Abbott, Daniel, was born in Cavendish, Vt, October 3, 1796, and died in Bethel, December 7, 1874. He married Sarah Lampson, who was born February 28, 1799, and died September 18, 1868. They had twelve children, viz. : Henry, born September 18, 1818, resides in Hamlin, N. Y.; George, born August 3, 1820, went to California at an early day, where he died; Alvira, born February 19, 1823, died at the age of fifteen months; Almira F., born December 21, 1824, resides at Bethel; Harriet E., born October 27, 1826, died in Springfield, Mass.; Charles, born July 2, 1829, resides in California; Granville, not heard from since 1863; Adaline and Caroline, twins, born July 7, 1834, the former resides in Bethel, the latter died aged twenty-five years; Melissa, born in Marshfield, Vt, September 8, 1837, is a school teacher and resides in Boston; Curtis, born in Randolph, Vt, November 4, 1840, was a member of Company H, Second U. S. Sharpshooters, Fourth Vermont Volunteers, and is a lawyer in Boston ; and Daniel, born in Bethel, June 14, 1844, lives in Plainfield, Vt
Abbott, Lewis H., born in Kingfield, Me., September 25, 1842, was the only son of Lewis H. and Arabella (Stevens) Abbott. He came to Roxbury, Vt., in the spring of 1863, and subsequently removed to Randolph, and graduated in the spring of 1863 from the Normal School situated in the town. Previous to his graduation he taught school, and in 1872 went West and taught in Illinois, Michigan and Kansas. He also engaged in stock raising in Kansas. He came to Bethel in 1881. He married Louisa L. Jones, who was born in Tunbridge, February 22, 1813. They have two children, viz.: John B., born in Bethel, January 5, 1883; and Thomas J., born in Bethel, January 31, 1885.
Berry, Eleazer, was born at Chatham, N. Y., February 12, 1792, and was married at Poultney, Vt, January 10, 1814, to Hannah Rugg. She was born at Bennington, Vt, March 6, 1788. Soon after their marriage they removed to Bethel. Mr. Berry was a dyer and cloth-dresser by trade, afterwards became a carpenter and latter engaged in teaching the district schools of Bethel and adjoining towns. They had six children, viz.: Lorena, died sixteen years of age; William H., died thirteen years of age; Charles C, born July 21, 1819, died at Bethel in October, 1873; Benjamin F., died seventeen years of age; George W., and Mary Ann, married Carlos Newell and died at Bethel, leaving only one child, now the wife of Dr. R. M. Chase of Bethel. Eleazer died May 23, 1873, and his wife September 17, 1867.
Berry, George W., was born in Bethel, March 5, 1824, and was educated at the local schools He left his native town at the age of fourteen and at different times lived in Rochester, Braintree and Northfield. Vt. In 1843 he went to Boston, where he learned the trade of cabinetmaker, and in 1860 engaged in the manufacture of furniture, which he continued till 1874, when he retired from business. In 1871 he built his present summer residence in Bethel which he has occupied during six months of the year .since his retirement from business. He married Miss Henrietta E. Harris of Charlestown, Mass., but has no family.
Bowen, Squire, born in Rehoboth, Mass., February 28, 1786, married Candice Jones, a native of that town. He removed from Massachusetts to Cabot, Vt., in 1810, and came to Bethel in 1833. His children were Maria, Abel B., Squire, Albert, Joseph, Abigail, Zebedee, Lorenzo and Samuel, both residents of Bethel. Abel B. was born in Rehoboth, December 13, 1812, married, first, Polly Hoisington, by whom he had three children: Azro B., Beulah, Arlinda. He married, second, Mrs. Sarah J. Morse, nee Williams. Thomas Williams, her father, was born in Cornish, N. H., May 14, 1785, and married, October 15, 1820, Phila Kimball, who was born in Royalton, June 15, 1799. Thomas died October 9, 1875, his wife November 19, 1878. Their children were Louisa Gifford, Benjamin, Sarah Jane, Leonard Kimball, Susan Alvira, Amos Huntington, Amplias French, Polly A., Charles Lyman, Amanda Rebecca, Thomas Rix, John Kimball, Esther Ann and Wallace Edward. Charles Morse, jr., her first husband, was born in Rochester, Vt., October 27, 1823, and was the eldest son of Charles and Hannah (Chapman) Morse. He was a farmer in Rochester, and in October, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. He married, June 28, 1846, Sarah J. Williams, born in Bethel, February 11, 1824. The children by this union were Charles L., born in Rochester, March 26, 1849; Lizzie J., born in Rochester, February 20, 1855; Sumner F., born in Rochester, October 3, 1857; and Kimball W., born in Rochester, January 2, 1859.
Brooks, Simeon, had seven children, viz.: Eli, who died in Braintree, Vt; Simeon, died in Bethel; Ira, died in Bethel; Asa; Anna, married Ellis Fish, and died in Randolph ; Betsey, died single in Bethel; and Almira, was drowned during her childhood. Asa, of the above, was born in Bethel, July 31, 1788, and married January 16, 1814, Lucy Stevens, who was born November 27, 1792. Asa died August 7, 1871, his wife March.29, 1876. They had seven children, viz.: Lucy Hayward, died nine years of age ; Nancy Stevens, wife of Simeon A. Webster, of Bethel; Asa Strong, died four years of age; Samuel Hayward, died in infancy ; Albert A.; Julius P., died at Auburn, Cal.; Sophia L., wife of Albert F. Waterman, of Tunbridge, Vt.
