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(III) Joshua, son of Henry (2) Champion, was born in Lyme, Connecticut, September 28. 1686, and died there. He married (first), in Lyme, May, 1712, Mary, born January 5, 1692- 93, in Lyme, died there, March 29, 1730, dauglı- ter of John and Mary Mott. Ile married (second), in Lyme, March 15, 1732, Sarah, born April 13, 1702, daughter of Jasper and Ruth (Peck) Griffin, of North Lyme. He was a farmer by occupation, and part owner of a sawmill, at Four Mile River. On June 28, 1703, he was reinstated in certain rights by John Andruss, who had acquired them from the former's father. Children of first wife,
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born in Lyme : Mary, April 9, 1713; Hannah, August 1. 1715; Joshua, February 6, 1718; Samuel, December 17, 1722, died young ; Sus- anna. May 8, 1725; Phebe, October 12, 1728; Ezra, mentioned below. Children of second wife, born in Lyme: Sarah, March 18, 1734; Jasper, July 30, 1737; Ruth, June 22, 1744; Samuel, January 15. 1746.
(IV) Ezra, son of Joshua Champion, was born in Lyme, February 21, 1730, died there, March 15. 1776. He married there, October 24, 1752, Mary Bump, who married ( second) Asahel Rowland. She died March II, 1826, aged ninety-three years. Both were buried in the East Lyme burying-ground. He lived at Four Mile River, now South Lyme, and was master and owner of a coasting vessel. His inventory showed an estate of six hundred and forty-four pounds three shillings three pence. Children, born in South Lyme: Hannah, Au- gust 23, 1753; Stephen, March 16, 1755 ; Ren- ben, February 16, 1757; Thankful, June 23, 1759; Dan, mentioned below; Ezra, August 28, 1763; Lydia, February 11, 1765; John De- cember 21, 1768; Polly, January 26, 1770; Joshua, August 22, 1773.
(V) Dan, son of Ezra Champion, was born in South Lyme, August 29, 1761, died in Stark- ville, New York, January 1, 1821. He mar- ried Ruth Harris, born in Lyme, October 23, 1760, died in Starkville, December 17, 1849. Soon after his marriage he removed to Chat- ham, New York, and became one of the first settlers there. About 1800 he removed to Herkimer county, New York, and settled in that part of the town of Stark which was after- wards known as Starkville. For several years he lived in a log hut, and then built the house which remained standing until 1830, when it was pulled down by his son Joel. He died intestate, and left six hundred acres of land, which were divided among his thirteen chil- dren. Children : Mary, born November 3, 1782 ; Sarah, October 12, 1784; Elizabeth, July 12, 1786, died November 14, 1789: John Marvin, July 12, 1788; Ruth, May 8, 1790, married Harden, or Harding, Potter (see Potter VI) ; Dan, March 14, 1792; David, December 21, 1793 : Elijah (twin), November 23, 1795 ; Lydia (twin), November 23, 1795; Elisha, January 13, 1798; Joel, February 2, 1801 ; Ezra, De- cember 13, 1802; Abraham, May 21, 1805; Wealthy. November 2, 1809.
The progenitor of the Wright WRIGHT family, with two brothers, came from Ireland or England, about 1750, perhaps earlier, and settled in Dutchess county, New York, near the Hudson river. He married Abigail Smith.
(I) Jacob Wright, or Jacob Henry Wright, as the name is also given, was born in Dutchess county, about 1756. He settled on a farm near the village of Moravia, Cayuga county, New York, and, later in life, removed to Preble, New York, where he died in 1849, aged ninety- three years. He was a farmer all his active life. In 1790 there were three men named Jacob Wright in New York state, according to the federal census. One lived at Canaan, Columbia county, and two were of Montgom- ery county, living respectively at Canajoharie and Caughnawaga. One of them was a cap- tain in the revolution, in Colonel Philip Van Cortland's regiment.
Jacob Wright married Anna Armstrong, who died in 1850, aged eighty-two years. Children : Henry, mentioned below; Thomas: Smith : Joshua, born in Windham, near Catskill, on the Hudson, August 13, 1813, and came, with his family, to Moravia and Preble, died May 20, 1802, married Rebecca A. West, and had five children : Eleanor, married Sullivan Smith ; Ann, married Harmon Loomis ; Charity, mar- ried - Cambern.
