Amice Danvers

Family/Spouse: John Langston. John (son of John Langston and Elizabeth) was born in of Caversfield, Buckinghamshire, England; died in 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Joan.

Family/Spouse: Thomas Giffard. Thomas (son of John Giffard and Agnes Wynslow) was born in of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 10 Oct 1511. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1485 and 1490

Notes:

Or Anna.

Amy married Richard Samwell before 1511. Richard (son of John Samwell) was born in of Edgecote, Northamptonshire, England; died on 3 May 1519. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susanna married Peter Edwards between 11 Aug 1533 and 2 Aug 1535. Peter (son of Peter Edward) was born about 1490 in of Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England; died between 14 Oct 1550 and 3 Oct 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 25 Dec 1591
• Alternate death: 1592

Edward married Ursula Coles in 1562. Ursula (daughter of Richard Coles and Jane Bond) died before 2 Feb 1606 in Awalton, Huntingdonshire, England; was buried on 2 Feb 1606 in Awalton, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"By her father's will of 25 Dec. 1591, Margaret Freeman received 'one hoop-ring of gold worth by estimation thirty pounds.' This family was armorial." [Mary Lovering Holman, citation details below]

Margaret married Henry Freeman on 10 Feb 1589 in St. Sepulchre, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Henry (son of Thomas Freeman) was born in 1560 in of Cranford St. John, Northamptonshire, England; died on 5 Aug 1606 in Cranford St. John, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 24 Dec 1658, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

Notes:

One of TNH's four proven "gateway ancestors". Also one of TSW's eight, one of JTS's eleven; one of TWK's twelve; and the sole "gateway ancestor" yet discovered for FW.

"Alice and at least two of her daughters emigrated to New England. She was living in Roxbury, Massachusetts, by 2 April 1640, when a complaint was drawn up against 'Alice Tompson widdow.'" [Randy A. West, citation details below.]

Descendants of Alice Freeman of particular interest to anyone liable to be looking at the ancestry of people named Nielsen Hayden include Edgar Rice Burroughs, L. Frank Baum, and Thomas Pynchon. Other notable descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Julia Child, Fannie Farmer, Louisa May Alcott, Grace Slick, Louis Auchincloss, Dorothea Dix, George B. McClellan, Cyrus McCormick, J. P. Morgan, Charles Dana Gibson, Clarence Almon Torrey, Kingman Brewster Jr., Nelson, David, and Winthrop Rockefeller, Archibald MacLeish, Clarence Day, Warren G. Harding, Humphrey Bogart, Harriet Monroe, Admiral George Dewey, Thomas E. Dewey, George Gallup, Spencer W. Kimball, Martha Graham, Laura Ingalls Wilder, George F. Kennan, Robert Lansing, Brewster Kahle, James Taylor, Boris Johnson, Tammy Duckworth, Seth Low, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, and would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr.

To the best of our knowledge, Alice Freeman is the only seventeenth-century immigrant to New England proven to be both descended from an English monarch and an ancestor of the current British royal family. (Corrections welcome.) Thus:

Aethelred II "Unraed", King of England (~968-1016) = Aelfgifu (~970-~1002)
Aelfgifu = Uchtred, Earl of Northumbria (~970-1016)
Ealdgyth of Northumbria = Maldred (~1009-1045)
Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Northumbria (~1044-~1074)
Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Lothian (d. 1138)
Juliana of Dunbar = Ralph de Merlay (d. 1160)
Roger de Merlay (d. 1188) = Alice de Stuteville (d. 1219)
Agnes de Merlay = Richard Gobion (d. 1230)
Hugh Gobion (d. 1275) = Matilda (d. ~1271)
Joan Gobion (d. >1312) = John de Morteyn (d. 1296)
John de Morteyn (d. 1346) = Joan de Rothwell
Lucy de Morteyn (d. ~1361) = John Giffard (1301-1369)
Thomas Giffard (~1345-1394) = Elizabeth de Missenden (d. 1367)
Roger Giffard (~1367-1409) = Isabel Stretley
Thomas Giffard (1408-1469) = Eleanor Vaux
John Giffard (~1431-~1506) = Agnes Wynslow
Thomas Giffard (d. 1511) = Jane Langston (d. 1535)
Amy Giffard (d.~1488) = Richard Samwell (d. 1519)
Susanna Samwell (~1511-~1586) = Peter Edwards (~1490-~1550)
Edward Edwards (~1537-~1592) = Ursula Coles (d. 1606)
Margaret Edwards (1565-~1637) = Henry Freeman (~1564-1606)
Alice Freeman (~1595-1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
Margaret Morgan (b. 1686) = Ebenezer Hibbard (1682-1732)
Keziah Hibbard (b. 1722) = Caleb Bishop (1717-1785)
Lucy Bishop (1747-1783) = Benejah Strong (1740-1809)
Dr. Joseph Strong (1770-1812) = Rebecca Young (1779-1862)
Eleanor Strong (1805-1863) = John Wood (1785-1848)
Ellen Wood (1831-1877) = Franklin H. Work (1819-1911)
Frances Ellen Work (1857-1947) = James Boothby Burke Roche (1851-1920)
Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885-1955) = Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908-1993)
Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) = Edward John Spencer (1924-1992)
Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) = Charles, Prince of Wales (1948- )
William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (1982- )

In addition, Alice Freeman's descent to General McClellan:

John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
Martha Parke (b. 1646) = Isaac Wheeler
Martha Wheeler (d. 1745) = John Williams (d. 1702)
Eunice Williams (1702-1772) = Joseph Gallup (1695-1760)
Lucy Gallup = James Eldredge
Eunice Eldredge = James McClellan
Dr. George McClellan (1796-1847) = Elizabeth Sophia Brinton (1800-1889)
George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885)

And to Warren G. Harding:

Alice Freeman (~1595->1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
Dorothy Tompson (1624-1709) = Thomas Parke (1619-1709)
Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
Rev. Joseph Morgan (1671->1738) = Sarah Emmons (~1678->1706)
Dorothy Morgan (1697->1747) = Henry Van Kirk (1700-~1776)
Henry Van Kirk (1740-1798)
William Van Kirk (1763-1826) = Deborah Watters
Charity Malvina Van Kirk (~1803-1878) = Isaac Haines Dickerson (~1802-1867)
Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson (1843-1910) = George Tyron Harding (1844-1928)
Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923)

And to, of all people, Boris Johnson:

John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
Dorothy Parke (1652-1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
Dorothy Morgan (1676-1759) = Ebenezer Witter (1668-1712)
Mary Witter (b. 1696) = Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1682)
Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1719) = Margaret Huntington
Solomon Tracy (1756-1835) = Mary Wells (~1864-1848)
Hila Tracy (1799-~1841) = Jonathan Nobles (~1792-~1870)
Maria Nobles (~1823-~1880) = Judson Holcomb (~1819-~1880)
Clara Holcomb (1848-1927) = Henry Clinton Porter (1851-1922)
Helen Tracy Porter (1876-1963) = Elias Avery Lowe (1879-1969)
Frances Beatrice Lowe = Sir James Edmund Sanford Fawcett (1913-1991)
Charlotte Offlow Fawcett (1942-2021) = Stanley Patrick Johnson (1940- )
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (1964- ), UK Prime Minister 2019-

(Freakishly, because everything about Boris Johnson is freakish, Boris Johnson is also a descendant of Alice Freeman's second husband Robert Parke, via his first wife Martha Chaplin.)

