Old Families of Stockbridge
History of Windsor County Vermont
Lewis Cass Aldrich published in 1891
Ballard, Miletus Appleton, was born in Plymouth, Vt., April 16, 1825. His father, Nathan P., was born in Ashburnham, Mass., March 5, 1791. He married Polly Kimball, born in Reading, December 25, 1790. They had five children. When six years of age Nathan P. came from Ashburnham with an uncle, Moses Havens, the first family that settled at South Hill, Ludlow, Vt.. He died in Hancock, Addison county, Vt.., August 16, 1857. His wife died in Plymouth, December 4, 1840. He lived in Plymouth forty years, owning and occupying the place now owned and occupied by Warren Bailey. All his children were born in Plymouth. Miletus A. married in Reading, April 23, 1845, Carrie Melinda, daughter of Jotham and Melinda (Fay) Jones, born in Reading, August 29, 1824. They have had six children, viz.: Nathan Prentice, born April 12, 1846, died September 17, 1848; Jennie Maria, born April 12, 1849, married, first, Joseph D. Weston, of Plymouth. The children by this union were Bertha I. (deceased), Arthur J. and Frankie. She married, second, Henry Boutwell, a farmer in Barnard. They have one child, Fred. Ida Minerva, born April 10, 1851, married Ellis M. Frink, of Sherburne, Vt.., now living in Michigan ; Nellie M., born in Hancock, July 27, 1857, married C. J. Harrington, of Bethel. She has three children, Ernest, Guy, and Mark. Arthur W., born December 1, 1865, married Clara Packard and lives in Gaysville, and Charley H., born May 11, 1868, lives at home. Mr. Ballard moved from Sherburne and settled in Stockbridge, where he now lives, in 1870.
Boutwell, John, was born in Windsor, N. H., May 21, 1802. He married, June 18, 1823, Sylvia, daughter of Elisha P. and Hannah (Taft) Perkins, born June 13, 1804, in Barnard, Vt. His father, Joshua, married Sarah Averill. Their children were Reuben, Mary, John, David, Sarah, Chandler, Lucy and Eliza, twins, Rachel, Jane, and Benjamin. Joshua died in Stockbridge, January 1, 1843, his wife December 15, 1850. He moved from New Hampshire and settled in Stockbridge, on the place now owned by George Mills, where they lived till their death. John Boutwell, their son, married June 18, 1823, Sylvia Perkins, born June 13, 1804. They had thirteen children, viz.: Orlena, born July 29 1824, the wife of Zebedee Churchill, died June 26, 1854; Melissa, born March 4,1826, wife of Truman Averill, of Reading, Vt.; Oravell, born January 12, 1828, wife of Otis Adams, died December 12, 1847; Owen Taft, born November 16, 1829, farmer living in Barnard; Lewis E., born September 11, 1831, died August 24, 1833; Henry Marsh, born October 5, 1833, farmer living in Barnard; Hannah L., born January 8, 1836, married May 21, 1857, Nathaniel B. Weston, born in Woburn, Mass., February 7, 1829 ; Elisha Perkins, born November 5, 1837, owns and occupies the Boutwell homestead in Stockbridge, volunteered as private in Company A, Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, received his discharge August 10, 1863, and receives a pension on account of disability contracted in the army; Lydia T., born December 7, 1839, wife of Arvin D. Angell, farmer in Barnard, Vt.; Mary F., born September 20, 1843, an invalid confined to her bed since 1882, living at the homestead; Augusta C., born April 29, 1846, wife of Adam Eglin, lives in Merrimac, Mass.; Lucy E., born June 28, 1850, died February 18, 1851; Ellura C, born April 24, 1852, lives at the homestead. John Boutwell died July 4, 1888; his wife March 13, 1878.
Burroughs, Thomas, was born in Halifax, N. S., February 7, 1817, the youngest in a family of six children of William Henry and Mary Burroughs. His mother's first husband was a Mr. Robinson, by whom she had two children, viz.: John, died in Halifax, and Doritha, died in Chelsea, Mass. The children of W. H. and Mary Burroughs were William Henry, died in Halifax ; Mary, wife of John Ward, died in Halifax ; George, lives in Lunenburg, N. S.; Catharine, wife of Captain Mathew M. Cook, resides in California : Edward, died in Boston ; and Thomas. The latter married Susannah D., daughter of William and Elizabeth (Stayner) Wainwright, born in Halifax, in 1818, and died in Boston, August, 1876. They had two children who died in infancy. Mr. Burroughs was educated in the common schools at Halifax and Boston, and an academy in Rhode Island. He learned the tin trade in Halifax and followed that business for many years in Boston. He settled on a farm in Stockbridge in 1878, where he has since lived.
