Thomas Sheafe

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1520, Cranbrook, Kent, England
• Alternate death: Between 5 Apr 1520 and 11 Jul 1520

Notes:

"Cranbrook in Kent is a pleasantly situated market town which possesses amongst other interesting things the old church of St. Dunstan's and a Grammar School which dates from 1574. It was the centre of a very early cloth industry founded by Flemings who came to England during the reign of Edward III (1327-1377), among them being the family of Sheafe." ["The Sheafe Line," citation details below.]

Thomas married Alice Hendley about 1496. Alice (daughter of John Hendley and Mercy) died after 5 Apr 1520. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Elizabeth Andrews about 1530. Elizabeth (daughter of Gyles Andrews and Agnes) died before 12 Oct 1564 in Cranbrook, Kent, England; was buried on 12 Oct 1564 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1532, Cranbrook, Kent, England

Notes:

Thomas Sheafe (1532-1604) = Mary Harman (1536-1609)
Katherine Sheafe (1564-1591) = John Ruck
Thomas Ruck (1588-1668) = Elizabeth Kitchell (1599-1670)
Samuel Ruck (1642-1708) = Margaret Clarke (1633-1691)
Abigail Ruck (1664-1717) = William Thomas (1672-1747)
Margaret Thomas (1709-1765) = John Breck (1705-1761)
Abigail Breck (1732-1819) = John Lillie (1728-1765)
Anna Lillie (1760-1804) = Samuel Howard (1752-1797)
Harriet Howard (1782-1847) = Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay (1778-1856)
Samuel Howard Fay (1804-1847) = Susan Montfort Shellman (1808-1887)
Harriet Eleanor Fay (1829-1924) = James Smith Bush (1825-1889)
Samuel Prescott Bush (1883-1894) = Flora Sheldon (1872-1920)
Sen. Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) = Dorothy Wear Walker (1901-1992)
George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) = Barbara Pierce (1925-2018)
George Walker Bush (1946- )

Thomas married Mary Harman about 1558. Mary (daughter of Thomas Harman and (Unknown) Courthope) was born in 1536; died in Nov 1609 in Cranbrook, Kent, England; was buried on 20 Nov 1609 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Margery Roberts on 8 Jan 1581 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Margery (daughter of John Roberts and Margaret) was born before 24 Apr 1564; was christened on 24 Apr 1564 in Brenchley, Kent, England; died after 8 Feb 1622. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1 Nov 1625 and Dec 1626, Cranbrook, Kent, England

Edmund married Joan Jordan on 17 Oct 1610 in All Hallows, Bread Street, London, England. Joan died in Jul 1659 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Attended Eton 1575-80; admitted to King's College, Cambridge in 1580; B.A. 1585, M.A. 1588, B.D. 1595; D.D. 1606. Fellow of King's College 1583-97. From 1597 on he was rector of the church at Welford, Berkshire. On 29 Mar 1614 he was made a canon of St. George's Chapel at Windsor, in which office he served alongside his father-in-law William Wilson.

Thomas married Mary Wilson about 1597. Mary (daughter of Rev. William Wilson and Elizabeth Woodhall) died before 26 Jul 1613; was buried on 26 Jul 1613 in Welford, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Puritans and Pedigrees calls her "Elizabeth Sheafe."

Family/Spouse: John Ruck. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Moses Paine about 1619. Moses (son of Nicholas Paine and Agnes Crofton) was born before 23 Apr 1581; was christened on 23 Apr 1581 in St. Mary's, Frittenden, Kent, England; died before 21 Jun 1643; was buried on 21 Jun 1643 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Robert Kitchell on 21 Jul 1632 in Rolvenden, Kent, England. Robert (son of John Kitchell and Joan Jordan) was born before 25 Oct 1601; was christened on 25 Oct 1601 in Hayes, Kent, England; died in 1672 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Aft 1606
• Alternate birth: Abt 1614
• Alternate death: 16 Aug 1668, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

