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Sarah Esther (Mrs. Judge A. B. Woodward); Mary E. (Mrs. John T. Henderson); Rebecca F (Mrs. Charles Ostrom); Thomas Cook, Jr .; Henry B. ; Zalmon Burr ; died in in infancy.
Sarah Esther, born Aug. 11, 1835, daughter of Thomas C. and Harriet B. Hanford, married, June 8, 1859, Asa B. Woodward, and had :
route and as the Norwalk line had for some time been vacant, Linus Benedict came into the field. Through the help of William Mallory of Norwalk, and Major Burrell of Westport, a horse was procured from across the State line, and as Frederick St. John of Norwalk, gave the harness and George Fancher, a wagon builder, accepted easy terms for the vehicle, the Norwalk and New Canaan passenger and parcel enterprise was revived. Mr. Benedict continued, for a number of years in the business, and was succeeded by Col. Watson. The venerable Linus Benedict is to-day residing, at an advanced age, in Norwalk. He is the son of Nehemiah and Polly (St. John) Bene- diet, and has had a varied life-experience. When a young man he was an overseer of the Albany and Schenectady Railroad and had charge of a construc- tion gang. It was made his duty to see that the tracks (wooden) were always in order. The coaches were drawn by horses-"Fat as seals and gay as larks"-in tandem. It was during Mr. Benedict's proprietorship of the Norwalk and New Canaan route that the Norwalk draw-bridge disaster befel, at which casualty Mr. Benedict rendered efficient service.
1" Colored John" was the trusty conductor of this coach. He was a knight of the whip and a knight of the step. Mr. Partrick's coach was en- tered hy leather - covered, carpeted stairs, which folded closely together. When " John" reined in his horses to receive or discharge passengers, he dis- mounted from his high seat with alacrity and with perceptible grace unfolded and folded up again the tapestried series of foot-rests. He was an excellent
driver and a general favorite with the traveling pub- lic. His reputation was at its height at the time of the Peck's command of the Norwalk and New York steamboat route, prior to the construction of the New York and New Ilaven railroad.
2John White and Jemima Tyler were married in Bedford, Aug. 23, 1733. They had three children, John, Sarah and Jemima. Sarah, born March 19, 1741, married Peter Betts, born Oct. 31, 1739, son of John2, born 1692, and Damaris (Lockwood) Betts, which John Betts 2d. was a son of John Betts 1st., born 1650, who was a son of Thomas Betts the settler. Peter and Sarah Betts' son Henry, born Nov. 23, 1766, married Feb. 12, 1794, Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Fitch and sister of the three brothers, Samuel M., Henry and Jonathan, who built the three near-by homes, two of which (Gov. Fitch and Oscar W. Ray- mond houses) remain. The third stood next south of Mr. O. W. Raymond's home.
3This unmarried Betts daughter was an intimate friend of Catherine, daughter of Thomas Benedict, who, with his Waterbury wife, were the highly re- garded tenants of the old "Benedict House" which stood on the present West avenue a little southwest of the 1896 residence of Hon. E. J. Hill. It being, in Miss Betts' day, customary to sail by sloop to the city, this lady on one occasion asked a Norwalk friend to make the trip with her. The vessel, however, was for three days becalmed, and albeit the Saugatuck packet, which was in the same predicament, was lashed to the Norwalk boat, thus affording opportunity for a de- lightful interchange of civilities, still the ladies grew weary of the long voyage to town.
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Mary Hanford, born Nov. 11, 1860; married April 15, 1885, Arthur G. Earle, who died March 5, 1894.
Sarah Lucia, born June 29, 1866; married Nov. 1, 1893, Frederick W. Hoyt.
Anna Burr; born Jan. 2, 1870.
Harriet Isabel, born March 17, 1872 ; married Apr. 30, 1890, Howard de Forest Earle, who died May 23, 1896.
Louise Brinckerhoff; born July 23, 1874.
George Lucius; born Oct. 7, 1878.
Mrs. Asa B. Woodward died June 24, 1882.
Arthur G. and Mary H. Earle had : Alice Louise, born Nov. 15, 1886.
Howard de F. and Harriet I. Earle had : Harry Woodward, born June 21, 1893.
