Ernest Ridgeway Tilton

  General Notes:

Note for: Ernest R Tilton, 31 Jul 1875 - 11 Jun 1933 Index
Individual Note:
1880; Census Place: Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts; Roll T9_526; Family History Film: 1254526; Page: 565.1000; Enumeration District: 131; Image: 0500.
1900; Census Place: Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts; Roll T623_639; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 244.

The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks: Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 471 - 482
Compiled by Dr. Charles Banks, c. 1925. Transcribed by Karen Eddy, 1999. Prepared for the web by C. Baer, 1999 Encludes the following: 352. BENJAMIN, b. 28 Mch. 1788; m. SUSAN HILLMAN (400) 24 Oct. 1822. [Donna Griffiths writes that Benjamin S. Tilton and Susan Hillman had a son, whaler Capt. Owen Hillman Tilton. Owen m. Eliza R. Cottle, and they had a son Ernest R. Tilton, who owned the Tilton Hardware Store in Vineyard Haven until the Depression. He m. Catherine Frasier.]
Ancestors of the Tilton Family, Carl James Tilton Sr, http://www.tiltonbranches.com/.

Family Note: 1900; Census Place: Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts; Roll T623_639; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 244.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Chilmark , M/Vineyard Island, Mass.

Ernest married Catharine Fraser, daughter of Daniel Fraser and Janet (Unknown) Fraser, on 3 Oct 1899 in Tisbury Dukes Co Massachusetts. (Catharine Fraser was born on 5 Jan 1876 in New Glasgow Nova Scotia and died on 2 May 1961 in Vineyard Haven Dukes Co Massachusetts.)