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the New England Normal Association, and of the National Normal Association. Dr. Rounds was a member of the National Council of Education from its organization, and was president of that dig- nified body. He m. 1857, Kate Nixon Stowell, dau. of Thomas Nixon Stowell, of Paris, Me., granddau. of William and Kate (Nixon) Stowell. Kate Nixon was a dau. of Col. Thomas and Bethiah (Stearns) Nixon. Col. Thomas Nixon, the gallant commander of the 6th Mass. Regiment in the Revolution was a brother of Gen. John Nixon of Revolutionary faine. He d. Nov. 8, 1901. Dr. and Mrs. Rounds have four children.
i. AGNES I. m. July 10, 1888, Edwin Scott Matthews, of Worcester, Mass.
ii. ARTHUR C. A lawyer, and of the law firm of Carter, Hughes & Dwight, of New York City. He is a professor in University Law School.
iii. RALPH S., a lawyer of the firm of Rounds & Dillingham, of New York City.
iv. KATHERINE E. Plymouth High School, 1886; State Normal School, 1887; Smith College.
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1. SMITH HOLLAND ROWE, son of Joseph, of Campton, b. Dec. 6, 1798. m. Sally Moulton, b. July 15, 1797, dau. of Jonathan Moulton, of Campton. She d. Dec. 25, 1852. He m. second, Roxanna Webber, of Holderness. He removed to Plymouth, 1853, and lived near Baker's River bridge. He d. March 23, 1865. She survived him, and d. in Ashland.
i. STEPHEN. d. aged 15 years.
ii. GILMAN. m. Lucy Dockham. Lived in Lowell, Mass., and in Lake- port.
iii. ANN, b. July 5, 1823. m. April 12, 1864, Charles Edwin Sanborn, b. Sanbornton, August 16, 1828, son of Simeon and Lucy (Palmer) Sanborn (see).
iv. DANFORTH MOULTON. m. Abigail Buzzell. He was a carpenter in Lakeport, where he d. 1899.
v. EMELINE, b. Dec. 17, 1832. m. Leonard Brock (see).
vi. MARY JANE, b. April 20, 1834. m. July 21, 1858, Capt. Moulton Batchelder, b. Plainfield, Vt., Dec. 7, 1836, son of Jonathan and Wealthy (Ketchum) Batchelder, a captain 44th Mass. Infantry. Res. Lawrence, Mass., where he has served many years as a police- man and detective. She d. Dec. 6, 1896. Two children. (1) Lillian, b. April 10, 1862. d. Feb. 10, 1863. (2) Chase M., b. Sept. 1, 1868.
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vii. MARTHA ELLEN, b. July 15, 1839. m. Oct. 16, 1860, Stephen D. Stokes, b. Bristol, March 15, 1839, son of Dudley Leavitt and Eliza Webber (Merrill) Stokes. Ile d. Utah, Nov. 21, 1866. She m. second, - Hale, and has lived in Nebraska and Oregon. ROWE.
1. JOHN ROWE, a native of Kingston, removed to Andover before 1770. He settled on lot 43 of the first division of lots, belonging originally to John Chapman, one of the grantees of Andover. He m. Susan Scribner, a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Webster) Scribner. Samuel Scribner was captured by the Indians in Stevenstown, now Salisbury, in August, 1754. He returned to Salisbury about 1756, and later settled in Andover, on a lot adjoining the homestead of John Rowe. See Farmer and Moore, Vol. I .; State Papers, Vol. VI. ; Farmer and Moore's "Gazetteer," " History of Salisbury," for refer- ence to Samuel Scribner.
2. DANIEL ROWE, son of John 1, b. Andover, April 17, 1770. m. 1791, Betsey Keyser, and several years later removed to Thornton, and there d. April 10, 1856. Sixteen children.