(II) Henry, son of Jacob Wright, was born in Dutchess county, New York, in 1788, died in Illinois. in 1865. He came to Cayuga coun- ty. with his parents, when a young man, and followed farming for an occupation. He lived for some years at Preble, New York, and spent his last years in the home of his son, at Hunt- ley, Illinois. He married Martha Egbertson, born in 1794. died in 1856. Children of Henry and Martha ( Egbertson ) Wright : Abram, died aged about twenty-five years : Ann Maria, died aged twenty years; Egbert Alanson, mention- ed below: Jerome; Rebecca, married Joseph Barce : Jacob Henry ; Harriet, married Jerome Fulton ; Charles, lives in Huntley, Illinois ; An- drew.
( III) Egbert Alanson, son of Henry Wright, was born in Windham, Greene county, New York, August 21, 1821. and is now (IQII) living with his daughter in Homer, New York, at the advanced age of ninety years. He re- ceived a common school education. About
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1827 he came to the town of Tully, with his parents, and afterward removed to Truxton Hill, where he lived and worked for fifteen years. In 1864 he came to Homer, after living for some years at Preble, New York, and since then he has made his home in Homer. He purchased a large farm, near the Little York station, in Homer, known as the Walrad farm, and conducted it successfully for many years. This farm is now owned by his son. Since advancing age obliged him to retire from active labor he has made his home with his daughters in Homer Village. He has been an active, progressive and industrious man. In politics he is a Republican. At one time he held the office of road commissioner, or "path máster." but he never cared for public office. He married, January 16, 1843, Miriam Wins- low, born at Preble, New York, July 26, 1824, died February 9, 1897. daughter of Ira and Tryphena ( Waterman ) Winslow (see Wins- low X1). Children: 1. Anna Maria, born January 15, 1844, lives in Homer, New York : married Abram Knapp, deceased. 2. Harriet Francelia, born July 19. 1845, lives in Homer ; married David W. Carver, deceased. 3. Mary Amanda, born July 2, 1847, lives in Homer ; married Richmond Klock. 4. Jennie, born February 17, 1849; married Merritt Hallen- beck, of Tully, New York. 5. Lewis, born January 17, 1853, lives in Detroit, Michigan : married Martha Devendorf, and had Elmer Egbert and Ann. 6. Henry S., born March IO, 1859, died November 24. 1861. 7. Nellie M., born October 8, 1860, died October 19, 1861. 8. Charles E., born March 24, 1862. died March 28, 1863. 9. Rollin Egbert, men- tioned below. 10. Robert Trowbridge, twin of Rollin Egbert, born May 20, 1866; married, February 11, 1891, Roxanna B. Gay, of Preble, daughter of Irving and Deboralı Gay: they have a daughter, Sarah Emily, born February 15, 1896.
(IV) Rollin Egbert, son of Egbert Alanson Wright, was born in Homer, New York, May 20, 1866. Ile attended the public schools of his native town and the Homer Academy. He has always followed farming for an occupa- tion, and has always lived on the homestead, where he was born, which he now owns. Mr. Wright is keenly interested in public affairs, and has been, for the past seven years, road commissioner of the town of Homer, and large- ly through his skill and management the town has some of the best roads in the state. In
politics he is a Republican. Ile is a member of Homer Lodge, No. 352, Free and Accept- ed Masons; of Homer Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Homer; of Little York Grange. No. 441, Patrons of Husbandry, and of the Baptist church, of Homer.
He married, January 16, 1888, Adelia Hunt- ley, born February 25, 1869, of Otisco, Onon- daga county, New York, daughter of Warren and Mary ( Henderson) Huntley. Children : Smith, born July 18, 1890; Laura A., July 25, 1895 ; Miriam, May 17, 1901, died aged seven- teen months; Arthur Warren, July 26, 1905 : Mabel Irene, September 24. 1908.
(The Winslow Line).
(I) William Winslow, or Wyncelow, the first of the lineage as traced in England, had children: John, of London. afterwards of Wuncelow Hall, living in 1387-88, married Mary Crouchman, who died in 1409-10, styled of Crouchman Hall ; William, mentioned below.
(I]) William (2), son of William (1) Winslow.
