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CORLISS.
GORRELL CORLISS came from Meredith in 1854 to the Osgood place. He was b. at Meredith, March 6, 1810; m., Dec. 14, 1834, Mary Smith of Meredith, b. Sept. 25, 1815. They had seven children. He m. (second), Nov., 1854, Lucy Morrill, b. Dec. 22, 1808. He d. Oct. . 27, 1873. She d. Feb. 12, 1877.
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Second Generation.
SMITH D. CORLISS, b. March 16, 1836; d. at Yarmouth, Va. (See Boys in Blue.)
MARY E. CORLISS, b. Sept. 26, 1837.
CHARLES F. CORLISS, b. Oct. 16, 1839; d. in infancy.
GEORGE W. CORLISS, b. Feb. 22, 1842.
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CHARLES F. CORLISS, d., 1861, at Washington, D. C., on his way to the seat of war. (See Boys in Blue.)
MARTHA J. CORLISS, b. Jan. 18, 1846; date of death unknown. ELLEN CORLISS, b. Feb. 19, 1847; d. Sept., 1888. GEORGE W. CORLISS, b. Feb. 22, 1842; m. Sarah A., dau. of Ebenezer and Urania Dalton Calef. (See Calef gen.) They had three children.
Third Generation.
AMOS LAROY CORLISS, b. Dec. 4, 1872; d. Dec. 2, 1875.
ARTHUR HENRY CORLISS, b. Aug. 8, 1874; m., Dec. 9, 1903, Alice G. Shaw of N., b. Jan. 9, 1879. (See Shaw gen.) Mrs. Corliss graduated from New Hampton Literary Institute, class of 1895, and was a popu- lar teacher until her marriage. Mr. Corliss is a farmer on the home stead of his father at East N., and road commissioner, in 1905. HARVEY . W. CORLISS, b. April 18, 1880.
CORBETT.
CHARLES A. CORBETT came to N. from Wilton in 1896. He was b. at Limerick, Me., Aug. 26, 1845. He m., Jan. 5, 1867, Mary A. Ransom, who was b. at Randolph, Mass., June 11, 1846. He was an overseer at the Elm Woolen Mills for eight years but later found employment at Lakeport, but still resides at N., where they have a fine home on Park St. They have two children.
Second Generation.
WILLIAM E. CORBETT, b. at East Rochester Dec. 28, 1867; m. Delia Conners of Wilton. He is a carder by trade and now resides at East Rochester. They have three children.
MARY E. CORBETT, b. at East Rochester, April 15, 1870; m. Elmer L. Cleveland of Newport, Vt. He is a farmer and teamster. They reside at Concord.
CRAWFORD.
WILLIAM J. CRAWFORD came to N. in 1887 from Glasgow, Scotland, where he was b. in 1866, and m. Letitia G. Miller of Glasgow. They had four sons. He was a carpenter and by industry and economy secured a home on Park St. They moved to Readville, Mass., in 1902, but still retain their property in town.
Second Generation. (B. at N.)
SAMMY CRAWFORD, b. 1888. WILLIAM J. CRAWFORD, JR., b. Dec. 14, 1893. EDWIN R. CRAWFORD, b. Jan. 19, 1896. ROBERT CRAWFORD, b. 1898. .
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Second Generation.
COPP IL
AMA KIMBALL COPY WAS A. a: GEMMER NOT. 15, 183; , March 2. 23:, JEila Ass Erais of X. He was a carpenter; served in the 'i War, credited to London ( see Boys to Blue). They came to N. ta 1%) and bought the msb and blind shop built by Pease Bros. and lavar the Beatorn Shaw place, where she now realdes in feeble health. Ha 4. July 16, 1892. They had no children. She had three brothers wat for brothers-in-law in the army of the Rebellion.
COPP III.
SIMEON CAMP, b. at Gilmanton May 22, 1815; m. Betsey O. Currier and lived on Drew Hill, where he was a farmer. He d. there. They had three children. She removed to N. about 1865 and erected a home on Park Ht., and the children became students at the seminary. They ware all members of the Methodist Church. She m. (second), Deacon (Sourka C;, Lancaster. (See Lancaster gen.)
