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David Stoddard was a native of Chesterfield, N. H., and reared eight children, of whom Alpheus married Charlotte Farnsworth, and he also had eight children. His son Marshall W. married Hannah M. Davis, and has three children, Adna B., Elmer E. and Avery J. He was selectman of the town of Newark, and served that town as representative in 1869-70. He has been justice of the peace of this town for ten years, and resides at West Burke.
Eber Howland, son of Eber, has had born to him three children, Charles W., Corilla A. and Alonzo S., and lives in Lyndon. His son Alonzo S. mar- ried Abbie R, daughter of Joseph Cole, and had born to him three children, Nora A., Cora O. and Norman J. Mr. Howland died September 10, 1880, aged forty-nine years. His widow lives in the village of East Burke.
Josiah Harvey was a native of Massachusetts, married Martha Reed, and reared eight children, viz. : Riley, Benjamin, Rufus, Ezra, Orange, Augusta, Marinda and Lorinda. Riley married Amanda Abbott, of St. Johnsbury, and had born to him two children, George and Napoleon. He died in Lyn- don, in 1859, aged fifty-six years. His son Napoleon married Mary L. Coucher, and has four children, namely, Elbert H., Eddie R., Willie A. and Fred E. He lives on a farm on road 60, corner 61. George married Rhoda E. Burt and resides on a farm, on road 55, where he has lived twenty years.
John Harvey, son of Isaiah, a native of Massachusetts, was born in St. Johnsbury, and died in Sutton, Vt., in May, 1857, aged sixty-years. He mar- ried Susan Spaulding, and reared ten children, viz .: Rinaldo, Naham, Nor- man, Betsey, Isabel, George, Miranda, Willie, Lucy and Mary. Rinaldo, who was the first settler on the farm off road 57, where he now resides, mar- ried Jane Aldrich, and has had born to him four children, two of whom are now living, Abbie and Frank C. The latter married Eleanor Smith, has one son, Roland, and resides with his father.
Jonathan Davis was a native of Chesterfield, N. H. Of his ten children, :Osborne married Olive Stoddard, and reared eight children, of whom Eleazer . married twice, first, Dianna Stoddard, who bore him five children, namely, Martin W., Alanson W., Artaresty A., Lurena L. and Maria V. He mar- ried for his second wife Delia E. Babcock, and has had born to him two children, Leroy C. and Frank M. Mr. Davis resides in Burke Hollow.
Curtis Davis, son of Hammond, was born in 1804, married Minerva March,
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and died in Londonderry, Vt., July 30, 1871, aged sixty-seven years. His son Dr. Charles B. married Urania T. Harvey, and has had born to him five children, viz. : Katie A., Charles F. H., Carrie M., Flora N. and Gilbert C .. Dr. Davis graduated from the Medical Eclectic School at Cincinnati, O., and has practiced in Burke and Sutton as a homeopathic physician twenty-seven. years.
Lyman Kinison, a native of Sutton, married Mary N. Bishop. His son. Daniel W. married Lydia L. Bailey, and has six children, Sumner C., Warren, W., Weaver O., Alberto A., Lillian M. and Fred S. Mr. Kinison served in the late war, in Co. A, 11th Vt. Vols., and now lives at West Burke.
Samuel Gaskill, a native of Richmond, N. H., married Nicena Boyce, and his children were as follows : Hannah, Ebenezer, Nicena, Olive, Silas, Rufus and Samuel. The last mentioned came to Waterford when he was fourteen years of age, married Huldah Huntley, and moved to St. Johnsbury, where he died at the age of ninety years. He reared thirteen children, viz. : Jacob, Jason, Jonathan, Samuel, Lorenzo, Nicena, Rufus, Tyler, Dan, who died in the Mexican war, Fanny C., Ansel H., Huldah J. and Silas. The last men- tioned married Pamelia Walter, has one son, Tyler, and lives at Burke Hol- low, on road 28.
Brown Gaskill married Lydia Bundy, and reared nine children. His son Elias B., of this town, married Eliza A. Blake, and has had born to him three- children, Ella B., Elmer H. and Fred C.
