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GENEAL-OGV COL-LECTION

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MR. AND MRS. J. ALMERON POND.

COLLECTION OF FAMILY RECORDS

FROM

Bartholomew
Botsford ^Winston

Lines of Genealogy

As the compiler received her name from these famihes

The individuals were

1. Sarah Bartholomew
2. Annis Botsford
3. Alanson Winston

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The Case. Lockwood & Brainard Company

1899

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THIS LITTLE TREATISE IS RESPECTFULLY

DeDtcatcO

TO HER KINDRED
SARAH ANNIS WINSTON POND

CORRECTIONS.

Pagt" L'l. Joseph Norman Sij^ouriiey horn Aii<,aist.
Page 51. Mrs. Simeon H. Dutton died Deeeml.cr I'l.
Ruth Mildred Dutton horn Sei)temher 17.
Elias I'erkins Dutton horn March 14.
Pageo.3. Mary Ann Stevens (iamble's children should
have been o ; the .5th, George Washington (Janii.l.. ho,-,,
November 11, 1862.

Pages 55 :ind 5(i. ]{ead third and Courth child ofTheoph-
dus and Dolly IJidwell IJotsford, instead of Samuel and
Betsy ("lark Hot sfo rd.

ABBREVIATIONS USED

1. abt., about

2. b,, born

3. d., died

4. dau., daughter

5. gr-dau., grand daughter

6. m., married

7. unm., unmarried

S. res., resides or residence

FRAGMENTS OF GF.NEALOGY

STRUNG TOGETHER WITH NOTES OF FACTS
IN THEIR CONNECTION.

THE reason for the combination of these three
families is, that the compiler received her name
from persons bearing- these names, and as she has
been searching- for the ancestry of her kindred, from
whom she received her name — the Sarah name from
her great-g-randmother, Sarah Bartholomew Winston
Norton ; the Annis name from Annis Botsford Wins-
ton Cowles. Sarah m. John Winston ; Annis m.
Lorenzo Winston ; and Maria Bartholomew (two gen-
erations down from vSarah), her niece, m. Alanson
Winston — from the third generation on the Winston
line from John Winston, Sarah Bartholomew's hus-
band.

The writer was the first-born of this pair, Alanson
and Maria Bartholomew Winston, who bore these
signified names until her marriage, when these names
became merged into a Pond name, Mrs. J. A. Pond,
who has looked upon these little family genealogies
as so small in comparison with our Heavenly Father's
large family, which takes in all as we come down from
our first parents, Adam and Eve; Eve being the (pro-
spective) "mother of all living" — Gen. iii, 20, when we
take into consideration the Abrahamic stock called
in Isaac's name Isaac's sons, — Saxons, Anglo-Saxons.

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However, she has been led to feed on this smallness of
investigation for a short time with the consoling idea
that it may fall to her lot later on to consider more
generally the larger family research, as the best some-
times comes last, like the wine at the marriage feast ;
also, man's appearance on the stage of action on the
sixth of those Creation days, as God rested on the
seventh.

In this search after missing links we have stepped
into ten generations of Winston genealogical ancestry
with the first who came from Old England.

1. John, prob. b. abt. 1615.

2. Sergt. John, b, April 21, 1657.

3. Daniel, twin, b. August 18, 1690.

4. John, b. April 7, 1726.

5. John, b. 1763.

6. Lorenzo, b. 1791.

7. Alanson, b. December 15, 1816.

8. DeWitt, b. January 9, 1843.

9. Nathan, b. January 18, 1872.
10. Mabel C, b. October S, 1S97.

Then we will mention three more that belong to
this tenth generation, that have lost the Winston name.
The 8th generation :

Sarah "Winston m. Pond. | Frances Winston m. Defendorf.

The 9th generation :
Martin Pond. | Cora Defendorf m. Wooding.

The loth generation :

Leslie Pond. | Lois and Helen Wooding.

1. Leslie Miller Pond, b. July 29, 1891.

2. Lois Frances Wooding, b. Feb. 5, 1895, d. Dec. 27, 1S95.

3. Helen Wooding, b. July 6, 1897.

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CONCERNING THE PICTURES.

As this is not a Pond genealogy, the writer has only-
succeeded in inducing her husband to take a seat be-
side her through much persistence. If it can be
proved that it is not proper, then she will everlastingly
break the rules of propriety. (He might have put on
a little more gracious look over it.) My better half,
Mr. J. Almeron Pond, has been a helper concern-
ing this first effort on this line.

Now for a few quotations. Beecher has said : " The
dry branches of genealogical trees bear many pleas-
ant and curious fruits for those who know how to
search after them." And God's Word says, in Exodus
xvii. 14, 1 Chron. ix. i, and Gen. xlix. i: "And the Lord
said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book."
" So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies, and be-
hold they were written in the book of the kings of Is-
rael and Judah," etc. Old Jacob, on his deathbed, told
his descendants what should befall them in the last
days. Here it seems plain, if we will search for truth,
to see where the chosen people which have been used
all down through the ages by which to mould all other
peoples started from, — these twelve Patriarchs, the
sons of Jacob. The writer considers these three fam-
ilies which furnish the material for this treatise, as so
many twigs from some line unknown to her, of the
ten lost tribes or families.

Although she considers England and America as
the Ephraim and Manasseh of old Israel or Jacob,
whose ancestry were to be identified, and understood
what had befallen them "in the last days" of the
Christian age, we have aimed for the truth, which is
more rare than fiction, and would here pen a stanza

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taken from some of John Warner Barber's Historical
Collections :

"All-glorious Truth ! thy radiant light
Dispels the dark sulphurous gloom of night.
Firm as a rock that rears its ancient head,
With deep foundation laid on ocean's bed,
Though lightnings flash, though seas and thunders roar,
Thou wilt remain when time shall be no more."

The compiler would tender thanks to all who have
furnished data, etc., whereby she has been enabled to
pursue this little task and bring it to its completion.
She would also ask for a share of the indulgent judg-
ment of her readers. Those alone who have had
some experience in attempting the compiling of
records can understand the difficulties.

A GENEALOGICAL TREATISE.

The object of this little work has been merely to
search out names, dates, etc., of persons which have
or do bear the name of Winston, with their connec-
tions by marriage, for the perusal of one and all that
have the least tincture of Winston blood coursing
through their veins, or for any one that can take any
interest herein, with Anglo-Saxon or Israelitish senti-
ment— Numbers xv. i6 : "One law and one manner
shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth
with you." We will mention dates with some of these
names which it seems quite probable were our ances-
try, which names have been written Wenston, Wen-
stone, Whetstone, and Winstone.

"A certain publication was put in charge for prepa-
ration by Sir Edwin Sandys and Dr. Thomas Winston.
A note of the shipping, Men, and Provisions sent ta

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Virginia by the Treasurer and Company, Dec. 15, 161 9,
(Src, S:c., for the better governing of the actions and
affairs of the said Company, in England residing."

Christian Whetstone, age 19, to be transported to the
island of Providence, April 16, 1635; and an Increase
Whetstone, killed by Indians, March 14, 1676, at North-
ampton, Mass. (unable to make out what town, unless
Barnstable), where Mercy Whetstone was m. June 30,
1698, to Joseph Parker. [And a foot-note reads, "per-
haps the name is Whiston"; probably the record was
not very plain, any more than some we come in con-
tact with these days.] Also, a John Whetstone, age 20,
on the Peter Bonaventure in 1635.

Then later down the stream of time (as we note
various persons bearing these names, which have, as
it seems, undergone a slight change from a Whetstone
to a Winston), Patrick Henry's dau. m. G. D. Winston
of Virginia; also, a John Winston Jones, United States
Representative in Congress in 1803; and a Geo. T
Winston, among the list of officers of the Historical
Society of North Carolina at its reorganization Oct.
26, 1887, and at the present time is the President of
the University at Austin, Tex. We will give a few
extracts from a couple of letters received from him,
saying that he descended from the Winston family of
Virginia; his ancestor in the sixth or seventh degree
being John Winston, one of three brothers who came
from Lincolnshire, England. Common family names,
John, Antony, and Isaac. In a letter four months
ago he wrote us, " I will take pleasure in sending
you the genealogy of my family as soon as I can
obtain a few missing links. We seem to fail in receiv-
ing any dates concerning George T. Winston's family."

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Then we will mention a C. H. Winston of Virginia'
who was elected president of the foreign mission board
at a Baptist conference at Louisville, Ky., May i6,
1899. Then we have a very interesting letter from
Wm. H. H. Winston of Lynchburg, Amherst Co., Va.,
with a list of names, also some dates commencing with
his grandfather's family, whose name was George
Winston, b. December, 1759, m. Judith Ricks, May,
1790. She was b. August, 1771. Children, fourteen.

I. James Winston, b. March, 1791, was a prominent
merchant in Richmond, Va., and lived in quite a large
place near the old St. John's Church on Church Hill.
2. Pleasant Winston, b. July, 1792, m. Elizabeth C.
Clark, of Campbell County, Va. Children, eleven.

I. Bowling Henry Winston, the Bowling name
after his uncle, Bowling Clark, who lived near Lynch-
burg, Va., and was a member of the legislature. This
first child of Pleasant and Elizabeth , Clark Winston
was Bowling Henry Winston, who m. a dau, of John
Clark. These Clarks were a prominent family in that
part of the State near Lynchburg, Va. These two
families, which Pleasant Winston and his son Bowling
married into, tradition says were related several gene-
rations back. We can make mention of one son, John
Clark Winston, of the firm of John C. Winston & Co.,
publishers and manufacturers of books, bibles, and
albums, 328-334 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111., also
houses in Philadelphia, Pa., and Toronto, Ont. We
sent letters of inquiry to one of these firms concern-
ing the printing of this little treatise, thinking it
would have a little more Winston tincture; have re-
ceived no reply; probably all for the best. We are
very grateful to John C. Winston, one who has replied,

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for several references that he sent us. His uncle,
Wm. H. H. Winston, who sent me this record of his
grandfather's family, whose third child was named
George Winston, b. January, 1794, d. young.

Mary Winston, b. February, 1795.

Nathaniel Winston, b. June, 1797.

Elizabeth Winston, b. August, 1799.

Lucy Ann Winston, b. August, iSoi.

Ann Winston, b. March, 1803.

George Winston, b. February, 1S05.

Amelia Winston, b. November, 1S06.

Benjamin Winston, b. August, 1808, probably d. j'oung.

Thomas B. Winston, b. June, iSii.

Benjamin Winston, b. November, 1812.

Virginia I. Winston, b. January, 1815.

This George and Judith Ricks Winston family lived
in Richmond, Virginia. Their second child. Pleasant
Winston, the father of Bowling Henry Winston and
of a son Pleasant Winston, also a George Clark Wins-
ton, probably d. young.

Liberia Indiana Winston.
George Whitlock Winston.
Elizabeth V. Winston.
Ambrose W. Winston.
Charles J. Winston.
Lucy Winston.
Wm'. H. H. Winston.
Thomas B. Winston.

One of George and Judith Ricks Winston's daugh-
ters m. a prominent man of Richmond by the name of
Butler ; two daughters we can mention, Lucy Butler,
and the other dau. who m. Dr. Harker, of Richmond, Va.

Charles J. Winston, Ambrose W. Winston, and Wm.
H. H. Winston went through the civil war. This

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Wm. H. H. Winston, of Lynchburg, Amherst County^
Va., an uncle of the John C. Winston of Philadelphia,
says in a letter : " Yours of the loth I was very glad to
receive for the information it conveyed." (We wrote
him we had been taught that our southern relatives
towered high above us northern Winstons.) In reply
he writes : " I am very proud of my ancestry. I wish
I could know all about them. When you finish your
research I would be very glad to hear from you.
Whatever of honor attaches to the name of the north-
ern will only be another star in the crown of the
southern. I am the last of my father's family living.
I was a confederate soldier from Bull Run to Appo-
mattox ; was in the charge of Pickett's division at
Gettysburg ; lay on the battlefield four hours sense-
less ; was finally captured and held in prison nineteen
months, but got out in time to take part in the last
battle at Petersburg. I did what I then thought was
right, but I do not now think that war is right under
any circumstances.

" May God forgive the past and unite the North,.
South, East, and West under the banner of peace and
love to him and each other, and when this earthly
house is dissolved, may all reassemble in a house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

This Wm. H. H. Winston was b. July 29, 1840, m,
Nancy Powell Moorman, February 28, 1866. She was.
b. January i, 1841. Four children :

1. d. probably young.

2. Fannie Lee Winston.

3. Lucy Bowling Winston.

4. Joseph Wm. Winston, who is in business in Philadelphia,.

Penn.

