The Family of Lewis L. Short and Caroline E. “Carrie” Westbrook Short

The Parents of Lewis L. Short

Lemuel C. Short and Mary J. Robinson Short

The Parents of Caroline E. Westbrook

Walter Westbrook and Sarah Densmore Westbrook

Short Family Tree

Robinson Family Tree

Westbrook Family Tree

Densmore Family Tree

Marriages of Lewis L. Short

Marriage to Caroline E. Westbrook in 1880

Marriages of Caroline E. Westbrook

Marriage to Lewis L. Short in 1880

The Obituary of Lewis L. Short

26 October 1855 - 22 October 1936

From the Livonia Gazette, 30 October 1936

Lewis L. Short of Hemlock died at his home. Thursday night, Oct. 22, after an illness of two weeks. Mr. Short had been failing in health for over a year but was able to be about until about two weeks ago, when he was confined to his home with a heart attack. Tuesday morning he suffered a stroke from which he never fully regained consciousness.

Lewis Short was the son of Lemuel C. and Mary Robinson Short and was one of nine children. He would have been 81 years of age had he lived to Oct. 26. His entire life was spent in Herlock excepting about two years in California. He was a farmer and had lived on and worked the same farm since 1883, until about eight years ago when he gave up farming on account of infirmities of old age. He still continued to live at the old homestead. Part of this same farm was owned by Philip Short, a great grandfather, who came from Rehoboth, Mass., to settle here in 1796, being one of the first settlers in these parts.

Mr. Short married Carrie Westbrook of Hemlock in 1880. To them seven children were born all of whom are living.

Surviving are the wife; two sons, Philip of Rochester and Walter of Hemlock; five daughters. Mrs. Ethel Gallagher, Mrs. Wm. Westfall and Mrs. Geo. Gladding of Rochester, Mrs. Blanche Capron of Hemlock and Mrs. H. Troy of Batavia; one sister. Mrs. O. A. Beam of Hemlock: six granddaughters; five grandsons and one great grandson.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p.m. from his home with the Rev. Ernest Riemer officiating. Interment was in Union cemetery.

The Obituary of Caroline E. Westbrook Short

24 July 1858 - 31 July 1940

From the Livonia Gazette, 1 August 1940.

Mrs. Caroline Westbrook Short of Hemlock, widow of Lewis L. Short, died early yesterday morning at the Central Park hospital, Buffalo, where she was taken following an automobile accident on the evening of Sunday, July 20, when she was returning from a trip to Niagara Falls with some of the members of her family in celebration of her approaching 82nd birthday anniversary. The five other occupants of the car in which she was riding escaped injury; but Mrs. Short suffered so severely from shock that she never rallied, though no bones were broken. Some of the immediate family had been at her bedside in the Buffalo hospital constantly since the accident. The accident occurred when the car in which Mrs. Short was riding was struck by another car at the intersection of Sheridan drive and Union road about 10 o’clock in the evening.

Mrs. Short was born in the town of Canadice, July 24th, 1858. She was the daughter of Walter and Sarah Densmore Westbrook, who moved with their family to Hemlock lake in 1878. In 1880, she was married to Mr. Short who died in Oct., 1936. To them were born seven children, all of whom survive. Mrs. Short had lived in the present farmhouse for the past fifty-seven years.

Funeral services for Mrs. Short will be held from the home in Hemlock, Saturday afternoon at 2:30. Interment will take place in Union cemetery, Livonia. Surviving Mrs. Short are five daughters, Mrs. Ethel Gallagher, Mrs. Beatrice Gladding and Mrs. Grace Westfall of Rochester, Mrs. Ruth Troy of Batavia and Mrs. Blanche Capron of Hemlock; two sons, Phillip and Walter, both of Hemlock; six granddaughters, five grandsons and two great grandchildren; one brother, H. L. Westbrook, of Rochester, and one sister, Mrs. Fred Thurston of Hemlock. Two other sisters, Mrs. Emma Short and Mrs. Elizabeth Pemberton and a brother, Edwin H. Westbrook, preceded Mrs. Short in death, the latter two having died within the past year.

The Burial of Lewis L. Short

Union Cemetery in Livonia NY

The Burial of Caroline E. Westbrook Short

Union Cemetery in Livonia NY

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