History of the town of Rockingham, Vermont, including the villages of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport and Bartonsville, 1907-1957 with family genealogies, Part 51

Author: Lovell, Frances Stockwell, 1897-
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Bellows Falls, Vt., Published by the town
Number of Pages: 690


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1. HUMPHREY BANCROFT, JR., b. Apr. 12, 1918; d. Dec. 9, 1924.


2. LORRAINE ADELA, b. Mar. 29, 1921; m. Lawrence M., Aug. 11, 1945, son of Lester and Shirley Moore, B. F. Children:


i. LYNN, b. Aug. 13, 1947.


ii. DEBORAH EVELYN, b. June 1, 1950.


iii, DAVID LAWRENCE, b. Aug. 21, 1953.


3. ALBERT RUSSELL, b. Mar. 29. 1927; m. Dec. 30, 1949, Genevieve Delores, dau. Arthur D. Langren, Whiting, Iowa. Children:


i. NANCY, b. Nov. 2, 1952.


ii. JOHN ALBERT, b. and d. July 5, 1955.


O4BRIEN


PATRICK E.,2 b. County Mead, Ireland, son of Lawrence1 and Katherine O'Brien, Mar. 15, 1852; d. Mar. 29, 1924; m. Apr. 26, 1876, Elizabeth Hadwen (Oliver,3 Barney,2 John1), b. July 31, 1851; d. May 28, 1911.


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Children (all b. Rockingham except one):


1. BERTHA A., b. June 20, 1877, Dorset, Vt .; m. William Risdon. Children:


i. EDWARD, m. Florence Toutant, Hardwick, Vt.


ii. MILDRED, m. John Duchane, Rutland, Vt.


2. KATHERINE M., b. Feb. 16, 1879; d. July 22, 1942; m. Henry Stod- dard (see Stoddard).


3. GERTRUDE E., b. Sept. 11, 1880; d. May 24, 1893.


4. SADIE E., b. May 22, 1883; d. July 24, 1936; m. July 27, 1908, David Cota, B. F., b. Feb. 20, 1886. Children (all b. B. F.):


i. GORDON ELLSWORTH, b. Mar. 14, 1910; d. Apr. 26, 1957, Springfield, Vt .; m. Oct. 31, 1930, Perkinsville Vt., Emily Craigue, b. June 17, 1912, Springfield. Children (all b. Springfield) :


I. NANCY JEAN, b. Mar. 18, 1932; m. Feb. 3, 1951, Caven- dish, Vt., Gordon Durand, Jr., b. Apr. 25, 1928 Caven- dish. Children (all b. Springfield): Priscilla Jean, b. Nov. 25, 1952; James Bennett, b. Jan. 22, 1955.


II. EDGAR HUGH, b. Apr. 5, 1933.


III. ROBERT GORDON, b. Dec. 9, 1934; m. Apr. 6, 1957, Springfield, Kathleen Lucius, b. Oct. 7, 1938, Spring- field.


ii. IV. MARY ELLEN, b. Oct. 2, 1942, unm.


KENNETH O'BRIEN, b. July 16, 1913; m. Aug. 15, 1937, Helen dau. Rollin and Mattie Prescott, b. Oct. 29, 1912, Strafford, Vt. Children (all b. B. F.):


I. FRANCELIA, b. Feb. 22, 1939.


II. HUGH, b. Jan. 14, 1941.


III. CHRIS b. Dec. 26, 1947.


IV. MARSHA, b. Oct. 11, 1950.


iii. ARLON ELLIS, b. June 7, 1915; m. B. F. Mary Brastow, dau. Frank and Alice Brastow, Lisbon, N. H. Children:


I. SUZANNE, b. May 4, 1940.


II. JOYCE, b. Nov. 11, 1941.


iv. DAVID STANLEY, b. Nov. 4, 1921; m. Nov. 4, 1942, Shirley Young, b. Nov. 4, 1920, Littleton, N. H. Children: I. PAULA, b. Aug. 22, 1951.


II. DAVID, b. June, 1957.


v. HUGH PATRICK, b. Apr. 7, 1925; d. Sept. 27, 1931.


5. EDWARD, b. Nov. 1, 1884; d. Apr. 18, 1901.


6. HUGH F., b. Mar. 8, 1886; m. Aug. 25, 1913, Katharine Alice, b. Oct. 9, 1883, dau. James and Frances (Ryan) Hennessey, N. Walpole, N. H. Children (all b. B. F.):


i. ELIZABETH FRANCES, b. May 10, 1917; m. Ralph Ward, b. May 21, 1917, son Ralph and Jean Ward, Bradford, N. H. Children:


I. JEAN KATHARINE, b. May 2, 1942.


II. WILLIAM RALPH, b. Sept. 19, 1945.


III. KATHLEEN CLAIRE, b. Feb. 9, 1948.


IV. THOMAS HUGH, b. June 5, 1950.


ii. CLAIRE, b. Feb. 25, 1921; m. Apr. 16, 1942, Harry Dwight Kingsley, res. Pittsburg, Pa. Children: I. JAMES DWIGHT, b. Sept. 6, 1945.