Brooks, Albert A., was born in Bethel, October 18, 1824. He received a common school education, and was engaged in farming till he was eighteen years of age. He then engaged in mercantile business, and in 1856 opened a store at Gaysville, Vt. He disposed of this business in 1875 and came to Bethel, formed a partnership under style name of Brooks & Montgomery, which continued three years. On the dissolution of this co-partnership the present firm of Brooks & Washburn was formed. From 1879 to 1888 Mr. Brooks was connected with Nelson Gay, Chester Downer and F. P. Holden, under the name of the Gaysville Manufacturing Company, in the manufacture of underwear. In the latter year a stock company was formed, and in the same year the works were destroyed by fire. He was postmaster at Gaysville, Vt., twelve years from 1861 to 1873, and is a director of the National White River Bank of Bethel. Mr. Brooks married Jeannette Whitcomb, and has two children, Jennie, wife of J. A. Chedell, of Gaysville, Vt.; and Kate, wife of S. M. Washburn, of Bethel.
Bryant, James, was born in Barnard, Vt., September 21, 1806. He married Eliza C, daughter of Hezekiah and Katharine (Clapp) Mack, November 11, 1827. She was born in Woodstock, Vt., March 30, 1810. Their children were Cordelia Eveline, Augusta Lorinda, Alonzo James, Hiram Alfred. James died January 19, 1864. His widow married again, and died November 5, 1868. Alonzo James, born in Bethel, April 4, 1836, married July 23, 1857, Julia A. Clark, a native of Landgrove, Vt. They have one child, Gilmore W., born in Bethel, August 8, 1859. His father was a teacher of vocal music, and secured for his son instruction by the ablest professors of music. The talent thus awakened was developed and cultivated by study with the best masters. He studied with Professor Carlyle Petersilea, of Boston, finishing his musical education with him in 1881. Mr. Bryant taught lessons on the piano at different places, and in 1881 founded a Conservatory of Music at Brattleboro, Vt., which he conducted successfully for two years. He was engaged as teacher of music at Leland & Gray's Academy, at Townshend, Vt., and at the Glenwood Seminary, at West Brattleboro, Vt. In 1884 he moved to Springfield, Mass., where he remained till the fall of 1885. At that time he accepted the position of Director of Music in the Wesleyan Female Institute at Stanton, Va., which position he has since held. A number of Mr. Bryant's compositions have been published, among which we mention "Reverie Poetique," ''Polka Chromatique," "Forty-Three Practical Piano Siudies," "Polonaise Americana," "Finger Flight Mazurka," "Mazurka Caprice," "Song of the Brook," ''Distant Bells," "Dancing Shadows," and "Merriment." Mr. Bryant married Miss Mattie E., daughter of Penfield Bullard. She is a native of Bethel.
Bullard, Oliver, born in New Hampshire, married Abigail Gay, of Stockbridge, Vt. Their family consisted of nine children. One died in infancy. The others were Luther; Mumford, a Methodist minister, died in northern Vermont; Andes, a Methodist minister, died in Randolph, Vt.; Abigail (deceased), married Abijah Twitchell; Betsey (deceased), married John Baker; Fanny (deceased), married Mark Chamberlain; Azuba (deceased), married Ephraim Twitchell. Luther, of the above, born in Francestown, N. H., January 5, 1801, married Nancy Greenleaf, who was born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1805. They had eight children: Pamelia, resides in Bethel; Penfield, resides in Bethel; Oliver, died in Bethel; Christina (deceased), married Andes Twitchell; Martha, wife of Moses Dustin, of Bethel; Calvin, died in Bethel; Frank, resides in Stockbridge; and Nancy, wife of Christopher R. Noble, of Bethel.
Chadwick, Constantine, was born in West Randolph, Vt., July 22, 1826, and is the eldest son in a family of twelve children, of Rufus and Mahala (York) Chadwick. He was a carpenter by trade, and enlisted in August, 1862, and was mustered in on the first of September as a member of Company H, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers. He served till June, 1864, and lost his left arm at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1863. He has been a resident of East Bethel since 1878, and is engaged in farming. He married Martha Gilson, of Randolph, and has four children, viz.: Amelia, wife of Cyrus M. Locke, of Detroit, Mich.; Jennie, wife of Cornelius Griffin, of Elkhart, Ind.; George, resides in Arizona; and Emma, wife of Daniel Scott, of Montpelier, Vt.
