Notes:

Note:
Article from The American Genealogist, Vol. 32, p. 195.
THE WIFE OF LT. SAMUEL SMITH OF WETHERSFIELD
By Paul W. Prindle, B.S., of New York, N.Y.
The wife of Lieutenant Samuel Smith of Wethersfield, Corin., has often been named erroneously as Elizabeth Chileab. The following article appeared in abbreviated form in "The Hartford Times, " 8 Jan 1956.
About one year after their arrival from England, Lt. Samuel Smith's wife gave birth to a son,1 to whom they gave the unusual name of Chileab. Someone, possibly Stiles (he must at least be charged with responsibility for passing on the fiction in his "History of Ancient Wethersfield 2:646), assumed that this unusual name must have been the surname of the mother. It is unfortunate that Stiles failed to consult his Bible concordance. Had he done so, he would have learned that Lt. Smith, a devout man who made a bequest of a Bible in his will to each of his grandchildren gave biblical names to each one of his other sons, - Samuel, Philip and John, - and Chileab was no exception; the original Chileab was the son of King David by Abigail (II Samuel, 111;3). According to Rev. William Jenks, "Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible" (1836), Chiliab signifies "like his father, or the father's picture." Due to the unusual circumstances of Chileab's birth, Abigail being the lawful wife of Nabal the Carmelite, we may reasonable ascribe the touching choice of the babe's name to Abigail rather than to David. In any event in the 7 Oct. 1929 issue of "The Boston Evening Transcript," one C.D.A. wrote, in answer to query 8072-15. If Lieutenant Smith had named the child Chedorlaomer, Jaazaniah, Yephibosneth, or Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( all biblical masculine names), there would have been as much ground for assuming the selected name was.the family name of Elizabeth as there was that it was Chileab."
The identity of Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, has been determined within the bounds of probability acceptable to careful genealogists. As long ago as 14Aug1943, the late Dr. Ray G. Hulbert, in his answer to query A-2442-(6) in "The Hartford Times," gave the facts, which have been repeated on a number of occasions, once at least by the present contributor. Nevertheless, to bring all the known facts together, perhaps for the first time the following account is presented to lay the ghost of Elizabeth Chileab.
The parish registers of St. Margarets's, Whatfield, Co.,Suffolk, England, show the Oct 6, 1624 marriage of Samuel Smyth to Elizabeth Smyth, and the baptism of their son Samuel on Feb 8, 1625 (1625/6?). The young couple next appear at Hadleigh, Co. Suffolk, three miles south of Whatfield where, at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, they baptized Elizabeth on Jan 28, 1627 (probably New Style); Mary, Oct. 9, 1628 and Philip, November1632.
The Smith, Smyth, Smithe (all interchangeable, of course) family embarked "the last of Aprill, 1634, for New England, in the "Elizabeth," from Ipswich, Mr. Wm. Andrews, "Master" (New England Hist. and Gen. Register, 14:329; Hotten' s "Original Lists," pp. 280, 282; Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts"; James William Hook , "Lieut. Samuel Smith (1953), p. 1. The ship's list shows the following ages for the members of the Smith family:"Samuell Smithe,"; 32; "Elizabeth his wife," 32; and children of "Sam. Smith:" Samuel, 9; Elizabeth, 7; Mary, 4; Philip, 1. The ages of the children Samuel, Elizabeth, and Philip exactly correspond with their respective dates of baptism. Mary, however, was 5, not 4. Actually, this record represents a high degree of accuracy. Most ages taken from ships' lists (and from gravestones and census records as well) are questionable unless confirmed by other contemporary records.
There remains little room for doubt that the baptismal records shown above taken from the parish registers in Whatfield and Hadleigh, are of the children who sailed on the "Elizabeth" from Ipswich only ten miles east of Hadleigh, Co. Suffolk and that Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, was a Smith before her marriage.

Elizabeth married Lieut. Lieut. Samuel SMITH on 6 Oct 1624 in Whatfield, Suffolk, ENGLAND. Lieut. (son of Samuel SMITH) was born about 1602 in Ipswich, ENGLAND; died in Dec 1680 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Rebecca SMITH in 1649. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Nathaniel FOOTE, II about 1646 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. Nathaniel (son of Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth DEMING) was born on 5 Mar 1619 in St. James, Colchester, Essex, ENGLAND; was christened on 5 Mar 1619/20 in St. James Parish Church, Colchester, Essex, ENGLAND; died in 1655 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William GULL in 1655. William died in 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John GRAVES. John died on 19 Dec 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 1702

Notes:

Note:
From The Magnalia Christi Americana, by Cotton Mather - 1702
Mr. Philip Smith, aged about 50 years, a son of eminently virtuous parents, a deacon of a church in Hadley, a member of the General Court, a justice in the County Court, a selectman for the affairs of the town, a Lieutenant of the troop, and which crowns all, a man for devotion, sanctity, gravity, and all that was honest,exceeding exemplary. Such a man was in the winter of the year 1684, murdered with an hideous witchcraft, that filled all those parts of New England, with atonishment. He was, by his office concerned about relieving the indigences of a wretched woman in the town; who being dissatisfied at some of his just cares about her, expressed herself unto him in such a manner, that he declared himself thenceforth apprehensive of receiving mischief at her hands. Early in January, he began to be very valetudinarious. He shewed such weanedness from the weariness of the world, etc.. While he remained yet of a sound mind, he solemnly charged his brother to look well after him. Be sure (said he) to have a care for me.... There shall be a wonder in Hadley.... In his distress he exclaimed much upon the young woman aforesaid, and others, as being seen by him in the room. Some of the young men in the town being out of their wits at the strange calamities thus upon one of their most beloved neighbors, went three or four times to give disturbance unto the woman thus complained of; and all the while they were disturbing her, he was at ease, and slept as a weary man; yea, these were the only times they perceived him to take any sleep in all his illness. Gally pots of medicine provided for the sick man were unaccountably emptied: audible scratchings were made about the bed, when his hands and feet lay wholly still, and were held by others. They beheld fire sometimes on the bed; and when the beholders began to discourse of it, it vanished away. Divers people actually felt something often stir in the bed, at a considerable distance from the man; it seemed as big as a cat, but they could never grasp it. Several trying to lean on the bed's head, tho' the sick man lay wholly still, the bed would shake so as to knock their heads uncomfortably. Mr. Smith dies; the jury that viewed his corpse found a swelling on one breast, his back full of bruises, and several holes that seemed made with awls. After the opinion of all had pronounced him dead, his countenance continued as lively as if he had been alive; his eyes closed as in a slumber, and his nether jaw not falling down. Thus he remained from Saturday morning about sunrise, till Sabbathday in the aftenoon. When those who took him out of the bed, found him still warm, tho' the known in any age; and a New England winter does not want for cold. But on Monday morning they found the face extremely tumified and discolored. It was black and blue, and fresh blood seemed running down his cheek upon the hairs. Divers noises were also heard in the room where the corpse lay; as the clattering of chairs and stools, whereof no account could be given. This was the end of so good a man.

Mary Webster, the woman who disturbed Philip Smith, was sent to Boston, tried for witchcraft, and acquitted. The young men of Hadley tried an experiment upon her. They dragged her out of the house, hung her up until she was near dead, let her down, rolled her some time in the snow, and at last buried her in it, and there left her. But she survived, and died in 1696. No inhabitant of Hampshire Co. was ever executed for witchcraft.

Lieut. married Rebecca FOOTE in 1657 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. Rebecca (daughter of Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth DEMING) was born in 1634 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA; was christened on 3 Sep 1634 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT; died on 6 Apr 1701 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chileab married Hannah HITCHCOCK on 21 Oct 1661 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. Hannah (daughter of Luke HITCHCOCK) was born in 1645; died on 31 Aug 1733. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Killed by Indians.

John married Mary PARTRIDGE on 12 Nov 1663. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 10 Jan 1647
• Birth: 16 Jan 1647

Notes:

Note:
Son of Nathaniel and grandson of Nathaniel Mr. Foote was a Quartermaster in the Army during King Phillips's War and was in the fight at Turner's Falls (Conn.River) under the brave Captain Turner, who, it is said, that night fought hand to hand with Phillip himself. The next day Captain Turner and most of his men were killed by Indians and Mr. Foote, though badly wounded, was one of the few who escaped.'

Birth:
Alternate birth date

Birth:
Alternate birth date.

Died:
Nathaniel Foote is reported to have died from consumption.