II. STEPHEN HARRY, b. Jan. 23, 1958.


7. MAE JANE, b. Nov. 20, 1887; unm.


8. JESSIE, b. Sept. 16, 1889; m. William Cleary, res. Greenville, N. H. Children:


i. WILLIAM, res., Greenville.


9. GEORGE, b. Nov. 25, 1893; m. Aug. 13, 1933, Lena Conway, N. Walpole, N. H., d. Mar. 9, 1945.


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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM OSGOOD*


EDWARD GARDENER,8 d. July 15, 1930; m. June 10, 1891, Florence Farnham of Bradford, Vt .; d. Jan. 21, 1958.


Children:


1. FLORENCE ELISABETH, b. Mar. 24, 1896; m. Sept. 4, 1922, Philip Lord Carrett, b. Nov. 29, 1896. Children:


1. GERARD, b. Jan. 26, 1924; m. Allison E. Rose, Aug. 12, 1944, b. Jan. 3, 1925. Children: Denise E., b. Apr. 16, 1951; Renee Cecile, b. Mar. 11, 1953.


ii. DONALD, b. Apr. 22, 1927; m. Dec. 2, 1950, Anne Helene Richard, b. Feb. 9, 1928. Child: Donna Elisabeth, b. May 23, 1957.


iii. DIANE ELISABETH, b. Mar. 20, 1930; m. Dec. 19, 1950, Roy Clemmer Swingle, M.D., b. Mar. 30, 1917. Children: Anne Beverly, b. Oct. 4, 1951; Barbara Elisabeth, b. Nov. 10, 1952; Carol Leslie, b. Feb. 17, 1954; Davis Scott, b. Apr. 27, 1955; Paul Allen, b. Jan. 11, 1957.


2. EDWARD FARNHAM, b. Nov. 18, 1903; d. Apr. 6, 1955; m. (1) Marion DeCosta, divorced; m. (2) June 27, 1942, Muriel Aldrich, b. Aug. 17, 1908. Children:


i. ROXANNA, b. July 16, 1936.


ii. DAVID ALDRICH, b. June 30, 1944.


iii. SUSAN ELISABETH, b. May 17, 1947.


OSGOOD*


DR. FREDERICK LUKE, UVM 1894; son of Willard W. and Louise Thornton Osgood; practiced S. R. since May 1869; resigned Feb. 1958 from Rockingham School Board after 40 years; b. Sept. 27, 1872, Chittenden, Vt .; m. (1) Oct. 1, 1896, Inez Louise Dickerman, b. May 21, 1877; d. Apr. 24, 1957; divorced 1901; m. (2) Oct. 26, 1904, Blanche Mary, dau. Charles W. Osgood of S. R., b. Sept. 14, 1882; d. Sept. 12, 1942.


Children:


1. FREDERICK LUKE, JR., b. Apr. 4, 1899, S. R .; m. Nov. 30, 1922, Marion R. Richardson, S. R. Children:


i. FREDERICK WARREN, res. Essex Jct., Vt .; b. Jan. 24, 1924; m. Mar. 21, 1947, Jean Marion Coleman, S. R. Children: Sheryl Jean, b. Feb. 1, 1948, B. F .; Denise Ann, b. Mar. 29, 1953, Burlington, Vt .; Jennifer Lee, b. Nov. 27, 1955, Essex Jct .; Frederick Mark, b. Dec. 16, 1956, Essex Jet.


ii. ROBERT RICHARDSON, b. Jan. 22, 1927, Rutland, Vt .; m. Oct. 6, 1946, Shirley Purefoy of Memphis, Tenn. Children: Vicki Lynn, b. Aug. 4, 1947, Memphis; Rebecca Ruth, b. Mar. 6, 1957, Memphis.


2. DORIS, b. July 23, 1906, S. R .; m. Elisha Camp, Oct. 27, 1929. Child:


i. ELISHA EDWARD, b. Jan. 24, 1938, New York.


3. LENA, b. May 25, 1909, S. R .; m. June 10, 1930, John Archibald Stewart, M.D. Children:


i. FREDERICK BRUCE, b. May 27, 1935, B. F .; m. Patricia Louise Wright, June 15, 1957 at W. Medford, Mass.


ii. DUNCAN EDWARD, b. Apr. 21, 1937, B. F.


iii . JEAN ANN, b. Nov. 5, 1941, B. F.


iv. RODNEY ANDREW, b. May 11, 1945.


4. FRANCES LOUISE, b. Dec. 30, 1912, S. R .; m. Mar. 23, 1940, Donald Crane. Children:


i. HANNA LOUISE, b. Feb. 12, 1941, B. F.


ii. JUDITH MARY, b. Apr. 23, 1943, B. F.


