History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 80

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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Madgett, John, an early settler of Tunbridge, Vt., was a hotel-keeper in that town. He married Mary Chambers, and had two children. Ira, and Achsa, who married Ira Riddle, and died in 'l'unbridge. Ira married Abigail Knight, of Newburyport, N. H. He had six children : Sarah, Mary, Hannah, John, Abigail, Ira. John, of the above family, was born in Tunbridge, February 9, 1829, where he re-ided until twenty years of age. He then learned the machinist trade in Manchester, N. H., which he followed for twenty years in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California and Vermont. Mr. Madgett enlisted as a private in Company E, First Vermont Cavalry, and received his discharge in April. 1862, and in Angust, 1863, re-enlisted in Company G, Fourth Vermont Infantry, and received a final discharge January, 1865. He was wounded at Spottsylvania Court House, on which account he receives a pension. In 1877 he patented the " Madgett Hay Tedder," which was re-patented in 1883. This machine has taken more than one hundred first premiums, and is sold in the States, Territories and foreign countries. He has been a resident of South Royalton since 1866, removing from Tunbridge, and de- votes his time to the sale of the Hay Tedder. He married, first. Lavina Jane McColley, of New Boston, N. H. They had two children, George A., a telegraph operator in New York city; and Nellie (deceased). He married, second, Mary L. Clifford.

Moxley, Seth, resided in Tunbridge. where he died. He married Marcia Russ, and had a family of five children, none of whom are living. His son Joseph was born in Tunbridge, August 14, 1789, and died in January, 1856. He married Sophia Waldo. Seth, son of Joseph, was born in Tunbridge, October 12, 1828, and married Anna Cleve- land. They had ten children : Sarah A., married James Gould, April 19, 1882; Frank H., married N. Hunt, November 19, 1879; Fred G .; Kate A .; M. Lee; Lena L., married H. E. Russ, January 13, 1884; Lettie M., married George Day, September 4, 1890; Charles S .; L. Winifred ; and Susie M. Mr. Moxley is a farmer, and has been a resident of Royalton since 1843.

Parker, Charles N., was born in Wilmington, Mass., May 12, 1842, 'the only child of Newman and Alice (Sloan) Parker. His father moved with his family to Royalton in 1850. He was a shoemaker by trade, but very soon after his coming to Royalton he became a merchant, in which business he remained until his death, which occurred Oc- tober 8, 1883. His wife died June 23, 1886. They were buried in the North Royalton Cemetery. Mr. Parker attended the Academy School at Royalton. He was employed on the railroad about four years, but at the age of twenty-four he went into company with his father in the mercantile business at Royalton, which was continued till the death of

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his father. He then carried on the business till the time of his death, which occurred August 21, 1887. He was postmaster at Royalton seven years. He married Laura, daughter of John and Philena (Freeman) Williams, who was born in Royalton, Au gust 3, 1842.

Parkhurst, Benjamin, came from Plainfield, Conn., to Sharon, one of its early settlers. After a residence there of five years, on what is now known as the Dana farm, he re- moved to Royalton, settling a farm at the mouth of the second branch of White River. He was the third settler of the town, and was there at the time of the Indian raid. His daughter, Rachel, was the first white female child born in Royalton. He practiced medicine and was the first school teacher in the town. He married Sarah Shepard, and of their twelve children, one died in infancy. The others were Rachel, married Syl- vester Day ; Amy, married Howe Wheeler, and died over ninety years of age; Betsey, married Abel Stevens; Mary, married Otis Wilson; Sarah, married William Smith; Eunice, married General Lovell Hibbard; Simon, Phineas, Ster hen, Coit and Levi. Benjamin died aged ninety-six. Coit Parkhurst, ahore, was born in Royalton, Febru- ary 28, 1800, and died in Hinckley, Ill., July 5, 1884. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Willaim Bingham, of Royalton, who died at Hinekley, March 25, 1890. They had six children : Olive, died sixteen years of age; Helen, died aged twenty-four ; Benja- min Franklin, born in Royalton, June 28, 1826, married Frances J. Graves, and they have one child, Helen M., and reside in Worcester, Mass .; Agnes, died thirty-three years of age; William Frederick, died in infancy ; and Frederica, wife of A. F. Prinee, of Hinekley, Ill.