Josiah King, a native of Waterboro, Me., married Mary Woodsome, and settled in Canada, where he died at the age of eighty-four years. His son David married, first, Olive Brooks, who bore him five children. He married for his second wife Sarah A. Ricker, and had five children, Eunice, David W., Clarinda, Sarah C. and Theodore E. Mr. King died in Danville at an ad- vanced age. His widow lives in this town on road 30, with her son Theodore. David W., of Burke Hollow, married Lucy E. Dunsire, and has three chil- dren, Katie, Louis and Leon. He is a pensioner of the late war, served in Co. E, 15th Vt. Vols., and also in Co. D, 9th Vt. Vols.
John Colby, son of Daniel, married Lydia Powers, of Lyndon, and reared. six children, viz. : Marcellus L., Newell S., Amanda, Mandeville, Ellen and Meigs, who was formerly proprietor of Trull's Hotel, Marcellus L. married Harvilla H. Bugbee, and lives in the village of West Burke. He served in the late war, in Co. D, 4th Vt. Vols., and lost his arm at the battle of Fredericks- burg. Newell S. married Adaline Harris, has two children, Harris and Annie M., and lives in the village of West Burke, where he has lived twenty-five years.
Elijah Otis was born in Barrington, N. H., June 10, 1749, was a Revolu- tionary soldier, married Sally Chesley, and died April 8, 1838. His son Paul was born in Barrington, March 28, 1777, married Mary Foss, in July, 1798. His son Joseph Y. married Judith Chesley, and had born to him eleven children, of whom Joseph P. married Alice C. Campbell, and now resides at .
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West Burke. He graduated from Dartmouth college, in 1872, taught school four years, read law at St. Johnsbury, with Hon. W. P. Smith, and has prac- ticed law in Burke for six years. He has been superintendent of schools for five years, and is now county commissioner and notary public.
Daniel Kimball, a Revolutionary soldier, married Polly Stephens, and reared eleven children. His son Jesse married Susan Dustin, and reared five children. He died in Newark, in 1857, aged fifty-eight years. His son James S. married Louise M. Field, and has two children, Henry J. and Angeline L. The latter married Esdras D. Burns, and has eight children, viz. : Henry E., Laura L., Albert J., Eddie E., Willie J., Frank D., Robert B. and Florence M.
Amasa Harris moved to Lyndon in 1815, was among the early settlers of that town, and was the first permanent settler on the farm where Amasa O. Harris now resides. He married Ruth Tarbox, and reared five children, namely, Joseph E, Amasa O., Helen M., Ann E. and Charles A. He died in 1848, aged fifty-six years. Charles A. lived in Derby twenty years, where he was engaged as a merchant, and then came to East Burke. He married Euphemia R. Blake, has two children, Charles E. and Mary E., and has been a general merchant here for nineteen years, and postmaster the same length of time. He served as town representative in 1874-75.
Joseph H. Dwinell was a native of Keene, N. H., was twice married, and reared six children. His son Joseph E. married Eliza N. Bean, and had eight children, of whom Fred E. graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont, at Burlington, and is now a physician and sur- geon at East Burke. He married Hattie F. Grow, and has one daughter, Maud E.
Benjamin Streeter, a native of Royalston, Mass., served in the Revolution- ary war, married Susanna Morse, reared six children, and died on Long. Island about 1846, aged about ninety years. His son Samuel married Sarah Richardson, and reared seven children. His son William R. married three times, first, Corilla C. Hall, who bore him three children, namely, Harley H., of New Mexico, William S., cashier of the Merchants' National Bank, at St. Johnsbury, and Corilla C., who lives in St. Johnsbury. He married for his second wife Arabella Kibby, and for his third wife Amelia H. Hoffman.
Levi Lowell, son of Peter, who served in the Revolutionary war, married Ruth Bruce, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and reared six children, namely, Cyrus B., Roselle A., Phebe, Lovina, Susan M. and Amos H. The last men- tioned married Isabell M. Little, has one daughter, Matilda, and resides in the village of East Burke.
