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DENMAN
FAMILY HISTORY
FROM THE EARLIEST AUTHENTIC
RECORDS DOWN TO THE
PRESENT TIME
Compiled by Mrs. H. N. Harris
Glendale, California
Printed at the the Office oX
THE GLENDALE NEWS
1913
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FOREWORD
The Dexmax Book does not attempt to give records of all
Denmans, though it is well understood that all persons bearing
that name have descended from the same kind of source. — from
some Dane-man. There are many in England and Canada, and
in the United States whom we cannot reach ; and of many others
we find only such fragments of records as are of little practical
value. No records are here presented which do not definitely
lead from a particular ancestor.
Much time and labor was given to the collection of Denman
records by Mr. Charles Woodruff Woolley, Sr., of Buffalo. X.
Y., and ]\[rs. Mary R. Alatthews of Newark. N. J., both direct
descendants from the Denmans of Retford, England. Since their
decease.— Mr. Woolley in 1907, and Mrs. Matthews in 1901,—
further collections have been secured from various sources. The
direct family descent has been found for a large group of Den-
mans who did not know who were their ancestors; and some
-. smaller gaps have been filled.
^■-- J, And very recently discovery has been made of many de-
".scendants of two brothers who went from New Jersey to Georgia
"^--'^in Revolutionarv times, and were lost to the knowledge of their
""""^kindred.
^- This has caused delav in publication; but it is hoped that no
Sv^one wdl regret it.
"^ December, 1912.
CONTENTS
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Denmans in England ;.. 1
Denmans in America 6
Later Comers to America 67
Addendum 75
ILLUSTRATIONS
Coat of Arms
Charles Woodruff Woolley, Sr. 1823-1907. Taken at 70
Mrs. M. R. Denman Matthews. 1824-1901
Mrs. Harriet Newell Harris. 1835. Taken at .53
Thomas Denman, Lord Chief Justice of England. 1779-1854
Rev. John Gerneau (Gano), Revolutionary War Chaplain
Old Chair and Desk, brought from Long Island to New Jersey in 1720.
Both were saved when house was burned in 1826
Cory House at Mountainside. Home of Benjamin and Susanna Cory for
sixty years— from 1766. But little changed. Still occupied by Corys
Marsh House at Wheatsheaf. over 200 years old. Continuously occu-
pied and never repaired
Mills House at Mountainside. Partially rebuilt. Boiling spring of ex-
cellent water among the stones at lower left-hand corner of picture
Denman House at Cranford, built over the same cellar, and by the same
well, as the original house built by John Denman of Long Island
in 1720. His son Christopher, who bought the shares of the other
children in the property and spent bis life there, left it to his only
son, John. In his lifetime it was burned down, and another built.
Though enlarged and much changed since, a part of the house re-
mains the same. It has always been occupied by Denmans
Old Franklin Fireplace in the Denman House since its rebuilding in 1826
Old Cradle used by the families of Christopher Denman, his son John,
and his children and grandchildren, four generations, during 130
years
ILLUSTRATIONS— Continued
John Denman Miller, g-randson of Christopher Denman. 18Ct)-1884
Isaac Marsh, grandson of Christopher Denman. 1815-1899
Rev. L. H. Denman, great-grandson of Christopher's older brother,
Joseph. 1840-1902
Ohio River near Cincinnati in 1908, ninety years after the journey in
the flat-boat by the Miller family
Mathias Denman. 1751-1841
Phebe Baldwin. 1752-1833
John Denman and Harriet Hoagland
David Nelson Denman. 1833-1909
Esther Parcel. 1780-1867. Taken at lb'
Jacob Smith Denman. 1S21-1897
William Denman. 1763-1858. Taken at 90
Ann Denman Townsend. 1807-1902. Taken at 80
NONOGENARIANS A^IONG DENIVI-AN KINDRED
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Frincis Gerneaux, the French Huguenot, 103 years.
"Patriarch Isaac" Denman of New Jersey, over 97 years.
Thomas Denman, ancestor of Lord Denman, longest lived
Denman in England, 96 years.
William Denman from Sussex Co., England, 95 years.
Ann Denman Townsend, his daughter, over 93 years.
Margaret Denman Marsh of New Jersey, past 91 years.
Hannah and Ann, daughters of John Marsh and Abrigal Den-
man of New Jeisey, each a Httle past 91 years.
Mathias Denman of New Jersey, a few days under 90 years.
Morris Denman of Cincinnati, just 90 years.
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DENMANS IN ENGLAND
Origin of the Name.
The name Denman is a very ancient one, and is a contraction
from Dane-man ; that is, one of the Danes.
The first appearance in England of the Danes — inhabitants of
Denmark — was near the close of the eighth century. Their war
standard was a blood-red one. with a raven woven upon it. The
Raven was the national emblem of the Danes, just as the Eagle
was of the Romans. An attentive reading of the opening chap-
ters of the book of Numbers affords clear ideas of the use of
standards and ensigns among the Hebrews. "In the wilderness
of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year,
after they were come out of the land of Eg>'pt,'' a complete and
most systematic plan was given to Moses for the arrangement
of the people, both when in camp and when on the march.
They were to be divided into four brigades of three tribes each,
the several brigades having men of ability for their leaders. Each
brigade and each tribe had a standard, necessarily held aloft, in
order to be seen by so many thousands. There were also "the
ensigns of their fathers' houses"; see Xumbers 2:2. The ensign
served to help keep the members of a family connection together.
The later use of family coats of arms served the same purpose.
The presence of the Raven in every form of Denman coats of
arms is the evidence that Denmans were Dane-men.
It is of interest to note the relative position and strength in the
Hebrew camp, of the brigade of Dan. While the brigade of
Judah, always leader, was the strongest, that of Dan was next
in strength, and "these shall set forth hindmost," that is. bring up
the rear; a position only less responsible than that of the leader.
Much can be found in history, both sacred and common, showing
that the Danes were descendants of Dan ; but space forbids fur-
ther remark here.
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Since the middle of the fourteenth century there have been
continuous records of Denmans in the north and east of England
— in Cumberland, in Linconshire and Nottinghamshire, in East
Yorkshire, and. later, in Sussex. These records, though more
or less incomplete, are full enough to prove the identity of the
family line. ]\Iany Denmans became land-holders of wealth and
influence. The first one found recorded was William Denman,
who came into possession, in the latter part of the fourteenth
century, of Xewhall Grange, one of the granges of the old
town of Brampton, in Cumberland. When the Monks of Britain
were dispossessed of their Manors, this Xewhall Grange became
the residence of William Denman. The fifth in descent from
him was Nicholas Denman, still owner of Newhall Grange, who
was recorded Alderman of the city of Hull. A later descendant,
John Denman, possessed Newhall Grange in 1585. Later, per-
sons of this line of Denmans went southward to Sussex County.
whence some of their descendants migrated to America in 1795.
But these Denmans, descendants of the line found earliest
recorded in England, were not the ones earliest to come to the
shores of the New World. The first comers arrived in 1635.
These came from Retford, in Nottinghamshire. That their
origin was the same is demonstrated by their identical coats of
arms.
In the records of Retford, the first names with full dates are
John Denman. bom 1430. died 1517, and Rev. Thomas Denman,
born 1432, died 1516.
A large land-holder of that locality was Sir Humphrey Hcrcy,
of Grove, Nottinghamshire, who had one son, John, and eight
daughters. The son, according to custom, inherited the title, and
also the lands; but he died unmarried in 1570. He had divided
his vast estates among his eight sisters, the second sister, Anne.
receiving as her share the manor of West Retford. This sister.
Lady Anne Hercy, married Rev. Nicholas Denman, the fact
of the marriage, though without date, being found in the parish
records. They had a son, Francis, the date of whose birth is not
given, but of whom it is said that he was rector of West Retford
from 1578 to 1596, and that he died in 1599. Taking the exact
DENMAXS IN ENGLAND 3
dates of John Denman. 1430 — 1517, and Rev. Thomas Denman,
1432 — 1516, and passing" over to the next exact dates, those of
Rev. Francis Denman. who died in 1599, we infer that his father,
Rev. Nicholas Denman. was no later than the next generation
after the two earliest persons of known dates. It may be remarked
in passing that the manor of West Retford continued in this
family nearly one hundred years, when it was sold to the cor-
poration of East Retford, which still owns it and uses it as the
Holy Trinity Hospital.
The queens ]\Iary and Anne came in a direct line from this
family. Rev. Nicholas Denman and Lady Anne Hercy had a
daughter. Anne, who married Sir Thomas Aylesbury in 1610.
