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Henry O. Bragg, son of Nathaniel and Polly (Kendall) Bragg, was born in Royalston April 21, 1824. As a young man, he taught school in Middleboro and Royalston. Later, at the death of his father, he returned home to carry on the farm. He was always interested in the welfare of his town and held several positions of trust. He married Jemima Shores, daughter of Rev. Silas Shores, Nov. 24, 1853, she was born in Falmouth, April 19, 1828. In 1869, he removed to Amherst, Mass., to educate his children. After twenty years, he left Amherst for Agawam, where he bought a large farm. In 1892, he went to Foxboro, Mass., where he and his wife made their home with their son, Dr. Francis A. Bragg, and where he died July 6, 1903; his wife died Jan. 23, 1912. They had seven children: Henry Eugene, born Sept. 3, 1854, died Aug. 24, 1869; Everett Bert, born March 2, 1856; Charles Franklin, born April 7, 1858, died Feb. 2, 1863; Abbie Adella, born April 4, 1864, died Sept. 17, 1869; Will Thornton, born May 9, 1862; Francis Adelbert, born Jan. 2, 1865; Stella Amelia, born Oct. 31, 1867, died Feb. 13, 1884.
Everett B. Bragg, son of Henry O. and Jemima (Shores) Bragg was born in Royalston March 20, 1856; his father was living at the time on the original farm owned by his grand- father, Nathaniel Bragg, on the road leading from Royalston to Athol, the south boundary of the farm adjoining the Athol line. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Royalston, Shutesbury and Amherst. He entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College at the age of fifteen and graduated in the Class of 1875. After graduation, he remained
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DR. FRANCIS A. BRAGG
HENRY O. BRAGG
MR. AND MRS. EVERETT EUGENE BRAGG and EVERETT C. BRAGG
EVERETT B. BRAGG
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three years at the College as an assistant to Dr. C. A. Goessman in the chemical department, and then was four years exploring in the West Indies.
In 1895, he organized the National Chemical Co. in Cleve- land, Chio, engaging in the manufacture of heavy chemicals. This company became a part of the General Chemical Co. of New York in 1899 and he became the western manager of their manufacturing department and in 1905, was elected vice- president and western manager located at Chicago, and this position he holds at the present time. He is a member of the following clubs and societies: Union League Club, Chicago; Union Club, Cleveland; New York Athletic Club; New York Chemistry Club; Evanston Club, Evanston, Ill .; Chicago Association of Commerce; Illinois Manufacturing Association; American Chemical Society; American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science; New England Society of Chicago, and several other societies.
He married Helen Bliss Dickinson of Amherst, Mass., May 31, 1882; their children all living at this time are: Everett E., born in Boston, Dec. 9, 1884; Helen M., born in Boston, Dec. 21, 1886; Lawrence D., born in Springfield, Mass., Jan. 12, 1890; Kendall B., born in Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1892 and Arthur D. born in Evanston, Ill., Feb. 14, 1902.
Francis A. Bragg, son of Henry O. and Jemima (Shores) Bragg, was born in Shutesbury, Mass., Jan. 2, 1865, was edu- cated at Amherst public schools and Harvard Medical School, receiving his degree with Class of 1894. He began the practice of his profession in Boston, and settled in Foxboro, Mass., in 1895, where he is still in practice. He is the Medical Examiner of Sixth Norfolk District, and a member of the Harvard Alumni Association, Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was married Sept. 14, 1899 to Mary Davenport, a graduate of Wellesley, 1896. They have three children: Francis C., born July 1, 1901, Alice D., born Feb. 10, 1903 and David K., born Oct. 13, 1908.
