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iii. Olive [7], b. Aug. 29, 1807, Roy .; m. Carlos Dutton.
iv. Jonas G. [7], b. Oct. 25, 1810; d. Oct. 18, 1896; m. Aug. 20, 1840, Rochester, N. Y., Jane Padden.
V. Asa H. [7], b. Mar. 9, 1813, Roy .; d. Aug. 23, 1895; m. Aug. 9, 1837, Mary H. Stanley.
vi. Elon G. [7], b. June 28, 1815; d. July 23, 1897; m. July 20, 1852, Mrs. Helen (Mallett) Beach of Rochester.
vii. Nancy M. [7], b. May 26, 1818; d. Nov. 20, 1892; m. Nov. 17, 1842, Perry, N. Y., Johnathan Russell Griswold.
viii. Levi M. [7], b. Feb. 19, 1820; d. Oct. 18, 1897; m. Sep. 19, 1850, Perry, N. Y., Maria L. Rathbone.
ix. Clarissa E. [7], b. July 29, 1822, Roy .; d. June 28, 1910, Perry, N. Y .; m. Nov. 12, 1846, Castile, N. Y., Columbus P. Andrus, who d. June, 1907. They celebrated both their fiftieth and sixtieth anni- versaries. They spent their last days with their daughter, Gracia, who married Mortimer N. Cole of Castile, N. Y. Mr. Andrus was a mer- chant. Mrs. Andrus was spoken of at the time of her death as a
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woman of rare culture, fearlessly loyal to what she believed to be right. She had also another daughter, Mrs. J. W. Graves of Detroit, Mich.
x. Norman H. [7], b. Feb. 5, 1825, Roy .; d. Oct. 6, 1898; m. (1) Oct. 16, 1855, Perry, Adeline Calkins; m. (2) Jan. 6, 1876, Eva Sherman.
3. OEL [6] BILLINGS, son of John [5], b. Apr. 18, 1788, Roy .; d. Nov. 29, 1871, Woodstock; m. Mar. 13, 1817, Sophia, dau. Jason and Sophia (Farwell) Wetherbe, b. Mar. 25, 1796; d. May 1, 1870, on her way to Washington. She was a grand- daughter of Capt. Isaac Farwell, a soldier of the Revolution.
Oel Billings held the highest offices in the gift of the town, representing it in the legislature in 1825. He was a farmer and merchant in Royalton until 1835, when he removed to Wood- stock. He was prominently identified with the social, educa- tional, and religious interests of the town. i. Edward Horatio [7], b. Apr. 6, 1818, Charlestown, N. H .; d. May 8, 1844, Baltimore, Md., while attending a Nat. Convention; unm .; grad. of the U. V. M., 1837; studied law with O. P. Chandler of Woodstock, and admitted to the bar 1837; formed partnership with Mr. Chandler.
ii. Laura [7], b. Mar. 9, 1820, Roy .; d. Apr. 24, 1849; while on the way to San Francisco contracted fever, and was attacked with it on reaching Oregon; m. March 16, 1845, Capt. Bezer Simmons, who d. Sep. 25, 1850; no ch.
iii. Charles Jason [7], b. Apr. 23, 1822, Roy .; m. Sep. 19, 1844, Sarah, dau. Abial Towne, b. Apr. 27, 1827; two ch .: (a) Frederick Towne [8], b. Jan. 17, 1858, Fitchburg, Mass .; (b) Charles Towne [8], b. Feb. 27, 1863, Fitchburg, Mass .; grad. at Harvard, 1884.
iv. Frederick [7], b. Sep. 27, 1823, Roy .; d. Sep. 30, 1890; m. Mar. 30, 1862, New York City, Julia, dau. Dr. Eleazer Parmley of New York.
A sketch of the Hon. Frederick Billings is found in the chapter on "Celebrities."
