Family/Spouse: Elizabeth GILBERT. Elizabeth (daughter of Josiah GILBERT) was born about 1578 in Shalford, Essex, ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: Aug 1683, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT

Notes:

Probate:
My fourteen acres of land in the great meadow, and thirty acres in the West field, I give unto my son Robert Foote...he paying for these lands 45 lbs. - to be payed to the children of my daughter Sarah Judson, deceased , and to my four daughters, my daughter Churchill, my daughter Goodrich, my daughter Barnard, and my daughter Smith. There were also sums left for the two sons and grandchildren of her deceased son Nathaniel.
In a codicil she takes back the money she willed to her son Nathaniel's two sons and divides it amongst her daughters, giving the two brothers instead the land she had formerly willed to her son Robert who had died.

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Elizabeth married Nathaniel FOOTE in Jan 1615 in North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire, ENGLAND. Nathaniel (son of Robert FOOTE and Joan BROOKE) was born on 21 Sep 1592 in Shalford, Essex, ENGLAND; died in Nov 1644 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT; was buried in Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas WELLES about 1646. Thomas (son of Thomas DE WELLES and Helen SIDAY) was born about 1598 in London, ENGLAND; died on 14 Jan 1659/60 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary SHEAFFE in 1645. Mary was born about 1613. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Honor TREAT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Josiah CHURCHILL in 1638. Josiah was born about 1612 in Muston, Dorset, ENGLAND; died on 1 Jan 1686. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Elizabeth SMITH about 1646 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. Elizabeth (daughter of Lieut. Lieut. Samuel SMITH and Elizabeth SMITH) was born on 28 Jan 1627 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, ENGLAND; died in 1711. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John STODDARD in 1642. John was born about 1620; died in Dec 1664. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lieut. married Sarah POTTER in 1659 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. Sarah (daughter of William POTTER and Frances UNKNOWN) was born about 1639 in Guilford, New Haven, CT; was christened on 22 Aug 1641 in New Haven, New Haven, CT; died on 23 Aug 1706 in Branford, New Haven, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
The children and grandchildren of Frances Foote suffered very much from the Indians. Her oldest child, Hannah, married Samuel Gillet in 1668 and had 4 children. While they were all very small, Hannah's husband was killed in the great fight with the Indians at Turners Falls on the Connecticut River, May 19, 1676.
The next year Hannah married Stephen Jennings, and a few months later she was captured by the Indians and taken to Canada. The poor woman - soon to be a mother - left three little children at home, the oldest but six. (Her first baby had been burned to death). Hannah was rescued in a few months, then her baby was born and named Captivity. some years later they moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts.
One day in July Hannah's husband Mr. Jennings was in the meadow, with five other men, making hay, when some Indians sprang upon them suddenly and killed them.
The husband of her daughter Captivity was also slain by the Indians.
Another daughter of Frances Foote and John Dickinson, Sarah, who married Samuel Lane and had five children, also had a terrible experience. Less than a year after Samuel Lane's death in 1690, she married a widower, Martin Kellogg, with two small children, whose wife had died six months before. They had four more children. Three of the last children and one of the first wife's who was named Martin were captured by the Indians in Deerfield, February 29, 1704 and taken to Canada.
Martin Kellogg, Jr. the first wife's child, was rescued but was captured several times. He learned the Indian language and was often employed to interpret treaties with the Indians. He became a Captan and was remarkable even in that day of strong men for his great strength and firmness, and many tales are told of his exploits.
The three other children of Sarah Dickenson and Martin Kellogg, Sr. who were captured were; Joseph, 13; Joanna, 11; and Rebecca,9. Joseph learned the Indian language and on his return from captivity often acted as an interpreter. Joanna stayed with the Indians and finally married an Indian Chief and had a number of children. Once she came to visit her half brother, Martin Kellogg, Jr., bringing some of her children with her. He tried to persuade her to stay with him, but she would not and returned to her Indian home. Rebecca remained with the Indians until she was grown. Then she married Benjamin Ashley. Knowing the Indian language so well, she was often employed as an interpreter by the missionaries. At one time she went with one of them through the woods on a mission to the Indians and died in an Indian village.

