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ii. EUGENE W., b. Dec. 8, 1916; d. Mar., 1937.
LAKE*
HENRY CLARK8 (Henry Edward,7 Clark,6 Henry,5 Henry,4 Daniel,3 Eleazer,2 Henry1), b. Feb. 20, 1883; m. Sept. 14, 1914, Maud Goodell, b. Dec. 18, 1880.
Children:
1. EDWARD H.,9 b. Sept. 22, 1915; m. Sarah Wyman, June 28, 1938. Children:
i. KATHLEEN, b. June 25, 1939.
ii. COLIN, b. Aug. 2, 1940.
iii. NANCY, b. June 21, 1943.
iv. ANITA, b. Mar. 26, 1950.
2. NORMAN W., b. July 16, 1917; m. Joan Kelton, Jan. 27, 1952. Child:
i. TRACY CLARK, b. Oct. 17, 1952.
3. HENRY E., b. June 23, 1919; m. Ernestine Kimball, Sept. 28, 1946. Children:
i. PETER G., b. Sept. 16, 1947.
ii. SUSAN C., b. Oct. 18, 1948.
iii. DEBORAH J., b. Dec. 28, 1951.
iv. GARY K., b. June 20, 1953.
4. MARY ELLEN, b. Mar. 16, 1923; m. Bernard Sauve. Children:
i. RONALD
ii. WALLACE
iii. EDWARD
5. MARGARET L., b. June 21, 1927; m. Elmer Gibbs, Jan. 25, 1945.
MAUDE MARION8 (Edwin Raymond,7 Clark6), b. Sept. 23, 1884; m. Robert S. May, Madison, Conn. who died Oct. 6, 1941. Children:
1. ROBERT S. JR., b. Aug. 1, 1917; m. Anita Hunting Oct. 24, 1947, Madison, Conn.
CORINNE WILEY8, b. Jan. 10, 1907; m. Clarence Beecher Coleman, S. R., Dec. 27, 1954.
CLARA L.8 (ColinC.,7 Clark6), b. Oct. 31, 1883; m. Walter Cate. Children :
1. CAROLINE, b. Nov. 20, 1911; m. Royal B. Cutts, Townshend, Vt. Children:
i. MARY L., b. Sept. 25, 1935.
ii. HOWARD, b. Mar. 29, 1938.
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iii . LINDA, b. July 31, 1949.
2. HELEN, b. Feb. 13, 1918; m. Gilbert Hotchkiss. Child: i. BETSY, b. Aug. 16, 1942.
BESSIE L.,8 b. Jan. 25, 1888; m. Raymond Fitch. Children :
1. KARAH L., b. Nov. 5, 1910; m. Abbott Robinson. Children:
i. BRANT A., b. Nov. 15, 1934.
ii. JUDITH G., b. Feb. 21, 1937.
2. GRACE W., b. Dec. 28, 1912; d. Aug. 17, 1932.
3. BESSIE M., b. Jan. 3, 1918; m. Maurice Turgeon. Children:
i. NANCY L., b. Aug. 21, 1949.
ii. MAURICE H., b. Sept. 12, 1950.
iii. ANDREW C., b. Feb. 8, 1953.
RUTH A.,8 b. Apr. 15, 1891; m. Warren P. Drown, July 31, 1914; d. Oct. 14, 1941.
Children:
1. WARREN B. JR., b. May, 16, 1916; m. Gertrude Hall, Dec. 10, 1938. Children:
i. CHARLES, b. Aug. 19, 1940.
ii . RUTH, b. Mar. 25, 1944.
2. COLIN C., b. Sept. 27, 1919; m. June 9, 1942, Elizabeth Ann Corley, b. Jan. 11, 1920. Children:
i. COLIN C. JR., b. Sept. 10, 1944.
ii. SARAH N., b. Sept. 10, 1946.
iii. MARGARET R., b. Dec. 11, 1950.
DEAN H.,8 b. Oct. 23, 1894; m. Mar. 2, 1919, Agnes Greene. Children (all b. in Honolulu) :
1. PHYLLIS J., b. Dec. 9, 1920; m. Frederick Dobson, July 27, 1941. Children:
i. DAVID W., b. May 9, 1948.
ii. ANNE E., b. May 18, 1952.
2. ELIZABETH J., b. Sept. 4, 1922; m. Luke W. Heald, June 5, 1948. Children:
i. THOMAS C., b. June 9, 1949.
ii. JANICE R., b. Dec. 11, 1952.
3. PATRICIA M., b. Aug. 21, 1928; m. Robert P. Shepperd, Aug. 15, 1953.
GORDON C.,8 b. Sept. 18, 1899; m. July 6, 1935, Selma Anderson. Children:
1. PATRICIA A., b. Sept. 18, 1941.
2. LORRAINE D., b. Dec. 13, 1944.
LAWRENCE*
JOHN PROCTOR3 (Martin,2 Rufus1), b. Bartonsville, Vt. ,June 1, 1873; hardware merchant, B. F .; m. Jan. 8, 1902, Charlotte G. Banyeau; d. June 6, 1936.
