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(VI) Henry, son of Captain Oliver and Lucy (Parker) Shattuck, was born in Deer- field, May 13, 1786, where he resided as a farmer until 1833, when he removed to Am- herst, where he died June 22, 1851. He mar- ried (first) October 13, 1811, Olive P. Turn- er, born in Charlestown, August 30, 1790,
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died in Deerfield, October 24, 1828, daughter of Micah and Mary ( Pratt ) Turner. He married (second) May 21, 1829, Tirza Por- ter, born in Weymouth, July 9, 1798, daugh- ter of Samuel and Mary ( White) Porter. She died September 24, 1857, aged fifty-nine years. Children by first marriage: Harriet (died young), Harriet, Levi Hubbard, Mary Ann, Joseph Henry; by second marriage : Olive, Edwin White and Ellen Maria.
(VII) Edwin White, only son of Henry and Tirza (Porter ) Shattuck, was born in Amherst, August 12, 1834. He attended dis- trict school until sixteen years of age. At thir- teen he began work in a cotton mill, where he was employed during the warm season of the year for three years. Then on account of the illness of his father he took charge of the farm for a year, until the death of the father. The following three years he spent learning the carpenter's trade with Charles Bangs, of North Amherst. At the age of twenty he be- gan contracting and building on his own ac- count at Amherst, where he remained until 1858. At that time there was much going on in the new southwest to attract men, and Mr. Shattuck went to Leavensworth, Kansas, and to Crystal Lake, Illinois, where he spent a year mostly at the latter place. In 1859 he returned to Massachusetts and engaged in the business of construction at Springfield, where he has been actively engaged ever since-a period of over fifty years. He has built many well known structures in Springfield, among which are W. D. Kinsman's block, the Chico- pee National Bank, the Lyman building, the Art building, all the Milton Bradley and Tap- ley buildings near Willow and Grove streets, the Woman's Christian Association building, the residence of Dr. Corcoran, the residence of Mrs. E. Brewer Smith, the residence of E. O. Sutton, the Irving Page house, Chicopee Falls, the Leed House, Ridgeway Place, and the Springfield Republican building, to which he is now adding two stores. Mr. Shattuck was a Whig, but joined the Republican party soon after its organization, and has since voted for its candidates. He has been a mem- ber of the Memorial Church ( Evangelical ) for many years and one of its deacons. Ed- win W. Shattuck married, May 17, 1859. Bes- sie Kimball, by whom he had one child, Ed- ward Porter who died at the age of sixteen years. He married (second ) February 25, 1864, Sarah Lavinia Bugbec, in Amherst, July 10, 1834, daughter of Elbridge and Eliza A. ( Bugbec ) Bugbee, of Belchertown, Massa-
chusetts. They had four children: Emma Eliza, born July 2, 1865 ; Harriet Elmira, Sep- tember 2, 1867, married E. F. Leonard, drug- gist, of Springfield; Gertrude, died in infancy ; Grace, April 5, 1873, was killed July 24, 1893, while driving on State street, Springfield.
The Jones family of this sketch
JONES was of Welsh ancestry and is closely related to the Janes fam-
ily, the immigrant ancestor of which spelled . his name Jeanes. The Jones and Janes fami- lies were closely connected for many genera- tions.
(I) Griffin or Griffith Jones, immigrant an- cestor, settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, as early as 1646 and was a proprietor of the town in that year. He was admitted a free- man April 5, 1649. He was a Welshman and married Sarah before coming to this country. She died May 6, 1665 : he died Feb- ruary 19, 1676-77. The two younger children were bound out until they came of age, Pe- latiah to Deacon William Holton, of North- ampton, and Benoni to Lieutenant William Clarke, of Northampton. The estate was ad- ministered by sons Samuel and Ebenezer. Chil- dren, born at Springfield : I. Child, born and died September 25, 1645. 2. Mercy, born July 4, 1647, married James Barker. 3. Hep- zibah, born September 26, 16-, married Isaac Cakebread. 4. Samuel, born January 19, 1651. 5. Ebenezer, born July 14, 1653, re- sided at Northampton ; married Mercy Bagg. 6. Thomas, born June 8, 1655, married Eliza- beth Graves. 7. Griffith, born June 4, 1658, died young. 8. Griffith, born March 28, 1660. 9. Experience, born August 12, 1662, married John Higgins. 10. Pelatiah, born July 22. 1664. II. Benoni, mentioned below.
