Old Families of Sharon
History of Windsor County Vermont
Lewis Cass Aldrich published in 1891
Baldwin.- The Baldwins of Sharon are descended from Henry Baldwin, who was; a freeman in Woburn, Mass., in 1652, but was a resident of that town in 1640, and held the position of selectman in 1681. He married November 1, 1649, Phebe, eldest daughter of Ezekiel Richardson. He died February 4, 1697. Of his eleven children Benjamin, the youngest, was born in Woburn, Mass., January 20, 1672, and removed to Canterbury, Conn., about 1700, where he died in 1759. He married Hannah and had eight children. Benjamin, his second son, was born in 1700, and married April 24, 1724, Elizabeth Longbottom. He was a resident of Norwich, Conn., where he died at an advanced age. He was a man of great physical strength, and being at one time a prisoner of the Indians, proved more than a match for them in wrestling. Of his five children, Ebenezer, the youngest, was born in Hebron, Conn., February, 1736, married Abigail Blackman, born in 1743. He removed to Orford, N. H., about 1702, and died at Fairlee, Vt., in 1818. He had eight children: Abigail, married Nathaniel Marsh; Ebenezer, removed to Ohio ; Martha, married Thomas Truesdale ; Irene, married Stephen Lumbard; Betsey, married Rufus Carpenter ; Eleazer; William, died in Ohio ; and John. Eleazer, above, was born in Oxford, N. H., January 27, 1778, and married November, 1803, Polly Ladd, born April 11, 1785. Their children were Pamelia (deceased), married Dr. Isaac D. Carpenter ; Alphes L., born April 18, 1808, died in Strafford, in 1880 ; twin daughters died in infancy; Emily (deceased), married Willard Hayward ; Emeline, died single; Eleazer Blackman; William A., born June 12, 1820, died in Strafford; Marietta, died young; Deo Datus. died aged nineteen; Abigail D.. wife of Lavinius H. Chandler, of Barton Landing, Vt.; and Polly G., wife of Edward Dutton. of Barton, Vt. Eleazer was a physician, and died December 20, 1857, his wife August 2, 1870. Eleazer Blackman was born in Strafford, April 30, 1818, came to Sharon in 1842 and engaged in farming. He has been prominently identified in State and town affairs. He has been selectman, lister, member of the House in 1853-54, 1857-58, and nominee on the Democratic ticket for lieutenant-governor in 1877. He married January 31, 1842, Lusia H. Brown, born in Strafford, February 18, 1821. They had eleven children: Willard H., born May 14, 1843, married Lucinda Martyn, born May 14, 1843; he is a railroad bridge builder, and resides now at West Lebanon, N. H.; Marcella L., died young; Francelia E., resides in South Dakota; George W.. born August 3, 1845, unmarried, engaged in railroad bridge building, and resides in Rutland, Vt.; Eleazer, born June 26, 1849, married Eveline Vaughan; they have two children: Parker, and Emily resides at Manchester, Vt.; E. Henry, born March 31, 1851, railroad engineer, resides in Londonderry, Vt.: Adelia L., school teacher in Boston; Emma, wife of E. L. Wells, of Lyndonville ; Deo Datus, born February 16, 1857, married, first, Josie Dewey, and had one child, Josie D.; he married, second, Jennie Eaton, and is now a farmer and banker in South Dakota; William A., born October 16, 1858, married Emma Wheeler, and has one child, Charley; he is a farmer of Carthage, S. D.; Rufus C, born March 22, 1862, married May Bickford. They have one child, Ralph, resides at Huntington, Vt. John, son of Ebenezer, was born in Orford, N. H., and married Lucinda Clark. He settled in Sharon, March, 1818, where he died February 3, 1870. His children Avere Almira (deceased), married Moses Preston; Phebe (deceased), married Abijah Felton; John C, a Universalist minister, died at Sharon; Albert, resides in Kansas; and Lucinda, widow of David Felton, lives in Illinois.
