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CAPTAIN SAMUEL CHURCH

DESCENDANTS OF
CAPTAIN SAMUEL CHURCH
OF
CHURCHVILLE

COMPILED BY ETTA A. EMENS
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
1920

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LIST OF PORTRAITS Facing Page
Capt. Samuel Church  Title
Mrs. Samuel Church  27
Abigail Church Smith-Bagg  30
Rev. Samuel C. Church, D.D  32
Almira Church Clark  34
Maria Church Robinson  36
Fidelia Church Coan  40
Kev. Jared 0. Church, D.D  42
Munson Rufus Hill  46
Hon. Lyman R. Casey  48
Maria Elinor Church  50
Charles T. Church  52
Fidelia Church Alling-Merritt  54
Dr. Titus Munson Coan and Sons  58
Sarah E. Coan Waters  60
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INTRODUCTION
In the spring of 1806, Richard and Rebecca (Warner)
Church came from Massachusetts and with the families
of their sons Samuel and Elihu established a home in
West Pultney— now the town of Riga, New York. Rich
ard died the following year. If he brought to this West
ern New York wilderness a record of his ancestors it
had been lost long before a grandson of Elihu attempted
to compile a record of his descendants. Elihu Church,
Esq., of New York, was engaged on this work at the time
of his death in 1881, but had been unable to establish the
parentage of Richard.
In the summer of 1915 a grandson of Samuel, Mr.
Charles T. Church of Geneva, N. Y., a widower, without
children, retired from business and an octogenarian, de
termined if possible to bequeath to future generations
the ancestral line of Richard.
More than a century had elapsed since the death of
the Western New York pioneer; and for the purpose of
attracting the attention of people who had, or could aid
in obtaining this knowledge, he caused to be inserted in
the Boston Transcript: "$25 REWARD
For the Following Information:
The Ancestors of Richard Church
He married in Springfield, Mass., Rebecca Warner, Feb. 4, 1767.
His residence is given as Hatfield, and hers as Springfield, Mass.
He was born in 1741 or possibly 1743. He is the Richard referred
to in question June 2, 1915, item (*4785)."
Records of branches of the Church family in America
had been published; and it had been established that
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6 CHURCH GENEALOGY
there were two pioneers by the name of Richard Church
who came from England about 1630 and 1636 and were
known, respectively, as- Richard Church of Plymouth and
Richard Church of Hartford. Several of their descend
ants were named Richard.
After much research and correspondence Richard of
Riga was found to be the oldest child of Richard the son
of Samuel Church of Lyme, Conn., and Hannah Church
the daughter of Richard Church of Hatfield, Mass. Sam
uel of Lyme died when his son Richard was but four
years of age ; and while the latter was a minor he went
to Worcester County, Mass., and was a resident of
"Lambstown" (later called Hardwick) in 1737 when he
conveyed "to Edward Church of Lyme, Conn., all his
interest in the neck of land belonging to the Twelve Mile
Island farm which descended to said Richard from the
estate of his father, Samuel Church, deceased, of Ljrme."
Through the specific wording of deeds in connection with
the estate of Samuel Church of Lyme, not only has this
line of Richard been established but also that of Simeon,
an older son of Samuel, ancestor of Mr. Charles W.
Church of Waterbury, Conn., author and compiler of
"Simeon Church of Chester, Conn., and his Descendants."
When Richard's ancestory had been determined, Mr.
C. T. Church would gladly have joined with others in
the work of compiling and publishing a record of the
descendants of Richard and Rebecca (Warner) Church,
but he could not alone attempt so great an undertaking
nor hope to see its completion. He then concluded to
compile and publish a record of the descendants of Cap
tain Samuel Church of Churchville. This would give
the ancestral line, and would be of assistance to any
future historian who sought to make a record of the
descendants of Richard of Hartford.
That there should be omissions of dates and names in
a record of Captain Samuel's descendants is a great re
gret, but we have no assurance they could be supplied

introduction 7
were we to defer publication, and already it has been
delayed too long for Mr. C. T. Church to have had the
satisfaction of seeing and handling the book.
The generosity of Mr. Charles W. Church of Water-
bury, in permitting "the use of anything" in his book,
has enabled us to publish the common ancestral line from
Simeon of Chester back to John at Church (1335-1396),
of Great Parndon Parish, Manor of Geround, County of
Essex, England.
Valuable assistance has been rendered by Dr. Titus
M. Coan of New York, Mrs. Mary J. Pierce of Los
Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Laura B. Lawrence of Charleston,
Mo., Mrs. M. A. Martin of Springfield, Mass., Mrs. E.
W. Stoddard and Mr. Loren Clark of Detroit, Mich., Mr.
Thomas H. Williams of Columbia, Tenn., Miss A. S.
Church of New York, Miss Lucy Hill of Trenton, Tenn.,
and others who have kindly responded to letters of in
quiry or loaned family portraits. Etta A. Emens.
Rochester, N. Y., March 1, 1920.

CAPT. SAMUEL CHURCH

PART I

HIS ENGLISH ANCESTRY
9

ENGLISH ANCESTRY
(This record is condensed from a report by a genealogist in
London for Mr. Alonzo Church of Newark, N. J., and is used by
his permission. References are made to the authorities for all
the statements in said report. C. W. CHURCH, Waterbury, Conn.)

JOHN AT CHURCH (1335-1396)
of Great Parndon Parish, Manor of Geround, Co. of Es
sex, is the first of this family so far known. He married
in 1360 Catherine, daughter of Richard Winchester, who
died in 1338, holding a third part of the advowson of
the church and his wife's part of the manor. This John
died in 1396, holding land in Great Parndon, as appears
from an inquisition post mortem, held in 20 Rich. II,
when the names of his two sons are given.
CHILDREN:
Robert Chirche, who died in 1420, holding land in Great
Parndon. His only daughter, Joan, married Richard
Maistor.
2. John Chyrch. See below.
Catherine. 2
JOHN CHYRCH (1365-1450)
of Leicester is believed to have been identical with the
above John Chyrch of Lancaster. He was a resident of
the City of Leicester, and held much property. In 1399
he was elected Burgess of Parliament, also in 1420, as
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12 CHURCH GENEALOGY
appears from the records of the borough of Leicester.
In 1402-1422 he was also Mayor of Leicester.
July 26, 1452, Catherine, daughter of John Church of
Leicester, left land to celebrate divine service daily for
the souls of John Church, senior, and Catherine, his wife,
and John Church, junior, and Agnes, his wife, and Cath
erine, their daughter, and Catherine, daughter of John
Church, senior. CHILDREN:
3. John. See below.
Catherine, who died before July 26, 1452.
Robert, a haberdasher of London; father of Thomas, the
sculptor. 3
JOHN CHURCH
styled "Junior," son of John Church, merchant, had two
sons, Reynold and John. They were minors at the death
of their parents. The land in Leicester was conveyed by
John to Catherine by deed of May 8, 1450.
4
REYNOLD CHURCH
son of John and Agnes Church, married in 1496 Mar
garet, daughter of Robert Greene of Chester. He had
lands in Leicester, Nantwich and Castell Camps, near
Linton. The Nantwich family coat of arms is the frontis
piece of the book entitled "Simeon Church of Chester,
Connecticut, 1708-1792, and his Descendants," compiled
by Charles Washburn Church of Waterbury, Conn., pub
lished in 1914. CHILDREN:
5. Robert, b. 1505; d. 1551. See below.
John, of Maiden, b.  ; d. 1559.
William.

HIS ENGLISH ANCESTRY 13
John Church, son of Reynold and Margaret, was alder
man and bailiff of Maiden. He married 1st, Joan Hen-
kyn; and 2d, Mary, daughter of Edmund Tyrrell, a de
scendant of Walter who slew William Rufus. He died
November 19, 1559. His children were John and Ed
mund. John married Margaret, daughter of Rooke
Greene of Little Sampford, Co. Essex. He died Jan.
14, 1565. His son Rooke, bap. Apr. 9, 1564, was sur
veyor to King James. Edmund married, June 8, 1574,
Dorothy Green. Prof. A. H. Church says Percy, one
of his grandsons, was groom of the Privy Chamber in
1634. The armory of the Maiden branch is almost iden
tical with that of Nantwich.
William, son of Reynold and Margaret, had a son Rich
ard who built in 1575 the well-known half-timbered
house, still standing in Nantwich, styled "Church's Man
sion." See Harleian manuscript in British Museum.
Richard married Margaret, daughter of Roger Wright,
and died in 1592. Their children were : William, Randle,
and Isabella. William married 1st, Elizabeth Wright;
2d, Margaret Broughton. He died in Drayton in 1632.
Randle, a staunch Royalist, was father of Randle or
Randolph Church, who was Sargeant-at-Arms to James
1st in 1624. Isabella married James McBride, a mer
chant in Dumfried, Scotland. 5
ROBERT CHURCH
son of Reynold and Margaret, born about 1505, of Castle
Camps, Cambridgeshire, was counsellor-at-law and stew
ard of the Earl of Oxford (Harleian manuscript, 1542.)
He had two sons, Bartholomew and John.
Bartholomew Church of Erles Colne, Co. Essex, mar
ried Alice Ronner. They had two children, John of Erles
Colne, and Robert. The Erles Colne branch also had an
armory.

14 CHURCH GENEALOGY

JOHN CHURCH
son of Robert Church of Castell Camps, of Sanford, Co.
Essex, as appears from a Harleian manuscript, married
Catherine Swan, probably in 1547, and was made free
man in that year. He had an armory. Their children
were John and Thomas. Thomas married Thomazine.
He was warden of St. Clements, Ipswich, in 1597. They
had a son Thomas who settled in London and had chil
dren baptized in St. James; also son John, who settled
at Wymingwell, Kent; Charles, who married, June 8,
1580, Constant Sapcott; Robert, who married, March 25,
1509, Elisabeth Barnards; and Richard, who married
Agnes and died August 24, 1603.
7
JOHN CHURCH
born about 1548, son of John Church of Samford, Co.
Essex, married Joan Titerell. The distress of the poor
during this time was very great and he was appointed
by the officers of the church one of "two hable persons
to be gatherers for the poor." He died before November
4, 1593. CHILDREN:
Richard.Ruke married Elinor Tey. His daughter Mary married John
Jarvis, rector of North Cambridge, Co. Essex.
Sampson was baptized Oct. 2, 1575, at Canterbury.
Arnold was baptized Sept. 20, 1576, at Canterbury. He had
a son Richard who married, May 29, 1627, Jane
Dewell.
Henry married Alice  . Ho died before 1592, leaving a
son Henry, who married Elizabeth Vassell, daughter
of John Vassell, an alderman of London and ances
tor of the Vassell families in America.

HIS ENGLISH ANCESTRY 15
8
RICHARD CHURCH
son of John Church and Joan Titerell, born May 9, 1570,
married, Dec. 15, 1592, Alice, widow of his brother
Henry, by general license in the Bishop's Court, London,
as of St. Martin Ongar, London, merchant tailor. In
1613 he settled in Braintree, Co. Essex.
CHILDREN:
Alice, b. Jan. 12, 1603; married, May 18, 1624, Thomas Green
of Witham, Co. Essex.
John, b. May 17, 1607; d. July 15, 1638; married, Sept. 29,
1629, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Marsh of Brain
tree. No children.
Henry, b. Nov. 4, 1609; married  Browne. No chil
dren.
9. Richard. See below.
Arnold, b. March 23, 1611 ; married Margaret Ward, sister
of Nathaniel Ward, later of Hartford and Hadley.

RICHARD CHURCH
son of Richard and Alice, born Feb. 6, 1610, married.
May 18, 1627, Anne, daughter of Edward Marsh, of
Braintree. In 1636 he came to Hartford with Hooker,
and died in Hadley, Mass., Dec. 16, 1667.
("What induced him to emigrate, is of course uncertain. Evi
dently he came over with his relatives John Marsh, Nathaniel
Marsh, and Isaac Graves, who all came frcm Braintree, Co. Essex,
to Hartford.")

