OSGOOD. M. ELSIE OBIT Herald Randolph a weekly local paper: ourherald.com Granddaughter of Dr. George Davenport, E Randolph, VT. Does not give date of printing, but figure the Thursday after the death. Randolph (Vermont, Orange County) M. Elsie Osgood, 97, died March 20, 1992, at the Mayo Nursing Home in Northfield, where she resided since 1985. She was born in Randolph March 9, 1895, the daughter of Arthur G. and Annie (Davenport) Osgood. She graduated from Randolph High School. Attended Skidmore College, and taught at elementary schools in Randolph from 1915-1918. She later received her bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught botany in New Jersey during the 1930's. From 1941-1952 she was head of the science department at Lydon State Teacher's College (Vermont). She maintained her ties to Randolph, where her father was a partner in the Sargent, Osgood and Roundy Foundry. She summered at her home in Braintree Hill until 1975, when she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to live with her sister Cora Davenport Osgood [Sister Theodora]. She returned to Vermont in 1984 following sister's death. She was a member of St. Jon's Episcopal Church. She leaves a cousin, Mildred Hunt of Southbury, Conn. She was predeceased by a cousins, Clara Riford of Randolph. Funeral services will be held March 27, at St. Jon's Episcopal Church at 10:30 a.m., with Rev. Timothy Eberhart officiating. Burial will be in the South View Cemetery, Randolph. Arrangements are under the care of the Day Funeral Home. This info helps to solve some mysteries: We, as in the Randolph Historical Society have received boxes of pictures and letters, donated by Elsie Osgood. Pictures of her mother, Annie Davenport and uncle Pearl Davenport were in a Riford file, E, S Randolph & Braintree, Vermont family. Note the relationship in Elsie's obit. More questions: was her sister, Cora, a Catholic or Episcopalian nun? How does one trace a nun who has taken upon a "saint's" name. Did she go to retire where her gUncle Frank Davenport may have ended? In another article, 1927, on Thomas Davenport the inventor, of Williamstown, Vermont, there is reference to Rt. Rev. George W. Davenport, D. D. , Bishop of Maryland, grandson of Thomas and Rev. Walter R. Davenport, D. D. of Montpelier, Vermont. Were they Catholic or Episcopalian? The wonder and mysteries of research continues! Harriet M. Chase Randolph, Vermont. With a claim to Davenport connections by my gggrandfather, George J. Chase who married Sarah Davenport, August 28, 1837, Grande Isle, Vermont and died Essex Jct., Vermont 1906. ///////