Mary Tibbes

Mary married James Cole on 1 May 1625 in Barnstaple, Devon, England. James was born about 1600; died after Oct 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1628

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Surveyor, shipwright, selectman, and deputy.

"On 6 Jan 1655, the grand jury presented 'Hugh Cole, and Mary Foxwell, his now wife, in keeping company each with other in an undecent manner, at an unseasonable time and place, before marriage,' for which Hugh Cole was fined 20s." [The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, citation details below, volume II, p. 567.]

Hugh married Mary Foxwell on 8 Jan 1654 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Richard Foxwell and Anne Shelley) was born on 17 Aug 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was christened on 30 Aug 1635 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married William Salisbury on 30 Jul 1685 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts. William (son of William Salisbury and Susanna) was born on 14 Aug 1659 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died between 9 Mar 1726 and 16 May 1726 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Kickemuit Cemetery, Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1699
• Alternate death: 5 Aug 1745

Martha married Philip Wheeler on 25 Mar 1720 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts. Philip (son of James Wheeler and Grizzell Squire) was born on 4 Mar 1698 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 19 Sep 1765; was buried in Burial Place Hill, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 17 Jan 1723, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

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"Rev. Aaron Wheeler served as a private in Lt. John Deyers' company.; Col. Thos. Carpenter's regiment in Rhode Island on the alarm of Dec 8 1776. Enlisted Dec 8 1776, discharged Dec 24 1776. Marched from Rehoboth to Bristol, also served as a private in Capt. Sylvanus Martin's company., Col. William's regiment. Enlisted Sept 27 1777, served one month at Tiverton, R.I." [Find a Grave page for Aaron Wheeler, citation details below.]

Aaron married Hopestill Daggett on 9 Dec 1742 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Hopestill (daughter of John Daggett and Hopestill Wood) was born on 9 Jan 1725 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jan 1798; was buried in Stevens Corner Cemetery, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Benjamin Wheeler, progenitor of the branch of the family now under consideration, was a native of Massachusetts, his birth occurring February 7, 1764. In early manhood, in 1800, accompanied by his wife and children, he removed to New York state, settling on the farm now owned by his grandson, Simeon R. Wheeler, in East Bloomfield, Ontario county, and he also erected the first grist mill in South Bloomfield. He was active and public-spirited, served in the Revolutionary war, and in all ways performed his part faithfully and conscientiously. He married, July 28, 1782, Celia Buffington, born in Massachusetts, August 26, 1762, who bore him six sons and four daughters. Benjamin Wheeler died February 6, 1836." [A History of Ontario County, New York, and Its People, citation details below.]

His tombstone describes him as "PVT, Continental Line, Rev War".

"Benjamin Wheeler applied 1 September 1832 for a Revolutionary War pension and included in his application the family Bible record sheets which listed the names of his ten children with birth dates. Eight of these have been verified in the vital records of Rehoboth and Dighton, Massachusetts; the last two are unrecorded elsewhere. His pension was granted and later his widow, Celia, drew her allotment. He deposed that in the spring of 1777, age 13, he entered the service of his country as a substitute for his brother, Simeon. His first assignment was as a waiter in Capt. Simeon Cole's Co. of Rehoboth. Re-enlisting nine times, with terms of duty ranging from three to five months, he had attained the rank of fourth sergeant by the spring of 1781. His experiences included hospital service at New Windsor, Connecticut and Yorktown, Virginia; he was with the army at Yorktown and saw the capture of General Cornwallis (19 Oct. 1781); he saw General George Washington at Providence, West Point, and Yorktown. Mr. Elihu Morse and James Gladding, both of the town of Bristol, N. Y. attested to the truth of these statements." [Harriette M. Wheeler, citation details below, citing Compiled Military Service Record, Revolution, Benjamin Wheeler, National Archives, Washington, D.C. and claim #W 15484.]

Benjamin married Celia Buffington on 28 Jul 1782 in Hornbine Church, about six miles from Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Celia was born on 25 Aug 1762; died on 6 Mar 1843 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; was buried in Wheeler Cemetery, East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Benjamin D., son of Benjamin and Celia (Buffington) Wheeler, was born in Massachusetts, April 10, 1789, died September 30, 1818. He removed from his native state to New York state, settling in East Bloomfield, where he was a prominent citizen, advancing the interests of the community in which he resided. He married Deborah Reed, and they were the parents of five children, two sons and three daughters, Hannah R., Deborah, Celia B., Benjamin T., and Simeon R." [A History of Ontario County, New York, and Its People, citation details below.]

Albert Gallatin Wheeler's Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America gives Benjamin Daggett Wheeler as a son of Barnard Wheeler and Anna Goff. This is clearly a mistake:

* Benjamin Daggett Wheeler's tombstone clearly reads "son of Benjamin and Celia Wheeler."

* The mother of the Benjamin Wheeler who married Celia Buffington was named Hopestill Daggett.