Alice married John Tompson in 1613. John was born about 1585 in of Maidford, Northamptonshire, England; died between 7 Nov 1626 and 14 Nov 1626 in London, England; was buried on 14 Nov 1626 in St. Dunstan in the West, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Robert Parke after 30 May 1644 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Robert (son of Robert Parke and Alice Chaplin) was born before 3 Jun 1580; was christened on 3 Jun 1580 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England; died on 4 Feb 1665 in Mystic, New London, Connecticut; was buried on 7 Feb 1665 in Mystic, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

No documentation absolutely proves that the Mary Tompson who married Joseph Wise was the Mary Tompson who was baptized in 1619 to John Tompson and Alice Freeman. But a large amount of evidence suggests that this is probably the case.*

Arguing that the two individuals were the same, Mary Lovering Holman (in Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948) pointed out that, (1), when "Mary Tompsonn" married Joseph Wise in Roxbury in 1641, there was no Tompson family in Roxbury save for that of Alice (Freeman) Tompson; (2) in the course of their marriage, Mary frequently joined her husband Joseph in the sale of property, and only on one occasion signed in release of dower rights, a believable pattern of behavior if Mary was in fact from a gentry family; (3) Mary and Joseph named their seventh child Henry, "an unusual name at the time but that of Alice Freeman's father, brother, and great-grandfather, while the name of Katherine, the ninth child, also appears in the Freeman family"; and (4) if Mary the wife of Joseph Wise was in fact the Mary Tompson born to John Tompson and Alice Freeman in 1619, then she would have been 22 at her marriage, an entirely plausible age.

In 1980, 32 years later, Robert Charles Anderson wrote: "Joseph [Wise] is next seen marrying in Roxbury on 3 Dec. 1641 'Mary Tompsonn.' There is good reason to believe that this is the Mary Tompson baptized at Preston Capes, Northants, 14 Nov. 1619, to John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson (TAG 13: 1-8; 14:145 f.). Arguments for this identification of Joseph's wife are given by Mary Holman (Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, pp. 422 f.), with support from Donald Lines Jacobus (TAG 32:128). Further supporting circumstantial evidence lies in the Rhode Island land records, where we find that on 7 June 1671 Joseph Wise of Roxbury sells to Deacon William Parke of Roxbury half of a 600 acre tract in Providence. After the document was drawn up, it was discovered that an error in the bounds had to be corrected. This correction was made and signed by Joseph Wise Senior and by Samiel Williams 'for his father Deacon William Park.' William Parke was son of Robert Parke of Roxbury by his first wife, and was therefore stepbrother of Mary Tompson, daughter of John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson. Samuel Williams, who had married Theoda Parke, daughter of William, was brother of Stephen Williams who had married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Wise. Two years later Joseph Wise sold the other half of this tract to Caleb Lamb and Stephen Williams (Rhode Island Land Evidences vol. 1, 1648-1696, pp. 40 f., 81.). ["Joseph Wise of Roxbury, Butcher," citation details below]


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* Note that even without this connection, JTS retains descent from "gateway ancestor" Alice Freeman, via descent from her daughter Bridget.

Mary married Joseph Wise on 3 Dec 1641 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of Henry Wise and Katherine Willmore) was born before 10 Jun 1617; was christened on 10 Jun 1617 in Bulkington, Warwickshire, England; died on 12 Sep 1684 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 11 Sep 1622, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England

Notes:

"The wife of George Denison & a godly young woman dyed of a feaver & consumption." [The Great Migration Begins]

Bridget married Capt. George Denison in Mar 1640 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. George (son of William Denison and Margaret Chandler) was born before 10 Dec 1620; was christened on 10 Dec 1620 in St. Michael, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 23 Oct 1694 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 5 Sep 1707
• Alternate death: Aft 1709

Dorothy married Thomas Parke before 28 Oct 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Robert Parke and Martha Chaplin) was born in of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened in 1616 in Hitcham, Suffolk, England; died on 30 Jul 1709 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Caleb Lamb on 30 Jun 1669 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Caleb (son of Thomas Lamb and Dorothy Harbottle) was born on 9 Apr 1641 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said in some sources to have died 30 Sep 1677 in Roxbury, but her will was dated 8 Oct 1715 in Stonington.

Hannah married Nathaniel Chesebrough in 1659 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Nathaniel (son of William Chesebrough and Ann Stevenson) was born before 25 Jan 1630; was christened on 25 Jan 1630 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 22 Nov 1678 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Joseph Saxton on 15 Jul 1680 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of Thomas Saxton and Ann Copp) was born on 9 May 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 11 May 1656; died after 8 Jul 1715; was buried in Old Taugwonk Cemetery, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Greenfield Larribee on 16 Mar 1673. Greenfield (son of Greenfield Larribee and Phebe Browne) was born on 20 Apr 1648 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 4 Feb 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Rachel Leffingwell on 24 Nov 1681. Rachel (daughter of Lt. Thomas Leffingwell and Mary) was born on 17 Mar 1648. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have been born at New London 6 Mar 1652, but no record has been found. She is mentioned as a beneficiary in her father's will of 5 Sep 1707.

Dorothy married Lt. Joseph Morgan on 26 Apr 1670 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of James Morgan and Margery Hill) was born on 29 Oct 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 29 Nov 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 5 Apr 1704 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Atherton Mather on 24 Oct 1705. Atherton (son of Timothy Mather and Elizabeth Atherton) was born on 4 Oct 1663 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 9 Nov 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Lt. William Gallup on 4 Jan 1687 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. William (son of Capt. John Gallup and Hannah Lake) was born in Apr 1658 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 15 May 1731 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in White Hall Graveyard, Mystic, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said by some to have died 4 Dec 1791 at Lebanon, Connecticut, aged 105. We doubt it.