Children of John T. and Mary E. Henderson : Harriet B .; Charles Hanford ; one died young.
Charles and Rebecca Ostrom had one daughter.
Thomas Cook Hanford, Jr. left one son.
Henry B. Hanford married Alice Browning of Camden, N. J.
HOME-LOT IN.
(See pages 387 to 389 and 398 to 402 and page 441.)
Richard Webb, Sr .. of Home-lot ix, with Elizabeth, his wife, came with the pioneers to Norwalk. One of the same name embarked in July, 1635, on board the " Primrose ", at Gravesend, England, who, born in 1599, started from the Old World for Virginia. Rich- ard Webb of Norwalk was found in Hartford in 1639. He was a 1650 Ludlow "Agree- ment " Norwalk settler, and had assigned to him four acres in the near vicinity of what is now the East Norwalk site of the Consolidated road's station for west bound trains. Mr. Webb was one of the earliest of the pioneers to be removed by death. He left a second wife, Elizabeth (Gregory) Webb. He seems to have had a namesake son, Richard 2d., (see pp. 387 and 388) who was early found in Stamford. In 1654 Norwalk mill, No. 1 (p. 35) proved a failure, and Richard Webb was one of a committee of three to whom was intrusted the re-arrangement of mill matters. Richard Webb2d. died March 15, 1675, some five years before the senior Mrs. Richard Webb's death, January 24, 1680. Mrs. Elizabeth (Gregory) Webb made no legacy mention of Richard of Stamford, nor of his wife Mar- gery nor children. She named Bartholomew Barnard, "by virtue of right of his wife, her father, Birchard, having right to both deceased, Elizabeth Webb and her husband Richard ", and named, in addition, Richard Holmes, by reason of his wife's right. She also remem- bered her pastor, Rev. Thomas Hanford. After Mr. and Mrs. Webb's decease the name is an infrequent one in Norwalk, but from the Stamford Richard some of the most influen- tial of that town's families have sprung. The Court appointed, March 16, 1681, Mrs. Webb's
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"beloved brother ", John Gregory, Sr., administrator of her estate. Richard Webb, Jr., of Stamford, left Margery (probably second wife) and children Richard, William, Joshua, Joseph, John, Samuel, Caleb, Sarah and Jonathan. The youngest was born April 12, 1675.
HOME-LOT X.
Matthew Marvin, Sr., of Home-lot No. x, was one of the most distinguished of the Norwalk fathers. He was born in England in 1600, and died in Norwalk in 1680. With his wife Elizabeth and five children, Matthew, Jr., Elizabeth, Maria, Sarah and Hannah, he embarked in 1635 for the New World, and after a residence in Main Street, Hartford, where were born Abigail, Samuel and Rachel, he came, accompanied by several of his children, to Norwalk. Here he was assigned the New England home-lot of honor, the lot viz., nearest to the sanctuary, (H. M. Prowitt 1896). He was " assistant " magistrate and an influential citizen. His daughters Elizabeth, Maria and Sarah had elsewhere married, and did not, consequently, accompany their parents hither. Elizabeth had married Dr. John Olmsted of Hartford,' Maria, Richard Bushnell of Saybrook,2 and Sarah, William Good- rich3 of Wethersfield, and were non-Norwalk located. Matthew, Jr., the oldest child, had set out to him the home-lot that adjoined his father's on the rear, and extended south to the present Fort Point Street. The children of Matthew, Sr., became at once identified with the new settlement. Hannah, who was an infant of twelve months when her father and mother stepped from Capt. Lea's ship " Increase " upon American soil, and who was a miss of about sixteen when the family reached Norwalk, married Thomas, son of Richard Seymour. As every one of the early Seymours, except Thomas, left the new Norwalk colony, Hannah Marvin, wife of Thomas Seymour, became ancestress of the town's Sey- mour constituency. Abigail, sister of Hannah Marvin, married in Norwalk, on the first day of Jan., 1656, the supposed Huguenot, John Bouton, and was an American progeni- tress of that numerous and notable family. Rachel, youngest of Matthew Marvin, Sr's. children, and who was two or so years old when the Marvins located in Norwalk, grew to marry Samuel Smith of Norwalk. These were all of Matthew, Sr's. girls, and they con- stituted a " host ". Of the two boys, Matthew, Jr. and Samuel, the second probably filled a
'Dr. John Olmsted is supposed to have been own brother to Richard Olmsted, the Norwalk settler. Dr. Olmsted was a Hartford settler, but he removed to Norwich, where he died. His wife, Elizabeth Mar- vin, survived him, and at death left two thousand Nor- wich acres to her two Norwalk nephews, Lieuts. James and John Olmsted, the founders of so many of this town's families to-day.
