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DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 RICHARD HAYES. 
 
 OF 
 
 LYME, CONNECTICUT, 
 
 THROUGH HIS SON, 
 
 TITUS HAYES. 
 
 BY 
 
 HARRIET MORSE WEEKS 
 
 OF 
 
 EVANSTON, ILLINOIS. 
 
 Edited by 
 
 ROLLIN HILLYER COOKE, 
 Pittsfield, Mass. 
 
 1904 
 
 Press of The Eagle Publishing Co. 
 
 pittsfield, mass. 
 
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 Edition Strictly Limiteu. 
 
FIRST GKXKRATIOX. 
 
 1. RICHARD HAYES, and Patience Mack 
 ■.\cre married in Lyme, Connecticut, April 24. 1735. She was 
 I). Lyme, April 3, 1714. daug-htcr of John and Love (Benet) 
 .Mack. After the death of ^Ir. Hayes his widow married 
 acrain, she bemir then a woman far advanced in vears. 
 
 Richard Hayes served in the French and Indian war, 1750 
 1763, having enlisted March 27, and being discharged Oct. 16, 
 1758. according to Rev. C. W. Hayes. He was Ensign of the 
 3rd Co.. or trainband, in the town of Lyme, Oct., 1750. and 
 I'irst-Lieut. of nth Co. 3rd reg. of Conn., March, 1758, ac- 
 cording to Conn. Col. records. 
 
 Children, b. Lyme, Conn : 
 
 2. Silas. 1). Feb. 15, 1736, d. Oct. 6, 1807. 
 
 3. Seth, b. Dec. 26, 1737, married and lived in Llartland, 
 
 Conn. 
 --{- 4. Richard, b. June 30, 1740. m. Phebe — . 
 
 5. John, i). May 25, 1742. 
 
 6. Catharine, b. Ncv. 7, 1744. 
 
 -|- 7. Titus, b. Feb. 5. 1746, m. Deborah Beckwith. 
 
 8. Philemon, b. Feb. 26. 1748. 
 
 9, Joseph., b. May 15, 1751. 
 
 SECOND GENERATION. 
 
 4. RICHARD HAYES, b. Lyme, Conn., June 
 30, 1740, d. Hoosick, X. Y. 1805. m. Phebe , who 
 
Second Generation. 
 
 1801. He ronioved from Lyme, Conn, lo Hoosick, X. Y. 
 
 Childri-n 1). l^ynic. Conn : 
 10. i 'alienee, m. . 
 
 II. ICstlur. (1. unmarried. 
 
 \2. Setli. m. and had one son. 
 
 13. .\nsel. m. hut had no children. 
 
 14. Richartl. ni. and had children. Lived in western Xew 
 
 York. 
 
 15. Samuel, ni. and had cliildren. 
 
 i(). I'heI.e. I). Feb. 1,:;. 177.^ ni. Hoosick. X.Y.. 1880, 
 Solomon (/ale. 
 
 Note. .Above is on the authority of Mrs. Marie W. G. 
 Cooke, of St. Stephen's rectory. Schuylerville. X. ^'., a grand- 
 claufjhter of Solomon and l^liebe (Hayes) Gale, Xo. 16. 
 
 7. TITLS ILWKS. b. Lyme. Conn.. Feb. 5, 
 1746, (1. Xerncn. Ohio, June 20, 181 1. m. Lyme. Conn., June 7, 
 1770, by Rev. Georg^e P.eckwith. Deljorah I'eckwith, b. 1751. 
 
 d X'ernon, Ohio. Jan. 14, 1819, daughter of and 
 
 (Harvey) P.eckwith. 
 
 1 If was buried in the cemetery at the ceiUer ^^{ the township 
 «.f Hartford, Ohio, lie removed with his family from Lvme 
 to Hartland. Conn.. in 1777. He was de- 
 
 scribed by a grand daughter as a small man. 
 with bright, black eyes, lie was a Revolutionary soldier. 
 enlisting May 26. 1777, f,,r three years, in Capt. Theodore 
 Wuodbridgc's Co., 7th reg.. Conn. line, under Col. Heman 
 Swift, and .vas discharged Oct. 1. 1778, in lieu of Samuel 
 IJenjamin. who was living in Oanby. Conn, in 1840. as a U. S. 
 pensioner, at age of 83. 
 
 Titus Hayes wintered with Washington at \ alley Forge. 
 The following anecdote deserves rei)eating. in this connec- 
 tion: "A certain Ouaker, while walking along a creek near 
 N'allcy I'org*-. hearing a voice from a dense thicket, pushed 
 his way through, and foimd Washington upon his knees. His 
 lacc was uplifted and suffused with tears. 
 
Second ii cue rat ion, 5 
 
 At tlii> time the Continental cause was at the last extreni" 
 :tv. The tnii)|)> were hareloolt'il an<l hunL;r\ , thi' treasury 
 (lei)]eU'(l ami all hearts sick with Iiumc delerrcd. The Coni- 
 inan(lcr-in-(.'hicl was niakinj^' a (les])crate plea to (lod tor the 
 irinnipli o{ rig'ht and freedom."" 
 
 As showim;- the straits \o which the families of soldiers 
 were reduced, the wife of Mr. Hayes was ohlip^ed to sew rags 
 on her children"s feet to keep tlu-m warm while their father 
 was serving' in the war. This was told to one of her great 
 :;randchildreu. now living, by her grandmother, a daughter 
 of Mrs. llayes. Some action has been taken in relation to 
 \ alkw I'orge as the following will show: 
 
 Througli the efforts of the ])atriotic societies a bill has been 
 introduced in Congress providing for an api)ropriation of 
 $200,000 for the purchase and jjreservation of X'alley Forge, 
 where Washington and his arm\- encamped in those uncer- 
 tain and terrible days which preceded the victories that led to 
 American independence. Fortunately this section has not yet 
 been despoiled by the changes of modern life. It is a beauti- 
 ful piece of country with glorious hills, spendid forests, and 
 all those variations of topography and forests wdiich will 
 make a perfect pleasuring ground for the people. In addition 
 the historic ])oints are well preserved, and many of the de- 
 fenses constructed by Washington's heroes still remain. The 
 zealous students of history often spend days traversing the 
 country, following the footsteps of the patriots. 
 
 It is held — and rightly so — that \'alley Forge was a crucial 
 point t)f the fight for freedom ; that it led to the battles of 
 Trenton and Princeton which changed the ill fortunes of the 
 war, and that today it is one of the sacred spots of American 
 territorw The new ])ark will consist of about a thousand 
 acres, and the ultimate success of the efforts of the patriotic 
 societies seems to be certain. 
 
 Children, b. Hartland. Conn., except first three: 
 
 -|- 17. Richard, b. Lyme, Conn.. Ai)ril 26, 1771, m. Mary 
 Lane. 
 
Third Ct'ucration. 
 
 i8. Abigail. !>. Lvme. Conn.. Jan. u. iJJ^v <1 Hartland. 
 Conn.. Nov.. 17S8. A short time before she 
 (lied she i>ut her rini:^ in the baby's hand 
 ;ind said, "call her Abigail." 
 I.,. Tnu>. 1). Lyme. Ctni.. l-'cb. i(\ 177^), m. Thebc 
 Cooley. 
 ^ 20. hinus. b. X'tiic, 1781. m. Jerush:i r.ii^lini-U. m. 2nd, 
 Abiah T, ester, 
 ji. Deborah. 1). Aug. 13. 17S2. ni. Samuel Jones, 
 -r jj. Siatira. b. Sept. 23. 1784. m. Noah Merrick. 
 -^ 2.V Abigail, b. May J. 17SS. m. Arnold Oatman. 
 J4. Lester, b. Sept. 20. 171JO. m. Matilda Bushnell. 
 
 THIRD GEXERATIOX. 
 
 17 RICHARD HAYES, b. Lyme, Conn.. 
 April 2(.. 1771. d. r.urg Hill. Ohio. Nov. 5. 1837. m. Hartland, 
 Conn., Xov. 1. 17«)2. Mary Lane, b. Oct. 19, 1772, d. Burg 
 Hill. Ohio, Aug. 3. 1840, .laughter of Enos and Mary Lane. 
 
 In 1804, ten families left Hartland, Conn, at the same time. 
 The occasion of the de])arture from Connecticut was consid- 
 ered of so nuich importance that a meeting was held and a 
 farewell sermon preached, and the general leavetaking took 
 i'lace. as their old fricnd>^ ami neighbors bade adieu to their 
 late homes and started on their journey of six hundred mile.s 
 for the state of their choice. They concluded to forego the 
 comforts of civilization and endm-e the fatigues of a six- 
 weeks' trip to Xew Connecticut, as it was then called, to 
 built up hijmes in a wilderness, not only for themselves, but 
 lf>r coming generations. Colonel Richard Hayes and his 
 family were one of the ten families who made this journc"*. 
 
 r.urg Hill was formeily ilie residence of Richard Hayes, 
 and his three sons, Seth. Alvin and Richard. 
 
 There are three cenu-terie> in tlie township ot Hartford. 
 ihc one at the center being the oldest. Tlie burying ground 
 at lUirg" iiill has bciu the burial ])lace of the pioneer families 
 
Third Generation. 7 
 
 of tlio lla\cscs. 'I'lu' first ^raxc was lliai <ii I'li/.a Hayes, 
 v'.aiiij^litor of C'til. l\iolianl lla\cs. 
 
 .\l)()vc from lli-^lory of 'Pruml)iill (."onnlw 
 
 The followin.q; extract is from \\\siern Reserve and North- 
 ern Ohio Ili-lorical I 'amplilets. found in t'lir Library in the 
 War 1 )e])arinu'nl at Washington, I). C\ 
 
 ■'Coh Kiehard lla\es to the connnanchni;- officer at Fort 
 Wayne or I'rhana. Sept. 7. 1S12. Sent l)y I.ient. I'onieroy 
 and his party of scoiUs. Camp at I'ipc I'reek. Sept. 7, 1812. 
 To the connnanchng officer at Fort \\a\ne or l'rl)ana. 
 
 Sir: — We are encamped at this ])hice and at Huron with 
 tour Innuhx'd mihtia of Ohio. The inliahitants are in a state 
 of consternation at this ])lace. .Most p;irt liave l]ed at news 
 of our Xorthwestern Army surrounding. We shouhl esteem 
 It a great favor to receive some information from you by the 
 bearer of this, so far as would not be detrimental, if it should 
 be taken from the bearer by the Indians. Fieut. Ponieroy 
 connnands the scoiuing party sent out. 
 
 Accept my respects, 
 
 RICHARD HAYES, 
 Lieut. Col. Command't 3d brigade, 4th 
 Division, Ohio Militia at thj.s place." 
 
 Mrs. Fncy C. Rockwood writes : — I send a newspaper 
 clipping from a series of articles on the early days of the 
 Western Reserve, written by my cousin. Dr. Jackson Tnies- 
 dale, of Canfield.Ohio, in which is a description of the person- 
 al appearance of my grandfather. Colonel Richard Hayes, 
 In my youthful days I knew^ some of the men whose name.s 
 we have liad occasion to use in our late connnunications. In 
 speaking of these long, long ago men, it seems as if I was 
 speaking from an open grave, so near am I there myself. 
 Col. Richard Hayes was a prominent figure in Gen. Wads" 
 worth's campaign and it was from his regiment the volunteers 
 of whom we have spoken were obtained. 
 
 When a boy I fre(|uently saw him at the home of his 
 daughter, Eliza, wife of Dr. Josejih Truesdale of Poland. 
 After the war, he engaged largely in l)usiness at Lurg Hill 
 
,V '/'/lit J Cnirration. 
 
 in TrumliuU ciuinty. In his ircc|uent visits to and from the 
 cast. lu' would stoj) over a stage to visit his (hui.ulitcr. I re- 
 nu-mlHT his appearance (hstinctly. a stout, compactly built 
 man. >lijihtly cori)ulent. neatly dressed, a courteous, affable, 
 elderly j^entleman. with healthy countenance and a well cov- 
 ered head o{ clean white hair." 
 
 Childreti : 
 
 2-^. Selh. b. llartland. Conn. March 9, 1794. m. Sarah 
 
 r.artlelt Woodruff, m. Jnd. Margaret \er- 
 
 non. m. 3rd. Martha W. Sterritt. 
 
 -f- _'(.. Alvin. 1). llartland. Conn., .\ov. i-j . 17V5, m. Eliza C. 
 
 Ste])hens. 
 
 2-. Clarissa, b. llartland. Conn.. .\ug. 22. 1797. m. IDavid 
 
 r.rackin. 
 28. roily, b. llartland. Conn.. Jan. 10. 1800. m. Rev. 
 Henry I'.rainard. jr.. ni. 2n(l. Rev. David 
 Lyman Coe. ni. ^rd. ( ). K. Hawley. M. D. 
 -}- 29. Sally, b. Hartland, Conn., Xov. 22. 1801. m. Samuel 
 McClurg. 
 V'- Melissa, b. Hartland, Conn., Xov. 13. 1803, m. Giles 
 Miller Aken. 
 i 31. Abigail, b. Hartford. Ohio, Jan. 8, 1806. m. I'.enja- 
 min Carpenter. 
 
 32. Richard, b. Hartford, ( )hit). Xov. 14. iSoS, m. Lor- 
 
 inda Emeline Borden. 
 
 33. Kliza. b. Hartford. Ohio. Sept., 181 1. d. Aug. 14. 1814 
 -f- 34. l'*liza, b. ■■ " Feb. 2^ , 1815. m. Joseph 
 
 Truesdale, .M. D. 
 -f 35. Maria, b. Hartford, Ohio, Dec. 13. 1817, m. Joseph 
 h'lagg W'hitmore. m. 2n(l. llenjamin Car- 
 l)enter. 
 
 \\S. TITL'S HA\ I'.S, b. Lyme. Conn.. Feb. 26. 
 ^"77^^, d. \\'a\ne, < )hi(). b'eb. 8. 1832, ni. Canandaigua, X. 
 N'.. Dec. 2^, 1800. IMielie Cooky, 1). Cranville. Mass., Feb. 26, 
 1782, d. Wayne. ( )hio. M.-iy 5. 1865. daughter of John and 
 I'hebe (I'ratt) Coolev. 
 
Third ( joie ration . p 
 
 In iIk' month of June. i798.Titus Hayt's. llicii a yonni;- man 
 of nnusual cncr^-N-. left I lartland, (."onn.. with the intc-ntion 
 of joining- a (.-omiianx of siu-vo) ors, to he iMiiplovrd on the 
 Western Reserve (hiring tliat season, lie came 1)\ way of 
 Canandaii^ua, X . ^'., with no other companion than a faithful 
 doc", and with his sjnn. a loaf of hread and sonu' salt in his 
 l:nai)s;ick, lie left h'.rie, I 'a. At a jdace called 1 ,ivini;ston, 
 (."rawfoni Co. Pa., he ])assed the last cabin, and trusting- to 
 his ])()cket coni]iass he bore sonth-\vesterl\- and entered the 
 state of ( )hio near the south-east corner of Kichniond. ])ass- 
 in^;- through the terrilorx now called .\ndowr : he euiere'l 
 ■ihe towushi]) of \\a\ne. near the north-east corner; he swam 
 the Pymatuning creek, near the corner of lot twenty-eight, 
 on which Samuel Jones. Sr., his brother-in-law. afterward 
 resided, lie often said that In- then admired the beautiful 
 lands in the neighl)orlu)od where he subseciuentl}' settled, 
 and that he then' formed the tletermination to |)urchase and 
 cultivate a i)ortion of them. 
 
 It is an interesting fact, that he must have passed near, if 
 not over, the grounds now appropriated to the cemeter}- 
 where his body was buried nearly forty years afterwards. His 
 was the first visit of civilized man to the interior of the town- 
 ship of Wayne. In 179Q the townshij) was surveyed into lots 
 of half a mile square, each containing one hundred and sixty 
 acres. 
 
 In the spring of 1805, Titus Hayes and Elisha Giddings 
 removed from Canandaigua, X. Y., with their families, on 
 sleds drawn by oxen. They reached Hartford, Ohio, in 
 March. Here thc\' remained during the season, engaged in 
 raising corn and getting a stock of provisions for the next 
 season, intending to settle in \Vayne the following autumn. 
 Accordingly on the eighth of October, with their families, 
 thev removed to Wavne. and took up their residence in a 
 cabin erected on lot 33. which Titus Hayes had purchased 
 of Oliver Phel])s. Titus Hayes lived to see his town settled 
 with a numerous population, himself respected and honored 
 
IQ 'riiird iicucration. 
 
 with important trusts. 1 Ir died in tlio midst of apparent nse- 
 inlncss. 
 
 I"r. >ni 1 listory of Wayne. 
 
 Titus Haves j^^ave the irround i'dt three cemeteries, namely 
 Wavnc center. Creek road, and Hayes road cemeteries. He 
 is buried in the Hayes road cemetery. He was a meml)er of 
 the first Hoard of Connnissioners of Ashtabula Co. in 1811. 
 !lr was appointed judge of the Connt\ in 1825. by the Gover- 
 nor of ( )hio. He was also justice. 1 le ran a woolen factory 
 and turning lathe. He was a member of the M . Iv church, 
 a steward and exhorter. Cousin l-",llen writes : "1 remember 
 very well hearin.q; .\bel Krum relate at our semi-centemiial 
 his arrival in Cherry \alley one Sabbath evening- when he 
 passed judjje Hayes, who had l)een u]) north to preach. He 
 was on his wa\ home ami was in his shirt sleeves and bare- 
 foot." 
 
 Titus Haves served in the < Miio Militia in the war of 1812. 
 We copy the following- from Histor\ of Mahoning N'alley. 
 
 "The mails entirely failing between Fort Stevenson and 
 1-ort Mei.gs. Col. Stevenson called for volunteers to carry the 
 mail through the lUack Swamp to Fort Meigs. Titus Hayes, 
 Dr. Coleman of Ashtabula, and Capt. liurnham of Kinsman, 
 offered their services. Hoises were provided with the neces- 
 sary e(|uipnients. The tir>t niglit they camped on the I'or- 
 fag-e river. After making llieir cam]) and resting for the 
 niplit. they were aroused early in the morning by distant 
 firinj.^ of guns, and as they thought, an occasional Indian 
 whoop, they pursued their course, hearings the distant boom- 
 ing of cannon more and more distinctly as they drew near 
 the fort, and now and then the low whoo]) of tln' savages. 
 Cautiously making their w:iy thrcnigh the deep waters of the 
 swamp that lay across their jiath and across the streams, 
 after much toil and fatigue, they came to a lialt at the foot 
 «»f a large birch tree, and made prei)aration to spend the 
 night there. Tlu- indicalions troDi tlir direction in wliich 
 their course lav weri" anvliiiuij- bm ijlea^^ant. The tn-in<r of 
 
Third (]enn aho)i . ii 
 
 cannon and small arms, and ijn' hidcons yi'Us oi the Indians 
 were louder and louder, and more tre(|uiMii. 'Plu'v. however, 
 remained in the ])()siti(Ui ihe\ had chosen, thruns^h thr nii^lit, 
 without mucli sleep, and waited the result <il the day. Morn- 
 ing' came and arran^'emen" s were made for a reconnoissance. 
 'I'heir proximitN to the I'ort made it evident that something 
 unusual was in i)rot;ress. I laves was detached to go forward, 
 reconnoiter, and rettu-n within an hour to re])ort discoveries. 
 
 lla\es. soon after lea\iug them near the birch tree, en- 
 countered the Indians, that were evidently mnnerous and 
 vigilant in the vicinity of Fort Meigs. Shifting his course, 
 he soon came across another company, which he managed 
 to avoid, and deeming it a hopeless effort to again communi- 
 cate with Dr. Coleman airl C'apt. FUuMdiam, struck straight 
 for Fort Stevenson, which he reached in two days, reporting 
 tliat probably Capt. LUirnham and Dr. Coleman had l)een 
 discovered and massacred bv the Indians. 
 
 After four days without an>' tiling to eat, and under ex- 
 treme fatigue and excitement. Dr. Coleman and Capt. lUirn- 
 ham reached Fort Stevenson, where chocolate was immed- 
 iately prepared for them, which they drank and were soon 
 prepared for more substantial nourishiuent. 
 
 Soon after their return dispatches were received that dis- 
 closed the cause of their danger. Proctor, with a force of 
 some two thousand regulars, had advanced to a point on the 
 west side of Alaumee river, opposite to Fort Meigs, and com- 
 menced bombarding the fort. The hostile Indians \vere let 
 loose UDon the surrounding countrv, to aid, bv means of 
 plunder, burning and ma-sacre, in subduing the fort and 
 |)rosecuting the war. After a considerable time spent in 
 fruitless efforts to take the fort, an armistice was agreed upon 
 for twenty days. Soon after, dis])atches were received bring- 
 ing the cheering inteligence of the success of the army in 
 the east, in the vicinity of Lake Ontario, also of the taking 
 of York in Canada. These were at once forwarded by Capt. 
 Burnham, their postmaster at Fort Stevenson, to Gen. Harri- 
 son, ins])iring his forces, and depressing the ardor of Proctor 
 
13 
 
 T/iiiii iii-ntialioii. 
 
 and h'x- hi'^\i.^<yuvj annv sc. that not l<jnj^ after the siege was 
 raiiiecl 
 
 The following letter from Cajjt. I'.urnham to (kn. Simon 
 iVrkins. (lisc«>vercd after the above was written, will serve to 
 correct the foregoing. 
 
 Lower Sandusky. May 6. 1813. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 ( )n the morning of the Joth. ^'h.. having business 
 from this to Camp Meigs, set out lor thai place in company 
 with Titus Hayes and Dr. Coleman. \\e did not cross the 
 Portage river until the 30th, in the morning. At about 10 
 o'clock we heard a heavy cannonading in the direction of the 
 Camp. We proceeded until within So or too rods of the fort, 
 and lav to. there being a very freciuent discharge of small 
 arms, which we judged were fired by sentries in the fort. We 
 returne<l, as was supposed, one and a half miles, and lay until 
 morning when we moved some further back, and hid our 
 liorses in the swam]), not as yet having gained what we 
 wished; namely, if jjossiblc to know more particidarly the 
 strength of the enemy — tt) effect wliich. Mr. Hayes agreed 
 to advance, and if possible reach the fort. He left its in the 
 swamp at sunrise, and proceeded to s])y out more particularly 
 the situation of the enemy. He advanced to within a half 
 mile of the fort, and finding himself nearly surrounded, made 
 his cstai)e. but was not able to reach the place where we lay." 
 
 Children : 
 
 -f- 36 I,(r.)\. It. L'anantlaigua. X. \'.. Se])!. 11. 1801. m. 
 /eviali r>arber. 
 
 -f- 37. Charlotte, b. Canandaigua. .\. ^'., .\ov. 4. 1804. m. 
 Osman l*hel])s Morse, m. 2nd, Jeremiah 
 Weeks. 
 
 4- 3K. Kicliar.l. b. Wayne-. ( )hio. Jan. 4. 1808. m. Elizabeth 
 r.arber. 
 Vt I'hebe, b. Wayne, r)hii), July 13. i8jl, m. \\'illiam 
 Leach. 
 
Tlurd C,eneralio)i . I J 
 
 '20. LLXL'S 1 1A^■|^S, 1). TTartland. C'Min., Dec. 
 1781, (1. I laxovilK'. ( )lii(), juiu' _'ij, iS_:;4. 111. St,'])!. 11, 1805, 
 fcnislia r.u>lnu-ll, \vli<i dird ( )ct. J'), iSio. She was dauf^^litcr 
 of Thoiiias l'.u:-hiu-Il. Ik- 111. _'n«l. Ani;'. 17, 1S12, Abiah Les- 
 ter. 1). l"'eb. 2(). 17S7. (1. llaycsvilK', ( )lii(), Dec. 17, i860, 
 (laugiiler of Daniel Lester. 
 
 \l)iali Lester was a descendant of a Alayllower passenger, 
 and also of a vonnger son of the Karl of Leicester, and was 
 a grand niece of Daniel Webster. 
 
 Mr. Hayes enlisted in the Ohio Militia in the war of 1812, 
 l)nt was taken ill and was sent home. 
 
 Children, b. llaycsville, Ohio: 
 
 -f- 40. Jernsha r.nslnudl, b. May 21, i8i_:;. m. Daniel Eckley 
 
 M. D. 
 -f- 41. George Lester, 1). Oct. 31, 1814, m. Xancy StafTord. 
 -f- 42. Sarah A., 1). Sept. 30, 1816, ni. W. \V. Scott. 
 + 43. Titns, b. July 11, 1818, m. Mary Thomas. 
 
 44. Rufns, b. June 2, 1820, d. Sept. 22, 1836. 
 
 45. Twin brother ,1). June 2. 1820, d. June 2"/, 1820. 
 
 46. Anna Maria, b. Sept. 2d>, 1822. d. Nov. 20, 1899. 
 ■\- 47. Russell T.. b. Se])t. 17, 1824, m. Jennie A'ineyard. 
 
 !- 48. James R., b. Oct. 10, 1826, m. Margaretta Cowan. 
 4(;. Jolm K., (twin) 1). Oct. 10, 1826, d Aug. 14, 1836. 
 
 21. DEBORAH HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 Aug. 13. 1782, d. Wayne, Ohio, Sept. i, 1863, m. May 11, 
 1803, Samuel Jones, of Hartland. Conn., b. June 29, 1781, d. 
 Wayne, Ohio, May 16, 1880. Roth are buried in the Hayes 
 road cemetery. I'oth Mr. and Mrs. Jones were school 
 teachers. 
 
 With five small children, between the ages of one and seven 
 vears, they left Old Connecticut for the Xew on Sept. 10, 
 1 811. On their arrival at the place now known as Kelloggs- 
 ville,they were met b\- .Mrs. Jones's brother Titus, with a team 
 of oxen. They pursued their way through the forest, a rude 
 road having l)een cut, part of it Ijcing but little more than 
 
J, Third Generation. 
 
 a blazed tree i)atli. over brush, across logs, fording streams, 
 and wliai was worse, getting througli the nnul Mr. Hayes 
 carrying the secon<l son. Flavel, a boy of five years, across 
 a stream by taking hold of his coat collar with his teeth. 
 They arrived at the close of the second day at the house of 
 Mr. Zadoc Steele, in Andover. Xear the close of the third 
 dav the\ arrived in sight of Mr. Hayes's cabin, acconii)lishing 
 the journey from Kelloggsville to Wayne, a distance of a 
 little over 20 miles, in three days. 
 
 \erv lew men have lived a long life more respected as. 
 influential citizens than 'Tncle Sam" as he w^as familiarly 
 called. He was no aspirant for office or places of distinction, 
 vet in matters of ]>u1)lic ini])r()vement and the i)romotion of 
 the common interests of tlie community, and in the adjust- 
 ment of differences where interests came in conflict, the 
 judgment of no man was more readily accc])tcd and ap- 
 proved than his. 
 
 Cousin KUen adds :-The American College and Educational 
 Society for the purpose of aiding indigent but pious young 
 men in their ])rei)aration for the ministry, was organized in 
 1815. When the call came from this society for help, about 
 the vear 26 or 27. my grandmother, not having any money, 
 cheerfully gave Wx dead mother's gold beads, the only article 
 of jewelry or ornament that she ])ossessed. Her neighbors 
 and friends thought it sacrilege, if not positively wicked for 
 her to do so. 
 
 On Monday and Tuesday. May 26 and 2^ , 1891, the society 
 held a convention in Plymouth church at Cleveland, Ohio, 
 which I attended. The results that have been attained by the 
 society were a new revelation to me, they were so large, 
 and it seemed so wonderful that 8.000 young men had been 
 aide<l in the preparation for the gos])cl ministry b\ this 
 .society. And when I remembered thai in the early days of 
 the society my gran<lmother gave her gold beads to help 
 young men in their education, 1 felt as if she left me, in so 
 doiiip, a far more precious legacy than any iKir-h^om could 
 ]n>ssil>ly have been, and it seemed to me that the good ac- 
 
'riiird ('i('uc) alion . /.t 
 
 conipli^lK'd 1>\ tlii> sdcicly was a part nf my inlnTilancc. There 
 came to me, in ihinkiiii;- ol" tin- annmnt of ^ood lliat may 
 have resulted I'rom the small gift of long- ago, a faint view 
 of wfiich was ahnost overwhelming, and I hkss an<l i^raise 
 God that I have an interest and am a sharer in this glorious 
 work." 
 
 Children : 
 
 -■L 50. Linus Ilaxes (Jones), h. Jiarkhamsted, Conn., Vq\'). 5, 
 1805, m. .\lar\- 1'. I*heli)s, ni. 2nd, ICliza 
 Seager, m. .^rd, Mrs. Lucy Ackle\- (i'.rain- 
 ardj Rowe. 
 
 -L 51. Flavel (Tones), b. Larkhamsted, Conn., Feb. 16, 1806, 
 m. Orrilla Hart. 
 
 -i- 52. Statira (^Jones), b. Barkhamsted, Conn., ^[ay 25, 
 
 1807, m. Lovel Klon P'arker. 
 
 -I- 53. Ahnira (Jone;), b. llarkhamsted, Conn., Sept. 27, 
 
 1808, m. Llorace F. Giddings. 
 
 4 54. Anson (Jones'), b. Hartland. Conn., March 31, 1810, 
 
 m. Fann\- liarber, m. 2n(l, Margaret Jane 
 
 Beatty. 
 -f 55. Emily (Jones), b. Wayne, Ohio. Oct. 22. 181 7, m. Dr. 
 
 Thomas E. Best. 
 (- 56. San.uiel (Jones), b. Wayne, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1822, m. 
 
 Samantha L. Fobes, m. 2nd. Sophronia 
 
 Beckwilh. 
 
 'II STATTRA HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 Sept. 21, 1784, d. Delaware, Ohio, Sept. 9, 184c;, m. Jan. 8, 
 1805, Noah Merrick, of Wilbraham, ]\Iass. 
 
 Children . 
 
 4- 57. Abigail (Merrick), b. Wilbraham, Mass., Dec. 10, 
 
 1805, m. Paoli Tvathrop. 
 -f- 58. Roderick (^^lerrick), b.Wilmington,Vt., Jan. 16, 1808. 
 
 m. Emily' Bliss. 
 -j- 59. Frederick (Merrick), b. Wilbraham, Mass., Jan. 29, 
 
 1810, m. Sarah Griswold. 
 
1 6 Third Generation. 
 
 + ()0. Fann\ (Merrick), h. Wilbraham, ^Nlass., Sept. 29 
 1812, 111. Epliraim Perkins. 
 1)1. Cicorge Hayes (iNlerrick) 1). Wilbraham, Mass., Julv 
 21, 1821, d. Jan. 9, 1841. He was a gradu- 
 ate of .\inlierst College, 1840. 
 + 62. Helen M. (Merrick), 1). Willtraham, JMass., Feb. 7, 
 1 824. 
 62'^ Edward 1). (Merrick) b. Wilbraham, ^^lass., Aug. 12, 
 1827, d. June 9. 1839. 
 
 23. ABIGAIL HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 May 2. 1788, d. Hartland, Conn.. Jan. 24, 1843, m. Oct. 14, 
 1809, Arni)ld ( )atman. of Arlington, W., b. Sept. 22, 1788. d. 
 Tolland, Mass.. Aug. 8, 1867. 
 
 Children, b. Hartland. Conn.: 
 
 -|- 63. Julia Ann (Oatiiian), b. Dec. 20, 1810. m. Jemuel 
 
 Woodrufif. 
 64. Loyal (C)atman), b. Feb. 9. 1813, d. Sept. 8, 1814. 
 -f 65. Mariettc " b. Sept. 2-/, 1815, m. William 
 
 Henry Parsons. 
 -f 66 Loyal (Oatman), b. July 13, 1818, ni. Emily H. John- 
 son. 
 67. Harriet Abigail (Oatman), b. Aug. 28, 1820, d Aug. 
 
 3. 1828. 
 -f 68. Alva (<)ainian), b. March 17. 1823, m. Sarah Isabel 
 
 l^ease. 
 -■I- 69. Lester Hayes (Oatman), b. July 16, 1826, m. Ann 
 
 Eliza Xoonan. 
 + 70. Leman (Oamian), b. Dec. 16, 1829, m. Catharine 
 
 Whitmore. 
 
 24. LESTER HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 Sept. 20, 1790. d. Xernon. Ohio, Dec. 23, 1828, m. Matilda 
 P.ushnell, I). I7(j2. d. W'ilhanistield, ( )hio, July 23, 1834. dau- 
 ghter of Thomas r>ushnell, and gran<ldaughter of Capt. Alex- 
 ander liushnell. lie is buried at lUirg Hill, Ohio. His widow, 
 Matilda, m. 2nd. Sanmel Tuttle, of Williamsfield, Ohio. She 
 
Fourth Goicratioi . ij 
 
 and her son Thomas HaNcs are buried in the cemcterv on the 
 Creek road. 
 
 Mr. Hayes served in the ( )hi() .Militia in the war of 1812. 
 
 Cliikh-en, b. X'ernon. ( )hi() ; 
 
 + 71. Lavinia, b. Feb. 16. 1815, ni. I.ueian Kioc. 
 
 -ji. Thomas, 1). June 2, 1817, d. Wilhamsheld, Ohio, Jan 
 
 ,S0, 1833. 
 + y^. Linns, b. April 3, 1819, m. Francenia Gould 
 r 74. Albert, b. June 10, 1822, m. I'hilothey Giddings, m. 
 
 2nd. Widow Armenta (Gillett) Giddings. 
 H- 75. Tester, b. Set)! 26, 1828, m. Sabra Celinda Giddings. 
 
 FOURTH GENERATION. 
 
 25. SETH HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn.. Alar. 
 9. 1794. d. Burg Hill, Ohio, Mar. 9, 1865. m. Jan. 17, 1822, 
 Sarah Bartlett Woodruff, b. Feb., 1S04, d. Oct. i, 1849, daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Ephraim Woodruff. He m. 2nd, April 10. 1850, 
 Margaret Vernon, of Williamsfield, Ohio, b. April. 1826, d. 
 July 9, 1853. He m. 3rd, Sept. 28, 1854, ]Martha W. Sterritt, 
 who died April 5. 1865. He is buried at Burg Hill, Ohio. 
 
 Children, b. Hartford, Ohio: 
 
 76. Harriet Louisa, b. April 14, 1823, d. March 7, 1826. 
 j-j. Alary, b. Feb. i-,, 1825, d. March 11. 1826. 
 
 78. Seth Alden. b. May 10. 1827, d. Oct. 15, 1830. 
 
 79. Harriet \\'oodruff. b. Feb. 9, 1829, d. Dallas, Texas, 
 
 Aug. 29. 1885. 
 
 80. Seth, b. Feb. 20. 1831, d. Oct. 31, 1836. 
 
 + 81. Richard Alden. b. Dec. 26, 1837, m. Julia Reeves 
 
 Deventlorf. 
 -j- 82. Ebenezer Bartlett, b. Jidy 7, 1840, m. Nellie Spencer. 
 + 83. Ephraim Treadwell. b. April 30. 1842. m. Julia A. 
 
 Gager. m. 2n(l, Adicl Spangler. 
 
 84. Jonathan Hooker, b. May 2, 1844, d. Oct. 10, 1846. 
 
 85. George SterriU, b. June 2^, 1855, d. Dallas, Texas. 
 
 Jan. 4, 1879. 
 
jS FoiDt/i Generation 
 
 26. AL\1\ HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 Nov. 1-, I7<;5. <I. lUn-g- Hill, Ohio, Aug. 30, 1880, m. Jan. 11, 
 1822, I'.liza C. Stephens, b. Nov. 30, 1796, d. July 30. 1873. 
 He is jjuried at Ihirg Hill. Ohio. Mrs. Hayes was a cousin 
 of Hon. Tluulileus Stephens. 
 
 Chiklrrii, I). Hartford. Ohio: 
 
 86. Thomas Frederick, b. April 22, 1824. d. Hartford, 
 Ohij. April 24. 1851. 
 -j- 87. Julia, b. May 2},, 1827. in. Samuel Craig" Plummer. 
 + 88. Edward, b. Sept. 30. i82(;, m. Enuna Carpenter. 
 
 27 CLARISSA HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 Aug. 22. 1797. d. Kinsman. Ohio. Feb. 13. 1880. m. 1815, 
 David r.rackin. b. Strabane, Ireland. 1792. d. Kinsman, Ohio, 
 April 30. 1877. r>oth are buried in Kinsman. Sir. Brackin 
 came there in 1806. 
 
 Children, b. Kinsman, Ohio: 
 
 89. James (Brackin). b. May 2-j, 1817, d. Slarch 12. 1838, 
 + 90. Mary " b. Dec. 7, 18 18, m. Thomas Frame, 
 
 -f 91. Eliza "' b. Dec. 13, 1820, m. Rev. Robert 
 
 )urg"ess. 
 
 9?. Thomas (I'rackin). b. Dec. 10. 1822. d. Cleveland, 
 Ohio. Oct. 29. 1887. 
 
 -|- 93. Pvivhard Hayes (IJrackin). b. Xov. 11, 1824. m. Carrie 
 Tucker. 
 
 -{- 94 Jane Knox (I'.rackin). b. Aug. 21. 1826, m. Judge 
 Sanniel X. I'dliott. 
 
 -)- 95. Abigail Hayes (lirackin). b. March 26, 1828. m. Wil- 
 liam Bailey. 
 96. George ('P)rackin). b. March 8. 1830. 
 
 + 97. Charlotte }»Iaria (IJrackin), b. Aug. 20, 1832, m. 
 George Bosworth. 
 
 98. Rrbccca Kinsman (Brackin), b. Aug. 29, 1834. 
 
 99. Alvin (Brackin), b. Oct. 28, 1836, d. Jan. 15, 1839. 
 100. Harriet Eouisa (Brackin), b. Jan. 15, 1839. 
 
 loi. Clarissa Statira " b. huu- 4. 1842. 
 
Fourth Generation. i^ 
 
 Of the above, Geors^c, Rebecca Kinsman, Harriet I.ouisa, 
 
 and Clarissa Statira Drackin, form a most l)cantiful family 
 at Pontiac, Mich. 
 
 28. P( )LLV HAYES, b. Hartlan<l. Conn., Jan. 
 10, 1800, d. I'ainesville, Ohio, JNlay 17, 1877, m. 1825, Rev. 
 Henry Brainard Jr., who died March i, 1826. She m. 2nd, 
 March 19. 1828, Rev. David T.yman Coc. She m. 3rd, O. K. 
 Hawky, M. D. 
 
 Child by Tst husband : 
 
 -f 102. Marv Louisa (lirainard), b. June 11, 1826, m. Julius 
 Ayers Grosvenor. 
 
 Children by 2nd husband : 
 
 -|- 103. Henrv Hayes (Coe), b. June 6, 1830, m. Eliza L. 
 
 Whitin.i^-, m. 2nd, Lncy A. Proctor. 
 104. Seth (Coe), b. T^larch 10, 1832, d. March 9, 1833. 
 -)- 105. Albeit Lyman (Coe), b. Talmage, Ohio, April 9, 
 
 1834, m. Charlotte E. Woodward. 
 
 29. SALLY HAYES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 Nov. 22, 1801, d. Boardman. Ohio, Feb. 19, 1863, m. June 19, 
 1838, Samnel McClurg, b. Alleg-heny, Pa., June 19, 1809, d. 
 Poland, Ohio, July 4, 1877. 
 
 Children, b. Poland, Ohio : 
 
 + 106. Richard (McClarg-), b. June 22, 1840, m.-Kezia Mc- 
 Cnllough. 
 107. Geor.j;e (McClnrg), b. Aug. 6, 1843, '^- J'-^^c 14, 
 1845- 
 
 30 MELISSA HAY^ES, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 Nov. 13, 1803, t'- Rochester, N. Y^., m. Giles Miller Aken, of 
 Vernon, Ohio, b. 1799, d. Ap"r. 21, 1848. She is buried in Hart- 
 ford, Ohio. X(^ children. 
 
20 Fourth Generation. 
 
 ',\\. AI'.ICAIL ]]AY]<:S, b. Hartford Ohio, 
 Jan. 8, iSuf), d. Crystal Lake, 111.. Nov. 15, 1873, m. Sept. 20, 
 1832. F>enjaniin Carpenter, h. Dec. 4, 1809, d. Chicago, 111., 
 April 9, 1881. Both are l)urie(l in cemetery at Rose Hill, 111. 
 
 Children ; 
 
 -j- 108. George lienjamin (Carpenter), b. ]\Iarch 13, 1834, 
 m. Elizabeth C. Greene. 
 109. Charlotte (Carpenter). 1). Richmond, (^hio, Dec. 5, 
 
 1835- 
 -)- 110. Clinton W. (Car])enter), b. ^Nlarch 2, 1840, m. Elena 
 
 C. Wool son. 
 
 -\- III. ^lary Ellen (Ca'-penter), b. June 15, 1843, m. Rich- 
 ard Field. 
 112. Abigail Eliza (Carpenter), b. Conneaut, Ohio, Nov. 
 9, 1845, ('• Chicago, 111., March 28, 1853. 
 
 + 113. Cornelia Louisa (Carpenter), b. March 23, 1848, m. 
 
 Phili]) P.radley. 
 
 32. RICHARD HAYES, b. Hartford. Ohio, 
 Nov. 14. 1808, d. lUirg Hill, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1899, m. vSept.. 
 1835. Lorinda Emeline Brrdcn, of Hartford, Ohio, b. June i, 
 ]8i6. d. Geneva. ( )hio. Sc])t. 5, 1896. He was the first post- 
 master of liurg Hill. IJoth are buried at Geneva, Ohio. No 
 children. 
 
 :U. ELIZA. HAYES, b. Hartford. Ohio, Feb. 
 27, 1S15, d. Oak Park, 111., March 27, 1873, ni. Oct. 9, 1832, 
 Joseph Truesdale, M. D., who d. Poland, Ohio, Mar. 29, 1871. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -f 1 [4. Sarah M. (Truesdale), 1j. Jan. 3. 1835. m. Dr. Chaun- 
 
 cey K . Riley. 
 -(- 115. Ella Iv (Truesdale). 1). Sc])t. 24. 1837. m. Dr. George 
 
 I land v^mith. 
 — I 1^1. Lucy C. (Truesdale). b. A]iril 25, 1840. ni. Frank' 
 
 Jk Rock wood. 
 
Fourth Ge7ieraiio7i. 2t 
 
 -(- 117. Setli TT. (Tnics(lale), b. June 20, 1843, m. Amelia 
 
 McCreary. 
 -f- 118. Charlotte E. (Trucsdale), b. Sei)t. 7, 1846, ni. 
 
 George C King. 
 -)- 119. Frederick Hayes (TruesdaleJ, b. March 16, 1852, m. 
 
 Annie Bowen. 
 
 35. MARIE HAYES, b. Hartford, Ohio, Dec. 
 13, 1817, d. Painesville, Ohio, Jan. 16. 1895, m. Hartford, 
 Ohio, March 15. 1837, Joseph Flagg Whitniore, b. Lebanon, 
 N. H.. Dec. 22, 181 1, d. Nov. 13, 1873. She in. 2nd, Feb. 4, 
 1875, I'>cnjaniin Carpenter, of Chicago, Ih. 
 
 Children by 1st husband, b. West Andover, Ohio: 
 
 120. Ellen Louisa (VVhitmore), b. April 17, 1838, d. W. 
 Andover, ( )hio. 
 -(- 121. Lucia Estella (Whitmore), b. Jidy 24, 1839, ni. 
 George B. Stone. 
 122. Hayes Giddings (Whitmore), b. Aug. 23, 1844, d. 
 W. Andover, Jan. 12, 1866. 
 -[- 123. Mary Josephine (Whitmore), b. Dec. 24, 1848, m. 
 Osman Smith King. 
 
 36. LEROY HAYES, b. Canandaigua, N.Y., 
 Sept. II. i8oi, d. Wayne. Ohio, Sept. 28, 1863, m. March 19, 
 1826, Zeviah Barber, b. Norwich, Conn., May 20, 1805, ^^• 
 Wayne, ( )hio, A])ril 14, 1893, daughter of James and Hannah 
 (Billings) Barber. Both are buried in the cemetery on the 
 Hayes road. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hayes were members of the Congregational 
 church, and the close of their lives was full of faith and trust 
 in God. 
 
 Children, 1). Wayne, Ohio: 
 
 124. Harriet, b. Feb. 22, 1828, d. Dec. 13, 1828. 
 
 125. Charlotte Lavinia, b. July 31, 1830, m. Julius E. 
 
 Chai)man. 
 
 I 
 
22 
 
 Fo u rth Gen e ra tio n . 
 
 -f 126. Harriet Kniiina. 1). Sept. i. 1837, m. John W. But- 
 ters. 
 -t- 127. I'lavius. 1). July 15. 1842, !U. ATary A. Gillis. 
 
 37. CHARLOTTE HAYES, b. Canandaig-ua, 
 X. v.. Xdv. 4, 1804. (1. \\'ayne, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1871, m. April 
 2(), 1830, Osman 1 'helps Morse, of Williamsfield, Ohio, b. 
 W'orthing-ton, Mass., Jan. 26, 1806, son of EHas and Abiah 
 • I'helpsj Morse. She ni. 2nd, Jan. 1854, Jeremiah Weeks, b. 
 Danville, Vt., Sept. 11, 1795, d. Wayne, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1864, 
 .'=011 of Samuel Weeks. Mrs. Weeks was a teacher. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Weeks are buried in the cemetery on the 
 Hayes road. 
 
 -Children by 1st husband, h. Williamsfield, Ohio: 
 
 + 128. Helen Maria (Morse), b. ]\Iarch 8, 1831, m. Edward 
 Oatley. 
 
 -j- 129. Harriet Zeviah Alorse), b. Jan. 27, 1834, m. Benja- 
 min Franklin A\'eeks. 
 
 -|- 130. Frances Abiah (Morse), b. Jan. 22, 1838, m. Eli S. 
 Yoke. 
 
 38. RICHARD HAYES, b. \\ayne, Ohio, 
 Jan. 4, 1808, d. Wayne, ( )hio. Feb. 7, i8gi, m. Jan. 2, 1833, 
 Elizabeth llarber, b. Cranby, Conn., Xov. 20, 1814, d. Wayne, 
 Ohio, A])ril 3, i8<S4, daughter of James and Hannah (Billings) 
 Barber. Mr. and Mrs. r>arl)er are buried in the cemetery on 
 the Playes road. 
 
 Children, b. Wa}ne, ( )hio : 
 
 1 31. Titus, b. X(^v. T(), 1833. d. May 19, 1843. 
 
 + 132. Charles I'.., b. l-\'b. 15. 1835, "i- Elizabeth Fobes. 
 
 -f 133. Dillon T'rosser, b. Aug. 25, 1840, m. Eiuily Parker 
 
 J 34. Delxirah, 1). .\i)rii 13, 1842, d. ]\fay 13, 1843. 
 
 -j- 133. 'I'iius .\., b. April 10, 1844, m. Leula Bentley. 
 
 + 139. Finns Jones, b. .May 30, 1850. m. Hilary R. ]\Iiles. 
 
l-ourth Goieratioii. 
 
 2J 
 
 ai) PHKBE HA\!{S, I). Wayne. Ohio, July 
 T3, 1821, d. Wayne. ( )lii(). March 7, 1847, ni. Wayne, Ohio, 
 Dec. 23. 1841. William Leach. She is buried in the cemetery 
 on the Hayes road. 
 
 Child, I). Wavne, Ohio; 
 
 + 137. Florence Louisa (Leach), b. May 13, 1S43, 
 Georee Cole. 
 
 m. 
 
 40. JERUSHA BUSHXELL HAYES, b. 
 Hayesville. ( )hio. May 21, 1813, d. July 3, 1887. ni. Hayes- 
 ville, Ohio, April 2O, 1836, DanieJ Eckley, \\. D., b. 1811, d. 
 Jan. 22, lyoT. They removed to Olney, Richland Co., III., 
 in 1838. 
 
 Children, b. Olney, 111 : 
 
 -r 138. James Hayes (Eckley), b. July 13. 1839, m. Phebe 
 Xotestine. 
 
 H- 139. Alvin (Eckley). b. Jan. 2^, 1841, m. ]Mrs. Llannah 
 Morrison. 
 
 [40. Levi (Eckley), h. April 28, 1845. Althoug-h a mere 
 i)oy, he enlisted in the i8th 111. Reg. Co. 
 K., in war of 1861. He d. April 14, 1864, 
 while at home on a furlough. 
 
 141. Anna Marie (Eckley), b. Sept. 13, 1852, d. Olney, 
 
 Aug. 13, 1900. 
 
 142. Sarah Abiah (Eckley), b. Dec. 13, 1854. 
 
 143. Ralph (Eckley), b. Dec. 28, 1857. 
 
 41. GEORGE LESTER HAYES, b. Hayes- 
 ville, Ohio, Oct. 3, 1814, d. Ashlaiid County. Ohio. Jan. 29, 
 1878, m. Xov. 9, 1837, Xancy Stafford, b. Xov. 22, 1817, d. 
 Ashland Cou.nty. ()., Jan. 15, 1888. 
 
 Children, b. Ashland Comity. Ohio: 
 
 144. Linus, b. Se])t. 17, 1838, d. Jan. 10. 1839. 
 
2^. Four til Cieneratioyi. 
 
 145. Lester Levitt, h. Auc:. 13. iJ^.^O. fl- in Jefferson Co. 
 hospital, at St. Louis. Mo.. June 2J , 1863. 
 He was in Co. C, 120th Ohio Reg. in War 
 of the KebelHon. 
 
 + 146. Xaihan Stafford, 1). Sept. 24, 1841. ni. Alargaret 
 W aiiiw 1 itiiii. 
 
 147. MeHssa .\nn. 1). Jan. 11. 1844. d. Allen Co. Ind., 
 Aug. 2(). 1890. 
 -j- 148. William C.. li. .Ma\- 12, 1846, m. Maria Feitner. 
 -|- 141;. llettie A., h. Xow 14. i84(>. ni. ]o\\\\ (reiger. 
 
 150. Mary Jane. b. .\pril 14. 1856. d. 13ec. 11. 1872. 
 
 42. SARAH A. HAYES, b. Hayesville, Ohio, 
 Se])t. 30, 1816, d. Hayesville, Aug. 15. 1885, m. Oct. 19, 1841, 
 W. \^'. So'it, b. near Mifflin, ( )hi(), in what was Richland 
 Co., Aug. 14. i8it), d. Ila\esville, Xov. 12. 1898. 
 