Children:
1. MARTEIL, b. Sept. 25, 1904, Skidmore Col. 1927; m. Harry Fran- cisco, Great Notch, N. J., Oct. 11, 1930. Children:
i. JOHN H., b. July 23, 1931.
ii. £ DAVID L., b. June 23, 1934. iii . PETER J., b. Sept. 14, 1939. iv. H. GLEN, b. Mar. 26, 1946.
2. GLEN BERNIER, b. May 25, 1908; Vt. Academy 1928, Colby Col. 1932; m. Byrl Wheeler, Miami Beach, Fla., June 23, 1936; director Pan Am. World Airways, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Children:
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i. PETER GLEN, b. May 11, 1941.
ii . MICHAEL JOHN, b. July 11, 1944.
iii . DAVID WHEELER, b. Sept. 28, 1948; d. Sept. 8, 1949.
JAY H.,3 b. Jan. 9, 1879, Rockingham; d. May 20, 1913 at B. F .; m. Aug. 26, 1903, Lena M. Miller of Potsdam, N. Y., dau. John W. and Fanny (Murray) Miller. He was supt. streets in B. F. 1907-1913.
Children:
1. MARTIN J. (Rear Ad. U.S.N.), b. Jan. 29, 1905; m. (1) Esther, dau. Walter and Bertha Smith of B. F .; she d. July 8, 1952. M. (2) Dec. 5, 1954, Caroline Weeks of Long Beach, Calif. Children:
i. MARTIN J., JR., b. Jan. 26, 1932, San Diego, Calif .; m. May 13, 1954, Ruth Page of Tulsa, Okla. Children: Martin Glen, b. Mar. 20, 1955., Tulsa, Okla.
ii . SALLY E., b. Aug. 26, 1936, Vallejo, Calif,; m. Oct. 26, 1956, Washington, D. C., Leroy Ward.
2. MARJORIE ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 3, 1906; d. May 2, 1952; Skidmore Col. 1929; m. Oct. 12, 1931 Richard Bragg of B. F. Children:
i. RICHARD LAWRENCE, b. Apr. 5, 1934.
ii. ELIZABETH JEANNE b. Mar. 9, 1937; m. Stanley Patch, Oct. 6, 1956, B. F.
iii. ROBERT A., b. Sept. 23, 1941.
3. BARBARA LOUISE, b. Mar. 22, 1908; m. Sept. 29, 1934, Walter Bartlett of B. F .; B.U. 1930. Children:
i. JAY WALTER, b. Aug. 11, 1935.
KATHARINE LOUISE., b. Feb. 10, 1943.
4. NELSON ROY, b. Jan. 17, 1911; d. Jan. 23, 1938.
LEACH*
JOHN6 (Capt. Joseph,5 Paul,4 Robert,3 Robert,2 Lawrence1), b. at Man- chester, Mass., (son of Joseph, a sea captain, and first wife Jerusha Dodge), Aug. 14, 1772. He went to Rockingham, Vt., where he died Oct. 13, 1829. He m. first, in Rockingham, Jan. 1796, Susanna Wiley, who was b. 1770. She d. Aug. 24, 1803 (Gravestone). He m. (2) March 25, 1804, Hannah Perry of Rockingham.
Children (by first wife) :
1. JOHN, b. Sept. 28, 1796; bpt. May 14, 1797; d. Feb. 9, 1814.
ii. EMILY, b. June 14, 1799; d. Aug. 7, 1847.
1. iii. JOSEPH,7 b. Oct. 27, 1801; m. Jerusha Allen.
1. JOSEPH,7 b. Saxtons River, Vt., Oct. 27, 1801; d. Westminster, Vt., Nov. 11, 1873; m. June 6, 1824 at Hopkinton, N. H., Jerusha Allen, who was b. Oct. 12, 1801, d. at Westminster, Vt., Feb. 28, 1877.
Children:
i. EMILY H., b. May 29, 1826.
ii. LYDIA, b. Nov. 17, 1827.
2. iii JOHN SEWELL,8 b. Aug. 17, 1829.
iv. SUSANNA, b. Oct. 13, 1835.
v. JOSEPH A., b. Apr. 15, 1836.
vi. LAURA JERUSHA, b. June 11, 1839.
vii. DAVID W., b. Sept. 30, 1841.
2. JOHN SEWELL,8 son of Joseph and Jerusha, b. Saxtons River, Vt., Aug. 17, 1829; d. Westminster, Vt., Mar. 7, 1898. He m. in Boston, Mass., Sept. 2, 1852, Etta P. Parker of Keene, N. H. Educated for Civil Engineer but became a farmer in Westminster, Vt.