Perrin, Asa, was born in Woodstock, Conn. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and was at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, and his sword is now in possession of his great-grandson, Horace H. Perrin, of Randolph, Vt. His wife was Olive Bellows, of Canterbury, Conn. Three of his sons, Asa, Nathaniel, and Greenfield, came to Royal- ton as early as 1786. The latter was born in Woodstock, Conn., March 11, 1763, and married in 1791 Sally, daughter of William and Tammesin (Cady) Ashcroft. She was born in Connecticut, December 3, 1775, and died in Northfield, Vt., while on a visit to her sister, June 18, 1842. Greenfield purchased the farm now in possession of his son, Ira, of Daniel Fuller, the deed being dated June 26, 1786. He died June 2, 1854. They had twelve children, viz .: William, born February 11, 1793, married Naney Morrill, of Randolph, Vt., and died in Wisconsin; Serepta, born April 16, 1797, died January 4. 1878; Daniel, born February 16, 1799, died January 19, 1855 ; Fannella, born April 11, 1801. married Alfred Converse, died at Moretown, Vt .; John, born March 8, 1803, mar- ried Elsie Herrick, of Northfield, Vt., and lives in Lebanon, N. H .; Oel, born May 30. 1805, married Sabrina Strong, of Randolph, Vt., and lives in Brookfield, Vt .; Eliza, born June 16, 1807, died October 21, 1826; Lueretia, born March 7, 1810, wife of James Murch, of Lebanon, N. H .; Alzina, born May 6, 1812, married Chester Green, died April 29, 1890; Asa, born March 20, 1816, married, first, Hannah Simonds, of Rox- bury, Vt., and second, Mary Strong, of Randolph, Vt., and died November 30, 1888;' Ira, born in Royalton, June 27, 1818, and married, first, December 21, 1841, Clarissa. daughter of Calvin and Betsey (Hineher) Ellis. Their only child, Lilla, is not living. Mrs. Perrin died in 1863, and he married, second, June 10, 1869, Mrs. Weltha A. Holden, nee Simonds.

Rix, Daniel, born in Preston, Conn., in 1738, became a resident of Rovalton in 1778, and married Rebecca Johnson. Their children were Gardner, Joseph, Daniel, Elisha, Susannah, Rebecca and Jerusha. Daniel died at Royalton in 1823. Elisha, son of Daniel, born in Preston. Conn., in 1778, married Betsey Flinn. They had eight children, viz .: Almira, Emily, George, Charles, William, Lucy, Susan and Edward. Elisha died in 1853. William, son of Elisha, born in Royalton, July 10, 1810, married Catharine F. Kendall. They have two daughters, Catharine Kendall, wife of William Skinner, of Royalton ; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph D. Dennison, at West Randolph, Vt. William Rix is a grad- nate of the University of Vermont, and from 1834 to 1865 was engaged in mereantile business in the South, since which time he has been a resident of Royalton.

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Russ, Jeremiah, one of the early settlers of Royalton, was a native of Connecticut. He married Eunice Moxley and had three children, viz .: Thomas, Eunice died young, and Harmina died single.

Russ, Thomas, son of Jeremiah, was born in Royalton, March 31, 1789, and married January 1, 1811, Judith Morrill, who was born August 16, 1789. They had six children : Niel, resides in East Bethel, Vt .; Nathaniel, died in Haverhill, Mass .; Jeremiah, died young ; Eunice, died young; Jeremiah ; and Ira M., resides in Royalton. Thomas died in April, 1869.

Russ, Jeremiah, son of Thomas, born in Royalton, September 28, 1824, married, May 29, 1845, Mary C. Kenworthy. They had two children : Thomas Jeremiah, born in Royalton, July 20, 1848, married Susan Perrin, resides in Brookfield, Vt .; and Martha Eunice (deceased). Mr. Russ resides on the farm settled by his grandfather.

Sewall, Philip G., the son of John, was born at Wilmot, N. H., September 21, 1818. He has been a resident of Royalton since 1835. He married Eunice M. Howe, and has three children, viz .: Elmina C., wife of Josiah G. Bennett, of Royalton ; Ellen A., widow of Samuel Heaton, resides in Keene, N. H .; and Norman W., born in Royalton, September 5, 1847, married Frances J. Bennett. They have one child, Blanche C. Norman W. is engaged in farming.

