Margaret Garrad

Margaret married Deacon Gregory Stone on 20 Jul 1617 in Nayland, Suffolk, England. Deacon (son of David Stone and Ursula) was born before 19 Apr 1592; was christened on 19 Apr 1592 in Great Bromley, Essex, England; died on 30 Nov 1672 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He emigrated to New England at age 17 in 1635 with his father, his stepmother Lydia, and several siblings and half-siblings. The family settled in Watertown and Cambridge. He moved to Newbury by 1939, then Sudbury and what later became Framingham. In 1672, following his father's death, he returned to Cambridge to inherit his property.

In Sudbury he was a deacon of the town church. In Cambridge, on 15 Nov 1682, he was made the church's ruling elder. He held various public offices and responsibilities throughout his life, and his final two years he was deputy for Cambridge at the General Court.

John married Anne before 1640. Anne died after 7 Nov 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 15 Aug 1620, Nayland, Suffolk, England

Daniel married Mary about 1643. Mary died on 8 Aug 1658 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See our entry for John Bent (1689-1759), son of Hannah Stone's husband John Bent, for why we believe that Alicia Crane Williams (citation details below) is mistaken in thinking that Hannah Stone may have lived as late as 1691. We think she died much sooner after 9 Jun 1683, her last appearance in a surviving record, probably in the mid-1680s, and that John Bent's two sons John and David are clearly sons by his second wife Martha Rice.

Hannah married John Bent on 1 Jul 1658 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of John Bent and Martha) was born before 24 Jan 1636; was christened on 24 Jan 1636 in Weyhill, Hampshire, England; died before 15 Sep 1717; was buried on 15 Sep 1717 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: Abt Mar 1719, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Daniel married Mary Moore on 2 Nov 1667 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John Moore and Elizabeth Rice) was born before 9 Jan 1642; was christened on 9 Jan 1642 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; died on 10 Jan 1703. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Nathaniel married Sarah Waite on 25 Apr 1684 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Capt. John Waite and Mary Hills) was born about 1664 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 12 Nov 1732. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Walker before 1661. Thomas died in 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Patience Brown about 1692. Patience (daughter of Thomas Brown and Patience Foster) was born on 26 Feb 1672 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Nov 1722 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Rice. James (son of Thomas Rice and Mary King) was born on 31 Mar 1669 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 14 Oct 1730 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 13 Feb 1680, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Abigail married Dr. John Sherman on 9 Nov 1703 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of Rev. James Sherman and Mary Walker) was born on 20 Nov 1683 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 28 Nov 1774 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ebenezer married Prudence Pratt on 10 May 1721 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Prudence (daughter of Joseph Pratt and Hannah Provender) was born on 22 Apr 1698 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 9 Aug 1661, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Mary married Rev. James Sherman on 13 May 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. James (son of Rev. John Sherman and Mary Launce) was born about 1651; died on 3 Mar 1718 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Deacon David Rice on 7 Apr 1687. David (son of Corporal Henry Rice and Elizabeth Moore) was born about 1659; died on 16 Aug 1723 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lois married Moses Maynard on 18 Mar 1724. Moses (son of Zachary Maynard and Hannah Goodrich) was born on 30 Apr 1697; died on 26 Mar 1782 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Blood. Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Blood and Hannah Davis) was born on 20 Apr 1710 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died before 3 Aug 1771. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 31 Mar 1703, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Bezaleel married Abigail Graves on 4 Feb 1732 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Ebenezer Graves and Mary Colton) was born on 18 Feb 1707 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Silas married Elizabeth Russell on 25 Jan 1750 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Deacon Jonathan Russell and Mary Coolidge) was born on 7 Oct 1730 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in 1816 in Shoreham, Addison, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife Abigail Stone "settled in Springfield, Mass., where he was a schoolmaster and physician; but about 1722 they removed to the region which in 1731 became the town of Brimfield, where he was a physician, town clerk for thirty successive years, representative three years, and captain of militia." They were married for nearly seventy years.

