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HANOVER GREEN CEMETERY.
BY H. B. PLUMB, ESQ.
S. R. SMITH,
Dear Sir : In accordance with your desire i send you the inscriptions on the tomb- stones of the Hanover Green Cemetery as far as I have them. I put in brackets those dates of years that are not on the tombstones, but which ought to appear in order to make everything clear. Where I know the name of the wife, before marriage, I have inserted it in brackets also. I have also arranged the names in alphabetical order. H. B. P.
Henry Ash, (b. 1794,) d. 1820, aged 26. Mary (Minnich) Ash, b. 1795, d. 1876, aged 81. Richard Ash, (son, b. 1816,) d. 1826, aged 10. John Ash, (son, b. 1817,) d. 1844, aged 27. Eliza Ash, (daughter, b. 1821,) d. 1828, aged 7. Henry Ash was of German descent, probably a descendant of Nicholas Ash, who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1754. Polly or Mary Minnich, the wife of Henry Ash, was the daughter of Henry Minnich, born probably in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, her father coming to Hanover in 1810. Henry Ash and all his children died young, of consumption. Mis. Ash lived to be quite old, and died in Wilkes-Barre on South Main street, opposite LeGrand's blacksmith shop, where she owned a house and lived from about 1845.
Capt. Peleg Burritt, b. in Stratford, Conn., 1721, d. in Hanover 1789, (aged 68). Deborah Beardsley, wife, b. in Stratford, Conn., 1726, d. in Hanover 1802, (aged 76). Capt. Peleg Burritt was the third in descent from William Burritt, who was probably one among the first settlers of Stratford, Conn., in 1640, where he died in 1651. Capt. Peleg came to Hanover about 1773 or '74. He lived on the River Road on the lot adjoining Hanover . Green Cemetery on the north, and died there. He was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth Blackleach, and by her he had the Rev. Blackleach Burritt and Mabel Burritt, neither of whom ever came to Pennsylvania; by Deborah he had Gideon, who died in Hanover unmarried ; Sarah, born 1750, died 1833, married, first, Cyprian Hibbard (who was killed in the Wyoming massacre July 3, 1778, leaving a child who married John Alex- ander) and second Matthias Hollenbark, and lived and died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa .; Stephen. born about 1748, married Mary Keeler ; and Mary, who married, first, Peter Hubbell ; sec- ond, Capt. Woodruff. Stephen, who married Mary Keeler, had Joel, Stephen and Polly. Stephen, the son of Stephen, never married, and lived on the homestead adjoining the Hanover Green on the south. He must have been born about 1775, and died there about 1850. Joel, his brother, married Ruth Dilley and died about 1826; Polly, his sister, mar- ried Jonathan Dilley and had a large family of children, the youngest still living, Rev. Alexander B. Dilley. Now it seems a little strange that there are no other tombstones to any of the Burritts, while it is certain that Gideon and the two Stephens were buried here.
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Rufus Bennett, (b. 1754,) d. 1842, aged 88. Martha (Bennett) Bennett, wife, (b. 1763,) d. 1852, aged 89. Sarah, (Bennett), wife of Darius Finch, (b. 1785), d. 1847, aged . 62. Rufus Bennett was born in Connecticut ; came to Wyoming Valley with his father and mother and grandfather and grandmother. I do not know their names, but Rufus was here previous to 1772, and an Isaac Bennett was among the original settlers according to the list of 1769, and he may be the father or grandfather of Rufus, who was then (1772) 18 years old. They lived in the lower part of Wilkes-Barre near the Hanover line. Rufus was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, was home at the time of the Wyoming battle, and ap- pears to have been in the ilanover company, as he was not in the lower Wilkes-Barre com- pany. He escaped death in the battle, and in the flight was running down the road toward Forty Fort and two Indians were close behind in chase of him with spear and tomahawk. Bennett had his gun with him, but it had been discharged and he had no time to reload it. Richard Inman had fallen out on the way up from Forty Fort to battle, and lay beside the road, but at this moment had awakened and was rubbing his eyes. Bennett saw him and called to him : "Inman, is your gun loaded ?" "Yes." "Then shoot this Indian !" Inman shot the Indian in front and the other turned and ran back. This I heard my grandfather, Elisha