* The first son named in the will, made 23 Jul 1832, of the Benjamin Wheeler who married Celia Buffington, is "Benjamin D."

Benjamin married Deborah Reed about 1809 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. Deborah was born about 1791 in Massachusetts; died on 2 Jun 1860 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; was buried in Wheeler Cemetery, East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 17 Nov 1809, New York

Hannah married Richmond Simmons in 1827. Richmond (son of Richmond Simmons and Eleanor Sears) was born on 11 Jun 1806 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; died on 11 Feb 1862 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol Center, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married David Freeman Crandall on 9 Nov 1845 in Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. David (son of John Crandall and Phebe Freeman) was born on 15 May 1827 in Ontario County, New York; died on 20 Jun 1873 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Howell, Livingston, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annette married Elisha Freeman Allen on 26 Dec 1869 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan. Elisha (son of Henry Freeman Allen and Angeline) was born on 14 Mar 1844 in Schuyler County, New York; died on 22 Jul 1918 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Howell, Livingston, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elbert married Marion Van Wort on 2 Jul 1892 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan. Marion (daughter of George Seward Van Wort and Hattie C. Crowell) was born on 11 Jan 1873 in Mount Morris, Genesee, Michigan; died on 17 Nov 1948 in Williamston, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Summit Cemetery, Williamston, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also spelled Roselia, Rosalie, Rosella, Rosslie, etc.

We do not know her exact date or place of birth. The record of her 1924 marriage to John Q. Myers says that she was born in in Howell, Michigan and that she was 19, implying a birth year around 1905. The record of her 1945 marriage to John B. Squier says that she was born in Lansing, Michigan and that she was 39, implying a birth year around 1906. Both marriage records confirm that she was a daughter of Elbert Freeman Allen and Marion Van Wort, and the 1910 and 1920 census records of that couple list a daughter of the appropriate age named Rosalia or Roselia. Elbert Freeman Allen was born in Howell in 1873 and married Marion Van Wort there in 1892. Finally, Rose M. Squier's 9 Apr 1985 obituary in the Battle Creek Enquirer, says that she was born in Lansing and gives her age at death as 79, implying a birth year of 1905. This obituary correctly identifies its subject as the mother of "Barbara Fitzgerald of Dayton" and, while it makes no mention of her first husband, it also correctly says "Her husband, John B. Squier, died in 1963."

She is a subject of extreme confusion in various user-submitted trees on ancestry.com and listings on Find a Grave. Her second husband was not John McGowen Squires (1903-1972), a son of Albert E. Squires and Ruth May McGowen. Nor was he Walter R. Squires (1892-1973), a son of William Rosecrans Squires and Laura Belle Myers. Walter R. Squires did marry, on 14 Feb 1931 in Mason, Ingham County, Michigan, a woman named Rose M., but she was Miss Rose M. Erbe, 25 years old, born in Mantador, North Dakota, a daughter of Albert Erbe. Walter R. Squires died in Lansing on 9 Feb 1973 and, acccording to his 11 Feb 1973 obituary in the Lansing State Journal, was survived by his wife Rose. Walter and Rose are interred together at Resurrection Cemetery in Wyoming, Kent County, Michigan, under a plaque that gives his birth and death dates as 26 Nov 1892 and 9 Feb 1973, and hers as 20 May 1905 and 11 Mar 2005. She is beyond any possible doubt not the Rosalia M. (Allen) (Myers) Squier who was a daughter of Elbert Freeman Allen and Marion Von Wort and the mother of Barbara Ann (Myers) Fitzgerald.

Out of the dozens of user-submitted ancestry.com trees in which she appears, several of the less obviously confused give our Rosalia's birth as 8 Oct 1905 in Howell. None of them give a source for this precise date or place, but a birth in October 1905 is exactly consonant with the ages given in both of her marriage records, and with the age (79) given in the Battle Creek Enquirer's report of her death on 4 Apr 1985. Further, her father was born in Howell, her parents were married in Howell, and Howell is the birthplace given on the earlier of her two marriage records, all of which facts suggest that Howell, rather than Lansing, was her actual place of birth. But failing a truly stunning coincidence, she was not born there on 20 May 1905, because we know this to have been the birthdate of Rose M. Erbe, wife of Walter M. Squires.

Rosalia married John Q. Myers on 12 Dec 1924 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, and was divorced on 11 Sep 1944 in Calhoun County, Michigan. John (son of John Walter Myers and Electa Frances Eisenlohr) was born on 6 Feb 1895 in Carson City, Montcalm, Michigan; died on 6 Nov 1965 in Marengo Township, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rosalia married John B. Squier on 2 Jul 1945 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. John (son of Charles Albert Squier and Julia Elizabeth Hickman) was born about 1903; died in 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Daniel Squier Fitzgerald on 14 Feb 1947 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. Daniel (son of Waldo Everett Fitzgerald and Dorothy M. Squier) was born on 23 May 1923 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; died on 27 Aug 2011 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; was buried in Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta, Kalamazoo, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]