THE FISHER FAMILY
Capt. David Fisher came to Royalston some time about 1790 from Attleboro, Mass. where he was born in 1764. He mar-
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ried Sophia Thayer of Mansfield Aug. 9, 1790. He bought a farm of one hundred acres in West Royalston, where he died in 1850. He was a Quaker and very eccentric, being an earnest opponent of the old law, requiring every one to pay for the support of religious worship, and became a leader of the "Free Donation Society"; after the repeal of that law he became a regular contributor in sustaining the institution of the Gospel. He was selectman of Royalston two years, assessor seven years, and was a well known school-master for several years. The children of David and Sophia (Thayer) Fisher were: Sophia, born Aug. 23, 1791, married Moses Walker 2nd., Jan. 29, 1816; Jason, born April 25, 1793; Achsa, born Feb. 8, 1795, died Feb. 21, 1795; Seth, born Jan. 13, 1796; Clarissa, born Feb. 27, 1798, married Hori West- coat of Warwick March 21, 1820; Ruth Bliss, born Aug. 22, 1799, married Stephen J. Kendall of Warwick, May 9, 1820; David, born Mar. 8, 1801; Israel Labin, born May 13, 1803, died Oct. 9, 1805.
Jason Fisher, oldest son of Capt. David Fisher, was born in Royalston Apr. 25, 1793. He bought his father's farm and lived on it until his death in 1878. He was a farmer and pump maker, making the old-fashioned wooden pump. He married Ruth Walker Feb. 19, 1818. Their children were: Horace, born Sept. 19, 1820; Ruth Morse, born Mar. 24, 1823, married Charles Mosman of Westminster, Nov. 20, 1845; Lisander Watson, born Jan. 22, 1825; Orvis, born Mar. 23, 1827; Feronda Walker born, Apr. 23, 1829; Fyonda Aurilla, born Mar. 6, 1831; Cynthia Dexter, born Mar. 3, 1834, died young; Augustus J., born Apr. 14, 1836.
Augustus J. Fisher was born in Royalston, April 14, 1836. When a young man he attended Brattleboro Academy and taught school in Brattleboro, Chesterfield, N. H. and Royalston. He also went to a music school in Boston and for six years taught singing school both juvenile and adult in the towns of Fitzwilliam and Richmond, N. H. and Royal- ston, Orange, Wendell, Warwick, New Salem, Erving and Athol in Massachusetts. He went to Orange in 1859 where he was engaged in the dry goods business for 29 years; he was a member of the school committee two years and assessor for sixteen consecutive years, and is a member of Orange lodge F. & A. M.
AUGUSTUS J. FISHIER
EDWIN A. FISHER
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He married Hattie A. Jennison of Orange Nov. 26, 1862. She died in 1880 and he married second, Emma C. Richardson of Winchester, Mass., Aug. 1, 1883. He had no children by either wife.
Horace Fisher, son of Jason Fisher, was born in Royalston Sept. 19, 1820. He always lived in Royalston and was a farmer and lumberman. He married Lucy J. Kendall of Sandoff, N. H. Jan. 14, 1846. He died in 1890. His children were Edwin Augustus, born July 17, 1847, a sketch of whom appears in another chapter of this history. Elmer H. born Aug. 6, 1851 married Avis Mahala Corey of Canada, July 7, 1873; they have two children, Anna Elizabeth born July 29, 1874 and Leon Horace born July 1876; Elmer H. died at Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 8, 1904; Cora J. Fisher born Aug. 20, 1855, married George E. Woodbury of Royalston Apr. 17, 1881; they have one son Chester Leslie, born Jan. 28, 1885. Mrs. Woodbury died (.)
Edward Everett Fisher born Jan. 16, 1853, married Mary Louise Leathe May 26, 1883, they had one daughter, Ethel May, born May 29, 1887.
Feronda W. Fisher, son of Jason Fisher was born in Royalston April 23, 1829. He enlisted in the Fourth Ver- mont regiment in the Civil war and died in Orange, Mass. in 1909.
Orvis Fisher, son of Jason, was born March 3, 1827. He was a member of the New Hampshire Cavalry in the Civil war, and died at Fortress Monroe in 1865.
THE DAVIS FAMILY
The Davis family, which has played an important part in the history of Royalston, from the time when Lt. John Davis came from Rehoboth, Mass. and settled in the west part of the town, traces its lineage back through the centuries to King Alfred of England. John Davis, the first member of the family to settle in Royalston, was born in Haverhill, Mass. Jan. 4, 1734 and moved to Rehoboth in 1750, where he married in September, 1760, Joanna Hicks (Hix) who was the daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Orms- bee) Hix of Rehoboth.