Blackman, tell more than one or twice, but still it is only a recollection. According to my researches, he was one of the party that headed off the Indians on French Mountain, above Wyalusing, that had Rosewell Franklin's wife and children prisoners, in April, 1782. Rufus. Bennett was wounded in the fight there with the Indians. After pensions were granted in 1835, he drew a pension of eight dollars a month. He' lived in Hanover in a house still standing, at Askam, where his land adjoined my grandfather's, with the cross road between them from the Back Road toward Middle Road. He died in Wilkes-Barre in 1842. His wife was a daughter of Ishmael Bennett, who had just lately married a sec- ond wife, the widow of Philip Weeks, who had been killed in the Wyoming massacre at the edge of the river. Weeks' land was in the neighborhood of the Gen. Sturdevant place on the River Road in the lower end of Wilkes-Barre. He must have been married about 1784. She was no relation to him before marriage, so far as I know. He began clearing the woods from his Hanover land in 1789. They had nine children that grew up and mar- ried. Sally, or Sarah, married Jared Marcy first, and second Darius Finch. She was the grandmother of the Marcys now living in Wilkes-Barre, Kingston and Ashley. William married Katy Teets and went West. Wells married Jane Fell. Miranda married George Gledhill. Selesta married Randall Stivers and Peter Fisher. Rockwell married Fisher. Rufus II. married Harriet Lueder and went West. Ransom married Phoebe Smiley, and Elmer married - Beck. Elmer's father and mother died at his house in Wilkes-Barre, South Main street, nearly opposite Academy street.
Josiah Bennett, b. 1786, d. 1857, aged 71. Sarah (Taylor) Bennett, wife, (b. 1786,) d. 1858, aged 72. Nathan Bennett, (b. 1789,) d. 1872, aged 83. Ann Hoover, (wife of Nathan Bennett,) b. 1795, d. 1866, (aged 71). Thomas Bennett, (b. 1782,) d. 1820, aged 38. Josiah Bennett was a son of Ishmael Bennett by the second wife, Abigail Beers, widow of Philip Weeks, born in Wilkes-Barre probably on the Weeks' place on River street, near where the Sturdevant house now stands; was brought up in Hanover, where his parents bought land on the Back Road now in Sugar Notch a half mile below No. 9 breaker. The old or first house stood on the north side of a creek that comes down from the mountain there. He married Sally or Sarah Taylor, of Lackawanna. He died in Hanover in his own house, a quarter of a mile below, or south of his father's house, near the stone bridge and little creek
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now called Bennett's Creek ; she died in Wilkes-Barre at the house of her youngest child, Silas W. Bennett, still living in Wilkes-Barre. They had Angelina, born 1808, still living in the West, who married Ashbel Ruggles; Luther, born 1810, was drowned by falling from a bridge he was assisting in building at Tunkhannock, unmarried ; John Taylor Bennett, born 1811, still living in South Dakota, married Hannah Miller, and H. Shiner; Lydia, born 1813, still living in Kingston, Pa., (mother of S. R. Smith), married Robert Smith. J. Bennett Smith is also her son. Eliza, born 1815, still living in New York, married Solo- mon Newton ; Polly, born 1817. died in Wisconsin, married Abram Smith, brother of Robert ; Josiah, born 1819, died, lived on South Main street, Woodville, Wilkes-Barre, married Charlotte Smith ; Samuel, born 1821, still living in South Dakota ; I do not know his wife's name; Silas W., b. 1827, still living in Wilkes-Barre, married Margaret Moister. Nathan Bennett (born and died as the inscription says above) was a brother of Josiah, born in Han- over, married Ann Hoover, daughter of Hemy Hoover, lived in Hanover till all his child- ren were born, and about 1835 removed to Wilkes-Barre, where he was the loek tender on the canal until he grew too old. They had George W., born 1812, died 1884 at Ashley, married Jane Bevans ; Polly, born 1813, married John A. Cary. She is still living at Ash- ley. Sarah, married Charles Drake; Daniel, dead, lived in Wilkes-Barre, married Emily Kite; Stewart, born 1829 or 30, died 1885, married Sally Ann Lynn. There may have been others who did not live. Thomas Bennett, died, the inscription says, 1820, aged 38. I do not know who he is. He was too old to be the son of Thomas Bennett, who was a half brother of Josiah and Nathan, and was born 1765, and married Mary Ann Espy and lived in Nanticoke and kept the tavern there.