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PECK


JOSEPH,1 son of Robert, bpt. Apr. 30, 1587, Beccles, England; m. (1) Rebecca Clark, Hingham, England, May 21, 1617 who d. Hingham, Oct. 24, 1637; m. (2) ----. He came to Ipswich, Mass. 1638 on the Diligent with bro. Rev. Robert; received grant of land 7A. in Hingham, Mass. where he re- mained 7 years, removing to Seekonk. Was a lcading citizen of Hingham, holding many public offices. In 1641 became one of original purchasers from the Indians of Seacunk or Seekonk, later Rehoboth, Mass.


JOSEPH, JR.,2 bpt. Aug. 23, 1623, Hingham, England; m. Hannah ----; res. Rehoboth, Mass.


NATHANIEL,3 b. July 24, 1660; d. Apr. 5, 1742; res. Palmer's River; m. Feb. 28, 1688, Sarah Smith, d. June 4, 1717.


ICHABOD,4 b. Mar. 9, 1690; d. July 8, 1773; m. Judith Paine, dau. of Samuel; d. Nov. 26, 1778.


SOLOMON,5 b. Apr. 19, 1733; res. Wrentham, Mass .; d. Dec. 31, 1802; m. June 14, 1756, Mercy Foster, dau. Ebenezer of Cumberland, R. I .; b. May 22, 1734; d. July 25, 1806.


LEVI,6 b. Apr. 14, 1757; soldier, taught school Brattleboro, Windsor and Weathersfield; rcs. Westminster, Vt., 1780; d. Sept. 17, 1835; m. Dec. 27, 1785, Hannah Stoddard, Westminster, d. Feb. 8, 1842.


SHUBAL,7 Apr. 2, 1794; m. Dec. 18, 1821, Thyrza Wheeler, dau. Jonas, d. Oct. 25, 1867. He was one of first to sign up with Vt. Temperance Society, 1831.


THYRZA ELLEN,8 b. Apr. 21, 1840; res. Westminster; m. June 22, 1868, Thomas Ashwell.


MYRA P9., b. Mar. 31, 1885, Westminster; m. Aug. 5, 1908, John Black- ner Abbott, b. Jan. 5, 1883, son of Lewis and Louise (Jones) Abbott; res. Rockingham.


Children:


1. THOMAS LEWIS, b. Jan. 19, 1910, W. Lafayette, Ind .; m. Mar. 24, 1942, Gertrude Miner Allyn, b. Jan. 26, 1920, dau. Ernst and Florence Allyn. Children:


i. JOHN, b. Oct. 15, 1947, B. F.


ii. MYRA GERTRUDE, b. May 19, 1951, New York City.


2. ELLEN LOUISE, b. Nov. 13, 1911, W. Lafayette, Ind .; m. June 26, 1935, Edgar Warren, b. Sept. 20, 1909, son of Henry Herbert and Bessie Leland Skelton, Newton, Mass .; res. Rockingham. Chil- dren:


i. JANE, b. Sept. 29, 1947, Boston, Mass.


11. LINDA, b. Feb. 17, 1948, B. F.


PULSIPHER*


BENEDICT,1 b. England; m. Feb. 16, 1673 Susanna Waters, bpt. Jan. 2, 1649, dau. of Richard, Ipswich, Mass. and Rejoice Plaise, dau. of William.


JONATHAN,2 b. Sept. 25, 1687; m. Sarah Loude.


DAVID,3 b. Mar. 14, 1716; d. (never returned from Battle of Bunker Hill); m. Oct. 2, 1740, Pomfret, Conn, Elizabeth Stowell, b. Aug. 21, 1720, d. July 2, 1786. She m. (2) Josiah White, Sept. 16, 1779, Rockingham, Vt. Res. Pomfret, Conn., Ware, Mass., Rockingham (1766). (See Stowell.)


MARY,4 b. Jan. 29, 1744, Pomfret, Conn .; d. 1786, Rockingham, Vt .; m. John Harwood (see Harwood).


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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM PUTNAM


WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,2 (John1), b. Sept. 14, 1840, Grafton, Vt .; m. May 26, 1874, Springfield, Vt., Sarah Rebecca Pulsipher,4 (William W 3 David,2 David1) (see Pulsipher*).