(IT) Benoni, son of Griffin or Griffith Jones, was born in 1666. At the age of twelve years he was indentured to William Clarke, of Northampton, until he came of age. It was stipulated that Clarke should "learn him to read and write and give him five pounds at the end of his term with sufficient clothing such as servants usually have and at the end of his time two suits of apparel." He and four others resided in Pascommuck, now Easthampton, settled about 1600. His farm was about four miles from Northampton cen- ter and was the garrison house during Indian hostilities. Benoni and two sons were slain by the Indians May 13, 1704, and his wife taken a captive to Canada, where she died later in the year. The wife of Benjamin Janes,
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a neighbor and relative, was taken to the top of Pomeroy Mountain, scalped and left for dead. but she recovered. Benjamin moved to Coventry, Connecticut. Samuel Janes was slain during the same attack. Benoni Jones married, January 23, 1689, Esther (Gurley ) . Ingersoll, daughter of John and William, Gur- ley. Children: I. Jonathan, born January 4, 1695, died young. 2. Benjamin, born 1696, mentioned below. 3. Ebenezer, born Novem- ber 12, 1698, killed by Indians May 13, 1704. 4. Jonathan, born March 3, 1703, killed May 13, 1704, with father and brother.
(III) Benjamin, son of Benoni Jones, was born in 1696 or earlier. After the massacre at Northampton. May 13, 1704, when his father and two brothers were killed and his mother taken a captive, he appears to have removed with the Janes family to Coventry, Connecti- cut. Benjamin Janes, with whom he went, was son of the immigrant William Janes or Jeanes, who was a school teacher at New Ha- ven, Wethersfield and Northampton, and per- haps brother of Griffith Jones. The history of Wethersfield, indeed, gives Benoni as a son of William Janes. The maintenance of the difference in spelling the name though the families lived side by side, is a means of trac- ing them and is evidence that this Benjamin Jones was the son of Benoni Jones, not of Benjamin Janes. The similarity of names of the children of this Benjamin Jones and those of Benoni Jones corroborates this assumption. Benjamin and Hannah Jones or Janes had a son Seth at Coventry, August 31, 1715. This Benjamin married Patience - -, who died April 24, 1770, aged seventy-five years, at Coventry. Children of Benjamin and Patience Jones, born at Coventry : I. Ebenezer, born April 8, 1718, mentioned below. 2. Esther, born May 1, 1720. 3. Jonathan, born June 21, 1722, married, March 12, 1747, Abijah Strong, and lived in Coventry. 4. Noah, born May 15, 1724. married, May 9, 1745, Dinah Hitch- cock: lived at Coventry. 6. Huldah, born June 25, 1729. 7. Asahel, born July 7, 1731, died August 7, 1740. 8. Sybil, born April 22, 1735, died August 29, 1740. 9. Dinah, born March 29, 1739, died September 8, 1740.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Benjamin Jones, was born at Coventry, April 8, 1718. He married (first) at Coventry, May 5, 1743, Abigail Long, who died December 16. fol- lowing. He married (second) December 4, 1745, Zerviah Loomis. Ebenezer moved from Coventry to Palmer, Massachusetts, about 1770. He was an active patriot during the iv-6
revolution. In 1774 he served on the commit- tee of inspection. He was highway surveyor in 1775. He is called lieutenant on the Palmer records and doubtless fought in the French and Indian war. He was chosen on a commit- tee to provision the minutemen at the time of the Lexington call with a barrel of biscuit, a barrel of pork, a barrel of flour. He served on the committee of correspondence in 1776; and on the committee to care for the families of revolutionary soldiers in 1777. He was selectman 1777-79. Children of second wife, born at Coventry : 1. Abigail, born February 24, 1747, died September 18, 1750. 2. Adoni- jah, born August 20, 1748, mentioned below. 3. Dinah, born October II, 1750, married, at Palmer, December 21, 1773, Luther Chapin. 4. Ebenezer, born April 19, 1752, married, at Palmer, April 23, 1778, Anna Spear. 5. Israel, born October 24, 1753, married. at Palmer, August, 1782 (intentions dated), Elizabetlı Mackelwan. 6. Abigail, born February 2, 1756. 7. Esther, born April 24, 1758. 8. Benoni, born November 5, 1759. 9. Eber, born June 4, 1761. 10. Silas, born July 28, 1764. Born at Palmer : II .. Lucretia, born September 9, 1772.