CAPT. SAMUEL CHURCH

PART II

HIS AMERICAN ANCESTRY
17

AMERICAN ANCESTRY
1
RICHARD CHURCH OF HARTFORD
Richard Church, son of Richard and Alice, born in
London, England, February 6, 1610, married, May 18,
1627, Anne, daughter of Edward Marsh (1600-Oct. 10,
1684) of Braintree, Eng. He came to Hartford vdth
Hooker in 1636, and drew tv/elve acres of land in the
first land division in 1639 ; had a house and land in Burr
Street and land at the cow pasture in 1640 ; was viewer
of chimneys in 1647, and was freed from watching,
warding and training by the General Court, March 7,
1654 and 1655.
He was one of the sixty persons who "at a meeting at
Goodman Ward's house, April 18, 1659, signed an agree
ment to remove themselves and families out of Con
necticut into Massachusetts, for the purpose of forming
the town of Hadley," where he died December 16, 1667.
CHILDREN:
2. Edward, b. Feb. 26, 1628; d. Sept. 10, 1704.
Samuel, b. March 3, 1629; d. young.
Mary, b. Nov. 2, 1632.
John, b. May 9, 1636; d. Oct. 16, 1691.
Samuel, b. 1636; d. April 13, 1684.
2
Edward Church (Richard 1 and Anne), born Feb
ruary 26, 1628; married Mary  (1637-
Sept. 30, 1690). He died in Hatfield, Mass., September
10, 1704. 19

20 CHURCH GENEALOGY
CHILDREN:
Rebecca, b. 1654.
Mary, b. Sept. 17, 1656; m. Dec. 25, 1679, Phillip Russell.
John, b. 1658; d. May 19, 1676 (Killed by Indians at Falls
Fight).
3. Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1663; d. June 24, 1718.
Naomi, b. May 12, 1666; m. May 11, 1687, Joseph Rodman.
Sarah, b. May 18, 1670; m. Dec. 3, 1697, William Porter of
Haddam.
Hannah, b. 1672; m. 1690, Ebenezer Billings.
Richard, b. Jan. 18, 1675; d. April 4, 1763.
Hepzibah, b. Dec. 24, 1678; d. Sept. 13, 1745; m. Sept. 16,
1696, Samuel Spencer. 3
Samuel Church (Edward 2, RicJiard l), bom August
4, 1663 ; married Susannah, daughter of Thomas Hunger
ford, probably of East Haddam. He died June 24, 1718,
in Lyme, Connecticut. CHILDREN:
John, b. 1699.
Mary, b. 1701; d. Dec. 6, 1786; m. June 6, 1719, Ebenezer
Rowley.
Edward, b. 1703.
Samuel, b. 1706.
Simeon, b. 1708; d. Oct. 7, 1792.
Hannah, b. 1712.
4. Richard, b. 1714.

Richard Church (Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1),
born 1714, Lyme, Conn. ; resident of "Lambtown," later
called Hardwick, Worcester County, Mass., in 1737, when
he conveyed "to Edward Church of Lyme, Conn.," all
his interest "in the neck of land belonging to Twelve
Mile Island farm which descended to said Richard Church
from the estate of his father Samuel Church, deceased.

his AMERICAN ANCESTRY 21
of Lyme." He married Hannah Church, daughter of
Richard (Edward 2, Richard 1) ot Hatfield.
CHILDREN:
5. Richard, b. Jan. 23, 1741-2.
Samuel, b. Aug. 6, 1743.
Simeon, b. Aug. 13, 1745.
Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1747-8.
Susanna, b. March 11, 1749-50.
Edward, b. Nov. 3, 1752, bap. in Granby, Mass.
John, b. Nov. 3, 1756, bap. in Granby, Mass.

Richard Church (Richard Jt, Samuel 3, Edward 2,
Richard 1), born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, January
23, 1741-2 ; married, Feb. 4, 1767, at Springfield, Mass.,
Rebecca Warner of Springfield; his residence given in
Records of Marriage as Hatfield, Mass. The Town of
Williamsburgh was taken from Hatfield in 1771, and the
records of Williamsburgh contain entries of birth of
their children Lucy, Elihu, Richard and John. Samuel,
the oldest child, was born in Hatfield, and it is quite
probable that it was also the birthplace of Miriam and
Lemuel, and that that portion of Hatfield which became
the town of Williamsburgh in 1771 contained their home.
Under the heading "A List of the Names of Members in
full communion in the Ch'"- in Williamsburgh and time
of admission," is the entry "Richard Church & wife. At
y« incorporation of the Church 3d July, 1771;" and in
the list of Baptisms are the names of their sons Richard
and John. Before 1783 they had removed to Washing
ton, Berkshire County, and united with thfe church, and
in its records under entries of Births are found the names
of their three youngest children: Jesse, Horace and
Clarissa. In 1806, Richard and Rebecca, with their sons Samuel
and Elihu, removed to what is now the Town of Riga,

22 CHURCH GENEALOGY
Monroe County, New York, but then known as West
Pultney. Richard died November 12, 1807, and is buried
in Riga Cemetery.
CHILDREN OF RICHARD AND REBECCA (WARNER)
CHURCH:
6. Samuel, b. Dec. 10, 1767 ; d. Sept. 20, 1850.
Miriam, b. May 5, 1769; d. Oct. 22, 1832; m. March 4, 1795,
Aaron Baker (b. Northampton, Hampshire Co., Mass.,
March 19, 1723, died in Pittsfield, Mass., Oct. 8, 1814) .
Lemuel, b. August 1, 1770; probably died according to fam
ily tradition at the age of 11.
Lucy, b. April 17, 1772, Williamsburgh, Mass.; d. Feb. 21,
1848, Murray, Orleans Co., N. Y.; m. 1st, May 27,
1792, Apollos Baker (b. Northampton, Mass., March
16, 1765, died Hopewell, Ontario Co., N. Y., April 9,
1823) ; m. 2d, Dec. 1826, Hopewell, N. Y., Anson
Shay, a Baptist minister (died May 19, 1840, North-
ville, Michigan).
Elihu, b. March 16, 1774; died July 23, 1854, Riga; m. 1st,
Oct. 1799, Ontario Co., N. Y., Lucina Belden-Belding
— (b. Feb. 5, 1774, Conway, Mass., d. Riga, Mon
roe Co., N. Y., December 22, 1822); m. 2nd, Riga,
N. Y., May 27, 1823, Charlotte Phelps (widow of
Matthew Fitch, b. June 24, 1778, died Riga, N. Y.,
Dec. 1, 1854).
Richard, b. Dec. 2, 1775, Williamsburgh, Mass.; d. Sept 27,
1847, Crown Point, Lake Co., Ind.; m.  1804,
Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., Anna Warner, daughter
of David and Polly (RusseU) Warner (b. 1788, Berk
shire Co., Mass., died 1855, Napoleon, Jackson Coun
ty, Mich.)
John, b. June 22, 1777, Williamsburgh, Mass.; d. June 22
(or 20), 1856, Madison, Lake Co., Ohio.
Hannah, b. April 6, 1780; d. Sept. 1, 1855, Albion, Calhoun
County, Michigan; m. Alden Darling, b. May 25,
1775.
Jesse, b. Feb. 1783; d. Feb. 2, 1827, Churchville; m. 1803,
Margery Munson (daughter of Moses and Abigail
Munson, b. Sept. 7, 1777, Conway, Mass., d. May 22,
1852, Flint, Mich.)

HIS AMERICAN ANCESTRY 23
Horace, b. Oct. 3, 1785, Washington, Berkshire Co., Mass.; d.
Hopewell, N. Y., 1861; m. 1st, Barbara Russell; 2nd,

Clarissa, b. Feb. 22, 1788, Washington, Berkshire Co., Mass.;
d. Nov. 27, 1855, Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y.; m. March
7, 1807, Joseph Sibley (b. Feb. 12, 1786, Sand Lake,
Rensselaer Co., N. Y., d. Jan. 29, 1862, Rush, N. Y.)

CAPT. SAMUEL CHURCH

PART III

HIS DESCENDANTS 25

MRS. ABIGAIL MUNSON CHURCH

THE DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL
CHURCH OF CHURCHVILLE, NEW YORK
6
Samuel Church (Richard 5, Richard U, Samuel 3,
Edward 2, Richard 1, a first settler of Hartford, Con
necticut), born in Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massa
chusetts, December 10, 1767; married, Sept. 10, 1792,
Abigail Munson, daughter of Moses and Abigail Mun
son (b. March 9, 1771 ; d. May 5, 1845) ; died Sept. 20,
1850. Captain Samuel Church, farmer as well as a mill
wright, was a man of ceaseless activity, resourceful,
skillful in the use of tools ; a man's man on the frontier.
He was a careful, painstaking, thrifty pioneer. His
various industries in Riga and Churchville — farming,
grain mill, saw mill, woolen mill, the maintenance of his
dam and water power, the care of considerable timber
land as well as that cleared and cultivated which he
owned and worked — gave him a life of almost ceaseless
activity, so that he was an old man at the age of sixty-six
years: about the time the portraits of himself and Mrs.
Church were painted from which the half-tones in this
book are produced, the originals being in the custody
of the Rochester Historical Society.
The settlement of West Pultney, now Riga, commenced
under the auspices of Mr. Wadsworth in 1805. In that
year his handbills had reached Berkshire, Mass., offer
ing to exchange wild lands for farms, which induced
Samuel to come and see the country. His brother Elihu,
who had emigrated to Phelps, Ontario County, in 1796,
accompanied him to West Pultney, which they found a
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28 CHURCH GENEALOGY
densely and heavily timbered wilderness, the only oc
cupants other than wild beasts being John Smith and
his surveying party. Together they explored the town
ship, were well pleased with it, and in the spring of
1806 they removed their families to sites they had select
ed for their new homes.
Turner's Pioneer History of the Phelps and Gorham
Purchase says : "Samuel Church was the founder of the
settlement at Churchville, where he built the first saw
mill in town in 1808 and a grist mill in 1811. He was
Captain of the first Militia Company organized in Riga,
was upon the frontier in the war of 1812, and par
ticipated with his command in the sortie of Fort Erie."
This commission, issued by Governor Daniel D. Tompkins
of the State of New York, on the 22nd of March, 1809,
now belongs to the Rochester Historical Society.
In the same History, under the Reminiscences of Henry
Brewster, we read:
"At a meeting held to organize a religious society we appointed
a meeting three Sabbaths in succession at the log house of Amasa
Frost. On the day appointed for the organization of the society
Nehemiah Frost was chosen Moderator and myself Secretary.
Nehemiah Frost, Samuel Church, Amasa Frost, Samuel Bald-win,
Elihu Church and myself were chosen Trustees. The society was
called The First Congregational Society of West Pultney in the
County of Genesee."
About the year 1831, after a religious revival in the
neighborhood, he became a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church — the same religious denomination
which licensed his sons to preach, each having conferred
upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, the Rev.
Dr. Samuel Clemon Church in the North, and the Rev.
Dr. Jared O. Church in the South.
At the age of eighty-two, he died at the home of a
daughter in Union Valley, Cortland County, N. Y., Sept.
20, 1850, five years after the death of his beloved wife.

HIS DESCENDANTS 29
Of the eight children who survived him, his sons were
Doctors of Divinity in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
three of his six daughters were wives of clergymen —
two of whom had gone to foreign mission fields, one to
Siam and the other to Sandwich now Hawaiian Islands
— and the others were honored and respected in the com
munities in which they lived. His funeral was held at
Churchville on Sunday, Sept. 22, 1850; sermon by the
Rev. H. May of the Genesee Conference, from the text,
Luke 2 :29-31 :
"Now lettest thou thy servant depart. Lord,
According to thy word, in peace;
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples."
CHILDREN:
7. Anna Munson, b. June 14, 1793.
7- A. Ralph, b. March 7, 1795; d. Feb. 17, 1796.
7-B. Abigail, b. Dec. 27, 1796.
7-C. Samuel Clemon, b. April 2, 1799.
7-D. Almira, b. Aug. 7, 1801.
7-E. Amanda, b. Sept. 27, 1803.
7-P. Maria, b. Feb. 1, 1807.
7-G. Fidelia, b. Feb. 17, 1810.
7-H. Jared Oramond, b. June 12, 1813.

