Harry Crayton Sturtevant

1870 - 1890

• Born	21 Aug 1870	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Sep 1890	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Buried	22 Sep 1890	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Notes	Helen S. Durphey Hartland, Vermont I want to tell you about the framework over the fireplace (picture). It is made of plaster of paris and is gray in color. When George Hebard was living, he designed this picture of an old fashioned choir in church, and he gave one to each family, it set on an easel in parlors in the various households and may be you will find one in Florence M's holdings of her old homethings (wherever they are). It was called the Doxology - Some of you may find this an not know its original identity. The date might have been 1895 or near that - Mr Hebard, Ann Sturtevant's husband (Crayton's sister) was a sterling character and worked in the Church of the Redeemer in Hartford, Connecticut for many years. Written by Helen Sturtevant Durphey, 1963 I looked up some diaries that I kept in the 1900's, interspersed with pictures we took. Time meant nothing to me in those days. During the years 1900 to 1906 your Sturtevant family came to Hartland summers, they boarded around at different places near us. You can se by the enclosed letters how loving and intimate the family was. Aunt Hattie was deeply religious after Harry died. She was a medium and held meetings in a dark room gathered around a table communing with spirits of the dead. In conversation she would ask you a question and instead of listening to your answers her mind would wander to the extremes (a trate of Berts). Aunt Hattie died Nov. 1905 (My father was 61 years old). I was visiting my sister Florence in Newport, Vermont, where she had a teaching position of music and a choir position. Father phoned me and it necessitated my coming home to "tend store" while he went to the funeral. Dec. 1, 1905, I started for Hartford by train at 9 a.m. Ray met me. I took 3 bottles of cidar in my grip to Uncle Crayton. Ray went back to Harvard next day. I went to make it more congenial for the family for Florence was all alone during the day. From the Hartford Courant, 1890 As was stated in the Courant of yesterday Harry C. Sturtevant oldest son of Mr. And Mrs. F.C. Sturtevant, died at the residence of his father on Washington Street Monday night. The young man was so well and favorably known, so dearly beloved, in fact by all who knew him, that the following details of his sickness and death will be of interest. Last January a slight trouble appeared in one foot and ankle which was supposed to proceed from a strain caused by slipping on the ice. This although growing slowly worse did not prevent his continuing his studies and taking part in his class in the graduating services in the high school in the spring. He graduated with high honors and as class orator attracted universal attention and praise by his manly and forcible oration. Immediately after he passed the examination for Trinity College. The trouble in the foot which in spite of medical skill had now assumed the form of paralysis continued to spread. He was taken from Westbrook, Connecticut where he was spending the summer to New York where he was examined and treated by some of the best surgeons of that city but much to the disappointment of his anxious friends he continued to grow worse. After his return to Hartford in September, the paralysis spread more rapidly and soon affected the entire left side of his body and his power of articulation. By the advice of his physicians of this city Drs. Fuller and Wolff, he was last week placed under the car eof Dr. Seguin, the noted brain specialist in New York, who at once attributed the trouble to a tumor in or on the brain and agreed with the Hartford physicians that the only possible chance of saving the young man's life was to remove the tumor. After much consultation the parents gave their consent to have the operation of "trephining performed. The operation was performed Monday afternoon by Professor Bryant, head surgeon of Bellevue Hospital of New York, assisted by Drs. Seguin, F.C. Otis, eminent Ny surgeons, and in the presence of Drs. Fuller, Storrs, and Wolff of this city. The operation though skillfully and successfully performed failed to disclose the tumor, but sufficient evidence was discovered to convince the doctors that their diagnosis was correct, but that the tumor instead of being on the brain was deepseated in that organ and beyond all possibility of removal. The patient survived the operation only a few hours. Mr. And Mrs. Sturtevant have the heartfelt sympathy of a host of friends in their great bereavement. Harry was a young man of rare ability and great promise. His attainments as an artist or as a musician were alone worthy of special commendation but the great beauty of his character was in his high and pure mind. His mental development was far beyond his years and he had been blessed with moral and spiritual qualities that endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 3:00 p.m., September 25, 1890. "From Helen Durphey, ""In my old bureau here, is a box containing "Harry's piccolo" what shall I do with it?"
  Person ID	I133	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2012

  
  

  Father	Francis Crayton Sturtevant,   b. 13 Dec 1838, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA ,   d. 21 Dec 1916, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Harriet Helen Ellis,   b. 25 Jun 1848, Prescott, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 22 Nov 1905, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	1869	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F19	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S39] Descendants of Samuel Sturtevant, Robert H. Sturtevant, (Name: 1986 Edition;), 8-111.