(V) Adonijah, son of Ebenezer Jones, was born in Coventry, Connecticut, August 20, 1748. He moved with his father and family to Palmer about 1770. He was a soldier in the revolution, April 19, 1775, in Captain Da- vid Spear's company of minute-men : also ser- geant in Captain Jonathan Danford's com- pany, Colonel David Brewer's regiment (Ninth). His brother Ebenezer was also in the revolution in Captain Sylvanus Walker's company. Colonel Timothy Danielson's regi- ment, in April, 1775. Adonijah settled at Palmer and married (first) at Coventry, March 15, 1770, Sarah Lyman, who died at Coventry, May 1, 1771. He married (sec- ond) at Palmer, July 9, 1778, Anna MacEl- wain, born February 27, 1753, died December 18, 1831. He died December 18, 1820. Child of first wife, born at Coventry: 1. Sarah, born April 26, 1771. Children of second wife : 2. Adonijah, born April 9, 1779 (records April 24, 1780), died June 8, 1841. 3. Ann, born February 22, 1781, died December 18, 1831. 4. Esther, born December 22. 1784, died January 31, 1864. 5. Eber, born June 7, 1787, mentioned below. 6. Susanna, born Au- gust 5, 1789, died May 12, 1864. 7. Timothy, born April 9, 1792, died May 16, 1813. 8. Zachary Loomis, born August 15, 1797.
(VI) Eber, son of Adonijah Jones, was
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born June 7, 1787, died April 4, 1860. He removed from Otis, Massachusetts, with his family to engage in business as a jeweler in Brooklyn, New York, and subsequently lo- cated upon a farm in Wellington, Ohio. He married, July 16, 1813, Betsey Amanda Pel- ton, born April 20, 1794, died April 13, 1886, daughter of Captain Samuel and Mary (Woodworth ) Pelton. Her father was in the revolution. Children : 1. Crville Orlando, born June 18, 1814, died October 26, 1902. 2. Samuel Pelton, born January 17, 1817, died in San Diego, California, February 7, 1909. 3 Mary Eliza, born June 2, 1819, died Septem- ber 14, 1885; married Allen Barker. 4. Ed- ward Dorr Griffin, born September 22, 1824, mentioned below. 5. Eber Loomis, born May 13, 1827, died young. 6. Harley Leander, born August 30, 1831, died November 30, 1876.
(VII) Edward Dorr Griffin, son of Eber Jones, was born September 22, 1824, died De- cember 30, 1904. He was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York, and in Wellington, Ohio, and remained with his fath- er on the farm until he became of age. Hc then returned to Lee, Berkshire county, Mas- sachusetts, and learned the trade of mill- wright with his uncle, Timothy Jones. In 1853 he established himself in business as a millwright at Lee, and an important part of the business was the agency for the sale of turbine wheels manufactured by the James Leffell Company of Springfield, Ohio. The business of equipping paper mills and the manufacture of paper mill machinery was added and soon became a feature, and even- tually the exclusive manufacturing interest. In 1866 he sold his Lee business to Henry Couch and Freeman Oakley, and started in business in Pittsfield in the same line, which evolved into the E. D. Jones & Sons Company, in which he was engaged up to the time of his death. He was president and director of the company ; also vice-president and director of the Third National Bank of Pittsfield; presi- dent and director of the Co-operative Bank ; director of the Keith Paper Company of Turner's Falls; president of the Terry Clock Company of Pittsfield. He was a member of the Park Club of Pittsfield; of Berkshire Commandery, Knights Templar, and a thirty- second degree Mason. He was one of the board of trustees of the Methodist Church and an active church worker. He was an ac- tive Republican and was representative to the general court in 1879-80 for the third Berk-
shire district, and of the state senate in 1886- 87, where he rendered efficient service. As a member of the board of public works in Pitts- field from 1891 to 1899, however of which body he was chairman, his services were con- spicuously valuable. During this time the sewerage system was installed, and to this work Mr. Jones gave his best efforts, and to him, in a large measure, is due the splendid results accomplished for the city in that di- rection. He believed in doing well whatever he had to do, and his ability and integrity soon established for him an enviable reputa- tion in business and financial circles. He had many friends who appreciated his fine quali- ties as a gentleman, and his character was without blemish.