Mercy Saxton (b. 1686) = William Dewey (1692-1759)
Elijah Dewey (b. 1728) = Abigail Martin
Martin Dewey (1757-1849) = Hannah Waterman (d. 1823)
Granville Dewey (1787-1840) = Harriet B. Freeman (1799-1872)
George Martin Dewey (1832-1897) = Emma Bingham (1837-1910)
George Martin Dewey (1869-1927) = Annie Thomas
Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) -- governor of New York 1943-54; Republican nominee for President in 1944 and 1948

Mercy Saxton (b. 1686) = William Dewey (1692-1759)
Simeon Dewey (1718-1751) = Anna Phelps (1719-1807)
William Dewey (1746-1813) = Rebecca Carrier (1747-1837)
Simeon Dewey (1770-1863) = Prudence Yeomans (1772-1844)
Julius Yemans Dewey (1801-1877) = Mary Polly Perrin (1799-1843)
Admiral George A. Dewey (1837-1917)

Mercy married Isaac Bayley on 4 Jun 1702 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Isaac (son of Rev. James Bayley and Mary Carr) was born on 2 Oct 1681 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 23 Aug 1711 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married William Dewey on 2 Jul 1713. William was born in Jan 1692 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 10 Nov 1759 in Albany, Albany, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phebe married John Benjamin on 7 Aug 1705 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. John (son of Joseph Benjamin and Sarah) was born about 1682 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 2 Aug 1716 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 22 Mar 1681, Preston, New London, Connecticut

Martha married Deacon Joseph Perkins on 22 May 1700 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Deacon (son of Jacob Perkins and Elizabeth Whipple) was born on 21 Jun 1674 in of Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 6 Sep 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Samuel Loomer on 22 May 1718. Samuel (son of Stephen Loomer and Mary Miller) was born in 1692 in New London, New London, Connecticut; died on 9 Dec 1786 in Bozrah, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Nov 1708, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather (citation details below) gives his birthdate as "Nov. 31, 1708", a date that does not exist.

He must have died before 1757 when his wife Lois remarried Isaac Mixer.

Richard married Lois Burbank on 21 Mar 1734. Lois (daughter of John Burbank and Mary Granger) was born on 15 Jan 1715 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1760 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was baptized by her future father-in-law, the Rev. James Noyes.

Mary married Deacon John Noyes on 16 Mar 1715 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Deacon (son of Rev. James Noyes and Dorothy Stanton) was born on 13 Jan 1685 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 26 Jul 1685 in First Congregational Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 17 Sep 1751 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Ticknor on 14 May 1724 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. John (son of William Ticknor and Lydia Tilden) was born on 24 Jun 1699 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 7 May 1751 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Saxton married Hannah Hunt on 24 Jun 1731 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Ebenezer Hunt and Hannah Clark) was born on 12 Oct 1699 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a cordwainer and a farmer.

John married Margaret Jameson on 3 Jan 1740 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Margaret (daughter of John Jameson and Abigail Carter) was born on 21 Jun 1716 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 13 Oct 1769 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1 Aug 1713, Norwich, New London, Connecticut

Matthew married Hannah Bishop on 19 Apr 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Bishop and Sarah Fobes) was born on 2 Aug 1722 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Hannah Chapman on 11 Oct 1749 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Jonathan Chapman and Hannah Bailey) was born on 11 Oct 1725 in Groton, New London, Connecticut; died on 27 Jun 1778 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Upper Pereaux, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is said to have married, 17 Feb 1763 at Suffield, Abiah Hall.

An Abiah Hall was definitely born 17 Jan 1740 at Suffield, daughter of Nathan Hall & Mabel Winchell. Nathan and Mabel published their intention at Suffield 9 Dec 1716, and banns were forbidden 14 Dec 1716, five days later, by Benjamin Winchell. [Barbour Collection, Suffield]

[But according to records on familysearch.org, Mabel's father was Thomas Winchell.]

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

Notes:

He was baptized by his grandfather, the Rev. James Noyes (1640-1719). The date of his death is unknown; his tombstone in South Guilford was gone by 1889, not having been seen for many years.

John married Mercy Breed on 30 May 1744 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Mercy (daughter of John Breed and Mary Prentice) was born on 3 Aug 1727 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 5 Aug 1811; was buried on 5 Aug 1811 in Guilford, Windham, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was baptized by the Rev. Ebenezer Rosseter.

Mary married Col. Joseph Champlin on 8 Feb 1753 in First Congregational Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of Christopher Champlin and Elizabeth Denison) was born on 4 Aug 1709 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island; died on 20 Dec 1792 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Served in the Revolution 28 Oct to 18 Nov, 1776, as a lieutenant in Col. Jonathan Chase's regiment. Again as a private 11 and 18 Jun 1777; as a lieutenant 27 Jun, and as captain 4 Jul, all in the same regiment.

Elisha married Deborah Davis on 2 Jan 1772 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. Deborah (daughter of Samuel Davis and Alice Swift) was born on 28 Feb 1750 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; died on 19 Jul 1804; was buried in South Cemetery, Lebanon, Grafton, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Elisha Doubleday on 2 Oct 1749. Elisha (son of Elisha Doubleday and Mary Woodhead) was born in of Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; died on 9 Jan 1806 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have served in General Waterbury's brigade of the Connecticut militia during the Revolution, and to have been killed "near Horse's Neck, Connecticut" (West Greenwich).

John married Grace Waite on 29 Jun 1775 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. Grace (daughter of Thomas Waite and Bridget) was born on 4 Jun 1756 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Sufanna ye Daughter of Matthew Perkins & his wife Hannah was born January 29: 1752." [Norwich Vital Records, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Rev. John Staples. John (son of Deacon Seth Staples and Hannah Standish) was born on 23 Apr 1742; died on 15 Feb 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 16 Jun 1752, Bozrah, New London, Connecticut

Jonathan married Mary Sanford on 8 Feb 1776. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Sanford and Amelia Bentley) was born on 1 Feb 1756 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 30 Nov 1826 in Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Upper Pereaux, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1854, Deposit, New York

Thaddeus married Sarah Parker in 1803. Sarah (daughter of Capt. Nathan Parker and Sarah) died on 26 Feb 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Mary Noyes.

Mercy married William Sisson on 10 Apr 1766 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. William (son of William Sisson and Hannah) was born on 12 Jul 1744 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island; died on 15 Oct 1798; was buried in Great Plain Cemetery, North Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

Notes:

Joseph Champlin and Mercy Sisson were first cousins once removed, he being a grandson of John Noyes and Mary Gallup, and her being a great-granddaughter of the same couple.

Joseph married Mercy Sisson in 1790. Mercy (daughter of William Sisson and Mercy Noyes) was born on 15 Apr 1771 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deborah married Alfred Bingham on 15 Aug 1793. Alfred (son of Elisha Bingham and Hannah Slapp) was born on 30 Jan 1771 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; died on 12 Apr 1862 in Norwichville, Oxford, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Feb 1757, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

Notes:

Soldier and then privateer in the Revolutionary War. Suffered through the winters of both Valley Forge and Monmouth, New Jersey.

Notes:

"[E]nlisted in the Army of the Revolution at the age of sixteen. He spent the night of March 4, 1776, on Dorchester Hill, while it was being fortified, and was also with General Washington during that dreary winter at Valley Forge and continued in service during the war, attaining to the rank of major." ["Mrs. Julia Waters Johnstone," citation details below.]