"Maria Marvin was twice married. On Oct. II, 1644, she married Richard Bushnell, and had four children. She was nineteen years old at her first mar- riage In 1660 she married, second, Deacon Thomas
Adgate of Saybrook. She survived her last husband five years and died at the age of eighty-four.
3From this union sprang a goodly portion of the large Goodrich family. Sarah Marvin was married just before her father came to Norwalk. Her son, Davidist., born May 4, 1667, married Hannah Wright. Their son, Davidzd., born Dec. 8, 1694, married Hepzi- bah Boardman, who had Elizur, born Oct. 18, 1734, who married Katharine Chauncey, who had Samuel, born Jan. 12, 1763, who married Elizabeth Ely, and had Samuel G., born August 19, 1790, who was the noted PETER PARLEY.
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child's grave, but the family did not permit him to altogether die, and the old house,' still standing, (the late Daniel Fitch house in East Norwalk) preserves the child's scriptural and excellent name. Little Samuel's brother, Matthew, Jr., lives all over Norwalk to-day. Matthew Marvin, Sr., married, late in life, Alice Kellogg. All his children, however, were by Elizabeth, his first and English wife. His homestead went to his namesake grandson, Matthew 3d., son of Matthew 2d., which Matthew 3d. married Rhoda, daughter of Mark and Elizabeth (Stanley) St. John. Of the father of Matthew 2d., viz., Matthew Marvin, Sr., the founder of the Norwalk Marvin house, it may safely be affirmed that he was one of the colonia! "Roll of Honor" men ; men concerning whom it has been justly said :
"They had no model, but they left us one ; On their strong lines we base our social health ; The man, the home, the town, the commonwealth."
A NORWALK-MARVIN DESCENT.
Samuel Marvin 2d., son of Matthew 2d., and grandson of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who was the "Assistant Magistrate" settler, had a son Matthew who was born in the autumn of 1702-3. At about the age of thirty said Matthew married Elizabeth Clark of the old town of Ripton. He was not destined to long life and on Dec. 3, 1744-5 drew his will. He will- named five sons, and intimates a posthumous birth. This birth occurred in the family short- ly after the father's decease, and the name of Ichabod was given to the child. To Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin was born Jan. 29, 1737, a boy who was to fill out seventy years of human life and to be a character in his day. When this lad, Osias, had reached twenty- four years of age he sought a bride in the old Joseph Lockwood family of "Pudding Lane" (now Main Street) and on Nov. 26, 1761, Osias and Sarah were married. Deducting seven years of palsy on the part of Ozias (Capt.), there was still left nearly forty years, after reaching majority, of active service, and although his father had on Dec. 3, 1744 bequeath- ed his " silver headed sword" to his (Ozias) brother Matthew (probably for his name) yet was Ozias, himself an ardent patriot in Revolutionary days. With his Norwalk wife, Sarah, who overlived him twenty-one years, he resided on the site of the present John Mar- vin house on the Connecticut turnpike, two or three-quarter miles west of the Westport carriage bridge. In the days of "76" he there kept a hotel. The house at that day was just at the southwest turn of the road towards Norwalk (the shortened cut through Peat
IMatthew Marvin 2d., son of Matthew ist. and bro- ther of the young Samuel ist. who met an early death, named his second son for this departed brother. This son Samuel zd. was, in 1718, a member of the Connect- icut Court. He had a son, Samuel3d., who married, Nov. 25, 1735. Deborah Clark. These had a daughter, Rebecca, born March 19, 1738-9, who married Daniel, son of Samuel and Susannah Fitch, brother and sis-
ter-in-law of Gov. Thomas Fitch. Daniel and Re- becca (Marvin) Fitch were the parents of the three brothers, Samuel M., Henry and Jonathan Fitch. The late Daniel Fitch (father of the 1896 Daniel War- ren Fitch) lived upon his Marvin ancestors property, and the Marvin association of the venerable still re- maining building is a worthy one. The house occu- pies a site neighbor to the old Thos. Barnum home.
