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4. Daniel Smith (Gideon3, John2, James1) was born in Bruns- wick, Vt., March 30, 1876. Married (1) Elizabeth Wait, April 7, 1813; she died in 1814. He married, November 9, 1819, (2) Anna Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Judith (Thayer) Smith of Stratford, who was born February 26, 1790, and died May 24, 1849. Daniel was a carpenter by trade, and served the town in many capacities. He died in Brunswick, November 19, 1862. WILLIAM ISAAC, b. 9 Mar. 1821; d. in infancy.
DAMON JACKSON, b. 25 Jan. 1823; unm .; d. 12 Aug. 1842.
5. DANIEL MUNROE, b. I Jan. 1825; m. Harriette A. Rolfe. JUDITH ANN, b. Mar. 1827; d. 26 June 1829.
NORMAN GOULD, b. 25 Oct. 1829; m. (1) Mary Abbie Smith, (2) Vicellia E. Pond; d. 28 Oct. 1906.
6. JULIA ANN, b. 30 Dec. 1831; m. Beriah Wright.
5. Daniel Munroe Smith (Daniel4, Gideon3, John2, James1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., January 1, 1825, married (1) Harriette A. Rolfe, daughter of Jonathan Rolfe of Stratford. She was born September 17, 1833, and died November 19, 1880. He was married (2) to Elizabeth M. French. Mr. Smith held many offices in the town; was town clerk for nineteen years, and post- master for thirty years. He died January 21. 1899.
GEORGE MUNROE, b. 25 Feb. 1857; d. I May 1857.
7. CHARLES DANA, 3 May 1858; m. Clara M. Russell.
NELLIE GERTRUDE, b. 9 June 1861; m. (I) Edwin Charles Frizzell; (2) Orlan T. Kirk; I ch .: Russell M. Kirk; d. 8 Sept. 1920.
FRANK M., b. 29 Aug. 1866; d. 10 Jan. 1888; unm.
8. ALBERT W., b. 3 June 1869; m. Mattie A. Garrison.
6. Julia Ann Smith (Daniel4, Gideon3, John2, James1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., December 30, 1831. Married Beriah Wright of Columbia, N. H., in 1854, and died in Brunswick, Vt., May 21, 1858.
FRED BERIAH, b. 27 Aug. 1884; m. Helen Maria Conant. Mr. Wright is a successful lawyer in Minneapolis, Minn .; 4 ch .: Ralph C., Fred B., Jr., Barbara H., Donald O.
7. Charles Dana Smith (Daniel Munroe5, Daniel4, Gideon3,
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John2, James1) was born May 3, 1858. Married Clara Maria Russell, who was born at Cabot, Vt., February 9, 1856. They reside in Minneapolis, Minn.
HOMER RUSSELL, b. Littleton, N. H., 17 Feb. 1883. CAROLYN HARRIETT, b. Littleton, 14 April 1885; d. 12 Jan. 19II. HARLAN MONROE, b. Adams, Mass., 20 June 1890.
8. Albert W. Smith (Daniel Munroe5, Daniel4, Gideon3, John2, James1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., June 3, 1869. He married Mattie A. Garrison, November 29, 1889. She was born at Slate- ford, Penn., January I, 1870, and died in North Stratford, Feb- ruary 9, 1921.
ROY E., b. 6 Nov. 1890; m. Lottie Marshall; 3 ch .: Edward, Howard, Pauline.
FRANK A., b. 9 Mar. 1895; unm.
ALICE HELEN, b. 25 April 1900; m. Ernest Brado; 2 ch .: Derwood, Bernice.
DORA ESTELLE, b. 9 June 1871; d. 8 Mar. 1872.
SECOND FAMILY
The "Smith Genealogy," prepared by Norman G. Smith, gives us another family in Stratford, the children of Jonathan and Judith (Thayer) Smith. There is no town record of this family, nor have we been able to trace them, much to our regret, as their descendants are represented in many Stratford families.
LUCINA, b. 1776 (3rd ch. of Jonathan and Judith) ; m. John B. Gamsby.
POLLY, b. 19 Oct. 1778 (4th dau.); m. Ephraim Barlow. THANKFUL, b. 1781; m. Peter Gamsby.
LYDIA, b. 8 Jan. 1782; m. Elisha Johnson.
ELIZABETH, b. 1785; d. Brunswick, Vt.
JONATHAN, b. 1787; d. Stratford, N. H.