Cleveland Stafford, a native of Plattsburg, N. Y., served in the war of 1812, and also in the Mexican war, and died at Plattsburg at the great age of 102 years. His children were as follows : Rowland, David, Cornelius, who is living at the age of ninety-five years, Cleveland, Rebecca, Mary, Eliza, Lucina and Col. Peleg. The last mentioned was forty-six years in the U. S.
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regular army, married for his second wife Lucinda Montey, and reared fifteen children. One son, James P., came to Burke in 1866, married Mary Emer- son, and has eleven children, viz .: Laura, William, John, Katie, Lorenzo, Mary, Mabel, Annie, Scott W., Celia and Murray. He served in the late war, in Co. D, 16th N. Y. Vols., and Co. K, 56th Mass. Vols. He is a blacksmith, and resides in the village of East Burke.
Thomas Fairbrother was a native of England, came to New Hampshire in 1790, and reared five children. His son William married Lucy Wilson and reared seven children, of whom Thomas came to Burke in 1865, married Ke- ziah Willey, who bore him nine children, viz .: Mary A., William, Lucy, Amasa, Edson, Myron, Ellen, Addie I., and Charles W. He married for his second wife Eleanor C. Hoffman, and resides at East Burke.
Theophilus Drew married Dorothy Pease and reared eight children, viz .: Theophilus, Samuel, Joseph, Gilman, Holeman, Sally, Dorothy and Betsey. Samuel married Mary Burt, served in the war of 1812, and had born to him twelve children, viz .: Samuel, Thomas, Mary, Theophilus, Milton, and Abel, now deceased, and George, Warren, Holman, Leroy, Susanna and Melvina. His widow still survives him, and is eighty-one years of age. Her son Thomas J. served in Co. A, 10th Vt. Vols., and was killed at the battle of Cold Har- bor, June 3, 1864.
John Ayer was born January 29, 1767, married twice, first, Polly Silver, who bore him seven children. He married for his second wife Abigail Gage, and died November 9, 1854. His son James married Aurilla Coe, and of his six children Loren C. married Carrie E. Hubbard, and resides at East Burke.
Isaac Whitney was born in Springfield, Vt., June 3, 1779, married Polly Fairbanks, and reared eleven children. He died in Elmore, June 13, 1858. . His son Henry married Harriet Sinnott, lives on road 38, in this town, and has had born to him two children, William H., who died in 1872, aged twenty- four years, and Mary E., who married William F. Brown, and has one child, William H. She lives with her father in East Burke.
Moses Gage, son of Isaac, was born in Orford, N. H., and was the first settler on a farm in this town where he died January 10, 1854, aged fifty-nine years. He married Polly Smith, and reared six children, viz. : Horace W., Arabella, Henry, Richard, Asa B. and Isaac. The last mentioned married Lovina L. Burrington, has one daughter, Allie, and resides on road 52. His mother survives her husband, who served in the war of 1812, is ninety years of age, and draws a pension.
Alexander Frasier, a native of Scotland, came to America with General Frasier, and served in the Revolutionary war. He moved to Barnet soon after the close of the war, but finally moved to Lyndon where he died at the age of forty two years. He reared four children, of whom Alexander married Roxana Leach, and reared eight children. His son Curtis married Sally Seaver, who bore him four children, namely, Zelotes A., Gilman, Luther T.,
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and Ada L. R. He married for his second wife Mrs. Sarah J. Jenkins, who had three children by her first husband, namely, Clarence W., Mertie I. and Elbert H. Mr. Frasier has one daughter by his second marriage, Elvira A., and lives in this town on a farm on road 52.
Benjamin Foster, a native of Oakham, Mass., moved to Essex county about 1815, and after about twenty years moved to the State of New York, where he died at the age of seventy years. Zadok, one of his eight children, married Jane Goodall. His children were John H., Seth B. and Charles W. He lived in Lunenburg, where he died, aged eighty years. Charles W. married first, Diana Hill, and second, Martha Hill. He resides in East Burke, on road 38.
Charles Phillips, son of Eri, of Hadley, Mass., came to this town in 1857, married Mary A. Jenks, and has four children, namely, Etta, Sarah, Hattie and Carroll. He served in the late war, in Co. E, 15th Vt. Vols., and also in Co. E, 9th Vt. Vols. His daughter Etta married Edward E. Phillips and has four children, Oscar, Henry, Wendall and Willie.