Joanne married Lt. William Chittenden about 1633. William (son of William Chittenden and Elizabeth Markley) was born before 17 Jul 1608 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; was christened on 17 Jul 1608 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; died before 24 Oct 1660 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The generally excellent Abandoning America (citation details below) gives her as a daughter of Dr. Edmund Sheafe. But John Brooks Threlfall (citation details below) presents convincing proof that her father was Thomas Sheafe, a brother of Edmund. First, Thomas Sheafe's 1639 will refers to his "daughter Dorothy Whitfield." Second, Threlfall shows the 1617 marriage contract between, on the one hand, Henry Whitfield and his father, and on the other, Dorothy Sheafe and her father, which further demonstrates that Dorothy's father was Thomas Sheafe:

Indenture tripartite made 20 September, 15 James I (1617) between Thomas Whitfeld of Mortlake, county Surrey, esquire, and Henry Whitfeld of Okelye in the same county, clerk, on the first part; Thomas Sheafe of Wickham, county Barks., Doctor of Divinity and Dorothy Sheafe, spinster, his daughter, on the second part; Thomas Woodwarde of Lyncolns Inne, county Middlesex, esquire, Richard Kinge of Lyncolns Inne, esquire, Thomas Rashleigh of the Strande, London, gentleman, and David Rawsoune of St. Gregoryes, London, woollen draper, on the third part, being the settlement previous to the marriage of the said Henry Whitfeld and Dorothy Sheafe; in consideration of £400, her marriage portion, the said Thomas Whitfeld and Henry Whitfeld covenant to levy a fine and suffer recovery of their messuage and 100 ac. of fresh marsh in Bexhill, called Wrenhams, and also of their closes of pasture and fresh marsh, called Jesus marshe in Aylsham alias Haylsham, the said recovery to enure, as to the said messuage and 70 ac. of fresh marsh land in Bexhill to the use of the said Henry Whitfeld and Dorothy Sheafe, and the heirs of the said Henry Whitfeld, and as to the other 30 ac. of fresh marsh called Wrenhams and the lands called Jesus marshe to the use of the said Henry Whitfeld, his heirs and assigns. Seal & Signatures of Thomas Whytfeld and Henry Whitfeld.

[Sussex Archaeological Society, Vol. 37, p. 46.]

Abandoning America and John Brooks Threlfall also disagree on a major point of Dorothy Sheafe's life: whether she accompanied her husband, Henry Whitfield, back to England when he returned there permanently in 1650. Threlfall says that she did not, that she "continued to live in the stone house on its commanding knoll long after her husband's departure," but that in 1659, Dorothy "returned to England and lived there until her death in 1669." Moore says that after Henry's death, Dorothy "visited New England in 1659, perhaps to settle her husband's estate at Guilford", which would seem to imply that she either accompanied him or followed him back to England early in the 1650s. Where Moore and Threlfall appear to agree is that Dorothy was granted probate in Henry's estate on 29 Jan 1658. We aren't expert enough to know whether this is something that would plausibly happen in the early 17th century if the testator's preferred executor was an ocean away.

Dorothy married Rev. Henry Whitfield in 1618. Henry (son of Thomas Whitfield and Mildred Fortune Manning) was born about 1590 in Mortlake, Surrey, England; died before 17 Sep 1657; was buried on 17 Sep 1657 in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1588
• Alternate death: 1668, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

The chart on pages 108-09 of Puritans and Pedigrees (citation details below) gives his birth year as 1558, which must be a typographical error.

Thomas married Elizabeth Kitchell on 3 Oct 1616 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Kitchell and Joan Jordan) was born before 9 Apr 1599; was christened on 9 Apr 1599 in Hayes, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"At the time of the Indian attack on Medfield she was very ill in bed in the house of Rev. John Wilson of Medfield who was a physician as well as minister and had her under his care. During the battle a gun in the hands of Capt. John Jacob of Hingham, commanding a garrison at Mr. Wilson's house, was accidentally discharged in the room below and the ball passed through her, resulting in her death the next day, 22 Feb. 1675/6." [Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, citation details below.]