Chillson, William Howard, was born in Barnston, Canada, December 5, 1854, and was third in a family of four children of George Washington and Sophia (Moser) Chillson. His father was a native of West Hartley, Canada, and died at Barnston in 1867. His brothers and sisters are Edna Z., wife of Don Blake, of St. Albans, Vt.; Edgar, farmer, living in Sharon; and Albert G., living at Lowell, Mass. William H resided in Canada till he was twelve years old, when his mother after the death of her husband removed with her children to Sharon, where she died in 1884. He was three years in the Stark cotton-mills of Manchester, N. H., and for twelve years was employed as fireman and engineer on the Vermont Central Railroad, during which time he resided at St. Albans. In December, 1889, he purchased a farm in Sharon, upon which he now lives. He married, first, Jennie McDonald, of Sharon. They had one child, Edith A. He married, second. Flora Bullard, of Swanton Vt. They have no children.
Day, Edwin L., born in Sharon, January 4, 1838, descends in the eight generation from Robert Day, who came to Cambridge in 1634, and died in 1648. The line is as follows: first, Robert; second, Robert, born in 1604; third, Benjamin, of Gloucester, ancestors of the Days in Vermont. He had seven sons and three daughters: fourth, Caleb, born about 1680, and had children as follows : Caleb, Israel, John, Ebenezer, Daniel, Ichabod, Ruth, and Hannah; fifth, Ichabod above, married Elizabeth , and had children as follows: Amos, Asa, John, Orin, David, Robert, Elizabeth, Hannah and Olive. He died November 3, 1769, aged forty-six. Elizabeth, his wife, died February 15, 1802, aged eighty-seven ; sixth, Orin, fourth son above, born at Wrentham, Mass., August 5, 1762, married July 13, 1788, Joanna Everett. Their children were Warren Pliney, Lucy, Amelia, Horace, Harvey, Orin, and Lucia. Orin died September 20, 1835, in Sharon, aged seventy-three; his wife Joanna September 17, 1853, aged eighty-six; seventh, Orin, seventh child above, born in Sharon, September 23, 1806. His wife was Esther Peck, married September 5, 1836. He died September 14, 1883; his wife August 15, 1879. Their children were Edwin L. and Colvin T. The latter died June 29, 1885 ; eighth, Edwin L., married Mary, daughter of Eli and Roxanna (Harrington) Hayden, who was born in Sharon, October 6, 1837. The father of Eli was brought up by Larkin Hunter, of Sharon, who was a brother of Mrs. Hannah Hendee, the heroine on the occasion of the Indian invasion in 1780. Mr. and Mrs. Day had two children, viz.: Herbert E. and Addie M., died January 30, 1871. Both resided in Sharon.
Drown, Wheaton, a native of Connecticut, settled in Hartford, Vt., was born October 19, 1784, and died December 14, 1867. He married, first, Mary Ives. Of their children one died in infancy. The others were Walter, who died in Sharon, and Charles I. He married, second, Ann Porter, and their only child, John, was drowned in the White River at Hartford when nineteen years of age. Charles I., born in Hartland, died in Sharon, March 14, 1875. He married Diana Porter. They had five children : Porter, died young; Charles E., married Martha Ladd ; Mary, died aged eighteen ; Ella (deceased), married Charles Moray ; and George B., born in Sharon, July 12, 1861, married Minnie Howe. They had one child, Mark G. George B. is engaged in farming and is one of the present selectmen of the town.
Emery, Amos, was born in Chester, N. H., March 27, 1820, the third in a family of six sons and two daughters, of Jonathan and Nancy (Eaton) Emery. His education was received in the local schools, and he has always been engaged in farming. His father removed to Washington, Vt., in 1830, where he died. He remained with his father till 1835, when he purchased his time and commenced work in Brookfield, Vt., where he remained till 1869, when he removed to Chelsea, Vt., and became a resident of Sharon in 1884. Mr. Emery has taken an active part in public affairs. At the age of twenty-one he was elected captain of a militia company at Brookfield. He has been town superintendent of schools, member of the text-book committee, lister, member of the House of 1888, and since December, 1887, has been justice of the peace at Sharon, and has held every office that a town could bestow. He married, first, Almira Hibbard, by whom he had two children : George A., engaged in trade and a resident of Boston, and Albert E., a hotel-keeper, of East Randolph, Vt. He married, second, Sarah M. Hibbard, a sister of his first wife, by whom he had two children: Curtis Stanton, a lawyer, but at present cashier of Orange County National Bank, at Chelsea, Vt., and Wilson Seward of Boston, assistant United States marshal for Massachusetts. Mr. Emery is a Republican in politics, has always taken a great interest in music, and has had charge of a choir for many years.