Elisha Blackman, b. April 4, 1760, d. December 5, 1845, aged 86. Anna Hulbert, his wife, b. 1763, d. 1828, aged 65. Elisha Blackman was born in Lebanon, Conn. He was the son of Elisha Blackman and Lucy Polley, who was the son of Elisha Blackman and Susanna Higley, who was the son of Joseph Blackman and Elizabeth Church, who was the son of John Blackman and Mary Pond. This Elisha came with his father to Wilkes-Barre in 1772. His father was a cousin of the famous Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, and young Elisha was living with the Governor at the time his father made preparations to re- move to Wyoming Valley. The Blackman lot was the second lot on the west side of South Main street, below or south of Academy street. It was thirty-two rods wide and had thirty- two acres in it, so it must have reached 160 rods from Main street towards the river. Here his parents lived at the time of the Wyoming massacre, July 3, 1778, in which he, then 18 years old, fought and slew his Indian antagonist and escaped. After the massacre his father and mother and brothers Eleazer and Ichahod, younger than he, and his sisters Lucy and Lovina, older than he, returned to Connecticut. He returned from Stroudsburg with Captain Spalding in August, and after gathering in as much of the crops as remained un- destroyed, and assisting in burying the remains of the dead killed at Wyoming in the bat- tle and massacres, in October, he joined the army and served about two years in New York in Otsego county, about the head waters of the Susquehanna; then he enlisted for a year in a regiment on the Hudson, and was discharged at Peekskill. The money he was paid in on his discharge in 1782 though a "legal tender" was valueless and he had to walk and beg his way from Peekskill to his old home in Lebanon, Conn., except that on the way some- where he came to a house where the proprietor knew him, and he said he owed a woman in Lebanon one dollar, and told him that he would let him have that dollar and he could use it on the way there, if he would promise to earn a dollar there and give it to her for him.
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He promised and did it. He learned the trade of a tanner and currier, and he studied sur- veying, and in March, 1785, he and Eleazer and Ichabod came to Wilkes-Barre again and built a log house on the old place and went to keeping "bachelor's hall." Ichabod in 1786 married Elizabeth Franklin and the same year remoued to Sheshequin, now Bradford county, where he lived and died, leaving three sons, Franklin, Elisha and Rev. David S. Blackman. Eleazer married Clara Hyde in 1787, and lived and died in Wilkes-Barre. He died in 1844. He left children: Lucy married Shepard Stearns, Minerva married Cal- vin Edwards. Melinda married Daniel Collings, Amanda married Thomas Gary, Julia mar- ried Edward Jones, Lovina married Richard Jones .. Elisha, the eldest brother, married last. He married Anna Hurlbut, daughter of Deacon John Hurlbut, of Hanover. He re- moved to Ilanover to the place where I now reside, and began clearing up a farm in the woods and built a house in 1791, and here he and his wife lived and died. They had ten children, six of whom grew up and married. Henry, born 1788, died 1843, married Sarah Bennett ; Ebenezer, born 1791, died 1844, married Susan M. Stockbridge; Hurlbut, born 1794, died 1870, married Sarah Rollin ; Elizabeth, born 1799, died -, married Henry Boss ; Elisha, born 1801, died 1872, married Amy Rollin ; Julia Anna born 1806, died 1889, married Charles Plumb. All except Henry, or Harry, and Julia Anna went west, married, lived and died. The "west" in those early times-1815 to 1820-was Ohio.
Jacob Babb, b. May 3, 1776, in the town of Reading, d. September 25, 1821, aged 45 years, 21 days. I never knew this Babb. He came to Hanover about 1815 and bought land on the Middle Road near where Askam is now, just below or south of the Nanticoke creek, and his son, John Babb, owned it and lived there till IS38. I knew him and his family, though I was but eight years old when they all went west to Iowa. He-John, the son-married a Miller. They had Lydia, married Robert Downer; Elizabeth ; Washing- ton, married Elizabeth Coates; Miles, John, Jr., Susan, Mary Ann, and Abi. Some of these, the younger ones, are still alive, I hear. Downer had children about my age, say, born 1830. Abi was a couple of years older than I, born, say, 1827 or 8.