Second Generation.
TIMOTHY Corp, b. 1847; d. at N. March 31, 1877. CANNIK MAY COPP, b. at Gilmanton, 1848; d. at N. July 16, 1870. Annix Corr, b. 1867; d. at N. Jan. 14, 1878.
CORLISS.
CONSEIL, CORLINN CAME from Meredith in 1854 to the Osgood place. Itu was b at Meredith, March 6, 1810; m., Dec. 14, 1834, Mary Smith uf Meredith, b. Hopt. 25, 1815. They had seven children. He m. Canon), Nov., 1864, Lucy Morrill, b. Dec. 22, 1808. He d. Oct. . 27, 1878 Who d. Job. 13, 1877.
Second Generation.
Anton D Comtime, b. March 16, 1836; d. at Yarmouth, Va. (See Boys =
Mane W Combine, b Sept. 26. 1887.
When I Come, b. Det. 16, 1839; d. in infancy. Home W Comme, b Feb. 22. 1842.
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HISTORY OF NORTHFIELD.
CROSS I.
Doubtless all of the name in Merrimack County are descendants of Stephen, who came from Newbury, Mass., to "Conteucook" (Boscawen), and bought land of Samuel and Elizabeth Emery Jan. 25, 1750. This deed is duly recorded on page 325, vol. 39, of the old land records.
There is a second, dated May 24, 1768, and a third to a mill right in Boscawen, and others covering original lots Nos. 1, 9, 10, 16, 15, 174, 15, 22. He is recorded as a shipwright and a deed, or right, from King and Queen, William and Mary, gives him a right to cut trees in New England for masts.
He m. Hannah Guild or Gile and some of their children remained in Newbury and Haverhill when they came to N. In 1785 John, Thomas, Jesse, were taxed, as were John, Jr., and Thomas, Jr. He m. (second), Hannah Marsh and had a son Ephraim (see) and dau. Hannah. He and Hannah Gile Cross, it is said, are buried at the Williams Cemetery.
His second wife, and dau. Betsey, after his death, went to reside in Northern New Hampshire with her brother, Colonel Johnson.
His sons, John, Parker, Jesse, Thomas, became the founders of the "Cross Settlement," the first business houses in town (see Early Business) on the Merrimack intervale.
EPHRAIM, the youngest, was a lifelong resident in N., as was Will- iam (see), son of Jesse, who had 13 children. Several of these follow in regular genealogical order.
THOMAS and Moses Cross were in the Revolutionary War. John and Parker were at Bunker Hill.
STEPHEN CROSS, for many years a tailor at Sanbornton Bridge, was a son of the original Stephen.
HANNAH CROSS, youngest dau., m., Nov. 20, 1808, Daniel Mitchell of Andover.
PHEBE CROSS (perhaps her sister) m. Israel Walker of Boston.
CROSS II.
ABRAHAM CROSS was b. in Salisbury June 11, 1775; m., Jan. 21, 1800, Ruth Sawyer of Canterbury, whose father, Dea. Francis Sawyer, kept a ferry two miles below the Cross settlement. He had a family of 20 children, all but two of whom lived to maturity. He was in the French and Revolutionary Wars and had two sons killed in the battle when Burgoyne surrendered, and was there himself. Mr. Sawyer d. at 99 years, 9 months and 27 days, and ran his ferry boat to the last year of his life. Mr. Cross resided near Deacon Sawyer for eight years then he settled on the Winnipiseogee at what has ever since been known as Cross' Mills. He erected a sawmill and small house on the Sanbornton side in 1804. The water passed down to it in a canal or flume on the north side of the dam which he built. It was several rods below the present one. The mill and house were below the pulp mill. John Clark owned one half the right. Mr. Cross sold out to
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Satchwell Clark; lived later in Holderness and d. at N., Sept. 24, 1853. She d. April 15, 1868. They had nine children.
Second Generation.