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Then we note a Dr. H. ]^. Winston of Hanover
County, Va., and we think the first born of George
and Judith Ricks Winston.

James Winston had a daughter Jennie Winston who
m. Dr. Holt, of Surrey County, Va.

As we understand, the name of our ancestor, the
immigrant who embarked from the seaport of Graves-
end, England, is often signed at the foot of certificates,
etc. The probability is that he was b. abt. 16 15.
John Winston was recorded a freeman March 7, 1647,
of the New Haven colony. As early as 1631 two im-
portant rules were adopted at a meeting of the electors
in General Court, namely: ist. That the freemen alone
should have the power of electing the governor, deputy
governor, and assistants. 2d. That those only should
be made freemen who belonged to some church within
the limits of the colony. The latter rule was repealed
in 1665. This ancestor, John Winston, was made a
freeman in 1647 ; and we have dates of five of his
<;hildren's baptisms during the ministry of Rev. John
Davenport of New Haven, Conn.

I. Elizabeth Winston, baptized Dec. 12, 1650.

Hester, baptized Feb. 15, 1651, probably d. yoi^ng.
Grace Winston, baptized May 30, 1654.
Christian Winston (a son), baptized Dec. 19, 1660.
Hester Winston, No. 2, baptized 1662.

We have a little scrap of history from Farmington,
Conn., concerning infant baptism. It is stated that
Sabbath Day afternoon it would be announced: " All
children born since the last Sabbath are presented for
baptism." No matter what the weather, no one dared
to incur what seemed to them the terrible responsi-
bility of deferring this solemn rite.

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FAMILY RECORDS.

John Winston purchased a house and home lot in
New Haven of Samuel Whitehead in 165 1. He was
concerned with Stephen Goodyear in establishing the
iron works at East Haven in 1655, the first in Connec-
ticut, also a commissioner on the part of New Haven
to fix the bounds of Wallingford in 1673 ; prob. d. abt.
1697, aged 82. Seven children :

Elizabeth, b. Dec. 11, 1649 '< n^- Samuel Ailing.

Hester, b. Jan. 25, 1651 ; probably d. young.
Grace, b. April 21, 1654 ; m. John Smith.

4. Sergt. John, b. April 21, 1657 ; m. Elizabeth Daniel.

5. Christian, a son, b. abt. 1660.

6. Hester, No. 2, b. Nov. 11, 1662 ; m. Joseph Morris.
Mary, b. June 25, 1667 ; m. Oct. 16, 1685, Thomas Trow-
bridge of New Haven, the Thomas who was b. Feb. 14, 1664.

Elizabeth, the first born, m. Samuel Ailing Oct. 24,
1667. She d. Dec. 8, 1682, aged 2)y^ ^ direct ancestor
of Joseph Peck, as his mother was Hannah Ailing,
who was a grandmother of Mrs. H. S. Bartholomew,
etc., of Edgewood, Bristol, Conn.

John, the fourth child, b. April 21, 1657, m. Elizabeth
Daniel May 9, 1682. Her grandfather on her mother's
side, Thomas Gregson, was a principal man in the
colony, and the first white settler at East Haven. He
was appointed agent of the colony to the parliament
in England to obtain a patent, and was lost at sea on
the voyage over. This Thomas Gregson, also Stephen
Goodyear, were among the first principal settlers at
New Haven. We will . copy from John Warner Bar-
ber's Historical Collections of New Haven, written in
1836, page 161: "New Haven having been exceed-
ingly disappointed in trade and sustained great dam-
age at Delaware, and the large estates which they

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brought into New England rapidly declining, this year
made uncommon exertion as far as possible to re-
trieve their former losses. Combining their money
and labors they built a ship at Rhode Island of 150
tons and freighted her for England, with the best part
of their commercial estates. Mr. Gregspn, Capt. Tur-
ner, ]\Ir. Lamberton, and five or six of their principal
men, embarked on board. They sailed from New
Haven in January, 1647. They were obliged to cut
through the ice to get out of the harbor. The ship
foundered at sea and was never heard of after she
sailed.'*

According to the belief of the inhabitants at that
period, this ship was seen in the air after she was lost.
We take the following account as we find it in Cotton
Mather's Magnalia. (Mather was living in 17 18.) He
hearing of the circumstances, wrote to his friend, the
Rev. Mr. Pierpont, for information, and received from
that gentleman the following answer:

"Rev. and Dear Sir, — In compliance with your
desires, I now give you the relation of that apparation
of a ship in the air which I have received from the
most credible, judicious, and curious surviving observ-
ers of it. In the year 1647, besides much other lading,
a far more rich treasure of passengers (five or six of
which were persons of chief note and worth in New
Haven), put themselves on board of a new ship built
at Rhode Island of about 150 ton; but so walty [in-
clined to roll much] that the master (Lamberton)
often said she would prove their grave. In the month
of January, cutting their way through much ice, on
which they were accompanied with the Reverand Mr.

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Davenport, besides many other friends, with many
fears as well as prayers and tears, they set sail. Mr.
Davenport, in prayer, with an observable emphasis,
used these words: ' Lord, if it be thy pleasure to bury
these our friends in the bottom of the sea, they are
thine: save them!' The spring following no tidings
of these friends arrived with the ships from England.
New Haven's heart began to fail her; this put the
goodly people on much prayer, both publick and pri-
vate, that the Lord would (if it was his pleasure) let
them hear what he had done with their dear friends,
and prepare them with a suitable submission to his
Holy Will. In June next ensueing a great thunder
storm arose out of the northwest: after which (the
hemisphere being serene), about an hour before sun-
set, a ship of like dimentions with the aforesaid, with
her canvass and colors abroad (though the wind north-
ernly), appeared in the air coming up from our har-
bor's mouth which lyes southward from the town,
seemingly with her sails filled under a fresh gale,
holding her course north, and continued under obser-
vation, sailing" against the wind for the space of half
an hour.

"Many were drawn to behold this great work of
God; yea, the very children cryed out, 'There is a
brave ship ! ' At length, crowding up as far as there
is usually water sufficient for such a vessel, and so near
some of the spectators as that they imagined a man
might hurl a stone on board her, her main-top seemed
to be blown off, but left hanging on the shrouds; then
her mizen-top, then all her masting seemed blown
away by the board: quickly after the hulk brought unto
a careen (lay on one side), she over-set, and so vanished

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into a smoaky cloud, which in sometime dissipated,
leaving as every where else a clear air. The admir-
ing spectators could distinguish the several colours of
each part the principal rigging and such proportions
as caused not only the generality of persons to say,
this was the mould of their ship, and this was her
tragick end, but Mr. Davenport also in publick de-
clared to this effect, that God had condescended for
the quieting of their afflicted spirits this extraordinary
account of his sovereign disposal of those for whom
so many fervent prayers were made continually.
Thus, I am. Sir, your humble servant,

James Pierpont."

Sergt. John Winston (who m. the granddaughter of
Thomas Gregson (of whom we stopped to relate the
particulars of what befell him), was repeatedly ap-
pointed commissary for county of New Haven from
1690 to 1704, in connection with the fitting out of
expeditions for the king's service against the enemy
— French and Indians — at Albany, etc. Sergt, John
and Elizabeth Daniel Winston had six children:

1. Elizabeth, b. March 13, 1683.

2. John, b. July 25, 16S5.

3. Marv, b. March 12, 16S8; m. Thomas Leek, June i, 1716.

4 and 5. Steven and Daniel were twin brothers, b. Aug. 18,
1690.
6. Anna, b. May 23, 1697; m. Joshua Bay.

All the compiler is able to say further concerning
this generation is about Daniel Winston, as it would
seem Providence has fixed it, as it is on the very line
she descends from.

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Daniel, b. Aug. i8, 1690, m. Abigail Hotchkiss, Jan.
2, 1721. She was b. Oct. 12, 1695, d. Aug. 30, 1735,
aged near 40. He removed to Southington from Wall-
ingford, and lived north of burying-ground Hill, where
Noah Cogswell lived and died. Daniel and Abigail
Hotchkiss Winston's children were six:

1. Isaac, b. Jan. 28, 1722.

2. Hannah, b. Sept. 24, 1724 ; m. Nov. 7, 1751, Thomas An-
drews, b. in 1720; res. New York, four children.

3. John Winston, b. April 7, 1726; m. Elidia (or Lydia) Bris-
tow of Farmington, Mch, 12, 1752. He d. abt. 1789, age abt. 63.

Her father, who had been in early life a school-
teacher, was a farmer, much respected, and owned a
considerable property in Southington parish, now
Southington township. John and Lydia Bristow Win-
ston's children that we can mention are four :

1. Patience, b. July 17, 1753.

2. Abigail, b. Nov. 6, 1754, d. in New Hartford, Conn., June,

1816; m. Timothy Dawson, a Revolutionary soldier.

3. Eliada, b. Dec. 7, 1757.

4. John Winston, b. 1763; the writer's great-grandfather, and

the brother of this Abigail Winston.

As we know nothing more about Patience or Eliada
Winston, we will endeavor to finish this chapter, con-
sidering what we have concerning this Abigail Win-
ston, granddaughter of Daniel and Abigail Hotchkiss
Winston, and daughter of John and Lydia Bristow
Winston, probably named after her grandmother Abi-
gail, The sister being about nine years older than
John, we search for her pedigree first.

Abigail Winston, b. in Southington parish, Farm-
ington, Conn., Nov. 6, 1754, m. Timothy Dawson in
1777. He was born in East Haven abt. 1743, d. in New
Hartford, Conn., June, 1828, aged 85. She d. in New
Hartford June, 1816, aged 62. This Timothy Daw-

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son's first wife was Anna Holt, b. in East Haven Mch.
14, 1752, d. October, 1776, aged 24. She left three
children. His second wife was Abigail Winston. His
third wife was Liicina Marsh, b. June 15, 1764, and d.
a widow in New Hartford; no children. The children
of Timothy and Abigail Winston Dawson were eight :

1. Abu;ail, b. 1778; d. young.

2. Anna, b. Aug. 7, 1779.

3. EuNECiA, b. Dec. 26, 1781.

4. Bristol, b. June 12, 1785.

5. Timothy John, b. Aug. 13, 1788.

6. Lydia. b. Feb. 10, 1791.

7. Seth. b. 1795.

8. Elizur, b. Mch. iS, 1798.

The fourth child, Bristol Dawson, b. in Southington,
Conn., June 12, 1785, m. Sybil Merrill, March i, abt.
iSio. She was b. in New Hartford July i, 1789, and
d. at the residence of her son-in-law, Joseph Sigour-
ney, in Bristol, Conn., July 27, 1871, aged 82. He d.
in Meriden, Conn., Feb. 25, 1859, aged 74. They had
eight children:

1. Elliot M., b. Jan. 22, 1811.

2. Mary Ann, b. May 19, 1813.

3. Eveline Abigail, b. Apr. 26, 1S18.

4. Minerva, d. young.

5. Juliette, b. Mch. 18, 1821.

6. Sybil, d. young.

7. Sybil, No. 2, b. Nov. 21, 1825.

8. Marilla E., b. Oct. 31, 1828.

Mary Ann, the second child of Bristol Dawson and
granddaughter of Abigail Winston Dawson, m. Norton
C. Parsons, Sept. 3, 1837. He was b. in Enfield, Conn.,
Aug. 18, 1810; d. June 6, 1855, aged 45. She is now,
in 1899, living in Bristol, 86 years of age. 2 Children:

1. Clifford Dawson Parsons, b. Nov. 14, 1838.

2. Arthur H. Parsons, b. Aug. 28, 1840.

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Clifford D. Parsons enlisted in Civil War Apr. i6, 1861,
for three months, in the 3d Conn. Vols.; discharged
Aug. 12, 1 86 1. Enlisted Sept. 16, 1861, in 8th Regt.
Conn. Vols, for three years. Re-enlisted in same reg-
iment, and was discharged Dec. 20, 1865. Was m. to
Elizabeth Levitt Jan. 25, 1864. She was the dau. of
William and Agnes Levitt, and was b. at Taylor's Hill,
England, Sept. 16, 1837. Five children:

I. Norton Clifford, b. Sept. i, 1866; m. Ella Chase, Mch.
20, 1886. She was b. Aug. 6, 1868.
2-3. Sarah M. Parsons, Elizabeth M. Parsons, twins, b. Mch. 3,
1872; d. June 30 and July i, 1872.

4. Marvin W. Parsons, b. July 3, 1875; d. Sept i, 1875.

5. Angle C. Parsons, b. Nov. 12, 1877; m. Albert Cyrus Gay-

lord, Feb. 6, 1895. He was b. Sept. 16, 1872. One child:
Elizabeth Althea Gaylord, b. Nov. 4, 1895.

