History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 56

Author: Aldrich, Lewis Cass. ed. cn; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Syracuse, N. Y., D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1260


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Child, Elizabeth J., daughter of Lyman and Elizabeth E. (Blanchard) Child, was born in Bethel, Vt., July 1, 1840. She graduated from the medical department of the Uni- versity of Michigan in June, 1889, and is now (1890) a practicing physician in Bethel, Vt.


Child, Daniel Lyman, son of Lyman and Elizabeth E. (Blanchard) Child, was born in Bethel, Vt., June 25, 1852, and married, April 17, 1883, Josephine M. Clark, second daughter of Nathaniel F. Clark, of Bethel, Vt. He is now a merchant and a farmer in Bethel.


Roche, Joanna, eldest daughter of Richard W. and Emily (Child) Roche, and grand- daughter of Daniel and Apama (Lyman) Child, was born in Charlestown, Mass., October 7, 1833. Her early years, as well as those of her mother, were spent at the homestead of Daniel Child. Joanna was born and reared in the Church of Rome, and when quite young entered a convent of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary, taking the name of Sister Mary Elizabeth. She has become eminent, not only for her great love and zeal for the church, but for her remarkable organizing and executive ability, having traveled from Canada to Florida and Oregon, founding convents and supervising their schools. She is at this time with her family of nuns working in Los Angeles, Cal.


Child, Enos, son of Stephen and Mercy (Chase) Child, was born in Cornish, N. H., January 10, 1783, and married, August 23, 1806, Sarah Bemis. He settled in Bethel, Vt., about 1813, where he lived until his death, January 30, 1839.


Child, Asaph Bemis, second son of Enos and Sarah (Bemis) Child, was born in Bethel, Vt., August 22, 1813. He married, January 7, 1840, Eusebia Sabine. He graduated from the Medical College at Burlington, Vt., and practiced a few years in Bethel. Later he studied and practiced dentistry in Boston, Mass., attaining considerable eminence in his profession. He was one of the founders of the Banner of Light, a leading Spiritu- alist journal.


Davis, Jacob, came from New Hampshire to Randolph. He was born in 1768 and died June 21, 1861. He married, first, Judith Hidden, by whom he had three children: Dorcas, died young ; Asa, died in Royalton; and Mary, married James Short and died in Royalton. He married, second, Lydia Phillips and their children were Hannah, widow of Chester Smith, lives at Hyde Park, Mass .; George, died at Royalton ; James ; John, died at Vershire, Vt .; and two daughters named Caroline that died young.


Davis, James, of the above family, was born in Randolph, August 22, 1814, and re- moved to Royalton in 1837. He was married, March 20, 1838, to Charlotte, daughter of Aquilla and Margaret Stanley, born in Tunbridge, March 8, 1816. They had four children : Elien Margaret, Sarah Jane, Minnie Mary, and William Jacob. Ellen M. mar- ried L. D. Leavitt, of Brainard, and died in 1861. Sarah J. married W. D. Lee, of New- ark, O., and died October 6, 1890 ; they had four children, Nellie Davis, Cha les Augus- tus, Kate Mode, and Charlotte May. Minnie M. married Charles Marsh, of Sharon, and had two children, Kate Florence, born October 21, 1874, and John, born in Novem- ber, 1877, died April, 1878. William J., of Glens Falls, N. Y., was born May 9, 1855,


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and married Mode, daughter of D. W. Cowdery, of Royalton; they have two children, Kathrina Mode, born August 28, 1878, and Margaret Stanley, born November 16, 1888. James Davis was a member of the House of Representatives of 1849, and during his life held nearly every town office. He was a member of Christ's Episcopal church, of Bethel, being one of the vestry, and part of the time a warden. He was a man of recognized ability and stern integrity, and commanded the confidence and respect of all who knew him.