"[S]erved as a private, corporal, and sergeant in the Revolutionary War in the First Connecticut Regiment." [Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Lois Tilden. Lois (daughter of John Tilden and Bathsheba Janes) was born on 20 Apr 1763; died on 8 Sep 1840; was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, New Hartford, Oneida, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Dec 1775, Preston, New London, Connecticut
• Alternate death: 29 Jun 1841, Greene, New York

Notes:

Also called Augustus Rufus Benjamin.

Rufus married Catharina Groat in 1796 in Windham, Greene, New York. Catharina (daughter of John Groat and Sara Bowman) was born on 9 Aug 1779 in Claverack, Columbia, New York; was christened on 22 Aug 1779 in Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia, New York; died after 20 Jun 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lawyer and politician. He was a representative of the town of New Haven in the State Legislature for seven or eight sessions, most of them during the war of 1812. The institution that eventually became Yale Law School began with him training legal apprentices in his law office in New Haven in the first decade of the 19th century.

"After completing his studies at Yale [Seth Perkins Staples] began the study of the law in the office of the Hon. David Daggett in New Haven, Connecticut for two years. During this time Seth hand-copied a set of Tapping Reeve's law notes for his own use, but never attended the Litchfield Law School as a student (a common misconception). Once his understanding of the law was adequate. Seth passed the bar in Litchfield in 1799, and then immediately opened a law office of his own in New Haven and commenced practice. In that same year he married Catharine Wales Staples. During their marriage the couple had six children; three sons and three daughters, one daughter of which later attended the Litchfield Female Academy. The future Yale Law School formed in the New Haven law office of Seth P. Staples. Staples owned an exceptional library (an attraction for students at a time when law books were scarce), and he began training apprentices in the early 1800s. By the 1810s his law office had a full-fledged law school. Samuel Hitchcock, one of Staples’ former students, became a partner at the office and later, the proprietor of the New Haven Law School." [Litchfield Historical Society]

"The [New Haven Law] School began in the New Haven law office of Seth P. Staples in the 1800s, who began training lawyers. By 1810 he was operating a law school. He took on a former student, Samuel J. Hitchcock, as a law partner, and Hitchcock became the proprietor of the New Haven Law School, joined by David Daggett in 1824. (The Yale Law School shield, shown at the upper right of this page, shows staples and a rampant dog, representing Seth Staples and David Daggett.) The school's affiliation with Yale began in the mid-1820s and in 1843, the school's students began receiving Yale degrees." [Wikipedia article on Yale Law School]

Susanna married Roger Sherman on 7 Jan 1801 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. Roger (son of Roger Sherman and Rebecca Prescott) was born on 16 Jul 1768 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 5 Mar 1856 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Deborah Strong on 10 Jan 1809 in Nova Scotia. Deborah (daughter of Abel Strong and Sarah Eaton) was born on 11 Mar 1791 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 13 Sep 1870 in Walworth County, Wisconsin; was buried in Millard Cemetery, Millard, Walworth, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"BIXBY.--On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1890, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. David Wetmore, No. 119 Lexington Av., CAROLINE M. BIXBY, mother of Francis M. and Butler H. Bixby. Notice of funeral hereafter." [New York Times obituary, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Ira Bixby. Ira was born in 1803; died in 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joseph Champlin and Mercy Sisson were first cousins once removed, he being a grandson of John Noyes and Mary Gallup, and her being a great-granddaughter of the same couple.

Mercy married Joseph Champlin in 1790. Joseph (son of Col. Joseph Champlin and Mary Noyes) was born in 1762 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 16 Apr 1794, West Green River, Vermont
• Alternate birth: 16 Apr 1794, Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont

Notes:

Note that no town called "West Green River" or "Green River" exists in New Hampshire. There is a river called the Green River in Vermont.

Wikipedia page about the Haun's Mill massacre here.

Posted to ancestry.com by "genealogy_man":

1836. William Sisson CHAMPLIN (Mercy SISSON, William, William, Thomas, George, Richard) was born 16 Apr 1794 in Shelburne, Vermont. He died 29 Jan 1861 in Lehi, Utah, Utah.

From Cheri Hardisty:

William Sisson Champlin and his family joined the Mormon Church in the 1830's and migrated to Missouri. He was the son of Joseph Champlin of Westerly, Rhode Island, and Mercy Sisson of Stonington, CT.

The Sissons settled in Independence, Missouri, and were driven out of that area along with the other Mormons. They subsequently located themselves in Clay County Missouri until the Mormons were driven out of there, and then located in Caldwell County, Missouri. Caldwell County was set up at that time by the government, as a county specifically for the Mormons to live in, in order to avoid further conflicts. However, there were some of the old settlers who remained in the county, and they were not happy to have the Mormons as neighbors. You see, Missouri was a slave state, and the Mormons were opposed to slavery. So the aim of the old settlers was to expel the Mormons from the state to ensure the state remained pro-slavery.

William Sisson and his family lived at a place called Haun's Mill. It was a Mormon settlement, but not a very large one. The largest Mormon settlement in Caldwell County was Far West which had about 5,000 residents. The Mormons were aware of the rising hostilities against them, and as a result, the Prophet Joseph Smith counseled those at Haun's Mill to come to Far West for safety. It was October 30th, 1838. William and his family were concerned about having food to last them through the winter at Far West, and so in preparation to go there, they were digging up carrots that day. As they did so, the mob rode in on horseback, and a massacre ensued. A couple of days after the massacre, the Governor of Missouri, Governor Boggs, issued his famous "extermination order" which resulted in the Mormons fleeing to Illinois for safety. The extermination order called for the Mormons to be driven from the state, or exterminated if necessary. (After Joseph Smith was murdered in Illinois, Brigham Young took the reins of leadership of the church, and in 1847, the Mormons began their famous pioneer trek to Salt Lake City, an area which was not desirable to others, in hopes that at last they would be able to live in peace.)

When the mob arrived at Haun's Mill, the women and children fled into the woods for safety, and the men ran into the blacksmith shop, and attempted to defend the settlement from that position. The blacksmith shop, however, was made of hewn logs, and there were cracks (the crack width being about 2") between the logs. The Mob came right up to the blacksmith shop and poked the barrels of their rifles through those cracks and opened fire on those inside. William Sisson Champlin was inside. And when the massacre was over, there were only two survivors from inside the blacksmith shop.

William was a smart man. When he saw what was happening, he laid down on the floor, and as his comrades fell to the ground, dead, he pulled their bodies over the top of his own, and pretended he was dead. When the mob rushed into the blacksmith shop after opening fire, they saw that William had new boots on his feet, and they wanted those boots. He allowed them to take the boots, all the while pretending he was dead, and as a result, he lived, and for the rest of his days, he was known as "Old Possum". His wife and children who had fled into the woods also survived.