Frances married John DICKINSON in 1648 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. John was born in 1630 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA; died on 19 May 1676 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 1630, East Bergholst, Suffolk, ENGLAND
• Birth: 1632, ENGLAND

Sarah married Jeremiah JUDSON in 1652 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT. Jeremiah (son of William JUDSON and Grace Ann PORTER) was born in 1621 in ENGLAND; died on 15 May 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Lieut. Lieut. Phillip SMITH in 1657 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. Lieut. (son of Lieut. Lieut. Samuel SMITH and Elizabeth SMITH) was born on 30 Apr 1632 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, ENGLAND; died on 10 Jan 1684/85 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [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]

Mary married Joseph WRIGHT on 10 Dec 1663. Joseph died in Jan 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth CURTIS on 26 May 1647. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Joshua married Bethia SMITH on 15 Aug 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married Joseph WRIGHT on 10 Mar 1685. Joseph died in Jan 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary UNKNOWN. Mary died on 17 Jan 1693. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Tabitha BISHOP. Tabitha died in 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Isaac CURTIS on 13 Aug 1682. Isaac died on 15 Jul 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 8 Mar 1664

Notes:

Birth:
Alternate birth date.

Elizabeth married John GRAVES on 12 Jan 1685. John died on 1 Dec 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Abigail JOHNSON in 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail BARKER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Notes:

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Family/Spouse: Rebecca DICKERMAN. Rebecca was born on 27 Feb 1679 in New Haven, New Haven, CT; died on 13 Oct 1757 in New Haven Co., CT; was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 19 Sep 1677

Notes:

Note:
Hannah, married Samuel Gillet in 1668 and had 4 children. While they were all very small, Hannah's husband was killed in the great fight with the Indians at Turners Falls on the Connecticut River, May 19, 1676.
The next year Hannah married Stephen Jennings, and a few months later she was captured by the Indians and taken to Canada. The poor woman - soon to be a mother - left three little children at home, the oldest but six. (Her first baby had been burned to death). Hannah was rescued in a few months, then her baby was born and named Captivity. some years later they moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts.
One day in July Hannah's husband Mr. Jennings was in the meadow, with five other men, making hay, when some Indians sprang upon them suddenly and killed them.
The husband of her daughter Captivity was also slain by the Indians.

Hannah married Samuel GILLET on 23 Sep 1668. Samuel was born on 22 Jan 1641/42 in Windsor, Hartford, CT; died on 19 May 1676 in Turners Falls on the Connecticut River. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Stephan JENNINGS on 15 May 1677. Stephan died on 22 Jul 1710 in Brookfield, Worcester, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel NORTHAM about 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Susanna SMITH. Susanna (daughter of Joseph SMITH and Lydia HEWETT) was born in Jun 1667. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
From Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors: " When Deerfield was destroyed by the French and Indians, 29 Feb., 1704, he and four of his children, Martin, Joseph, Joanna and Rebecca, were taken prisoners and carried to Canada. His son, Jonathan, was killed. Mrs. Kellogg escaped. There is a tradition that at the time of the attack upon the house (which was at night), Mrs. Kellogg "escaped from her bed with her infant, a few days old, to the cellar, and after secreting her infant, turned a large tub over herself; the cries of the child attracted the attention of the Indians, who immediately siezed it and dashed it against the wall. They afterward feasted upon the stores which they found in the cellar, sitting upon the tub which concealed the wretched mother. On their departure, they set fire to the dwelling. She rushed from the house, almost naked and, with bare feet, fled through the deep snow for two miles to the house then used as a fort." The youngest child of Martin Kellogg was Jonathan, b. 17 Dec., 1698, and, as recorded in the Hampshire County Recorder's book at Hatfield, he "was slain in the fort," which seems to dispose of the tradition of the infant, a few days old, carried to the cellar and secreted by his mother. How much truth there is in the rest of the tradition is unknown.
The father and his four children were separated, as the Indians, after their depredations, divided into as many parties, each taking a prisoner. It is not know when he returned. In Oct., 1705, eleven of the Deerfield captives came home; the names of only three are known... In 1706 forty-four English captive were returned from Canada. The names of but few of them are known. It is probable that in one of these parties Martin Kellogg, Sr., came."