3. SMITH ROWE, son of Daniel 2, b. Andover, June 30, 1814. m. Dec., 1835, Elvira Wheat, dau. of Joseph Wheat, of Grafton. He lived in Plymouth one year. His wife d. here Nov. 27, 1836. He m. second, Dec. 30, 1838, Caroline A. Sanborn, b. Sanbornton, Dec. 20, 1821, dau. of William and Lois (Woodman) Sanborn, and removed to Thornton, returning to Plymouth, 1876. He is a farmer at Rowe Corner, above Baker's River bridge. She d. Nov. 25, 1903.
i. "ELIZA ANN, b. Plymouth, 1836. m. George Rowe. m. second, Stephen Kenrick.
ii. JOSEPHI BARTLETT, b. April 28, 1840. m. Almeda Richardson. He lived in Olympia, Wash. Lumber dealer. He d. August 27, 1891.
iii. ELVIRA CAROLINE, b. May 5, 1812. m. March 10, 1865, George Bullard, of Boston, Mass.
iv. GEORGE DODGE, b. Campton, Oct. 30, 1844. Enlisted from Thorn- ton, Sept. 4, 1862, 15th N. H. Infantry ; mustered out August 13, 1863. On voyage to Louisiana the transport was wrecked and he endured an attack of ship fever; was with his regiment at Port Hudson. He is now a physician at Boone, Ia. He m. Jan. 2, 1879, Alice Clark. Four of their five children d. young. (1) Louise, b. Dec. 29, 1882.
v. ABBIE ELLEN, b. Jan. 27, 1818. m. William L. Horner. Lived in Thornton, Woodstock, and since 1872 in Plymouth. Mrs. Horner
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before and since her marriage has been a successful school teacher in Grafton Co. Four children. (1) John, b. Sept. 20, 1867. A physician, Pawlet, Vt. He m. May Brennan, of Tilton. (2) Caroline Blanche, b. Jan. 23, 1869. m. Herman Nelson, of Pawlet, Vt. (3) George William, b. August 13, 1870. m. August 30, 1899, Stella Lancaster. He is a druggist, Syracruse, N. Y. (4) Alice Vira, b. Plymouth, May 15, 1883. Plymouth High School, 1901. State Normal School, 1903.
vi. FRANK LEROY, b. May 8, 1851. d. Portland, Ore., May 13, 1890. vii. ARA MORTIMER, b. May 13, 1854. In lumber business, Olympia, Wash. m. Lizzie Cornell. Four children: (1) Stephen Smith, b. Jan. 3, 1887. (2) Caroline Josephine, b. March 27, 1889. (3) Frank Ara, b. March 23, 1891. (4) Gladys Marie, b. Nov. 5, 1896. viii. FRED SMITH, b. Dec. 20, 1860. A farmer on the homestead in Plymouth. Selectman.
ix. RALPH BURT, b. April 3, 1864. m. Nellie Cooper. Res. Olympia, Wash.
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1. JOSEPH B. ROWE m. Nov. 29, 1828, Lucy Swain Sanborn, b. Sanbornton, Nov. 23, 1803, dau. of William and Lois (Woodman) Sanborn. At the date of his marriage he removed to Plymouth. His wife d. Nov. 7, 1838. He m. second, 1840 (intentions Feb. 10), Mary Steele, of Campton, and removed from town. He was a captain in the militia.
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1. SAMUEL NEWELL ROWE lived several years at least in Vermont. He m. Jan. 24, 1841, Sarah Nutting, dau. of Thomas Nutting (see). He removed from Dorset, Vt., to Plymouth, 1843. He lived on Highland Street. He was a marble cutter, an intelligent, active man and a deputy sheriff several years. His wife d. March 15, 1864. He m. second, April 4, 1865, Fanny E. (Thompson) Burleigh, widow of Alvin T. Burleigh (see). He d. Jan. 11, 1867. She d. at the home of Hon. Alvin Burleigh, March 1, 1900.
i. SAMUEL CURTIS, b. June 6, 1846.
ii. ALVAH NEWELL, b. August 28, 1855. Was a railroad conductor. He d. 1881. He was killed in a railroad accident.
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1. WILLIAM HENRY RUNNELS, son of George W. Runnels, of Lyme and Hanover, b. Lyme, August 2, 1862. m. Dec. 25, 1890, Julia Selina Kinne, b. May 15, 1866, dau. of Loren W. and Martha A. (Mead)
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Kinne. He removed to Plymouth, 1897. Res. on Bridge Street. He is foreman of a section in railroad repairs.
i. EDITH MAY, b. Oct. 9, 1891.