He married ( first) November 10, 1849, Nancy E. M. Breckenridge, daughter of Francis and Zilla Breckenridge. He married ( second) October 20, 1858, Ardilla H. Her- rick, born June 30, 1836, died April 6, 1866, daughter of Levi W. and Mercy (Hamblin) Herrick. He married (third) May 11, 1868, Arvilla Bartlett Noble, born December 18, 1843, daughter of John S. and Mary Ann (Granger) Noble. Child of first wife: I. Italia N., born February 5, 1853, married, April 9, 1874, Everett G. Goodell; died De- cember 25, 1893 ; child, Lena J. Goodell, died young. Children of second wife: 2. Harley Eber, born September 24, 1861, died Septem- ber 24, 1896; married, April 16, 1885, Libbie Hancock and had Margaret Ardilla, born Au- gust 5, 1887. 3. Edward Archie, born No- vember 3. 1863, graduate of Peekskill Mili- tary Academy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1887 ; married, October 7, 1891, Isabel Amelia Abbe; son, Charles Edward, born January 7, 1894. Children of third wife: 4. Leffell Noble, born November 8, 1872, died July 17, 1873. 5. Mary Elvina, born August 25, 1874, died August 8, 1875. 6. Samuel Ralph, born March 29, 1878, member of firm of E. D. Jones & Company ; married September 12, 1905, Adelaide Flanders, born August 28, 1880; they have one son, Samuel Harley, born May 29, 1906.
(For ancestry see p. 1420).
(XVIII) Daniel Whit-
WHITTEMORE temore, son of Thomas Whittemore, immigrant ancestor, was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, and baptized there July 13, 1633. He married Mary Mellins, daughter of Richard Mellins, of Charlestown, March 7, 1662. He in-
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herited the homestead from his father and settled on it. He bequeathed it to his sons Daniel and John. The will was nuncupative and was not proved until nearly two years af- ter his death. His widow Mary was the ad- ministratrix. Children : I. Daniel, born April 27, 1663, died September 21, 1756. 2. John, February 12, 1664-65, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, March 5, 1667. 4. Mary, Febru- ary 15, 1668-69. 5. Nathaniel, February 7, 1670. 6. Peletiah, 1680, died October 21, 1725. 7. James.
(XIX) John, son of Daniel Whittemore, was born February 12, 1664-65, died in 1730. He married Ruth Bassett, sister of Lydia Bas- sett, who married his brother, Daniel Whitte- more. They were daughters of Joseph and granddaughters of William Bassett, immi- grant, who came over in the ship "Fortune" in 1621, lived in Duxbury in 1637, was deputy to the general court several years and joined Governor Bradford and others in the purchase of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and removed to Bridgewater where he died in 1667. Ruth Whittemore was appointed April 3, 1730, ad- ministratrix of her husband's estate, which was inventoried at five hundred and three pounds. Children: 1. John, born September 12, 1694. 2. Jeremiah, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, 1698. 4. Benjamin, 1700. 5. Elias, 1702. 6. Patience, 1704. 7. David, April 16, 1706. 8. Deborah, March 1, 1708. 9. Peletiah, October 30, 1710.
(XX) Jeremiah, son of John Whittemore, was born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1695. He married, in Boston, March 15, 1722, Pa- tience Reed, born December 3, 1699, died Oc- tober 24, 1745, daughter of Israel and Mary (Kendall) Reed, of Woburn, Massachusetts. She was received in the Weston church from the church in Chelsea, February 26, 1726-27. He married (second) May 10, 1746, Abigail Wooley, of Concord, and removed there from Weston. He died there March 31, 1783, aged eighty-eight years. Children, all by first wife : I. Jeremiah, born August 16, 1723, mentioned below. 2. Isaac, Weston, November 15, 1726. 3. Patience, January 20, 1729-30. 4. Israel, July 10, 1732. 5. Asa, August 7, 1736, died April 12, 1746.