Children: (a) Parmley [8], b. Feb. 6, 1863, San Francisco, Cal .; d. May 7, 1888; grad. at Amherst, 1884; (b) Laura [8], b. Aug. 20, 1864, Woodstock; (c) Frederick, [8], Jr., b. Dec. 23, 1866, Woodstock; d. Sep. 30, 1890; (d) Mary Montagu [8], b. Mar. 5, 1869, Woodstock; (e) Elizabeth [8], b. Jan. 3, 1871, Woodstock; (f) Ehrick [8], b. Oct. 17, 1872, Woodstock; (g) Richard [8], b. Jan. 31, 1875, Woodstock. v. Sophia Farwell [7], b. Nov. 1, 1826, Roy .; m. Dec. 21, 1853, Roy., Goldsmith Bailey Fox, Fitchburg, Mass., b. July 17, 1823; d. May 8, 1862; representative to Congress at time of death; she m. (2) Dec. 28, 1876, Rodney Wallace, Esq., of Fitchburg. One ch. by Mr. Bailey, Ed- ward Goldsmith [8], b. Dec. 19, 1857; grad. at Dartmouth, 1879.
vi. Franklin Noble [7], b. Mar. 8, 1829, Roy .; d. Dec. 11, 1894; m. Mar. 8, 1859, Nancy Hitch, dau. Jireh Swift of New Bedford, Mass .; ch .: (a) Franklin Swift [8], b. May 11, 1862, New Bedford; grad. at Harvard, 1885. Franklin, Sen., was a merchant in Woodstock.
vii. Richard Oel [7], b. Jan. 6, 1831, Roy .; d. Oct. 27, 1854, from injuries received by being run over by a construction train on the Illinois Central Railroad; unm.
viii. Elizabeth Sprague [7], b. Sep. 13, 1833, Roy .; d. Aug. 8, 1905; m. Sep. 14, 1853, George W. Allen, a merchant, who d. May 11, 1864, Woodstock; one ch., (a) Charles Billings [8], b. Oct. 7, 1862; d. Mar. 18, 1863.
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ix. Oliver Phelps Chandler [7], b. Sep. 21, 1836, Woodstock; d. Jan. 9, 1894, New York; m. Nov. 24, 1868, Charlotte Lane, b. Paris, France, Dec. 6, 1842. He was a grad. from the U. V. M., 1857, ad- mitted to the bar 1860; received the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. from Harvard, 1860; practiced in Boston; alderman-at-large, New York, 1873- 76.
The Billings family dates back to the time of Henry III, and one of its distinguished members was a Lord Chief Justice of England. William [1] is said to have been one of the original proprietors of Lan- caster, Mass., but removed to Stonington, Conn.
BINGHAM FAMILY.
1. THOMAS BINGHAM [4] (Gideon [3], Joseph [2], Thomas [1]), b. July 14, 1742, Plainfield, Conn .; d. Sep. 23, 1823, Royalton; m. 1766, Marcy, dau. John House, Lebanon, N. H., b. Oct. 10, 1747, Hebron, Conn .; d. Sep. 10, 1812, Royal- ton.
The Bingham family is of English descent. Thomas of Sheffield, England, was one of the Saybrook colony, 1660. Thomas emigrated from Conn. to Lebanon, N. H. In 1778 he was one of the signers to a petition dated at Hanover, N. H., asking for a grant of Bethel, and was probably then a resident of Lebanon. He left his family in Lebanon in 1784, and came to Royalton to take possession of Dutch 13, which he had bought of Tilly Park- hurst March 22. He returned to Lebanon for his family the next spring, and brought them back on horseback. This new home has remained in the family until the present time, being now owned by his grandson, Harry Bingham.
Mr. Bingham was no land speculator, but in a few years he had acquired a handsome competence by downright hard work, energy, and good calculation. In 1812 his grand list was ex- ceeded by only one other taxpayer in town, and he led all in the number of improved acres of land, then having sixty-five.
He was a Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War, serv- ing in the battles of Brandywine, Princeton, Monmouth, and wintering at Valley Forge in 1777-78. Lafayette in a visit to Royalton said of him in a public address, "I see before me two of my much respected officers, Lieut. Bosworth and Lieut. Bing- ham."
During the war he was often employed as recruiting officer, because of his power to attract men by his fine singing. He was of small stature, but his family inherited their large statures from the mother's side, the House family.
Gideon, the father of Thomas, is said to have owned the land on which the city of Philadelphia is built.
* i. Cynthia [5], b. Oct. 10, 1767; m. Joseph Rix.
ii. Polly [5], b. Dec. 22, 1768; m. Nov., 1785, Samuel Tilden of Lebanon, N. H., and settled in New York. Their son, William, founded Tilden Seminary at Lebanon.