William married Mary RING "Polly", daughter of Reuben RING and Anna, on 28 Mar 1816 in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont. They had the following children:

3724 F i
Sarah CHAMPLIN.
3725 M ii
William Jefferson CHAMPLIN was born 1820.
3726 M iii
Joseph Albert CHAMPLIN was born 1825.
3727 M iv
Alonzo CHAMPLIN was born 1827.
3728 F v
Angelina Avilda CHAMPLIN was born 8 Jan 1828 in Hartland, Vinson, Vermont.
+ 3729 F vi
Mary Jane CHAMPLIN was born 20 May 1830 and died 1 Nov 1906.
3730 F vii
Margaret Emma CHAMPLIN was born about 1833.

William married Mary Ring on 28 Mar 1816 in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont. Mary (daughter of Reuben French Ring and Nancy Reed) was born in 1794 in Old Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 3 Apr 1871 in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1801, New Hampshire

Gustavus married Sarah Olmstead on 28 Sep 1828. Sarah was born in 1802 in Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Oct 1857

Notes:

"He was at first a farmer, then a druggist, and afterward a merchant in N. Y. City. He was Col. of militia. He finally became a self-appointed and self-supporting missionary in Brooklyn, N. Y." [The Ogden Family in America, citation details below.]

He was a first cousin of Samuel J. Tilden, governor of New York 1875-76 and Democratic nominee for President in 1876. But at the point of John Tilden Doubleday's death, his cousin's political career was just getting started.

John married Mary Elizabeth Whiting on 19 Sep 1819. Mary (daughter of Mason Whiting and Mary Ogden Edwards) was born on 21 Apr 1801; died on 22 Nov 1882 in Binghamton, Broome, New York; was buried on 25 Nov 1882 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married secondly, 9 Nov 1850, James Van Steenberg.

Family/Spouse: Philip Howard. Philip was born on 27 Mar 1801; died on 7 Oct 1871; was buried in Woodstock Cemetery, Woodstock, Ulster, New York. [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]

Family/Spouse: Edmund Hiram King. Edmund was born on 5 Aug 1819 in Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont; died on 14 Apr 1901 in Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married David Wetmore on 4 Sep 1855 in Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey. David (son of William Henry Wetmore and Sarah Brinckerhoff) was born on 31 Oct 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 16 Apr 1794, West Green River, Vermont
• Alternate birth: 16 Apr 1794, Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont

Notes:

Note that no town called "West Green River" or "Green River" exists in New Hampshire. There is a river called the Green River in Vermont.

Wikipedia page about the Haun's Mill massacre here.

Posted to ancestry.com by "genealogy_man":

1836. William Sisson CHAMPLIN (Mercy SISSON, William, William, Thomas, George, Richard) was born 16 Apr 1794 in Shelburne, Vermont. He died 29 Jan 1861 in Lehi, Utah, Utah.

From Cheri Hardisty:

William Sisson Champlin and his family joined the Mormon Church in the 1830's and migrated to Missouri. He was the son of Joseph Champlin of Westerly, Rhode Island, and Mercy Sisson of Stonington, CT.

The Sissons settled in Independence, Missouri, and were driven out of that area along with the other Mormons. They subsequently located themselves in Clay County Missouri until the Mormons were driven out of there, and then located in Caldwell County, Missouri. Caldwell County was set up at that time by the government, as a county specifically for the Mormons to live in, in order to avoid further conflicts. However, there were some of the old settlers who remained in the county, and they were not happy to have the Mormons as neighbors. You see, Missouri was a slave state, and the Mormons were opposed to slavery. So the aim of the old settlers was to expel the Mormons from the state to ensure the state remained pro-slavery.

William Sisson and his family lived at a place called Haun's Mill. It was a Mormon settlement, but not a very large one. The largest Mormon settlement in Caldwell County was Far West which had about 5,000 residents. The Mormons were aware of the rising hostilities against them, and as a result, the Prophet Joseph Smith counseled those at Haun's Mill to come to Far West for safety. It was October 30th, 1838. William and his family were concerned about having food to last them through the winter at Far West, and so in preparation to go there, they were digging up carrots that day. As they did so, the mob rode in on horseback, and a massacre ensued. A couple of days after the massacre, the Governor of Missouri, Governor Boggs, issued his famous "extermination order" which resulted in the Mormons fleeing to Illinois for safety. The extermination order called for the Mormons to be driven from the state, or exterminated if necessary. (After Joseph Smith was murdered in Illinois, Brigham Young took the reins of leadership of the church, and in 1847, the Mormons began their famous pioneer trek to Salt Lake City, an area which was not desirable to others, in hopes that at last they would be able to live in peace.)

When the mob arrived at Haun's Mill, the women and children fled into the woods for safety, and the men ran into the blacksmith shop, and attempted to defend the settlement from that position. The blacksmith shop, however, was made of hewn logs, and there were cracks (the crack width being about 2") between the logs. The Mob came right up to the blacksmith shop and poked the barrels of their rifles through those cracks and opened fire on those inside. William Sisson Champlin was inside. And when the massacre was over, there were only two survivors from inside the blacksmith shop.

William was a smart man. When he saw what was happening, he laid down on the floor, and as his comrades fell to the ground, dead, he pulled their bodies over the top of his own, and pretended he was dead. When the mob rushed into the blacksmith shop after opening fire, they saw that William had new boots on his feet, and they wanted those boots. He allowed them to take the boots, all the while pretending he was dead, and as a result, he lived, and for the rest of his days, he was known as "Old Possum". His wife and children who had fled into the woods also survived.

William married Mary RING "Polly", daughter of Reuben RING and Anna, on 28 Mar 1816 in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont. They had the following children:

3724 F i
Sarah CHAMPLIN.
3725 M ii
William Jefferson CHAMPLIN was born 1820.
3726 M iii
Joseph Albert CHAMPLIN was born 1825.
3727 M iv
Alonzo CHAMPLIN was born 1827.
3728 F v
Angelina Avilda CHAMPLIN was born 8 Jan 1828 in Hartland, Vinson, Vermont.
+ 3729 F vi
Mary Jane CHAMPLIN was born 20 May 1830 and died 1 Nov 1906.
3730 F vii
Margaret Emma CHAMPLIN was born about 1833.