 Children, b. J hi\esville, ( )hio : 
 
 151. Matilda A. (Scott), 1). Aug. 8. 1842. 
 
 -f- 152. John Horace (Scott), b. .\pril 26. 1844. ni Celestia 
 
 I. Ilarper. 
 
 153. I'dla I. (Sc( lit), b. Dec. 23, 1845. 
 
 134. Amanda (Scott), b. Oct. 16, 1847. 
 
 -- 155. Laura M. (Scott), b. Sept. i, i84(j, m. James Boyci. 
 
 156. M. I'dorence (Scott). 1). March 20. 1851. 
 
 -|- 157. junia L. (Scott), b. Feb. 14, 1853, m. Marcus Hih- 
 seni. 
 
 158. Sidney \V. (Scott), b. .\la\ 15. 1857. 
 
 43 TITLS 1IA\1-:S. 1). Hayesville. Ohio. July 
 11. 181S. d. Si)ringfiel(l, Missouri, ( )ct. 17. 1873. m. .\])ril 28, 
 1846. .Mary Tliomas. b. Xew \'«irk Cit\. .March 28, 1828, d. 
 Caldwell, Kansas. Jan. 12, 188S. He was a tarmer, and was 
 a member oi the Wisconsin legislatin-e in 1853, and was a 
 teacher. I'...lli Mr. ;ind Mr.s. Ha\es were members of the 
 I'apti^t (dinrcli. 
 
I'miiili (iciicralloii. 2jy 
 
 Children : 
 
 4- 159. Scott, 1). White ( )ak Sprint^-s. Wis.. April i. 1847, 
 
 m. Mrs. Stella Louisa (I Toit) Wellington. 
 -f ]6o. Trew. I), ('.rant Co., Wis.. Au^'. 14. 1S4S. ni. Jessie 
 
 iienton Xorlliwa}, m. 2nd, Iva hjneretta 
 
 North way. 
 -i- t6t. Edfl, 1). riattsville. Wis., .\n^. J<S, 1X50. ni. Helen 
 
 I-:. l<:i(lri.l-e. 
 T62. jay, h. I'lattsville. Wis., April. 1852, d. Sept. 18, 
 
 1855. 
 -j- 163. Lee, b. Plattsville, Wis., Oct. 13. 1854, ni. Julia 
 
 Russell. 
 -\r 104. Ida, 1). Scott Co.. Minn., Dec. 2. 1856. 
 -[- 165. Kate, b. Minnehaha, ]Minn., March 11, 1859, m. 
 
 |(ihn Louis kesler. 
 -J- 166. Frank, b. Minnehaha, Minn., May 2. i8f)i, ni. Kuth 
 
 Esther Bowdish. 
 -J- 167. Gretta, 1). Alinnehaha, Minn.. June 13, 18^)3, m. 
 
 Robert ( nlliam Withers. 
 + 168. Emma Priscilla, b. C.reenleat, Minn., June 19, 1866, 
 
 m. Ewing- C. Guthrie, 'W. D. 
 
 169. Henry Linus, b. S]n-inp:field, Mo., Feb. 20. 1869, d. 
 
 Columbia, Mo., May 1879. 
 
 170. Lester Levitt, b. S])rinoheld, Mo., A]n-il 18, 1873, d. 
 
 Columbia, Mo., Nov. 8, 1878. 
 
 47. RUSSELL T. HAYES, b. Hayesville, 
 Ohio, Sept. 17, 1824. ni. Jennie A'ine\ard, who d. Los An- 
 geles, Cal., Oct. 8, i.S()i. 
 
 Mr. Hayes and his son Lester accompanied Minister De- 
 long to Japan. 
 
 Children : 
 
 171. Fanny, fl. at age of ten years. 
 
 172. A'ineyard, d. in young manhood. 
 
 173. Lester, was in Calif' )rnia when last heard from. 
 
26 
 
 FoiiriJi Cciicrafion. 
 
 48. JA.MHS R. IIAVI-.S. 1). llayesville, Ohio, 
 ( )ct. lo, 1826, (1. July 22, 1879, 111. May 18. 1854, ]\Iargaretta 
 Cowan, b. Oct. 1, 1836. 
 
 Children : 
 
 --I- 174. Clara T.. 1). Jan. 2(>. 1855, m. E. Knapp. 
 
 -j- 173. -Mary Lnclla, I). July 18, 1856. ni. C. S. Xeiswanger. 
 
 -T- 17(1. Helen A.. 1). Aiit^-. 1, 1858, m. E. < ). Stonebraker. 
 
 177. Einus Arthur, b. Sept. 2(). 1869. d. Oct. 7, 1893. 
 
 178. Robert Ral])li. b. Dec. 20, 1872. He is a conductor 
 
 on Santa Fe R. R. at Cleburne. Texas, 
 (1902). He served ir. Spanish war in Co. H. 
 3rd Texas X'olunteers. 
 -!- 179. Fred E.. b. .March 14, 1876. m. Percy O'Havre. 
 
 180. James A., b. Alav 12, 1879. He is a P. O. clerk in 
 Si>ringfield, Mo. (1902). 
 
 50 LI XL'S HAVES J( )XES. b. Barkham- 
 stead. Conn.. J<\'b. 5. 1805. d. May 21, 1885, m. Xov. 11. 1827, 
 !Mary Porter Phelps, b. New Marlboro. Mass., Xov. 21, 1808, 
 d. Sept. 15. 1828. daui^hter of Elijihalet and Mehitabel (Dodge) 
 Phelps. He ni. 2nd, Jan. 20. 1830, Eliza Seager. formerly 
 from ( )ntario C(x. .X. \'.. who d. Jan 15. 1840. He m. 3rd, 
 ( )ct. 28. 1840. Mrs. Eiicy Ackle\ (Ih-ainard) Rowe, who d. 
 Aj;ril 7, 1889, anil is buried with her husband in the cemetery 
 on the Hayes Road. Mrs. Rowe had. by her first husband, 
 Cornelia Rowe, who m. David Smilie : and .Mbcrt Rowe. The 
 sunny-faced, gentle little .\lbert ^rew lo manliood and gave 
 his life for his country. Jli^ bod\- rests in the Xational Sol- 
 diers' cemetery at Chattanooga, with 13,000 comrades, whose 
 graves are marked by small white head-ton"s. some known, 
 some unkn(j\\n. The cemetery is most ])eautiful, and is well 
 wcjrthy to be a resting ])lace fur ilie bra\'e lieroes who sleep 
 there. 
 
 Mr. Jones came to \\'ayne. ( 'hio, with hi- i)arents, in '81 i. 
 The winter following, a school was langlit in a i)arl of the 
 house occupied by 'i'itus Hayes, of wliich Linus and his 
 brother I'lavel formed the first class. In 1824 he commenced 
 
I'oiirth iiciicratloii. 
 
 ?7 
 
 teacliint;' singinj:^' schools in {he winlrr. wliicli lif lOlluwed 
 several winters in Ashtabula and Trnnihull C'ountic's. Al- 
 thouj^'h his (|nalifications were far helow wlial is re(|nire(l in 
 these later days, yet they were nuudi hcxond what could be 
 often found in an}' homemade ( )lu()an. 
 
 Child by 2d. wife, b. Wayne, ( Mho: 
 
 181. Deborah Elizabeth (Jones) b. May 21, 1837, d. Xov. 
 23, 1839. 
 
 Children b_\- 3(1 wife. b. \\'a\'ne. ( )hio : 
 
 182. Flavel Erasmus (Jones), I). Dec. 27^, 1841. m. v'^xlvia 
 
 A. North, m. 2nd, Mary A. Hezlip. 
 
 183. Linus Rrainard (Jones), b. Feb. 26, 1844, m. Rhoda 
 
 A[. Woodworth. 
 
 184. Willie (Jones), b. Dec. ], 1850. d. Sept. 11, 1854. 
 
 185. Mary Caroline (Jones), b. Oct. 18, 1855, m. Emory 
 
 F. Treat. 
 
 51. FLAVEL JOXES, b. Harkhamsted. 
 Conn., Feb. 16, 1806, d. Wayne, ( )hio, June 9, 1842, m. Orvilla 
 Hart, b. 1810, d. Jan. 29, 1868. He is buried in the cem< '■ery 
 on the Hayes Road. 
 
 C. C. Wick, an old friend of Flavel Jones, writes: "Proba- 
 bly no man in my history retains such a hold on my memory 
 as Flavel. He was my friend and adviser. We had g^reat con- 
 fidence in each other. He was the only man I ever found 
 who was unselfish and actuated in all he did by ri^iit motives. 
 His intelligence was far in advance of his da}'. Sound on all 
 public (|uestions, he investigatetl them thoroughly, and had 
 he lived, would no doubt have filled important i)ositions in 
 the state and nation." 
 
 (."hildren b. Wa\'iie, ( )hio : 
 
 186. Ellen (Jones), b. Dec. 22, 1835. She was a girl of un- 
 usual talent, an excellent teacher, and is a 
 nurse, carrying sunshine where\'er she 
 goes. 
 
2S FoiirlJi Ccucraiion. 
 
 -j- 187. Kiillin Lucicn I j ones), h. Fcl). 5,' 1839, ni. Lucy 
 
 Clinton I'alnu-r. 
 4- 188. I'Mward llc-rl)crt, 1). Dec. 25, 1840, m. Hannah 
 
 Wright. 
 
 5'^. STATIKA jOXES, 1). Barkhamsted. 
 Conn.. May 25, 1807, d. May 23. 1839, in. Jan. 29, 1830, Level 
 Elon Parker. She is buried in the cemetery on the Hayes 
 Road. .\c) children. 
 
 53. ALMIR.X jOXES, b. Barkhamsted, 
 Conn.. Sept. 2y. 1808, d. W'axne. ( )hio. April 8, 1895, m. Dec. 
 15. 1833, Horace F. Ciiddings^ b. Wayne, Ohio, Jan ^4, 1807, 
 d. Wayne. Ohio, Feb. 22, 1903, son of Elisha and Philothea 
 (Fish) Gicldings. i-^he was a teacher. 
 
 Children, I). Waxtic, Ohio: 
 
 189. l""rederick Merrick ( ("iiddings ), b. ( )ct. 29, 1834. cl. 
 of pneumonia in Military hospital, Mur- 
 freesboro, Tenn., Ai)ril 21, 1863, enlisted in 
 Co. I, 105th ( )hio \'ol. Inf., Aug., 1862, and 
 was wounded ( )ct. 8, 1862. in l)attle of Per- 
 ry ville, Ky. 
 
 -|- 190. Albert C. (Giddings), b. March 15, 1838, m. Sara 
 
 Ellen Stanley. 
 -|- 191. Statira Eliza (Giddings), 1). March 3, 1840. m. Henry 
 
 S. Si!n])kins. 
 
 54. A\So.\ J()Xh:S. b. Hartland. Comi., 
 -March 31, i8iu. d. Jan. 30, 1897, m. Xov. 1838, Fanny T.arber, 
 who (1. Jan. 3. 1865. daughter of James and 1 lannah (lUUings) 
 r>arber. 
 
 Me m. 2nd. Jnne 7. 1866. J^Iargaret Jane IJeatty. of Mercer 
 Co.. I '.'I., who d. I'll). _' I , i8(j2. 
 
 Children. I). W'a\ ne, ( )hio : 
 
 \\)2. Ilannah I'dllings (Jones), b. .\ug. 17, 1839, m. Wil- 
 liam 1'.. Smilie. 
 
 I 
 
J'oiirtli Cciicration. . 2(y 
 
 -1- i(;3. RcKlerick ^[crricls- (Jones), b. Aug. 5, 1S41, 111. Char- 
 lotte R. Wilcox. 
 
 -f- 194. Emma Elizabeth (Jones), b. Sept. 2^, 1854, m. 
 
 Charles II. Smith. 
 
 55. lailLY JONES, b. Wayne, Ohio, Oct. 22, 
 1817. m. Oct. 22. 1839, Dr. Thomas K. Best, b. 1810, d. 
 Ag-enc\- City, Towa, ( )ct. 5, 1877, aged 67. In the spring of 
 1849, til*-' family removed from ^^'aync, Ohio, to Wisconsin. 
 Dr. r>est was surgeon in the 44th Wisconsin Infantry in war 
 of the rebellion. ^Nlrs. Best was a teacher. 
 
 Children ; 
 
 .195. Hannah (Best), b. Wayne, Ohio, July 29, 1841. She 
 is a graduate of Lake Erie Fem. Sem. at 
 ' ' Painesville, Ohio, 1863, w^as a teacher at 
 
 Burlington, Iowa, and is one of the faculty 
 of Gates College at Neligh, Nebraska. 
 J- 196. Eusebius Swift (Best), b. Wayne, Ohio, Oct. 31, 
 1842, ni. Betsey Hyde. 
 
 T97. Deborah Jane (Best), b. Wayne, Ohio, Feb. 4. 1846, 
 d. I'ortage City, Wis , June 12. 1851. 
 
 198. Edward Thomas (Best), b. Wayne, Ohio, Jan. 17. 
 1848, d. Portage City, Wis., Aug. 2~, 1849. 
 ••|- 199. Edward Thomas (Best), b. Portage City, Wis.. Feb. 
 22, 1850, m. Florence May Gilson. 
 
 200. Samuel Jones (IJest), b. I'ortage City. Wis., .Vug. 23, 
 
 1853, d. Sept. 3, 1853. 
 
 201. Alniira Fanny (Best), b. Portage City, Wis . Sept. 10. 
 
 1854, d. June 20. 1855. 
 
 -j- 202. Charles Jones (Best), b. Portage City, Wis., Jan. 4, 
 1858, m. Minnie Hill. 
 
 56. SAMUEL JO.XES, b. Wayne, Ohio, Dec. 
 6. 1822, m. Sept. 3, 1846, Samantha L. Fobes, who d. Jan. 9. 
 1866. 
 
fourth Generation. 
 
 He 111. 211(1. l"\'l). 21. 1S67. Soi)hroiiia IScckwiili. of Cole- 
 brook, C )liio. 
 
 He was a fanner until l'"el).. 1867, when he com- 
 inenceil nierchaiidisinj;" at the center of W ayne. ( )liio. At 
 Hrst the name of tlu- linn was Jones cK: Way, afterwards, Jones 
 & Son. lie removed to Conneant, ( )hio, leaving the store 
 in charge of his son, W. I'*.. Jones. Since living at Conneaut, 
 he has served the County for several years as Infirmary 
 1 director and Ci>nnt\- C^^mmissioner. 
 
 Children by 1st wife. I). Wayne, Ohio.: 
 
 -4- 203. Estella Tlieresa (Jones), b. Sept. ii, 1851, m. Rev. 
 
 Elmore I I. \\ ilcox. 
 -i- 204. \\'illis Edwin (Jones), h. Sept. 28, 1853, m. Sarah G. 
 
 McXeily. 
 
 Children l)y 2nd wife, h. Wayne, Ohio: 
 
 -|- 205. Jennie Lucinda (Jones), b. Jan. 19, 1871. m. liert 
 b\ Tyler, m. 2nd, llarry A. Wilder. 
 
 — 206. l\ali»li Hayes (Jones), b. Sept. i, 1875, m. Eva 
 jH)bes. 
 
 57. ABIGAIL .\rh:RRICK, b. Wilbraham, 
 ]\Iass., Dec. 10, 1805, d. March 24, 1850, m. Paoli Laihrop. 
 
 Children b. South Jladley, Mass., except tlie first: 
 
 207. Helen (Lathrop). b. Ludlow, Mass., March 16, 1832, 
 d. Kansas City, Mo.. Eeb. 20, 1896. 
 
 -f 208. I'anny (Lathroj)), b. Jan. 15, 1836, m. Dr. Daniel 
 I'ierson. 
 
 -f- 2oy. Seth ( Lathrop), b. May 10, 1838, m. Ellen Louise 
 Reed. 
 
 210. George M. (Lathrop), b. Sept. 28, 1840, d. Sept. 25, 
 
 1843- 
 
 211. Enitna (Lathro])). b. April 17, 1844. d. ~S\ay 19, 
 
 1868. 
 
 212. .\bbii> .M. (Lathrop). b. Eeb. 3, 1847. d. Oct. 20. 
 
 1847. 
 
I'oniih Liciicralliiii. j/ 
 
 58. RODERICK M I'.RRICK.l.. Wilmin-ton. 
 \'t.. Jan. l6, 1808. (1. March i,n. 1S53, ni. lunily I'.Hss. 
 
 Cliililrc'ii : 
 
 -f- 213. Sophronia W. (. Merrick 1, h. W'ilhraliam, .Ma>>.. 
 
 I'\'l). '), 1833, 111. Charles (".. Starkweather. 
 -i- 214. Abigail (Alerrick), b. near Juliet, 111., May 3, 1838, 
 
 ni. William (). Semans. 
 -f- 215. Edward ( .Merrick), b. W'ilbraliain, Mass., May 24. 
 
 1842, m. Sarah A. Chapman. 
 4- 216. Frederick (^kFerrick), b. W'ilbraham, Afass., Xov. 4, 
 
 1844, m. Mary llrink, m. 2n(l, l""nima Keys. 
 
 217. Emily (iNTerrick), b. W'ilbraham, Mass., Ang-. 8, 1847. 
 
 d. :\Jarch 2^, 1853. 
 
 59. FREDERICK MERRICK, b. Wilbraham, 
 Mass., Jan. 29, 1810, d. Delaware, Ohio. March 5, 1894, m. 
 at Snffield, Conn., A]>ril 2/, 1836, Sarah Griswold, who d. 
 July, 1883. (Record of marriage calls her Fidelia S. Gris- 
 wold.) 
 
 He prepared himself in early life for the Christian ministry, 
 and for teaching. He was connected with the Ohio Wesleyan 
 University for two years as agent, for fifteen as professor, for 
 thirteen as president, and for twenty-one as professor emeri- 
 tus and lecturer on natural and revealed religion. 
 
 60. FAXXY MERRICK, b. Wilbraham. 
 Mass., Sept. 29, 1812. d. Dec. 2=^. 1845, "^- Ephraim Perkins. 
 
 Children : 
 
 218. Lucy (Perkins), b. Joliet, 111., Tvrarch 9, 1837, d. 
 
 Alay 8. 1862. 
 
 219. Fidelia (Perkins), b. Joliet. 111.. Aug. 29. 1838. d. 
 
 Delaware. Ohio. June 4, 1903. 
 
 220. Helen M. (Perkins), b. Montalona, 111., June 30, 
 
 1841. 
 
 221. George M. (Perkins), b. Montalona, 111., Aug. 22, 
 
 1845, d. Jan. I, 1846. 
 
j^ fourth Gciicrailon. 
 
 ()-,». III-.IJ'.X M. MKRRfCK. h. Wilhraham, 
 Mass.. l'\'l). 7. 1S24. (1. iH'lawarc. ( )liin, Jan. 5, 1901. 
 
 Her carlv lit'c was spciil al Wilbraham. Mass. Here she 
 lived with her fatlier. niollier, l)rothers and sisters, seven in 
 all. the vounoest hut one of this household. In her young 
 ,i,nrlhooil. her health was such that she was watched over with 
 the greatest solicitude. It was thought the vigorous climate 
 of her home was too severe for her, so she came for a number 
 of vears to jniss the winters with licr brother, Dr. Merrick, 
 at Delaware, ( )hio. After her mother's death, Delaware, 
 Ohio, was her permanent home. In early life she consecrated 
 her heart, her life, her time, her talents, her all to Him who 
 had loved her and given Himself for her. That consecration 
 was daily renewed and so was ever kept burning a living faith 
 antl an abiding love. .\ look into lu-r face was ever helpful 
 in times of sorrow, and one was assm-ed of her sympathy and 
 ])rayers. 
 
 For more than hfty years she tatight in the Sunday school. 
 \ arious classes passed under her teaching, receiving the 
 most prayerful, conscientious instruction, and for the per- 
 sonal salvation of each one she most earnestly laboured and 
 ])rayed daily. Long would ])e the roll of those wdio would 
 affirm that through her instructions and loving personal inter- 
 est ami influence, they were brought to acce])t Christ as their 
 Saviour. To a close, intimate friend, who knew her so well 
 in the lionn- for many long years, came like a flash the fol- 
 lowing words, when she first looked upon her face, after 
 being sunnnoned offer her decease : Thou hast loved right- 
 eousness and hated inicjuity, therefore God, even thy God, 
 hatli anointed thee with gladness above thy fellows. How 
 true of her! She hatli heard the "well done." slie has gone to 
 be "forever with the Lord," Could she speak to us from the 
 world above, we might bear w'ords like these: 
 
 "< ) frirnds of my mortal vears, 
 
 Tlu- tru^tt-d and tlu' true, 
 "^'ou're walking >iill the vale of tears. 
 
 Hut I wait to welcome vou. 
 
33 
 
 luuirtli (icncration. 
 
 Do I foro-et? ( )li. no. 
 
 For memory's golden cliain 
 
 Shall l)in<l my heart to the hearts Itelow, 
 Till th(.'\- meet and toncli again. 
 
 Each link is strong' and bright, 
 
 \\ hile love's eleetric llame 
 Flows freely down like a river of light. 
 
 To the world trom whence I came.'' 
 
 \\'ritten I\\- a very dear friend of Miss Tlelen M. .Merrick. 
 
 63. JULIA AXX OATMAX. b. llartland, 
 Conn., Dec. 20, 1810, d. Rochester. Pa., Aug. 13, 1896, m. 
 Aug. 20, 1835. Jemuel Woodruff, b. Colebrook, Conn., Aug. 
 2, 1804, d. Rochester, Pa., Jan. 1899. 
 
 Cousin Clarissa Statira says : "Cousin Julia was such a 
 bright pretty little woman. Among the pleasant recollections 
 of my girlhood was that of a visit at her prett}' house in Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 Children b. Rochester, Pa. : 
 
 -j- 222. Richard Alden (Woodruff), b. April 19, 1837, m. 
 
 Rebecca Jane Frye. 
 + 22T^. Harriet Ellen (\\'oo(lruff), b. June 26, 1831;, m. 
 
 Wheelan Dolbw 
 4- 224. George Elmer (Woodruff), b. Sept. 16, 1842, m. 
 
 Sarilla \\'olf. 
 
 65. ^lARIETTE OATMAX, b. Plartland, 
 Conn, Sept. 2^, 1815, d. Xorwalk, Conn., April 13, 1898, m. 
 Oct 23, 1839, \\'illiam Henry Parsons, b. Granville, Mass., 
 .Aug. 27, 1812, d. South Xorwalk, Conn., April 5, 1898. 
 
 We copy from one of the local ])apers of Xorwalk, Conn. : 
 
 "The death of William Henry Parsons at Brookside, the 
 
 residence of Alilo H. Parsons, his son, took place April 5, 
 
 1898. After a brief week of mourning, his aged wife. Marietta 
 
 Parsons, followed him to the silent land. Not often is so 
 
34 
 
 I-oiirtli Cicncration. 
 
 \c>\\i^ and liaiipy a uniuii broken to he m.) tiuiekly restored. 
 Tlirouiili the vicissitudes of iiearlv sixtv vears. thev trod the 
 path of \\\k.' lopi'Cther, rejoicini;' in the hri^htness. and conitort- 
 inj^ and sustaining" each otlier wlien trials and sorrows were 
 their lot. "Lovely and pleasant in ilieir li\es, in death lhe_\ 
 were not divided." 
 
 C'hildren : 
 
 -f- 225. .Milo llolconihe ( I 'arsons), b. West Granville. Mass., 
 
 ( )ci. 3, 1X40. ni. deorg'iana Mull, 
 -j- 22(1. Ihtward Luzerne (Larsons), b. v^andistield, Mass., 
 
 13ec. 26, 1844, ni. Lnnna h'arrar. 
 22J. Ellen (Larsons), b. Sandistield, Mass., July 2, 1847, 
 
 (1. .Ma\ k;, 1848. 
 22'S. William .Asluon (Larsons), b. Sandisfield. Mass., 
 Fel). 17, 1851. (1. Aug-. 22, 1856. 
 
 66. LOYAL OAT.MAX, b. Hartland, Conn., 
 July 13. 1818. d. W insted, Lonn., jtuie i, 1870, m. Oct. 21, 
 1844, Emily H. jolmson ot Larkhamsted, Conn, b. Feb. 24, 
 1822, d. Winsted, L'onn., Dec. 28, 1896. daughter of Elisha 
 and Hannah Johnson. 
 
 Children, b. Sandislielil, .Mass.: 
 
 22[). Harriet Justine I ( )atnian 1. b. May 15, 1851. 
 -\- 230. .\ellie Louise (( )ainian). 1). .March 25. 1855, m. 
 Charles Sunnier liurke. 
 
 68. AIA .\ ( tA'lAlAX, b. Hartland. Conn., 
 March 17, 1823, d. \'e\\ Wn'k City. Dec. (\ 1883, ni. Xov. 5, 
 1855, Sarah Isabel Ltase. of Suffield, Conn., b. April 12, 1830. 
 
 Children, b. I'rooklvn. X. \.: 
 
 231. Kichanl h'.dward (()atniani, b. .Xov. 15, 1856. 
 
 232. Marry Lease (()atman). b. March 31. 1858, d. Snf- 
 
 lield. Conn.. Si'])l. 21. 1858. 
 -f- 233. Laura lsal)el ((>atman). b. June 21 . i85(). m. Charles 
 
 Lubt'rl liaik'W 
 
J'oinili iiciwratioii. jj 
 
 -f 234. Clara Al)igail (()atnian), 1). Aug. 10, i(S6i, ni. Wil- 
 liam Lee Howard. 
 235. Alva (Oatman), b. Aug. 3, 1865, m. Sept. 24, 1873, 
 Helen Bacon. 
 
 ()9. IJ'.STI'.K ILWl'.S OAT-MAX. b. Hart- 
 land, Conn., Jul} K). i<S2f), 111. Sept. 15, 1848, Eva Eliza Noo- 
 iiaii. of Rochester, I 'a. 
 
 Cliildi'eu, 1). Kocliester, I'a.: 
 
 2T,(). Aha (Oalnian). b. March Jo. 1853, d. Apr. lo, i^()\. 
 2^^y. William Emerson (Oatman), b. Xov. 16, 1856, d. 
 \(.v. 6, 1885. 
 + 238. Adelle Marietle (()atnian). b. March 2, i860, m. 
 Willard 1. Cooke. 
 2T,(). ^ylorris Elmer (()atman), b. .\ov. 8, 186^, d. Feb. 6, 
 1886. 
 -)- 240. Minnie Estelle (( )atman), 1). July 27,1867, m. Jose])h 
 Connor. 
 241. Eewis Hayes (( hitman), b. May 14. 1870, d. Sept. 5, 
 1887. 
 -I- 242. .\rnold Leman (()atman), 1). July i, 1872, m. Cora 
 Appleton. 
 
 70. EEMAX OATM.VX. b. Hartland. Conn.. 
 Dec. 16. 1829. d. Hartford, Conn., March 2J, 1889, m. Feb. 5, 
 1857. Catharine Whitmore, of Xorwich. Conn., b. Hartford, 
 Conn.. Sept. 5, 1835. Xo children. 
 
 71. LAM XT A HAYES, b. Vernon, Ohio, Feb. 
 t6, 1815, d. Creene, ( )hio. May 11. 1855, m. Williamsficld, 
 Ohio, March 2/, 1839, Lucien Rice, m. by Rev. X\ Latham. 
 
 Mr. Rice was a successful farmer and an earnest Christian 
 worker. The family altar was erected and was not neglected, 
 although the many cares of every day life crowded thick and 
 fast. The Lord was his stronghold at all times. 
 
 Children, b. C.reene. < )hio : 
 -|- 243. Melissa Hayes (Rice), b. 'Sla.y 6, 1841, m. Theron 
 W. Adams. 
 
6 I ■our til Ci'iicration. 
 
 -4- 244. llarrici Matilda (Kicc), 1'. July 24, 1843, '"• TOwii^ht 
 
 1 Iciiry Cory. 
 J45. Amelia Maria (KiccK h. Xov. 22, i(S4r), d. June 22. 
 
 1850. 
 --L 240. Lcslcr ^'alc (Rice), b. Dec. 8, 1852, in. Josephine 
 
 L. Fife. 
 -p 247. Arnicnta Lavinia (Rice), h. Jan. 30. 1855. ni. Henry 
 
 I )avi(l Smith. 
 
 73. LINUS HAYES, b. Vernon, Ohio. A])ril 3. 
 i8i(j. (1. r.in->;' Ilill, < 'hio, l"eb. 23, 1851, m. Francenia Gould. 
 lie is buried in the center cemetery at Hartford, ( )hi(). 
 
 Child: 
 
 -f 248. J"'rances Linus, b. Oct. 11, 1850, m. Charles H. 
 iiliss. 
 
 74. ALlll-:k'l' HAYES, b. \'ernon, Ohio, June 
 10, 1822. (1. Wayne, Ohio, Dec. 2^, 1871, m. Philothey Gid- 
 dings. b. 1824, (1. Wayne. Ohio, Oct. 2, 1851, daughter of 
 Elisha and Pliilothca (Fish) Giddings. He m, 2nd, Armenta 
 (Gillett) Giddings, widow of Seth Giddings. He is buried in 
 the cemetery on the Hayes Road. An adopted daughter, 
 Lizzie, m. Deloss ( >rr, and died, leaving a son, who resides in 
 Cleveland, ( )hi(). 
 
 7."). LESTER HAYES, b. X'ernon, Ohio, Sept. 
 26, 182S. d. Cleveland, (^hio, Sejit. 13, 1871, m. Sabra Celinda 
 ("biddings, granddaughter of bUisha C.iddiugs. His"\vi(Uuv m. 
 2n(l. W". C. Craven. .\1. D. 
 
 Children, b". Clevi'land, ( )hii): 
 
 -j- 24<;. Stella .Matilda, b. ( )ct. 21,, 1857, m. John Gillor 
 Jacobi. 
 
 250. Cora Ainienta, b Oct 5, 1862, d. Jacksonville, 
 
 Florida, Jan . 10, 1904. 
 
 251. Arthur Lester, b. April 30, 1864. 
 
/■'////; (feneration. jy 
 
 FIFTH (^KXKRATIOX; 
 
 81. RICHARD ALDHX HAYES, b. Hart- 
 ford, Ohio. Dec. 26, 1837, d. Fremont, Ohio, Oct. I, 1899, m. 
 Jan. 6, i860, Julia Reeves Devendorf, b. Warren, Ohio. March 
 11, 1842, g-randdaughter of David and Nancy (Lester) Lane. 
 He is ])iiried at Painesville, Ohio. 
 
 Cliildren : 
 
 -\- 2^2. Carrie Leicester. 1). N'alley Falls, Kansas, Oct. 16, 
 
 i860, m. \ ernon judson lunery. 
 
 -f 253. Seth. 1). v^outh Sliaflsbury.X't., Jan. 4, 1867, ni. Ruth 
 
 Drake. 
 
 82. FBEXEZER T.ARTLETT HAVES, b. 
 Hartford, Ohio, July 7. 1840, d. Brooklyn, X. Y., July 30. 
 1903, m. Nellie Spencer, b. South Shaftsbury, Vt., Jan. 13, 
 1852. He is buried in Greenwood cemetery. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -f 254. \crtner, b. Jan. 7, 1870. m. Ada May Rintleman. 
 255. Clara, b. March 26. 1872. d. Aug. 2, 1872, 
 
 • 83. EPHRAIM TREADWELL HAYES, b. 
 Hartford. ()h\(\ April 30. 1842. d. Walnut. Texas. Jan. 15., 
 1890. m. Feb. 1861. Julia A. Gazer, of Hartford, Ohio. He 
 m. 2nd, Dec. 6, 1869, Adid Spangler. He was a soldier in the 
 6th Ohio Cavalry from the beginning to the end of the civil 
 war. jiarticipating m over forty difTerent battles, doing his 
 duty faithfully, as witnessed l)y his honorable discharge. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -|- 256. Elizabeth Florence, b. Salem, Ohio, April 25, 1862, 
 
 m. Seymour R. Dewey. 
 + 257. Cora Adelle. b. Seguin, Texas, Dec. 18, 1873, m. 
 
 Fred Eugene Forrest. 
 -\- 258. Thomas Payne, b. Dallas. Texas, Dec. 13. 1876. m. 
 
 Ola Crank. 
 
J> 
 
 j<s' Fifth Generation 
 
 25<;. ("lotn-o^e Woodruff, li. Dallas, Texas, Feb. to. 1884. 
 2(>o. Cliarlos. h. Dallas. 'IVxas. May 7. 1886. 
 
 S7. .UI.I A ll.\^■^:S, ]>. Ilarttord, Ohio, May 
 J^. 1827. (1. Rock Islau'l. 111.. ( )ct. (>. 1S72, m. Oct. 17, 1844, 
 Samuel Ciaiq" IMumuier, M. I)., b. A])r. 10, 1820, d. Rock 
 lUland. III.. .\])ril, 1900. 
 
 Dr. liunmier graduated in ICS54 at medical collci^'e, after- 
 wards called Western Reserve L'nivcrsity, and received Ad 
 lumdem degree after the name was changed. 
 
 Children : • 
 
 -)- 261. Emma .Maria (I'lunnneri. b. (ireenville. Pa.. June 
 I I. 184^. m. Ocoi^ge William Darrow. 
 262. Clara Eliza ( 1 'InniiiKTi. b. ( ireen\'ille, I'a., June 26, 
 1848. 
 
 4- 263. Elizabeth. ( rimnmerj. b. Rock Island, 111.. Jan. 8, 
 1853. m. George Alarvin Loosley. 
 
 264. h'rederick Hayes (Rlummer), b. Rock Island, 111., 
 
 June 14, 1856. 
 
 265. Estella (I'lunmier). b. Rock Island, 111., Feb. 24, 
 
 1859, d. Nov. 29. 1862. 
 -f 266. Sanniel Craig (Phmimer), b. Rock Island, 111., April 
 -7. 1865, m. .Mary l.ouise Middleton. 
 267. Alvin Hayes (Plummer), b. i>iock Island, 111. Dec. 
 24. ]8r)(;, (1. June 5, 18 — . 
 
 HH. I'DWARD 11 AN'KS. b. Hartford, Ohio. 
 ."^ept. 30. 1829. (1. Warrrn, ( Miio, Aug. 18, 1899. m. Oct. 22, 
 185C). I'jnma Carjienler. b. Ithaca. X. V.. Ai)ril 9, 1833. Mrs. 
 J laves was a teacher. 
 
 "'I'ilus lla_\e>, the father oi Col. Richard lla\es, wintered 
 with Washington .it \ alley h'orge and at least three of his 
 sons were in tlu- \\;ir ni iSu, and when the war of 1861 came 
 on. the military s])irit "cropped out" in tlu' fourth generation. 
 .\mong the mimber was lulward. grandson of Ritdiard and 
 Son of \l\in Haves. After the nr^t b.attle of I'.ull \\\]]) he en- 
 
listed ami i"aisii),i;- pari dl a CDiiipany, lie went into the J(;lli 
 ( )lii(i ln:'aiUr\ uikUt Cn\. JA'wis Hucklry, thru at C\anii) (lid- 
 (liiiiTS, Jefferson, ( )hin. I U- was actinii" Major at Cliancellors- 
 \ilk'. \ a., was in-oniotcd to Major. Ma\-. iH/)^. He command- 
 ed tlu' rc^inu'ut at ( '.etl w-hni-i^-, \'a.. and was commissioned 
 T.ieut. Col. in * )ct. ol the same year. At lM)rt Kepnhlic he 
 was taken prisoner with jiari of hi> coni])any. The} had i^one 
 for a stand of rebel c<ilors, Iml had ^one in too (KTpl\- and 
 coidd not ^et ont. The\- were tirst taken to Lihhx' ))rison, 
 !\ichniond. \"a.. from thert' to Salishnrw .X. C, where they 
 si)ent the snminer. Tlu'\ were exchanLi'cd in Sejjt. ot that 
 vear. lie rejoined his rei^iment at h'rederick City. Md. The 
 eom])an\' re-enlisted in iSf)4, returned to the field and winter- 
 ed at 1 Bridgeport, Ala., and in the spring" started with the 
 army on the .\tlantic cam])aign. On the 8th of ^lay, 1864, at 
 the battle of Mill Si)rino-s, (Dug Cap) he received a very 
 severe wound through the right shotilder. To the stirprise of 
 the surgeon and all others, he recovered his health, but was 
 tmht for duty, so was discharged Xovember, 18O4." Con- 
 tributed by Mrs. Edward Hayes. 
 
 ■"The 3-'ud annual reunion of the ( ). \. \. 1. was held at 
 Warren, ( )hio, Aug. 17, i8(;(;. In some respects it was the 
 most remarkable gathering of the regiment since the war 
 l.ieut. Col. Edward Hayes was one of the principal speakers 
 at the cam]) fire on Thu.rsdax' evening and was particularly 
 happ}- in his remarks. In his cam]) fire talk he expressed the 
 wish that the reunions would be kei)t up until there were but 
 two of the old regiment left, and as he ex])ected to be one or 
 the two, he would see that the other fell(3W would be well led. 
 
 He was one of the conunittee on rest)lutions, and wrote the 
 resolutions which named the eighteen comrades who had 
 been mustered out during the ])ast year, and which read as 
 follows; We realize that we are face to face with the inevit- 
 able, but we rejoice that in all these cases, death has been met 
 with the same reads' s])irit which these men faced a less dan- 
 gerous foe in bvgone vears. liowing to Divine Providence. 
 we venture to express the hojie that when our hotn- shall 
 'come, we ma^■ face it with the same manl\- dignitv. 
 
^o Fifth C cue rat ion. 
 
 It was proplietic in the wish expressed for he met his death 
 which came only a lew hours after tlic rcsohitions were read, 
 wilii "manly dignity. '" He died suddenly at Warren, Ohio, the 
 next morninfij" Aug-. 18. 1899. 
 
 lie was a memher of the G. A. R. and Loyal Legion In 
 hovhood he attended school at Hartford, ()hio, and worked 
 on the farm until the war hroke oiU. ( )u the 26th of Aug., 
 i8f)i. he was elected captain of his com])any at West And • 
 over, and the next day went into camp Giddings at Jcfiferson, 
 Ohio. .\t Rocky Face Ridge, in the battle of Dug Gap, Col. 
 lla\es was severely wounded in his right arm, and about four 
 'inches of bone had to be removed. After the war he was elect- 
 ed treasurer of Trumbull Count \-, ( )hio, which of^ce he held 
 from 1866 to 1870. lie was later offered a position in the 
 inspection and contract line in the Post ( )iTfice Department, 
 with headcpiarters at Washington, \). C, which position he 
 filled for twenty years." From Ashtabula Sentinel. 
 
 Children, b. Hartford, Ohio: 
 
 268. Alvin Car])enter. b. .\ug. 28, 1858. 
 + 260. Helen Mary. b. .March 28, 1861. 
 
 270. Clara, b. b'eb. 27. 1868, d. Sept. 25, 1884. 
 
 *M). M.\R\ 1; RACK IX. b. Kinsman, Ohio, 
 I )'c. 7, 1S18. <1. .Minnea])olis, Minn., .\o\-. 2, 1888, m. Jan. 13, 
 1840, Thomas Frame, of Poland, Ohio. 
 
 Children, b. Poland, Ohio: 
 
 + 271. James i'rackin (Frame). 1). Apr. 21, 1841, m. Fliza 
 
 Ogle, 
 t JJJ. Rebecca (hVame). b. March 18, 1843. m. Frcdericic 
 S. Swisher. 
 
 + -^7.V Clara (h'ramei. b. .March i^, 1846, m. Joseph Wil- 
 son. 
 
 IM. I'.Ll/ A PRACKIX, b. Kinsman. Ohio, 
 Dec. 13, 1820, d. Detroit. Mich., .March 24, itjoi. m. .Ma\- 22, 
 l84cy. Rev. Robi-rt P.urgess. who d. Detroit. .Mich, i8()3. 
 
Fifth Cicucratiou. ^/ 
 
 L'liild. 1). Kinsman, Ohio: 
 
 -|- 274. Ahh'w (Ilurg-ess), h. Jan. u. 1850, ni. C'liarlcs Skin- 
 ner. 
 
 Sy.\. i^ICIIARD Il.WKS P,RACKIX. h. Kins- 
 man, Ohio, Nov. 11, 1824, (1. Smyrna, Tcnn.. Jan.. x'^U), m. 
 Dec. 14. 1852. Carrie Tucker, of Smyrna. Tenn. 
 
 Children. 1). v^nnrna, Tenn.: 
 
 -\- 2y^. Silas Tucker (Urackin). b. July 14, 1856, m. Mary 
 Belle Gregory. 
 276. Clara Melissa (P)rackin), h. Xov. 14. 1857. 
 2yj. Margaret Susan (I'rackin), b. August 12, 1859. 
 
 278. David (T.rackin). b. April 10, 1861, d. Oct. 16, 1864. 
 
 279. Richard Hayes (Brackin), b. Feb. 20, 1863, d. Se])t. 
 
 9. 1881 . 
 
 280. Carrie ^^Ivra (Brackin). 1). Xov. i, 1864. d. ( )ct. 26, 
 
 1885. 
 + 281. Hattie Jennie (Brackin). 1). ( )ct. 11, 1866, m. Josepli 
 
 X. Davis. 
 -|- 282. Thomas Tucker (Brackin). b. March 26, 1868, m. 
 
 Ella Patterson. 
 
 ll-t. jAXK KXOX P.RACKIX, b. Kinsman. 
 Ohio, Aug. 21, 1826, m. Aug. 17, 1848. Judge Samuel X. El- 
 liott of Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
 
 Children. 1). Seguin. Texas, except the last: 
 
 283. Charles D. (Elliott), b. Aug. 16. 1849. 
 
 284. Henry W. (Elliott), b. April 12. 185 1. 
 
 -j- 285. David J. (Elliott), b. Dec. 10. 1853, m. Lizzie Stone. 
 286. Clarissa PL (Elliott), b. Feb. 8. 1856. d. June. 1866. 
 
 -|- 287. Addie B. (Elliott). 1). Aug. 3. 1859, m. James Bed- 
 ford Woods. 
 
 + 288. Pearl E. (Elliott), b. Bentonville . Ark., Sei)t. 5, 
 1869, m. J. Cyril France. 
 
^2 Fifth Generation. 
 
 95. Ar.l(;.\IL HAVES BRACK IX. 1). Kins- 
 man, Ohio. ]\l?.rch 2(), 1828, d. Slaunlon, \'a.. May 19, 1849, 
 ni. Au<2". 1. iS.|8, \\'illiani I'ailew Xo children. 
 
 97. CHARLOTTE MARIA BRACKHX, h. 
 Kinsman, Ohio, Aug-. 20, 1832. 111. May 27,, 1856, George I'os- 
 worth, of Kinsman. ( )hio. who d. July (;. 1888. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -f- 289. Ceorge (Bosworth), 1). Creenville. Pa., IMarch 18, 
 1863, m. .\nnit' Marshall. 
 
 290. Clara (jjosworth), h. Lawrence, Kansas. March 28, 
 
 1872, d. Oct. 28, 1893. 
 
 lO'J. MARY LOUISA l'.RALXARD. b. June 
 u, 1826, (1. Jan. 2. 1872, ni. 1848, Julia Avers Grosvenor. 
 
 Children : 
 
 291. Ella M. (Grosvenor). b. Sept. 1850, d. 1856. 
 
 292. Florence M. (Grosvenor), b. April 17, 1852. d. Xov. 
 
 17. 1865. 
 + 293. Charlotte M. (Grosvenor). b. June 17, 1854, m. 
 Henry T. r)rush, ni. 2nd. John M. Donald- 
 son. 
 
 294. Daughter (Grosvenor), b. 1857, d. 1858. 
 
 295. Laura Alay (Grosvenor), b. Dec. 1864, d. July, 186::;. 
 
 103. 11I".XR\' 1I.\M<:S COI-:. 1). June r,, 1830, 
 ni. Dec. 23. 1S32, Eli/.a L. Whiting, who d. .\!ay 13, 1857. 
 
 He m. 2nd, Aug. 24, 185S. Luc\ .\. I'ro.-tor. He is one of 
 the Coe Manufacturing Co., the largest nianufacluring com- 
 ])any of veneer cutting machiner_\ in the world. 
 
 Child. 1)\ nr>t wife : 
 
 296. Ivlixa Whiting ((."oe). b. .May O. 1S57, d. May 16, 
 
 18^.3. 
 
/•'//"//' ('ri!cnili(>n. /,-> 
 
 Children, 1)_\ second wife: 
 
 2(j/. Harriet I'roclor (Coe). 1). Deo. 19, 1859, d. May 15, 
 
 18O3. 
 + 298. Harry Proctor (Coc), 1). Felx 18, 1865, m. Leila 
 
 Dag,^"ett Tabor. 
 + 299. Charlotte Florence (Coe), b. Feb. i, 1867, ni. Ilenry 
 
 Barnard Kiinnnel. 
 
 105. ALP.KRT L^MAX COEJ). Talniaoe. 
 Ohio, April 9, 1834, d. Denver, -Col., July 24. 190T, in. .March 
 14, 1864, Charlotte Elizabeth Woodard. No children. 
 
 He spent his boyhood day.s in Ashtabula Co., Ohio. In 
 Jul}-, 1853, he came to Chicago, 111., and engaged in the coal 
 •business, in which he was remarkably successful, until the 
 breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted with the 51st 
 111. \'ol. Infantry, and served from Sept., 1861, to the close 
 of the war in 1865. L^pon his return to Chicago at the close 
 of the war, he formed the partnership with ^Ir. R. B. Mead 
 in 1868, which was eminently successful in every way and 
 continued to the close of hi> life. 
 
 He was an organizer of the L^nion League Club, a director 
 of the Auditorium Association, an incorporator of the Royal 
 Trust Company and for years a trustee of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association. He died in Denver, Colorado, where' 
 he had gone for his healtli. 
 
 106. RICHARD ^IcCLLRO, b. Poland, ( )hio, 
 Tune 22. 1840, d. Poland, ' )hio, Oct. 2, 1896, m. Oct. 21,. 1866, 
 Kezia McCulIr^ugh. 
 
 Children, b. Poland, Ohio: 
 
 300. George (]\lcClurg), b. Jul_\- 25, 1871. 
 
 301. Samuel Hayes (McClurg), 1). Xov. 16, 1878. 
 
 302. Anna ^Martha (AlcClurg), b. April 23, 1885. 
 
 108. GEORCl', r.EXJAMIX C.\RI'EXTFR, 
 b. March 13, 1834. m. ?\larch 12, 1861, E!izal)eth C. Greene, of 
 Pittsficld, X. H. 
 
-// 7^//^// Generation. 
 
 He is senior menil)cr of the firm of George B. Carpenter & 
 Co., shi]) chandlers, and manufacturers of tents and awnings 
 at Chicago. Ih. 
 
 Children : 
 
 + 303. ILMijamin (Carpenter), b. Sept. 16, 1865, m. Helen 
 
 (jraham Fairliank. 
 -|- 3cf}.. George Albert (Carpenter), b. Oct. 20, 1867, m. 
 
 Harriet Isham. 
 4- 305. Hubbard Foster (Cari)enter), h. Park Ridge, 111., 
 
 Sept. 2(). 1874, m. Rosalie Sturges. 
 -f- 306. John Alden (Carpenter), b. Feb. 28, 1876, m. Rue 
 
 Winterbotham. 
 
 no. CLIXTOX 11. CARPENTER, b. March 
 2, 1840, m. Xcwark, X. J.. Sept. 16, 1874, Elena C. Woolson. 
 
 Child : 
 
 307. Clinton Arthur (Carpenter), b. March 23, 1883. 
 Graduated from Chicago Manual Training 
 School with honors. Is a student at Cor- 
 nell I'niversitw 
 
 HI. M.\m' I<:ELEX carpenter, l). June 
 15, 1843, ni. j;ine 15, 18^)5, Richard Field. 
 
 Children : 
 
 308. George W. (Field), b. Oct. 9, 1866. Is with George 
 
 !'). Carpenter iV Co. 
 
 309. Anliur L'ar])enter (Field), b. June 24, 1870. Is 
 
 agent for woolen manufacturer. 
 
 310. Mary Telfair (Field), b. May 19, 1877. d. Sept. 5, 
 
 1887. 
 
 li:{. C()KXI':iJ.\ LonS.X C.\K1'EXTER, 
 1>. .March 23, 1848. m. Se])t. 2^. 1872. I'hilii) I'.radley. 
 
I'Iftli (icncration. yj 
 
 Child : 
 
 31 T. riiilip Heni-v ( Uradlcy). b. Sept. 18, 1876. Is with 
 Murphy X'arnish Co. 
 
 114. SARAH W. TRUKSDALE. b. Jan. 3, 
 1835, m. 1862, Dr. Channcey K. Riley, wlio d. Dec. 14, 1900. 
 
 Cliil(h-en : 
 
 -f 312. Charles F. (Riley), b. July 11, 1864, ni. Jennie Hull. 
 
 313. Cornelia F. (Riley), b. Feb. 3, 1868, m. Mr. White. 
 
 115. ELLA E. TRUESDALE, b. Sept. 24, 
 1837, "">• -Starch 18. 1857, Dr. George Hand Smith, who d. 
 London, Eng., Jan. 18, 1892. 
 
 Child: 
 
 314. Dudley Ward (Smith), b. 1866. d. 1867. 
 
 lir>. LUCY C. TRUESDALE, b. April 25. 
 1840, m. Nov. 26, 1867, Frank B. Rockwood. She was a 
 teacher. He is extensively engaged in the grocery business, 
 in Chicago, 111. 
 
 Children : 
 
 315. Florence M. (Rockwood), b. Oct. 14. 1869. She 
 
 graduated from Miss Grant's seminary in 
 Chicago, and took a special course at Wcl- 
 lesley college, Mass. 
 -f- 316. Harry T. (Rockwood), b. ^lay 4, 1873, m. Marion 
 Belle Philo. 
 
 317. Frederick T. (Rockwood). b. Apr. 17, 1877. Grad- 
 
 uated from Cornell University, 1900. 
 
 318. Helen M. (Rockwood), b. July 14, 1883. Graduated 
 
 frQm Oak i'ark. 111. hioh school, 1902. 
 
 117. SETH H. TRLTESDALE, b. June 20, 
 1843, ''•''• ^865, Amelia McCreary. 
 
^6 Fiftl: Cciwratioii. 
 
 Child: 
 
 3i«j. William J. (Truesdale). b. Oct. 3, 1870, d. ^Nlay 25, 
 1895. 
 
