Thomas Theodore Packard (1902-1975)

Biography courtesy of Find A Grave, with some minor changes and footnotes removed:

With the family going different ways, few stayed with Cyrus. A little less than six months after Dora died, he married again. This woman, his third wife, was Clementina Cheney, coming from well-established New England families, stayed at home, while Cyrus was a carpenter He wasn’t done having children. With Clementina he would have another five children putting his number of offspring at 12, with the last name of Packard. These children would include Olive Martha (October 23, 1896-January 20, 1969), Herbert Miles (October 1898 - August 30, 1966), Rachel May (April 13, 1900 - September 22, 1933), Thomas “Tom” Theodore Packard (May 2, 1902 - 1975), and Harold Cyrus Packard (Apr. 24, 1907 – 1977). None of them ever married.

After Cyrus’s death, Tom took over the “old” Plainfield farm or “home farm” of Cyrus in 1925, buying it for $1,000 from the administrator of his estate, William A. Packard. Tom kept the farm running, although he wasn’t an “old type carpenter” like Cyrus, until December 1946, when a fire destroyed it, two months after the mortgage on the property was released. After that point, he bought property nearby, operating a farm until his death. Later he would be a selectman, head the Plainfield Republican Committee, and be a town historian in a way, including notes on local cemeteries, some of which included Packards, who had allied with the Shaw family and clashed with other families within the town apart from serving in the Massachusetts Legislature. Harold, on the other hand, also helped out in the local community, in terms of carpentry and other tasks.