Clay, James M., was born in Chester, Vt., August 22, 1825. Timothy, his grandfather, a native of Rhode Island, came from that State after his marriage and settled in Chester, where he reared a family of seven children. He died in Chester about 1831. His children were Daniel, .James, John L., Sewell, Walter, Sally, and Amanda. James was born in Chester, Vt., in 1793. He married there Lucinda Wightman and had four children, viz.: Henry W.. Louisa M., Otis P., and James M. James died in Chester, December 12, 1825, his wife, Lucinda, June, 1862. James M. married March 24, 1847, Charlotte T., daughter of Leonard and Sally (Breed) Orcutt. Mrs. Clay was born in Crown Point, N. Y., April 19, 1827. They have had four children, viz.: Emma A., born October 17, 1848, married November 11, 1874, Reuben W. Headle, of Hartland, Vt. She died in Stockbridge, December 11, 1880. Cassius M., born September 14, 1850, married Etta P. Gibbs, September 27, 1869. Their children were Ralph F., Nellie P., Charlotte P., Claude, and Jennie. Jennie E., born January 12, 1855, married Highland H. Clay and lives in Galesburg, ILL. Their children were Fred Scott, Emma F., John L., Walter J., and Irvin. Effie L.. born May 31, 1861, married Fred E. Abbott, July 20. 1881, and lives in Crawford, Neb. Their children are Harold and Leo. Mr. Clay lived in Chester four years, next in Andover thirteen, in Pittsford ten, Stockbridge Common five, and in 1868 purchased the hotel in Gaysville and is its present proprietor.
Cutler Family.-The Cutler family in Stockbridge descended from James, born in England in l606 settled as early as 1634 in Watertown, Mass., where the first record of the family name in New England is to be found. He was thrice married and reared a family of twelve children, of whom Thomas, born about 1648, was his sixth child and second son. He was honored in the public records with the title of lieutenant. He died at Lexington, Mass., July 13, 1722. He married Abigail and they had a family of seven children, of whom Jonathan, his sixth child, was baptized at Watertown, Mass., June 17, 1688, and died at Killingly, Conn., about 1740. He married at Watertown, Mass., June 17, 1688, Abigail Bigelow. They had six children, of whom Beach was the third child, born at Colchester, Conn., July 4, 1710, and died at Plainfield, N. H. He married, successively, Abigail Hodges, May 14, 1840, at Pomfret, Conn., Miss Knight, of Killingly, and Miss Hall, of Plainfield, or Lebanon, N. H. Of his seven children, V. Perley, his youngest child, was born September 25, 1701, died in Sharon, Vt.., December 20, 1842. He married, first, Polly, daughter of Benjamin Fuller, of Plainfield, Conn., February 14, 1782; she died March 26, 1810. He married, second, Eliza, daughter of Benjamin Clark, of Amherst, Mass., and widow of Lyman Coats, of Hartford, Vt.. Of his fifteen children, the sixth, Vernon Shepard, born in Hartford, Conn., married January 2, 1848, Celina, daughter of Robert and Diadema (Chamberlain) Packard, of Barnard, Vt. They had four children, viz.: Louis Y., died in Stockbridge, Vt.., aged seventeen ; Lucian E., died in Stockbridge; Anna L., the wife of Lorin Chamberlain, died in Stockbridge. they had two children, Leon and Winnie; and Perley Robert, born in Stockbridge, October 30, 186(i, married Ida J. Magivney, born in Bethel, Vt.., July 22, 1801. They have one child, Lucian Yon, born April 25, 1887. Vernon S. and his only surviving child, Perley Robert, are residents of Gaysville, Vt..
