History of Royalton, Vermont, with family genealogies, 1769-1911, Part 97

Author: Lovejoy, Mary Evelyn Wood, 1847-
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Burlington, Vt., Free press printing company
Number of Pages: 1280

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9. CHARLES ADAM [9] LYMAN, son of Jabez, Jr. [8], b. Oct. 21, 1831, Roy .; d. Apr. 14, 1909, Roy .; m. (1) Mar. 8, 1854, Hannah Walcott, dau. Horatio Nelson and Sarah (Walcott) Freeman, b. July 12, 1832, Roy .; d. Dec. 28, 1863, Roy .; m. (2) July 5, 1866, Laura J., dau. William and Elizabeth (Wal- cott) Fay, b. Apr. 4, 1844, Roy .; d. Oct. 26, 1903, Roy. Mr. Lyman was a substantial farmer, and also carried on some lum- ber business in connection with a saw mill. He rem. from his farm in the last years of his life to Royalton village, and bought the Collamer house, where he died suddenly. He was frequent- ly called upon to serve the town, was selectman four years, and representative from Royalton in the legislature of 1892-93. He stood high in the estimation of his townsmen in all the qualities that make true manhood.

i. Frank Herbert [10], b. Jan. 2, 1856; d. Feb. 4, 1857.

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ii. Nellie May [10], b. June 25, 1858; m. Apr. 25, 1882, Al- bert Christopher, son John and Lucy (Shurtliff) Doyle, b. Oct. 23, 1856, Sharon; d. Jan. 7, 1884, Roy .; ch .: Alba Fay, b. Dec. 15, 1883, Roy .; d. May 19, 1889, Roy.

iii. Elmer Elsworth [10], b. Dec. 8, 1861; d. Aug. 28, 1865.

iv. Charles Francis [10], b. Nov. 30, 1863; not known to be living.

v. Albert Fay [10], b. Nov. 27, 1867; d. May 11, 1901, W. Lebanon, N. H .; m. Nov. 20, 1893, Ruth L., dau. Geo. W. and S. Ellen (Bliss) Preston, b. Sep. 9, 1874; ch .: (a) Gladys Fay, b. July 8, 1895; (b) Marion Lydia, b. June 17, 1896, W. Lebanon, N. H .; d. Jan. 3, 1908, Roy .; (c) Charlotte Ruth, b. May 31, 1898; (d) Fay Charles, b. Aug. 20, 1900, W. Lebanon, N. H. Mrs. Lyman d. Sep. 18, 1909.

vi. Ida C., b. Aug. 6, 1872; dressmaker; res., Keene, N. H. vii. Alba Fay, b. Dec. 12, 1873; d. Nov. 27, 1877.

viii. Elizabeth Walcott, b. Dec. 5, 1875; m. Sep. 9, 1896, Ed- ward Lyman Messer; one ch., Lawrence Lyman; res., Keene, N. H. GEORGE [7] LYMAN (Elias [6], Elias [5], Elias [4], John [3], John [2], Richard [1]), b. Apr. 6, 1806, Hartford; d. July 11, 1879, Hartford, in the house in which he was born; m. Dec. 30, 1828, Minerva, dau. of the Hon. E. D. Briggs of Rochester, and sister of Mrs. Albert Clarke of Boston. Mr. Lyman was twenty years old when he started in the mercantile business in Roy., an account of which is found in the chapter on "Industries." Seven of his children were born in Royalton. He was a prominent member of the community while in Roy- alton, and after he removed to Norwich, and later to Hartford, he occupied important positions of trust and honor. He is described as "a man of fine personal appearance, affable and genial." His sister had married Charles Dodd, who had been a clerk for Elias Lyman of Hartford, and who now was his partner in Royalton. The two families lived in the double house now owned by Mr. Hanks, which the father of George had fitted up especially for them. George Lyman was educated in Norwich Univ., then Capt. Partridge's School.

i. George Briggs [8], b. Oct. 19, 1829; d. Aug. 21, 1865, White River Junction; educated in Royalton Academy and Norwich Univ .; made two trips to Cal., 1849, 1852, on one of which he shipped before the mast and doubled Cape Horn. He returned home in 1861, broken in health, and to his great regret, unable to enter the Union army.