Their daughter married Sir Edward Hyde, afterward the first
Earl of Clarendon. The daughter of this couple. Lady Anne
Hyde, became the first wife of King James H. and was the
mother of Queens !Mary and Anne. Mary was married to
William, Prince of Orange. L'pon the abdication of James H. in
1689, \\'illiam and Mary were called to the throne in the interests
of the Protestant religion. ^Nlary died, in 1694, without children.
When William died, in 1702, her sister Anne, who was married to
Prince George of Denmark, became the sole ruler, and bent all
her energies toward the full emancipation of her country from
Popish control. At the battle of Blenheim, in August, 1704, this
great end was finally accomplished under the masterly general-
ship of the Duke of ]>kIarlborough, and with the help of troops
from Denmark. Queen Anne died in 1714, having borne six
children, none of whom lived to maturity. Thus royalty in the
Denman line died out. It is matter for gratitude that the reigns
of these two queens served high purposes for England.
Another line of descent from these Denmans of Retford em-
braces celebrated physicians and lawyers. The earliest person of
this line found definitely recorded was Thomas Denman of
Bevercotes. Nottinghamshire, who was born in 1644 and died in
1740. He had a son Thomas, born 1705 and died 1752. who was
a doctor and apothecary in Bakewell, Derbyshire. This doctor
had two sons, Joseph who died without heirs, and Thomas, who
became the most eminent surgeon of his time, and was author of
4 DENMANS IN ENGLAND
a valuable medical work. He married Elizabeth Brodie, a
descendant of the family of Brodie, of Morayshire, Scotland.
They had twin daughters, and one son. Thomas, who became one
of the most celebrated of the Lord Chief Justices of England.
Lord Denman's endowments were very great and his educational
acquirements profound ; and the qualities of his personal charac-
ter were such as to make him eminently worthy of the supreme
position to which he attained. He was raised to the peerage in
1832. His son, the second Lord Denman. died in 1894. aged
eighty-nine. The third, a nephew of the second, succeeded to the
title when but twenty years of age. He has had a military educa-
tion, saw service in the war in South Africa, and was made
Governor-General of Australia in 1911.
Some instances of Denmans in other useful positions may be
given here. In 1782 Flaxman, the sculptor, married Ann Den-
man, who afforded tb^ finances and the patient co-service neces-
sary for the great advancement which he made. Many of his
most valuable w^orks are now in a permanent gallery under the
dome of University College, London, the gift of Miss Denman,
his sister-in-law. Rev. F. L. Denman of Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London, is Secretary of the London Society for Promoting Chris-
tianity among the Jews. This society celebrated its one hundred
and fourth anniversary in Caxton Hall, London, on ^lay 2, 1912,
and is the oldest organization in existence for work among the
Jews. Its Secretary is an able writer and speaker and efficient
worker.
Returning to the Retford Denmans. as a chronological starting
point we can think of the beginning of our knowledge of them as
a centurj" earlier than Queen Elizabeth, who was born in 1533.
John Denman of Retford, who was born in 1430 and died in
1517, was buried under Christ Church in Retford, Nottingham-
shire, where a tablet commemorates his death and burial. Xo
name is given of his children or grand-children ; but the next
name found with date is John Denman, born in 1591. This man
was married to Judith Stoughton, daughter of Rev. Thomas
Stoughton, one of the sons of Henry De Stoughton or De Stuck-
ten, of Stoughton Hall, Stoughton, in Surrey. John and Judith
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Denman had a son, John, born in January, 1621, and a daughter,
Mary, born December 16, 1621. The father died in 1623 or 1624.
His widow married as her second husband WilHam Smead, by
whom she had one son, WilHam. In 1627 or 1628 she was again
a widow. In 1635, with her three children, John and Mary Den-
man and William Smead. she came to New England. There is a
tradition that William Smead eventually was lost among the
Indians. There is no further word regarding him. Two of her
brothers had preceded her. having come to Boston in 1633 to
engage in mercantile pursuits. One of them went later to Wind-
sor, Colony of Connecticut, where he died in 1686. The other
brother, Israel, afterward returned to England, where he died in
1642, having bequeathed to the newly organized Harvard College
three hundred acres of the best land in what is now Dorchester,
a part of Boston. His son William, who became Lieutenant-
Governor of Massachusetts Bay, gave the money for building the
first Stoughton Hall at Harvard. His portrait is among those in
Memorial Hall at Harvard.
It was no small matter for the widow of John Denman to make
that journey to the Xew World. The unrest in England had
become so great, in both church and state, that many people were
driven to seek new homes in America. This the Government
sought to prevent by radical measures. On February 21, 1634,
ten vessels having on board passengers for America were detained
in the Thames ; and in the next April eight vessels were ordered
to put ashore all persons embarking for Xew England. So it came
about that many took shipping for some part of the West Indies,
intending thence to proceed to America. Our travellers, watch-
ing their opportunity, came on a ship sailing for Barbadoes, and
afterwards to Boston.
DENMANS IN AMERICA
With the arrival in Boston in 1635, of Judith Stoughton
Denman Smead and her children, the history of Denmans in
America may properly be said to begin. They had sailed Sep-
temper 3, from Gravesend, England, in the ship Dorset, Capt.
John Flower, and had come by way of Barbadoes because of
the refusal of the English Government to permit emigration
to America. The family settled at Salem, Colony of ]\Iassachu-
setts, where the mother died in 1639. The daughter, Mary
Denman, married Clement Maxfield, and died in 1707 in her
eighty-sixth year. The son, John Denman, married a wife
whose name is not on record, and had three sons, John, Pnilip,
and William. Philip married a Miss Hasadink and lived at
Derby, Colony of Connecticut. They had six children between
1678 and 1688, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Micah, a son, and
Hamish. Philip is frequently mentioned in "Old Derby Records"
as a "freeholder," which means a land-owner.
The other brothers went to Long Island while yet in their
teens ; for John, the eldest of the three, and who was born
in 1643, is recorded as joining with others in the purchase of
land from the Indians before he was twenty. William, the
youngest, died there unmarried in 1702, and nothing is on record
of his life there. Hence our interest in that strenuous period
of Long Island history is concentrated upon John, who took
an active part in the development of the new territory, and
remained unmarried till past middle life. Some account must
here be given of the manner in which a foothold was obtained
upon the soil of this part of the new world, the aboriginal owners
gradually giving place to white settlers from over the sea.
When Sir Henry Hudson in the little ship, the Half-Moon, came
to anchor in the Bay of Sandy Hook on September 3, 1609,
he threw out a line which grew apace into a strong cable be-
tween Holland and America. For, though he was an English
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navigator and had explored for England in her quest for a
route to the Pacific, and afterwards lost his life in another
effort toward the same end, he was at this time sent over by
Holland, which was 'then the chief maritime power of the
world. He was met by the Indians in the utmost good will,
they bringing gifts of corn, wild fruits and oysters. After
making many soundings in the great harbor, he passed into
the river Sha-te-muc, the Indian name for the noble stream
which now bears his own name, spending eight days observing
the magnificent forests, distant mountains, and fertile valleys with
bits of ripening corn, which were a tempting sight. After a month
of exploration he departed, bearing a good report to his em-
ployers. The next year saw several vessels from Holland en-
gaging in a very lucrative traffic in furs with the Indians;
and in 1614 the Dutch Government gave to merchants of Amster-
dam the exclusive right to establish trading settlements in the
territory explored by Hudson. The first was on ^lanhattan
Island, where a fort was built, and the settlement was called
New Amsterdam. The territory from Cape Henlopen to Cape
Cod was now claimed by Holland and was called Nezi' Nether-
lands. In 1621 the Dutch West India Company was organized
with the exclusive privilege of planting settlements in America,
and within two years the first colony was established on Man-
hattan Island; a company of thirty families of Walloons from
Flanders in Belgium, Dutch Protestant refugees of the same
faith as the Huguenots in France, came to America and settled
at New Amsterdam. Soon civil government was begun: and
the whole of ^vlanhattan Island, containing over 20,000 acres,
was bought from the Indians for $24. In that year began the
settlements of Waal-bocht and Breukelen on Long Island, —
now Wallabout and Brooklyn. In 1629 the West India Com-
pany created a "Charter of Privileges" under which a class of
proprietors called Patroons were authorized to possess the land,
making their purchases from the Indians, with their boundaries
carefully designated. Quite large tracts were thus purchased,
to be held 'for life as a dependency of Holland, with the under-
standing that within four years each manor should be peopled
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by not less than fifty persons. Just as would be the case now,
the prospect attracted attention, new settlers came in, and pros-
perity seemed fully assured. But other nations saw, and coveted ;
and a period of encroachment and struggle of the most strenuous
sort ensued, which finally resulted in the occupation and control
by the English, of all that had been called New Netherlands.