Children:
i. EMMA ESTELLA, b. Sept. 11, 1858; m. Aug. 14, 1878, Albian E. Brigham.
ii. WALTER PERRY, b. March 26, 1860; m. Walpole, N. H., Jan. 19, 1887, Mabel Lois Blake.
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3. iii. HERBERT WARD, b. Dec. 27, 1861.
iv. JOHN EUGENE, b. Feb. 6, 1863; m. Dec. 1855, Grace Holt of Boston.
3. HERBERT WARD,9 son of John Sewell and Etta Leach, b. Dec. 27, 1861, Westminster, Vt .; m. Redington, N. J. Mar. 31, 1886, Gretta Cox, dau. of Tunis and Phebe Cox, b. 1862.
Children:
i. HERBERT ALLEN, b. Oct. 11, 1894; m. June 21, 1921, Gertrude Cook, dau. Louis and Isabel.
4. ii. WILFRED ERNEST,10 b. Apr. 10, 1897
iii. GRETTA FRANCES, b. Feb. 23, 1901; m. June 30, 1920, George Wood, son of Charles and Ethel.
5. iv. ETTA MAGDALENE,10 b. Apr. 6, 1903
4. WILFRED ERNEST,10 son of Herbert and Gretta; m. Mildred Wood, dau. of John and Clara Wood, b. Apr. 23, 1896.
Children:
i. BARBARA MILDRED, b. Sept. 7, 1923; m. Oct. 12, 1946, Roland M. O4Dette, b. Apr. 23, 1924, son of Elmon and Lena A. (LaRose). Child: Christine Ann, b. Apr. 19, 1949.
ii. JOHN BRADFORD, b. June 9, 1925; m. Jan. 27, 1950, Rochester, N. Y., Ruth Gurney, b. Aug. 24, 1931, dau. of George and Wil- helmina Gurney of Rochester. Child: David Scott, b. Sept. 14, 1952.
iii. Twin LAWRENCE HERBERT, b. Oct. 15, 1931, d. Oct. 23, 1931. iv. Twin WILFRED FOSTER, b. Oct. 15, 1931.
5. ETTA MAGDALENE,10 m. (1) Elkton, Md., Jan. 30, 1925, Walter Opie Hall, b. Mar. 5, 1902, d. Mar. 4, 1936; son of George and Lydia (Cox) Hall; m. (2) Sept. 1, 1942, Laurence Goodell Harlow. Children:
i. HERBERT WALTER HALL, b. May 11, 1926, at Three Bridges, N. J.
LEEN or LEENE
MAURICE m. Catherine Barry of Ireland.
Children:
1. JOHN, b. Dec. 15, 1858, Killflynn, County Kerry, Ireland; m. Sept. 5, 1889, Mary Alice dau. Daniel and Mary White Finn, b. Jan. 27, 1886. Children:
i. JOHN EDWARD, mgr. Travelers Ins., Rochester, N. Y .; b. Mar. 2, 1891, Keene, N. H .; m. Sept. 1, 1920, Eileen, dau. Dennis and Mary Sweeney Harris, b. Jan. 27, 1896, Tralee, Ireland. Children:
I. JOHN EDWARD, JR., b. Apr. 11, 1922, Manchester, N. H .; m. Nov. 26, 1955, Norma Louise DePrez, b. Mar. 14, 1928, Rochester.
II. MARY JANE, b. Oct. 1, 1923; d. in infancy.
III. ROBERT HARRIS, b. Apr. 23, 1926, Worcester, Mass .; m. Mar. 31, 1951, Mary Louise Nortz, b. Aug. 15, 1928, Lowville, N. Y. Children: Anne Marie, b. Feb. 24, 1952; John Russell, b. Mar. 30, 1953; Sara Katharine, b. Feb. 7, 1955; all b. Rochester.
ii. LEO MAURICE, b. Jan. 11, 1893; m. Nov. 20, 1943, Springfield, Mass., Agnes Julie, dau. George and Anna Kingston, b. Sept. 15, 1896, Agawam, Mass.
2. PATRICK B., came to America and B. F. 1883; employed by L. G. and C. E. Howard, coal dealers before going into business for himself in 1892 which he carried on until 1922 and during two coal strikes was the only dealer with a supply of coal on hand. When the new canal bridge was completed Aug. 1900, he was the first person to drive across it, with his team of horses, Chub and Jim; b. Mar. 13, 1860, County Kerry, Ireland; d. Nov. 3, 1939,
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B. F .; m. Mary, dau. Eugene and Johanna Brosnahan Cray, b. Dec. 1, 1845, Ireland, d. May 3, 1929, B. F .; once cook at the Island House. Child:
i. MARY, b. Dec. 9, 1888, B. F .; m. Oct. 14, 1918, Bernard, son of Thomas B. and Margaret Griffin O4Connor, b. Mar. 27, 1885.