Davis, Samuel, was born in October, 1782, and died October 6, 1865. He married Sally Coffin, and had eight children : Zilpah C., widow of William Preston, resides in Bethel; James Smith, fate unknown; Samuel ; Fannie (deceased), married James Gif- ford ; Sarah, died single; Abigail (deceased), married M. Spaulding; Jacob, married Sally B. Chamberlin, died in Weathersfield, Vt .; and Joseph, died four years of age.


Davis, Samuel, son of Samuel, was born in Weathersfield, Vt., May 25, 1812, and married, September 30, 1839, Desire, daughter of Isaac and Azubia (Bailey) Chamber- lain. She was born in Stockbridge, May 30, 1810. Mr. Davis became a resident of Bethel in 1829, where he died May 1, 1886. He had three children : Clark S .; James, born in Bethel, August 28, 1845, resides at Lowell, Mass .; Abby, died aged thirteen years.


Davis, Clark S., was born in Bethel, July 17, 1840. and married, February 25, 1863, Alice N. Giddings, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Boynton) Giddings; she died June 21, 1865; they had one son, Walter, born May 21, 1865, died June 3. April 17, 1866, he married Hattie M., daughter of Enos and Martha (Holden) Town; she was born in Barre, Vt., April 21, 1841. They have three children, Willis Clark, born'June 10, 1867 ; Fred Lincoln, born May 9, 1871 ; Barton Enos, born December 20, 1874. Mr. Davis is the present first selectman of Bethel.


Fish, Lewis, was born in Randolph, February 28, 1818. Ellis Fish, his grandfather, born in Cape Cod, came to Vermont and settled in Randolph, Orange county. He mar- ried Elizabeth Cobb, and reared a family of eight children, of whom James, father of Lewis, born in Randolph, married Achsah Lamson, and had six children, as follows : Caroline, was the wife of Hiram Smith, and died in Randolph; Maria, was the wife of Lewis Wills, she died in Royalton; Harriet, was the wife of Darwin Paul, and died in East Bethel; Lewis; Catharine, was the wife of Henry Gould, and died in Jamaica, Vt .; Maudane, was the wife of Dr. John Ordway, and lives in West Liberty, O. James Fish died in Andover. Mass., May, 1823, his wife in Randolph. Vt., August, 1873. Lewis married March 7, 1842, Sarah, daughter of William and Isabella (McIntosh) Wyatt. She was born in Amherst, N. H., October 20, 1815. Their children are as follows : William Lewis, born December 11, 1843, died aged six ; Sarah Phebe, born August 10, 1850, wife of Judson H. Fitts, a farmer living in Braintree, Vt .; Frances Florence and Clarence, twins, died in infancy. Mr. Fish lived in Randolph until 1846, and since that time has lived in Bethel, a farmer by occupation. Sarah, his first wife, died March 11, 1873. He married, second, March 10, 1874, Lucy Corneha, daughter of Charles W. and Char- lotte (Hudson) Kimball. She was born in Brookfield, Vt., May 27, 1834.


Gilson .-- The family of this name in Bethel are of Scotch descent. Their emigrant ancestor, Eleazer Gilson, came from Scotland to Pepperell, Mass. He married Sybil -, and his will is dated November 25, 1777. He reared a family of twelve chil- dren, of whom James was his fourth son, was born in Pepperell, and married Saralı Ann Dodge, of that town. Of their family six children reached adult age. Samuel, the second son, was born in Pepperell, April 13, 1795, and married Fanny Pinney, who was born in Windsor, Conn., February 13, 1796. Samuel died in Bethel, August 29, 1871, his wife died February 26, 1885. Their children were James Martin, born in Northfield, Vt., October 9, 1818, and died at Leavenworth, Kan., April 12, 1888; Frederick Alonzo, born at Northfield, January 22, 1820, died at New York, June 15, 1870; Fanny Maria, born at Northfield, October 4, 1823, is the wife of Merrick Sylvester, of Bethel ; Will-