Elizabeth married Henry Adams on 17 Nov 1643 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Henry (son of Henry Adams and Edith Squire) was born about 1610 in Kingweston, Somerset, England; died on 21 Feb 1676 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Hannah Bass on 15 Nov 1651 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon Samuel Bass and Anne Savell) was born before 25 Nov 1632; was christened on 25 Nov 1632 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England; died after Apr 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Rev. Jeremiah Peck on 12 Nov 1656. Jeremiah (son of William Peck and Elizabeth) was born in 1623; died on 7 Jun 1699 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Wright on 16 Jun 1657 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Thomas (son of Thomas Wright) was born about 1632 in England; died on 23 Aug 1683 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Rev. John Higginson before 1646 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. John (son of Rev. Francis Higginson and Anne Herbert) was born before 31 Aug 1616 in Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England; was christened on 11 Aug 1616 in Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England; died on 9 Dec 1708 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 15 Nov 1657, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: 17 Nov 1657, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Henry married Prudence Frary on 19 Dec 1679 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Prudence (daughter of John Frary and Elizabeth) was born on 20 Aug 1662 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 29 Dec 1750 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her death date given here is some time between 7 Jul 1762, when Jedediah Bass, cordwainer, was made her guardian of his grandmother Lydia Neal, widow, and 6 Dec 1762 when her inventory was taken.

Lydia married Benjamin Neale on 20 Jan 1689. Benjamin (son of Henry Neale and Hannah Pray) was born on 7 Mar 1669 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 Jan 1746. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Jonathan Atwater on 1 Jun 1681 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Jonathan (son of David Atwater and Damaris Sayre) was born on 12 Jul 1656 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 3 Jun 1726 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Mar 1663
• Alternate death: 8 Dec 1741, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Mary married Deacon Jonathan Belden on 10 Dec 1685 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Deacon (son of John Belden and Lydia Standish) was born on 21 Jan 1661 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 6 Jul 1734 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Higginson was one of the great merchants of Salem, and held many public offices. In 1678, he was chosen to keep the town books, and was frequently selectman. He was deputy from Salem, 1685, 1689, and 1691, and a member of the Council from 1700 until his death. He was also county treasurer and justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was commissioned ensign in 1675 and promoted until, in 1701, he ranked as colonel." [Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, citation details below.]

John married Sarah Savage on 9 Oct 1672 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Capt. Thomas Savage and Mary Symmes) was born on 25 Jun 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 26 Jun 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died before 26 Jun 1713; was buried on 26 Jun 1713 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Capt. William Thomas. William (son of Judge Nathaniel Thomas and Deborah Jacob) was born on 4 Dec 1672 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was christened on 3 Oct 1675 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died about 1748; was buried in Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Edward Clark on 9 Jun 1703. Edward (son of Benjamin Clark and Dorcas Morse) was born on 11 Nov 1679 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 3 Jul 1746 in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married John Bass on 21 Jun 1716. John (son of John Bass and Abigail Adams) was born on 3 Jun 1688; died between 7 Aug 1761 and 2 Apr 1762 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jeremiah married Lydia Rosewell on 9 Apr 1713 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Lydia (daughter of Richard Rosewell and Lydia Trowbridge) was born on 12 Aug 1688 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; was christened on 12 Aug 1688 in First Congregational Church, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 21 May 1732 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

J.P. and town treasurer of Wethersfield for many years. Died of injuries sustained falling down his cellar stairs.

Jonathan married Martha James on 29 Dec 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A merchant. Registrar of probate, 1698-1702; selectman in 1704. A lieutenant in 1797, his estate settlement calls him "captain."

John married Hannah Gardner on 11 Sep 1695 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Hannah was born on 4 Apr 1676 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jun 1713 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Breck on 18 Jan 1727. John (son of John Breck and Ann Patteshall) was born on 31 Aug 1705; died in 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Deacon George Barber. Deacon (son of Deacon John Barber and Mary) was born on 1 Jul 1724 in East Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Josiah Rawson on 28 Aug 1750. Josiah (son of David Rawson and Mary Gulliver) was born on 31 Jan 1727 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died in 1811 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married John Eliot on 7 Mar 1739. John (son of John Eliot and Mary Wolcott) was born on 21 Jan 1717; died on 27 Nov 1790 in Upper Middletown (now Cromwell), Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Ebenezer Balch on 28 Jun 1750 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Ebenezer (son of Joseph Balch and Mary Osgood) was born on 14 May 1723 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 28 Apr 1808 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Rev. Benjamin Prescott on 20 Oct 1715 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Capt. Jonathan Prescott and Elizabeth Hoar) was born on 16 Sep 1687 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 May 1777 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married John Lillie on 16 Aug 1754 in Trinity Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. John (son of Theophilus Lillie and Hannah Ruck) was born on 8 Aug 1728 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died before 19 Apr 1765 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Bethia on 21 Sep 1769 in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Bethia was born in 1750; died on 19 Feb 1815 in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milly married James Holmes on 30 Jun 1796 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Dr. Daniel Lee on 4 Feb 1784 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Daniel (son of Benjamin Lee and Mary Ely) was born on 5 Jul 1762 in of Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Sep 1852, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

At her death the church bells in Wethersfield tolled 100 times.