Dean, Lewis P., was born in New Salem, Mass., May 20, 1830, the second child in a family of seven children of William Dean. He had three brothers, Dexter W., George S., Albert S., and three .sisters, Martha A., Harriet M. and Eliza S. He married Lucy Ann., daughter of Oliver and Lucy Peck. They had two children, viz.: Herbert L., born in Gaysville, July 1, 1859, married Ella M., daughter of Samuel and Susan (Adams) Bean, born December 22, 1859, at Royalton. They have one child, Daisy L., born at Bethel, August 26, 1883. Herbert L., after serving as cleric in his father's store up to the time of the latter's death, succeeded him as proprietor and continued the business at Gaysville. He is at the present time (1890) postmaster of the place. Harry W., born in Boston, November 24, 1862, married, first, Minnie Claflin. Their children are Coady and Lewis. He married, second, Rachel . They have one child, Hazel. Harry W. is a resident of Elgin, III. Lewis P. first came from Massachusetts to Gaysville, Vt., in 1855, where he was employed as finisher in the woolen-mill of the place. He also filled the same position in the woolen-mill at Claremont, N. H. He then went to Boston, where for five years he engaged in the mercantile business. Returning to Gaysville in 1864, he engaged there in mercantile business up to the time of his death, which occurred January 18, 1887. He was postmaster at Gaysville under three administrations. His wife survives him and lives with her son, Herbert L.
Eaton, Samuel, was born in Westminster, Windham county Vt., October 3, 1822. Asa, his grandfather, born in Connecticut, married November 5, 1772, Abigail Goodell, born in 1750, and had seven children, viz.: Simeon and Asa, farmers, died in Rochester; David and James, blacksmiths, the former died in Granville, Vt., the latter in Rochester ; Samuel; Abigail; and Asa, was a blacksmith by trade, and died in Westminster, December 17, 1816; his wife died there January 3, 1825. Samuel, his son, born in Westminster, December 8, 1788, married January 17, 1820, Anna Merrifield, born August 11, 1780. Their children were Abigail G., born November 20, 1820, married June 6, 1844, David Jones, and died March 9, 1874; Samuel; and Elizabeth R., born March 23, 1824, was wife of the Rev. George S. Guernsey, and died in Rochester. Samuel and his wife died in Stockbridge. Samuel, son of Samuel, married November 26, 1872, Agnes M., daughter of Lyman and Minerva (Ward) Long. Mrs. Eaton was born in Rutland, August 24, 1827. His father moved from Westminster and settled in Stockbridge, upon the place now owned by his son-in-law, David Jones He purchased the land now included in the farms of his son, Samuel, David Jones and James Bent. Samuel has been a resident of Stockbridge since he was twelve years of age. He has no children.
Edmunds, William H., was born in Danby, Rutland county, Vt.. August 27, 1840. William, his great-grandfather, came from Rhode Island and settled in Danby. He had a family of fifteen children. He moved from Danby to Canada, where many of his descendants still live. The only one of the children who did not accompany the family to Canada was William, grandfather of William H. He was born in Danby, married Ruth King and had four children. William died in Chittenden, December, 1862; his wife died in Danby many years before him. Linus married Rhoda Fisk. Their six children were Ruth, Lucy M., Sarah Ann, Martha, William H. and Reuben F. William H. married June 22, 1859, Martha J., daughter of David and Emily (Davis) Wood, born August 30, 1842, in Chittenden. They have eight children, viz.: Myrtle H., born in Chittenden, Vt., December 2, 1860, married Jennie Long, February 27, 1889, a farmer in Chittenden, Vt. ; Carrie J., born in Chittenden, Vt., June 2, 1862, married Albert N. Newell, April 20, 188l, and they have one child, Ida Belle, born in Stockbridge, January 1, 1886; Linus F., born in Chittenden, February 15, 1867, married Mrs. Cora L. Sargent, nee Sprague, March 24, 1885; George W.. born in Chittenden, Vt., April 30. 1868, married Annie M. Lamour, April 3, 1888, and they have two children, Vernie M., born March 21, 1889, and Ethel L.. born September 12, 1890; Ruthie M., born August 19, 1873; Lewis F., born November 6, 1875; Fred A., born June 5, 1878; and Willie R., born June 12, 1880. Mr. Edmunds enlisted January 4, 1862, in Company I, Seventh Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and passed through the graduations from private to second lieutenant, and was discharged April 6, 1866. He receives a pension on account of an injury to his eyes, and other disabilities resulting from service in the war. His regiment was in the Gulf service and was in nineteen different engagements. After returning from the war he engaged in farming in Chittenden four years. In 1871 he settled in Stockbridge, where, in company with Nelson Ellison, he has carried on the lumber business, the firm owning a saw-mill on Stony Brook. He has held the office of selectman four years, being the present (1890) chairman of the board. He has been justice of the peace two years, and was representative to the Legislature in 1886 and 1888. He is a member of the White River Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M., at Bethel, also of the Lillie Post, No. 61, G. A. R.