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iam Henry, born at Hartland, Vt., September 22, 1826, died at New York, April 17, 1865 ; Sarah Ann, born at Hartland, October 24, 1828, is the wife of Edwin Sturtevant, of Bethel; Elizabeth Newbury, born at Barnard, Vt., October 7, 1830, wife of John Tay- lor, of New York city; Hiram Harlehigh, born in Barnard, January 17, 1832, who at the age of six months, removed with his father to Stockbridge, Vt., where he lived till 1853, when he went to Indianapolis, Ind., traveling for a wholesale and retail drug house. In 1856 he became engaged in the hotel business at 367 Broadway, New York city, and came to Bethel, Vt., in 1868. He went to Minneapolis, Minn., in 1869, engaged in the hotel business, and returned to Bethel in 1873. He purchased the Bethel mills in 1877, sold the same in 1890, and is at present a director in the National White River Bank. He married, December 25, 1862, Jennie S., daughter of Merrick and Sa- rah M. (Whitcomb) Gay. She was born in Stockbridge, October 24, 1837. They have an adopted daughter, Mary, born in Brooklyn, N . Y., January 9, 1881. Carlton Simons, born at Stockbridge, October 15, 1834, resides at Nyack, N. Y .; Francis Samuel, born at Stockbridge, April 26, 1838, resides at Minneapolis, Minn .; Edward Aleric, born in Stockbridge, November 17, 1841, resides at Orange, N. Y.


Jones, Alexander K., born in Preston, N. Y., March 24, 1809, married, April 14, 1833, Louisa, danghter of James and Phebe (Davis) Woodworth. She was born in Bethel, June 11, 1811. Mr. Jones came to Vermont in 1837, locating in Bethel for two years. He then became a resident of Tunbridge, where he remained till 1857, when he again located in Bethel where he died February 12, 1881. His wife died February 27, 1886. Their children were James, Phebe, Ellen C., Louisa L., Laura J., Lauraette, and John S.


Marks, Frederick H., was born in Randolph, Vt., February 23, 1832, and was the youngest son of Seneca and Hannah (Russell) Marks. His father was born in Reading, Vt., June 20, 1783, and became a resident of Bethel in 1835, locating on the farm now occupied by his sons, and where he died June 20, 1867. His mother was the daughter of Rev. Thomas Russell, a native of Massachusetts, and was the first settled minister in Bethel. She died June 27, 1883, being eighty-eight years of age. They had two other children besides the subject of our sketch, viz .: Frederick, who died at twelve years of age; and Solon, a resident of Milwaukee. Frederick H. enlisted as a private in Com- pany H., eleventh Vermont Volunteers, August 8, 1862, afterwards became regimental baggage-master, and was mustered out of the service July 5, 1865. He then returned to Bethel, and has since been engaged in farming. He has been a selectman four years, lister, and was member of the House of Representatives of 1888. He married February 23, 1868, Abby H. Whitney, of Tunbridge, Vt .; she died in Bethel, November 10, 1889.


Moody .- The first of this name came from England soon after the arrival of the May- flower. He had four sons: Jonathan, Philip, John and Daniel. John of this family is supposed to have been the father of John, who was the father of Daniel who married Rebecca Lyon, and died in Bethel in 1794, aged fifty-six years. Daniel had a son John who was born in Royalston, Mass., June 18, 1760, and married November 11, 1783, Han- nah Copeland. She was born February 26, 1763, and died June 18, 1842. John re- moved from his native town to Bethel in 1786, and was for three years a soldier in the Revolution ; was at the battle of White Plains, and also served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He died June 27, 1823. He had a family of nine children. John, son of John, was born in Bethel, July 27, 1800, and married, first, April 4, 1835, Lucinda H. Garfield. She was born in Langdon, N. H., and was a distant relative of the late Presi- dent James A. Garfield. Her father, Daniel Garfield, was a soldier during the Revolu- tion. His musket and cartridge box are in the possession of his grandson, Marcus A. Moody. The children of John and Lucinda Moody were Hannah, John, and Marcus A. Mrs. Moody died June 18, 1842. Mr. Moody married second, October 14, 1847, Eme- line F. Kimball. There were by this marriage two children, Lucinda H. and John. John was a farmer, and owned and occupied the "old Moody farm" in the east part of Bethel. He died September 3, 1869. Marcus A. was born in Bethel, February 5, 1840. He enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, in August, 1862, and


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was discharged from the service August 10, 1863. He received a wound at the battle of Gettysburg. In 1869 he engaged in mercantile business at Bethel, which he has con- tinued ever since. Mr. Moody represented his native town in the House of Representa- tives in 1878. He was married January 25, 1882, to Abbie E., daughter of Samuel and Charlotte (Wyman) Archer.