Nathaniel married Margaret BLISS on 2 May 1672 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Margaret (daughter of Nathaniel BLISS and Catherine CHAPIN) was born on 12 Nov 1649 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 3 Apr 1745 in Colchester, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary MERRICK in 1671. Mary (daughter of Thomas MERRICK and Sarah STEBBINS) was born in Aug 1647; died on 3 Oct 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah UNKNOWN. Sarah was born on 26 Mar 1704 in Shalford, Essex, ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 16 Sep 1696

Notes:

Note:
The following was taken from the Hatfield Town Records: 'Elizabeth, wife to Daniel Belden head of the family, together with Daniel Belden, John Belden and Thankful Belden, their children, were all of them slaine by the enemie September 16,1696. ''Sept. 16, 1696. The Indians came along from up Green River to the town, and assaulted Mr. Daniel Belden's house; took Mr.Belden, his son Nathaniel and daughter Esther captive, killed his wife and three children, and wounded Samuel and Abigail, but they recovered, altho' Samuel had a hatchet struck in his head,and some of his brains came out at his wound. Samuel was born Apr 10, 1687.'From another source listed as Mather's Magnalia: The Indians making an Assault upon Deerfield, in this PresentWar, they struck a Hatchet some Inches into the Skull of a Boy there, even so deep that the Boy felt the force of a Wrench used by 'em to get it out. There he lay a long while Weltering in his Blood; they found him, they Dress'd him; considerable Quantities of his Brain came out from time to time when they opened the Wound- yet the Lad recovered, and is now a Living Monument of the Power and Goodness of God.'

Died:
The Following was taken from the Hatfield Town Records:'Elizabeth, wife to Daniel Belden head of the family, together with Daniel Belden, John Belden and Thankful Belden, their children, were all of them slaine by the enemie September 16,1696.'

Elizabeth married Daniel BELDEN on 10 Nov 1670. Daniel was born on 20 Nov 1648; died on 14 Aug 1732 in Deerfield, Franklin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah WHITE on 12 Feb 1687/88. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel BALL on 15 Jan 1670/71 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. Samuel was born on 13 Mar 1646/47 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Benjamin STEBBINS on 10 Sep 1690. Benjamin (son of Lt. Thomas STEBBINS and Hannah WRIGHT) was born on 11 Apr 1658. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Edward STEBBINS on 12 Apr 1679 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Edward (son of Lt. Thomas STEBBINS and Hannah WRIGHT) was born on 14 Feb 1655/56 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 31 Oct 1712 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary CHURCH on 16 Nov 1682 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Mary (daughter of Samuel CHURCH) was born in 1664; died on 18 Jun 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary SMITH on 24 Jan 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Deacon married Joanna KELLOGG on 29 Nov 1683 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Joanna (daughter of Lieutenant Lieutenant Joseph KELLOGG and Joanna FOOTE) was born on 8 Dec 1664 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died after 1727. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathon married Abigail KELLOGG on 14 Nov 1688. Abigail (daughter of Lieutenant Lieutenant Joseph KELLOGG and Abigail TERRY) was born on 9 Oct 1671 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died after 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phillip married Mary BLISS on 1 Feb 1687 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Mary (daughter of Samuel BLISS and Mary LEONARD) was born on 4 Aug 1670; died on 23 Dec 1707 in East Hartford, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phillip married Mary ROBINSON on 5 Oct 1708. Mary died on 17 May 1733. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married George STILLMAN in 1686. George was born about 1654; died on 17 Nov 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Mary DICKINSON on 6 Feb 1696 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. Mary was born on 2 Feb 1673 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA; died on 16 Aug 1718 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 10 May 1709, Philadelphia Presbytery, Cohanzy, NY; Ordained minister.
• Occupation: 15 Jun 1715, Upper Middletown, CT; Installed as pastor

Joseph married Esther PARSONS on 15 Sep 1697. Esther (daughter of Joseph PARSONS and Mary BLISS) was born on 24 Dec 1672 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA; died on 30 May 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ichabod married Elizabeth COOK on 19 Jul 1698. Elizabeth died on 10 Oct 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Shoemaker

Samuel married Sarah BLISS on 9 Mar 1687. Sarah (daughter of Lawrence BLISS and Lydia WRIGHT) was born on 27 Nov 1667 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died after 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Canada WAITE on 29 Jan 1677/78 in CANADA. Canada (daughter of Benjamin WAITE and Martha LEONARD) was born on 22 Jan 1677 in Sorel-Tracy, Pierre-De Saurel, Montérégie, Quebec, CANADA; died on 5 May 1749; was buried in Hill Burying Ground, Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John ROOT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah WARRINER on 22 Dec 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

John married Esther COLTON on 4 Dec 1711. Esther (daughter of Ephraim COLTON and Esther MARSHFIELD) was born on 23 Oct 1687 in Longmeadow, Hampden, MA; died in 1771. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Ephraim NASH on 10 Jan 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Samuel CROW on 11 Jan 1710. Samuel (son of Samuel CROW and Hannah LEWIS) was born on 11 Feb 1675; died on 13 Feb 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Rebecca SMITH in Feb 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Wethersfield, Hartford, CT

Martin married Sarah WEIR in 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleazor married Unmarried. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Samuel KELLOGG on 22 May 1724. Samuel (son of Nathaniel KELLOGG and Sarah BOLTWOOD) was born on 4 Apr 1699 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Prudence married Timothy NASH on 1 Mar 1722. Timothy (son of John NASH and Elizabeth KELLOGG) was born on 13 Nov 1699; died on 15 Mar 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Experience married James KELLOGG on 11 Aug 1727. James (son of John KELLOGG and Ruth UNKNOWN) was born on 10 Jul 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Stephen NASH on 22 May 1728. Stephen (son of John NASH and Elizabeth KELLOGG) was born on 20 Sep 1704; died in 1764. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas WAIRD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John BENJAMIN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Deliverance BLINN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Anna SOUTHMAYD on 3 Mar 1715. Anna died on 6 Jan 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
From Foote History and Genealogy:
DANIEL FOOTE, b. Apr. 27, 1724; m. Jan. 14, 1748, Martha, dau. of Dea. John Stillman, and great-grand-dau. of Lieut. Phillip Smith, of Hadley, Mass. She d. July 24, 1794; ae. 64. He removed from Simsbury, Ct., about 1764 to Washington, Mass., and cleared away the forest and made a farm. He moved next to Dalton, Mass.; purchased land and brought into cultivation a valuable farm. This he sold to Daniel, his oldest son, and moved to Middlebury, Vt., and bought one thousand acres of wild land, on which he built mills, felled the forest, and resided for many years. About 1783 he bought all of the land that is now in the village of Middlebury on the west side of the river and erected a grist mill and saw mill. This property was given by him to his sons Stillman and John, the latter selling his interest to Appleton in 1792. They built dwellings and improved the property. (See History of Middlebury.) Daniel Foote built the first bridge at Middlebury Falls. About 1801 he divided his property at Middlebury among his children, and went to Canton, N. Y., his son Stillman having moved there a short time before. In passing through Montreal, he took the small-pox and died a few days after he arrived in Canton. He was a man of great industry and indominable perseverance, and peculiarly fitted for a pioneer in a new country. He d. May 10, 1801, and was buried in an elm bark coffin. All of his twelve children were members of the church. His sons also were pioneers, and their children are now widely scattered over the United States.

Deacon married Mary WOLCOTT on 26 May 1715. Mary died on 2 Jul 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Samuel WILLARD on 18 Jan 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Hezekiah MAY on 7 Apr 1721. Hezekiah died on 3 Sep 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Foote genealogy (A.W. Foote) incorrectly lists his birth year as 1690.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Physician

Family/Spouse: E. PERKINS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Samuel SMITH on 12 Jun 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Daniel BELDING. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Samuel CHURCH on 6 Mar 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Elizabeth BURT on 19 Feb 1761. Elizabeth was born on 8 Apr 1740 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 8 Sep 1821 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Alice JONES in 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Family/Spouse: Mary PRESTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth EDWARDS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phineas married Eleanor BELL in 1754. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: South Hadley, Hampshire, MA
• Residence: Whatley, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Birth:
The Colton Genealogy lists the name of this child as "Silence" with the same birth date.

DNA:
MKM

Silas married Sarah PRESTON in 1749 in South Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Sarah (daughter of John PRESTON) was born on 16 Jun 1724; died about 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rebecca ALLEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleazer married Lydia THOMAS on 25 Oct 1749. Lydia was born on 26 Mar 1731 in Marshfield, Plymouth, MA; died in 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail HALE. Abigail (daughter of Thomas HALE and Abigail BURT) was born on 9 Feb 1734/35; died on 24 Jan 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Josiah is not listed as a child of John and Esther (Colton) Smith in the Colton genealogy.