The second Parsons great-grandchild of Timothy
and Abigail Winston Dawson is Arthur Parsons, b.
Aug. 27, 1840 ; m. Sept. 7, 1866, Mary E. Spencer. She
was b. Jan. 18, 1847. Two children:

Carrie May Parsons, b. May 19, 1867; m. Charles Hyde, Oct.
13, 1886. He was b. June 13, 1864. She d. Aug. 21, 1891, aged
24. Two children:— Myrtle G. Hyde, b. Jan. 15, 1S88; Arthur G.
Hyde, b. Mch. 4, 1890.

The second child of Arthur and Mary E. Spencer Parsons is
Eveline Sybil, b. Aug. i, 1871.

A few more Winston names from the Dawson line :
Timothy John, the fifth child of Abigail Winston
Dawson, named his fifth child Oliver Winston Dawson,
born Feb. i, 1821. He was chief clerk, commencing
in 1853, of the local ticket department in the general
ticket office of the Michigan Southern & Northern
Indiana Railroad for nearly twenty years, when he
resigned on account of impaired health.

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Lydia Dawson, Abigail Winston Dawson's sixth
child, named her second child Harriet Winston Beech-
er, b. Aug. 16, 181 6, in New York. As Lydia Dawson
m. Moses Beecher, these Winston names were prob-
ably in honor of their grandmother. It is claimed
that the celebrated Dr. Lyman was connected with
this family of Beechers. There are only two more of
Abigail's ancestry that we have any acquaintance with.
Sybil Dawson was b. Nov. 21, 1825 ; m. June 9, 1845,
Joseph Sigourney. He was b. Feb. 17, 1821, d. June
17, 1887, aged 66. She was the seventh child of Bris-
tol and Sybil Merrill Dawson, and Bristol, her father,
was the fourth child of Timothy and Abigail Winston
Dawson; and the compiler's great-grandfather, John
Winston, who m. Sarah Bartholomew, was Abigail's
younger brother. These grandchildren of hers were
cousins to Oliver Winston Dawson and Harriet Win-
ston Beecher, etc. Joseph and Sybil Dawson Sigour-
ney's children are two :

1. Albert Marshall, b. Aug. i, 1S50; m. Nov. 24, 1869, M. Angle

Manross. She was the exact age of her husband, b. Aug.
I, 1S50. Shed. Feb. 7, 1898, in her 48th year. One child
— Belle Manross Sigourney, b. Feb. 26, 1875.

2. Frank Willard Sigourney, b. Oct. 24, 1856; m. Mch. 3, 18S6,

Irene Gaylord, who was b. July 13, 1864. Two children:

1. Joseph Norman Sigourney, b. Oct. 24, 1S88, d. Dec.
24, 1895, aged 7.

2. Lester Gaylord Sigourney, b. July 16, 1S90.

The eighth child of Bristol and Sybil Merrill Dawson
was Marilla Elizabeth, b. Oct. 31, 1828; d. June 26,
1895, aged 67; m. George H. Evans, Nov. 15, 1848. He
was born Nov. 4, 1824, d. Jan. 5, 1892, aged 68. Nine
children:

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1. William Henry Evans, b. Sept. 9, 1849; unm.

2. Mary Esther, b. Dec. 15, 1S54; m. Orson S. Woodruff.

3. George Burdett, b. Oct. 14, 1857; m. Cornelia Minor.

4. Harriet Nina, b. Feb. 9, 186 1 ; m. H. I. Eaton.

5. Harry, d. young, July 14, 1865.

6. Anna Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1865; m. Eulie ToUes.

7. Nellie Marilla, b. Jan. 27, 1868; unm.

8. Harry Edward, b. Jan. 14, 1870; m. Lillian London.

9. Sybil Evans, b. Mch. 20, 1872; m. Walter Cooper.

Mary Esther Evans, b. Dec. 15, 1854, m. Orson S.
Woodruff, Aug. 22, 1872. He was born in Avon, Conn.,
July 13, 1847. Three children :

1. Louis Ashton Woodruff, b. Mch. 13, 1874.

2. George Niles Woodruff, b. May i, 1878.

3. Alice May Woodruff, b. May 22, 1882.

3. George Burdett Evans, b. Oct. 14, 1857; m. May
II, 1876, Cornelia Minor, who was b. July 29, 1856.
One child :

Herbert Minor Evans, b. Jan. 18, 187S.

4. Harriet Nina Evans, b. Feb. 9, 1861; m. Harri-
son Irvin Eaton, Sept. 29, 1886. He was b. Sept. 30,
1864, d. Dec. 27, 1896, aged 32. Two children:

Maud Nina Eaton, b. Oct. 27, 1887.
Helen May Eaton, b. Jan. 25, 1S91.

6. Anna Elizabeth Evans, b. Aug. 17, 1865; m.
Eulie Tolles, Oct. 19, 1887. He was b. May 7, 1865.

8. Harry Edward Evans, b. Jan. 14, 1870; m. June
15, 1898, Lillian Adelle London, who was b. Aug. 11,
1878.

9. Sybil Evans, b. Mch. 20, 1872; ni. Robert Walter
Cooper, Apr. 7, 1897. He was born July 27, 1872.

From the six children of Daniel Winston, one of the
twins that m. Abigail Hotchkiss, we have mentioned
Isaac Winston, b. Jan. 28, 1722; Hannah Winston, b-

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Sept. 24, 1724; and the next child, John Winston, b.
Apr. 7, 1726, Abigail's father. Now we will endeavor
to take up her brother John, who was b. in 1763, the
fourth child of John and Lydia Bristow Winston.

JOHN WINSTON OF 1763.

John Winston of 1763 m. Sarah Bartholomew Feb.
I, 1782. She was b. Feb. 6, 1766. He d. Mch. 24, 1814,
aged 51. She m. 2d, Eleazar Norton, who m. for his
first wife Abigail Roberts, Dec. 13, 1797. Sarah d.
Sept. 22, 1846, aged 80. John 19, Sarah 16, when they
launched their matrimonial barge on life's tempestu-
ous sea. Nine children:

1. Lorenzo Winston, b. 1791.

2. Orestes Winston, b. abt. 1792.

3. Alanson Winston, b. abt. 1794.

4. John Winston, b. abt. 1796.

5. Sally Winston Smith, b. abt. 1798.

6. Lucy Winston Fuller, b. Sept. 28, iSoo.

7. Romeo Winston, b. 1804.

8. Eunice Winston Dealing, b. Feb. 4, 1806.

9. Allen Winston, b. 1808.

The first child of John and Sarah Bartholomew
Winston was Lorenzo Winston, b. 1791, d. Dec. 29,
1831, aged 40; m. Annis Botsford abt. 181 4. She was
b. 1792, d. Mch. 23, 1879, aged 87. In her declining
years she m. John G. Cowles Nov. 18, 1838. He was
b. 1789, d. July 22, 1858, aged 69. This little stanza we
appropriate to him:

The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when they sleep in dust.

John G. Cowles' first wife was Sarah Ives, a sister
of Dea. Charles and Orrin Ives. She was b. Sept. 24,

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1789, d. Apr. 20, 1835, in her 46th year, leaving three
children: John Ferdinand Cowles, b. abt. 1820, d. Jan.
31, 1847, aged 27. Annette Cowles, b. Aug. 10, 1825;
m. Levi Beach of Plain ville. Conn., Oct. 11, 1848. She
d. July 27, 1857, aged 32. He was b. Dec. 22, 1822.
Four children :

1. Ellen Adalette Beach, b. Aug. 8, 1849, d. Feb. 20, 1854,

aged 4| years.

2. Annette Luella Beach, b. Sept. 13, 1850; m. George Newton

June 9, 1874, d. Nov. 11, 1883, aged 33.

3. Ferdinand Levi Beach, b. Oct. 8, 1852.

4. Carlton Wallace Beach, b. July 10, 1855.

Mr. Levi Beach m. 2d, Henrietta Collins Clark, Oct.
23, i860. She was b. Jan. 4, 1835. He d. Nov. 16, 1863,
aged 41. One child, Howard Lyman Beach, b. July
22, 1861, d. Oct. 25, 1884, aged 23. A model young
man, whose death crushed many hopes for this world.

Ellen M, Cowles, b. Dec. 25, 1831, m. Leroy D.
House, May 9, 1854. She d. July 3, i860, aged 28,
leaving one child, Arthur C. House, b. Nov. 16, 1S55.
Although left in his fifth year without a mother, " the
Lord God did take him up," and he lives to do good
among those he comes in contact with; unm.

Lorenzo and Annis Botsford Winston had three
children :

1. Ferdinand, b. abt. 1815.

2. Alanson, b. Dec. 15, 1816.

3. Wellington Winston, b. 1818.

The Lorenzo Winston place is where Lucius D.
Pond (who m. Mary Moses, dau. of Joshua Moses), built
a nice farmhouse on the old cellar-spot in the town of
Union ville, Conn., with its barns, etc. — a pleasant place
to view, with its skirtings of wood and shrubbery.

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Ferdinand Winston went South when a young man
and was taken with a fever, and died and was buried
there.

Alanson and Wellincjton m. each a Bartholomew
girl, as their grandfather, John Winston, did three
generations back.

Alanson Winston, b. Dec. 15, 1S16, and Nancy Maria
Bartholomew were married by David L. Parmelee,
Congregational minister. May 9, 1839. She was b.
Dec. 22, i8i8; d. at Atlantic, Cass County, la.. May 8,
1880, aged 62, He d. July 27, 1875, aged 59. They
resided in Iowa. Five children, all b. in Bristol, Conn.:

1. Sarah Annis Winston, b. Sept. 29, 1S41.

2. DeWitt Alanson, b. Jan. 9, 1843.

3. Frances Maria, b. Oct. 9, 1845.

4. Frank W., b. Dec. 6, 1852.

5. George M., b. Mch. 12, 1S63.

Sarah Annis Winston, b. Sept. 29, 1841, m. Julius
Almeron Pond, during the Civil War, May 28, 1862.
He was a son of Julius R. and Elizabeth Preston Pond,
and was b. Aug. i, 1840. Julius Almeron and Sarah
Annis Winston Pond have one child, Martin Almeron
Pond, b. May 31, 1865; m. M. May Miller, dau. of David
P. and Margaret A. Bullis Miller of Southington,
Conn., May 31, 1888. She was b. Dec. 12, 1867. Two
children :

Infant, b. Oct. 26, 1S89, d. young.
Leslie Miller Pond, b. July 29, 1891.

2. DeWitt Alanson Winston, b. Jan. 9, 1843, m.Jane
Elizabeth Byington, Dec. 18, 1867. She was b. Sept.
12, 1844. One son, Nathan DeWitt, b. Jan. 18, 1872,
m. Emma Geneva Link, Feb. 12, 1896, who was b. at
Walnut, Pottawattamie County, la., Dec. 19, 1876. One

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child — the Winston name that counts in this tenth
generation of direct ancestry — Mabel Cynthia Win-
ston, b. Oct. 8, 1897. This father and son res Atlantic,
Cass County, la,

3. Frances Maria Winston, b. Oct. 9, 1845, m. Peter
G. Defendorf Oct. 10, 1868. He was b. June 16, 1847,
at Pleasant Brook, Otsego Co., N. Y. Two children:

1. Cora Rebecca Defendorf, b. Apr. 7, 187 1, m.
Charles Lawson Wooding, June i, 1893. He was b.
Nov. I, 1869, graduated from Yale College, New
Haven, Conn., in 1892. Two children:

1. Lois Francis Wooding, b. Feb. 5, 1895, d. Dec. 27, 1895.

2. Helen Wooding, b. July 6, 1897.

2, Fred Winston Defendorf, b. June 12, 1878, d.
May 21, 1880.

4. Frank W. Winston of Pawnee City, Neb., b. in
Bristol, Conn., Dec. 6, 1852, m. Alice Muzzy Oct. 7, 1875.
She was b. Mch. 3, 1855, in Bristol. Two children:

1. EUaM. Winston, b. Aug. 23, 1876, in Iowa.

2. Ernest F. Winston, b. Jan. 30, 1882, in Iowa.

5. Geo. M. Winston, b. Mch. 12, 1863, m. Edna May
Todd Mch. 8, 1892. She was b. May 23, 1871. Three
children:

1. Charles J. Winston, b. Dec. 27, 1892.

2. Frank D. Winston, b. Oct. 3, 1894.

3. Martha E. Winston, b. Dec. 2, 1897, in Virginia, Gage
County, Nebraska.

Wellington Winston, the third son of Lorenzo and
Annis Botsford Winston, was b. in 1818, m. Jane Char-
ity Bartholomew Sept. 13, 1842. She was b. Feb. 22,
182 1. She died Jan. 28, 1888, aged 67. Wellington
was m. at 24. In six years, at the age of 30, received
a passport given under hand and seal of the depart-

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ment of State at the city of Washington, the 19th day
of February, A.D. 1849, signature of James Buchanan,
for California with the gold-diggers, called "the forty-
niners." His first letter home, to his dear wife, chil-
dren, brother, mother, and all inquiring friends, was
from Panama, Mch. 16, 1849. We take a few extracts
from three letters. It seems they left New York Fri-
day, the 23d day of February, and arrived at Panama
Mch. 14th, with tickets for a steamer called Panama.
They were on a sailing vessel from New York. They
were kept waiting at Panama two months. As we
understand, it was four months before they commenced
digging, and had received but one letter from home
up to Aug. 26th, six months.