SEVENTH GENERATION

Anna Munson Church, oldest child of Captain Sam
uel and Abigail (Munson) Church, born June 14, 1793,
Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts ; married,
first, April 1, 1815, Riga, Monroe County, N. Y., Rufus
Hill (born June 16, 1793, Windsor, Berkshire Co., Mass.,
died January 6, 1831, Riga, N. Y.) ; married, second,
 , 1835, Lyman Casey. She died March 14, 1868,
in Toledo, Ohio. CHILDREN:
8. Rufus Munson Hill, b.  ; d. August, 6,
1821, "Aged 5 years, 8 months" — inscription on grave
stone, Riga, N. Y.
8-A. Frederick Lyman Hill, b.  ; (*Died some
time before July 9, 1853, date of death of Maria
Elinor Church, as per letter of condolence -written
by his mother to Dr. Samuel C. Church.
8-B. Munson Rufus Hill, b. May 2, 1821; d. June — , 1868,
Memphis, Tenn.
8-C. Clemon Church Hill, b. Sept. 26. 1S25. Riga, X. Y.
8-D. Egbert Grandin Hill, b.  , 1S2S. Riga, N. Y.
d. May 28, 1868, Dyersburgh, Tenn.
8-E. Lyman Rufus Casey, b. May 6, 1S37, York, Livingston
County, N. Y.; d. Jan. 25, 1914, Washington, D. C.
*Note : Mrs. Casey, in a letter of condolence to her brother Dr.
Samuel Clemon Church, after the death of his daughter Maria
Elinor, wrote: "I have not rocoived such a shock since the death
of my own beloved Frederick.'' 7-B
Abigail Church (Capt. Sanixcl 6, Richard 5, Richard
U, Samuel .!. Edward 2, Richard 1) born December 27,
30

ABIGAIL CHURCH SMITH-BAGG

SEVENTH GENERATION 31
1796, at Washington, Berkshire Co., Mass.; married,
first, July 14, 1813, at Riga, N. Y., Spencer Smith (b.
1789, Hatfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., died not known
where ; he went to Michigan and was never heard of) ;
married, second, January, 1844, at Pontiac, Mich., David
Bagg (born 1781, at Pittsfield, Mass., died 1864, at Pon
tiac, Mich.) . She died August 21, 1882, at Detroit, Mich.
CHILDREN:
8-F. Emma Smith, b. March 28, 1814, Churchville, N. Y.; d.
Jan. 26, 1881, Detroit, Mich.
8-G. Ralph Church Smith, b. Aug. 14, 1816, Churchville, N.
Y.; d. June 6, 1874, Detroit, Mich.
7.C
Samuel Clemon Church, D.D., (Capt. Samuel 6, Rich
ard 5, Richard k, Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1 ) , born
in the town of Washington, Berkshire County, Mass.,
April 2, 1799. In 1806, at the age of seven, he came with
his parents to the state of New York and settled in what
was then known as West Pultney, Genesee County, now
Riga, Monroe County.
Mr. Church grew up in the big woods of Western New
York, with the arduous and varied training of a pioneer,
gaining the experience that prepared him for later life.
On the opening of the Erie Canal he served for two sum
mers as the Captain of the boats Boston and Concord.
In the year 1829 he was appointed Postmaster at Church
ville, N. Y., an office he held until 1837. The quaintly
worded appointment to office reads as follows :
"WILLIAM T. BARRY
POSTMASTER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING:
Know ye, That confiding in the Integrity, Ability, and Punctu
ality of Samuel C. Church I DO APPOINT him a Postmaster,
and authorize him to execute the duties of that Office at Church-

32 CHURCH GENEALOGY
ville, in the County of Monroe and State of New York, according
to the Laws of the United States, and such regulations conform
able thereto as he shall receive from me: TO HOLD the said
Office of Postmaster, and with all the powers, privileges and
emoluments to the same belonging, during the pleasure of the
Postmaster General of the United States for the time being.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and
caused the seal of this Department to be affixed, at Washington
City, the fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine and of the Independence
of the United States the fifty-fourth. W. T. Barry."
While still Postmaster, Mr. Church entered the minis
try of the Methodist Episcopal Church. We have his
own testimony of this interesting period of his life in
a statement made and submitted to the General Confer
ence in September, 1868, upon request, with the under
standing it should not be used until his death:
"I, Samuel C. Church, was born in the town of Washington,
Berkshire County, Massachusetts, April 2d, 1799; came to the
State of New York with my parents in March, 1806 and settled
in the town of Riga, then Genesee County. I was converted in
the M. E. Church in Rochester, April, 1827, and soon after joined
the M. E. Church. My first license to exhort was signed by Rev.
B. Williams of the Genesee Conference, dated 1833. I received
local preacher's license in 1835 signed by .A.sa .\bell, then Presid
ing Elder on the Genesee District, Genesee Conference. Joined
the Genesee Conference on probation at its session in Lockport
1835, was ordained deacon by Bishop Hedding in 1837, and Elder
by the same godly man in 1839."
For thirty-five years Mr. Church met with courage the
toils, privations and hardships of an itinerant ministry.
He presided over churches at Mt. Morris, Dansville, Cas
tile, Lyndonville, Medina, Oakfield, Le Roy, Spencerport
and Brockport. In 1846, as he says much to his grief,
he was appointed Presiding Elder to Buffalo district. In
1848 he was placed on the Niagara district, and at the
end of two years he was permitted to return to the work
he best liked, that of the pastor of a church.

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SEVENTH GENERATION 33
As a speaker Mr. Church was a forceful and ready
extemporaneous preacher. He expounded the word so
convincingly that he built up each church under his care.
Convinced of a truth he fearlessly expressed his opinions,
even in the face of overwhelming opposition. He was
warm hearted, democratic, independent, full of humor.
This well beloved spiritual leader was an active advocate
of all reforms and was widely known as a Patriot of
Temperance. Dr. Church died at Middleport, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1869,
and is buried at Churchville. The sense of loss in the
death of this honored and efficient man was manifest in
the many sympathetic appreciations of his service to the
world that after his death came to his family from all
classes and denominations.
On January 1, 1828, Samuel Clemon Church was mar
ried to Mary Hall Bangs (daughter of Deacon Zenos
and Ruth (Hall) Bangs, b. July 16, 1804, at Hawley,
Mass.). Although of a family prominent in the Congre
gational Church and zealous workers in its behalf, she
was not able to accept the stern doctrines of Galvanism
then prevalent and did not connect herself with any
church until her removal to Western New York, in 1822,
when she embraced the more genial faith of the Metho
dist Church. In 1834, when Mr. Church became a mem
ber of the Genesee Conference, there began for her a life
filled with opportunity and responsibility. In the labors,
the joys and triumphs of the itinerant preacher's life she
did her full part. Faithfully she responded to the de
mands made upon her mind and heart, a true comrade
and helpmeet. Her activity in church work was unfail
ing, and when no longer able to do church work she was
still an inspiration to others through her lively interest.
Her long and eventful life came to a close in her ninety-
second year, December 7, 1895.

34 CHURCH GENEALOGY
CHILDREN OF DR. SAMUEL C. AND MARY HALL (BANGS)
CHURCH:
8-11. Wesley Brainard, b. March 13, 1829.
8-1. Mary Baker, b. October 1, 1830; d. Sept. 30, 1831.
8-J. Maria Elinor, b. April 2, 1832.
8-K. Charles Titus, b. Oct. 6, 1834.
8-L. Fidelia, b. June 8, 1836. 7-D
Almira Church (Capt. Samuel 6, Richard 5, Richard
U, Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1 ) , born August 7, 1801,
at Washington, Berkshire County, Mass., married Jan.
8, 1824, at Riga, N. Y., Loren Clark (b. July 28, 1794,
at Windsor, Conn., d. June 7, 1843, at Byron, N. Y.).
"Mr. Clark was emphatically a just man — a friend to
the poor and a liberal contributor to the various benev
olent institutions of the day," not the least of which
was the church of which he had long been a prominent
active member. He was an enterprising merchant in a
small town and made semiannual excursions to New
York. His health had not been good for some years but
these business trips "had given a spring to his enfeebled
powers" until that of 1843, when on his return he rapid
ly declined and died the 7th of June. Mrs. Clark was
left with five children, the oldest eighteen and the young
est three years of age, and later removed to Detroit,
Mich. She was a woman of sterling character, greatly be
loved, of whom a nephew said he thought her the most
lovable of all his aunts ; and a grandchild's remembrance
of her is expressed as follows: "Grandmother was very
good and dignified — never laughed out loud — but was
just in her views and actions: a true Christian woman.
I stood in awe of her always — not exactly afraid of her
but always on my good behavior and afraid of doing
something that was undignified."

ALMIRA CHURCH CLARK
(From a Portrait by Mark R. Plarrison, in 1861)

SEVENTH GENERATION 35
Mrs. Clark died at Detroit, Michigan, Feb. 27, 1881,
and is buried by the side of her husband in cemetery at
Byron, N. Y. CHILDREN:
8-M. Henry Oscar, b. Dec. 6, 1824.
8-N. Samuel Church, b. Aug. 19, 1827.
8-0. Maria Fidelia, b. July 17, 1830; m. June 21, 1882, at De
troit, Mich., Edward L. Dimock; d. April 11, 1906.
No children.
8-P. Charles William, b. July 21, 1832; d. Sept. 1, 1833.
8-Q. Almira Eunice, b. Aug. 4, 1835; d. March 11, 1907, at
Detroit, Mich. Unmarried.
8-R. Frederick Loren, b. Aug. 15, 1840.
7-E
Amanda Church, daughter of Captain Samuel and
Abigail (Munson) Church, born September 27, 1803,
Washington, Berkshire County, Mass., married, January
14, 1841, Rev. Shubael Carver (born December 15, 1810,
Sherburne, Chenango County, N. Y., graduated from
Oberlin College in 1840, Congregational minister, died
February 23, 1895, North Bergen, N. Y.) ; died March
27, 1875, Clarendon, Orleans County, N. Y.
CHILDREN:
8-S. Isador M., b. April 19, 1842, Churchville, N. Y.; d. Oct. 10,
1859, Union Valley, N. Y.
8-T. Abigail A., b. May 10, 1844, Churchville, N. Y.; d. Sep
tember 22, 1863, while a student at Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, buried at Union Valley, N. Y.
8-U. Irving W., b. December 8, 1848, North Pitcher, Chenango
County, N. Y.; d. July 23, 1850, Union Valley, N. Y.
7-F
Maria Church (Capt. Samuel 6, Richard 5, Richard U,
Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richai^d 1 ) , born Feb. 1, 1807, at
Riga, N. Y., died Jan. 9, 1886, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; mar-

36 church GENEALOGY
ried, April 1, 1833, Rev. Charles Robinson (b. Dec. 30,
1801, at Lenox, Mass., d. March 3, 1847).
Maria Church was the first white child born in the
Town of Riga. She was educated in the best schools of
Rochester and Canandaigua. While occupied as a teacher
in the city of Auburn she made the acquaintance of
Charles Robinson, a student in the Theological Semi
nary; after his graduation they were married, April 1,
1833, and immediately set out for their mission field in
Siam. A short portion of that long wedding journey was
made over the first railroad in this country.
They sailed from Boston as missionaries of the Ameri
can Board of Congregational Foreign Missions, and were
of that missionary company which included Munson and
Lyman on their fatal journey to Batavia. Nine months
later Mr. and Mrs. Robinson arrived at Singapore but
were then unable to take passage for Bangkok and re
mained in Singapore several months, not reaching their
mission field until July 25, 1834.
Associated with them in their Bangkok home or "Com
pound" were the Reverend Drs. Hemenway and Bradley
and Mrs. Bradley. They had a mission press, and besides
the Scriptures they published various translations into
the Siamese language; among them text-books of arith
metic and geography. Mrs. Robinson acquired the lan
guage easily and gave much assistance in translating the
Bible, preparing hymns and tracts, and in organizing
missionary work. A royal prince of Siam who subse
quently became king, was a pupil in English of IMr. Rob
inson and very devoted to them. He wrote several let
ters to Mrs. Robinson, on her return to America.
After eleven years of continuous labor, Mr. Robinson
was sent to Singapore to be treated for a chronic pul
monary disease; but instead of the hoped-for improve
ment his condition grew worse. The family, now includ
ing four young children, left on a Scotch vessel that