King Charles II. gave to his brother James, then Duke of York,
early in 1664, two large grants of American territory along our
eastern coast ; and without regard to the rights of Holland, or
of the West India Company which had done so much to develope
the locality, regarding not even the voice of Parliament, "the
English monarch in one short hour despoiled a sister kingdom
of a well-earned province." On September 8. 1664. New Nether-
lands ceased to exist, and the name of New Amsterdam was
changed to new york. Distresses seemed to have just begun
when the English rule asserted itself; not that the English people
were at fault, but that their rulers, from the throne down, were
for the time singularly corrupt. We need here to notice an
exaction which bore upon the colonists with painful weight. —
namely, the annulling of the old titles by which they had held
their lands for half a century. They were obliged to accept
new deeds at the hands of the English governor, and to pay
him, for them, such sums as yielded immense revenues. Their
carefully outlined boundaries- were disputed, also, as we learn
from old legal papers. The first transaction in which John
Denman was concerned occurred before the English capture, and
is thus narrated in "Old Brooklyn Records." "On October
•3d, 1662, John Denman, with John Scudder. John Coe. and
others, purchased of the Indian chiefs Wamatupa. Wanoxe and
Powatahuman the neck of meadow^ land commonly called by
the English 'Plunger's Neck,' lying on the south side of Long
Island, bounded on the east side by the river Hohosbow, with
a small brook on the west running into the river before men-
tioned." We have no knowledge of what was done with this land ;
but of another purchase made after the English possession, we
have information. Under the new order of things the people
were obliged to ask renewal of privilege to make purchases ; and
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having so done, this is said : "In pursuance of said license,
in the same year, did in due form of law purchase of and from
the Indian natives all that tract of land situated between Maspeth
Hills and Flushing Creek, on Long Island, to hold unto the
said inhabitants of Xewtown forever; as by a certain deed
or writing under the hand and seal of Powanhon, dated July
9, 1666." Among the names attached are those of John Den-
man, and Samuel and John Scudder, Jr.
"During 'the difficulties' an investigation was made of dis-
puted lands. When government took possession of 1200 acres
they began to survey from near the house of John Denman.
After his death in December, 1713, the farm was sold in 1717
by the Denman heirs, to Richard Hallett, and from him has
descended to present proprietors 170 acres." So, after the gov-
ernment had seized 1200 acres of the original purchase, this
170 acres was all that was left to John Denman.
This farm was sold to Richard Hallett for the sum of "three
hundred and fifty pounds current money of the Colony of New
York, well and truly paid," etc.
The deed was signed by the widow, Mary Denman, and her
brother, Jeremiah Gannugh of Flushing, L. I., who were the
executors of the will of John Denman. made December 13, 1713,
and proved March 1, 1714. to be "the last Will and Testament of
John Denman of Newtown in Queens County, Long Island."
This will is yet to be seen in the office of the County Clerk at
Jamaica, L. I., written in a bold, strong hand. The dignified
language and the Christian spirit of the document, naturally lead
us to hold this pioneer ancestor of ours in the new world, in
great respect. We have no knowledge of the place of his
burial, beyond the fact that he died at Newtown, while all his
family left there within a few^ years. Neither do we know the
time of his marriage, nor the age of his wife.
Interesting combinations occurred among the elements in that
wonderful tide-flow from the old world. John Denman's grand-
mother was a Stoughton, from England, driven westward by
the stress of conditions at home. Of his mother we know nothing.
She may have been, like his sister-in-law, Mary Hasadinck, a
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Hollander. His wife was a Huguenot, escaped from the greater
stress in France, of which we must now give some account.
In 1598 Henry IV of France had granted to the Huguenots,
or Reformers, full religious liberty equal with their long-time
oppressors, the Romanists ; and his successor, Louis XHI, con-
firmed and renewed the "Edict of Nantes," as it was called.
But Louis XR", after a period of persecutions which has been
styled "The Reign of Terror," finally signed the decree called
''The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes," which annulled for-
ever all the privileges granted by the two previous kings, ab-
solutely prohibited the exercise of their religion, destroyed their
churches, ordered their pastors to leave France within fifteen
days and forbade their people to follow them under pain of
confiscation and the galleys. But "vast crowds found means
to evade the vigilance of the police and sought shelter in England
and other lands."
Francis GernEaux escaped to England by being nailed up
in a hogshead, as freight, on a boat across the channel. How
his family escaped we do not know ; but at least his daughter
Mary and his son Jeremiah were with him when, the next year,
1686, he came to America and settled at New Rochelle, Colony
of New York. He was wealthy in France; but when told that
his estates were confiscated, he said : "Let it go with the nam.e.
Henceforth we will be known as Gano." The full change of
name was not at once adopted, but followed in course of time.
■ Francis Gerneaux died at New Rochelle in 1723 at the age
of 103 years.
It is not known when John Denman and Mary Gano were
married, nor when she was born or when she died. The entire
period from the arrival of the Ganos at New Rochelle in 1686
till the death of John Denman at Newtown in 1713, was but
twenty-seven years ; and as the youngest of his children was
born when he was sixty-four or sixty-five years old, his wife must
have been much younger than he was. She doubtless kept her
family together and went with them to their new home in New
Jersey after the sale of their farm at Newtown in 1717.
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Family of John Demnan and Mary Gano.
Their children were Martha, ]Mary, EHzabeth, John, WilHam,
PhiHp and Thomas. The date of birth in case of the daughters
is not given.
John was born in 1700, WiUlam in 1702, Philip in 1704, and
Thomas in 1706 or 7. John bought a farm of 100 acres at
Westfield, Essex Co., N. J., in 1720 and settled there. The farm
continued in the possession of his children for several generations,
the portion of it occupied by the original home being still the home
of a Denman, although very little of the original house can be
found in the present one.
William settled at Elizabethtown, where he married Abby
, and died in 1751, leaving no record of any family. Philip
and Thomas both settled at Springfield, also in Essex Co.
The eldest daughter, ?\Iartha, married John Cory, son of John
and Priscilla Cory of Southhold, Long Island, who emigrated
to New Jersey for the same reasons that drew the Denman
family there, — the more favorable conditions affecting the
proprietorship of lands. They came to Elizabethtown ; but the
son cast in his lot with those who at that time, about 1720. were
settling in the township of Westfield, a few miles to the west
of the older settlement.
John Cory was born in 1703, and married about 1733, was
long an elder in the Presbyterian Church which was organized
in Westfield as soon as there was a settlement of people. The
first place of worship was built of logs, about 1730; and a large
drum served to call the people together. In the list of names
of the early settlers we find Cory, Denman, Hendricks, Craig,
Mills, Marsh, Miller, Woodruff, Frazer, and Pierson, — all of
them appearing in these records. In that old churchyard may
still be seen the gravestones of John Cory, who died August
8, 1768, and Martha, his wife, died September 24. 1777. The
children of John Cory and Martha Denman were Hannah, John,
Jacob, Sarah, Phebe, David, Abram, and Rachel. Mary, the
second daughter of [ohn and ]\Iarv Gano, went with her brother
William to Elizabethtown, married a Mr. Beris and had a son
Denman and a granddaughter Mary, of whose descendants we
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have scanty records. The third daughter, Elizabeth, married
a Caldwell ; but no further record is found.
From this point onward we follow the descendants of Judith
Stoughton Den man under the heads or lines of John, Philip,
and Thomas.
John, the eldest son of John Denman and Mary Gano, who
was born in 1700 and died March 15, 1776, was married in 1721
or 1722 to Mary Williams, of Welsh descent, who died March
27, 1762. They had two daughters, Mary and Jennie, and four
^\ sons, John, Joseph, Daniel and Christopher. Mary married
\t Samuel Yeomans and had a large family. One daughter mar-
ried Col Charles Clark of the Continental Army, who served
throughout the war.
Jennie married Aaron Faitonte and had an only child, Abigail,
who married Charles Marsh and had ten sons and two daughters,
nearly all of whom married and raised large families. Their
descendants are scattered in nearly every state, and some in
foreign lands, all worthy and respected citizens.
John, the eldest son, married Patience Yeomans, who died
in 1754, aged 28 years, leaving no record of any children.
Neither was any further record found of John himself until
now, in 1910, when information has been gained concerning
him and his brother Daniel. (See below.)