Parsons, Franklin L., was born in Warren, Washington county, Vt., April 20, 1834. Elias, liis grandfather, born in Quechee. Vt., reared a family of five children, of whom Perley, the youngest, was father of Franklin L. He was born in Quechee, March 4, 1786, and married Lucinda Hardy, born April 5, 1791. They had children as follows : Minerva, born June 25, 1813, wife of Harry Sawyer, lives in Burlington, Ia .; Anne, born January 9, 1816, the wife of Charles Bass, died in Bethel, Dec. 5, 1849; Samuel P., born November 20, 1819, unmarried, lives with his brother, Franklin L .; William B., born May 3, 1824, farmer, lives at Clear Lake, S. Dak .; John W., born October 5, 1826, died in California, August 22, 1850 ; Lucinda M., born August 3, 1829, wife of Samuel R. Batcheller, and lives in West Braintree, Vt .; and Franklin L. The latter married April 30, 1857, Susan A., daughter of Thomas and Phila (Kimball) Williams, born in Bethel, November 1, 1826. They have four children, as follows : John F., born February 23, 1858; Mary S., born November 29, 1864; Ella F., born February 11, 1866; and Frank W., born May 23, 1868. Mr. Parsons settled on the farm in Bethel where he has since lived, in 1869. He has followed farming and lumbering. He has been lister four years, and selectman five years.


Sturtevant, Friend, came from Pittsfield to Hartland, Vt., about 1809, and married Sarah Porter. She was born September 29, 1771, and died June 20, 1864. They had six children, viz .: Cullen F., died in Hartland ; George F., died in Hartland ; Thomas F .; Edwin, died at Charleston, S. C .; Eveline, married a Mr. Clark and died in the West; Sarah Ann, widow of Curtis Cady, resided at Windsor, Vt., and died September 16, 1890.


Sturtevant, Thomas Foster, of the above family, was born in Pittsfield, Vt., May 12, 1798. He married December 10, 1823, Rosaline Terville Taylor. She was born in Hartland, June 10, 1806, and is living in Red Wing, Minn. Their seven children were all born in Hartland, viz .: Susan Waters, born October 13, 1824, is the wife of Will- iam L. Webster of Red Wing, Minn .; Edwin; Mary Taylor, born April 10, 1829, is the wife of T. B. Sheldon of Red Wing, Minn .; Robert Bruce, born December 25, 1832, re- sides in Hartford, Conn .; Samuel Taylor, died three years of age; Sarah Porter, born April 11, 1837, is the wife of E. H. Blodgett of Red Wing, Minn .; and Thomas Foster, born August 18, 1845, resides at Livingstone, Montana. Thomas Foster, sr., died at Hartland, December 4, 1874.


Sturtevant, Edwin, mentioned above, was born in Hartland, September 24, 1826, and married Sarah Ann Gilson, who was born in Hartland, October 24, 1828. They have no children. In his early life Mr. Sturtevant was a locomotive engineer on the Ogdens- burg and Lake Champlain Railroad, and was afterwards engaged in the restaurant busi- ness in New York city. In 1867 he came to Bethel and engaged in the mercantile busi- ness till 1876; since that time he has carried on the monumental business. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1876, representing Bethel.


Tupper, Robert B., a native of Barnard, married Tryphenia Hodgkins and has the following family : Israel, fate unknown; Deborah, married Frank Gay and died in Ill- inois; Royal H .; Tyler H., died in Mount Vernon, N. H .; John and Tryphenia, both died young. Robert B. was a member of the Masonic fraternity and for a number of years ran the Tupper's Hotel in Rochester.