Warham married Sarah WILLIAMS on 29 Mar 1797. Sarah was born on 30 Sep 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Sarah McMaster

Family/Spouse: Hugh MCMASTER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John NUTTING. John (son of John NUTTING and Elizabeth PICKMAN) was born on 22 Nov 1762; died on 28 Jul 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Lt. married Achsa CHAPIN on 7 May 1775 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Achsa (daughter of Timothy CHAPIN and Martha WELLS) was born on 5 Jul 1756 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 14 May 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deacon married Asenath CHAPIN on 18 Mar 1780. Asenath (daughter of Phineas CHAPIN and Bethia CHAPIN) was born on 2 May 1750; died on 30 Nov 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married John NUTTING on 12 Dec 1785 in South Amherst, MA. John (son of John NUTTING and Elizabeth PICKMAN) was born on 22 Nov 1762; died on 28 Jul 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1 Sep 1850, Chicopee, Hampden, MA
• Census: 23 Jul 1860, Chicopee, Hampden, MA

Notes:

Census:
1850 census at Chicopee, Hampden, MA shows: Seth Stebbins, 46, farmer, b. MA; Melissa, 45, b. MA; children b. MA: Joseph, 10; Cynthia, 6; Fredrick, 2. Seth and Melissa are enumerated next door to Melissa's Aunt and Uncle, Ephroditus and Sarah Chapin Allis.

Census:
1860 census at Chicopee, Hampden, MA shows: Seth Stebbins, 56, farmer, b. MA; Melissa, 55, b. MA; children b. MA: Joseph O., 20, farm laborer; Cynthia, 16, house work; Fredrick, 11. Seth and Melissa are enumerated next door to Melissa's Aunt and Uncle, Ephroditus and Sarah Chapin Allis.

Seth married Melissa CHAPIN on 2 May 1832 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA. Melissa (daughter of Joseph CHAPIN and Martha BARTLETT) was born on 28 Dec 1804 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 21 Dec 1876 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Methodist Preacher

Family/Spouse: Emily KNEELAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: ME minister

Family/Spouse: Mary SPENCER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
Porter Nutting was married four times and had children by each wife.

Family/Spouse: Tryphosa HARTWELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret HARTWELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Susan Huntington FIELD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Caroline DAM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martha DICKINSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary FOSTER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Luthera WINTER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Emily Howe

Family/Spouse: George HOWE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Harriet NASH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Anna HUBBELS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Buried:
Find A Grave e-Memorial

Chauncey married Phebe BUXTON on 8 Sep 1805 in Belchertown, Hampshire, MA. Phebe was born on 24 Sep 1784 in Worcester Co., MA; died on 22 Oct 1867; was buried in Willow Grove Cemetery, Armada, Macomb, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Lucretia married Dormer CHAPIN on 2 Oct 1803. Dormer (son of Captain Captain Phineas CHAPIN and Sabrina WRIGHT) was born on 25 Feb 1781 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA; died on 11 May 1870 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Family/Spouse: William BUXTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Buried:
Find A Grave e-Memorial

Achsah married Levi CHAPIN on 10 Jan 1810 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA. Levi (son of Levi CHAPIN and Sarah RICHARDSON) was born on 23 Apr 1787 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA; died on 29 Jan 1864 in Detroit, Wayne, MI; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 11 Feb 1789, Springfield, Hampden, MA

Notes:

Note:
Daughter, Laura by first marriage.Son, Samuel Newell, b. 1832 by 2nd marriage.

DNA:
MKM

Buried:
Find A Grave e-Memorial

Philip married Huldah VAN HORNChicopee, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Diadema GRISWOLD on 8 Jan 1831 in South Hadley, Hampden, MA. Diadema was born in West Springfield, Hampden, MA; died in 1881 in Agawam, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Calvin WHITE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Sarah Mc Masters

Family/Spouse: Charles MC MASTERS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Ludlow, Hampden, MA

Family/Spouse: Henry GRAVES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eliza Cook FORBES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Captain married Judith HASTINGS on 21 Dec 1809 in South Amherst, MA. Judith was born on 10 Oct 1786; died on 2 Sep 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: Dec 1842
• Census: 5 Aug 1850, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI
• Census: 2 Jul 1860, Lyons, Ionia, MI

Notes:

Note:
From Ingham and Eaton Co., MI History
Almon M. CHAPIN, a native of Massachusetts, and for some time a resident of Livingston Co., N.Y., (had lived also in Onondaga County), left the latter State with his family in December, 1842, and came with teams through Northern Ohio to Michigan, the trip occupying eighteen days. The household goods had been sent by water to Detroit. The family arrived in Vevay on or about the 1st of January, 1843, and moved into a log house which was built by William AUSTIN and was then vacant. The snow lay very deep on the ground, and, soon after they occupied the house and built a fire therein, the melting snow broke down the roof. It was repaired, and the family lived in the house until the following October, when they moved into a frame house, which is now the rear portion of the dwelling occupied by Mr. CHAPIN's widow and family. The fine grove in front of the house at present consists of natural trees, which were left purposely when the place as first occupied. A burning log-heap in front of the house destroyed a portion of them (the trees being then but saplings), but enough were preserved to make a beautiful grove, which is now the pride of the locality. Mr. CHAPIN was a model citizen, and one of the most prominent in the township. His death occurred on the 5th of September, 1878, in his home at Chapin's Station, or "Eden."

Census:
1850 census at Vevay, Ingham, MI shows: Almance Chapin, 39, b. MA, farmer; Jane, 36, b. NY; John C. Bliss, 20, b. NY; Hannah Miller, 26, b. NY; children b. NY: Augusta J., 16; Almance, 12; Henry L.; Clarence W., 8; remaining children b. MI: Hulda, 6; Julius W., 2; Barney E., 6/12.

Census:
1860 census at Lyons, Ionia, MI shows: Almon M. Chapin, 49, b. MA, teacher; Jane, 4X, b. NY; Augusta J., 23, teacher, b. NY; Clarence W., 18, clerk, b. NY; Belle, 16; William, 12; Merrie W., 2.

Buried:
Find A Grave e-Memorial

Almon married Jane PEASE on 16 Jul 1835 in Lakeville, Livingston, NY. Jane (daughter of Henry Chapin PEASE and Huldah TILDEN) was born on 31 Mar 1814 in Livonia, Livingston, NY; died on 20 Oct 1892; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 31 Jul 1850, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
• Census: 3 Jul 1860, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
• Census: 18 Aug 1870, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
• Census: 7 Jun 1880, Brooklyn, Kings, NY

Notes:

Census:
1850 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: Lothram Chapin, 36, b. MA, merchant; Julia S., 24, b. NY; children b. NY: Albert M., 7; Margaret E., 5; Mary L., 1.

Census:
1860 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: L. W. Chapin, 46, b. NY, broker; Julia S., 36, b. MA; children b. NY: Albert, 17, clerk; Marg., 15; Mary, 10, Chas., 9

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1870 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: Latham Chapin, 55, b. MA, artist; Julia M., 43, b. MA; children b. NY: Samuel, 19, clerk at store; Sophia, 8.

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1880 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: Nathin Chapin, 62, b. MA, parents b. MA/MA, artist in painting; Julia, 52, b. MA, parents b. MA/MA; Sophia, 17, b. NY, parents b. MA/MA.

Family/Spouse: Julia CARLS. Julia was born about 1826 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Wyman ADAMS. Wyman (son of Robert P. ADAMS and Dorothy UNKNOWN) was born about 1816 in NY; died before 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Achsah married William Harrison HORTON on 16 Apr 1846 in Ingham Co., MI. William was born on 18 Jan 1814 in NY; died on 12 Jun 1883; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charlotte married Carlos ROLFE on 30 Oct 1844. Carlos was born in 1822 in VT; died on 25 Sep 1847; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlotte married Henry A HAWLEY on 18 Oct 1854. Henry was born on 19 Nov 1815 in Winfield, Herkimer, NY; died on 12 Jun 1881 in Vevay Township, Ingham, MI; was buried in Hawley Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: School Teacher
• Religion: Member of Presbyterian Church
• Birth: 17 Jun 1825, Camillus, Onondaga, NY
• Obituary: 10 Jan 1901, Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, IA
• Obituary: 15 Jan 1901, Corning, Adams, IA

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The Aulls Geneology, by Leslie Aulls Bryan lists Amelia's parents as Uriel and Anna (Pratt) Chapin - this is incorrect. It also gives an incorrect date for her birth (1Aug1825).