LOVELL*
ALEXANDER,1 b. 1619, England; m. 1664, Lydia Leland, Medfield, Mass .; d. Dec. 20, 1709, Medfield. Shc d. July 2, 1700, Medfield.
NATHANIEL,2 b. Oct. 16, 1672, Medfield, Mass .; d. Mar., 1731; m. Junc 8, 1696, Dedham, Mass., Abigail Davis, d. 1744, Medfield.
MICHAEL,3 b. Mar. 13, 1705, Medway, Mass .; d. 1752, Worcester, Mass .; m. May 15, 1726, Newbury, Mass., Mary Morse,4 (Joseph,3 Lt. Samuel,2 Joseph1), b. 1707, Medfield.
ELIJAH,4 b. Apr. 20, 1749, Worcester, Mass .; d. Aug. 15, 1816, Rock- ingham, Vt .; m. Jan. 23, 1791, Rockingham, Abigail Goldsbury3 (John,2 John1), b. Mar. 27, 1761, Bellingham, Mass., d. Dec. 1, 1831, Rockingham.
CHRISTOPHER5 (see Lovell*)
LEWIS CHRISTOPHER6 (see Lovell*).
LEVERETT TIMOTHY,7 b. Oct. 14, 1841, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Feb. 14, 1861, Springfield, Vt., Amine Putnam7 (Timothy,6 Timothy,5 Timothy,4 Seth,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), b. Dec. 25, 1839, Springfield, d. Feb. 26, 1911, Rockingham. He died Dec. 11, 1913.
Children:
1. FRED LEVERETT,8 b. July 11, 1862; d. Sept. 19, 1895, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Apr. 8, 1891, Emma Goodale, Charlestown, N. H., b. Mar. 29, 1866, d. May 22, 1952. Children:
i, ARCHIE FRED,9 b. Aug. 8, 1892, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Sept. 7, 1915, Fitchburg, Mass., Wendla Charlotte, b. July 13, 1893, dau. of John Peter and Mather (Abrahamson) Larson. Children:
I. FLORENCE AMINE,10 b. Feb. 9, 1918, Fitchburg, Mass .; m. June 21, 1940, Fitchburg, Robert Stanley Ward, b. July 26, 1916, Gardner, Mass.
II. WALTER FRED,10 b. Apr. 9, 1924, Fitchburg, Mass.
2. LEWIS CHRISTOPHER,8 b. Jan. 1, 1867, d. May 18, 1934; m. Oct. 25, 1887, Mamie O. Gaugh, b. Aug. 2, 1867, E. Hampton, Mass., d. Dec. 29, 1950, Bellows Falls, Vt., dau. of Charles Lewis and Marie (Butney) Gaugh. Children:
i. FLORA AMINE,9 b. June 23, 1888, Rockingham, Vt .; m. June 28, 1911, Bellows Falls, Vt., Otto Hoelzel, Springfield Mass. Child:
I. FREDERICK LOVELL,10 b. Oct. 5, 1912, Springfield, Mass .; m. Jan. 27, 1934, Angola, Ind., Fay Quigley, Harris- burg, Ill; Children: Frederick Lovell, Jr.,11 b. Jan. 29, 1941, St. Louis, Mo .; Timothy Wayne, b. July 11, 1942, Detroit, Mich .; Richard Allen, b. Feb. 9, 1944, Detroit, Mich .; Judith Anne, b. Aug. 13, 1945, Detroit, Mich.
ii. LEVERETT CHARLES, b. Oct. 2, 1889; m. Sept. 18, 1918, Mont- pelier, Vt., Frances LeBourveau Stockwell, b. Mar. 9, 1897 (see Stockwell). Children:
I. ANNE STOCKWELL,10 b. Sept. 14, 1919, Bellows Falls,
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Vt .; m. May 23, 1942, Albany, Ga., Capt. Donald Wilson, Jr., Bristol, Vt. Child: Andon (adopted), b. Feb. 27, 1952.
II. ELISABETH GAUGH, b. Feb. 4, 1922, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. June 25, 1944, Rockingham, Vt., Wm. McKinley Bowman, Ensign U.S.N., Hickory, N. C., b. Dec. 11, 1923, son of William and Ethel (Harris) Bowman. Children: Susan Elisabeth, b. Mar. 11, 1946, Atlantic City, N. J .; William McKinley, Jr., b. Apr. 26, 1951, Philadelphia, Pa .; Sara Frances, b. May 8, 1955.
III. LEVERETT PUTNAM, b. Sept. 13, 1923, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. Sept. 27, 1948, Somerville, Mass., Eleanor Joyce, dau. of Russell and Clarrisa James, b. May 21, 1929, St. Stephen, N. B. He d. Aug. 15, 1956, Hanover, N. H.