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1. ROBERT RUSSELL, emigrant ancestor of a prominent New Eng- land family, was born 1630. He was in Andover, Mass., before 1660, and there m. July 6, 1659, Mary Marshall, baptized 1642, dau. of Thomas and Joanna Marshall, of Lynn, Mass. He was in Billerica, 1659, but soon returned to Andover, living in the section of the town known as Scotland district. In several deeds in which his name appears as grantor or grantee the land is described as a part of Scot- land Farm. He d. in Andover, Dec. 3, 1710, aged 80 years. Miss Charlotte H. Abbott, familiar with the early records and traditions of Andover, suggests that possibly he was the Robert Russell who landed in Virginia, April 16, 1649. Robert and Mary (Marshall) Russell had ten children b. in Andover, Mass.
i. MARY, b. 1661. m. 1679, Nicholas Holt, son of Nicholas. She d. 1717. He d. 1715.
2. ii. THOMAS, b. 1663.
iii. ROBERT. Probably unm. d. in the garrison at Great Island, 1689.
iv. JAMES, b. 1667. m. 1707, Priscilla Osgood, b. April 1, 1681, dau. of Christopher and Hannah (Barker) Osgood. Lived in Andover. He d. 1717. She m. second, John Eaton, of Reading, Mass. .
v. JOSEPH, b. 1671. Probably d. young ; not named in his father's will.
vi. SARAH, b. 1674. m. June 10, 1696, John Ingalls, b. Andover, May 21, 1661, son of Henry and Mary (Osgood) Ingalls. Removed to " Abington, Mass. He d. Jan. 5, 1743. She d. May 25, 1764. Eight children.
vii. BENJAMIN, b. 1677. m. Mary Preston.
viii. HANNAH, b. 1679. m. March 9, 1697/8, Oliver Holt, b. Jan. 14, 1671, son of Henry and Sarah (Ballard) Holt. She d. May 16, 1715.
ix. JOHN, b. 1682. m. 1712, Sarah Chandler, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Abbot) Chandler. He d. 1778.
x. ELIZABETH, b. 1687. m. Moses Holt, son of John and Sarah (Gary) Holt.
2. THOMAS RUSSELL, son of Robert 1, b. 1663. m. Phebe -. She was probably Phebe Johnson, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Holt) Johnson. He lived in Andover, Mass., where he d. 1731. Eleven children.
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. i. ROBERT was an innholder of Reading. m. 1716, Abigail Flint. m. second, Jan. 2, 1727, Hannah Holt, b. Nov. 30, 1702, dau. of Samuel and Hannah (Farnum) Holt. m. third, Elizabeth Man- ning. m. fourth, Martha (Johnson) Parker, dau. of Timothy Johnson.
ii. MEHITABLE, b. about 1686. m. Joseph Chandler, son of William and Bridget (Henchman) Chandler.
iii. THOMAS, b. 1687. His descendants live in Maine.
iv. PHERE, b. 1689. m. Henry Farnum, settled in Windham, Conn.
v. MARY, b. 1693. m. Timothy Osgood.
vi. SARAH. m. Oct. 11, 1715, John Ross, b. Billerica, Mass., Jan. 18, 1686 / 7, son of Thomas Ross.
vii. JAMES. m. Rhoda Chandler, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Abbot) Chandler and a sister of the wife of his uncle, John Russell.
3. viii. PETER, b. April 23, 1700.
ix. JOSEPH, b. 1702. m. Nov. 26, 1728, Hepsibah Eaton. m. second, Wilkins, of Danvers. He lived in Andover until aged, when he removed to Shrewsbury, Mass.
X. JEMIMA, b. 1704. m. July 16, 1724, Joseph Hunt, b. Sept. 21, 1694, son of Samuel and Ruth (Todd) Hunt. IIc removed to Litchfield.
xi. WILLIAM, b. 1706. m. 1732, Sarah Emery. He d. Somers, Conn., 1776.
3. PETER RUSSELL, son of Thomas 2, b. April 23, 1700. m. March 31, 1727, Deborah Crosby, b. Billerica, Mass., July 13, 1709, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (French) Crosby. He was a farmer of Andover, Mass., until 1738, when he removed to Litchfield, having sold his land in Andover, 1737 and 1738. He d. in Litchfield in Nov., 1759. His will on file in Concord is dated Nov. 3, 1759, and proved Nov. 28, 1759. In the will he made liberal provision for his wife Deborah, and appoints her an executrix and makes bequests to the heirs of Pelatiah deceased, and to his four sons and six daughters.