Ruggles Brush, (b. 1781), drowned 1800, aged 19. There was a Jonas Brush owned the place afterwards owned (bought of Brush, I believe,) by George Kocher, the father of the George of my time, who was born 1769, died 1850. The elder George has no gravestone. Dr. Charles Streator bought the place of the elder or younger George Kocher, and built on the top of Hog Back Hill a house which in that age was a wonder of magnificence to the people. Streator sold it about 1837 and removed to Wilkes-Barre, where he was a druggist for many years and where he died. The main part of his house still stands, but all its glory has departed. Where Brush died or his family lived 1 never knew, but from the name of his son it would seem that he was in some way connected with the Ruggles family. Ihave heard that young Brush and a man named Tredway were drowned at Nanticoke Falls, along with Henry Line, but Line came to life again when lie was got out of the water.
George Behee (b. 1788), d. 1846, aged 58. Elizabeth, wife, b. Feb. 26, 1789, d. Nov. 8,.1868, aged 79. Susan, daughter (b. 1825), d. 1865, aged 35. George Behee was of German descent and came from Northampton county, Pa., it is supposed, and settled first in Newport township. He traded his land in Newport with Ludwig Rummage for the mill in Hanover, near the Old Red Tavern, and lived there as early at least as Isis, as Elisha Blackman's account book has him there. I do not know what his wife's name was; they had George, married Susan Gruver; Adam, married, first, Mary Ann Patterson, and
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second, Susan A. Pryor, as I am informed. He still lives, 1893, in Wilkes-Barre and can answer for himself. Sally, married John Barney ; Betsey, married Sidney Ide; John, mar- ried a Mrs. Fell; Polly, married Jacob Kline; Ellen, married James Butler. I do not know where any of them live except Adam, who must now be a very old man. The mill-Be- hee's mill-rotted down some forty years ago, but the mill-pond is there yet. Susan never married.
John Barney, b. 1800, d. ISSI, (aged SI). Sarah (Behee) Barney, wife, b. ISog, d. 1882, (aged 73). John Barney, second, b. 1846, d. 1882, (aged 36). John C. Barney, (b. 1827), d. 1864, aged 37. Sarah Barney, wife, (b. 1827), d. 1863, aged 36. John Barney married Sally Behee (or Sarah, as the tombstone says). After the death of her father they lived at the homestead at Behee mill in Hanover, and there both of them and Mrs. Behee died. They had a number of children that I never knew. I knew Charles, of Plymouth, Pa., and the son John, the second, I think, who was the youngest son.
Susan Burrier, wife of Thomas Burrier, (b. 1802), d. 1835, aged 32. Thomas Burrier came here in ISIo from Northampton county, Pa .; he was born about 1798, married Susan Meyers, and died 1890, aged about 92. The above is the inscription on his wife's tomb- stone. He died in Ross township, I believe. He had a brother Samuel, who married Mary Edwards, and about 1846 removed to Wisconsin, and a brother Christian, who mar- ried a Courtright. They had Katy Ann, married William Rummage; William, went to Wisconsin ; Priscilla, married George Kennedy; Susana, married Henry Gress.
Frederick Chrisman, (b. 1758), d. 1815, aged 57. This man built the Red Tavern in Hanover. He was of German descent, came to Hanover-probably from Northampton county, Pa.,-about 1788. After his death his widow married John Carey, of "Careytown," on River street, in Wilkes-Barre, below Academy street. Chrisman and she had eight children-Abram, Beshero, Rachel, Betsey, married Lazarus Stewart ; Charles ; Priscilla, married Lewis Mulison Horton ; Harriet, Jesse, married Polly Hartzell. Abram Chris- man married , and had John, married Warner; Susan, born 1807, d. 1847, mar- ried George P. Steele; Katie, married John Long; Euphemia, married George Kocher. Jesse married, had children, started to move to the west in 1834, got as far as Pittsburg with a flat boat loaded with his family and goods and live stock, but there he was murdered and robbed. His family never came back here. His boat with its load was taken on a car at Hollidaysburg and carried over the mountain on the railroad to Johnstown.