ii. Elias [8], b. Jan. 5, 1831; d. Dec. 15, 1904, Kewanee, Ill .; m. Dec. 14, 1858, Adelaide Trask of Rochester; clerk, and later partner in his father's store; clerk for his grandfather, Hon. E. D. Briggs of Rochester; merchant in Kewanee, to which town he contributed large- ly of his means and talents; ch .: (a) Nellie, m. Frederick A. Smith, a lumber dealer, and has Helen and Louise; (b) Lillie, m. Charles I. Pierce, a manufacturer and coal dealer, who d. June 17, 1891; she has Katherine and Adelaide.

iii. Minerva Briggs [8], b. Sep. 18, 1832; d. Sep. 11, 1904; m. Oct. 25, 1853, Edward Lyman of Burlington, a merchant and banker, who d. May 23, 1890; one of Burlington's most active and loyal citi- zens; two ch., Mary Louise, who d. at the age of five, and Minnie

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Elizabeth, who m. the Hon. Robert Roberts of Burlington. Mrs. Ly- man was an earnest worker along many charitable lines.

iv. Julia [8], b. Oct. 2, 1834; d. Nov. 13, 1905, Hitchcock Hos- pital, Hanover, N. H .; m. Aug. 30, 1855, George Lyman King, manager of the Bank of Nevada; she and her sister, Minerva, were educated in Mrs. Ellis' school, Hanover, and Thetford Academy; one son, George Lyman, residing in Oakland, Cal .; she was a member of the Episcopal Church, and faithful in its support. She exemplified in her quiet home life the best traditions of womanhood.

v. Henry, b. Aug. 15, 1836; d. Mar. 22, 1840, Roy .; bur. N. Roy. Cem. This bright, loving child had been promised that he should attend the first service held in the Congregational Church, which was then building, and in which he was deeply interested. He was carried to the church for the funeral service. vi. Dean Briggs, b. Mar. 15, 1838; d. Jan. 15, 1903, Reno, Nev., and bur. in the family lot, Lone Mountain, Cal .; m. Dec. 18, 1865, Nellie Smith of Alton, Ill .; went to Cal. in 1856, and to Nevada on the discovery of silver there; had charge of quartz mills on the Carson river; in charge of mills and mines in Virginia City, Nev., for Mackay, Fair, Flord and O'Brien; m. (2) Aug. 14, 1878, Anna Dunlap of Virginia City; two sons, Edward Dean, a lawyer in Los Angeles, Cal., and George Dunlap, a physician in New York, who grad. from Coll. of Physicians and Surgeons in 1909; Mrs. Lyman d. Dec. 24, 1893.

vii. James Edward, b. Apr. 24, 1841, the last of the ch. to be born in Roy .; d. Sep. 4, 1842, Norwich. All these ch. were baptized in the Congregational Church in Roy.

viii. Edward, b. 1844, Norwich; enlisted in 1862 in 1st Regt., U. S. S., and was shot in the siege of Petersburg, Va., and d. in a hospital at City Point, June 24, 1864. His record for bravery in Co. F was an honorable one.

ix. Elizabeth, and x. Louisa, reside at home. The family record was kindly furnished by Miss Louisa.

xi. William Henry, m. June 19, 1877, Elizabeth Webb Stevens, and has one child, William Henry, Jr., a sophomore in the Univ. of Pa. Richard [1] came from England to Boston in the ship Lyon in 1631. He was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn. The father of George Lyman was remarkable for persistent effort in the face of difficulties, for his energy and integrity.

LYON FAMILY.

ZEBULON LYON, the son of Jacob and Mehitable Bugbee, b. Mar., 1750, Woodstock, Conn .; d. Oct. 16, 1822, Woodstock, Vt .; m. (1) Feb. 7, 1782, Mrs. Eleanor (Porter) Skinner, dau. Samuel and Hannah (Flint) Porter, and wid. of Corp. Calvin Skinner, b. May 1, 1753, Thompson, Conn .; d. Sep. 15, 1813, Roy .; m. (2) Apr. 7, 1814, Hannah, dau. John Winchester Dana of Pomfret.