EUNICE CROSS, b. at Canterbury Oct. 2, 1800; m., Oct. 17, 1832, Nathan Currier, a farmer of Methuen, where they spent their lives. While on a visit to Tilton she d. of pneumonia Oct. 15, 1874.
They had two sons, Joseph, who d. at Bloomington, Ill., and 8. E. D. Currier of Roxbury, Mass.
JEREMIAH CROSS. (See portrait and sketch.)
HIRAM CROSS, b. at Sanbornton Sept. 15, 1804; m., Aug. 28, 1832, Lydia Robie. He was a carpenter and resided in Plymouth. They had one son. Mr. Cross d. at N. Nov. 7, 1874. She lives with her son and is past 90 years of age.
SARAH C. CROSS, b. at Salisbury Oct. 23, 1806; m., Oct. 17, 1832, Joseph Benson of Kittery, Me. He was employed for many years at Colt's armory at Hartford, Conn., and was an inventor of various useful appliances as well as a skilful worker in metals. Later he erected a home in South Boston, where she d., 1888. He reached extreme age and d. at Jamaica Plain 1899.
LUCINDA CROSS, b. Feb. 21, 1809; m., 1836, Rufus Colby, a dealer in hats and furs in Boston, Mass. She d. June 21, 1840.
JUDITH MARIA CROSS, b. Sept. 14, 1811; m. (first), Albert Rodlift of Lowell, Mass., and had one dau., Isadore Dow of Waterville, Me. She m. (second), Silas L. Ashley of West Springfield, Mass., and had a dau., Clara Gilbert of Boston. She d. Dec. 10, 1850.
CLARA CROSS, b. Feb. 19, 1814; d. at 11 years.
WILLIAM PLUMMER CROSS, b. at Sanbornton July 4, 1816; m., Aug. 31, 1844, Ann Forrest of N., b. Oct. 19, 1823. He studied medicine while employed in his brother's sawmill and practised as an old school. phy- sician in Wisconsin and Chicopee, Mass. Later he studied with Dr. Paine of Albany, N. Y., and graduated at the Cleveland, O., Homeo- pathic Medical College in 1853. He was in practice many years in Nantucket, where he gained wealth and reputation. In 1860 he took up his abode in South Boston, where he practised until his death in 1888 and where his family now reside. Dr. Cross was a Mason and an Odd Fellow and was prominent in the Dorchester St. M. E. church and president of its board of trustees. He was in early life a military man and was captain in the Thirty-eighth Regiment New Hampshire Militia. They have one dau., Dr. Grace E. Cross, who, a graduate of Boston University, succeeded to her father's extensive prac- tice. Two other children d. in infancy.
Third Generation. (Children of Jeremiah and Sarah Lyford Cross.)
(B. at N.)
CLARA ANN CROSS, b. Nov. 25, 1830; m., Dec. 7, 1853, George W. Fitts, a carpenter, and resided in Franklin, where both d. He d. Oct. 2,
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1859. She d. Feb. 11, 1872. They had one son, George W. Fitts, Jr., now of Chichester. He has one dau., Clara.
OLIVER LYFORD CROSS, b. Nov. 4, 1831; d. in infancy.
OLIVER LYFORD CB088, 2ND., b. June 11, 1836; m., Nov. 16, 1866, Lucy R. Hill of N. (See Lawyers of N.)
SARAH BENSON CRO88, b. Oct. 20, 1839; m., June 30, 1873, James G. Jenkins of Eliot, Me. He was a farmer and carpenter at Rockport, Mass. He d. at Dover. She resides at Randolph, Mass.
DANIEL J. CROSS, b. at N. May 26, 1849, was educated at New Hamp- shire Conference Seminary. He was for some years clerk in the grocery store of Bond & Winch, South Boston, later buying the busi- ness, which he continued until his health failed. He m. Georgianna Mace of Napoleonville, La. They had two children, Clarence and Vira, both of Boston, Mass. Mr. Cross d. at Revere March 25, 1899.
Mrs. Cross m. (second), Dea. John Hood of South Boston, Mass.
(Child of Hiram and Lydia Robie Cross.)