From Unredeemed Captive:
"Early on the morning of February 29, 1704, before the settlers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, had stirred from their beds, a French and Indian war party opened fire, weilding hatchets and torches, on the lightly fortified town. The Kelloggs...had been major sufferers in the Deerfield massacre: a boy killed, the father (Martin, Sr.) and four other children (Martin, Jr., Joseph, Joanna, and Rebecca) taken prisoner, the mother "escaped." Martin, Sr. returned to New England in one of the first prisoner exchanges. Martin, Jr. fled (apparently from Kahnawake) with three other boys in 1705 and made his way back to Deerfield - only to be recaptured, and repatriated for good, in 1708. After the peace of 1713, he returned to Canada to retrieve his brother Joseph. And Joseph would subsequently undertake the same errand - several times- on behalf of his captive sisters. The latter, however, chose to remain; Joanna, indeed, would subsequently marry a Kahnawake chief."

Sarah married Samuel LANE on 11 Dec 1677. Samuel died in 1690 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Martin KELLOGG on 27 Feb 1690/91. Martin (son of Lieutenant Lieutenant Joseph KELLOGG and Joanna FOOTE) was born on 22 Nov 1658 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Joseph SMITH on 11 Feb 1680. Joseph (son of Joseph SMITH and Lydia HEWETT) was born in Mar 1657; died on 1 Oct 1733 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Thomas CROFT on 6 Dec 1683. Thomas died on 27 Feb 1692. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Samuel CROFOOT on 30 Nov 1704. Samuel was born in 1662; died on 10 Oct 1733; was buried in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married Joseph CHAMBERLAIN on 8 Jun 1688. Joseph was born about 1665; died on 7 Aug 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mehitable married John INGRAM, Jr on 26 Jun 1689. [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:

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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]

Family/Spouse: Abijah BARTLETT. Abijah was born about 1673; died on 13 Oct 1708 in Brookfield, Worcester, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
The Foote Family (A.W. Foote) lists her birth year as 1648, an obvious error, I've listed it as 1684.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
Joseph was captured by French and Indians and taken to Canada. He learned the Indian language and on his return from captivity was often employed as a interpreter.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
Joanna was captured by the French and Indians, through her choice she remained among the Indians, marrying an Indian chief. Once she came to visit her half brother, Martin Kellogg, Jr., bringing some of her children with her. He tried to persuade her to stay with him, but she would not and returned to her Indian home. Rebecca remained with the Indians until she was grown.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
Rebecca Kellogg was captured as a child during the French and Indian attack on Deerfield, MA in 1704 and carried off to Canada. She returned to New England about 1728, where she was hired by the General Court to act as a liason with the St. Francis or Canawaga tribe. In 1752 she was an interpreter at the Indian School in Stockbridge, where Captain Ashley was a teacher.

Rebecca married Benjamin ASHLEY on 13 Mar 1744/45 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. Benjamin was born on 9 Feb 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Notes:

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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:

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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

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

Notes:

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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:
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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.

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:

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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:

• 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:
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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]

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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:

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

Notes:

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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:
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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:

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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.

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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.

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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]

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• 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

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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.

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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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There is a "Levi White Chapin, 1822 - 1915" listed as buried in the Eldora Cemetery, Eldora Township, Hardin County, Iowa. Not sure whether this is the right guy or not but seems to be.

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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:
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.

Died:
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.

Census:
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.

Obituary:
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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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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Census:
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.

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]