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Obituary of Amelia Chapin LaRue

The community was saddened Saturday by news of the death of Mrs. Franklyn LaRue, which occurered the night previous. She had been sick less than a week, having been confined to her bed only since the Sabbath before, and in the morning she had seemed to be in her usual health. Her death resulted from fever of the lungs with the complication of heart trouble. The funeral was held at the home Sabbath afternoon at 3 o'clock, the services being conducted by Rev. M.V. Higbee assisted by Revs. T.D. Ewing and J.A. Lovejoy. The remains were laid to rest in Walnut Grove cemetery. Amelia Chapin was born in New York and was seventy-five years of age. Hers had been a life of activity of mind and body and even down to the last days she was interested in all that pertained to the welfare of those about her. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom died in childhood. Those surviving her are H.H. and F.L. LaRue and Mrs. Fred Kennon of this city and Miss Myra LaRue of Omaha. Twenty-eight years of family life have been spent in and near Corning. Mrs. LaRue was a member of the Presbyterian church and had ever taken an earnest interest in its progress. She was a woman of serene and cordial temperment and in all the relations of life did more than her full duty. To her aged companian who has lost the helpmate of a life time and to the sons and daughters who have lost a loving mother the entire community tenders its sympathy.




Obituary of Amelia Chapin LaRue

The sudden and sad news passed around from person to person at an early hour on Saturday morning that Mrs. LaRue, of north Corning, had died during the night of Friday, January 4th 1901. Mother LaRue, as her friends loved to call her, was a kind neighbor, a loyal wife and a loving mother. Columns of type could not tell more in expressing her daily life. Her immediate family consisted of H.H. LaRue, the lumber merchant; Frank L. LaRue, president of the Corning Savings bank; Mrs. Fred Kennon, and Miss Myra LaRue as her children and her honored husband. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon with a large attendance. The GAZETTE tenders its heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. Her children have met with the greatest loss that can ever befall them. While it is true they have reached an age of manhood and womanhood, they will find, as others have, that no one can take the place in their hearts and homes of a mother who has gone to the other shore.

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Death Certificate lists cause of death as heart failure.

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Amelia married Franklin B. LARUE on 25 Sep 1848 in Mason, Ingham, MI. Franklin (son of Albertus LARROWE and Janette AULLS) was born on 25 Dec 1818 in Bath, Steuben, NY; died on 30 Sep 1912 in Corning, Adams, IA; was buried on 2 Oct 1912 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Corning, Adams, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: 20 Sep 1895, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI

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Sketch of the Life of Louisa Wells Chapin, by Dr. Augusta J. Chapin of Omaha, Nebraska. Read before the Eden Ladies Aid Society by Carrie L. Chapin and requested to be published.
Louise Wells Chapin was a descendant in the seventh generation from Deacon Samuel Chapin of Springfield, Mass. She was the daughter of Levi Chapin and Achsah Smith, who were married in Chicopee, Massachusetts, January 10, 1810. She was born at Camillus, New York, December 6, 1827, to which place her parents had removed some years earlier. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Achsah S. Horton, in Vevay, September 20, 1895. When 17 years of age she came, with her fathers' family in 1844, to Eden, Michigan, where she spent the remainder of her life, a period of more than 50 years............Miss Chapin was for 40 years a stanch member of the M. E. church..............She was one of the noble few of whom it can truthfully be said: "She hath done what she could."

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Family/Spouse: Addie OSGOOD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 1882
• Note: 12 Mar 1897
• Obituary: 5 Aug 1905

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Rev. AUGUSTA J. CHAPIN was ordained the same year with Olympia Brown, and has successfully labored in the West. During the year 1874 she was noticeably engaged in reconciling adverse societies in San Francisco, and was the means of placing that flourishing church now in California upon a solid basis. She was afterward pastor of the Universalist church in [p.427] Pittsburg, Penn., but is now in the West again. She was a member of the first congress of women held in New York, and contributed a paper on "Woman in the Ministry." She has occasionally furnished sermons to the press.

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From the Womens World section of the "Hornellsville Weekly Tribune," March 12, 1897.
"A Woman D. D. "
"The Rev. Dr. Augusta J. Chapin of Chicago has returned from a year's travels in Europe and is now visiting friends in Boston. She is an alumna of the University of Michigan, and is said to be the only woman upon whom has been conferred the degree of doctor of divinity. As a clergyman she has made a creditable record in the various pastorates she has held in Iowa City, Ia.; Lansing, Mich.; Pittsburg; Aurora, Ills.; Omaha and Chicago. She is devoted to her profession and declares that, with all her experience behind her, if it were hers to choose her vocation anew, she would still be a minister."

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From "The Iowa Citizen" newspaper, July 5, 1905:
"Miss Chapin Died in N.Y.
Lady Who Was Formerly Pastor in the Unitarian Church Here is Dead
Many people here will be interested in knowing that Miss Augusta Chapin died July 1 in New York City. Death was caused by pneumonia and the deceased was sixty-nine years old. More than thirty years ago she was pastor in the Unitarian church at this place and subsequently she has held many prominent positions, filling at one time the pulpit of the Universalist church at Mount Vernon. She was a champion of woman's rights."

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• Census: 23 Jun 1870, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI

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1870 census at Vevay Township, Ingham, MI shows: || Almond Chapin, 32, farm laborer, b. NY; Rosette, 28, b. MI; Florence M., 6, b. MI; Fanny J., 5, b. MI.

Almon married Rosette M PEASE on 1 Jul 1863 in MI. Rosette was born about 1842 in MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1 Jun 1880, Mason, Ingham, MI

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1880 census at Mason, Ingham, MI shows: Henry L. Chapin, 40, farmer, b. NY, parents b. MA/NY; Kate, 30, b. ENGLAND, parents b. ENGLAND; children b. MI: Charlotte, 5; Nelly, 2; Harry L., 7/12.

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Henry married Kate THOMPSON on 30 Oct 1870 in Portland, Multnomah, OR. Kate was born in Sep 1849 in ENGLAND; died in 1926 in MI; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 4 Jun 1880, Stanton, Montcalm, MI
• Census: 14 Jun 1900, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, MI

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1880 census at Stanton, Montcalm, MI shows: Clarence W. Chapin, 37, banker, b. NY, parents b. MA/NY; Alice B., 24, b. NY, parents b. NY/NY; Morris B., 1, son, b. MI; Merrick W., 21, brother, bankers clerk, b. MI, parents b. MA/NY; Frank Brown, 20, 2nd cousin, b. MI, parents b. NY/NY, bankers clerk.

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1900 census at Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, MI shows: C. W. Chapin, b. Jul 1842, 58, married 27 years, no occupation listed. b. NY, parents b. NY/NY; Alice B., b. Dec 1854, 45, 3 children born / 3 living, b. NY, parents b. PA/ENGLAND, boarding house keeper; children b. MI: Morris B., b. Jul 1879, 22, typesetter; Wells, b. XXX(Illegible) 1885, 15; Howard, b. Jul 1890, 10.

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Clarence married Alice BENNETT on 30 Aug 1874 in Greenville, Montcalm, MI. Alice was born in 1855 in NY; died on 4 Mar 1939; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lorenzo COREY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 16 Jun 1900, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI
• Obituary: 20 Jun 1914

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From Pioneer History of Ingham County.

The Chapin farm became well known throughout the country because of the fact that J.W. Chapin, son of Almon M. Chapin, developed on it the largest sugar bush in the state of Michigan.

It is a far cry from the charmingly primitive "sugar bush" of fiction to the business-like proposition of modern farm life, but it is safe to say that not even the most advanced agriculturist elsewhere has a trolley line and telephone connection from his residence to his sugar bush, as has J.W. Chapin of Eden (1912). Eden is a little hamlet four miles south of Mason, and the Chapin estate of 360 acres, which has been in the family for many years, is the largest farm for many miles around. The Lansing-Jackson branch of the Michigan United Railway runs through the farm, passing close to the house and also the sugar bush one-half mile away. A private telephone line runs from the sugar house to the residence and a switch here gives connections with all the neighboring towns. The Jackson-Saginaw branch of the Michigan Central Railroad is only a few rods away on the opposite side of the house from the M.U.R.

Mr. Chapin now taps 2,200 trees every season, producing from 6,000 to 9,000 pounds of syrup and sugar each year. This is shipped to private parties all over the country, most of whom have standing orders for their year's supply. As proof of the quality of his products Mr. Chapin shows medals won by his exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition and a diploma received at the Pan-American. The sugar orchard comprises 80 acres of a 140 acre wood lot, and besides the service they have given the Chapin family for seventy years there is proof that they yielded their sweetness for the benefit of the Indians long before the advent of the white men. The remains of bark troughs and wooden spiles, with the added evidence of the scars to be found on the mammoth maple trees, go to show that the red man had knowledge of this valuable asset and made use of it.