ANNA, b. 26 Feb. 1790; m. Daniel Smith.
JUDITH, b. 7 Apr. 1793; m. Samuel F. Brown.
PRISCILLA, b. 1795; m. Norman Smith of Stewartstown, N. H.
WILLIAM, b. 1796; youngest ch. of Jonathan and Judith Smith, left his home in Stratford in 1816.
STEVENS
Isaac Stevens was of Scotch descent, and was born in Hamp- stead, N. H., in 1751. He died in Stratford, April 23, 1846. His mother, widow Ruth Colby, died January 7, 1812, aged 97, and was buried in Stratford.
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About 1782 Isaac Stevens was living in Piermont, N. H., and in 1786 in Warren, N. H. He is supposed also to have lived in Haverhill. He removed his family to Maidstone, Vt., in 1790, and came to Stratford about 1803. He bought of Elijah Hinman and built the house called afterwards the "Porter House," which has played such an important part in the history of the town. Later he built where Prescott Mason afterwards lived, and spent the evening of his life there.
Mr. Stevens was closely connected with the early history of the town, and held several offices. The cemetery at the Center was his gift to the town. His Revolutionary record will be found in the chapter upon the Revolutionary War. He married (I) Elizabeth (Rich) Stone, widow of Samuel Stone (see Stone Fam- ily), who was born in 1757, and died October 27, 1813. He married (2), January I, 1815, Mrs. Lydia (Brainard) Osburn, daughter of Daniel Brainard of Haverhill, who was born in 1783, and died in 1824. He married (3) Mrs. Sally (Bowker) Curtis, widow of Aaron Curtis, who was born September 16, 1774, and died January, 185I.
2. JOSEPH, b. 13 Mar. 1781; m. Abigal Crouch.
3. RICH, b. 24 June 1782; m. Fanny Schoff.
4. ISAAC, b. 10 Nov. 1784; m. Sally Dole. BETSEY, b. 20 Nov. 1786.
DANIEL b. 23 Apr. 1788; m. Eunice Barlow; 5 ch .; Pleasant Prairie, Wis.
RUTH, b. 23 Mar. 1791 ; m. Barney Tourtelotte ; 7 ch. ; d. at 92, Pleasant Prairie, Wis.
JOHN, b. 22 Apr. 1793; m. Samantha Fuller.
ELIZABETH, b. I May, 1797; m. Elisha A. Barlow, 15 Aug. 1813.
(Second Marriage)
CATHERINE SAPHIRA, b. 6 Apr. 1816; m. Nelson Gamsby. LYDIA B., m. Roberson Marshall.
2. Joseph Stevens (Isaac1) was born in Warren, N. H., March 13, 1781. He married Abigal Crouch. He moved from Maid- stone, Vt., to Bloomfield, about 1815, and after a few years bought the farm where his son, Alva, lived. His wife, who was born in 1778, died April 28, 1860. He died February 13, 1864.
ISAAC.
5. ICHABOD, b. 1803; m. Mary Fuller.
WILLIAM, b. 1806; m. Caroline Morse; d. 9 Apr. 1870.
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CALVIN, lived in California.
FRESNANDO, lived in Maine.
ALVA, b. 1814; m. Eleanor C. Morse; d. II Aug. 1892.
BRAINARD, b. 1824; d. 28 Mar. 1845, killed by falling tree. BETSEY, m. Raymond Fuller.
6. NANCY, m. Alvin Grandison French, Wisconsin.
MARY, m. Henry Currier, Maine.
PHEBE.
RUTH, b. 1817; d. 27 July 1838.
FANNY, b. 28 Oct. 1818; m. Daniel Haines Schoff, Wisconsin.
3. Rich Stevens (Isaac1) was born in Piermont, N. H., June 24, 1782. He married, April 10, 1805, Fanny A., daughter of Jacob and Anna (French) Schoff, who was born in Northumberland N. H., September 14, 1783, and died in Maidstone, Vt., October 4, 1874. Col. Rich Stevens built the first brick house in Essex county, Vt., in 1817. He was deputy United States marshall several years, was high sheriff five years, and was also surveyor. He was drowned in the Connecticut River in 1851, while crossing on the ice.
7. ORSON, b. 1806; m. Miranda Holbrook.
CHARLES, b. 1809; m. Emeline Batchelder; 9 ch.
MICHAEL; 2 ch.