William married Mary Ring on 28 Mar 1816 in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont. Mary (daughter of Reuben French Ring and Nancy Reed) was born in 1794 in Old Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 3 Apr 1871 in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1818, Vermont

Angelina married Jonathan Taylor Packer on 4 Jan 1840 in Adams County, Illinois. Jonathan (son of Moses Packer and Eve Williams) was born on 26 Jul 1817 in Perry Township, Richland, Ohio; died on 29 Jan 1889 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; was buried in Safford Cemetery, Graham, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 11 Apr 1831

George married Mary Hannah Ward about 1857. Mary (daughter of Sheldon Ward and Ann Heron) was born in 1838 in Toronto, Ontario; died on 13 Feb 1898 in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Mar 1900, New York, New York

William married Ellen Maria Dickinson on 1 Oct 1850. Ellen (daughter of Horace Dickinson and Mercy Amelia Bigelow) was born on 31 Dec 1830 in Montréal, Québec; died on 14 Dec 1907 in New York, New York; was buried on 16 Dec 1907 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He came to Kingston, NY in 1887, and was a turner in the W. P. Crane mills in Rondout.

Family/Spouse: Catherine Devall. Catherine was born in 1848; died in 1918; was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster, New York. [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:

From Wikipedia:

Franklin Hiram King was an American agricultural scientist who was born on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin, attended country schools, and received his professional training first at Whitewater State Normal School, graduating in 1872, and then at Cornell University. King is now best remembered for his first-hand account of traditional agricultural practices in Asia, now regarded as an organic farming classic text.

Franklin married Carrie Hunter Baker in 1874. Carrie (daughter of Hiram Thomas Baker and Mary Asenath Hunter) was born on 6 May 1857 in Berlin, Green Lake, Wisconsin; died on 22 May 1957 in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1863
• Alternate birth: 10 Feb 1863

Notes:

Her birth and death dates are clearly visible on her tombstone at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, next to the grave of her second husband, James Wright Markoe.

Annette married William Boerum Wetmore on 12 Apr 1882 in Grace Church, New York, New York, and was divorced in Apr 1892. William (son of Samuel Wetmore and Sarah Taylor Boerum) was born on 7 Dec 1849; died on 24 Mar 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annette married Dr. James Wright Markoe on 22 Nov 1894. James was born on 19 Jul 1862 in New York, New York; died on 18 Apr 1920 in New York, New York; was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1818, Vermont

Angelina married Jonathan Taylor Packer on 4 Jan 1840 in Adams County, Illinois. Jonathan (son of Moses Packer and Eve Williams) was born on 26 Jul 1817 in Perry Township, Richland, Ohio; died on 29 Jan 1889 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; was buried in Safford Cemetery, Graham, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Posted to findagrave.com by "Sunflower Lady", 7/11/2011:

"[The] Pioneer Band from Safford, Graham, Arizona played at many community events. It was organized in the early 1880's. Alonzo Packer, the bass drum player, who died Friday, March 23, 1917, was the first member of the band to die and his friend, James Fall Freestone, the second. Alonzo's daughter, Charlotte, married James's son, Leonard.

"Alonzo and James lived close to each other. As Alonzo's life drew to a close it was hard to make him stay in bed. When he was urged to lie down and rest he would say, 'No, if I go to bed, I will never get up. When I give up to the bed, that is the end for me'.

"Shortly before he died his old friend, James Freestone, came to see him. He had walked with the aid of his cane the distance of the 20 acre field that separated the two of them, to pay his respects to Alonzo. As he entered the room, he stood for a time looking down upon his friend in bed, then he said 'Well, Lonzo.' Alonzo replied, 'Well, James.' Two short words! That was the only exchange. That was all that needed to be said. A lifetime of meaning and emotion were packed within these few words. Ten days after Alonzo died James also died."

Alonzo married Lydia Ann Parker on 6 Jul 1869 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Lydia (daughter of Solomon Parker and Nancy Jane Welch) was born on 19 Nov 1847 in Ekfrid, Middlesex, Ontario; died on 8 Oct 1918 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; was buried on 10 Oct 1918 in Safford Cemetery, Graham, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1849, Utah
• Alternate birth: Abt 1850, Utah

Family/Spouse: Mary Ann Aldred. Mary was born on 3 Nov 1853 in England; died on 20 Feb 1907 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; was buried in Safford Cemetery, Graham, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Mary Jane "May" Thomson on 8 Oct 1890 in Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario. Mary (daughter of John Thomson and Mary) was born about 1867. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founder of the Doubleday publishing firm. Called "Effendi" by his friend Rudyard Kipling, a pun on his initials.

Frank married Neltje Blanchan De Graff on 9 Jun 1886 in Plainfield, Somerset, New Jersey. Neltje (daughter of Liverius De Graff and Alice Fair) was born on 23 Oct 1865 in Chicago, Illinois; died on 21 Feb 1918 in Canton, China. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Hasbrouck Hudler. John (son of Walter C. Hudler and Rachel C. Shaw) was born on 23 May 1873; died on 8 Nov 1945 in Kingston, Ulster, New York; was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster, New York. [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]

Clarence married Alice Darracott Seabrook on 4 Mar 1911 in New York, New York. Alice (daughter of Harry Hartshorne Seabrook and May Nason) was born on 30 Jul 1890 in White Plains, Westchester, New York; died on 2 Mar 1979 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1885

Dagmar married Charles Sprague Sargent on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Charles (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Mary Allen Robeson) was born on 7 Mar 1880 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 13 Feb 1959 in New York City; was buried in Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Posted to findagrave.com by "Sunflower Lady", 7/11/2011:

"[The] Pioneer Band from Safford, Graham, Arizona played at many community events. It was organized in the early 1880's. Alonzo Packer, the bass drum player, who died Friday, March 23, 1917, was the first member of the band to die and his friend, James Fall Freestone, the second. Alonzo's daughter, Charlotte, married James's son, Leonard.

"Alonzo and James lived close to each other. As Alonzo's life drew to a close it was hard to make him stay in bed. When he was urged to lie down and rest he would say, 'No, if I go to bed, I will never get up. When I give up to the bed, that is the end for me'.

"Shortly before he died his old friend, James Freestone, came to see him. He had walked with the aid of his cane the distance of the 20 acre field that separated the two of them, to pay his respects to Alonzo. As he entered the room, he stood for a time looking down upon his friend in bed, then he said 'Well, Lonzo.' Alonzo replied, 'Well, James.' Two short words! That was the only exchange. That was all that needed to be said. A lifetime of meaning and emotion were packed within these few words. Ten days after Alonzo died James also died."

Alonzo married Lydia Ann Parker on 6 Jul 1869 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Lydia (daughter of Solomon Parker and Nancy Jane Welch) was born on 19 Nov 1847 in Ekfrid, Middlesex, Ontario; died on 8 Oct 1918 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; was buried on 10 Oct 1918 in Safford Cemetery, Graham, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1849, Utah
• Alternate birth: Abt 1850, Utah

Family/Spouse: Mary Ann Aldred. Mary was born on 3 Nov 1853 in England; died on 20 Feb 1907 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; was buried in Safford Cemetery, Graham, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlotte married George Leonard Freestone in 1891. George was born on 20 Sep 1872 in Alpine, Utah, Utah; died on 21 Oct 1955 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died of injuries sustained in a car accident.