 118. CHARLOTTE E. TRUESDALE. b. 
 Sept. 7. 1846, (1. Oct. 24, 1898, m. Jan. 29, 1873, George C. 
 King, who d. Dec, 1879. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -f- 320. Grace T. (King), b. Dec. 15, 1873, m. Roswell R. 
 Fralich. 
 321. Ella G. (King), b. Aug. 14. 1875. 
 2,22. Joseph H. (King), b. Sept. 11, 1877. 
 
 119. FREDERICK HAYES TRUESDALE, 
 b. March 16, 1852, m. 1883, Annie IJowen. 
 
 Child : 
 
 323. Giles Gurlev (Truesdalej, b. Jan. 19, 1884. 
 
 121. LTXL^ ESTELLA WHITAIORE, b. 
 West Andover, ( )hi(\ Jnly 24, 1839, d. Painesville, Ohio, Feb. 
 15, 1882, m. Dec. 24. 1876, George B. Stone. 
 
 Cliild: 
 
 324. Infant son, d. in infancy. 
 
 Vr.i. MARY JOSEPH I XE WHITMORE, b. 
 West Andover, Ohio, Dec. 24. 1848, m. Dec. 18, 1867, Os- 
 man Snn'th King, b. ^hautauqua Co. X. Y., Sept. 19, 1844, d. 
 Jnly 5. 1903. 
 
 Children, b. Painesville, Ohio: 
 
 -f 325. Hayes Giddings W hitniore (King), b. Dec. 24, 1868, 
 m. /Mice Frederick. 
 
 326. Ellen Louisa (King), b. Oct. 25, 1874. 
 
 327. Laura Josephine (King), b. Oct. 24, 1876. 
 
I- i fill (iciwratioii. 
 
 328 
 
 329 
 330 
 
 331 
 332 
 333 
 
 James Osman (King), 1). Apr. 2, 1878. 
 Edwin Parker (King), h. Sept. 17, 1879. 
 Lucia ]\Iaria (King), b. Feb. 4, 1882. 
 Albert Alexander (King), b. May 21, 1883. 
 Arthur Porter (King), b. May 27, 1885. 
 Richard Francisco ( King), ]>. Jul_\- 14, 1887. 
 
 V26. CHARLOTTE LAVIXLA HAYES, b. 
 Wayne, Ohio, July 31. 1830, m. Wayne, Ohio, April 14, 1853, 
 Julius E. Chapman. 
 
 Child, b. Ashtabula, Ohio: 
 
 -|- 334. Ella E. (Chapman), b. Xov. 27, 1855, m. Orange J. 
 Lonev. 
 
 126. HARRIET ERMINA HAYES, b. at 
 AW'iyne, Ohio, Sept. i, 1837, m. Wa\ne, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1859, 
 John W^ Butters, b. 1828, d. April 12, 1885. 
 
 Children : 
 
 + 335. Frank (Butters), b. \\'a\ne, Ohio, Sept. 10, i86r, m. 
 
 Cora Moore. 
 + 336. Charles H. (Butters), b. Cory, Pa., March 5, 1867, 
 
 m. Maud Louise Cady. 
 
 127. FLAMUS HAYES, b. Wayne, Ohio. 
 July 15, 1842, m. Oct. 29, 1863, ALiry A. Gillis. 
 
 Child, b. Waxne, Ohio: 
 H~ 337- Addie E.. b. Aug. 24, 1867, m. Frederick ^McXeiley. 
 
 128. HELEN MARL\ MORSE, b. Williams- 
 field, Ohio, March 8, 1831, d. Cortland, Ohio, Sept. 24, 1873, 
 m. 1856, Edward Oatley, b. Bazetta, Ohio, May 15, 1830, son 
 of William and Sophia (Rhodes) Oatley. 
 
^tV Piftit Cciicraticii. 
 
 Cliildrcn : 
 
 ^^^V^- Dau.qhler. 1). aiul d. AJinncsota, 1857. 
 -|- ^T,\). Hdwartl 1'. (Oatlev), b. Minnesota, Jan. 24, 1859, m. 
 Carrie Williams, ni. 2nd. Belle Bundy. 
 340. Charlotte E. (Oatlev). b. Cortland, Ohio, Jan. 8, 
 1862. Is a teacher. 
 4- 341. Lota (()alley). b. Cortland. Ohio, Jan. 25, 1864, n^. 
 I'Mi^ar J. Regal, m. 2nd, Charles S. Osmer. 
 
 342. h'raneis j'.li (Oatlev), b. Cortland, Ohio, Sept. I, 
 
 1865, d. April ly. 1866. 
 
 343. Frances Lenie (Oatlev). b. Cortland, Ohio, Oct. 22. 
 
 1868. (1. .April 5, 1869. 
 
 344. .\biah L. (Oatlev), b. Cortland, Ohio. Oct. 26, 1871, 
 
 d. .\ov. 3, 1882. 
 
 r,M>. ]J.\kRJET ZE\IAH MORSE, b. Wil- 
 lianisfield. Ohio, Jan. 2j, 1834, ni. Chicago. 111.. Oct. 22, 1859, 
 IVMijamin i'ranklin Weeks, b. Danville. \ t.. June 11, 1832, 
 d. Kvanston, 111., June 2-^, 1898, son of Jeremiah and .\bigail 
 (C.ilson) Weeks. .Mrs. Weeks was a teacher. 
 
 Child, h. St. Charles, Minn.: 
 
 -\- 345. Helen b" ranees (Weeks), b. b'el). 6, 1869, m. Carroll 
 1 ienry I ones. 
 
 i:U). I'U.X.XCI'.S .\i:i.\II .MORSE, b. \\d- 
 liamsfield. ( )hi(), Jan. 22, 1838. m. C.ranville. Pa., Oct. 28, 1857, 
 h"li S. \'oke, b. .\ug. 1835. .Mr>. N'oke was a teacher. 
 
 Children, b. State Line, i'a.: 
 
 -f- 34^1. (.'harles (>'i)ke), b. Feb. 2^^, 1859. m. Eliza Parks, 
 m. 2nd, .\nnie i*'itzgerald. 
 347. k'l<»riiKH- (N'oke), b. v^ept. 14. 1861, d. Xov. 6, 1862. 
 
 Mi-:. (.•|l.\KLh:S 1:. II \^ KS, 1). Wayne, Ohio, 
 Feb. 15. 1833, m. June 13. i860, I'tlizabeth Fobes, b. Wayne, 
 Oliin. .\ng. II. 1842. .Mr. ilaycs serv«'d iu the ci\il war in 
 
Fifth Licncratioit. ^p 
 
 the 103111 reo-. 0. W ]., Co. I, Jiid Ijri^adc. ^rd division, 14th 
 army corps, and went from Cliatlanoooa to Atlanta, and to 
 Sa\-annah. Xo children. 
 
 133. DILLON PROSSER HAYES, b. at 
 A\'ayne, Ohio. Aus.;-. 25. 1840, m. Dec. 30. 1863, Emily Parker, 
 b. Wayne, Ohio. .May 15. 1844, danghter of David and Abi- 
 gail j\L (Perkins) I'arker. 
 
 Child, b. ^\'ayne, Ohio: 
 
 + 348. Abigail Elizabeth, b. Aug. 28, 1878, m. Pearl 
 Schuyler S]xdman. 
 
 135. TITUS A. HAYES, b. Wayne, Ohio, 
 April 10. 1844. m. Dec. 23, 1868. Leula Bentley, b. Monroe, 
 Ohio, Oct. 19. 1847. ^o children. 
 
 130. LIXl^S JOXES HAYES, b. Wayne, 
 Ohio, May 30, 1850, m. Dec. 2t„ 1875. Mary R. Miles. 1). Kel- 
 loggsville, Ohio. Aug. 25, 1852. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -\- 349. Richard IMiles, b. Wayne, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1876, m. 
 Mary Thomas. 
 
 350. Maud nianche. 1). \\'ayne. Ohio, Sept. 26, 1880. 
 
 351. Clifford Uri. I). Pcnn Line. Pa., Dec. 3, 1885. 
 
 137. FLORENCE LOUISA LEACH, b. 
 
 Wayne. Oliio, May 13. 1843. 'i""- I^ec. 25, 1861, George Cole, 
 b. Jan. 15, 1836. Mrs. Cole was a teacher. 
 
 Childr 
 
 en : 
 
 352. Alice E.,(Cole), b. State Line. Pa., Nov. ly, 1862. 
 
 353. Andrew E. (Cole), b. State Line, Pa., Sept. 18, 1864. 
 
 354. Giles G. (Cole), b. Jan. 4. 1867. 
 
 -{- 355. Cassius (Cole), b. Jan. 15,1869, m. Maud JNIcBroom. 
 
 356. David :M. (Cole), b. Dec. 29, 1873. 
 
5() I'iftJi Cciicraticii. 
 
 -\- ^^^j. LiK'lla 1**. (Culc), b. Feb. 7, 1877, 111. Alexander AIc- 
 Crum. 
 
 358. I'.ertha M. (Cole), b. .\i)ril 9. 1879. 
 
 359. Mary Harriet (Cole), I). Jan. 8, 1881. 
 
 360. Agnes 0. (Cole), b. April 30, 1883. 
 
 13S. jAMi-:S IIAVl-.S I'.CKLKV, b. Olney, 
 111.. Jnly 13, 183.,, (1. Feb. 8, 1863, m. Aug. 28, 1860, Phebe 
 Xotestine. 
 
 He serve<l in civil war in company H., 63rd Illinois Infan- 
 try. He (lied in liospital at Mcm])his, Tenn., from injuries 
 received in a rail road accident. 
 
 Child: 
 
 361. Edith (Eckley), d. at age of 9 years. 
 
 139. AIAIX 1-:CK1J<:\', 1). Olney, 111.. Jan. 2^, 
 'I841, m. May, 1874. Mr.s. Hannah Morrison. He enlisted July 
 '20, 1861, in Co. IC. I lib Mo. \'ol. Inf., was in engagement at 
 New Madrid, Mo., at siege of Island, Tenn., siege of Corinth, 
 Miss., and was discharged on account of wound. Jan. i, 1863. 
 
 Children : 
 
 362. ilelen Lillian ( l{ckle_\ ), d. in childhood. 
 
 363. Edna (Eckley), d. in childho();l. 
 
 364. Daniel (Eckley), b. April i, 1879. 
 
 140. XATllAX ST.VFFORl) ll.\Vl-:S, b. 
 Ashland County, ( )hio, vSept. 24, 1841, d. Cooper County, Mo. 
 March 5, 1884. m. .\pril 8, 1874, Margaret Wainwright. He 
 served in Co. .\., 8()lh reg. ( )hio \'ol. Inf., enlisting Feb. 8, 
 1862, under I^ieut. L'hnau. He was discharged July 8, 1864, 
 on surgeon's certificate of disability. 
 
 Children : 
 
 + 365. Mary J., b. I\b. 24, 1876, m. Charles E. Bolls. 
 366. Florence J., b. April 9, 1877, d. 
 
/■'///// iiciicraliuii. 5/ 
 
 + 367. George, b. Dec. 15, i8S(>. m. Laura Rierbaum. 
 + 368. Josie, b. Doc. 3, 1882, in. James E. Shelby. 
 },C>^). Stafford, 1). Srpt. iC, iS,S4. 
 
 US. \\IIJJ.\.\| C. II.WKS, b. .Xshland Co. 
 Ohio, May 12, 1840, d. Allen Co., Ind., March y, 1888, m. 
 Feb. 14, 1872, Maria Feitner, b. April 1, 1844. 
 
 Children ; 
 
 370. Helen, b. Nov. 28, 1872, d. 
 
 371. Nancy, b. May 22, 1874. 
 
 + ^■/2. Sadie, b. June 21, 1876, m. II. Weirick. 
 
 Z7Z- Hettie, b. May 26, 1880. 
 
 374. Charles L., b. June 22, 1882. 
 
 375. William G., b. Sept. 17, 1884, d. 
 
 149. HETTIE A. HAYES, b. Nov. 14, 1849, 
 m. Ashland, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1879, John Geiger, b. Noble Co., 
 Tnd., Feb. 4, 1846. Res. Chnrubusco, Ind., in Jmie, 1903. 
 
 Child, b. Allen Co., Ind. : 
 
 + 376. Anna Melissa (Geiger), b. Jan. 6, 1881, m. Arno 
 Leona Gaff. 
 
 152. JOHN HORACE SCOTT, b. Hayesville, 
 Ohio, .\pril 26, 1844, m. April 26, 1866, Celestia J. Harper, b. 
 Feb. 14, 1847, d. Aug. i, 1897. 
 
 He enlisted in the Federal Army, Feb. 9, 1862, for three 
 years, or during the war, in Co. A., 80th O. V. I., was trans- 
 ferred to the I \ S. Signal Service after serving about one 
 year in the above regiment, was mustered out Feb. 11, 1865. 
 He was in Sherman's army an'd on the march to the sea. He 
 says : "The next day after the Chami)ion Hill fight, eleven of 
 us signal corps men captured 191 prisoners, marched them 
 two and a half miles and turned them over to our army. Gen, 
 Grant comijlimented us the next day, by saying it was the 
 best day's work he had ever done by a like nuni])er of men. 
 
 John Horace Scott and sons are architects and builders. 
 
Fifth Generation. 
 
 + 
 
 Children : 
 
 jijj. Ilia (Scott), b. Jan. 17, 1867, d. Sept. 8, 1889. 
 
 T,~S. Howard R. (Scott), b.June 8, 1869. m. Callie Lonon. 
 
 379. William W. (Scott), b. Aug. 28, 1870. 
 
 380. Chauncy Edgar (Scott), b. May 28, 1872, d. Sept. 5, 
 
 ' 1873. 
 
 381. Bennie Pedan (Scott), b. March 12, 1874, ni. Cora 
 
 Friend. 
 
 155. LAURA M. SCOTT, b. Hayesville, Ohio. 
 Sept. I, 1849, "I- S^pt 30, 1875, J'inies Boyd, b. Sept. 9, 1843. 
 
 382 
 
 383 
 
 384 
 
 385 
 386 
 
 Children : 
 
 Willard H. (Boydj, b. Aug. 30, 1876. 
 Frank Scott (Boyd), b. May 22, 1878. 
 Ralph E. (Boyd), b. Oct. 8, 1879. 
 :\Iarcus A. (Boyd), b. Jan. 5. 1882. 
 Edith S. (Boyd), b. April 24. 1887. 
 
 157, JUXIA L. SCOTT, b. Hayesville, Ohio, 
 Feb. 14, 1853, m. Sei)t. 2t,, 1874, Marcus Hissem, b. July 12, 
 1850. 
 
 Children : 
 
 387- 
 
 (Hissem), b. Aug. 23, 1875. 
 
 388. Dwight Scott (Hissem), b. Oct. 30, 1884. 
 
 159. SCOTT HAYES, b. White Oak Springs, 
 Wis., April i, 1847. 'ii- .l^^'i- 1^^' 1897, Mrs. Estella Louisa 
 (Hoit) Wellington, b. Dodge Co., Wis., Aug. 14, 1861. "Sirs. 
 Hayes had a son by her hrst husban<l named Richard Hart 
 Wellington. She is a member of the Congregational church. 
 Mr. Hayes had the desire to be a soldier in the civil war. but 
 did not have the years. He took i)art in the expedition 
 against the Sioux Indians in "Minnesota, during the war. al- 
 lliough not as a soldier. He is 11. S. of Mo. State L^niversity, 
 1873, teacher, surveyor, engineer, broker, and a member of 
 the liaptist church. 
 
I'ifth Cciicralioii. ' JJ 
 
 Of little Lester, Cousin v^cotl writes: "Wc^ no loiif^cr have 
 the sunnx-faeed. Iihie-eyed Hltle Lester. W'l.'at a joy lie was 
 to us chuMng- the sixteen months of his stay. His first few 
 steps alone, l)et\veen his mother and father on Saturday even- 
 ing, and the next Wednesday, Oet. 25, 1899, '-we ^^^^ ^^'"^ 
 breathe his last, through the fatal disease, gast ritis. Often 
 have I heard he was too sunnv to shine long: lioth his 
 mother and 1 have felt that he is surely ours now. Nothing 
 can steal him a\va\'."" 
 
 Children, h. Chamberlain, South Dakota: 
 
 389. Lester, b. June i, 1898, d. Oct. 25, 1899. 
 
 390. Henry Porter, b. April 22, 1902. 
 
 160. TREW HAYES, b. Grant Co., Wis., 
 Aug. 14, 1848, d. Chamberlain, South Dakota, Dec. 3, 1890, 
 m. March 16, 1885, Jessie Benton Northway, b. Calaway Co., 
 Mo.. Aug. 3, 1863, d. Bufifalo County. South Dakota, March 
 25, t886. He m. 2nd, Aug. 28, 1887, Iva Emeretta Northway, 
 b. Calaway County, Mo., Aug. 27, 1869. 
 
 He was a B. S. of Mo. State L^niversity, 1877, was a teach- 
 er, miner and farmer, and was a member of Baptist church. 
 
 Children, b. Brule Co., South Dakota: 
 
 391. Jessie, b. June 11, 1888. 
 
 392. Ruth. b. March 9, 1890. 
 
 16 L EDD HAYES, b. Plattsville, Wis., Aug. 
 28, 1850, m. Oct. 25, 1872, Helen E. Eldridge, b. Feb. 23, 
 1852, daughter of J. H. and Sarah Eldridge, of Haston, Iowa. 
 He is a druggist at Wellington, Kansas, and a major in Kan- 
 sas N. G. 
 
 Children : 
 
 393. Mary Louisa, 1). Jan. i, 1884. 
 
 394. Eldridge Eugene, b. July 21. 1890, d. 
 
.i-/ Piflh Generation. 
 
 163. LKE HAVlvS, b. riattsvlllc. Wis., Oct. 
 13, 1S54. 111. Au^^j. 6. 1884, Julia Russell, I). Colunibia, Mo., 
 1856. He is an A. 1'). of Mo. State L^niversity, 1879, a mining 
 engineer, anil a nieniher of the (baptist church. Butte, Mon- 
 tana. .Mr>. I'laves is a member of the Christian church. 
 
 Children : 
 
 "39^. 'Ktliel, b. Denver. Col., July 2, 1885. 
 
 396. Russell, b. Aspen, Col., March 22, 1887. 
 
 397. Malcolm, b. Aspen, Col., March 15, 1890, d. July 24, 
 
 1 890. 
 
 398. Julian Lee, b. Aspen, Col., Oct. 6, 1891. 
 
 399. Laurence, b. Aspen, Col., Feb. 5, 1896. 
 
 164. IDA HAYES, b. Scott Co., Minn., Dec. 
 2, 185(^1. She is a 11. S. of Mo. State University, 1879, member 
 of the I'aptist church, a teacher, was principal of Institute 
 Maders, Saltillo, Mexico, and is now a missionary at San 
 Juan, Porto Rico. 
 
 165. KATE HAYES, b. Minnehaha, Minn., 
 March 11, 1859, m. Nov. 5, 1894, John Louis Kesler, b. July 
 21, i860. Mrs. Kesler is an A. 1). of Mo. State University, 
 1880, a teacher, was ])rincii)al of Hawthorn Institute, Liberty, 
 Mo., and is a member of the liaptist church. Mr. Kesler is 
 also a teacher, and has accepted a call to Baylor I^niversitv, 
 Waco, Texas. 
 
 Child. 1). Aspen. Col. : 
 
 400. Margare) ((Kesler), b. Oct., ,1895. 
 
 166. FRANK HAYES, b. Minnehaha, ^linn., 
 May 2, 1861, 111. Sept. 24, 1894, Ruth h'sther Bowdish. b. 
 .April 5. i86r). I U' is a merchant at Aspen. Col. 
 
 167. CRI'T'i'A ILWi'.S. b. .Minnehaha, 
 Minn.. Jiiiu- 13, 1863. ni. .May 4, 1887, Robert Cnlliam Withers 
 b. Dec. 25, 1858. .Mrs. Withers is a B. T. of Mo. State Uni- 
 
Juftli (j'c)icratl(in. 55 
 
 versitv, was a teacher, and is a member of the Episco])al 
 church. Mr. \Vithers is a lawyer, and has hcen attornex' for 
 the Denver & Rio Crandr R. I\. Co. and lor the First Xati(jn- 
 al liank at Aspen, Col, and is a member ui the I^piscopal 
 ch.nrch. His family have latelv removed to Cripple Creek, 
 Col. 
 
 Chiklren, jj. Aspen, Col. : 
 
 401. Robert Gilliam (Witliers). b. May 29, 1889, d. July 
 
 10, 1889. 
 
 402. Clerimond (Withers), b. July 12, 1890. 
 
 403. Theodore Lyster (Withers), b. May 25, 1895. 
 
 108. EMMA I'RISCILLA HAYES, b. Green- 
 leaf, Minn.. June 19, 1866, m. 1888, Ewing- C. Guthrie, M. D., 
 of Calloway Co., Mo. Mrs. Guthrie is a member of the liap- 
 tist church. 
 
 Children : 
 
 404. Paul Roy (Guthrie), b. Camden, Mo., 188 — . 
 ,405. Robert Lee (Guthrie),, b. Camden, ]^Io.. 189 — . 
 
 406. Ida Mrg^inia (Guthrie), b. Aspen, Col., July 31,1900. 
 
 174. CLARA T. HAYES, b. Jan. 26, 1855, m. 
 July 7, 1885, E. Knapp, b. March 11, 1839. d. March 7, 1890. 
 
 Children : 
 
 407. Ed. C. (Knapp), b. May 15, 1887. 
 
 408. Marion E. Knapp), b. Xov. 22, 1889. 
 
 175. AL\RY Ll'ELLA HAYES, b. July 18, 
 1856, m. Jan. 11, 1881, C. S. Xeiswauijer. He is Professor of 
 Electro Physics, Past Graduate Medical School of Chicago, 
 111., Professor of Electro Therapeutics, Illinois INIedical Col- 
 .lege and author of "Suggestions in Electro Therepeutics." 
 
 Child : 
 
 409. Helen E. (Neiswanger), h. (Dct. 3. 1882. 
 
^6 riftli (n-iicrntioii. 
 
 170. IIELKX A. II.\\"1-:S, 1). Aug. i, 1858, m. 
 Sept. J^. i88(). IC. 0. Stonebrakcr, h. .Vov. 11, 1856. 
 
 Chihl.: 
 
 410. iJarnard Hayes (Stonel^raker), b. Dec .29, 1890. He 
 i> in class of 1902 Dn.irv College Academy. 
 
 170. FRED E. HA^'KS, 1). March 14, 1876, 
 ni. jiinc 12, 1900, Percy O'Havre. He served in Spanish- 
 American war. in the 3rd Engineering Corps, Texas \'olun- 
 tecrs. He is ship])ing clerk for the American Tobacco Co., 
 at St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Child: 
 4;!. Margaretta H.. b. Aug. 17, 1901. 
 
 IH'l. l'I.A\EL ERASMUS JOXES. b. at 
 Wayne, Ohio, Dec. 23. 1841, m. Sept. t^, 1863, Sylvia A. 
 Xorth, who d. March 13, i?f,^. 
 
 He m. 2nd, Feb. 24, 1869. Mary A Hezlij), d. Mecca, Ohio, 
 Dec. 9 1903. He was a teacher, surveyor and farmer, and 
 served three years in the civil war. in the 8th O. \'. Inf. 
 
 Child, by ist wife : 
 
 412. S\lvia .\i)rth (,jones), 1). March 8, 1865. She is a 
 stenograi)her and typewriter. 
 
 Childrt-n, b\ jnd wife : 
 
 -f- 413. (."harlrs 1 Ifzlip (Jones), b. Jan. 11, 1870, m. Jessie 
 
 W raiiK'r. 
 4- 414. William Cowdry (Jones), b. Oct. 3, 1871. m. Isa 
 
 Steele. 
 
 -}- 415. r>eniamin Sanniel (Jones), b. Nov. 30, 1873, m. 
 
 Henrietta King. 
 41^). Mar\ S. (Jones), b. Dec. 13, l87(). Slie i< a graduate 
 
 of Xew l,\nie Instituli'. W'w Lymr, ( )hio. 
 417. Luc\ C'.(J"nts), b. I )cc. Ji,, 1884. She is a student. 
 
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 183. MNUS I'.RAIXARD JONES, b. Wayne. 
 
 Ohio, Feb. jCk i^A4- "i- .Unie 20, 1866. Kboda M. Wm )(bv(jrtb, 
 (laui^iiter oi Dr. Lmlur Woochvorlb. He served in tlie civil 
 war in tbe 171st ( ). \ . Inf. lie was in tlie battle of Cynth- 
 iana. Kentucky. ( )f .\h>. Jones' father, l)r Woodworth, Rev. 
 \\. 11. Chamberlain, in his ])()em read at the semi-centennial 
 celebration of Wayne, ( )hi(). said: 
 
 "There's one. alas, we all lament. 
 
 May Heaven i^rant that we. 
 Like Luther Looiuis Woodworth. die 
 
 Without an enemy." 
 
 Children : 
 
 + 418. Katie Maria (Jones), b. Aj^ril 30, 1867. 
 
 419. Mabel Elizabeth (Jones), b. Nov. 28, 1868. 
 
 420. Albert Rowe (Jones), b. Sept. 26, 1870. He is a 
 
 farmer. 
 -j- 421. Franklin Palmer (Jones), b. July 27, 1877, m. 
 Bertha Pease. 
 
 422. Lucicn Luther (Jones), 1). Jan. 13, 1880. Graduated 
 
 1900 from Warner Business . College. Is 
 bookkeeper for Gilder & Son. Warren. O. 
 
 423. Ruby (Jones), May 21. 1884. Is a student at 
 
 Andover, Ohio. 
 
 185. M A R \' C A R O L I X E J O X E S . 1 ) . W a \- no, 
 r)hio. Oct. 18. 1855, m. Jtmc 15. 1876, Emory F. Treat, of 
 Colebrook, Ohio, who d.' Au^. 8. 1888. 
 
 Children : 
 
 424. ^^'illard Hayes (Treat), b. Austinburg, Ohio, Aug. 
 
 18, 1877. Pie is in the civil service at In- 
 dianapolis, Ind. 
 
 425. George G. (Treat), b. Wayne, Ohio. Sept. 15, 1879, 
 
 Is assistant superintendent of l)essemer 
 Limestone Co., Bessemer, Pa. 
 
 426. Florence ]'>. (Treat), b. Oct. 11. 1881, d. Mav. 22, 
 
 1883. 
 
_i<f f'iftli Cciicraiioii. 
 
 4-7. jay Emory (Treat), b. Wayne. ( )hiii. July i6, 1885. 
 
 A student at Geneva. ( )!iio, and is with 
 
 hi- uncle, i'rof. J. Treat. 
 428. Amy Carrie (Treat), b. Iowa, Sept. 28, 1887. Is a 
 
 student at home at ( )akfield. X. Y. 
 
 187. ROLLIX lA'CIICX jOXES, b. Wayne, 
 ( )hio, P"eb. 5. \^y). ni. Jan. i. 1867, Luc\- Clinton Palmer, of 
 \ ernon, Ohio. b. \ ienua. ( >hi(t. Jul\- 5. 1841. d. Wavne, ( )hio, 
 June II, 1893. 
 
 He ae(|uired his education at the district school and the 
 academy of his native town, after which he learned the print- 
 ers' trade with James Reed. Sr.. ol Ashtabula, Ohio. He en- 
 listed Aug^. 2(\ 18^)1. in Co. C. 2ijih rei;-. ( ). \'. I. and served 
 through the war. participating in the battle of Port Republic, 
 \'a., June <;. 1862. where he was taken prisoner by the enemy 
 and was held at Pxnchburg and P)elle Isle. \ a., until Sept. 7, 
 1862. He was in the battle of Chancellorsville, \'a., May I, 2 
 and 3. 1864. Xew Hope Cluuch. Ga., May 25, 1864, and was 
 seriously wounded in an assault upon the enemy's entrench- 
 ments at Pine Hill. (^.a.. June 15. Xotwithstanding his 
 wound, he left Atlanta with Sherman in his march to the sea, 
 although at first he was obliged to take his ])lace in an ambu- 
 lance. He was promoted to the office of Captain while at 
 Savannah, Ga., Jan. 6, 1865. discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, 
 July 22, 1865. He is a member of the International Typo- 
 grajjliical I'nion. Giddings Post. Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic and of the Masonic iM'aternity. 
 
 Children : 
 
 429. Rollin h'lavel (|one>l. b. \ ernon. ( )hio. Mav 7, 
 1869. 
 
 4'^o. Louisa Margaret (lones). b. Wa\ne. Ohio, Tune 23, 
 1877. 
 
 ISS. I'.DWAkI) lll-.RP.l-RT JOXKS. b. 
 Wayne. Ohio, 1 )ec. 25, 1X40. m. jimt' 11. i>^J,]. Hannah 
 ''A'right. of Greene. Ohio. b. ( )ct. 23. iS.|_'. Me is a farmer 
 in Wayne, Ohio, lie enlisted Aug. 30. iS'q. in the 177th 
 < ). \'. inf., and served to the close of the war. 
 
/•'///// (jciicralii)ii. . ^p 
 
 Children, 1). \\ a\iH', Ojiio : 
 
 431. Orvillo Marl ( joiu"^), !>. Aug. 20, 1S74. 
 
 432. Harriet I'.clk- ( joiu's), h. Aug. 21, 1876. 
 
 + 433. 1 laves Wriglit ijom's), 1). Aui;- 21, 1876, ni. Cora 
 ]'.. Sliari). 
 
 434. Wllie May (Jones), 1). Mav (». 1880. 
 
 435. JD.in Paul (jcJncs), h. Jan. 2(), 1887. 
 
 IIM). A1J!I<:RT C. GIDDIXGS. 1). Wayne. 
 Ohio, ^Nlaroh 15, 183S, ni. Sc])t. 18, i86o. Sara h'llen Stanley, 
 of Wyoming, X. V. 
 
 Children : 
 
 4- 436. Horace Edwin (Giddings). b. Wayne, Ohio, Aug. 
 
 14, 1861, m. Margaret Kay. 
 + 437. Almira Eliza (Giddings), b. Wayne, Ohio, April ly^ 
 
 1866, ni. Dr. George J. Jobson. 
 -{- 438. Stanley Albert (Giddings), b. Ashtabula. ( )hio. 
 
 5, 1868, ni. , . 
 
 -\- 439. Claude Wakely (Giddings). b. Ashtabula, Ohio, 
 
 Aug. 13, 1877, 111- Clarabel Ik'unett. 
 440. Henry Garfield (Giddings), b. Franklin, Pa., .Vpril 
 
 9, 1881. 
 
 191. STATIRA ELIZA GIDDIXGS. b. 
 Wayne, Ohio, Mareh 3, 1840. ni. May 16, 1861, Henry S. 
 Simpkins, of X'ernon. ( )hio. 
 
 Chiklren, b. W'axne, Ohio: 
 
 •4- 441. Frederick ^ferrick (Sini])kins), b. Sept. 22, 1862. 
 m. Josephine Covel. 
 
 -)- 442. Herbert William (.^imjikins), b. Oct. i, 1864. m. 
 Minnie (uiest. 
 
 -j- 443. Ernest Junius (Simpkins), b. March 30, 1868, m. 
 Alice (Shobrook) Monroe. 
 
 + 444. Frank Addison (Simjikins), 1). June 8, 1870, m. Ma- 
 tilda Douhledav. 
 
ho Vljlh (iciuralidii. 
 
 445. Carlton Horace (Simpkins), b. Jan. 4, 1872. 
 -\- 44(». Lcroy Howard (Simpkins), b. May 29, 1873, "i- 
 
 Rose -May llcekman. 
 4- 447- -Mary Ellen (Simpkins). b. Oct. 24, 1878, m. George 
 r.urd Eastlake. 
 
 448. Arllnir 1 lonry I Siin])kins). b. Feb. 12. 1882. 
 
 192. HAXXAH BILLTXGS JONES, b. 
 Wayne. Oliio, Aug. 17. 1S39, m. Oct. 30, 1860, William B. 
 Smilie. Tbey bave an a(l()])te(l daugbter. Allie Pearl, b. Ma\' 
 20, 1887. 
 
 193. RODERICK MERRICK jOXES, b. 
 Wayne. Oliio, Ang. 5, 1841, m. Jan. 17. 1867, Cbarlotte R. 
 Wilcox, of Wayne, ( )liio. He enlisted A.ug., 1862, in Co. I., 
 io5tb O. \ . !.. and served to tbe close of tbe war. He was 
 taken prisoner twice by tbe enem\-, was paroled once, and 
 made his escape at tbe second captnre. Tbey bave an adopted 
 daugbter. f^va Marguerite, b. Feb. 4, 1887. 
 
 Cliild : 
 
 449. Fanny ijones). b. Jan. 19, 1873. d. July 19, 1873. 
 
 194. EMMA ELTZABETll JOXES, b. at 
 Wayne, Ohio, Se])t. 23, 1854. m. March 26, 1876, Charles H. 
 Smith, of Wayne, ()hio. 
 
 Children : 
 
 450. \\'alt(.-r .\ns()n (Suiilb), b. Jmie 17, 1877. 
 
 451. Alfred 11. (Smith),, b. Sei)t. 23, 1878. 
 
 452. b'rank E. (Smith), I). June 6, 1880. 
 433. i""annie E. (Smith), 1). July 24, 1882. 
 
 454. Margaret E. Smith 1, 1). Jul\ 24, 1884. 
 
 455. Maude M. (Smith 1. b. .Ma\ Ji), 1886. 
 45^.. K;dpb C. (Smith), b. July 30. 1S87. 
 
 I9f>. I'.l SI'.I'.LXS SWII'T r.I-:S'l\ l). Wayn-.-, 
 < )hic), ()cl. 31, 1S42, m. .\pril 12. 18^)7, lletsey Hyde, who d. 
 
I'iflll inllCI\llii)ll. 6/ 
 
 ()cl. 5, 1SS3. At ilu' tnitl)n.';ik of the rL'l)i.'llii )ii lie enlisted 
 in the 2n(l W is. Inf., was severely wonnded and taken ])rison- 
 cr at the lirst hattle of linll Knn. and was conlined in various 
 prisons nearly a year. Leaving;" the service he was adnn'tted 
 to the bar in 1864. 
 
 Children : 
 
 + 457. Xellie (Best), b. Agency, Iowa, Jan. 20, 1868, f. 
 Edgar Wceland. 
 
 458. Frederick (Best). 1). A]-)ril 19, 1870, d. Feb. 25, 1900, 
 
 at Cdcnwood. Iowa, and is buried there. 
 
 459. Maude Emily (Best), b. Sept. 2, 1874. vShe gradu- 
 
 ated from Burlington High School and 
 later from the Normal School, and is a 
 'teacher at Superior, Wis. 
 
 199. EDWARD THOMAS BEST, b. Port- 
 age City, Wis., Feb. 22, 1850, m. Dec. 23, 1875, Florence May 
 Gilson, I). Mar\land. May 18, 1857. He is a ])rintcr and 
 ])Lil)lisher of the Xeligh Leader, at Neligh, Xeb. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -j- 460. Edith Elizabeth (Best), b. Oct. 29, 1876, m. Edward 
 E. Beckwith. 
 4^)1- Roi)ert (P.est). b. April 2S. 1886. Student at Gates 
 Academy. Neligh, Neb. 
 
 462. Edward (l)est), b. Dec. 23, 1887. 
 
 463. Howard (Best), b. Aug. 7. 1894. 
 
 202. CHARLES JONES BEST. b. Portage 
 City, Wis., Jan. 4, 1858, m. April 17, 1883, Minnie Hill, of 
 Agencv City, Iowa. b. Oct. 24, 1859. He is a printer, and on 
 the editorial statT of the Omaha Bee. Omaha. Xeb. 
 
 Children • 
 
 464. John l{dward (Best). 1). Council I'.lutYs, Iowa. Feb. 
 
 21. 1884. 
 
 465. Helen May (Best), b. Xeligh. Xeb., .Vug.. 1887. 
 
 466. Ruth (Best), b. Neligh. Neb., March 10,1890. 
 
62 fifth Generation. 
 
 203. l-:S'ri'".IJ..\ TllKRKSA JOXES, h. at 
 Wayne. ( )hitj, Sc|)t. ii, 1851, m. Dec. 23, 1869, Rev. Elmore 
 H. Wilcox, of Colebrook, Ohio. 
 
 .Mr. Wilcox was pastor of a church al Plinckley, Ohio, for 
 three years, after which he rctunicd lo Colebrook!, where he 
 preached for several years. At the present time he holds 
 meetings for the study of the I'ible, which are a success, his 
 daughter ]\Iaud going with him and playng the organ and 
 assisting in singing. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -f- 467. Lillian (Wilcox) ,b. Dec. 17, 1870, m. Charles E. 
 Waldo. 
 
 468. Perry G. (Wilcox), b. March 23, 1872. 
 
 469. Aland (Wilcox), b. March 14, 1874. 
 
 470. Paul (Wilcox), b. May 2, 18 — . ' 
 
 20-t. WILLIS EDWIN JOXES, b. Wayne, 
 Ohio, Sept. 28, 1853. m. Sc])t. 29, 1877, Sarah G. McNeily, 
 b. Elsworth, ( )]ii(), A])ril 20. 1856. He is a merchant and 
 postmaster at Lindenville, Ohio. 
 
 Children : 
 
 471. Samuel W. (Jones), b. Dec. 18, 18 — . 
 
 472. Floyd L. (I ones;, \). April 15. 18 — . 
 
 473. Alarcia S. (Jones), b. Aug. 24, 18 — . 
 
 205. JEXXIE LLCTXDA JONES, b. at 
 Wayne, ( )lii(^, Jan. 19, 1871, m. Jan. 14, 1892, Lert F. Tyler. 
 She m. 2nd. Dec. jo. i8()(j. Harry A. Wilder. 
 
 Child, by 1st husband: 
 
 474. Nellie L. (Tyler), b. I"eb. 8. 1893. 
 
 C'liild. In- Jnd husband : 
 
 475. Alonzo Sanuiel (W ilderi. 1). I'eb. 7, 1901, d. Jan. 4, 
 
 1902. 
 
I'ifth ijCiicrali(>ii. 6j 
 
 2(H'k RAI.IMI IIANI'.S JONES, I.. Wayne, 
 Ohio, Sept. I. 1S75, 111. March K), \^n<). Eva Fobes, ot VVavnc 
 Ohio. 
 
 Cliilrl: 
 
 476. Marie Sophronia (Jones), h. Jnly 14, 1900. 
 
 208, F.WXV LATHROP, 1). Endlcw, Mass., 
 Jan. 15, 1836,(1. May 2=,, 1878, ni. Sept. 2, 1868, Dr. Daniel 
 Pierson, of Angusta. 111. 
 
 Child : 
 
 477. Paoli Lathrop (Pierson), b. Dec. i, 1869, d. lulv 15, 
 
 1887. 
 
 209. SETH LATHROP. b. Sonth Hadley, 
 Mass., May 10, 1838, in. Aug-. 30, 1864. Ellen Louise Reed. 
 
 Children : 
 
 + 478. Abbie Louise (Lathrop), b. South Hadley, Mass., 
 Jan. 16, 1866, m. Frank N. McMillan. 
 
 -|- 479. Lyman Reed (Lathrop). b. South Hadle}-, Mass., 
 April 28, 1869, ni. Julia Fox. 
 
 + 480. Howard (Lathrop), b. Dallas, Texas, Sept. 18, 1877, 
 m. Edith Mav Ellis. 
 
 213. SOPHRONIA W. MERRICK, b. WiL 
 
 braham, Mass., Feb. 6, 1835, m. June 19, 1862, Charles G. 
 Starkweather, of Northam])ton. Mass. 
 
 Children, b. Northampton, Mass. : 
 
 -j- 481. Charles ATerrick (Starkweather), b. March 29, 1864, 
 m. Lucy W'illiston. 
 482. rederick Merrick (Starkweather), b. April 26, 
 1865. 
 -+- 483. Emily Bliss (Starkweather), 1). June 28, 1869, m. 
 David B. Howland. 
 484. Roderick Merrick (Starkweather), b. Nov. 24, 1873, 
 
64. Fiffli in-ncratlon. 
 
 •iU. ABIGAIL MERRICK, b. near Joliet, 
 111.. May 3, i<S38, m. Feb. 27, 1861, William O. Semans. of 
 Delaware. Ohio. 
 
 Children, b. W'ilbraliani. Mass.: 
 
 -\- 485. William Merrick (Semans), b. Dec. 29, 1861. m. 
 
 jessamine Freeman. 
 -\- 486. Edward Merrick (Semans), b. Oct. 26, 1863, m. 
 
 Sallie Reed. 
 487. Harry Merrick (Semans), b. Oct. i, 1867. He is a 
 
 dentist at Columl)ns, Ohio. 
 -j- 488. Alary (Semans), b. ]\Iay 22, 1869, m. Rev. Philip 
 
 l'hili])s. 
 
 215. EDW^ARD MERRICK, b. \\'ilbraham, 
 Mass., May 24, 1842, m. Xov. 25, 1868, Sarah A. Chapman. 
 He is general manager of the Newtown Gas Co. 
 
 Children : 
 
 489. Walter C. (Merrick), b. Willoughby, Ohio, Feb. 13, 
 
 1872. He graduated ( )hio Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, studied law and is in law office of 
 Hoyt, Duston c^ Kelley, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 490. Frederick C. (Merrick), b. Willoughby, Ohio, May 
 
 18, 1874. He is an accountant in Xew 
 York City. 
 
 491. William II (Merrick), b. Wilmington, Ohio. Dec. 
 
 17, 1883. Student in high school, North- 
 am])ton, Alass. 
 
 210. FREDi'.kICK MERRICK, b. Wni)ra- 
 ham, Mass., Xov. 4, 1844, m. Aug., 1867, Mary P.rink, who d. 
 Northampton, Mass., June, 187 1. He m. 2nd. March 28, 1879, 
 Emma Keys. 
 
 Child, by 1st wile. b. Ked Wing, Minn.: 
 
 492- M;iry J'Vances (Merrick), I). Oct. 20, 1868. She is a 
 graduate of vSmith College, and a teacher 
 in Northam])ton. Mass. 
 
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 Children, by 2n(l wife, b. I'ittsburg-, Pa.: 
 
 493. Roderick Smith (Merrick), b. Jan. 22, 1884. 
 
 494. Edward Keys (Merrick), b. May 23, 1886, d. March 
 
 2^, IQOO. 
 
 495. Frederick Paul (Merrick), 1). March 31, 1895. 
 
 'I'll, RICHARD ALDEN WOODRUFF, b. 
 Rochester, Pa., April 19, 1837,(1. New York City, Nov. 28, 
 1897, m. Dec. 14, 1858, Rebecca Jane Frye, of Sewickly, Pa. 
 
 Children : 
 
 4- 496. Laura Gertrude (Woodrufif), b. Allegheny, Pa., 
 
 March 26, 1864, m. William Frederick 
 
 Schneider. 
 -f 497. Jeiuiie (Woodruff), b. Aug. 12, 1868, m. Charles 
 
 Sill. 
 498. May (Woodruff), b Nov. 17, 1875, m. Dr. Harry 
 
 P. Poinsett. 
 
 223. HARRIET ELLEN WOODRUFF, b. 
 Rochester, Pa., June 26, 1839, m. Feb. 9, 1870, Wheelan Dol- 
 by, of Rochester, Pa., b. West Vincent, Pa., Jan. 14, 1839. 
 
 Children : 
 
 -\r 499. Martha Estella (Dolby), b. jMarch 7, i872,m. Harry 
 Douthill. 
 
 500. Leman Woodruff (Dolby), b. Oct. 14, 1875. Is 
 
 timekeeper and i)ayniaster at glass works 
 in Rochester, Pa. 
 
 501. Joseph Clarence (Dolby), b. Nov. 21, 1877. Is ship- 
 
 ping clerk for the National Glass Co., em- 
 ploying hundreds of men. 
 
 224. GEORGE ELMER WOODRUFF, ix 
 Rochester. Pa., Sept. 16, 1842, m. March 15, 1865, Sarilla 
 Wolf, of Harmony, Pa., who d. Jan. 17, 1879. 
 
66 Piflh Generation. 
 
 ChiUlrcn : 
 
 H- 502. Franklin (W'oodrnff), b. Xov. 5, 1865, m. May 
 Mennez. 
 
 -I- 503. Anna .Majorie (W'oodrnff), b. Oct. 15. 1867, m 
 
 l^'rank Golden Throne. 
 -!- 504. Mabel (Woodruff), b. Xov. 22, 1870, ni. Charles 
 
 W^ilson Thomas. 
 + .505. Cora l-illian (Woodruff"), 1). Sept. 20, 1872. ni. 
 
 hVank .Matthews. 
 
 2-25. MILO IIOLCOMBE PARSONS, b. 
 West Granville, Mass., Oct. 5, 184.0, m. ( )ct. 9, 1867, Geor- 
 giana Hull, of Danl)iu-y, Conn., b. ( )cl. 26, 1840. 
 
 Children : 
 
 501J. b'lorence Hull (Parsons), b. Fel). 2-,. i86q, d. Xov. 
 15, 1875. 
 -j- 507. b'red Hull (Parsons), b. July 20, 18 — , m. Lulu 
 Delaplaine P)edelle. 
 508. George INTilo (Parsons), b. July 10, 1871, d. July 26, 
 1871. 
 -J- 509. Harold Ashton (Parsons), b. June 13. 1872, m. 
 Mary P)rookfield Paxson. 
 
 510. Marion lUilkeley (Parsons), b. Jan. 3, 1874. <1. Jnly 
 
 .. 1874.' 
 
 511. W aldd I lull (I'arsons). b. iNFay 20, 1879. 
 
 'i',»6. IIOWAKI) m Zb:RXK PARSOXS, b. 
 Sandisfield, Mass.. Dec. 26, 1844, ni. Xov. 30, 1876, Emma 
 Far;ar, of Inde])cndence, Mo., b. Xov. i, 1854. 
 
 Children : 
 
 512. i'leriram Ward (Parsons), b. Independence, AIo.. 
 
 Jan. 31, 1878. He is in ])iu-chasing agent's 
 office, X. Pacific R. R. Co. 
 
 513. Helen Marrincr (Parsons), b. Independence. Mo., 
 
 Oct. 13. 1879. 
 
/■'///// (jCIUTlltioll. 6j 
 
 514. l<ois I'arrar ( Parsons),!). Independence, IMo., Sept. 
 
 13, 1884. 
 
 515. Janet Farrar (Parsons), h. St. T'aiil, Minn.. Xov. 9, 
 
 1894. 
 
 230. XICLLIK L()L"IS1<: ().\'1\MAX , b. 
 Sandisfield, Mass., INIarch 25, 1855. ni. Deo. 31. 1879, Charles 
 Sumner Burke, of La Crosse, Wis., 1). Xov. 26, 1856. 
 
 Cliild : 
 
 516. Robert Elisha (Burke), b. Sept. 14, 1884. 
 
 233. LAURA ISABEL OATMAN, b. Brook- 
 lyn, N. v., June 21, 1859. m. Feb. 25, 1885, Charles Egbert 
 Bailey, of Coxsackie, N. Y., b. July 20, 1852. 
 
 Children : 
 
 517. Laura Oatman (Bailey), b. Coxsackie, X.Y., Oct. 
 
 6, 1886. ' ■ 
 
 518. Charles Egbert (Bailey), b Nov. 9, 1889. 
 
 519. William .Viva (Bailey), b. Oct. 12, 1891. 
 
 234. CLARA ABIGAIL O ATM AX, b. 
 Brooklyn. X. Y.. Aug. 10, 1861, m. July 7, 1885. \\'illiam Lee 
 Howard, of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Child, b. Xew York City: 
 
 520. \\'illiam Lee (Howard), 1\ Dec. 18, 1887. 
 
 238. ADELLE MARIETTE OATMAN, b. 
 
 Rochester, Pa., March 22, i860, d. — . m. July 21, 
 
 1885. AVillard I. Cooke. 
 
 Child : 
 
 521. Willard (Cooke), 
 
 240. MIXNIE ESTELLE OAT MAX, b. 
 Rochester, Pa.. July 2^, 1867, m. July 24, 1888, Joseph Con- 
 nor, of Beaver, Pa. 
 
.J_ 
 
 68 PiftJi Cciicratioii. 
 
 242. ARNOLD LEMAN OATMAN, 1?. 
 Rochester, Pa., July i. 1872, m. Nov. 5, 1902, Cora Apple- 
 ton, b. Industry, I'a., Jul}' 9, 1871. He is a contractor for 
 hard wood finishing and painting. 
 
 243. MELISSA HAYES ' RICE, b. Greene, 
 Ohio, May 6, 1841, ni. Theron W. Adams. Both Mr. and 
 Mrs. Adams were teachers. The latter is president of the 
 8th dist. W. C. T. V. in the state of Michigan. 
 
 Children : 
 
 522. Edith Rice (Adams), b. Davison, iMich., April 22, 
 1867, d. Oct. 27, 1879. 
 
 -f- 5-3- Arthur Warfield (Adams), b. Davison, Mich., Oct. 
 I, 1868, m. Helen Clough. 
 
 52_|. Lucian Hiram (Adams_),b. Cortland, Ohio, Jan. 28, 
 1874. 
 
 525. Edwin Hayes (Adams), b.Chesaning, Mich.. March 
 19, 1885. Graduated Chesaninghigh school. 
 Is in mech. dept. Mich. Agl. Col., Lansing. 
 \\'ill probal)ly make a specialty of electri- 
 city. 
 
 244-. HARRIET MATILDA RICE. b. Greene, 
 Ohio, July 24, 1843, "1- Greene, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1865, Dwight 
 Henry Cory, m. by Elder E. \\'akefiel(l. 
 
 Mr. Cory served four years in the civil war. Lie was mus- 
 tered into the U. S. service at Orwell, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1861, 
 served in Co. A.. 6th O. \'. C, was commissioned First 
 Lieut., also appointed Reg"! Commissary Sergt., Oct. i, 
 1862, and in the s])ring of 1865, May 31, was given the Cap- 
 tain's Commission. At the close of the war he returned to 
 Cfrccnc, < )hi(), from which place lie removed in tlie spring of 
 T884, to ( )b('rlin. ( )hio, and has been employed by drug firms, 
 E. A. I'alnur I'.ros. and vStrong, Cobb & Co., of Cleveland, 
 r^hio. as traveling salesman. 
 