4. Isaac Stevens (Isaac1) was born in 1874. He married Sally Dole, and died in Indiana.
ELSA, b. in Maidstone, 17 Mar. 1806. ISAAC DOLE, b. Stratford, 13 May 1808.
SOPHIA, b. 10 June 18II.
SARAH, b. 3 Sept. 1813. CALEB, b. 2 Dec. 1815.
THIRD GENERATION
5. Ichabod Stevens (Joseph2, Isaac1) was born May 4, 1803. He married, March 31, 1825, Mary Fuller, daughter of Raymond Fuller, who was born January 3, 1802, and died May 12, 1870. He died April 22, 1884.
SUSAN, b. I Oct. 1827; m. Frank Emerson.
8. WILLIAM W., b. Aug. 1829; m. Mary Thrasher. MELISSA E., b. 8 Feb. 1831 ; m. Charles Noyes; d. 5 Jan. 1870. JOHN W., b. 18 Oct. 1835; m. Mary A. Frizzell; d. 1923.
9. CHARLES H., b. 20 Dec. 1838; m. Elizabeth A. Staples.
ELEANOR M., b. 20 Dec. 1844; m. (I) Gideon Goodwin, (2) David Bowker.
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6. Nancy Stevens (Joseph2, Isaac1), who married Alvin Grandi- son French, was one of the descendants of Isaac Stevens, who settled in Wisconsin, making the journey there in 1835-36, when Chicago possessed but one hotel, and Fort Dearborn was occupied by United States troops to protect the settlers from hostile In- dians. Miss Loretta French of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., daughter of Mrs. Nancy French, supplied Mr. Prescott with much material for the history from her mother's memories of that trip. We regret not having space to give this entire. There were seventeen in the party, including some of the family of Daniel Stevens, who settled at Pleasant Prairie. They often journeyed for twenty- five miles without seeing a habitation, and once crossed a great prairie thirty miles wide in a blinding snowstorm, led by a guide whom they were fortunate to find. A lantern was always placed on the house at night as a beacon light for travellers lost on the prairies, for no roads or fences served as guides in those early days. (See French Genealogy).
7. Orson Stevens (Rich2, Isaac1) was born in Maidstone, Vt., in 1806, and died October 15, 1863. He married Marinda Holbrook, daughter of Thomas Holbrook. Mrs. Stevens died August 29, 1869, aged 59 years, 7 months.
GEORGE ANDREWS, left home when a boy.
DANIEL, died in infancy.
FANNY A., m. Daniel McAllister; 5 ch.
ANN, m. Joshua Larrabee; 4 ch.
FREDERICK, m. Julia Luey; d. 19 Aug. 1896; 5 ch.
IO. CLARK, m. Mary Schoff; 9 ch. FRANK
JAMES, m. Ella Howe; 6 ch.
AMANDA, m. John Brackett; 3 ch.
FLORA, m. Arthur Ricker.
FOURTH GENERATION
8. William Wallace Stevens (Ichabod3, Joseph2, Isaac1) was born in Bloomfield, Vt., August 18, 1829. He married, June 5, 1853, Mary Thrasher, who was born November 17, 1834, and died October 17, 1879. Mr. Stevens died April 8, 1886.
FRANK, b. 5 July 1854.
II. HENRY, b. 17 Oct. 1856; m. Abbie Perkins.
9. Charles H. Stevens (Ichabod3, Joseph2, Isaac1) was born
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December 20, 1838. He married, December 10, 1864, Elizabeth A. Staples, and died May 28, 1873.
BURTON, m. Lou Spencer ; 2 ch .: Charles, George.
EVA, m. Eugene Bartlett; 2 ch .: Fred, Wesley.
FRED, m. Effie Fuller; 2 ch .: Bertha, Burton.
IO. Clark Stevens (Orson3, Rich2, Isaac1) was born in Maid- stone, Vt., May 23, 1839. When a boy he removed to Columbia, N. H., where he spent the years of early manhood. At the break- ing out of the Civil War he was one of the first to respond to the call for volunteers, enlisting in Co. F, Second N. H. (See chapter upon Civil War). November 7, 1867, Mr. Stevens married at North Stratford, Mary S., daughter of Charles P. Shoff, and in February, 1868, began business in the village in company with Jeremiah Willard as proprietors of the Willard House, but soon sold out his interest in the hotel. In 1855, in company with his brother, he went into the starch business in Bloomfield, Vt. Later, purchasing his brother's interest, Mr. Stevens started a sawmill which he continued to run until the mill was destroyed by fire in 1881.