\
Joseph, the second son, married a wife whose name is not on
record, and had a family of five sons and four daughters, all
born on his farm in Essex Co., X. J., near Elizabethtown and
Westfield. The date of his death is not known, neither that of
his birth ; nor are the dates of any of his brothers or sisters known,
except in the case of the youngest, Christopher, of whom we
have full records. His death occurred while our country was in
the midst of the Revolutionary War; and it was sudden, ap-
parently from apoplexy. He had gone out on his farm to cut
firewood, and not coming home for dinner at the usual hour,
search was made. He was found lying dead near a tree which
he had begun to cut down. Xo signs of injury were visible, and
apoplexy was the only explanation. The names of his children
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were: Andrew, David, Abner, Joseph, Nathaniel, Mary, Sarah,
Susan, and EHzabeth. All of these persons except Andrew emi-
grated to Ohio at an early day. x\bner and some others went
to ]Mason Co., Kentucky, before it was safe to settle in Ohio,
Kentucky having been settled earlier. Abner crossed over into
Ohio in 1814. Andrew was twice married ; first in Xew Jersey,
to Susanna }^Iarsh, who died April 1, 1814. aged o? , leaving
children, only one of whose names is on record, — Charlotte, who
died February 18, 1817, aged 22.
He afterward married Mary, daughter of Moses Camp, and
emigrated to central Ohio and settled on a farm near Columbus.
There were born a family of eight children ; — Andrew, Jr., in
1817; Moses, in 1818; Mary, January 25. 1820; Daniel, April 5.
1822; Elizabeth, September 5, 1824; Julia Ann, February, 1827;
Isaac, March 31, 1829; and Sallie Jane on March 24, 1832.
Moses is the only one of this family of whom any succeeding
record is found. He married Alary Manasmith, and settled on
a farm in Delaware Co., Ohio, where their one son, Lewis Henry,
was born. When this son was but an infant, Moses Denman
started to Virginia with a drove of horses and mules to sell. He
was somewhere waylaid, and was never heard of afterward by
his family. His wife sold the farm in about a year, and went to
her relatives in Mason Co., Ky., where she died soon afterward.
The orphan son found home and friends ; was educated in
college at Georgetown, Ky., and became a Baptist minister. He
was born December 12. 1840, and died at Granville, Ohio, January
1.2, 1902. On August 26, 1862, he was married to Sarah Frances
McCarty, who still survives him, at Granville. They had six
children ; — William Wallace, born in August. 1863, and died
at West Union. Ohio, February 8, 1884; Mary A., born June,
1865, married in 1884 to J. W. Bradford of Rossmoyne, Ohio;
Bertha Ellen, born June, 1867, and died January 26, 1884; Lucy
Emma, born February. 1872. and died January 24. 1904 ; Ida
Gilmon. born June. 1874, married J. F. Reason, of 33 East Blake
Ave., Columbus, Ohio, and has a son, Philip Denman, born
June 28, 1907; Lewis Henry, born December, 1877, married
Annie L. Matthews of Nacogdoches, Texas, and has Frances
14 LINE OF JOHN
Elizabeth, born October 10, 1909, and ]\Iary Louise, born July
29, 1911. Thus far only can we follow the family of Andrew,
the eldest son of Joseph, second son of John. Den man and Mary
Williams. Of Andrew's younger brothers and sisters only scraps
of records are found. Sarah married John Radley in 1786,
lived in Hamilton Co., Ohio, and had a daughter ^lary. Joseph
married a Miss Stewart, but no children are mentioned. Eliza-
beth married Andrew De Low, and had children, Andrew and
Mary. Both she and Joseph lived in Miami Co., Ohio, as did
also their brother Abner after leaving Kentucky in 1814. Abner
married a Miss Ayers and had three children that are known
of, — Richard, Oilman and Abner Ayers. Of David and Susan,
no record has been found. But of Nathaniel, the youngest son,
we have a good record.
Nathaniel Den man was born August 20, 1780, in Essex Co.,
N. J., and died in 1836. He came to Hamilton Co., Ohio, about
1798 or 1800. He was married June 24, 1801, to Susan Gray,
and had five children, — Ann, Abraham, Huldah, Rebecca and
Nathaniel. Ann w^as born April 14, 1803, married August 2,
1821, to John D. Gilman and had three children, — Cina, Xaomi
and Orpha. Abraham was born ]\Iarch 4, 1804, married De-
cember 30, 1825, to ^Margaret Stickles and had seven children, —
Nathaniel, James, Hiram. Frank. John, Cynthia, and Elizabeth.
Huldah was born September 3, 1806. married February 23, 1832
to Francis Darrell. Family not on record. Rebecca was born
October 28, 1809, married January 11, 1829 to Thomas C.
Darrell, had one son, William ; and died about 1840. Nathaniel
was born January 1, 1811, and died in the next month. The
mother of these children died February 9, 1811, and the father
married May 13 of the same year Mary, daughter of Cavalier
Morris, who was born in Virginia, went early in life to Eliza-
bethtown, N. J., and later to Ohio where she was married to
Nathaniel Denman. They had eight children, — Nathaniel,
David, Morris, Susan, John, Effie, Andrew and Mary. Of these
children David died at the age of sixteen, Mary when eleven
years old, and Andrezc when only eight months old. The others
all married and had families.
FAMILY OF JOSEPH 15
Nathaniel, who was born June 30, 1812, was twice married ;
first to Mary Taulman, November 21, 1833, by whom he had
five children, — John, Nathaniel, Harman, Mary Ann, and Fannie.
By a second wife he had eight children, — Abraham, David,
Daniel, Alvin, William, Cindora, Abner, and ^Melissa.
Morris was born November 17, 1815, and died March 23,
1906, aged just over ninety years. On March 27, 1845 he was
married to Rebecca Jones, by whom he had seven children, —
Pliny, Joseph, Leonora, 3*Iary, Jane, Peter ^lorris, and Belle.
Of these, Jane and Peter Alorris married and had families.
Susan, who was born July 17, 1817, married George W. Manuel
December 3, 1838, and had one daughter. John was born
August 7, 1819, and died October 7, 1894. On October 29,
1843, he was married to Isabel Meeker, who died November 17,
1900. They had five children. — ]\IcElvaine, born October 5,
1844; ^Monterey, born February 24, 1847, and died in infancy;
Mary Josephine, born July 7, 1848; Libeus Marshall, born ]\Iay
27, 1851, and Daniel Meeker, born October 29, 1857. McElvaine
was married in October, 1868. to Mary E. ^IcRoberts and had
one daughter. Lulu Estelle. who was born in 1870, and married
in 1895 to Philip J. Kelly. She died June 15, 1900, leaving no
children. ^iIcElvaine's first wife died May 24, 1906, and he
married Ivy Lovett June 6, 1907. They had a son, Daniel
Marshall, born June 14. 1910. Mary Josephine was married
in November, 1868, to George Ridgley. and had four children,
three of whom died very young, and one, John Daniel, died
in December, 1909. at the age of twenty-six. Dr. Libens Marshall
Denman was married February 9, 1881, to Laura M. Nesbitt,
who died in 1890, leaving one son, Lawrence Edwin, born
December 10, 1884, who married Edna Shafer June 10, 1907.
Dr. Daniel Meeker Denman has not yet married. Effie Denman
was born April 2, 1821. and died September 2, 1910. She
married Thomas C. Bramble April 2, 1839, and had nine chil-
dren,— David Denman, born December 11, 1839; !Mary Ella,
born April 3. 1842; Isabel, born March 16. 1844, and died Feb-
ruary 6, 1852; Leroy, born December 10, 1846; John Oscar,
born May 9, 1849. and died October 4 of the same year; Agnes
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Ernestine, born October 8, 1851, and died May 3, 1853; Sylvanus
Edgar, bom October 12, 1854, and died December 20, 1855 ;
Thomas C, born April 26, 1858, died August 12, 1880; Bertha
G., born January 3, 1866. Dr. David Denman Bramble mar-
ried Celestine Reick and had three children, — Emma, Jessie M.,
and Mamie. He died September 2, 1910. IMary Ellen Bramble
married Andrew J. Hoffman and had one son, Clyde E. She died
January 27, 1906. Leroy Bramble married Sallie Rusk. Has
no children.
Daniel, the third son of John Denman and Mary Williams,
is not mentioned in the old manuscript records except to give
the date of his birth. No further reference is made to him,
just as is the case with the eldest son, Johi, after his marriage
and the death of his wife. In preparing for committing these
records to print every effort was made to trace both men. and
with some success. From old letters, and from the church
records of St. John's Episcopal Church of Elizabeth and the
Presbyterian Church of Westfield, material of importance has
been secured. The Denman, Hendricks, and Craig families all
belonged to the Episcopal Church until when, in the latter
part of 1776, the British swept through the region, took the
St. Johns Church, and used it for barracks. Then these families
went to the Presbyterian Church of Westfield, which was nearer
their own homes. On the baptismal records of St. Johns are
found the names of several Denman children. There are two
of Christopher's, one of them his son Benjamin who died in
infancy, and who was baptized in 1770 on the same day with
a son of Daniel. Another definite statement in an old letter is,
that three of the brothers had children baptized on the same day,
some later day. Still another definite statement is made that
the father of these brothers stood god-father for a grandson,
John, on [March 8, 1776, and that he took cold and died of
pneumonia on March 15, 1776. He was seventy-six years old,
and feeble, and there were no stoves in churches.