HIRAM BLISS CB088, b. July 9, 1833, read medicine at Harvard Med- ical School and Homeopathic Medical College, Cleveland, O., grad- uating in 1866. He practised five years at South Boston and since 1871 at Jamaica Plain, Mass. His skillful and gentle ministrations in the sick room have endeared him to a large class of patrons. He has been twice m. (first), to Hattie Mckenzie, who d. Oct. 16, 1859; (sec- ond), to Emily L. Haskins of Concord, June 20, 1871.
Fourth Generation. (Children of Oliver and Lucy Hill Cross.) ARTHUR BENSON CROSS.
ARTHUR B. CROSS, b. at Montgomery City, Mo., May 31, 1868; m., Sept. 12, 1895, Nellie E. Searles, b. at Andover, Dec. 20, 1866. He learned the printer's trade with the Republican Press Association of Concord, N. H., followed by three years in charge of their stereotyping depart- ment. In 1892, he was sent by the firm to St. Louis to secure appara- tus for a photo-engraving plant and to learn the business, since which time until his death, Jan. 22, 1905, he was in charge of the art depart- ment of the Rumford Printing Co. His biographer says: "Through all his years of study, toil and advancement he never rendered any other service than the very best his body and mind were capable of. His mind was keenly scientific in its bent and although self-educated be- yond the point where his studies at Tilton Seminary had terminated, few persons of collegiate training were better informed than he upon the branches of chemistry and physics, of which he was most fond. He grasped intuitively many phases of science which are unfolded to most minds only after long and careful research.
"One had never to apologize for him or make excuses for him because of habits, tastes or traits. It was natural for him to be manly and true and these qualifications in others were the foundations upon which he liked to build his friendships. He was particularly interested in all movements that applied the great truths of the gospel.
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"Besides being an earnest member of the Congregational Church and serving its Sunday School as its superintendent for several years, he was a loyal Christian Endeavorer, and for a term the state president. He was also a working member of the Y. M. C. A., serving all with the same devotion and cheerful service that characterized his short but intensely useful life."
ROBERT LEE CROSS.
ROBERT LEE CROSS was b. at Montgomery City, Mo., Jan. 26, 1872. He spent his boyhood in the home at Northfield Depot and attended the public schools and Tilton Seminary. He learned the printer's trade at Tilton and Concord and excelled in artistic work; later, was connected with both the Republican and Democratic Press associations of Con- cord, which place was his home after 1889. He was business manager of the Merrimack Journal of Franklin in 1892. He held various posi- tions in social and religious organizations. As a member of the South Congregational Church and leader in the Society of Christian Endeavor, he was ever on duty and these labors occupied a large share of his thought and attention.
Companionable and friendly, steadfast and sincere, his character had impressed itself in helpful, uplifting ways on all about him. He gave no half-hearted service to anything he undertook. Though hardly at- taining his majority, he had accomplished more than most could do in a much longer life. Uniformly cheerful, his joyful service attested the genuineness of the motives that governed his life. He passed to the higher life with hardly a moment's warning, Aug. 24, 1893.
EVELYN MONTGOMERY CROSS, b. at N. Jan. 6, 1875, graduated from the Concord High School in 1894 and taught two years following. In 1896 she took a two years' course of normal kindergarten work and was kindergartner in the Boston Summer School, later conducting private classes at Concord. She m. Charles J. Van Cor of Boston, Sept. 19, 1902. They reside at Somerville, Mass.
CROSS III.
EPHRAIM CROSS was the son of Stephen and Hannah Marsh Cross. He was b. on the Intervale about 1785 and m. Sally Keniston and resided on a third of her father's homestead, the latter dividing his estate among his three daughters, who were settled almost within sight of each other and the home (see Keniston gen.) on the Leighton road, now called High St.
Mr. Cross was a farmer and had four dau. and twin sons, who d. in infancy. He d. Sept. 21, 1849. She d. 31 years later while at her daughter's in Warner on a visit.
Second Generation.
BETSEY CROSS remained in the home. She m. Josiah Colby of San- bornton when both were nearly 70 years old. He came to live at her home and d. there at 90. She m. (second), Hiram Gould of Franklin. She d. at 89.