Mary married Daniel Ayrault on 1 Jul 1784. Daniel (son of Capt. Nicholas Ayrault and Jane Stocking) was born on 8 Dec 1735 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 8 Mar 1807 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Rebecca Minot on 12 Aug 1741 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Rebecca (daughter of Col. James Minot and Martha Lane) was born on 5 May 1720 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 8 Oct 1761 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Samuel Howard after 3 Apr 1777 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Ebenezer Howard and Martha Goffe) was born about 1752 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1797 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Achsah married John Holbrook Hawes on 1 Jan 1807 in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts. John (son of Benjamin Hawes and Elizabeth Holbrook) was born on 20 Sep 1772 in Sharon, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jul 1846 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She came to Utah with her second husband William Garner in the Harmon Cutler Company, 1852.

Her obituary in the Ogden Herald (citation details below) has a phrasing that is interesting in light of the family history transcribed from The Stowell Genealogy in our entry for her first husband Augustus Oliver Artemas Stowell. It says "In 1848 she reached Council Bluffs, where she married Wm. Garner (her first husband is dead); remained there until 1852, when she crossed the plains to Salt Lake valley, arriving in Salt Late City in the fall of the same year." Note that although the overall sentence is in past tense, the parenthetical doesn't say "her first husband was dead" or "her first husband having died"; it says "her first husband is dead", which was literally the present-tense case in 1885 when this obituary was written. Augustus A.O. Stowell wasn't dead in 1848, nor had she and he divorced; from what we can discern in The Stowell Genealogy, it would appear that they parted ways over his refusal to continue in the Mormon church and her determination to do so. But no official divorce appears to have taken place -- a fact papered over, evidently deliberately, by the Herald's brief change of tense.

Mary married Augustus Oliver Artemas Stowell in 1820. Augustus (son of Oliver Stowell and Abigail Strickland) was born on 4 Jun 1783 in Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut; died on 23 Aug 1860 in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York; was buried in Ripon Corners Bethel Cemetery, Ripon, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her monumental inscription ends: "Though dead, yet shall she live."

Nancy married John Bassett in Oct 1809. John (son of Benjamin Bassett and Molly Hinman) was born on 22 Sep 1779 in of Derby, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 16 Aug 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 23 Nov 1868, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Daniel married Hepsibah Kentfield on 2 Dec 1817 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Hepsibah was born about 1797 in Connecticut; died on 23 Aug 1871 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also spelled Rebekah.

Rebecca married Roger Sherman on 12 May 1763 in Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts. Roger (son of William Sherman and Mehetabel Wellington) was born on 19 Apr 1721 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jul 1793 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay after 31 Jul 1803 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Jonathan Fay and Lucy Prescott) was born on 10 Jan 1778 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 May 1856 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Dr. Ebenezer Stone on 23 Nov 1831 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Ebenezer (son of Silas Stone and Jennet Twitchell) was born on 10 Oct 1797 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Aug 1869 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 23 Jan 1822, Solon, Cortland, New York
• Alternate death: 30 May 1901, Colonia Juárez, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico

Notes:

From The Stowell Genealogy (citation details below):

Resided in Nauvoo, Ill.; Council Bluff, Iowa; Provo, Fillmore, Bingham's Fort and Ogden, Utah. Was a farmer. Went to Colonia Juarez, Mexico in 1889.

Went to Nauvoo with the Prophet Joseph Smith and shared in all the trials coming to the Valley in 1848. Was a Pioneer, Indian Scout and Capt. of a Mormon Company in all the battles with the Indians. Was a Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints until his death, having held previously all the other minor offices in suecession. All his family have remained in the Church.

