John Linsley

Family/Spouse: Hannah Griffin. Hannah died on 16 Feb 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Harrison on 6 Jun 1699. Mary (daughter of Thomas Harrison) was born on 10 Feb 1668; died on 29 Jan 1739. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Sarah Wilford on 16 Dec 1734. Sarah was born in 1717; died on 2 Sep 1801. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is mentioned in the wills of both of his parents.

Ebenezer married Sibyl Barker on 17 Dec 1760 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Sibyl (daughter of James Barker and Abigail Russell) was born on 25 Nov 1740 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 13 May 1827; was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Betsy Russell on 18 Oct 1789 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Betsy (daughter of Capt. Samuel Russell and Elisabeth) was born on 9 Feb 1765 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 21 Dec 1846 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Jacob Hemingway on 23 Dec 1784 in Congregational Society, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Jacob (son of Abraham Hemingway and Mercy Tuttle) was born in Mar 1764; was christened on 14 Dec 1764 in Congregational Society, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Anson Tyler on 10 Jul 1811 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Anson (son of Philemon Tyler and Lucy) was born on 6 Dec 1788 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Harriet married Allen Hemingway in 1843. Allen (son of Lucretia Hemingway) was born on 2 Jul 1808 in Plymouth, Lichtfield, Connecticut; died on 29 Nov 1886 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Union Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Many online sources, including findagrave.com and famouskin.com, give him as a son of Jacob Street Hemingway (1791-1863) and his wife Lucretia Smith (1785-1875). But Jacob Street Hemingway, a son of Jacob Hemingway (1764-1838) and Abigail Linsley (1767-1835), married Polly Hinman in Connecticut in May 1815, and she lived to 28 Mar 1885. And yet:

The 1850 census of Plymouth, Lichtfield, Connecticut lists Allen Hemingway, 42 years old, merchant, in the same household as his wife Harriet, 31, and a woman explicitly identified as his mother, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut 65 years old.

The 1860 census lists, in the same household, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut, 75.

The 1870 census lists, in the same household, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut, 85.

Meanwhile, the will of the aforementioned Jacob Hemingway, 1837, mentions his daughter Lucretia and his grandson Allen Himingway. According to the Wikitree page for Jacob Hemingway, other related probate documents identify daughter Lucretia as Lucretia Smith.

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Lucretia Smith, who lived as an elderly woman for at least twenty years in the household of Allen Hemingway, was the Lucretia Hemingway recorded as born in Plymouth, Connecticut on 1 May 1785 to the aforementioned Jacob Hemingway and Abigail Linsley, that she married a man named Smith, and that for whatever reason, Allen Hemingway, for whom we have no birth record, adopted his mother's surname instead that of his Smith father. The dates line up perfectly, as does the 1837 will of Jacob Hemingway.

Allen married Harriet Louisa Tyler in 1843. Harriet (daughter of Anson Tyler and Harriet Linsley) was born on 10 Aug 1819 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 16 Feb 1895 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Union Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1851, Connecticut

Family/Spouse: Alexander Smith. Alexander (son of Alexander Smith) was born on 26 Mar 1846 in New York; died on 7 Jan 1937 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Union Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Allen married Mary Imogene Schaub in 1890. Mary (daughter of Ferdinand Michael Schaub and Agnes M. Smiley) was born on 15 Mar 1868 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois; died on 7 Oct 1940 in Richwoods, Peoria, Illinois; was buried on 12 Oct 1940 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a poet and painter of note, generally under the name "Gene Derwood."

Edwin Honig, "Gene Derwood's Poems--An Observance." (Poetry 89:43, October 1956):

AT HER DEATH IN 1954 Gene Derwood left a manuscript of thirty-eight poems and more than 150 paintings. The poems have been brought out in a volume (The Poems of Gene Derwood, with a memoir by Joseph Bennett, New York, Clarke & Way, Inc., 1955) introduced by Joseph Bennett. Her paintings are generally little known except perhaps for the striking impressionistic portrait of Dylan Thomas in a red shirt and a humming bird for a necktie which was re produced in a recent number of New World Writing. Although Gene Derwood will be remembered for her poems, her paintings have something of the same intensity, though not the deep assurance, of her poetry. Several of these, as well as the work sheets of her poems, are now in the possession of the Harvard libraries.