(III) Thomas, son of William (2) Wins- low, was of Burton, county Oxford, having lands also in Essex; was living in 1452. He married Cecelia, one of the two daughters and heiress of an old family-Tansley. She was called Lady Agnes.
(IV) William (3), son of Thomas Wins- low was living in 1529. Children: Kenelm. mentioned below ; Richard, had a grant from Edward VI., of the rectory of Elksley, county Nottingham.
(V) Kenelm, son of William (3) Winslow. purchased, in 1559, of Sir Richard Newport. an estate called Newport's Place, in Kempsey. Worcestershire. lle had an older and very extensive estate, in the same parish, called Clerkenleap, sold by his grandfather, Richard Winslow, in 1550. He died in 1607. in the parish of St. Andrew. He married Catherine -. His will, dated April 14, 1607, proved November 9, 1607, is still preserved at Wor- cester. Only son, Edward, mentioned below.
(VI) Edward, son of Kenelm Winslow, was born in the parish of St. Andrew, county Worcester, England, October 17, 1560, died before 1631. He lived in Kempsey and Droit- wich, county Worcester. He married (first) Eleanor Pelham, of Droitwich: (second), at St. Bride's Church, London, November 4, 1594, Magdalene Oliver, the records of whose fam- ily are found in the parish register of St.
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Peter's, Droitwich. Children: Richard, born about 1595-96; Edward, governor of Plymouth colony, October 18, 1595, Droitwich; John. April 16, 1597 ; Eleanor, April 22, 1598, Droit- wich; Kenelm, mentioned below : Gilbert, Oc- tober 26, 1600, came in the "Mayflower" with Edward, signed the Compact ; Elizabeth, March 8. 1601-02; Magdalen, December 26, 1604. Droitwich: Josiah, February II, 1605-06.
(VII) Kenelm (2), son of Edward Wins- low. was born at Droitwich, county Worcester, England, April 29, 1599, and was the immi- grant ancestor. He came to Plymouth, prob- ably in 1629, with his brother Josiah, and was admitted a freeman, January 1. 1632-33 ; was surveyor of the town of Plymouth, 1640, and was fined ten shillings for neglecting the high- ways. Hle removed to Marshfield, about 1641. having previously received a grant of land there, called Green's Harbor, March 5. 1637- 38. This grant, originally made to Josiah Winslow, his brother, he shared with Love Brewster. His home was " on a gentle emi- nence by the sea, near the extremity of land lying between Green Harbor and South Rivers. This tract of the township was considered the Eden of the region. It was beautified with groves of majestic oaks and graceful walnuts, with the underground void of shrubbery. A few of these groves were standing within the memory of persons now living ( 1854), but all have fallen beneath the hand of the woodman." The homestead he left to his son Nathaniel. Other lands were granted to Kenelm, as the common land was divided. He was one of the twenty-six original proprietors of Assonet (Freetown), Massachusetts, purchased of the Indians, April 2, 1659, and received the twenty- fourth lot, a portion of which is still owned by a lineal descendant. Kenelm was a joiner by trade, as well as a planter. He filled various town offices ; deputy to the general court, 1642- 44, 1649-53. He had considerable litigation. as the town records show. He died at Salem, whither he had gone on business, September 13, 1672, apparently after a long illness, for his will was dated five weeks earlier, August 8. 1672, and in it he describes himself as "being very sick and drawing nigh unto death." He may have been visiting liis niece, Mrs. Eliz- abeth Corwin, daughter of Edward Winslow. He married, June, 1634, Eleanor Adams, widow of John Adams, of Plymouth, who survived him, and died at Marshfield, where she was buried December 5, 1681, aged eighty-three.
Children : Kenelm, mentioned below : Eleanor. or Ellen, born about 1637: Nathaniel, about 1639; Job, 1641.