Author unknown -- the Relief Society president referred to is Clara Mabel Packer, and the "Lee Crandall" mentioned is her son Lee Alonzo Crandall:

"Grandma Nichols was on the way to the temple for the wedding of her son Lee in the Mesa Temple, when the accident occurred at the corner of Main and Gilbert Road, which was way out in the desert. She was serving as a counselor in the ward Relief Society at the time and she and the Relief Society President were on the way to the temple for the wedding. The RS President was driving the car then they were hit and killed. The wedding had to be postponed until after the funeral. One of the older gentlemen in our ward who became a great friend of mine because he was always studying the gospel and knew the latest discoveries about the Book of Mormon, etc. His name was Lee Crandall, and he was always giving firesides etc. He was awesome. We shared books back and forth and one day we were talking family history and I related mine and he about fell out of his chair -- his mother was the Relief Society President that was driving the car when she and Grandma were hit and killed. Small world isn't it."

According to an account of the life of Clara Packer written by her daughter Zelma (b. 1904), in papers of Paul Leslie Crandall now held by P & T Nielsen Hayden, the accident happened on 10 Oct 1929, and while Viola Nichols died in the hospital three hours after the accident, Clara "was seriously injured and never fully recovered, but was able to come to [the Gilbert Relief Society] meeting on Nov. 5, and did not miss a meeting until the end of the year. She presided for the last time on December 17, 1929."

According to the same account, on 17 Jan 1928 Clara Packer succeeded Barbara Allen as president of the Gilbert Relief Society. Barbara Allen had herself been elected on 13 Jul 1927, but moved to Mesa in January 1928. We believe this Barbara Allen to be, in fact, Clara Packer's daughter-in-law, TNH's grandmother.

Clara married Myron Marcellus Crandall on 22 Dec 1896 in Safford, Graham, Arizona. Myron (son of Hyrum Oscar Crandall and Harriet Guymon) was born on 2 Oct 1875 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died on 11 May 1951 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1877, Utah
• Alternate birth: Abt 1878, Utah

Maud married Ira Nathaniel Kempton on 4 Jan 1898 in Safford, Graham, Arizona. Ira (son of Ira Taylor Kempton and Elvina Marie Olson) was born on 9 Apr 1874 in Millard County, Utah; died on 10 Nov 1942 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sheldon married Marguerite Crusoe on 19 Nov 1918 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Marguerite (daughter of Joseph Crusoe and Frances "Fannie" Charlotte Rutledge) was born on 19 Nov 1890 in Michigan; died on 30 Aug 1986 in Garden City, Wayne, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen George McCarter. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter and Madeleine G. Barker) was born on 9 May 1898; died on 2 Apr 1978 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Harry F. Edinger on 11 Mar 1933 in Kingston, Ulster, New York. Harry (son of Floyd Goodman Edinger and Jane E. Kennedy) was born on 20 Aug 1909 in Kingston, Ulster, New York; died on 13 Feb 2004; was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster, New York. [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]

Notes:

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

Lowell married Phyllis Wright on 27 Sep 1941 in New York, New York. Phyllis (daughter of Austin Tappan Wright and Margaret Garrad Stone) was born on 11 Dec 1919 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; died on 23 Feb 2007 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlotte married George Leonard Freestone in 1891. George was born on 20 Sep 1872 in Alpine, Utah, Utah; died on 21 Oct 1955 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died of injuries sustained in a car accident.

Author unknown -- the Relief Society president referred to is Clara Mabel Packer, and the "Lee Crandall" mentioned is her son Lee Alonzo Crandall:

"Grandma Nichols was on the way to the temple for the wedding of her son Lee in the Mesa Temple, when the accident occurred at the corner of Main and Gilbert Road, which was way out in the desert. She was serving as a counselor in the ward Relief Society at the time and she and the Relief Society President were on the way to the temple for the wedding. The RS President was driving the car then they were hit and killed. The wedding had to be postponed until after the funeral. One of the older gentlemen in our ward who became a great friend of mine because he was always studying the gospel and knew the latest discoveries about the Book of Mormon, etc. His name was Lee Crandall, and he was always giving firesides etc. He was awesome. We shared books back and forth and one day we were talking family history and I related mine and he about fell out of his chair -- his mother was the Relief Society President that was driving the car when she and Grandma were hit and killed. Small world isn't it."

According to an account of the life of Clara Packer written by her daughter Zelma (b. 1904), in papers of Paul Leslie Crandall now held by P & T Nielsen Hayden, the accident happened on 10 Oct 1929, and while Viola Nichols died in the hospital three hours after the accident, Clara "was seriously injured and never fully recovered, but was able to come to [the Gilbert Relief Society] meeting on Nov. 5, and did not miss a meeting until the end of the year. She presided for the last time on December 17, 1929."

According to the same account, on 17 Jan 1928 Clara Packer succeeded Barbara Allen as president of the Gilbert Relief Society. Barbara Allen had herself been elected on 13 Jul 1927, but moved to Mesa in January 1928. We believe this Barbara Allen to be, in fact, Clara Packer's daughter-in-law, TNH's grandmother.

Clara married Myron Marcellus Crandall on 22 Dec 1896 in Safford, Graham, Arizona. Myron (son of Hyrum Oscar Crandall and Harriet Guymon) was born on 2 Oct 1875 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died on 11 May 1951 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1877, Utah
• Alternate birth: Abt 1878, Utah

Maud married Ira Nathaniel Kempton on 4 Jan 1898 in Safford, Graham, Arizona. Ira (son of Ira Taylor Kempton and Elvina Marie Olson) was born on 9 Apr 1874 in Millard County, Utah; died on 10 Nov 1942 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Delia married John R. Allen on 25 Nov 1929 in Santa Ana, Orange, California. John (son of John Seymour Allen and Barbara Ann Phelps) was born on 29 Oct 1905 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 19 Dec 2001 in Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Barbara Allen on 6 Jun 1924 in Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona. Barbara (daughter of John Seymour Allen and Barbara Ann Phelps) was born on 5 Oct 1903 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 12 Feb 2003 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1923

Rita married Hyrum Loren Allen on 1 Jun 1929 in Florence, Pinal, Arizona. Hyrum (son of John Seymour Allen and Barbara Ann Phelps) was born on 7 Oct 1901 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 9 Oct 1963 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

In recent decades, she changed her name, by court order, to simply "Neltje." In 2016 her autobiography North of Crazy was published by St. Martin's Press. A profile of her can be found here, and her Wikipedia page is here.