A letter only recently found states that John and Daniel
both went to Georgia, the time not given, but evidently at an
early day, probably before or during the Revolutionary War.
FAMILY OF CHRISTOPHER 17
That was a time when communication between distant localities
was not easy; and it is not remarkable that these men should
have dropped out of sight. Turning to manuscript records from
Southern States, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, there are names
and dates fitting well to the opinion that descendants of both
missing men are there in considerable numbers ; but as yet we
lack the positive links of connection.
Christopher, the youngest son of John Denmah and Mary
Williams was born March 5. 1741. and died October 28, 1808.
In 1766 he married Abigail, daughter of Isaac Hendricks and
Lydia Craig of Scotch descent, who was born February 17, 1746,
and died June 20, 1803. The wedding ring, marked A. D., is still
in good condition in 1910. the property of one of their great-
grand-daughters ; and a solid silver tablespoon marked with their
monogram, C. A. D., is among the treasures of one of their great-
grandsons.
Christopher Denman served in the Revolutionary Army, his
record being still in the office of the Adjutant General of Nev
Jersey. Eight children were born to this couple, two of whom,
Benjamin and Lydia, died early. The others, Susanna. Anna,
Abigail, John, Huldah, and Mary, all married and had families.
I. Susanna, the eldest child of Christopher Denman who
grew up, was born November 22. 1773, and died April 11, 1851.
She was married April 28, 1790. to Bcnjcunin Cory, son of Jona-
than Cory, of an old Scotch family, and ^vlartha Miller of West-
field.
. They had nine children, — Mary, Samuel, James Manning,
Christopher, Benjamin, Susanna who died in childhood, Joseph,
Jonathan, and Abby. These children were all born on the old
homestead in a suburb of Westfield now called Mountain Side,
the family occupying the same house for nearly sixty-two years.
Mary Cory was born March 25, 1792 and died November 29,
1863. She married San ford Vreeland, of Hollandish descent,
and had five children, — Susanna, Elizabeth, James, Mary, and
Eliza. Susanna married Henry Silvers and had at least three
children. Elizabeth married Joseph Dobbins and had two chil-
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dren ; one, a son named James Manning who married twice and
had a large family. James did not marry ; was feeble minded.
Mary married Thomas Clayburn. and had one son who died
young, and two daughters. Eliza did not marry, but cared
for the feeble brother till his death, and then for her parents
as long as they lived, presenting an example of the most un-
selfish devotion. She died as she had lived, a humble Christian,
and at that same home, keeping the promise exacte^l by her
eccentric father, that she would never leave the place.
Saviue! Cory was born September 16. 1794 and died March
4, 1871. He was married in 1814 to Eliza Frazee, and had three
children, — Emalijie. born March 29. 1815 and died February
27, 1840; having married Henry F. Miller and had one daugh-
ter, Emma, who died June 4. 1857, aged 18 years ; James
Manning, born December 3, 1818, and died in 1878; Frances
Maria, born February 6, 1822 and died October 26, 1908.
The second wife of Samuel Cory was Phebe X. Moger, nee
Lyon, who had one son, Benjamin Joseph, born October 4, 1834.
He married Frances C. Clark in 1856 and had three cihldren. —
Ida Estella, born October 12, 1857 and died October 22, 1893;
Charles Henry, born }^Iay 16. and died March 4, 1886; Fred-
erick R., born December 17, 1862; still living, the last of the
family. The second wife of Samuel Cory died in November,
1837. In 18-K) he was married to Mary D. Upson, who was
born in New Jersey December 13, 1811 and died at Lima, Ind.,
November 13, 1893. Their only child, Dayton S., was born
July 20, 1848, and still lives, with his nephew Frederick, at the
old home at Lima. Ind., where his father settled in his early
married life, — the last living representatives of the family of
Samuel Cory. Jatnes Manning, the second son of Susanna
Denman and Benjamin, was born November 2. 1797 and died
June 6, 1863. (The record of his large family is given separately).
Christopher, the third son, was born June 3. 1800, at the old
Cory home in New Jersey, and died at Lima, Ind., when past
eighty years of age. He became a clergyman, and early in
life w^as sent as a Home Missionary to Northeastern Indiana.
He married Mary Hedges Baker, who was born May 2, 1811 and
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died April 13, 1877. They had four children, — William Baker,
James R., ]\Iary P., and Henry M. William Baker Cory was
born May 2, 1829 at Bradford, Pa., and died November 23, 1907
at Sturgis, Mich. He was married first to Permelia L. Dayton,
May 2, 1855, who died April 30, 1863, leaving two children ;
and, second, to Susan E. Roberts, May 13, 1885. The two
children were Elizabeth Baker, born April 6, 1859 at Lima,
married Rev. Xathan E. Fuller, has two children, and lives at
Binghampton, N. Y. ; and Edward D. Cory, born May 2, 1861
at Lima, married Mary Roberts. February 27, 1884. lives at
Sturgis, Mich., and has five children. James R. Cory was
born August 28, 1830 at Westown. N. Y.. married Catherine
Baker, died March 24, 1891 ; had one daughter, Annie B.. born
March 7, 1871. ^lary P. Cory, born October 27, 1833 at Lima,
where she died April 25, 1892. Henry ]M. Cory, born February
1, 1836 and died three weeks later, at Lima, Ind.
Benjamin, fourth son of Susanna and Benjamin Cory, was
born March 21, 1803, and died in 1837, month and day unknown.
He married Abby, daughter of Joseph Bryant and had three
children, — Moses F., ^lary Elizabeth, and Samuel. Moses F.
was born July 21, 1827, and married Susan Enders. No chil-
dren. Mary Elizabeth married George Ayers and lived in Chi-
cago. Samuel lives at Rahway, Ni J. Susanna, born December
29, 1806, died May 9, 1809. Joseph, was born September 2,
1809 and died in July, 1892. He did not marry- till late in life,
having had charge of the old home farm. After the death of
his parents he married Margaret ^Nlooney, and had one son.
Joseph Wilbur, who was born April 8, 1857. He married
Mary E. Leonard May 23, 1883, and has six children, — Charlotte,
bom January 22, 1885: Margaret, August 17, 1886; Jane, w^ho
was born February 17, 1890. was married July 18, 1907. to
Walter Snairowski, a Russian, and has two children. — Robert.
born May 13, 1906. and Helen, born February 26, 1910.
Leonard, son of Joseph Wilbur Cory, was born November
16, 1893, and died August 16, 1898. Florence, the fourth
daughter, was born July 25, 1897 ; and Harrison, youngest son,
born February 12. 1900. Jonathan, youngest son of Susanna and
Benjamin, was born June 3, 1812 and died October 20, 1881.
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He married Catherine Scudder, and had ten children: 1st, Ancos
Picton, born August 5, 1861, and married ^lary Umbach ; 2nd,
John Calvin, born January 13, 1843, and died November 7. 1860;
3rd, Martin Luther, born August 29, 1844, and married Anna
E. Brewster; 4th Emily ]Marsh, born January 2, 1846 and died
November 3, 1850; 5th, Mary Susanna, born December 1, 1847;
6th, David Brainard, born June 19, 1849, married Georgia H.
Wood; 7th, Benjamin, born October 27, 1851 and died a week
later; 8th, Franklin M.. born November 23, 1852, married Cor-
nelia Tucker; 9th, Phebe Scudder, born October 8. 1854, and
married Rev. William Forbes Cooley, July 30, 1884; 10th, Eliza-
beth Crawford, born August 22, 1858.
Abby, the youngest child of Susanna and Benjamin Cory, was
born August 9, 1815 and died in Virginia in December, 1885.
She was married to Joseph L. Bronner, who was born at Leip-
stein in Alsace-Lorraine, Europe. They had three children, all
sons, — Charles Joseph, Benjamin Leonard, and Arthur Emanuel.
The three brothers married three sisters, all born in Virginia, —
Emma P. Sisson, Mary L. Sisson, and Richara Anna Sisson.
They all live in Baltimore. Md., their father among them, if
yet alive; and are worthy citizens, doing well for their families,
their country and their church. Their mother was a woman of
fine intellect and excellent moral character, much beloved by
her friends. Their father was highly educated, and a noble
looking man. The Cory family, now very numerous in the
United States, are descended from three brothers who came
from x\berdeen, Scotland, about 1620. The family are con-
sidered to be of Pict or Scandinavian orgin. The word, Corrie,
from which the name Cory originated, was Gaelic and meant a
narrow valley or glen, or a bowl-shaped hollow in a hillside.
The transition steps of meaning we do not understand.