There have been frequent references in the preceding pages to the life and work of Lieut. Lyon. By his charitable deeds and by signing with irresponsible parties he lost his ample for- tune, and his last days were spent within the jail limits of Woodstock. The eulogy pronounced by Judge Collamer at the time of his funeral in Royalton, Mar., 1823, is quoted. This was

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kindly furnished through the good offices of Miss Ruth Tracy of Beverly, Mass. The introduction is omitted.

"Zebulon Lyon was born at Woodstock, in Connecticut, A. D. 1751, and at the age of twenty-seven he joined that hardy, enterprising band of freemen who undertook to reduce to cultivation the howling forests of Vermont.

There was a peculiar hardihood and decision of character, an un- conquerable spirit of independence, which generally characterized the early settlers of this country; and in this the deceased largely par- took. The present generation cannot well conceive the severity of those hardships, privations and sufferings to which our early settlers were subjected in the wilderness. To leave the fond circle of their domestic endearments, the scenes and associates of their early life, and bury themselves in the forests, trusting for the precarious means of subsistence to their own exertions, required a degree of enterprise, which we of the present generation in the full enjoyment of this goodly land, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the fruit of those early labors, ought never to forget. How greatly must our admiration of those early services be increased when we remember, in addition to the usual hardships and privations of early settlers, they were at the same time, for many years, exposed to the ravages of war and the inroads of the savages. When this infant settlement saw the valley of White River smoking with the conflagration of their early dwellings and the destruction of the harvest of their toils and found themselves and children driven naked and houseless to the woods, by a savage foe, in the memorable autumn of 1780, the buildings of the deceased shared in the common conflagration. He was, at that time, an officer, stationed at the little fort in Bethel. Undaunted by acts of savage ferocity and unsubdued by all these discouraging afflictions Mr. Lyon proceeded the next season, again to construct his buildings; and in one year from the next February after the conflagration, he removed his family from Woodstock in Connecticut to this town. Now we arrive at an epoch in his life, which added many new motives to his conduct. In the Summer of 1782 the Spirit of the Lord breathed on the wilderness and caused it to bud and blossom like the rose, and among many who then for the first time joined in the song of re- deeming grace was the deceased. Since that period he has been an active, useful and much beloved member of the Church of God here for nearly forty years. He journied with them in the wilderness, he has partaken with them in the days of tribulation and he has walked with them by the side of still waters in the days of prosperity.

About the year 1785 he made an extensive purchase of land, in- cluding all that now constitutes this village. I feel authorized to say, he was principally governed, in this purchase, by a desire to promote the growth and prosperity of a village here. He was enabled to dis- pose of the land on such terms as to advance this object and joining to this his own exertions, this village rose into existence.

In the midst of these active and useful labors, a sickness, brought on by his exertions and early labors, reduced him to the doors of death and deprived him forever after of the power of much physical exer- tion; yet he remained through life ever active in projecting and pro- moting some benevolent object.

We come now to view his exertions as the friend of science and literature. Among the earliest institutions, in this State, of a scien- tific character, was an academy in this town. Mr. Lyon was highly active in the erection of a suitable building and promoting the pros- perity of the institution. It was highly prosperous for many years

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and was a great advancement to the early improvement of this section of the State. The building was afterwards unfortunately consumed. Destitute of funds and disheartened by misfortune, its friends gave over their exertions, until at length Mr. Lyon, by his own generosity erected the present building, and has since granted some valuable lands for its endowment. It is much to be hoped, all lovers of science will hold his name in grateful remembrance for such benevolence, and you will all permit me to entreat your active patronage and support to this child, he so fondly cherished. I will not detain you longer with a recapitulation of his deeds, as you mostly knew him better than myself. The works of his hands are all around us; here are the fields he reduced to cultivation and here is 'the city which he builded.' Like a shock of corn fully ripe, he is gathered to his fathers, and I hazard little in saying, he rests in peace in the bosom of that God he so long and faithfully had served and worshipped. 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.'" i. Oliver, b. May 14, 1785, Roy .; d. Oct. 14, 1824; m. Martha Moffitt. Ch .: George Logan, James Lyman, Eleanor and a babe who d. soon after its mother. Oliver d. of consumption. He was printer and editor of the Northern Budget, published in Troy, N. Y. He succeeded Robert Moffitt & Co. May 4, 1807, but seems to have been connected with the paper before that. He sent to his sister a copy of a poem, evidently printed on Jan. 1, 1803, entitled, "The News-boy's Address to the Parents of the Northern Budget." It dealt with all classes of people. It is quaintly decorated in the form of a domed rectangle. It has eighteen stanzas. Three of these are quoted:

"Old Earth, my dear Patrons, once more has whirl'd round; Not a linch-pin is lost, nor a spoke prov'd unsound, But, true to the hour as a lover-or dun,

Has arriv'd at the starting-post where she begun. * * * *

* * *

As you're just to myself, you'd be just unto others: What, then, can prevent our uniting like brothers? Our present contentions first settle with care, Then strive, for the future, to 'bear and forbear.'

If this could be done, (and who knows till we try it?) How much should we add to our happiness by it! While, year after year, round the system we'd roll, With love, joy, and friendship expanding the soul."

The orphan children of Oliver were brought up by Zebulon Lyon, and educated in the academy. Eleanor married John W. Dana of Pomfret, a nephew of the second Mrs. Lyon. ii. Polly or Mary, b. Oct. 31, 1786; m. Capt. Lorrain Terry, and the following ch. were b. in Roy .: (a) Edward, b. Aug. 21, 1813; (b) Lucia, b. Oct. 22, 1815; (c) Jane, b. Feb. 2, 1818; (d) Henry Lyon, b. Mar. 19, 1820.

iii. Porter, b. Feb., 1791; d. Mar. 22, 1850, Roy. He was weak mentally, and was the ward of his uncle, Calvin Skinner. Sally Skinner, the child of the first Mrs. Lyon by Corp. Calvin Skinner, who was b. Nov. 15, 1775, m. Rev. Azel Washburn. Corp. Calvin was married to Eleanor Porter Feb. 12, 1775, and died Aug. or Sep., 1777; he was b. Oct. 21, 1746, Woodstock, Conn .; he served in a Co. from Killingly, Conn.

The line of descent is Zebulon [4], Jacob [3], William [2], William [1].

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MANCHESTER FAMILY.

DR. JOHN MANCHESTER, son of Nathaniel, b. Jan. 16, 1804, Plainfield, N. H .; d. Sep. 7, 1883, Roy .; m. Mar. 7, 1826, Susan, dau. Jacob Wood, b. Apr., 1802; d. Jan. 26, 1886, Roy .; both bur. S. Roy. Cem. See "Medical Profession."

i. Albert, b. Oct. 5, 1827, Moretown; d. Mar. 4, 1904, Ran- dolph; m. Nov. 8, 1853, Elizabeth, dau. John Sessions of Rand., b. July 4, 1833; d. Mar. 2, 1909, Rand .; ch .: (a) Byron, b. Jan. 26, 1858; (b) Forest, b. Sep. 11, 1859; d. Nov. 27, 1899, leaving a dau., Con- stance; (c) Ernest, b. Mar. 29, 1863; (d) Henry, b. Apr. 28, 1865; m. and has two ch .; res. Portland, Me .; Henry and Forest each had two ch .; Byron and Ernest live in Randolph.

ii. Byron Albert, b. Apr. 27, 1829, Plainfield, N. H .; see "Medi- cal Profession.'

iii. Constant Wood, b. Apr. 20, 1831, Plainfield, N. H .; d. Aug. 4, 1892, Lebanon, N. H .; m. May 1, 1859, Roy., Amelia C., dau. Alden and Caroline (Rolfe) Chamberlin, b. Apr. 11, 1832; one ch., Dr. Frank C. Manchester, practicing in Danbury, N. H .; b. Mar. 26, 1861, Meri- den, N. H .; grad. from Dartmouth Med. Coll., 1885. Dr. Manchester lived in Cornish, N. H., a year, in Meriden, fifteen years, and the rest of his life in Lebanon. He was a successful practitioner, and an hon- orable man.