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* iii. Lucy [5], b. July 18, 1770, Lebanon, Conn .; m. Jonathan Coy.
iv. Thomas [5], b. Mar. 18, 1792. Went to New York State and m. a Miss Galusha, by whom he had two children, Calista and Daniel G. The son became a lawyer, practicing in Ellicottsville, N. Y., and served as Colonel in the Civil War.
v. Cary [5], b. Dec. 31, 1774; m. Dec. 31, 1805, Anna Ladd of Sharon; d. Mar. 26, 1815, Royalton, without issue. He was the first person buried in the Havens cemetery. His widow married a Curtis in Tunbridge, probably Elias, Jr., as his second wife.
vi. Eleazer [5], b. Jan. 31, 1777. He was a physician, and settled in Batavia, N. Y.
2. vii. William [5], b. Apr. 18, 1779.
viii. Sally [5], b. May 13, 1781; d. Apr. 13, 1847, unm. Sally remained at home caring for her parents, of whom her father said in his will, that she had been unremitting in rendering the evening of his life comfortable. After the death of her parents, she kept house for her brother, Harry, until her decease.
ix. Simon [5], b. Feb. 15, 1784, Lebanon, N. H., (?); m. Feb. 17, 1812, Royalton, Dolly, dau. Capt. Joseph and Miriam Parkhurst, b. Aug. 26, 1785, Royalton; a dau., Marcy House, b. May 22, 1813. Simon was a carpenter and joiner. He was not listed after 1814.
3. x. Harry [5], b. Aug. 6, 1786, Royalton.
xi. Betsey [5], b. Feb. 10, 1789, Royalton; m. - Janes; ch .: Thomas, Timothy, Henry, Edwin, Lucy, Adeline. The only grandchild is a son of Edwin, Dr. George Janes of Springfield, Mass. All are dead but Lucy. Betsey used to boast in her old age that never a Bingham was round-shouldered.
4. xii. Gideon [5], b. Feb. 10, 1789, Royalton.
2. WILLIAM BINGHAM [5], son of Thomas [4], b. Apr. 18, 1779; d. July 12, 1857, Royalton; m. (1) May 28, 1801, Roy- alton, Olive, dau. Daniel and Ann (Readington) Havens, b. Sep. 27, 1781, Royalton; d. Aug. 29, 1819, Royalton; m. (2) Pamelia, dau. Jesse and Patty (Howard) Ames, b. Aug. 10, 1801, Fair- lee; d. Apr., 1873, Randolph. She m. (2) Dec. 21, 1864, Joel B. Thayer of Randolph, b. 1796.
Capt. William Bingham served in the militia of the state for several years as a young man, and in the War of 1812 he was commissioned as Captain of the 2nd Co., 3d Regt. He was a carpenter by trade. He first lived in a brick house at "Pierce's Mill," but sold, and bought the Austin Adams house, where he lived and died. He was one of the prominent men of the town. i. Daniel Havens [6], b. Feb. 20, 1802, Royalton; d. 1867, Ala. No record of his first marriage; at the time of the Civil War he had three living children; a dau., Mrs. Miller, living in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Alden, who was a Lieutenant in the Southern army, and so dis- owned by his father, and Celia, who m. an officer of the Regular Army, and went to Cal. He m. a few years previous to the war Sallie Cren- shaw, a Southern sympathizer.
He was one of the first year students of Norwich Military School. After his graduation he went to Baltimore, Md., and organized a similar school there, which he taught for some years. Later he went to Ala., and became editor of the Athens Herald. He was living in Athens at the outbreak of the war, and being a strong Union man, he suffered
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persecution, a price was set upon his head, and he was forced to come North because he would not take the oath of allegiance to the Con- federacy. He was given some position at West Point. He was a man of strong will, and it is said that in his last sickness, he vowed he would not die.