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They moved to Royalston in 1778 and located upon a farm of two hundred acres in the west part of the town. He purchased the farm of James Otis of Barnstable, one of the original proprietors of Royalston, and paid two hundred and forty pounds for the same. He served in the war of the Revolution and attained the rank of 1st. Lieut. The govern- ment granted him two hundred acres of land for his service. He died in 1794.
His will mentions his wife Joanna and eleven children. They had thirteen children: Squire, John, Sylvester, Sara, Susanna, Joanna, Joseph, Benjamin, Asahel, Anna, Benjamin, Barney and Daniel. All but three of these were born in Rehoboth.
(1) Squire Davis, oldest child of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, was born in Rehoboth July 21, 1762. He remained there until he was sixteen years old living with his grand- father, John Davis, when he went with his father to Royal- ston. He served in the war of the Revolution, and the town paid him six hundred dollars for his service, and he after- wards drew a pension.
He married Althear Bullock, daughter of Moulton Bullock. She was born in 1763 and died suddenly July 13, 1813 aged fifty years. They had seven children born to them. He was Representative to the General Court from Royalston in 1823, and served the town as Selectman twenty-one years.
(2) John Davis, second son of John and Joanna Davis, was born April 13, 1763. He came with his father to Royal- ston in 1778, and served in the Revolution from Royalston, although at the time he was but little over sixteen years of age, being mustered in July 6, 1779. He was granted a pension in 1833. He was a farmer by occupation, and married Lorania Perry of New Salem in 1792. She was born March 14, 1761. They removed to New Hampshire where five children were born to them. He moved back to Royal- ston, and married, second, Lucy Dexter of Orange in 1806; they had six children. He died in 1846.
(3) Sylvester Davis, born Oct. 21, 1764, died Aug. 20, 1813 age 48 years.
(4) Sarah Davis, daughter of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, was born Nov. 4, 1766. She married in Royalston,
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Rev. Simeon Jacobs, a widower with six children, Dec. 8, 1792. They had three children. She died 1853.
(5) Susanna Davis, born July 18, 1768, died April 1770.
(6) Joanna Davis, third daughter of John and Joanna Davis, born Feb. 17, 1770. Married William Weeks of Richmond, N. H. Dec. 12, 1815. She died in January, 1838. (7) Joseph Davis, son of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, born at Rehoboth Oct. 18, 1771; removed to Royalston in 1778 and married Sophia White, March, 1795. He was a farmer by occupation and died in 1830. They had twelve children that grew up in Royalston.
(8) Benjamin Davis, fifth son of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, born Feb. 9, 1773, died, 1777 at the age of four years.
(9) Asahel Davis, sixth son of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, was born Feb. 19, 1775, moved to Royalston in 1778. Was a blacksmith and farmer. He married Deborah Mason. They had nine children, all born in Royalston. He died Jan. 7, 1859.
(10) Anna Davis, youngest daughter of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, born Oct. 12, 1776, married Henry Goddard of Royalston Feb. 22, 1802. They lived for many years on the old home place of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis. They had eight grown-up children. They spent the latter part of their life at the home of their son Davis Goddard in Orange.
(11) Benjamin Davis, son of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, born December 25, 1778; he married Priscilla Davis and died in Illinois.
(12) Barney Davis, twelfth child of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, born Sept. 24, 1780; he married Susan Thurston of Royalston. They lived in Floyd, N. Y. and raised up a large family of children.
(13) Daniel Davis, youngest child of John and Joanna (Hix) Davis, was born Oct. 21, 1782. He died May 26, 1820, leaving a widow and four children in the western part of New York State.
Squire and Althear (Bullock) Davis had seven children: Prudence, Cephas, John, Joseph, Althear, Benjamin and Olive.
(1) Prudence Davis, oldest child of Squire and Althear (Bullock) Davis, was born May 20, 1787 and married Jacob Parker of Richmond, N. H. March 23, 1814.
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(2) Cephas Davis, oldest son of Squire and Althear (Bullock) Davis, was born July 15, 1788, and died Nov. 11, 1813.
