Dodavah Scates, NH, MA
From the Boston Evening Transcript, Monday, September 20, 1880:
“Mr. Dodavah Scates, proprietor of Scates’s Hotel, Brighton District, died suddenly Thursday at 7:30 A.M., from the effects of injuries caused by being thrown from a carriage on the 26th of August.Mr. Scates was born in Ossipee, N.H., in January 1821.From 1837 to 1859 he was connected with the truckmen of Quincy Market.He was proprietor of the Eastern Market Hotel twenty-one years.”
From Dodavah Scates’ probate file:
Died intestate 16 September 1880 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA.Survived by wife Emma G. C. Scates.Son Edward C. Scates of Boston appointed executor.Other next of kin: Willard B. Scates, son; Lucy E. Young, daughter.
Any more information about this family and/or the Scates Hotel would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.
Sylvia