George Earl Lee

Family/Spouse: Mary Thankful Spaulding. Mary (daughter of Lewis Herbert Spaulding and Mary Frances Johnson) was born on 1 Mar 1879 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; died on 25 Feb 1920 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; was buried on 28 Feb 1920 in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Adeline Elizabeth Lee was born on 27 Sep 1914; died on 21 Nov 1983 in Lopez Island, San Juan, Washington.

Notes:

According to the 1887 History of the Conant Family in England and America (citation details below), he "is engaged in the grain business at Adinburg, Ill."

Thomas married Mary Jane Eaton on 29 May 1872 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. Mary (daughter of John B. Eaton and Mary Jones) was born on 12 Apr 1854 in Illinois; died on 3 Feb 1933 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Massachusetts

William married Adeline Abigail Conant. Adeline (daughter of Sullivan Conant and Lydia Rice Hemenway) was born on 5 Jul 1823 in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 9 Apr 1916 in Benton Harbor, Berrien, Michigan; was buried on 11 Apr 1916 in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois

Notes:

Said to have married William W. Lee on 2 April 1844 in Sangamon County.

John married Mary Jones on 16 Jun 1853 in Sangamon County, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Haskin Jones, Sr. and Lucinda Gaulding Talley) was born in 1833 in Tennessee; died on 18 Dec 1876 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Lydia Boddy on 21 Sep 1814 in Delaware. Lydia was born on 12 Feb 1796; died on 23 Sep 1864; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 26 Feb 1804, Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts

Notes:

"After his marriage he settled in Shutesbury, where he remained about three years, then lived in Amherst one year, and returned to Shutesbury. In the fall of 1830 he moved West with his family. They went to Troy, N. Y., by wagon, thence to Rochester by canal, thence by wagon to Olean Point where they took a raft and floated down the river to Pittsburg. They went from Pittsburg to Chester, Ill., by steamboat, and thence to Springfield, Ill., where he arrived Feb. 18, 1831, and there settled. This was the winter of the 'deep snow,' and when Mr. Conant arrived at Springfield the snow was four feet deep." [A History of the Conant Family in England and America,citation details below.]

Sullivan married Lydia Rice Hemenway on 10 Sep 1822 in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts. Lydia (daughter of Phinehas Hemenway and Nabby Beaman) was born on 14 Nov 1803 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 31 May 1867 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 30 May 1867, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois

Notes:

According to the Find a Grave page of his son John B. Eaton, he was a soldier in the War of 1812, and came to Illinois in 1838.

John married Mary Cook. Mary was born in 1793 in New Hampshire; died in 1853 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Haskin married Lucinda Gaulding Talley. Lucinda (daughter of Benoni Carter Talley, Sr. and Martha Patsey Gaulding) was born on 17 Dec 1797 in Tennessee; died on 6 Apr 1873 in Sangamon County, Illinois; was buried in Martin Cemetery, Rochester, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[M]oved to Oakham. Luther Conant, of Oakham, served three years in Capt. Reed's company (Mass. Arch., Continental Army Rolls). July 7, 1780, Luther Conant, of Hardwick, is described as 22 years old, 5 ft. 7 in. tall, light complexion (Muster Rolls, Vol. 35, p. 188). In 1781 he was a sergeant, and discharged in New York state, 240 miles from Hardwick. In 1800 he was selectman of Oakham." [A History of the Conant Family in England and America, citation details below]

Luther married Susanna Allen after 14 May 1787 in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts. Susanna (daughter of Capt. Nehemiah Allen and Abiah Thomas) was born on 2 May 1767 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 15 Aug 1840 in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Date of intention.

Notes:

Also called Phineas. His gravestone clearly spells his first name Phinehas.

This listing for the daybook of Phinehas Hemenway at the Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, appears to conflate the Phineas Hemenway who is recorded in Bolton vital records as baptized 6 Sep 1794, son of Simeon and Mary Heminway, with Phinehas/Phineas Hemenway who died 21 Dec 1850. The latter married a woman named Nabby and they were the parents of Lydia Rice Hemenway. The former could not have been the father of Lydia Rice Hemenway who was born in 1803, nine years after the 1794 birth of Phineas the son of Simeon and Mary.

The gravestone of our Phinehas Hemenway gives his age at death as 76, consistent with a birth year of about 1774.

Phinehas married Nabby Beaman on 17 Jul 1803 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts. Nabby was born in 1784; died on 24 Mar 1836; was buried in West Cemetery, Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was not the Nabby Beaman born 3 July 1787, daughter of Phineas and Hannah Beaman, who married Samuel Brooks (1779-1840) on 22 April 1812 and died in 1859.

Benoni married Martha Patsey Gaulding on 17 Dec 1788 in Campbell County, Virginia. Martha (daughter of Samuel Gaulding and Elizabeth Turner) was born in 1765 in Virginia; died in 1850 in Jefferson County, Tennessee; was buried in Talley Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"He moved to Oakham, Mass., about 1765. On Jan. 1, 1776, he was in camp at Roxbury, as corporal in Capt. Samuel Dexter's company of Col. Learned's regiment (Mass. Arch., Muster Rolls, Vol. 24, p. 135). He d. after serving one year and four months (Continental Army Rolls, Mass. Archives). Sep. 16, 1761, Timothy and Hannah Conant, of Bridgewater, and Elijah Blackman, sell one-quarter of one-half of all divisions laid out to house lot No. 27 in North Yarmouth, Maine, that came to them as heirs of Thomas Blackman, of Stoughton (Cumberland Deeds)." [A History of the Conant Family in England and America, citation details below]

Timothy married Hannah Blackman on 4 Feb 1754 in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Blackman and Mary Houghton) was born on 31 Jul 1737 in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 25 Feb 1825 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nehemiah married Abiah Thomas on 23 Mar 1758 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Abiah (daughter of Jedediah Thomas and Lois Nelson) was born on 3 Aug 1737 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 12 May 1825 in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Their wedding was officiated by Sylvanus Conant.

Notes:

Newton Genealogy says, evidently incorrectly, that Adam Hemenway "died without children." The birth record of Phineas Hemenway, born in Worcester two years after Adam Hemenway's marriage to Lydia Rice, identifies his parents as Adam and Lydia Hemenway.

That said, while we find it very likely that this Adam was a member of the extensive Hemenway/Heminway/Hemingway family, we have been unable to find proof of his parentage. He is identified on some online sources as a son of Jonathan Hemenway (1712-1757) and his wife Mary Foster (b. 1721), and in other places as a son of one Ebenezer Hemenway, but all without proof.

Adam married Lydia Rice on 21 Apr 1772. Lydia (daughter of Zebadiah Rice and Elizabeth Blood) was born on 9 Jun 1746 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 3 Mar 1826 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peyton married Lucy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Elizabeth Turner. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]