(3) John Davis, the second son, was born Dec. 1, 1789. He married Polly Cook of Richmond, N. H., Feb. 11, 1816.
(4) Joseph Davis, third son of Squire and Althear (Bullock) Davis, was born July 18, 1792, married Tamarin Ballou, daughter of Oriel and Hannah (Robinson) Ballou of Richmond, N. H. Jan. 1, 1824. He was one of the largest landholders in Worcester Country owning over a thousand acres. He was a thorough business man, honest and upright in his dealings and held various responsible positions. He died in July, 1869 and his wife died Jan. 6, 1879.
Their children were: Franklin B. born Dec. 1825 died in 1829; Emily born Dec. 1827 died in 1859; Tamma born Apr. 12, 1829, married E. T. Warner, second, A. J. Fletcher. George B. born Sept. 1832, died 1839; George Franklin born Sept. 1840 died 1862; Marie E. born Nov. 1841, married Charles T. Tandy, Dec. 6, 1866.
(5) Althear Davis, the second daughter, was born June 19, 1794.
(6) Benjamin Davis, youngest son, was born July 2, 1800 and died at the age of six months,
(7) Olive Davis, youngest daughter of Squire and Althear (Bullock) Davis was born Sept. 6, 1803; married Adriel White Jan. 16, 1826. They had ten children.
The children of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis were: Cyrus, Elisha, Ansil, Hannah, Louisa, Daniel, Polly Mason, Hosea.
(1) Cyrus Davis, oldest son of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis, was born in Royalston, Oct. 15, 1799. He married Dulcena Gale of Royalston, Feb. 21, 1828. He was a farmer by occupation. He was Representative to the General Court from Royalston in 1840, and was one of the Selectmen of the town. He died in 1867.
(2) Elisha Davis, second son of Asahel and Deborah (Ma- son) Davis was born May 30, 1801; married Hannah Peck June 14, 1829, and married (second) Sarah Morse.
(3) Ansil Davis, third son of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis, was born July 10, 1803. He married first, Lucretia Johnson who died in New Hampshire; he married (second) Caroline Dudley, by whom he had several children.
DANIEL DAVIS
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He attended New Salem Academy and taught school, his education being better than the average farmer. He went to Boston and worked long enough to supply him with money to buy a small farm which he purchased in Chesterfield, N. H. Soon after moving on to his farm his wife died and he sold his place and moved to Orange, but after a while went to Warwick, which town he represented in the General Court of Massachusetts. He died in Warwick in May, 1859.
(4) Hannah Davis, oldest daughter of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis, was born in Royalston, March 30, 1805. She married first Oliver M. Fisher of Wendell, Sept. 19, 1824, and married (second) Jonathan Wheeler of Athol, by whom she had seven children, two of whom are now living (1915), Mrs. Hollon Farr of Athol and Mrs. Bela Dexter of Rutland, Vt.
(5) Louisa Davis, second daughter of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis, was born in Royalston, March 11, 1807. She was a school teacher and married Elbridge Boyden, a well known architect. She died in Worcester in 1888. They had three children.
Daniel Davis, sixth child of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis, was born in Royalston, Feb. 4, 1809. He worked at home on the farm summers, attending school in the winter. At the age of seventeen he attended New Salem Academy for one term, and at eighteen he taught school in Richmond, N. H., receiving ten dollars a month and board. When nine- teen he went to Boston where he remained for six years. At the request of the clerk of Quincy Market, he was appointed a policeman, having charge of the market house, Faneuil Hall, also of the Customs House which at that time, was located in Faneuil Hall.
When about twenty-five years of age he was obliged to give up his work in Boston, owing to failure of health, the doctors telling him he could not live two years. He returned to the farm, and for a while taught school in Royalston, also in Orange; later he went out as salesman for Jonathan Wheeler, who then owned a large pail factory in Athol. He traveled over thirteen different states; also, was on the Atlantic for fourteen days during a storm, in which every one was seasick. After this his health was much improved.