The next enterprise of importance with which he was connected was in 1885, when he laid the water system which for many years continued to furnish a large part of the village with its water supply.
In 1887 Mr. Stevens opened a grocery store and meat market, and continued in business until 1892 when he re- tired. As a business man he was shrewd, enterpri ing and successful.
Mr. Stevens died August 19, 1896, after a lingering illness of over two years, the ultimate cause of death being the effect of a bullet wound received just before his imprisonment in Libby Prison, and neglected during his imprisonment of nine months. He met the attack of illness and death with the same determina- tion and courage with which he had faced bullet and bayonet on more than one stricken field.
12. CHARLES O., b. 13 Dec. 1868; m. Mary Leavitt.
JULIA, b. 5 Nov. 1870; m. Charles LeGrow; 2 ch .: Marion, Mildred.
PERLEY C., b. 8 Jan. 1873; d. 20 Mar. 1892.
MARY M., b. 3 Feb. 1875; m. Albert Morse.
ALICE C., b. April 1877; m. William Mercer.
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MABEL M., b. 17 Apr. 1879; m. (1) Joseph Hanson, (2) James Rogers; 4 ch .: Pearl M., Helen G., Dorothy, Charles. HERBERT, b. 20 Jan. 1883; d. 24 Jan. 1883.
13. AARON E., b. 13 May 1885; m. Flora Hapgood.
14. DON W., b. 19 Jan. 1887; m. Vesta Cooper.
FIFTH GENERATION
II. Henry H. Stevens (William Wallace4, Ichabod3, Joseph2, Isaac1) was born in Bloomfield, Vt., October 17, 1856. He married Abbie, daughter of William Perkins, who was born May 25, 1856, and died October 10, 1914.
BERTHA MAY, b. 24 Aug. 1881 ; d. 28 Sept. 1883. ALICE LILLIAN, b. 2 Apr. 1886; d. 30 Sept. 1886. MAYNARD, b. 8 July 1888; m. Esther Hall.
IONE, b. 18 May 1892; m. Karl D. Norcott; 3 ch .: Marshall, Marion, Kendall.
MILDRED, b. 15 Apr. 1899; m. Wesley Bartlett.
12. Charles O. Stevens (Clark4, Orson3, Rich2, Isaac1) was born December 13, 1868. He married Mary Leavitt, daughter of George Leavitt of Colebrook, N. H., He is a business man with large interests, and holds many positions of trust. He resides in Colebrook.
CLARK L. GEORGE O., m. Jeannette Marshall.
MABEL L., m. William G. Lafferrendre. RICHARD D.
13. Aaron E. Stevens (Clark4, Orson3, Rich2, Isaac1) was born in Stratford, May 13, 1885. He married Flora, daughter of William Hapgood.
CLARK W., b. 2 Jan. 1918. PHEBE H., b. 4 Aug. 1920. LAWRENCE A., b. 14 Aug. 1922. CHARLES DON, b. 3 June 1924.
14. Don W. Stevens (Clark4, Orson3, Rich2, Isaac1) was born in Stratford January 19, 1887. He married Vesta Angelina Cooper of Hanover, N. H. He is a farmer and rural mail carrier.
WESLEY COOPER, b. 21 June 1910. MARY NATALIE, b. 4 Oct. 1912. MARTHA MERIDEN, b. 30 Oct. 1914. FLORA, b. 5 May 1918; d. 5 May 1918. HAROLD MATHESON, b. 4 Mar. 1921.
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STONE
The Stone family traces its descent back to Essex county, England, 1285. The first of this line to come to America was Gregory, who landed in Cambridge, Mass., in 1635. Samuel, seventh in line from Gregory, was born in Ashburnham, Mass., April 20, 1775, and was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rich) Stone. He was a posthumous child, his father having perished in the woods from cold, where he had wandered in his blindness, in search for basket material, before his son's birth. His mother, Elizabeth Rich, was the daughter of John Rich, who was born in Germany, near the Rhine, in 1729; emigrated to America when young, and was one of the seven German families who settled in Ashburnham in 1757. He was married at or near Boston, by Rev. Samuel Merrill, to Catherine Sophia Whiteman, also a native of Germany, who came to this country at the age of fourteen. In 1773, he came to Franconia, N. H., with Jacob Schoff, and later to Maidstone, Vt. His daughter, Elizabeth, married (1) Samuel Stone of Ashburnham, (2) Isaac Stevens, 178 -. Samuel Stone, 2nd, accompanied his mother when Mr. Stevens bought in Stratford what is known as the Porter place early in 1800, and there Elizabeth (Rich) (Stone) Stevens died October 27, 1813, aged 56. Her son, Samuel Stone, lived on the farm next above the Prescott Mason place, but exchanged, with Mr. Stevens, for a lot of wild land on Stone hill, in East Stratford, about 1814. He married Phebe (Greenleaf) Healy, daughter of David Greenleaf of Haverhill, N. H., who died August 16, 1866, aged 88 years. Samuel died April 18, 1832, aged 56 years.