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Swamp was not then built) and it was a convenient spot for an inn. Washington on one of his eastern trips called at the house and after partaking of refreshment one of the landlord's daughters, Esther (afterward Mrs. Isaac Church) came into the apartment. The soldier ad- vanced to warmly greet the little lady, but his uniform or military appearance or something of the sort seemed to frighten her and she shrank back from the general. "Tut tut, my little miss," exclaimed the future President, humorously adding that she might live to be sorry for her shyness.
Capt. Ozias built for his son Joseph L., born on the last day of the year 1772, and named for the boy's maternal grandparent, the house standing in 1896, a litle south of the old Capt. Ozias home and occupied to-day by George Nash. Here was born on Nov. 20, 1804, to Joseph L.' and Clarissa Meeker Marvin, one of Norwalk's good and just men, the late William Marvin of East Norwalk. When William, son of Joseph L. Marvin was thirty- one years of age, he left Westport and established himself upon his original ten acres on the east Side of Charles Creek, "Down Town." The day that he drove with his wife and one child, Josiah R., to his new home, in which he was to prove a man of industry and un- swerving integrity, was the date of the great fire in December 1835, in New York city. He married, 1832, Amanda, daughter of Josiah and Clara (Mott) Raymond and had :
Josiah Raymond ;
William F.
Josiah Raymond, son of William and Amanda Marvin, married, Sept. 5, 1861, Mary Matilda, daughter of James and Matilda (Keeler) Wallace, and had :
Clara Elizabeth, born Nov. 20, 1862 ;
James Wallace, born Sept. 6, 1865 ;
William Raymond, born Jan. 6, 1870; died Aug. 23, 1870.
William E., son of William and Amanda Marvin, married, Dec. 27. 1882, Orie Anna Louisa, daughter of Albert J. and Julia M. (Jones) Steele, and had :
Mary Louise, born May 7, 1887 :
Orie Anna, born May 5, 1890.
William Marvin made his first Norwalk purchase of John Eversley. The Rev. Edwin Hall. D.D., who became the Congregational pastor two or three years before Mr.
'Those who recall the fourth church built by the Norwalk First Congregational Society, which edifice stood on the lower portion of the Norwalk Green, and was taken down in about 1849, may remember the vehicle that, during the hours of morning and after- noon service, occupied the green sward immediately in the rear of the structure and between the church and the roadway. This was Joseph Lockwood Mar- vin's conveyance. Hither, from his Saugatuck home, he came, on Sunday, to worship. Between the two services there was a noon intermission of one hour in winter, and five quarter hours in summer. This re- ces- afforded opportunity for the members of the
congregation to greet each other. The thoughtful- ness of Mr. Marvin was evidenced by the bunch of hay, brought from home, and placed in the spot referred to, for beast use.
On the north-west corner of this church stood an allighting-block of native granite. Miss Phæbe Comstock of Silver Mine, accompanied by her slave, Onesimus, would, as did others, drive up to this stone and dismount preparatory to sanctuary - entrance. "Onesimus" sat in " Miss Phobe's " corner pew and was, in the last years of his long life, a patriarch picture. The view from the Phoebe Comstock home- site is to-day commanding.
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Marvin's Norwalk arrival, was fond of visiting the Marvin marine farm, and as the same was at that day of small acreage the thoughts of the host and guest turned toward the ample fields of the west. Mr. Marvin, nevertheless, joined gradually lot to lot, until he died possessed of one of the fairest domains in southwestern New England. This typical citi- zen inherited and transmitted the solid virtues of an excellent ancestry. His two sons, Josiah R. and William E., have succeeded to his large landed estate.
A SARATOGA NORWALK-MARVIN MENTION.