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SEVENTH GENERATION 37
would stop at the island of St. Helena. There they re
mained some time waiting for a vessel to bring them
home ; finally a whaling vessel bound for New Bedford,
Mass., came and took them on,— but only three days out
from St. Helena, on March 3, 1847, Mr. Robinson died
and was buried at sea. The ship's Captain read the
burial service and sang a hymn in which the sailors
joined. Returning to her native land after an absence of four
teen years, Maria Robinson was comparatively a strang
er. Her mother had died, her father lived with one of
his children, and there was no longer her girlhood home.
For a time she had her little family of four children to
gether in a house in Medina which her father gave her,
but soon her work as teacher took her to the city of
Rochester. She sold her house, the boys were put in
schools in New Jersey and Connecticut, and Anna re
mained with her mother. She supported herself and
family by teaching for a number of years : her last post
being that of principal of the Golden Hill Seminary in
Bridgeport, Conn. This she quitted to make a home in
Brooklyn for her children ; and it was a welcoming place
for Fidelia's children. She took some boarders, and
served as City Missionary.
Charles was educated by his uncle Jared 0. Church.
He graduated from Yale College and from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and after the
Civil War the family went South. Charles died in Jack
sonville, Fla., Nov. 20, 1869 ; John was married and liv
ing in Brooklyn. Mrs. Robinson, Benham and Anna
came North and for a time lived in West Troy, while
Benham traveled in the employ of The Troy Collar Com
pany. On a western trip he contracted a cold; he died
in Indianapolis, Feb. 2, 1872, and was buried in Church
ville. Five years later Anna, her only daughter, died
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38 CHURCH GENEALOGY
was her home — in which she was the beloved mother and
grandmother. In spite of many trials and sorrows, Mrs. Robinson
always bore herself bravely and kindly. Her mind was
clear, and she was active to the last. In her seventy-
seventh year, only a few days before her death, she at
tended a Missionary Meeting in Boston. She break
fasted with the family on the morning of January 9,
1886, went to her room and that night died of apoplexy.
Her Bible lay open upon her table, where she had been
making notes that day.
After funeral services in the home her body was taken
to Churchville for burial by the side of her daughter and
her son Benham in the family lot reserved by her father,
Capt. Samuel Church. Her brother-in-law Dr. Shubael
Carver conducted the services in the Churchville Metho
dist Church, and they sang Watts' hjTiin — ^the same that
the kindly sea-captain and sailors had sung at the fun
eral of her husband, thirty-nine years before —
"Hear what the voice from Heaven proclaims
Por all the pious dead.
Sweet is the savor of their names.
And soft their sleeping bed."
Dr. Titus Munson Coan, son of her missionary sister
Fidelia, writes thus of her in loving tribute :
"The story of the thirty-nine years following her re
turn from Siam was one of heroic effort and cheerful
ness under the gravest trials. J"hose who have suffered
the least are sometimes the loudest in their complaints;
Maria Robinson was not one of these. It was a life of
many sorrows; but she kept her face always skyward
and smiling. When, at the house of her last surviving
child, her brave spirit went, it was to a well-won repose.
None could say more truly than Maria Robinson, 'I have
fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have

SEVENTH GENERATION 39
kept the faith.' She earned a reward in the love of who
ever knew that courageous spirit."
CHILDREN:
8-V. Rufus Hill Robinson, b. Feb. 1, 1834, Singapore; d. July
1, 1839, Bangkok, Siam.
8-W. Charles Church, b. July 15, 1835, Bangkok, Siam; d.
May 20, 1836, Bangkok, Siam.
8-X. Charles, b. Oct. 19, 1836, Bangkok, Siam; d. Nov. 20, 1869,
Jacksonville, Fla.
8-Y. John Clark, b. Aug. 22, 1839, Bangkok, Siam.
8-Z. Frederick Benham, b. Jan. 29, 1842, Bangkok, Siam; d.
Feb. 12, 1872, Indianapolis, Ind., buried at Church
ville, N. Y.
8-A A. Anna, b. Nov. 2, 1844, Bangkok, Siam; d. May 24, 1877,
Bergen, N. Y., buried at Churchville, N. Y.
7-G
Fidelia Church (Capt. Samuel 6, Richard 5, Richard
h, Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1) , born Feb. 17, 1810,
at Riga, N. Y., died Sept. 29, 1872, at Hilo, Hawaiian Is
lands; married, Nov. 3, 1834, Rev. Titus Coan (b. Feb.
1, 1801, at Killingworth, Conn., died Dec. 1, 1882, at
Hilo, Hawaii).
Fidelia was the youngest daughter of Captain Samuel
and Abigail (Munson) Church, and by many was thought
to be the most beautiful. She early developed a decided
taste for learning, and was a student in schools of Roch
ester, Palmyra and Canandaigua.
In 1833 she taught and studied in Rochester. For six
years she had been betrothed to Titus Coan, then in his
last term in Auburn Theological Seminary. A month
before the time set for their marriage he received a let
ter from the secretary of the American Board, desiring
him to go to Patagonia "and spend a couple of years if
necessary, among the Indians" -with a view to establish
ing a mission: the Indians being known as forocious
cannibals. The same day on which the letter was re-

40 church genealogy
ceived, with the consent and approval of the Auburn fac
ulty he took leave of the Seminary, went to Rochester
and without comment put the secretary's letter into the
hand of Fidelia. She read ; tears filled her eyes and for
a moment she did not speak ; then she took his hand and
said, "My dear, you must go!"
He went. Would they ever meet again? There was
no lack of other suitors ; they were sure that Titus Coan
would never be seen again. For nine months nothing
was heard of him. Then suddenly, as if risen from the
dead, he returned. He made haste to claim his bride
after all these delays. He found her teaching in Mrs.
Cooke's Female Seminary at Middlebury, Vermont, and
taking lessons in Greek from Professor Kitchel; they
went to Churchville, were married there on the Srd of
November, 1834. The next day they set out by the Erie
Canal for New York; thence to Boston, and on Decem
ber 5, 1834, they sailed on the ship Hellespont for the
Hawaiian Islands by way of Cape Hern. They arrived
at Honolulu June 6, 1835, and at Hilo, after many hard
ships, July 21st. After long wandering they had found
their home for life.
Titus Coan's field comprised the two districts of Hilo
and Puna, extending one hundred miles along the eastern
coast of Hawaii. On his parish tours he climbed the
mountains and swam the torrent streams, or tracked his
way near to the flaming volcano, while the delicate wife
took up the tasks not only of housekeeping and matron,
but established a boarding school for native girls, and
kept it up for several years — until it became possible to
obtain elsewhere the instruction which was then only to
be gained in the home of a foreign teacher. Of all the
girls who came under her care none returned to her
idols. Most of them became wives of native preachers
and teachers, or missionaries to the Melanesian Islands.
Fidelia Coan had the literary gift. She translated

FIDELIA church COAN

SEVENTH GENERATION 41
many of the best English hymns into the Hawaiian lan
guage. The poet Longfellow asked for a copy of her
translations, and wrote to her daughter a letter of thanks
and high praise.
Titus Coan devoted himself ardently to the study of
the Hawaiian language; he preached his first sermon
within a few months after his arrival, and in no long
time gained great power as a speaker. His activities
were incessant. He made the complete circuit of the
big island on foot and by canoe; in ten days during a
single tour he preached forty-eight times. Everywhere
the interest grew. He could not move out of doors with
out being thronged by people from all quarters. The
people of whole villages came from miles away and made
their homes about the mission station. In 1839, during
a great religious rallying in Hilo, a volcanic wave swept
into the harbor, carrying death and destruction ; but the
work went steadily on. From 1838 to 1840 he received
seven thousand natives into his church, which at one
time was the largest Protestant communion in the world.
In 1860 and again in 1867 he made a visiting tour to
the mission in the Marquesas Islands. For forty years
he was the chief source of information respecting the
great volcanos of Kilauea and Mauna Loa. His descrip
tions of volcanic phenomena were published in many
different journals, Silliman's, the American Journal of
Science, and the Missionary Herald among them, from
1841 to 1882. His books are biographical : "Adventures
in Patagonia," and "Life in Hawaii."
For thirty-seven years the field labors of Titus and
Fidelia Coan were incessant and uninterrupted. In April,
1870, at the repeated invitation of the American Board
of Foreign Missions and the desire of personal friends,
they visited their native land; coming the more readily
in the hope of finding a cure for an ailment which had
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42 church genealogy
Mrs. Coan. They consulted eminent physicians, but they
could promise nothing. She spent the winter mostly with
friends. Titus Coan took no rest. During his eleven
months "vacation" he addressed 239 audiences in twenty
states and territories. In 1870 they returned to Hilo,
to spend their last days -with their beloved people.
The last years of Fidelia's life were of suffering brave
ly endured. The end came on the 29th of September,
1872. Her funeral was held in the native church, and
people of many nationalities were there, coming through
a pouring rain and over the muddy roads of Hilo : Eng
lish, Scotch, Irish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
American, Chinese and half and quarter castes ; but the
native Hawaiians were the most numerous. Every class
was represented: merchants, planters, mechanics, pro
fessional men, common laborers, and the scholars of all
the schools.
She was greatly loved. Years after her death a trav
eler who had known her at Hilo — Charles Warren Stod
dard of the "South Sea Idylls" — ^met one of her children.
"Are you a son of Fidelia Coan?" said he. "Yes."
"She w^as a saint," said Mr. Stoddard.
CHILDREN:
8-BA. Titus Munson, b. Sept. 27, 1836, Hilo, Hawaii.
8-CA. Harriet Fidelia, b. Aug. 18, 1839, Hilo, Hawaii; d. July
23, 1906, Hilo, Hawaii; unmarried.
8-DA. Sarah Eliza, b. Jan. 26, 1843, Hilo, Hawaii; m. Oct. 5,
1880, Edward Emerson Waters (died June 14, 1908) ;
d. March 29, 1916, at New York City, leaving no
children.
8-EA. Samuel Latimer, b. Jan. 23, 1846, Hilo, Hawaii.
7.H
Jared Oramond Church (Capt. Samuel 6, Richard 5,
Richard A, Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1) born June
12, 1813, at Churchville, N. Y., married. May 29, 1837,

REV. JARED 0. CHURCH, D.D.

SEVENTH GENERATION 43
Eliza Noble Chandler (b. Feb. 2, 1818, at Cazenovia,
Madison County, N. Y., d. July 24, 1896, at Charleston,
Mississippi County, Mo.) ; died August 17, 1882, at
Charleston, Missouri.
His boyhood and early education were in Churchville;
later he becarae a student at Hamilton College in the
State of New York.
In 1843, at the age of thirty, Mr. Church went to Col
umbia, Tennessee, and took charge of "The Tennessee
Conference Female College," succeeding the Rev. P. P.
Neely. He began his work in a large building known as
"Halcyon Hall." The college was located on a fine ele
vation, the grounds covering from eight to ten acres.
The large and excellent frame building included dormi
tories of a size to accommodate upwards of one hundred
fifty boarders. In 1859 or '60 Dr. Church had construct
ed at his own expense a large brick building with modern
class rooms, chapel and spacious auditorium. This build
ing was called Corinthian Hall. This flourishing insti
tution of learning for women was extensively and favor
ably known not only in Tennessee but in many of the
Southwestern states. The charter of the college was
liberal and very advanced for the time. Under date of
June 27, 1889, the Christian Advocate of Nashville, said :
"For wholesome discipline and a high grade of scholar
ship it stood at the head of any institution then exist
ing in the South." He presided over this institution
eighteen years, assisted by a most able faculty, and won
for it an enviable reputation.
In his work Dr. Church publicly and privately advo
cated the propriety and necessity of employing Southern
teachers and using Southern textbooks.
The school was broken up by the Civil War. After
the Confederate army retreated through Tennessee upon
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44 CHURCH GENEALOGY
to their homes, and Dr. Church was either threatened
with imprisonment or his life endangered and he was a
refugee while the Federal troops were in Columbia.
When the Confederate army came into Tennessee in 1864
and the Federal army fell back, the college buildings
were all destroyed by the Federal forces, Corinthian Hall
alone escaping the fire, as it was at some distance from
the other buildings. It has been remodeled and is now
the Andrews Grammar School.
His school destroyed, and his property lost by the war.
Dr. Church removed to Missouri. About 1871, he took
charge of the Central Female College of Lexington, Mis
souri, and in 1875 he retired from active life and made
his home at Charleston, Missouri.
In 1835, at the age of twenty-two. Dr. Church was
married to Eliza Noble Chandler of Cazenovia, N. Y.
Handsome in person, with a cultivated mind and a beau
tiful character, she was most active and faithful in dis
charge of the high duties devolving upon her. An ap
preciative pupil at College Hill, Columbia, says of Mrs.
Church: "I found her attentive and kindly affectionate,
filling as nearly as possible a mother's place to those en
trusted to her care."
Five children were born of this marriage, three of
whom died in infancy: Mrs. Frances C. Irwin and Mrs.
Laura B. Lawrence alone survive.
A devoted follower of the Methodist Episcopal faith
Dr. Church was ordained Deacon by Bishop Soule at
Murfreesboro, Tenn., November 7, 1847. In 1850, he
was ordained Elder at Athens, Alabama, Bishop Capers
officiating. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was con
ferred upon him by Genesee College of Lima, N. Y.
To know Dr. Church was to be impressed by the purity
of his motive, the sweetness of his disposition and his
indomitable will. He was in truth a Christian gentle
man.