It is said that the Indians made pilgrimages to this part of the county every spring, where they camped through the maple sugar season and "milked" the numerous sugar bushes in this vicinity. The crude methods they employed in manufacturing the sugar, which was said to be black and full of leaves and twigs, were of course the best they knew, and it makes one wonder what their sensations would have been could they have taken a peep into Mr. Chapin's modern and model sap house and watched the work done there. Let us see how this plant was conducted in 1913. The work began early in the winter when the men commenced to fill the huge shed at the sugar camp with wood ready to feed the furnaces. Then the first warm day that promised spring began the work of tapping the trees. Iron spouts were driven into holes previously bored in the trees about three feet from the ground. On these were hung tin sap pails, with wooden covers so adjusted as to exclude everything but the pure, limpid sap. The larger trees carry two or three pails. Two teams are kept busy gathering sap, each drawing a steel tank holding several barrels of the fluid, and three men work with each outfit. The tanks are mounted on runners, as they are more practical for use in snow and mud than wheels. Deep snow often makes the work of gathering sap very difficult.

The sugar house contains two 20 foot evaporators, with 25-foot smokestacks, and to attend to the fires and watch the boiling sap keeps one man busy.

The teams bring the sap to an elevation beside the sugar camp, where it is emptied through a hose into big 50 foot barrel tanks. From this supply a constant stream flows into the shallow pans of the evaporator. These pans are about 2 x 5 feet in size, and are connected with each other by tubing at the ends, so that the boiling sap is kept constantly circulating. After making the circuit of the first evaporator it is piped to the other.

The furnace man's chief anxiety is to boil down the sap as soon as possible after it is brought in as the making of the finest quality of syrup demands that the sap be gathered once a day or oftener, and used immediately. Openings in the roof of the sugar house allow clouds of steam from the boiling pans to escape. When the syrup reaches the proper consistency it is strained and allowed to settle. For sugar the syrup is boiled again then molded into five pound cakes.

The output depends on the length of the season, whic is never two years like. Extremely cold weather changing rapidly to warm spring weather oftentimes starts the buds on the trees and makes a very short season. Work in the sugar bush does not stop when the sap ceases to run, as then the thousands of pails must be overhauled and scalded, then packed away to await the next season's run.

Five years later sees this all changed. In 1914 Mr. Chapin was working with a hay fork in his barn when the machine fell and struck him, and death followed instantaneously. Mr. Chapin, in addition to conducting this sugar bush mentioned, worked about 200 acres of farm land in a superior manner, and was considered an authority on all matters of an agricultural nature. After his death Mrs. Chapin and the son who remained home found the farm land all they could attend to, and when the fuel shortage struck the county in 1918 the City of Lansing bought the wood lot, which included the sugar bush, to supply its municipal wood yard, and this wonderful landmark containing trees centuries old went up in smoke. This was a blow to the maple sugar industry in Ingham county, which was augmented by the sale of several other good-sized, well-known sugar orchards in this vicinity which went for the same purpose among them the one of the Fuller farm, which was also known to the Indians, and had yielded annual sugar crops for a long time as the one on the Chapin farm.

Mrs. Chapin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Asher Lyon, came to Vevay in the early days from Geneva, N.Y. Mr. Lyon died some years ago in Gratiot county, where he had lived for some years, but Mrs. Lyon and their eleven children are still living and recently held a family reunion at the Chapin home in Eden, beneath the original forest trees that surround the old homestead.

Since the death of Mr. Chapin in 1914 Mrs. Chapin has conducted the large farm very successfully, and last spring was elected justice of the peace for Vevay, on the Republican ticket, over her oldest son who ran against her. Like his father, J.W. Chapin was active in the work of the Ingham County Agricultural Society, the Farmers' Club and the County Pioneer and Historical Society; in the latter societies Mrs. Chapin has held offices several times.

Besides his widow, Mr. Chapin was survived by six children Almon M., named for his grandfather, owns a farm adjoining the old homestead; Alice, who graduated from the State Normal College at Ypsilanti and the University of Pennsylvania, later taking post graduate courses at Columbia and Harvard Universities. She has taught for a number of years, a part of the time being in charge of the physically deficient children in the Detroit schools and those of Minneapolis, Minn. She is now superintendent of an extensive Settlement House in Minneapolis which is supported by the wealthy people of that city.

Julius, a graduate of M.A.C., for some years county agricultural agent in various parts of the state, but now engaged in business for himself in Traverse City, Mich. Ethel, for many years a teacher in St. Johns, now taking a course in a Nurses Training School in Chicago University. Warren, employed in Detroit. Martha, a graduate of Ypsilanti Normal and Olivet College, now teaching.

The Chapin family was one of the first in this section to establish a state game refuge on their land, which is kept up in strict accordance with the law.

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1900 census at Vevay, Ingham, MI shows: Julius Chapin, b. Apr 1848, 52, married 18 years, b. MI, parents b. MA/MA, farmer; Carrie L., b. Dec 1861, 38, 6 children born / 6 living, b. NY, parents b. NJ/NY; children b. MI: Almon M., b. Sep 1883, 16; Alice, b. Apr 1885, 15; Ethel, b. Nov 1886, 13; Julius, b. Oct 1888, 11; Warren, b. Jan 1891, 9; Martha, b. Aug 1899, x/12 (illegible).

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Julius was killed when a hay fork fell, piercing his neck and heart.

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Julius married Carrie LYON on 6 Apr 1882 in Stanton, Montcalm, MI. Carrie (daughter of Asher LYON and Martha FENTON) was born on 21 Dec 1861 in NY; died on 11 Jan 1937 in Eden, Ingham, MI; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 1900, Toledo, Lucas, OH

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Merrick and Della are found in the 1900, 1910 and 1920 census in Toledo, Ohio. She is listed as a school teacher and he as a postal worker, first a clerk, later a money order clerk and finally a superintendent. They have no children.

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Merrick married Della Belle BROWN on 1 Oct 1891 in Portland, Ionia, MI. Della was born on 28 Apr 1864 in MI; died in 1947; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married George DOUGLASS about 1871. George was born about 1846 in OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 21 Jul 1870, Le Roy, Genesee, NY
• Census: 12 Jun 1880, Le Roy, Genesee, NY
• Census: 4 Jun 1900, Randolph, Cattaraugus, NY

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1870 census at LeRoy, Genesee, NY shows: Frank Adams, 28, b. NY, D.G. Merchant; Mary S., 54, b. MA; Mary S., 30, b. NY.

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1880 census at LeRoy, Genesee, NY shows: F. W. Adams, 37, b. NY, parents b. NY/CT, dry goods merchant; Irene, 34, b. NY, parents b. NY/NY; children b. NY: Charles, 7; Frank, 5; Powell, 2.

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1900 census at Randolph, Cattaraugus, NY shows: Frank Adams, b. Sep 1842, age 57, married at 2X, b. NY, parents b. NY/MA, D. Goods merchant; Irene, b. Oct 1845, age 54, married at 29, 4 children born / 3 living, b. NY, parents b. NY/NY; children b. NY: Frank C., b. Feb 1875, age 25, merchant; Powell C., b. Aug 1877, age 22, merchant; Mary, b. Feb 1882, age 18.

Franklin married Irene UNKNOWN about 1872 in Genesee Co., NY. Irene was born in Oct 1845 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Claribel married Orr SCHURTZ on 28 Jul 1878. Orr was born in Sep 1853 in PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: School Teacher
• Birth: 5 May 1850, Stockbridge, Ingham, MI
• Obituary: 3 Jul 1918, Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, IA

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Death certificate states cause of death as Chronic Nephritis and cancer of abdominal organs.
Informant on death certificate was Mrs. Clara Kennon, Myra's sister.

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• Occupation: Farmer, Teacher, Lumber Dealer
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Corning, Adams, IA
• Obituary: 2 Sep 1903, Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, IA

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1900 census at Corning, Adams, IA shows: Howard Larue, b. July XXXX, age 49, b. MI, parents b. NY/MI; Name illegible, b. June XXXX, age 47, b. NY, parents b. NY/NY; children b. IA: Alena, b. jun 1885, age 14; Bertie F., b. Oct 1891, 8.