/•"//'/// Ccucratioii. 6g 
 
 Children, h. Greene, Ohio: 
 
 j- 526. Ahna Kavinia (CMry),b. Aug. 9, 1867, ni. Uenjamin 
 
 C. Belt. 
 -f 527. Florence (Corv), h. March 25, 1869, m. Jefferson 
 
 Langvvorthy. 
 -(- 528. Orin Robert (Cory), b. Jan. 23. 1874. m. Alma 
 
 Rice. 
 
 529. Charles Dwight (Cory), b. Oct. 24, 1878, d. April 
 
 6, 1879. 
 
 530. Eva Melissa (Cory), b. Dec. 24, 18S2. A student at 
 
 Oberlin, C^hio, and is with her mother. 
 
 346. LESTER YALE RICE, b. Greene, Ohio, 
 Dec. 8, 1852, m. Warren, Ohio, July to, 1880, Josephine L. 
 Fife, of Greene, Ohio. He is an extensive farmeh at Sav- 
 age, Antelope County, Neb. 
 
 Children, b. Savage, Neb., except the first : 
 
 531. Mertie Leona (Rice),b. Blair, Neb., Jan. 28, 1882. 
 
 d. Savage, Neb., May 3, 1887. 
 
 532. Lavinia Frances (Rice), b. Aug. 13, 1884. 
 
 533. Lloyd Lenox (Rice), b. Aug. 20, 1886. 
 
 534. Bloward Hayes (Rice), b. Dec. 25. 1888. 
 
 535. Armenta Melissa (Rice), b. Jan. 7, 1891. 
 
 536. Parmely Paul (Rice), b. Feb. 21, 1893. 
 
 537. Lester Yale (Rice), b. Aug. 29, 1899. 
 
 247. ARMENTA LAMNIA RICE. b. Greene, 
 
 Ohio, Jan. 30, 1855, m. Greene, Ohio, Jan. 16, , Henry 
 
 David Smith. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ••[- 538. Allie Melissa (Smith),!). May 15, 1879, m. r.crtram 
 Taylor. 
 
 539. Huron Delong (Smith), b. Aug. 27, 1881. 
 
 540. Daniel Hayes (Smith), b. ^lay 2, 1885. 
 
 541. Arthur Lester (Smith , 1). Aug. 7, 1887. 
 
 542. Lavinia Helen (Smith), b. July 24, 1889. 
 
JO SixtJi Generation. 
 
 248. FRANCES LINUS HAYES, b. Oct. i[, 
 1850, 111. Charles H. Bliss. 
 
 Children, b. Rochester, Minn. : 
 
 543. Francenia Ada (Bliss), b. March 25, 1877, graduated 
 
 igoo, from Normal school of Music, Evans- 
 ton, 111., and is a teacher. 
 
 544. Flora Mertilla (Bliss), b. Dec. 15, 1881. Graduated 
 
 1 90 1, Rjochester high school, was at Carle- 
 ton College,at Northfield, Minn., 1901 and 
 
 1902, and will teach music. 
 
 249. STELLA MATILDA HAYES, b. Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1857. m. John Gillor Jacobi. 
 
 Children : 
 
 545. Blanche Willmette (Jacobi), b Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 
 
 28, 1876. Is stenographer in one of the 
 largest insurance companies. - 
 -j- 546. Clara Elizabeth (Jacobi), b. Toledo, Ohio, July 31, 
 
 1877, m. Will L. Johns. 
 
 547. Cora L. (Jacobi), b. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1881, 
 
 d. April 7, 18—. 
 
 548. Lester Hayes (Jacobi), b. Cleveland, Ohio, July 15, 
 
 1884. In business in Cleveland. 
 
 549. Walter Tracy (Jacobi), b. Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 6, 
 
 1878. In high school 1901. 
 
 550. Norman Le Roy (Jacobi), b. Cleveland, Ohio, Mar. 
 
 6, 1895. Entered school 1901. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 252. CARRIE LEICESTER HAYES, b. Val- 
 ley Falls, Kansas, Oct. 16, i860, m. June 8, 1895, Vernon Jud- 
 son Emery. Mrs. Emery was a student at I'ethany College, 
 To])eka, Kansas, and Rockford Seminary, 111. Slic received 
 
Sixth Generation. ji 
 
 tlie bronze medal at tlie Columbian Exposition on exhibit of 
 ceramics for good coloring- and composition. 
 
 Mr. Emery graduated at Ohio State University, took de- 
 gree of B. A. at University of Nebraska, and later graduated 
 at Harvard college and is a minister of the Unitarian church. 
 
 Child, b. Lancaster, N. H. : 
 
 551. Alden Hayes (Emery), b. June 2, 1901. 
 
 253. SETH HAYES, b. South Shaftsbury, Vt., 
 Jan. 4, 1867, m. Dec. 27, 1893, R"th Drake, b. Brownsville, 
 Ohio, April 19, 1871, daughter of Rev. Lemuel F. Drake. 
 
 Mr. Hayes graduated from the Ohio State University in 
 1892, with degree of B. S. He was principal of Fremont high 
 school for many years. The following is a clipping given by 
 the Associated Press : "Sandusky, Ohio, June 27, Mrs. Col. 
 Seth Hayes, of Fremont, who is visiting here, plunged ofT the 
 drawbridge into Sandusky Bay to save the life of four year 
 old Dorothy Neill, the daughter of the lady at whose house 
 Mrs. Hayes is visiting. Mrs. Hayes supported the child until 
 help came, when both were rescued." 
 
 Children, b. Fremont, Ohio: 
 
 552. Joselyn, b. Oct. 3, 1895. 
 
 553. Margaret, b. Sept. 19, 1899. 
 
 254. \ERTNER HAYES, b. Jan. 7, 1870, m. 
 June 26, 1901, Ada May Rintleman. 
 
 Child, b. Dallas, Texas : 
 
 554. Geraldine Stickney, 1). April 3, 1902. 
 
 256. ELIZABETH FLORENCE HAYES, b. 
 Salem, Ohio, April 25, 1862, m. June 15, 1877, Seymour Byron 
 Dewey, b. Nov. 9, 1852, son of Rowland and Pruanna (Shurt- 
 lefif) Dewey. Dr. Dewey was dean of the dental department 
 of the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, and re- 
 sides in Cleveland. 
 
J 2 SixtJi Generation. 
 
 Children : 
 
 555. Walter Hayes (Dewey),b. Sandusky, Ohio,Atig. 22, 
 
 1878. 
 
 556. Florence Elsie (Dewey), b. Jan. 7, 1881. 
 
 557. Louis Byron (Dewey), b. Cleveland, Ohiojune 28, 
 
 1884. 
 55S. Seymour Byron (Dewey), b. Cleveland, Ohio, Alay 
 16, 1892. 
 
 257. CORA ADELLE HAYES, h. Seg-uin, 
 Texas, Dec. 18, 1873. m. Dallas, Texas, Dec. 15, 1897, Fred 
 Eugene Forrest, b. March 15, 1863. Mr. Forrest is secretary 
 of Miss., Kan. & Texas R. R. Co., general office, Dallas. 
 
 Children, b. Dallas, Texas : 
 
 559. Helen (Forrest), b. Nov. 8, 1898. 
 
 560. Esther " b. Jan. 21, 1901. 
 
 258. THOMAS PAYNE HAYES, b. Dallas, 
 Texas, Dec. 13, 1876, m. July 10, 1900, Ola Crank. 
 
 261. EMMA MARIA PLUMMER. b. Green- 
 ville, Pa., June 11, 1846, m. June 18, 1874, George William 
 Darrow, who 1. Jan 25, 1889. 
 
 Child : 
 
 561. Samuel 1 Mummer (Darrow), b. May 18, 1875. 
 
 2G3. ELIZAIJETII PLUMMER, b. Rock Is- 
 land, 111., Jan. 8, 1853, m. Aug. 23, 1876, George Alarvin 
 Loosley. 
 
 Children : 
 
 562. I ic'kn .\delia (Loosley), b. April 14, 1878. She is an 
 
 artist in the designing do])arlm(Mit at Art 
 Institute, Chicago, ill. 
 
Sixth Cciwrafioii. 7j 
 
 563. Frederick Edwin (Loosley), b. Aug-. 28, 1879. Grad- 
 
 uated 1899 Rock Island high school, and is 
 in University of 111. 
 
 564. George Marvin (Loosley), b. April 30, 1882. 
 
 266. SAMUEL CRAIG PLUMMER, b. Rock 
 Island, 111., April 27, 1865, m. March 18, 1903, Mary Louise 
 Middleton, of Davenport, Iowa. He graduated from North- 
 western University Medical College 1886, and is surgeon in 
 chief of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific system. 
 
 269. HELEN MARY HAYES, b. Hartford, 
 Ohio, ]\Iarch j8, 1861. She graduated in 1883 from Alle- 
 gheny College, Meadville, Pa., has studied in Germany, is a 
 fine German scholar and teaches that language in the public 
 schools in Washington, D. C. 
 
 271. JAMES BRACKIN FRAME, b. Poland, 
 Ohio, April 21, 1841, m. Jan. 22, 1876, Eliza Ogle. 
 
 Children : 
 
 565. Charles Henry Thomas (France), b. March 18, 1886. 
 
 566. Walter Ogle (Frame), b. Oct. 27, 1889. 
 
 272. REBECCA FRAME, b. Poland. Ohio, 
 March 18, 1843, m. July 20, 1865, Frederick S. Swisher. Mr. 
 Swisher is commercial agent of Mich. Central- R. R. Co., Corn 
 Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Children : 
 
 567. Frank Frame (Swisher), b. Oil City. Pa., Aug. 7, 
 
 1868, d. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 3. 1878. 
 
 568. Oliver Hazzard Perry (Swisher), b. Oil City, Pa.. 
 
 March 23, 1870, d. Petersburg, Ohio, Aug. 
 15. 1870. 
 -\- 569. Clyde Frederick (Swisher), b. St. Paul. Minn.. Nov. 
 II, 1871, m. Ada Ruth Wert. 
 
7/ Si.vtJi Ccncrafioji. 
 
 570. Walter Alexander (Swisher), b. St. Paul, Alinn., 
 
 May 1 1. 1X76. 
 
 571. llarrv. (SwisherS b. St. Paul, ]\liiin., June 12, 1877, 
 
 d. June 21, 1877. 
 
 572. Mar_\ Rebecca (Swisher), b. St. I'aul. Minn., April 
 
 14, 1878. 
 
 573. Clara Catharine (Swisker). b. vSt. Paul, ]Minn., Aug. 
 
 12, 1881. 
 
 574. Dudley Brackin (Swisher), b. St. Paul, ^linn., Jan. 
 
 15, 1885. 
 
 273. CLARA FRAME, b. Poland, Ohio, Mar. 
 15, 1846, d. July 2f), i8qo. m. Nov., 1871, Joseph Wilson. No 
 children. 
 
 274. A15P1K BURGESS, b. Kinsman, Ohio, 
 Jan. IJ, 1850, ni. Charles Skinner. 
 
 Child : 
 
 575. Genevieve (Skinner), ]>. Se]n. 18, 1886, d. Nov. 22, 
 
 1901. 
 
 275. STLAS TPCKKR BRACKTN, b. Smyr- 
 na, Tenn., July 14, 1856, m. Xov. 7, 1895, .Mar}- r>elle Gregory. 
 
 28 1 . J 1 ATT lb: J E X X 1 E 1 '. R ACKI N, b. Siuyr- 
 na, Tenn.. Oct. 11, 1866, ni. Xov. 16, 1894, Joseph N. Davis. 
 
 Child: 
 
 576. Carrie .May (Davis), b. Sept. 23, i8(j5. 
 
 2S2. THOMAS TICKER T.RACKIX, b. 
 Smyrna. Tenn.. .March 26, 186S, m. Jan. 1894, l^lla Patterson, 
 who (i. ( )rt . II), iSt)". 
 
 Child: 
 
 577. Thomas Tucker (llrackin), b. l-'eb. 2~, 1895. 
 
Sixtli Cj'ciicratioii. 75 
 
 285. D.W I I) j. 1{1JJ()TT, b. Scguin, Texas, 
 Dec. ;0, 1853, ni. \ irginia, Nevada, Lizzie Stone. No chil- 
 dren. 
 
 287. ADDIl-, W. F.LLIOTT, b. Seguin, Texas, 
 Ang. 3. 1859, w. Jan. iSSS, James Bedford Woods. 
 
 Child: 
 
 578. Harry (Woods), b. March, 1890. 
 
 288. PEARL E. ELLIOTT, b. Bentonville, 
 Ark., Sept. 5, 1869. m. July 3, 1892, J. Cyril France. 
 
 Children : 
 
 579. Will Elliott (h' ranee), 1). March 11, 1894. 
 
 580. Victoria Jane (France), 1). Sept., 1896. 
 
 289. GEORGE BOSWORTH, b. Greenville, 
 Pa., March 18, 1863. m. March 3, 1887, Annie Marshall, b. 
 July 8, 1869. 
 
 Children : 
 
 581. Walter :Marshall (Bosworth), b. June 12. 1S8S, d. 
 
 Sept. \C\ 1893. 
 
 582. Leslie Brackin (Bosworth), b. June 28, 1890. 
 
 583. Charlotte Maria " b. Sept. 2, 1893. 
 
 584. Frank Edward " b. 1898. 
 
 585. Pauline " b. Dec. 1901. 
 
 293. CHARLOTTE M. GROSVENOR. b. 
 
 June 17, 1854, m. March 7, 1876, Llenry T. Brush, who d. 
 July 10, 1879. She ni. 2ud. .\ov. 31, 1882. John M. Donald- 
 son. 
 
 Child 1)>- I St hitsband : 
 
 586. Frederick l''arn^worlh ( I'-rush). !). Aug. 19. 1877. 
 
 Children by 2nd husband : 
 
 587. Alexander Grosvenor (Donaldson i,b. Xoy. 11,1884 
 
 588. Bruce McXaughton (D'onaldson). b. Feb. 6, 1891. 
 
7<5 Sixth Generation. 
 
 298. HARRY PROCTOR COE, b. Feb. 18, 
 1867, m. Feb. 7, 1888, Letta Daggett Tabor. No children. 
 
 t>m). CHARLOTTE FLORENCE COE, b. 
 Feb. I, 1867, m. June 20, 1899, Henry Barnard Kiimmell, b. 
 jNIilwaukce, Wis., May 4, 1867. Mrs. Kiimmell was librarian 
 of Chicago L'niversity. Mr. Kiimmell received degree of A. 
 B. and A. M. from Beloit College. He took a special course 
 in geology at Harvard and received a degree of A. M., and 
 after a three vears' special course and teaching at Chicago 
 University, received a degree of Ph. D. He is Assistant 
 State Geologist of New Jersey. 
 
 Child: 
 
 589. Charlotte Proctor (Kummell), b Jan. 23, 1903. 
 
 30:^. BENJAMIN CARPENTER, b. Sept. 16, 
 1865, m.- Sept. 18. 1893, Helen Graham Fairbank. He grad- 
 uated at Harvard, 1888, and is with his father in firm of Geo. 
 B. Carpenter X: Co. 
 
 Children : 
 
 590. Benjamin (Carpenter), b. April 23, 1896. 
 
 591. Cordelia Fairbank (Carpenter), b. April 12, 1898. 
 
 592. Elizabeth Webster (Carpenter), b. Nov. C\ 1900. 
 
 MH, GEORGE ALBERT CARPENTER, b. 
 Oct. 20, 1867, m. May 10, i8()4, Harriet Isham, daughter of 
 D. Rali)h N. and Katherinc i-'llen (Snow) Isham. He grad- 
 uated from Harvard 1888, and is a lawyer of firm of Pierce & 
 Carpenter. 
 
 Child: 
 
 593. I\athi.-rine (CarpfUter), b. A])ril 14. 1895 
 
 :{().>. iiii'.r.Aki) i-()STi-:r carpenter, 
 
 1). I 'ark Kidge. 111., Se])t. Ji;, 1874, m. Lake Geneva, Wis., 
 June I), 189S, Rosalie Sturges, b. Chicago, 111., Dec. 14, 1873, 
 
Si.vlli Coicrntltiii. yy 
 
 rlang-htcr of George and Mar}' (Dclafiekl) Sturges. He grad- 
 uated at Harvard University, in 1897, and is associated with 
 liis father in the firm of George B. Carpenter & Co. 
 
 CiiiUh-en : 
 
 594. Mary Delafield (Carpenter). I). April 7, 1899. 
 
 595. George Sturges (Carpenter), 1). Jan. 22, 1901. 
 
 305. JOHX ALi^EX CARPENTER, b. Feb. 
 28, 1876, m. Xov. 20, 1900, Rue Winterbotham, b. Joliet, lU., 
 Nov. 14, 1876, daughter of Joseph and Genevieve Fellows 
 (Baldwin) Winterbotham. He graduated at Harvard in 1897, 
 and is associated with his father in the firm of George B. Car- 
 penter & Co. 
 
 Child : 
 
 596. Genevieve (Carpenter). 1). Oct. 23, 1902. 
 
 3r2. CHARLES F. RILEY, b. July 11, 1864, 
 in. 1885, Jemiie Hull. 
 
 Cliild: 
 
 597. Frederick (Riley), b. 1887. 
 
 316. HARRY T. ROCKWOOD. b. May 4, 
 1873, m. June 20, 1899, Marion Belle Philo. He graduated 
 from N. D. high school in Chicago. r\Irs. Rockwood gradu- 
 ated 1896 from Kemper Ihill. Kenodia.Wis. 
 
 3-20. GRACE T. KING, b. Dec. 15, 1873. m. 
 June, 1897, Roswell B. Fralick. 
 
 Child : 
 
 598. Chaunrey Riley (Fralick), b. 1898. 
 
 325. HAYES c;iDDINGS WiirfMORE 
 KING, b. Painesville, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1868. m. Alice Frederick, 
 b. Oct. 20, 1867. 
 
~S Si.vtJi Gciicratioii. 
 
 Cliildren. h. Painesvillc. Ohio: 
 
 599. Marion Louise (King), b. Oct- 22, 1893. 
 
 600. Frederick Theodore (King), b. Xov. 25, 1895. 
 
 334. KLKA ]•:. CIIAPMAX, 1). Aslnalnila, O., 
 Nov. 2J. 1S55. m. Jan. 7. 1875, Orange J. Loney, b. March 3, 
 1842. 
 
 Child. 1). Ashtabula, ( )hi() : 
 
 601. Charlotte May (Loney), 1). Feb. 7, 1877. graduated 
 
 1895 from Knoxville. Iowa, high school, 
 and is a teacher of piano, violin, guitar and 
 mandolin, and is studying music at Burling- 
 ton, Iowa, under German instructor. 
 
 335. FRANK (BUTTERS) b. Wayne, Ohio, 
 Sept. 10, 1861, m. Sept. 6, 1899, Cora Moore, of Lima, Ohio, 
 b. Zanesville, Ohio. 
 
 He is assistant suj-fcrintendent of the Farat^ne Works of 
 
 Lima, Ohio. 
 
 Cliild, 1). Lima, Ohio : 
 
 602. Charles Frank (Butters), b. Sei)t. 9, 1900. 
 
 33r>. CHARLES H. liLH^rERS, b. Cory, Pa., 
 March 5, 1867, m. Sept. 20, 1899, Maud Louise Cady, b. St. 
 Paul, Minn. He is a chemist and druggist at Anoka, Minn. 
 
 Child, 1). Anoka, Minn. : 
 
 603. Tom ( Ihntersi, b. Jan. 5, 1901. 
 
 337. ADDIE E. HAYES, b. Wayne, Ohio, 
 Aug. 24. 1867. m. March 20, i8S(), iM-etUTick .McXeiley. She 
 is a fiUf nnisician, of both vocal and inslruniental music. 
 
 Children : 
 
 604. lycroy (.Mc.W'ik'v ). b. .\pril 15. i8(jo. 
 
 605. ALiy '■ 1). Sept. 16, 1895. 
 
Sixtli (I'ciwration. -<>» 
 
 606. Helen L. (McNeiley), b. Oct. 2j, 1897. 
 
 607. Han\ \\ " 1). March 29, 1900, d. Oct. 19. 
 
 1900. 
 
 339. I'.DWARl) v. ()ATIJ-\'. ]>. Minnesota, 
 
 Jan. 24. 1859, ni. L'arrir W illianis, who d. . He m. 2nd, 
 
 Belle I'.undy, h. Ani;-. 17. 1869. 
 
 Children, 1). Cortland, Ohio: 
 
 6o8- Mert Leverne (Oatley), 1). jnne 30, 1885. 
 
 609. Lloyd Lewis " h. April 29, 1888. 
 
 610. .Ada Abiah " 1). July 22, 1892. 
 
 341. LOTA ( )ATLEY, b. Cortland, Ohio, Jan. 
 
 25, 1864. ni. Edgar J. Regal, who d. . 
 
 She m. 2nd, Charles S. Osmer. 
 
 Child, by Tst hnsband : 
 
 ()ii. Fern M. (Regal), b. Jan. 20, 1885. 
 
 345 HELF,N FRAXCES WEEKS, b. St. 
 
 Charles, Minn., Fel). 6, 1867, ni. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 
 
 26, 1901. Carroll Henry Jones, of Delaware, ( )hi(X Mrs. 
 Jones graduated 1885 from X. W. Lniversity and 1888 from 
 \'assar College and \ assar Conservatory of Music. Mr. 
 Tones graduated from Wesleyan University at Delaware. ()., 
 and is an attorney at law at Chicago, in the X'. ^'. T,ife Ins. 
 building. 
 
 346. CHARLES YOKE, b. State Line, Pa., 
 Feb. 28, 1859, m. March 24, 1881, Eliza Parks, b. 1864. He 
 m. 2nd, Feb. 1890, Annie Fitzgerald, b. July i, 1871. 
 
 Children : 
 
 612. Warren (Yoke), b. Feb. 14. 1882. 
 
 613. Bessie " b. Feb. 14, 1S93, d. Oct. 26, 1895. 
 
So . Si.vtJi Generation. 
 
 348. APJGAiL ELIZABETH HAYES, b. 
 Wayne, Ohio. Aug. 24, 1878, m. Nov. 28, 1900, Pearl Schuy- 
 ler vSpehnaii. h. Jan. 26. 1878, son of Schuyler and Jane L. 
 (Burlingame) Spelman. 
 
 Child, I). Wayne, Ohio: 
 
 614. Hayes Schuyler (Spchnan). 1). Sept 14, 1901. 
 
 349.^ RICHARD MILES HAYES, b. Wayne, 
 Ohio, Sept. II, 1876, ni. March 4 1903, Mary Thomas of* 
 Kinsman, ( )]iio. H^ i:^ of firm of Bativeck & Hayes, cheese 
 factory, at Wayne, Ohio. 
 
 355. CASSIUS COLE, b. Jan. 15. 1869, m. 
 Xov. 6, 1893, ^laud McBroom. 
 
 Children : 
 
 615. Arthur Leroy (Cole), b. Jan. 2, 1895, ^^- Feb. 5, 1896. 
 
 616. George Robert '" b. April 14, 1900. 
 
 617. Helen Loui?a " b. Aug. 21, 1902. 
 
 357. LUELLA F. COLE, b. Feb. 7, 1877. m. 
 Dec. 25, 1895, Alexander McCrum. Res. Lyons, Kansas. 
 
 Child : 
 
 618. W-rnon Eugene (McCruni), b. Sept. 22, 1896. 
 
 3()5. MARY J. ll.VYES, b. Feb. 24. 1876, m- 
 Dec: 2, 1899. Charles E. I '.oils. 
 
 Child : 
 (>\ij. l-'anny \ iola ( I'.olls), b .Jan. 9, 1901- 
 
 3«;. (iJCOkGl-: llAVluS, b. Dec. 15, 1880, m. 
 A|)ril 22, 1902, Laura Bierbauni. 
 
Sixtli Cn'iicratinii. S/ 
 
 3()S. JOSH-: 11AVI-:S. b. Dec. 3,- 1882, m. 
 Overton, Alo.. March 2},, 1901, James E. Shelby, b. Dec. 19, 
 1879. 
 
 372 SADIE HAYES, b. June 21, 1876, m. H. 
 
 W'eiriok. 
 
 Children, 1). Perryville, Ohio: 
 
 620. Xannie (Weirick). 
 
 621. Hettie 
 
 622. Charles 
 
 376. ANNA MELISSA GEIGER, b. Allen 
 County. Tnd., Jan. 6, 1881, m. W'hitely County, Ind,, Jan. 26, 
 1898, Arno Leona Gaff, b. Noble County, Ind., Jan. 12, 1875. 
 Res. Columbus County. Ind., in June, 1903. 
 
 Children : 
 
 623. Hugh Archer (Gaff), b. Jan. 2"/, 1899. 
 
 624. Hope Wannetia (Gaff), b- July 28, 1901, d. Aug. 6, 
 
 1901. 
 
 378. HOWARD R. SCOTT, b. June 8, 1869, 
 m. Feb. 18, 1894, Callie Lonon. 
 
 Children : 
 
 625. Horace Ehvin (Scott), b. Nov. 10, 1894, d. Aug. 29, 
 
 1895. 
 
 626. Leila Iva (Scott), Jan- 26, 1896. 
 
 627. Greba (Scott), b. Feb. 16, 1898. 
 
 381. BENNIE PEDAN SCOTT, b. March 
 12, 1874, m. Oct. 23, 1896, Cora Friend, b. June, 1877, d. Feb. 
 14, 1901. at Ozark, Mo. 
 
 Children : 
 
 628. Emma (Scott), b. Sept. 13, 1897- 
 
 629. Linus, "" b. 1899. 
 
82 sixth Generation. 
 
 4-13. CHARLES HEZLIP JONES, b. Jan. ii, 
 1870, 111. March 30, 1898, Jessie W'eanier of Pennsylvania. He 
 IS a grocer. 
 
 Child : 
 
 630. Hugo W. Jones, h. Aug. 25. 1899. 
 
 4U. WILLIA^I COWDRY JONES, b. Oct. 
 3, 1871, m. Turtle Creek. Pa., Dec. 5, 1899, Isa Steele. He is 
 a machinist. 
 
 115. BENJA^HN SAMUEL JONES, b. Nov. 
 30, 1873, ni. Wayne, Ohio. July 8, 1900, Henrietta King. He 
 is a farmer. 
 
 •lis. KATIE MARL\ JONES, b. April 30, 
 1867, (1. Jan. II. 1903. She was a teacher for several years, 
 but gave up her chosen work to care for her sister Mabel 
 Elizabeth, who was an invalid for years, from spinal trouble, 
 and to do for others. She had her reward in seeing her 
 sister restored to health. She was beloved l)y all who knew 
 her. 
 
 4-21. FRANKLLV PAL:MER JONES, b. 
 July i"/, 1877, ni. July 30, 1899. Bcriha Pease. He is a farmer. 
 
 4:j:J. HAYES WRIGHT JONES, b. Aug. 21, 
 i87r.. 111. Dec. 25. 1898, Cora I'.. Shar]). b. Dec. 24. 1877. He 
 is a farmer. 
 
 Children : 
 
 631. Dorithe May (Jones), b. Oct. 9, 1899. 
 ()},2. hena Uulli " b. C)ct. 17, 1900. 
 
 4:{(;. HORACE EDWIN GIDDINGS. b. 
 Wayne, f )lii,,. Aug. 14. i89i, m. del. 7. i88(;. Margaret Ray. 
 He is an electrician and ijromimnl in the oil works of Miller 
 & Siblev, at I-'rauklin. Pa. 
 
Si.vtii (icucration. Sj 
 
 437. ALMIRA ELIZA GIDDINGS, b. 
 Wayne, Ohio, April 27, 1866, in. June 21, 1893, Dr. George J. 
 Jobson. She is an accomplished musician and is organist in 
 M. E. church in Franklin, Pa. 
 
 Child, b. Oil City. Pa. : 
 633. Isabel (Jobson), b. Sept. 2, 1896. 
 
 488. STAXLEY ALBERT GIDDINGS, b. 
 
 Ashtabula, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1868, m. — . He has written 
 
 many fine poems for the press, and is foreman of departments 
 of the Stoddard Manufacturing Co., at Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 Children : 
 
 634- Mildred Stanley (Giddings), b. April 8, 1899. 
 
 635. Wade Chichester " b. ]\Tarch 24, 1901. 
 
 439. CLAUDE WAKELY GIDDINGS, b. 
 Aug. 13, 1877, m. Rochester, N. Y., March 6, 1901, Clarabel 
 Bennett, b. Warren, Ohio, March 9, 1878. 
 
 441. FREDERICK MERRICK SIMPKIN'S, 
 b. Wayne, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1862, m. Sept. 25, 1884, Josephine 
 Covel, of Andover, Ohio. He is secretary and confidential 
 clerk in ofiice of Miller & Sibley in Franklin, Pa. 
 
 Children : 
 
 636. Bessie May (Simpkins), b. May 29, 1886, d. Oct. 19, 
 
 1886. 
 
 637. John Coodle " b. Franklin, Pa., Aug. 8, 
 
 1888. 
 
 44'2. HERBERT WILLIAM SIMPKINS, b. 
 
 Wayne, Ohio, Oct. i, 1864, ni. June 2'/. 1889, ^Unnie Guest 
 of New Lyme, Ohio. He is a teacher. 
 
 Child: 
 
 638. Mary Marguerite (Simpkins), b. March 17, 1895. 
 
(J/ ■ Si.vtJi Cciicratioii. 
 
 4i:i. ERXKST Jl'Xll'S SIAII'KIXS. b. 
 Wayne, ( )]iio. .March 30. 1868, m. Cincinnati, Ohio, April 16, 
 1900. Mrs. Ahce (Shobrook) Monroe, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 Nov. 7. 1874. He i> one of the faculty of the Xorthwestern 
 Conservatory of Music at Minneapolis. Minn. Mrs. Simp- 
 kins had a daug'hter by her first husband, named Lillian Mon- 
 roe, b. Cincinnati. ( )hi(). Sept. 22, 1893. 
 
 444-. FRAXK ADDISOX SIMPKIXS, b. at 
 Wayne, Ohio. June 8, 1870, m. April 5, 1896, Matilda Double- 
 day, of Richmond, Ohio. He is superintendent of Music in 
 the public schools at Perry, Lake County, Ohio, and is a com- 
 poser, some of his compositions becoming" poi)ular, such as 
 "Christ at the Door," "Waiting'" and ""Cupid and I." 
 
 44G. LEROY HOWARD SI^H^KIXS, b. at 
 Wayne, C Jliio. May 2(j, 1873. m. Fel). 14, 1897, Rose May 
 Beekman. He is a dentist at Orangeville. Ohio. 
 
 Children, b. ( )rangeville, ( )]uo. : 
 
 639. Wallace Dewey (Simpkins). b. June g, 1898. 
 
 640. Henry Sullivan " b. April 23, 1901. 
 
 Wi, MAK^' KLLEX SLAHMxTXS. b. Wayne, 
 Ohio, Oct. 24, 1878, m. .May 4, 1902, (V'or.c:e I'.urd l^astlake. 
 He is an express agent at \\'ellsville. ( )hio. 
 
 Child. 1). Wayne. ( )hio : 
 
 '')4i. Crace Simpkins (Eastlake). 1). March 6. 1903. 
 
 457. XbMJJl'. i'.b'.ST, b. A-ency, Iowa. Jan. 
 20, i8f)S, ni. i{(l54ar \ reeland. 
 
 ChildriMi : 
 
 642- Hazel (\reeland). b. I.a Crosse, Wis., Feb. 8, 1888. 
 643. I Jessie " b. " " Oct. 24, 18^9. 
 
 f).\4. Cicrtrude " b. v'-^upenor. " I'eb. 2-^. 1899. 
 
 645. Marj^^arel ICiuiiy (\ reeland). b. Superior. Wis., Feb. 
 26. KIOI. 
 
Sixth Cn'iuTiitioii. Sj 
 
 460. laUTII KLTZAr.I'.Tl I REST, b. Oct. 29, 
 
 1876, ni. Tunc 1 I, 1902, Edward E. Beckwiili, b. July 2, 1871. 
 
 Mrs. Ileckwitb bas taus^bt in tbc second ])riniary department 
 
 in tlie ])ubbc scboob ?dr. Picckwitli is principal of scbools at 
 
 Neligb. Xeb. 
 
 467. LTT.LTAX WILCOX, b. Dec. 17, 1870. 
 m. Dec. 2S. i88g, Cbarles K. Waldo, 
 
 Child : 
 
 646. Libbie (\\'ald'o), b. 1891. 
 
 478. AP.PJE LoriSE LATHROP, b. South 
 Hadley. Mass., Jan. 16. 1866, m- Lawrence, Kansas, June 13, 
 1888, Frank X. Mc ^[illan, of Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Children : 
 
 647. Rae Whipple (]\IcAIillan) b. June 11 1889. 
 
 648. Ellen Marguerite (ATcArillan). b. Feb. 20, 1891. 
 
 471>. LYMAN REED LATHROP, b. South 
 Hadley, Mass., April 28, 1869, m. April 24, 1902, Julia Fox, 
 of Chicago, 111. He is in the wholesale furniture business in 
 Chicago. 
 
 480, HOWARD LATHROP, b. Dallas, 
 Texas, Sept. 18, 1877, ="• Dec. 4. 1901, Edith May Ellis, of 
 Kansas City. ^lo. He is in the wholesale furniture business 
 with his ])rother in Chicago. 
 
 481. CHARLES MERRICK STARKWE.V- 
 THER, I). Xorthanipton, Mass., ]^Iarch 29, 1864, m. Oct. 24, 
 1894, Lucy WillistiMi. He graduated at Amherst. 1886. and 
 is in Inisiness in Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Starkweather grad- 
 uated at Smith College, 1892. 
 
S6 Sixth Generation. 
 
 Children : 
 
 649. Lyman Wililston (Starkweather), b. Nov. 17, 1897. 
 
 650. Sarah " b. Dec. 8, 1899. 
 
 651. Esther " b. March 22, 1903. 
 
 483. EMILY BLISS STARKWEATHER b. 
 Northampton, Mass., June 28, 1869, m. Nov. 14, 1901, David 
 Brainard Rowland. Residence, 35 Francis street, Providence, 
 R. I. (1903.) 
 
 Child, b. Providence, R. T. : 
 
 652. David Merrick (Howland), b. July 9, 1903. 
 
 485. WILLIAM MERRICK SEMANS, b. 
 Wilbraham, Mass., Dec. 29, 1861, m. June 3, 1891, Jessamine 
 Freeman. He is a practicing- ]:)hysician in Delaware, Ohio. 
 
 Children : 
 
 653. William O. (vSeamans), b. June 30, 1892. 
 
 654. Mary " b. July 17, 1894. 
 
 486. EDWARD MERRICK SEMANS, b. 
 Wilbraham, ^lass., Oct. 26, 1863, m. Jan. 22, 1895, Sallie 
 Reed. He was surgeon major of the 4th Ohio reg. in the 
 Spanish war, and is a practicing physician in Delaware. Ohio. 
 
 Child : 
 
 655. Joseph Reed (Semans), b. Oct. 17, 1899. 
 
 48S. MARY SEMANS, b. Wilbraham, Mass., 
 May 22, 1869, ni. March 21, 1891, Rev. Philip Philips, who 
 d. Aug. 4, 1898. He was ass't rector in the church of the 
 Ascen.sion, at Xew York City. 
 
 Child: 
 65^.. Mary ( )livr ( I'hilips), b. April 2, 1892. 
 
SixtJi Generation. ,Sy 
 
 49G. LAURA C^KKTRL'Ol': WOODRUFF, 
 b. Allegheny, Pa., March 26, 1864, "">• April 23, 1885, William 
 Frederick Schneider, of Rochester, Pa., b. Jan. 12, 1861. 
 
 Children : 
 
 657. Ethel May (Schneider), b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 
 
 S, 1886. 
 
 658. Louis Alden (Schneider), b. Philipsburg, Pa., April 
 
 13.. 1887. 
 
 659. Charles William (Schneider), b. Salem, Ohio, July 31, 
 
 1890. 
 
 497. JENNIE WOODRUFF, b. Aug. 12, 
 [868, ni. Dec. 21, 1891, Charles Sill, who d. Feb. 4, 1901. 
 
 Child: 
 
 660. Morton Woodruff (Sill), b. Nov. 5, 1894. 
 
 -too. MARTHA ESTELLA DOLBY, b. Mar. 
 7, 1872, m. Jan. i, 1891, Harry Douthill, of Darlington, Pa., 
 b. Feb. 20, 1865. 
 
 Child : 
 
 661. ^lary Ella (Douthill), b. Dec. 30, 1893. 
 
 • 
 
 502. FRANKLIN WOODRUFF, b. Nov. 5, 
 1865, m. Dec. I, 1892, May Mcnncz, of Mansfield, Ohio, b. 
 July 16, 1 87 1. 
 
 Child : 
 
 662. i\Iarie (Woodruff), b. Nov. 28, 1893. 
 
 503. ANNA MAJORIE WOODRUFF, b. 
 Oct. 15, 1867, m. Frank Golden Throne, of Jamestown, Ind., 
 b. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Child: 
 
 663. Florence Golden (Throne), b. July 12, 1893. 
 
SS Sixth Generation. 
 
 :AH. MA1;I<:L woodruff, b. Nov. 22, 
 1870, ni. Sept. II, 1893, Charles Wilson Thomas, of Darling-- 
 ton, Pa., b. Dec. 10, 1866. 
 
 Child: 
 
 664. Mildred h'lizabcth (Thomas), b. Dec. 23, 1895. 
 
 505. CORA LILLIAN WOODRUFF, b. 
 Sept. 20, 1872, m. April 18, 1893, Frank Matthews. 
 
 507. FRED HULL PARSONS, 1). July 20, 
 18 — , m. Oct. 24, 1894. Lulu Delaplaine Bedelle, of South Nor- 
 walk. Conn., b. P>rooklyn, N. Y., Oct- 27, 1863. 
 
 50i). HAROLD ASHToX PARSONS, b. 
 June 13, 1872, m. Oct. 14, 1896, Mary P)rookfield Paxson, b. 
 Bristol, Pa., Sept. 24, 1876. He is a graduate of Columbia 
 College, N. Y., and is of the firm of Parsons & Belden, Civil 
 and Sanitary Engineers, at Stamford. Conn. 
 
 Child, b. Stamford, Conn. : 
 
 665. George Holcombe (Parsons), b. Feb. 10, 1902- 
 
 523. ARTHUR WARFIELD ADA.MS, b. 
 Davison. Mich.. Oct. i, 1868, d. Chesaning Mich., June i, 
 1900, m. June 6, 1894, Helen* Clough, of Chesaning, Mich. 
 He graduated from department of Pharmacy at Ann Arbor 
 University, 1891, and was engaged in his profession at Bay 
 City for a short time, and for six years was with the Bristol & 
 Myers Co., Pharmaceutical Works, at Rochester, N. Y.. and 
 at Brooklyn, two years. 
 
 Children : 
 666- Edith Helen (Adams), b. Syracuse, N. Y., May 29, 
 
 1895. 
 'V)7. Dorothy l{lizal)c-lh (Adams), b. Syracuse, N. Y., 
 
 .March 5, 1897. 
 608. Anha Wartiold (Adams), b. Brooklyn, N. Y. July 5. 
 
 1899. 
 
Sixth (iciicralioii. S^ 
 
 5'iJ-. LUCIAX 111 RAM ADAMS, b Cort- 
 land, ( )Iii(), Jan. jS, 1S74, d. July 17. 1892. \\v joimd llic M. 
 E. church in i(S87, t^radnatcd ivoiw Chesaning'. Mich. I fiy-h 
 School, 1888, spciil I wo x'cars and a half in Ann Arhor I lis^-h 
 vSchool, pre])arini;' for the State I'nivcrsity in the frdl, hni his 
 death prevented conn,)letion of the conr.se. 
 
 5-2G ALMA LA\lXiA CORY, b. Greene. 
 Ohio, Aug. 9, 1867, m. Oct. 11, 1888. Benjamin C. Belt, of 
 Licking county. C>hio. I\Trs. Uelt is a portrait and landscape 
 painter. Mr. Belt is a telegraph operator at Kirkesville sta- 
 tion, ( )hio, on the IL & O. R. R. 
 
 Children : 
 669- Charles Wesley (Belt), b. Aug. 241, 1893. 
 
 670. LJeulah May " b. Jan. 7, 1897. 
 
 5-27. FLORENCE CORY, b. Greene, Ohio. 
 
 March 25, i860. ni. Oct. 18, 1888, Jefferson Langworthy. 
 
 Children : 
 
 671. Dorothy (Lanworthy), b. May 14, 1891. 
 
 672. Lou Robert " b. ^March z, 1893. 
 
 5'J8 ORIX ROBERT CORY. d. Greene. 
 Ohio, Jan. 2t,. 187-I. m. Nov. 23. 1898, Alma Rice, of Greene. 
 Ohio. He is in the dry goods business at Cleveland. Ohio. 
 
 t)^ 
 
 538. ALLIE MELISSA SMITH, b. May 15. 
 1879, m. Oct. 1902, Bertram Taylor. Mr. Tayior attended the 
 
 Cunuiock School of Oratory, at Evansville. 111. 
 
 .Ul). CL.\KA ELIZ.V15ETH JACOBI. b. To- 
 ledo, Ohivj, July 31, 1877, m. Will L. Johns,, b. Cleveland, 
 Ohio, June, 1876. 
 
 Children b. Cleveland Uhio : 
 
 673- Helen ( bjhns) h. -Vug., 1898. 
 
 674. Arleen Mildred (Johns) b. Sept. 13. 1902, d. Jan. 2, 
 1903. 
 
po Sezrnth Generation. 
 
 SFA'EXTH GEXKRATION 
 
 5Gi>. CLYDE FREDERICK SWISHER, b. 
 St. Paul, Minn.. Xov. ii. 1871, ni. Sept. 28. 1893, Ada Ruth 
 Wert, 1). July 24. 1871, daughter of John Benjamin and ICrma 
 Isabel (Long) Wert. He is agent of the Xorth Shore Dis- 
 patch at Chicago. 
 
 Child : 
 
 675. Rutii Erma (Swisher), b. Dec- 31, 1895. 
 
 [end of the gkxe.\logv.] 
 
LETTERS, 
 
 FROM TITUS HAYES, JR. 
 
 Canandaigua, N. Y . Jan. 15, 1804. 
 
 Dear Sister, (Miss Statira Hayes, Hartland, Ct.) 
 
 I received yours of the 28th of June with no small 
 degree of satisfaction. 
 
 I flatter myself that a change of circumstances will in- 
 duce you to break over the distance that separates the beauti- 
 ful town of Canandaigua from the rocky clififs of Hartland. 
 
 It has been reported that we have a brother Jones. I 
 cannot contradict nor affirm that to be the case, for neither 
 you nor our people have confirmed it to me. If it is real, 
 present my respects to Mr. and Mrs. Jones, as a well respect- 
 ed Brother and a loving Sister. 
 
 I hope you will not neglect to write to me every oppor- 
 tunity. 
 
 I have been informed that Mr. A. Brockway has under- 
 taken an expedition against the ladies of Hartland. The 
 report is confirmed l)y his lately passing this place on his way 
 (he says) to Court. 
 
 Give love to Ricliard, 1 am with respect, yours, 
 
 TITUS HAYES. 
 
 FROM DEBORAH JONES TO MRS. MERRICK. 
 
 Barkhamstcd. 3>lay 25, 1806. 
 Affectionate Sister, 
 
 I cannot express my gratitude for an opportuni- 
 ty of conveying a few lines to one of whom I so often think 
 
g2 Ixllcr 
 
 s. 
 
 with such tenderness. How many pleasing hours we have 
 spent together. Alas, they are all past. I cannot but hope 
 that we shall >et enjoy each other's company many hours. It 
 grieves me to think that we are at so great a distance from 
 each other. l)ut why should we reflect, since it is our lot. You 
 cannot imagine the anxiet}- of my mind t(j hear from you and 
 your family, your babe in particular. You doubtless would be 
 very hapjjy to hear from us. We enjcjy a tolerable state of 
 health, at present, although we have 1)een much unwell. 1 
 must inform you that I have another line son born Feb. i6th, 
 (Flavel). \\'hen my babe was ten days old I was attacked 
 with fever and was very sick for a few days. ^\x. Jones has 
 been very sick himself. He cut his ankle very bad the ist day 
 of March, and was not able to do 2,v.\ business for two months 
 or more. You may well think it was a distressing time, at 
 the same time Linus was very un\vell l)ut through the gOf)d- 
 ness of Almighty God we have been preserved to the present 
 time. Linus is very well, the babe, (for so I must call him) 
 likewise is well at present, is very fat and hearty. Although 
 he was very unwell until he was three or four days old, it 
 was not expected that he would live but a short time, but he, 
 as well as myself, was preserved when in the greatest danger. 
 I hope you will have the goodness to excuse my writing, for 
 my children are crying at my elbow, which is nothing more 
 than common. Adieu, for my ])abe is crying ver_\- hard. T 
 can scarcely sto]) my unruly ])en, D. J. 
 
 FROM TITUS HAYES TO MR. AND MRS. MERRICK, 
 WILMINGTON, VT. 
 
 1 l.-irtlaiid, May 26, 1806. 
 Dear Children, 
 
 We received yours of the <;th of Feb., only the 
 8th instani. but it i)eing the onl\- conunuuicitidu from you of 
 any kind ^ince you left \\'i]hrahani it was very acce]:)table. 
 Xor have we ever lieai'd Iroiu Wilbraliam since vour mother 
 
Li'fli'i's. <?T 
 
 came iroin there last winter. I lia\e iKjthing special to write 
 you onl\- that we are all well thr()iiL:;h the j^^oodness of God as 
 I hope and pray this may tind yoii. II. l>orden still remains 
 very weak and low and won't probably remain long in this 
 world. William Wright, about four weeks since, in stepping 
 off a cart with a pitch fork in his hands, slipt down and stuck 
 the fork into his bowels of wliich wound he died in about 
 forty hours in the most excruciating distress of body and 
 mind, an awful and solemn warning for all to be ready for the 
 important scene of death. Thus he had been taken out of 
 the world in the 27th year of his cgc. leaving a widow and 
 three small children under low circ-mstances to lament tlieir 
 loss. 
 
 I shall send this to Wilbrahani by W. Church in order 
 that it may be sent out next week at the execution of Dally 
 and Xilligan. if that fails shall direct it to be ])ut into the post 
 Debby and Xabby likewise write which must take the chance 
 of private conveyance as it would be unnecessary to increase 
 postage without special need. If private conveyance don't of- 
 fer. I wish you to write per mail and direct to Hartford post 
 ofifice as soon as convenient and let me know how vou do and 
 how you like your settlement and the place.and at any time i*" 
 anything special happens to you write per post, and I will 
 do the same. J think you said there was not a post ofificc in 
 Wilmington. If not, please to inform how I shall direct. 
 
 I have not heard anything special from your brother at 
 New Connecticut since last October, but a number of letters 
 have come to Hartland of fpiite a late date. They all say that 
 it is a general time of heallh and nnthng special, so I con- 
 clude our friends are all well tho they by some means have 
 not wrote. May God ever have you in his gracious care and 
 keeping is the earnest prayer of your atifectionate parents, 
 
 TITUS HAYKS. 
 
 To Xoah and Statira Merrick. 
 
g^ Letters. 
 
 FROM TITUS HAYES TO MR. AND MRS. MERRICK, 
 WILMINGTON, VT. 
 
 Hartland, May 19. 1807. 
 
 Dear Children, 
 
 As was proposed I wrote to you some time 
 after vou were at Hartland, informing you of our circumstan- 
 ces. I have frequently sent to the post office expecting a 
 line from vou but have found none. I now embrace the op- 
 portunity of Mr. Aaron Gates coming into your neighbor- 
 hood to write again hoping it may through God's goodness 
 fmd vou well. As to our circumstances I know not what to 
 write, Your mother remains in somewhat the same situation, 
 except she is more discouraged. Were it possible to raise 
 her spirits I should be much encouraged, but she is far more 
 desponding than when you were here, and can't be made to 
 have the least courage or animation though she enjoys a tol- 
 erable appetite for food, and rests nights somewhat com- 
 fortablv. yet it is a frequent thing with her when I go to work, 
 to take her leave of me saying she shall never see me again. 
 My heart is discouraged. I can write no more. Your affec- 
 tionate father, Titus Hayes. 
 
 Our friends are generally well here and at New Connecti- 
 cut not long since. 
 
 FROM TITUS HAYES, JR. 
 
 Green, June 28, 1807. 
 Dear v^ister: fv^lalira .Merrick, \\'ill)r il.am ), 
 
 Father wrote to nie that you were settled at 
 Wilmington in \'cr. 
 
 Richard and Linns, wilh their wives, were here last week. 
 Liiius'swifc has no children notwithstanding the inmiediate 
 necessity of peopling this extensive wilderness. T left the 
 Genesee Country with my fanul\ in company with Tjcnj. 
 Scovil and IClisha Giddings wilh their lamilies.who are set- 
 
l.cttcrs. Qc; 
 
 tied in tliis oountry. In consequence of Oliver Phelps (the 
 man I was to have land of) not fulfilling his agreement with 
 nic I was obliged to return and demand a fulfillment of his 
 contract which prcvcnto<l my settling till fall of the same 
 year. I have so far surmotmtcd the difficulties of a new set- 
 tlement that I have plenty to eat and drink, and an improve- 
 ment of 30 acres cleared of nearly the whole of the timber. 
 We live in a little low log house. Our neighbors are no bet- 
 ter off but this does not afford any consolation otherwise than 
 to consider it the common lot of all new settlers. 
 
 I have had no news from Hartland for about 7 m. when 
 father wrote that our mother was quite ill, the consequences 
 and final result of w'hich was much to be dreaded: the length 
 of time since I have heard from them has induced me to 
 believe that she has in a measure recovered. 
 
 I expect to set out tomorrow as a Commissioner to lay 
 out a state road from the Southern part of this purchase to 
 Lake Erie. This road will not go far from here and will with- 
 out doubt add greatly to ojr advantages in this part of the 
 country. I have not had a word from you since you changed 
 your situation in life. 
 
 Direct to the Post oaice in Austinburg. 
 
 The township of Green contains 6 towns according to 
 the survey of this pr.rchase viz. Xo. 7 & 8 in the three first 
 Ranges. 
 
 When speaking of the settlement of this town I mean 
 this 5 miles square", TITUS H.-WES. 
 
 FROM TITUS HAYES. 
 