(VIII) Kenelin (3). son of Kenelm (2) Winslow, was born about 1635, at Plymouth. died November 11. 1715, at Harwich. He re- moved to Cape Cod and settled at Yarmouth. afterwards Harwich, and now Brewster, Mas- achusetts. His homestead was on the west border of the township, now called West Brewster, Satucket or Winslow's Mills. He was mentioned in the Yarmouth records in 1668. In records he was called "Colonel Wins- low, planter or yeoman." He bought large tracts of land in what is now Rochester, Mas- sachusetts, on which several of his children settled. The water privilege remains in the family to the present day. In 1699 he deeded it to his son Kenelm, and, in 1873, it was own- ed by William T. Winslow, of West Brewster. Kenelm Winslow bought of George Dennison. of Stonington, Connecticut, one thousand acres of land, in Windham, later Mansfield, March II, 1700, for thirty pounds. He gave land. October 7, 1700, to son Samuel, who sold it to his brother Kenelm, but neither Samuel nor Kenelm lived in Windham. October 3. 1662. he was fined ten shillings for "riding a journey on the Lord's day," yet he rode sixty miles to Scituate, on three occasions, to have a child baptized in the Second Church there. He was on the committee to seat the meeting house. October 4, 1714.
He married (first ). September 23, 1667. Mercy Worden, born about 1641, died Sep- tember 22. 1688. daughter of Peter Jr. and Mercy Worden, of Yarmouth. Her gravestone is in the Winslow graveyard, at Dennis. It is of hard slate from England, and is the oldest in the yard. This burying-ground is near the road leading from Nobscusset to Satucket, a short distance from the Brewster line. He married (second ) Damaris ~, who was living as late as March 27, 1729. His will was dated January 10, 1712, and proved December 28. . 1715. Children of first wife: Kenelm. baptized at Scituate, August 9, 1668: Josiah, born November 7. 1670; Thomas, baptized March 3, 1672-73. died April 6, 1689 ; Samuel, born about 1674: Mercy, about 1676; Nathan- iel. 1679; Edward, January 30, 1680-81. Chil- dren of second wife: Damaris, married, July 30, 1713, Jonathan Small, of Harwich; Eliza- beth, married, August 9, 1711, Andrew Clark, of Harwich; Eleanor, married, March 25.
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1719, Shubael Hamblen, of Barnstable ; John, born about 1701, mentioned below.
(IX) John, son of Kenelm (3) Winslow, was born in 1701. He was a farmer at Ro- chester, Massachusetts, and was elected dea- con of the church there, August 5, 1748. He married, March 15, 1721-22, Bethia Andrews, born May 26, 1699, daughter of Stephen and Bethia Andrews, of Rochester. She died at an advanced age, at the home of her son Prince. llis will was dated January II, 1752, and proved July 16, 1755. Children, born at Ro- chester : John, October 31, 1722; Deborah, February 8, 1724; Jedediah, March 26, 1727; Nathaniel, April 22, 1730; Bethia, May 24, 1732 ; Lemuel, November 3, 1734; Prince, men- tioned below ; Stephen, July 5, 1739 ; Elizabeth.
(X) Prince, son of John Winslow, was born at Rochester, April 6, 1737, died at Shef- field, December 29, 1793. He bought land at Salisbury, Connecticut, in 1761, and sold it November 18, 1763, and removed to Sheffield, Massachusetts, the adjoining town on the north. He was a farmer, sheriff of the county during the revolution. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion, a sergeant in Captain John Holmes's com- pany, Colonel John Felton's regiment, April 21, 1775 ; also in Captain Enoch Noble's com- pany, Colonel John Brown's regiment, June 29 to July 28, 1777, in the northern army ; and a private in Captain John Spoor's company, Colonel John Ashley's regiment, from Berk- shire county, in October, 1780, for a few days. He married, June 21, 1763, Sarah Goodrich, born November 25, 1739, daughter of Jared and Miriam ( Boardman) Goodrich, of Shef- field. She died March 12, 1822, at Preble. Children, except first born at Sheffield : Miriam, at Salisbury, March 25, 1764; Bethia, August 27, 1765; Stephen, June 29, 1767; Abigail, June 12, 1770; Diadema, February 28, 1772; Jared, April 10, 1774; Ira, mentioned below. (XI) Ira, son of Prince Winslow, was born at Sheffiekl, June 7, 1776, died November 10, 1862. He was named for Ira Allen, brother of the famous Ethan Allen. He married, at Florida, Montgomery county, New York, Try- phena Waterman, born March 29, 1782, at Chatham, died March 4, 1856, at Preble, New York, where she was buried. She was a daugh- ter of Elisha and Mary (Vaughn) Waterman, of Chatham. Ira Winslow was a saddler and harness-maker by trade, and resided at Florida, Duanesburg, in Schenectady county, and at Preble, Cortland county, New York. Chil-
dren : Ira, born July 11, 1798, lived at Elgin, Illinois ; Bethia, February 2, 1802 ; Noble, mar- ried Samuel Trowbridge; Matilda, born Au- gust II, 1804, married Elijah Thomas; Har- riet, August 3, 1806, married Samuel C. Skeele ; Mary, January 31, 1808, married Ira Skeele; Sarah Ann, January 21, 1810, married Willis Smith; Charles Nichols, January 13, 1812; Cynthia, December 11, 1814; Elisha, Decem- ber 9, 1816, married Jane Gilbert; Abigail, August 17, 1818, married Egbertson ; William, September 3, 1820; Miriam, July 26, 1824, married, at Homer, January 16, 1843, Egbert Alanson Wright (see Wright III).