Stickney, Rev. Moses Parsons, was born in Rowley, Mass., July 12, 1807. He spent two years in Demmer Academy in that town, afterwards went to Farmingham Acad- emy, and entered Harvard College in 1825 and remained two years, but was obliged to relinquish his studies on account of ill-health. He afterwards was graduated from Am- herst College in 1830. The next two years he was engaged in school teaching. He then became a student at the Bangor Theological Seminary, where he remained two years, when he entered the Theological Department of Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1835. He was ordained at Eastport, Me., 1836, and settled over the Con- gregational church in that place. In 1841 he became an Episcopalian, and was or- dained by Bishop Griswold at St. Ann's church, at Lowell, Mass. His first parish was St. Michael's church, Marblehead, Mass., in 1842, where he remained five years. His next charge was St. Peter's church, Cambridgeport, Mass., where he also remained five years. From 1851 to 1852 he was rector of Burlington College, Burlington, N. J. From the spring of 1853 to the summer of 1871 he was assistant rector of the Church of the Advent at Boston. At the latter period he removed to Vermont, and till 1888 was the rector of Christ's church at Bethel, Vt., and St. Paul's Episcopal church at Royalton, Vt. He married Jane Frances Curry. of St. Andrews, N. B., by whom he had five children, viz .: Elizabeth (deceased), married Nathaniel Whittier ; William Brunswick Curry, an attorney at Bethel; Agnes died at fifteen years of age; Henry Storer, died five years of age; Cornelia Loring resides at Boston.

Waldo, Zachariah, born in Pomfret, Conn., December 25, 1765, married Abigail Cor- hin, of Dudley, Mass. Their children were Sarah, died single; Ralph; William resides in Stonght n, Mass .; Mahala (deceased) married a Mr. Reynolds; Lonisa, widow of Isaac Upham, lives at North Grovensdale, Conn .; Sullivan died in Royalton ; John died in the West; and Joseph Warr n resides in Royalton. Zachariah was killed by falling from the roof of his house, August 3, 1818. Ralph, his son, born in Royalton, Septem- ber 11, 1797, married, March 31, 1828, Parmelia Wheat, who was born in Pittsfield, Vt., March 11, 1809. Their children were William Leavins; Emma Louisa, wife of George Curtis, of Stoughton, Mass .; Charles Francis; Marie Antoinette (deceased), married Chester D. Clark ; Joseph Warren; Mary Elizabeth, widow of Nicholas Vesper, resides in Royalton ; Benjamin Franklin lives in Santa Cruz county, Cal .; George Washington resides in Allegan, Mich ; Henry R. hves in California ; Willis Wales died aged thirteen ; Flora Adelia, wife of the Rev. Alphonso Dunbar, Second Advent preacher, located in Ohio; and Jennie Adell, widow of Frank Bailey, resides in Royalton. Ralph died Jan- uary, 1869. Charles Francis, son of Ralph, born in Royalton, October 11, 1833, mar- ried March 22, 1860, Fannie, daughter of Mark and Sarah L. (Harris) Bowen. Their

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children are Nellie, died in infancy ; Edward C., assistant cashier of the Trader's Bank, of kirwin, Kan .; and Willis C. married Fannie M. Bigelow, of Barnard, and at present resides there.

Waller, (Deacon) Israel, was the first settler of this family in Windsor county and lo- cated at Royalton. He was a native of Connecticut. He married Anna Buffington, and among his children were David; Calvin, a lawyer who resided in New York city, where he died; Silas, a doctor who lived and died in New York city ; and Sarah. Dea- con Waller was related to General Israel Putnam.

Waller, David, son of Israel, was born in Royalton, and was captured during the In- dian raid on that town in 1780, was taken to Montreal and was two years away from his home. Among his children were Daniel, Sarah, Anna and Israel.

Waller, Daniel, of the above family, was born in Royalton in 1794, and married Mary Russell of Cambridge, Mass. Their children were Emily, wife of James Gilson of Brookfield, Ill .; Julia, wife of Harvey Ellis of Springfield, Mass .; Patten died in Bethel, aged twenty years ; and David F. Daniel died in November, 1878.