Fifty years has made a decided change. (Now, right
here we are going to drive in a present-truth wedge,
and any reader that does not desire to read it can very
easily turn over a few pages and go right on with the
letter extract.) Yes, fifty years has made a decided
change. We think you can find people to day that
remember when there was no sending of information
across the ocean and great water-ways of the world,
save by slow sailing vessels; but within the last span-
ning of a lifetime what wonderful changes! No mat-
ter how important the news; even Napoleon's defeat
at Waterloo could not reach this country save by a
sailing vessel. But at the present time this country is
in instant touch with the Old World by thirteen cables.
In all the oceans and watercourses of the world there
are reported 318 cables, with a total length of 146,000
miles, or nearly enough to girdle the earth six times.
By this vast system of flashing intelligence under the
seas and oceans, the nations are no longer isolated

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from each other. They are as neighbors speaking"
across a boundary line — which is the record of the
last half of the century now closing. What our fathers
could not have dreamed of is now a daily and hourly
occurrence. There was a time when thousands made
a man wealthy, but to-day millions are required to
give a man entrance into the applause of wealth.

The aggregate progress of this closing century con-
sists of changes so rapid, so revolutionary and wide-
spread, that we stand amazed and indulge the inquiry
as to why they have not appeared before. It might
be said that the people were not enlightened, in these
directions at least. In other words, back of this sud-
den irruption of invention and discovery there is an
expansion of knowledge which has made it all possi-
ble. Steam was as powerful three thousand years ago
as to-day, but it was lack of knowledge concerning it
that allowed it to lie dormant through the ages. Elec-
tricity lit up the heavens in all past ages, and pulsated
in the earth beneath the tread of men, but for want of
knowledge concerning its power and great usefulness
it has been, since the dawn of creation, a dormant and
unknown but all-powerful agency.

In searching, therefore, for the key to the situation,
we come to the relation of all this to the question of
prophecy. It seems to us a clear case that this mar-
velous expansion of wonders which marked this as the
wonderful century of all history, is a direct fulfillment
of divine prediction. In Daniel xii, 4, we have this re-
markable prophecy : " But thou, O Daniel, shut up the
words and seal the book, even to the time of the end;
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be in-
creased." These words will doubtless find a partial

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fulfillment in the increase of knowledge concerning
the prophecies and their application. The century
certainly has witnessed a most gratifying and wide-
spread interest awakened in prophetic study; but we
believe it has an application, also, to the broad field of
general knowledge. This being true, how striking the
parallel between the prediction and present conditions.
The vast increase of knowledge is located here in con-
nection with the time of the end, which here in Daniel
seems to be directly connected with the time of the
resurrection of the dead. This will answer the ques-
tion why the world has waited nearly six thousand
years for the wonders of this century. The prophetic
hour for this expansion of knowledge, which alone
could make possible such discoveries, had not arrived.
The conditions around us in these closing hours of
the century prove, it seems to us, that the hour of ful-
fillment is upon us; and if this be so, it is a short step
to the next conclusion, and that is, " that the time of
the end " is at hand, and that the consummation of the
ages is about reached.

Truly, we stand in thrilling times. Not only are we
surrounded by the evidence of material advancement,
but God's hand is manifest in opening the doors of the
world for the last proclamation of the Gospel, and the
missionary host marches to-day in many lands which
the century has opened. The century closes with
God's hand most signally manifest in all the affairs
of nations and men, and the expectancy of great things
in the near future pervades the world to-day. "While
the hope of the masses may be toward the dawning
twentieth century, ours to-day is in the coming of the
world's King, and the inauguration of that kingdom of

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peace and righteousness which shall be "under the
whole heavens and shall stand forever."

In a letter Wellington Winston's wife wrote him
while he was waiting in Panama, she mentioned his
returning in the fall. He replied: "I may come home
in one year from the time I started, and perhaps I may
sooner — I cannot tell anything about it now ; I want
to get there first, then I can tell something about it.
Fifteen hundred persons have left here within the last
two weeks, and about fifteen hundred are waiting.
Every sailing vessel that leaves this port is loaded to
the water's edge, and the passengers are stowed in
thickly."

He wrote to his wife : " You spoke about Mr. Barnes
(this means Wallace Barnes). We should be glad if
he were along; but when he hears of our hinderance
here in Panama, I think he will be glad that he waited
until there is a direct line formed of some kind, so
that passengers can go straight through."

In a letter written in May (as it took from February
until March 14, as they were helped along — towed to
land by the steamer On/s, and with aid of shanks and
mules to reach Panama), he says: "Our detention here,
you probably know, is a great damage to us, not only
putting us back from getting into the gold diggings
until the middle of summer, but running the risk of
our health in this hot, sultry climate, with the water
which we have to drink, the average temperature
being 73 degrees heat. The latter part of April began
to go away rather slow ; we thought we had been here
long enough to become natives of the place, and if
you could look down upon us you would think our
thoughts did not deceive us. But Sunday, May 6th, at

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2 o'clock in the afternoon, the steamer Panama arrived.
It made many a shorter face and many a heart re-
joice."

A letter written in August states that they had been
at the gold diggings two months the 27th of August.
He mentions that it cost them each two hundred dol-
lars more than their outfit to get into the mines, but
"that is paid, and if I had an opportunity would send
home five or six hundred. We do not consider our-
selves fortunate in finding gold, but more fortunate in
not getting sick."

In about one year he came home with his little share
of gold, and he and his brother went rushing- head-
long- in their business. In five short years the serpents
by the way and adders in the business path had bitten
" the horse-heels," and one of the riders had fallen —
Gen. xlix, 17. Wellington had gone the way of all the
earth, and Alanson succumbed, ([uietly stepping- one
side to behold his little all of business hopes and pros-
pects gone. He stayed for twenty-one years, as he
peacefully passed away with good wishes for every-
body, at Atlantic, Cass County, la., in 1875, aged 59
years, 6 months, and 12 days.

We gladly leave these ups and downs of earthly ex-
periences with the Judge of the quick and the dead,
who certainly will do right. How truly all things
earthly are fast passing away.

Wellington Win.ston d. April 15, 1854, aged 36 (this
inscription on his headstone — " Gone, but not forgot-
ten "), leaving a widow and three children. He was
buried at the time of that noted snow-fall which was
the cause of the flood of 1854. Those who bore him
to his last resting-place forty-five years ago, Dr. James
Austin, Mr. Joel Root, Mr. Alfonzo Barnes, and Mr.

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Henry Kilborn, are also sleeping their last sleep, and no
sound can arouse them except "the voice of the arch-
angel and with the trump of God "; " comfort one an-
other with these words." — I Thess. 4th chapt., a clause
from the i6th and i8th verses. Wellington and Jane
•C. Bartholomew Winston's three children are :

1. Cora Annette Winston, b. Sept. i, 1843.

2. Wellington W. Winston, b. July 7, 1847.

3. Wallace Ferdinand Winston, b. June 18, 1853.

I. Cora Annette Winston, b. Sept. i, 1843, m.
■Charles W. Bradshaw May 13, 1872. He was b. 1842,
d. Sept. 27, 1886, aged 44. Two children:

1. Wallace L. Bradshaw, b. Nov. 13, 1873.

2. Bertha Jane Bradshaw, b. Aug. i, 1876, d. young.

2. Wellington W. Winston, b. July 7, 1847; m. Mrs.
Eunice L. Smith Wright, Jan. 13, 1877. She was b.
Oct. 13, 1853; had a dau. by her first husband named
•Grace Wright, b. June 2, 1874.

The third child of Wellington and Jane Bartholomew
Winston is Wallace F. Winston, b. June 18, 1853, m.
Elizabeth Masters Oct. 16, 1881. She was b. Mch. 27,
1850. Two children:

1. Bertha E. Winston, b. Oct. 29, 1882.

2. Howard W. Winston, b. Sept. 16, 18S3.

This completes the Lorenzo and Annis Botsford
Winston family. Now we will take up the second
child of John and Sarah Bartholomew Winston.

Orestes Winston (some called him Erastus), b. abt.
1792, m. Nancy Warner. He d. Apr. 5, 1823, aged 32.
She m. 2d, Ambrose Hart, Jr. He was b. Oct. 3, 1793,
the sixth child of Mercy Bartholomew Hart. She was
•a sister of Sarah and Asa Bartholomew. This Ambrose

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Hart's grandfather was the noted Dea. Simeon Hart of
Farming-ton. Nancy Warner Winston Hart d. in the
town of Unionville, Conn., Sept. 27, 1852, leaving no
children.

3. Alanson Winston, the uncle of the brothers Alan-
son and Wellington, b. abt. 1794, went to Lynchburg,
Va., and d. there. He m. Fanny Talbot. Eight chil-
dren: John, Granville, Pauline, Sarah, Eunice, Mar-
tha, Alanson, and Irene. All we can say concerning
these children is, that Helen Winston, from Bristol,
m. Granville, and Alanson, called " Lanny " to distin-
guish him from his cousin Alanson, while on North,
■came here twice. He also went by the name of Mer-
ritt. The supposition is that his name was Alanson
^I. Winston. And his sister Irene sent wedding an-
nouncement cards to her cousin Alanson: " Wm. Hall
Crew, Irene Winston. vSt. Paul's Church, Lynchburg,
Va., Sept. 27, i860," etc. He did not participate in the
ceremony.

This Alanson Winston, the third child of John and
Sarah Bartholomew Winston, we understand d. at
Lynchburg, Va., and has a grandson living there by
the name of John H. C. Winston.

4. John Winston, b. abt, 1796, m. Laura Stanley of
Plainville, Conn. They settled in Missouri. Children:
John, Timothy, Allen, Joseph, Ida, etc. The compiler
remembers how rejoiced she was over a visit this
great-aunt, Laura, made at her father's home over
forty years ago. We have heard that during the
Civil War this oldest son was assaulted, near his
place, and killed by some northern soldiers who were
intoxicated.

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FAMILY RECORDS.

5. Sally Winston, b. abt. 1798, m. Heman Smith,
and lived in Ohio. Three children: Alonzo, Melissa,
and Maria Winston.

6. Lucy Winston, b. May 28, 1800, m. Thomas
Franklin Fuller, Bristol, Conn., Aug. 21, 182 1. She d.
Oct. 25, 1893, aged 93. He was b. Apr. 29, 1798, d.
Feb. 5, 1848, aged 50. Four children:

1. Jane E. Fuller, d. young.

2. Oliver Fuller, b. Jan. 27, 1825.

3. Eliza J. Fuller, b. June 17, 1829.

4. Mary Fuller, b. Jan. 7, 1841.

2. Oliver Fuller, d. Feb. 9, 1854. This promising
young man of 29 years of age was cut down while on
his second trip across the Rocky Mountains and plains.
He accompanied Col. J. C. Fremont as civil engineer
on his fifth exploring expedition. He died from ex-
posure, and was buried near Parowan, Utah.

3. Eliza J. Fuller was b. June 17, 1829; m. Wallace
Barnes Apr. 5, 1849. He was b. Dec. 25, 1827, d. Mch.
28, 1893, aged 65. Five children:

1. Carlyle Fuller Barnes, b. Dec. 11, 1852.

2. Harry Ward Barnes, b. Jan. 15, 1855.

3. George Sprague Barnes, d. young.

4. 'Lucy Almira Barnes, d. young.

5. Edith Irene Barnes, b. Aug. 22, 1S66.

Carlyle F. Barnes, b. Dec. 11, 1852, m. Lena Hattie
Forbes, Oct. i, 1885. She was b. May 20, 1863. Two
children: Fuller Forbes Barnes, b. Mch. 6, 1887.
Harry Clarke Barnes, b. Nov. 20, 1889.

Harry Ward Barnes, b. Jan. 15, 1855, m. Cordelia
Newell, Oct. 5, 1880, who was b. Jan. 14, 1858, dau. of
S. P. Newell, Esq. Harry d. Sept. 17, 1S89, aged 34.