Benjamin Carey, (b. 1763), d. 1830, aged 67. Comfort Carey, b. 1768, d. 1838, aged 70. The first Carey in Wyoming Valley was the father of these, named Eleazer, born in New England in 17 18 ; came here 1769; his family came in 1772. The sons were John, born 1756, died 1844; Nathan, born 1754, married Jane Mann; Samuel, born 1759, married Theresa Gore; Benjamin, born 1763. married Mercy Abbott ; Comfort, born 1768, married Hulda Weeks; Mehetable, married James Wright. John was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in the company that did not get here in time to be in the battle of July 3, 1778. He lived and died in Wilkes-Barre on the River Road called Careytown, now, I believe, called Carey avenue. In his old age about 1816 he married as his second wife the widow of Frederick Chrisman. Nathan Carey was in the Wyoming battle and escaped the massa- cre. About 1798 he removed to Arkport, N. Y., where both he and his wife died and are buried. Samuel was also in the Wyoming battle and escaped the massacre, but was taken prisoner; and being young was adopted the same night by a squaw, whose son had been
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killed in the battle. After some six years he was set free and came home, married and lived and died in Plains township, Pa. Benjamin married and settled in Hanover township in 1795, on the Middle Road, some sixty or seventy rods north of Hoover Hill school house. His children were Nathan, married Sally Ann Allen; Nancy, married Elijah Adams; Rachel, married Sira Landing ; Elias, married Lettitia Smiley; Sarah, married Bateman Downing; Esther, married Darius Waters; Martha, married Peter Mensch ; Benjamin, married Jane Smiley ; Selesta, married Harvey Holcomb ; John A., married Polly Bennett ; Comfort married and settled in Ilanover on the Back Road in what is now Ashley. His wife, Hulda, was a daughter of Philip Weeks, who was killed by the Indians July 3, 1778, on the bank of the river, after being taking prisoner on promise of his life. They had John, mar- ried Hannah Dickson ; Benjamin, married Katy Askam; Daniel, married Lovina Dilley ; Lucy, married Erastus Coswell ; Lydia, married Jacob Worthing; George, died unmarried.
John Craver, (b. 1775). d. 1840, aged 64. Christiana Craver, wife, (b. 1786), d. 1839, aged 53. I do not know who these are, but I think they are the parents of Thomas Car- penter's wife, and the first wife of Peter Rinehimer, of Hanover, still living. Rinehimer called his first wife's name Graver, but Thomas Quick, of Wilkes-Barre, called Carpenter's wife Craver, and they were sisters; but Rinehimer was "Pennsylvania Dutch," and that made the difference in the name he gave. But the inscription is Cravei.
Thomas Carpenter, b. 1798, d. 1874, (aged 76). Elizabeth Carpenter, wife, 5. 1805, d. 1871, (aged 66). Thomas Carpenter was an Englishman and, as I understand it, came to America with Dr. Charles Streator. and lived with Streator as long as Streator lived on Hogback. After Streator left he lived there with -- Cox, who bought the Streator place, till about 1843, when he owned and lived in a little house in South Wilkes-Barre, across the street from Carlisle Gates' foundry, and was in Judge Conyngham's employment till his death.
Richard Dilley, d. about 1840. Mary Dilley, wife, d. about 1840. This Richard Dilley was the son of an older Richard, that came to Wyoming Valley about 1784, during the Pennamite and Yankee troubles after the Decree at Trenton which assigned this region to Pennsylvania, which troubles arose from the attempt of the Pennsylvania Government to drive out the Yankee settlers. He bought land in Hanover, and died here in 1799. His children were this Richard, who married Polly Voke; Susana; Adam; Jerusha; married Ed- ward Inman ; Prudence, married Edward Edgerton ; Jonathan, married Polly Burritt ; Mary, married David Richards ; John F. went South ; Ruth, married Joel Burritt ; Nancy, married Nathan Wade. The above Richard, the eldest of these children, lived at Button- wood, and his children were born there, and there he died ; but the tombstone was put up long afterwards and only about the date of death (1840) was known. When he was born is not known, but as his daughter Susan was born 1788, it may be assumed he was born twenty- two years at least before that -- 1766. Jonathan had a son, Alexander, who became a Presbyterian minister, and is, I believe, still living. He has visited me twice when in Wilkes-Barre at church meetings of the clergy since 1879.