Tupper, Royal H., son of Robert B, was born in Rochester, June 22, 1810. He mar- ried, first, Sarah Farrington, a native of Lyndeborough, Vt., who died February 22, 1848, and by this marriage he had three children. viz .: John R .; Robert B., died at the age of twenty-two; Sarah Frances, wife of F. P. Holden, of Bethel. He married, second, Mar-


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tha Rogers, of Lowell, Mass., by whom he had one child, George H. Royal H. was a mail contractor, and dealt largely in hops and wool. He died November 26, 1881, aged seventy-one years.


Tupper, George H., son of Royal H., was born in Rochester, June 4, 1855, and mar- ried Nellie M., daughter of A. J. Graham. They have two children: Grace L. and IIenry Andrew. In 1881 he left his native town and went to Illinois, and the following year returned to Bethel and engaged in the hardware business, which he has carried on continuously ever since. During the administration of Hon. Grover Cleveland Mr. Tupper was postmaster of Bethel, filling the position to the satisfaction of the citizens, irrespective of their political preferences.


Wallace, Gardner J., was born in Bethel, October 26, 1838. John, his grandfather, son of William, born in Somers, Tolland county, Conn., in 1750, married Betsey Wight, and had thirteen children. John died September 2, 1833, aged eighty-three, Betsey, his wife, January 5, 1834, aged sixty-eight. John, his father, born November 4, 1801, mar- ried Mary Ann Wheeler, who was born in Bethel, December 25, 1809. They had ten children, as follows: Susan, Laura E., Minot, Gardner J., Sarah, Royal W., George D., John, Elroy E., and Genevieve A. John died December 12, 1872, his wife June 24, 1880. Gardner J. married, February 3, 1863, Altha L., daughter of James M. and Caroline (Dutton) Woodworth. She was born in Randolph, January 18, 1845. They have had six children, one of whom died in infancy. Those living are John, born Au- gust 18, 1865, married Alice J. Spaulding, and has two children, Anna A., born June 20, 1886, and Laura E., born April 13, 1889 ; Kate C., born August 18, 1868; Archie G., born February 14, 1870; Gardner J., jr., born June 3, 1879; and Helen G., born Decem- ber 31, 1881. Mr. Wallace has always lived in Bethel. He has filled various town offices, and was appointed deputy sheriff in 1870, and filled that position until 1880, when he was elected high bailiff of the county. He was appointed by the governor of the State, October, 1884, high sheriff, to fill an unexpired term, and was elected to that office the same year, and has held this office four years.


Wood, Amasa, the eldest son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Hartwell) Wood, was born in Rindge, N. H., September 2, 1771, and came to Plymouth, Vt., where he died February 17, 1852. His father was born in Lunenburgh, Mass., September 7, 1740, and settled in Rindge, N. H., where he died May 5, 1835. He was a minuteman at the Battle of Lex- ington, and was a signer of the Patriot's Declaration. He was married to his wife Elizabeth, January 11, 1770. She was born April 14, 1751, and died November 20, 1819. He was twice married, his last wife being Mary Foster. His children were, by his first wife, Abigail Moore, born in Rindge, N. H., married September 10, 1797, and died August 8, 1824; Eliphalet, died in Bridgewater, Vt. Charles, died in Worcester, Mass .; Lyman, died in Plymouth, Vt .; Caleb, died in Cambridge, Mass .; Abigail, mar- ried William Smith, and died in Bridgewater; Jonas, died in Bethel. Lyman (son of Amasa), born in Plymouth, Vt., June 29, 1806, married January 10, 1830, Polly Mor- gan. She was born in Plymouth, Vt., February 11, 1810. They had three children : Lurena A., widow of Norman Hudson, lives in Bethel; Marcella M. and Lyman M., both residents of East Bethel. Lyman died January 8, 1853, his wife, March 15, 1883.


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CHAPTER XXVI.


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF BARNARD.