iv. Darwin, b. Feb. 25, 1833, Plainfield, N. H .; d. Aug. 11, 1895; m. Mar. 4, 1858, Sarah Vaughan, and settled in Waupaca, Wis .; four ch., Emma Susan, infant boy, Mary, John D. * v. Ellen Frances, b. Mar. 28, 1837, Grantham, N. H .; m. O. S. Curtiss.

vi. George Henry, b. Mar. 17, 1839, Grantham; m. Mar. 2, 1863, Roy., Mary Susan, dau. Ichabod and Azuba (Carpenter) Hatch, b. June 3, 1840, Northfield; no ch .; res. S. Roy .; rem. to Windsor, then to Fitchburg, Mass., returning to Roy. July, 1876; machinist; had a hardware store alone or in company with others until 1909.

MANNING FAMILY.

RUEL GOODWIN MANNING, son of Eliphalet and Sarah Manning, b. May 1, 1790, Tewksbury, Mass .; d. Jan. 22, 1871, Roy .; m. Dec. 25, 1816, Hannah, dau. Ezekiel and Betsey (Chee- buck) Gardner, b. 1795, Bedford, N. H .; d. Dec. 1, 1873, Roy. Mr. Manning served in the War of 1812. He rem. from Bed- ford, N. H., to Roy., and lived for some time at N. Roy.

* i. Hannah, b. 1818; m. Reuben Spalding.

ii. Emeline, m. June 2, 1844, Aretus Loveland, b. Westport, N. Y.

* iii. Margaret, b. Mar. 21, 1825; m. Clark Stevens.

iv. Martha Jane, b. Apr. 9, 1829; m. Ruel Mills.

v. Sarah R., m. (1) Benj. H. Bennett, and had a son, Her- bert, who d. Dec. 17, 1903, aged 40 years; m. (2) John Spalding. vi. Betsey, twin of Sarah, m. John Stebbins, and res. in N. H.

MARSHALL FAMILY.

JOHN MARSHALL, b. Aug. 17, 1787, Hartford; d. Dec. 29, 1860, Roy .; m. Oct. 18, 1808, Mary, dau. Jethro and Deborah (Blaisdell) Bachelder, b. Jan. 28, 1787, Strafford; d. Apr. 25,

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1875, Roy .; both bur. N. Roy. Cem. Mr. Marshall rem., as is supposed, from Hartford to Roy. about 1809. He bought in Nov. of Asahel Cheney what Mr. Cheney had had of David Waller. This seems to have included a shop and land, and was near the hotel. Mr. Marshall was a fine cabinet maker, the finest probably that ever worked in Roy. After he bought the Fay farm in 1825, he had his shop in his house. Three years before he secured the Woodbury mills on the Second Branch. Whatever he touched seemed to turn to gold. One of his de- scendants describes him as "peculiar and long-headed, one who always got 'the best end of the bargain.' "' He held many mort- gages. He filled town offices, and was selectman in 1834 and 1844. He was one of the solid men of the town. He had a store at N. Roy. which he let to other merchants. He was called Major, because he was drum major of the 2d Regt., 4th ( ?) Div. of Vt. militia in 1820.

i. Harry, b. Apr. 8, 1809; d. June 26, 1811.

ii. Alba, b. Jan. 21, 1812; d. Sep. 19, 1864; m. Jan. 29, 1832, Rebecca F. Mosher; res. Troy, N. Y .; five ch., one son, John Marshall, m., but has no ch.

iii. Don, b. Nov. 28, 1814; d. Mar. 31, 1815.

* iv. Nancy, b. Mar. 31, 1816; m. Lewis Fish.

v. Mary L., b. July 18, 1818; d. Jan. 1, 1900, Fond du Lac, Wis .; m. Aug. 24, 1841, Seth A. Chase, who was a brother of Lewis Fish, but had changed his name; two sons and a dau.

vi. John, b. June 12, 1819; d. June 23, 1819.

vii. Harriet, b. June 6, 1820; d. Apr. 2, 1892; m. Mar. 29, 1852, Jacob Sargent; lived and d. in Evansville, Ind .; one ch., a dau. viii. Sarah, b. Aug. 25, 1823; d. Sep. 23, 1823.

ix. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 27, 1825; m. Chas. Fay.

x. Charlotte, b. June 7, 1827; m. Norman Fowler.

