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DeWitt Alanson (2), b., 1843, m., 1867, Jane Elizabeth Byington, b., 1844, daughter of George. [One son, Nathan DeWitt, b., 1782] in., 1896, Emma Geneva Link, b., 1876. [Two children, the elder, Mabel Cynthia (1), b., 1897]. This father and son reside, Atlantic, Iowa. They are farmers.
Frances Maria (3), b., 1845, m., 1868, Peter J. Defendorf, b., 1847, at Pleasant Brook, Otsego Co., N. Y. Two children, Cora Rebecca (1), b., 1871, m., 1893, Charles Lawson Wooding, b., 1869, graduated from .Yale College, 1892; librarian, Bristol Public Library. Children, Lois Frances b. Feb., 1895 (dec.); Helen b., 1897. Fred Winston (2), second child of Frances M. and Peter Defendorf, b., 1878, d., 1880.
Frank W. (4), of Pawnee City, Iowa, now of Bristol, Conn., b., 1852, m., 1875, Alice Muzzy of Henry, b., 1855 in Bristol, Conn. Two children [Ella M. Winston b., 1876, in Iowa; Ernest F., 1882; graduated Trinity College, Hartford, 1905].
George M. Winston (5), b., 1863, m., 1892, Edna May Todd, 1871. [Children b. in Nebraska; Charles J. (1), 1892; Fred D. (2), 1894; Martha E. (3), 1897].
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FRANK PETERSON, U. S. N., 1899-1905.
Julius Rodney Pond of Martin, next bought the Wm. Jerome 1st house, in which also resided his only child, Julius Almeron Pond and family. Jullius Rodney Pond d., May 30, 1883. Mrs. Elizabeth (Pres- ton) Pond, daughter of Luman, of Plymouth, d. Sept. 30, 1883. The son Julius Almeron Pond sold the place to Theodore Lockenwitz, the present owner, April 1, 1896. Mr. Lockenwitz has a large family of children and relatiyes.
Soon after 1860, Horace Osborne Miller built a house at the north- west corner of Warner St. and Jerome Ave., the site of the Caleb Palmer house (No. 36). "Caleb Palmer and his wife" were church members in Bristol, Aug., 1747. Wm. Jerome 4th, now living, was always told by his father, Wm. 3d, that Caleb Palmer lived at that place. Mr. Miller found in excavating for his cellar, the foundations of the old stone chim- ney, burnt stones, and a coin, several feet below the surface of the soil, which he did not long preserve. He also dug out from the terraces the stump and roots of a large pine tree, known for its size as a landmark from the beginning of the settlement. It was remembered by William and Daniel Jerome as a stump when they were children. Mr. Miller built his house in part of a building he had secured in Burlington of his father-in-law, Chester Bunnell. He purchased the old wagon shop, formerly used by Vincent Thompson and Lewis Bradley, in Burlington, near North Peaceable St., Bristol. The wagon shop, enlarged to nearly double the original size, stands west of his house on Warner St., and is his present barn. The house in use about a score of years (with the sugges- tion and encouragement of his son Luther) gave way to the present well-built home. Mr. Miller is a mason and brick-layer. He married' first Henrietta Bunnell, daughter of Chester, the mother of his children. Mary (1), [Mrs. Hill of Bristol]; Henrietta (2), George (3), Luther (4), Emma May, (5) (dec.) and William (6). Mr. Miller m. 2d, Nancy Marvin of Goshen, Conn., who died after a residence of few years in Bristol. The 3d marriage was to Mrs. Electa M. (Curtiss) Hinman, of Plainville, Conn.
William Jerome 2d,, built and lived in the house of mansion style (No. 37), north of Mr. Miller. In 1788, with his brother Benjamin, he purchased of Amasa Ives an interest in the Gristmill where the Bar-
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tholomew Factory now stands. His brother died in 1803. In that year their interest in the mill was increased. In 1809, Wm. Jerome, 2d, was three quarters owner of the mill, with Isaac Graham, Sr., owning a one quarter's right. (Isaac Graham, Sr., was father of Edward (1), Alexander (2), George (3) and Isaac, Jr. (4) ). He lived in a small house near the head of the Mill Pond in District No. 8. William Jerome married first Phebe Barnes, daughter of Josiah, of Jediah, of Ebenezer, of Thomas, the Pioneer. Married second, Polly Andrews. Children of Wm., 2d, and Phebe (Barnes) Jerome, were Alva (1), Sylvester (2), Daniel (3), William, 3d (4), Willis, (5), and Willard (6), Amanda (7), Eunice (8), Hannah (9), Phebe (10). The children of the second wife, Polly Andrews, were Julina (Julia Ann) (11), Sophronia (12), Polly (13), William Jerome, 2d, died 1821, aged 65. Phebe, his wife, died 1804, aged 44.