* ii. Mary Ann [6], b. Sept. 10, 1804, Royalton; d. Mar. 25, 1890, Hinckley, Ill .; m. Oct. 30, 1822, Royalton, Coit Parkhurst.
iii. William Readington [6], b. Aug. 10, 1809, Royalton; d. Aug. 12, 1843. Lived in New York.
iv. Henry [6], b. Royalton; d. May 7, 1825, aged 17 mos.
v. George Ames [6], b. Royalton; d. 1872, Braintree; m. Jan. 27, 1861, Abbie, dau. Ira and Abigail (Knight) Mudgett of Tunbridge. One son, Willie Burnside [7], b. Dec. 23, 1861; d. in Braintree.
vi. Olive A. [6], b. 1831, Royalton; d. Apr. 26, 1846.
3. HARRY BINGHAM [5], son of Thomas [4], b. Aug. 6, 1786; d. Feb. 23, 1862, Royalton; m. Jan. 27, 1850, Marcia Louisa, dau. Reuben and Betsey (Smith) Dodge, b. Mar. 26, 1824, Tunbridge; d. Nov. 18, 1904, Royalton.
Captain Harry, so-called because he was Captain of the Home Guards, was a Sergeant in the militia company of which his brother William was Captain, which marched from Royalton to Burlington in the War of 1812. He began service as a militia- man in early youth. He remained on the old homestead, and became one of the most successful farmers which the town has ever produced. He was active in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the town, and held nearly all the offices of the town. He was an ardent Whig, and he was elected by that party in 1844 to a seat in the Legislature. His son has the notification of his nomination :
"Royalton, Aug. 28, 1844.
Capt. Harry Bingham
Sir, The whigs of this town have this day unanimously nomi- nated you as their candidate for town Representative in the Vermont Legislature for 1844.
In behalf of the whigs of this town I give you this information. I remain, sir, with much respect,
Your Obt. Ser't D. C. DENISON, Secretary."
Twice before he had represented the town, 1828-29. He was sixty-three years old when he married a woman thirty-seven years his junior. Five children were born from this marriage, the youngest being born a few months after his death.
He was a noted singing master, and for years was choir leader in the Congregational church at Royalton village, sing- ing and playing the violin. He was popular as a peace-maker and referee in disputes. He was accustomed to make trips to Boston every winter with a sled load of dressed meat and other farm produce, bringing back groceries and provisions. He was one of the original stock owners of the Vermont Central R. R., and lost many thousands of dollars in the failure of the first
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enterprise. He was a fine representative of Vermont's best farmers. He was pensioned Apr. 4, 1846, at the rate of $4.00 a month, being then sixty-nine years old. i. Lucy Ann [6], b. Feb. 18, 1851, Royalton; d. Feb. 2, 1899, Royalton; m. Jan. 4, 1870, John P., son Sylvester and Caroline (Pres- ton) Howe, b. Mar. 16, 1839, Tunbridge; d. Dec. 10, 1871, Roy. Children: Ida May [7], b. May 25, 1871, Tunbridge; m. Aug. 9, 1892, Amos J. Eaton. (See Eaton).
Lucy Ann was educated in Royalton Academy, and taught school until her marriage. Her home then was in Tunbridge on the farm later owned by her brother-in-law, Charles Howe, and still later, by Walter K. Howe. After her husband's death she removed to the Harry Bingham homestead, where she lived until her death.
ii. Alma Jane [6] b. Dec. 15, 1852, Royalton; m. Oct. 16, 1889, John Asaph, son Asaph and Roxana (Wight) Button, b. July 28, 1844, Royalton; d. Mar. 25, 1906, Roy .; bur. E. Bethel.
iii. Harry Augustus [6], b. Apr. 15, 1856; m. Sep. 30, 1890, May Susan, dau. William and Emogene Irene (Bryant) Lovejoy, b. Nov. 10, 1868, Granville. He is a successful farmer on the old Bingham homestead. Children: (a) Harry Earl [7], b. July 5, 1891; grad. from the South Royalton High School, 1909; (b) Mildred Lovejoy [7], b. Feb. 14, 1898; d. Apr. 20, 1898; (c) Ruth Alma [7], b. July 26, 1899; (d) Raymond Thomas [7], b. Oct. 20, 1902.
iv. William Albert [6], b. Mar. 30, 1859, Royalton; m. Dec. 8, 1891, Leona Estella, dau. Danforth and Harriet A. (Parkhurst) Day, b. Aug. 11, 1867, Barre. Res. So. Royalton. Ch .: (a) Vera May [7], b. Oct. 11, 1894, Lowell, Mass .; (b) Annie Lucile [7], b. Feb. 27, 1904, Royalton.
v. George Leslie [6], b. July 25, 1862, Roy .; m. Oct. 21, 1884, Strafford, Ozema Almeda, dau. Joseph and Delia (Farnham) Ross, b. Feb. 14, 1863, Strafford. Res. So. Royalton. No. ch.