Grant, Nelson M., was born in Lincoln, Addison county, Vt.., May 7, 1840, the youngest in a family of twelve children of Benjamin and Rebecca (Chapin) Grant. His father, born in London, England, was impressed into the English army, and upon arriving in Canada he left the army and settled in New Hampshire, where he was married. He died in Stockbridge, Vt.., December 11, 1800; his wife May 9, 1801. Of their twelve children, four are living, viz.: David P., farmer, living in Tunbridge, Vt., Martha W., wife of James Colwell, farmer, living in Lincoln, Vt..; William M., farmer, also living in Lincoln ; and Nelson M. The latter married Harriet B., daughter of William and Hannah (Brockway) Pierce, born in Royalton, August 22, 1843. Their children are Minnie J., born November 25, 1805, married George T. N. Mills, a farmer living in Stockbridge, and they have one child, Josie, born July 21, 1889 ; Fred P., born November 8, 1872, died July 4, 1881. Mr. Grant first settled in Stockbridge in 1858, and has carried on farming in that town since. He is the present overseer of the poor, which position he has filled for the last four years.
Hassam, Francis Voltaire, was born in Northfield, Washington county, Vt.., July 25, 1845, the eldest in a family of seven children of George P. and Naomi (Buzzell) Hassam. Lewis, his grandfather, was the first of the family who settled in Vermont. He married ? Rice, and had a family of nine children. George P., born in Northfield, married Naomi Buzzell. They had seven children, viz.: Francis V.; George O., lives in Rutland; Alfredina, lives in Pittsfield, Vt..; Gilbert M., a grocer, at Ayer, Mass.; Herbert, farmer living in Pittsfield ; Louis, living in Pittsfield ; and Roscoe, who died in infancy. George P. died in Stockbridge, July 5, 1888. His widow is living in Pittsfield, Vt. Francis V. married November 25, 1871, at Bethel, Emma J., daughter of Clark D. and Jane (Curtice) Newell, born November 16, 1853. They have had two children, viz.: Freddie F., born December 28, 1873, died April 13, 1875, and Wilfred, born October 25, 1876. Clark D. Newell, Mrs. Hassam's father, born in Stockbridge, May 21, 1812, was the third in a family of five children of Jonas and Sarah Newell. His five children were Helen A., born May 6, 1839, wife of Rufus Morse, of Sharon, Vt.; Eugene C, born March 24, 1843, lives in Stockbridge ; Charles D. and Carroll D., twins, born January 2, 1850, reside in Barnard, Vt..; and Emma J. Clark D. died in Stockbridge, October 21, 1884; his wife, Jane, October 20, 1875. For eight years Mr. Hassam followed the lumber business in the towns of Stockbridge, Pittsfield, Barnard, Pomfret, and Bethel. He has carried on merchandising in Gaysville since January, 1888.
Jones, David, was born in Pittsfield, Rutland county, Vt., April 26, 1815, the second in a family of four children of David and Nancy (Burbank) Jones. The four children were : Nancy, born October 15, 1813, wife of Jackson Rogers, and died in Columbus, 0hio, October 26, 1853. James Harvey, born November 25, 1810, moved when twenty-one years of age to Ohio, where he taught school thirty-two years; he died in Frankfort, Ohio August 30, 1881 Priscilla, born May 12, 1819, married, first, William Shedd, of Bethel ; he died in the Union army during the war. She married, second, a Mr. Mooney, and third, a Mr. Crawford, with whom she is living in Ohio. David, the father, died in Pittsfield, Vt., June 15, 1819, aged thirty-one years. Nancy, his widow, married, second, Amos Jones, brother of David, and had by this union one child, Chastina, born September 21, 1829. Nancy Jones died March 27, 1862, aged sixty-nine.