CRANDALL migrant ancestor, was born Rev. John Crandall, the im-
in England, and settled in
Providence, Rhode Island, as early as 1637. He is the progenitor of all of the name of colonial ancestry in this country. He was a Baptist in religion, and for differing with the Puritan church was persecuted in Massachu- setts, where he settled first. From Providence he came back to Newport, Rhode Island, as early as 1651, and became a prominent mem- ber of the Baptist church there, subsequently the first elder of the denomination at Westerly, Rhode Island. With John Chace and Obadiah Holmes he went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to hold services for the Baptists, was arrested there, July 21, 1651, and sent to prison in Bos- ton, and, ten days later, convicted of breaking the law in holding services, and fined five pounds, in default of which he was to be publicly whipped. Upon his promise to appear at the next term of court he was released. In 1655 lie was a freeman of Rhode Island; in 1658-59 he was a commissioner. With eight others he signed a letter to the court of com- missioners of Rhode Island, dated August 27, 1661, in relation to a tract of land at Wester- ly, where they and others desired to settle. He was a deputy to the general assembly in 1667. and, in the fall of that year, was living at Westerly. He and Joseph Torrey were ap- pointed commissioners to treat with Connecti- cut, as to jurisdiction over disputed territory. May 14. 1669, and was supplied with thirty- five shillings by the colony of Rhode Island to pay his expenses to Connecticut. He received a letter from the governor and assistants of Connecticut, November 18, 1669, complaining that he and others had appropriated a large tract of land belonging to Stonington, Connecti-
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cut. He and Tobias Saunders answered the complaint for the Westerly people. He was conservator of the peace at Westerly in.1670, and deputy to the general assembly again in 1670-71. He was arrested by the Connecticut authorities, May 2, 1671, and, by advice of the Rhode Island government, declined to give bond. The Rhode Island colony promised to pay his expenses and defend him. His first wife died August 1, 1670, and he married ( second) Hannah, probably daughter of Will- iam and Ann ( Porter ) Gaylord, of Windsor, Connecticut. She died in 1678. He died at Newport, whither he had removed on account of King Philip's war, in 1676. Children : John, married, June 18, 1672, Elizabeth Gorton ; James, took the oath of allegiance September 17, 1679; Jane, married Job Babcock ; Sarah, married Josiah Witter; Peter, died in 1734; Joseph, married Deborah Burdick, in whose family the name Tracy is found ; Samuel, men- tioned below : Jeremiah, died 1718; Eber, 1676.
(II) Samuel, son of John Crandall, was born in 1663, and died May 19, 1736. He lived at Newport and Little Compton, Rhode Island. He married, in 1685, Sarah Celly, born 1666, died August 3. 1758. Children, born at Little Compton : Samuel, mentioned below ; Mary. born May 17, 1689, died July II, 1732: James, August 23, 1692, died Janu- ary 20, 1752; John, January 11, 1695; Peter, October 25, 1697 : Joseph, November 28. 1701, died June 2, 1731 ; Thomas, July 27, 1707.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( 1) Cran- dall, was born at Little Compton, October 30, 1686. He married, at Tiverton, Rhode Island, May 3, 1706, Mary Wilbour, and lived at Little Compton. Children, born there : Thomas, 1707; Eber, 1708; Samuel, mentioned below ; William, 1711 ; John, 1713: Peter, 1715; Wil- hour, 1717; Sarah, 1718: Joseph, 1721, died January 19, 1791 ; Mary, born 1723, died April 4, 1783 ; Lois, 1725; Benjamin, 1731 ; Nathan- iel, 1733, died April 10, 1821.