Waller, David F., was born in Royalton, February 25, 1824, and married Mary D., daughter of Daniel S. and Lydia B. (Lewis) Hallett, a native of Hyannis, Mass. They had two children, Mary E. and Daniel B. David F. was for a number of years con- ductor on the Boston and Worcester Railroad and died in Worcester, Mass., July 23, 1867. Daniel B. died July 29, 1867.

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A BBOTT, SOLOMON S., was born in Barnard, December 4, 1814. His great-grandfather, Daniel, was one of the earliest settlers of the town of Stockbridge. He raised a large family. He died in Stockbridge. His wife survived him, and died in Stockbridge upwards of ninety years of age. Daniel, his son, born in Connecticut, married Eleanor Blodgett. They had ten children, only two of whom are living, viz .: Elam, living in Washington, on the Pacific Coast, and Amanda, wife of Reuben Whit- comb. Of these ten children, Daniel, father of S. S., was born in Ran- dolph, Vt., January 1, 1789, and died in Stockbridge, aged seventy-three. He married Lucy Barnes, born in Barnard, November 20, 1787. Their children were Elvira, born January 16, 1812, widow of William Strong, and lives in Stockbridge; Solomon S .; Roxanna, born February 12, 1816, wife of Nelson Ellison, of Bethel, Vt .; Harrison, born August 14, 1820, farmer living in Stockbridge ; Lucy, born April 25, 1822, died August 28, 1824 ; Benjamin F., born November 23, 1824, died August 20, 1825 ;

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Daniel F., born December 17, 1827 ; Carpenter, lives in Rutland ; Lucy Celina, born August 25. 1830, wife of Amos Guernsey, lives in Pitts field, Vt. Solomon S. married, March 10, 1842, Lucy L., daughter of Irad and Sally (Lyon) Taggart. Mrs. Abbott was born in Stockbridge, August 31, 1820. Their children were Elbridge I., born March 4, 1844, died in Michigan, October 23, 1884 ; Francilla S., born October 2, 1845, married Ira Holt, farmer living in Pittsfield, Vt .; Helen M., born April 25, 1848, died April 11, 1852; George I., born July 10, 1855, married June 10, 1879, Anna E. Cady ; they have two children, Samuel L. and Lucy M ; George I. is a merchant in Quechee, Vt .; Lillie L., born July 6, 1857, died March 2, 1866; Roxanna, born June 30, 1860, married June 30, 1887, William M. Angier, a grocer merchant of Rutland ; she has one child, an infant ; Fred S., born May 24, 1864, unmarried, living at home. Mr. Abbott has always been a resident of Stockbridge, a farmer by oc- cupation. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott have been members of the Stockbridge Congregational church for many years.

B ISBEE, AARON, was born in Springfield, January 21, 1815. His grandfather, Captain Abner Bisbee, was prominently identified with the early settlement of Springfield, and married Mary, daughter of George Hall, who was also an early settler of the town. Elisha, his father, was born in Springfield, Vt., and married Mary Grout, of Weath- ersfield, Vt. They had a family of fifteen children, Aaron being the eighth child and fifth son. His education was limited to the district schools of his native town, his early life being spent on his father's farm. At the age of nineteen he went West, locating at Ann Arbor, Mich., which place was then in its infancy. Remaining there till 1839, he re- turned to Vermont, and was for a number of years engaged in the foundry business at Brandon. At the death of his father he purchased the old homestead in Springfield, and engaged in farming. In 1853 he went to Oswego, N. Y., engaged in the roofing business, and finally went to Buffalo, and for one year was connected with his brother-in-law, under the firm name of Warren & Bro., in the manufacture of roofing ma- terial. He afterwards removed to Long Island City, N. Y., and was for twenty years connected with the Warren Chemical Manufacturing Com- pany at Hunter's Point, Long Island, and was for many years superin-

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tendent of their works. During this time he was also identified with the Warren Bros. Oil Company, M. M. Steel & Co., at Long Island, Bisbee & Steele, of New Jersey, who were engaged in the gravel roofing business, and E. B. Warren, of Washington, D. C., in the appliance and manu- facture of roofing material. He returned to his native town in 1875, where he resided until his death. In politics he was a Democrat. Mr. Bisbee was but once a candidate for political honors. On the organiza- tion of Long Island City, at the earnest request of his party friends, he consented to be their nominee on the Citizens ticket for mayor, but was defeated by a small majority. He married, January 21, 1844, Elvira F., daughter of Jesse and Betsey (Jackson) Warren. She was born in Ded ham, Mass., February 10, 1817. They had two children : Charles Eugene resides in Springfield, and Fred Warren died unmarried. Mr. Bisbee died September 14, 1882.