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Henry's obituary entitled "Death of H. H. LaRue" states:
Early in the evening, H.H. LaRue, who owned an old flat bottom boat, began the work of getting his stock on the bottom out of danger. He was assisted in the work from time to time by T.O. Bell, superintendent of water works, who had gone to the pump station and remained there trying to fill the big tank until the advance of the water made further effort useless. He was then taken off in the boat by Mr. LaRue and the two got all the stock in and started for home. Evidently Mr. LaRue concluded afterwards that he could do some good at the Fair grounds, as he was shortly afterward assisting the unfortunates there. Some of these had taken refuge in the grand stand and were really in a dangerous plight, as the water was ten feet deep in front of them and no one could tell whether or not the structure would withstand the force of the flood. It was after 1 o’clock when this work was finished and Mr. LaRue decided to start for home. He called for some one to help him and Millard Jackson, a young man living east of town, volunteered. Young Jackson says the trip was made without incident until they reached the vicinity of the pump station. Jackson was rowing and LaRue was holding a lantern and directing the course of the boat. The latter then said, "I know where we are now. Look out for the electric wire," referring to the lines running to the pump station. The water was high enough to take them close to it. He had scarcely uttered the words when the boat carried them against the wire. LaRue threw up his hand and the wire touched his hand, burning the flesh to the bone. Death must have been instantaneous. He fell overboard and Jackson made an unsuccessful effort to catch him. Jackson kept shouting to cut the wires and word was finally sent to the electric plant and the lights shut off. The young man then made his way to shore. By daylight the work of recovering the body was begun and it was after 11 o’clock when Wilt Devore, one of a party on a raft constructed for the purpose, found it. It was taken to Boham’s undertaking establishment.

Sad Death of H. H. LaRue

Henry Howitt LaRue, eldest son of Franklin and Amelia (Chapin) LaRue, was born in Stockbridge, Michigan, July 11, 1852, and passed from this life at the age of 51 years, 1 month, and 16 days on Thursday morning, August 27, at about 2 o’clock.
Mr. LaRue was educated in the public schools of Lansing, Michigan, and the Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Ill., having removed with his parents to McLean county, Illinois in 1864. In February of 1873 he with his father removed from Illinois to Mercer township in this county for the purpose of improving tracts of land previously purchased by them.
After farming summers and teaching school winters for several years, he decided to sell his land and go into the lumber business. Realizing the importance of a thorough knowledge of the business in which he had decided to embark he entered the employ of Mr. Ralph Newcomb, and soon rose to be foreman of the yard and when the opportunity came to purchase the Beymer yard he did so and launched out into business for himself, remaining at the same stand for about twenty years. The great Corning fire swept away everything in his lumber yard, but with characteristic courage and energy he began rebuilding as soon as the smouldering embers were distinguished.
He was married to Miss Emeline L. Jennings of McLean county, Illinois in January 1883. To this union were born three children, two of which, Ida A. and Albertus Franklin, together with the mother survive him. The other child Roy Joseph died in infancy. He also leaves a father, a brother, Frank, and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Kennon and Miss Myra LaRue, and a host of other relatives. His mother and four sisters having preceded him to the other side.
He was a faithful, consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, serving the local church in an official capacity for many years. He also served on the city council for several years, doing excellent work in the best interests of the community. Strong in his convictions of right and wrong, courageous in a marked degree, a man of broad education and information, of high ideals and strictest integrity of character. This community as well as his immediate family has met with an inreparrable loss in his untimely end.
The funeral will be held from the M. E. church at 10 o’clock Sunday morning. Interment in Walnut Grove cemetery.

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Henry Howitt LaRue, an account of whose tragic death is given elsewhere in this paper, was born at Stockbridge, Mich., July 11, 1852. He was the eldest son of Franklin and Amelia (Chapin) LaRue. His parents removed in 1864 to McLean county, Ill., and he received his education at Weslyan University at Bloomington. In February, 1873, he came with his father to this county for the purpose of improving tracts of land in Mercer township which they had purchased. Several years later he decided to go into the lumber business and entered the employ of Ralph Newcomb. Later he bought the Beymer lumber business yard and for twenty years had been in business at the same location in Corning. His entire yard was destroyed by the big fire of 1896, but he immediately began the work of rebuilding and was soon in business again. He was married January, 1883, in McLean county, Ill., to Miss Emeline L. Jennings and three children were born to them. Ida C. and Albertus Franklin are still living with their mother, Roy Joseph having died in infancy. His father, his brother Frank and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Kennon and Miss Myra LaRue, also survive him.
Mr. LaRue was one of the most useful citizens Corning has ever had. Broadly charitable, always ready to assist in public improvement or private charity, a hard worker for those in whom he interested himself as well as in his own business, he was a man of more than ordinary helpfulness and usefulness. Few men there are who would respond more willingly to appeals of a reasonable nature and fewer still who would bring the energy and the ability to the work after the first response. The work he was engaged in the night he lost his life is only an instance of his disposition to work and work hard for the relief of those in distress and this same disposition was displayed many times during the years of his residence here. He was a member of the city council several years and rendered valuable service in that capacity. The community has lost one of its most valuable members, a man of strong and courageous convictions, of wide information and high character, of wide information and high character, and the terrible manner of his death only adds to the general grief.
The funeral was held Sunday morning from the Methodist church of which the deceased had long been a faithful member. A very brief service was previously held at the house. The services were conducted by Rev. W. H. Shipman assisted by Rev. J. A. Lovejoy at the home, by Rev. C. A. Haskett, who read the scripture lessons at the church, and Rev. M. V. Higbee, who led in prayer. The singing was conducted by a male quartette, consisting of Pierce Metz, J. E. Carmichael, Walter Newcomb and A. Ray Maxwell. The sermon was preached by the pastor, Rev. W. H. Shipman, from the text, "Be ye therefore also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh," to a congregation that filled every part of the church including the aisles and vestibule, and a very large number were unable to get into the church. The pall bearers were Ralph Newcomb, A. B. Turner, I. T. Homan, John Gillet, E. H. Sheppard and F. M. Davis. After the impressive service in the church, the casket was interred in the Walnut Grove cemetery.

Died:
A Certification Of Death from the Vital Records Section of the State of Iowa Department of Health list the name of the deceased as Howard H. LaRue, died August 8, 1903 in Corning, cause of death drowning. The death certification is a typewritten transcription of what I assume is the original record, the transcriber must have gotten a few things wrong.

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Henry married Louisa Emmeline JENNINGS on 11 Jan 1883 in Padua, McLean, IL. Louisa (daughter of Joseph JENNINGS and Polly Ann ARNOLD) was born in Jun 1852 in Erie Co., NY; died on 10 Feb 1936; was buried on 13 Feb 1936 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Corning, Adams, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1881, Creston, Union, IA
• Occupation: Abt 1888, Adams Co., IA; Elected County Treasurer, served one term
• Occupation: Abt 1890, Corning, Adams, IA; Cashier Corning State Savings Bank
• Occupation: Abt 1900, Corning, Adams, IA; President, Corning State Savings Bank
• Census: 13 Jun 1900, Quincy Township, Corning, Adams, IA
• Obituary: 5 Mar 1904, Corning, Adams, IA

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1900 census at Quincy Township, Corning, Adams, IA shows: Frank LaRue, b. Feb 1862, age 38, b. MI, parents b. NY/NY, occupation, illegible; Anna, b. Dec 1865, age 34, b. OH, parents b. OH/OH; Frank, b. Oct 1887, 12, b. IA, parents b. MI/OH.

Obituary:
Frank's obituary, entitled "Death of Frank LaRue" states:
The death of Frank L. LaRue under such sad and tragic circumstances was a shock such as seldom comes to any community. That he was a man of numerous and strong friendships was abundantly proved by the feeling of depression and sadness which existed. Mr. LaRue had lived so long in this county, had been prominent for so many years in the business affairs of the town and county, so helpful in all cases calling for public or private charity and so unostentatious in bestowing it, so ready to grant favors and so highly esteemed as a friend and companion, that his death brings a keen sense of loss to hundreds and is a deep personal grief to them. Generous in the extreme, liberal and public- spirited, a friend to every man in need and helpful in his friendships, there are hundreds of people who will always remember him in kindness and whose sorrow for his troubles and their terrible end will be deep and genuine. Although a comparatively young man himself scores of young men owe their start in life to him and he was always ready to assist them with advice and in more substantial ways. Few men received so many requests for favors of all kinds and fewer still had such a habit of granting them. A genial and pleasant companion, a likable and popular man, with personal and social qualities such as attracted others to him, his death is sincerely mourned. For the family which was so dear to him, to the wife and son, the aged father and the sisters, the utmost sympathy is felt.
Frank Lander LaRue was born in Lansing, Mich., February 27, 1862 and was the youngest son of Franklin and Amelia Chapin LaRue. He came west with his parents in childhood, their home being for a time at Creston. He was a member of the high school class of 1881 in that city and left school three months before graduation to assist his father in business in this county. He also took a six months’ business course while in Creston of J. N. Mehan, afterwards founder of the Capital City Commercial College of Des Moines. In 1882 he entered the office of county treasurer of Adams county under J. M. Frederick. After six years’ service as deputy he was elected county treasurer, serving one term. He declined a renomination to accept a position as cashier of the Corning State Savings Bank, in whose organization he was prominent and whose doors were opened for business in 1890. About four years ago upon the retirement of A. F. Okey from the bank he was elected president of the institution.
The funeral, which was in charge of the masonic order, was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. A brief service was held at the house by Dr. Ewing and Rev. M. V. Higbee and the remains were then taken to the cemetery under the escort of the Masons and the Knights Templar, a large delegation of the latter being present from Creston. At the grave Rev. Ira P. Clark conducted the masonic services, which were very impressive.