Laban Morrill, of Canterbury, N. H., married a Miss Ames. Abner, one of his six children, moved to Wheelock about 1775, where he remained until his death, aged eighty-four years. He married Mary Carpenter and reared ten children. His son Luther married Cynthia Ladd, has two children, Henry C. and Erastus F., and resides on a farm on road 38.
Jonathan Hunter was born in Royalston, N. H., settled in Concord. Vt., where he lived forty years, and then moved to Lyndon, where he died at the age of eighty-four years. He married Lucy Fry, and reared fourteen children. His son James was born in Concord, January 20, 1802, moved to Lyndon, married Phebe Miner, and reared six children. He died in Lyndon, aged sixty-eight years. His son Stephen W. married Emeline I .. Pierce, and has five children, as follows: Ida A., Eugene, Mark, Fred and George. He resides on road 53.
Isaac Drown was a native of Sheffield, Vt., served in the Revolutionary war, married Rebecca Fuller, and had born to him four children. His son Welcome married Sarah J. Gates, of Danville, and has had born to him seven children, one of whom, Charles W., resides with him on a farm on road 53.
Jefferson J. Bishop, son of Jonathan, married Mary Ann Allard, who bore him nine children. He married for his second wife Calista Cummings, and has three children, Ellsworth, Luther and Linda. Harvey L. G., a son by his first wife, married Lillian Gray, has one daughter, Zana M., and lives at Burke Hollow.
John Bell came to America, from Ireland, served in the French and Indian war, and reared six children. His son William moved to Lunenburg in -1807, and died there September 9, 1850, aged eighty-four years. He married Me- hitable Philbrick, and his children were ten in number, of whom Theron, in 1846, located at Burke Hollow, on road 29, where he now resides. He mar-
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ried first, Caroline Hall, who bore him three children, namely, Laura E., Leonora A. and Mary E. He married for his second wife Mrs. Lydia C. Adams, who had one child by her first husband, Mrs. Jennie L. Sibley. Mr. Bell has been justice of the peace for twelve years, town clerk twelve years, and town treasurer four years.
Stephen Adams was a native of Lunenburg, Vt., where he lived until he was seventy-eight years old, and then moved to West Concord, Vt., where he died in 1872, aged eighty-one years. He married Rhoda Bell, daughter of John. He served in the war of 1812, and his widow, who survives him, draws a pension. . Charles W., of this town, one of his seven children, mar- ried Mary T. Herrick, and has one son, Arthur M., who married Sophronia McCambly, and lives in Dakota.
Nathaniel Batchelder was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and reared ten children, of whom Nathaniel married Susanna Little, and had born to him eleven children. He died in Barry, Vt., September 2, 1860, aged sev- enty-seven years. His son William L. married Elizabeth Story, and has had born to him eight children, viz .: John R., Fanny A:, Mary E., Mattie J., Lucretia A., Clement, Joseph S. and J. Wesley. He lives in this town on road 29.
James Dunsire, son of James and Mary (Rodger) Dunsire, was born at Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America, in 1805, when only seven years of age. He lived in Ryegate, Vt., many years, and finally came to Burke Hol- low, where he died, aged eighty-three years. He married Abigail Page, and reared six children. His son . Josiah married Mary J. Ricker, and had born to him three children, Addie J., Ada M. and Henry J. He lived in Burke Hollow, where he died, January 31, 1884, aged fifty-four years. His widow still resides in town.
Levi Aldrich served in the Revolution. He died May 9, 1818, aged about eighty years. Olney, one of his five children, was born April 29, 1775, mar- ried Mollie Woodard, and had born to him ten children. He died in Lyn- don, July 22, 1865, aged ninety years. His son Isaac W. was born in Rich- mond, N. H., May 8, 1814, married, first, Sophronia Powers, who bore him three children, namely, Henry G., Elizabeth S. and Willard. He married for his second wife Nancy R. Colburn, and lives in this town, on road 14. He lived in Brighton two years, and represented that town in the legislature in 1846.