MARTIN FAMILY.

WILLIAM HARRISON MARTIN, son of Allen, the son of Aaron, son of Aaron, son of George, b. Apr. 2, 1839, Barre; d. Jan. 13, 1904, Barre; bur. S. Roy. Cem .; m. May 16, 1866, Bridgeport, Conn., Ellen Emma, dau. Charles R. and Jane Gar- rett, b. Mar. 3, 1845, Coventry, Eng .; d. May 24, 1896, S. Roy. See Chap. XXXVII. Mr. Martin and his wife were most valu- able additions to the social and religious life of S. Roy. They were members of the Cong'l church, in which their daughters have placed a memorial window. The finest residence in town was erected by Mrs. Martin on the old Pierce tavern site, but she lived only a short time to enjoy it.

*i. Minerva Jane, b. Nov. 9, 1869, S. Roy .; m. William M. Sar- gent.

ii. Nellie Grace, b. Aug. 5, 1873, S. Roy .; m. Sep. 5, 1893, Daniel Lillie Burnett, M. D .; no ch. See "Medical Profession." Mrs. Burnett and her sister, Mrs. Sargent, each spent a year in the N. E.

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Conservatory of Music in Boston. Mrs. Burnett was organist for the Congregational Church several years.

iii. Isabella Pearl, b. Feb. 22, 1883, S. Roy .; grad. of S. Roy. high school in 1899; a teacher in the Barre schools.

The Martin ancestors lived in Windham, Conn.

MASON FAMILY.

HENRY MASON, son of Leonard and Sally (Breeze) Ma- son, b. June 9, 1819, Woodstock, Conn .; d. Jan. 15, 1860, Roy .; m. Mar. 22, 1853, Roy., Jerusha, dau. Nicholas and Polly (Wil- son) Mosher, who m. (2) Mar. 4, 1864, Ezra Hazen of Hartford. The mother of Henry m. (2) Darius Dewey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mason and dau. Martha were members of the church at Royal- ton village. He is bur. in S. Roy. Cem.

i. Calvin, b. 1854; d. Oct. 6, 1876, Roy.

ii. Charles, b. Apr. 3, 1856, Roy.

iii. Martha J., b. July 22, 1859, Roy.

MAXHAM FAMILY.

WILLIAM MAXHAM, b. Jan. 5, 1797, Woodstock; d. July 16, 1867, Roy .; m. June 7, 1818, Pomfret, Amanda A., dau. Jeremiah and Clarissa Abbott of Lebanon, N. H., b. June 5, 1798, Lebanon; d. Nov. 4, 1872, Roy. Mr. Maxham rem. in the spring of 1851 to Roy. from Bethel, where he had won a repu- tation of keeping the best hotel between Burlington and Boston. He conducted the "Cascadnac House" for two years, and then bought the place where Lewis Dow now lives, and where he lived and died. They had ten ch., but only three lived to maturity. i. Augusta A., b. Jan. 24, 1823, Pomfret; d. Apr. 25, 1862, St. Johnsbury; m. July 3, 1845, Randolph, Elijah D., son Eli and Irene Blodgett, junior partner of the firm of Skinner & Blodgett, Roy. village; she was bur. N. Roy. Cem., and later rem. to St. Johnsbury. For ch. see Blodgett family.

ii. Gustavus Vassa, b. June 29, 1829, Pomfret; d. Mar. 10, 1890, Monson, Mass .; m. Feb. 25, 1855, Demis A., dau. Rev. Eli Ballou of Montpelier. He grad. from the Unitarian School, Meadville, Pa., became pastor of a Universalist Church in Medford, Mass., after some years accepted a call to a Universalist Church in New Haven, Conn., from which he resigned to seek a climate farther inland on account of his health. He held the pastorate of a church in Stafford, Conn., twenty-five years, but his health continuing poor, he resigned and rem. to Monson, Mass., where he died.