Jones, David, son of David, married, June 6, 1844, first, Abigail G. daughter of Samuel and Anna Eaton, born November 20, 1820, died March 9, 1874. He married, second, February 8, 1876, Harriet L., daughter of John C. and Harriet A. (Allen) Knight, born in Pittsfield, Vt., August 12, 1850. They have three children, viz.: Abbie E., born April 20, 1877; Mary R., born April 10, 1880; and Nancy II., born January 26, 1886. Mr. Jones moved from Pittsfield and settled in Stockbridge, on the farm where he now lives, in 1845. He has served as lister, selectman and constable.
Knowlton. Emmans, was born in Stockbridge, August 4, 1816, the seventh in a family of eight children of Jacob and Rosetta (Robinson) Knowlton. Jacob, son of Joseph, was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1777, removed from that State and settled in Stockbridge in 1798, and died there April 29, 1861. He married, first, Rhoda Smith. By this union there was one child, Stephen S., who died in Pittsfield, Vt. He married, second, Rosetta Robinson ; eight children were born to them, three of whom died in infancy. The five who lived to adult age were Rhoda, Zenas, Rosetta, Emmans and Phila. He married, third, Nubby Taggart. Their children were Abbie Mills and Agnes. Rosetta, his second wife, died in Stockbridge, December 11, 1834. Emmans married, first, April, 1840, Abigail, daughter of John and Betsey (Averill) Taggart, born in Deerfield, N. H., October 14, 1793. Albert T. is their only child. He was born February 21, 1841, and married Maria, daughter of Benjamin and Emily (Lyon) Cozzens. She was born May 21, 1840. They have no children. He is a farmer, living in Stockbridge. Abigail Knowlton died February, 1841. Emmans married, second, Harriet, sister of his first wife. She was born May 4, 1823, in Stockbridge. They have had three children, viz.: John Taggart, born January 5, 1845, married Emma C. Cornell, has three children, Ralph L., Frank L. and Lillian L., and owns and carries on a farm near his father ; Abbie R., born March 10, 1847, died January 1, 1880 ; Carrie M., born July 15, 1859, died March 7, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Knowlton have been members of the Congregational Church of Stockbridge for many years.
McCollom, Deacon Ezra, was born in Ludlow, Vt., April 7, 1818. His grandfather, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, emigrated to America, settled in New Hampshire, and died there. He had five children. His son, Alexander, father of Ezra, was born in New Hampshire, September, 1771, and died in Stockbridge, January 21, 1858. He was thrice married. By his first marriage, November 14, 1794, he had three children, viz.: Margaret, John, Jennett. He married, second, September 18, 1804, Meribah Sargent. Children by this union were Eleanor, Ira, Lavina, Louisa Jane, Thomas, Ezra, Josiah Fletcher. He married, third, October 27, 1831, Mary Moore, who died in Stockbridge, October 4, 1857. Deacon Ezra McCollom married, October 6, 1842, Fanny Maria, daughter of Solomon Nott. She was born in Stockbridge, May. 1820, and died in, Stockbridge, March 3, 1864. They had children as follows: Jennie F., Eveline L. and Charley E. Jennie F. and Eveline L. carry on a millinery and fancy goods store in Woodstock, Vt. Deacon McCollom came with his father from Ludlow and settled in Stockbridge, on the farm now owned by Harvey Blackmer, in 1836, and lived there till he moved to Gaysville in 1863, having a contract to build the Congregational church in that village, and has resided there ever since. Since 1866 he has carried on there the cabinet and undertaking business. He has been deacon in the Congregational church for over thirty years. He has served as lister, selectman, and justice of the peace, which position he now holds. He represented the town in the Legislature in 1870, and was a member of the Assembly to revise the constitution of the State in 1870.