William Jerome, 3d, married Charity Hotchkiss.
Eunice Jerome married Thomas Rowe.
Julina Jerome married Samuel Pardee (nephew of Dr. Jared Pardee). Sophronia married Elizur Hart.
Hannah married Bryan Richards.
Phebe married Mr. Payne. Alva united with church, Feb. 17, 1811.
Wm. Jerome, 2d, died in 1821. The Gristmill was sold to Martin Byington and Isaac Graham (Byington & Graham). Asa Bartholomew, son of Jacob, bought the Wm., 2d (Jerome), place in 1807. In 1828, Polly Jerome, widow of Wm. Jerome, 2d, was living in the old home of Wm., 1st. It appears probable that the Jeromes went there to vacate the house bought by Asa Bartholomew in 1807.
Asa, son of Jacob and Sarah (Gridley) Bartholomew, was born at Bartemy Tavern, Peaceable St., or the old North School District of Bristol, March 25, 1776, where he lived until his marriage in 1801, to Charity, daughter of Isaac Welles Shelton. Charity Shelton had three direct lines of ancestry to Gov. Welles, of Connecticut. In 1805, they moved to Pleasant Valley, N. Y., for two years' residence. There they kept a tavern and the son George Welles, was born. Returning to Bristol they purchased the residence of Wm. Jerome, 2d, with 360 acres of land, establishing the home of many years. Eventually the place was sold to Frank Bishop of Avon, Conn., who sold it to Isaac Bronson, son of Deacon Irad about 1858. Mr. Bronson, with his second wife, Melinda (Price) Norton, adopted daughter of Eben Norton of Bristol, and Goshen, Conn., died in 1888 a tragic death by the hand of Mr. Bron- son, while doubtless insane. They had no children.
Afterward Albert J. Hart engaged in market gardening here until the purchase of a home elsewhere. Others were residents for short periods. For the past nine years Charles Downs, son of Levi, of North- field, Conn., has made it his home. He married Kate Scoville, daughter of Stephen E. Their children, born in this district, with exception of the oldest, who was born in No. 8, are: Elmer S. (1), Louise E. (2), (deceased 1893), Edna M. (3), Ella L. (4), Leroy E. (5) and Bertha L. (6), born 1906.
Mrs. Phebe (Bronson) Alcott of Oberlin, Ohio, is present owner of the property.
Children of Asa and Charity (Shelton) Bartholomew:
Emily (1), born Jan. 1, 1804; married Rensselaer Upson.
George Welles (2), born June 19, 1805; married first Angeline Ives, daughter of Deacon Charles.
Harry Shelton (3), born June 3, 1807; died Oct. 7, 1827, age 20.
Paulina (4), born June 18, 1809; married Alvin Ferry Alpress.
Jennette (5), born March 31, 1812; married Dr. Eli Todd Merriman.
Asa (6), born Feb. 5, 1815; married Mary Lydia Birge, daughter of John.
Nancy Maria (7), born Dec. 22, 1818; married Alanson Winston of Lorenzo.
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GEORGE W. BARTHOLOMEW.
HARRY S. BARTHOLOMEW.
Jane Charity (8), born Feb. 22, 1821; "married Wellington Winston of Lorenzo.
Asa Bartholomew, son of Jacob, born 1776, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Emily (Bartholomew) Upson, with whom he was living, Oct. 31, 1864, aged 88. Charity Shelton, whom he married, Sept. 10, 1801, was born 1784. Died at her home at the residence of her son, George Welles Bartholomew, Sept. 15, 1859, aged 75.