William married Sophronia Kelly on 9 Oct 1855 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Sophronia (daughter of Alexander Kelley and Mary Holmes Davis) was born on 15 Jul 1826 in Potton, Richelieu, Quebec; died on 24 Jan 1907 in Franklin, Franklin, Idaho; was buried in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Rev. Charles Wells Clapp on 16 Aug 1849. Charles (son of Russell Clapp and Louisa Strong) was born on 22 Jan 1817 in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 12 Aug 1884; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices (citation details below) records her death on 21 Aug 1862, and also records the death, on 28 Aug of the same year, age 19 months, of George Story, "Son of George and the late Antoinette A."

Family/Spouse: George R. Story. George was born between 1807 and 1808 in Massachusetts; died after 1873 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shortly after the Revolution, he spent two weeks visiting George Washington at Mount Vernon.

On 31 Jan 1794, with his uncle Benjamin Prescott, he formed the firm of Prescott & Sherman, trading in dry goods, groceries, navigation, shoemaking, and tanning.

Representative for New Haven in the Connecticut General Assembly, May and October 1810 and May 1811.

Roger married Susanna Staples on 7 Jan 1801 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. Susanna (daughter of Rev. John Staples and Susanna Perkins) was born on 20 Aug 1778 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut; died on 22 Nov 1855 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The Rev. Charles Fay, D.D., of Vermont, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 21, 1808. He was graduated from Harvard College with honor 1829; in 1832 he became assistant teacher in the school established by Bishop Hopkins at Burlington, Vt., and was ordained Deacon in 1833. He organized St. Paul's Church, Vergennes, Vt., in 1838; he took charge of St John's, Highgate; in 1841, established a school for young ladies near Macon, Ga.; thence he removed in 1844 to Louisiana, and engaged in missionary work at Bayou Goula, then at New Orleans. In 1848, he was called to St Luke's, at St Albans, Vt. From 1857 to 1870, he was in charge of St. Paul's Church at Marquette, when he returned to Vermont, making his home at Grand Isle. He died in New York on the 6th of November, 1888, at the age of eighty." ["The Report on the Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members", citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Charlotte Emily Hopkins. Charlotte (daughter of Bishop John Henry Hopkins and Melusina Müller) was born on 4 May 1817 in Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania; died on 23 Sep 1856 in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He appears in several sources as "William Ebenezer Stone," and while it's possible that this was how he was christened, it's obvious from the record of his doings as an adult that he went by "William Eben Stone."

From the The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1922, page 83: "William Eben Stone, Ph.B.", by J. Gardner Bartlett:

WILLIAM EBEN STONE, of Cambridge, Mass., elected to resident membership in the New England Historic Genealogical Society 5 May 1880, died at his home in Cambridge 23 February 1921.

He was born at Walpole, Mass., 27 November 1845, the youngest son of Dr. Ebenezer⁷ and Elizabeth Holbrook (Hawes) Stone, the father being a graduate of Brown University and the Harvard Medical School and for over forty years a successful physician in Walpole and the surrounding towns. The progenitor of the family in America was Dea. Gregory¹ Stone of Cambridge, Mass., in 1637, from whom Mr. Stone was descended through John² of Sudbury, Mass., Nathaniel³ and Ebenezer⁴ of Framingham, Mass., Silas⁵ of Natick, Mass., and Dublin, N. H., who died near Saratoga while serving in the American Army in the Revolution, Silas⁶ of Sherborn, Mass., who also was a soldier in the American Army in the Revolution and was severely wounded at the Battle of White Plains, N. Y., and Dr. Ebenezer⁷ Stone of Walpole, Mass., his father. In all of his ancestral lines Mr. Stone traced his descent from the early Puritan founders of New England, including among his ancestors the Waites, Hills, Pratts, Russells, Coolidges, Twitchells, Bullards, Barbours, Haweses, and many other well-known families of Middlesex and Norfolk Counties, Mass.

Mr. Stone was graduated at Brown University in 1866 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and then studied mining engineering for a year as a member of the first class ever graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1867 he went to Marquette, Mich., where he remained seven years as a chemist and engineer in the employ of various iron mining companies. In 1874 he secured an interest in the Champion Iron Company of Michigan, soon afterwards became treasurer and general manager of this company, with offices in Boston, and continued in these positions for twenty-five years. The mines of this iron company were rich in a scarce high-grade ore which was essential in the manufacture of steel by the earlier methods of the open-hearth process, so that the operations of the company, under the efficient, skillful direction of Mr. Stone, became extremely profitable. During all these years Mr. Stone's home was in Cambridge and his office in Boston; but four times each year he spent a few weeks at the mines in Michigan, supervising their management. About 1901 the company was very advantageously sold to Pennsylvania steel interests merged in the United States Steel Corporation, and Mr. Stone retired from active business with an ample fortune.