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The fifth child of Wallace and Eliza Fuller Barnes
is Edith Irene Barnes, b. Aug. 22, 1866, m., Oct. 8, 1890,
Wyllys Carpenter Ladd, who was b. July 6, 1858,

Mary Fuller, the fourth child of Thomas F. and
Lucy Winston Fuller, was b. Jan. 7, 1841; m. Horace
B. Langdon, April 22, 1859. He was b. Mch. 10, 1839,
d. Mch. 4, 1870, aged nearly 31. She m. 2d, Woodbury
L. Martin, July 19, 1876. He was b. Feb. j, 1823, d. in
18S7, aged abt. 64. Ii9i247l

7. Romeo Winston, b. 1S04, m. Martha . Chil-
dren, John and Martha Winston.

8. Eunice Winston, b. Feb. 4, 1806, m. Benjamin
Dealing, Oct. 8, 1822. He was b. Jan. 22, 1802, d. July
7, 1876, aged 74. She d. Oct. 4, 1S86, aged So. Five
children:

1. Orestes Winston Dealing, b. July 5, 1823, d. in
California, 1870, aged 47.

2. Sarah Elizabeth Dealing, b. Aug. 15, 1825, d.
Jan. 31, 1856, in her 31st year.

3. Edward Dealing, b. Jan. 5, 1827, m. Charlotte
Campbell. He d. Mch. 11, 1S55, aged 28.

4. Charles Allen Dealing, b. Nov. 17, 1829; m.
Johanna Jones of Southington; m. 2d, Belle Hills of
Plainville, Conn. Two children, Edward and Annette
Dealing. He d. Aug. 9, 1868, in his 39th year.

5. Annette Eunice Winston Dealing, b. Aug. 16,
1842; m. Isaac Yale Hartson Nov. 28, i860. He was
b. Sept. 30, 183(7. She d. Sept. 12, 1889, aged 47. Two
children: Frederick Dealing Hartson, b. Sept. 10,
1861. Charles Merritt Hartson, b. Jan. i, 1870; m.
Nettie Weed. One child, Charles Isaac Hartson, b.
April 8, 1894.

Isaac Y. Hartson m., 2d, Julia Johnson, Nov. 19,
1890. She d. Jan. 13, 1891. He m., 3d, Lena Peck,

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FAMILY RECORDS.

Nov. 24, 1892. She was b. Mch. 8, 1867. One child,
Merritt Isaac Hartson, b. Mch. 31, 1894.

The ninth and youngest of John and Sarah Barthol-
omew Winston's children was Allen Winston, b. 1808;
m. Eunicia Foote of Burlington, Conn. He built and
lived in the Franklin Steele place in Edgewood, Bris-
tol, Conn., until he d., Oct. 25, 1848, aged 40. She was
b.'Aug. 25, 1812, and d. South with her dau. Helen,
who m. Granville Winston in Bristol, Conn., Sept. 4,
1850. He was a son of Alanson Winston, who settled
in Lynchburg, Amherst County, Va. We have heard
that Granville d. and Helen m. again, and lived in
Tennessee. Allen and Eunicia Foote Winston had two
children: This Helen, b. 1834; Dwight Winston, b.
abt. 1837, went to California.

This completes what we have gathered that has
come down from the third son 'of Daniel and Abigail
Hotchkiss Winston. This Abigail's mother was Han-
nah Tuttle, and this Daniel a twin brother of Stephen
Winston, sons of Sergt. John Winston, who was b. Apr.
21, 1657, his father being the immigrant from England.
This Sergt. John Winston m. Elizabeth Daniel. This
probably accounts for the Daniel name. She was a
grd.-dau. (on her mother's side) of Thomas Gregson.
Sergt. John and Elizabeth were grandparents to these
children of Daniel and Abigail Hotchkiss Winston.
We have mentioned :

1. Isaac, b. Jan. 28, 1722.

2. Hannah, b. Sept. 24, 1724.

3. John, b. April 7, 1726.

Now we will mention :

4. Daniel, b. June 2, 1728.

5. Abraham, b. June 15, 1730.

6. Stephen, b. Dec. 3, 1733.

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Daniel Winston, the father of these six children, m»
2d, Temperance Swift, Dec. iS, 1738. One son: Ephra-
im Winston, b. Oct. iS, 1743. Daniel Winston d. Jan.
17, 17S0, in his 90th year.

All we can say about these last four children is a
little concerning Stephen Winston (probably named
after his twin-uncle), b. Dec. 3, 1733, i^ Wallingford,
Conn.; m. Rosanna Cogswell in 1758. She was b. May
II, 1739, in Southington, Conn. We understand that
she had a sister, b. July 20, 1737, who m. a Winston —
Lurana Cogswell. Stephen and Rosanna Cogswell
Winston's children were five :

1. Rosanna, b. Jan. 2, 1759; m. Samuel Hart.

2. Jemima, b. Feb. 7, 1761.

3. Stephen, b. April 8, 1763.

4. Johannah, b. Nov. 13, 1765.

5. Daniel, b Feb. 27, 1768.

The compiler's immediate Winston ancestry comes
down from the immigrant.

1. John Winston, b. abt. 1615.

2. Sergt. John, 4th child, b. Apr. 21, 1657.

3. Daniel, a twin, b. Aug. 18, 1690.

4. John, the 3d child, b. Apr. 7, 1726.

5. John, the 4th child, b. 1763.
Lorenzo, the ist child, b. 1791.
Alanson, the 2d child, b. Dec. 15, 18 16.
DeWitt, the 2d child, the writer's brother, b.

Jan. 9, 1843.
Nathan, only child, b. Jan. 18, 1872.
Mabel Cynthia Winston, b. Oct. 8, 1897.
This completes what we have gathered on the Win-
ston line, some of whom seem to be drawn toward the
Bartholomew family, — as John m. Sarah Bartholomew

6

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FAMILY RECORDS.

and his son Orestes's widow m. a son of Mercy Bar-
tholomew, who was a sister of Sarah and Asa Bartholo-
mew. Now we will take up the Bartholomew side,
commencing with Sarah's father, Jacob Bartholomew,
dwelling mostly on the Asa Bartholomew family, as
two Winston boys took his youngest girls, and ever
after they went by the name of Winston.

BARTHOLOMEW GENEALOGY.

The writer's great-grandmother's father was Jacob
Bartholomew, b. Jan. 9, 1736 or 1737. Hem. Sarah
Gridley, so it is plain to see that Sarah Bartholomew
Winston obtained her Sarah name from her mother,
Sarah Gridley Bartholomew. She was b. Feb. 21, 1738,
d. Apr. 10, 1801, aged 63. Jacob m. , 2d, Mrs. Eunice
Cowles. He d. in Bristol, Conn., Oct. 29, 1805, aged
abt. 69. His first wife was the mother of his eleven
children:

1. Mercy Bartholomew Hart, b. July 28, 1762.

2. Lemma Bartholomew, b. Feb. 27, 1764.

3. Sarah Bartholomew Winston, b. Feb. 6, 1766.

4. Jacob Bartholomew, b. Jan. 29, 1768.

5. Rosannah Bartholomew Cowles, b. June 2, 1770,

6. Amy Bartholomew Beckwith, b. Mch. 9, 1772.

7. Eli Bartholomew, b. Jan. 7, 1774.

8. Asa Bartholomew, b. Mch. 25, 1776.

9. Mary Bartholomew Tuttle, b. July i, 1778.

10. Gad Bartholomew, b. Apr. 10, 1780.

11. Nancy Bartholomew Lewis, b. Feb. 2, 1782.

Sarah, the third child, and Asa, the eighth, are the
two principal branches that we are stopping now to
consider. As scions were taken from the Asa Bar-
tholomew branch and the branch Sarah was grafted
into, — a Winston branch, — Sarah was a branch of

BARTHOLOMEjr-BOTSFORD-Jl'IXSTOX. 39

Jacob Bartholomew's tree or family, and her brother
Asa furnished two scions for the Winston genealogical
list. Asa (the father of Maria and Jane, who both m.
Winstons) was b. Mch. 25, 1776, being ten years younger
than his sister Sarah. He m. Charity Shelton Sept.
10, 1 80 1. She was b. 17 84, d. Sept. 15, 1859, aged 75.
He d. Oct. 31, 1864, aged 88. Eight children:

1. Emily Bartholomew Upson, b. Jan. i, 1S04.

2. George Bartholomew, b. June 19, 1805.

3. Harry Shelton Bartholomew, b. June 3, 1807.

4. PauHna Bartholomew Alpress, b. June 18, 1S09.

5. Jenette Bartholomew Merriman, b. Mch. 31, 1S12.

6. Asa Bartholomew, b. Feb. 5, 1S15.

7. Nancy Maria Bartholomew Winston, b. Dec. 22, 1818.

8. Jane Charity Bartholomew Winston, b. Feb. 22, 1821.

I. Emily, b. Jan. i, 1804, m. George Rensselaer Up-
son of Bristol, Conn., Nov. 29, 1824. He was b. Nov.
2, 1797, d. July 17, 1850, aged 53. She d. May 16, 1877,
aged 73. Five children:

Eleanor R., b. Oct. 13, 1S25.
Emily L., b. June 9, 1827; d. young.
Louise Maria Upson, b. Feb. 3, 1830; unm.
Emily Bartholomew Upson, b. Sept. 18, 1832.
Asa Upson, b. Feb, 19, 1839.

Eleanor Ruth Upson, b. Oct. 13, 1825, m. Hezekiah
M. Burnham Sept. 24, 1845. He was b. Nov. 19, 1815,
d. May 3, 1897, aged 81. Four children :

1. Emily Louise, b. Nov. 20, 1849, d. Nov. 3, 1S56, aged nearly

7 years.

2. George Edwin, b. June 25, 1853, ^- Nov. 9, 1856, aged 3 yrs.

3. Harriet Ellen Burnham, b. Apr. 2, 1858, d. Oct. 3, 1866,

aged S^ years.

4. Harry Mervin Burnham, b. May 21, i860: unm.

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FAMILY RECORDS.

4. Emily Bartholomew Upson, b. Sept. 18, 1S32, m.
Leicester Carrington Dec. 24, 1856. He was b. Jan.
25, 1831, d. Jan. 21, 1875, aged 44. Three children:

1. William R. Carrington, b. 1S58, d. young, 1861.

2. Edward L. Carrington, b. Dec. 20, 1859; m, Elizabeth Cha-

pin Oct. 9, 1S95. She wasb. Dec. 3, 1874.
3.» Charles M. Carrington, b. May 10, 1864; m. Martha Jean
Linsley Nov. i, 1892. She was b. May 21, 1868, in New
Jersey. Two children:
i. Louise Upson Carrington, b. Sept. 15, 1894.
ii. Virginia Beatrice Carrington, b. Oct. 27, 1897.

5. Asa Upson, b. Feb. 19, 1839, m., May 19, 1861,
Ellen Louise Moses, who was b. Dec. 14, 1840; he d.
Feb. 29, 1 87 1, aged 32. She d. in Topeka, Kan., Mch,
17, 1897, aged 56. Three children:

1. Elliott Asa Upson, b. Dec. 14, 1862; m. Mina Brooks May

19,1889. Four children:

i. Ada Louise, b. Oct. 27, 1890.

ii. Bernice Eleanor, b. Feb. 27, 1892.
iii. Edith May, b. May 4, 1893.
iv. Martha Brooks Upson, b. Nov. 27, 1896.

2. The second child of Asa and Ellen Moses Upson was Ada

Louise Upson, b. Mch. 26, 1864; m., Aug. i, 1889, Dr.
George W. Lacea. She d. June 15, 1890, aged 26.

3. The third child is Bernice Eleanor Upson, b. Oct. 23, 1865;

m., Dec. 25, 1889, Walter D. Beymer. Two children:
i. Ruth Upson Beymer, b. Jan. 15, 1891.
ii. Rachel Ellen Beymer, b. Oct. 25, 1895.

The second child of Asa and Charity Shelton Bar-
tholomew was George Wells Bartholomew, b. June 19,
1805; m., Jan. 14, 1829, Angelina Ives, dau. of Dea.
Charles Ives. She was b. Mch. 20, 1807, d. Mch. 13,
1861, aged nearly 54. He m. 2d, Jan. 27, 1864, Mrs.
Julia Marvin Cole. She was b. Jan. 23, 1828, wid. of

BARTHOLOMEW-BOTSFORD-WINSTON. 41

Edwin Halsey Cole, by whom she had one child, Het-
tie Julia Cole, b. May 17, 1856. George Wells Barthol-
omew d. May 7, 1S97, aged nearly 93. She d. May 2,
1896, aged 68. The eight children were all by the
first wife :

1. Harriet Ives, b. Feb. 8, 1830.

2. Harry Shelton, b. Mch. 14, 1S32.

3. Frances P., b. Feb. 22, 1834.

4. Mary E., b. Mch. 28, 1836.

5. Jane Estelle. b. Mch. 28, 1840.

6. Angeline, b. Dec. 22, 1843.

7. Emily, b. Aug. 31, 1846.

8. George Wells, b. Aug. 24, 1848.

Harriet d. Oct. 16, 1837, in her 8th year.