JOHN, unm. MILLIE, unm. ELIZA, unm.
JACOB, m. Polly Neal; d. Crown Pt., N. Y.
GARDINER.
2. NICHOLAS, b. 1810; m. (1) Mrs. Lucinda (Barnes) Holbrook, (2) Elizabeth Hagar.
3. MARCUS, b. 1814; m. Sarah Wheeler.
2. Nicholas Stone (Samuel1) was born in Stratford, February 28, 1810. He married (1) Lucinda (Barnes) Holbrook, daughter of Ezra Barnes, and widow of Abel Holbrook. She died Decem- ber 3, 1853. Married (2) Eliza Hagar, who was born October 19, 1826, and died July 27, 1889. Nicholas Stone, in company
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with his brother John, was extensively engaged in the lumber business in the eastern part of the town for forty years, running saw mills upon Stone Brook and Bog Brook. He died December 14, 1894.
(First marriage)
PHEBE, m. David Hagar; 9 ch .; West Milan.
4. JOHN GREENLEAF, b. 7 Jan. 1842; m. (I) Anna Holmes, (2) Alsadie Stinson, (3) Hattie A. Mason.
FRANCIS GARRUTH, d. 19 Apr. 1865, in Virginia, Civil war. GEORGE.
(Second marriage)
LUCINDA, b. 24 Aug. 1854; m. Charles McMann; 15 ch. MARY, b. 5 Nov. 1855; d. 25 Jan. 1925; m. Samuel Parker; 8 ch.
CORA, b. 13 Apr. 1857; m. Dan Burnside.
CELIA, d. at 14.
5. DAVID, b. Jan. 1859; m. Emma Hapgood.
BETSEY, b. 21 May 1861 ; m. Langdon Ingalls, Beecher Falls, Vt .; 4 ch.
NELLIE, b. 15 Nov. 1865; m. Tom Mitchell; I ch., Maud.
6. FRANK, b. 1867; m. (I) Matilda Dickey, (2) Dora Hapgood. 7. SAMUEL H., b. 1868 m. Margaret Hall.
8. JAMES, b. 16 Apr. 1870; m. Ella Hapgood.
3. Marcus Stone (Samuel1) was born on the Stone farm in 1814. He married Sarah Wheeler, who was born 1823, died February 1873. They had fifteen children, three of whom lived.
9. PHINEAS, b. 1846; m. Livonia Leavitt.
ELSIE, m. Elias Maybury; 10 ch .: Eugene, Elmer, Clarence, Jesse, Ethel, Blanche, Florence, Perley, Howard. WILLIAM, m. Dorcas Maybury; 4 ch.
THIRD GENERATION
4. John Greenleaf Stone (Nicholas2, Samuel 1) was born in Stratford, January 7, 1842, and died in Plymouth, N. H., March 12, 1902. He married (1) Anna Holmes, (2) Alsadie Stinson, (3) in 1878, Hattie A. Mason, daughter of Prescott and Samantha (Rolfe) Mason, who was born in 1857; died in Plymouth, 1902.
(First Marriage)
AVERY. ELEANOR.
FRANCIS, b. 1865; m. (I) Phebe Chandler; 4 ch .: Harry, Rena, Frances, Lizzie; m. (2) Clara Richard.
GEORGE, b. 1867; m. Lizzie Holmes; 3 ch .: Dorsie, Susie, Georgianna.
One child by second marriage ..
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(Third Marriage)
HATTIE, b. I Oct. 1879; m. Harlan Connary.
PHEBE, b. 7 Nov. 1881; m. Arthur Merrill; 3 ch .: John A. Howard, Phebe.
Son, d. in infancy.