Richardson, Orlando J., was born in Roxbury, Washington county, Vt., November 5, 1840. His father, Joel, was thrice married. By his first wife he had one child, Alonzo, a physician living in Illinois. He married, second, Susannah Batchelder. The children by this union were Susannah P., wife of Emery P. Cram, farmer; Sarah E., wife of Loren D. Cram, farmer; Samuel A., farmer; Euseba M., widow of Joshua Simonds ; Orlando J.; and Harrison E. H., farmer. All the above except Orlando J. reside in Roxbury, Vt. Joel married, third, Olive Chase. They had no children. He died in Rochester, Vt., May, 1857. Orlando J. lived in Roxbury until he was twenty years of age. After the district school he attended a select school in Stockbridge, and the Orange Grammar School in Randolph. He came to Stockbridge in 1860, and married March 26, 1860, Elmina, daughter of John and Eliza (Boutwell) Woodward, born in Stockbridge, December 25, 1838. They have three children: Nettie E, widow of Howard L. Porter, living with her parents; Clara E., wife of Herbert Boutwell, farmer in Stockbridge; and Lewis O., living at home. Mr. Richardson volunteered, August, 1862, as private in Company A, Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, and received his discharge July, 1863. He purchased the farm where he now lives in Stockbridge in 1868. He is at present one of the board of selectmen, a position he has filled at different times for nine years. He represented the town in the Legislature in 1880. He is a member of the Daniel Lillie Post, No. 61, G. A. R.. Bethel.
Sawyer, Cephas W., was born in Stockbridge, February 25, 1825. His father, Edmund, was the fourth son of Enoch Sawyer, who married Sarah Little and moved from Sutton, N. H., to Antrim, N. H. He was the son of Edmund Sawyer, who moved from Hampstead to Sutton in 1758, was selectman of the town for several years, and died about 1805 aged ninety-two years. Edmund was the only one of five children who came from New Hampshire, and settled in Vermont. He was born in Goffstown, N. H., September 17, 1782, and married, February 14, 1808, Jane Taggart, born May 9, 1787. Their children were Mark Woodbury, Joseph Taggart, Abigail Martin, Lydia Taggart, Levi Parsons, Cephas Washburn, Reuben Marsh. Edmund died in Stockbridge, December 21, 1873, his wife January 8, 1874. Cephas W. married, October 27, 1853, Anna R., daughter of Asahel and Lydia (Parker) Pingrey, born in Mount Holly, Vt., December 6, 1833. Their children were Ella May, born May 1, 1856, married October 9, 1878, George R. Page, at Elk Grove, 111., who died March 4, 1885, and upon the death of her husband Mrs. Page returned to Vermont and purchased the Dr. Sparhawk place in Gaysville, where she now resides ; Alice Adell, born September 2, 1860, died April 25, 1872 ; Hattie Viva, born May 27, 1865, a school teacher, lives with her sister, Mrs. Page; and Florence Almira, born November 14, 1874, also lives with Mrs. Page. Mr. Sawyer has always been a resident of Stockbridge, owns and carries on the Sawyer homestead farm, but at the present time lives with Mrs. Page in Gaysville. He has filled a number of town offices, and was town lister for twelve years.
Sheldon, Egbert, was born in Manchester,Vt., September 14, 1830. His father, John, was born in Ohio, and came to Manchester, where he married Sarah Bailey. His three children were Egbert, Myron and John H. John, his father, died at Saxon's River. His wife, Sarah, married, second, Darius Porter, and died at Acworth, N. H. By the latter union there were three children, viz.: Herbert and Ellen, both of whom reside in New Hampshire, and Henry, who was drowned when a small boy. Myron Sheldon now lives in Washington Territory and John in Kansas. Both are engaged in farming. Losing his father at the age of six, Egbert lived until nineteen years of age with different families in Vermont and New Hampshire. At that age he came to Gaysville (Stockbridge), where he was employed for four years in the chair-stock factory of Cheney, Kilbourn & Co., and one year with the same company in Burlington. Since that time he has been engaged in farming. He purchased the farm where he now lives in 1868. He married, March 29, 1854, Cornelia E, daughter of Hazen and Azuba (Whitcomb) Richardson, born in Stockbridge, June 3, 1831. Mrs. Richardson was a daughter of Captain Lot Whitcomb, one of the first settlers of Stockbridge. Hazen D., a brother of Mrs. Sheldon, lives in West Brookfield, Mass. Oscar F., another brother, lives in West Concord, N. H. Mrs. Henrietta Lincoln, a sister, lives in Bethel. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon have had children as follows : Frank Egbert, born November 29, 1857, died February 20. 1865; Ned Louis, born May 23, 1859, was graduated from Norwich University at Northfield in 1884, and is now a professor m the High School at Norwood, Mass.; Alice May, born December 28, 1868, was graduated at the Bethel High School in 1889, and is now teaching. Mr. Sheldon has served as selectman in Stockbridge seven years.