From his early years Mr. Stone was enthusiastically interested in the genealogy of the Stone family and the history of his ancestors, and by his persistent efforts from 1880 to 1896, through researches by Col. Joseph Lemuel Chester, Henry FitzGilbert Waters, and himself, he succeeded in locating Gregory Stone at Great Bromley, co. Essex, England, and in tracing back his ancestry there for several generations. These results were reported by Mr. Stone at the first meeting of the Stone Family Association, held in Boston 26 January 1897. Of this organization Mr. Stone was the predominant but unostentatious leader during the rest of his life, serving as its vice president, 1897-1904, its president, 1904-1909, and a member of its executive committee, 1909-1921. The activities of this association culminated in the appearance in 1918 of the Gregory Stone Genealogy, an important work of nine hundred pages, the compilation and publication of which were almost wholly due to the enthusiastic efforts and extreme liberality of Mr. Stone.

In 1907 Mr. Stone was appointed a member of the Committee on English Research of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and he served on this committee the remaining fourteen years of his life. During all this time he was not only a generous annual contributor to the funds raised by the committee for carrying on genealogical research in England, but, was also always warmly appreciative of the results secured and published in the Register. After holding membership in the Society for forty years, he was elected, at the annual meeting in February 1920, a councillor for a three-year term, only one year of which he had served at the time of his decease. During his later life he was a frequent visitor to the library of the Society and to the Boston Athenaeum, for the purpose of pursuing his favorite genealogical researches.

In 1874 Mr. Stone established his home in Cambridge, where he resided the rest of his life, and in later years he also had a summer house on Fisher's Island, in Long Island Sound. He travelled extensively in North and South America, and several times made extended trips to Europe, where the family lived at one time for three years while his children were being educated there.

He was a member of the Somerset Club of Boston, the Oakley Country Club, the New England Kennel Club, and the Cambridge Boat Club. He also held membership in the Cambridge Historical Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the Bostonian Society, the Bibliophile Society of Boston, the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Society of Sons of the Revolution.

The finest qualities of our ancient New England stock came to their fairest fruition in the character and personality of Mr. Stone. His innate refinement, cultured mind, and delicate modesty were always apparent; his courteous, genial, engaging manner and frank, sincere cordiality ever gladdened the circles in which he moved; his gentle, serene disposition, sympathetic kindness, warmth of heart, and liberal generosity endeared him to all his relatives and friends; and his unswerving integrity, sound judgment, and intellectual abilities secured for him the respect and esteem of the community. Favored with a tall figure, fine physique, and handsome countenance, he had a distinguished bearing and appearance. Remarkably fine health and unimpaired keenness of mind enabled him to enjoy life with full zest to advanced age, until finally stricken with illness a few months before his decease in his seventy-sixth year.

He married at Cambridge, 22 June 1871, Katherine M. Fay, daughter of Rev. Dr. Charles and Charlotte E. (Hopkins) Fay. She survives him, together with their three daughters, Mrs. Arthur Loring Jackson (Pauline Fay Stone) of Cambridge, Mrs. Austin Tappan Wright (Margaret Garrad Stone) of Berkeley, Calif., and Amy Fay Stone of New York City. Their only son, Reginald Stone, died in 1892, in his fifteenth year.

William married Katherine Maria Fay on 22 Jun 1871 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Katherine (daughter of Rev. Charles Fay and Charlotte Emily Hopkins) was born on 6 Jul 1847 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana; died on 29 May 1928 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph Jackson on 22 Nov 1887. Joseph (son of William Jackson and Mary Argyle) was born on 2 Apr 1852 in England; died on 13 Apr 1935 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Berkeley, Alameda, California
• Alternate birth: Abt 1857
• Alternate death: 7 Feb 1919, Alameda, Alameda, California
• Alternate death: 9 Feb 1919

Notes:

Ph.D, Yale, 1886.