Fay.-The family of this name in Sharon is descended from John Fay, a native of England, who was born about 1648. He embarked for America May 30, 1656, on board the Speedwell, arriving in Boston June 27th, of that year. Of the family of eight children Gresham, his youngest son, married Mary Brigham. He was born October 19, 1681. Gresham died November 24,1720. He had a son Gresham, born September 17, 1703, and who died April 7,1784. He married Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Oaks, an emigrant from England. She was born December 27, 1707, and died March 3, 1806. Gresham lived at Northboro, which was then a part of Westboro, Mass., and had a family of eight children. Joseph, his fifth child, was born September 17, 1738. He married Lucy Warren, who was born at Shrewsbury, Mass., about 1742. She was related to General Joseph Warren. Joseph settled for some time at Boston, but removed to Walpole, N. H., in the early part of 1776. He was a Revolutionary soldier. Joseph, son of the above, was born in Boston, December 28, 1762. He served in the Revolution from March 1, 1777, to June 27, 1780. He was married November 14, 1782, to Sarah Graves, who was born in Seabrook, Conn., July 15, 1762. Their children were Calvin, Artemas, Sally, Luther, Fanny, Rebecca, Robert, Betsey, Joseph Lewis, Tirzah, and Allen Clark. Joseph died at Walpole, N. H., October 13, 1831 ; his wife April 25, 1847. Luther, the son of Joseph, was born in Walpole, October 3, 1788. He married Nancy Kibling, of Westmoreland, N. H. He became a resident of Vermont in 1812, .settling in Vershire. After remaining there one year he removed to Strafford, and in 182.T located at Sharon, where he died December 30, 1864. He had six children: Joseph Lewis, died at Sharon; Calvin Kibling; Rollins Burke, died young; Jacob Luther, died in Sharon; Sarah Ann (deceased), married Azro Mosher; and Nancy Maria, died young. Calvin Kibling was born in Walpole, N. H., March 8, 1810, and married January 3, 1832, Betsey Northrop, who was born at Strafford, Vt., February 8, 1810. He is a stone mason and carpenter by trade, and has also been engaged in farming, having purchased his present farm in 1834. He had four children, all of whom were born in Sharon. They are Rollins Burke, born December 20, 1832, married Jane Shepard. He is a Congregational minister, and resides in Sheldon, Vt. He had two sons, viz : Alba Greenleaf, born in Sharon, June 12, 1857, and married Sophia Cynthia Harrington; he is a lawyer and resides in Reedsboro, Vt.; and Charles Myron, died June 23. 1886. George Edward, born September 28, 1836, married Mary Jane Tyler. He resides in Sharon, and is a carpenter and builder. He has three children : Fredwin Tyler, unmarried, a resident of Lowell, Mass.; Sarah Minnie, wife of Nahum Heath, of Lowell, Mass.; and Ellen Jane. Ellen Sarah (deceased) married Harry Parkhurst; and Luther Calvin, born September 4, 1842. The latter became a member of Company D, Sixteenth Vermont Infantry, and owing to sickness contracted in the army died March 4, 1872. He married Stephanie Eliza Fagan, who survives him. He had two children : Jennie Mary, wife of William Keyler, of Arlington, N. J.; and George Calvin, a resident of the same place.
Follett, Martin D., was born in Enosburg, Vt., July 18, 1793. He came to Pomfret in 1833, and removed to Royalton twenty years later, where he died September 18, 1865. He married Lurana Winchell, and had six children : Sarah P., died single ; Truman, died aged three years; Lucy F., married Harry B. Goff; Ammi ; Norman, died April 18, 1890, at Cameron, Mo.; and Calista, widow of Carlos Miller, resides in Royalton, and Calista widow of Carlos Miller, resides in Royalton. Ammi, son of Martin D., born in Enosburg, married April 4, 1848, Lydia Arvilla Dodge, who was born in Johnson, Vt., May 20, 1826. Mr. Follett became a resident of Sharon in 1867, and is engaged in farming. He had six children: Persis Hannah, now living in Sharon ; Phineas Dodge, died in infancy ; Fred Clarence, died aged two years ; Ammi Ward, now living at Somerville, Mass.; he is a physician ; Lucy Arvilla, wife of Alson C. Ralph, of Cambridge, Mass.; and Marian Elizabeth, died aged sixteen.