4. GIDEON BINGHAM [5], son of Thomas [4], b. Mar. 30, 1791, Royalton; d. June 27, 1865, Roy .; m. Nov. 17, 1822, Castleton, Almeda, dau. James and Katherine (Clifford) Strong, b. Dec. 20, 1799, Hartford; d. Sep. 10, 1862, Royalton.
Gideon was educated in Royalton academy and Randolph Grammar school, and taught school many years, both before and after his marriage. He taught much in his own district, No. 2, and it is told of him that he used to carry his little daughter to school on his back. He was a fine penman, and taught writing school in this town and in other places.
In 1844 he bought the original Nathaniel Morse homestead, which was settled before the Indians burned the town. In Octo- ber, 1851, the house was struck by lightning. The family and some relatives were visiting in the kitchen, and the son, James Gideon, ten years old, weary with work, was lying behind the stove with his head on a pillow. The lightning passing through the house threw Gideon, the father, from his chair and broke his leg, leaving the chair in splinters; the dents made by the chair can still be seen on the floor. The bricks of the chimney were thrown off, every glass in the windows of the kitchen broken,
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boards piled up in a shed tossed rods away, and the building set on fire. No one was injured except the two mentioned, Gideon, and his son James. The clothing of the little boy was torn off, and the flesh on one side of his chest literally burned off, leav- ing the ribs bare, but he still breathed, though there was no hope of his recovery. As he told the story, the return to consciousness was like nightmare, in which he tried to speak, but for a long time was unable to do so. He was moved on a sheet for three months, but finally he recovered his usual health. Scientists from a long distance came to see the damage done, as the course of the lightning seemed to be upward, instead of downward, as indicated by the wreckage.
i. Sally Jane [6], b. Jan. 31, 1824, Royalton; d. Oct. 25, 1841.
ii. Marcia Annette [6], b. Feb. 3, 1839, Roy .; m. Hiram Gilbert of Clarksville, Ia., by whom she had four ch .; after his death she mar- ried again; no issue; she d. Mar., 1897.
iii. Gideon [6], b. Aug. 20, 1840, Roy .; d. the next day.
iv. James Gideon [6], b. Oct. 2, 1841, Roy .; d. May 16, 1910, Roy .; m. Dec. 1, 1863, Betsey Ann, dau. David Wickham and Clarissa (Tarbell) Cowdery, b. Oct. 16, 1841, Tunbridge; d. Aug. 13, 1910, Roy. He settled on the old homestead, where his first child was born. After his father's death, he rem. to Clarksville, Ia .; at the end of five years ret. and bought the Thomas Broughton farm, where his second child was born. Some years later he removed to the Cowdery homestead in So. Royalton, which he owned with his daughter Clarissa. He was a farmer and milk dealer. Ch .: (a) Clarissa Almeda [7], b. Sep. 23, 1864, Roy .; grad. in 1885 from the Salem, Mass., State Normal, and has been teaching in Salem ever since; (b) Mollie Augusta [7], b. May 26, 1878, Roy .; m. Nov. 25, 1908, Ned Kimball, son Caleb and Adnah (Colby) Loverin, b. May 3, 1878, Croyden, N. H., where they reside on the old Loverin homestead. She grad. from Salem, Mass., High School, and trained as a nurse in the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, N. H., from which she grad. 1906. She was eminently successful as nurse until her marriage.
(The larger part of the Bingham family record was obtained through the painstaking labor of Mrs. Ida May (Howe) Eaton).
BLACK FAMILY.
CHARLES EPHRAIM BLACK, son of Charles Wright and Persis (Randall) Black, and grandson of Zenas and Beulah (Wright) Black, b. Oct. 7, 1847, Saxtons River ; m. Apr. 5, 1870, E. Barnard, Delia Louisa, dau. Isaac and Louisa Elizabeth (Swift) Graves, b. Aug. 29, 1844, E. Barnard; no ch.