"Clapp arrived at Berkeley when it was a small school of some 400 students. By his efforts the department began the first major graduate program on the West Coast, but Greek was also widely taught throughout the state high schools as well. A genial and robust figure until ill health befell him at the age of fifty, his teaching was generally at the graduate level and centered around Pindar and Plato and his, many articles covered a range of subjects. He was a founder of the Philological Association of the Pacific States and served as president for two terms. At the time of his death he was at work on an edition of Pindar that was to be the summary of his life's work on that author." [Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars]

Edward married Mary Mattoon Wolcott on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Elizur Wolcott and Martha Lyman Dwight) was born on 14 May 1863 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; died on 22 Aug 1949 in Alameda, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1853 and 1854, Connecticut
• Alternate birth: 1854, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Factory bookkeeper.

The record of his 13 Jun 1879 baptism as an adult (he was confirmed two days later) at Christ Church, Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford's Episcopal cathedral) reads: Arthur Nicholas Story (adult) (hypoth.), Hartford, Sept. 20, 1853. [Parents] George and Antoinette Ayrault. [Sponsors and Witnesses] Charlotte Marcella Story.

Arthur married Charlotte Marcella Carroll in 1878. Charlotte was born in Mar 1859 in of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 23 May 1941 in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nordhoff, California was renamed Ojai during World War I.

Elizabeth married Thomas Anthony Thacher on 1 Aug 1860 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Thomas (son of Peter Thacher and Ann Parks) was born on 11 Jan 1815 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 7 Apr 1886 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Jul 1846, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana

Katherine married William Eben Stone on 22 Jun 1871 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. William (son of Dr. Ebenezer Stone and Elizabeth Holbrook Hawes) was born on 27 Nov 1845 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 23 Feb 1921 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Austin Tappan Wright on 14 Nov 1912 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Austin (son of John Henry Wright and Mary Tappan) was born on 20 Aug 1883 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire; died on 19 Sep 1931 in Las Vegas, San Miguel, New Mexico; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Benjamin Earl Stevens on 25 Aug 1912 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas. Benjamin (son of David Alma Stevens and Sariah Agnes Johnson) was born on 5 Aug 1889 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 17 Jul 1974 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Elizabeth Amelia Crowley on 6 Oct 1913 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth (daughter of John P. Crowley and Mary) was born about 1887 in Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From www.ywcasf-marin.org/marin-womens-hall-fame/honorees/elizabeth-thacher-kent:

Elizabeth Thacher Kent, a matriarch in the founding family of Kentfield, is one of the few Marin County women to be elected posthumously to the Marin Women's Hall of Fame. Kent was a distinguished proponent of women's rights and international peace and was instrumental in securing women's right to vote.

Kent took up permanent residence in Marin in 1907 and immediately became a vocal activist in support of women's' suffrage. When her husband, William, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Kent leveraged her position as a Congressman's wife to support the national suffrage movement. She was a featured speaker at the 1913 and 1914 conventions of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and shortly thereafter assumed leadership of their Congressional Committee. By 1915, she helped form the Congressional Union (later re-named the Women's Party), which picketed the White House in support of suffrage. Kent was arrested twice for her suffrage demonstrating. However, her cause prevailed and in August 1920 the Susan B. Anthony Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed guaranteeing American women the right to vote.

In addition to supporting suffrage, Elizabeth Kent was committed to the cause of world peace. In the 1930's, she provided leadership to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She and her husband were also early supporters of the fledging conservation movement. They donated a large tract of land to the U.S. Government to preserve old-growth redwoods. Their gift, the Muir Woods National Monument, provides a lasting testimony to the Kents' exemplary lives of public service.

Elizabeth married Rep. William Kent on 26 Feb 1890 in Nordhoff, California. Rep. (son of Albert Emmet Kent and Adaline Elizabeth Dutton) was born on 29 Mar 1864 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 13 Mar 1928 in Kentfield, Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a San Francisco newspaper columnist, she coined the word "mondegreen."

"Sylvia Wright, a Writer and Harpers Ex-Editor," in The New York Times, 13 May 1981:

Sylvia Wright, a freelance writer who frequently and humorously commented in national magazines on trends in modern living, died of cancer Saturday at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 64 years old.