5. David Stone, (Nicholas 2, Samuel 1) was born January 6, 1859. He married, January 6, 1888, Emma Hapgood, daughter of Charles and Jennie (Paquin) Hapgood, who was born Decem- ber 13, 1870.
FLORENCE, b. May 1890; head nurse, Charlesgate Hospital, Boston.
HAROLD, b. 20 Oct. 1893; d. 1893.
6. Frank Stone (Nicholas2, Samuel 1) was born in 1867, and married (1) in 1886, Matilda Dickey, (2) Dora Hapgood, daughter of Charles and Jennie (Paquin) Hapgood.
(First Marriage)
PEARL, b. 28 Jan. 1888.
(Second Marriage)
IO. DEWEY, b. 6 Jan. 1898; m. Yvonne Rose Paradise. DAVID, b. 20 Feb. 1899. EARL, b. 23 Oct. 1900. FRANK, b. 16 Apr. 1903, d-
JENNIE, b. 21 Apr. 1907.
MARION, b. I Nov. 1911, d- -. DOROTHY, b. 7 July 1915.
7. Samuel H. Stone (Nicholas2, Samuel 1) was born in 1869, and married Margaret Hall.
FRANK OMEGA, m. Susie Parker.
EMMA, m. Arthur Pervere. NELLIE, unm.
Two children d. in infancy.
8. James Stone (Nicholas2, Samuel 1) was born April 16, 1870, and married, September 24, 1889, Ella Hapgood, daughter of Charles and Jennie (Paquin) Hapgood, who was born November 30, 1872.
EVERETT NICHOLAS, b. 8 Mar. 1891 ; m. Mildred Taylor ; 2 ch. FLORA ELIZA, b. 27 Feb. 1892; m. Howard Atkinson; I ch .: Phebe.
EARL JAMES, b. 14 July 1895; d. 20 July 1895.
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9. Phineas Stone (Marcus2, Samuel 1) was born in 1846, and died March 18, 1918, married Livonia Leavitt.
MARY, b. 1864; m. Will Hagar, 7 ch .: Ellen, Mamie, Livonia, Arthur, Jeannette, Phineas, Wilma.
FRANK, b. 1866; m. Cora King, 2 ch .: Ruby, Mildred.
ELIZABETH, b. 1867; m. (1) Elmer L. Owen, 7 ch .: Birdie Alice, Marion, Mertie, Nina Mae, Ina Rae, Elmer L., Eleanor R., m. (2) Walter S. Wentworth.
ALONZO, b. 17 Oct. 1870; m. Annie Brown, 2 ch .: Carl, Hazel. II. ARTHUR G., b. 5 Nov. 1872; m. Dora Taylor. BERTHA, b. 1874, d. young.
FOURTH GENERATION
IO. Dewey Stone (Frank3, Nicholas2, Samuel 1) was born January 6, 1898, married at Chicopee Falls, Mass., May 29, 1919, Yvonne Rose Paradise, born March 13, 1899. Mr. Stone is a member of Society of American Military Engineers; Belcher Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; Unity Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; New England Chapter, No. 12, National Sojourner's Club; Springfield Chapter, Reserve Officers' Association of U. S., Boston Signal Post; American Signal Corps Association; Springfield Klan No. 14; Stone Family Association. Commissioned Lieutenant, Signal Corps, U. S. Army Res., April 5, 1924. At present em- ployed as Assistant Electrical Engineer, Chicopee Falls, Mass.
BARBARA MARION, b. 25 May, 1920.
YVONNE DORA, b. 29 July 1922.
JANE, b. I July 1924.
II. Arthur G. Stone (Phineas3, Marcus2, Samuel 1) was born November 5, 1872, and Married Dora Taylor, daughter of George and Mary (Connary) Taylor. Occupation, railroading.
CELIA M., d. in infancy.
DORA MAY, b. 12 May 1904; m. Ralph Haycock.
REGINALD TAYLOR, b. 6 Sept. 1907.
REYNOLD CONNARY, b. 6 Sept. 1907.
WAIT
Joseph and Nathaniel Wait were sons of Benjamin Wait, and came from Ipswich, Mass. They had one sister who married Isaac Merriam. They settled on the Wait farm in Brunswick and built their houses near each other.
Nathaniel died in 1840, quite aged. Joseph fell from his horse
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and was killed in 1823. Judson, in his field book of the Survey of Stratford, makes frequent mention of them, and made head- quarters at their home. Joseph Wait was chosen proprietor's clerk in 1786, and continued in that office several years; he was the first sheriff of Essex County; the first representative of the town; also selectman. The town meeting was held at his house many years.