Harry Shelton Bartholomew, b. Mch. 14, 1832, m.,
June 20, i860, Sabra A. Peck, a direct descendant of
Elizabeth Winston of colonial days. She was b. May
15, 1S37. Three children:

1. Alice Mae Bartholomew, b. June 29, 1863.

2. Harry Ives Bartholomew, b. Sept. 25, 1873.

3. Joseph Peck Bartholomew, b. Jan. 2, 1S75.

Frances d. Jan. i, 1S39, in her 5th year.

Mary Elizabeth d. Jan. 18, 1839, in her 3d year.

Jane Estelle Bartholomew, the 5th child, b. Mch. 2%,
1840, m., Feb. 18, 1862, Uriah Russell; he was b. Mch.
29, 1 83 1, d. Sept. 21, 1 89 1, aged 60. Four children:

1. Fred Warren, b. Nov. 22, 1862.

2. Herbert Archer, b. Apr. 13, 1S66, d. Apr. 16, 1869, aged

3 years.

3. Grace Edna, b. Jan. 7, 1868.

4. Helen Louise, b. July 28, 1S72.

^2 FAMILY RECORDS.

Fred Warren Russell m., Nov. i8, 1885, Margaret
Sullivan. She was b. Apr. 10, 1866. Four children:

1. Marguerite, d. young, July 15, 1887.

2. Fred Ives Russell, b. Sept. 13, 1887.

3. Elsie, b. Dec. 6, 1888.

4. Faye Russell, b. Nov. 23, 1891.

Grace Edna Russell, b. Jan. 7, 1868, m., Oct. 23, 1895,
Mortimer Cole Keeler, who was b. Aug. 10, 1868. One
child: Robert Russell Keeler, b. Aug. 22, 1898.

4. Helen Louise Russell, b. July 28, 1872, m. Elbert
Elmer Smith June 14, 1899. He was b. Dec. 30, i860.

The sixth child of George and Angeline Ives Bar-
tholomew was named Angeline. She was b, Dec. 22,
1843; m., Oct. 24, 187 1, Samuel Harvey Marvin, who
was b. in 1842. She d. Aug. 28, 1893, aged nearly 50,
Three children:

1. Percy Clarence Marvin, b. Oct. i, 1873, d. Dec. 22, 1890,

aged 17.

2. Bessie Marvin, b. Apr. 9, 1875.

3. Edna Belle Marvin, b. Mch. 25, 1877.

Emily Bartholomew d. Sept. 13, 1848, aged 2.

George Wells Bartholomew, the eighth child, was b.
Aug. 24, 1848; m., Oct. 18, 1876, Hettie Julia Cole, b.
May 17, 1856. Seven children:

Edwin Cole Bartholomew, b. Aug. 29, 1878, d. young.

Linn Bartholomew, b. Dec. 4, 1881.

Julia Ruth Bartholomew, b. Aug. 31, 1883; d. young.

Tracy Bartholomew, b. Nov. 14, 1884.

Lucy Bartholomew, b. Feb. 25, 1888.

Grace Bartholomew, b. Nov. 6, 1889.

Richard Bartholomew, b. Feb. 18, 1893.

3. Harry Shelton Bartholomew, the third child of
Asa and Charity Shelton Bartholomew, b. June 3, 1807,
d. Oct. 7, 1827, aged 20.

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43

4. Paulina Bartholomew was b. June 18, 1809; m.,
Sept. 12, 1832, Alvin Ferry Alpress, who was b. June
2, 1806, d. Jan. 6, 1850. He was one of the "Forty-
niners " to California. His health became impaired,
so he took a trip to Honolulu, and there he d. in his
44th year. She d. Feb. 9, 1S94, aged 84. Six children:

1. Ellen M. Alpress, b. Dec. 11, 1S33, d. Jan. 13, 1839, aged

5 years.

2. Charles H. Alpress, b. Dec. 31, 1835; unm.

3. Edward A. Alpress, b. May i, 1S40.

4. George T. Alpress, b. July 14, 1S46.

5. Emerson Alpress, b. Feb. 25, 184S, d. May 31, 1861, aged 13.

6. Alvin Ferry Alpress, b. Oct. 25, 1849, d. Oct. 31, 1897,

aged 48 ; unm.

Edward A. Alpress, b. May i, 1840, m. Sarah Root
Dec. 31, 1868. She was b. in 1848, and d. Jan. 28, 1880,
aged 32. He m., 2d, Adelaide Tolles Porter, Dec. 25,
1883. She was b. Aug. i, 1848, and m., ist, George
Henry Porter, Oct. 16, 1866; he was b. Apr. 15, 1837,
d. Jan. 16, 1882, in his 45th year. Two children:

1. William Henry Porter, b. Apr. 10, 1S68; m., Dec. 20, 1893,

Mary Elizabeth Tyler. She d. July 6, 1896.

2. Edwin Tolles Porter, b. Oct. 14, 1S76.

Edward and Adelaide Tolles Porter Alpress have
one child:

Henry Tolles Alpress, b. Feb. 4, 1889.

George Theodore Alpress, b. July 14, 1846, m. Anna
Bell of Defiance, O., Dec. 27, 1870. She was b. Apr.
25, 1852. When but one year of age her father, who
was an architect, was killed by Indians while in com-
pany with a party to Pike's Peak. Such tragedies
strike asensitory nerve if we stop to sense them in a
somewhat different manner than a fairy tale. Her

44 FAMILY RECORDS.

mother, Margaret Bell, d. Mch. 12, 1898, aged 77, at
Defiance, O. These few lines we Jiave copied from a
memorial sent to this daughter after her mother's
death :

"A precious one from us is gone,

A voice we loved is stilled;

A place is vacant in our home

That never can be filled."

If the compiler had not used some of her persistence
this little fragment of the past would not be placed in
here.

George and Anna Bell Alpress had three children:

1. Gertrude L. Alpress, b. Oct. 30, 1871; ra. Edward K. Ives

June 12, 1894. He was b. Feb. 12, 1870.

2. Harry Alpress, b. Mch., 1873, d. young, 1875.

3. Charles Edward Alpress, b. Nov. 2, 1S78.

The fifth child of Asa and Charity Shelton Barthol-
omew was named Jenette, b. March 31, 1812, m. Dr.
Eli Todd Merriman, May 8, 1833 ; she d. Dec. 4, 1884,
aged nearly 72. He was b. Feb. 12, 1812, d. Aug. 12,
1867, aged 54 years, 6 months (if this date be correct,
as we have had one date stating that he was b. April
28, 1811) ; not knowing which is correct, we will men-
tion both. Children of the first wife, eight ; two
sets of twins :

1. Walter Merriman, b. May 17, 1835, unm. Res. Texas.

2. Henry Merriman, b. Jan. 21, 1837, m. Lucinda Roberts

Tuttle, Sept. 26, i860. She was b. July 21, 1837. Two
children. Res. Norwich, Conn.

i. Hattie Nettleton Merriman, b. Nov. 18,1861, m. Rev.
George William Griffith, Dec. i, 1886. One
child, Helen Margaret Griffith, b. June 22, 18S9.
ii. Francis Sanford Merriman, b. Oct. 8, 1872.

All the rest of Dr. Eli Todd Merriman's family res.
in Texas.

BARTHOLOMEir-BOTSrORD-JriXSTOX. 45

3. The third child of Dr. Eli Todd and Jenctte
Bartholomew Merriman is Henrietta, b. July 14, 1839,
m. Samuel Fussilman, Oct. 3, 1855. He was b. July
20, 1827. Four children :

1. James Matt. Fussilman, b. May 22, 1862.

2. Nettie Fussilman, b. Feb. 4, 1S6S.

3. John Fussilman, b. May 17, 1877.

4. Ida May Fussilman, b. May 21, 1S7S.

This first child, James Matt. Fussilman, b. May 22,
1862, m. Fanny G. Merriman. She was b. Sept. 17,
1S75. One child :

Charlie E. Fussilman, b. Aug. 4, 1897.

The second child of Samuel and Henrietta Merri-
man Fussilman is Nettie, b. Feb. 4, 1868, m. George
•Carle, who was b. April 20, 1864. Five children :

1. Clara Carle, b. Aug. 12, 1S86.

2. Alice Carle, b. July 23, 18S8.

3. Fannie Carle, b. May 26, 1S90.

4. Georgia Carle, b. Aug. 31, 1S92.

5. Ceceha Carle, b. Dec. 27, 1894.

4. Ida May Fussilman, b. May 21, 1878, m. Thomas
Smith. He was born July 28, 1862. Two children :

1. Lottie May Smith, b. Oct. 29, 1893.

2. Nettie A. Smith, b. May 2, 1897.

James Eli Todd Merriman (a twin), b. Nov. 20, 1S43,,
m. Lednycie G. Richardson, Feb. 4, 1874. She was
b. March 30, 1847. ''^i^ children :

1. Fannie G. Merriman, b. Sept. 17, 1875.

2. Amanda A. Merriman, b. Aug. 20, 1877.

3. Elizabeth Jenette Merriman, b. Jan. 13, 1882.

4. Henry Eli Merriman, b. Nov. 16, 1S83.

5. Anna L. Merriman, b. Dec. 3, 1S85.

•6. Jimmie F. Merriman, b. March 26, 1891.

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FAMILY RECORDS.

This first child, b. Sept. 17, 1875, m. James Matt.
Fussilman, who was b. May 22, 1862. One child :

, Charles E. Fussilman, b. Aug. 4, 1897.

James and Lednycie Richardson Merriman's second
child, Amanda Aurelia, b. Aug. 20, 1877, m. Henry
Crow, who was b. Dec. 22, 1871. One child :

William Todd Crow, b. March i, 1S99.

Jenette A. Merriman, the twin to James, was b.
Nov. 20, 1843 ; m. Allison O. Richardson, July 9, 1876.
He was b. Jan. 16, 1843, d. Sept. 19, 1890, in his 48th
year. Three children :

1. Reuel Richardson, b. April 16, 1877, d. Sept. 30, 1878.

2. Mary Henrietta, b. Dec. 4, 1878.

3. Cora Lednycie, b. Oct. 3, 1882.

The sixth child of Dr. Eli Todd and Jenette Bar-
tholomew Merriman was Titus Edward Merriman, b.
March 28, 1846 ; unm.

The seventh and eighth were twins, Helen and
Ellen Merriman, b. July 12, 1848. Helen Merriman
d. July 12, 1848. Ellen Merriman d. Jan. 22, 1850.

Dr. Eli Todd Merriman's children by his second
wife, we understand, were five :

1. Frank Merriman, d. young.

2. Eli Merriman, b. somewhere abt. 1851.

3. John, b. abt. 1854, m. we do not know whom; two children :

i. Lizzie Merriman, b. abt. 1884.
ii. Virgie Merriman, b. abt. 188S.

4. George Alerriman, b. abt. 1S56.

5. Jeff. Davis Merriman, b. abt. 1862.

This Dr. Eli Todd Merriman's father was Dr. Titus
Merriman, an intimate friend of Dr. Todd of Farm-
ngton. Conn. They used to hold counsel together.

BARTHOLOMEIV-BOTSFORD-U'INSTON. 47

Therefore, Dr. Titus Merriman named his son Eli
Todd Merriman in honor of his friend. We have a
little concerning this Dr. Todd which has already ap-
peared in print, concerning the Farmington Library,
that was formed, we think, Aug. 1, 1785 : "Dr. Todd
is fined half a dol. for having his mind so occupied
with patients as to forget his Library book for 6 days.
It made no difference who the unlucky offender was,
be he of high degree or otherwise, if he forgot to
return his Library book on time, he had to pay his
fine."

Asa Bartholomew, Junior, the sixth child of Asa
and Charity Shelton Bartholomew, was b. Feb. 5, 1815,
d. Oct. 7, 1896, in his 8ist year; m. Nov, 10, 1836,
Mary Lydia Birge, who was b. Feb. 9, 1818, d. April
7, 1888, aged 70. Four children :

1. Harriet Alida Bartholomew, b. Feb. 14, 1S39, unm.; d.

Jan. 23, 1S93, aged 54.