Chase, Aquilla, the immigrant ancestor of the Chase family, was captain of the first vessel that sailed into Newbury, at the mouth of the Merrimac River. He was born at Cornwall, England, in 1618. Moses, the youngest son of the above, was born at Newbury, December 24, 1663, and married November 10, 1684, Annie Folansbee. Daniel the eldest son of this couple, was born at Newburyport, Mass., April 2, 1685, and removed to Sutton, Mass. He married January 2, 1707, Sarah Marsh, and of his family Samuel, the eldest son, born in Sutton, in 1707, married Mary Dudley. He was among the early settlers of Cornish, N. H., where he died August 12, 1800. He had seven children, Dudley being the second son, born in 1730, married August 23, 1753, Alice Corbett, of Mendon, Mass. He came to Cornish in the spring of 1761, and was one of the first settlers of that town, where he died September 13, 1813. He had fifteen children. Simeon, son of Dudley, was born in Sutton, June 14, 1751, and married Molly March. He died in Bethel, September 6, 1847. They had two children, Simeon and Nancy. Simeon was born in Bethel in 1796, and married in October, 1821, Olivia Brown. She was born in New York State, March 12, 1799. They had three children: Dudley, Nancy, and George Brown. Simeon died May, 1827, his wife March 11, 1865. George Brown, son of Simeon, born in Bethel, September 9, 1826, married, first, June 21, 1848, Sophia, daughter of Dr. Henry and Louisa Haile. She was born in Middlebury, Vt., September 26. 1827. They had three children, viz.: Charles Dudley, born April 26, 1849, died August 26, 1871, at Bethel; Frank Solon, born October 14, 1851, died January 28, 1853 ; and Simeon Haile. Mrs. Chase died August 13, 1856. George B. married, second, Harriet Putnam, who was born in Bethel, April 23, 1829. The issue of this marriage was one child, George Carson, born November 30, 1859, a resident of Detroit, Mich. George B. died August 15, 1881. Simeon Haile, son of George B., was born in Bethel, July 20, 1855, and married October 23, 1883, Flora, adopted daughter of Simeon A. Webster, of Bethel. They have no children.
Chase, Moses, a son of Abner Chase, was born in Sutton, N. H., and married Hannah Slade. They had four children: Mary (deceased), married Hiram Thurston; Moses; Fannie, wife of Lester Gay, of Iowa; and Lyman, died in Rochester, Vt. Moses, of the above family, was born in Rochester, Vt., April 30, 1821, and married, November 15, 1846, Rosina F. Hill. She was born at Sharon, Vt., April 4, 1823, and was the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Scales) Hill. They have four children : Moses Roscoe, a dentist, at Ludlow, Vt., was born May 18. 1849; Flora Rosina, wife of W. T. Keyes, of Kearney, Neb.; Fannie Mabel, wife of H. C. Dunham, of Edmunds, Indian Territory ; and Rolla Miner. (See sketch of Dr. Rolla Miner Chase or. page 930 of this volume.)
The Child Family.-Benjamin Child emigrated from Great Britain to America. He helped in building the first church in Roxbury, Mass., and was admitted to this church in 1658. He had twelve children. He died October 14, 1678, in Roxbury, Mass.
Child, Benjamin, second son of Benjamin and Mary Child, was born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1656. He married Grace Morris, March 7, 1683, and they had twelve children. He died January 24, 1724.
Child, Ephraim, first child of Benjamin and Grace (Morris) Child, was born in Roxbury, Mass., December 18, 1683. He married Priscilla Harris in 1710, and they had ten children. He settled in Woodstock, Conn., about 1710, was active in the Revolutionary struggle, and was lieutenant in a Connecticut regiment. He died November 22, 1759.
Child, Daniel, second son of Ephraim and Priscilla (Harris) Child, was born in Woodstock, Conn., January 1, 1713. He married, first, January 1, 1747, Ruth Ammidown, and second, Abigail Bridges. They had six children. He died in 1776.
Child, Stephen, third son of Daniel and Ruth (Ammidown) Child, was born in Woodstock, Conn., November 27. 1749. He married, September 7, 1778, Mercy Chase, of Sutton, Mass.. and they had eleven children. He died May 24, 1831, in Cornish, N. H. He was one of the early proprietors of Bethel, Vt., but never became a resident.
Child, Daniel, eldest child of Stephen and Mercy (Chase) Child, was born in Cornish, N. H., August 6, 1779. He married, November 11, 1804, Apama Lyman, daughter of Josiah and Eunice (Tiffany) Lyman, and they had nine children. Mr. Child, with his brother Enos, settled early in Bethel, Vt. After marrying he went to Rochester Hollow, Vt., and began in the wilderness. He was a great pedestrian, and walked to Ohio and back on a prospecting tour in the summer of 1818. On his return he moved onto a farm in Bethel, where he lived until his death. He was a careful and methodical recorder of events, and was for many years parish and town clerk, as well as clerk of the district in which he lived. He was notably upright in business, temperate in his habits, one of the first to support the temperance movement in his town, a man of well defined, clear ideas, a lover of books, a scholar and a thinker. He was a life-long member of the Episcopal church, and in politics was a Whig. His mathematical and statistical turn of mind fitted well his business of land surveyor, and his opinion came to be authority concerning disputed corners, lines, etc. He died January 7, 1853, very suddenly, falling dead on the street in Bethel village.
Child. Lyman, third son and sixth child of Daniel and Apama (Lyman) Child, was born in Rochester, Vt., July 31, 1816. He married, June 26, 1838, Elizabeth E. Blanchard, of Pomfret, Vt. Mr. Child has been a life-long resident of Bethel, Vt., a farmer, and prominent in trade as grocer and dealer in meat and grain, who believes a living can be earned in Vermont as well as elsewhere.
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 University of Michigan in June, 1889, and is now (1890) a practicing physician in Bethel, Vt.
Child, Daniel Lyman, son of Lyman and Elizabeth K. (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 granddaughter 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 Spiritualist journal.