iii. Edgar Allen, b. Jan. 21, 1833, Quechee; d. Feb. 4, 1907, Bethel; m. Oct. 21, 1857, Ella Eliza, dau. Alphonso and Olive (Barnes) Dow, b. Sep. 18, 1840, Bethel; Mr. Maxham started a drug store in Roy. village in 1855, and sold to John W. Metcalf in 1864. The next spring he started a drug store in S. Roy., which he sold to Sargent & Durkee about seven years later, and rem. to Bethel, and started another store in company with Wesley E. Heath, the firm being Maxham & Heath. He soon bought out his partner, and ran the busi- ness alone several years, then sold to J. T. Sisco, but bought it back and ran the store until his druggist's life extended over a period of nearly forty years. Mr. and Mrs. Maxham made many warm friends

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while in Royalton. She still resides in Bethel. Ch .: (a) Frank Brown, b. Sep. 8, 1860, Roy .; m. Jan. 5, 1881, Lizzie Julia, dau. Asa and Clorinda (Churchill) Adams, b. Dec. 26, 1860, Barnard; ch .: (i) Will Edgar, b. July 19, 1884, Bethel.

IRA MAXHAM, adopted son of William Maxham, b. Jan. 3, 1820, Woodstock; d. July 5, 1882, Hartland; m. Apr. 14, 1850, Sharon, Deborah Ames, dau. Samuel and Laura (Benson) Shuttleworth, b. Feb. 22, 1827, Sharon; d. May 13, 1889, Ros- coe, Ill. Mr. Maxham lived in Royalton village and S. Royal- ton; ran a pedlar's cart some of the time.

i. Albert Samuel, b. Apr. 17, 1853, Sharon; a Methodist min- ister preaching in the West; m. and has ch.

ii. John C., b. Aug. 13, 1861, Roy .; a Methodist minister; took a claim in Loyalton, S. D., preaching meanwhile; m. and has a family in the West.

MCCULLOUGH FAMILY.

JAMES MCCULLOUGH, son of William and Lydia (Hill) Mccullough, and grandson of David, b. Feb. 27, 1813, Mel- bourne, P. Q .; d. Aug. 17, 1893, Roy .; m. Dec. 31, 1839, Malone, N. Y., Maria Elizabeth, dau. Thomas and Betsey Clapp, b. Apr. 23, 1820; living with a dau. at White River Junction. The Mccullough family are of Scottish descent. David, who was a captain in the British army, migrated to America and settled in S. Carolina. In the time of the Revolution he would not pledge allegiance to this country, and had to go to Canada. His son William rem. to Malone, N. Y., when James was twenty-one. James rem. to Roy. about 1851, and with him was his brother Israel, who had a home with him and died in Roy. He was born June 10, 1808, in Melbourne, and d. July 14, 1906. They lived on the old Clapp farm, which they retained until 1909. i. Frederick C., b. Oct. 9, 1841, Malone, N. Y .; m. Dec. 21, 1865, Isabel S., dau. Fordyce and Dorcas Pinney, b. May 28, 1844; m. (2) Dec. 26, 1875, Jennie S., dau. Sam. and Hannah Bell, b. 1847, Peoria, Ill .; ch .: (a) Frank Fordyce, b. Aug. 6, 1867, Roy .; m. Oct. 2, 1895, Ida J., dau. Alex. S. and Agnes (Wright) King, b. 1875, Bos- ton; one ch., James Fordyce, b. May 24, 1908, E. Bethel; (b) George Everett, b. Oct. 22, 1876, Roy .; res. Red Lodge, Mont .; (c) Helen Hannah, b. Nov. 13, 1878; m. and has two ch .; res. Chimney Rock, Mont .; (d) Hessie, m. and res. in Minn .; (e) Mary, b. Proctorsville; res. unm. in Chimney Rock; (f) Ralph, res. Chimney Rock.

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History of Royalton, Vermont, with family genealogies, 1769-1911, Part 97

Author: Lovejoy, Mary Evelyn Wood, 1847- Publication date: 1911 Publisher: Burlington, Vt., Free press printing company Number of Pages: 1280

Author: Lovejoy, Mary Evelyn Wood, 1847-
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Burlington, Vt., Free press printing company
Number of Pages: 1280