2. Nathan Loomis Bartholomew, b. Nov. 14, 1841, m. in Texas,

Aug. 22, 1S72, Mrs. Sarah Emily (Reynolds) Newcomb,
who was b. Sept. 27, 184S, had one child by her first
husband, Augustus Newcomb.

3. The third child of Asa and Mary L. Birge Bartholomew

was John Birge Bartholomew, b. in Bristol, Conn., Dec.
II, 1845, m. in Texas, Feb. 12, iSSo, Virginia A. McElwe.
One child, a daughter.

4. The fourth child, Mary Bartholomew, b. July 16, 1850, d.

Dec. 27, 1853, aged 3 years.

Nancy Marie and Jane Charity Bartholomew's
ancestry have been mentioned in the Alanson and
Wellington Winston families. If any one desires
extra particulars concerning the Bartholomews, they
can be found in the " Record of the Bartholomew

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FAMILY RECORDS.

Family, Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical
Book, by George Wells Bartholomew, published in

THE BOTSFORD SIDE.
As we have taken up the great-grandmother's side
of her house, we will now take up the grandmother's
side, as they both married Winstons. The grand-
mother was Annis Botsford. Her father, Theophilus
Botsford, b. 1758, m. Dollie Bid well from Middletown,
Conn. She was b. 1758, d. July 13, 1828, aged 70. He
m., 2d, Widow Whitmore, a sister of Dolly. She had
a dau. Elizabeth Whitmore, b. in 18 15. Theophilus d.
Feb. 19, 1 841, aged 83. Six children :

Daniel, b. Aug. 21, 1782.
Samuel, b. 1783.

Dolly B. Norton, b. June 21, 17S6.
Irene B. Atkins, b. 178S.
George Arthur, b. abt. 1790.
Annis B. Winston, b. 1792.

Daniel Botsford, b. Aug. 21, 1782, m. Polly Betsey
Foote Oct. 5, 1800. She was b. Sept. 26, 1782. Five
children :

Luzon Alanson Botsford, b. June 4, 1802.
Lucius Daniel Botsford, b. Aug. 14, 1804.

3. Charlotte Abigail Botsford, b. June 28, 1807.

4. Polly Elmira Botsford, b. June 19, 1809.

5. Urania Ursula Botsford, b. Nov. 5, 1813.

This family moved or went West, near Michigan, as
years ago he used to make visits home to Bristol. All
we have concerning him is a few thoughts he expressed
in a letter. We are minus what enclosed it, or any
address, only a general one to his friends, etc., received

BARTHOLOME\V-BOTSPORD-]VINSTON.

49

in 1852. It was found among his sister Annis' things
after her death. He here mentions, " My health is
good, but I am broken down as to work by old age and
infirmity; Polly is very feeble." He speaks of his
sons Lucius and Luzon, concerning their health; said
Willie and his family and he and Polly lived together;
said they had a little girl four years old (so we think
sl;e must have been born in 1848). This Willie,
we are told, was an adopted son of Lucius Botsford,
who m. Mary Norton. It looks as though Willie and
his wife (we do not know who she was) were looking
after the adoptive grandparents. Daniel writes about
Michigan and a Walter Wilmot. We think he was b.
in Bethany, Conn., Jan. 5, 1782, d. in West Haven May
12, 1854. His wife was Sarah Clark, from Milford.
She d. at West Haven May 12, 1832.

Probably Walter Wilmot came home to die just
twenty-two years to a day that his wife died. Their
dau., Martha Wilmot, b. Dec, 18 16, m. William Holt
Dawson, who was b. Aug. 16, 1809, m. May 11, 1834;
res. Westville, Conn. The reason we have made note
of this is because Abigail Winston Dawson was this
William Holt Dawson's step-grandmother, as Timothy
Dawson, Abigail's husband, had three children by his
first wife, Anna Holt Dawson, who d. at the age of
24, and Abigail Winston stepped in by becoming Tim-
othy's second wife.

Daniel Botsford in his letter referring to a visit they
made to Bristol, Conn., says, " I should think some
of you would come out to see us"; thinks his sister
Annis and her second husband, John Cowles, might
come; would be glad to see any of our friends; speaks
of their prosperity; flour coming down the lake in
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abundance, price four dollars, thinks it will be down
to three; said the railroad had raised the price of
land.

2. Samuel Botsford, b. 1783, m. Betsey Clark, from
Meriden, Conn. She was b. 1782, d. Dec. 2, 1859, aged
77. He d. Nov. 6, 1862, aged 79. They lived in the
Copper Mine district, Bristol, Conn. Six children:

Nancy B. Perkins, b. Nov. 13, 1807.
Harriet B. Stevens, b. 1809.
Patrick Botsford, b. 1812.
Hiram Botsford, b. 1813.
Betsey Botsford, b. 181 5.
Lorenzo Botsford, b. 18 19.

Nancy Botsford, b. Nov. 13, 1807, m. Elias W. Per-
kins, Dec. 6, 1827. He was b. July 2, 1806. She d. Mch.
6, 1885, aged 77. He d. Sept. 7, 1889, aged 83. Seven
children:

1. Caroline M., b. April 23, 1830.

2. Betsey Ann, b. Nov. 5, 1832.

3. Algernon W., b. Jan. 11, 1835.

4. Emogene R., b. Api. 7, 1837.

5. Merritt L., b. June 6, 1S40.

6. Erwin H., b. Feb. 15, 1842.

7. Elias A. b. Mch. 15, 1845.

Caroline Maria Perkins, b. April 23, 1830, m. Willis
Lyman Stone, Nov. 17, 1852. He was b. Mch. 8, 1830.
Two children:

1. Abbie Estella Stone, b. Sept. 2, 1853, m. James Walter

Williams, Oct. 30, 1879. He was b. July 15, 1846.

2. Willis Benham Stone, b. May 28, 1S56, m. Anna Rathbun,

Feb. 27, 1S79. She was b. April 22, 1855. Two children:
i. Veronica Caroline Stone, b. July 29, 1881.
ii. Estella Abby Stone, b. Feb. 18, 1S85.

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2. Betsey Ann Perkins, b, Nov. 5, 1S32, m. Jerome
B. Bacon Oct. 29, 1857. He was b. May 7, 1828. One
child:

Clayton E. Bacon, b. Nov. 6, 1859, m, Vinie Horsford Nov. 16,
1892. She was b. Feb. 21, 1861. One child:
Amy Bacon, b. Nov. 8, 1895.

3. Algernon Wallace Perkins, b. Jan. 11, 1835, m.
Hannah A. Hinman Feb. 18, 1S56. She was b. July
4, 1840. He d. Nov. 30, 1874, aged 39. Two children:

1. Burdett Daniel Perkins, b. Jan. 28, 1865.

2. Dwight E. Perkins, b. Oct. 30, 1866, m. Julia Fanny Stone,

May 12, 18S6. She was b. Oct. 28, 1S64. One child:
Algernon Dwight Perkins, b. July 23, 1S88.

4. Emogene Rosette Perkins, b. Apr. 7, 1837, m.
Simeon H. Button May 16, 1855. He was b. Jan. 15,
1832. She d. Dec. 24, 1889, aged 52. Five children:

1. Ellen Annie Dutton, b. April 5, 1S56, m. Jewett Nelson

Tuttle, Nov. 26, 1879. He was b. July iS, 1S48. One
child:

Florence Emogene Tuttle, b. July 14, 1882.

2. Frank W. Dutton, b. May 29, 1858, m., Oct. 18, 1881, Alice

Culver. She was b. Oct. 15, i860. Four children:
i. Guy Homer Dutton, b. Sept. 14, 1882.
ii. Mabel Ethel Dutton, b. Feb. 2, 1884.
iii. Ruth Mildred Dutton, b. Feb. 17, 1S89.
iv. Vernet Ray Dutton, b. June 12, 1894.

3. Edward Joseph Dutton, b. Feb. 17, 1861, m. Ida Maria.

Belden, Jan. 12, 1879. She was b. Dec. 27, 1858, d. Nov.
3, 1897, aged 39. Three children:

i. Howard Simeon Dutton, b. Oct. 25, 1880.
ii, Robert Porter Dutton, b. Sept. 7, 1884.
iii. Bessie Dutton, b. June 15, 1891, d. Sept. 28, 1S92.

4. Elias Perkins Dutton, b. March i, 1867.

5. Charles E. Dutton, b. Sept. 17, 1872, d. July 19, 1874.

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5. Merritt Lorenzo Perkins, b. June 6, 1840, m.
Ellen M. Barnes, Sept. 7, 1864. She was b. Feb. 23,
1844. Two children :

1. Clifford Elias Perkins, b. July 20, 1868.

2. Harry Howard Perkins, b. April i, 1873, m. Maggie A.

Osborn, Sept. 23, i8gi. One child .
Clyde Howard Perkins, b. March 23, 1893.

6. Erwin Hiram Perkins, b. Feb. 15, 1842, m. Mary
Churchill, Dec. 14, 1882.

7. Elias Abraham Perkins, b. March 15, 1845, m.
Elva M. Blake, Dec. 24, 1867. She was b. April 2,
1849. He d. April 20, 1893, aged 48. Two children :

1. Montague Elias Perkins, b. Sept. 17, 1868, m. Lizzie Julia

Goodsell, May 8, 1896. She was b. May 8, 1876. One
child :

Millicent Perkins, b. Aug. 19, 1898.

2. The second child of Elias and Elva Blake Perkins was

named RoUin Burdett Perkins, b. Nov. 30, 1873, d. Dec.
15, 1897, aged 24.

2. Harriet Botsford, b. 1809, m. Philo Stevens,

May 20, 1827. He was b. 1804, and d. Jan. 21, 1880,

aged 76. She d. May 7, 1891, aged 82. Eleven
children :

1. Nancy Stevens, b. abt. 1828.

2. David Stevens, d. young.

3. Franklin Stevens, b. 1830.

• 4. Mary Ann Stevens, b. Sept. 3, 1834.

5. Harriet Frances Stevens, b. Oct. i, 1836.

6. Philo Stevens, b. Jan. 20, 1838.

7. Egligene Stevens, b. Dec. 25, 1840.

8. Josephine Stevens, b. Dec. 31, 1844.

9. Betsey Martha Stevens, b. 1847.

10. De Witt Clinton Stevens, b. April 22, 1849.

11. Charles Stevens, b. March 6, 1852.

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Xancy Stevens, b. abt. 182S, m. Williard Barrett,
Oct. 29, 1S46. He was b. in 1818, d. April 21, 1885,
aged 67. She d. Aug^. 8, 1890, aj^ed 62. Four chil-
dren :

1-2. Eraeline and Williard Barrett, d. young.

3. Emeline Barrett (No. 2), b. Nov., 1S52, m. Eugene Dor-

man. He was b. abt. 1846. Two children :
i. Infant, d. young,
ii. Carrie Dornian, b. Jan. 4, iSyu.

4. Williard Barrett (No. 2), b. probably Aug. 12. 1856.

3. Franklin Stevens, b. 1S30, d. July 9, 1867, aged 37,

4. Mary Ann Stevens, b. Sept. 3, 1834, m. Henry
Gamble, Oct. 29, 1849. Four children:

1. Henry Gamble, b. Aug. 28, 1S50, d. June 11, 1S97, aged 47,

unm.

2. Hattie Gamble, b. Feb. 25, 1S55, m. Enos I. Hart, Jan. 6,

18S0. He was b. Aug. 19, 1852. Three children :
i. George Ives Hart, b. Oct. 4, 1880, d. young,
ii. Florence Louise Hart, b, June 21, 1SS4, d. Oct.

22, 1890, aged 6 years and 4 months,
iii. Ruby Agnes Hart, b. Feb. 14, 1S92.

3. Benjamin Franklin Gamble, b. Nov. 30, 1857, unm.

4. Josephine Maria Gamble, b. Sept. 11, 1S60, m. Joseph

Green. Two children :

i. Mary Agnes Green, b. June 7, 1883.
ii. George Frederick Green, b. July 21, 18S6.

5. Harriet Frances Stevens, b. Oct. i, 1836, m.
Collis Sperry Hough, Feb. 14, 1857. He was b. Nov.
9, 1835. She d. Oct. 30, 1895, aged 59. Two children :

1. Mary Harriet Hough, b. Dec. 13, 1857, "i- Edward Lay

Tinker, June 3, 1882. He was b. May 28, 1858, d. June
25, 1S98, aged 40.

2. Laurie Egligene Hough, b. May 2r, i860, m. Edwin E.

Frisbie, Dec. 20, 1S79. He was b. Dec. 10, 185S. One
child : Pearle CoUette Frisbie, b. Oct. 20, 1880.