Clough, Daniel M., born in Bath, N. H., October 11, 1826, is the eldest son of Daniel Moulton and Mary Ann (Hunt) Clough. He became a resident of Bethel in 1847, being at the time in the employ of the Vermont Central Railroad. He is a blacksmith by trade, and after leaving the railroad he carried on blacksmithing in the northern part of Bethel for four years and subsequently moved to the eastern part of the town, where he has been engaged in farming. He enlisted August 3, 1862, in Company A, Sixteenth Vermont Regiment, and was discharged as lieutenant August 13, 1863. He re-enlisted, March, 1864, in Company F, Seventeenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and was color sergeant of his company. He was wounded in the shoulder May 12, 1863, at the battle of the Wilderness, and in the right leg September 30, 1864, in the battle before Petersburg, where he was taken prisoner, and was afterwards exchanged. He was mustered out of the service June, 1865. He married, first, Laura L., daughter of Osmond Brooks of Bethel. They had four children, viz.: Fred M., an insurance agent residing in Mechanicsville, N. Y.; Ella L., died aged nineteen years; Laura Elver, wife of E. G. Carpenter of Bethel; and Horace Eugene, died aged five years. He married, second, Mrs. Sabina 0. Colburn, daughter of Harvey Ripley. Mr. Clough is one of the present, 1890, selectmen of the town.
Davis, Jacob, came from New Hampshire to Randolph. He was born in 1768 and died June 21, 1801. 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 removed 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: Ellen Margaret, Sarah Jane, Minnie Mary, and William Jacob. Ellen M. married L. D. Leavitt, of Brainard, and died in 1861. Sarah J. married W. D. Lee, of Newark, 0hio., and died October 6, 1890; they had four children, Nellie Davis, Charles Augustus, 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 November, 1877, died April, 1878. William J., of Glens Falls, N. Y., was born May 9, 1855, 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 Gifford ; 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) Chamberlain. 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.
Day, Kilburn, was born in Royalton, Vt., June 20, 1814, and is the eldest son of Dan-forthand Mary (Goodnough) Day. His father was a native of Royalton, and had a family of seven children, viz.: Maria, wife of George Aland, of Utica, N. Y.; Kilburn ; Samuel, resides in Lowell, Mass.; Ralph, died in Royalton; Mary Jane, widow of George Gee, resides in Sharon, Vt.; Danforth, resides in Royalton; and Henry, a member of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. Kilburn enlisted from Bethel, and was mustered in February, 1862, as first lieutenant of Company E, Eighth Vermont Volunteers, and was discharged on account of disability in December, 1862. After receiving his discharge he located at Wolcott, Vt., where he kept a hotel till 1868, when he removed to Montpelier, where he engaged in the carpentering trade till 1886, when he came to East Bethel, where he now resides. He is at present engaged at his trade, and is keeping a public house. Mr. Day married, January 22, 1845, Mary F., daughter of Samuel and Achsa P. (Pearson) Morrell. She was born in Warren, Vt., March 2, 1826. They have no children, but have adopted two, viz.: William 0. and Lula E.
Dearing, Joseph, born at Belchertown, Mass., in June, 1786, married at Stockbridge, Vt., December 30, 1810, Rebecca Taggert. She was born in Stockbridge, July 2, 1790. Of their children, four died in infancy. The others were Theodore Allen, born July 12, 1812, died in Bethel; Ira T., born April 12, 1816, died in Bethel ; Milo, born December 24, 1818, died at Tunbridge, Vt.; Joseph E.; Jane S., born July 22, 1822, wife of George M. Alexander, of Royalton, Vt; Nancy, born July 3, 1824 (deceased), married Franklin Newton; Mark S., born September 3, 1826, died at Bethel; Lucinda P., born September, 10, 1828, wife of Julius Dyke, of Bethel ; Marietta, born August 16, 1835, married Hiram Owen, and died in Bethel. Joseph died May 5, 1851 ; his wife July 5. 1853. Joseph E. (son of Joseph), born in Bethel, December 27, 1820, married March 2. 1842, Caroline, daughter of John and Lucy (Haskell) Townsend. John Townsend mentioned above was born in Massachusetts, September 19, 1772, and married first, September 29, 1795, Bathsheba Wells. They had seven children, viz.: Harriet (deceased), married William Newton ; Mary (deceased), married Ezra Putnam ; Franklin, died in Bethel; Joel B., died at Whitehall, N. Y.; George, died at Bethel; Eliphalet, died at Randolph; and Hannah R., (deceased) married Daniel Gushing. His first wife died February 5, 1812, and he married, second, June 8, 1813, Lucy Haskell, who was born in Cornish, N. H., April 28, 1784. Their children were, John H., died at Aurora, ILL.; Lois, widow of Edwin Lillie, lives in Bethel; Alice C, resides in Bethel ; and Caroline C, wife of Joseph E. Dearing. John came to Bethel about 1792, and settled and cleared the farm now occupied by J. E. Dearing. He died March 28, 1863 ; his wife December 2, 1875. Joseph E. Dearing has four children : Albert E., born May 10, 1843, resides in Bethel; Joseph A., born January 22, 1851, resides in Bethel; George T., born November 8, 1852, married Abby M. Dearing, and has two children. Dana E. and Caroline L., and resides at East Randolph; Frank M., born October 31, 1857, married Ellen Emerson, and resides at Reed's Ferry.