ESTHER, m. Stephen Bliss.
FANNY, m. Lovel Lawes.
MARY, m. Abner Day.
ANNA, m. Elias Taylor; 3 ch .: Mary, Nelson W., Andrew J. RHODA.
JOSEPH, JR., enlisted in the U. S. Service, and is supposed to have been killed by Indians.
SALLY, m. - Goff.
LYDIA, m. Elias Taylor (second wife).
WILLIAM, m. Tabitha Holbrook; 8 ch .: Cylene, Esther M., Sarah, George H., Mary C., Lucy A., Henry E., William H.
SUSAN, m. Allen Luther; 8 ch.
Nathaniel Wait served three months in the Revolution. He married - - Fry. He had nine children, who settled in Wis- consin: Lucy (m. Isaac Richardson), Isaac, Charles, Mary A., Harriett S., Lucy, Lorenzo, Nathaniel, William H.
WATERS
Irenas K. Waters was born in Hartford, Vt., November 8, 1796, and died August 13, 1863. He married, August 9, 1818, Charlotte, daughter of Noah and Anne (Brown) Hatch, who was born in 1792, and died March 21, 1882. Mr. Waters was living in Strat- ford in the early '30's. He was a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and both he and Mrs. Waters were active in the religious life of the community.
ALPHEUS H., m. Sarah Lucas; I ch .: Clarence, m. Sarah Alma French.
MARY, B., m. E. M. Swett; I ch .: Murray.
2. NOAH B., m. (1) Harriett Fry, (2) Mrs. Elvira (Crown) Tyler, (3) Sarah Gaskill, (4) Mrs. Sarah (Folsom) Norcott. EDWIN D., d. I yr.
EDWIN MURRAY, d. 21.
LAURA E., d. at Port Hope, Mich.
JANET P., m. George Harvey.
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2. Noah B. Waters (Irenas K.1) was born July 4, 1826, and died May 15, 1906. He married (1), December 19, 1854, Harriett A. Fry, who was born December 18, 1834, and died December 12, 1855; (2) June 12, 1856, Mrs. Elvira (Crown) Tyler, who was born October 15, 1830, and died September 1, 1857; (3) February 17, 1858, Sarah A. Gaskill, born December 29, 1828, died November 26, 1876; (4) Mrs. Sarah Norcott, born December 12, 1832. Mr. Waters was a well-known merchant at the Hollow for many years.
(First Marriage)
CHARLOTTE L., b. 14 Nov. 1855; d. 3 Mar. 1881.
(Third Marriage)
FLORA EVA, 8 Dec. 1860; d. at 22 yrs.
HATTIE ANN, b. 19 Sept. 1862; d. at II mos. FRED CHARLES, b. 6 Sept. 1864; d. 1905; m. Clara Dresser. JENNIE F., b. 3 Sept. 1886; m. Fremont Wright.
FRANK J., 21 July 1868; drowned at 13 yrs.
GRANVILLE, b. Aug. 1872; d. 30 Dec. 1896; m. Lulu Dresser.
WILLARD
Jeremiah Willard, son of Hardin and Lucy (Schoff) Willard, was born in Maidstone, Vt., May 15, 1823. When the news of the discovery of gold in California reached this northern Vermont town he left his native hills and became a "forty niner." He was moderately successful in his search for the precious metal, and returned in the early '50's to his native state. At that time the village of North Stratford was just coming into being. As it was the terminus of the Grand Trunk Railway for northern New Hampshire, and the hours of the train service demanded a hotel for the accommodation of the traveling public, Mr. Willard de- termined to meet that need, and the Willard House was built in 1858. For the story of the building of the hotel, and Mr. Wil- lard's connection with this well-known and popular hostelry see Chapter XVI. During the intervals when Mr. Willard was not engaged in the hotel business, he carried on a large farm in Brunswick, Vt., owned in early years by David Hyde, in late years by N. W. Baldwin, who operated a sawmill there. The latter years of his life were spent at North Stratford, in the home now owned by W. F. Nugent.
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Mr. Willard was a man genial and warm hearted, popular as a landlord, valued as a friend and neighbor. A great lover of children, "Uncle Jere" was a notable character of the village life of North Stratford a score of years ago. He married Lydia Grace Holbrook of Lemington, Vt., daughter of Thomas Hol- brook, who was born December 6, 1823.
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