Lieut. Samuel Marvin' (son of Matthew ad. who was son of MatthewIst.) was brought up near the East Norwalk handsome south meadow now belonging to H. M. Prowitt. The composition of the youth's home was somewhat remarkable. Of Samuel's mother, who may have been born in England, we only know that her name was Mary, but of his brothers and sisters we are well informed. Of his sisters, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth and Marcy, married respectively, such prominent settlers as Thomas Betts, Jr., Epenetus Platt, Joseph Platt, and William Haynes (second wife). Samuel, Ist. one of the three sons of Mat- thew 2d. had a son, Josiah". who married, Elizabeth, born June 4th, 1714, daughter of David". and Martha (Blagge) DeForest and grand-daughter of "Great Burgher" Isaac DeForest and his wife Sarah DuTrieux, (see Burlock- Warren-DeForest addendum, page 278). By this wife Josiah Marvin'st. appears to have had Josiah 2d., Daniel, William, Jared and John. One or more of his daughters, Sarah, Lucy and Hannah (Mrs. Stephen Keeler)2 may possibly have been by an after wife, Sarah Sturges.
William, born March 24, 1740, son of Josiah". and Elizabeth Marvin, married, Nov. 10, 1767. Susanna Wright, and had William2d., born Oct. 19, 1768. Said William 2d. who married, March 5, 1793, Mary Benedict, was the father of Thomas J. and Hon. James M. Marvin, whose Saratoga Springs United States Hotel property is of world-wide celebrity.
HOME-LOT NI.
Richard Seymour"st., found in Dr. Hawes' Catalogue of Hartford settlers in 1639, came in the early fifties of the seventeenth century to Norwalk. His name is affixed to
Samuel, son of Matthew Marvin2d., had a brother John, who, by his second wife (Rachel, daughter of Matthias St. John) had a son Joseph, born May 29, 1724, who married Catharine, one of the three daugh- ters and only children of Matthias and Elizabeth St. John. The other children were Elizabeth (Mrs. John Abbot) and Hannah (Mrs. Lemuel Rogers.) After the decease, in 1748-9. of Matthias St. John, his widow married Nehemiah, son of John Gregory3d., son of John2d., son of Johnist. This brought the Cranberry Plains Matthias St. John property into the Gregory
name. Nehemiah was the brother of Stephen Greg- ory, who married Mary, daughter of John Benedict, and had Susanna, born April 17, 1776, who married, first, Lewis Grumman, and second, Allen Hayes Betts, father of Allen Betts of Newtown Avenue, 1896. The original Grummans were from Fairfield.
2Hannah Marvin ( Mrs. Stephen Keeler ) may have taken her great-aunt, Ilannah Blagge's, name. It is possible that Josiah Marvinist. married, first, the widow Hannah Blagge. The Josiah Marvin sons, however, were not by this union.
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the Ludlow agreement-articles of June 19, 1650, and he was one of the parties present at the Runkingheage transaction of Feb. 15, 1651.
He was assigned the four eligible acres at the south-east angle of the "Town Street " and the highway to "Fayerfield," the corner, in 1896, of East Avenue and Fitch Street. With his next door neighbor, Richard Webb, he was chosen "Townsman" in 1655, but his Norwalk life was short, and he was probably the first settler to die in that office. Mrs. Seymour remained a widow a brief period, and married, second, Hon. John Steele of Hartford, a member of the upper house of the General Court of Connecticut, an early secretary of the new government, and a prominent colonist. She left Norwalk for her new home, taking the three youngest children, John, Zachary and Richard 2d., and gave the Norwalk property to her oldest son, Thomas. This son, who was nearly of age when the family here arrived, had married, the year previous to his father's decease, a young English girl, Hannah, daughter of one of the new settlements best founders, Mat- thew Marvin, Sr.
Richard Seymour'st. executed his will July 29, 1655, and died within the next three months. He had appointed his wife and his "faithful friend" Richard Olmsted adminis- trators, leaving everything to his aforementioned children, and commissioning his wife to take charge of the estates of the three younger boys " until such time as they shall be fit to receive and dispose of" the same. Mrs. Steele sought the welfare of her Seymour off- spring, as did also her second husband. On Oct. 13, 1668, thirteen years after the decease of Mr. Seymour and four years after that of Mr. Steele, the three lads, now arrived at ma- jority, were paid the "full and just" amount due them, and acknowledged before Samuel Steele and their brother Thomas that they were " fully satisfied." From the first of this trio of youths, bereft at an age when they most needed it, of a father's counsel, but still judiciously cared for, have descended well-known New England and New York families.