T THE town of Barnard was chartered by Governor Benning Went- worth, of New Hampshire, to William Story, Francis Barnard and others, their associates, by an instrument bearing date the 17th of July, 1761. The name of Barnard was given the town in compliment to the grantee just named, he being a somewhat distinguished personage of his day. The charter, however, gave the town the name " Bernard," which was a manifest error, and which, also, common consent corrected by the change to Barnard.


Geographically, Barnard is situated in the northwestern part of Wind- sor county, being bounded north by Bethel and Royalton; east by Pom- fret ; south by Bridgewater and Sherburne, the latter being a town of Rutland county ; and west by the town of Stockbridge. The charac- ter of the surface of the land generally throughout this town is rolling and hilly, but there is a noticeable absence of commanding or unusual heights found in many others of the inland towns of the county. The best approach to what may be called mountain formations are found in the west and southwest parts of the town, and are known by the distin- guishing names of Delectable Mountain and Mount Hunger, the former having something of a range formation, while the latter stands as a sin- gle and almost independent elevation. With the latter there rests a tra- dition to the effect that two brothers named Eaton died of starvation upon the mountain, and from this fact it was appropriately named Mount Hunger. Whether this story had a foundation in fact may be a matter of discussion which will not be argued here, as it is of no particular im- portance ; but the tradition does not pretend to furnish a date for this occurrence, but then, dates are easily forgotten anyway. Connected with Delectable Mountain there appears to be no such sad history, and that notwithstanding its being the most formidable mountain formation in the town. The lands in this section of the town are not extensively cleared, and those that are cleared are not specially well cultivated. In this respect this is an exceptional locality in the town.


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But however hilly or mountainous may be the character of the land in this town, one thing at least is noticeable, and that, that the higher elevations are as susceptible of cultivation as the low or interval lands ; and as one stands on the highway along the south side of Silver Lake there can plainly be seen for miles along the horizon well tilled farms with clearings and improvements, evidences of cultivation, even to the tops of the mountains. But it is not asserted that the higher elevations are as productive as the lowland, for such is hardly the case ; neither is it to be understood that all the mountainous sections of the town are under cultivation, for they are not, nor are all of its lowlands, for that matter.


And Barnard, too, is one of the more elevated sections of the county, the general altitude averaging much higher than nearly any other town in the county, and especially higher than the general average altitude of the towns to the southward. Incredible as it may seem, it is stated as a solemn, serious fact that at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June, 1775, the sounds of the discharged cannon were plainly heard in the town of Barnard, although the distance between these points was something more than a hundred miles. Of course, if that was the fact, and it undoubtedly was so, the atmospheric conditions must have been wholly favorable for the transmission of sound, and under any conditions the event could not be duplicated at this age.


In the central portion of the town, at the point near where they laid out the town lots, is a beautiful body of water called Silver Lake, a name by no means misapplied, for there is no more delightful spot in the entire county, not excepting the vicinity of Plymouth Pond, although the latter may be greater in extent, and its surroundings more as nature originally provided. Around Silver Lake are fine farms, well cultivated, with an occasional grove of forest trees, and the land, too, gradually in- clines toward the shores, sharp and abrupt declivities being the excep- tion and not the rule, as is the case with the vicinity of Plymouth Pond. But the writer would not detract one iota from the beauties of Plymouth, and its charming attractions, far from it. Both are excellent and desira- ble scenes, though vastly different in surroundings. Which is prefera- ble is altogether a question of individual taste.


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it is estimated, about one hundred and twenty-five acres, and of sufficient depth to safely float any small steam craft that may be put upon it. The lake, with the other natural attractions of Barnard, have contributed to- ward making the town something of a summer resort, although the efforts of the people in this direction are of comparatively recent beginning. The outlet of the lake is one of the tributaries of Locust Creek, the latter being the largest water-course of the town. It has its source in the extreme southern and southwest part of the town, and thence flows northward, and with a sharp inclination to the westward at the northwest corner of the town, courses on into Bethel, where it discharges into White River. The streams in the southeast part of the town are tribu- taries of the River Quechee.




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