John Saxby, son of William and Sarah Saxby, was born in England, Septem- ber 25, 1793, came to America, and first located in Bakersfield, Vt., where he remained until his death, October 2, 1879, aged eighty-six years. He married Mary S. Roberts, April 14, 1823, and reared nine children, of whom Parmenas W. came to this town from Bakersfield, in 1872, married Edna C. Snow, and has four children, namely, Viola R., Eddie H., Earl J. and Willie P. He resides on road 29.
Henry Duval, a native of Upton Falls, came to Burke in 1855, married
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Seraphena Labley, and had born to him nine children, of whom Frank mar- ried Louise Coochier, and has one daughter, Alice M. He resides at Burke Hollow, on road 29. Welcome C. Coochier, brother of Mrs. Frank Duval, served in the late war, in Co. B, 11th Vt. Vols.
Jesse Farnham, an early settler of St. Johnsbury, married Mary Collins, and his children were eleven. His son Leandrew came to Burke at the age of seventeen years, married, first, Justina Smith, who bore him three children, and second, Lydia M. Adams, and had born to him two children, George E. and Rhoda B. George married Lillie P. Olcott, and has two children, Nina M. and Minnie A. Leandrew served in the late.war, in Co. A, 11th Vt. Vols., and died in Andersonville prison in 1864, aged forty-one years. His widow married for her second husband Nathaniel Olcott, who died in 1883, aged sixty-eight years. She now resides on road 28.
Arnold Cummings, a native of Wells River, Vt., married Malinda Willie, and reared eight children. He died in Westmore, Vt., in October, 1882, aged seventy-two years. His son Hiram R. married, first, Amanda C. Mar- shall, who died August 11, 1879, and second, Mrs. Irene E. W. Forest. He lives in West Burke. Mrs. Cummings's first husband was Silas Forest, who served in the late war, in Co. I, 3d Vt. Vols., and died in Andersonville prison, August 27, 1864, aged thirty-one years. They had two children, Lauristine I. and Lunetta I.
Thomas Shannon, an Irishman, settled in Derby Center, Vt., married Lizzie Fitzgerald, and had born to him two children, Dennis and John. He died at the age of seventy-two years. John married Mary Haley, located in West Charleston, Vt., and reared seven children, viz. : John, Mary, William, Har- riet, George, Fred and James A. The last mentioned lives at West Burke.
Robert Porter came to Burke about 1835, settled on the farm where S. S. Whitcher now lives, but finally moved to Waterford, where he died in 1845, aged about seventy years. He married Persis Perry, and had six children. His son Robert P. married Abigail Hutchinson, and had born to him four children, namely, Perry, Mary and Martha, twins, and Lyman. Perry married Electra V. Trull, and his four children, viz .: Fred T., Nellie A., David E. and Grace M. He served in the late war, in Co. K, 8th Vt. Vols., and now resides in West Burke, where he is engaged as a merchant.
Luther Bolton married Julia Hooker and reared five children. His son Plynn, who resides in Peacham, married, first, Phebe Wesson, who bore him one son, George W., and second, Martha McCloud, and has had born to him two children, Mary and Gertrude. George W. graduated from Harvard col- lege, married Ida L. Coe, and is engaged as a physician and surgeon at West Burke.
William J. Berry was born in Sheffield, Vt., came to Burke in 1882, and is now a retired lumberman. He married Mary J. Johnson, and had born to him eight children, viz. : Alfred and Sophia, now dead, Darling, Clarence M., Curtis J., Charles F., William N. and Flora M. William N. married Emily
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Carpenter, has one child, Carrie E. He has resided in West Burke twenty years. He is a conductor on the Passumpsic railroad.
Abner H. Cobleigh, son of John, was a native of Chesterfield, N. H. He moved to Sutton about 1810, where he remained until his death in 1868, aged about eighty years. He married Abigail Herrick, and reared twelve children, of whom Justin located on a farm in Sutton about 1844, remained there nearly forty years, and came to the village of West Burke in 1883. He- married, first, Lucy T. Joy, who bore him one son, Harlan W., who lives at West Burke, and second, Mrs. Adaline Coe. The latter's first husband was. Nelson Coe, and their children were David A., Adaline A. and Flora J.