4. i. PELATIAH, b. Andover, Mass., Dec. 27, 1727.
ii. DEBORAH, b. April 8, 1729. d. young.
iii. RACHEL, b. Nov. 1, 1730.
iv. PETER, b. Dec. 4, 1732. d. young.
v. REBECCA, b. August 29, 1734.
vi. PHEBE, birth not recorded. She was baptized South Church, Andover, May 16, 1736.
5. vii. PETER, b. Litchfield, August 6, 1738.
viii. DEBORAH, b. June 3, 1740. m. 1758, Dea. Jonathan Cummings, b. June 5, 1729, son of Dea. Jonathan and Elizabeth (Blanchard) Cummings and grandson of Thomas 8 and Priscilla (Warner)
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Cummings. Lived in Merrimack, where she d. Sept. 9, 1820. IIe d. July 10, 1787. Sixteen children.
ix. JOSEPH.
x. HANNAH, b. 1744. m. Lieut. William Roby, of Dunstable. She d. June 11, 1838.
xi. JAMES, b. May 31, 1746. m. 1774, Mary French, dau. of Capt. Benjamin and Mary (Lovewell) French, of Dunstable. He was a lieutenant in the Revolution, with a good record. After the war he removed to Woodstock, Vt., where his wife d. 1790. He m. second, Judith O'Neil.
xii. SARAH.
xiii. THOMAS, b. Dec. 13, 1749.
4. PELATIAH RUSSELL, son of Peter 3, b. Andover, Mass., Dec. 27, 1727. The family removed to Litchfield, 1738. His career was brief and honorable. He m. Olive Moor, b. April 13, 1729, dau. of Major Samuel and Deborah (Butterfield) Moor, of Litchfield. In the French and Indian War he served as a sergeant in Capt. Thomas Tash's company, Col. Blanchard's regiment, from April 24 to Nov. 1, 1755. This regiment was stationed at Fort Edward. In the Crown Point Expedition of 1757 the New Hampshire regiment was commanded by Col. Nathaniel Meserve. Pelatiah Russell was second lieutenant in Capt. Richard Emery's company. This company with others was posted at Fort William Henry, near Lake George. In the massacre by the Indians that succeeded the capitulation of the fort, the New Hampshire forces suffered severely. Lieut. Russell was wounded and made a prisoner. He d. in Halifax, N. S., in 1757. Sept. 23, 1758, Olive Russell, his widow, presented to the provincial legislature her account for the clothing lost in the service. She was allowed one hundred pounds for the same and for three months extra pay on account of his captivity. (See New Hampshire Town Papers, Vol. XII., pp. 417, 418.) Widow Olive m. second, Timothy Barnes.
i. REUBEN, b. Nov. 1, 1749. d. Nov., 1753.
ii. OLIVE, b. 1751.
iii. PELATIAH, b. Oct., 1753. Lived in Groton, Mass., where he d. Jan. 21, 1831.
- iv. JOHN, b. Sept. 7, 1755. Lived in Richmond, Vt.
6. v. MOOR, b. Oct. 30, 1757.
5. PETER RUSSELL, son of Peter 3, b. 1732. There is a well-supported tradition that he served in the French War, 1757, in the company with his brother, Lieut. Pelatiah Russell, and it is probable that the name Peter Buzzell in the printed roll of the company should be Peter VOL II. - 38
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Russell. He m. Mehitable Stiles, b. Amherst, June 10, 1739, dau. of Caleb Stiles, and settled in Lyndeboro, where he lived many years. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Late in life they re- moved to Woodstock, where both d. Two children b. in Litchfield and five in Lyndeboro.
i. PETER. d. unm. aged 24.
ii. SARAHI. m. in Amherst, August 17, 1786, Josiah Bickford, of Campton.
iii. INFANT. d. young.
iv. MEHITABLE. m. Nov. 27, 1787, Dr. Stephen Kittredge, b. Tewks- bury, Mass., June 27, 1765, son of Solomon and Tabitha (Ingalls) Kittredge. He was a successful physician of Hancock, where he d. Oct. 6, 1806. She m. second, Sept. 17, 1811, Daniel Bickford of Sedgwick, Me. Ten children by former and two by later marriage; of these was Rev. Martin Luther Bickford, b. August 18, 1814, pastor Baptist Church at Waltham, Mass., 1853-1863.