Children:


1. MAY EMMA, b. Aug. 22, 1875; m. Sept. 21, 1898, Elmer Sullivan Baldwin, b. Mar. 25, 1869. Children:


i. CLYDE PUTNAM, b. Aug. 11, 1899; m. (1) Doris Stone, divorced;


m. (2) Rose Levia. Child:


I. RUSSELL ELMER, b. Sept. 6, 1931; m. Janet Feckner, 1953.


ii. ALICE MAY, b. July 27, 1901; m. William Goodno, Oct. 9, 1920; d. Mar. 1950. Children:


I. EUNICE GENEVA, b. Jan. 18, 1924; m. Raymond Irwin. Children: Raymond, Janice Elaine


II. ALICE LUCILLE, b. June 11, 1925; m. Carlton Brown, June 17, 1950. Child: Carlton, b. 1953.


iii. WILLIAM JOSEPH, b. Mar. 9, 1904; m. Monetta Foster. Chil- dren :


I. WILLIAM JOSEPH, JR., b. Mar. 4, 1931; m. Grace Tillson, 1953.


II. JOYCE ELAINE, b. Mar. 26, 1934; d. in infancy.


III. LAWRENCE HARRISON, b. Oct. 28, 1938.


IV. HOWARD LEIGH, b. Nov. 4, 1941.


V. KATHRYN ELAINE, b. Oct. 9, 1945.


iv. DORIS EDITH, b. Oct. 15, 1906; d. Nov. 23, 1906.


V. HOWARD ELMER, b. Sept. 14, 1907; d. May 11, 1908.


2. JOHN CHARLES, b. Feb. 11, 1877, unm.


3. WILLIAM ELI, b. Feb. 15, 1879; m. Oct. 20, 1904, Edith Ellison, b. May 30, 1878. Children:


i. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, b. July 15, 1905; m. Estelle Lee Payne, Nov. 23, 1927, Birmingham, Ala. Child: I. WILLIAM ELI, JR., b. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 12, 1929.


ii. HELEN ELIZABETH, b. May 10, 1908, Birmingham, Ala .; m. Apr. 22, 1930, Henry Lief Helverson. No children.


4. EDWIN GARFIELD, b. Dec. 14, 1881; d. Sept. 26, 1900.


5. HOWARD EATON, b. Sept. 19, 1883; m. Pearl Davis, Feb. 10, 1910, d. Aug. 31, 1945, Birmingham, Ala. Children:


i. DOROTHY DAVIS, b. Nov. 24, 1911; m. (1) Roy Dyer, Apr. 24, 1930; m. (2) Roy Hart Norris, Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 15, 1942. Children:


I. ROY HART III, b. Dec. 15, 1944.


II. DOROTHY PUTNAM, b. Apr. 10, 1950.


ii. HOWARD WILLIAM, b. Nov. 23, 1914, Birmingham, Ala; m. Feb. 14, 1942, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Margaret Odum, b. Jan. 11, 1919. Children:


I. HOWARD WILLIAM, JR., b. Mar. 7, 1945.


II. ROGER ALLEN, b. June 14, 1948.


iii. MAE AZILE, b. June 30, 1923, Birmingham, Ala .; m. Sept. 18, 1943, John Castle Simmons. Children:


I. BONNIE AZILE, b. Dec. 21, 1945, Birmingham, Ala. II. JOHN CASTLE III, b. July 2, 1947.


6. HARRY BARNES, b. Apr. 25, 1887; m. Eunice Verge, Oct. 1, 1917 d. Sept. 23, 1918, Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.


7. RUSSELL, b. Feb. 18, 1889; d. Feb. 22, 1889.


8. SARAH LOUISA, b. Apr. 8, 1891; m. Ernest Adelbert Dix, Sept. 14, 1909, Springfield, Vt .; b. Aug. 1, 1886. Children (b. Springfield) :


i. EVELYN MARIE, b. Oct. 2, 1910; m. Carl Brandon, Dec. 31, 1936; d. Feb. 2, 1942.


ii. ELEANOR RUTH, b. May 6, 1912; m. (1) George Leverett Messer, May 29, 1931, Brattleboro, Vt .; m. (2) Nelson


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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM


Raymond Greer, Dec. 24, 1953, Keene, N. H. Child: I. BEVERLY FAY, b. Mar. 27, 1936.


iii . MARION ESTELLE, b. Oct. 10, 1913; m. Ray Holden Watson, June 26, 1935, Cambridge, N. Y .; b. Jan. 16, 1914. Child: I. MARCIA RAE (adopted), b. Feb. 20, 1952.


9. CAROLINE LUCY, b. Mar. 25, 1893; d. July 30, 1909.


RICE


HEZEKIAH8 (Jonathan,7 Hezekiah,6 Jonathan,5 Hezekiah,4 Jonathan,3 Henry,2 Edmund1) (Edmund1, was first settler Sudbury, Mass., 1639.), b. Sept. 19, 1748, Framingham, Mass., son of Jonathan and Ruth (Emes) Rice; m. May 29, 1775, Hopkinton, Mass., Elizabeth Emes, dau. of Jonathan and Ruth (Giddings) Emes, b. Jan. 28, 1750; Revolutionary soldier. Res. Saxtons River, Vt., where he died Feb. 11, 1832; she d. Oct. 1, 1831.


Children:


1. ELEANOR,9 b. May 14, 1776; m. Oct. 1, 1801, Nathaniel Crossman, Brookfield, Mass.


2. ELIZABETH, b.9 Apr. 20, 1779; m. Sept. 25, 1803, Rockingham, Vt., Daniel G. Upham, Shrewsbury, Mass., b. Feb. 20, 1776; d. Apr. 1848. She d. Jan. 20, 1846, Saxtons River, Vt.