John Sleeper was a native of Unity, N. H., moved to Newark as one of the early settlers, in 1808, and died there March 7, 1860, aged about seventy-six years. His son Lewis located in Burke, married Abigail Powers, and had born to him six children. He died in 1869, aged sixty-one years. His son Mortimer L. graduated from Dartmouth college in 1875, and is now a phy- sician and surgeon at West Burke, residing with his widowed mother.
John McNeal, an early settler of Sheffield, locating there about 1807, mar- ried Fanny Clark, and reared twelve children. He died in this town, aged about eighty years. His son Jacob, born in April, 1808, married Deborah Allen, and has had eight children, viz .: Sarah R., Alwilda A., Mary E., Aurilla A., Lo- renzo C., Lucina A., Lillie I. and Lorenzo H. who died in 1878. His wife died in May, 1880, at the age of sixty five years. He has lived in Burke thirty-three years, has been engaged in the manufacture of starch with great success, has been selectman three years, justice of the peace six years, and tax collector one year.
Jacob Sulloway was one of the early settlers of Wheelock, where he died in 1857, aged about eighty years. Of his six children, John married Martha. Otis, and had two children, Mary A. and Jacob J. The former married James K. Varney, who served in the late war, in Co. H, 6th N. H. Vols., and. died in 1876, aged forty years. Their children were Ella, Alice and Cyrus. Jacob J. is a harnessmaker, and lives in the village of West Burke.
Erasmus Burt, son of Moses, was born in Walpole, N. H., and came to Burke. about 1825. He married Mary Brewer, and reared four children. Elhanan W., his only son, married Lydia Hall, and lived many years in Sutton, where- he died June 1, 1885, aged seventy-nine years. His son Arunah, born De- cember 22, 1835, married Louise Hartwell, and had born to him two chil- dren, Nelson A. and Nellie S. He served in the late war, in Co. C, 4th Vt. Vols., and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864. His widow survives him. Uri, son of Elhanan W., married Eliza A. Bingham, and has one daughter, Emma L. (Mrs. Herbert R. Ford), who has one daugh- ter, Lottie E.
Sylvester Cleveland married a Miss Baldwin and reared six children. His son Samuel married three times, first, Mary Blake, who bore him ten chil- dren. He married for his second wife Fanny Baldwin, who bore him one
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son, Francis B. He married for his third wife Mary Arnold, of Barnstead, P. Q. Francis B. married, first, Mary Downer, who bore him two children, Francis B. and Calvin, and second, Mary H. Richardson, and has born to him one daughter, Susie A., now deceased. Mr. Cleveland lives at West Burke.
Thomas Townsend married Philinda Beckwith, and his children were as follows : Sumner, Ira, Ann, Lewis S., Rufus E. and Daniel S. He died in 1858, aged seventy-five years. His wife also died in 1858, aged seventy- three years. Daniel S. came to Burke from Reading, Vt., in 1843, engaged as a dry goods merchant, and married, first, Jane Hastings, and second, Martha A., daughter of Curtis and Abigail (Sanborn) Stanford, and has three children, Kat e J. (Mrs. William E. Hudson), of St. Louis, Mo., Ida M., now deceased, and Charles E., of St. Louis. He has served as select- man, and also as town representative. Samuel Stanford, father of Curtis, married Polly Cobleigh in 1800, came to Burke Hollow in 1804, and re- mained here until his death in 1839, aged sixty years. He served as justice of the peace, and was town representative in 1878.
Samuel Silsby, a native of Ackworth, N. H., reared ten children. His son Wendell served in the War of 1812, moved to Lunenburgh, where he died about 1870, aged ninety-two years. He married Susan Blood, and reared nine children. His son Harvey served in the late war, in Co. B, Irth Vt. Vols., and has resided in the village of West Burke sixteen years. He mar- ried Celia Bloss, and has had six children, as follows : Jonas H., of Hartford, Conn., Charles, who served in Co. K, 8th Vt. Vols., William H., who served in Co. K, 8th Vt. Vols, Wendell, who served in Co. B, 11th Vt. Vols., Mary E. (Mrs. Orange C. Spencer), of Westmore, Vt., and Annette.
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