braley Sr. died in New Bedford on July 10, 1970
The 1910 New Bedford census shows the Ellis family with Edith Braley, a niece, living with them and working as a clerk in a dry goods store. Sometime between the 1910 census and 1919, Edith married Wilbur Snyder. The record shows her name as Edith Julia Braley Tiernan. Their daughter Beverley was born in 1919 in Cambridge. By 1925, the Snyders were living in Utica, NY where he worked for the Railroad YMCA. By the 1930 census, they lived in Springfield, MA. He was still working for the Railroad YMCA. Beverley graduated from Springfield Classical High School and attended the Mass State College in Amherst (now UMass). Edith and Wilbur moved to Concord, NH. He still worked for the YMCA. He died in 1968 and she died October 10, 1990.
Sylvia died on March 19, 1906 at the age of 60 of acute croupous pneumonia. Savory died on June 2, 1907 at the age of 63. He died of cancer. The city directory for that year lists him as working for the railroad. The Boston Globe obituary shows that there were to be prayers at the family home on Washington St in Forest Hills with burial to be in Acushnet

Savory married Sylvia Hammond on 5 Dec 1865.²¹¹ (Sylvia Hammond was born on 16 Aug 1845 in Rochester, Massachusetts USA ²¹¹ and died on 19 Mar 1906.). The cause of her death was acute croupous pneumonia.