7. v. JOSEPHI.
vi. BETSEY. m. 1805, Dea. Asa Simonds, b. April 5, 1776, son of Joseph and Mehitable (Cummings) Simonds, of Hancock, where she d. Nov. 21, 1843.
vii. POLLY. m. Col. John Palmer, of New Hampton. .
6. MOOR RUSSELL, son of Lieut. Pelatiah Russell, b. Litchfield, Oct. 30, 1757. He was a soldier in the Revolution, serving in the siege of Boston, 1775 ; in Capt. Josiah Russell's company of rangers on the northern frontiers from Oct. 12 to Dec. 1, 1776; in Capt. Timothy Barron's company, in Col. Bedel's regiment, for the defence of the frontiers adjacent to Connecticut River, from April 13, 1778, to April 1, 1779. He was a pensioner. He was a surveyor in early life and possibly his occupation influenced his residence in Grafton Co. He settled in Haverhill previous to 1777 and was one of the founders . of the Haverhill Academy. While a resident of Haverhill he was moderator, 1801; selectman, 1800 ; and representative, 1799 and 1800. He removed to Plymouth, 1801. He was State senator, 1801- 1803, 1810-1812; selectman, 1823; representative, 1823, 1824, and many years a justice of the peace. In business he was a prosperous merchant, a farmer, and a dealer in lumber and cattle. He was an active, energetic man and a valued citizen. (For a bio- graphical sketch, see Vol. I.) Moor Russell m. in Plymouth, Dec. 23, 1790, Elizabeth Webster, b. July 8, 1773, dau. of Col. David Webster (see). He d. August 29, 1851. She d. June 4, 1839. Eleven children.
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i. NANCY, b. Plymouth, July 20, 1793. m. John Rogers (see).
8. ii. DAVID MOOR, b. Plymouth, July 6, 1795.
iii. CATHERINE, b. Haverhill, May 28, 1797. m. Samuel C. Webster (see).
iv. ELIZA, b. Haverhill, August 23, 1799. m. Benjamin G. Edmonds, (see).
9. v. WILLIAM WALLACE, b. Plymouth, May 15, 1801.
vi. MARY, b. Plymouth, Jan. 26, 1804. m. 1828, Elijah Maynor Davis, of Barnet, Vt. She d. Oct. 13, 1832. A dau. Mary Jane m. Samuel Kidder, of Lowell, Mass.
vii. WALTER WEBSTER, b. Plymouth, March 5, 1806. He settled in Gainesville, Ala., 1837, and for forty years he was prominently identified with the business interests of that town, and was honored and respected by his associates. His charity for all and his constant benevolence to the poor commanded the approbation of all. " A great concourse of friends attended his funeral and sorrowfully followed the remains to the grave." He was not married. He d. June 17, 1878.
viii. JANE AUGUSTA, b. Plymouth, August 9, 1808. m. Rev. Milo Parker Jewett, LL.D. (see).
ix. JULIA ANN, b. Plymouth, August 13, 1810. d. Nov. 23, 1815.
10. x. CHARLES JAMES, b. Plymouth, Jan. 16, 1813.
xi. JULIA ANN, b. Plymouth, Sept. 27, 1815. m. Samuel Long, M.D. (see).
7. JOSEPH RUSSELL, son of Peter 5, b. Lyndeboro. m. Mary Rob- bins, dau. of Lieut. Jonathan Robbins (see), and settled in Woodstock. He was a man of commanding presence and winning manner ; a captain in the militia, and popular among his townsmen. In business he was not successful, and he removed to Baldwinsville, N. Y. His family remained in Woodstock. For several years Mrs. Russell lived in Plymouth, caring for her aged father. She d. in Woodstock, March 17, 1844. Nine children.
11. i. JOSEPH, b. August 28, 1796.
ii. MARY F., b. April 27, 1798. m. May 14, 1816, Eliphalet Blake. They lived in Salem, Vt. Fourteen children.
12. iii. JOHN MOONEY, b. May 15, 1800.