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HARRIET CROSS m., Dec. 24, 1849, Rufus Page of Warner, where both d. They had four dau., Mrs. Addie Bly of Bradford, Malinda Roby, Sarah Peck and Mrs. Emma Gage, the three last of Warner.
MARY CROSS m., Nov. 22, 1846, Henry Johnson of Warner. She cared for her mother in her extreme age.
NANCY CROSS m., 1818, David Davis of Warner.
CROSS IV.
WILLIAM CROSS, b. at N. March 29, 1790; m., Feb. 11, 1811, Ruth, dau. of David Keniston, b. Nov. 7, 1792. They spent their whole lives on the farm near the Ledges and there reared a family of 11 chil- dren. He d. Feb. 6, 1879. She d. Jan. 15, 1888. It is said that he never missed the annual town meeting.
Second Generation.
JANE CROSS, b. July 31, 1811; m. Joseph Locke of Sanbornton. They moved to Minnesota after a few years at Boscawen. They had six children, three of whom d. in childhood. After the death of Mr. Locke she returned to her home, where she d. Sept., 1878.
SALLY CB088, b. March 18, 1813; d., March 3, 1837.
STATIRA CB088, b. May 9, 1815; m., Aug. 31, 1846, Frederick Collins of Goffstown. Mrs. Collins d. at N. March, 1897.
FIDELIA CROSS, b. Oct. 3, 1817; m., March 9, 1840, Franklin Burnham of Concord. They had two dau., Clara, wife of Dr. Warren Gordon of Ogunquit, Me., and Mrs. Mary Knowles of Northwood, neither of whom survive. Mr. Burnham still resides at Concord at 95 years of age.
BETSEY CBOSS, b. Dec. 13, 1819; m., Sept. 28, 1846, William Roby of Merrimack. (See Roby gen.)
MARTHA CROSS, b. March 25, 1822, was a tailoress, going from house to house for many years. She later resided with her sister in Clarks- ville, where she d. in 1881.
CHARLES C. CROSS, b. March 15, 1824; m. (pub.), Aug. 20, 1853, Re- becca Wyatt of Franklin and had a son and dau. He resided on or near the home farm and for some years manufactured brick from a clay bank on the premises.
WILLIAM K. CROSS, b. Oct. 29, 1826, and d. at 11 years.
HIRAM H. CROSS, b. Jan. 22, 1829; m., Nov. 6, 1856, Mrs. Sally Presby, b. at N. April 18, 1827. He went to California in 1851, returning after two years. He served in the Civil War (see Boys in Blue) and has since farmed extensively in N. and Andover. He has been a famous builder of "stonewall" for F. B. Shedd and elsewhere. They have four children.
RUTH CROSS, b. May 4, 1832; m. Edmund Young of Clarksville and had four children. She d. in 1893. He d. in 1872. A son, Willis, and dau., Martha, reside in West Stewartstown.
CLARISSA CROSS, b. Aug. 31, 1836; d. at two years.
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Third Generation. (Children of Charles C. and Rebecca Wyatt Cross.) (B. at N.)
EDWARD WYATT CROSS, b. Aug. 22, 1857; m., Oct. 1, 1889, Annie Stewart of Danbury. Mr. Cross bought the Joseph Cofran place, where they reside. They have three sons, Walter Edward, b. 1890; Clarence Vivian, b. 1893; Merton Stewart, b. 1896.
MARY W. CROSS, b. 1884, graduated at Bates College, Lewiston, Me., and is now a. teacher at Plymouth, Mass., where her mother resides.
(Children of Hiram and Sally Presby Cross.)
(B. at N.)
EMILY JANE CROSS, b. Aug. 12, 1857; m., 1875, Fred Aiken of Franklin Falls and had two children. She m. (second), Peter Kroger.
. WILLIAM FREDERIC CROSS, b. May 23, 1859; m. - Wiggin of San- bornton. They reside in Lowell, Mass.