SEVENTH GENERATION 45
He died August 17, 1882, in his sixty-ninth year, and
is buried at Charleston, Missouri.
CHILDREN:
8-F A. Amanda Louise, b. in 1838 and died within a year.
8-GA. Maria Fidelia, b. in 1840; died when three years old.
8-HA. Frances Cazenovia, b. Nov. 5, 1842, Churchville, N. Y.;
m. Sept. 4, 1860, at Columbia, Tenn., John Sevier
Irwin (b. Apr. 2, 1831, at Savannah, Tenn. ; d. June 5,
1918, at Savannah, Tenn.).
8-1 A. Laura Belle, b. Aug. 14, 1847, at Hillsboro, Texas; m.
Oscar Jerome Lawrence.
8-J A. Charles C, b. June 14, 1853; d. May 25, 1854.

EIGHTH GENERATION 8-B
Munson Rufus Hill, son of Rufus and Anna Munson
Church Hill, born May 2, 1821, died June — , 1868, at
Memphis, Tenn. ; married, December 13, 1843, Elizabeth
Hale. CHILDREN:
9. Sparrel Hill, b. Oct. 19, 1844; d. July 10, 1910; m. Oct.
20, 1864, Annie Elder (she died June — , 1911).
9-A. Annie Hill, b.  ; died in infancy.
9-B. Thomas Hill, b.  ; d.  ; married
and had one child but all died prior to 1917.
9-C. Minnie Hill, b.  ; died in infancy.
9-D. Walter Hale Hill, b.  ; d.  , 1878;
m. Emma Hatchett,  . No children.
9-E. Bettie Hill, b. May 2, 1852; m.  . 1868*, E. B.
Dye; d. July — -, 1909.
9-F. Church Hill, b.  ; d.  , 1875.
8-C
Clemon Church Hill (Anna 7, Capt. Samuel 6, Rich
ard 5, Richard Jt, Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1 ) , born
September 26, 1825, Riga, Monroe Co., N. Y. ; married,
 , 1860, at Sugar Island, Chippewa County,
Mich., Eliza Elletta Leavens (born April 21, 1840, at Col-
lingwood, Canada, died Oct. 1, 1873). He died March 4,
1886, at Bay City, Michigan. CHILDREN:
9-G. Rufus Cromwell, b. July 20, 1861.
9-H. Abigail Anna, b. March 30, 1863; m.  — ,
 Evans. 46

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EIGHTH GENERATION 47
9-1. Frederick Clemon, b. August 30, 1864.
9-J. Wallace Egbert, b. Sept. 10, 1867; d.  , 1871.
9-K. Lois Eliza, b. August 3, 1869; d.  . 1871.
9-L. Margaretta Naomi, b. Nov. 5, 1871; m.  ,

 Grandy at some time prior to August,
1896, as per complaint in re estate of Amanda Church
Carver. Abigail Anna is also therein referred to as
Abigail A. Evans. (Letters sent to Bay City in
1917, returned unclaimed, "Not in Directory.")
8-D
Egbert Grandin Hill, son of Rufus and Anna M.
Church Hill, born  , 1828, Riga, Monroe County,
N. Y., married. May 2, 1853, at Dyersburgh, Tennessee,
Sarah M. Esque (b. July 4, 1833, Shelbyville, Bedford
Co., Tenn. ; died April 19, 1900) ; died at Dyersburgh,
Tenn., May 28, 1868. CHILDREN:
9-M. Samuel Esque Rufus, b. Feb. 10, 1854, Dyersburgh, Tenn. ;
d. April 25, 1878, Dyersburgh.
9-N. Annie Egbert Hill, b. Feb. 23, 1856, Dyersburgh; m.
April 19, 1877, at Dyersburgh, J. D. McClerkin (b.
Jan. 10, 1853, Lexington, Tenn.) d. May 2, 1883.
8.E
Lyman Rufus Casey, only child of Lyman and Anna
M. (Church) Hill Casey, born May 6, 1837, York, Liv
ingston County, N. Y., married, August 8, 1860, Buffalo,
N. Y., Harriet Mary Piatt, daughter of Landra Beach
and Harriet (Hemingway) Piatt, (b. Feb. 18, 1841, Ober
lin, Ohio) ; died January 25, 1914, at Washington, D. C.
Mr. Casey went to North Dakota in 1882, in the inter
ests of the Carrington & Casey Land Company, and at
once began to take a very prominent part in the political
affairs of Foster County. He served as Chairman of the
North Dakota State Committee on Irrigation, and was
elected Commissioner of the county. In 1889 he was

48 CHURCH GENEALOGY
elected by the North Dakota Legislature, for a term in
the United States Senate, at the expiration of which he
settled in Washington, and died there January 25, 1914.
CHILDREN:
9-0. Harry Casey, b. May 14, 1861, BuflFalo, N. Y.; d. May 21,
1863, Buffalo, N. Y.
9-P. Frank Casey, b. Aug. 5, 1864, Philadelphia, Pa.; m. Nov.
1, 1918, at St. Louis, Mo., Bunetta Clydevista Engle;
(January, 1919, lives at "The Kenesaw," Washington,
D. C).
9-Q. Carl Casey, b. Jan. 14, 1868, Detroit, Mich.; m. July 27,
1898, at Baltimore, Md., Annie Laura Clark (Jan.
1919, resides at the Westmoreland, Washington, D.
C).
9-R. Theodora Casey, b. Jan. 16, 1877, at Teverdon, Switzer
land; m. March 2, 1912, at New York City, William
Atwood Toplifife. (January, 1919, address, Eastcliff,
Rye, N. Y.). 8-F
Emma Smith, daughter of Spencer and Abigail
(Church) Smith, was born March 28, 1814, Churchville,
N. Y.; married November 28, 1833, Rochester, N. Y.,
John Brown (born Nov. 21, 1806, Malone, Franklin Co.,
N. Y., d.  ) , and died in Detroit, Michigan, Janu
ary 26, 1881. CHILDREN:
9-S. Fidelia E. Brown, b. April 16, 1835, Rochester, N. Y.
9-T. Ralph Robinson Brown, b. Sept. 6, 1837, Novi, Mich.;
d.  (unmarried).
9-U. James John Brown, b. Nov. 13, 1839, Pontiac, Mich.
8-G
Ralph Church Smith (Abigail 7-B, Capt. Samuel
Church 6), born August 14, 1816, at Churchville, N. Y. ;
died June 6, 1874, at Detroit, Mich.; married Sept. 22.

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eighth GENERATION 49
1845, at Springfield, Oakland County, Mich., Jane John
son, daughter of Augustus and Elizabeth (Sharp) John
son, b. May 5, 1825, at Manchester, N. Y., d. July 28,
1915, at Pine Lake, Mich. ; buried in Elmwood Cemetery,
Detroit, Mich. CHILDREN:
9-V. Emma Elizabeth, b. Oct. 1, 1846, at Detroit, Mich.; m.
Dec. 14, 1870, George Henry Moore (b. Jan. 20,
1848, at North Hartland, Vt.).
9-W. Jennie Church, b. Oct. 5, 1850; d. May 19, 1866.
9-X. Ralph Charles, b. Nov. 15, 1857; m. Anna Keveny; d.
July 20, 1917, leaving widow. No children.
9-Y. Florine Tefft, b. Feb. 5, 1864; m. Dec. 14, 1887, Edward
Walton Stoddard (b. Feb. 7, 1846). Mrs. Stoddard
and her sister Miss Abigail Smith are members of
the Colonial Dames and of the Daughters of the
American Revolution through Munson ancestors of
their great grandmother Abigail (Munson) Church.
Mrs. Stoddard has served as Regent of the Louisa
St. Clair Chapter of the D. A. R. in Detroit; also as
president of the Mt. Vernon Society. No children.
9-Z. Abigail, b. July 17, 1866. Unmarried. Resides in De
troit.
8.H
Wesley Brainard Church (Dr. Samuel C. 7-C, Capt.
Samuel 6), born March 13, 1829, at Churchville; died
Nov. 17, 1883, at New York; married, Dec. 9, 1856, at
Medina, N. Y., Mary Jane Whaley, daughter of Christo
pher Whaley, M.D., born June 7, 1830, died July 24,
1888 ; both Mr. and Mrs. Church are buried in Boxwood
Cemetery, Medina, N. Y.
Physically unable to endure the stress of an academic
and collegiate education, Wesley Church at the age of
fifteen was sent to a farm for two years. At the age of
seventeen he became Deputy Postmaster of Medina under
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the firm name of W. B. Church & Company, but at the
end of two years sold out at a profit and went to New
York. Thereafter he was employed as an accountant
with the exception of the two years he served as Truant
School Officer.
He joined the Odd Fellows as soon as he was of age,
and in 1863 the Free Masons. Having absolute knowl
edge that a Mason of the 33rd degree had done an ex
ceedingly disgraceful and dishonorable thing, charges
were brought in his Lodge and the 33rd degree culprit
was expelled. He appealed to the Grand Lodge of the
State of New York ; the matter was referred to a Masonic
committee; the committee reported in favor of over
throwing the action of the subordinate lodge. The report
of the committee was presented to the Grand Lodge in
full session, and when the vote was taken the only hand
raised in opposition was that of Wesley Church; but
scores of the delegates sought Mr. Church to shake hands
with a man who had enough independence and courage
to stand up against the several hundred votes on the
other side. He was companionable and lovable as well
as a man who had the courage of his convictions.
CHILDREN:
9-A A. Charles C, b. Oct. 11, 1858; d. Dec. 28, 1860.
9-BA. Adaline Sophronla, b. July 25, 1860.
9-CA. Mary Whaley, b. Feb. 26, 1866.
9-D A. Lillie Minnie, b. May 12, 1870. (The three sisters re
side together in the city of New York.)
8-J -
Maria Elinor Church, daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel
C. and Mary Hall (Bangs) Church, born April 4, 1833,
at Churchville, died July 9, 1853, at Columbia, Tenn.
In Rose Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tennessee, may be
found a monument with this inscription :

MARIA ELINOR CHURCH

EIGHTH GENERATION 51
In memory of
MISS MARIA E. CHURCH
daughter of
REV. SAMUEL C. AND
MARY CHURCH, who
was born April 4th
1833, in Churchville,
and died July 9th 1853.

She made a profession
of religion at the age
of nine years and
lived from that time
until her death a very
pious and exemplary life.
On the die on the east side of the monument one reads ;
She was educated
in the Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary
at Lima, N. Y. and
was an ornament
to her Alma Mater.
On the die on the north side :
By the Students of the College.
Sleep in peace, dear Teacher,
Your trials are o'er;
The world with its sorrows
Can reach you no more.
A daughter as loving,
A sister as kind,
A teacher as faithful,
We never may find.
Oh, nobly you lived
And as nobly you died.
The example you set,
Be it e'er at our side.
Till Teacher and Scholar
When done with life here
Before Jesus, the Teacher
Divine shall appear.