John married Abigail Stone on 9 Nov 1703 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Daniel Stone and Mary Moore) was born on 13 Feb 1681 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Mar 1772 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married John Bent on 15 Nov 1711 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of John Bent and Martha Rice) was born on 29 Nov 1689 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in 1759 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Sarah Noyes on 22 Feb 1750 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Noyes and Sarah Gott) was born on 8 Jan 1731 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Adam Hemenway on 21 Apr 1772. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Solomon Newton on 5 Dec 1782 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts. Solomon was born on 28 Jan 1741 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 28 May 1822 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Joseph Thompson on 19 Feb 1754 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of James Thompson and Mary) was born on 25 Mar 1733 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died in 1795 in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio; was buried in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Silas married Jennet Twitchell on 9 Jan 1781 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Jennet (daughter of Deacon Jonathan Twitchell and Deborah Bullard) was born on 5 Nov 1760 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Jun 1816 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 31 Mar 1703, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Bezaleel married Abigail Graves on 4 Feb 1732 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Ebenezer Graves and Mary Colton) was born on 18 Feb 1707 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Richard Rice in 1734. Richard (son of Jonathan Rice and Elizabeth Wheeler) was born on 31 Jan 1710; died in 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Enlisted, 1777, in Capt. Joseph Warren's company. He served in the defense of New York, 1779, under Capt. Isaac Harrington and Col. Samuel Denny, and, 1780, joined Capt. Ephraim Lyon's company at the Rhode Island Alarm. He was born and died at Shrewsbury." [DAR Lineage Book 14]

Daniel married Hannah Harrington after 31 Jul 1776 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Harrington) was born about 1757; died on 1 Apr 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

He appears to have been served in the Revolution for nine months beginning in July 1779, under Captain Reuben Lilly.

Family/Spouse: Sarah Clark. Sarah was born in 1767; died on 15 Jan 1852; was buried in Peru Center Cemetery, Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Gregory Stone Genealogy (citation details below):

In early life [he] exhibited natural capacity and desire for learning, and after preparatory study under Rev. Joseph Wheaton of Holliston and Rev. Charles Train of Framingham, he was admitted to Brown University where he graduated A.B. in 1820 and A.M. in 1822. He then took up medical studies under Dr. John B. Kittredge of Framingham, completing them at the Harvard Medical School where he received the degree of M.D. in 1824. Soon afterwards he settled in Walpole, Mass., where he practiced his profession over forty years, until within a short time of his decease, 13 Aug. 1869, in his seventy-second year.

Dr. Stone was a skilful, successful, and popular family physician, and obtained an extensive practice in Walpole and the surrounding towns; and his high character, abilities, geniality, and sympathetic disposition secured for him the confidence, esteem, and affection of a large circle of patients. While assiduously and faithfully devoted to the duties of his profession, he was also much interested in education, labored for the improvement of the schools, and was one of the earliest open advocates of temperance during the first agitation on this subject in Massachusetts about 1830. He was a man of calm judgment, firm convictions, and scholarly tastes. In politics he was long a conservative adherent of the Whig party, and in religion was a consistent member of the Unitarian church and a constant attendant at its public worship. For some years he was a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society and president of the Norfolk District Medical Society.

Ebenezer married Elizabeth Holbrook Hawes on 23 Nov 1831 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John Holbrook Hawes and Achsah Barber) was born on 10 May 1809 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 18 Aug 1860 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Joseph Thompson on 19 Feb 1754 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of James Thompson and Mary) was born on 25 Mar 1733 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died in 1795 in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio; was buried in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Samuel Hemingway. Samuel (son of Ebenezer Hemingway and Hannah Winch) was born on 3 Aug 1724 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jun 1806 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Zelinda Allen on 27 Nov 1810. Zelinda (daughter of Samuel Allen and Hannah Allen) was born on 5 May 1791 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 19 Sep 1851 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Lydia married Sullivan Conant on 10 Sep 1822 in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts. Sullivan (son of Luther Conant and Susanna Allen) was born on 26 Feb 1801 in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 10 Jan 1886 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 3 Jul 1788, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

Notes:

Also called Sarah Thompson.