 Hartland, October 25, 1807. 
 Dear Children. (X. Merrick c^- ^^'ife, Wilmington, Yt.) 
 
 I now embrace an opportunity to write to you 
 and your first inquiry would be doubtless about your mother 
 and what to answer I know not. She thinks she grows poorer 
 but I think there is no special alteration since you saw her. 
 
pd Letters. 
 
 She has tried another long course of mercury this summer 
 but it has done her no good, how it will terminate God only 
 knows. The rest of us and all your friends are well. Richard 
 has lately made us a vi^^it. He left his family, his brothers 
 and their families all well. Yorr uncle Silas died of an 
 apoplectic in un the 6th instant. If your mother had been 
 well I should doubtless have visited yt)U before now. but as 
 circumstances are I see no probability 1 shall see you soon 
 if 1 should live, nor indeed can any of our family- leave home 
 in our present situation. If any considerable alteration should 
 happen to your mother I will inunediately write you. This 
 goes by the way of Wilbraham. May God's grace and mercy 
 protect us all through life ought to be the prayer of us all. 
 
 Adieu, 
 
 TITUS HAYES. 
 
 TO NOAH AND STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 Hartland, Conn., Dec'm. I2th, 1809. 
 
 Dear Children, I b.ave just received vours with satisfac- 
 tion informing us you were all well. Our circumstances are 
 much the same as when your sister Jones was at Wilmington. 
 I can i)reccive no material alteration in your mother's health. 
 Certainly she is no poorer. I think it cpiite likely we shall 
 see you at Wilbraham this winter if it ■should be good sleigh- 
 ing. "Nabby"" has been married and moved away about two 
 months. We at ])resent have a good housekeeper in the per- 
 son i)f I 'oily jewet, how long she will '^tay is at present uncer- 
 tain. Except your mother we are all well, and indeed it is 
 a general time of health with us. Our friends at New Con- 
 necticut arc all well. 
 
 Titus went from I birtl.-ind yesterday to Somers and from 
 thence to Colchester, on bnsint's^, in company with a man 
 from New Connecticut, which will i)r()])ably prevent his com- 
 ing from Somers to Wilbraham, but he will doubtless, I 
 think, come and see yon before he returns which prevents 
 
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 my writing- iimrc particularly ti) yon. It is a great satisfacti(_)n 
 to \()ur mot 1km- and me to see Titns after almost eij^^ht years 
 absence. May we all he tliankl'nl to Cod for all such, and 
 every other favor is the earnest >vish and ])ra\er of 
 
 N our .VffecticHiate ]iarent, 
 
 TITL'S Il.\^'EvS. 
 
 DEBORAH (HAYES) JONES TO STATIRA HAYES MERRICK, 
 
 WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 Hartland Oct. i i, iSio. 
 
 Dear Sister : 
 
 1 doubt not hut 'hat \'ou are anxious to hear 
 from us and what has past since you left us. Our people 
 did not go so soon as was expected. 
 
 Contrary to their expectations Brother Titus came down 
 with a wagon which did not accommodate their business 
 \ery well lor the\' had not load enough for two wagons. Thev 
 finally went to Enfield and got one or two hundred of sythes 
 to make up a load. The oxwaggon set out a fortnight ago 
 N'esterday, the horse waggon a fortnight ago today. Father 
 and Titus accompanied the ok waggon on account of P)r(nher 
 Leicester being lame. He cut his leg verv bad with a sythe 
 Sunday before they set out ^ the evening before tliey set out 
 he was at the barn with Mr Jones to tend the horses. They 
 saw a rat &: running to kiU it fell down & ran- a ])itch fork 
 into the same leg which made it (piite lame but like to do well. 
 Capt. Meachum came down with Brother and accompanied 
 Mother and Leicester in the horse waggon. They all came 
 out to our house Saturday before they went away and staid 
 till they went away. We fixed them as comfortable for their 
 journey as we could. They all set out in better spirits than 
 could be exnected and were so the next morning for their 
 dog returned about two in the afternoon & Mr. Jones went 
 to overtake them with the dog, which he did by riding 24 
 
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 miles, staid with ihcin all night, left thcni in good spirits 
 in the niorning. 
 
 Father made yoti and me a present of his desk and slay. 
 It was his wish that you shotdd have the desk. He said that 
 Mr. j. ^K: Mr. M. must agree about it hut having oi)]K)rtimity 
 to send it think it best. 
 
 I would inform you that Mr. Jones has soUl his farm with 
 an intent to go to New Connecticut in a year or two. Ouf 
 fan;ily are all well at present. My respects to Brother, like- 
 wise your father's family. This will not be entertaining tc 
 any but yourself therefore 1 would not have it exposed to 
 th<:^ eye of any one for it was done in a great hurr\- indeed. 
 Accept my sincere wish for your welfare. 
 
 From }()ur affectionate Sister, 
 
 DEliORAH JOXES. 
 \. r>. I'rother wished to see you very much but could 
 not he had so nnich business c^- but little time. D. J. 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 Hartland, Jan. 17, iSi i. 
 
 Dear Sister : 
 
 .\n unexpected o])portunit\- i)resents itself which 
 1 improve with the greatest pleasure. I have but a few mo- 
 ments' time it was by accident that I heard of it. T cannot be 
 particidar therefore you nmst exctise my bad writing anil 
 composition. We are all of us enjoying very good health 
 hope this will find \()u enjo\ing the same blessing. 
 
 Sister r)atman has a fme daughter four weeks old today. 
 I am almost ashamed to own that 1 have not yet seen it but 
 the gcting has been bad some part of the time. T expect to 
 visit her in a few da\s J understand she is doing well. O 
 dear Sister how I long to see you. How long shall I be denied 
 that i)leasiire. I have thought that we should visit you this 
 winter but it is so difficult for us to leave home in the winter 
 that it is imcertain whether we come l)efore spring. I don't 
 
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 Uiiuw wlirlluT you haw liranl aiiylliini^- I'rom dur people since 
 ihcy K'fl llartland nr not, \\\' received a K-llcr Irom llinn 
 after tlic} arri\c(l which inlDniU'd us that they arrivccl thrre 
 after xi chiys travcHng. Uct. 28. Father informs us that his 
 team was excellent that they were tit to perform another 
 such iourney when lie ai'i-ixed there. He likewise informs us 
 that Mother was much heller wlien ihey got there than when 
 they set out that she walked ten, twenty and thirty 
 rods at a lime. At one time she walked half 
 
 a iiiile in the ni-hl in ihe woods, the staple 
 broke which fa>lened llie horses to the wagon. I 
 
 would send you the letter l)ut it is over to brother Oatman's. 
 He said he would write again when they got settled. My 
 head is so dizzy that I can hardl\- read my scrawl. Adieu 
 Dear Sister. DEBORAH JOXES. 
 
 I send this b\' Mr. Sleb])ins' people. 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 Hartland. Feb. 21, 1811. 
 Dear Sister : 
 
 \\'ith the greatest pleasure T received your un- 
 ex]jected letter. ]\lr. Merrick called at our house today 
 which gave me great pleasure. I should have been very happy 
 to have made a visit to this afternoon but 
 
 ctjuld not make it convenient. As to writinir about coinc to 
 N. C. I hardly know what to write. We arc at jn-esent making 
 our calculations to go next fall altho not certain we shall. 
 Mr. Jones received a letter from I'rother Titus in Jan. which 
 informed us that our ])arents and Brother Leicester lived in 
 a house near Brother Richard's but had not purchased any- 
 where yet that Mother was so well as to do considerable 
 work I understood by INIr. Joshua Giddings that she did the 
 work for the family but it is what I never expected to hear. 
 Why should we not rejoice (although parting is severe) since 
 it has been so much advantage to her health. T have a pro- 
 
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 ■>pvc{ it is true of again seeing her l)ul 1 think if 1 had not 1 
 could not wish licr l)ack again if she must be in the same sit- 
 uation she was in when slie left llartland. 
 
 brother & Sister Oatman were at our house last week 
 and tarried all night we had a very agreeable visit and you 
 dear sister were nt)t forgotten you were frequently spoken 
 of by both of us altho we could not expect your comi)any, we 
 felt anxious to hear from you. T have made them one visit 
 this winter since T wrote you. 1 never saw sister look so 
 healthy in my life.Mer babe is very small she calls it Julia Ann. 
 You must not think hard that 1 do not visit you this winter, 
 a visit I believe would give me as much pleasure as it would 
 you but it is very difficult to leave h(~tme this winter for the 
 weather is very cold. What a scrawl 1 lune written I have 
 almost fancied myself conversing with you. 
 
 A<liru dear Sister, adieu. DEBORAH JON'ES. 
 
 My children were nuicli ])lea>ed with the ])resents you 
 sent them. 1 am sorry I have not something to send them. 
 T had torgot to inform you that I have a ])lent\' of good flax 
 and nobody tu <])'\n it. 
 
 TO NOAH AND STATIRA MERRICK. WILBRAHAM. MASS. 
 
 TTartford, ( )hio Ajiril 15th, 1811. 
 Drar r.rother an<l Sister: — 
 
 I take my ])en in hand to inform v(^u of our 
 welfare. We are all in a tolerable stale of health at this time. 
 blather received a letter from \<)u the week past that was 
 dated l""eb')-. last. Xotwithstanding it had been long written 
 we had great satisfaction in hearing from \ou at that time. 
 Xo doubt you have great anxiety to lu'.ir an accoimt irom our 
 aged parents that can l)c dep(,'ndrd upon. 1 sliall undiM'take 
 to do il in a brief manner. They li\-c' in a house b\- them- 
 selves about sixty rods from where m\- house is. leather is 
 still feeble and not able to do any labor but some small 
 rliorcs about the house, but able to ride about. Mother has 
 
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 recovercil Ikt liralth \-(.Ty imicli. She is able to iId Ikt 
 housework, and lias >i)un Iwciily-tivc runs of linen yarn. 
 
 Leister is lo work lOr hiniselt and does not e.\])ecl to live 
 with father an\- more, h'ather and mother are well provided 
 for at present and are very well suiteil with the counlr_\'. 
 Father has heen mtieh belter of his particular intirmity since 
 he has heen with me here his eyesight failed him \ery much in 
 a few weeks past. Clarissa has not an opj)ortunity to write 
 yoti at this time. hiU will as soon as an oi)portunity offers. 
 A\'e have a very good opportunity to school our children, as 
 we have a school house in a few rods as g'ood or better than 
 any in Ilartland when 1 left the town. \'ou nuist not take my 
 exam])Ie in writing to us Imt write frequently, and send by 
 the mail if no other o])])ortunity offers. Hurry compels me to 
 close these few lines with the sincere wish that the blessings 
 of Almighty God may follow you through all the days of your 
 lives and thr(mgh death to the world of glory. This from 
 
 Your Affectionate l)rother, 
 
 RICHARD HAVES. 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM. MASS. 
 
 Ilartland. July ,; i . iSi i . 
 Dear Sister: 
 
 It is with the most ])ainftd sensations that I 
 assume my i)en to inform xou of the death of our beloved 
 jiarent. We received a letter day before yesterday from 
 brother Richard which informed us that he departed this life 
 June 20th, a*^ i8 minutes ])ast 12 in the morning. The follow- 
 ing (la\ his r'Muains were committed to the earth. Oh Sister 
 what a solenui thought. W'liat a solemn call to us, be ye also 
 ready for in such an hom^ as ye think not the Son of man 
 Cometh. ( )h ma\ we not nnirnnir at the hand of God but may 
 it excite us to watchfulness. May we ask ourselves tliis (|ues- 
 tion Am 1 i)'-'>pared to follow my deceased parent, if not, may 
 we go immediately about tlie great and necessary work. May 
 
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 we !)(.• ill I'^inicst, may we not trillc witli tliai on which our 
 oviTlastiiii^ happiness or misery (le])eii(ls. Ma} we not mourn 
 for the (lead hut for ourselves. ( )li may this be a profitable 
 lesson for mir souls. We see all earthly comforts le'aving and 
 disai)p()intiny; us may we be excited bv this to put our whole 
 trust in one '^hat will stand by us in all our troubles. I do not 
 know whether father was willing to die or not he had a very 
 distressing -'ckness of two months he from the first of his 
 sickiK-ss did not expect to get well ])ut exjM-essed a satisfac- 
 tion that he vvas with his sons. Mother enjoys her health 
 tolerable well wa'^ much worn out in father's sickness. 
 This in ilie greatest haste from \()ur sorrowing sister, 
 
 DEBORAH 1( )Xh:S. 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM. MASS. 
 
 \\aviv\ Oct. 27, 181 I. 
 
 Dear. Sister : — 
 
 1 ha\e now an unexpected o]-)portunily of writ- 
 ing to you which I shall improve with pleasure. \'ou without 
 doubt will be hap])y to hear how we got along. I am happy 
 to inform you we performed our journey with as much 
 ease as could be expected. I enjoyed my health very 
 well, excrpliug two or three da\s. I am at ]H'esent very 
 healthy. The rest of nn famih are tolerablx healthy. I found 
 our trieiids well e\ce])l Mother who i^ much as wIumi in Con- 
 necticut. W'c are now at r.rother Titus. We ha\'e been at 
 Hartford some liim\ We expect to li\e in Titus house this 
 winter as he i^ building a new one and e\i)t'Cts to move in 
 two or three dav>. I think I ma\ tell \iin I am a> widl i)leased 
 as I expcctecl. The settlement in Hartford and v'^mithiield is 
 very handsome and Hourishing. There is some handsome 
 building tlie people appear to \iv \vv\ wvV. pleast'd. 
 
 ' )h dear Si'-ter how often ilo I thinis of von with that 
 waniith oi affection which words cannot express. I canmit 
 give lip the idea of again seeing \n\\ in this world but should 
 
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 wo never meet aiLCain in this world may. we be ]ircpared to 
 
 nice! in a hotter and ha])])ior worhh nia\' wo rtfton sni)])h'cate 
 tlio thrniir of oraoe in each (ither> heliah' that wo ina_\ he pre- 
 pared lor that all important ohan_i;"o thai awaits ns. 
 1 now subscrihe niNsoll _\onr affectionate sister, 
 
 DK1U)RAU j(J.\"l<:S. 
 
 TO NOAH MERRICK AND WIFE, WILBRAHAM. MASS. 
 
 Wayne, Jan. 3, 1812.. 
 
 "I shall endeavor to give you an accomit of the last sick- 
 ness of our Deceased Father as far as 1 have boon accpiainted 
 witli the oircum-tances. ( )n the Kjlh of \i)ril 1 was at his 
 house and did business with him and found he was on the 
 decline and very forgetful. He told me he was ])ast doing 
 business without assistance. ^Mother said i could not con- 
 ceive how fast he failed as to his intellectual faculties. I was 
 sent for on the 8th of 'Slny. 1 went and staid three days with 
 him. He was confined to hi> bed and in a deranged state 
 spoke but few rational words anil iIkjso not connected in sen- 
 tences so as to convey a regular train of ideas. I was there 
 in about two weeks. He contimied nuich in the same way as 
 before. I staid alxmt 2 days, f heard no more trom there 
 tnuil tlie night fcdlowing the 17th of June. 1 immediately 
 woiU down and arrived at 3 o'clock the same night, found his 
 dissolutie<n fast approaching. He was in a soimd sleep, 
 breathed short and hard. It was with nmch difficulty that wo 
 awoke hiiu. His s]ioech had left him and nothing remained 
 visible but a ])od\- in the inmost distre>s. He continued much 
 the same till after 12 o'clock of the same day when Death aj)- 
 peared to promise a relief. He had several convulsive turns. 
 The doctor ])resent did not think at about 4 o'clock and trom 
 that time till night that he would live 5 minutes but Death 
 forbear to do its office, leaves the pri>oner as it wore to com- 
 plete an unfinished work. Tn the evening he tell into a moist 
 and warm state, the blood in lii^ arms and logs which had not 
 
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 circulated for some hours began to l1o\v, l)Ut left in his feet 
 the marks of death. His situation became more comfortable, 
 breathed easier and would gather his lips and swallow lic|uids 
 and when day api)roached his eye sight returned whivh he had 
 not had since I had been there. He would pick up bushes 
 on the bed antl appeared to have more strength than the day 
 befor:. His eyes looked bright, his features natural and I 
 have some idea that his reason had in a small degree returned. 
 He remained in this situation till afternoon (the doctor saw 
 him in the morning and was much suri)rised to see him alive 
 and in particular in such a situation.) When death renews 
 his attacks his limbs grow cold, his body in a cold sweat his 
 i"oatures appear to evince the approaching dissolution, but to 
 our great surpiise he continued till iS mimites past twelve 
 when death in a mild form severs his innnortal soul from his 
 body. He died without a struggle in his last breaths after 
 being apparently struck with death about '/' hours. 
 
 Richard arrived al^out 2 hours before his death. His 
 funeral was attended 1)_\- a large concourse of peo])le of differ- 
 ent <ienominations. A sermon was delivercil 1)\' Mr. Riley a 
 Methodist. The sermon thougji delivered with earnestness 
 was not and edifying. 
 
 Dear friends we have done witli our ile])arted h'ather 
 and can only say as David said when mourning for tlie loss of 
 his child that he cannot return to us luu we uuist go to him. 
 
 ( )ur surviving I'arent was a short time after the death 
 of our father taken ill but soon recovered her health in a 
 measure but has fell into much the same way that she was 
 before she left llarlland. She has been this week at our 
 house, i do not conceive her situation to ])e dangermis- 
 
 I have received in a judgment against the estate o{ the 
 Oliver Phelps 1S40 dollars. The ])roperty has ])een and 
 about 800 dollars discharged of the judgment. 1 have for that 
 about 1300 of tir>t rale land in an unsettled 
 over the Cnyalioga Kiver .\o. 7^ — \ 7, Range and subject to 
 a mortgage to the Slatt' of C'omi. of about 30 cts per acre. 
 
 'J'he present <li>turbance with the Indi-'-ns does not ap- 
 
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 l~)ear to dislurl) \hv inliabilanls in llii> coiinlry ami very lilllo 
 ilaiii^rr i-- appri'lu'iuk'd sliDuld a war with I'.riuiin lake 
 ])laoc. Tlic l)anlr which look place on ilic ■■ '.h of Xov. last on 
 ihc Wabash was about 300 miles tlistant from this. 
 
 TIT IS llA^■i^S. 
 
 TO NOAH AND STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM. IVIASS. 
 
 I^ower Sandusky, Ma\' 17, t8ij. 
 
 I have been with the arm_\- since the 22n(l of August last; 
 have been home in March on furlout^h : ex]:)ect a discharge 
 i..oon. ^1}- health has been good since I have Ijeen in 
 the army. Ere this reaches you, you will have an official ac- 
 count of the siege of Fort Meigs, situate at the rapids of the 
 Miami of the lake. 
 
 This afTair has cost the British more than the surrender 
 of Gen. Hull's army and our western posts have benefited 
 them. The Indians are disheartened and call them cowards. 
 Our loss in killed at the fort and at the different sallies is 
 about eight\- nien ; the numl)er of wounded J do not know- 
 but probably is \'er\- considerable. 
 
 Major Stoddard, of the artiller\-. has died of his wounds. 
 I have Ijeen in comi)any with a ca])tain of tlie artillery who 
 was sent l)v Gen. Harrison as a guide to the Kentuckians to 
 storm the batteries opposite our fort on the o])posite side of 
 the river. From him 1 have the ])articulars of that engage- 
 ment. ( )ur loss, notwithstanding they succeeded in carrying 
 the batteries and spiking the cannon, is very great : but they 
 o-ot safe into our fort. This disaster is im])nted to disubedi- 
 ence of Gen. Harrison's orders and the want oi discipline in 
 the troops. About fotu- hundred and fifty of the unfortunate 
 captives lately landed at Huron. I'oth officers and soldiers 
 were in a most destitute situation; man_\- of them without 
 shirts and scarcely a shoe or hat among them. The captain 
 above mentioned was severely wotmdcd and taken prisoner, 
 
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 but csca])e(l the .qaiintlet of the savaj^es ])y tlie frieiullv trcat- 
 nieiit of the Uriti-h rci^nlars. 
 
 The savat^es killed, sa}s my informant, ninct\-nine of 
 our men after the_\- surrendered. Two llntish st)ldiers were 
 killed and wounded in an attempt to stop the inhumari 
 l)utchery. Sinee the Ijattle of Ti])peeanoe in i8i i the num- 
 ber of our savas^es has inereased nearly tenfold. It will now 
 re(|uire a formidable army to contend with them, but it is to 
 be hoped that the communications between, the British and 
 those savage allies will soon l)e cut off, which will of course 
 sto]) the progress of these ferocious creatures. 
 Your most affectionate brother, 
 
 TITrS HAYES. 
 
 TO .\OAH AND STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 Hartford, June iC\ 1812. 
 Dear brother and Sister: 
 
 Having a few leisure moments 1 now attem])t 
 to write to }-ou the Dearest of Friends and Connection--. 1 
 may perhaps tire }our patience with an ill written and ill 
 composed scrawl but I must solicit your candor in reading it. 
 1 have nothing of importance to writr \du farther than to 
 pursue a social corresjiondence. \\r have a general lime of 
 health lu-rc this spring. ( )ur frirnds are wi'll excc])l nmlher. 
 She- is nnich tin- same as she ha-- been for the \ear past. J 
 have not enjoyed m\' health for the 7 months ])ast. Last 
 October 1 was taken with a ]jain in m\ right .-^ide which con- 
 tinued ami nmch im])airefl m\' hralth. 1 1 ci ninued until Ian- 
 nary. I api)lied to a plusician and conunrnced a course of 
 salivation near ten weeks which reduced wv strength to that 
 degree that I wa-- able to t-\ercise no more than to walk m\' 
 iiiDni. but -incc- that time I liavr bein gaining -trength and 
 tin- coni])lainl in my sidi' ha-- in a measure left me lor the last 
 six weeks past I have \)vvu able to ride. Last week I return- 
 ed from a iourne\ to .\'ew C.ranthille, in this stale, where I 
 
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 saw many of my old ao(|uaintanccs wlio arc situated in a 
 ]ilcasant and fertile eountr\' and in the enjoxinent of ^'ood 
 liealtli. I >a\\ A. C'liurcli, l'",S(|.. at Co>hoeton. foi"t\-fi\'e milt-s 
 trom ( '.rand \ille. lie was in j^'ood liealtl; and f lliink in a 
 promising' situation. I s])ent one day \vitli him and vi>ited 
 several ol his aci|uaintances, he lias a circle of \'ery ai^reeahie 
 ae(|uaintances, hut the mo->t of the inhahitants in that place 
 are from the state of \ ir<;inia. whose manners and cuslcjnis 
 differ materially from the people of the Hastcrn States, 
 which renders their society IJrother very disagreeable. I 
 have the spring past contemplated going" to Xew England 
 1nit the expenses of my illness are considerable which oblig"es 
 me to relin(|uish the thing for the present. I flatter myself 
 that I shall soon so far recover my health as to be able to 
 attend to my farm as my situation obliges me to do. 
 
 1 should l)e verv hai)])y to receive a letter from }()u. It 
 no other op])ortunity offers I wish \-ou to write by the mail 
 as soon as may be convenient after }-onr receiving this. 
 
 '\\'ith the kindest affection I subscribe myself 
 
 Wnn- affectionate Brother, 
 
 LYXLS llAVKS. 
 
 llarthind, Dec. nth., 1809. 
 
 Tt was with great satisfaction I perused your lines. Your 
 brother called at our house this evening and made us a short 
 but very agreeable visit. 1 am glad to hear that \ou have 
 arrived safe to W'ilbraham, with your little ones and that 
 von are in good health. I nuist tell \ou we arrived safe 
 home after two da\-s" iourncN'. myself and babe ver\- much 
 fatigued with the journew Sister Abigail moved from 
 father's in ( )ctober. I'mtlier Titus, though long exi)ected, 
 has at last arrived safe at llartland. but is absent at ])resent. 
 He has gone to Colchester, on business, will not return until 
 the last of the week. He intend> to make vou a visit before 
 
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 Ik- rciiini^. ( )iir iricnds in llicXew Conncclicul arc well. I 
 will not write i)articulars, for yon will undonbtedly see hini. 
 .My little ones are ver}- well, as to myself, 1 am not so healthv 
 as 1 mi<;"ht wish, but so that 1 du my work; my oldest boy 
 goes to school they frequently talk of their Aunt and little 
 cousins. Statira is a good little girl, and very talkative. I 
 liope you will not deprive us of the jdeasure of a visit some 
 time this winter, for mother will he much disappointed. T do 
 not think that we can make nou a visit this winter, but think 
 it likely that Abigail will. You dotibtless will want to know' 
 how Mother is. I think she remains about the same she was 
 last winter. 
 
 W'e lost the chance of going to Sister IJetsey's wedding. 
 She was married about two hours before we arrived. 
 
 D. J. 
 
 \\'ayne, July 25th, i8l2. 
 
 Dear Sister: 
 
 I now take m\- i)en to write, not knowing that 
 it will ever cf)me to your hands, but 1 feel a great anxiety 
 to hear from \()U, and stippose you feel the same for me. 1 
 feel de-irou-; not to be negligent abmu it. 1 have heard 
 n(jthing direct from \iiu. or luue not receiwd any letter since 
 I left \du. It i> impossible for me to conunuuicate to you 
 the feeling of mv heart upon paper, but shall leave it to \-ou 
 to determine, 1)\ xour own. ( )h. Sister! how otteu do 1 
 rellcct, with astonishment, on the great distance l)et\veen u>, 
 1 cannot. wi>h not to realize it. .My own health, and the 
 health of m\ family has been good since we lived in this 
 country. Do not give yourself any uneasiness about us, lor 
 we make out very comfortably, although we suffer some 
 inconvenience, which ev^'ryour nmst expect, in a new 
 coimt'y 
 
 \\ <• have preaching, more fre(|ut'ntl\-, than T expected. 
 Sonietinu'> once a week. s. mu't ime> once a tnonth, sometimes 
 
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 \\\)o\\ llic Sabbath, suiuctinici upon a week day. W'c liad last 
 winter two months' school, this snnimer five months, it is very 
 near our house, we luive sixteen or seventeen scholars, we 
 send lour of lln'iu, they learn well. Slatira reads in an\- book 
 that contains readini;-, she will rrad a chapter in her testa- 
 ment and want scarce a word K^\ telling. Almira reads well 
 in four s\llables. The children enjoy themselves verv nuich, 
 are very contented, when they are not in school they are 
 g-athering wild flowers, of which the woods abound, or gather- 
 ing gooseberrys and raspberries, and there will be plentv of 
 blackberries soon, and wild ])lunibs. We have jdentv of 
 cranberries, ])y going four or five miles and i)icking them, 
 the}' may be picked any time in the winter or spring, when 
 the marsh is not frozen over. We had some picked in May, 
 the best I ever saw. We do not think half so much about 
 fruit as I expected. I think we shall soon have apples and 
 pears, lirother R. has a great plenty of peaches, and a num- 
 ber of bushels of apples. Brother T. has but four apples, but 
 has a thrift}- }-oimg orchard, we have one set out, which will 
 soon be large enough to I)ear. Mr. Jones likes the land ex- 
 ceedingly well, thinks it will be much easier to maintain his 
 family, than it would have been on the farm he left. 
 
 1 do not give uf) the idea of seeing you again. T think if 
 our circmnstances in life will admit of it, I ^hall in the course 
 of four or five years make you a visit, if it should please God 
 to continue us both in this life. Mother has talked of going 
 down this fall, but has given up the idea for the present. She 
 continues much in the same situation as she has done, al- 
 though I do not think she is as unwell as when at Hartland. 
 I have been to see her twice, she has been at our house and 
 staid two months last winter. T think if she remains in the 
 same situation she may take a journey to Connecticut in the 
 course of a year ox two. It seems to be her choice to be at 
 ■Ricliard's altliough liis home is ver\- inconvenient, he is about 
 building a new one, but not like to get it done this vear. 
 
 (^h, that we might not set too high by the things of this 
 world, but might lay up treasures in Heaven and our hearts 
 will be there also. D. JOXES. 
 
iio Letters. 
 
 TO LESTER HAYES, HARTLAND, CONN. 
 
 Hartford, Ohio, May 22d, 1813. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 Having' no oi)i)cM"tunit\' by private conveyance 
 to write you 1 -^llall enclose this and forward it by the mail as 
 it was your re(|uest when you started for Xew England that 
 1 should write as soon as we could determine the situation 
 and health of my father. He did not appear to recover any 
 strength for nearly a week after you left the place, his fever 
 was not so violent as it was l)efore. He is now gaining very 
 fast and is aide to attend to some business. He appears as 
 imprudent as ever being anxious to get about, for business 
 calls on every hand. J am not in possession of any late news 
 from the westward. Gen. Hauser remains in ((uiet possession 
 of Fort Meigs at this lime, althougli he had a lengthy siege. 
 The number of killed we do not certainly know. He lost a 
 considerable numljer taken prisoners who are paroled and 
 sent home, principall\- Kentucky militia who state that about 
 sixty were massacred l>y the savages after they were sur- 
 rendered. \\'e understand that Oen. ?\leigs has arrived at 
 Cleveland with a considerable body of troops. The draft cif 
 militia made in this brigade are not called out yet, l)Ut stand 
 at a minute's warning. Capt. A])el commands the company 
 from this regiment. Lieut. W'ni. Jones is drafted and it con- 
 sequently falls on me to serve on duty. We have heard noth- 
 ing from you since you left this ])lace but are expecting a 
 letter every day. I wish to hear of your success procuring 
 money on those orders on William and others. I wish you to 
 write to me. I should be very glad to hear wdiat is going on 
 ill the luistern states. I have nothing more to write in partic- 
 ular Ijeing in great haste. I remain 
 
 "^'our friend il'C, 
 
 SETH HAYES. 
 
Letters. Ill 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. ' 
 
 Wayne, May S, 1S14. 
 
 Dear Sislcr : 
 
 1 have now an opportunilx' ot sending a lew lines 
 l)y one of our neig"hbors who is to set out tomorrow f(jr Som- 
 ers, Conn., it l)eing; hut a sniaU (Hstance from \\'ill)raham I 
 am in hopes you ma\- receive. 1 e.\])ect to see Iiim today. I 
 intend tt) try very hard to liave him j^'o to your house. I 
 would be very wilhng to ])ay him for his trouble to hear 
 direct!}' from }ou. 1 felt very anxious about you and your 
 family, but wish to l)e willing to leave you all in the hands of 
 Him who made and disposes of all things according to His 
 good pleasure. I and my family are enjoying tolerable health. 
 A[y children have been healthy ever since thev have been in 
 this countrw r,ast winter J had the misfortune to i)ut out 
 one of my wrists. Init it soon got so I could spin linen. I 
 have spun too runs of linen and low since the third of Jan. 
 I hav^e got me a loom, am now weaving. 1 have a house that 
 I call comfortable for this country, with two fire places and a 
 good oven. You, I doubt, w<^uld be unwilling to own me for 
 a sister, at least would hardl\- know me. I have not been so 
 poor for a number of years and look ver_\- old. We make out 
 to live very comfortable l)ut begin to want for woolen 
 clotinng. 1 have not had an\' wool since we came here but 
 expect to have a little this sunnner. We sold some of our 
 cloth we brought with us. We have got fom' shee]) but do 
 not expect much ])rotit from them as sheep are dying ott very 
 much this spring. Some have lost almost all of large flocks. 
 You doubtless wish to hear from Mother. I have not lieard 
 from her for some weeks but she remains much the same. I 
 expect to see her this week or next as I am going to Hart- 
 ford. She lives with Lester. He is married to ^Matilda Bush- 
 ncll, Capt. T. Bushnell's daughter, a very amiable girl in my 
 opinion. I nuist close. ^lay we ever live mindful that we are 
 dying creatures is the wish of DEBORAH JONES. 
 
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 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, AMHERST. MASS. 
 
 Wayne. June (jlh, 1816. 
 Dear Sister : 
 
 .'\fter a lon-2^ silence on both sides 1 would again 
 renew our oorres])ondencc. I will not accuse you of indiffer- 
 ence but have anxiously wailed to receive once more a letter 
 from vou one reason that i have not wrote was 1 knew not 
 where to direct letters tnitil I saw one that you sent Mother. 
 I was told you lived in iietshire and did not know to the con- 
 trar\- until this s])ring-. The health of my family is tolerable 
 good. Mother is comfortable she lives with r)rother Leiceter 
 is tolerable contented. I'.rother has in m\- opinion a very 
 ajT^reeable com])anion. Mother is al)le to s])in considerable, 
 knits a good deal sews some, v^he has made me a good visit 
 this winter staid about four weeks. I have not l)een to see 
 her this spring. I must wait until fall. 1 want Sister Abigail 
 and you to visit often vi~it some for an absent sister who 
 bears you both upon her mind. ' )h ! ySister can it be we shall 
 never again meet in this life, yes I nui^t cherish the fond 
 ho])e that we shall, should it please a merciful God to spare 
 our lives a few years and give tis health and ])ros])erity. I 
 ho])e we shall be able to make you a visit but we can not tell 
 what is alhjtted for tis. 1 hope you have the comforts of 
 religion to smoothe the rugged ])ath of life. It is what we 
 all need but shall see that we need it more in a d\ing hotu' it 
 will then l>e all that we can ])lace our ho]")es ui:)on. May we be 
 careful how we spend our time and not set om* affections upon 
 things that shall fail us may we rest short of nothing but an 
 interest in Christ's blood this and this alone can afford true 
 comfort. I want you lo write as soon as possible, if no chance 
 by ])rivate conveyance, by the mail. Direct it to Williamsfield 
 post ofiice C( unity .Vshtabula. Write whether you have a 
 good minister and good society, likewise all about your fam- 
 il\' <lear children, how I want to see them. Give my best 
 htve to llrcjtlier tell the childrin aunt has not forgot them, 
 give my love to ihcni with mv children's. The children would 
 
Letters. //J 
 
 wriU' il i1k'\- had linu> l)iit wi- did not know of llic o|)])ortnnily 
 nntil this cwning". 'IMie letters mnst I^e sent early t(jmorro\v 
 morning. 1 sn|)])ose it to ])e now twelve at night yet I kncjw 
 not how to close. 1 shall leave this to the care of Sister not 
 knowing" wIkmi yon will receive it. 
 
 Adien, I )i'ar Sister, Adieu, 
 
 DEBORAH J ONES. 
 
 TO NOAH MERRICK AND WIFE, AMHERST, MASS. 
 
 \ ernon, June 15, 1816. 
 
 Dear Children : 
 
 Favored with an o])i)ortunil\' of writing to yon 
 I emljrace it witli pleasure to inform you of m\- situation here 
 my health at present is so goo<l that 1 am ahle to do some 
 work and visit mv ac<[uaintances here. 1 live with Leister 
 one half mile distant from Richard. I have walked there and 
 hack again frecpientlv. I received a letter from you by the 
 hand of W'm. lieach dated in May 181 5. I wish you to write 
 to me and inform me in ])articular with regard to }Our 
 children how many }-ou have and what are the names of the 
 youngest. 1 want ver\- much to see them ])Ut nuist content 
 myself without at least for the ])resent. 1 have 20 grand 
 children here. Richard lias nine. Titus three. Linns two, Les- 
 ter one and Deborah five. 
 
 We have many kinds of fruit here, peaches in great plen- 
 ty, several orchards which have made considerable cider with- 
 in a short distance of here. 1 never lived in any i)lace before 
 wdiere there was as much travel on good roads and as many 
 people to be seen as are here at present. 
 
 ] ho|)e that }ou will come and see me here if we should 
 all live. 1 could tell \()U many many things that you nuist not 
 expect me to write. I wish you to write to me when you 
 have an oportunity and inform me of the welfare of yourselves 
 and relations at W'ilbraham. I must close this letter bv re- 
 
//y Letters. 
 
 questiiiij VDU to give my respects to your i)arents and their 
 
 family. 
 
 While I subscribe myself your afifectionate Mother, 
 
 DEBORAH HAYES. 
 
 FROM TITUS HAYES, JR. 
 
 Wayne, Oct. ijih, 1816. 
 
 IMother lives with Lester and enjoys a tolerable state of 
 health. 
 
 I wrote to Brother Oatman soliciting him to remove to 
 this country. I think he might do well here. 
 
 Brother Jones is in good circumstances and worth three 
 times as nuich as when he sold in Hartland. 
 
 Wayne. Dec. 31st, 1828. 
 
 Dear T-rother and Sister (Merrick) 
 
 It falls to my lot to inlorm you that our brother 
 IvCster is dead. He died on the 23rd instant at i o'clock of 
 the apoplexy after six days' illness. He was in good health 
 when taken and in fifteen minutes became measurably speech- 
 less and one side of his body became paralytic yet sensitive, 
 yet without motion. Tlie best medical aid was had and with- 
 out delav everv exertion lluu medical means could afford 
 proved of no avail. 1 !<.■ gradnall\- sunk uiKkr the obstinacy of 
 the disease. 
 
 He has left a disconsolate family consisting of a most af- 
 fectionate and worthy companion and five children the oldest 
 a daughter of 13 years the other sons the youngest one but 
 six years the other an infant of 13 weeks. By his death we 
 have lost a worthy l^rother and the town of Vernon (formerly 
 Smilhfield) an able assistant jn I'ublic affairs. He has been 
 a mnnber of years Justice of the I'eace and for several years 
 had made the greatest proficiency in judicial knowledge and 
 
Letters. I /f 
 
 other useful branches of ])ul)lic information of any person 
 within llu' splicre of my acquaintance. 
 
 \'()U will want to know evidence he has left of future 
 felicity, lie has left an irreproachable character in every 
 thiui;- of a moral nature, was a well wisher to the cause of re- 
 ligion atid an attendant on religious worship. His attention 
 was much drav.n towards the things of eternity and from 
 conversation 1 had with his w^ife during his last illness am 
 led to conclude that his seriousness had not altogether sub- 
 sided. During the last five days of his sickness I was present, 
 lie could not articulate distinctly but would assent or dissent 
 when in(|uiry was made of him. 1 think he had his senses 
 ])artiall\" and more clearly the last two days of his life. The 
 da}" before his death I informed him we did not expect him 
 to recover and enquired of him if he were willing to die to 
 which he answered "yes." There was nothing on his coun- 
 tenance that indicated terror, but his countenance bore a 
 pleasing smile which was visible after death. O may we not 
 reasonably hope that God who is rich in mercy had mercy 
 on him and in answer to many prayers that were offered up 
 on his behalf' and I hope through faith in the blood of an all 
 sufficient Redeemer his heart was prepared to meet God in 
 peace and that at the last day we may meet him in glory. 
 
 Our friends are all well. A few weeks since we heard 
 trom Brother Linus. This evening we have heard of the 
 death of Father Cooley. 1 le w'as about 90 years of age. Mrs. 
 Hayes is the only one living of parents or children of the 
 family. 
 
 I suppose you will be prepared to hear of the death of 
 our brother with a disease which had threatened the dissolu- 
 tion of my body and spirit. I have had no symptoms of that 
 alarming disease for number of years but who knows but 
 while writing this, that disease of all other speaks the most 
 emphatically "be ye also ready," is preparing its way to the 
 seat of life. I hope you will remember me at a throne of 
 grace and our afflicted sister and her husband and her 
 bereaved children. TITUS HAYES. 
 
/ 1 6 Letters. 
 
 Wayne, Aug. 19th. 1818. 
 
 Ever Dear Sister: 
 
 With pleasure I spend an hour or two in writing 
 to one I so tenderly love. Brother Titus received a letter from 
 von a tew da\'s since, written hm. or Feb. witli one enclosed 
 for Statira from Abigail. I do not know where they were 
 detained, they were put into the post ofifice at Conneaut. I 
 thank you and your little daughter in behalf of Statira for her 
 kind letter. She wishes to write one in return Imt has so 
 short notice and has not been in the habit of writing this 
 summer as she has not attended school since last winter she 
 must defer it till another o])p()rtunity. How often dear sister 
 have I felt grieved at the expression in brother's letter that 
 you thought your friends in Xew Coimecticut had forgotten 
 you, far be it from me to forget one so dear. How^ often ere 
 I am aware does the tear of recollection steal down my cheek. 
 I think I have written letters that you have not received for 
 I have often tliought 1 had written much oftener than your- 
 self bin !)(,■ that as it ma_\' I ho])e we shall l)e carefid to imin'ove 
 a ])rivilege we should be vcr\- unwilling to be deprived of. 
 
 Our family and friends in this coimtry are generally en- 
 joying health. .Mother is well as most people of her age. is 
 as industrious as ever. The last time T saw her she wanted 
 me to write and (as she expressed it) write all about her. she 
 said it troubled her ver\' nnich that brother T^ester did not 
 write oftener; it is not for want of regard to ytm. btit }OU 
 know many pco])le think it a hardshi]) to write leters. Lester 
 and wife are kind to Iter: she makes it home \vith tliem, but 
 is at r>rother Richard's some of the time. Slu' made a visit 
 at our house and Brother Titus' last winter of four weeks. 
 T wish vou would write to her for vou know it is gratifving to 
 old people to be noticed. 
 
 Wm doubtless have heard that L\niis and family have 
 moved at the distance of one hundred and tliirly or forty 
 miles from this. It is said he has a good farm and situation. 
 As to my situation I feel tolerable contiiUed, have to work 
 hard which is no more than I expect as our family is large and 
 
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 Ts. 1 1 ; 
 
 not ahlr t(i liiri' nuicli. M \' ,L;"irl> du ci Jiisidcrablc spinning' 
 and other \\t)rk. I am not in a situation to give them the 
 advantages that I miglit, liad we staid in Conn., but still I 
 wish not to nun-mur. I have a little girl in addition to my 
 family, almost Iimi months old, her name is ]^mily. The 
 children are verv fond of her. 
 
 Dear Sister, let us live mindful that wc are dying crea- 
 tttres. I hope you do not fall so short of your dut\- as 1 do. 
 I trust you do not. ( )ur stations arc important, children en- 
 trusted to our care, our accountaliility is great indeed. Our 
 brothers seem anxiously engaged in worldly pursuits. O 
 could we see them as anxiously engaged to la}' up treasures 
 in Heaven that never w'ill fail. ( )h that wc may be prepared 
 to meet in another world where there shall be no sejiaration. 
 Do write, let me know how m>u get along, whether \o\\ can 
 say with the Psalmist 
 
 /'In all my fears, in all my straits, 
 My soul on thy salvation waits." 
 
 It is late in the evening. 1 have been much troubled with 
 the toothache. I really fear you can not read what I have 
 written. 
 
 Love to your husband and children. 
 
 From your Sister. 
 
 DKliORAII lOXES. 
 
 TO NOAH MERRICK AND WIFE. 
 
 Wayne, Feb. 17. 1819. 
 
 With great anxiety of mind T sit down to spend a tew 
 hours while my children are at school except my jirattling 
 babe. O can I nmst I tell you that oiu" dear Mother sleeps 
 in dust, ^'es, the King of terrors has come near, has taken 
 our only earth!} i)arent. She expired on the 14th of Jan., at 
 
//S Letters. 
 
 three in the afternoon. I was with her two weeks before 
 her death. If I could express to you the patience and resig- 
 nation she manifested to the will of God the coni])Osure with 
 which she met death how satisfactory it would be to mysell 
 ami you. 
 
 Her last sickness was long" and distressing, two first 
 weeks not entirely confined to her bed but for almost fourteen 
 weeks not able to sit up any, nmch distressd and almost con- 
 stantly vomiting, medicine had no efifect . It was the opinion 
 of the several physicians that visited her that had not her 
 constitution been so impaired by sickness and repeated at- 
 tacks of fever she might have recovered, her complaints were 
 of a bilious kind. 
 
 She had every comfort this world ctnild ofTer even to 
 have for two weeks before her death several of her cliildren 
 sitting around her d\ing bed each one anxious to do all in 
 their power for her comfort. 
 
 She appeared willing to leave this world if it was God's 
 will but remarked she had no desire to choose the time but 
 wished to have Him choose for her. Her flesh was nuich 
 gone, more so than T ever saw so fleshy a person but still the 
 ])Owers of her mind held out to the astonishment of everyone 
 that saw her. .\t times for about twenty-four hours before her 
 death a little deranged, in the greatest distress I ever saw a 
 pers(jn in my life for soiue hours. 
 
 Dear Sister can you l)elieve me wlun 1 tell \-ou that r>ro- 
 ther T. has for several months been engaged in religion. Yes 
 sister, his house is now a house of i)ra\er. T lio])e this wilder- 
 ness will soon become V(jcal with the high i)raises of our God. 
 () Sister i)ray for us. DICIU )R.\TT jOXES. 
 
 TO MRS. ABIGAIL OATMAN, HARTLAND, CT.. AND MRS. 
 STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 W'avne, .May 8. iSjo. 
 I ^ ar Sisters : 
 
 It is with tile greatest pleasiu'e 1 run permitted 
 
 again to aildre^s m\- brlo\ed Sisters. "N'es. de.ar v^isters, after 
 
Let firs. 11'^ 
 
 a Ikul;' ;iii(l paiiilul >ickm'ss I am so lar restored to health 
 that I am al)le in some measure to attend to l!ie concerns of 
 nn- I'atnih' althouj^h not ahle to do ;in\ liard work. About 
 tlie twentieth ot' Xov. I took a violent cold I)}' wearing poor 
 shoes which liad a very had effect. I continued to keep about 
 house a ver}- little and to do a little knitting;- and sewinj:^ most 
 of the time until January although under the care of a ]:)hysi- 
 cian. I was then brought verv low so thai luy days seem id 
 almost numbered. 1 was ct)nfined 1'.' my bcu entirely for two 
 months was ver\- weak took much medicine but none of it 
 had the desired effect until 1)_\- the advice of jihysicians I was 
 ])re\-ailed upon to go through a course of mercury since the 
 operation of that 1 have been gaining health. Ihit Dear Sis- 
 ters I desire to bless God who is rich in mercy, for His great 
 goodness to me 1 liave again been ])ermitted to tread TTis 
 earthly courts, to unite with His peoj^le in a thank offering 
 for His STeat sfoodness to soul and bodv. there T had (as the 
 psalmist says) told him my coiui)laints and there may I 
 speak his ])raise. I hope 1 desire to say 
 
 "The life that Thou hast made Thy care 
 Lord. I devote to Thee.'' 
 
 I hope T felt resigned to the will of my Heavenly Father. 
 T felt willing He should dispose of me for His glory. I felt 
 it trying at first to give up the care t)f my family to some 
 other person but found it necessary ti> be moved into another 
 room. I hope I commended nnself and famil\- to the care 
 and protection of my Heavenly T'ather and likewise desiring 
 public ])rayers (it being on the Sabbath) I felt calm and com- 
 posed, felt as 1 hope willing to be confined just a long as God 
 shoidd see fit but ever after this felt an impression upon my 
 mind that J should recover. 1 hope Dear Sisters you live 
 devoted to God. 1 ho]H' you remember your sister in a dis- 
 tant land. Remember me in your address at the throne ot 
 grace that 1 mav devote myself to God.Xext Sabbath T ex])ect 
 to unite with \\\\ husband with the church of Christ, in this 
 place, solemn thought, pray dear sisters that we may not (lis- 
 
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 honur CMirist In our lives. There lias been great attention to 
 religion in many places about us and some in this place, 
 csi)eciallv among the youth and children it is not imcommon 
 for children ten and twelve years old lo meet for prayers and 
 religious conversation. There lias been great attention in 
 Hartford and v^mithfield. Hrother 1\. and wife and their five 
 oldest cliildren Clarissa excepted, have ho])efull\- experienced 
 religion. Seth and Polly have united with the church. T think 
 the others will soon. L. (or S.) had no hope two weeks ago 
 but was deeply impressed, had set up family worship, man}' 
 other friends which I have not time to name as I have but iew 
 moments for writing. I could write ImU one. wish you to 
 
 send it to Sister ]\I. Brother T. and wife and Leroy have 
 
 imited with the Methodists. We are well, likewise our friends 
 in general. 
 
 D. JOXEvS. 
 
 TTartland. Tulv ;th. 
 
 Dear Sister : 
 
 I take the lil)erly of writing a few lines on the 
 blank ])art of this letter to you I received it with greatest sat- 
 isfaction. I had heard a report that Sister Jones was in a low 
 state of health thought to be in a comsumiition. but had nri 
 particular information. I received (»ne from brother R. at 
 tile same time, he wrote concerning the little ])r()])ert\ that 
 was coming to us. 1 concluded lie has wrote the same to you 
 and sent two gowns and \\\i< liandkerchiefs tliat were our dear 
 Mother's, you were to uiki' one of each of them and I the 
 other. 1 have heard initjiiiig front nou for some time. I hope 
 you will come and make us a xi^il this snninur if ])ossible. T 
 know not when I shall come and see \ on but not ])ossibly 
 before winti-r. A. O. 
 
Li'ttcrs. 121 
 
 TO MR. AND MRS. MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 (Postage 10 cents) 
 
 Wayne, Aslitabnla Co., C>hio. Xov. ijlli, i.Si^. 
 
 Dear i '>i'i)lh(.T and Si^U■^ Merrick: 
 
 I am lliis eviMiini;- writing" letters to different 
 relatives, notwithstanding- it is a late hour I feel it a pleasure 
 to write to von and int'onn \<)n iliat we are in i^'cxjd health 
 and also t)ur friends in this conntry. 1 have heard bttt little 
 from yon for some years. The natnral tie is not broken, we 
 mtist renew onr correspondence. 1 hear that yon have em- 
 braced the religion of Jesus Christ, a i)carl of great value, 
 of infinite importance, both as respects this world anrl the 
 world to come. Yon have, no doubt, heard that it has ])leascd 
 the greatest giver of every good and perfect gift to break 
 up the great deep of my heart and several of my family to w'it 
 m\- wife, oldest son, a boy that was living with me and as I 
 have some reason to hope, my oldest daughter. God made 
 use of the Methodists as an instrument, consequcntl\' we are 
 members of the Methodist church (a set spoken against in 
 these i)arts) I take no ])art nor pleasure in ])arty spirit, but 
 enjoy the ])rivileges of the church in peace as I comfortably 
 hope with God amen. Dear I'rother and Sister let us strive 
 to so live as that when we come to die we ma\- in some good 
 degree say with the great .\])Oslle of the Gentiles we have 
 fought a good fight we have finished our course, etc. I 
 would like well to see you here and liojjc mui will im])rove the 
 first op]x:)rtunit\- to visit your friends in this region of coun- 
 try. Remember me at the throne of grace and may God 
 grant you peace and consolation is the earnest prayer of 
 your affectionate I'.rother, TTTUS HAYES. 
 