Holt, Isaac, a native of Connecticut, moved shortly after his marriage and settled in the eastern part of Sharon. He had three children : Freeman ; Caleb, died in Sharon ; and Hannah, wife of Elisha Terry. Freeman married Lucy, daughter of Samuel Page, and died June 16, 1865, aged seventy-five. His wife died October 25, 1859, aged sixty-two. They had three children : Francis Freeman ; Harlem Samuel, died in Hartford, October, 1874; Harmony P., married E. Williamson. Freeman Holt was selectman, lister, etc. Francis Freeman, born in Sharon, married Welthaney Williamson. They had no children. He lived at home until he was thirty-one years old. He opened a general store at West Hartford, December 1, 1856, and has carried on business there since. Harmony P, died in Sharon, January 26, 1890.
Marsh, Joel Henry, was born in Sharon, October 30, 1826, t Marsh, Joel Henry, was born in Sharon, October 30, 1826, the eldest of the three children of Timothy and Philena (Burbank) Marsh. His great-grandfather, Isaac, in company with Willard Shepard, Parkhurst, and Havens, first settled in the town of Sharon. He, alone of the four, remained in Sharon the first winter. He came from Plainfield, Conn., and returned and died there. His son Joel was born in Plainfield, January 6, 1747, and married April 7, 1766, in Piainfield, Sarah Wheeler, born September 27, 1746. Their children were Elias, Eunice, Polly, Hannah, Wealthy, Joel, Timothy, Zebina. Joel Marsh died October 19, 1811. His wife, Sarah, died January 8, 1843. Timothy was twice married. He married first Fanny Durkee. They had four children, viz.: Fanny, wife of Timothy Kittridge; Emeline, wife of Calvin Dimmick ; George, died in Boston ; and Charles died in Marlboro, Mass. Timothy married second Philena Burbank. Their children were Joel Henry and Mary Spring. Joel Henry married October 3, 1853, Sarah, daughter of Paul and Sarah (Smith) Howe. They had five children: Emma D., William C, Alice G., Celia H. and Timothy. Joel II. owns and occupies the homestead in Sharon. He was a member of the Legislature in 1872, chairman of the board of selectmen six years, and is at present a member of the board, and was justice of the peace a number of years.
Mosher.-This family in Sharon are descended from Nicholas Mosher, who resided at Tyringham, Conn. He married Elizabeth Crandall, and hail fourteen children: Gideon, Sarah, Lydia, Aaron, Freeman, Eber, Pardon, Mary, Thomas, Rodman, Silas, Elizabeth, Phebe and Godfrey. Pardon, of the above, was born March 3, 1765, and was one of the early settlers of Strafford, Vt. He married Sarah Garfield, who was born May 3, 1772. His children were Alanson ; Dan, died in Sharon; Thomas, died in Michigan ; Christiana (deceased), married first Ambrose Preston, second Levi Mosher ; Margaret (deceased), married Amphias Patterson; Isaac, resides at Ferrysburgh, Vt.; Ephraim, died aged sixteen; Amanda, married and died in Massachusetts; Lucy, widow of Luke Bliss, resides in West Springfield, Mass.; and Philo lives in Wisconsin. Pardon died January 4, 1852, his wife January 6, 1852. Alanson, son of Pardon, born in Sharon, September 9, 1791, married Azubah Preston. They had seven children : Alanson, resident of Nebo, 111.; Emeline M. (deceased), wife of William Quimby; Amanda J. (deceased), wife of Lyman Wheeler; Luria Ann, widow of Jacob Fay, resides in Sharon; Sarah Sophia (deceased), wife of George Chilson ; William Howard, died at Montpelier; and Niles Quimby, born in Sharon, April 22, 1836, resides in his native town. Alanson died March 22, 1879. Rodman, son of Nicholas above, removed from Connecticut after his marriage and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by Chandler Ladd. He had eight children: Abijah C; Silas died in 1864, at Morristown, Vt.; Hannah, married Joel Hunter, and died at Janesville, Wis, in 1887 ; Levi, died in Hoosick, N. Y.; Harvey, died at Troy, N. Y., in 1889 ; Morris, died in Maine ; Clarissa P., widow of John Becker, lives m Schoharie, N. Y.; and Dighton Z., died at Schoharie. Abijah C, the eldest above, born in Sharon, April 20, 1792, married Relief Booth. He had three children, and died December 28, 1874. His wife died in Sharon, August 27, 1844. Albert B., the eldest of his children, was born in Sharon, January 29, 1817, and married first Mary L. Eldredge, by whom he had two children, viz.: George A., an attorney living in Troy, N. Y., and Charles A., who married first Lora Williamson. She died June 2, 1874. They had one child, a son, Loren A. Charles A. married Celia P. Howe for his second wife. He is a farmer residing in Sharon on the old homestead. Albert B., the above, married for his second wife Maria A. (Bisbee) Ralph, who died March 6, 1887. He has always resided in Sharon with the exception of three years, when he lived in Schoharie county, N. Y., teaching school there. He taught five terms in Vermont, and has since followed farming. He has been lister, selectman, etc., several years, school district clerk forty-five years, justice of the peace over twenty years, and member of the Legislature two years, 1864 and 1865. Ruth D., the second of the above of Abijah C. Mosher's children, married George Dimick. They had two children, Ellen and Emma, who are living, the former in Ludlow, Vt, who married Charles Raymond ; the latter, Emma, who married Rufus Barton, M. D., lives in Altamont. Albany county, N. Y. The third child of Abijah C. Mosher, George W., died when five years old, July 23, 1826.