ORIN JEROME CROSS, b. Dec. 20, 1861; m., Oct. 6, 1899, Maud Emerson. He resides with his parents on the farm and has one child.
RUTH ABBIE CROSS, b. May 24, 1867; m., Nov. 1, 1890, Frank C. Fol- som, a painter and paperhanger. They reside on Park St.
CROSS V.
JONATHAN CROSS, b. at Canterbury; m. Betsey, dau. of John Forrest, and lived on and owned the homestead, which they sold to Mr. Leighton in 1817. He had one son and perhaps other children.
Second Generation.
JONATHAN FORREST CROSS, b. 1800; m. Betsey Douglass and had eight children. They resided on the main road, where he was a farmer. He d. June, 1848.
Third Generation. (B. at N.)
DIANTHA CROSS m. Jonathan Smith and went to Groton, where they resided many years.
JOSEPH M. CROSS, b. 1826; m., 1849, Clarissa Moore of N. and resided on the Bean Hill road. They had 10 children. He was a farmer on the Rogers homestead, where he d., March 9, 1901. She d. June 12, 1877.
JEFFERSON CROSS went West and m. a woman of Scotch parentage and had 10 children.
JOHN CROSS m., 1853, Adaline Riley of East N., where she was b. 1834. She d. June 22, 1858. He is buried with the Riley family.
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ALONZO CROSS m., Feb. 19, 1862, Mrs. John Cross, his sister-in-law. She d. and he remarried and resides at Groton. He has one son, Lester. ALICE CROSS, b. 1830; m., 1850, Benjamin Collins. (See Collins gen.) SARAH CROSS was drowned in the Merrimack River Aug., 1846. WILLIAM HENRY CROSS m. Harriet Prescott of Franklin, b. Nov. 19, 1845, and had one dau., Ella M., b. Dec. 31, 1866, who m. Dana Wood- ward and resides at Franklin Falls.
Fourth Generation. (Children of Joseph and Clara Moore Cross.) (B. at N.)
FRANK CB088, b. Dec. 4, 1850; m., Jan. 15, 1880, Ellen Fogerty of Boston. He is a general farmer and resides on Oak St.
CLARA CROSS, b. 1853; d., May 4, 1860.
SARAH CROSS, b. 1855; m. Frank Corser of Webster, where they re- side and Mr. Corser has employment in a sawmill.
ALBERT CBO88, b. 1857, resides on the home place on the Bean Hill road.
FRED H. CRO88, b. Dec. 6, 1859; m., Jan. 22, 1890, Ida M. Downing, b. at Lakeport, 1873. He is a coarse stone worker and resides on Arch St. They have two sons.
WARREN CBOBB, b. 1862; d., Nov. 10, 1867.
MARIA CROSS, d. Feb. 20, 1865, aged three days.
FLORA M. CB088, b. 1867; m. (first), Nov. 3, 1883, Porter M. Hay- ward. (See Hayward gen.) They had two children. She m. (second), Jan. 10, 1899, Albert A. Carr of Gilmanton. He is a farmer and they reside on the Joseph Smith farm on the Bean Hill road. CHARLES CROSS, b. 1869, resides at Webster.
WALTER B. CROSS, b. 1872; m., March 19, 1892, Abbie B. Chase of Webster, b. 1875. He resides in the home with his brother and has two children.
Fifth generation. (Children of Fred H. and Ida M. Downing Cross.
EARL F. CROSS, b. Sept. 4, 1892.
LAWRENCE R. CBOSS, b. March 30, 1894.
(Children of Walter B. and Abbie B. Chase Cross.)
FRANK CROSS, b. Feb. 8, 1893.
RUBY CROSS, b. at Webster Sept., 1895.
CUNNINGHAM.
ARTHUR F. CUNNINGHAM was b. March 11, 1855, at Hogansburg, N. Y. He m., Sept. 1, 1886, Amelia Richards, b. April 11, 1854, at Helena, N. Y., and had three children.
HANNAH TIBBETTS CURRY.
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He was an ice dealer in Boston for 10 years and continued the same business at N. in 1891. He is a police officer.
Second Generation.