Taggart, John Bartlett, was born in Stockbridge, June 24, 1829, the seventh in a family of ten children of John and Betsey (Avery) Taggart. Joseph, his grandfather, born in New Hampshire, married Lydia Jones, and reared a family of ten children, of whom John, his father, was the fifth child, born in 1794, married Betsey Avery, and had ten children, viz.: Abigail, Joseph, Nancy, Hannah, Harriet, Angeline, John Bartlett, Cynthia, Maria and Jennie. John Taggart died in Stockbridge, April 2, 1845, his wife, Betsey, June, 1868. John Bartlett married, June 5, 1862, Cornelia Belcher, born in Stockbridge, August 30, 1838. Her father. Samuel, born in Newburyport, Mass., July 7, 1788, married, first, Anna G. Caldwell. Five of their eight children are living. He married second, July 1, 1835, Adaline E. Dunham, born in Bethel, November 12, 1808. The children by this union were Samuel S., died in Stockbridge; Cornelia E.; Harriet Augusta, wife of Dr. S. J. S. Rogers, died in Marysville, Cal.; and Edward A., lawyer in San Francisco, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Taggart have two children, viz.: Minnie Augusta, born November 4, 1866, lives with her uncle, William C. Belcher, in California; and Harriet M., born April 11, 1874. living at home. After the district school, Mr. Taggart attended tlie High School at Chelsea, and the Academy at Randolph, and taught for nine winters in the district schools of Stockbridge and neighboring towns. With the exception of three years in Nashua, N. H., he has been a resident of Stockbridge. He has served as lister six years, selectman three years, and represented the town in the Legislature in 1800-01.
Whitcomb, Reuben, was born in Stockbridge, August 31, 1806, the fifth in a family of nine children of Paul and Eunice (Lamberton) Whitcomb. Lot Whitcomb, his grandfather, was born in Massachusetts, married Hannah Nye, and had children as follows : Betsey, Branch, Paul, Nathaniel, Sherman, Lot, Ichabod, James, Asa and Lydia. Paul married Eunice Lamberton; of their children, two died in infancy. Those who reached adult age were Mariam, the wife of Ira Fay, died in Bakersfield, Vt; Paul, a farmer died in Stockbridge; James, also a farmer, died in Stockbridge; Reuben; Sally, widow of Merrick Gay, who gave the name to the village of Gaysville in Stockbridge. Mrs. Gay lives in Bethel. Reuben married April 28, 1828, Amanda, daughter of Daniel and Eleanor (Blodgett) Abbott. Mrs. Whitcomb was born in Stockbridge, July 9, 1809. They have had three children, viz.: Amanda, died young; Mary, died July 31, 1849; Elbridge W., born March 11, 1836. The latter married, first, Sarah Post and had one child, Katie, the wife of Dr. E. L. Sawyer, living in Barre, Mass. He married, second, Julia, daughter of Caleb and Mary (Farrington) Leonard. She was born in Stockbridge, February 17, 1841. Their children are Mary Abbie, Annie Amanda, Leonard and Reuben. Elbridge W. owns and runs a farm adjoining his father's in Stockbridge. Reuben was overseer of the poor twenty-six years, selectman and lister one term each. Mr. and Mrs. Whitcomb celebrated their golden wedding in 1878, on which occasion over one hundred relatives and friends were present.