3. LYDIA,9 b. Aug. 7, 1784; d. July 22, 1849; m. Aug. 15, 1804, Samuel Ober, Jr., b. Jan. 26, 1782, d. 1855, Saxtons River, Vt.


4. JONATHAN,9 b. Feb. 19, 1788, Charlton, Mass .; m. Nov. 22, 1810, Surry, N. H., Persis Hardy, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Baxter) Hardy, b. Feb. 13, 1789, Thetford, Vt. Res., Mt. Holly and Bellows Falls, Vt. Children:


i. JONATHAN WARREN,10 b. Nov. 12, 1811, Rockingham, Vt .; d. Oct. 1813.


ii. WILLIAM HARDY, b. May 7, 1813, Mt. Holly, Vt .; Civil War veteran; m. in south, never returned north.


iii . HEZEKIAH, b. Feb. 26, 1815, Mt. Holly, Vt .; d. July, 1818.


iv. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. Nov. 2, 1818, Mt. Holly, Vt .; m. Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph J. and Judith (Savory) Smith, Claremont, N. H., b. Nov. 30, 1818, Claremont. He d. Nov. 15, 1854. Children:


I. ELSINA DEREXA,11 b. Nov, 12, 1843, Carroll, N. H .; m. Henry W. Hutchins (see Hutchins).


II. GEORGE GILBERT, b. Jan. 29, 1845, Carroll, N. H.


III. PERSIS, b. Apr. 23, 1847, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. Albert Kingman.


IV. GEORGIANA, b. Mar. 4, 1849, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. Lyman C. Cummings.


(Mary E., widow of George W. m. (2), Dec. 7, 1856, Bellows Falls, Vt., David T. son of David W. and Rebecca (Ober) Hardy, b. Aug. 14, 1826. He d. May 14, 1903, Chester, Vt. She d. Dec. 10, 1895, Chester, Vt.)


V. MARY ELIZABETH,10 b. Jan. 25, 1821, Wallingford, Vt .; m. Dec. 22, 1840, Ellsworth Willson, son of William and Pru- dence (Cummings) Willson; she d. Sept. 3, 1898, Bellows Falls, Vt. Children:


I. WILLIAM WALLACE,11 b. Jan. 1, 1842, Whitefield, N. H .; d. May 16, 1864; Battle of the Wilderness.


II. MARION P., b. May 7, 1844, Carroll, N. H .; m. (1) Mar.


2, 1867, Cambridgeport, Vt., Henry H. Wolfe; m. (2) Oct. 19, 1902, William Austin. She d. June 2, 1930. III. ELLEN M., b. June 14, 1846, Keene, N. H .; d. Feb. 14, 1850.


IV. WARREN AARON, b. June 24, 1848, Rockingham, Vt .; d. Dec. 29, 1849.


V. HENRY SEYMOUR, b. Apr. 5, 1850, Westminster, Vt .; m.


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(1) Nov. 9, 1874, Ellen M. Cullinan, Arlington, Vt .; m. (2) Feb. 17, 1898. He d. Aug. 28, 1909, Arlington VI. Infant, b. and d. Feb. 11, 1852.


VII. ALICE REBECCA, b. Feb. 16, 1854, Westminster, Vt .; m. (1) James Gerrish, Bellows Falls, Vt. He d. Oct. 14, 1887, Fla. She m. (2) Charles Haskell, Sept. 6, 1897, Ludlow, Vt. He d. Dec. 30, 1901, N. Y. C. She d. Mar. 1, 1948, Rutland, Vt.


VIII. MARY ELIZABETH, b. July 3, 1862, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. Aug. 23, 1880, Rockingham, Vt., William Davis; she d. Jan. 5, 1887. (2 children).


IX. HATTIE PERSIS, b. Sept. 7, 1866; d. Oct. 23, 1938, Port Washington, L. I .; m. June 23, 1891, Bellows Falls, Vt., m. Alfred J. May, d. Nov. 10, 1919, Portsmouth, N. H.


RILEY


JOHN P., lawyer, came to B. F., 1899 as manager Fall Mt. Paper Co .; b. Mar. 24, 1859, Pottersville, N. Y .; d. Jan. 23, 1929, Boston, Mass .; m. Middle Grove, N. Y. Minnie E. Mulvenan, b. May 24, 1871, d. Feb. 12, 1954,


B. F. Children:


1. EDWARD MAURICE, res. Pasadena, Calif .; b. Dec. 4, 1897, Grand Mere, Quebec; m. Katharine Graham Hovey of Grand Rapids, Mich. Child:


i. HELEN PATRICIA, b. Apr. 26, 1926; m. William Trumball of Englewood, N. J .; res. Baltimore, Md. Child: Katharine Ann, b. May 26, 1953.