(XXI) Jeremiah (2), son of Jeremiah (I) Whittemore, was born in Concord, August 16, 1723, died in Spencer, Massachusetts, May 14, 1803, aged seventy-eight years. He went from Weston to settle in Spender in 1760. Some of his children were born there, and some in Weston. He married Mary Carter. Children :
I. Amos, died 1751. 2. Asa, born November IO, 1749, mentioned below. 3. Reuben, April 29, 1754. 4. Mary, Weston, married Nathan Wright. 5. Tamar, June 18, 1756. 6. Sybil, January 17, 1758. 7. Aaron, Spencer, March I, 1762. 8. Esther, December 28, 1764. 9. Jeremiah, February 21, 1766. 10. Sarah, March 16, 1768.
(XXII) Asa, son of Jeremiah (2) Whitte- more, was born in Spencer, November 16, 1749, died in Leicester, September 10, 1821, aged seventy-one years. He lived first in Spencer, where his two eldest children were born, and removed about 1778 to Leicester. He married Lucy --- , who died in Leicester, February 17, 1822, aged sixty-five. Children : I. Lucy, born December 17, 1775. 2. Asa, June 16, 1777. Born in Leicester : 3. Amos, April 5, 1779. 4. Polly, December 3, 1780. 5. Nabby, December 6, 1782. 6. Amasa, September 12, 1784, mentioned below. 7. Jon- as, August 20, 1786. 8. Sally, September 23, 1788. 9. Charles, July 28, 1790. IO. Betsey, April 28, 1792. II. John Stebbins, January 28, 1794. 12. Tamma, August 10, 1796.
(XXIII) Amasa, son of Asa Whittemore, was born in Leicester, September 12, 1784, died in Worcester. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and a farmer by.occu- pation. He married, (intentions dated March I, 1817) Mrs. Senta (Richardson) Rice, of Millbury, widow of John Rice. Children, born in Leicester: I. Susan Maria, born March 23, 1818. 2. Mary Ann, January 21, 1820. 3. John Rice (twin), March 15, 1822, mentioned below. 3. Jonathan Richardson, March 15, 1822 (twin). 5. Henry Sargent, July 27, 1825. 6. Charles Augustus, March 23, 1830. 7. David Henshaw, April 4, 1832.
(XXIV) John Rice, son of Amasa Whitte- more, was born in Leicester, March 15, 1822, died at Chicopee Falls, January 17, 1891. He received a public school education, and about 1846 went to Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, where he settled. He began the manufacture of agricultural tools and implements with the firm of Whittemore, Belcher & Company, in a shop located between the canal and the river. This was the first concern in that part of New England to do a general agricultural tool business, and for many years it enjoyed a large and very successful trade. The firm, with a few changes, continued to carry on the business until about 1881, when the firm be- came B. & J. W. Belcher, and John R. Whit- temore engaged in the same line in the shop near the present Overman Wheel Works.
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About a year before his death, Mr. Whitte- more sold his business to Belcher, Taylor & Company, which is still in business, and spent his time in the care of his real estate, much of which was in rentable property. His tenants looked upon him as a model landlord, always kind and considerate. Although he never held public office, Mr. Whittemore was identi- fied with every public movement of his town and community. He was for many years prominent in the temperance movement, and was a strong Prohibitionist. He was a mem- ber of the Second Congregational Church at the Falls, and served on the standing commit- tee of that church. He married, August 24, 1853, Olive Muzzy, born November 16, 1827. daughter of Benjamin and Phila H. (Liver- more ) Muzzy. Children: 1. Alice Jane, born February 16, 1859, married Irving Page. 2. Albert M., March 29, 1863, died young. .3.
John M., died in infancy. 4. Charles F., April 12, 1868, educated at public and high school of Chicopee Falls, and graduated at Cornell University with degree of B. S. in 1892, was buyer for Stevens Arms & Tool Company, and later in the electrical business, but on account of ill-health bought a tobacco farm in Suffield, Connecticut, where he now resides ; married Genevieve Byrne, of New York city.