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Neltje Doubleday and John Turner Sargent Sr. are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

Neltje married John Turner Sargent, Sr. on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. John (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Dagmar Wetmore) was born on 26 Jun 1924; died on 5 Feb 2012 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Judith Nell Harned on 31 Jul 1965 in Christian, Kentucky. Judith (daughter of Dr. Fred Turnley Harned, Jr. and Mary Gertrude McCallum) was born on 30 Sep 1943 in Christian, Kentucky. [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]

Notes:

CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Delia married John R. Allen on 25 Nov 1929 in Santa Ana, Orange, California. John (son of John Seymour Allen and Barbara Ann Phelps) was born on 29 Oct 1905 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 19 Dec 2001 in Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Barbara Allen on 6 Jun 1924 in Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona. Barbara (daughter of John Seymour Allen and Barbara Ann Phelps) was born on 5 Oct 1903 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 12 Feb 2003 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1923

Rita married Hyrum Loren Allen on 1 Jun 1929 in Florence, Pinal, Arizona. Hyrum (son of John Seymour Allen and Barbara Ann Phelps) was born on 7 Oct 1901 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 9 Oct 1963 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From her obituary at Meldrum Mortuary:

Barbara J. Crandall Nielsen Dowell, age 94, of Mesa, Arizona, died on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at her home, surrounded by family and friends.

Barbara was the daughter of Paul L. Crandall and Barbara Allen Crandall. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Victor L. Nielsen, Jr., and her second husband, Emery B. Dowell. She is survived by two brothers, Paul L. Crandall, Jr., and Dr. John A. Crandall; five children, Ericka Nielsen Barber, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Victor L. Nielsen III, Matthew C. Nielsen, and Paul M. Nielsen; eight grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. She loved her family.

She was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Arizona State University. There she also met her husband, Vic Nielsen, who had signed up to write sports stories for the university's newspaper, the State Press, which Barb was editing that year. Continuing in their shared love of journalism, she and Vic worked at several newspapers after graduating, including The Superior (Arizona) Sun and the Chamberlain (South Dakota) Record. In Chamberlain they began their family with the first three of their five children; Ericka, Teresa, and Victor III. Having to put three children into snowsuits every day brought them back to Arizona, where Matthew and Paul were born.

After dedicating 12 years to raising her children, she discovered a great talent and new love for teaching. She taught high school English and journalism throughout her entire career, most of which took place at Mesa High School. She loved teaching and loved her students, and was very popular with them as well. Several went on to careers in journalism and other aspects of writing.

Barb had a long family history of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and served in numerous callings as a teacher. Her extended Mesa family took much of her free time and attention, but she managed to travel with friends through Europe after she retired, and enjoyed playing bridge with old friends and colleagues for many years. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Barbara married Victor Louis Nielsen, Jr. on 31 Oct 1949 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Victor (son of Victor Louis Nielsen, Sr. and Hazel Ethel Coston) was born on 25 Apr 1927 in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska; died on 15 May 1985 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Emery Bevington "Soap" Dowell on 9 Jun 2007 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Emery (son of John Emery Dowell, Jr. and LuCrece J. Bevington) was born on 2 Jan 1924 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; died on 21 Nov 2017 in Emeryville, Alameda, California; was buried in Fair Oaks Cemetery, Sacramento, Sacramento, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Eleanor Gay Pew in Nov 1951. Eleanor (daughter of Ellis Harvey Pew and Eliza Roxie Bond) was born on 4 Nov 1929 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 10 Jan 1999; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wilford married Ruth Ann Woods on 18 Jun 1955 in Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founder of the now-defunct Phoenix amusement park Legend City.

Notes:

From her obituary at Meldrum Mortuary:

Barbara J. Crandall Nielsen Dowell, age 94, of Mesa, Arizona, died on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at her home, surrounded by family and friends.

Barbara was the daughter of Paul L. Crandall and Barbara Allen Crandall. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Victor L. Nielsen, Jr., and her second husband, Emery B. Dowell. She is survived by two brothers, Paul L. Crandall, Jr., and Dr. John A. Crandall; five children, Ericka Nielsen Barber, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Victor L. Nielsen III, Matthew C. Nielsen, and Paul M. Nielsen; eight grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. She loved her family.

She was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Arizona State University. There she also met her husband, Vic Nielsen, who had signed up to write sports stories for the university's newspaper, the State Press, which Barb was editing that year. Continuing in their shared love of journalism, she and Vic worked at several newspapers after graduating, including The Superior (Arizona) Sun and the Chamberlain (South Dakota) Record. In Chamberlain they began their family with the first three of their five children; Ericka, Teresa, and Victor III. Having to put three children into snowsuits every day brought them back to Arizona, where Matthew and Paul were born.

After dedicating 12 years to raising her children, she discovered a great talent and new love for teaching. She taught high school English and journalism throughout her entire career, most of which took place at Mesa High School. She loved teaching and loved her students, and was very popular with them as well. Several went on to careers in journalism and other aspects of writing.

Barb had a long family history of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and served in numerous callings as a teacher. Her extended Mesa family took much of her free time and attention, but she managed to travel with friends through Europe after she retired, and enjoyed playing bridge with old friends and colleagues for many years. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Barbara married Victor Louis Nielsen, Jr. on 31 Oct 1949 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Victor (son of Victor Louis Nielsen, Sr. and Hazel Ethel Coston) was born on 25 Apr 1927 in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska; died on 15 May 1985 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Emery Bevington "Soap" Dowell on 9 Jun 2007 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Emery (son of John Emery Dowell, Jr. and LuCrece J. Bevington) was born on 2 Jan 1924 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; died on 21 Nov 2017 in Emeryville, Alameda, California; was buried in Fair Oaks Cemetery, Sacramento, Sacramento, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Eleanor Gay Pew in Nov 1951. Eleanor (daughter of Ellis Harvey Pew and Eliza Roxie Bond) was born on 4 Nov 1929 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 10 Jan 1999; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wilford married Ruth Ann Woods on 18 Jun 1955 in Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founder of the now-defunct Phoenix amusement park Legend City.

Ericka married Craig Wendell Parker on 16 Oct 1976 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, and was divorced. Craig (son of (Private) and (Private)) was born on 31 Jan 1955 in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona; died in 2020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ericka married Dennis Leo Barber on 17 Oct 1987 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, and was divorced on 22 Feb 2007 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Dennis was born on 19 Feb 1949 in Oakland, Alameda, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On marrying the former Patrick James Hayden, she changed her surname from Nielsen to Nielsen Hayden.

She added "Sophronia" as a second middle name, by court order, in 1995.

Descendant, as of 26 Feb 2023, of over 9,800 known direct ancestors.

Teresa married Patrick James Hayden on 23 Mar 1979 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Patrick (son of James Elbert Hayden and Jeannette Mary White) was born on 2 Jan 1959 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; was christened on 18 Jan 1959 in St. Mary Cathedral, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Beverlee Ann Stucker. Beverlee was born about 1958. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Lucille Lawton. Katherine (daughter of Joseph Howard Lawton and Dawn H. Socia) was born about 1964. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]