52 CHURCH GENEALOGY
Only twenty at the time of her death, this brilliant
young woman who had been but a short time in the
South was a teacher in the Tennessee Conference Female
College, of which her uncle the Rev. Dr. Jared 0. Church
was President. She was also at the same time continu
ing her studies in Latin, Greek and mathematics prepar
ing herself for college. 8-K
Charles Titus Church (Rev. Dr. Samuel C. 7, Capt.
Samuel 6, Richard 5, Richard Jt, Samuel 3, Edward 2,
Richard of Hartford 1 ) , born at Churchville, Oct. 6, 1834 ;
died at Geneva, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1919; married at New
York City, Aug. 26, 1873, Frances Ann Van Zandt,
daughter of Beekman and Frances Susanna (Van Buren)
Van Zandt (b. May 15, 1831 ; d. Oct. 14, 1910) .
He received his academic education in Medina, where
his father was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and in 1854 entered Union College, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1856 with the title of Gradu
ate in Civil Engineering and the degree of B.A.
In March, 1857, he went to Iowa, served for a short
time as rodman on the preliminary surveys for a rail
road from Dubuque to Anamosa, and in June he became
interested in proposed improvements to water power at
Rock Island, Illinois. He designed masonry dam, wmgs,
etc., for using the power on the Illinois side of the island,
but before these plans were carried out the whole matter
passed into other hands.
In 1859 he became principal of a graded school at
Port Byron, 111., and was Superintendent of the city
schools of Rock Island from 1861 to August, 1862, at
which time he engaged "in land operations" with an office
in Moline, 111., until July, 1864. He then went to Col
orado, in the employ of a gold mining corporation, and
made topographic surveys of the mountain passes at the

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EIGHTH GENERATION 53
head-waters of the Arkansas, South Platte and Blue
rivers — way up in the tip-top of the continent, eighty
miles northwest of Pike's Peak. A portion of this sur
vey was used by the Pacific Railway Company's explor
ers. Gen. Case, Surveyor-General of Colorado, was in
charge of the preliminary line running up the South
Platte and through Hoosier Pass, that connects the topo
graphic survey with the Pacific railway investigation.
The following winter Mr. Church returned to New York
to complete the maps and surveys.
In July, 1866, he was employed as Mining Superintend-
dent by the Champion Silver Mining Company, and in
its interests went via the Isthmus of Panama to San
Francisco, California, and thence to Silver Peak, Nevada,
where he made a thorough examination of the company's
property, and upon a full report to the owners it was
decided to defer mining operations. On his return he
engaged in the survey of the Shore Line Railroad froni
Middletown to Willimantic, Conn., and in the spring of
1869 he entered the employ of the New York, Ontario &
Western Railway as Civil Engineer at Walton, N. Y.,
and remained with that company four years. In 1874
he assisted in the engineer work of carrying railroad
bridges across the Oswego river at Oswego and out to
the new harbor and after completing that work, about
1877, he went to Clifton, N. Y., and remained a year.
He then went to Boston in the employ of the Hoosac Tun
nel and Western Railway; and through acquaintances
made in Boston he was continuously employed in his
profession as civil engineer until 1895.
Meantime his family had become residents of Geneva,
N. Y., and in 1899 he became identified with the munici
pal government serving two years as City Engineer and
thereafter as City Engineer and Superintendent of Pub
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54 CHURCH GENEALOGY
active work, having been connected with the department
for thirteen years.
A man whose professional career had taken him from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, who was a reader of many
books and periodicals, remarkably lucid in his expres
sion of thought or opinion, of keen wit and excellent
memory, Mr. Charles T. Church was a most interesting
and entertaining host. He was pre-eminently a home-
loving man and seldom cared to visit his clubs or other
meeting-places. Although a member of the University
Club, the Elks and the Masons he never held office in
any of them. On May 1, 1889, he was elected a Member
of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Mr. Church was Vestryman of Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church of Geneva from 1894 to 1917, and for
a number of years served as Clerk of the Vestry.
8-L
Fidelia Church, youngest child of Rev. Dr. Samuel
Clemon and Mary Hall (Bangs) Church, was bom June
8, 1836, at Churchville, died June 15, 1910, at Brock
port, N. Y. ; married, Aug. 8, 1860, Henry Ailing of
Rochester, N. Y. (b. Nov. 12, 1832 ; d. April 16, 1862) ;
and second, Wesley S. Merritt of Brockport, N. Y. No
children. Mrs. Ailing had received instruction from the best
teachers of the piano in New York, and in 1863 she began
her work as teacher of instrumental music in connec
tion with the Collegiate Institute which later became the
State Normal School at Brockport, N. Y., and remained
at the head of that department until the close of the
school year of 1892 — a period of thirty years. Mean
time she spent a year in Europe in travel and the study
of music and on her return in 1875 she introduced the
Stuttgart method. She was thorough and painstaking

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EIGHTH GENERATION 55
and many pupils came to Brockport expressly for the
training they would receive under her instruction.
After the death of her father in 1869, her mother lived
with her in Brockport, and when Mrs. Church had at
tained the age of four score years and ten Mrs. Alling-
Merritt resigned her position in the Normal School that
she might devote more time to the companionship and
care of her mother.
Daughter of a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, she became a member of that body at the early
age of seven years; but in 1896, after the death of her
mother, she withdrew from that denomination and united
with the St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Brockport. She
was for a time Regent of the Monroe Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
8-M
Henry Oscar Clark, son of Loren and Almira
(Church) Clark, born December 6, 1824, at Byron, New
York ; married, December 28, 1866, at Adrian, Michigan,
Maggie Cole Robinson who died at Detroit, Mich., Janu
ary 19, 1869, aged 32 years ; he died at Detroit, April 27,
1881. CHILDREN:
9-EA. Loren Clark, born May 18, 1868, at Detroit, Mich.,
married at Detroit, Mich., Aug. 9, 1913, Elsie Tern
Deets of Oklahoma City. No children. His business
address — The Meinzinger Studios— is 712 Jefferson
Ave., East, Detroit, Mich. He is Secretary-Treasurer
of the Detroit Boat Club Yachtsmen.
8-N
Samuel Church Clark, son of Loren and Almira
(Church) Clark, born August 19, 1827, married, October
15, 1853, at Fulton, Rock County, Wisconsin, Susan

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Olivia True, daughter of Elijah and Martha True (b.
April 9, 1832, Perry, Wyoming Co., N. Y., d. July 28,
1908, at Galesburg, Knox Co., Illinois, and buried at
Janesville, Rock Co., Wisconsin) ; died February 1, 1899,
at Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, and buried at Janes
ville, Rock County, Wisconsin. CHILDREN:
9-FA. Loren Fred Clark, born March 23, 1856, Janesville, Wis.
m. Oct. 19, 1892, Omaha, Nebraska, Lily Alexandria
Miller (b. Aug. 7, 1864, Iroquois, Ontario, Canada) ;
d. March 26, 1910, at Galesburg, 111., buried at Janes
ville, Wisconsin. There are no children.
Mrs. Loren F. Clark in Dec. 1918, lived in Petaluma,
California.
9-GA. Nellie Sue Clark, b. June 14, 1874, Fond du Lac, Wis.
8-R
Frederick Loren Clark, youngest child of Loren and
Almira (Church) Clark, born August 15, 1840, married,
June 9, 1867, at Watertown, Jefferson County, Wisconsin,
Uranah B. Cole (daughter of Luther A. and Mary Jane
Cole) , died in Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 1898.
CHILDREN:
9-HA. Guy Frederick Clark, b. March 28, 1872, Lawrence,
Kansas. (P. 0. address in 1917, 120 13th Avenue,
Seattle, Wash.)
9-1 A. Marion U. Clark, b. Jan. 13, 1876, Jackson, Mich.; m.
June 24, 1903, John T. Condon. No Children. (Aug.
21, 1917, address, 1700 16th Ave., Seattle, Wash.)
8.Y
John Clark Robinson (Maria 7-F, Capt. Samuel
Church 6, Richard 5, Richard 4, Samuel 3, Edtvard 2,
Richard 1) , born Aug. 2, 1839, in Bangkok, Siam; died
May 22, 1910, at Los Angeles, California; married, Aug.
20, 1866, at Brooklyn, N. Y., Elizabeth C. Walton, daugh-

EIGHTH GENERATION 57
ter of Robert and Hannah (Whitney) Walton, (b. Aug.
19, 1844, at St. Andrews, New Brunswick) .
CHILDREN:
9-JA. Henry Manning, b. April 22, 1868, Brooklyn, N. Y.
9-KA. John Walton, b. Sept. 18, 1869, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
d. May 24, 1870, at Brooklyn.
9-LA. Clara Walton, b. April 24, 1873, at Syracuse, N. Y.
d. March 17, 1876, at Syracuse.
9-MA. Susan Whitney, b. Oct. 30, 1876, at Syracuse, N. Y.
d. July 27, 1877, at Syracuse.
9-NA. Frederick Church, b. Jan. 6, 1878, at Syracuse.
9-OA. Prescott Whitney, b. April 1, 1884, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
8-BA
Titus Munson Coan (Fidelia 7-G, Capt. Samuel 6,
Richard 5, Richard Jt, Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1 ) ,
born Sept. 27, 1836, at Hilo, Hawaii, married, June 21,
1877, at New York City, Leonie Pauline Morel (b. June
21, 1846, at Besancon ; d. June 30, 1901, at New York) .
Titus Munson Coan was born at Hilo, Hawaii, the son
and oldest child of Titus Coan, the well-known mission
ary. His first schooling was at the Royal School and at
the Punahou School in Honolulu. In 1859 he was gradu
ated from Williams College. He studied medicine in
New York City, receiving his diploma from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons; after which he spent two
years as an interne in the New York hospitals, then
crowded with patients from the fields of the civil war.
In 1863 he entered the United States Navy as Acting
Assistant Surgeon in the West Gulf Squadron under
Farragut, and was present at the battle of Mobile Bay.
At the close of the war he went into practice in the city
of New York, which since then has been his home.
Dr. Coan's professional training was long; but an
inclination towards authorship gradually drew him into
lines of least resistance. He contributed both verse and

58 CHURCH GENEALOGY
prose to the magazines; and in 1888 a collection of his
papers on hygiene was published by the Harpers under
the title of "Ounces of Prevention."
In 1880 he organized the New York Bureau of Re
vision, a sort of first aid to authors by letters of criticism
and the competent revision of their manuscript. The
Bureau met a need and won a wide approval.
CHILDREN:
9-PA. Philip Munson Coan, b. May 14, 1879, at New York.
9-QA. Hamilton M. Coan, b. June 17, 1886, at New York.
8-EA
Samuel Latimer Coan (Fidelia 7-G, Capt. Samuel
Church 6), youngest child of Rev. Dr. Titus and Fidelia
(Church) Coan, born Jan. 23, 1846, at Hilo, Hawaii;
died Jan. 18, 1887, at Hilo ; married, 1877. Jerusha Biggs
Spear. CHILDREN:
9-RA. Harold Latimer Coan, b. Feb. 24, 1878, at Hilo, Hawaii;
d. Aug. 13, 1878, at Hilo, Hawaii.
9-SA. Raymond Church Coan, b. Sept. 9, 1884, Hilo, Hawaii.
He was -with the Ambulance Corps in France in
April, 1917.
8-HA
Frances Cazenovia Church (Rev. Dr. Jared 0. 7-H,
Capt. Samuel 6), born Nov. 5, 1842, at Churchville, N.
Y. ; married Sept. 4, 1860, at Columbia, Tenn., John
Sevier Irwin (b. April 2, 1831, at Savannah, Tenn., d.
June 5, 1918, at Savannah).
Mrs. Irwin was educated in the Tennessee Conference
Female College, at Columbia, of which her father was
president, graduating with the class of 1859. She took
additional studies the following year, and was married
on the 4th of September, 1860, to Mr. John S. Irwin, a

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EIGHTH GENERATION 59
prominent and lifelong citizen of Savannah. The Quar
terly Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
a resolution passed after his death, said of Mr. Irwin:
"We deeply feel the loss of his help and council in church
and conference. That we revere his memory as the most
saintly and devoted member of our body. That we cher
ish the rich memories of the many years of his active
service, and that we commend the spirit of the man to
all his comrades in church activities." Mrs. Irwin's ad
dress is Savannah, Tenn. CHILDREN:
9-TA. Annie Laura Church, b. May 26, 1863.
9-UA. James Orin, b. Jan. 9, 1868.
9-VA. Nancy Eliza, b. March 31, 1877.
8-IA
Laura Belle Church (Rev. Jared O. 7-H, Capt. Sam
uel 6), born August 14, 1847, at Hillsboro, Texas; mar
ried Oscar Jerome Lawrence.
In the College at Columbia, Tenn., of which her father
was president, Mrs. Lawrence had exceptional opportuni
ties, and that she appreciated the advantages of the De
partment of Music is evidenced by the manner in which
for many years she supported herself and her family.
She taught instrumental and vocal music and served as
church organist many years: sixteen years as organist
for the Methodist and eleven years as organist for the
Baptist churches of Charleston, Mo. She was also a
composer of music. Of interest to other than her im
mediate family is the following, taken from the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat of Dec. 31, 1879 :
"We copy the following from the Courier Gazette,
Charleston, Mo. Mrs. Lawrence is a daughter of Dr.

60 CHURCH GENEALOGY
J. 0. Church, and sister of Mrs. John Irwin. She was
formerly a music teacher at the Savannah College:
'Mrs. Lawrence, instructress of music at the Charleston Classical
Academy, has received an in-vitation from the President of the
New York Music Association, to accompany the members of that
Association and other eminent musicians of the United States on
a tour to Europe, for the purpose of further perfecting their
knowledge of music from observations among the master European
musicians. Recognizing the value her services would be to them
and to the musical profession of this country, in general, the
Association have very kindly offered to pay Mrs. La-wrence's ex
penses during the entire trip from New York and return. This
invitation, coming from the source that it does, is a highly
satisfactory confirmation of the opinion the patrons of Mrs. Law
rence here and elsewhere, have had of her ability as a music
teacher.' " CHILDREN:
9-WA. Fannie Church Lawrence, b. July 29, 1866.
9-XA. LiLA Irwin Lawrence, b. Aug. 10, 1868.