Miss Wright was also a former editor of Harpers Bazaar. A collection of her magazine articles, ''Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts,'' was published by McGraw-Hill in 1957. She was also the author of a novel, ''A Shark Infested Rice Pudding.''

After her graduation from Bryn Mawr College, Miss Wright edited and prepared for publication ''Islandia,'' a Utopian novel about an imaginary country written by her father, the late Austin Tappen [sic] Wright, who was a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. The novel, which has been a steady seller, was published in 1942, reissued in 1958. It is currently published by Arno Press Inc. and the New American Library.

At her death, Miss Wright was writing a biography of her great-aunt, Melusina Fay Peirce, an early feminist and first wife of the American physicist, mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Miss Wright is survived by her husband, Paul J. Mitarachi; a son, John; a sister, Phyllis King of Manhattan; and two brothers, Benjamin and William Wright.

Notes:

Phyllis Wright and Lowell King were seventh cousins once removed, her being a 6XG-granddaughter of the Rev. James Fitch (1622-1702) and Priscilla Mason (1641-1714), and he being a 7XG-grandson of the same couple.

Phyllis married Lowell King on 27 Sep 1941 in New York, New York. Lowell (son of Clarence Baker King and Alice Darracott Seabrook) was born on 2 May 1920 in New Canaan, Farfield, Connecticut; died on 27 Aug 1969 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Notes:

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Aquinas Doherty. Thomas (son of Thomas J. Doherty and Delia Ferrick) was born on 3 Jun 1913 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 19 Sep 1992 in Hollywood, Broward, Florida; was buried in Dana Memorial Park, Dana, Broward, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Stanleigh Arnold on 26 Feb 1915 in Washington, D.C.. George (son of George Sumner Arnold and Evelyn Greenwood Thompson) was born on 3 Apr 1881 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 18 Jan 1942 in Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tappan married Beth Ann Meacham on 13 Oct 1978 in New York City. Beth (daughter of Richard Allen Meacham and Marion Ann Gaunder) was born on 14 Nov 1951 in Newark, Licking, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Barbara Jean Slocum. Barbara (daughter of Edward H. Slocum and Alice Maude Marks) was born on 30 Dec 1934 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 25 Aug 1996 in Queens, New York; was buried on 30 Aug 1996 in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html:

Elizabeth 'Bibbs' [sic] Arnold of Los Altos, a mathematician, environmentalist and wildlife advocate who helped crack the Japanese code during World War II, died Friday, Sept. 18, 1992, at her Los Altos Hills home of lung cancer. She was 76.

A native of San Francisco, Dr. Arnold was reared in Marin County and was the oldest grandchild of Rep. William Kent, for whom the city of Kentfield was named.

The daughter of a prominent San Francisco attorney, Eugene Arnold, she attended the Katherine Branson School in Ross and graduated first in her class in 1932. The school later named a day in her honor after she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vassar College in her junior year.

After graduating from Vassar in 1937, Dr. Arnold earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941.

During World War II, Dr. Arnold was recruited by the Navy and worked on a team of cryptographers cracking Japanese codes, for which she received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

In the 1960s, Dr. Arnold worked on machine language translation at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Inc.

After her retirement in 1969, Dr. Arnold helped establish a recycling center in Los Altos and worked with Wildlife Rescue, helping injured animals.

Dr. Arnold is survived by her husband of 46 years, Dr. William Francis Whitmore of Los Altos; four sons, Charles Whitmore of Washington, D.C., Edward Whitmore of San Francisco, Thomas Whitmore of Oakland and Peter Whitmore of Victoria, B.C. Also surviving are her brothers, George Stanleigh Arnold of Kentfield, Peter Arnold of Grass Valley and Anthony Arnold of Novato.

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Note that the above obituary is in error in two respects. Her father was George Stanleigh Arnold, not Eugene Arnold; and her family nickname was "Bibba", not "Bibbs."

Her page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, showing her to be a generation of advisors closer to Felix Klein than her husband was.

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Elizabeth Sherman Arnold and William Francis Whitmore were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

Elizabeth married William Francis Whitmore on 1 Nov 1946. William (son of Charles Edward Whitmore and Elizabeth Manning Gardiner) was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 6 Jan 1996. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]