Sarah married Elisha Branch on 3 Oct 1810 in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Elisha (son of Nathan Branch and Elizabeth "Polly" Woodward) was born on 9 Apr 1787 in Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 14 Nov 1856 in York, Medina, Ohio; was buried in Branch Cemetery, Medina, Medina, Ohio. [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]

Notes:

He appears to have been served in the Revolution for nine months beginning in July 1779, under Captain Reuben Lilly.

Family/Spouse: Sarah Clark. Sarah was born in 1767; died on 15 Jan 1852; was buried in Peru Center Cemetery, Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Ebenezer Hemenway. He served in the Revolution on the Massachusetts line. His gravestone, evidently in error, gives the date of his death as 22 Oct 1839.

Ebenezer married Ruth Gates in Jun 1786 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Amos Gates and Mary Trowbridge) was born on 12 Feb 1768 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Oct 1854 in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire; was buried in East Cemetery, Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Francis Maria Russell Curow on 23 May 1846 in New York, New York. Francis (daughter of Robert Curow and Jane McMahon) was born on 6 Jun 1827 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 20 Mar 1877 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois

Notes:

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

Family/Spouse: William W. Lee. William (son of Thomas Edmundson Lee and Lydia Boddy) was born on 20 Aug 1822 in Delaware; died on 12 Jul 1870 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1813
• Alternate death: 13 Dec 1914, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan

Notes:

History of Medina County and Ohio (citation details below), naming her as a daughter of Elisha Branch and Sallie Thompson of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, calls her "Mrs. Albert Mead, in Michigan".

From Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer (citation details below):

Sarah Branch Mead moved from a New York county to the Lansing area with her brood of six, lived in a log cabin and taught her children (plus the neighbors') how to read from newspapers on the walls, before she was able to add a real book to her copy of the Bible and one by Charles Dickens. I have a photo (circa 1903) of her at least 90, wearing her black bombazine highnecked shirtwaist, wearing her gold wedding ring, and reading the Bible. (I don't believe that many women could read at all at that time.) Of course, it paid off. Grandpa Mead became a proofreader for the Detroit Free Press, a Shakespeare scholar and a "reader" in the Christian Science church! He loved to laugh and tell funny stories. I remember the one about the witches in Macbeth.

Sarah married Albert Cyrus Mead on 7 Jan 1847. Albert was born in Dec 1825 in New York. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 3 Jul 1788, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

Notes:

Also called Sarah Thompson.

Sarah married Elisha Branch on 3 Oct 1810 in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Elisha (son of Nathan Branch and Elizabeth "Polly" Woodward) was born on 9 Apr 1787 in Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 14 Nov 1856 in York, Medina, Ohio; was buried in Branch Cemetery, Medina, Medina, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Luther Hemenway.

"Brief Bio", posted to ancestry.com by user "janaiwin":

Luther Sr., son of Ebenezer and Ruth Gates Hemenway, was born in Framingham January 2, 1787 and came to Marlborough with his parents when but six months old. He married, for his second wife, Eliza Cummings on October 26, 1813. She was of a well-known and honored New Hampshire family. He was a blacksmith by trade and had a shop in Marlborough and was familiarly known as Captain Hemenway. He was a stanch man, an old-time Whig, interested in educational affairs, and was one of the number who formed the Social Library Association. He removed to Jaffrey, where he died February 13, 1872.

Luther married Betsy Cummings on 26 Oct 1813 in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On her marriage certificate, Fanny Therese Walling Maynard.

Frances married William Henry Whitmore on 11 Jun 1884 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. William (son of Charles Octavius Whitmore and Lovice Ayres) was born on 6 Sep 1836 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 14 Jun 1900 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Nathan married Mary C. Egan on 12 Oct 1921 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Mary (daughter of William Egan and Margaret Livingston) was born about 1857 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to his obituary in the Detroit Free Press, he was a compositor for them (1880-1890), not a proofreader as reported in his granddaughter Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer's undated letter quoted in our entry on his mother. From 1890 until his retirement in 1926, he was a customs officer in Detroit. According to Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer, he was also an amateur Shakespeare scholar. He must have been well-liked; obituary notices appeared for him in newspapers in Detroit, Lansing, and Battle Creek.