Dustin, Moses, born in Salem, N. H., December 9, 1802, came to Tunbridge in 1823, and finally became a resident of Chelsea, Vt, removing to Bethel in 1870, where he died in 1880. He married Adaline Shepard, of Tunbridge. Of their nine children, one died in infancy. The eight were, Timothy, died young; Moses; Lydia, widow of George P. Cushman, resides in Derry, N. H.; Charles, member of the Second Vermont Regiment, died in the army ; Thomas Shepard, of the Eighth New Hampshire Regiment, died in the army; Albert, died in Derry, N. H.; Mary, wife of George Woodward, of Woodstock ; and George, resides in Derry. Moses, of the above, born in Tunbridge, Vt., January 27, 1827, became a resident of Bethel in 1850. He married, first, Marietta Barrett, by whom he had eleven children, viz.: Lucia L.. resides in Bethel; Eleroy and Emeroy, twins, the former died in Bethel, and left two children, the latter was the wife of Aaron Bowen, of Bethel; Melissa Ann, widow of Royal Twitchell, resides in Stockbridge; Samuel Wilber, died, aged four years: Albert, resides in Derry, N. H.; Charles H., resides in Randolph; Augustine, died aged four years; Sarah Addie, died aged fourteen years ; Nathaniel, lives in Bethel; and Lydia Ann, died in infancy. His present wife is Martha Bullard.
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 married 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, 0hio. 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 Cornelia, daughter of Charles W. and Charlotte (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 children, of whom James was his fourth son, was born in Pepperell, and married Sarah 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 20, 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; William 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 Taylor, 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 Sarah 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.
Graham, Alexander, came from Lebanon, N. H., to Hartland, Vt., in 1836 and removed to Bethel in 1841. He married October 9, 1806, Lucy Kimball. She was a daughter of Joseph and Eunice (Gallop) Kimball and was born September 5, 1788. Eunice was the daughter of William and Lucy (Denison) Gallop. Alexander and Lucy (Kimball) Graham had a family of thirteen children, of whom two died in infancy. The others were all born in Lebanon, N. H., and are as follows: Henry, born January 29, 1808, died single at Bethel, January 26, 1851; Joseph Kimball, born December 17, 1809, resides in Hartland, Vt.; Sarah Elizabeth, died three years of age; James Alexander, born February 20, 1814, resides in Biddeford, Me.; Oliver Gallop, born March 5, 1818, and died seventeen years of age; Lucy Maria (deceased), married Jefferson Phillips; John Gallop, died twenty-three years of age; Guy Eldridge, born January 13, 1825, resides in Bethel; Andrew Jackson, born February 10, 1827, resides in Bethel; Ziba, died eighteen years of age; and Mary Jane, died twenty-one years of age. Alexander died August 17, 1861, his wife January 9, 1866.
Graham, Guy Eldridge, was born January 13, 1825, and married May 1, 1867, Martha A. Sparhawk. They have two children, Lucy M. and Annie L. Mr. Graham at the age of seventeen entered the mercantile business, in which he was engaged till 1877, when his store was destroyed by fire. He is now engaged in buying wool and other merchandise.
Hatch, Judah, was born in Tolland, Conn., October 11, 1764. He removed to Alstead, N. H., in 1772 with his father, Joseph, who died March 6, 1802, aged eighty-four years. Judah married November 25, 1785, Gate Beckwith and came to Bethel on March 31 1816, settling on a farm three miles north of the village. His children were Lynda, who died in infancy; Hial, died eighteen months of age; Lynda (deceased), married, first, Isaac Temple of Alstead, second. Captain John Tiffany of Randolph; Alvin, was in the mercantile business and died at Newport, N. H.; Hial, a farmer died at Bethel; Judah; Cate (deceased), married Benjamin Herndell; George S.; Harry, died at Woodstock; and Phila, died at Woodstock. Judah died October 28, 1848.
Hatch, Judah, son of Judah, was born in Alstead, N. H., January 17, 1796, and married January 12, 1817, Eliza Swift Russell. She was born November 13, 1798, and died at Woodstock, October 10, 1854. Judah lived in Bethel till 1833, when he removed to Woodstock, where he died November 16, 1879. His children were Mary Ann, born January 12, 1819, widow of Harry H. Palmer; Albert, born December 31, 1821, resides in Woodstock; Lucette E., widow of the Hon. James M. Mcintosh; Caroline, born October 5, 1835, wife of Austin E. Simmons of Woodstock; Oliver T., born October 10,1840 resides in Woodstock; and Tracy, died eight months of age. The latter two were twins.
Hatch, George S., was born at Alstead, N. H., February 3, 1802, and married November 24, 1830, Irene, daughter of Chester and Irene (Shepherd) Webster. She was born in Alstead, N. H., May 30, 1805, and died June 21, 1890. George S. lived on his father's homestead till 1861, when he removed to the village. He has no children.
Jones, Alexander K., born in Preston, N. Y., March 24, 1809, married, April 14, 1833, Louisa, daughter 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, 1880. 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 Company 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
Mcintosh, John, a native of Scotland, was born near Edinburgh. He was pressed into the English army at the age of nineteen years, being the only son of a widow. Soon after being mustered into the service, he was sent to Canada, and served during the French and Indian war. At the close of the war he settled at Bedford, N. H., where he died. His children were William, John, James, Samuel, Isaac, Isabella, Mary.
Mcintosh, Samuel, (son of John,) was born in Bedford, N. H.. April 17, 1774, and on November 16, 1813, married Phebe, daughter of Samuel Wyatt. She was born in Amherst, N. H., February 9, 1788. Samuel died June 30, 1849; his wife January 12, 1880. Their children were John, Sally, Samuel, Orange S., Lucetta, Lucinda, Phebe J.
Mcintosh, William, (son of John,) was born in Bedford, November 6, 1776, and married February 8, 1810, Jane Patterson, who was born in New Boston, N. H., August 13, 1785. He settled in the northwestern corner of Bethel in 1810, on the farm now occupied by his only son and family. His children were Martha, Gisey, Susan, Mary, and James Miller. William died May 6, 1863, his wife, March 22, 1870.