(For preceding generations see John Ball 1). (IV) Joseph, son of John (3) BALL Ball, was born in Watertown, May 4, 1674. Among his children were: 1. Peter, who sold his lands in that sec- tion and located in Southborough, where he became the progenitor of all of that name in that section, among them being the Hon. Phineas Ball, of Worcester, and Rev. Georgc S. Ball, of Upton; Eben Tourjee, celebrated in musical circles, was also one of his de- scendants. 2. Josiah, see below.
(V) Josiah, son of Joseph Ball, was born in Watertown, March 2, 1712-13, died Octo- ber 28, 1791. He was a man of influence in his day and left a large estate to his children. June 5, 1731, he with his brother Peter pur- chased and took a deed from William Brewer, of Boston, for several adjacent parcels of land, for which they paid the sum of one hun- dred and eighty pounds. These parcels in- cluded almost two hundred acres of land, to which belonged a mansion-house, and also a two-acre right in the town's common lands after the eighth division. Josiah Ball gradual- ly added to his landed possessions until he was
the owner of several hundred acres which he left to his children, although none of it now remains in the hands of his lineal descendants. He owned one slave, named Andrew Dewner or Duno, who was presented to him by a friend in Boston, when it was but four weeks old. Mr. Ball brought the little fellow to his home on horseback, nourishing him on the way with milk from a nursing-bottle. Upon his arrival at his home he found that all of the family had retired, and finding his wife asleep he placed the sleeping child on her bed while he cared for his horse. Before he re- turned the child awoke and by its cries aroused his sleeping bed-fellow, who was con- siderably alarmed by this demonstration ; her husband's entrance soon cleared up matters, however, and Andrew grew up a faithful ser- vant, being awarded his freedom and a horse upon attaining the age of twenty-one years. He exchanged the horse for a slave girl in Marlboro, whom he married. Mr. Ball gave Andrew a little homestead of twelve acres and a small dwelling-house, upon which he resided comfortably. Josiah Ball married (first) July 3, 1733, Rachel. daughter of Dr. John and Mehitabel (Holbrook ) Corbett ; she was born August 1, 1717, and died December 18, 1751. Their children were: 1. Josiah, Jr., born April 13, 1742, died March II, 1835, he inherited the main homestead and succeeded to his fath- er's enterprise and wealth, he married (first) July 5, 1770, Sarah Palmer, born in Upton, March 15, 1744, died July 6, 1791 ; they had children : Rachel, Asenath, Sarah, Zenas, Hannah and Abner, he married ( second ) June 16, 1799, Mrs. Sarah, widow of Eben- czer Cliflin ; she died June 19, 1824. 2. Eli- jah, see forward. 3. Mary, born March 2, 1749, married. May 7, 1767, Jonathan Jones, the third. 4. Lazarus, born March 19, 1751. died January 14, 1827; he practiced some years in Weston and its vicinity, but was not successful in his profession or in the acquisi- tion of worldly wealth; he married Lydia Cleveland, born December 12, 1755, and they had children : Orrilla, Betsey, Henry and Clarissa. Josiah Ball Sr., married (second ) October 23. 1758, Widow Sarah Whitc.
(VI) Elijah, second son and child of Jo- siah and Rachel (Corbett ) Ball, was born February 1, 1743. He settled in Orange. In 1793 he quit-claimed to his brother Josiah for the sum of fifty-two pounds his portion of real estate bequeathed in the will of his fath- er. He married (first) December 19, 1770, Joanna, daughter of Deacon Abijah and Joan-
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na French ; she was born August 22, 1752, and their children, as far as the records show, were: I. Elijah, who became a physician and settled in Georgia; he married Mrs. Talitha (Martin) Goodwin, and had children : Joanna French, who married Richard Thompson; James Martin, married Sallie Hendree ; Eliza Panthea, married W. H. Edwards; Henry Elijah, married Mary V. Clark; William Theodore, enlisted in United States army and died at Vera Cruz; Mary Amanda, married George Edwards; Sarah Catherine, married Andrew Jackson Edwards. 2. Prudence. 3. Fordyce, see forward. 4. Nancy, married
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