B URKE, UDNEY, the third son of Elijah and Grace (Jeffers) Burke, was born in Westminster, Vt., September 1, 1806. In his early life he learned the trade of tanner and currier, and removed to Stanstead, Province of Quebec, Canada, where he followed his trade for a number of years. In 1836 he removed to Michigan City, Ind., where, after re- maining four years, he came to Springfield. From this time till 1878 he was engaged in the mercantile and manufacturing interests of the latter town ; was one of the organizers and members of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Springfield. Mr. Burke was originally a Democrat in politics, but after the organization of the Republican party became one of its supporters. He married, January 1, 1833, Mary, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Chaplin) McKinstery. She was born in Royalton, Vt., August 17, 1812. They had three children, viz .: Ed- mund Chaplin ; Olivia Adelade, born February 4, 1835, married, Octo- ber 26, 1857, Lieut. Henry W.Closson, U. S. A., and died at Fort Schuyler, New York city, June 21, 1866, leaving two children, Henry Burke and Olivia Texeta ; and Ellen Adell, who died at the age of six years. Mr. Burke lost his wife April 14, 1866, and during the last ten years of his life withdrew from all active business. His death occurred May 7, 1888.

Edmund Chaplin Burke, mentioned above, was born in Stanstead, October 5, 1833, and married, first, January 15, 1857, Elnora Mason.

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Their child, Arthur Udney, was born in Springfield, March 25, 1859, and was married at Independence, Mo., June 27, 1886, to Ida Blankin- ship ; they reside in Kansas City, Mo., and have one child, Velma Elnora. Mr. E. C. Burke married, second, September 6, 1864, Loantha, daugh- ter of Gardner and Lucy Herrick. She was born in Springfield, June 25, 1844. Their child, Mary Edna, married, June 29, 1887, Charles H. Moore; they have one child, Edmund Burke, born May 12, 1888, and reside in Springfield.

C ALL JOSEPH A., the only son in a family of eleven children of Ira and Hannah (Hastings) Call, was born in Colerain, Mass., Decem- ber 19, 1828. His father was a farmer, and our subject received only the benefit of a common school education. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to learn the trade of weaver in C. T. Shattuck's cotton- mill, located in his native town. At the age of twenty-one he was over- seer of the weave-room, and afterwards became superintendent of the works. In 1865 he acquired a quarter interest in the mill, the firm being then Shattuck & Whitton, and retained his interest till 1869, when he removed to Perkinsville and became an equal owner in the cotton- mills at that place, under the firm name of Whitton & Call. This firm suffered disastrous losses in the flood of 1869, and at the death of the senior partner in 1873 Mr. Call became sole owner and carried on the works successfully till 1886, when he retired from active business. In politics a Republican, Mr. Call was never an aspirant for political hon- ors. He married, July 5, 1848, Emily, daughter of Charles and Philana (Lyon) Elmer. She was born in Ashfield, Mass., September 3, 1829. They had three children, viz .: Ira, died at two years of age ; Edwin I., born in Colerain, October 10, 1857, married Adelaine, daughter of George C. and Emily (Houghton) Shedd ; they have one child, Fred E .; and Joseph W., born in Weathersfield, February 10, 1873. The two brothers carry on the business on the site occupied by their father under the firm name of Call Manufacturing Company. Mr. Call died Febru- ary 4, 1889.