Mcintosh, Samuel, (son of Samuel,) born in Bethel, March 15, 1820, married, November 2, 1848, Tamesin, daughter of Amasa and Altha (Hazen) Dutton. She was born at Royalton, December 20, 1823. They had three children. One died in infancy ; Edward, born in Bethel, December 15, 1851, married Abby Dutton, has one child, Edward Earl, resides at Randolph; Carlton W., born in Bethel, May 21, 1857, a graduate of Rush Medical College, of Chicago, class of 1890, commenced the practice of his profession at Hubbard, IA. Mr. Mcintosh is a farmer, and has always resided on the farm in the northwestern part of the town, settled by his father in 1812.
Mcintosh, James Miller, (son of William,) was born in Bethel, December 20, 1825. He received a common school and academic education, and was engaged in farming. He married, March 2, 1853, Lucette, daughter of Judah and Eliza (Russell) Hatch. She was born in Bethel, August 2, 1829. Their children are Ellen, Jane and Herbert Miller. Mr. Mcintosh held many positions of trust; was selectman ten years; lister, thirteen years; overseer of the poor, twenty-one years ; grand juror, nine years ; auditor, six years; justice of the peace, two years; member of the Legislature in 1866-67; State senator in 1882; commissioner of licenses for 1885-86. He died at Saratoga, N. Y., September 6, 1887.
Moody The first of this name came from England soon after the arrival of the Mayflower. 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, Hannah Copeland. She was born February 26, 1763, and died June 18, 1842. John removed 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 President James A. Garfield. Her father, Daniel Garfield, was a soldier during the Revolution. 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, Emeline 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 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 continued ever since. Mr. Moody represented his native town in the House of Representatives in 1878. He was married January 25, 1882, to Abbie E., daughter of Samuel and Charlotte (Wyman) Archer.
Parker, Joseph, a native of Braintree, Mass., emigrated to New Marlboro, N. H., and afterwards came to Bethel, and removed subsequently to Braintree and Granville, Vt. He died in the latter town. His children were Joseph, died in Granville, Vt.; Abraham, died in Granville, Vt.; Enos, died in Michigan; John, died in Granville; Stephen, died in Hartford, Vt.; Lemuel, died in Michigan; Ephraim, died in Leicester, N. Y.; Nathan; and two daughters, one of whom married a Goodno, and the other a Lewis. Nathan, of above family, was born in Braintree, Mass., April 4, 1787, and died May 26, 1864. He married, first, Lucinia Razie. There was no issue by this marriage that reached maturity. He married, second, Bethiah Jackson, daughter of Samuel Peak. She was born on the farm now occupied by her son, Nathan Parker, and was the second female child born in Bethel. She died in 1835, in the fifty-fourth year of her age. The children by the last marriage are John, who resides in Freedom, Portage county, 0hio.; Lucinia, resides in Bethel; Mary, wife of William Webster, of Hudson, 0hio.; and Nathan. Nathan married for his third wife Polly Janes, by whom he had one child, George, a resident of Royalton. Nathan, son of Nathan, was born in Bethel, October 20, 1820, and married Mary L. Bliss, who died January 19, 1887. They have two children: Amna Lida, wife of Myron Morse, of Manchester, Vt., and Sophia Rebecca, widow of Frank W. Harding, resides in Bethel. Mr. Parker has resided on his present farm fifty-two years, has been selectman six years, and lister six years.
Parsons, Franklin L., was born in Warren, Washington county, Vt., April 20, 1834. Elias. his grandfather, born in Quechee. Vt.. reared a family of live 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, la.; 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.
Pember, Elijah, a native of Ellington, Conn., bought land in Randolph, Vt., for his sons Samuel, Stephen and Thomas. The latter was killed in the Royalton massacre. Samuel, of the above sons, was born in Ellington in 1748, and died in Randolph in 1828. He married Esther Read of Ellington, and had a family of seven children, viz.: Samuel; Lucy, who married a Mr. Kimball; Sophronia, who married a Mr. Robinson; Achsa, Esther, Elijah and Read. Samuel of the above, born in Randolph, June 8, 1794, married Merrilla, daughter of Jacob Haskell, of Weathersfield, Vt., in which town she was born February 15, 1796. Their eight children were Esther, died young; Samuel Haskell; Andrew, a resident of Bethel; Monroe, resides on the old homestead in Randolph; Frances, married Daniel Washburn; Ellen, deceased, married John Paine; Angeline, died aged eighteen ; and Esther, resides in Millis, Mass. Samuel died in Randolph, December 26, 1874; his wife January 8, 1875. Samuel Haskell, born in Randolph, June 15, 1826, married, first, Rhoda Morse of Reading, Vt. Their four children were Willie, who married Jennie Fuller, and resides in Rochester, Vt; Ellis, died young; Eva Eudora and Ella Clio, twins, died fifteen months of age. He married, second, Jennie Rowell of Tunbridge, Vt., by whom he had three children, viz.: Verna, Myrtie and Eva. Mr. Pember is engaged in farming and has been a resident of Bethel since 1867, having previously resided in Reading and Weathersfield.