Edwin married Carolyn Green on 22 Jan 1873 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan. Carolyn (daughter of Capt. John Green) was born on 22 Jan 1852 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; died on 22 Jun 1932 in Albion, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Myron married Katherine Kappeller on 16 Oct 1878 in Ingham County, Michigan. Katherine was born on 17 Feb 1859 in Elba, Genesee, New York; died on 16 Jan 1934 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ella A. Holmes on 5 Jul 1881 in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Ella was born about 1862; died after 5 Feb 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Lucius R. Williams on 14 Nov 1887 in Lorain County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1862, Michigan

Family/Spouse: John B. Hanson. John died after 19 Dec 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alma married George E. Newell on 12 Nov 1885 in Lorain County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lois married Charles A. Quay on 6 Oct 1896 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan. Charles (son of Sanford Quay and Margery Thompson) was born about 1863 in Green County, Indiana; died after 9 Jul 1938. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eva J.. Eva died before 18 Mar 1933. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: E. Viola Andress. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1813
• Alternate death: 13 Dec 1914, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan

Notes:

History of Medina County and Ohio (citation details below), naming her as a daughter of Elisha Branch and Sallie Thompson of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, calls her "Mrs. Albert Mead, in Michigan".

From Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer (citation details below):

Sarah Branch Mead moved from a New York county to the Lansing area with her brood of six, lived in a log cabin and taught her children (plus the neighbors') how to read from newspapers on the walls, before she was able to add a real book to her copy of the Bible and one by Charles Dickens. I have a photo (circa 1903) of her at least 90, wearing her black bombazine highnecked shirtwaist, wearing her gold wedding ring, and reading the Bible. (I don't believe that many women could read at all at that time.) Of course, it paid off. Grandpa Mead became a proofreader for the Detroit Free Press, a Shakespeare scholar and a "reader" in the Christian Science church! He loved to laugh and tell funny stories. I remember the one about the witches in Macbeth.

Sarah married Albert Cyrus Mead on 7 Jan 1847. Albert was born in Dec 1825 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Sarah Hemenway.

She is named ("my daughter Sarah Towne") in her father's will, written 1871, and the records of his probate include a note from Sarah Towne dated 2 Aug 1873 acknowledging receipt of thirty dollars, her share in the estate.

Sarah married Warren C. Towne on 15 Nov 1840 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Warren (son of Enos Towne and Lucy Browning) was born on 15 Sep 1815 in Barre, Washington, Vermont; died on 4 Nov 1895 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire; was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 26 Sep 1887, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

Charles Edward Whitmore's contribution to the Secretary's Fourth Report, Harvard class of 1907:

SHORTLY after graduation I sailed for Europe spending a year in study at Athens; I then returned to Harvard to work for a Ph.D., receiving that degree in 1911. I was appointed instructor in English in June of that year, a position which I still hold. My earlier inclinations would have led me to teach Greek, but no opening in that field appeared, and I am now more than ever convinced that teaching Freshman composition is by no means the hopeless and thankless task it is so often considered, but a chance to render real and needed service to Harvard and to the community. I am at present completing a book on composition, which I hope to be able to publish within a year.

During the summer of 1914 I was in Italy, and was delayed there by the outbreak of the war, but succeeded in returning without mishap or special incident. Otherwise I have remained in Cambridge, dividing my time between College duties and literary work.

Publications: "The Supernatural in Tragedy," Harvard University Press, 1915; "Twenty five Sonnets," Cosmos Press, 1915; articles on early Italian poetry in Romantic Review and Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Member, Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts, Modern Language Association of America, American Dialect Society.

Charles married Elizabeth Manning Gardiner on 31 May 1913 in Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Frederick Augustus Gardiner and Ella S. Smith) was born in 1879 in Massachusetts; died in 1958 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1884, Michigan
• Alternate birth: Abt 1885, Michigan

Angeline married Arthur Hamilton Pearsall on 3 Jun 1906 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Arthur (son of William Augustus Pearsall and Angeline Quigley) was born on 11 Dec 1883 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; died in Apr 1974. [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]

Nathan married Mary C. Egan on 12 Oct 1921 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Mary (daughter of William Egan and Margaret Livingston) was born about 1857 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to his obituary in the Detroit Free Press, he was a compositor for them (1880-1890), not a proofreader as reported in his granddaughter Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer's undated letter quoted in our entry on his mother. From 1890 until his retirement in 1926, he was a customs officer in Detroit. According to Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer, he was also an amateur Shakespeare scholar. He must have been well-liked; obituary notices appeared for him in newspapers in Detroit, Lansing, and Battle Creek.