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6. Philo Stevens, b. Jan. 20, 1838, m. Anna Belle
DeMerrit, June 10, 1875. She was b. 1857, d. June
24, 1899, aged 42.

7. Egligene Stevens, b. Dec. 25, 1840, m. Theron
S. Carroll, abt. 1858. She d. Dec. 6, 1859, aged nearly
19 years, leaving one child :

Eugene Carroll, b. Dec. i, 1S59.

8. Josephine Stevens, b. Dec. 31, 1844, m. Feb. 12,
1887, Frank A. Glover. He was b. March 10, 1857.

9. Betsey Martha Stevens, b. in 1847, d. Oct. 23,
1 85 1, aged 4 years.

10. DeWitt Clinton Stevens, b. April 22, 1849, ™-
Carrie Edith Crittenden, May 12, 1880. She was b.
June 25, 1S60.

11. Charles Stevens, b. March 6, 1852, m. Mattie
Gomme, Dec. 17, 1875. She was b. April 26, 1856.

3. Patrick Botsford, b, 1812, d. Jan. 21, 1873, aged

61. He res. in New York, tinm.

4. Hiram Botsford, b. 1813, d. Nov. i, 1875, aged

62. In his early life he m., Jan. 16, 1839, a fine girl,
Elizabeth Whitmore, b. 1815, the dau. of his grand-
father's second wife. She d. Nov. 27, 1839, aged 24,
leaving her grief-stricken husband, at the age of 26,
with a little helpless infant, which his worthy mother
brought up. Elizabeth Botsford, b. Nov. 27, 1839, m.
Edwin Bristol of Cheshire, Conn. She d. leaving sev-
eral children, Edwin, Mary, etc.

5. Betsey Botsford, b. 1815, d. Aug. 17, 1832, aged

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6. Lorenzo Botsford, b. 1819, d. July i, 1870, aged
51, m. Hannah Norton, June 16, 1842. She was b.
1820, d. Nov. 4, 1853, aged ^t,. Two children :

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1. James Botsford, b. May ii, 1S45. d. Nov. 15, 1889. aged 44

years 6 months ; m. Frances Barrows. She was b.
March 4, 1S45. Three children :

i. Fanny Addella Botsford, b. Oct. 23, 1868, m. Albert
Homewood, Feb. 9, 1892. He was b. 1865. One
child : Maud E. Homewood, b. April 3, 1893,
ii. Hattie Botsford, b. June 22, 1870, ra. Edwin F.
Mitchell, Nov. 14, 1S92. He was b. April 16,
1870. Two children :

i. Vinton Wesley Mitchell, b. June 21, 1894.
ii. Maud Irene Mitchell, b. June 21, 1S96.
iii. Alice Botsford, b. Aug. 22, 1S75, m. James Con-
nery. He was b. Feb. 28, 1870. Two children :
i. George E. Connery, b. April 13. 1S94.
ii. Viola Agnes Connery, b. Aug., 1896.

2. The second child of Lorenzo and Hannah Norton Botsford

was Burdett Botsford, b. 1846, d. Dec. 25, 1853, aged 7.

The third child of Samuel and Betsey Clark Bots-
ford was Dolly Botsford, b. June 21, 1786, m. David
Norton, whose first wife was Sally Allen, d. Dec. 20,
1818, aged 37, leaving several children, Homer, Frank-
lin, Mary, Sarah, etc. This Dolly Botsford and David
Norton had one child. David Norton was b. in 1778,
d. Oct. 25, 1847, aged 69. Dolly d. May 25, 1879, aged
93. Their first child was named Peninah Bidwell
Norton, b. Sept. 7, 1822 ; is now living in her 77th
year; m. Sylvester Calvin Hart, Jan. 12, 1842. He
was b. July 7, 1820, d. April 26, 1877, aged nearly 57.
Five children :

1. Dolly Ann Hart, b. April 15, 1843, d. Aug. 20, 1843.

2. Emily Louisa Hart, b. Aug. 16, 1844, d. June 13, 1845.

3. Mary Alicia Hart, b. Dec. 20, 1846, d. April 7, 1877, aged

30.

4. George Washington Hart, b. Jan. 24, 1849, m. May 28, 1873,

Jennie E. Webster, who was b. Dec. 21. 1847. Three
children :

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i. Myrtle Irene Hart, b. April lo, 1874, m. Frederick
Chauncey Lowrey, Nov. 23, 1897. He was b.
Oct. 9, 1872.
ii. Ernest Webster Hart, b. May 22, 1878.
iii. George Sylvester Hart, b. Oct. 24, 1882.
5. The fifth child of Sylvester and Peninah Norton Hart,
Alice Maria Hart, b. Dec. 18, 1854, m. Williard Sylves-
ter Hill, Dec. 29, 1875. Three children :
i. Clifford James Hill, b. May 9, 1879.
ii. Williard Hill, b. October, 18S6.
iii. Peninah Julia Hill, d. young.

Irene Botsford, the fourth child of Samuel and Bet-
sey Botsford, b. 1788, m. Avery Atkins. He was b.
1782, d. July 28, 1862, aged 80. She d. Jan. 29, 1858,
aged 70. Four children :

1. Samuel W. Atkins, b. March 30, 1808.

2. Alden A. Atkins, b. March 14, 1810.

3. Elbridge Atkins, b. June 21, 1812.

4. Valentine Augustus Atkins, b. Dec. 2, 1828.

Samuel W. Atkins, b. March 30, 1808, m. May 16^
1835, Maria M. Dowd. She was b. Feb. 3, 1S18, d.
Nov. 2, 1892, aged 74. He d. Feb. 12, 1884, aged abt.
76. Three children :

1. Ellen Irene Atkins, b. Aug. 26, 1837, rn- J- Fayette Doug-

lass, Jan. 27, 1864. He was b. March 27, probably 1833.
Four children :
i. Clara M. Douglass, b. April 16, 1867.
ii. Georgia Z. Douglass, d. young,
iii, Junius Z. Douglass, b. Sept. 22, 1876.
iv. J. Fay Douglass, b. April 8, 1878.

2. George W. Atkins, b. Feb. 27, 1S45, m. Jennie A. Brown,,

June 8, 1870. She was b. Nov. 22, 1849. One child :
C. Bernice Atkins, b. Aug. 25, 1879.

3. Azella M. Atkins, b. June 3, 1852, m. Watson Barnes, Oct.

20, 1884. He wasb. Feb, 15, 1854.

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2. Alden A. Atkins, b. March 14, 1810, m. Adaline
C. Bidwell, Sept. 20, 1832. She d. April 12, 1866, aged
46. He d. Jan. 6, 1893, ag-ed 83. Five children :

1. Irene Adeline Atkins, b. March 3, 1835, d. Feb. 24, 1S36.

2. Alden Irenus Atkins, b. Feb. 14, 1S37, ni. Louisa N. Trav-

ers, April 7, 1881. She was b. Oct. 25, 1859. He d.
May 24, 1882, aged 45. One child :
Adeline Louisa Atkins, b. Jan. t2, 1882.

3. Eugene Wilburn Atkins, b. Jan. 15, 1841, d. Aug. 20, 1S41.

4. Mary Jane Atkins, b. March i, 1S42, ni. James L. Camp-

bell, Dec. 12, 1867. He was born March 7, 1S32. I'ive
children :
i. Albert Newton Campbell, b. Oct. i, 1S68.
ii. Milton Elsworth Campbell, b. Dec. 30, 1870, d. Jan.

I, 1884, aged 13.
iii. Lizzie Lenore Campbell, b. Sept. 29, 1S72, d. Feb.

19, 1S84, aged II.
iv. Eugene Marion Campbell, b. March 25, 1874.
V. Clara Lillian Campbell, b. Jan. 7, 1876.

5. Eugene Narcellus Atkins, b. Oct. 9, 1843, d. Aug. 19, 1845.

This family residence is Dayton, Lion county,
Nevada.

3. The third child of Avery and Irene Botsford
Atkins was Elbridge Atkins, b. June 21, 181 2, d. April
24, 1878, aged 66 ; m. Feb. 6, 1833, Emeline Curtis.
She was b. July 23, 1809, d. May 10, 1895, nearly 86
years of age. Three children :

1. Avery Atkins, b. June 3, 1S34, d. July 14, 1892, aged 58, m.

Sarah Ann Cadwell, June 20, 1855. She was b. April
22, 1835. Five children :

i. Elbridge Edwin Atkins, d. young,
ii. Abbie J. Atkins, also d. young,
iii. Willie G. Atkins, b. July 26, 1865.
iv. Hattie Urania Atkins, b. June 15, 1867.
V. Grace Emehne Atkins, b. April 13, 1875.

2. The second child o£ Elbridge and Emeline Curtis Atkins

was Urania Atkins, b. Sept. 9, 1837 ; unm.

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f 3. The third child was Emehne C. Atkins, b. July 4, 1839, m.
Elbert O. Moore, May 7, 1861. He was b. in Litchfield,
Conn., Nov. 29, 1832, d. Aug. 7, 1890, aged nearly 58
years. Six children :

i. Thomas E. Moore, b. Aug. 10, 1862.
ii. John C. Moore, b. July 9, 1864, m. Nettie Smith.
Five children :
i. Elbert Judson Moore, b. Aug. 9, 1890.
ii. Vesta Emeline Moore, b. June 3, 1893.
iii. Nettie Mae Moore, b. Jan. 16, 1895.
iv. Elbridge Atkins Moore, b. May 8, 1897.
V. Amoret Rose Moore, b. Jan. 7, 1899, d. Jan. 21,
1899.
iii. Rosalee Moore, b. Feb. 28, 1867, m. Charles
Neale. Two children :
i. Charles Stanley Neale, b. July 27, 1S91.
ii. Cora Atkins Neale, b. Oct. 29, 1897.
iv. Elbert O. Moore, b. June 17, 1870.
V. Emily Urania Moore, b. May 31, 1873.
vi. Avery Atkins Moore, b. July 25, 1876.

Valentine Augustus Atkins, the fourth and young-
est of Avery and Irene Botsford Atkins' children, was
b. Dec. 2, 1828, d. Oct. 25, 1895, aged 66 ; m. Mrs.
Lydia Ann Hall Barnes of Meriden, Conn., Oct. i,
1865. She was b. June 10, 1838. One child:

Cora D. Atkins, b. Sept. 27, 1866, m. George C. Doherty,
March 27, 1886, in Brooklyn, New York. He was b.
Jan. 24, 1858.7 One child :

Bessie Mildred Doherty, b. Aug. 12, 1888.

All we will say here of the two last of Theophilus
and Dolly Bidwell Botsford's children is that we are
told that George Arthur Botsford went West, then
South. We surmise him b. abt. 1790, as the sixth and
youngest child, Annis Botsford, who has been con-
sidered in the Winston line, was b. in 1792, and Irene

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Botsford Atkins was b. before George Arthur (we are
told), in 1788. We leave these missing links for a
future investigator to turn the light of research upon,
thankful for what we have received, if not all we
have put forth effort for.

In conclusion, we would comment from a higher
point of view, by a sort of practical lesson derived from
the events, history, and records, of these past and pres-
ent lives which we wish to place in the hands of those
who may desire it, as we have stopped now and then
to consider along life's pathway that we might trace
some footprints left by those gone before us. Many
of these travelers have ended their journey; some
whose dates we record with ours will soon follow our
wayside footprints in the road that we travel over, —
these footprints on the sands of time as guides or si-
lent wanderings. How should we be watching, pray-
ing, striving to find and keep the narrow way, that
when our lives are ended, that the impressions may
be leading through the Christ to a better and eternal
life. May this prayer come from the lips of one and
all: " Lord, Thou who from everlasting to everlast-
ing art God, incline us, like David of old, to ex-
claim, ' Lord, make me to know mine end and the
measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how
frail I am.' As all our days do pass on to an end as a
tale that hath been told, like all of these whose dates
of their departure we take note, so we our years do
spend. Even if three score and ten do sum up the
years we see, or if, by reason of more strength in some
four score they be, yet doth the strength of such but
grief and labor prove; for it is soon cut off and we are
removed. O Lord, teach us our end in mind to bear,

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and so to count oar days that we our hearts may apply
to learn Thy wisdom and Thy truth, that we may live
thereby; make us glad according to the days wherein
Thou hast permitted affliction, and wherein we have
seen or done evil. Let Thy work appear unto us, and
Thy glory unto our children."

Time, like an ever-rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away;
They fly, forgotten as a dream

Dies at the opening day.

The busy tribes of flesh and blood.

With all their cares and fears;
Are caiTied downward by the flood,

And lost in following years.

O God, our help in ages past.

Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guide while life shall last,
And our perpetual home.

— Watts.

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