Died:
Death certificate states cause of death as "Suicide by shooting."

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Frank married Anna BEYMER in 1886. Anna (daughter of Arthur McIntyre BEYMER and Amine Lydia STRICKLAND) was born in Dec 1865 in Clyde, Sandusky, OH; died on 23 Nov 1951 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT; was buried in Minidoka Acequia Rupert Cemetery, Rupert, Minidoka, ID. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Between 1879 and 1887, Adams Co., IA; School teacher
• Census: 12 May 1910, Corning, Adams, IA
• Census: 24 Jan 1920, Quincy Township, Corning, Adams, IA
• Census: 15 Apr 1940, Corning, Adams, IA
• Obituary: 22 Sep 1949, Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, IA

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Census:
1910 census at Corning, Adams, IA shows Clara E. Kennon, 44, widow, 5 children born / 4 living, b. IL, parents b. NY/NY; children b. IA: Frank, 14; Ralph, 11.

Census:
1920 census at Quincy Township, Corning, Adams, IA shows: Myra Kenyon, age 54, widow, b. IL, parents b. NY/NY, occupation, housework only; Edith, 30, b. IA, parents b. NY/IL, occupation, public school teacher; Frank, 24, b. IA, parents b. NY/IL, college student; Ralph, 21, b. IA, parents b. NY/IL, college student.
This census entry fits this family exactly except for the name and spelling of the head-of-household. Daisy LaRue Kennon had a sister named Myra who remained unmarried and lived in town but she died in 1918.
Enumerated a few "spaces" away is Sarah Kenon, the widow of Albert Kennon.

Census:
1940 census at Corning, Adams, IA shows Clara Kennon, 74, widow, b. IL, same house as 1930.

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Clara married Frederick Albert KENNON on 30 Apr 1887 in Corning, Adams, IA. Frederick (son of Albert Gallatin KENNON and Elizabeth GARRETT) was born on 24 Jul 1857 in Plattsburgh, Clinton, NY; died on 2 Feb 1910 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, OK; was buried on 6 Feb 1910 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Corning, Adams, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military Note: 5 Oct 1918, Sheridan, Chautauqua, NY

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Military Note:
On October 5, 1918, Powell Carpenter Adams registered for the WWI draft. He is a resident of Sheridan, Chautauqua, NY and was born August 28, 1877. His occupation is Inspector at the Food Administration for the US Government. His nearest relative is Ethel English Adams, wife. There is an entry that says San Juan, Puerto Rico but I cannot read the question. I believe it has something to do with prior service. The registrar states he is of medium height and build and has brown eyes and gray & black hair. In the section for handicap the registrar has written, "no, except says left eye xxxxx (illegible) defective."

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• Birth: Jun 1885, Corning, Adams, IA

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Alena married Arthur L. JONES about 1906 in IA. Arthur (son of William D JONES and Emma STOCKING) was born about 1882 in Buffalo Center, Winnebago, IA; died in 1944; was buried in LuVerne Cemetery, LuVerne, Kossuth, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 5 Jun 1917, Corning, Adams, IA
• Note: 31 May 1921
• Residence: 1936, Omaha, Douglas, NE

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On June 5 1917, Bert filled out his Selective Service registration card. He states his date of birth is October 9, 1891 and that he was born in Corning,Iowa. He indicates his occupation is "oil merchant" and that he is single. He indicates he is tall and stout, has brown eyes, brown hair and is not bald.

Note:
On May 31, 1921 the Iowa City Press Citizen published "the first list of 'deserters" from the military service of the United States for Iowa" Included on that list is Bert F. LaRue (LaReu) of Corning, Adams County, Iowa.

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Died:
Cause of death: gastro entrites

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• Note: 5 Jun 1917, Rupert, Minidoka, ID

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On June 5 1917, Frank filled out his Selective Service registration card. He states his date of birth is October 11, 1887 and that he was born in Corning,Iowa. He indicates his occupation is "merchant" and that he has a wife and three children to support. He does not claim exemption from service but does list that he has a disability, "With defective sight in right eye." The registrar notes he is tall and slender, has blue eyes, brown hair and is not bald.

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Frank married Lucille SHILLING about 1911 in ID. Lucille (daughter of Watson Newton SHILLING and Angelina HARRISON) was born in Sep 1887 in UT; died on 20 Jun 1930 in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; was buried in Minidoka Acequia Rupert Cemetery, Rupert, Minidoka, ID. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: School teacher
• Note: 1 Feb 1929, Anamosa, Jones, IA
• Census: 2 Apr 1940, 6032 Ellis Avenue South, Chicago, Cook, IL
• Obituary: 20 Dec 1962, Corning, Adams, IA

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Edith was accepted as a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Francis (illegible) Chapter in Anamosa, Iowa. She claimed descendancy from Levi Chapin of Chicopee, MA.

Census:
1940 census at Chicago, Cook, IL shows Edith A. Kennon, 52, b. IA, same residence 1930, English teacher.

Obituary:
Adams County Free Press
Miss Edith Kennon - Edith A. Kennon, daughter of Frederick A. and Clara E. D. LaRue Kennon, was born at Corning, Iowa on March 1, 1888, and passed away at Lenox, Iowa on Saturday, December 15, 1962 at the age of 74 years 9 months and 14 days.
Following her graduation from Corning High School, Edith taught for a few years in the rural schools of Adams County. She then attended the State University of Iowa at Iowa City and Chicago University where she acquired her Masters Degree in Education.
Edith then entered the Indian Service for the United States Government, teaching in the Indian Schools at Pipestone, Minnesota; Fort Mojave, Arizona; Greenwood, South Dakota, and in the State of North Dakota. For a time she taught school at the Home Stake Mine at Deadwood, South Dakota, also in the public schools at Dysart, Iowa and Anamosa, Iowa. For many years she taught in the public school system in Chicago, Illinois. Throughout her long and colorful teaching career she always gave her time, her talents and her efforts to the underprivileged children on the Indian Reservations and in the City of Chicago. Her life was devoted to the improvement of conditions for these unfortunate children through education. She retired from the teaching profession in 1941, returning to Corning to care for her mother during her declining years.
Edith was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Corning, Iowa and a 50 year member of Emblem Chapter of the Eastern Star. Other organizations in which she held membership were the Colonial Dames, the Frances Shaw Chapter of the D.A.R. and the P.E.O, and Emanon Club. She served the local community for several years as a member of the Corning Library Board.
She is survived by her three brothers, Fred of Red Oak, Iowa; Frank of Owatonna, Minnesota, and Ralph of Merrifield, Minnesota, several nieces and nephews, and many friends and neighbors.
Funeral services were held Mon., December 17 at 3 pm from the Roland Funeral Home with Joe Cook officiating. Music was by Mrs. Doyle Tranbarger, Mrs. Bert Peckham, and Mrs. Dick Cook. Pallbearers were Ted Turner, Byron Stanley, John Fees, Homer Snodgrass, Jim Briles and Harry Coulter. Interment was in Walnut Grove cemetery.

Died:
Died at the Rosary Hospital in Corning of Parkinsons disease.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer and Blacksmith
• Census: 30 Jan 1920, Mathews Township, Kingsbury, SD
• Census: 13 Apr 1930, Garfield Township, Montgomery, IA
• Census: 26 Apr 1940, Red Oak, Montgomery, IA

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Census:
1920 census at Mathews Township, Kingsbury, SD shows: Fred L., 30, b. IA, parents b. IA/IA, occupation, farmer; Emma J., 28, b. IA, parents b. IA/IA; Randall F., 7, b. IA, parents b. IA/IA; Audrey, 1, b. SD, parents b. IA/IA.

Census:
1930 census at Garfield Township, Montgomery, IA shows Fred L. Kennon, 40, married at age 20, b. IA, parents b. US/IA, farmer; Emma J., 39, married at 19, b. IA, parents b. PA/IL; children: Randall, 17, b. IA; Audrey, 11. b. SD; Maurice, 9, b. SD; Patricia, 4, b. SD.

Census:
1940 census at Red Oak, Montgomery, IA shows Fred L. Kennon, 51, b. IA, retired blacksmith; Emma, 49, b. IA; Patricia, 14, b. IA.