Her work is arresting for its solid vigor, its generally acute discomfort, and its fierce resistance to anything like easy assimilation. Yet she is far from being an obscure or hermetic poet; her vivid, strongly eclectic work is wrung by a tough joy and a mantic, heavily charged, almost nightmarish urgency. Technically, she is not an "original" poet. Her meters and strophes are largely conventional and, I think, rather deliberately so, since part of her expressive strength certainly derives from a tradition (apparently English rather than American) which is markedly religious, metaphysical, idiosyncratic, inward regarding, apocalyptic and lyrical by turns. It is variously in line with the idioms and aims of such poets as Herbert, Blake and Hopkins; in its authority-despite-its-unevenness, the poetry also recalls Hardy, Owen, Barker and Crane. If she is unlike some of these in being inventive rather than original, she is like them all in being an undeniably genuine poet. The source of each poem is in its matter (not manner) in its occasion, in its facing up to and its bare handling of a human mystery which cannot ever wholly reveal itself.

It is, in fact, a curiously true book since the effect of all the poems is greater than any particular poem, momentarily rising above the rest, can itself proudly urge, and greater than the gradually engaged reader himself is likely to understand in urging one poem's superiority to the rest. The true-bookness is the impact of all the poems together in which one is aware of the spirit which, once awakened, creates a body and so becomes more than a performance in the words and shapes that one enjoys in different poems. The whole book achieves something that reaches beyond the poems, like the force of prayer which becomes the prayer's fulfillment, a constant benediction. Reading through it, one is peculiarly sensitive to the risks taken and seemingly succumbed to, but then suddenly transcended, awakening, discovering an unperceived life like a dark nebula suddenly defined against the light. One recognizes the life that, having passed into the poems, surpassed its moulds, its forms. And yet one wonders how it came to be a life formed so close to our noses, but strangely different from anything we know. So familiar because it signifies and seals the times we live in. So different from what we merely know because it needed to be imagined first; it needed a poet to risk utterly failing to make it before it could be conceived, visioned, and discovered in forms as factual and as self-demanding as our own bodies. It is therefore also a true book because the poems are not all equal, because there are gross falterings, strained diction, unwieldy puns that scrape against beautifully shaped utterances. The truth is in the making which one is thus allowed to witness; the expense entailed in making mistakes was necessary to the creation of the spirit's body which lives so firmly in all the poems.

Such poems remind us that poetry is nothing if not a profession, in the old sense a profession of faith, of true saying and truth-making. It is not a profession in the sense of the selling of poems or the launching of the maker on a career of serving up balms and certitudes in exchange for social status or literary rank. Gene Derwood's poems are free from any taint of professionalism; they sell nothing, not even their own frequently accusatory cries. They demand life in exchange for the life they create. They demand the reader's faith that life exists precisely where it is most devalued, fragmented and abjured. The example of her work suggests that there is a poetry which by being so intensely and sharply formed, so weighted in its mazed integrity, is of such a different order of utterance from the poetry of most professionals as to constitute a different species. In writing too few rather than too many poems, and in writing under no obligation other than that of the poem's urgency, many of her lines go deep as a diamond drill through rock, A dark hard beauty emerges, and a failure, frequently, that resembles success but is better than success.

Fastened and fasting in the bed-rock man
The assainted, snuffed-down halo strives to rise.
.....
Mountains of dove-tailed pebbles and words wordened.
The newest prism is moulded from the last.
.....
The moon still shines beside the daytime star,
The waters weave, rain cools, dunes move, grain grows,
Soft words bring soft replies, muscles expand.
(N. B., Symmetrians)

Beautiful always the littoral line,
Jointure of ocean and earth where globe winds lean
Over the lace whence Venus rose, the sands
From which little-less-than-gods flung history's sail,
Round wave, round shell, and myth-bound lands.
(The Innocent)

The body housed, the body's firm pale bole
Clothed, the body's self a blank abiding.
.....
Walking or languid through the night or day,
Something familiar for a hiding wall
We carry, as a glove or stare or play
Of lips and brows. That's just a stall
That balks no frankness of the essence,
The too lightning truth of what we are
No man can hide the presence or the absence,
We've come too quickly and too far.
(Shelter)

Agnes married Oscar D. Kaplan on 23 Sep 1922 in New York, New York, New York. Oscar (son of Mouzya Kaplan and Chana Rapaport) was born on 29 Dec 1900 in Stara (Staraya) Syniava, Kmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine; died on 10 Oct 1964 in New York, New York, New York; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings-On-Hudson, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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