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He married July 5, 1842, Miss Lucinda W. Stratton of Athol, who was a sister of Joel D. Stratton, widely known throughout the United States and Great Britain and Ireland, as the man who was the instrument of John B. Gough's reformation. They lived in Athol for several years during which time Mr. Davis was a member of the school committee of Athol for one year. In 1860 he returned to Royalston where he lived the remainder of his life.
In 1832 he cast his first vote for President, voting for Andrew Jackson when he was elected for his second term. At one time he was a member of the Whig party, and was a delegate to the first Free Soil convention, where Daniel Webster was one of the speakers. He joined the Republican party when it was organized, and most of the time thereafter voted with that party, going three miles from his home in November, 1908, when he was within a few months of one hundred years of age to cast his vote for William H. Taft for President.
He served the town of Royalston as Selectman, School Committee, Overseer of the Poor and Assessor, and was one of the Historical Committee on the occasion of the Centennial Anniversary of Royalston in 1865, and was also one of the Committee of Publication of the Royalston Memorial of that year.
He prepared an address for and was present at the Old Home Week Celebration of Royalston held in August, 1910, when he was one hundred and one years and six months of age. He died March 30, 1912 at the age of one hundred and three years, one month and twenty-six days. Daniel and Lucinda (Stratton) Davis had six children.
The children of Daniel and Lucinda (Stratton) Davis were: Thenais B. Davis, born in Athol, Feb. 12, 1843. She married June 4, 1872 Eugene T. Bixby of Sunderland, Mass. They had two children, Willie E. born in Sunderland March 26, 1873 and died in Royalston, Feb. 5, 1898; Harry D. Bixby born in Royalston, Feb. 19, 1875. He married Maude E. Stone of Royalston, Sept. 25, 1900. They resided in Win- chendon and had one daughter, Louise S. born May 3, 1908. He died in 1915.
Thenais married (2) Ezekiel V. Nelson of Royalston, May, 9, 1894, She died in Royalston, Apr. 10, 1910.
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Hosea D. Davis, oldest son of Daniel and Lucinda (Stratton) Davis was born April 2, 1845. He went to Boston when a young man, where he has ever since been in the business of a contractor and builder. He married Mary Davis of Boston. They have no children.
Abby L. born in Royalston Feb. 17, 1847, died April 1849.
Emory A. born in Orange, Nov. 17, 1848. He went to California when a young man and engaged in the carpenter and contracting business. He is now retired from business. He never married.
Charles S. Davis, third son of Daniel and Lucinda (Stratton) Davis, was born in Royalston, Aug. 29, 1851. Lived with his parents in Royalston and Athol until about nineteen years of age when he left home and after spending one year in Boston and one in Athol went to Minneapolis in January, 1874. He married Oct. 11, 1877 Emily Jacobs Forristall of Boston. They have no children. He was engaged with the D. M. Gilmore Furniture Co. in Minneapolis, as general foreman for about eleven years, and then was in the real estate business from that time until about 1900, when he was ap- pointed first truant officer of the public schools of Minneapolis, which position he has held ever since. He has more than forty thousand elementary school children, together with twenty-five private and parochial schools to look after and has two assistants and a clerk. He has been a member of the First Baptist Church of Minneapolis for over thirty- three years.
Willie W. Davis, youngest child of Daniel Davis, was born in Athol, Sept. 25, 1854. He was engaged in the manufacture of furniture in Minneapolis for about twelve years, and then came East and was with the Mason & Hamlin Piano Co. in Boston about three years. He returned to Royalston about fifteen years ago and is engaged in the manufacture of lumber and the turning business, being a member of the firm of Newton & Davis. He never married.
(7) Polly Mason Davis, daughter of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis, was born in Royalston, July 28, 1812. She was a school teacher and married May 23, 1856, Chester Bancroft of Royalston born in 1808. They made their home in Worcester. She died in Worcester June 23, 1893. They had no children.
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(8) Hosea Davis, youngest child of Asahel and Deborah (Mason) Davis, was born in Royalston, June 21, 1816. See Sketch in Medical Chapter.
The children of Joseph and Sophia (White) Davis were: Clarissa, Jarvis, Alvin, Lorenzo, Lovina, Czarina, Cemantha, Feronda.