 X. T). I have an oi)portunity to send this by private con- 
 veyance as far as Granb\'. T. H. 
 
 TO STATIRA H. M ERRICK, Wl LBRAH AM, MASS. 
 
 1 fartford. July 1st., 1824. 
 Dear Sister : — 
 
 I received ^onr favor of the 8 of fune 1)\ ^^r. 
 
122 
 
 Letters. 
 
 Olmstevl yesterday and was much nrratificd in hearing from 
 you and family and hearing that you are in liealth which is a 
 great blessing which you arc indebted to the Author of good 
 for. 
 
 What sliaU I write is the ([notion now in ni\- mind (to a 
 Sister I liave not seen for nearly 20 years) but not forgotten, 
 r.ul I >hall merely write you as to our ])resent situation and 
 all our connections. ( )ne thing we are indebted to the Great 
 [\nler of the miivcrse for is that we are in the land of the liv- 
 ing and in good health. We have () grandchildren — Seth 
 has one. also Alvin has one — Clarissa has four. The remain- 
 der of our children are with us. Seth has built about 30 rods 
 from us. Alvin about 80 rods f "om us and is farming. As to 
 our domestic concerns, 1 have no reason to com])lain about 
 while T ha\H' been in this country. I have nnich more reason 
 to complain of an unthankful lieart for the great l)lessing 
 received of the God of heaven. \'ou ex])resscd something 
 about my coming to see you. 1 never could have believed so 
 many years could have passed away without my seeing you. 
 Jt is not for want of natural affections, but my having a large 
 family to attend to, I do expect 1 shall be able to come this 
 season to see you but feel determined to come as soon as I 
 can leave home, life and being given me. 
 
 I'rother L\nus lives about 120 miles from here, l)Ut I 
 heard from liim lateh- and he and his fauu'ly are all well. 
 
 I ha\-e now closed as respects our domestic concerns, 
 tiuA as I am far adx'anced in life and ha\-e ])assed 53 years 
 and as my earthl}' career is fast drawing to a close, 1 leel as 
 though it is of the utmost imi)ort;ince that we are i)rci')ared 
 to leave this world and t(j begin to live in one thai >hall never 
 end and if I should not be i^ermitted to see you in time it is 
 my earnest wish and ])rayer that \(iu should attend to the 
 one thing needful. I also hope and trust you have already 
 attended to it. 
 
 This from \<)ur affeeliouate lh"otlier. 
 
 RIGII AKI) HAVES. 
 X. li. I'lca-c to give my res])ects to every member of 
 
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 o 
 
 your family altlious^li there is but nue I ever saw — Do write 
 to nio t)t'tcu 1)\- mail as we have one near at hand. 
 
 « TO NOAH MERRICK, WILBRAHAM. MASS. 
 
 A'ernon, Aug. 5, 1S24. 
 Dear 11 rot her 
 
 After a silence of a number of years I now im- 
 prove an oi)])()rtunit\- of informin;.^- xou of my welfare. I have 
 enjoyed but indifferent health lor a number of years. My 
 famih which consists of ]^lrs. Mayes and four Children are 
 in o-(),),l healtli. I'.rotlurs Richard, Titu>, Linus & Jones 
 witli their families were all well a short time since. 1'. Linus 
 resides in Richland C'ount}'. one lumdred and twent\' miles 
 from this in a south west direction. 1 shotdd be very glad to 
 visit you and the remainder of my relations and friends in 
 the Kastern States but cannot consistently very soon. The 
 farm 1 now own consists of 144 acres of land o\\ which I 
 'ave 40 acres of imi)rovenient and good fence ar.-'l 
 on which 1 have l)uilt a barn 30 by 40 which is not excelled 
 by an\- in the township. We have excellent water in abun- 
 dance on this i)lace and making some allowance for ])artial 
 feelings, 1 can say witli confidence is e(|ual in soil and water 
 to any in this vicinitw 1 have commenced the making of 
 Pearlash this season there being no establishment of the 
 kind in this vicinity. \\'hether it will be a source of profit 
 it lemains to be determined by experience. \\'ith regard to 
 this Reserxe much has been said. The ((uality of the soil has 
 no doubt in many instances been exaggerated yet it may with 
 truth be said to be good. The soil is various from a clav to 
 a light sand, timbered with almost every kind of timber nat- 
 ural to the Eastern States. The water in many i)laces is very 
 good. The County of Trumbull is in my opinion as healthy 
 as any ]:)art of Massachusetts; but this remark will not apply 
 to many ])arts of the Reserve. Schools are generally estab- 
 lished on all parts of the Reserve'. Several academies are es- 
 tablished in several ])laces. Much has been done within a lew 
 
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 years in the improvement of roads, so that in many places 
 tliev are excellent. For a number of years sheep were very 
 sickly, but they are l:)ecoming plenty and the l)recd is much 
 improved. This state has suffered much in consecpience of 
 t!ie great influx of foreign goods. It has had a tendency to 
 make moncN' scarce an.d check manufactures which it would 
 be the interest of all in. this western Country to encourage. 
 SaJt 1.=. procured from the Lake and from Pittsburgh. It 
 costs on the I^ake Shore S3. 50 per bl and in I'itt somethmg 
 less. Barrels containing 280 pounds tish are plenty and are 
 of various kinds. The white fish so called are of a ([uality 
 equal to shad and are caught in the strait between Lake Su- 
 perior & Huron, weighing when dressed from 3 to 6 pounds 
 and are sold on the Lake Shore from 7 to 9 dollars per barrel 
 of 200 pounds. 
 
 This state suffered much in consequence of the increase 
 of iianking institutions, but their paper of most of them has 
 long since ceased to circulate and the projectors of them 
 have sunk to that obscurity from which they were so sudden- 
 ly raised. ])ut the consequences have been severely felt by 
 many others. The Legislature of this state thinking to al- 
 leviate the evil by checking the collection of debts, it appears 
 had a tendency to increase the e\il. Their laws are now 
 repealed and the State ap])ears to be gaining a more respect- 
 able standing. 
 
 Much has been said with regard to the contemplated 
 Canal connecting the waters of Lake Lrie and ( )hio river. 
 Whether it will be carried into etTect remains, 1 think doubt- 
 ful. The -W \'ork Canal will un(|uestionably be of great 
 advantage to this state. Cattle are driven from the Reserve 
 in large numbcTs. The expense of an ox to riiiladelphia is 
 rated at 3 dollars. 1 locfs are likewise dri\en to those parts 
 trom here in large nuni])ers. C'heese hnds a market at Pitts- 
 burg from whence it is sent down the < >hio and .Mississippi. 
 I'.oats have left this ])lace of 35 \rr[ in length and 13 in 1)readlli 
 loaded with ])rovisions which ha\r discharged their cargos 
 at Xatche/. and ( )rleans. There is no serious im])ediment to 
 boats or rafts lea\ing this ])lace for the ( )hio exce])t mill 
 
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 dams and ilic I-"alls of licavrr as llicv arc calU-d which arc 
 a continuation ot' rapids for ahoiit (> miles l)nt arc passed in 
 safety at high waters. Cu)ods arc transported, on the Ohio a'id 
 ]\lississii)])i in steam l)()ats. The anioimt of l)nsiness dcjnc in 
 that way on those rivers is ahnost incalcnlalde. Pittsbnri^h 
 cxliibits the hnstlc of an Atlantic City. I was there the first 
 of July. Its \vhar\-cs arc lined with all kinds of water crafts 
 from the largest steamboat to the smallest keel ttsed in navi- 
 g-ating- the river. The amount of manufactures in that city 
 cS: its vicinity i)erhaps exceeds any place in the I'nited States. 
 I shall forward this by Asahel Banning Es([ who will not 
 probably return to this place until some time in ( )ct., I should 
 like to have you write b\- him when he returns, having heard 
 nothing from you and family for some time. Afrs. Haves pre- 
 sents her respects to Sister Statira yourself Family and 
 Friends. 
 
 "S'cHU" affectionate Brother, 
 
 LESTER MAYES. 
 
 TO STATIRA H. MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 A\\-iync. Afay 27, 1825. 
 
 Dear Sister 
 
 1 have long contemplated writing to you by 
 mail l)ut ha^•e now an opportunity to send to Flartland I im- 
 prove it expecting that Sister (). will send by mail to you if 
 no other opportunitx. We are enjoying comfortable health 
 except hjuily who has had a bad swelling on her foot. It has 
 been extremely ])ainful. We were nnich afraid that it came 
 from the bone but arc at ])resenl in hopes she will be able to 
 attend school in a few weeks though at present ((uite feeble. 
 
 I must tell }-on that Cnc] has been jwuring out his ITolv 
 S]jirit in a very wonderftd manner. We trust many very 
 many have been brought out of natures darkness to behold 
 God's marvelous light in the town where we live. We would 
 
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 bless the Lord for his mercy and great goodness to his un- 
 Avortliv creatures. You 1 presume would wish to know 
 whether mv family have shared in the revival. Almira has a 
 hope that God had mercy on her and given her a new heart. 
 She stands propounded for admission into the church. Stat- 
 ira has been much distressed on account of her sinfulness 
 but does not profess to have a hope in Christ. 
 
 Love to Brother M. all the children, Father & Mother 
 ]\1. if they have not forgotten me. 
 
 From your friend and sister, 
 
 DEBORAH JONES. 
 
 TO STATIRA H. MERRICK. WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 Wayne, Aug. 6th., 1827. 
 Dear Sister 
 
 Mv dear S. will forgive nie for not answering 
 her letter sooner when I tell her 1 have been waiting for this 
 opportunity, that it was not forgetfulness. O how welcome 
 was your kind letter which my little son found at the post 
 office the last of June favored by Mr. Ely. Do avail yourself 
 of every such opportunity for it is like cold water to a thirsty 
 soul. I was at Brother R. soon after I received it. They 
 told me he had received one on the same day. They seemed 
 so much pleased and you must not think yourself forgotten 
 by them if lliey should not write often, but think it is through 
 a multiplicity of business. They appear to enjoy themselves 
 well, have a pleasant family and every thing of a temporal 
 nature that heart could wish. Setli, Polly, Sally and Melissa 
 have mafle a profession of religion. 1 believe R. and wife 
 and Alvin have a hope that they have passed from death to 
 life. The ladies in tliis town are forming a society to do a 
 little toward the education n\ pious young men for the min- 
 istry. I hope my very dear sisters in the old settlement are 
 
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 not I)ack\\ar<l or slack in iliis iin])()rlanl affair. IV'oplc in old 
 settlements are niueli hrtter al)Ie to give than in new, but let 
 us remember thai it is re(|uire(l aceording to what a man hath 
 and not what he hath not and that it is more blessed to give 
 than to receive and Cast th\- bread upon the waters and after 
 many da\"s thou shalt find it. Connecticut i> ])erhai)s reaping 
 the fruit of her labor ni sending missionaries to these and 
 other new coimtries. () how have I lelt m\- heart gladdened 
 at seeing a Conn, missionary and hearing him ])reach. Let 
 us try to cast in our mite that we may gladden the hearts of 
 others in like circtunstances. This from \our Sister, 
 
 DEBORAH JONES. 
 
 \ 
 
 TO STATIRA H. MERRICK, WILBRAHAM. MASS. 
 
 Wayne, July i_nh.. i8j8. 
 
 Dear Sister, I had intended writing you a letter, but the 
 bearer is going sooner than I expected. I can only write a few 
 hasty lines. I wrote by Mr. lohnson of Springfield, who has 
 been at our house, with IJrother Oatman. You doubtless 
 know he has been at Xew Connecticut, on a short visit. 
 
 He came to our house with -Mr. J. at evening enquired 
 how far to a tavern, there not being any near Mr. J. asked 
 for refreshments, which request was soon complied with Mr. 
 J. in conversaton mentioned his place of residence. i soon 
 found he knew some of my dear friends in Wilbraham, After 
 inquiries and some other conversation, they asked for lodg- 
 ing and retired for the night, and in the morning to our sur- 
 prise one of the strangers was A. Oatman ! 
 
 We are most of us enjoying good health, mine is not 
 good this summer & spring, still I have not been confined 
 more than two or three weeks, my nerves are much affected. 
 I recollect wdien at your house, you had a little son, which you 
 called the son of vour old age, I wish to know how you feel 
 
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 about it now (^h. My dear sister, shall we ever be permitted 
 to meet again in this life? 1 need not tell you I wMut to see 
 you, I need not tell you I desire Heaven's best blessing to rest 
 on you. for that T presiune you already know. T do wish you 
 to write. 
 
 ^'(un- affectionate sister, 
 
 D. TOXHS. 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK. NORTH WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 
 (Postage 25 cents.) 
 
 Wayne. Oct. 20. 1828. 
 Dear Sister : — 
 
 1 received yours dated vSept. 28 Oct. 17th. did 
 not see the bearer but heard of his l)eing ni town. J do not 
 know as I shall have an o])i)ortunity to send this b\- him if I 
 do not I shall send b\- mail. 1 ha\'e been thinking" of writing 
 to you for some time. 1 nmst tell you how tin- king of terrors 
 lias entered our dwe.'ling and taken a beloved daughter-in- 
 I'lw. Mary the wife of L. lies covererl with the cold clods of 
 the valley. She died Sejjt. 14 the\- having been but teti 
 months married. She was very dear to us although she had 
 been in our family but a short time. She perhaps might 
 with pro])riely be said to ])osscss more ])leasantness of tem- 
 per and disposition than most people, but more than this she 
 was as she ho])ed for several years a child of grace her be- 
 havior on a bed of languishing jiain and distress gave proof 
 of this. When she was taken sick thev were living two or 
 three miles from our house near his farm in the house of a 
 neighbor with his family. The house was small and by the 
 advice of i)hysicians and others she was brought to our 
 house on a hand litter on a bed a very solemn sight indeed 
 next to a funeral solemnity. She always spoke of death with 
 as much composure as if she was going to her Father's on a 
 visit; when hr^t taken ^^ick selected hymns to be sung at her 
 
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 fiiiirral. The di.sorder ;i lun^- C()ni|il;iinl taken lir>t with 
 bleeding she was able to speak hut hltle exeept in a whis])er 
 from tlie first. She was at our house almost seven weeks 
 whieh time the light was not put duI. I cnuld tell you much 
 ot her ajinearance, if I could see \ou. and what she said, hut 
 must sto]). 1 love to dwell upon it. 1^. is at home as former- 
 ly, his house unfinished, lie expects to keep school this win- 
 ter. The other children are all at home except F. who is at- 
 tending school If) miles from home. I received a letter from 
 sister A. ( )ur lo\e to _\()ur family. From your sister, 
 
 D. TONES. 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, WILBRAHAM, MASS. 
 (Postage 2.5 cents.) 
 
 Wayne. ?\lay ist.. 1<S30. 
 Dear Sister 
 
 A long time since T received a very welcome 
 letter from yon in nine days from date. I need not tell you 
 with what i)leasure it was read. 1 have delayed writing for 
 several reasons. One of them was that I might tell you that 
 the dif^culty that existed between Brother T. & Mr. Jones 
 was settled respecting the machinery on Mr. Jones land. 
 Another that Charlotte was Thursday this week married to 
 Mr. Ab)rse, brother of the young man that died a short time 
 before you w^ere here. She does not appear much as wdien 
 you saw her but very cheerful and happy. The family ap- 
 pear remarkably well pleased he is a gay young merchant 
 with considerable property. You have probably heard that 
 Lynns & Statira were married S. to the young man you 
 I presume heard spoken of when here. He is a joiner by 
 trade. She has left the parental home gone to Kinsman nine 
 miles from us. We thiid< her comfortably settled found it 
 hard parting with one who had been so much comfort to me 
 
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 espccialh- in sickness. Alniira stays al home with nie this 
 siininicr. She has had the offer of several schools hut is un- 
 willing to leave me. 
 
 L. is married to K'iza Segar living- in our neighborhood 
 an orphan, one that \vc esteem to be of an amiable disposi- 
 tion, lias not got to keeping house yet; house not quite 
 readv ; kept school last winter in Kinsman at thirteen dollars 
 per month, F. in Gustavus al twelve- F. &; R. took much 
 pleasure in acconi])anying you a short distance got home tol- 
 erable well. I saw ]\lrs. Morse that went with you most of 
 the way at Brother T. at the wedding talked much about you 
 was pleased with your company — 1 feel anxious to hear from 
 you feel much concerned for your health, but why should I 
 God is abundantly able to lengthen out your days to old age 
 and give you health and strength to be useful in the world — 
 j\ly health is not as good as when you was here have not been 
 able to do any hard work but have not been confined to the 
 house my work last suimuer was nuich tt)o hard fcr me think 
 that the cause of my not being so well. 1 am ver\- nervous 
 cannot bear anything that alarms or disturl)s me in the least 
 rather inclined to be low spirited but am in hopes that I shall 
 be better soon — I'erhaps you have heard of the death of our 
 dear Mrs. Woodruff she died very suddenly while on a visit 
 at Seth Haves' — I again and again thank vou for vour visit 
 think I have taken almost as much satisfaction in thinking 
 of you since, as in the visit. The parting I cannot dwell upon 
 but the visit has occu])ie(l my mind much time it is indeed a 
 great satisfaction The bed <pnlt to S. was accepted with 
 pleasure and many thanks — Sister M. likewise appeared very 
 thankful that you remembered her. Mv own thanks accept 
 for remembering me. We have at i)resent a very pleasartt 
 season. Grass Grain fruit trees and many other things look 
 very llourisliing — After xou left here last fall vegetation 
 seemed to start anew like spring of the year the autumnal 
 months indeed appeared very jileasant and nature wore a 
 different as])ect from \shat it did when you were here. The 
 childri'u begin to call Ma. write my love to Uncle & Aunt & 
 the Children among the rest comes Emily who thinks she 
 
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 claims as imich of it as any one please to accept from us all 
 our g-ood wishes and tender rejj^ards. 
 
 I'roni your atYoctionato and lovini:;' 
 
 SKSTKK DEnORAII JUX1<:S. 
 
 Do write soon or at least send some jiapers. 
 
 RICHARD HAYES TO MR. AND MRS. MERRICK. 
 (Postage 25 cents.) 
 
 Hartford, March 4, 1831. 
 
 Dear P.rother & Sister 
 
 1 once more take my ])en in hand to inform you 
 of our welfare. The most of us are in as good health as age 
 and circumstances will permit through the kind hand of God. 
 Melissa has been unwell from last April. She has been 
 somewhat better this winter luuil a few days past she has 
 had a poor turn and is now feeble, but we do not despair of 
 her getting a better state of health under the kind hand of 
 God. Seth's wife is quite sick at this time. She had a son 
 born two weeks ago — as to myself and wife, you know we are 
 g^etting to be old and worn all most out, you will recollect 
 that I am 60 years of age in a few days. My health is some- 
 what on the decline, but I am still permitted by the goodness 
 of God to attend a little to business. 
 
 I heard from Rroth. Lynus & Family. They were all 
 well, also Bro. Titus el- Jones & Family are all well. Sister 
 Matilda and Family are all well. 
 
 We have had a fine winter for business, snow about 10 
 or 12 inches deep. Our country is furnishing large quantity 
 of wheat for Xew York Market, prices as the local situation 
 is for 5134 cts. to 80 cts. per bush. We find that our Canals 
 bring us nearer to Market. We feel more and more confirm- 
 ed in the opinion that our state will be one of the best in the 
 Union. I saw Mr. Knight at our Court after he came to 
 our State — also a letter from vou — I wish vou to write to us 
 
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 at once, write the true ^tate of Sister Statira's health. One 
 more re(|uest and I've done — tliat while you are going 
 thron.nh this world, that you make your calling and election 
 sure tor the one to come which is the prayer of your affec- 
 tionate r.rnther. RICHARD HAYES. 
 Remember me to \our dear children. 
 
 TO MR. AND MRS. NOAH MERRICK. 
 
 Hartford. July 5. i5^34. 
 
 Dear lirother <5v: Sister , 
 
 I take mv i)en in hand with sorrow and lamen- 
 tation to inform you that our Urother Lynus Hayes is gone 
 the wa\- of all the earth. I received a letter today informing 
 me that he departed this life on last Sabbath day the 29th of 
 June past. I only am left to give you the intelligence. When 
 this sad news shall reach you may Ciod grant \t)u may be 
 supported under such severe trials yon are so fre(|uently cal- 
 led upon to l)ear in a verv few years you have received the in- 
 telligence in tliis wa\- of tlie death of three of your brothers — 
 1 never shall write to you of the death of any more l»rothers 
 some other pen will be employed for that purpose I find old 
 age fast coming upon me my health is declining — O that 
 I may be ])rei)ared for tliat great and solemn change — 
 and dear Brother left a widow and nine children to motu'n 
 tlieir loss. The eldest is a daughter 22 years next a son in 
 the 21 year — She that was the widow of IVother Leister now 
 Mrs. '^rultle is not expected to live but a short time — the eld- 
 est son that lirother Leister Uft dic-d last year — our family 
 and connections are in unusual health — we have had cold sea- 
 son fruit is all cut off. 
 
 May we all be ])rcpared to leave this world of sorrow and 
 pain and go to a better world where there is neither sorrow 
 nor ])ain — wliere we shall ever be with the Lord — O how 
 short an<l uncertain life is I cannot help thinking while I 
 move my pen the hand that nioxcs it will soon stop in death. 
 
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 Dear llrother i!v Sisicr (.\: your C'liildrcn. do write to mc — 
 I love to hear from you — This from your atVeelionate 
 
 P.ROTni-.k KICIl AKI) II AN'ES. 
 
 TO MRS. STATIRA MERRICK, NORTH WILBRAHAM 
 
 Hartland, July 22, 1836. 
 Dear Sister 
 
 It is witli pleasure I couiplv with \dur re(|uest 
 in wntino; to \ou after iny return from ( )hio. We left home 
 the last Monday in A!a\- had a i)leasant journey spent the 
 first nit^-Jit at 1). Carpenter's next day went to Wayne found 
 our friends comfortable sister's health not good but better 
 than it was last winter. I did not anticipate much pleasure 
 in my visit with sister Phebe as she was an entire stranger 
 bui became f(uite interested. She appeared to take an in- 
 terest in our visit the children appeared interested in the 
 visit. I went to see them all. WeiU to Mr. 'Putties to see 
 those orphan children o\ our l)ear lirother L. Lavinia and 
 the two N'oungest boxs live with .Mr. T. He aiJjieared very 
 kind to them. Linus the oldest son lives with brother R. 
 L-ittle Lester is a ver\ ])right boy. llis leather Tuttle feels 
 quite proud of him. 
 
 1 nuist leave W a\nc for the ])resent and let _\ou know 
 about our friends in Hartford. Prother looks like an old 
 man I)ut is comfortable as I e\'])ected not able to do nuiclj 
 busmess can ride about comforta])l\' has latel_\' been down the 
 ( )lno river six hundred nii]e>. Sister 1 is feeble. I feel some- 
 what afraid she is running down. She walks about but does 
 very little work, lirotliers children were all at home while 
 I was there except Mrs. Coc. Sally and ^[aria live at home 
 Seth's family are well, have one son by the name of Seth a 
 very mteresting child. 
 
 I was nuich sur])rised to hear you had parted with two 
 of vour famih' for the far west. 1 know it mu.st be ir\ing to 
 
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 vour feolii\c:s but hope you have divine support under all 
 your afflictions. 
 
 Our family are all well Julia is at home at present but 
 do not expect to be here louij:. It was a mistake that Mr. 
 W . was g:oinf? west with us. lie is here now and may possibly 
 visit von in three or four weeks. Julia says she intends to 
 come but may not. Should they not call on you I hope we 
 may see some of you or at least hear from you. Please re- 
 member all my love to your family. Vour sister, 
 
 ABIGAIL O ATM AN. 
 
 DEBORAH JONES TO MRS. NOAH MERRICK. 
 
 \\'ayne, Jan. 3, 1843. 
 
 Dear Sister : 
 
 Received your welcome letter two weeks after 
 date. I need not tell you that we were anxiousJy looking: and 
 nnicli comforted to hear of your safe arrival and comfortable 
 health, it was extremely .stratifying- to hear so particularly Sis- 
 ter's situation. Dear suffering- Sister with what satisfaction 
 would I administer to her wants could it be, but since it is not 
 1 connnend hrr to Iiim whose promise cannot fail. Your visit 
 to us has but endeared you all to us, feel it a great privilege 
 thai we fujowd yom- societ\- '-o long and that we could in 
 our plaiu wa\ su])])ly your wauts. When I think of yom- long 
 iournev. \-our sickness, an<l tlu' destructiou of the boat so 
 socjn after you U'll it. I cannot but adore that Ik'ing who has 
 tlie control of the c-k-ment in his power and ])reserved you to 
 return to your dear family and friends and was permitted to 
 visit that afflicted sister that she might see one of her Father's 
 family once moie this side oi the gi-a\e. v^ince you letl Mrs. 
 Miller has died, likewise .Mrs. b'obes tlu' one you heard uie 
 speak of that had beeu conlined three yi'ars and Mrs. Wilcox 
 a sister of l,\uus" first wife. .Mrs. K . had no children, the 
 others eight each. .Ml died iu ]io])e of a glorious innnortality 
 bevond the gra\c'. 
 
I.dU-rs. 
 
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 Dear sistcM" it (.■an be' hut littU' wliiU' Ijcforc vou or 1 mu'^t 
 staiul aldiu' t)t our iauiil\, which il wiU l)c \vr canmit trU. he 
 which it may my (K-^irc and praxrr i^ that \vc may he iound 
 watcliiuL;- read}' to meet llie hride t;ro()m of souL'^. I )o not let 
 us tori^x't eacli otlier wliik' upon our knees lieforc (itnl. Uelig- 
 ion is h)w in this place in parlieular. In some places around 
 there are revivals. 
 
 J will try to tell }'ou something about my family. ^'ol^ 
 ask how I got home. \\ ell very well. Went to work four or 
 five days and was taken very sick, did not step to the floor 
 for Three weeks, his disease inflammation of the liver attended 
 with fever, not able to work much except a few light chores, 
 think he will get his health by sjjring. \[y health is not quite 
 as good as when you were here, much worn down being bro- 
 ken of rest taking care of S. 
 
 Emily has a prett\- little boy born .Monday after you left, 
 got along very well for her. keeps a hired girl. .\11 the other 
 children and grandchildren (piite well. Dear F's widow is 
 very lonesome but no more so than one would ex])ect. Her 
 J^>rother stays with her vet. Our friends in TTartford were a 
 few days ago well. 
 
 Almira and Emil\- will be disappointed. 1 ])romi>ed them 
 a little sj)acc, but want to send tomorrow and have not time. 
 1 cannot tell how man\' times I have been asked the ipu'stion 
 heard from your sister \et. Much anxietx' manifested tni ac- 
 count t)f \()ur feeble health. It is a time of general health 
 although there has been (|uite a number of deaths here, sever- 
 al from consumption. Much love to brother y\. and the chil- 
 dren and grandchildren Mtich love sent by all. T have seen 
 'jfter receiving your letter. Sister II. has been to read your 
 letter, says tell her 1 want much to see them again. S. said 
 he felt sad at parting with you at Conneaut. 
 
 From \-our affectionate Sister. 1). |( ).\liS. 
 
 Now dear Helen a few words to you. Tf xou could just 
 drop in and cheer me now and then bv _\om- cheerful conver- 
 sation, it would drive awa\- m\ melancholv. .\s 1 have no 
 
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 female with me at present, am much alone — not one word has 
 ^[(^hcr said al)()ut your hcahli. How are you? Are you 
 better, or the same? Now dear, don't forget to write again 
 before I'ing. T.ittlc F.mily says Send my love. 
 
 Your affectionate aunt, 
 
 D J. 
 
 DEBORAH JONES TO MRS. NOAH MERRICK. 
 
 Wayne. June 2. 1843. 
 Dear and only v^istcr : 
 
 I now sit down to write l)y Mr. Fuller from 
 Ludlow. Mrs. J Virion's brothers here on a visit. Am sorry 
 vcrv sorry you did not write think you did not know oL their 
 coming don't fail of writing soon by mail, am almost impatient 
 to hear. Since we parted death has reduced our number to 
 two it matters not which of the two are next called to die if 
 we are l)ut clothed with therol)e of Christ's righteousness our 
 souls washed in his ])recious blood. O. Sister what a privilege 
 to go where no sin no parting no tears no ])ain shall ever mar 
 our happiness, for my own part if it was not for my remaining 
 doubts and fears I should have but very little desire tt) stay 
 in this world of tears and sorrow hoi)e you ])ra}' that T may 
 be fully i)r(.-])ar(.(l for that event ! c\])ect before you receive 
 this you will have a ])aper from K. Hayes containing the sud- 
 den deatli of hi> eldest and youngest children Titus and Hebo- 
 rah with scarlvt fever. There has l)een a number of cases 
 in our neighborhood none have pro\ed tatal but these two. 
 -Mr. Ward's two children near us have been very sick but are 
 now tolerable v.'ell. Xone of mv grandchildren except two of 
 L. those not severelw Kichard's other two ha\e l)een sick. 
 better now. Scarlet fe\er has never been in this town before. 
 Xow nnisl say something aboiu m\ own health. Mr. J. is well 
 imleed for his years, ^^amuel i> able to work eonsiderabk- 
 hard at presi'ut has liad a ri'inrn of his former complaint this 
 spring though not so severe. The others about as usual. Iv 
 has been 1 think well for her but has frecpient returns ol being 
 unwell. She has a flesh}- babe, ;i pleasanter little fellow 1 never 
 
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 saw. Tlu' little _y;irl is as lively as ever and I think ([uite pretty. 
 Alniira's little boys came rmininj;" and called ^^randma we 
 have brouj^ht some little cakes of siis^ar we want yon to send 
 aniit Merrick. 1 will ii 1 can to stratify them. I forj^^ot to say 
 Duct, is well has a ^'ood deal ol hnsiness hnl fmds it hard to 
 collect anything;'. The weather is at present very cold severe 
 frost last nii^'ht 1 thin]< it will hurt the fruit of which we had a 
 ])rospect of a g"reat abundance provisions are ])lent\- but verv 
 hard times for those who are so unfortunate as to be in debt 
 in fact there is no mone\'. Mr. J. says if I wish to g^o with 
 Mr. Fullers and wives he will try to get money f(^r me. I 
 think he cannot obtain enough for the journey and rei)lenish 
 my scanty wardrobe btit that is not all. my health is not at all 
 good I feel feeble although not really sick. 1 can not bring 
 Uiy mind to leave mv family so long. I expect to keep hired 
 help though I have none at present but expect to have soon. 
 -As to sister H. she is (|uite well. IMiebc has a daughter three 
 weeks old doing well. As to Deacon Coe he has not been 
 tiiere yet btit is exj)ected in a few days he has written several 
 ti'^ies. It is jirobable she will go to Portage Co. ti) spend 
 the remainder of her days. Our relatives are well so far as ( 
 know at Hartford, Andover and elsewhere. Mr. La<ld the 
 merchant near the W'hitmores died this spring of a disease of 
 the heart. 
 
 We think and talk much about \'on all. My children all 
 seem to feel great attachment to uncle, aunt, and Helen. We 
 talk much of }our visit here. Emily intended writing a few 
 lines but I dont know whether she has or not her time is so 
 taken up in her famih she has ncjt much time for writing. 
 If she does not do tell Helen to write to her she will esteem 
 it a great favor 1 had forgotten to say a word about F's. 
 widow. Her health is very good her children are well has 
 everything very comf(jrtable but is wvy lonesome. Sanniei 
 iS: Albert Hayes say give my respects to all. 1 must close my 
 scrawl b\' wishing the best of blessings to rest ui)on all of 
 y(,)ti Love to brother and all the children. 
 
 From your affectionate and only sister. 
 
 DEBORAH lOXES. 
 
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 August 13, T852. 
 Dear Mrs. Jones 
 
 Tliis, J am informed, is xour hirthday. 1 send 
 you liiis little pocket cusliion as a l)irthday token; together 
 witli niy best wishes tliat your life and that of your dear com- 
 panion, may be prolonged for many years yet to come. Alay 
 Heavon's choicest blessing rest upon you l)()tli, and be perj^et- 
 uated to vour children, 'till llie latest generation. With much 
 love ' HARRTKT PI TEL PS. 
 
 FROM CHARLOTTE HAYES> M. WEEKS. 
 
 "It is a long time since I have written to you. but I have 
 not forgotten you, no, not for one single day for as often as 
 I go to the throne of grace, I remember you." 
 
 M seldom get the blues. T am often asked if T am not 
 lonesome but T tell peo])le 1 am not for I can find enough to 
 occupy my mind so that I have no time for loneliness. I feel 
 very thankful to my Heavenly Father for the many mercies 
 with which he has surrounded me and that T am placed in so 
 comfortable circumstances. 1 take the (^luide and Beauty of 
 Holiness, the Advocate and the Cleveland Herald."' 
 
 " — I'undirlook to write while grandma was sick, 1"»ut f 
 could not collect my mind sufficiently to write — It was a dark 
 day to me when 1 saw her time liad come. It appeared to me 
 that the last link was severed tliat could hold me at home. 1 
 fell for a while as though T could not stay here alter she was 
 gone, but how wonderfully 1 have been sustained and I trust 
 that these afllictions are the means ol nrrwing nu- nearer 
 to a throne of grace. When I ])ray, 1 do nut ask to be remov- 
 ed fr(jm afflictions, but C) I i)ra\- tliat thev ma\' bi' sanctified 
 to my spiritual good. T sometimes lhin]< il' .Mr. WiH'ks could 
 havi- biTU spared, what a comfort it would ]ia\'' been for T 
 miss him more since mother has gone than I did before; but 
 I nuist n(;t nuirnuir for Ciod has dont' it and lie is too wise to 
 err. Mv sincere clesire is to live in such a vva\' as to meet the 
 
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 approbation of my Maker and at his coininiL;' I nia\' hi- fouivl 
 with my Mam]) trimmed and hnrnini^.' 
 
 ( )ur s()l(h(.r hoys of the 105th. have i^ol honu', what are 
 hvinf;^. Three are resting;' in Southern g'raves. hiu () what 
 changes since they left. Charley has come to hnd t^'randma 
 ]laycs and grandma Uarber, imcle Leroy and aunt h'anny 
 and Mr. Weeks gone. Roderick to find his mother, grandma 
 Jones and grandma llarher and uncle Leroy gone. T think 
 all have lost one or more near relatives since they left. One 
 of your old scholars was bnried here two weeks ago, Engene 
 (.jiddings. 1 fe died in Wisconsin at Dr. I'est's. He wrote 
 to his folks that Hannah r>est was teaching there and was 
 going home and O how^ he washed he was able to go with her. 
 'i'hey got to Portage on Thursday and he died on Friday. 
 O may we all be prepared to go wdien the sunmions shall 
 come " 
 
 FROM EMILY JONES BEST. 
 
 .Xeligh, \eb.. Marcli 1.^, 1S99, 
 
 Dear Cousm Harriet: 
 
 \ am in receipt of \-our letter, and was ver}- gla'l 
 indeed to hear from you. How soon all of our plans of lite 
 may l)e changed, but we have the assurance that God know: 
 best, and although we do not know why we arc afflicted, "we 
 will know hereafter." 
 
 1 had never ex]>ected to li\-e to my ])resent age (81) and 
 there are stj few of m\' early friends wlu) were of my age and 
 a few^ years older, that 1 seem 'piite alone. In my early school 
 (la\s. there were six of us girls about the same age; the five 
 died years ago. It certainly is not that my life has been so 
 free from care wm] trials, that it has been so prolonged. 
 
 It will be fifty years next May since we left our home in 
 \\'aync, for Wisconsin. Perhaps the "roughing" in a new 
 countrv. and other changes have tended to j^rolong life. 
 
 Hannah and I live together, keep house. 1 am still able 
 
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 to do lie"ht work, hut liavc no care. She is one of the Faculty 
 of Gates College. 
 
 My second son, Edward lives next door, has a very 
 pleasant familw The daughter, Edith, graduated in the clas- 
 sical course of the college last June, is teaching now. She 
 is a fine Christian girl. They have three hoys much \ounger. 
 
 Charlie, my youngest hoy, lives in ( )maha, is on the edi- 
 torial stafT of the daily "IJee." They have one son and two 
 daughters. Swift, whom I think you will remember, is much 
 of the time in Chicago. The boys are all practical printers 
 and have mostly been connected with journalism in some 
 way. Ed. has a nice office here, a weekly paper, but mostly 
 job work. 
 
 I do not suppose H. would be content long out of teach- 
 ing of some kind. She has taught nearly every year since she 
 graduated at I'ainsville Seminary. She has often talked of 
 joining the "Daughters," but has not yet. Her grandfather 
 Best was a Revolutionary soldier, and I tliink her great, 
 grandfather on her grandmother I'est's side. 
 
 1 tliink cousin that we can show as clean a record in our 
 ancestry, if not as great as any one, as any other family, I am 
 sorry that we did not look- u]) our record while mother was 
 living for she had a good menK)ry. 1 had hoped that the 
 missing links could be foimd in connection with Ex Prcs. 
 Hayes, as 1 am confident that he descended from one of the 
 two brothers, and our family from the other. Mother said 
 that the lla\e. family were Scotch, that two brothers came 
 from S. settled in what is since Mass., I do not know what 
 year. 
 
 -Motliei- told me about grand-father's being for vears 
 what was called "'high slieriff"" and of his enlistment in the 
 army. I lis ofifii-ial duties were such that he soon provided a 
 substitute. Mother told me oi one of grandfather's sisters 
 and her husband going to a shaker settlement in eastern X. 
 ^'. .-Mid about grandfather i\: mother going to visit them. 
 
 My mother's oldest sister died at the age of sixteen, of 
 consumption. \\ hen aniit ( )atman was six \ears old. just be- 
 
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 fore her death she took the rings from her ears, put them in 
 baby's hand, saying, "Call her Abigail," her own name. 
 
 The years since "academy"" days have brought manv 
 changes to I)oth of us. Many of those dear to us have passed 
 away. 
 
 Cousin, you must excuse my my poor scribble. I write 
 very few letters. We will be happy to hear from you anv time. 
 
 From vour cousin KMTI,Y. 
 
 FROM FREDERICK MERRICK TO MR. SAMUEL JONES. 
 
 Delaware, Ohio, Xov. 24, 1879. 
 
 ^\y IJear Uncle Jones: 
 
 Will it not be beautiful to wake u]), one of these 
 days and find ourselves in heaven? Free from the infirmities 
 that flesh is heir to here — free from sin and its consequences 
 — free from all that c^n oppress — at home in the mansion 
 Christ has gone to prepare for us — with the society of angels 
 and the redeemed of earth — and above all, to look unon 
 him who has redeemed us with his own blood, and made us 
 to be kings and priests unto Cod and his Father ! Will it 
 not be a joy to cast our crowns at his feet? "That he should 
 "make the ])artners of his throne ;"" What a wonder of grace! 
 Well, it is too nmch for us now to comprehend. \\'e can but 
 bow down and adore. 
 
 I have often thought of writing to you, and hardly know 
 whv I have not, only that our acquaintance has been so slight 
 — 1 mean personal accpiantance, for though I have been per- 
 mitted to see but little of you. 1 have heard much of you 
 through our mutual friends, and have felt no little interest 
 in you. I hope for a more intimate acquantance with you in 
 tha better land. Possibly we may meet in this. 
 
 I am on the last cpiarter of my seventieth year. My 
 health is pretty good, and 1 am able to do almost full work. 
 I am doing what I can for the University in which I liave 
 spent the most of m}- working life. I suppose I shall not do 
 much more, though I would like to work a little longer, if 
 
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 it be the ^faster's will: but that is not of much matter; he is 
 not dependant upon me to do his work. His will, not mine, 
 be done. 
 
 I trust you are graciously supported in your advanced 
 years. How precious the promises, "Even to your old age I 
 am he ; and even to hoar hair will I carry you : I have made, 
 and I will bear ; even I will carry, and will deliver you." May 
 you realize the fulfillment of the promise imtil carried safely 
 to Abraham's bosom. 
 
 My family are well and join in kindest regards. It will 
 always afiford us pleasure to hear from you. 
 
 Most truly yours, 
 FREDERICK MERRICK. 
 
 FREDERICK MERRICK TO MR. AND MRS. GIDDINGS. 
 
 Delaware, O., June 6, "91. 
 Mr. and ]\Irs. Giddings 
 
 Dear Friends & Relatives 
 
 Some one was so kind as to send nie a few days 
 since, your photographs Sister Helen & myself are enjoying 
 them nnich. Then a letter from }our daugliter Statira. How 
 this name and the pictures touch and stir my heart, as they 
 call up my sainted Mother ! Wonderful are these earthly ties, 
 How tender and sweet the love they awaken ; and were they 
 not intended to train our hearts to love Him who should be 
 to us the "chief among ten thousand — the one altogether 
 lovely?" I see by Mrs. S. letter you are two years in advance 
 of me, I was <Si the 29th of last Jan. Ten years ago, I little 
 thought of remaining so long on this side the river. T then 
 wrote in my journal, 
 
 I walk the border land 
 
 My steps approach the shore ; 
 On Jordan's banks I soon shall stand, 
 To wait the passage o'er 
 
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 CIS. 
 
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 I see lU) >liatlo\vs there ; 
 
 No darkness ti) attright ; 
 A ray comes si reaming- t'roni afar, 
 
 Aiul tills I he vale with liefht. 
 
 '?>' 
 
 Xo evil do 1 fear. 
 
 Since Ciirist my steps attend ; 
 His rod & stafT my comfort are; 
 
 On Him my steps depend. 
 
 And this 1 can still say. God is dealing very graciously 
 with me, in granting me a good degree of healtlt, and all 
 needed temporal good: and al)ove all, in granting me the as- 
 surance of his favor, and a good hope that when done with 
 this life, I shall be permitted to dwell in His presence, where 
 its fullness of joy, even at His right hand, where are pleasures 
 forevermore. We have a pleasant memory of your visit here 
 many years ago. How delightful it would be to greet you 
 here once more, Rut one then here has gone. My dear wife 
 passed triumphantly away eight years ago. Rut should we 
 not meet again this side the river, it will not be long before 
 we meet in the "Father's house" above. Grace, Mercy & 
 peace be with you. 
 
 Sincerely & Affectionately yours, 
 
 FREDKRICK MKRRTCK. 
 
 RIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 Frederick Merrick (vSee No. 59), born Wilbraham, ^lass., 
 Jan. 29, 1810, though of a Congregational family, was con- 
 verted in a ?^Iethodist revival. To prepare himself for the 
 Christian ministry, he entered the Wesleyan Academy, near 
 his own home at Wilbraham, and afterward continued his 
 studies at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He 
 did not remain to graduate, having, upon the nomination of 
 President Fisk, been elected in his senior year to the princi- 
 
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 pal>hi]) of the ConkTcnce Scminar\- at Anienia, \. Y. ; but 
 tlie I'liiversity afterward conferred on him the honorarv de- 
 .C^ree of Master of Arts. After two }-ears of service at Amenia 
 he was elected ap;-ain upon the recommendation of Tres. Fisk, 
 to tlie cliair of Xatiu-al Science in the ( )hio University, at 
 Athens, Ohio, .\fter four years' service at Athens, Profe:-sor 
 Merrick resit^ned his chair, in order to enter the pastoral 
 work in the ()hio Conference; and in Sept., 1842. he was ap- 
 ])ointed pastor of the Methodist church at Marietta, another 
 of Ohio's many colle^^e towns. In the spring- of the year 
 1842. the Ohio Wesleyan L'niversity was incorporated. It 
 beg-an its histor\- in want of everything-. To supply these 
 wants the ( )hio Conference in 1843 appointed two agents, 
 one of whom was Prof. Merrick. From that date until his 
 death he remained in the continuous service of the university, 
 for two years as agent, for fifteen as professor, for thirteen as 
 president, and for twenty-one as professor emeritus and lect- 
 urer on natural and revealed relig-ion — a consecutive period 
 of fifty-one years. Just at the beginning of his administration 
 as president of the university, came the dark days of the 
 national strife ; and the halls of the university were almost 
 emptied of its patriotic students, who sought tlie C()untr\-'s 
 safety beyond the school's culture, many of them never to 
 return. The war left less than three hundred students on the 
 grcnmd ; the first year of peace saw an enrollment of just 
 twice that number, many scores of whom had served in the 
 army of the republic. The class that entered in 1865 was long 
 known as the war class ; and there never was a class com- 
 posed of better material than the soldier boys. 
 
 Prof. -Merrick's preaching was at first without manu- 
 script or notes; but when he became president, following col- 
 lege example, he wrote his college sermons and baccalaureates. 
 Of his own writings he had a humble opinion, yet he wrote 
 much and he wrote well The only book from his pen is a small 
 volume on Formalism in Religion. Early in his presidency 
 Prof. Merrick had the lu)norary degree of doctor of divinity 
 and doctor of laws conferred on him, but for conscientious 
 reasons he declined to wear them. 
 
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 Pres. liaslitord thus docrihcs liis jlrsl iiUeTview witli 
 liini : Dr. Mrrrick sent for nic wIkmi I U\->[ canic to the col- 
 legw ( )n (.Mitcring liis lionu' lu- inir(i(hK-ril nir lu several 
 friends, and llien asked tlieni to excuse us and led the wav to 
 a ])ri\-ate room. Alter we entered his bed rooui, whieli seem- 
 ed III be his holy i)i holies, lie turned to nie with such a look 
 of tenderness and solicitude as can be given onlv bv a father 
 to a son or by one soul which has been ]:)raying for another 
 soul, lie said in substance: "I ani so olad you have come 
 to the college. The work is great. The responsibilities will 
 be heavy. I have craved the privilege of praying wath you." 
 T shall never forget that prayer. It was full of reverence, 
 like his public ])rayers wdiich I heard later. lUtt it was more 
 tender and faiuiliar than any other j^ra^er which T ever heard 
 him make. He talked with God. ] realized for the first time 
 how^ the university had become a ]>art of his very life. At one 
 monmt I felt as if a dving man were committing his familv to 
 me, for the students were the children of his heart : the next 
 moment I felt as if a prophet were ascending to his home, 
 and T craved his mantle. The bedroom was a l>ethel." 
 
 I'rof. Frederick ?\[errick married April, 1836, a ladv whom 
 he first met as a fellow student at the W'esleyan Academy in 
 \\'ill)raham, IMass. — ]\liss Sarah Griswold ef Suffield, Conn. 
 ]\Irs. ]\Ierrick died July 1883. Prof. Frederick Merrick died 
 Delaware, Ohio, March 5. 1894. Extracts from The ]vIetho- 
 dist Review, prepared b}- Prof. W. G. Williams. 
 
 LETTERS OF HELEN M. MERRICK. 
 
 Delaware, Ohio, ^Nfarch 3, 1894. 
 ^ly dear cousin — 
 
 Your letter of Feb. 20 is rec'd. I ha ire been much 
 interested in w'hat Mrs. Simpkins has written me of your 
 hunting up records of the Hayes Family, and am very glad 
 to learn of this Richard Hayes and his children of Lyme, T 
 think there can be no doubt of his being my great grand- 
 father. I have often heard my mother speak of her parents 
 
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 coniino- Id llartland troni Lyme, and thai her mother's name 
 was either Beckwithor Harvey — one being her niothei '.s name 
 and the other her grrandmother's name, I cotdd not be ])osi- 
 live which — lUit I have no doubt from what von write that 
 her mother was Deborah Beckwith. and her niotlier was a 
 Harvey. Wlietlier her name was l^hzabeth or not 1 cannot 
 saw but 1 presume it was. 
 
 In a letter wliich 1 liave of Grandpa Hayes to my mother 
 dated Oct. 24, 1807 he writes: "Your Uncle Silas died on the 
 6th inst of apoplexy" — I have heard my mother speak of 
 uncles who lived in \"ermont, but I do not remember the 
 names. I should have expected to find '•Elizabeth'" among 
 Richard Hayes" children as I have often heard my mother 
 speak of her "aunt Lizzie" who used to visit them, and I think 
 it was her father's sister. But it might have been her 
 mother"s sister. 
 
 I wish I could help you in this work. A few vears ago, I 
 should have entered into it with great zest, but mv failing 
 strength constantly reminds me that I can do verv little. I 
 have been shut in most of the winter, but I am ])eginning to 
 get out a little again. I am always glad to hear from Wayne 
 friends, and thank you for the items you mention. Willi best 
 \vishes for your success in the fascinating work, and in the 
 hope that we may at length meet face to face willi a host of 
 these ancestors and their descendants among the redeered 
 in Heaven. \'ery sincerely yours 
 
 HELEX ^[. MERRICK. 
 
 A])ril 8. 1897. 
 My dear ctmsin — 
 
 "S'our letter of March 28, is rcc'd — I am glad if I have 
 been able to be a little help to you in yom- work of tracing 
 our ancestry. I wisii you might be able to trace it back, at 
 least, to the time of their coming to this country. 
 
 Tlic letter of my grandfather Hayes, to which }ou allu 1- 
 cd, I will send \()U if you receive this and will drop me a 
 
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 postal card, giving- your ])rcscnt P. C). address — I am not sure 
 whether xou are to remain at I'.vanston. T thought tlie 
 original might he more satisfaelury than a eu])y — I enclose 
 three old letters, and if T hear from you, will send others, I 
 do not sn])|)ose yon will get nmcli information out oi them, 
 hut they may mterest you, and 1 would like to have some 
 one have them who would care for them. Sincerely yours, 
 
 HELEN MERRICK. 
 
 April 12, 1807. 
 M\' dear cousin — 
 
 Your card just rec"d and T herewith enclose old 
 letters — I do not know that they contain anything of special 
 value to }ou, hut 1 think you will be interested in them on 
 account of their age. They will explain themselves. They 
 are not to be returned until I send for them, wdiich I presume 
 I shall never do. I am glad to have you have them. All the 
 return I ask is, if you find anything new in tracing our ances- 
 try, let me hear of it. Yours truly 
 
 HELEX ^lERRICK. 
 Please acknowledge receipt of the letters. 
 
 April 2\, 1897. 
 
 Your letter rec'd. Thank you for the copy of the com- 
 munication of Richard Hayes to "corn's ofificer" while in the 
 army in the war of 18 1 2. I am very glad the letters I sent 
 were gratifying to you. I feel with you that is a cause for 
 gratitude to have had a godly ancestry. You are at liberty 
 to make any disposition of the letters which you think best — 
 I hoj^e to write more at length sometime if I get stronger, 
 and in the meantime may I hope to hear from you, and the 
 progress of your book. Deborah Hayes' mother was surclv 
 a Harvey. 
 