John, Ist. the oldest of the three and quite probably in his teens when he left Norwalk, married in Hartford. His first son, John, born June 12, 1666, had several children, among whom was Moses, born Feb. 17. 1710-11. This son, Moses, was the father of Major Moses Seymour of Revolutionary note, who, marrying Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Marsh of Litchfield, had Ozias, born July 8, 1776, who was the father of Origen Storrs Seymour (a Litchfield lawyer and U. S. Congressman) and of Horatio Seymour, LL.D., and of Henry Seymour, born May 30, 1780, who was the father of Gov. Horatio Seymour of New York.
Thomas, first born of Richard SeymourIst. remained in Norwalk, and married, as has been stated, Hannah Marvin, who was marriage-linked with such families as the Bushnells, Adgates, Goodriches and Curtises of Connecticut.
The children of Thomas'st. and Hannah Seymour, from whom the Seymour blood in Norwalk to-day is derived, were :
Hannah, born Dec. 12, 1654, married Francis Bushnell.
Abigail, born Jan. 1656, married Thomas Pickett.
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Mary, twins.
Sarah,
Thomas 2d., born 1660; probably died young.
Elizabeth, born Dec., 1663.
Maria, born 1666.
Matthew 1st., born May, 1669.
John 2d., born 1672.1 Rebecca, born 1675.
It will be seen that the only two sons of Thos. Seymour 1st., who Norwalk-perpet- uated the Seymour name, were Matthew Ist. and John 2d. The lines from these two brothers are distinctly traced.
Matthew Ist., son of Thomas Ist. and Hannah Seymour, married Sarah, daughter of Samuel (see page 88) Hayes, and had :
Matthew 2d., bap. (see page 88) in Fairfield, Oct. 7, 1694; went to Ridgefield.2 Samuel, bap. Nov. 17, 1694; went to Stamford.
Thomas 2d .; went to Canaan parish.
Jehiel; went to Huntington, L. I.3
Hannah ; married Nathan St. John of Ridgefield.
Elizabeth ; married Eleazer Bouton of Stamford.
Ruth ; married Jabez Smith of Ridgefield. Sarah ; married, presumably, a Bouton.
'John Seymour Ist., left Norwalk in 1655 with his mother and stepfather Steele.
"The child (Matthew Seymour 2d.) son of Mat- thew ist. and Sarah ( Hayes) Seymour, and whose bap- tism is mentioned in the last text line on page 88, settled in Ridgefield, of which place his father was one of the purchasers in 1708. Here he appears to have had several children, among whom was Thomas who married Sarah, born March 1, 1733, daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Benedict) Rockwell. This son, Thomas, had a farm on the west side of the old Ridge- field and Norwalk road, but a short distance from the present Ridgefield Fair Grounds. Thomas and Sarah Seymour had: Thomas, Matthew, Abijah, Jeremiah, Ruth, Hannah and Sally, the last of whom died un- married. Thomas married an Olmsted, Matthew a Gregory, Abijah a Hine, Jeremiah a Kellogg, Ruth a Scott and Hannah a Lockwood. Mrs. Hannah (Sey- mour) Lockwood's husband, (Gershom Lockwood) was a son of Michael Lockwood, Sr., and a brother of Michael, Jr., who was the father of the late Carmi Lockwood of Norwalk. Gershom Lockwood and his new wife planted themselves in the still standing old fashioned comfortable house somewhat east of the Lewisboro, N. Y., St. John's Chapel on the road lead- ing to Bald Hill. They had two children, Rufus and
Betsey. Betsey, born May 28, 1799, married Samuel, son of Cornelius and Rebecca (Dann) Campfield and grandson of Jabez Campfield. These had : Rufus L., Mary (Mrs. Peter Hoyt), Emily (unmarried), Samuel A. and Eli, who died in infancy. Mrs. Betsey (Lock- wood) Campfield resides in Lewisboro with her wid- ower son, Rufus L., and her grandson Frank A. Campfield. She is (1896) ninety-seven years old and her faculties are remarkably preserved.
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