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NINTH GENERATION 9
Sparrel Hill, son of Munson Rufus and Elizabeth
(Hale) Hill, born October 19, 1844; died July 10, 1910;
married, October 20, 1864, Annie Elder ; she, died June,
1911. CHILDREN:
10. Annie Munson Hill, b.  ; d. May 16, 1917,
Trenton, Tenn.
10- A. Lucy Hale Hill, b.  ; (P. O. Address, Tren
ton, Tenn.)

(From "The Trenton Weekly Gazette," Thursday, May 24, 1917)
IN MEMORIAM.
"Miss Munson Hill, eldest daughter of the late Hon. Sparrel
Hill, and Mrs. Hill, born and reared in Trenton, is dead. She
passed peacefully away on Tuesday night May 15. Miss Munson
has been for many long years a very great sufferer but her suffer
ings were borne always with Christian fortitude. Her creed in
life was to be bright, cheerful and helpful. Her faith in God,
and the Christian religion was but a part of her being. She
was a consistent working member of the Methodist church, and a
teacher of great influence in the Sabbath School. Her strong
abiding faith strengthened the weak, her ministry to the needy
was beautiful and untiring. In the years away back Miss Munson
Hill founded the order of the 'King's Daughters' of which order
until a few years before her death she was the capable, active
managing President. Trenton honored Miss Munson Hill in life
and mourns her loss in death. Funeral was held at her suburban
ancestral home on Thursday morning at 10: 30 o'clock, con
ducted by Ker pastor. Rev. R. M. Walker. Interment took place
61

62 CHURCH GENEALOGY
at beautiful Oakland Cemetery. Floral offerings many, and
handsome. The sympathy of Trenton is tendered the sister.
Miss Lucy Hill, in her lonely estate. ONE WHO LOVED HER.
"She stretched out her hand to the poor; yea she reached forth
her hand to the needy." 9-E
Bettie Hill, daughter of Munson Rufus and Elizabeth
(Hale) Hill, born May 2, 1852; died July, 1909; married,
1868, E. B. Dye. CHILDREN:
10-B. Anna Hale Dye, b.  . (P. O. address in
1917, 917 Roland Ave., Memphis, Tenn.)
10-C. Munson Thomas Dye, b.  , 1871; m. 
 ,  ; (in 1917, "Somewhere in
Idaho.")
10-D. Elizabeth Walter D-jte, b.  . (P. O. Mem
phis, Tenn.) 9-N
Annie Egbert Hill, born February 23, 1856, Dyers
burgh, Tennessee, only daughter of Egbert Grandin and
Sarah M. (Esque) Hill, married, April 19, 1877, at Dyers
burgh, Tenn., J. D. McClerkin (b. Jan. 10, 1853, Lexing
ton, Tenn.), and died May 2, 1883.
CHILDREN:
10-E. Annie Hill McClerkin, b. .\pril 17, 1S78. Dyersburgh;
m. April 19, 1898, Eugene Scott.
10-F. Floy Esque McClerkin. b. Nov. 6, 1879, Dyersburgh;
m. Feb. 18, 1903, Guy Weston Moore (b. Oct. 24,
1877). 9-S
Fidelia E. Brown (Emma Smith 8-F, Abigail Church
7-B), oldest child of John and Emma (Smith) Brown,

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born April 16, 1835, at Rochester, N. Y., married, Janu
ary 8, 1851, at Detroit, Michigan, Edward A. Drury (b.
Aug. 9, 1828, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio) .
CHILDREN:
10-G. Charles Worden Drury, b. March 18, 1858; d. March 9,
1903.
10-H. Abbie Wilson Drury, b. April 30, 1859; d. June 30, 1862,
Detroit, Mich.
lO-I. Carrie Elizabeth Drury, b. Oct. 25, 1863; m. 1st, C.
Bailey Gates; m. 2nd, Hugh Janeway; d. April — ,
1893. 9-U
James John Brown (Emma Smith 8-F, Abigail
Church 7-B, Capt. Samuel Church 6), youngest child of
John and Emma (Smith) Brown, was born November
13, 1839, Pontiac, Michigan; married, August 6, 1872,
at Detroit, Michigan, Adelaide Augusta Van Valken-
burgh (b. August 26, 1854, Ridgeway, Mich.). In 1880,
when Mr. Elihu Church of New York, was compiling
Church record, Mr. James John Brown was a lawyer in
Cheboygan, Michigan, and had no children. We have
not the date of the death of his wife Adelaide Augusta,
but in the year 1888, at St. Ignace, Michigan, he was
married to Minnie Gagnon. She died at Detroit, Michi
gan, December 27, 1901. THEIR CHILD:
10-J. Prentiss M. Brown, b. June 18, 1889, St. Ignace, Mich.;
m. June 16, 1916, at St. Ignace, Marion Elizabeth
Walker. 9-V
Emma Elizabeth Smith (Ralph C. Smith 8-G, Abi
gail 7-B, Capt. Samuel Church 6), born Oct. 1, 1846, at

64 CHURCH genealogy
¦ Detroit, Mich., married, Dec. 14, 1870, George Henry
Moore (b. Jan. 20, 1848, North Hartland, Vermont) .
CHILDREN:
10-K. Carlton Ward Moore, b. June 29, 1872, Detroit, Mich.;
m. April 21, 1898, Katherine Richards.
10-L. Ella Florine Moore, b. March 14, 1874; m. Nov. 19, 1914,
Addison Burris Phipps.
10-M. George Albert Moore, b. May 19, 1880; m. (1) Oct. 14,
1909, Mabel Scripps (b. Nov. 24, 1883; d. Jan. 3,
1912) ; (2) May 28, 1919, Gertrude E. Griffith.
10-N. Louise Hurd Moore, b. Jan. 19, 1886; m. Oct. 22, 1914,
Charles Locke Scripps.
lO-O. Irene Hunt Moore, b. Jan. 19, 1886.
10-P. William Warren Moore, b. Nov. 28, 1887; d. April 15,
1915.
9-GA
Nellie Sue Clark (Samuel C. Clark 8-N, Almira
Church 7-D, Capt. Samuel Church 6), born June 14,
1874, at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, married, October 28,
1908, at Spokane, Washington, Robert Arthur Wilson
(b. May 10, 1866, at Olney, Richmond Co., Illinois, and
died at Olney, Illinois, October 4, 1911, and buried there) .
THEIR CHILD:
10-Q. Nellie Isabelle Loren Wilson, b. Oct. 8, 1909, at Gales-
burgh, Knox Co., Illinois. She is the only great
grandchild of ALMIRA CHURCH CLARK, and is
with her mother living (Dec. 1917) at 170 S. Cedar
St., Galesburg, 111.
9-JA
Henry Manning Robinson (John C. 8-Y, Mana 7-F,
Capt. Samuel Church 6), born April 22, 1868, at Brook
lyn, N. Y. ; married, Oct. 14, 1896, by Rev. A. J. F. Beh-
rends of Brooklyn, Sara Elizabeth Simmons (b. Feb. 1,
1867, at Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; address, 12 Llewellyn Roadi
Montclair, N. J.

NINTH GENERATION 65
CHILDREN:
10-R. Walton Simmons, b. June 10, 1906, at Montclair, N. J.
9-NA
Frederick Church Eobinson (John C. 8-Y, Maria
7-F, Capt. Samuel Church 6) , born Jan. 6, 1878, at Syra
cuse, N. Y. He served with the U. S. Navy in the World
War and until the summer of 1919.
9-OA
Prescott Whitney Robinson, son of John Clark Rob
inson (Maria 7, Capt. Samuel 6, Richard 5, Richard Jt,
Samuel 3, Edward 2, Richard 1 ) born in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
April 1, 1884, married at Fire Island, Maine, by Rev.
Nehemiah Boynton, September 6, 1911, Lillian Claire
Bradshaw (b. April 26, 1883, Montreal, Canada), and
resides (August, 1919) at 695 Victoria Avenue, West-
mount, Montreal; business address, 414 Drummond
Building, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
CHILDREN:
10-S. Prescott Whitney Robinson, b. March 25, 1913, Mon
treal, Canada. 9-PA
Philip Munson Coan (Dr. Titus Munson Coan 8-BA,
Fidelia Church 7-G, Capt. Samuel Church 6), born May
14, 1879, New York City, married, June 15, 1910, Sarah
Bryan Burr. CHILDREN:
10-T. Philip Burr, b. April 14, 1911.
10-U. Leonie Matilda, b. June 23, 1912.

66 CHURCH GENEALOGY
9.TA
Annie Laura Church Irwin (Frances C. Church
8-HA, Dr. Jared 0. Church 7-H, Capt. Samuel Church 6),
daughter of John Sevier and Frances C. (Church) Ir
win, born May 26, 1863, Savannah, Tennessee, married
May 26, 1884, Rev. J. W. Cherry, died May 17, 1892,
at Fayetteville, Tenn. CHILDREN:
10-V. Frances Louise Cherry, b. March 15, 1885, Savannah,
Tennessee; m. April 23, 1907, at Columbia, Tenn.,
Paty Lillard Guffin (b. Oct. 27, 1882, at Murfreesboro,
Tenn.) reside at Giddings, Texas.
10-W. Frank I. Cherry, b. Oct. 2, 1890, Savannah, Tenn., re
sides at Nashville, Tenn.
10-X. Annie I. Cherry, b. April 15, 1892, Fayetteville, Tenn.;
m. May 15, 1915, at Fayetteville, Tenn., William
Samuel Ezell, son of A. M. and Martha Ezell (b.
Jan. 13, 1892, Pulaski) Address, Care Rev. J. W.
Cherry, Clarksville, Tenn.
9-UA
James Orin Irwin (Frances C. Church 8-HA, Dr.
Jared O. Church 7-H, Capt. Samuel Church 6), born
January 9, 1868, at Savannah, Tenn., married, Feb. 12,
1896, Adrienne Hinkle (b.  in Saltillo,  )
physician. CHILDREN:
10-Y. Douglas H. Irwin, b. June 2, 1898; resides in Paul's Val
ley, Oklahoma.
9-VA
NANCY Eliza Irwin (Frances C. Church 8-HA, Dr.
Jared 0. Church 7-H, Capt. Samuel Church 6), born
March 31, 1877, Savannah, Tenn., married. May 24,

ninth generation 67
1899, William Fort Bell (b. July 8, 1873, Springfield,
Tenn.) CHILDREN:
10-Z. James Irwin Bell, b. May 24, 1900.
10-AA. John William Bell, b. Sept. 21, 1902.
10-BA. Mary Frances Bell, b. May 7, 1907.
10-CA. Cornelia Elizabeth Bell, b. March 17, 1910.
10-DA. Annie Amelia Bell, b. June 17, 1911.
10-EA. Frank Fort Bell, b. Nov. 6, 1915.
9-WA
Fannie Church Lawrence (Laura Belle Church
8-IA, Dr. Jared 0. Church 7-H, Capt. Samuel Church 6),
born July 29, 1866, married, Sept. 10, 1886, at Charles
ton, Missouri, John L. Simpson ; died February 12, 1912.
CHILDREN:
10-F A. LiLA Noble Simpson, b. Dec. 3, 1887.
10-GA. Lawrence Absalom Simpson, b. Feb. 3, 1889.
10-HA. Charles Leslie Simpson, b. Aug. 23, 1892.
10-IA. John Randolph Simpson, b. June 12, 1896; m. March
11, 1919, Thelma Fern White, Charleston, Mo.
10-JA. Harriet Belle Simpson, b. Dec. 15, 1897.
9-X A
LiLA Irwin Lawrence (Laura Belle Church 8-IA, Dr.
Jared O. Church 7-H, Capt. Samuel Church 6) , born Au
gust 10, 1868, married, June 26, 1884, at Charleston,
Missouri, Charles A. Stotts (b. Feb. 10, 1857) ; died
August 9, 1894. CHILDREN:
10-KA. Frances Belle Stotts, b. Aug. 2, 1889; m. Oct. 14,
1916, at Charleston, Mo., Elza T. Housley, Jr. (b.
Sept. 14, 1888) P. O. Address, Nov. 1917, 236 W.
Grand St., Hot Springs, Arkansas.
10-L A. Leslie Mayfield Stotts, b. July 30, 1893; d. September,
6, 1893.

TENTH GENERATION 10-C
Munson Thomas Dye (Bettie Hill 9-E, Munson Rufus
Hill 8-B, Anna Munson Church 7 , Capt. Samuel Church
6), born  , 1871, married  ,  ,
and in 1917 was living "somewhere in Idaho."
CHILDREN:
11. Sparrel Dye, b.  .