 Yours, H. M. MERRICK. 
 
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 EXTRACTS OF LETTERS WRITTEN BY FREDERICK M. 
 GIDDINGS. a member of Co. I, 105 Reg. O. V. I. 
 
 Frederick ^lerrick Giddings was born in Cherrv A-^allev 
 Ohio Oct. 29th 1834 — died in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Apr. 
 2i-'63 
 
 No. I Camp Cleveland 
 
 Dear Friends Aug. 20th 1862 
 
 When I left lionie that evening (the evening 
 they enhstcd) I expected to have been at home l^efore this, 
 but the reg. is not yet mustered m, and we are under march- 
 ing orders for Kentucky, and probal^ly 1 shall not get home 
 at present. If it is a possible thing we shall come as we are in 
 \vant of scime things to carry with us. We had a very pleas- 
 ant ride to Ashtabula that night. Sixty of the Ashtabula 
 boys, under Capt Kee, took the night express and arrived 
 in Cleveland soon after sunrise, and were met by Wm. Alice, 
 \\h(j directed us to the Johnson house where we were met by 
 Mr. Wick, who had a Ijreakfast ])r()vided for us, after winch 
 we were marched to camp, some two miles from the court 
 house. 
 
 It would ])lease you to see us here. We use the same 
 sheet iron kettles & pans, for tea kettles, spiders, dripping 
 ])ans. dish pans, water pails, coffee pots, dish kettles (5v:c &c. 
 
 Covington, Ky.. Aug 22nd 
 Dear Friends, Little ilid I think the evening that T left 
 home that today I should \)v in old Kentucky, but so it is. 
 Tlu' 105th has been ordered into active service, and in 
 spite of the writtrn request of the ten cai)tains. and the un- 
 dici])lined condition of the lro()])s. the higher ])owers decided 
 ihat we must go. And as we enlisted for the good of the 
 country, and can ])robably do more good lieri' than at Cleve- 
 land, it is i)robably best that we should go. it is a great dis- 
 appointment to us. as we all left home in such a hurry, we did 
 
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 not iM-ing- any ol tlu' little things so nccdt'ul to ns. which tlic 
 government does not furnish. 
 
 \\'e fare better for food than 1 expected, hut after all it 
 is not any better ilian we have at home. 
 
 On Ticket near lA'-xington, Kv. 
 
 Aug. 26th 
 We stayed at Covington until we were fully armed and 
 equipped. Harnessing a horse is nothing to harnessing our- 
 selves for a march. Our uniforms are rather coarse U^x "Sun- 
 dav clothes." 
 
 Camp near Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Sept. 10 
 
 Last Friday we arrived near this place and I wrote to you 
 giving an account of our retreat from Lexington. ^\'e march- 
 ed over 100 miles in less than a week, and by the time we got 
 through we were pretty well used up, some of our companv 
 fell out by the wa\-. and were probably taken prisoners. Many 
 of the boys threw awav their blankets, knapsacks, over-coats 
 «S:c I l)rought all nunc through, but a blanket which was in 
 a box c^ was ])robabl}- biu-ned at Frankfort, ft is just as 
 well. I would probably have thrown it away anv how. How- 
 ever comfortable two or more I)lankets are in camp they be- 
 come an intolerable load on a march. W'e may remain here 
 some time. T do not know how many troops there are about 
 Louisville but I know the woods are full of camps, (^ne Reg. 
 near has a I)rass bantl which discourses music which soiuids 
 most melodious through the trees at night. It seems as 
 thotigh I never enjoyed music of any kind more. 
 
 Sept. 14 l)a>' before yesterday 1 had just finished writ- 
 ing a letter home, and had sealed it tightly — when our mail 
 came in. .\11 were eager to hear their names called as one 
 after another of Co Fs were distributed. Sure enough "F. 
 ^\. Giddings" answered "here" with a will for once. Tf friends 
 at home could -see hcnv eagerh' tlu- bo\s watch for mail, and 
 
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 could see what happiness is conferred h\' receiving a letter 
 from home. I am sure they would not fail to write often. This 
 i.-- Sim 'a_\ and I can well imagine what you at home are doing, 
 better perhaps than \ (Hi can, how I am spending the dav. 
 We have to get up at 4.30 A. M. &c &:c. Had breakfast at 
 7 of hard crackers, fried fat ])ork tK: coffee. ( )f course we like 
 it. but we Wayne boys thought we would like to take break- 
 fast at hoiue just for a change. 
 
 21st 1 have no doubt you would like to hear from me 
 often, at least I would like to hear from home much oftener. 
 Write often and tell all the friends to write, for a letter to a 
 soldier is better than a good dinner — and the latter is not to 
 ))e despised here in cam]). I wotdd like to have you send 
 papers occasionally. If you have received all the letters I 
 have ■•vritten, you know what we have done up to the time I 
 last wrote a week ago. we were then in our third camp since 
 we came here, which was in a field on a hill. Oats or wheat 
 had been cut from the field and as there was no shade, the 
 ground was soon dusty enough. You can form no idea of 
 living in the dirt, without being in camp on such ground. We 
 had to s])rea(l our blankets and sleep in the dirt. The w'ind 
 ItU'w the dust into everything — especially everything con- 
 nected with the cooking, and we had to eat dirt — in the dirt. 
 It we had remained there long we should soon have finished 
 our peck. On Tuesdax the lOih we were ordered to march, 
 accordingly we ])acked u\) everything and marched to the 
 city, some four or five miles. Here we were reviewed by the 
 Generals & staff. The da\- was very hot, and we were obliged 
 to "-taiid in line a long timt', with all our accouterments on. in 
 the hot sun, which was ver\ tiresome. The little boys white 
 iK- black, were very indu->trious in filling oiu" Canteens with 
 water, ironi tlu- numerous wx'lls ol good water along the 
 streets, which was a great kindness to us. as we were not al- 
 lowed to K'ave the ranks, .\fter the review we were marched 
 several miles through the principal streets, and were every 
 where greeted by the waving of flags (R:c. We were allowed 
 to re^t a while on the -^ide walks, and the citizens brought 
 out bread fruit, baked ajiples. cooked potatoes, meat cl-c &c 
 
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 wliicli proxcd \cry acot.'])tal)k'. I for one >liall lon.n' rciiuinhcr 
 tlu'ir Isiiidncss. What our (Kslinalion was. ur did not 
 know, sonu' said one thin^-, sonir another, hut at hist wc 
 were all marched hack to our cani]) which wc left in the 
 moriiiiij;. \'ery many of tlu' men were completely exhausted 
 hy the lu'at and fell out. The amhulanci'- X: waj^ous took 
 whai th.ey could and the re>l were left to duie on after they 
 were rested. .Ml that our hard da_\s wcjrk had amounted to, 
 was a l^'om-th of July Keview. The curses which Cen Tyrrell 
 received were not only loud hut dee]). \\ ednesda\" nisrht our 
 Co. were ordered out on ])icket, the wind had heen hlowing" 
 hard all day, and at ni,<;-ht it increased to a i)erfect g'ale. It 
 rained verv hard, and our clothes were well wet up we were 
 all of us re(]uired to keep awake all the time, which was rather 
 hard. .\l)out four o'clock we were called in as the hrii^ade 
 was ordered to march at 5. We took a hurried breakfast and 
 were soon on the march, towartl the cit_\-. \Vhcn within about 
 half a mile of the city we turned off the road on to a hill 
 partly covered with shade, where we are now encamped. 
 
 Yesterda\' we were as^'ain ordered to march with two 
 days rations, our tents and knapsacks were all stacked up aufl 
 those not able to march left to guard them we were tlrawn up 
 in line, and reviewed by Hx-Cu)v. Dennison, then each coiu- 
 ])any were marched into the shade rested till further orders, 
 and here we shall probablx' remain — until further orders. 
 
 Sept 1'^ — ( hir Ke.i;". had been out on ])ickt't duty ye.-ter- 
 day, and came in about sundown, about the hr>l thiui; we saw- 
 was Thad standing- over a box looking remarkabl\- good 
 natured. we mistrusted something was "in the wind." and it 
 was hard work for the officers of Co 1. to keep the W a\-ne 
 bovs in the ranks, to go through the usual ceremony of 
 calling the roll stacking arms (!v breaking ranks. Soon we 
 saw Mr. llanson's well known visage, and we were soon 
 shaking hands &c. You may be sure wc were glad to sec any- 
 one from Wayne — and then that box! Supper was forgotten 
 and all gathered around and watched eagerly, as the label on 
 each package was read and handed out we had each and all 
 of us, substantial evidence that we were still remembered. 
 
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 Tf you could have seen the siniliug faces when the things 
 were examined one by one, you would have felt well paid 
 for your trouble. Give my heart felt thanks to all the friends 
 who contributed anything" toward the box. Tell Grandma 
 Jones the dried berries will taste good with our hard crack- 
 ers. 
 
 Xow you nuist not let other people read my letters as 
 they are only meant for "home consumption" and a person 
 who has never tried it can form no idea of the disadvantages 
 imder which we have to write, and be less likely to excuse 
 mistakes &.c. ' 
 
 Camp near Taylorsville Oct. 3 
 
 Vou will probabl}- hear how we left our knapsacks in 
 charge of the sick at L — and started in pursuit of the rebels 
 on Wednesday last. I left my writing materials as well as 
 clothes c*l'C but I did not leave the cheese, that was mostly 
 disposed of, and ] could carry but a small i^art, with other 
 necessaries in the haversack. It has done me and many 
 others a great deal of good. It is hard keeping any for my- 
 self, where so many are crazy after just a taste. You can't 
 realize lu^w good it tastes with our dry crackers on a march. 
 
 Xote. He was wounded in l)attk' at I'errxx-ille Ky Oct 
 8. 1862 and was sent to the hosi)ital at llardstown. 1 do not 
 find an\- of the letters written a1)out that time. 
 
 r.ardstown l\ y Xov 30 
 
 I saw a vScntiuL-l the other day, and was nuich surprised 
 to sec one of my ])rivatc letters, the first T wrote after T arriv- 
 e'l here, W'liitcomb found it first, and nothing wouM do but the 
 letter must ])e read aloud for the ])eui'fit of the crowd, and in 
 spite of all m\- r^Miionstrances. .1 had to sit and blush, while 
 ii was read. Ibu that was not the I'li'l ot ilif matter, one of 
 the "Sisters t)f Charity"' came into tl)e ward while I was ab- 
 sent. iV- our of the bovs told her I bad written a letter home 
 
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 f(ir the paper, and of eourse slie had to see it, and von know 
 what I said ahnnt the "Sisters." I knew nothing oi it nntil 
 su])])er time wlien slie was stirring" some milk in my tea, she 
 remarked "^'on arc the man who thinl<s the 'Sisters of Char- 
 ity' look (pieer are yon? I felt ])artien!arl\' ehrap, and had hnt 
 little to sa}' in rei)l\. I do not know whether she was otTcnd- 
 ed or not, hnt was sorry she saw the letter as they are very 
 sensitive ahont theii- relii^ion, habits &c. Xow don't send 
 an\' more of my letters for publication, as I am a modest 
 man, and don't hkc to ap]:)ear in so public a manner. 
 
 Dec 4. If I could be at home a few days. I ihink I 
 Could keep some of the apples, cabbag'e and other good things 
 particular!}- the sc|uashes, from rotting. 1 am not exactly 
 like Calvin Steele, for I can enjoy the good things you write 
 about in imagination — rather an unsatisfactory wa\', to be 
 sinx\ but much l)ettcr than none. 
 
 Steamer Poland off Evansville Ind Jan 3r(l '63 
 Last Sunday I wrote you a letter from Rardstcwn, but 
 did not mail it as John Morgan was expected in town that 
 night, we left the ])lace that night for Louisville where we ar- 
 rived Tuesday evening. We were sent to the exchan.ge bar- 
 racks where we were closely watched, and no i:)asses given, 
 for fear as I suppose, we would leave for "the north." After 
 noon a sergeant came along took down our names Reg. &c 
 and said we were to be sent to Nashville to join our regi- 
 ments. We were soon ordered out with all our e(|nipments 
 to the O Master's departments and furnished with guns &c 
 after which we were marched down, and put on board a boat 
 loaded with army stores &c. We were ((uartered as com- 
 fortable as possible among cracker boxes flour barrels &o. 
 Those of the army who wore "shoulder straps" were com- 
 fortably located in the ca1)in. Think I shall get a ])air of 
 straps the first opportunity ! 
 
 Cam]) near Murfreesboro 'I'enn. Jan 14th 1S03 
 ^^'hilc on the boat at l-'vansville Lid. 1 wrote you I was 
 
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 on my way to join the reg. 1 came up with it at this place 
 yesterday afternoon. Goini^ uj) the Cumberland was a very 
 clififerent thing' from going" duwu the ( )hio, soon after sun- 
 rise we came to a sand-bar and stuck fast. l)ut l)y turning 
 and backing the boat we got over after a while. Our arms 
 were loaded and ready for any "guerrillas" who might show 
 themselves, but we had no occasion to use them. The 
 country every where presents the desolations of war. As 
 soon as we left Xashville, we saw dead mules & horses all 
 long the road, the fetices are almost annihilated. Trees are 
 
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 cut down, gardens rtm over, and buildings demolished, and 
 numerous blackened remains of chimnies, showed where 
 buildings had been burned. About noon we passed through 
 the village of Lavern where the rebels captured about 150 
 wagons and destroyed them, and for miles we saw' the charred 
 renmants of the wagons along the road. In retaliation for 
 this act, our men burned the town, ar.d I never sa^v' such a 
 l)icture of desolation in my life. A R. R. runs through the 
 place but all the depot buildings and cars had all been burned. 
 The few houses wliich were left were deserted, and used for 
 •^lielter by our pickets. Toward night we crossed the battle 
 field of Storm River. Here e\ery thing, if ]M:)ssil)le, vas more 
 desolate, fences were no where, and the whole ground was 
 trodden into mud, by the men and horses. Dead mules & 
 horses were thick all over the field, graves were every where, 
 The trees were scarred by bullets and torn by shells, and 
 every thing showed that the fight had been a terrible one. 
 Y(ju at home may well be thankful iliat our state is not the 
 seat of war. It seems to me that the peo])le of the south must 
 think by this time that secession doesn't pa\ . .Xow 1 am 
 where T hoi)c to be of some service in the cause in which 
 I enlisted. ( )f course we arc all anxious to have the war 
 close so that we can go home again, but for one, T am not 
 anxicnis to have it closed 1)\- a compromise, or the acknow- 
 ■ ■■(IgemeiU of the Soinhcrn Confederacv. 
 
 F'eb ijlh icSf)^ We arrived in .\a<h\ille the da\' our 
 regiment left, and I came up with them here jan 13 and was 
 glad to be again in the field, and with the bovs with whom 
 
I k'fl lionic. For altlioiij^h \vc arc all anxious for the return 
 of ])eace, that we iua\ enjoy the society of our loved ones at 
 home, 1 for one, am willing- to endure the fatigues and priva- 
 tions, and danj^ers. whicli are necessarily connected with a 
 soldier's life, rather than have ])eace h\' the acknowledgment 
 of the independence of the v'^lave power, or hy a compromise 
 with slave holding rebels in arms, (iod grant that peace 
 nia\ soon and ])ernianently he restored to our country. 
 
 .\l)ril 2nd I'.\ the \\a\, 1 helieve 1 never thought to tell 
 you 1 was made corporal, when we were last mustered in in 
 Feb. I assure you I feel highly honored with the (office. 
 For now instead of having a corporal wake me up, and con- 
 duct nie to the ])ost where 1 am to stand when on guard. 
 I have to run around to some half a dozen different tents, 
 and wake up as many sleei\\' men. and conduct them and 
 see that each one attends to his business! Besides I am 
 ])articularly well i)lcase(l with the salary (thirteen dollars a 
 month,) 
 
 Apr \()t\\ The last letter we ever received from him 
 he says — I never felt better in my life. The weather is fine. 
 Love to all. 
 
 F. M. GIDDIXGS. 
 
 FROM L. N. PARKER. 
 
 Murfreesboro Tenn Apr 2ist Gt^ 
 Uncle Horace 
 
 It is painful for mc to write to you under the 
 present circumstances, but 1 cannot let it pass longer and 
 feel right. The last you heard from Fred was the eve before a 
 contemplated scout. That night he was taken violently sick 
 with something of the form of pneumonia, pain through the 
 chest and left side. We did not go scouting as contemplated, 
 and I could wait on him to the best of my ability, which T was 
 vcrv clad to do. as he has been like a brother to me. He 
 was so sick the ue.xt da} . 1 had him removed to the hospital, 
 where he could have a bed, nurse and proper care. 1 have 
 
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 licon will) liiiii as much as 1 could until today, the nurse told 
 i.ie I must not be with him so much, as he is delirious and 
 seeing those he is acquainted with iills his mind with a 
 thousand fancies. 
 
 Apr 22nd \\'hile writing" yesterday, I little thought I 
 should write so soon again. Sad indeed it is for me to write 
 now — last eve we thought Fred better, but about 8 o'clock 
 he was taken suddenly worse, and died almost immediately. 
 
 iught months ago yesterday we were ''sworn in" and 
 started from Cleveland, and during that time, he has ever 
 been at his post, and one- of our Commissioned oi^cers re- 
 marked to me "There is not a man in the regiment I respect 
 more than PVed Giddings." lie held the confidence of every 
 man. and the remark above will show how he was appreciated 
 by our of^cers. With me there is something more than 
 respect. I feel that I have lost one who was as a brother to 
 me. He was sick five days, and from the first I feared for 
 the result. Amid all the trials and vices of army life, there 
 was a consistency about Fred that I admired, envied, almost, 
 that is there were few who stood the temptations as boldly, 
 and were as little shaken, as he. I admired his character, 
 and found in him a good counselor. I )o ntjt wonder then 
 that I feel as though I had lo>t a brother. 
 
 2 ]'. .M. I have just retin-ned from h'red's burial. There 
 were so few kit in cam]), it was thought best to make no mili- 
 tary display, and 1 was i)erfectly satisfit'd to have it so. There 
 were none of our box's here, and I felt so loneh' T felt a 
 relief in standing b\- his gra\e alone. I'll not tr\- to tell my 
 feelings. 
 
 I remembcT a thought in "I'.itter Sweet" something like 
 tliis "Death stalks through the earth choosing his victims, 
 s|)aring none at last" To me death seems not unlike selfish- 
 ness, choosing the best first when he knows he is to have all 
 in lime. 
 
 Tlu're was a remark he made in one of his letters that 
 1 failed to find wliich should have gone in at first. In speak- 
 ing of their ride to Ashtabula the e\ening the}' enlisted h(^ 
 
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 said "As wc nnlc alo'ig some of tlio boys "carried on" some, 
 but occasionally, scrioiis tboughls would steal over us — who 
 '.vould return I'roni the war? Who will and who will not is 
 only known to the C.reat iUernal." 
 
 ] am afraid I have j.';ot this too long but I ccjuldn't get in 
 as nnich as 1 intended to, as it was. 
 
 ST ATI R A. 
 
 Extract from Discourse delivered on the death of Frederick 
 M. Giddings by Rev. Ileman Geer. 
 
 "There has never lieen a time since our war of Indepen- 
 d'-'uce when there has l)een s(j much sorrow and anguish in 
 our country as during the past two years. You all remember 
 liow the nation was shocked by the thunder of those cannon 
 that battered down the walls of Sumter. Since then the 
 smoke of battle has not passed away. The din and clash of 
 arms, and the roar of artillery has constantly sounded in our 
 ears ; and the earth has not ceased to drink the blood of brave 
 and noble men. An<l al! this has ])rought darkness to many 
 dwellings, bereavement and anguish to many hearts ; and still 
 the end is not yet. \Ve are all saddened by the thought that 
 no one can tell how nuich snfTering Giod has in store for our 
 afflicted country. 
 
 As our Ijrave bo\"s at their country's call, hastened to 
 the scene of deadly conflict, who has not grieved at the 
 thought that none could tell, who of them would return to 
 gladden the hearts of an.xious parents and companions? I'ut 
 nothing has given us more sorrow than the intelligence so 
 frequently received, of the death of noble men who have 
 fallen in the camp or on the field. We often feel that our loss 
 is greater than we know how to endure. This is the sorrow 
 of the present hour. One who was raised in our midst, who 
 was known to us all, who had endeared himself to us in many 
 ways, who was manly, grave, noble and intelligent ; who was 
 the friend of the oppressed, a lover of justice and equal rights, 
 
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 and was always ready tu lend a helpini;- hand to every g-ood 
 cause, lias fallen a victim to this rebellion. And this has 
 i-.rougfht sfrief to nian\' hearts, not onl\- to relatives, ])ut to 
 n^.any others. Judgini;' from my own feelings, and from what 
 1 have seen and heard, 1 donbt not there are many here who 
 feel that it wnuld be a great privilege to take a seat with the 
 mourners, and receive such words of consolation as ma\ be 
 drawn from God's Book. And those brave men who expose 
 themselves to all the hardships of a soldier, to all the perils 
 of the field of carnage and death, because they would manful- 
 ly meet the call of duty, because they love virtue and justice, 
 l)ecause they fear God and hate oppression ; those men shall 
 l)e crowned with abimdant honors in the kingdom of their 
 Father. Though they return not to meet loved ones ; though 
 they give their lives a sacrifice, they shall not suffer loss ; their 
 reward shall be great in the kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 That dear friend, who in com])any with a number of 
 others equally dear to many of us, left his home eight or nine 
 months ago, voluntarily submitting to all the privation, hard- 
 ships and dangers of a soldier. We shall never meet him 
 again this side of the eternal world. He sleeps far away in the 
 grave where his coiurades have laid liim. His sickness was 
 short but severe. One of om- yomig friends who was with 
 him writes: 'He suffered a great deal, but he took it liero- 
 ically.' This was said of the first part of his sickness. During 
 his last hours he suffered but little, lie died on Tuesday 
 the 21 St of April. He passed awa\' t(j the world of s])irits 
 so quietly that those standing bv wc^uld not ha\-e known it, 
 if thev had not been observing him with care. 
 
 Our young friend ])ossessed some valuable and noble 
 traits of character of which 1 wish to speak, that the young, 
 especially, may ])r>ifii by his example. Me had a heart full of 
 kindness, and was warmly attached to his friends, especially 
 his near relatives. This was more in his acts than in his 
 words, i fe was always ready to do tliose things that would 
 promote the welfare of others. One reading his letters will 
 sec his tender regard for the interests and happiness of every 
 one, manifesting itself ver_\- clearly, and yet so delicately, that 
 
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 it alnl(>■^l seems as llmu^h \)v was not aware of the spirit b\' 
 whicli he was animated. At no time duriii};" his sickness 
 would he consent that his friends should be informed of his 
 condition, lest they should he anxious about him. 
 
 Such was his treatment of others, thai I do not believe 
 he had an enemy in tlie world. Some one wrote to him about 
 something that had transpired, ooea>ioiiing some unpKa>anl 
 feeling's, llis response was, "I am sorry that you have had 
 trouble, biu you nuist bear and forl)ear,' He was always 
 profitably emplo\ed. All his leisure moments were devoted 
 to intelligent culture, and as a result he was intelligent. Few 
 men of his age have a larger store of general information than 
 he had. I le was a close observer, and a great lover of nature. 
 In his letters he gave accurate descriptions of the country 
 through which he passed. I have seen no letters from Army 
 Correspondents that were more clear and explicit than his. 
 
 Though he was not a member of the church he took a 
 deep interest in its prosperity, and in whatever would promote 
 good principles and morals. He loved to sing, and his seat 
 in the choir, on the Sabbath, was seldom vacant. T have 
 frequently seen him almost alone in the young men's liible 
 class. Xo other member of it was more punctual in his at- 
 tendance. 
 
 He was a decided Anti-Slavery man. He sympathized 
 deeply with the Government, and had perfect confidence in it. 
 He saw clearly the interests involved in the war, and volun- 
 teered from a sense of duty. In his journal after describing 
 the meeting at which he and five other young men of this 
 place volunteered, he says: "It cost a great effort to enlist, 
 but duty seems to demand the sacrifice ! He was wounded at 
 Perryville, and was for some time in the hospital at Rards- 
 town. Shortl\' after he returned to his regiment near Nash- 
 ville, he says in one of his letters, dated Jan. 14th.: 'I am 
 now where I hope to be of some service in the cause in which 
 I enlisted. I received a letter from him dated the 17th. in 
 which he speaks of having rejoined his regiment, and remarks 
 'Although we are all anxious for the return of peace, that we 
 mav enjov the societv of loved ones at home. I for one am 
 
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 willing to (.'udurc the fatigues ami priNations and dangers 
 which are necessarily connected with a soldier's life, rather 
 than have peace by the acknowledgment of the independence 
 of the slave power, or by a compromise w'ith slaveholding 
 rebels in arms.' In a letter to a friend he expressed the same 
 sentiment, in a manner equally emphatic. He quotes a verse 
 from a song, as expressing his own and others' feelings. 
 
 ■\\'e sigh lor the blessings of peace, boys, 
 
 We tire of the war-lnigle's l:)last ; 
 \\ ell con(|iR'r jjcfore we go home, boys, — 
 
 We'll tight for our flag to the last.' 
 
 He always spoke well of his ofificers. 
 
 His conduct from a child was such as to win the admira- 
 tit)n of those accjuainted with him. So faithful was he in the 
 discharge of every duty as a soldier, and so consistent was 
 his deporiment, that he won the admiration of his superiors, 
 in the regiment to which he belonged, and called from them 
 strong ex])ressions of commendation. ( )ne of the Lieu- 
 tenants of his com])any, writing to his ])arents respecting his 
 death says: '1 can clearly say he was loved by all who were 
 acquainted with him. He died like a true patriot.' Again he 
 says: "Our company mourn the loss of so faithful a brother.' 
 Our young friend Xewton Parker, in a letter announcing his 
 death, says of him : 'Amid all the trials and vices of army 
 life, there was a consistency in Fred, that I envied, almost. 
 I admired his character, and found in liim a good counselor.' 
 At a later date he says : 'Fred's absence is felt by the entire 
 com])any. He was one of the few who was on good terms 
 at all times with every one.' A little further on he remarks: 
 'As I have written before, there was consistency in all his 
 actions and words, that T could but admire. I never heard an 
 oath escape his lips, nor vulgarity either. If at home he 
 was a worthy example (as we all know he was,) he was doubly 
 so here. There was a consistency in his words and actions 
 during his sickness, \\liicli led the nurses and assistants to 
 think him a ])rofcssor. I never heard him express himself 
 
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 directly with regard to his i'ri.-hu_q^s, l.ui i have hope for him, 
 and strong hope. 
 
 In his journal he sjieaks of his jonrne\- to Cleveland at 
 the time he was mustere<l into service. He writes: *As we 
 rode alonp;' some of the hoys carried on considcrahlw hut oc- 
 casionall}- solemn thoughts stole o\er ns. v'^hould we all 
 retm-n from the war? I'rohahly not. Who will, and who will 
 not, is known onl\ to the jn;-reat Eternal. At another time 
 he writes, in describing- the manner in which they spent the 
 Sabbath : 'In the evenini.^- one of our Corporals held a meeting 
 in trout of the Officers' tent. The singing, — candles in bavo- 
 nets stuck in the ground, and everything, conspired to make 
 a wild and ])ictures(|ue scene; while the reflections whicli the 
 scene produced, brought tears to many eyes.' In referring 
 to another meeting he writes: 'It seemed quite refreshing to 
 hear the name of God used in scjme other way than in profan- 
 ity.' In the letter to me of which I have spoken, he requested 
 to be remembered in our prayers. Xewton sent home some 
 pieces of music with the words, which he said were favorites 
 with himself and Frederick. The words to one, are ; 
 
 'The Lord m\- ^>he])herd is, 
 
 I shall be well sup])lied : 
 Since he is mine and 1 am his, 
 
 \\'hat can I want beside.' 
 
 The other reads : 
 
 'My soul with ])atiencc waits, 
 
 For thee the living God; 
 ]\Iy hopes are on th\' ])romise built, 
 
 Thy never failing \\'or(l. 
 
 T^et Israel trust in God, 
 
 No l)oun(ls his merc\' knows ; 
 The plenteous source and spring, from whence 
 
 Eternal succor flows." 
 
 One greatly beloved has fallen a sacrifice to this cause- 
 less rebellion. Perhaps you say how can we endure the loss 
 
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 of such a son. under such tr\in,i;' circumstances? Well is 
 there not satisfaction in the thought that you had such a son? 
 Why may 1 not say have, for he still lives ? Is there not satis- 
 faction in the thought that he gave up his life a willing- sacri- 
 fice to such a holy cause? While the remembrance of him 
 brings |)ain, will it not bring joy also? I desire to say, we 
 are all nunirners on this occasion. Your son was in one 
 sense our representative. In dying for his country, he died 
 for us and our children. "S'ou have our warmest sympathy, 
 and our earnest prayers. iUit there is one whose sympathy 
 infinitely transcends ours. 'In all your afflictions &c Like 
 as a Father &c. "The Savior Will see you again.' 
 
 FROM RICHARD HAYES. 
 
 Feb. i/th., 1895. 
 ]\Irs. Harriet Weeks, 
 
 Dear Cousin : 
 
 \'i)urs received. 1 will try to answer some of 
 your (juestions with regard to otir relatives. Grandfather 
 Titus Hayes died at Burg 1 iill 181 1, aged 63 years. His fam- 
 ily consisted of seven children, Richard, Titus, Linus, Lester, 
 Deborah, Statira and Abigail. I am the only one left of 
 Richard Hayes' eleven children, Linus Hayes lived at Hayes- 
 ville, Ashland Co., Ohio. He had live children, four sons and 
 one daughter. Lester Hayes had a family of five children, 
 four sons and one daughter. All are dead. Lcster Hayes 
 died at Burg Hill. 
 
 Xow speaking of the war of 1812, my father was Col. of 
 a regiment, ^'()ur grandfather was out there some time, I 
 have heard it related of your grandfather that at one time, 
 they wanted to get the mail through a certain place, but it 
 was a very hazardous undertaking, so he volunteered to do 
 it. The British and Indians were scattered all through the 
 woods. There was no mail only what jiertaincd to the war. 
 
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 It is said that when \\v came into cani|). he liad nothing- on 
 but pants and shirt. 
 
 It is ahnost ini]iossihlc for nu' tti write on account oi my 
 eyes and age. I aiii now in my .SSth year. I shall be 88 the 
 fourteenth of .\'oveml)er next. 
 
 T am yours truly, 
 
 K. I r AYES. 
 
 FROM REBECCA KINSMAN BRACKIN. 
 
 Pontiac, Michigan, April 4, 1896. 
 
 Aly Dear Cousin : 
 
 Although I have never seen you, I feel ac- 
 quainted with you as I have always known of you. Harriet 
 and Clara have both visited at your mother's when they were 
 little girls. 
 
 Titus Hayes,' our great grandfather — Cousin Ebb's as- 
 sertion that we are of Irish extraction, is not correct. You 
 will find in the genealogy compiled by Ezekiel Hayes, printer 
 of New Haven, that the original emigrant to America was 
 born in Scotland, from there he went to Derbyshire, Eng". 
 Anxious to see London, hitlier he went and hearing of Amer- 
 ica, he came to this country and settled and from him all the 
 Hayes family descended. 1 lis name was George. In a letter 
 received from Pres. Hayes in 1890 he says: — "There is a 
 handsome volume published five or six years ago of the 
 genealogy of the Hayes family by Rev. Charles ]\I. Hayes, an 
 Episcopal clergyman of W'estfield, X. Y.'' and adds that ''the 
 account of Ezekiel Hayes of New Haven is properly set forth 
 and noticed in this book." Of the family of this George, 
 there is no record. The third generation comprised the fam- 
 ily of Daniel Hayes. If some of the cousins would go to 
 Burg Hill, they would find on their tombstones the birth 
 and death of Richard Hayes our grandfather, Titns and his 
 brother who were all buried there. 
 
 I cannot write any more and what is written is poorly 
 
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 oxcculcd, bill 1 hope you will he lenient and pardon my delay. 
 We hope you may be suceessful in your undertaking' and hope 
 our paths may cross before we reach the other shore. 
 
 J wish you could send us some of Texas balmy breezes 
 for ( ), it is so cold here. 
 
 .M \ listers ioin me in kind regards, 
 
 Your Cousin, 
 REBECCA K. l^.RACKIN. 
 
 FROM CLARISSA STATIRA BRACKIN. 
 
 Pontiac. Michigan, March lo. 1899. 
 Mrs. Harriet Weeks, 
 
 Dear Cousin : — 
 
 \'oiu-s of March 1st. is received. Please accept 
 for yourself and daughter my sympathy in your bereavement. 
 You must feel very much alone — just \ou two. Surely the 
 sustaining ])o\ver of om- Christian faith is wonderfully beauti- 
 ful — and I i)ften wonder what any one can do without such 
 faith to sustain, comfort and bear one up wlien i^assing 
 through the deep waters of affliction. Death has claimed 
 man\' from among the Hayes connection since 1 last heard 
 from you. it is sad to reHect that with I'ncle Richard's death 
 the last one of Grandpa IIa}"es" family has passed away. 
 Richard .McClurg was the last one of his father's familv. 1 
 think Ella Woodruff is still living. Cousin Julia was such a 
 bright, pretty little wt)man. Among the ])leasant recollec- 
 tions of my girlhood was that of a visit at her prett\- home in 
 lieavcr. Pa. 
 
 1 should think your trip through Southern California and 
 (j1(1 Mexico nuist have been delightfully interesting. 1 su])pose 
 few countries can furnish more that is interesting to tonrists 
 than does Mexico. 
 
 r.iil I am not answering your (|n(slions. All of our 
 nujther's children were born on the farm in Kinsman, on 
 which she and father lived for 56 )ears. She and Father 
 
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 lived logctluT ()2 yvA\-> and never moved l)iit once, that was 
 from the farm in the ea>lern part oi K. to a smaller one in 
 the villag"e of K. 
 
 The last decoration day I was in in llnr^iiill I went after 
 the exercises were over to the old cemetery where thev dec- 
 orated not only the graves of the soldiers of the civil war — 
 btit also those of the Revolutionary — and !<Si2 war. It was 
 very pleasant to me to see that the tjraves of our great 
 grandfather, a revolutionary soldier, which Uncle Richard 
 told me was that of our great £?"randfather's brother, our great 
 great uncle, 1 cannot recall his name for T was not so much 
 interested in such things as now. 
 
 J am (juite sure that F^x-Pres. Hayes was a relative — 
 wi>li it could he traced. When hv was Pres., Mr. William 
 Elliott, a Ijrother of sister jane's husband, had business in 
 Washington, which called him to the White House. He 
 casually remarked that his "sister-in-law's mother was a 
 TJayes." "Indeed" said he, "she must be a relative then,'' in- 
 troduced him to Mrs. Hayes as a relative, and on the strength 
 of tl.e accepted relationshi]) he invited him to the White 
 House to dinner. 1 would like to know how nearly related 
 to tis, the lady is, on the Hudson river, from whom you have 
 heard. 
 
 Your letter with tlie otlier letters enclosed received. I 
 thank you for xour kindness and was interested in the letters. 
 It was sad that so nian\' chronicled the death ot some dear 
 cousin, each one haxing gone so suddenlw that one is re- 
 minded of the Savior's command, "i'e \e also ready." The 
 death of Cotisin Edward came very near to us, as our homes 
 were so near together and he was one of our favorite cousins 
 and his dear wife and daughter have a warm place in all our 
 hearts. What a bright letter Cousin E'mily Best wrote — quite 
 remarkable in one of her years. I remember when I was a 
 child, she and her daughter s])ent a night with u>. I regret, 
 so nuich. that when mother was witli us we did not talk with 
 her more of her earl\ life and ancestors, though she often 
 told tis of their coming from Conn, to Ohio in big wagons, 
 when she was six \ears old. Tliere was (|uite a cohmy of 
 
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 them — over twenty persons — and it to^k thcni six weeks to 
 make the trip — and on the way uncle Seth Hayes fell from the 
 wagon and broke his leg. I wish I could tell you more of 
 my grandfather Richard Hayes, l)ut we who are here are the 
 youngest ones of our mother's family and have no recollec- 
 tion of grandfather. tlKJUgli we know from others that he was 
 a man of inlluence, both in the church (I'res.) and in the com- 
 munity, serving as Judge at one time and as you know, was a 
 Col. in the war of 1812. In his later years, he was such a 
 strong temperance man he would not use stimulants of any 
 kind in his last sickness. Grandfather and grandmother are 
 both buried as also were uncles Seth and Alvin. Uncle Rich- 
 ard and aunt Lorinda were buried at Geneva. Did our 
 nephew, Fred S. vSwisher send yoti one of the five generation 
 pictures ? They were five living generations in Grandfather's 
 family. Cousin Josie King has a four generation picture of 
 her family which T think must be nice. I am very glad that 
 you called at our nephew's, Clyde Swisher — and met his wife 
 Ada. She is a lovely woman and we are all very fond of her. 
 Mother was a very reticent person and did not talk of 
 her famil}- as often as father did of liis, who though born on 
 the "holy sod." the north of Ireland — that hot bed of Scotch 
 Irish IVesbyterianism, was a loyal .\merican and at the age 
 of 20, shouldered his musket in the defence of his adopted 
 countrx- in the war of 1812. How nmcli you nuist enjoy your 
 trips abroad and over our own glorious L'. S. 1 wish I could 
 emigrate to k'lorida with you and escaj)e om* cold weather. 
 
 Aflectionately yom^ C'ousin, 
 
 CLARISSA STATIKA I'.RACKIX. 
 
 FROM E. B. HAYES. 
 
 My I )v:iv Cousin : — 
 
 I was very glad to receive your letter of syni- 
 jiatliy. The news of l)rotlier's death came unexpectedly. I 
 
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 knew hrothor's hcaltli had hccu ])0(ir for several years, but 
 was not prepared lo hear of lii> dralli. 
 
 Cousin I'Mward llayrs' death, wliich occurred six weeks 
 earlier, 1 learned from papers sent nie conlainins;- his obitu- 
 ary. To my letter of sym])ath\- written at once, 1 received 
 from cousin l{nnna a kind acknowledgment. 
 
 1 realized that 1 too am drawing near the ''vallc\'." ami 
 few have reached its somber ])order o\er a smoother path 
 than has be.en vouchsafed to me by m\ ilea\enly leather. 1 
 have never lacked the comforts of life, in fact, 1 have enjoyed 
 what many woidd class as luxuries. Always employed, but 
 never weighed down with responsibilities, the years have 
 gentl}' sped in which 1 have watched the lland of God — at 
 one time tm"ning me scjuare about in \\\\ course, and at other 
 times ])ointing ont the path at the "'dividing of the ways," 
 and now as 1 look back over that i>ath, the answer to my 
 every day ])etition — "Direct me in all m\ undertaking-," 
 stands out so clear that 1 am appalled at the thought of 
 where I would have gone deprived of that Omnipotent leader- 
 ship. In a few instances the evening ])rayer. "W alch over 
 us all this night, let no evil come nigh us,"" has received an 
 answer bordering so closelx' ujjon the miraculous, that I have 
 paused in wonder and astonishment. 
 
 ^ly belief is. that there never was an honest atheist — God 
 the Father must be acknowledged in every honest heart — 
 God the Son who takes his stand at the door of every sinner's 
 heart and knocks and knocks, continuing his entreaties 
 till the very last moment of a mortal life is gone, waiting for 
 the contrite prayer, "Son of God hav(> mercy on me a simier. 
 
 Years ago His mediation I accejjted and 1 have tried ever 
 since to live in llim, and 1 have felt that never for a moment 
 has he forsaken me — Can the full enjoyment of God tlie Itoly 
 S])irit constantly fill a human soul? Thankful 1 am that 1 
 have enjoyed Plis ecstatic presence — \\\\\ .\h I He is so easily 
 grieved, and then, not like the Savior who continues his en- 
 treaties, the Holy Si)irit. takes His flight, and that "peace of 
 God which passeth all understanding" is gone at once. The 
 Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the C.odhead is so- intensely 
 
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 spiritual — I am thankful that 1 have experienced His blessed 
 presence, if only for short periods and at long intervals. 
 \\'ith kind regards. 
 
 Your Cousin. 
 
 E. B. HAYES. 
 
 Mrs. ^lary Ellen Carjjeiiter Field has placed in our hands a 
 litilc Memorial of Miss Charlotte ^I. Carpenter, from 
 which we make extracts. 
 
 From the pastor of Miss Carpenter to her father 
 
 Crystal Fake. May 20, 1874. 
 'Mr. V). Carpenter, 
 
 M\ Dear Sir, now that Charlotte is gone, it is ]:)ro[)er to 
 call to mind, and give some expression to, certain impressions 
 of her person and character. 
 
 iU-ing a nrar neighbor, and having occasion often to step 
 in on some errand, it was, I must say, a great pleasure to 
 talk with her on various topics, and those mostly relating to 
 my pastoral work. 
 
 1 ma}- say that no one in the church here would have been 
 more missed, so far as the writer is aware, or concerned. .\nd 
 1 tliink this would ha\-e ])eeu the testimou}' of all the members 
 so that I am not alone in this opinion. 
 
 .\s a church, we ought to rememl)er her for her efficiency 
 in musical mattt'rs. She jilawd the organ while with us. and 
 was always present. h'oniMTl) slie was a remarkably line 
 singer in the choir of \hv \\\v l-"ugland Chtu-ch. 
 
 I cannot forget ihc last time I saw Fottie, it was, as you 
 know, on the sad occasion of the funeral ot her mother, in 
 Xoveml)er last. She was l)y far tlu' most self-possessed of all 
 present at that time. 
 
 Dear sir, permit mc to add that in this, your a<lditional, 
 this re|)eated atTlictiou. I would conw} my s\nipath\'. The 
 two voices you had lu'.'ird almost dailx'. tor years, in the 
 ])lcasant coimtry home, arc gone: the forms, the s])irits that 
 
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 cheered and made lite ])leasaiU are gone. But as you have a 
 Christian hope, st) may the glad rcsurrectio'i morning be ever 
 before you, and till then, the presence of Jesus cheer you. 
 
 E. X. A. 
 
 Extracts from remarks by Rev. L. T. Chamberlain, at Miss 
 Carpenter's funeral. 
 
 "IMessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Yea, saith 
 the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their 
 works do follow them." She always knew in whom she had 
 believed; but now, in the fulfillment of her hope, she is more 
 than ever persuaded thai he was "'able to keej) that which she 
 had conmiitted to him, against that day." 
 
 vShe herself had been wont to forget her own needs, in 
 caring for the needs of others. "S'ou had seen her lightening 
 sorrows not her own. and bearing heav\- burdens from which, 
 but for her own unselfishness, her shoulders had been free. 
 Her whole life was a beautiful reflection of her Lord's for it 
 seemed as if she, too," came, not to be ministered unto, but 
 to minister." Aiul you all sharetl in her gentle ministrations. 
 
 Bv our remembrance of her Christian faith an<l consistent 
 life. let us l)e insjiired to the same faith, and to a similar life. 
 
 Remarks of Mr. Andrews. 
 
 On going to Crystal Lake, two years ago. Charlotte 
 was the second person I chanced to meet at her father's house. 
 The opinion formed at that first brief interview was that she 
 had rare conversational powers, was oi a cordial, social na- 
 ture, had a delicate sense of proi)rieties, strong attachments 
 to famil\ friends, and to others who were congenial and 
 could understand her, a mind which showed an unusual de- 
 gree of cultivation and refinement, a ready appreciation of 
 pleasantry and wit. added to all which, was a rare native mod- 
 estv miited with dignity of manner. 
 
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 A few weeks later, July i, 1872, Charlotte, with her 
 father and now departed nH)ther, united with the Church, all 
 having letters from the Xew England Church. She was in- 
 terested and always present at the prayer-meeting on Wed- 
 nesday evenings, and sometimes liad a scripture passage and 
 a word of encouragement to offer in regard to the Christian 
 course. 
 
 Miss Carpenter was also, and s])ecially interested in the 
 Sunda_\- School, v^he was always present, though her failing 
 health would have kept most persons away. She had a class 
 of young ladies who occupied tlie orchestra in front, sitting 
 in a semi circle, willi the teacher in the midst. 
 
 FROM ELLA J. SCOTT. 
 
 1 think great grandfather Hayes and descendants have a 
 pretty good record for patriotism. Five of Linus" grand sons 
 were in the war of the rebellion. ]\ty only l)rother enlisted 
 when he was but 18 years t)ld. Feb.. 1862. was discharged 
 V\'h., 1865. was in the 80th ().\. I. 16 months, and 20 months 
 in the C S. Signal Cor])s in the "Army of the Tennessee." 
 
 We can trace our ancestry farther back on grandma 
 Hayes' side than on grandfather's. She was a descendant of 
 the Leicesters & Leavitts of luigland. who came over in the 
 "Mavflower." 
 
 FROM CHARLOTTE LAVINIA (HAYES) CHAPMAN, 
 
 Knoxville, Iowa, Jan. 25. 1895. 
 My Dear C'ousin Harriet: 
 
 I have just fuiished reading your welcome 
 letter. It uv<n\v nu' feel as thougii I must see \ on m- long. It 
 docs seem so g()od to be able to connuunic.ite with tliose that 
 are interested in our ancestors, of whom I am proud. The 
 last time 1 wa> home 1 decorated the slab that marks the 
 
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 grave of our grandfatluT and tell iluTc should W- a monu- 
 ment erected al the ijrave of tlie honored dead. I le did so 
 much for us all and for the town. 
 
 Yon remember it)C)^^ will he tin- huudreihh anniversary 
 of the settleuKnl of \\a\ne. 1 >hould like to ^o hack about 
 that time." 
 
 Wayne, ( )hio. June 6. 1896. 
 
 "I visited the old, old home, many changes liave been 
 made by death: our parents and all of our uncles and aunts 
 except uncle Anson Jones have gone. I attended the old 
 folks' picnic last Thursday, which was very enjoyable. I met 
 friends \\hich T had not seen for forty-six years, one, Jabez 
 JNIiller, you know him. i\.bout the first thing that he said 
 was, 'you remember I took you to Phebe's wedding.' I was 
 obHged to confess that 1 did not. .A lady standing by said to 
 him, 'You did not make nuich of an im]:)ression or probably 
 she would never forget anything of the kind.' I am now 
 looking forward to the hundredth anniversary of the settle- 
 ment of Wayne. You remember grandpa Hayes was the 
 first white man in the town. I revere his name — hope my life 
 will be spared until that time. 
 
 Cousin, you know your mother named me and KUa nam- 
 ed her daughter for me. 1 wish \-ou could see my family. I 
 know you would like them. 1 do. We think Lottie a model 
 girl. She is our sunshine, is now in her nineteenth year, grad- 
 uated a vear ago.' 'T wish I knew more about the nationality 
 of our ancestors, but I am sorry to say I know nothing more 
 than that I have heard that Haves was an Irish name." 
 
 FROM MARY CAROLINE (JONES) TREAT. 
 
 Dear Cousin : — 
 
 ■• — There is nothing really of special men- 
 tion to others about my family, but as a mother, T am pleased 
 ^t the success of my older boys. Their father died leaving us 
 
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 ver_\ lonely, and ihe cliiklrcu small. We lived in Wayne 
 seven years, the boys attending school, but they wished 
 better advantages. In the meantime, each boy had a teacher's 
 certificate, hm was young. W'e decided to move to New 
 Lyme and there the boys attended school and taught district 
 school when they needed funds. I took 1)oarders, each boy 
 doing well and reaching his senior year in school. Then 
 \\'illar(l studied and took an examination for Civil Service 
 as Meat Inspector and passed well, and in less than a year 
 he received an appointment at Indianapolis. Ind., where he 
 has been for two years. George came to this place to work 
 in the Freight Office with his uncle as Assistant. His uncle 
 accepted a position in Youngstown. ( ).. and my son was 
 offered a ])osition there, so that he is now working as Assist- 
 ant Superintendent for the llcssemer Limestone Co. at 
 Bessemer. Pa. George is a young man of the best habits, a 
 christian, temperance man. Willard is very different in 
 temperament, but a good boy and ihey are especially thought- 
 ful and kind to their mother. Amy and 1 came here to kcc]) 
 house for George and she is attending school here. My 
 youngest boy Jay has lived with a cousin of my husband's. 
 He is a fine boy and has the best advantages of school. You 
 see 1 lia\e nothing to interest any one but simply yourself as 
 a relative. I Iiope ni\ I'amih- will lie good and noble. ^\y 
 heart and hands have been lull with them and 1 feel that a 
 loving Father has been ever ready to care for the fatherless. 
 There is nothing of note to us. but not blot, 1 lioi)e to your 
 history. 
 
 My father died sixteen years ago, but he wrote several 
 letters to the boys; one thing he said. "Grandpa wants you to 
 be good bovs. then xou will make good men."' 
 
 Capl. kollin Lucien Jones was a man of more than aver- 
 age ability and ntelligence. lie compiled and wrote up the 
 Military I listorx of .Xshlabnla Cm.. < >.. imblislied in 1878 from 
 which we make an extract. 
 
 '■\\ ( Muans W ork. 
 It wnnld be ungallant to ])ass b\ the heroic women 
 
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 without paving- thciu a irilnilo ol" praise and t^ratilude fur 
 their hibors of love and incrcv chn-ing' the terrible vears of 
 1861-65. Aid Societies s])rang- up all over the country where- 
 in noble and self sacrificing women banded together and 
 prepared comforts for the well, dainties for the sick and 
 necessaries for the wounded, b'air hands were bus\' ihrouirh- 
 out the whole dreadful struggle. Early and late in the sea- 
 son these angels of mercy toiled and gathered and forwarded 
 to the soldiers at the front every comfort in their power to 
 bestow. Too nuich praise cannot be given to the women 
 of the north for their efforts to cheer and sustain the armies 
 of the nation. 
 
 It was the remark of gallant Gen. Hooker that during 
 the Crimean war England fiu'uished l)ut one bdorence Night- 
 engale, while here was one to be found in every northern 
 hotisehold. 
 
 On the same roll containing the name of the English 
 
 heroine we are pleased to place the names Misses ■ 
 
 wdio shared in the dangers of war as nurses in arm\- hospitals 
 in tht> south." 
 
 Since 1890. Capt. Rollin Lucien Jones' life has been 
 darkened by a terrible affiiction occasioned 1)\- the gim-shot 
 wound received while he was in the armw 
 
 A Tribute written by Miss Eouisa [Margaret Jones and 
 read by her on Decoration Day, May 30, 1898. 
 