Parker, Lieutenant Joseph, was born September 15, 1725, and married November 20, 1740, Rachel Muran. He died March 8, 1792. He had children as follows: Eunice. Rachel, Elizabeth, Joseph, Solomon, Amos, Rachel, second, James, Johannah, David and Jonathan. James, above, was born in Coventry, Conn., April 9, 1763, settled in the fall of 1787 on the farm now occupied by his grandson, J. J. Parker. He was a Baptist minister and a Revolutionary soldier and for nine successive years represented the town in the Legislature. He married Kesiah Weatherby and his children were Harmony (deceased), married David Moore; Sabine; Luke, married Adacia Parker; Junia, married Ruth Poole; Sybil, died single; Clarissa (deceased), married Caleb Holt; Calm, died young; Almira (deceased), married Roswell Huntington; Betsey (deceased), married Elias Newton ; and James. He died March 17,1839. James, the youngest above, was born in Sharon, September 20, 1806, married Mary Merrill. Of his six children, one died in infancy. The others were Mary Josephine, wife of Sylvester F. Huckins of Bellows Falls ; Sarah Almarine, died aged two months; Armantha C, wife of Henry Phillips of Bellows .Falls ; Ellen Georgianna, married, first, Albert Ferguson, second, Elijah W. Brown, she resides in Bellows Falls ; and James Judson. Mr. Parker resided in Sharon until 1887, when he removed to Bellows Falls. He was a member of the Legislature in 1868-69, and died June 7, 1890. James Judson, son of James, was born in Sharon, November 24, 1846,married Marcia Babcock and had three children: Arthur; Alice May, died in infancy ; and Minnie May.
Parkhurst, Walter, son of Elias, was born in Royalton. At the age of two years his father moved to Barnstead, C. E.. where he died. Walter returned from Canada and married Avaline Brownell. They had five children : Edwin C, a resident of California ; Henry B., resides in Barnard ; Ellis N., died in Barnard ; Daniel E,; and Jason A., lives in Pomfret, Walter died in Barnard, July 11, 1870. Daniel E. was born m Rochester, Vt., June 20, 1845. His father removed to Barnard in 1856, where Daniel E. resided until September, 1871, when he became a resident of Sharon. He is a shoemaker by trade, and since the spring of 1882 he has been town clerk and treasurer. He has been justice of the peace for six years. lie is also a notary public. He married first Lenora B. Adams. They had one child. Lizzie A. He married second Lutheria, widow of Allen Barrett, and daughter of Leonard D. Cross.
Preston, Colonel Moses, born in Strafford, Vt, August 27, 1798, was the son of Edward and Thankful (Bidwell) Preston. He was a blacksmith and gunsmith, and was engaged in the manufacture of guns in Sharon, of which town he was a resident for over fifty-five years, where he died November 27, 1870. He built the saw-mill m Sharon now owned and operated by his son. He married Almira Baldwin and had seven children: Hiram, Rozilla J., Lucinda B., Almira, Albert Baldwin, Moses F. and Chauncey E. Albert Baldwin was born in Sharon, October 16, 1837. married Mary Alzada Ladd. They had seven children : Alice P., Albert 0., Homer F., Ira P., Lucy E., Lottie N. and Celia A. Albert B. is engaged in lumbering and farming and has been selectman, lister, justice of the peace, and was member of the House of Representatives in 1882.