Dr. James Manning Cory was born near Westfield, N. ].,
November 2. 1797 and died at Oxford, Ohio, June 6, 1863. He
was married August 13, 1818, to Eliza Ann Stagg, who died
in 1846, and had five sons and two daughters. Samuel was
bom; at Millville, Ohio, Mav 26, 1819, and died at Oxford,
THE CORYS 21
August 18, 1834. Susan Ann was born November 29, 1820,
at Millville, as were all the children except the youngest two,
and died in Cincinnati, July 21, 1845. Benjamin was born No-
vember 17, 1822, and died at San Jose, Cal., January 16, 1896
Adnline was born January 20. 1825, and died in San Jose
January 8, 1867. Joseph Warren was born June 25, 1827, and
died in Cincinnati October 5, 1829. James Manning was born
in Oxford January 30, 1830, and died at Fresno. Cal., June
14, 1897. Andrezv Jackson was born at Oxford December 24.
1832, and died at San Jose [March 3, 1892. Dr. Benjamin Cory
was married [March 16. 1853. to Sarah Ann Braly of San Jose.
They had three sons and six daughters, all born at San Jose.
John was born February 20, 1854, and was married in 1884
to Nellie Buck. They have no children. Live in Lodi, Cal.
Elizabeth was born January 28, 1856, and was married in
1879 to Dr. Henry ChiMs Ledyard, a descendant of John Led-
yard of Groton, Conn., a noted traveller and explorer. In-
heriting somewhat of this ancestor's spirit, he went to the Orient
after his marriage and spent ten years in the practice of his
profession of dentistry, first in Shanghai and then in Constanti-
nople. Returning to California he began work in Los Angeles ;
but was soon taken away, one of the first victims of La Grippe
in that city. He died February 27, 1890. There were three
children born to this couple : Harry Horatio, born December
25, 1880 in Shanghai, was married in June, 1910. to Lillian
Frazee; Cory Childs, born in Constantinople, Turkey, was mar-
ried on the same date as his brother, to Alice Rankin ; [Maritza, —
in English, Mary, — also born in Constantinople, is still unmarried,
a teacher in Los Angeles.
Mary, second daughter of Dr. Benjamin Cory, was married in
1881 to Dr. Francis King Ledyard. Their son Benjamin Cory
was married in May, 1907, to Lulu Lownsberry, and has a
son, Francis Monroe, born July 9, 1910. Their home is in San
Jose. Helen Bell, and Francis King, the younger children,
live with their parents in Pasadena, Cal.
Concerning the explorer, Ledyard, it is of interest to note that
he accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage, and pub-
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lished a narrative of the discoveries which were of so much
importance in settling disputed questions concerning the Antarctic
regions. This voyage of three years' duration was begun in
July, 1772. Ledyard engaged in other expeditions for dis-
covery of conditions on the globe, and lost his life from virulent
disease, in Northern Africa, in 1788, when but thirty-seven years
of age.
Benjamin, second son of Dr. Benjamin Cory, was born March
17, 1860 and died Alay 27, 1860. Lewis Lincoln was born May
4, 1861, and married in 1882. to Carrie ]*,Iartin. Their children
are Edith Marie, Katherine, Margaret, Martin, and Benjamin.
Susanna was married to Charles Edward Halbutzel in 1902,
and has Charles Edward, born January 26, 1905. Harriet was
married July 20, 1907, to Rev. Redolpho Braun Hummel, and has
John Cory, born at Lolodorf. Africa, August 3. 1908. Edith
was married to William Gay Alexander December 23, 1890.
Sarah Ann is not married. James Manning Cory married Eliza-
beth Braly, sister of his older brother's wife. They have five
children, — Adda, Frank, George, ]\Iabel H., and Henry ]\lanning.
George H., who was born in 1867, died May 10, 1895. Henry
M., born in 1874, died July 12. 1899.
Dr. Andrezi.' Jackson Cory was married October 23, 1861, to
Albertina Ann French, who was born December 14, 1842 and
died September 21, 1891. Their children were Benjamin Brodie,
who was born April 26, 1863, and married to Elizabeth Braly
Crow March 15, 1894; Albertina Jackson, born December 10,
1872 and died April 1, 1878; Janie, who was born June 24, 1865,
and married to Harry Cornelius Lester October 12, 1891, hav-
ing a family of three children, — Albertina, born November 20,
1892 and died :\Iay 7, 1908; Cory Cornelius, born January 10,
1S95; and Denman D., born May 13, 1898. Only, one of Dr.
J. M. Cory's daughters lived to marry and have a family, —
Adaline. She was married October 23, 1845, to Rev. John J.
Scott, who was born February 27, 1818, and died March 8,
1855. One of the noblest of men, he came to an untimely death
by the hand of a partially insane man, at his home at Lewis-
ville, Ind., where he was pastor of a Presbyterian Church. The
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children of this family were, — WiUiam Cory, born August 16,
1846 and died August 22, 1852; Eliza Ann. born ^larch 11. 1848;
James Manning- born June 21. 1850; Margaret Katherine, born
February 21, 1853 and died December 4, 1906; Mary Louise,
born June 18, 1855, after the death of her father. Eliza Ann
was married December 25. 1866. to Eber Crandall Munn. and has
four children. — Adaline Corinne. who was born Xovember 28,
1867, married February 12. 1890. to George Lester Tarleton. and
has George Eber. born December 13, 1891; Lloyd Irving, born
May 6. 1894. and Edward Scott, born January 8, 1900; Frank-
Scott Munn. born February 21, 1870. and married June 8, 1901,
to Minnie Kerberger ; Margaret Louise ^lunn. born March 9. 1872.
married April 7, 1900. to Luther Dickerson Smith, and has Lida.
born July 27. 1^07; Anna Cobb Munn. born December 11. 1874.
and died June 27. 1897. James Manning Scott was married
February 12. 1885. to Lizzie Virginia Robertson, and has Ben
Robertson, born November 22. 1887. who married a Miss ]\Iurphy
and has tv;o sons.
Margaret Katherine Scott entered upon her life work of
teaching at the age of sixteen, serving first at San Jose, then
in Los Angeles for some years ; and finally for a number of
years as a missionary teacher at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in South
America. She died at San Jose December 4, 1906.
Mary Louise Scott was married September 1, 1875 to Samuel
Henry Cronk. Their children are, — James Scott, born June
13, 1876, Frank Henry, born May 26. 1878, and Evaline. born
January 8, 1880.
By a second marriage Dr. James Manning Cory had a daugh-
ter Mary, born at Oxford in 1850, who was very happily mar-
ried to a Dr. Evans and had some family ; but her later records
are not, at hand.
n. Anna, the second daughter of Christopher and Abigail
Denman, was born after the Declaration of Independence, Octo-
ber 24, 1776, and died May 14, 1832 very suddenly, as she was
walking in the garden ; probably from heart failure. She was
married September 19, 1795, to John Mills, whose nationality.
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and the date of whose birth, are not on record. He died July
14, 1841, after but seven hours' illness. There were three sons
and three daughters, — Denman, Huldah, Benjamin, Mary, Anna,
and John.
Denman was born in 1796, went to Ohio in 1817 and the next
year to New Orleans, after which he was lost to sight, and was,
after a number of years, concluded to be dead. Huldah was
born October 8. 1800 and died December 5, 1821. Benjamin
was born February 8, 1803. (For his family see below.) Mary
was born August 25. 1806, and died September 11, 1838. She
married a Watson and had one son, who died without family.
Anna was born in 1839 and married Marsh. She had
one daughter, who married a Lockwood, but had no heir.
John, the youngest, was born April 12, 1813, and lived on
the old homestead, where he died in 1887. He married Elizabeth
Mondy and had three sons. — Albert, who married and had one
son, John Denman ; Silas, who married and had two sons ; and
Benjamin, who married and had thre€ sons, and a daughter,
Cordelia, who married a Jennings and had a large family.
Benjamin Mills was twice married. The first wife had three
children, — Benjamin, born April 19, 1829, and died by drown-
ing, June 22, 1838; Christopher D., born September 30. 1830,
had a family of daughters, and died December 31, 1877; and
John D., born September 25, 1833, and died at the age of seven
months.
The second wife had five children, — Ann Jane, born October
25, 1835, married John D. Frazer, had one daughter, and died
October 31, 1864; Washington, born February 16. 1838, had
three daughters, and died August 6, 1872 ; Augustus Rinier,
born January 22, 1840 and never married ; John Frazer, born
October 9, 1843, married a Miss Abendroth, and has four sons;
and Mortimer, born August 11, 1847.
ni. Abigail, third daughter of Christopher and Abigail
Denman, was born May 3, 1779 and died May 10, 1841. She
was married March 2, 1800 to Joh^i Marsh, son of Isaac, one
of a long line of Marshes, who was born September 18, 1779
THE MAKSH FAMILY 25
and died February 18, 1860. Their children were Hannah
Bryant, Margaret Milligan, Ann. Rebecca Denman, Christopher
Denman, Isaac, Rhoda Bryant, and Benjamin Cory.