The house on north corner of Mix St. and Jerome Ave. (No. 38), was built by Wellington Winston, son of Lorenzo and Annis (Botsford) Winston, who married, Sept. 13, 1842, Jane Charity, daughter of Asa and Charity Bartholomew. He was born, 1818; went to California in 1849. He remained there but a year or two. Returning began a wood- turning business with his brother Alanson, lasting about five years. He died April 15, 1854, age 36. His burial was attended April 17, 1854, after the noted snow-fall of that year, on the 16th of April. Jane Charity (Bartholomew) Winston, his wife, died Jan. 28, 1888, age 67, at the Hospital in Hartford, where she had been ill some years. Interred at Forestville, her family residence. Three children born in District No. 9 are residents of Forestville. The sons, clock makers, many years. Cora Annette (1), b. Sept. 1, 1843, m. Chas. W. Bradshaw, May 13, 1872. He was born, 1842, d., 1886, age 44. [Children, Wallace L. (1), b., Nov. 13, 1873; Bertha Jane (2), b., Aug. 1, 1876, d. young.] Wellington W. Winston (2), b., July 7, 1847, m., Jan. 13, 1877, Mrs. Eunice L. (Smith) Wright, b., Oct. 13, 1853. She had a daughter Grace Wright, b., June 2, 1874. Wallace F. Winston (3), b., June 18, 1853, m., Oct. 16, 1881, Elizabeth Masters (dec.). She was b., March 27, 1850. [Ch., Bertha E. (1), b., Oct. 29, 1882; Howard W. Winston (2). b., Sept. 16, 1885.]
Dea. Irad Bronson bought the Wellington Winston house, 1858, where he lived with his wife Phebe till they died. He was third son of Isaac of Wolcott, Conn., b. Aug. 27, 1788. He was a deacon of the Con- gregational Church in Wolcott nine years, removed to Southington and brought letters to the Bristol Church from Holliston, Mass., 1858, also his
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daughter, Elizabeth T. Bronson, who died recently in Oberlin, Ohio, and is interred in Bristol. He married, Nov. 6, 1811, Phebe Norton, daughter of Isaac, who resided on the Isaac Pierce farm near Compounce Lake. Their children were Phebe L. (1), b. Nov. 8, 1812, m., June 14, 1836, Dr. Wm. A. Alcott (author), b. Wolcott, Conn., son of Obed and second cousin of Amos Bronson Alcott, the celebrated writer of the Concord School of Philosophy, and father of Louisa May Alcott and sisters. Dr. W. A. Alcott was author of over one hundred published volumes, of which nineteen were educational works, some of them in connection with Wm. Woodbridge, the author of School Geographies, etc. "His name is identified with some of the most valuable reforms in education, morals, and physical training of the present century." Isaac (2), b. May 15, 1815, d. 1888. Elizabeth (3), b. Jan. 27, 1818, d. at Oberlin, Ohio. Dea. Irad Bronson d. 1882, age 94. Phebe ( Norton) Bronson died 1888, age 98.
Mrs. Phebe Bronson Alcott resides in Oberlin with her daughter, Mrs. Phebe (Alcott) Crafts, widow of Walter Crafts, a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, At the time of his sudden death, he was an official in the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Co., 1883. The second child of Phebe (Bronson) Alcott is Wm. A., a clergyman of Mass., lover of nature, and pupil of Jean Louis Agassiz. He has a family near Boston.
Henry and Melissa (Brown) Leach followed the Bronsons in owner- ship and occupancy of the Wellington Winston house. Their oldest child, Edward Morrison, came with them. Other children born in the district were Ernest Brown (2), Nancy (3), Dora (4). The house burned on a morning of April, 1891. It was rebuilt the following summer. When last heard from Mr. Leach was living in the southwestern part of the state. (March, 1907). He was lineman for a telegraph co., with duties along railroad lines. The son Edward married, and is lineman for Southern New England Telephone Co. The mother of Mr. Leach was a nurse and planned, at one time, to build a sanitarium on Fall Moun- tain. The Leach family were originally from Maine. Albert John and Eunice M. (Belden) Hart removed from the Isaac Bronson farm, where he was a tenant and market-gardener, to the house vacated by Mr. Leach. He was son of John, of Ambrose, of Simeon, of Burlington; b. in Whigville, and m. Jane Chidsey, daughter of Dea. Chidsey of Avon, and sister to Thames Chidsey, purchaser of Dea. Charles G. Ives' farm in Peaceable St. They resided at the John Hart farm in Whigville, where Mary (1), Jenny (2), and Charles Hart (3), were born and the mother Mrs. Jane (Chidsey) Hart died of consumption when the children were young.