Wilson, R. Eugene, was born in Stockbridge, February 6, 1845. Peter, his grandfather, was born in Putney, Vt, married Ann Bingham and reared a family of five children : Bingham, Charles, Ann, Lucretia, Jeremiah The latter was born in Hartford, Vt., January 9, 1812, and married December 5, 1833, Orrenda Boynton, born in Baltimore, Vt., August, 1808. They had six children, viz.: Mary Jane, lives with her brother, R Eugene; Jeremiah Emery, was a corporal in Company C, Sixth Vermont Volunteers, and was shot in the battle of Lee's Mills; Osmond, died aged two years; Sarah Emeroy, died single; Ella L., widow of Edwin J. Tenney, lives in Stockbridge. She has one son, Carl E. W. R. Eugene married, first, Frances H. Twitchell. By this marriage there are two children living, viz.: Jennette and Maybelle. He married, second, Elsie R. Lyon. They have one child, Katie E. He married, third, Mary E. French. They have no children. Mr. Wilson is a farmer, owning and occupying the place where his grandfather first settled in Stockbridge in 1821. He has served as lister, was constable of the town ten years, and justice of the peace six years. He was appointed census enumerator of the town in 1880, also in 1890.
Woolcutt, Ebenezer, was born in Stockbridge, March 13, 1816. His grandfather was a fifer in the Revolutionary War. His father, Ebenezer, was born December 13, 1783, and married, June 4, 1807, Asenath Gibbs, born June 23, 1788. Their children were John, Mehitable, Mary, Ebenezer, Ebenezer 2nd, Mahlon, Mary, Orlando. Ebenezer, the father, died July 17, 1872 ; his wife April 14, 1854. Ebenezer married April 23, 1844, Adelia E., daughter of Alden and Lydia L. (Smith) Brigham, born in Barnard, August 16, 1824. Her father, Alden, son of Asa, was born in Barnard, October 28, 1796, died April 2, 1872. Her mother was born in Berlin, Vt., died April 29, 1872. They had five children, four of whom reached adult age, viz.: Sarah, widow of George A. Chedel, lives in Franklin, N. H.; Charles W., a physician, lives in Pittsfield, Vt.; Dennis S., lives in Albany, N. Y.; and Mrs. Woolcutt. Mr. Woolcutt, after the district school, attended a select school taught by Uriah Rice, at Rochester. He taught school in Stockbridge and neighboring towns nine winters. In 1843 he bought the farm upon which he now resides, and is one of Stockbridge's most successful farmers. He has served the town on the grand and petit juries and two terms as selectman. He has no children of his own. but has brought up since he was twelve years of age George A. Chedel. a nephew of Mrs. Woolcutt's, now engaged in the lumber business at Pittsfield, Vt.
Wyman, Martin L, was born in Poultiiey, Rutland county, Vt., May 3, 1830, the sixth in a family of nine children of Anson and Lydia (Hanaford) Wyman. Jasher'. his grandfather, born in Vermont, September 4, 1770, married July 1, 1800, Annice Berison born March 25, 1784. They had seven children, viz.: Anson, Annice, Ira, Versyle, Justin, Celesta and Asel. Martin L, married Lydia, daughter of Emerson and Eliza (Barrett) Hardy, born in Harvard, Mass., April 4, 1836. Their children are Walter E., born in Fitchburg, Mass., January 9, 1858, married Charlotte Cowling, May 7, 1883; has one child living. Herbert, born March 8, 1887. Walter E. is superintendent of the Moore & Wyman Machine Works in Boston. Charles E., born in Boston, November 8, 1803, married Maud Banister, February 13, 1884; has one child, Arthur, born March 8, 1885. Charles E. is treasurer and manager of the Moore & Wyman Machine Works. George R. born in Melrose, Mass., April 29, 1807. married, first. Alma Leslie, of Boston, September, 1887 ; one child, Bessie, born in Walpole, Mass., July 6, 1888. He married, second, Emily Kimball, December 30, 1889. He is a machinist in East Walpole, Mass. Martin L., jr., born in Melrose, Mass., January 8, 1870. married May 21, 1890, Ada Brown, of Stockbridge. He is a farmer living near the homestead in Stockbridge. Alice M., born in Melrose, October 8, 1872, is a student in Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. Mr. Wyman, when fourteen years of age, went to Boston, where he learned the machinist trade. He followed his trade five years in Fitchburg, Mass., then returned to Boston, where, in company with Charles E. Moore, in 1863, he carried on the machine business under tlie firm name of Moore & Wyman. The company was incorporated in 1884 under the corporate name of the Moore & Wyman Elevator and Machine Works. In 1885 Mr. Wyman moved from Boston and settled on the homestead farm, which he carries on. He retains, however, his interest in the above company. He has served the town as selectman and justice of the peace.
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