2. JOHN PHILIP, res. Jackson Heights, N. Y., summer home Walpole, N. H., b. Aug. 31, 1900, B. F .; m. Feb. 7, 1931, Barbara Kathryn Rudden (see Rudden).


3. ROBERT JAMES (Cornell), res. Chicago, Ill .; b. Oct. 25, 1901, B. F .; m. Mar. 29, 1930, Ruth Collins of Chicago. Child:


i. ROBERT BARTLETT (M.I.T.), res. London, England; b. Jan. 28, 1931; m. London, Oct. 5, 1956, Nancy Rebecca Mills of Decatur, Ill.


ROBERTSON *


CHARLES E.,4 b. Sept. 5, 1850, Putney, Vt .; d. Apr. 26, 1936, B. F .; m. Flora A. Ward (see Robertson*) Child:


1. LOUIS J., b. July 1, 1877; m. Margaret Egan, Jan. 7, 1902. Child: i. FRIEDA CHRISTINA, b. Dec. 29, 1908; m. Donald F. Kellogg, July 20, 1946.


ROUNDY*


MORTON CARLTON,4 (Carlton Humphrey,3 Ralph,2 Capt. John1), b. Aug. 27, 1840, Bartonsville, Vt .; d. Apr. 15, 1915, Rockingham Vt .; m. (1) Mar. 19, 1861, Susan Ellen, dau. of Charles W. Pulsipher, b. Sept. 4, 1839, Rockingham Vt .; d. Feb. 6, 1872; m. (2) Aug. 29, 1874, Sarah Ann, dau. of Rodney Wiley, b. Feb. 18, 1850, Rockingham, Vt .; d. Jan. 20, 1931.


Children:


1. CHARLES CARLTON,5 b. May 3, 1862; d. Jan. 19, 1928; m. Mar. 15, 1887, Belinda Harriet, dau. Simon M. Albee, Rockingham, Vt., b. July 2, 1864, d. Apr. 1948 (see Albee). Children:


i.


RUTH ANNIE,6 b. Dec. 27, 1890, Charlestown, N. H .; m.


June 19, 1919, Benjamin Barnard D'Ewart, b. Nov. 3, 1890, Worcester, Mass. Children:


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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM


I. JEANETTE,7 b. Apr. 30, 1920, Cleveland, Ohio; m. Sept. 5, 1942, Worcester, Mass., Burchard Adlai Royce, b. May 7, 1918, Springfield, Mass. Child: Jonathan Burchard, b. May 17, 1954, Boston, Mass.


II. BENJAMIN BARNARD, JR., b. Nov. 30, 1921; Worcester, Mass .; m. June 30, 1944, Thyra Johnson, b Dec. 19, 1923, Worcester, Mass. Res., Grand Island, N. Y. Child: Bruce Nils, b. June 19, 1946; d. Apr. 1950.


ii.


III. CHARLES ROUNDY, b. July 22, 1924, Cleveland, Ohio; m. Nov. 6, 1949, Dorothy Jean Working, Willsall, Mont., b. Aug. 30, 1920, Willsall, Mont. Res. Butte, Mont. SUSAN,6 b. Sept. 23, 1896, Westminster, Vt .; m. Walter F. True. Res., Lyndon Center, Vt. Children:


I. RUTH,7 b. Sept. 5, 1922, Wilmington, Vt .; m. Dr. Robert Lyman, Morrisville, Vt., Aug. 22, 1950. Child: Robert, Jr., b. Mar. 7, 1952:


II. WALTER F., JR., b. Mar: 22, 1924; m. Aug. 12, 1946, Joan Inman, Foxboro, Mass. Children: Susan Pres- cott, b. Oct. 3, 1948; Gary Lynn, b. Apr. 25, 1951.


III. CHARLES W., b. Sept. 3, 1925; m. Dec. 17, 1950, June Healey, Waterbury, Conn. Child: Nancy, b. Sept. 30, 1951.


IV. JEAN, b. Dec. 21, 1929. Res. Waterbury, Vt.


2. LELA ROSE,5 b. Oct. 4, 1863; m. Nov. 29, 1886, Clarence Ware Downing, M.D., Swanzey, N. H. He d. Apr. 29, 1897, Manches- ter, N. H. She d. Apr. 27, 1934, Rockingham, Vt. Children: i. MORTON FRANKLIN,6 b. Nov. 7, 1887, Manchester, N. H .; d. Nov. 5, 1944, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Rita May Cox, Lewiston, Me. Aug. 12, 1913. Children:


I. MORTON FRANKLIN, JR.,7 b. Feb. 12, 1915, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Feb. 15, 1947, Dorothy A. Clements, New Haven, Conn. Child: Donna Clements,8 b. Jan. 8, 1951, Bellows Falls, Vt.