IV. ALDIS STONE, b. Feb. 6, 1927, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. Aug. 16, 1947, Brattleboro, Vt., Paul R. Lynch, Bellows Falls, Aug. 8, 1926, Child: Jenifer (adopted), b. Jan. 23, 1955.
V. PATIENCE LEBOURVEAU, b. Sept. 30, 1934, Bellows Falls, Vt.
iii. LEWIS CHRISTOPHER,9 b. Jan. 29, 1891, Bellows Falls, Vt .; d. July 1, 1916, Bellows Falls.
iv. MAMIE EMILY, b. Mar. 4, 1892; m. William W. Workman, Oct. 6, 1913, Bellows Falls, Vt. He was b. Sept. 6, 1890, Lindsay, Ont .; d. Apr. 18, 1951, Essex Jct. Children:
I. WILLIAM WELLINGTON, JR.,10 b. July 4, 1914, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. Helen A. Carpenter, b. Sept. 2, 1914, St. Johnsbury, Vt. Children: Janith Arlene, b. Mar. 12, 1944; Christopher Lovell, b. Oct. 15, 1945; Elizabeth Mary, b. Feb. 17, 1949.
II. HELEN VERA, b. June 16, 1916, Bellows Falls, Vt., m. Harold M. Brown, Castleton, Vt. Children: Sarah Joyce, b. Jan. 11, 1942; Harry Martin, b. Oct. 9, 1944.
III. ROBERT LEWIS, b. Jan. 12, 1920, LaGrange, Ill., m. Mary Ellen FitzSimonds, b. Aug. 21, 1922. Children: Timothy Lovell, b. Nov. 20, 1948; Robert Lewis, Jr., b. Feb. 3, 1951.
IV. CHRISTOPHER LOVELL, b. Aug. 24, 1923, Essex Jct., Vt .; killed in action, Jan. 12, 1945, Belgium.
V. RICHARD ALDIS, b. Mar. 11, 1926, Essex Jct., Vt .; m. Eileen F. O4Sullivan, b. Feb. 16, 1925. Children: Mary Alicia, b. Aug. 4, 1950; Richard Aldis, Jr., b. Nov. 9, 1951; John David, b. June 12, 1954.
V. MARJORIE LURA, b. May 8, 1893, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. June 15, 1913, George Henry Dickinson, Bellows Falls, Vt., b. Mar. 25, 1892. He d. Feb. 15, 1957. Children:
I. MARJORIE ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 29, 1914; m. Aug. 15, 1936, Dr. Herbert Scheffer, N. Y. C. Children: Richard Herbert, b. July 28, 1938; David George, b. Aug. 12, 1939; Marjorie Elizabeth, b. Jan. 29, 1947; Herbert Dickinson, b. Jan. 31, 1948.
II. BARBARA LOVELL, b. Oct. 19, 1915; m. June 6, 1943, William Towner, Winchester, Mass. Children: Gail Richardson, b. Mar. 30, 1944; Christopher Allen, b. May 11, 1947; Leslie, b. June 2, 1952.
III. GEORGE EVANS, b. Dec. 12, 1916; m. (1) Aug. 9, 1940, Helena Gipson, Long Beach, Calif. Child: Paul Evans, b. Mar. 24, 1945. M. (2) May 28, 1949, Mary Lee Trader, Salisbury, Md .; res. Long Beach, Calif.
IV. DOROTHY RUTH, b. Jan. 7, 1921; m. Dec. 19, 1942, Ray- mond Frederick Darling, Bloomfield, N. J. Children:
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Dorothy Dee, b. Jan. 14, 1945; Raymond F., Jr., b. May 23, 1947; Susan Elaine, b. Sept. 29, 1952.
V. MARION AMINE, b. Apr. 2, 1922; m. Mar. 29, 1945, William Adams Stoup, Waynesburg, Pa. Children: William Ronald, b. Nov. 22, 1947; Deborah Ann, b. Jan. 21, 1952.
VI. CAROL LOUISE, b. Dec. 24, 1924; m. Apr. 28, 1945, Wil- liam Osteen Hickey, Cusseta, Ga. Child: Carol Ann, b. Dcc. 28, 1946.
VII GEORGE HENRY, JR., b. Mar. 9, 1927; m. (1) Elsie Mills, Westminster, Vt .; Child: James, b. May. M. (2) Jane Corcoran, Connellsville, Pa. Child: Linda Jane, b. Apr. 23, 1953.
VIII. KATHERINE JANE, b. Oct. 16, 1935; m. Feb. 12, 1955, Edward Joseph Sweeney, Jr. Child: Douglas Kevin, b. Sept. 6, 1958, Burlington, Vt. Res. Burlington.