Perry, Clarence C, M. D., of Bethel, was born in Pomfret, Vt., June, 1849, and is the second son of Asa and Martha Ann (Spencer) Perry. His father was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, August 16, 1820, and had a family of seven children, viz.: Elbridge, a farmer, residing in Pomfret, Vt.; Clarence C.; Alice, wife of Owen Adams, of Barnard, Vt.; Martha, wife of Horace Eastman ; Asa, resides in Barnard : Evelyn, wife of Henry Adams, of Royalton ; and Minnie, wife of Charles Cleaveland, of Barnard. Dr. Perry, after attending the local schools, became a student of the Green Mountain Academy at South Woodstock, Vt., also at Goddard Seminary in Barre, Vt. He studied medicine with Dr. C. C. Ellis, then of Barre, Vt., now of Somerville, Mass., and Dr. Richmond S. Sherwin, of Woodstock. He entered the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in 1874, graduating two years later. He commenced the practice of his profession in 1877 at South Pomfret, Vt., where he remained two years, removing to East Bethel, and in 1880 came to Bethel village, where he has since practiced. Dr. Perry is a member of the Vermont State and White River Medical Societies. He married Miss Belle C. Hudson, but has no children.
Preston, William R., was born in Claremont, N. H., June 3, 1807, and was the second son of Clark and Martha (Reed) Preston. In his childhood his father removed to Weathersfield, Vt., but he became a resident of Bethel in the spring of 1834. At that time he engaged in farming. He married Cilpha C. Davis, March 11,1834. She was born in Cavendish, Vt, July 17, 1807. They had three children : Celestia C, died at four years of age; Sarah Jane, died aged five years; and Henry W., born in Bethel, December 2, 1851, and married April 16, 1874, Ida, daughter of Leonard K. and Nancy (Morse) Williams. She was born in Bethel, October IG, 1856. They have two children : Mabel Henrietta, born November 5, 1876; Walter Henry, born October 2, 1884. William R. died May 8, 1878.
Smith, William P., was born in Braintree, Vt., December 4, 1831. Heman M., his father, born in Weathersfield, Conn., March 12, 1798, married May 2, 1826, Abbie Carley, born May 15, 1804, died September 11, 1844. He married, second, Margaret Wiley, born September, 1817. His children by the first marriage were George Tompson, Herbert Rogers, William Phineas, Wright C, Elsie Loraine, Emma Lorett, Henry C, born February 19, 1843, enlisted May, 1861, in Company I, Thirtieth New York Volunteers, taken prisoner November 16, 1861, and confined in Libby Prison until the following spring, when he was paroled. He re-enlisted February 18, 1864, in Company E, Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. He volunteered with others to take a rebel battery in a battle before Petersburg, July 30, 1864, and was killed. The children by the second marriage were Albert M., living in Melrose, Mass.; and Silas Wiley, living in Randolph. Heman M. is now (1890) living in Randolph at the advanced age of ninety-two. William P. married December 13, 1857, Christiana, daughter of Calvin and Nancy (Steele) Smith, born in Roxbury, December 29. 1835. They have no children of their own, but have had two adopted children, viz.: Mary Anna, born December 10, 1864, died May 23, 1877; and Mary Elizabeth, born June 1, 1873, lives at home. Mr. Smith became a clerk in a dry goods store in Boston when fifteen years of age, and continued in the business five years. He then learned the machinist's trade, and followed that business in Northfield and Brandon, Vt., for fifteen years. In 1866 he settled in East Bethel, where he has since carried on the leading mercantile business of that place.
Spaulding, Andrew, was born in Cornish, N. H., and came at an early day to West Windsor and cleared a farm there. He married Sarah Hubbell and had four children, viz.: Sarah, married A. M. Whitney and died at Albany, Vt.; Silva, married Seth Hubbell and died at Falmouth, Vt.; Junius ; and Abial, died at West Windsor.
Spaulding, Junius, of the above family, was born in West Windsor and died at Bridgewater. He married Rebecca Jordan, and of their eleven children one died in infancy. The others were Rebecca (deceased), married Abial Woodward; Zebina; Eliza, died in Bridgewater; Verulam, resides in Massachusetts; George, died at eighteen years of age; Andrew, died at Bridgewater; Americas V., a lawyer, resides in Burlington, Vt.; Mary Ann, wife of Mr. Heath of Woodstock, Vt.; Julia Emeline (deceased), married Daniel Kelsey; and Charles, a resident of Bethel.
Spaulding, Zebina, son of Junius, was born in West Windsor, March 29, 1816. His father became a resident of Bridgewater in 1816. His first wife was Harriet Morse. They had five children: Romanzo, was killed by a horse in Granville, Vt.; Rosalvo, died six months of age; Eliza, wife of C. R. Chadwick of Bethel; Charles, resides in Deadwood, South Dakota; and Harriet, resides at St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Spaulding married, second, Charlotte Dunham, third, Mary Rowel, and fourth, Mrs. Mary, widow of William Albin, of Randolph, and daughter of Amasa Cross of Braintree, Vt., of which town she is a native. Mr. Spaulding has been a resident of Bethel since 1845, has been selectman and justice of the peace.
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 William 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, resides 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 Livingston, 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 Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, and was afterwards engaged in the restaurant business in New York city. In 1867 he came to Bethel and engaged in the mercantile business 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.