II. MARTHA LELA, b. May 12, 1918, Rutland, Vt .; m. James Wakefield. Child: Lee.


ii. III. CLARENCE WARREN, b. July 17, 1923, Bellows Falls, Vt. RAMON CLARENCE,6 b. June 6, 1890, Manchester, N. H .; d. May 29, 1917, Burlington, Vt.


iii. ARLON ROUNDY,6 b. Sept. 21, 1891, Manchester, N. H .; m. (1) Leona B. Hesseltine, Aug. 11, 1914, Claremont ,N. H., b. May 23, 1891, d. Mar. 25, 1952. M. (2) M. Imogene Parker, dau. of Joseph and Lula Parker. Res. Bellows Falls, Vt. Children:


I. DOROTHY LELA, b. Nov. 25, 1915, Bellows Falls, Vt.


II. BARBARA LEONA, b. Oct. 28, 1918, Bellows Falls, Vt .; m. Frank Proctor, Hillsboro, N. H., Aug. 28, 1942. Children: Mary Jane, b. Oct. 14, 1944; Donna Lee, b. June 20, 1947.


iv. HAZEL ALICE,6 b. Aug. 11, 1893, Manchester, N. H .; d. July 4, 1929; m. Ralph E. Hayward, Keene, N. H.


3. SUSIE,5 b. Jan. 29, 1865; d. Feb. 19, 1866


4. RODNEY WILEY,5 b. Apr. 17, 1875, Rockingham, Vt .; m. (1) June 22, 1904, Florence A. Champion, Old Lyme, Conn., d. Jan. 31, 1920. M. (2) Mabel H. Hart, Winsted, Conn. Mar. 4, 1922, d. Aug. 15, 1922. M. (3) Ada Emily Lindsay, Decatur, Ill., Aug. 20, 1924. Children:


i. PAUL CHAMPION,6 b. Apr. 21, 1905, Ludlow, Vt .; m. Jan. 1, 1929, Elinor R. Norris, Holbrook, Mass.


ii. RODNEY WILEY, JR., b. Sept. 5, 1908, Hartford, Conn .; d. Sept. 30, 1929.


iii. VIRGINIA, b. Jan. 30, 1913, Hartford, Conn .; m. Aug. 21, 1937, George E. Wright, Portland, Me. Children:


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I. JOSEPH ARTHUR,7 b. Dec. 23, 1940, Rutland, Vt.


II. SALLY, b. June 10, 1943, Portland, Me.


5. SUSAN PULSIPHER,5 b. Feb. 27, 1877; m. Aug. 30, 1911, Everett W. Greenwood, Charlestown, N. H., b. Dec. 3, 1878; d. Apr. 1, 1927. Children:


i. FREDERIC MORTON,6 b. June 21, 1912, Charlestown, N. H .; m. Mar. 29, 1936, Laura Stearns, Charlestown, N. H., b. Aug. 17, 1919. Children:


I. EVERETT OLIN,7 b. Nov. 30, 1937, Randolph, Vt.


II. ALAN FREDERIC, b. Oct. 21, 1942, Burlington, Vt.


III. ANN, b. Jan. 6, 1948, Springfield, Vt.


ii . CARLTON EVERETT,6 b. Feb. 25, 1914, Charlestown, N. H .; m. Nov. 24, 1945, Barbara Bishop, Springfield, Vt., b. Oct. 12, 1920. Res. Westminster, Vt. Children:


I. JUDITH ELLEN,7 b. Mar. 24, 1947, Keene, N. H.


II. JANE BARBARA, b. June 12, 1949, Springfield, Vt.


III. HAROLD BISHOP, b. Oct. 31, 1951, Westminster, Vt.


iii. SARAH,6 b. Mar. 16, 1916, Charlestown, N. H. Res. Rocking- ham, Vt.


iv. DR. ALBERT,6 b. May 22, 1920; d. Feb. 4, 1956. Res., Los Banos, Calif.


6. MABEL LAURA,5 b. Aug. 13, 1880, Rockingham, Vt .; m. July 18, 1906, George Philo Kenyon, Bradford, Vt. Children:


i. GEORGE DANA,6 b. Dec. 27, 1907, Rockingham, Vt .; m. June 27, 1931, Evelyn H. Burnham, Henniker, N. H., b. Aug. 31, 1903. Children:


I. MARJORIE ANNE,7 b. Apr. 14, 1932, Laconia, N. H.


II. RICHARD DANA, b. Sept. 28, 1936, Concord, N. H.


ii. MARY ROUNDY,6 b. Dec. 4, 1911, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Oct. 29, 1935, Gordon Erwin Lillie, b. Oct. 8, 1910, Rockingham, Vt. Children:


I. SUSAN,7 b. Aug. 4, 1936, Keene, N. H.


II. ELENA, b. Jan. 29, 1940, Keene, N. H.


III. THORNTON K., b. Dec. 25, 1947, Bellows Falls, Vt.


7. MARY WILEY,5 b. Dec. 8, 1883, Rockingham, Vt .; m. June 26, 1907, Andrew Johnson Ayer, Putney, Vt., b. Dec. 14, 1867, d. Sept.'18, 1951. Res. Pittsfield, N. H. Children:


i. GORDON ROUNDY,6 b. Sept. 3, 1910, Putney Vt .; m. Nov. 4, 1939, Barbara Means, Melrose, Mass., b. Aug. 31, 1912. Children:


I. LAURENCE GEORGE,7 b. Mar. 3, 1941, Melrose, Mass.


II. JANET BARBARA, b. May 28, 1944, Ithaca, N. Y.


ii. HELEN ELIZABETH,6 b. May 14, 1912, Putney, Vt .; d. July 9, 1930.


iii. EMELYN FLORENCE,6 b. June 9, 1920, Keene, N. H .; m. Feb. 28, 1946, Kecne, N. H., George Russell Krause, b. Sept. 13, 1918, Passaic, N. H. Res. Center Barnstead, N. H. Child. I. GEORGE RUSSELL II,7 b. Feb. 24, 1951.


ROSA LINDA,4 b. Sept. 27, 1845, Springfield, Vt .; d. Aug. 27, 1883; m. George Justin Wright, Weymouth, Mass., b. Dec. 24, 1842; d. Sept. 1909. Children:


1. OLIVE ROSE,5 b. Oct. 7, 1872, Weymouth, Mass .; m. Feb. 28, 1897, Sanford Loring Damon, b. Oct. 31, 1875, Cohasset, Mass .; d. Sept. 23, 1952. Children:


i. RUTH OLIVE,6 b. June 9, 1899, Cohasset, Mass .; m. Sept. 11, 1919, Gerard A. Dooley, b. Jan. 2, 1898, Boston, Mass.


ii. ESTHER LORING, b. June 6, 1901, Cohasset, Mass .; m. Dec. 25, 1921, Norman Pace Charles, b. Dec. 16, 1897, Reading, Mass. Children:


I. NORMA ESTHER,7 b. June 15, 1923.


II. EDITH LOUISE, b. May 16, 1926.


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iii. MARY WHITCOMB, b. Nov. 6, 1802, Cohasset, Mass .; m. Apr. 30, 1927, John I. Johnson, b. Aug. 4, 1897, Sweden; d. Jan. 2, 1948. Child:


I. MARION CLAIRE,7 b. Mar. 31, 1929.


iv. OLIVE STANFORD, b. May 27, 1906; m. Nov. 18, 1934, Frank L. Edgerly, Reading, Mass .; he d. May 12, 1947.


v. SANFORD ALDEN, b. July 15, 1909, Weymouth, Mass .; m. Sept. 14, 1935, Esther I. Hanson, b. Dec. 14, 1910, Dor- chester, Mass. Child:


I. DOROTHY ANN,7 b. Jan. 5, 1945, Boston, Mass.


2. GEORGE ERNEST,5 b. Aug. 29, 1874, Weymouth, Mass .; d. Oct. 27, 1947; m. Jennie Hall, Rockingham, Vt .; d. 1927. Child:


i. RALPH WESTON,6 b. Jan. 10, 1904, Rockingham, Vt .; m. Apr. 14, 1929, Dorilda Jacobs, West Rutland, Vt. Res. Rock- ingham, Vt.


RUDDEN


REGIS ROSE, (Skidmore Col.), b. Mar. 13, 1896; m. June 25, 1929, Richard Cornelius Long of N. Walpole, N. H., who d. Mar. 13, 1957.


BARBARA KATHRYN, b. May 10, 1899, (Skidmore Col.) (See Riley).


RYDER*


JESSIE ELISABETH4 (Herbert Daniel,3 Daniel,2 Jotham1), b. Feb. 18, 1884; res. Clearwater, Fla .; unm.


MARGARET SARAH,4 m. June 19, 1905, Edward Hibbard Kenerson (Dartmouth '03); d. June 21, 1909.


Child:


1. JOHN BODGE,5 b. Nov. 17, 1906, (Dartmouth '28); m. June 28, 1931, Frances Comins, Concord, Mass., b. Mar. 26, 1906. Children:


i. MARIE LOU,6 b. Jan. 4, 1932, (Skidmore Col.); res. Wellesley, Mass .; m. Brian Wauless (RAF, England).


ii. EDWARD HIBBARD, b. Feb. 22, 1937, (student Colgate).


iii. ROBERT FOSTER, b. July 1, 1938 (student Dartmouth).


HELEN WINIFRED,4 (Simmons Col.); m. Nov. 19, 1912, Ralph Davis Gilbert of Boston, Mass. and Gilead, Conn .; d. Apr. 24, 1919, Winchester, Mass.


Children:


1. DEBORAH CHAMPION,5 b. Feb. 4, 1914, Winchester; m. Aug. 30, 1940. Norman Sven Von Rosenvinge, Winchester; res. Rockport, Mass, Children:




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