Mary Hart m. Dewey Lusk of Avon. She taught school before marriage and afterward resided in New Britain and Plainville. Her husband died after long continued ill health, when she canvassed for books, etc. Pursuing her avocation she called where exposed to measles and contracted the disease in most virulent form of black measles, a fatal case. Jenny died of consumption before the death of her sister Mary. Charles m. a niece of his step mother (Hutchinson by name). At the time of his father's death he was residing in Salisbury, Conn. Albert John Hart m. 2d, June 29, 1882, Eunice (Munson) Belden, b., 1848. They removed soon from Whigville to Unionville, where the daughter Jennie died and the sons, Ernest and John, were born. Ernest is a graduate, 1907, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., and John is at Wesleyan University, Middletown. From Unionville, Conn., they came to District No. 9, Bristol, Conn. Albert John Hart died rather suddenly in the spring of 1896, age 62. Mrs. Hart removed to 27 Prince street, Bristol, where she now resides.
Wm. C. Bramhall and wife, Ruth Isabella (London) Mix, widow of Asahel Mix, then left the Mix house and resided in the Wellington Winston home until the death of Mrs. Bramhall in Oct., 1900, when they removed to another district. Their children are: Pearle (1).
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[married Frank Thomas, son of Theodore]; Ray W. (2); Laura L. (3); Paul E. (4); Wesley W. C. (5), and Beatrice M. (6). Ray and Paul are employed at the Stanley R. & L. Co. works in Edgewood. The last resident proprietor of the place is Charles W. Hotchkiss, son of Alfred C., employed at S. C. Co., Forestville. He married Myrtle Williams of Southington. They have two daughters, Pearle and Ruby.
At the place next east (No. 39) on south roadside is found the first house built by John H. London in this district, and formerly located in the field southeasterly from its present situation. It was convenient offaccess from Mix St., and not far from Asahel Mix's house, but facing Jerome Ave. John H. London, son of Hiram and Ruth (Curtiss) London, married Alice Terrill. Their children were: Maude (1), married Bryce; Lilian (2), married Harry Evans. She died in Waterbury, leaving one child (adopted by her sister Maude). Ruby (3), who died young, at this place; Mabel (4), married Perry Goodwin, a dentist, resides in Illinois, and Harold (5) and Alice (6), born in Bristol Center. Mrs. London died recently at their home, Mountain View, Plainville, Conn. (1907).
Edmund Root and family resided at the house in the meadow from 1882-1903, when they moved to New Hartford. He was a carpenter. His children: Elizabeth (1), Charles D. (2), Edmund (3). Mr. Leach bought the house intending to rent his home on the corner, and moved . for a few weeks or months to the London place. He then returned to. his house at the corner, but moved the London house to the street at present location. It is now owned by Mr. Friborg, of New Britain, who makes it a tenement. Recent occupants were the Olsons of Collins- ville, whose 13th child was born during their life there. Amandus Carlson and wife, with children Eva and Alvin, are present habitants. When John H. London gave up his first built house he erected the second home on the north side of Mix street (No. 40), east of the former home, after its removal, in which he resided some years and sold it to Herman Ockles, who resided there about 20 years, including a visit to Germany
THE OLD MUZZY SAW MILL (NO. 16).
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of several months, where he was engaged in carving a church interior at Hamburg. He is mentioned in directories as "furniture repairer." He seemed skillful in many occupations, factory operative, wood-carving, market-gardener, etc. His children were: Herman (1); Augusta Anna (2); Theodore (3); Oscar (4); a daughter (5) died young, named for her mother, Florentina. She was "laid to rest" in the yard. Mr. Ockles and family moved to Delaware, 1906. The place is the property of Maria L. Hotchkiss, widow of Alfred C., at Stafford Ave., above Maltby St.
Asahel Mix, son of Ashbel and Hannah (Byington) Mix, born Nov. 12, 1795, built the house near the junction of Mix and Maltby Streets (No. 41). It was his home 40 years. He left it for use of his second wife, who became Mrs. W. C. Bramhall. It was her home until the family went to the Wellington Winston house as stated. The records of the children of Asahel and Amna (Judd) Mix, born at the Ashbel Mix house on Jerome Ave., previous to the building of No. 41, are here given.