MARSH
LT. ALEXANDER,1 b. 1628, England, came to Braintree, Mass .; m. Dec. 19, 1655, Mary Belcher, b. July, 1639, d. Feb. 17, 1678, dau. of Gregory and Katherine Belcher. He d. Mar. 7, 1698, Braintree.
JOHN,2 Feb. 17, 1678, Braintree, Mass., d. June 22, 1745; m. Aug. 29, 1701, Sarah Wilson, b. 1684, dau. of Dr. John Wilson2 (grad. 1st Class Harvard, min. Medfield, Mass .; son of John Wilson,1 1st min. Boston, Mass., who came with Gov. John Winthrop, 1630). Dr. John's mother, Sarah Hooker, dau. of Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Conn.
MOSES,3 b. Feb. 28, 1714; m. Sept. 5, 1739, Sarah Crosby,4 (Simon,3 Simon,2 Simon1), res. Quincy, Mass.
MOSES,4 b. Feb. 5, 1744, Braintree, Mass .; m. Apr. 19, 1764, (1) Jerusha Owen, b. June 16, 1747, dau. of Joseph Owen4 (Joseph,3 Nathaniel,2 William1) and Elizabeth Newcomb4 (John3, John,2 John1). Came from Chesterfield, N. H. to Rockingham, Vt., 1779, buying lots 11, 12 and 13 of the 4th range. He was probably the Moses Marsh who joined Lt. James Robertson's Co. of Col. Ashley's Reg. of Chesterfield, May 1777 to go to Ft. Ticonderoga. He owned the 1st pew on the west side of center aisle leading to the pulpit in the Old Meeting House in Rockingham, Vt. M. (2) Esther Day, Dec. 19, 1810, Rockingham, Vt. D. before 1820.
Children :
1. JERUSHA, m. Phineas White, Apr. 14, 1788 (see White*).
2. MOSES, JR., m. Elizabeth Campbell, dau. of James and Margaret, Nov. 25, 1790, bpt. Oct. 2, 1774, Rockingham, Vt. Children:
i. LEWIS, b. May 6, 1791; m. Cynthia. Children: Charles, b. Mar. 9, 1818; Emily, b. June 9, 1819; Henry, b. Nov. 22, 1820.
ii. £ JOHN PITT, b. Dec. 9, 1792; res. Townshend, Vt.
iii. BETSY, b. Jan. 12, 1795.
iv. FAYETTE, b. Feb. 7, 1797.
3. SALLY, m. David Oaks, Jan. 19, 1792. Children: (4 sons, 1 dau .- no names).
4. JOSEPH, b. 1769; d. Mar. 14, 1846; m. Anna Pierce, May 19, 1793. Children:
i. ROYAL, b. Nov. 25, 1793.
ii. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 29, 1795.
iii. ANNA, b. Sept. 7, 1797.
iv. OSBORN, b. Aug. 27, 1799; m. Mary Clarke, Apr. 20, 1835.
v. OTIS, b. May 29, 1801; m. Rosella Holden, Feb. 9, 1822.
vi. CHARLES, b. Aug. 15, 1803.
vii . GEORGE, b. May 25, 1805.
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viii. HORACE, b. June 16, 1807; d. June 21, 1811.
ix . BETSY, b. Dec. 11, 1808.
x . SALLY, b. June 14, 1810.
5. JAMES, m. Polly. Children:
i. NANCY, b. Sept. 8, 1795.
ii. PRUDENCE, b. Jan. 25, 1798.
iii . PATTY, b. Mar. 10, 1800; d. Sept. 6, 1801.
iv. POLLY, b. May 12, 1802.
6. JOHN, m. Nabby Stearns, May 26, 1796.
7. BETSY, bpt. Aug. 22, 1779, Rockingham, Vt.
8. DANIEL, bpt. Aug. 22, 1779, Rockingham, Vt.
9. POLLY, bpt, July 3, 1785, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Roswell Burt, June 2, 1806 (see Burt*).
10. SAMUEL, bpt. July 3, 1785, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Sophia Byington, Oct. 22, 1809. Children:
i. NATHANIEL WALKER, b. Nov. 4, 1810.
ii. JARVIS CHASE, b. Dec. 16, 1811.
11. PHOEBE, bpt. Aug. 26, 1787; d. Nov. 4, 1865, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Nov. 18, 1804, Christopher Lovell (see Lovell*).