13. iv. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. June 11, 1802.
v. LUCINDA, b. June 22, 1804. m. Oct. 9, 1823, Rev. George Farrar Wells, son of Col. Samuel Wells (see).
vi. PETER, b. Oct. 31, 1806. m. May 20, 1833, Pamelia Pinkham, b. Durham, 1805. He was a farmer of Woodstock. He d. July 22, 1880. She d. April 20, 1877. Two children : (1) Henry C., b. Dec. 11, 1842. Ninth N. H. Infantry. d. in the service Oct. 29, 1862. (2) Amelia, b. July 18, 1845. m. May 18, 1865, Myron
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Little, who d. July 9, 1866. She m. second, April 25, 1869, James Burney.
vii. JONATHAN ROBBINS, b. Oct. 25, 1808. m. August 18, 1828, Eunice Clifford, b. March 20, 1800. He removed to Middleville, Mich.,
where he d. June 3, 1899. She d. March 16, 1881. Four children. viii. MENITABLE. d. in infancy.
14. ix. PELATIAH, b. Oct. 12, 1813.
8. DAVID MOOR RUSSELL, son of Moor 6, b. July 6, 1795. m. April 3, 1832, Mary Flint, b. Reading, Mass., March 1, 1793, dau. of Col. Daniel and Priscilla (Sawyer) Flint. He was a man of great ability and untiring energy. For several years he was an active mer- chant in this town, and after 1826 he was associated in business with his brother, William Wallace Russell. He was a director of the Pemi- gewasset Bank, and a trustee of Holmes Plymouth Academy. In 1833 he removed to Gainesville, Ala., and for a few years he was associated in business with Col. William and his son Col. Rufus G. ยท Lewis. He became a prominent factor in the industries and business affairs of Gainesville. He was active and progressive, and in every position of responsibility and trust his force and integrity were promptly recognized. He d. Sept. 21, 1863. His widow d. June 6, 1876. Two children.
i. EDWARD, b. Plymouth, Feb. 9, 1833. He was at Yale two years, 1850-1852, and at Williams College one year, when he relinquished a college course on account of impaired eyesight. In 1857 he settled in Elwood, Kan., and was a land agent, and editor of the " Elwood Advocate." Member of the Kansas House of Represent-
-- atives, 1862, 1863, and 1865. He removed to Leavenworth and while a resident there he served the State as railway assessor and superintendent of insurance. In 1879 he removed to Lawrence, where he conducted a broker's office under firm name of Russell & Metcalf. He was a man of convictions, with a courage to sustain them. He m. Sept. 27, 1859, Mary Ionia Blackiston, b. Middleton, Ohio, July 20, 1842, dau. of Ebenezer Blackiston. He d. August 14, 1898. Eight children. . (1) Edward B., b. May 16, 1860. d. June 7, 1860. (2) Percy Blackiston, b. April 23, 1861. m. Jan. 2, 1888, Gertrude Alcorn, dau. of James Luske Alcorn former United States senator and governor of Mississippi. Res. Memphis, Tenn. (3) Mary, b. Nov. 26, 1862. d. same day. (4) Stella, b. June 11, 1864. d. August 6, 1876. (5) Edward Flint, b. March 15, 1867. m. Feb. 1, 1899, Lola M. Phillips, b. August 26, 1871, dau. of Dr. Edwin D. F. Phillips. He is a cattle raiser, Sarcoxie, Kan. (6) Mary Ionia, b. Sept. 25, 1870. m. Jan. 7, 1895, Charles Arthur Peabody, b. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 28,
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1870, son of Charles A. and Janette (Hutchinson) Peabody. He was United States commissioner, State of Missouri. He d. April 23, 1896. (7) Stella Helen, b. Sept. 13, 1876. d. April 29, 1877. (8) Ella, b. April 25, 1878. Grad. Kansas State University.
ii. DAVID MOOR, b. Gainesville, Ala., April 9, 1836. m. May 1, 1861, Mary Elizabeth Bliss, b. Oct. 8, 1839, dau. of Jonathan Bliss (see), of Gainesville. IIe removed, 1867, to Jonestown, Miss. He is a cotton planter. Member of Legislature, 1880, Levee Commissioner since 1896, and has been honored with other important offices. No children.