Susan Dilley, daughter of Richard and Mary Dilley, was born 1788, d. 1879, (aged 91). James Dilley, (b. 1792), d. 1862, aged 70. Margaret, (wife of James), b. 1797, (married May 19, 1815), d. 1877, (aged 80). Mary Brown, daughter of James and Margaret Dilley, (b. 1822), d. 1867, aged 45. Jesse Dilley, (b. 1794), d. 1852, aged 58. Hannah K. (Lueder), wife,.b. 1801, d. 1878, aged 76. Jerusha Dilley, (b. 1796,) d. 1853, aged 57. James mar- ried Margaret Campbell, a daughter of James Campbell and Margaret Stewart. Margaret
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Stewart was a daughter of Captain Lazarus Stewart, who fell in the battle July 3, 1778, at Wyoming. James Dilley's children were William, married Catharine Butler ; Richard ; James, married Jane Cox ; Stewart, married ---- Wertz; Charles; Alvah, married Mary C. Rinehimer ; Harriet, married Charles Buel ; Mary, married - Brown ; Margaret, mar- ried - Howard ; Ann, married William MeCullough. Jesse Dilley and Hannah K. Lueder lived in Wilkes-Barre and had children : Sylvester, married Mary Ann Barkman ; Anning, married Eliza Houpt; Lyman, died in the Mexican war; Charlotte, married Charles E. Lathrop ; Urban, married Lydia Ann Webber or Weaver; Butler, married Pettebone; Freidland ; Monroe, married Joanna Marks; Mary, married Edwin H. Jones. There was a brother of James and Jesse ealled Dayton. He married Lorinda Marcy, daughter of Jared Marey and Saral: Bennett. They had Riehard, Ira, Loretta, Sarah, Mary Ellen and Avery Dilley. Avery died in the army in 1863.
Sarah (Carey), wife of Bateman Downing, (b. 1797), d. 1864, aged 67. Burton Down- ing, son of Bateman, (b. 1815), d. 1841, aged 26. Sarah (Downing), wife of Levi Petty, (b. 1824), d. 1847, aged 23. Charles Denison Downing, son of Reuben, b. 1857, d. 1875, (aged 18). Bateman was the son of Rueben, married Sarah Carey, daughter of Benjamin, of Hanover ; he had a brother Martin, married Laura Carey, of Plains; and brother Elias, married Jane Dana ; and sisters, Sarepta, married Jonas Hartzell, of Buttonwood ; Ann, married George Carey. Bateman bought out the heirs of Benjamin Carey and lived there till 1864. They had Burton, married Hannah Kriedler; Lydia Ann, married William Nagle; Reuben, married Naney Miller ; Sarah, married Levi Petty ; Benjamin, married Caroline Holeomb. Burton died in 1841 and left one ehild, John C. Downing, long a resi- dent of Wilkes-Barre, but last year he went to Washington, west of the Cascade range, and took a homestead elaim as a soldier on Government land. Reuben died June 18, 1890, and left Burton and Martha L. living in Wilkes-Barre. Bateman went west in 1865 and died in Wisconsin in 1879.
Edward Edgerton, (b. 1754), d. 1819, aged 65. Prudence Edgerton, wife (b. 1767), d. 1857, aged go. Edgerton was born in Ireland, was the kind of Irish ealled in this country Scotch-Irish; eame to Ameriea after he had learned the trade of flax heteheling. He was in our Revolutionary War on the American side and was desperately wounded by having a bayonet thrust through his body at what is called the Massaere of Paoli ; married Prudence Dilley, of New Jersey, lived on his farm behind the Hoover Hill school house, and died there in 1819. They had James; Mary ; Jesse, married Jane Whipple; Ruth, married An- thony Wilkinson ; Richard, married - --. Miller; Elijah, married Rebecca Nagle. Mrs. Edgerton lived at the homestead with one of her sons till she died, very old. The whole family went west about 1865.
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