Quimby, William, was born in Springfield, N. H., in 1789, and removed to Norwich, Vt., in 1828 and died there March 9, 1859. He married Mary Sanborn, who died December 6, 1855, aged sixty-two. They had ten children: Mary (deceased), married William Hopkins; Almira, widow of Gardner Davis, resides in Norwich, Vt.; Sophia (deceased), married Abner Flanders; Hannah, married, first, James Culver, second, William Taylor; .she lives at Plano. Ill; Martha (deceased), married William Morrison ; Amanda (deceased), married John T. Robinson; David, married Marcia Blanchard, lives at Elkhart, Ind.; Alma, resides at Manchester, N. H.; and Jane, wife of M. W. Foster of Haikley, 111. William, son of William, was born in Springfield, N. H., July 10, 1820, married March 4, 1884, Mary M. Lull. The same year he removed to Sharon, where he engaged in lumbering and farming, and died February 20, 1867 ; he had four children : James S., who succeeded to his father's business in Sharon ; Clara F. widow of William H. Halbridge, resides in Boston; Justin 0., died aged twenty-three; and Alice A., died aged eighteen.
Shirlock, Francis, born in Kildare county, Ireland, April 16, 1811, emigrated to America during Jackson's administration. He married Miss Mary McDonough of Burlington, February 10, 1844, and located at Sharon, Vt., on a farm which he owned previous to his marriage. Twelve children came to bless the union, ten of whom survive their father. Mr. Shirlock died in Sharon, March 3, 1880. His family are located as follows: Annie M., wife of P. S. McGinnis of Boston; Edward, who occupies the home farm in Sharon, and cares for his mother and unmarried sisters; John, a farmer residing in Royalton. Vt.; Maggie, Joseph, Katie and Sarah, all living at Sharon. Joseph occupies one of his father's farms and acts as foreman at the H. A. Clark stock farm in Sharon ; Katie is a teacher in the public schools of Windsor county; William, a resident of Middlesex, Vt, is engaged in railroad business ; Ellen, wife of David Daly of St. Albans, Vt; and George, a resident of St Albans, in the employ of the railroad company. James and Charles died when quite young. Mrs. Shirlock was born in Ireland, September 26, 1826, and emigrated to America in 1831.
Smith, John Porter, was born in Hanover, N. H., September 23, 1804, and married Harriet Bush. She was born February 8, 1807. He was a blacksmith by trade. He resided in Canada, Hanover and Boston up to the time of his marriage. He then moved to Lebanon, N. H., and in 1837 came to Sharon, locating on what is known as the Stoughton farm. After living on this farm four years he removed to the village of Sharon, where he carried on his trade about thirty years. He was town clerk, justice of the peace, and selectman. He died in Sharon in 1883, his wife January 3, 1874. Their only child, George D., was born in Lebanon, N. H., February 15, 1836. After attending the local schools he was fitted for college at the Newbury and Montpelier academies, but was obliged to forego a college education on account of ill-health. From his youth he has paid particular attention to the study of music, his last instructor being Professor George J. Webb of Boston. He taught music a number of years. By trade he is a carpenter, a business which he has followed for twenty-six years. He was selectman two years. He married, first, Mary A., daughter of Cyrus and Thankful (Preston) Robinson. By this union he had one child, Lily May, born May 1, 1865, died March 15, 1885. His wife died December 23, 1872. He married, second, Clara S., widow of Gardner W. Gibson. They had one child, William Steele, born in Coldwater, Mich., January 25, 1860, and died in Sharon, January 15, 1863. Mrs. Smith was born in Sharon, Vt, October 27, 1835, was the daughter of Judge William Steele, who was born in Randolph, Vt, February 10, 1778, and married March 25, 1811, Lydia Gleason, born May 26, 1790, in Barre, Mass.
Walbridge, Josiah, born in Sharon, Vt., May 1, 1803, married Mary Ladd, by whom he had two children : William Henry Harrison, born July 6, 1840, married Clara Quimby, and had one child, Arthur Henry; he died October 28, 1880; and Chester B., born in Sharon, December 22, 1842, married Ella Graves. They had no children. He resides in the village of Sharon and carries on a farm. Josiah Walbridge was the leading merchant in Sharon for many years, and died in Sharon, September 22, 1881.
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