A sketch of Mr. Black is given in Chapter XLI. When he came to S. Royalton in 1891, his father came with him, and re- mained here until his death, June 25, 1905. Charles, Sen., was born in Augusta, Me., Jan. 5, 1814. He lived in Westminster, Saxtons River, and E. Barnard. In E. Barnard he had a black- smith shop for many years. Besides his son Charles, he had two daughters, Mary, who married J. O. Belknap, and Jennie, b.
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June 12, 1855, E. Barnard, who married Munroe, son of Levi Belknap, a brother of Seymour. Her daughter, Lottie, served as clerk in Belknap's store in S. Royalton several years, and is at present residing here.
BLAKE FAMILY.
HORATIO K. BLAKE, son of Greenleaf and Charlotte Blake, b. Sep. 3, 1808, Hill, N. H .; d. Mar. 20, 1864, Roy .; m. (1) July 14, 1833, Jane Seavey, who d. May 16, 1837; m. (2) Sep. 16, 1838, Sanbornton, N. H., Rebecca, dau. Cyrus and (Woodbury) Berkley of Franklin, N. H., b. Feb. 5, 1816, Pier- mont, N. H .; d. May 30, 1896, Roy.
Mr. Blake was the first station agent and postmaster in S. Royalton, and held the positions until failing health compelled him to resign. This record is a good indication of his worth and standing in the community.
i. William Francis, b. Sep. 28, 1834, Hill, N. H .; d. Mar. 27, 1876, Minneapolis, Minn .; m. Julia Lyman, b. May 18, 1840; d. June 7, 1892; ch .: (a) Gertrude.
ii. Henry Seavey, b. May 6, 1837, Hill; d. May 21, 1883, Minn .; m. Harriet Roberts; ch .: (a) Fred A., b. June 24, 1859.
iii. Horatio Cate, b. May 6, 1837, Hill, N. H .; d. Feb. 23, 1895, Roy .; m. May 2, 1865, Rosaline M. Slack of Norwich; ch .: (a) Agnes Maria, b. Aug. 11, 1866, Roy .; (b) Albert C., b. Sep. 16, 1868; m. June 18, 1893, Lena J. Abbott of Barnard, dau. Albert and Mary (Gibbs) Ab- bott; ch .: (i) Bert Lester, b. May 28, 1894, Barnard. Albert C. has resided in town twenty-five years of his life, and with his mother is a present resident. Horatio C. was in the Civil War.
iv. Cyrus Oscar, b. June 24, 1839; m. Luella Ellsworth; one son; res. Carthage, Mo. In the Civil War in the Navy.
v. Charles Greenleaf, b. Sep. 21, 1841; d. Apr. 12, 1876, Rio Janeiro, Brazil; m. Feb. 7, 1867, Roy., Mary, dau. David W. and Clarissa (Tarbell) Cowdery, b. in Tunbridge; no ch. Res. at time of marriage in Manchester, N. H. In the Civil War he enlisted in Co. F, 34th Mass. Went as a private, and came out 1st Lieut. He was offered a captain's commission to go into the Regular Army. Only three of the original members of the 34th Regt. came out at end of service. He was tele- graph operator at Manchester, N. H., and manager for Gamewell & Co., N. Y., introducing a system of fire alarm, then considered the best. Took the agency for Brazil, but after a residence there of a year, was attacked with yellow fever and died. He possessed unusual business ability, and force of character.
vi. Launcelot Kelly, b. Sep. 10, 1843, Hill, N. H .; killed Apr. 2, 1870, on the railroad, Woodstock station; unm .; in the Civil War in the cavalry.
vii. Eugene Berkley, b. Dec. 5, 1845; m. (1) Clara Hayward of Greenfield, Mass .; ch .: (a) Edith, (b) Mabel, (c) Eugene; m. (2) Mina Mason of Hartwellsville, by whom he has four ch., one son, Ralph. He is a coal dealer in Greenfield, Mass., entrusted with important town offices, chairman of Franklin County Mass., Commissioners. In Civil War, as sutler, with uncle, Capt. Rundlett.