(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Cran- dall, was born at Little Compton, in 1710. The records of the Rhode Island towns are deficient and the record of his family is wanting.
(V) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) Cran- dall, according to the best evidence available. and undoubtedly of the family given above, was born in Little Compton, Westerly, or vicin- ity, in 1736. He removed to New York state. and died there in 1836, aged one hundred years.
Children : Laban, mentioned below ; Wilson : John, and Samuel.
(VI) Laban, son of Samuel (4) Crandall, was born in 1765. He married, in 1788, Esther Crandall, a distant relative, born 1765, died 1867, according to family records, aged one hundred and two years. He died in 1815. Children : Ezra, born 1788, died 1881 ; Hosea, March 30, 1790 (q. v.) ; Ira, born 1792, died 1874 ; George, mentioned below ; Olive ; Susan ; John : Tracy ( a name brought into the family by marriage with the Burdicks, see above) ; Hial.
(VII) George, son of Laban Crandall, was born in 1797, and died in 1887. He married, in 1816, Hannah Gage, born 1797, and died in 1882. Children : Louisa, born 1816; Marilla : John M., mentioned below : Elkanah, January II, 1825.
(VIII) Rev. John M. Crandall, son of George Crandall, was born January 16, 1823. He is a Baptist clergyman at Lestershire, Broome coun- ty, New York. He married Lucy A. Session, born May 31, 1831, died December 31, 1896. Children : Lathan Augustus, mentioned below ; L. Addie, born February 14, 1855 : Bert, born December 26, 1866, died November 29, 1889.
(IX) Rev. Dr. Lathan A. Crandall, son of Rev. John M. Crandall, was born in Plymouth, Chenango county, New York, September 30, 1850. He received his early education in the public schools and prepared for college at Whitestown Seminary, New York, graduating in the class of 1871. He entered Pennsylvania State College, and afterward went to Hillsdale College, in Michigan, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1873, and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1874. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from his alma mater in 1889. He studied divinity at the Rochester Theological Seminary, New York, and received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity there, in 1881, and was ordained in the Baptist denomination in the same year. He was pastor of the Memorial Baptist Church, of Chicago, from 1902 to 1904, and since then has been pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church, at Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a member of the executive committee of the Baptist Educational Society ; member of the board of trustees of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago; chairman of the American Committee on the Baptist World Alliance. In politics he is a Republican. He
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married ( first ), July 16, 1872. Mary Nichols, born 1850, died April 3, 1891, daughter of Rev. Asahel Nichols, of Ames, Montgomery county, New York. He married ( second ). December 8. 1892, Nellie 1. Hart, of Racine, Wisconsin, daughter of John S. and Susan ( Hawkins) Hart. She was born October 6, 1868. Chil- dren by first wife: 1. Bruce V., born October 16, 1873; married. December 8, 1900, Minnie Smith ; children : Bruce, born May, 1904, and Willard, February 29, 1908. 2. Vinnie, born December 7, 1875 ; married Hervey B. Hicks, and resides at Oakland. California ; children : Hervey, born 1902. Children by second wife : 3. Susan, born January 1. 1894. 4. Lathan .1 .. born October 10, 1903.
SMITH Belosity Smith was born in Con- necticut, and came, with six broth- ers, to Pennsylvania, settling in Upsenville, Susquehanna county. He married Laura Lines, of an old Connecticut family. Children : Wellington Conger. mentioned below : Frederick Augustus, married Margaret Dear- born; Esther, married Edward Park.
(II) Wellington Conger, son of Belosity Smith, was born at Upsenville, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1825. died January 1, 1904. He married. November 29, 1847, Anna, born May 4. 1830, died May 2, 1882, daughter of An- drew and Mary ( Buel) Leighton. He was a farmer, owning a considerable tract of land at Upsenville, and was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church there. Children : Clar- ence Belford, mentioned below ; Alice Emor- ette, born December, 1853. died April 7. 1867 ; Elsie Adeline, born September 8, 1857. mar- ried, December 18, 1883, William Lawson.
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