Torrey, George, was born in Bethel, Vt., May 5, 1817, the second in a family of six children of John and Miriam (Morse) Torrey. David, his grandfather, born in Massachusetts, married Tursey Lillie, and had three children who lived to adult age, viz : John, Abigail, and Judah. David died in Bethel, September 3, 1835. His widow married, second, Amasa Edson, of Brookfield, Vt. She died there December 12, 1853. John was born in Massachusetts, Decembers, 1793. He married Miriam Morse, April 12, 1814, who was born March 6, 1799. They had children as follows: Judah, George, Horace, John, jr., Milo, David. John died in Bethel. May 12, 1868. His wife died in Fort Atkinson, Wis., October 3, 1873. George married, first, Betsey Meserve, October, 1846, who died December 7, 1847. He married, second, September 10, 1848, Betsey Ann, daughter of Salmon and Mary (White) Edson, born September 11, 1825, in Brookfield, Vt. By this union there were three children, viz.: Charles Judah, born July 21, 1849, married April 14, 1874, Alvaritta C. Southard, and has five children living, viz.: Marcia Ella, Charles Elroy, Merton Duane, Elva N., and George Glenn, and is a farmer living in Addison, Vt.; Dana George, born February 17, 1851, carries on the home farm; Lizzie Mary, born April 19, 1861, living at home. Mr. Torrey has always lived on the place where he was born. He has been selectman and lister.
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 Illinois; 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 married, 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, Martha 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 married Nellie M., daughter of A. J. Graham. They have two children : Grace L. and Henry 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, married 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 (Button) 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 August 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 December 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.
Weeden, Samuel, was born in Hartland, Vt., October 18, 1820. His father, Samuel, son of Samuel, was born in Hartland, July, 1792. He married Patty Cady, and had seven children as follows: A daughter died in infancy; William, a farmer living in West Windsor; Samuel; Lucius H., a farmer living in Bridgewater, Vt.; Warren, a farmer living in Sycamore, ILL.; Benjamin Franklin ; farmer living in Bridgewater ; and Edwin, died in Bridgewater. Samuel, his father, died in Bridgewater, July, 1870, and his wife December, 1873. Samuel Weeden married Salemna, daughter of Edward and Rosamund (Bruce) Doton. She was born December 29, 1819. They have had three children, viz.: Lucia, died aged 22; Marcilla, died aged 17; Rosamund I., wife of M. D. Brown, lives in Lebanon, N. H. Mr. Weeden lived in Hartland until 1841, then moved to Reading, where he resided until 1852, when he went to California, where he remained three years. He then returned east, and resided in Woodstock, South Woodstock, and Reading until 1866, when he settled in East Bethel, where he has since resided, carrying on farming and the milling business.
Wheeler, Minot, was born in Hollis, N. H., May 17, 1777, and removed to Royalton at an early day. He married April 28, 1800, Sarah Farley, a native of Hollis. They had eleven children, three of whom died in infancy, viz.: Sarah, died nine years of age; Susan, died twelve years of age; Royal, died at Brattleboro, Vt.; Rebecca, the widow of Joel Day, resides in Bethel ; Mary Ann (deceased), married John Wallace; George, died young; Minot, died in Royalton; George, died in Bethel; and Gardiner. Minot died December 22, 1849, He removed to Bethel, and was a cooper by trade.
Wheeler, Gardiner, son of Minot, was born in Bethel, January 6, 1824, and married February 15, 1843, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of John and Betsey (Twitchell) Woodbury. She was born in Bethel, December 31, 1823. Of their five children, one died in infancy. The others were, Wilber G., died eighteen years of age; Charles M., died eighteen years of age; Ella E., died seventeen years of age; and Orrin, died fourteen years of age. Mr. Wheeler is a mason by trade and has carried on that business in connection with farming.
Wilson, Theophilus E., born in Cabot, Vt., May 8, 1814, was eighth in a family of ten children. His father, Nathaniel, was the son of John and was born in Londonderry, N. H., July 22, 1773, and married Abigail Varnum, who was born May 13, 1777. Of their ten children the six eldest were born in Peacham, Vt., the others in Cabot, Vt. They were as follows: Jane, born May 1, 1800; Sarah, born February 14. 1802; John, born September 10, 1803; Jesse C, born April 3, 1805; David, born November 29, 1806; Hiram, born April 6, 1810; John, born April 18, 1812; Nathaniel, born October 3, 1817; Rachel, born October 12, 1819. Nathaniel, the father, died November 28, 1842, his wife March 3, 1825. He was a farmer and moved when a young man to Peacham, thence to Cabot, where he died. Theophilus E. married November 20, 1840, Rosetta M., daughter of Fifield and Judith (Heath) Lyford. She was born in Cabot, February 28, 1821, and died in Bethel, September 13, 1888. Their children were Louisa, born September 14, 1841, married August 21, 1865, Selam N. Welch and resides in Sutton, N. H.; Martha, born December 25, 1843, married Jamon P. Thurber and died April 11, 1863; Edward F., born August 8, 1848, married Ida Flint, September 21, 1874, they have two sons. Earl and Pearl; Emogene, born May 22, 1854, married October 23, 1872, Wesley E. Heath, and they have three children, Carrie M., Josie Louise and Frank W. Mr. Wilson lived in Cabot till he was twenty-two years of age, when he engaged in school-teaching and taught eighteen consecutive terms in Cabot, Woodbury and Peacham. After his marriage he settled on a farm in Cabot, where he remained till 1801. He then purchased the hotel property in Cabot, which he ran until 1868. In 1870 he removed to Bethel, purchased a hotel in that place known since and now as the Wilson House. He sold this property August 17, 1887, and has since lived a retired life.
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 Lexington, 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, married 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 Morgan. 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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