 To honor the dead we are here toda\' 
 
 Let no other thought l)Ut this hold sway; 
 
 Give to our dead in arni_\ l)lue, 
 
 All thoughts that belong to the l)ravc and true. 
 
 Sleeping are they in si)itc of the harm 
 
 Stirring our nation to restless alarm ; 
 
 Tho' the war may rage on loud and deep ' 
 No sound shall ])reak their silent sleep. 
 
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 Tho' our c}es arc dimir.ed with tears so warm 
 As we tliiiik of the mangled Hmb or arm 
 
 Think how nobly they gave 
 
 With only one thought: — the nation to save. 
 
 Flowers wc have brought from nook and dell, 
 That cover the land they love so well ; 
 
 But the noblest tribute we bring today 
 Are the tears which at their feet we lav. 
 
 So tenderly, solemnly, give your thought, 
 To those whose blood our peace has bought. 
 
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 But to you old soldiers worn and grey, 
 Whose hearts are moved as one today. 
 
 Sad arc tlic thoughts that come to you 
 That rise and pass in grand review. 
 
 Warm runs the blood by war news stirred, 
 As when in the sixties the call you heard, 
 
 And thoughts come crowding thick and fast, 
 Of what you'd do if the war should be lost. 
 
 Shoulder to shoulder you'd like to stand, 
 And march once more under generals' command, 
 Giving vent to that one great desire 
 That heats the veins like streams of fire. 
 
 lluL no, cjld Soldier, to the Hag still true. 
 There's been enough done for us by you, 
 
 And the most that is left for you now to do. 
 Is to teach the boys to be brave and true. 
 
 To always reverence the starry flag. 
 That the interest they had may never lag 
 Never once darkening by look or word. 
 The face by patriot l)lood so stirred. 
 
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 Tliis () Soldier hraw and inic. 
 
 Is the work the nation has for von. 
 
 You stand in the ranks hotli brave and well, 
 
 How nnich longer time alone can tell. 
 
 And remember the sentence tho" life is late 
 That thev also serve who but stand and wait. 
 
 FROM STATIRA E. (GIDDINGS) SIMPKINS. 
 
 I.indenville, O., April 5, 1903. 
 Aly Dear Cousin : 
 
 Yours received. 
 'Wy dear father has gone home. He fell on the 15th. of Feb. 
 and broke his hip, and on the 22nd., just one w^eek, he quietly 
 fell asleep. He had been quite comfortable all winter and 
 I wrote to some one the same da\- he fell, and told them I 
 thought he bid fair to live to the centennial wdiich will be in 
 Aug., I suppose. \\'e knew he could not stay long, but as 
 usual, it was a shock when it came. His funeral was held 
 at his late residence, Feb. 25th. Rev. S. B. Grover preached 
 from Job. 5, 26, A quartette sang. "Soldier of Christ, well 
 done," "Lead Kindly Light" and one piece written by m}- son, 
 F. A. Simpkins, "Beyond the dark River." The pall bearers 
 were four grandsons, H. E. Giddings, F. ]\L Simpkins of 
 Franklin, Pa., C. H. Simpkins of Youngstown, O. and Dr. 
 L. H. Simpkins of Ashtabula. O., and two grandaughters-in- 
 law, Mrs. V. M. Simpkins and ]^Irs. H. \V. Simpkins. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 STATIRA E. SLMPKIXS. 
 
 How well we remember in our fr-arly girlhood days, at- 
 tending a prayer meeting led by cousin Horace Giddings, at 
 the home of Samuel Jones, Sr., his father-in-law^ He sel- 
 ected for the scripture lesson, the St'i. chapter of 2nd. Cor- 
 inthians, beginning with these beautiful words: "For we 
 know that if our earthlv house of this tabernacle w^ere dis- 
 
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 solved, wc lia\c a l)uiltling" of God, an house not made with 
 hantls, eternal in the Heavens." This good man has gone 
 to possess his "house not made witli hands, eternal in the 
 heavens." And what a band of Hayeses and Joneses and Gid- 
 dings have welcomecl to his home, "eternal iii the heavens." 
 And what a band of those whom he encouraged on their way 
 to ihat blessed abode. And wlio can tell the number of 
 immortal souls he has been instrumental in saving who are 
 stars of rejoicing in his crown. () the good this faithful ser- 
 vant of God has done. 
 
 A LETLE MORE KIND. 
 
 r.y Hannah 1'. I'.est. 
 
 "i'is now Thanksgivin' evenin", but somehow 
 
 Th" old house seems very solemn like and still, 
 jus" me and the old cat keepin' cumpny now; 
 
 She a blinkin'. blinkin", sings her purr, purr, 
 1 silently watching the firelight ])lay, 
 
 To find in its flickerin' lights and shades 
 Pictures, some long forgot, from life's full day, 
 
 The good and bad of sixty years or more ; 
 Each tarries a moment, then hastens away. 
 
 But through them all strange words in living light 
 I read, "Thou shouldst have been a letle more kind." 
 
 Five ])airs of cliildren's eyes, I see, all told. 
 
 .\re fi.xed on me: in one is heaven's bltie, 
 And hers were first to sli]) from out the fold; 
 
 Was it that she unwelcome came to us, 
 (So many mouths to feed and bodies clothe,) 
 
 That Jesus reached to her his arms of love? 
 .Mas! too late I've found that emi)ty hands 
 
 .\re heavier far than those that bear the weight 
 ( )f heaviest burdens bound by love's sweet bands, 
 
 And now 1 sil witli lonely heart tonight 
 -And wi^h I'd rwr been a Icilr more kind. 
 
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 Great tracks of imul 1 sec v)n kitchen Hoor, — 
 
 I know they're Jack's; how well I now recall! 
 rUit could I spy him coniin" throufjh the open door, 
 
 With U)\ing hands I'd greet him and no frown; 
 P5ut long- he's slumhered mid tlie ocean's roar, 
 
 For hearts were stilled and voices hushed for aye 
 When Cushing's launch went down on Mobile's shore; 
 
 Tonight I know 'twas not enough to scrub 
 And bake and stew and lay aside a store. 
 
 To clothe and school and nurse them well when sick ; 
 I wish my words had been a letle more kind. 
 
 Two others, Thomas Christopher and Lee, 
 
 Have found a home and friends, they say out West ; 
 I think that those must be their homes I see 
 
 Where leaps the fire the highest and the brightest.; 
 I wonder if their hearts e'er turn to me 
 
 And whether this Thanksgivin" night they think 
 Of th' old home nest ancl how it used to be 
 
 When all made merr_\- in the evening hour? 
 Now there's not one to say good-night to me ; 
 
 "Come home, my children dear, and you will find 
 I'll speak in words and tones a letle more kind." 
 
 Today children's sports have filled these halls 
 
 Fairly trembled the very roofs and walls 
 W^ith rapturous joy at many loud hurrahs, 
 
 For Susan, she who rode away one night 
 To wed that other fellow, 'gainst, 'gainst all — 
 
 Well, the set opinion of her Pa and ^le. 
 She, 1 say, had come home today at my call, 
 
 And brought with her two stout and happy lads. 
 Jack, they say like Pa, but Boone like her Saul; 
 
 Wy eyes are getting dim {they were blind) 
 Yet read I clearly, "Jest a letle more kind." 
 
 1 listen — but no sound falls on my ear ; 
 
 I hear no child's laugh, see no sunny face ; 
 It's cold, so cold, no warmth of love is here. 
 
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 Lonely, li^u. with jus' the old cat and me. 
 For Pa he went away a year ago or more, 
 
 And then when Susan kissed me Hke a child 
 And turned to her i)oor home, with Jack and Boone, 
 
 She took away the sunshine of the da}' 
 Which Dick and I'll bring back by morrow noon; 
 
 The children's tracks and ])ranks I'll never mind, 
 lUit alwa\s be to them a letle more kind. 
 
 Arthur Waifield Adams, born Oct. i, 1868, was most 
 faithful in the performance of his duties and won the respect 
 and love of his employers and co-laborers. He was a very 
 devoted christian from a boy and at the age of 14 years 
 joined the M. E. church in Chasenmg. He held high posi- 
 tions in the churches wherever he lived. He was a member 
 of the official board of l)oth the Centenary M. E. church at 
 Syracuse, and of Dr. W'illey's church in Xew York City. He 
 also sang in the choir and generally taught a class in the S. S. 
 He was a staunch i)rohibitionist and every where and under 
 all circumstances true to his jirinciples. The cause had his 
 support, personally and financially, and he always aimed to 
 do the right thing. Every where he was trusted and re- 
 spected, and was an honest, uDris^ht citizen, kind husband, 
 loving father, affectionate son and brother, and a true friend 
 to all. He lived for others. 
 
 Copied from "The Chesaning Argus." 
 
 Lucian Hiram, Adams, born, Jan. 28, 1874, passed away 
 July 17, 1892, at Chesaning, Mich. Among the many letters 
 of condolence, we give one from Prof. W. S. Perry, Supt. of 
 the Ann Arbor schools. 
 
 Ann Arbor, Mich., July 30, 1892. 
 Mr. <S: Mrs. T. M. W. Adams, 
 
 Chesaning, Mich., 
 Dear Friends : — 
 
 Upon my return last night from a three 
 weeks' absence my heart was i)ained by the news in the paper 
 
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 sent me of the death of your son. Lueien. I had not learne<l 
 that he was so seriotisly ill as to make his death i)robahle. 1 
 can tmderstand how great a loss this is for yoti, and how 
 lovingly he was regarded in the cunminnity in which he lived. 
 His history in our school is one of the very pleasing pictures 
 in my memory as a teacher, in his scholarship, his spirit, his 
 character, he was one of the noblest specimens of young 
 manhood we ever had as a pupil. No teacher ever mentioned 
 him btit to praise him. I do not think that we ever saw a 
 fault in his conduct or his purpose. \\q loved him, but we 
 had no suspicion that he was fitting for heaven instead of 
 the University. It seemed to me a privilege to admire such 
 a life, and to love such a character. His death seems pre- 
 mature, and his life had but just apparently begun ; who can 
 tell the far reaching efifect of his life and death upon the 
 young people he has met? 
 
 I know I express the feelings of all our teachers when I 
 say that they most deeply and sincerely sympathize with you 
 in the great loss you have sustained. 
 
 Kindlv Yours, 
 
 W. S. PERRY. 
 
 Copied from "The Chesaning Argus." 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Adams 
 
 Artha W. 
 
 Arthur W. 
 
 Dorothy E. 
 
 Edith H. 
 
 Edith R. 
 
 Edwin H. 
 
 Lucien H. 
 
 Theron W. 
 Aken 
 
 Giles M. 
 Appleton 
 
 Cora 
 Bailey 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 Laura O. 
 
 William 
 
 William A. 
 Baldwin 
 
 Genevieve F 
 Barber 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Fanny 
 
 James 
 
 Zeviah 
 Beatty 
 
 Margaret J. 
 Beckwith 
 
 Deborah 
 
 Edward E. 
 
 George 
 
 Sophronia 
 Bedelle 
 
 Lulu D. 
 Beekman 
 
 Rose M. 
 Belden 
 
 Belt 
 
 Benjamin C. 
 Beulah M. 
 Charles W. 
 
 Page 
 
 I 
 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 88 
 
 Samuel 
 
 88 
 
 Bennett 
 
 88 
 
 Clarabel 
 
 8S 
 
 Love- 
 
 68 
 
 Bentley 
 
 68 
 
 Leula 
 
 89 
 
 Best 
 
 68 
 
 Almira F. 
 
 
 Deborah J. 
 
 19 
 
 Charles J. 
 
 
 Edith E. 
 
 68 
 
 Edward 
 
 
 Edward T. 
 
 67 
 
 Eusebius S. 
 
 67 
 
 Frederick 
 
 42 
 
 Hannah 
 
 67 
 
 Helen M. 
 
 
 Howard 
 
 77 
 
 John E. 
 
 
 Maud E. 
 
 22 
 
 Nellie 
 
 26 
 
 Robert 
 
 21, 22, 28 
 
 Ruth 
 
 21 
 
 Samuel J. 
 
 
 Thomas E. 
 
 28 
 
 Bierbaum 
 
 
 Laura 
 
 4 
 
 Billings 
 
 85 
 
 Hannah 
 
 4 
 
 Bliss 
 
 30 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 
 Emily 
 
 88 
 
 Flora .M 
 
 
 Francenia A 
 
 84 
 
 Bolls 
 
 j 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 88 
 
 Fanny V. 
 
 ' 
 
 Borden 
 
 89 
 
 Lorinda E. 
 
 89 
 
 Bosworth 
 
 89 
 
 Clara 
 
 Page 
 
 4 
 
 83 
 3 
 
 49 
 
 29 
 29 
 61 
 85 
 61 
 29, 61 
 60 
 61 
 29 
 61 
 61 
 61 
 60 
 84 
 61 
 61 
 29 
 29 
 
 80 
 
 2], 22, 28 
 
 71 
 31 
 71 
 71 
 
 80 
 80 
 
 20 
 
 42 
 
lS2 
 
 Index. 
 
 Charlotte M. 
 
 Frank E. 
 
 George 
 
 Leslie B. 
 
 Pauline 
 
 Walter M. 
 Bowdish 
 
 Ruth E. 
 Bowen 
 
 Annie 
 Boyd 
 
 Edith S. 
 
 Frank S. 
 
 James 
 
 Marcus A. 
 
 Ralph E. 
 
 Willard H. 
 Brackin 
 
 Abigail H. 
 
 Alvin 
 
 Carrie M. 
 
 Charlotte M. 
 
 Clara M. 
 
 Clarissa S. 
 
 David 
 
 Eliza 
 
 George 
 
 Harriet L. 
 
 Hattie J. 
 
 James 
 
 Jane K. 
 
 Margaret S. 
 
 Mary 
 
 Reljecca K. 
 
 Richard H. 
 
 Silas T. 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Thomas T. 
 Bradley 
 
 Philip 
 
 Philip H. 
 Brainard 
 
 Henry 
 
 l.ucv A. 
 
 Mary L. 
 
 Brink 
 
 Mary 
 
 Brush 
 
 Frc'(U-rick F. 
 Henry T. 
 
 Buckley 
 Lewis 
 
 Burgess 
 Ahhie. 
 Robert 
 
 Pa 
 
 Lge 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 Burke 
 
 
 75 
 
 Charles S. 
 
 42, 
 
 75 
 
 Robert E. 
 
 
 75 i 
 
 Burlingame 
 
 
 75 
 
 Jane L.. 
 
 
 75 
 
 Burnham 
 Capt. 
 
 
 54 
 
 Bushnell 
 
 Alexander 
 
 
 46 
 
 Jerusha 
 Matilda 
 
 
 52 
 
 Thomas 
 
 
 52 
 
 Butters 
 
 
 52 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 
 52 
 
 Charles F. 
 
 
 52 
 
 Frank 
 
 
 52 
 
 John W. 
 . Tom 
 
 
 42 
 
 Cady 
 
 
 18 
 
 Maud L. 
 
 
 41 
 
 Carpenter 
 
 
 42 
 
 Al)igail E. 
 
 
 41 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 18, 
 
 19 
 
 Charlotte 
 
 18, 
 
 41 
 
 Clinton A. 
 
 
 40 
 
 Clinton B. 
 
 18, 
 
 19 
 
 Cordelia F. 
 
 18, 
 
 19 
 
 Cornelia L. 
 
 
 74 
 
 Elizabeth W 
 
 
 18 
 
 Emma 
 
 
 41 
 
 Genevieve 
 
 
 41 
 
 George A. 
 
 
 40 
 
 George B. 
 
 18. 
 
 19 
 
 George S. 
 
 
 41 
 
 Hubard F. 
 
 
 74 
 
 John A. 
 
 
 18 
 
 Katherine 
 
 
 74 
 
 Mary D. 
 Mary E. 
 
 
 44 
 
 Chamberlain 
 
 
 45 
 
 I-:. B. 
 
 
 19 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 Chapman 
 Ella E. 
 Julius E. 
 
 
 Sarah A. 
 
 
 61 
 
 Clouah 
 Helen 
 
 
 75 
 75 
 
 Coe 
 
 Albert Tv. 
 Charlotte F. 
 T:)avid L. 
 
 
 39 
 
 Eliza W. 
 Harriet P. 
 
 
 74 
 
 Harry P. 
 
 
 40 
 
 Henry H. 
 
 Page 
 
 67 
 67 
 
 80 
 
 10. 11, 12 
 
 16 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 13, 16 
 
 78 
 78 
 78 
 47 
 78 
 
 78 
 
 20 
 20, 76 
 20 
 44 
 44 
 76 
 44 
 76 
 38 
 77 
 76 
 43 
 77 
 76 
 77 
 76 
 77 
 44 
 
 57 
 
 47. 78 
 47 
 64 
 
 88 
 
 43 
 76 
 19 
 42 
 43 
 76 
 42 
 
hidex. 
 
 ^^3 
 
 Seth 
 Cole 
 
 Agnes G. 
 Alice E. 
 Andrew E. 
 Arthur L. 
 Bertha M. 
 Cassius 
 David M. 
 George 
 George R. 
 Giles G. 
 Helen L. 
 Luella F. 
 Mary H. 
 Coleman 
 
 Dr. 
 Connor 
 
 Joseph 
 Cooke 
 
 -Marie W. G. 
 Willard 
 Willard I. 
 Cooley 
 John 
 Phebe 
 Cory 
 
 Alma L. 
 Charles D. 
 Dwight H. 
 Eva M. 
 Florence 
 Orin R. 
 Covel 
 
 Josephine 
 Cowan 
 
 Margaretta 
 Crank 
 
 Ola 
 Craven 
 
 W. C. 
 Darrow 
 
 George W. 
 Samuel P. 
 Davis 
 
 Carrie M. 
 Joseph N. 
 
 Delafield 
 
 Mary 
 
 Devendorf 
 
 Julia R. 
 Dewey 
 
 Florence E. 
 
 Louis B. 
 
 Rowland 
 
 Page 
 
 
 19 
 
 Seymour B 
 
 
 Walter H. 
 
 50 
 
 Dodge 
 
 49 
 
 Mehitabel 
 
 49 
 
 Dolb> 
 
 8V 
 
 Joseph C. 
 
 50 
 
 Leman W. 
 
 80 
 
 Martha E. 
 
 49 
 
 Wheelan 
 
 49 
 
 Donaldson 
 
 80 
 
 Alexander ( 
 
 49 
 
 Bruce M. 
 
 80 
 
 John M. 
 
 80 
 
 Doubleday 
 
 50 
 
 Matilda- 
 
 
 Douthill 
 
 10, 11, 12 
 
 Harry 
 
 
 Mary E. 
 
 67 
 
 Drake 
 
 
 Lemuel F. 
 
 4 
 
 67 
 67 
 
 Ruth 
 
 Eastlake 
 
 
 George B. 
 
 8 
 
 Grace S. 
 
 8 
 
 Eckley 
 
 
 Alvin 
 
 89 
 
 Anna M. 
 
 69 
 
 Daniel 
 
 68 
 
 Edith 
 
 69 
 
 Edna 
 
 89 
 
 Helen L. ' 
 
 89 
 
 James H. 
 
 
 Levi 
 
 83 
 
 Ralph 
 
 
 Sarah A. 
 
 20 
 
 Eldridge 
 
 
 iielen E. 
 
 72 
 
 J. H. 
 
 
 Sarah 
 
 36 
 
 Elliott 
 
 
 Addie B. 
 
 72 
 
 Charles D. 
 
 72 
 
 Clarissa H. 
 
 
 David J. 
 
 74 
 
 Henry W. 
 
 7* 
 
 Pearl E. 
 
 
 Samuel N. 
 
 77 
 
 Ellis 
 
 
 Edith M. 
 
 37 
 
 Emery 
 
 
 Aldon H. 
 
 72 
 
 Vernon J. 
 
 72 
 
 Fairbank 
 
 71 
 
 Helen G. 
 
 G. 
 
 Page 
 
 71, 72 
 
 72 
 
 26 
 
 65 
 65 
 87 
 65 
 
 75 
 75 
 75 
 
 ,84 
 
 87 
 87 
 
 71 
 71 
 
 84 
 84 
 
 50 
 23 
 23, 50 
 50 
 50 
 50 
 5li 
 23 
 23 
 23 
 
 53 
 
 53 
 53 
 
 s 
 
 75 
 41 
 41 
 75 
 41 
 75 
 41 
 
 85 
 
 71 
 
 70 
 
 76 
 
iS4 
 
 Index, 
 
 Farrar 
 
 Emma 
 Feitner 
 
 Maria 
 Field 
 
 Arthur C. 
 
 Mary T. 
 
 Richard 
 Fife 
 
 Josephine L. 
 Fitzgerald 
 
 Annie 
 Fish 
 
 Philothea 
 Fobes 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Eva 
 . Samantha L. 
 Forrest 
 
 Esther 
 
 Fred E. 
 
 Helen 
 Fox 
 
 Julia 
 Fralick 
 
 Chauncey R. 
 
 Foswell B. 
 Frame 
 
 Charles H. T 
 
 Clara 
 
 James B. 
 
 Rebecca 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Walter O. 
 France 
 
 J. Cyril 
 
 Victoria J. 
 
 Will E. 
 
 Frederick 
 
 Alice 
 Friend 
 
 Cora 
 Frye 
 
 Rebecca J. 
 Gaff 
 
 Arno T>. 
 
 Hope W. 
 
 Hugh A. 
 Gale 
 
 Solomon 
 
 Gazer 
 
 Julia A. 
 
 Geiner 
 
 Anna M. 
 John 
 
 Page 
 
 
 
 Giddings 
 
 66 
 
 Albert C. 
 
 
 Almira E. 
 
 51 
 
 Claude W. 
 
 
 Elisha 
 
 44 
 
 Frederick M 
 
 44 
 
 Henry G. 
 
 44 
 
 Horace E. 
 
 
 Horace F. 
 
 69 
 
 Mildred S. 
 
 
 Philothey 
 
 79 
 
 Sabra C. 
 
 
 Seth 
 
 '8, 36 
 
 Stanley A. 
 
 
 Statira E. 
 
 48 
 
 Wade C. 
 
 63 
 
 Gillett 
 
 29 
 
 Armenta 
 
 
 Gillis 
 
 72 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 72 
 
 Gilso*? 
 
 72 
 
 Abigail 
 
 
 Florence M. 
 
 85 
 
 Gould 
 
 
 Franeenia 
 
 77 
 
 Greene 
 
 77 
 
 Elizabeth C. 
 
 73 
 
 Gregory 
 
 Mary B. 
 
 74 
 
 Griswold 
 
 73 
 
 Fidelia S. 
 
 l"?. 
 
 Sarah 
 
 4n 
 
 Grosvenor 
 
 73 
 
 Charlotte M 
 
 
 Ella M. 
 
 75 
 
 Florence M. 
 
 7B 
 
 Julia A. 
 
 75 
 
 T.aura M. 
 
 
 Guest 
 
 77 
 
 Minnie 
 
 
 Guthrie 
 
 81 
 
 Ewing C. 
 Ida V. 
 
 65 
 
 Paul R. 
 
 Harper 
 
 81 
 81 
 81 
 
 Ccl(>stia J. 
 Harrison 
 
 Cicn. 
 Hart 
 
 4 
 
 Orville 
 
 Harvey 
 
 37 
 
 Hawlev 
 
 
 O. K. 
 
 SI 
 
 r.i 
 
 Hayes 
 
 Abigail 
 
 9. 28. 
 
 Page 
 
 59 
 8B 
 83 
 36 
 28 
 59 
 82 
 28 
 83 
 36 
 36 
 36 
 83 
 59 
 83 
 
 36 
 
 47 
 
 48 
 61 
 
 36 
 
 43 
 
 74 
 
 31 
 31 
 
 75 
 42 
 42 
 42 
 42 
 
 83 
 
 55 
 55 
 55 
 
 51 
 
 11 
 
 27 
 
 4 
 
 19 
 
 6, 16. 20 
 
Index. 
 
 ^'h- 
 
 Abigail E. 
 Addie E. 
 Albert 
 Alvin 
 Alvin C. 
 Anna M. 
 Ansel 
 Arthur L. 
 Carrie L. 
 Catharine 
 Charles 
 Charles B. 
 Charles L. 
 Charlotte 
 Charlotte L. 
 Clara 
 Clara T. 
 Clarissa 
 Clifford U. 
 Cora A. 
 Deborah 
 Dillon P. 
 Ebenezer B. 
 Edd 
 
 Edward 
 Eldridge E. 
 Eliza 
 
 Elizabeth F. 
 Emma P. 
 Ephraim T. 
 Esther 
 Ethel 
 Fanny 
 Flavins 
 Florence J. 
 Frances L. 
 Frank 
 Fred B. 
 (leorge 
 George L. 
 George S. 
 George W. 
 Geraldine S. 
 Gretta 
 Harriet 
 Harriet E. 
 Harriet L. 
 Harriet W. 
 Helen 
 
 Helen 
 Helen 
 Henry 
 Henry 
 Hettie 
 Hettie 
 Ida 
 
 A. 
 M. 
 L. 
 P. 
 
 Page 
 
 
 80 
 
 James A. 
 
 78 
 
 James R. 
 
 36 
 
 Jay 
 
 18, 38 
 
 Jerusha B. 
 
 40 
 
 Jessie 
 
 13 
 
 John 
 
 4 
 
 John E. 
 
 36 
 
 Jonathan I 
 
 70 
 
 Joselyn 
 
 3 
 
 Joseph 
 
 38 
 
 Josie 
 
 48 
 
 Julia 
 
 51 
 
 Julian L. 
 
 22 
 
 Kate 
 
 47 
 
 Laurence 
 
 37,40 
 
 bavinia 
 
 55 
 
 Lee 
 
 18 
 
 Leroy 
 
 49 
 
 Lester 
 
 36. 72 
 
 Lester L. 
 
 13. 22 
 
 Linus 
 
 49 
 
 Linus A. 
 
 37 
 
 Linus J. 
 
 53 
 
 Malcolm 
 
 38 
 
 Margaret 
 
 52 
 
 Margaretta 
 
 7, 20 
 
 Marie 
 
 71 
 
 Mary 
 
 55 
 
 Marv J. 
 
 37 
 
 Mary L. 
 
 4 
 
 Maud B. 
 
 54 
 
 Melissa 
 
 25 
 
 Melissa A. 
 
 47 
 
 Nancy 
 
 50 
 
 Nathan S. 
 
 70 
 
 Patience 
 
 54 
 
 Phebe 
 
 56 
 
 Philemon 
 
 80 
 
 Richard 
 
 23 
 
 Richard A. 
 
 17 
 
 Richard M. 
 
 38 
 
 Robert R. 
 
 71 
 
 Rufus 
 
 54 
 
 Russell 
 
 21 
 
 Russell T. 
 
 47 
 
 Ruth 
 
 17 
 
 Sadie 
 
 17 
 
 Samuel 
 
 51 
 
 Sarah 
 
 56 
 
 Sarah A. 
 
 73 
 
 Scott 
 
 25 
 
 Seth 
 
 53 
 
 Seth A. 
 
 51 
 
 Silas 
 
 51 
 
 Stafford 
 
 54 
 
 Statiri 
 
 13, 
 
 Page 
 26 
 26 
 25 
 23 
 53 
 
 3 
 13 
 17 
 71 
 
 3 
 81 
 37 
 54 
 54 
 54 
 35 
 54 
 21 
 16,25,53 
 24, 9. 
 23 
 
 H. 
 
 17, 
 24. 
 52, 
 
 3, 4. 
 3, 4, 6, 7. 20, 22, 
 
 3, 4, 6. T 
 
 
 
 36 
 26 
 49 
 54 
 71 
 5fi 
 20 
 19 
 80 
 55 
 49 
 19 
 24 
 51 
 50 
 
 4 
 23 
 
 3 
 38 
 37 
 80 
 26 
 13 
 54 
 25 
 53 
 81 
 
 4 
 19 
 24 
 52 
 71 
 17 
 
 3 
 51 
 15 
 
jS6 
 
 Index. 
 
 
 Page 1 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Stella M. 
 
 70 
 
 Benjamin S. 
 
 S2 
 
 Thomas 
 
 1? 
 
 Carroll H. 
 
 79 
 
 Thomas F. 
 
 18 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 82 
 
 Thomas P. 
 
 72 
 
 Deborah E. 
 
 27 
 
 Titus 
 
 
 Dena R. 
 
 82 
 
 4. 8. 9. 10, 12, 13, 14, 
 
 22, 24, 26, 38 
 
 Dorithe M. 
 
 82 
 
 Titus A. 
 
 49 
 
 Edward H. 
 
 58 
 
 Trew 
 
 53 
 
 Ellen 
 
 27 
 
 Vertner . 
 
 71 
 
 Emma E. 
 
 60 
 
 Vineyard 
 
 25 
 
 Emily 
 
 29 
 
 William G. 
 
 51 
 
 Estella T. 
 
 62 
 
 Hezlip 
 
 
 Fanny 
 
 60 
 
 Mary 
 
 EC 
 
 Flavel 
 
 14, 26, 27 
 
 Hill 
 
 
 Flavel E. 
 
 56 
 
 Minnie 
 
 61 
 
 Floyd F. 
 
 62 
 
 Hissem 
 
 
 Franklin P. 
 
 82 
 
 Dwight S. 
 
 52 
 
 Hannah B. 
 
 60 
 
 Marcus 
 
 52 
 
 Harriet B. 
 
 59 
 
 Hoit 
 
 
 Hayes W. 
 
 82 
 
 Estella L. 
 
 52 
 
 Hugo W. 
 
 82 
 
 Howard 
 
 
 Jennie L. 
 
 62 
 
 William L. 
 
 67 
 
 John P. 
 
 59 
 
 Howland 
 
 
 Katie M. 
 
 82 
 
 David B. 
 
 86 
 
 Linus B. 
 
 57 
 
 David M. 
 
 86 
 
 Linus H. 
 
 26 
 
 Hull 
 
 
 Louisa M. 
 
 58 
 
 Georgiana 
 
 66 
 
 Lucien L. 
 
 57 
 
 Jennie 
 
 17 
 
 Lucy C. 
 
 56 
 
 Hyde 
 
 
 Mabel E. 
 
 57 
 
 Betsey 
 
 60 
 
 Marcia S. 
 
 62 
 
 Isham 
 
 
 Marie S. 
 
 63 
 
 I). RaJph N. 
 
 76 
 
 Mary C. 
 
 57 
 
 Harriet 
 
 76 
 
 Mary S. 
 
 57 
 
 Jacobi 
 
 . 
 
 Nellie M. 
 
 59 
 
 Blanche W. 
 
 70 
 
 Orville H. 
 
 59 
 
 Clara E. 
 
 89 
 
 Ralph H. 
 
 63 
 
 Cora L. 
 
 70 
 
 Roderick M. 
 
 60 
 
 John G. 
 
 70 
 
 Rollin F. 
 
 58 
 
 Norman L. 
 
 70 
 
 Rollin L. 
 
 5S 
 
 lister H. 
 
 70 
 
 Ruby 
 
 57 
 
 Walter T. 
 
 70 
 
 1 Samuel 
 
 9, 13, 29 
 
 Jobson 
 
 
 Samuel W, 
 
 62 
 
 George J. 
 
 83 
 
 Slatira 
 
 28 
 
 Isal)(!l 
 
 83 
 
 Sylvia N. 
 
 56 
 
 Johns 
 
 
 William C. 
 
 82 
 
 Arlfen M. 
 
 89 
 
 Willie 
 
 27 
 
 Helen 
 
 89 
 
 Willis E. 
 
 30. 62 
 
 Will 1.. 
 
 89 
 
 Kesler 
 
 
 Johnson 
 
 
 John \j. 
 
 54 
 
 Klisha 
 
 34 
 
 Margaret 
 
 54 
 
 Emily H. 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 Hannah 
 
 34 
 
 Keyes 
 
 64 
 
 
 
 I-] in ma 
 
 Jones 
 
 
 
 
 Albert R. 
 
 57 
 
 King 
 
 
 Almira 
 
 28 
 
 Albert A. 
 
 47 
 
 Anson 
 
 28 
 
 Arthur P. 
 
 47 
 
Index. 
 
 /,V7 
 
 Edwin P. 
 
 Ella G. 
 
 Ellen L. 
 
 Frederick T. 
 
 George C. 
 
 Grace T. 
 
 Hayes G. W. 
 
 James O. 
 
 Marion L. 
 
 Osman S. 
 
 Richard F. 
 Knapp 
 
 E. 
 
 Ed C. 
 
 Marion E. 
 Krum 
 
 Abel 
 
 Lucia M. 
 
 Joseph H. 
 
 Laura J. 
 Kummell 
 
 Charlotte P. 
 
 Henry B. 
 Lane 
 
 David 
 
 Enos 
 
 Mary 
 Langworthy 
 
 Dorothy 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Lou Robert 
 Latham 
 
 N. 
 Lathrop 
 
 Abbie L. 
 
 Abbie M 
 
 Emma 
 
 Fanny 
 
 George M. 
 
 Helen 
 
 Howard 
 
 Lyman R. 
 
 Paoli 
 
 Seth 
 Leach 
 
 Florence L. 
 
 William 
 Leicester 
 
 Earl of 
 Lester 
 
 Abiah 
 
 Daniel 
 
 Nancy 
 Loney 
 
 Charlotte M. 
 
 Orange L. 
 
 'age 
 47 
 
 Long 
 
 46 
 
 Isabel 
 
 46 
 
 Lonon 
 
 78 
 
 Callie 
 
 46 
 
 Loosley 
 
 77 
 
 Frederick E. 
 
 77 
 
 George M. 
 
 47 
 
 Helen A. 
 
 78 
 
 Mack 
 
 46 
 
 John 
 
 47 
 
 Patience 
 
 
 Marshall 
 
 55 
 
 Annie 
 
 55 
 
 Matthews 
 
 55 
 
 Frank 
 
 
 McClurg 
 
 10 
 
 Anna M. 
 
 47 
 
 (ieorge 
 
 46 
 
 Samuel 
 
 46 
 
 Samuel H. 
 
 
 McCreary 
 
 76 
 
 Amelia 
 
 76 
 
 McCrum 
 
 
 Alexander 
 
 37 
 
 Vernon E. 
 
 6 
 
 McCullough 
 
 6 
 
 Kezia 
 
 
 McMillan 
 
 89 
 
 Ellen M. 
 
 S'9 
 
 Frank N. 
 
 89 
 
 Rae W. 
 
 35 
 
 McNeiley 
 
 Frederick 
 
 85 
 30 
 30 
 63 
 
 Harrv F. 
 
 Helen L. 
 
 Leroy 
 
 Saraii G. 
 
 30 
 
 Mennez 
 
 30 
 
 -May 
 
 85 
 
 Merrick 
 
 85 
 
 Abigail 
 
 30 
 
 Edward 
 
 63 
 
 Edward D. 
 
 
 Edward K. 
 
 49 
 
 Emily 
 
 2;] 
 
 Fanny 
 
 
 F'rederick 
 
 13 
 
 Frederick C 
 
 
 Frederick P. 
 
 13 
 
 Georse H. 
 
 13 
 
 Helen M. 
 
 37 
 
 .Mary F. 
 
 
 Noah 
 
 77 
 
 Roderick 
 
 78 
 
 Roderick S. 
 
 Page 
 90 
 81 
 
 73 
 
 72, 73 
 
 72 
 
 3 
 
 75 
 
 88 
 
 4{ 
 
 19, 43 
 
 19 
 
 43 
 
 45 
 
 80 
 80 
 
 43 
 
 85 
 85 
 
 78 
 79 
 79 
 78 
 62 
 
 87 
 
 30. 
 
 31, 
 
 32, 
 
 64 
 64 
 
 t; 
 
 65 
 31 
 31 
 64 
 64 
 65 
 16 
 33 
 64 
 15 
 31 
 65 
 
jSS 
 
 Index, 
 
 Sophroiiia W. 
 
 Walter C. 
 
 William H. 
 Middleton 
 
 Mary L. 
 Miles 
 
 .Mary R. 
 Monroe 
 
 Alice S. 
 
 Lillian 
 Moore 
 
 Cora 
 Morris on 
 Hannah 
 Morse 
 
 Elias 
 
 Frances A. 
 
 Harriet Z. 
 
 Helen M. 
 
 Osman P. 
 Neiswanger 
 
 C. S. 
 
 Helen E. 
 Noonan 
 
 Eva E. 
 North 
 
 Sylvia A. 
 Northway 
 
 Iva E. 
 
 Jessie B. 
 
 Notestine 
 Phebe 
 
 Oatley 
 
 Aljiah L. 
 Ada A. 
 Charlotte E. 
 Edward 
 
 Edward P. 
 Frances L. 
 F'rancis E. 
 Llovd L. 
 Lota 
 M<Tt L. 
 William 
 
 Oatman 
 
 Adellc M. 
 Alva 
 Arnold 
 Arnold L. 
 Clara A. 
 Harriet A. 
 Harriet J. 
 Harry P. 
 Julia A. 
 Laura I. 
 
 Page 
 63 
 61 
 
 73 
 
 49 
 
 84 
 84 
 
 78 
 
 50 
 
 22 
 4S 
 48 
 47 
 22 
 
 5d 
 55 
 
 35 
 
 hG 
 
 53 
 53 
 
 50 
 
 48 
 79 
 48 
 47 
 79 
 48 
 48 
 79 
 79 
 79 
 47 
 
 67 
 35 
 10 
 68 
 67 
 16 
 34 
 34 
 33 
 67 
 
 34, 
 
 Leman 
 
 Lester H. 
 
 Lewis H. 
 
 Loyal 
 
 Mariette 
 
 Minnie E. 
 
 Morris E. 
 
 Nellie L. 
 
 Richard E. 
 
 William E. 
 Ogle 
 
 Eliza 
 O'Havre 
 
 Percy 
 Osmer 
 
 Charles S. 
 Palmer 
 
 Lucy C. 
 Parker 
 
 David 
 
 Emily 
 
 Level E. 
 parks 
 
 Eliza 
 Parsons 
 
 P)ertram W. 
 
 Ellen 
 
 Florence H. 
 
 Fred H. 
 
 George H. 
 
 George M. 
 
 Harold A. 
 
 Helen M. 
 
 Howard L. 
 
 Janet F. 
 
 Lois F. 
 
 Marion B. 
 
 Milo H. 
 
 Waldo H. 
 
 William A. 
 
 William H. 
 
 Patterson 
 
 Ella 
 
 Paxson 
 
 Mary B. 
 
 Pease 
 
 B(>rtha 
 Sarah I. 
 Perkins 
 
 Abigail M. 
 Eiiliraim 
 Fidelia 
 George M. 
 Helen M. 
 Lucy 
 
 Page 
 35 
 35 
 35 
 16, 34 
 33 
 67 
 35 
 67 
 34 
 34 
 
 73 
 
 56 
 
 79 
 
 58 
 
 49 
 49 
 28 
 
 79 
 
 66 
 34 
 66 
 88 
 8S 
 66 
 88 
 66 
 6(i 
 67 
 67 
 66 
 33, 66 
 66 
 34 
 33 
 
 74 
 
 88 
 
 82 
 34 
 
 49 
 31 
 31 
 31 
 31 
 31 
 
hidex. 
 
 189 
 
 Simon 
 Phelps 
 
 Abiah 
 
 Eliphalet 
 
 Mary P. 
 
 Oliver 
 Philips 
 
 .Mary O. 
 
 Philip 
 Philc 
 
 Marion B. 
 Pierson 
 
 Daniel 
 
 Paoli L. 
 Plummer 
 
 Alvin H. 
 
 Clara E. 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Emma M. 
 
 Estella 
 
 Frederick H. 
 
 Samuel C. 
 Poinsett 
 
 Harry P. 
 Pomeroy 
 
 Lieut. 
 Pratt 
 
 Phebe 
 Proctor 
 
 Lucy A. 
 Ray 
 
 Margaret 
 Reed 
 
 Ellen L. 
 
 James 
 
 Sallie 
 Regal 
 
 Edgar J. 
 
 Fern M. 
 Rhodes 
 
 Sophia 
 Rice 
 
 Alma 
 
 Amelia M. 
 
 Armenta L. 
 
 Armenta M. 
 
 Harriet M. 
 
 Howard H. 
 
 Lavinia F. 
 
 Lester Y. 
 
 Lloyd L. 
 
 Lucien 
 
 Melissa H. 
 
 Mertie L. 
 
 Parmely P. 
 
 Page 
 
 
 12 
 
 Riley 
 
 
 Charles F. 
 
 22 
 
 Frederick 
 
 26 
 
 Rockwood 
 
 26 
 
 Florence M. 
 
 9 
 
 Frank B. 
 
 
 Frederick T. 
 
 86 
 
 Helen M. 
 
 86 
 
 Harry T. 
 
 
 Lucy 
 
 77 
 
 Rowe 
 
 
 Albert 
 
 63 
 
 Cornelia 
 
 63 
 
 Lucy A. 
 
 
 Russell 
 
 38 
 
 Julia 
 
 38 
 
 Schmeider 
 
 72 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 72 
 
 Ethel M. 
 
 38 
 
 Louis A. 
 
 38 
 
 William F. 
 
 38, 72 
 
 Scott 
 
 
 Amanda 
 
 65 
 
 Bennie P. 
 
 
 Chauncey E 
 
 7 
 
 Ella J. 
 
 
 Emma 
 
 8 
 
 Greba 
 
 
 Horace E. 
 
 11 
 
 Horace R. 
 
 42 
 
 Ida 
 
 
 John H. 
 
 83 
 
 Junia L. 
 
 
 Laura M. 
 
 63 
 
 Leila I. 
 
 58 
 
 Linus 
 
 86 
 
 Matilda A. 
 
 
 M. Florence 
 
 79 
 
 Sidney W. 
 
 79 
 
 W. W. 
 
 
 William W. 
 
 47 
 
 Seager 
 
 
 Eliza 
 
 89 
 
 Semans 
 
 36 
 
 Edward M. 
 
 69 
 
 Harry M. 
 
 69 
 
 Joseph R. 
 
 68 
 
 Mary 
 
 69 
 
 William M. 
 
 69 
 
 William O. 
 
 69 
 
 Sharp 
 
 69 
 
 Cora B. 
 
 35 
 
 Shelby 
 
 68 
 
 James E. 
 
 69 
 
 Shobrook 
 
 69 
 
 Alice 
 
 Page 
 
 77 
 77 
 
 45 
 45 
 45 
 45 
 
 77 
 7 
 
 26 
 26 
 26 
 
 54 
 
 87 
 87 
 87 
 87 
 
 24 
 81 
 52 
 24 
 81 
 81 
 81 
 81 
 52 
 51 
 52 
 52 
 81 
 81 
 24 
 24 
 24 
 24 
 52 
 
 26 
 
 86 
 64 
 86 
 80 
 86 
 64, 86 
 
 82 
 
 81 
 
 84 
 
igo 
 
 hidex. 
 
 Shurtleff 
 
 I'riianna 
 Sill 
 
 Charles 
 
 Morton W. 
 Simpkins 
 
 Arthur H. 
 
 Bessie M. 
 
 Carlton H. 
 
 Ernest J. 
 
 Frank A. 
 
 Frederick M. 
 
 Henry S, 
 
 Herbert W. 
 
 John C. 
 
 Leroy H. 
 
 Mary E. 
 
 Mary M. 
 
 Wallace D. 
 Skinner 
 
 Charles 
 
 Genevieve 
 Smiiie 
 
 AUie P. 
 
 David 
 
 William B. 
 Smith 
 
 Alfred H. 
 
 Allie M. 
 
 Arthur L. 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 Daniel H. 
 
 Fannie E. 
 
 Frank L. 
 
 Henry D. 
 
 Huron D. 
 
 Lavinia H. 
 
 Margaret E. 
 
 Maude M. 
 
 Ralph C. 
 
 Walter A. 
 Snow 
 
 Katherine E. 
 Spangler 
 
 Adid 
 
 Spelman 
 
 Hayes S. 
 Pearl S. 
 Schuyler 
 
 Spencer 
 Nellie 
 
 Stafford 
 
 Xancy 
 
 Stanley 
 
 Sara E. 
 
 Page 
 
 
 
 Starkweather 
 
 71 
 
 Charles G. 
 
 
 Charles M. 
 
 87 
 
 Emily B. 
 
 87 
 
 Esther 
 
 
 Frederick M 
 
 60 
 
 Lyman W. 
 
 83 
 
 Roderick M. 
 
 60 
 
 Sarah 
 
 84 
 
 Steele 
 
 84 
 
 Isa 
 
 83 
 
 Zadoc 
 
 59, 84 
 
 
 83 
 
 Stephens 
 
 83 
 84 
 
 Eliza C. 
 
 Thaddeus 
 
 84 
 
 Sterritt 
 
 83 
 
 Martha W. 
 
 84 
 
 
 
 Stevenson 
 
 74 
 
 Col. 
 
 74 
 
 Stone 
 
 
 George B. 
 
 60 
 
 IJzzie 
 
 26 
 
 Stonebraker 
 
 60 
 
 Barnard H. 
 
 
 E. 0. 
 
 60 
 
 
 89 
 69 
 60 
 
 Sturges 
 
 George 
 
 Rosalie 
 
 69 
 
 Swift 
 
 60 
 
 Heman 
 
 60 
 
 Swisher 
 
 69 
 
 Clara C. 
 
 69 
 
 Clyde F. 
 
 69 
 
 Dudley B. 
 
 60 
 
 Frank F. 
 
 60 
 
 Frederick S. 
 
 60 
 
 Harry 
 
 60 
 
 Mary R. 
 
 
 Oliver H. P. 
 
 76 
 
 Ruth E. 
 
 
 Walter A. 
 
 37 
 
 Tabor 
 
 
 Letta D. 
 
 80 
 
 Taylor 
 
 80 
 
 Bertram 
 
 80 
 
 Thomas 
 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 37 
 
 Mary 
 
 
 Mildred E. 
 
 23 
 
 Throne 
 
 
 Florence G. 
 
 59 
 
 Frank G. 
 
 Page 
 
 63 
 
 85 
 86 
 86 
 63 
 86 
 63 
 86 
 
 82 
 14 
 
 18 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 10 
 
 46 
 75 
 
 56 
 56 
 
 77 
 76 
 
 74 
 90 
 74 
 73 
 73 
 74 
 74 
 73 
 90 
 74 
 
 76 
 
 89 
 
 88 
 24, 80 
 
 87 
 87 
 
Index. 
 
 IQI 
 
 Treat 
 
 Amy C. 
 
 Emory F. 
 
 Florence B. 
 
 George G. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jav E. 
 
 Willard H. 
 Truesdale 
 
 Charlotte E. 
 
 Eliza 
 
 Frederick H. 
 
 Giles G. 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Joseph T. 
 
 Lucy C. 
 
 Seth H. 
 
 William J. 
 
 Tucker 
 Carrie 
 
 Tuttle 
 
 Samuel 
 
 Tyler 
 
 Bert F. 
 Nellie L. 
 
 Vernon 
 
 Margaret 
 
 Vineyard 
 
 Jennie 
 
 Vreeland 
 
 Bessie 
 Edgar 
 Gertrude 
 Hazel 
 Margaret E. 
 
 Wainwright 
 Alargaret 
 
 Waldo 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 Libbie 
 Washington 
 
 Gen. 
 
 way 
 
 Weamer 
 
 Jessie 
 
 Webster 
 Daniel 
 
 Weeks 
 
 Benjamin F. 
 Helen F. 
 Jeremiah. 
 Samuel 
 
 Page 
 
 58 
 57 
 57 
 57 
 
 58 
 58 
 57 
 
 46 
 
 7, 8 
 
 46 
 
 46 
 
 7 
 
 7, 8, 20 
 
 45 
 
 45 
 
 46 
 
 41 
 
 16 
 
 62 
 62 
 
 17 
 
 25 ' 
 
 84 
 84 
 84 
 84 
 84 
 
 50 
 
 85 
 85 
 
 4, 5, 38 
 
 30 
 
 82 
 
 13 
 
 . 48 
 
 79 
 
 32, 48 
 
 22 
 
 Weirick 
 
 Cliarles 
 H. 
 
 Hettie 
 Nannie 
 
 Wellington 
 
 Estelle L. 
 Richard H. 
 
 Wert 
 
 Ada R. 
 John B. 
 
 Whiting 
 
 Eliza L. 
 
 Whitmore 
 
 Catharine 
 Ellen L. 
 Hayes G. 
 Joseph F. 
 Lucia E. 
 
 Wick 
 
 C. C. 
 
 Wilcox 
 
 Charlotte R. 
 Elmore H. 
 Ijillian 
 Maud 
 Paul 
 Perry G.- 
 
 Williston 
 Lucy 
 
 Wilder 
 
 Alonzo S. 
 Harry A. 
 
 Wilson 
 
 Joseph 
 
 Winterbotham 
 Joseph 
 Rue 
 
 Withers 
 
 Clerimond 
 Robert G. 
 Theodore L. 
 
 Wolf 
 
 Sarilla 
 
 Woodard 
 
 Charlotte E. 
 
 Woodbridge 
 
 Theodore 
 
 Woodruff 
 
 Anna ]M. 
 Cora L. 
 Ephraim 
 
 Page 
 
 81 
 81 
 81 
 81 
 
 52 
 52 
 
 90 
 90 
 
 42 
 
 35 
 21 
 21 
 21 
 46 
 
 27 
 
 60 
 62 
 85 
 62 
 62 
 62 
 
 85 
 
 62 
 62 
 
 74 
 
 77 
 77 
 
 55 
 
 54, 55 
 
 55 
 
 65 
 
 43 
 
 4 
 
 87 
 88 
 17 
 
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 (Jeorge E. 
 Harriet E. 
 Lemuel 
 Jennie 
 Laura G. 
 Mabel 
 Marie 
 May 
 
 Richard A 
 Sarah B. 
 
 Woods 
 
 Harry 
 James B. 
 
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 87 
 
 Woodworth 
 
 65 
 
 Luther 
 
 65 
 
 Rhoda M 
 
 33 
 
 Woolson 
 
 87 
 
 Blene C. 
 
 87 
 
 
 88 
 
 Wright 
 
 87 
 
 Hannah 
 
 65 
 
 Yoke 
 
 65 
 
 Bessie 
 
 17 
 
 Charles 
 
 
 Eli S. 
 
 75 
 
 Florence 
 
 75 
 
 Warren 
 
 Page 
 
 57 
 57 
 
 44 
 
 58 
 
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 48 
 48 
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