viii. Dom Woodbury, b. Mar. 28, 1848, Hill, N. H .; m. Jan. 2, 1871, Edna, dau. George W. and Sarah (Mosher) Chillson, b. Feb. 17,
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1855; ch .: (a) Glenn M., b. June 5, 1874, Lebanon, N. H .; m. Nov. 5, 1895, Lizzie, dau. Daniel Parkhurst of Sharon; ch .: (i) Dom Daniel, b. Mar. 25, 1901, St. Albans. Mr. D. Blake resides on the place where Daniel Rix lived in 1780. In Civil War, in Navy.
ix. Edric Tarbell, b. June 16, 1851, Roy. (?); d. Feb. 28, 1852. X. Edric Augustus, b. Feb. 15, 1853, S. Roy .; m. Effie Niles of Charlemont, Mass .; no ch .; res., Shenandoah, Va.
xi. Alice Belle, b. June 20, 1855, S. Roy .; m. Feb. 25, 1891, Charles, son Arthur and Abbie (Lord) Daggett, b. June 24, 1869, Mor- gan; d. Jan. 13, 1910, S. Roy .; no ch. Mr. Daggett was a member of Rising Sun Masonic Lodge, Modern Woodmen, and White River Grange. He ran a fish cart and had a small store in S. Roy. He was character- ized by kindliness of heart and a cheerful disposition. Mrs. Daggett has long been a member of the M. E. church choir.
xii. Mattie Grace, b. July 14, 1857; m. June 13, 1878, Frank W., son George W. and Charlotte S. (Pierce) Bradstreet; no ch.
xiii. Jed Gilman, b. Feb. 6, 1860, Roy .; m. Jan. 11, 1882, Isabel Leland; four ch .: (a) Norman; (b) Garnet; (c) Robert; (d) -; res., Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Horatio K. Blake gave six sons to the service of their country, all of whom returned.
BLISS FAMILY.
1. JOHN BLISS, son of Nathan and Rebecca Bliss, b. Sep. 17, 1773, Rehoboth, Mass .; d. Aug. 29, 1859, Roy .; m. Nov. 11, 1802, Rebecca, dau. John and Hannah (Parkhurst) Hutchinson, b. Aug. 14, 1780, Tunbridge; d. June 16, 1850, Roy.
John Bliss came to Royalton from Rehoboth in 1798 and bought land in the southwest corner of the town. He sold this to Sylvanus Bliss in 1810, and bought fifty acres of Webster Wal- bridge, which, with additions, is the farm now owned by Daniel Bliss.
i. Emily, b. Oct. 21, 1803, Roy .; d. in Hancock, Dec. 30, 1878; m. Sep. 12, 1853, Othniel Dunham of Bethel; no ch.
ii. Calvin Parkhurst, b. Dec. 10, 1805, Roy .; d. Mar. 8, 1881; m. Maria Nichols of Randolph, who d. Apr. 11, 1881; one ch.
iii. Nathan, b. Jan. 16, 1808, Roy .; d. Feb. 22, 1824, Roy.
iv. Charles, b. July 26, 1810; d. Oct. 22, 1813, Roy.
v. Sarah Anne, b. Sep. 15, 1812, Roy .; d. Feb. 3, 1897; m. Oct. 21, 1838, Isaac Brown; three ch .; res., Bethel.
2. vi. Charles William, b. Sep. 16, 1814.
vii. Mary Lazette, b. Feb. 6, 1816, Roy .; d. Jan. 10, 1887; m. Apr. 17, 1845, Nathan Parker of Bethel; two girls.
3. viii. John Hutchinson, b. July 24, 1819, Roy.
ix. Rebecca Jane, b. Mar. 9, 1822, Roy .; d. Jan. 19, 1887; m. May 24, 1841, Ira Holt of Pittsfield; two ch.
2. CHARLES WILLIAM, b. Sep. 16, 1814, Roy .; d. Jan. 1, 1898, Roy .; m. June 24, 1844, Henrietta, dau. Aaron and Bet- sey Whitney of Tunbridge, b. Dec. 11, 1823 ( ?), Tunbridge; d. Jan. 28, 1900.
Charles William Bliss was born, lived and died on the farm owned by his father, John Bliss. He held important town offices, a man of more than ordinary intelligence.
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