ARTHUR AUSTIN CUNNINGHAM and JULIA ALICE CUNNINGHAM, twins, b. at Charlestown, Mass., April 10, 1889, are both members of the Sophomore class of Tilton Seminary.
RAYMOND A. CUNNINGHAM, b. at N. Nov. 3, 1892.
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CURRY.
ROBERT CURRY was b. in Canterbury April 30, 1757. He was the son of William Curry of Londonderry, who came from the north of Ireland and m. Nancy McFarland. Robert m. Olive Heath, b. in Canterbury Feb. 7, 1771. They were farmers near the Gilmanton line. He d. there Jan. 20, 1829. She d. Aug. 24, 1855. They had nine children.
Second Generation. (B. at N.)
NANCY CURRY, b. June 2, 1796; d. at Franklin, July 29, 1860.
JOHN CURRY, b. 1798; m. (first), Dec. 22, 1822, Betsey Clough of N. and was a farmer at "Tin Corner." She d. June 12, 1856. He m. (second), Aug. 25, 1857, Mrs. Sarah Plummer Goodrich of N., and later returned to N. and resided on Bay St. while erecting the home on School St., Tilton, where he d. She still resides in the home at an ad- vanced age.
He represented Sanbornton in the Legislature in 1840-'41 and was one of its selectmen for two terms. He had three children.
BENJAMIN CURRY, b. Jan. 30, 1800; m. Hannah Tibbetts, b. at N., Feb. 27, 1809. He remained on his father's homestead where their 10 chil- dren were b. Mr. Curry d. June 22, 1852. She removed to the At- kinson house at Tilton four years later, which was destroyed by fire in 1875. She rebuilt in 1876 and d. there Dec. 4, 1898. Her sweet cor- diality made her home a social center and "her children rise up and call her blessed." (See portrait.)
SUSAN CURRY, b. at N. April 20, 1802; m., May, 1848, Daniel Burleigh of Sanbornton as his fourth wife. He d. Nov. 2, 1855. She survived many years and d. Dec. 23, 1885.
SAMUEL CURBY, b. April 10, 1804, was a physician at Alton but re- turned home in failing health and d. Feb. 9, 1829.
JOSEPHI BATCHELDER CURRY was b. at N. March 10, 1807. He taught for many years in Rhode Island and later m. Joanna Sheldon and became a farmer in 1877 at Edmundston, N. Y. He had four children; two sons d. in childhood.
WILLIAM MCFARLAND CURRY, b. at N. Jan. 29, 1810, was a teacher in Ohio, where he contracted fever and ague, which terminated in con- sumption, of which he d. June 19, 1833.
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OLIVE CURRY, b. Dec. 6, 1811; m. George S. Tibbetts of N. She d. Oct. 19, 1872. They had five children, two of whom d. in childhood. (See Tibbetts gen.)
THOMAS CURRY, b. June 17, 1815, resided first in Lowell and after- wards in Westford, Mass.
Third Generation. (Children of Benjamin and Hannah Tibbetts Curry.) (All b. at N.)
MARY ELIZABETH . CURRY, b. Dec. 26, 1829; m., May 3, 1853, David Larue Clifford, a shoemaker and teamster at Tilton, where she d. Jan. 2, 1892. He d. at Franklin Sept. 10, 1896. They had two dau., Mrs. Helen Davis of Tilton and Mrs. Georgia Stone of Whitman, Mass.
JOHN WILLIAMS CURRY, b. Sept. 12, 1832. He went to California in 1853, where he d. March 8, 1857.
OLIVE AUGUSTA CURRY, b. Sept. 7, 1834; d., Nov. 18, 1846.
FRANCES SUSAN CURRY, b. May 31, 1836; m., Dec. 1, 1858, Dr. George Ezra Spencer of Belmont, who d. at Hanover Jan. 6, 1866. She was educated at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and taught be- fore her marriage and after his death. She remained in the home until her mother's death and now resides in Tilton. She has traveled abroad and is prominent in church, social and club circles, being the first president of the Northfield and Tilton Woman's Club.
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