Edwin married Carolyn Green on 22 Jan 1873 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan. Carolyn (daughter of Capt. John Green) was born on 22 Jan 1852 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; died on 22 Jun 1932 in Albion, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Myron married Katherine Kappeller on 16 Oct 1878 in Ingham County, Michigan. Katherine was born on 17 Feb 1859 in Elba, Genesee, New York; died on 16 Jan 1934 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ella A. Holmes on 5 Jul 1881 in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Ella was born about 1862; died after 5 Feb 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Lucius R. Williams on 14 Nov 1887 in Lorain County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1862, Michigan

Family/Spouse: John B. Hanson. John died after 19 Dec 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alma married George E. Newell on 12 Nov 1885 in Lorain County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lois married Charles A. Quay on 6 Oct 1896 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan. Charles (son of Sanford Quay and Margery Thompson) was born about 1863 in Green County, Indiana; died after 9 Jul 1938. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eva J.. Eva died before 18 Mar 1933. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: E. Viola Andress. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1880 and 1900 US census both say that her father was born in Vermont and her mother in New Hampshire. As of the 1900 census she was a widow.

Sophronia married Henry Harrison Hartwell on 5 Feb 1869. Henry (son of Haskell F. Hartwell and Sarah Ann Ellis) was born on 18 Nov 1849 in Springfield, Windsor, Vermont; died on 21 Feb 1898 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Brook Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Jan 1917, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

His papers, described as "Journal, reports, and printed articles, relating to the development of the Polaris missile and other American naval weapons systems", are at the Hoover Institution. In connection with those papers, the Online Archive of California describes him as "American physicist; chief scientist, Special Projects Office, United States Navy, 1957-1959; chief scientist (ocean systems), Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, 1969-1983."

His page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, where it can be seen that his great-grand-advisor was Felix Klein, of the bottle; one of Klein's two advisors was Rudolf Lipschitz, and one of Lipschitz's grand-advisors was Joseph Fourier.

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

William married Elizabeth Sherman "Bibba" Arnold on 1 Nov 1946. Elizabeth (daughter of George Stanleigh Arnold and Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent) was born on 2 Dec 1915 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California; died on 18 Sep 1992 in Los Altos, Santa Clara, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adeline married John Woodruff Saul, Jr. on 29 May 1936 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. John (son of John Woodruff Saul, Sr.) was born on 30 Sep 1912 in Cook County, Illinois; died on 5 Apr 2004 in San Juan County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1922, Michigan

Edythe married William Ellsworth Palmer on 15 Feb 1951 in Cook County, Illinois. William (son of Claude Hutchinson Palmer and Grace Elizabeth Howell) was born on 24 Oct 1922 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana; died on 11 Mar 2005; was buried in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Will, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1884, Michigan
• Alternate birth: Abt 1885, Michigan

Angeline married Arthur Hamilton Pearsall on 3 Jun 1906 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Arthur (son of William Augustus Pearsall and Angeline Quigley) was born on 11 Dec 1883 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; died in Apr 1974. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1874, Foxboro, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Bert married Mabel Rebecca Geddes on 17 Oct 1900 in Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Mabel (daughter of George E. Geddes and Isabella Jean Murray) was born on 28 Sep 1881 in North Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 25 Feb 1958 in Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Brook Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1922, Michigan

Edythe married William Ellsworth Palmer on 15 Feb 1951 in Cook County, Illinois. William (son of Claude Hutchinson Palmer and Grace Elizabeth Howell) was born on 24 Oct 1922 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana; died on 11 Mar 2005; was buried in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Will, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was an MIT graduate and an electrical engineer.

Henry married Constance Elizabeth Nash on 26 Jun 1937. Constance (daughter of Thomas Vinson Nash and Daisy Maria Blanchard) was born on 14 Sep 1913 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 Nov 2005 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Brook Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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