Asahel Mix, born Nov. 12, 1795; married Jan. 13, 1820, Amna Judd of Avon, b. July 2, 1795. Asahel Mix died 1878, aged 83. Amna (Judd) Mix died 1874, aged 79.
Cynthia (1), b. March 12, 1821; married March 25, 1840, Ephraim Scovel Maltby. She died April 13, 1865.
Alonzo (2), b. Sept. 20, 1822; not married. Resides 91 Summer St.
Asahel Judd (3), b. July 9, 1824; married Ann E. Palmer, Feb. 12, 1855.
Mary Elizabeth (4), b. Sept. 6, 1827; married July 20, 1844, James R. Mills. Died in Wisconsin, Dec. 8, 1865.
Lyman H. (5), b. July 5, 1829; died Oct. 9, 1831.
Nancy A. (6), b. July 1, 1831; married Sept. 4, 1849, Benajah Hitchcock. She died Nov. 30, 1906.
Ellen (7), b. Sept. 3, 1834; died April 2, 1856.
Emily (8), b. August 13, 1837; died Feb. 27, 1839.
Asahel Mix was an honest, energetic, business man of the district of "marked individuality." He united in 1816 with the Congregational Church, was later a Millerite and still later advocated some of the pre- cepts of the Hebrew, in observance of the Seventh Day as his Sabbath, and the avoidance of the use of pork as food. Returning to Edgewood St., the house on the south side near Jerome Ave. (No. 42), was built in 1843, by William Brown Carpenter, who came to Bristol when about 21 years of age. His native place was that part of Massachusetts which became Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in the final adjustment of boundaries between the States. The family name of Carpenter is frequent in that vicinity. Copies of "armorial bearings" or coat of arms, as granted to one Wm. B. Carpenter and recorded 1663 at Herald's Col., London, Eng., may be found on tombstones in an old cemetery at Rohoboth, Mass. He was at first engaged in the cabinet business of this place-an industry of short duration. Then, in company with Benjamin Ray, making clock cases at Pierce's Bridge until the burning of that factory. He had charge of the case department of the Bartholomew clock making enterprise before 1840. Was captain of the popular military organiza- tion of "Bristol Blues," of which Richard Yale was drummer. The appointment of District School Clerk given him, 1849, was continued to the time of his death in the spring 1855, when David S. Miller was his successor. He resided before the building of his own house at the old home of Henry A. Warner on the same street, where two of his chil- dren were born.
Wm. B. Carpenter married Henrietta, daughter of Joseph and Almenia (Rich) Ives. Their children: Marietta A. (1), Henrietta E. (2), William B., Jr. (3). Mrs. Henrietta (Ives) Carpenter died June, 1851. Several families lived for a time in the Carpenter house before the son, Wm. B., Jr., became sole owner of the homestead. One of them, Oliver A. Beckwith, who was in Bristol, 1851, and in the church at that time. He had a position in store at the Copper Mines when resident of District No. 9.
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Sarah J. (Thompson), wife of Oliver Beckwith, b. 1823; died Jan. 1891, age 67. Oliver Allyn Beckwith resides (1907), at Unionville, Conn. Children: Corinne (1), 1853; died July, 1902 (Mrs. J. H. Bid- well of Collinsville). Oliver A., Jr. (2), 1857; resident of Unionville, Conn. Marian Amy (3), 1858; died in childhood. [Data furnished by Oliver Russell Beckwith, Windsor, Conn., grandson of Oliver A., son of Oliver A., Jr.)]
James E. Ladd, who married Henrietta E., second child of Wm. B. and Henrietta (Ives) Carpenter, made this place their home until their removal to Bristol Center, about 1868. Their oldest child, Henrietta, called Hetty, died Jan. 8, 1865, nearly nine years of age; second child, Wyllys Carpenter; third child, Herbert Ives, was born in Bristol Center.
Wm. B. Carpenter, Jr., and wife, Fanny (Parsons) Carpenter, then resided at the home. They now are residents of New Britain. The firm of Warner, Carpenter & Alpress (A. H. Warner, Wm. B. Carpenter
LUCIUS S. BELDEN.
and Charles Alpress), were then doing a wood turning business in the old "grinding shop" on the "new road." The business was eventually sold to Mr. Warner, and the house to Clarence Muzzy, who did not occupy it but sold to the present owner.