Hannah B., was born September 6. 1801 and died in March,
1884. She was married February 28. 1819 to Thomas Hewitt
who died July 19. 1823. Their one child. John M. Hewitt, was
born November 16, 1820 and died unmarried in 1865. Hannah
was married again on January 23. 1831, to John W. Stratton
who died without children June 12, 1832.
Margaret M., was born October 11, 1802 and died April 11,
1837. She married a Lee and left children.
Ann was born June 28, 1805 and died July 11, 1895, when
just past ninety years of age. She was married to Moses Lee, —
date now lost, — and had two sons and one daughter.
Rebecca D. was born July 26, 1807, and died December 19,
1864. She married a Mr. Addison and had two children.
Christopher D. was born January 7. 1813 and died October 3,
1822, when in his tenth year.
Isaac was born April 2, 1815 and died February 17, 1899. He
was married May 24, 1838 to Joanna L. Clark, who was born
September 18, 1823 and died March 16, 1879. Their children
were Christopher Denman, Augusta A., Sarah Elizabeth, Ralph
Denman, and Frank Abernethy. Christopher D. was born April
20, 1841. He married Clara Tower, who was born September 18,
1867 in Jersey City, and died May 28. 1905, without children.
Augusta A. was born November 18. 1844, and married September
5, 1866 to Herbert C. Plass, who was born April 6, 1842. Of
their five children three are dead ; — Clara Augusta, who was
born December 29, 1872 and died February 2, 1873 ; Evelyn
May, born June 11, 1877 and died November 9, 1880; and
Howard ^larsh, born August 21, 1880 and died January 24,
1881. The eldest, Florence Edna, who was born July 21, 1870,
was married on October 3. 1898, to John K. Roundey. Herbert
Edmond Plass was born November 2. 1874, and married to
-Rae Randolph June 4, 1910. Sarah Elizabeth, the second daugh-
ter of Isaac Marsh, was born August 7, 1847, married Melancthon
Reeve, who died January 21, 1902. Ralph Denman Marsh, M. D.,
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born July 8, 1858, died unmarried April 29, 1884. Frank Aber-
nethy Marsh, born November 25, 1860, married Etta Grundaker.
Rhoda Bryant, youngest daughter of John and Abigail Marsh,
was born April 4, 1820 and died June 28, 1851. She married
Josiah Baker.
Benjamin Cory, the youngest son, was born May 14, 1824 and
died August 31, 1867. He was married September 29, 1849
to Mary A. Streeter, who was born Alarch 15, 1827 and died
April 25, 1862. Their children were, — Mary C., born January
20, 1852, and married in October, 1875 to Oscar Dent Mott ;
and Willis G., born April 1, 1855. Deceased, date unknown.
IV. John Den max, the only son of Christopher and i\bigail,
was born February 28, 1782, and died September 24, 1849. He
was married, first to Rebecca High, July 5, 1801, who lived only
a few years and left no children ; and, second, in 1815, to Lockey,
daughter of Capt. Isaac INIarsh, who was born in 1792, and died
in 1875, having outlived her seven sons. Her only daughter,
Mary Rebecca, became the Mrs. Matthews of Newark, N. J.,
so widely known as a skillful and successful collector of genealog-
ical records. This John Denman lived on the old Denman farm
near Westfield, as a farmer; but he also served as a Govern-
ment Contractor in getting out ship timber and transporting war
supplies. He was a la;ge man, energetic and forceful, and
much esteemed by all who knew him. The family of John
Denman and Lockey ]Marsh embraced seven sons, — John Chris-
topher, Isaac Marsh, Alvan Fox, Ralph ]Marsh, and three that
died in infancy ; and one daughter, Mary Rebecca.
John Christopher was born November 17, 1815, and died
February 4, 1864. He was married to Eliza Hendricks in 1844,
and had a son, George Hendricks, born in 1849, and married in
1876 to Sarah Green, by whom he had two sons, George and
Morris. John and Eliza had also a daughter, Lilly Orlean,
born in 1859, who married James Reinhardt.
Isaac, Marsh Denman was born March 8, 1821, and died
November 21, 1866. He was married in 1845 to Mary Ransley
Cross, who was born in Newark, N. J., August 13, 1823, and died
November 2Z, 1899. Thev had three sons, — Isaac Rolfe, Abram
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FAMILY OF JOHN DEXMAN 27*
Cross, and Frederick Arthur. The eldest son was born May
13, 1851, and married in 1874 to Anna Bustell. They had two
children, who died in infancy. Abram Cross was born July
18, 1853, and married June 17. 1874. to Sarah Little and had
two children, Abram Cross Jr.. and Emma Halsey. Frederick-
Arthur, born May 27. 1861, died, unmarried, in February. 1893.
Abram Cross Jr.. born December 26. 1875. was married June
17, 1897. to Grace Ward Davis of Newark. X. J., and has
three children. — Frederick Halsey. Grachen, and John Chris-
topher. Emma Halsey was married March 13. 1907, to Gregory
Palmer of Albany. X. Y. Both she and her brother live now
in Redlands. Cal.
Mary Rebecca, only daughter of John and Lockey Marsh
Denman, was born on the old homestead farm near Westfield.
January 7, 1824. and died January 8. 1901 in Xewark. She
was married in 1845 to John E. !Matthews of Ragland. Wales.
who was born in 1815. and died in 1859. They had two chil-
dren.— John Christopher Denman. who was born in 1855. and
died, unmarried. January 27, 1894; and Cordelia Catherine, born
in 1853. and married in 1875. to Edward Xichols Crane, a de-
scendant of Alice and Jasper Crane 1st. born 1610 and died 1651.
The children of this family are. — Helen Matthews, who was
born February 27. 1876. and married February 8. 1906, to E.
Erie Moody: Edna X^ichols, born X'ovember 20. 1878; Jasper
Elliot, born May 17. 1881. married Olive E. Crow, October
24. 1908. and has two daughters. — Olive Cordelia, born Septem-
ber 4, 190?. and Helen, born Sl^/'"l9. 1910: Amanda Lewis.
born December 3. 1884, married June 9, 1908, to Littleton Kirk-
patrick, and has Amy, born Mav 25, 1909. and Louise Howell.
born September 8. 1910: Cordelia, bom July 30, 1886, and mar-
ried on February 4. 1911. to Alan De Schweinitz ; Edward
Matthews, born March 31, 1896. Mr. De Schweinitz is de-
scended from Count Zinzendorf. and is a grandson of Bishop De
Schweinitz of the Moravian Church in this country, and a great
grandson of Lucretia Mott. the noted Quaker preacher and
abolitionist.. The loved and honored head of this household
passed away suddenly on June 12. 1911, aged 65 years. From his
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almost perfect health of many years he was caught away from his
family in less than hour from the first intimation of illness.
"Like a bolt from the clearest and sunniest of skies, it was as
nearly as possible a painless passing from one home to another."
He was born in Newark, and was always prominent in the busi-
ness, social and church affairs of the city. Alvan fox, third son
of John and Lockey Denman, was born January 4, 1831, and died
October 20, 1869. He married }^Iary Bartoche, who was born
May 10, 1832, and died April 12. 1888. Their children were,—
John C, born April 20, 1856; Lockey Marsh, born March 3, 1859;
Albert H., born July 26, I860: Reba M.. born March 3. 1862, and
died October 6, 1876; Christopher, born October 17, 1864; Jane
H., bom August 31. 1866, and died January 6, 1890; Fannie Bibb,
bom September 5, 1867; Alvan Rolfe, bom November 3, 1869.
John C. was married April 30, 1891, to Elsie Conger, who
died December 31, 1904. Their children were, — Reba, born
April 2, 1892; Kathryn, born June 26, 1894; Jacquin, born
January 3, 1896. John C. married again, on August 20, 1907,
to Edith Benwell. Lockey Marsh was married April 20. 1893,
to John Frederick Peniston. They have two children, — Den-
man, born April 6, 1895. and John Frederick, Jr., born No-
vember 11, 1897. Albert Henry married Virginia M. Deran.