9. WILLIAM WALLACE RUSSELL, son of Moor 6, b. Plymouth, May 15, 1801. He was a merchant of Plymouth, and to this business he devoted the energies and the years of an active, useful life. In youth he was a clerk in the store of his father, and later of his oldest brother, being admitted a partner in 1826. His brother retired from business and removed to Alabama in 1833. The ensuing two years he was sole proprietor, and subsequently he conducted business in the brick and the depot stores, with several partners, until 1869. As a merchant he was enterprising, methodical, and successful. With unusual sagacity he met and often anticipated the many changes in the conditions in business which attended his career. The eight-horse teams hauling goods from Portsmouth and Boston were displaced by the railroad, and barter trade and long credits were happily succeeded by cash payments. He was a trustee of Holmes Plymouth Academy. He was generous in spirit, affable in manner, and a liberal patron of every worthy cause. A kind and indulgent father, a good citizen of Plymouth, and a friend of the needy, he was loved for his kindness to his fellow-men, and re- spected for his integrity and unblemished character. He m. Nov. 9, 1826, Susan Carleton Webster, b. June 3, 1804, dau. of Humphrey Webster (see). He d. Sept. 3, 1872. She d. Sept. 15, 1875.
15. i. WILLIAM WALLACE, b. August 27, 1827.
16. ii. ALFRED, b. March 18, 1830.
iii. ELLEN, b. April 19, 1833. d. April 2, 1834.
iv. GEORGE PUNCHARD, b. July 8, 1835. He attended Holmes Academy, Plymouth, and Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, reading law with his brother, Alfred, at Detroit, Mich., and attending the Law School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Ile was admitted to the bar at Detroit, 1860. With superior mental endowments, with a thorough knowledge of law, and with a manner affable and winning, he en- tered upon the labors of his profession with an unusual assurance of success. He was brought into competition with men of high
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legal attainments, and on all occasions he acquitted himself with credit and honor. His health failed, and he returned an invalid to the home of his childhood. He d. August 11, 1867. At an early meeting in Detroit, the bar of Wayne Co. paid appreciative and affectionate tributes to his memory.
v. ELLEN AMANDA, b. June 9, 1837. unm. d. Nov. 13, 1868.
vi. HENRY MARTYN, b. Feb. 24, 1842. d. March 4, 1844.
17. vii. FRANK WEBSTER, b. June 22, 1847.
10. CHARLES JAMES RUSSELL, son of Moor 6, b. Jan. 16, 1813. m. Jan. 4, 1844, Catherine Webster Merrill, dau. of Stevens Merrill (see). He was a merchant in Plymouth, and of the firm Russells & Webster from 1842 to 1853. He was capable in business and esteemed as a citizen. In 1853 he sold his interest in the store and became a promi- nent broker in Boston, Mass., res. in Cambridge, Mass., and later removed to Milwaukee, Wis., where he d. Feb. 4, 1893. She d. Mil- waukee, Wis., Feb. 28, 1901.
i. CAROLINE ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 3, 1844. d. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 23, 1884.
ii. JULIA LONG, b. Dec. 5, 1846. m. Dec. 30, 1874, Charles E. Osgood, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., May 19, 1847. Lived in North Platte, Neb. Six children: (1) Charles R., b. Oct. 12, 1875. (2) Charlotte L., b. August 22, 1877. (3) John Cleveland, b. Dec. 2, 1879. (4) Catherine Webster, b. August 18, 1881. (5) Samuel Warburton, b. May 17, 1886. (6) Mary O., b. August 11, 1890.
iii. MARY AMANDA, b. March 5, 1849. m. June 24, 1874, William L. Sherman, who was b. Three Rivers, Mich., Sept. 28, 1845. They res. in Milwaukee, Wis. Three children : (1) Russell Scott, b. April 1, 1875. (2) Carrie Laird, b. April 15, 1878. (3) William Gilbert, b. Sept. 4, 1884.
iv. CHARLES MOOR, b. May 29, 1851. Res. Portland, Ore.
V. WALTER WEBSTER, b. Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 24, 1855. d. Lin- coln, Neb., Sept. 29, 1887.
vi. CATHERINE WEBSTER, b. Sept. 24, 1855, twin. d. June 4, 1868. vii. HETTA MERRILL, b. Nov. 8, 1857.
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