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Fred married Emma Jeanette MADISON on 24 Apr 1910 in Corning, Adams, IA. Emma (daughter of Robert Eugene (Gene) MADISON and Emily Jane SOPER) was born on 16 Jun 1891 in Corning, Adams, IA; died on 8 Dec 1973 in Red Oak, Montgomery, IA; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Montgomery, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Teacher and seed salesman.
• Cen-Family: 11 Apr 1930, Owatonna, Steele, MN
• Cen-Family: 13 Apr 1940, Owatonna, Steele, MN

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Cen-Family:
1930 census at Owatonna, Steele, MN shows Frank Kennon (indexed as Keenon), 34, first married at 26, b. IA, parents b. IN/IN, teacher public schools; Helen, 30, married at 21, b. IA, parents b. IA/IA; children: Jean, 7, b. SD; Coudy, 5, b. IA.

Cen-Family:
1940 census at Owatonna, Steele, MN shows Frank G. Kennon, 44, b. IA, teacher, public school; Frank G. Kennon, 39, wife, b. IA; children, Jean, 17, b. SD; Frank Koudy, 15, b. IA.

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Frank married Helen KOUDELKA on 23 Apr 1921 in Polk Co., IA. Helen (daughter of George KOUDELKA and Josephine HOTKA) was born on 16 Jan 1900 in Iowa City, Johnson, IA; died on 25 Dec 1962 in Owatonna, Steele, MN; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Owatonna, Steele, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Insurance Actuary
• Census: 7 Apr 1930, Des Moines, Polk, IA
• Census: 6 Apr 1940, 5115 Gladstone Ave, Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN
• Census: 7 Apr 1950, Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN

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Census:
1930 census at Des Moines, Polk, IA show: Ralph E. Kennon, 31, married at age 23, b. IA, parents b. NY/IL, insurance actuary; Mabel M. 34, married at 26, b. IA parents b. IL/IA; children b. IA: Ralph C.,5; Martha J., 7; Julia M. 3 x/12.

Census:
1940 census at Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN shows Ralph Kennon, 41, b. IA, same residence at last census, secretary, Investors Syndicate; Mabel, 44, b. IA; children b. IA: Martha, 17; Ralph, 15; Julia, 13; Susan, 7. Also enumerated is Ella Hass, 30, b. ND, maid.

Census:
1950 census shows Ralph E. Kennon, 52, b. IA, comptroller, life insurance; Mable M., 54, b. IA; Suzanne, 17, b. MN; Arvilla V. Crawford, mother-in-law, 71, b. IA. They live at 5115 Gladstone Ave. in Minneapolis.

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Ralph married Mabel Mae CRAWFORD on 26 Dec 1921 in Gravity, Taylor, IA. Mabel (daughter of Elmer Ellsworth CRAWFORD and Arvilla Belle COLE) was born on 22 Dec 1895 in Gravity, Taylor, IA; died on 3 Jun 1983 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN; was buried in Mission Township Cemetery, Mission Township, Crow Wing, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Anne Elizabeth CROOKSTON. Anne was born in 1917 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT; died on 17 Dec 1997 in Ogden, Weber, UT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: 25 Jan 1993

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Obituary:
Morning Sun, Pittsburg, KS
Retired U.S. Navy Captain Randall F. Kennon, 80, of 2602 S.Taylor, died at 2:30 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 24, 1993, at his home. He had been ill the past year.
Mr. Kennon was born Jan. 13, 1913, in Red Oak, Iowa the son of Fred LaRue and Emma Madison Kennon. He attended schools in Red Oak. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served 30 years retiring Jan. 1, 1959, with the rank of captain. He was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 when it was bombed by the Japanese. A pilot in the Navy Air Force, he participated in the Battle of Midway and in 1942 was ordered to Guadalcanal. He was awarded the usual air medals, but his most treasured was a Unit Citation he received from Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey for locating the Japanese forces coming down the slot at Guadalcanal. When he was selected for test pilot*school, he was four classes ahead of John Glenn and Alan Sheppard, who later became astronauts. He was promoted to lieutenant commander while he was attending this school.
After retiring in 1959 he came to Pittsburg and attended Kansas State Teachers College, now Pittsburg State University, graduating with a bachelors of science degree in accounting. He stayed on the staff at PSU for five years. He also, was employed at the Army Ammunition Plant at Parsons where he retired in 1974.
He married Phyllis E. Armstrong Jan. 18, 1946, in Kansas City, Mo.
Membership was in the Sigma Tau Fraternity, the Melrose Masonic Lodge No. 602 and, Consistory in California, Mirza Shrine in Pittsburg, a former member of the Lions Club and a member of the Silver Eagle Association.
Survivors include the wife, of the home; one son, Fred L. Kennon of Overland Park; three daughters, Donna M. Cory of Plattewood, Mo., M. Susan Pierce of Shawnee, Kan., and Karen J. Kiss of Piqua, Ohio; one brother, Maurice Kennon of Stanton, Iowa; one sister, Patricia Kugler of Inavale, Neb., and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sisters.
Services will be 10:30 a.m.Tuesday at the Brenner Chapel with Dr. Wayne Black of the First Christian Church officiating. Flag-folding services conducted by Jimmie Friend and Ben Moore of the Benjamin A. Fuller Post No. 64 of the Pittsburg American Legion will follow the services. The body; will be cremated and the cremains will be buried at a later date in the National Cemetery at Fort Scott. The family will receive friends, from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the Brenner Chapel with masonic services by the Pittsburg Masonic Lodge No. 187 at 7:30 p.m. Friends may call at the Brenner Mortuary, 114 E. Fourth St., Pittsburg, after 2 p.m. today.

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Randall married Rose Roberta SOLKOLOFF before 1935, and was divorced on 25 Oct 1945 in Red Oak, Montgomery, IA. Rose was born about 1916 in NY; died in 1948 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Randall married Phyllis Esther ARMSTRONG on 31 Dec 1945 in Kansas City, Jackson, MO. Phyllis was born on 12 Aug 1916; died on 27 Sep 2009. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Audrey was a collector of almost anything! She purchased an old drive-in bank in the late 1970's, she took great pride in showing off the teller window.

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Audrey married Charles Milton SMITH on 21 Jun 1938 in Red Oak, Montgomery, IA. Charles (son of Joseph Grover SMITH and Reba WEST) was born on 21 Jan 1915 in Liberty, Clay, MO; died on 24 Dec 1986 in Red Oak, Montgomery, IA; was buried on 29 Dec 1986 in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Montgomery, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Buzzy Kennon
• Occupation: Stanton, Montgomery, IA; farmer
• Obituary: 30 May 2007

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Maurice married Bertha Mildred ASKEY on 16 May 1939 in Rock Port, Atchison, MO. Bertha (daughter of Henry Franklin ASKEY and Alice Dean CARROLL) was born on 23 Mar 1921 in Grant, Montgomery, IA; died on 17 Oct 2006 in Red Oak, Montgomery, IA; was buried on 21 Oct 2006 in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Montgomery, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: Inavale, Webster, NE
• Occupation: Breeder And Racer Of Greyhound Dogs.

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Joined their son, Mike in breeding and training greyhound dogs for racing.

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Patricia married Howard Wayne KUGLER on 8 Apr 1944 in Oakland, Alameda, CA. Howard (son of Frank Riley KUGLER and Anna W. WHITMERS) was born on 28 Jul 1922 in Arvada, Jefferson, CO; died on 9 Jan 2004 in Franklin, Franklin, NE; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 18 Jan 1983, Lakewood, Jefferson, CO

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Received a letter from Jeanne Hinton thanking me for sending her some genealogy charts. She writes about visiting the farm of Fred and Daisy. "Quite often the Frank Kennon's and the Ralph Kennon's ended up there at the same time - 4th of July and birthday celebrations. Course the Fred Kennons were close by - so many kids we all got to take a blanket outside to sleep under the stars - no sleeping bags then. Your grandfather (Ralph Kennon) always brought many night fireworks. A big deal for all of us. Ask him if he remembers that. We all had to rest between 1 and 3 - then we were "at home" for the callers that came. A great place for grandchildren to visit a grandmother and an Aunt Edith. Aunt Edith was a special person - though she made terrible sugar cookies. She once gave me the book "Heidi", which I still have, and a lamb cake as my birthday is in March. I was so impressed.

Helen married George 'Kip' HINTON on 7 Feb 1946 in Owatonna, Steele, MN. George was born on 13 Sep 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA; died on 20 Oct 1987 in Lakewood, Denver, CO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Koudy Kennon

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Frank married Margery May NELSON on 11 Jun 1949 in Owatonna, Steele, MN. Margery (daughter of Robert D. NELSON and Carol CLARKSON) was born on 2 May 1925 in Owatonna, Steele, MN; died on 28 Nov 2005; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Owatonna, Steele, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]