12. LAFAYETTE
13. THOMAS
MINARD*
GEORGE4 (John,3 Isaac,2 William1)
Children :
1. FANNY A.,5 m. Tyler Williams, Leominster, Mass. Children:
i. GEORGE,6 d. 1925; m. Mae Jennison, Fitchburg, Mass. Chil- dren :
I. KATHARINE MINARD,7 m. Clyde Hill, Jr., Springfield, Mass. Children: Charles and Tyler.
II. LOUISE, res. Washington, D. C.
III. SYBIL, m. Ralph Allis.
HENRY OSCAR4 (see Minard*)
Children:
1. SEYMOUR HENRY,5 res. Westminster West, Vt .; b. Oct. 9, 1869; d. Mar. 22, 1933; m. Dec. 11, 1907, Elizabeth Frances Frazer of Springfield, Mass .; d. July 22, 1933. Children:
i. MARY ELIZABETH,6 b. Mar. 27, 1910; m. Aug. 21, 1941, Stuart Swift Simonds of S. R. (see Simonds).
2. CHARLES EDWARD,5 b. Apr. 24, 1874; d. Mar. 3, 1950; m. Lucy Taylor, b. May 25, 1875, d. Jan. 31, 1945. Children:
i. JOHN PUTNEY,6 b. Aug. 25, 1902; d. Mar. 7, 1941; m. Ruth Bernard. Children: Edna Lucy,7 b. June 26, 1933; Eliza- beth Ann, b. Aug. 9, 1938.
ii. OELLA, teacher in Mass .; b. Oct. 11, 1907.
MORRISON
FRANK WILLIAM,6 (George W.,5 George W .,4 William,3 Samuel,2 John1), b. July 16, 1871, Rockingham, Vt .; d. Aug. 10, 1952; son of George W. and Hattie Wetherbee Morrison; m. Alice Parkis, Jan. 26, 1907, b. Nov. 11, 1871, d. Oct. 23, 1940, Rockingham. Child:
1. FRANCES PARKIS, b. Nov. 3, 1907, Berkeley, Calif .; m. (1) Delano Grant Rice, Aug., 1930; divorced Oct., 1935; m. (2) Herman Weston (see Weston*).
FRED SHERBURNE,6 son of George W. and Hattie; b. Oct. 19, 1874; d. May 17, 1949; m. (1) Cora Mark, Saxtons River, Vt., Sept. 12, 1894. She
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died June 25, 1902; m. (2) Mabel Viola Holt, E. Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1907, Bennington, Vt. She was born Dec. 12, 1916.
Children:
1. CARL LOUIS, b. Apr. 19, 1896; m. Helen Louise Lincoln, Solvay, N. Y., June 6, 1940. Res. Saxtons River and Bennington, Vt. Children:
i. LINDA ANN, b. Feb. 16, 1943, Concord, Mass.
ii. PATRICIA ELLEN, b. May 5, 1946, Belfast, Me.
iii. BRUCE ALLEN, b. Jan. 30, 1948, Palmer, Mass.
iv. CAROL LOUISE, b. July 3, 1952, Palmer, Mass.
2. MARY MARGARET, b. Oct. 12, 1907, Saxtons River, Vt .; m. Leon Roy Hawes, Aug. 7, 1926, Sudbury, Mass. Children:
i. RICHARD ROY, b. Apr. 12, 1927; m. Alice McGovern, Dec. 3, 1950, Framingham, Mass.
ii. DONALD MORRISON, b. Oct. 26, 1928; m. Audrey Hodgdon, June 5, 1949, Sudbury, Mass.
iii. JEAN MARIE, b. Oct. 19, 1931.
iv. DAVID EDISON, b. Dec. 3, 1933.
3. GRACE ELINOR, b. Nov. 13, 1909, Bennington, Vt .; m. George Meura, Gary, Ind., Oct. 2, 1937.
4. JANET, b. Nov. 9, 1911, Bennington, Vt .; m. Louis G. Richardson, May 7, 1932. Children:
i. LOUISE MAY, b. Nov. 29, 1932, Sudbury, Mass.
ii. CAROLINE JANE, b. Dec. 27, 1933, Sudbury, Mass .; m. George Spence, May 15, 1954.
iii. BEATRICE HOLT, b. Aug. 16, 1941, Sudbury, Mass.
iv. FAITH, b. May 22, 1943.
V. LEWIS CARL, b. Feb. 11, 1945.
vi. CLIFFORD WARREN, b. Jan. 30, 1946.
5. PHILLIP SHERBURNE, b. Jan. 4, 1916, Bennington, Vt .; m. May Shaw Best, Sept. 25, 1938, Woburn, Mass. Children:
i. ELAINE MAY, b. Aug. 4, 1940, Maynard, Mass.
ii. DOROTHY JEAN, b. Nov. 21, 1942.
iii . FRED SHAW, b. Mar. 21, 1944.
iv. PHILLIP SHERBURNE, JR., b. Dec. 27, 1951.
6. FREDERICK HOLT, b. Apr. 13, 1920, Wayland, Mass .; m. Apr. 11, 1942, Helen Soberg. Children:
i. DOUGLAS BRIAN, b. July 15, 1943, Sudbury, Mass.
ii. RONALD ALLEN, b. June 15, 1947, Sudbury, Mass. iii. SALLY ANN, b. Aug. 29, 1952, Sudbury, Mass.
