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Cyrus Wheaton Bliss |
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BLISS, CYRUS WHEATON, son of Cyrus Bliss and Sukey Jarvis (Harding) Bliss of Rehoboth, Mass., was born in Rehoboth, April 14, 1823, and died in Rehoboth, April 4, 1883. He was sixth in descent from Thomas Bliss, one of the proprietors and founders of Rehoboth. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was highly esteemed for his industry and for uprightness in all his relations in life, of sturdy and upright character and purpose. Devoted to his home, his family and his business, he led a successful life, beloved and respected. He married Jan. 1, 1851, Hannah T. Munroe of Rehoboth, whose parents lived on the adjoining estate. She was born in Rehoboth, Feb. 1, 1828, and died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 9, 1910. She was seventh in descent from Richard Warren who came over in the Mayflower, and fifth in descent from Captain Benjamin Church and Alice Southworth. She was a prominent and active member of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. She was educated in the public and private schools of her native town and in the Friends’ School of New Bedford, Mass., and throughout her long and happy life of usefulness she took a lively interest in public, religious and social matters. A woman of remarkable intellectual endowments and character, strong in ambition and purpose, full of hope and courage, ever seeking the higher attainments in life, a loving, devoted wife and mother, beloved and admired, whose life furnished a brilliant example of a noble woman. Two children were born of this wedlock. Frederic W. Bliss, a lawyer of Boston, and Dr. George D. Bliss, a physician of Boston.
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