D ILLON, WILLIAM, born in the parish of Glanverth, County Cork, Ireland, March 5, 1834, is the eldest son of John and Mary (Sullivan) Dillon. His parents emigrated to America in 1846, with a

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family of two sons and three daughters, one of whom died on the pass- age. They landed in New York city December 3, 1846. Our subject's early education was attained at a private school in his native town. His father was engaged in farming in the old country, but soon after his ar- rival in America obtained employment in a woolen-mill in Oxford, Mass. Mr. Dillon, then only a youth of twelve years, commenced work in the carding-room, where he was employed till 1854. The next three years he was an employee in a woolen-mill at Millbury, Mass. From 1857 to 1864 he was superintendent of the carding-room of the Otter River Manufacturing Company, at Otter River, Mass., and filled the same po- sition from 1864 to 1866 at the Pascoag Woolen-Mills, at Pascoag, R. I. In the latter year he removed to Ballston Spa, N. Y., and for one year had charge of the carding-room of the Glen Woolen Company. He then returned to Burrillsville, R. I., and till July, 1871, was superintendent of the carding-room of the Granite Mills. Removing to Springfield at the date last mentioned he formed a partnership with Michael Collins and Hamlin Whitmore, under the firm name of Collins, Dillon & Co., and en- gaged in the manufacture of woolens. After three years the senior mem- ber retired from the firm, and in 1880 Mr. Whitmore's interest was pur- chased by Mr. Dillon, who has since conducted the business alone. In politics till 1884 Mr. Dillon was a Democrat, but upon that party ad- vancing free trade doctrines, he joined the Republican party, and has since affiliated with that party. He married Ellen Berrigan, and has had five children, viz .: Mary Ellen, resides at home ; Kate Agnes, wife of Hugh Quinn, of Springfield; John Emmett; Frederick William; and Ed- ward Franklin, who was killed at the Hartford bridge disaster on the Central Vermont Railroad.

F ORBUSH, HON. CHARLES A., the eldest son of Rufus and Fe- dilia (Hapgood) Forbush, was born in Reading, Vt., January 8, 1823. After attending the district schools he became a student at the Unity Academy, Unity, N. H., under the tutelage of James Ashton Hull. He afterwards, for several terms, attended the South Woodstock Academy. He taught school for five or six winters, and by this means completed his education. He engaged in the mercantile business, and was for seven years a clerk in a general store at Felchville, Vt. In 1853

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he opened a store in Springfield, which he successfully conducted for ten years, doing during that period the largest business in the village. He helped to organize the First National Bank of Springfield in 1863, and is still an active member of its board of directors. In 1874 he was elected president of the Springfield Savings Bank, and on the death of the treasurer in 1880 he was elected treasurer, which position he now holds. But few men have done more in the past twenty years to ele- vate the public schools in his town than Mr. Forbush. He was a mem - ber of the Board of Directors of the State Prison for several years, and for twenty years in the Board of Directors of Windsor County Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He served for a number of years as first se- lectman, and represented the town in the Legislature of the State in 1864-65. Mr. Forbush married Elizabeth Davis, and has one son, Frank Davis, a graduate of Vermont University, at present engaged in the furniture manufacturing business at Grand Rapids, Mich.

G RAVES, LELAND J., M. D., was born in Berkshire, Franklin county, Vt., May 24. 1812. His grandfather, a native of Massa- chusetts, married a Miss Jewett, reared a family of ten children, four sons and six daughters, all except one of whom reached adult age and reared families. His father, David J. Graves, born October 29, 1785, at Leo- minster, Mass., was the second of the boys. After the death of his father his mother married for her second husband Colonel John Boyn- ton, and he came with the latter from Massachusetts and settled in Weathersfield, Vt. He married at Chester, Vt., first, Mary Leland, born at Grafton, Mass., December 26, 1786, and had children as follows : Sereno W., born October 11, 1810; Leland J .; Calvin Jewett, born April 17, 1814; and Zuinglius Franklin, born September 10, 1815, died March 7, 1829. Sereno W. and Calvin J. are farmers, living in Rut land, Wis. Mary Leland Graves died at Berkshire, Vt., July 4, 1817. David J. married, second, Sarah Colbath. The children by this union were Mary L., born June 16, 1818, died June II, 1871; Hannah B, born November 17, 1820, died December 31, 1870 ; she was the wife of Simeon Morse; Lydia S., born September 13, 1824, married, first, a Mr. Robson, second, Hiram Spenser ; Joanna, born in 1826, married, first, Mark Hardy, second, Platt Gregory. Lydia S., a widow, and

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History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 80

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

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