7. SHIRLEY ANN, b. July 20, 1922, Sudbury, Mass .; m. Robert Frazier, Divorced May, 1952. Children:
June 21, 1941, Sudbury,
i. ROBERT MOORE, b. Aug. 15, 1942.
ii. WILLIAM HOLT, b. July 31, 1943.
iii. ALEXANDER MORRISON, b. Aug. 7, 1946.
8. WILLIAM DEFOREST, b. Nov. 27, 1925, Sudbury Mass .; m. Margaret Smith, Sept. 9, 1950, Sudbury. Children:
i. JUDITH ANN, b. Aug. 9, 1951.
ii. DAVID SMITH, b. Oct. 22, 1953.
HUGH CHRISTY,6 son of George W. and Hattie, b. May 7, 1877; d. Apr. 19, 1944; m. Leola Edith Greer, Sept. 26, 1907, Rockingham, Vt. Children:
1. FLORENCE HARRIET, b. Mar. 13, 1908; m. Harry Sillman Mc- Clintock, June 21, 1927, Rockingham, Vt. Children:
i. HARRY HUGH, b. Dec. 31, 1927, Hillsboro, N. H .; m. 1953, N. Y. C. Child: Richard Duncan, b. July 14, 1954, Long Island, N. Y.
ii. EDWARD SILLMAN, b. Oct. 30, 1929, Concord, N. H .; m. Velma Smith, Hillsboro, N. H., Oct. 1954.
iii. FREDERICK MORRISON, b. Apr., 1931, Henniker, N. H.
iv. JAMES HAMILTON, b. May 3, 1935, Henniker, N. H.
V. PHILLIP, b. Apr. 11, 1938, Concord, N. H.
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2. MARJORIE ALICE, b. Aug. 15, 1912, Saxtons River, Vt .; m. Philip Leonard Woodward, Jan. 15, 1938, Saxtons River. Children:
i. MARTHA PAXTON, b. Mar. 5, 1941, Rockingham, Vt.
ii. THOMAS CHRISTY, b. Oct. 7, 1947, Rockingham, Vt.
3. DORIS MARIE, b. Nov. 27, 1914, Saxtons River, Vt .; m. Caleb Austin Gross, June, 1937, Richmond, Vt. Children:
i. HUGH, b. June 8, 1941, Enosburg, Vt.
ii. MARIE, b.
4. VIRGINIA ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 21, 1926, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Maurice Woodworth, Jr., Aug. 9, 1949, Rockingham. Children:
i. MAURICE FREDERICK III, b. June, 1951, Rockingham, Vt.
ii. RUSSELL RAY, b. 1953, Barre, Vt.
HARRY ROBERT,6 son of George W. and Hattie, b. May 9, 1880, Rockingham, Vt .; d. 1939, Rockingham; m. Nellie Greer, b. Mar. 24, 1882, d. Mar. 17, 1937.
Children:
1. RUTH ARDELLE, b. Nov. 5, 1905, Saxtons River, Vt .; m. Conrad Ernest Farnsworth, 1928, Lyndonville, Vt. Children:
i. HARRY CALVIN, b. Feb. 4, 1929, Rockingham, Vt.
ii. CONRADINE MAY, b. Sept. 22, 1931, Rockingham, Vt .; m. William Thompson. Children: William, b. May 7, 1951; Bonnie, b. Oct. 16, 1953.
iii. FRANCES ANN, b. Sept. 23, 1933, Rockingham, Vt.
iv. SANDRA MINA, b. Sept. 3, 1941, Middletown, Conn.
2. GEORGE ROBERT, b. Jan. 23, 1908, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Miriam Severance Grant, Sept. 12, 1937, Bennington, Vt. She was b. May 29, 1901, Springfield, Vt. Child:
i. MARY ANN, b. Jan. 14, 1938.
3. BESSIE MAY, b. July 16, 1911, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Lauris Charles Gould, Whitehall, N. Y. Children:
i. ROBERT LAURIS, b. Feb. 16, 1937, Rockingham, Vt.
ii. GEORGE EDWARD, b. Mar. 3, 1939, Rockingham, Vt.
iii . NELLIE MARY, b. Mar. 30, 1940, Rockingham, Vt.
iv. LAURA ANN, b. May 28, 1941, Springfield, Vt.
v. LARRY CHARLES, b. Mar. 9, 1943.
4. GERTRUDE ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 9, 1914; m. Robert Edward Pierce (see Dowlin)
NEILL
HUMPHREY BANCROFT, m. June 12, 1917, Evelyn Taylor, Nutley, N. J .; writer (see Bancroft*). Children.
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