IIA. Gertrude Dye, b. —
11-B. Elizabeth D-^e, b.

10-E
Annie Hill McClerkin (Annie Egbert Hill 9-N, Eg
bert Grandin Hill 8-D, Anna Munson Church 7, Capt.
Samuel Church 6), born April 17, 1878, Dyersburgh,
Tennessee, married, April 19, 1898, Eugene Scott.
CHILDREN:
11-C. James Eugene Scott, b. Aug. 25, 1899.
11-D. Raymond Hill Scott, b. Feb. 6, 1902.
11-E. Roy Anderson Scott, b. Sept. 18, 1904.
10-F
Floy Esque McClerkin (Anuie Egbert Hill 9-N, Eg
bert Grandin Hill S-D, Anna Munson Church 7, Capt.
Samuel Church 6), born November 6, 1879, at Dyers
burgh, Tenn. ; married, February 18, 1903, Guy Weston
Moore (b. Oct. 24, 1877) ; in 1917, Post Office address
1997 Central Street, Memphis, Tenn.
68

TENTH GENERATION 69
CHILDREN:
11-F. Sarah EsqUe Moore, b. June 7, 1907.
11-G. Maejorie McClerkin Moore, b. July 29, 1912.
11-H. Floye Anna Moore, b. March 13, 1915.
ll-I. Laida Hill Moore, b. June 16, 1917.
lO-I
Carrie Elizabeth Drury (Fidelia E. Brown 9-S, Em
ma Smith 8-F, Abigail Church 7-B, Capt. Samuel Church
6), born Oct. 25, 1863; married, first, C. Bailey Gates,
 ; married, second, Hugh Janeway, paper manu
facturer at  ; died April — , 1893.
CHILDREN:

11-J. Marietta Gates, b.  .
11-K. Jack Gates, b.  ; died in infancy.
10-J
Prentiss M. Brown (James John Brown 9-U, Emma
Smith 8-F, Abigail Church 7-B, Capt. Samuel Church 6),
born June 18, 1889, at St. Ignace, Michigan, married,
June 16, 1916, at St. Ignace, Michigan, Marion Elizabeth
Walker (b. Sept. 20, 1894).
Prentiss M. Brown in March, 1918, was Prosecuting
Attorney for Mackinack County, St. Ignace, Michigan.
CHILDREN:
11-L. Mariana Frances Brown, b. July 28, 1917, St. Ignace.
10-K
Carlton Ward Moore (Emma Elizabeth Smith 9-V,
Ralph Church Smith 8-G, Abigail Church 7-B, Capt. Sam
uel Church 6), born June 29, 1872, Detroit, Michigan,
married, April 21, 1898, Katherine Richards.

70 CHURCH GENEALOGY
CHILDREN:
11-M. Lucile Moore, b. April 23, 1903.
11-N. Richard Moore, b. Dec. 19, 1904.
10-N
Louise Hurd Moore (Emma Elizabeth Smith 9-V,
Ralph Church Smith 8-G, Abigail Church 7-B, Capt. Sam
uel Church 6), born January 19, 1886, married, October
22, 1914, Charles Locke Scripps.
CHILDREN:
11-0. Mary Elizabeth Scripps, b. Dec. 4, 1915.

INDEX
ENGLISH ANCESTRY

No. Page
Barnards, Elisabeth  6 14
Broughton, Margaret  4 13
Church, Alice  7 14
Arnold  7 14
Bartholomew  5 13
Catherine  1 11
Catherine  2 12
Charles  6 14
Edmund  4 13
Henry  7 14
Henry  7 14
Isabella  4 12
Joan  1 11
John at  1 11
John  2 11
John  3 12
John  4 12
John  4 13
John  5 14
John  6 14
John  6 14
John  7 14
Percy  4 13
Randle  4 13
Randolph  4 13
Reynold  4 12
Richard  4 13
Richard  6 14
Richard  8 15
Richard  9 15
Robert  1 H
Robert  2 12
Robert  5 13
Robert  5 13
Robert  6 14
Rooke  4 13
Ruke  ¦? 14
Sampson  ' 1^
71

72 INDEX No. Page
Thomas the Sculptor  2 12
Thomas  : . . . 6 14
Thomas  6 14
William  4 12
William  4 13
Dewell, Jane  7 14
Greene, Margaret  4 12
Margaret  4 13
Robert  4 12
Rooke  4 13
Green, Dorothy  4 13
Thomas  8 15
Henkyn, Joan  4 13
Jarvis, John  7 14
Maistor, Richard  1 11
McBride, Isabella  4 13
James  4 13
Marsh, Anne  9 15
Edward  9 15
Elizabeth  8 15
Robert  8 15
Ronner, Alice  5 13
Sapcott, Constant  6 14
Swan, Catherine  6 14
Tey, Elinor  7 14
Titerell, Joan  7 14
Tyrrell, Edmund  4 13
Mary  4 13
Vassell, Elizabeth  7 14
John  7 14
Ward, Margaret  8 15
Nathaniel  8 15
Winchester, Catherine  1 11
Richard  1 11
Wright, Elizabeth  4 13
Margaret  4 13
Roger  4 13

GENERAL INDEX

Page
Ailing, Henry  54
Eagg, David  31
Baker, Aaron  22
Apollos  22
Bangs, Mary Hall  33
Ruth (Hall)  33
Zenos  33
Belden, Lucina  22
Bell, Annie Amelia  67
Cornelia Elizabeth  67
Frank Fort  67
James Ir-win  67
John William  67
Mary Frances  67
William Fort  67
Billings, Ebenezer  20
Bradshaw, Lillian Claire  65
Brown, Fidelia E  62
James John  63
John  48
Mariana Frances  69
Prentiss M  69
Ralph Robinson  48
Burr, Sarah Bryan  ,  65
Carver, Abigail A  35
Irving W  35
Isador M  35
Shubael  35
Casey, Carl  48
Frank  48
Harry  48
Lyman  30
Lyman R  47
Theodora  48
Chandler, Eliza Noble  43
Cherry, Annie 1  66
Frances Louise  66
Frank 1  66
Rev. J. W  66
73

G

74 GENERAL INDEX Page
Church, Abigail  30
Adaline Sophronia  50
Almira  34
Amanda  35
Amanda Louise  '  45
Anna Munson  30
Charles C  45
Charles C  50
Charles Titus  52
Clarissa  23
Church, Edward  19
Edward  20
Edward  21
Elihu  22
Fidelia  39
Fidelia  54
Frances Cazenovia  58
Hannah  20
Hannah  20
Hannah  21
Hannah  22
Hepzibah  20
Horace  23
Jared 0  42
Jesse  22
John  19
John  20
John  21
John  22
Laura Belle  59
Lemuel  22
Lillie Minnie  50
Lucy  22
Maria  35
Maria Elinor  50
Maria Fidelia  45
Mary  19
Mary  20
Mary  20
Mary  21
Mary Baker  34
Mary Whaley  50
Miriam  22
Naomi  20
Ralph  29

GENERAL INDEX 75
Page
Rebecca  ;  20
Richard  19
Richard  . 20
Richard  '. . 20
Richard  21
Richard  22
Samuel  19
Samuel  20
Samuel  20
Samuel  21
Capt. Samuel  27
Samuel Clemon  31
Sarah  20
Simeon  20
Simeon  21
Susanna  21
Wesley Brainard  49
Clark, Almira Eunice  35
Annie Laura  48
Charles William  35
Frederick Loren  56
Guy Frederick  56
Henry Oscar  55
Loren  34
Loren  55
Loren Fred  56
Maria Fidelia  35
Marion U  56
Nellie Sue  64
Samuel Church  55
Coan, Hamilton M  58
Harold Latimer  58
Harriet Fidelia  42
Leonie Matilda  65
Philip Burr  65
Philip Munson  65
Raymond Church  58
Samuel Latimer  58
Sarah Eliza  42
Titus  39
Titus Munson  57
Cole, Luther A  56
Mary Jane  56
Uranah B  56
Condon, John T  56
Darling, Alden  22

76 GENERAL INDEX Page
Dimock, Edward L  35
Deets, Elsie Tern  55
Drury, Abbie Wilson  63
Carrie Elizabeth  69
Charles Worden  63
Edward A  63
Dye, Anna Hale  62
E. B  62
Elizabeth  68
Elizabeth Walter  62
Gertrude  68
Munson Thomas  68
Sparrel  68
Elder, Annie  61
Engle, Bunetta Clydevista  48
Esque, Sarah M  47
Evans,   46
Ezell, William Samuel  66
Fitch, Charlotte Phelps  22
Matthew  22
Gagnon, Minnie  63
Gates, C. Bailey  69
Jack  69
Marietta  69
Grandy,   47
Griffith, Gertrude E  64
Guffin, Paty Lillard  66
Hatchett, Emma  46
Hale, Elizabeth  ,  46
Hill, Abigail Anna  46
Annie  46
Annie Egbert  62
Annie Munson  61
Bettie  62
Church  46
Clemon Church  46
Egbert Grandin  47
Frederick Clemon  47
Frederick Lyman  30
Lois Kliza  47
Lucy Hale  61

GENERAL INDEX 77
- Page
Margaretta Naomi  47
Minnie  46
Munson Rufus  46
Rufus  30
Rufus Cromwell  46
Rufus Munson  30
Samuel Esque R  47
Sparrel  61
Thomas  46
Wallace Egbert  47
Walter Hale  46
Hinkle, Adrienne  66
Housley, Elza T  67
Hungerford, Susannah  20
Thomas  20
Irwin, Annie Laura Church  66
Douglas H  66
James Orin  66
John Sevier  58
Nancy Eliza  66
Janeway, Hugh  69
Johnson, Augustus  49
Elizabeth (Sharp)  49
Jane  49
Keveny, Anna  49
Lawrence, Dannie Church  67
Lila Irwin  67
Oscar Jerome  59
Leavens, Eliza Elletta  46
Marsh, Anne  19
Edward  19
McClerkin, Annie Hill  68
Floy Esque  68
J. D  68
Merritt, Wesley S  54
Miller, Lily Alexander  56
Moore, Carlton Ward  69
Ella Florine  64
Ploye Anna  69
George Albert  64

78 GENERAL INDEX Page
George Henry  64
Guy Weston  68
Irene Hunt  64
Laida Hill  69
Louise Hurd  70
Lucile  70
Marjorie McClerkin  69
Richard  70
Sarah Esque  69
William Warren  64
Morel, Leonie Pauline  57
Munson, Abigail  22
Abigail  , . 27
Margery  22
Moses  22
Phipps, Addison Burris  64
Piatt, Harriet Mary  47
Harriet (Hemingway)  47
Landra Beach  47
Porter, William  20
Richards, Katherine  69
Robinson, Anna  39
Charles  36
Charles  39
Charles Church  39
Clara Walton  57
Frederick Benham  39
Frederick Church  65
Henry Manning  64
John Clark  56
John Walton  57
Maggie Cole  35
Prescott Whitney  65
Prescott Whitney, Jr  65
Rufus Hill  39
Susan Whitney  57
Walton Simmons  65
Rodman, Joseph  20
Rowley, Ebenezer  20
Russell, Barbara  23
Philip  20
Scott, Eugene  68
James Eugene  68

GENERAL INDEX 79
Page
Raymond Hill  68
Roy Anderson  68
Scripps, Charles Locke  70
Mabel  64
Mary Elizabeth  70
Shay, Anson  22
Sibley, Joseph  23
Simmons, Sara Elizabeth  64
Simpson, Charles Leslie  67
Harriet Belle  67
John L  67
John Randolph  67
Lawrence Absalom  67
Lila Noble  67
Smith, Abigail  49
Emma  48
Emma Elizabeth  63
Florine Tefft  49
Jennie Church  49
Ralph Charles  49
Ralph Church  48
Spencer  31
Spear, Jerusha Biggs  58
Stoddard, Edward Walton  49
Stotts, Charles A  67
Prances Belle  67
Leslie Mayfield  •  67
Topliff e, William Atwood  48
True, Elijah  56
Martha  56
Susan Olivia  ,  56
Van Valkenburgh, Adelaide Augusta  63
Van Zandt, Beekman  52
Frances Ann  52
Frances Susanna  52
Walker, Marion Elizabeth  69
Walton, Elizabeth C  56
Hannah (Whitney)  57
Robert  57
Warner, Anna  22
David  22
Polly (Russell)  22

80 GENERAL INDEX Page
Rebecca  21
Whaley, Christopher  49
Mary Jane  49
White, Thelma Fern  67
Wilson, Nellie Isabelle  64
Robert Arthur  64

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