(1) Clarissa Davis, oldest daughter of Joseph and Sophia (White) Davis, was born March 11, 1796. She married Luther Ballou, Dec. 3, 1818. She died in 1866.
(2) Jarvis Davis, oldest son of Joseph and Sophia (White) Davis, was born Dec. 3, 1789. He represented the Town of Royalston in the Legislature of 1856, was a member of the board of selectmen five years, and of the assessors three years, and was a justice of the peace. He died in 1876.
(3) Alvin Davis, second son of Joseph and Sophia (White) Davis, was born Oct. 7, 1801. He married Mehitabel H. Berry in 1832 or 1833. He started for the gold fields of California, but died at the Straits of Darien.
(4) Lorenzo Davis, third son of Joseph and Sophia (White) Davis, was born Oct. 16, 1803. He went to Putney, Vt. and married Rosana Gale in 1831.
(5) Lovina Davis, second daughter, was born April 7, 1806, married Lyman Peck, Jan. 15, 1829. They had six children.
(6) Czarina Davis, third daughter of Joseph and Sophia (White) Davis, was born Aug. 7, 1808. She married Sulivan Peck of Royalston, May 29, 1831. They had five children.
(7) Cemantha Davis, the youngest daughter, was born Dec. 30, 1812. Married Charles Osgood of Boston, March 8, 1837.
(8) Feronda Davis, the youngest child was born March 26, 1819 and died April 10, 1838.
The children of Cyrus and Dulcena (Gale) Davis were: Marrissa, Helen, Emogene, Galphina, Jay, Dulcena, Cyrus. (1) Marissa Davis, oldest child of Cyrus and Dulcena (Gale) Davis was born in Royalston, Dec. 4, 1828; she mar- ried Lewis H. Keyes. They moved to Athol soon after their marriage, which was their home most of their lives.
She died in 1909 aged 81. They had four children: Carrie E., Ida F., Helen C. and Everett E.
(2) Helen M. Davis, second daughter of Cyrus and Dulcena (Gale) Davis, was born March 8, 1831: she, married Albert
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Whitaker of New Salem, Sept. 18, 1855, which town was thereafter their home. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1895. Mr. Whitaker died in April 1907, and Mrs. Whitaker made her home with her daughter Mrs. Stella Skinner until her death. "They had three children: Stella, A. W. Whitaker and Willie J. Whitaker.
Stella married Herbert H. Skinner of North Dana; they have three children: Bernice, Margaret and Benjamin.
A. W. Whitaker married Emily Howard of Keene, N. H .; they have two children, Emily and Ethel. They reside in Worcester where Mr. Whitaker is a practicing physician.
Willie J. Whitaker married Grace Hayden. They have one child, Vergalene and their home is in New Salem.
(3) Emogene Davis, third daughter of Cyrus and Dulcena (Gale) Davis, was born April 1, 1836; she married Andrew J. Bennett of Richmond, N. H. They lived most of their married life in Oswego, N. Y., where Mr. Bennett was a rail- road conductor. They had three children, Fred, Lula and Lida Bennett. Mrs. Bennett died in February, 1908.
(4) Galphina Davis, fourth daughter of Cyrus and Dulcena (Gale) Davis, was born Nov. 21, 1837. She married Dr. A. W. King of Plymouth, Ill., where she died in 1868. They had one child Mary King, who married Robert Armstrong of Winnebago, Ill.
(5) Jay Davis, son of Cyrus and Dulcena (Gale) Davis, was born Jan. 10, 1840. Enlisted in Co. L, 25th Regiment Mass. Volunteers. Was in the army until the regiment disbanded after returning home. He went to Illinois, where he married S. Ellis. Had one child, Robert E. Davis, a mining engineer at Butte, Montana. Jay Davis died in 1904 aged 64 years.
THE MORSE FAMILY
The Morse Family which first became identified with Royalston history in the opening years of the nineteenth century was a family of importance and became connected by marriage with many of the prominent families of the town. This family traces its ancestry to one Samuel Morse, born in England in 1585, who came to New England in 1635, and
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