Wyllys Carpenter Ladd, b. July 6, 1858; married Oct. 8, 1890, Edith Irene, daughter of Wallace and Eliza (Fuller) Barnes. He is a manufacturer of clock bells and light hardware on Wallace St., Bristol. Herbert Ives Ladd is commercial salesman, with home 83 Bellvue Ave.
Lucius Samuel Belden, son of Leroy and Catharine (Sessions) Belden, bought the house in 1875. He was born Sept. 26, 1843; married Ann Eliza Curtiss, daughter of Philo and Charlotte M. Curtiss. They have one daughter, born in Waterbury, Jan. 17, 1871. They reside at the place at present (1907). L. S. Belden is in the employ of Horton Mfg. Co.
House (No. 43) built in 1864-5 Occupied in the spring of 1865
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by the owner, Harry Shelton Bartholomew, son of George W. and Ange- line (Ives) Bartholomew. He was born March 14, 1832; married June 20, 1860, Sabra, daughter of Joseph Samuel and Rosetta (Fenn) Peck, b., May 15, 1837. He died in Pinehurst, N. C., Feb. 19, 1902, aged nearly 70 years. After attendance at his home district school, he had for a time the advantage of instruction at the Farmington School for Boys, taught by the eminent instructor, Deacon Simeon Hart. During several years of his father's stay in California, he cared for the mother and three younger children. When his father visited his family in 1851, he was pleased to return with him and spent nearly two years in visiting many localities, and in various occupations in California. Returning to Bristol he had mechanical instruction in Hartford and prepared for the manu- facture of hardware. The firm of G. W. & H. S. Bartholomew was formed 1855, and used at first the little factory on "the new road," called the "grinding shop." It was the cutlery shop of former years. Later the business was transferred to the old clock factories where it continued till destroyed by fire in 1884.
Children of Harry Shelton and Sabra P. Bartholomew were: Alice (1), Harry Ives (2), Joseph Peck (3).
With the exception of one district school, Alice M. Bartholomew was educated entirely in private schools, with Prof. David N. Camp of New Britain, Rev. Charles V. Spear at Pittsfield, Mass., and Prof. Charles Bartlett of the Mass. Normal Art School, Boston, supplemented by a tour of European Art Galleries.
Harry Ives Bartholomew (2), Yale S. S., 1894, Ph. B. Mechanical and Construction Engineer, Portland Cement Works, Portland, Fremont Co., Colorado (1907).
Joseph Peck Bartholomew (3), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., 1899, S. B. Superintendent Bit Brace Department, "Stanley Rule & Level Co.," Bristol and New Britain (1907).
Harry Shelton Bartholomew was clerk of School District No. 9 45 years (1856-1901). He was one of the oldest directors in service of the National Bank at the time of his death, 1877-1902. He was deacon of Congregational Church for nineteen years and superintendent of its Sunday School twenty or more years, and many times served the church in other official capacity.
At next number west (No. 44), the house built by George Welles Bartholomew, is now occupied by George S. Osborn. The building was done or completed 1835, William Darrow doing most of the labor by the day. The doors, pillars and outside carvings were done by his hand. It is estimated that he was employed about two years upon the done or completed 1835, Williams Darrow doing most of the labor by place. The outside work, fence, blinds, etc., being done after the family came there to reside from No. 55, on Jerome avenue. (The red dwelling- house of Asa Bartholomew that figured so prominently in the division of the school district.)
George Welles, son of Asa and Charity (Shelton) Bartholomew, b. June 19, 1805, married Jan. 14, 1829, Angeline, daughter of Deacon Chas. G. and Parthenia (Rich) Ives, b. March 30, 1807, died March 13, Chas. G. and Parthenia (Rich) Ives, b. March 20, 1807, died March 13, Jan. 23, 1828. She had one daughter, Hettie Julia, b. May 17, 1856.
Mrs. Julia (Cole) Bartholomew died May 2, 1896.
George Welles Bartholomew died May 7, 1897.
Children of George Welles and Angeline (Ives) Bartholomew:
Harriet Ives (1), b. Feb. 8, 1830; died Oct. 16, 1837.
Harry Shelton (2), b. March 14, 1832; died Feb. 19, 1902.
Frances Parthenia (3), b. Feb. 22, 1834; died Jan. 1, 1839. Mary Elizabeth (4), b. March 28, 1836; died Jan. 18, 1839. Jane Estelle (5), b. March 28, 1840.
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