Christopher is not married. Frances Bibb was married February
8, 1896, to David K. Osborne, who died February 8. 1905. They
had two sons, — Thomas Denman, born October 30, 1897, and
John Denman, born June 9, 1899. Frances B. was married
again in April, 1908, to Dr. O. W. MacConnell. Alvan Rolph
was married to Laura Rebecca Sanderson, April 5, 1899. Their
children are. — John Rolph, born July 11, 1900; ]Margaretta
Sanderson, bom February 8, 1903 ; and Alvan Raynard Chris-
topher, born October 6, 1909. Rolph Marsh, the youngest son
of John and Lockey ]\Iarsh Denman, was born February 3,
1833, and died December 3, 1870.
V. HuLDAH, fourth daughter of Christopher and Abigail
Denman, was born October 1, 1784, and died near New Lexing-
ton. Preble Co., O.. August 7, 1830. On October 20, 1800, she
was married to Jonathan, son of Melyne and Sarah Miller, who
THE WOODKUFFS 29
was born June 14, 1776, and died July 24, 1831. He was
probably of Scotch ancestry ; and the family lived on Long
Island, and came from there to New Jersey near the same time
as the Denmans, settling at Westfield, where they became very
numerous. The early homes of these two persons were but
half a mile apart. (Their family will be given separately.)
VI. Mary Den max, youngest child of Christopher and Abi-
gail, was born September 15, 1787, married to Benjamin IVood-
rxiff, June 4, 1808, and died soon after the birth of her son,
Christopher Dcnman, who was born October 10, 1810. This
son grew up, and married Elizabeth Kip, by whom he had eight
children, as follows, — Christopher Denman, born ]vlarch 10, 1837,
and died January 18, 1910; Henry Kip, born August 22, 1838;
Susan Kip, born }vlarch 24, 1840. and died January 16, 1872;
Mary Elizabeth, born December 7, 1841 ; Alaria L., born No-
vember 25, 1843, and died July 10, 1900; Katherine F., born
December 14, 1846.
After the death of ]vlary Denman Woodruff, her husband,
Benjamin, married Mary, the daughter of her cousin, Andrew
Denman, who was the eldest son of Joseph, an older brother
of Christopher Denman ; and by her he had nine children.
The eighth of these, Robert, who was born August 7, 1828,
and died November 24, 1896. married Elizabeth P. Baker, and
had six children, — Wilford B., born November 13, 1850; Benja-
min H., born August 4, 1852; Mary I., born July 20, 1854; Al-
phareta, born December 18, 1856; Lizzie, born April 8, 1860,
and Robert, born April 26, 1863. Wilford B. Woodruff mar-
ried ]\Iary E. Van Nordall of New York, and has two sons
and one daughter, and several grandchildren. He has always
lived at Westfield, where there are many Woodruffs. There
have been several instances of marriages between W^oodrutfs
and Denmans, the two families having lived in near neighbor-
hood to each other for many generations. *
The Miller Family.
I. Sarah was born October 5, 1801, and died July 30, 1872.
She was married at New Lexington, O., to Francis Marion Price,
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who was born in Montgomery Co., Va., May 8, 1797, and died
near La Grange, Ind., January 30, 1878.
They had seven sons and two daughters, all born at New
Lexington, except the youngest. Eli::a Ann was born March
17, 1822, and died July 1905. She was married in 1845, to
Harmon McCoy, and had two daughters. Minnie and Alice,
who died early, and a son, Thomas, who never married. After
the death of her first husband she married his cousin, Thomas
McCoy of Macomb, Ills., and had one son. Wiley. Edivin
Lafayette Price was born October 24, 1824; went to California
in 1849 and engaged in farming and mining. He never mar-
ried, and died there December 4, 1874.
Amos F. was born February 14. 1827, and died December
26. 1832. Harvey, born July 23, 1829. went to California in
1852, lived in Butte Co., and never married.
Thomas Hanna, born January 26, 1832, was supposed to have
been killed by the Indians in 1870. in Idaho, where he was en-
gaged in stock raising. Lockey Jane was born October 10. 1834,
and married September 15, 1857, to James M. Preston. They
had one daughter and two sons; Ella E., born June 6, 1860,
married ]\Iarch 26, 1884, to Charles M. Grossman and had four
daughters. — Bertha ^M.. born ]^Iarch 31. 1886; Anna ^I.. born
March 23, 1889; Gertrude P.. born September 11. 1892. and
Hazel M., born May 13, 1899,— all near Petosky, Mich.
Frank B. Preston, born October 21, 1863, and died De-
cember 26, 1904. He was married March 24, 1897 to Emma
Treeby, and had a son. Jay, born July 31, 1902, and a daughter,
Frances, born August 31, 1904. }vlarion A. Preston was born
September 20, 1865, and died March 10, 1866.
• Silas Denman Avas born December 30, 1836, and died in
Kansas December 13, 1908. He was married January 2, 1872.
to Xancy X^orris and had eight children. — Gertrude, Minnie,
Georgia, Henry Martyn, James Augustus, born in 1884, and died
in infancy, Drewey Willis, born in 1885, and died the next
year, Bessie Dives, and Louise Xorris. Gertrude, the eldest.
was born October 17, 1872, and died March 2, 1904. She
was married in 1893 to William Ewing- and had four children, —
THE MILLER FAMILY— PRICES— BYRAMS 31
Nona Belle, born 1894, Elsie Marie, born 1896, Georgia, born
in 1898, and Daniel, born in 1901. Minnie was born in 1875,
married Hugh Weirrick in 1896, and had one son, Clarence
Leroy, born February 4, 1899. Georgia was bofn in 1875,
married David Xixon in 1903, and had four children, — Georgia,
born 1904, Maria, born 1906, David, born 1908, and Albin, in
1910. Henry Martyn was born October 17, 1883. married Anna
Hastings December 26, 1907, and has a daughter, Vera Louise,
born July 26, 1910. Bessie Dives was born August 7, 1888, and
married to Emerson Willis December 26, 1907. They have one
child. Prentice Fay, born October 27, 1909. Louise Norris, born
August 5, 1892, lives in Oklahoma ; record incomplete.
Arthur Middleton was born January 11, 1839, and died April
10, 1896. He married Emily Weir, who died July 17, 1905.
They had two sons, — Henry W., born November 6, 1869, and
Fred E., born July 20. 1871. Henry W. was married in
October, 1896, to Grace Case, and had Arthur M., born July
25, 1900, and Henry M. and Dorothy Grace, twins, born on
May 1, 1904. The mother died the same day.
Henry Martyn was born July 16, 1843, and married November
23, 1871, to Elizabeth Hoagland. Lives in Lagrange, Ind.
H. Abby Dexmax was born March 17, 1804, and died May
10, 1871. She was married in 1825 to IVilliam Byrani, who was
the twelfth in a family of thirteen, the children of Joseph Byram
and Esther Douglas — descended from an old Scotch family, —
and was a grandson of Abigail Alden and Ebenezer Byram.
He was born in Essex Co., N. J., in 1800 ; and, at seventeen years
of age emigrated to Ohio on foot, in company with a friend,
walking the whole 621 miles to Dayton, O., in thirty-six days.
He settled at Liberty, Ind., and spent the remainder of his
life there, nearly fifty-two years, until his death, February 19,
1877. His wife had preceded him by nearly six years.
To them were born five sons and two daughters, parts of
whose records are defective, owing to losses by fire.
Huldah was born in 1826, and married in 1844 to John W.
Scott. Their onlv child, Laura Ann Eliza, was born October 11,
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1845, and the mother died when she was five weeks old. Laura
entered upon her life work, teaching, at sixteen years of age, and
is still so engaged, in 1911. Silas Douglas was born in 1828,
and died December 28, 1900. He was married in 1852,
<■'' Lizzie Goodwin, and had a daughter, Flora, born Alay 26.
1853, and a son, Charles Conklin. born October 10, 1854. who
died August 4, 1897. The mother died May 12, 1855. Flora
married John B. Russell and had a son, Charles Byram, born
December 31, 1882, who married Loleta Yancy, and had Jessie
Loleta. born July 2, 1910. Flora's younger son, Lloyd Emmet,
was born August 29. 1885. Upon the breaking out of the Civil
War in 1861 S. D. Byram enlisted in the 16th Indiana Infantry,
and was Drill Sergeant for the Company which was raised at
Liberty, his home. After the battle of Bull Run he was as-
signed to the Signal Corp Service on detached duty, with the
rank of Captain, from August, 1861 to IMay, 1862. He was
afterward mustered out as 2d Lieutenant, and then raised a
Company of Burnside Guards, (General Burnside was a native
of Liberty, Ind.) for the 164th Indiana Regiment, called the
State Legion. Of this company he was Captain. He was mar-
ried on January 12, 1863. at Baltimore, Md., to Lancetta Lavinie
Harris, of Frederick. 'Md. They had five daughters and one
son, all born at Liberty, Ind. Addie Josephine was born Octo-
ber 20, 1863, and married June 16, 1892, to J. Henry Sharp,
an artist, of Cincinnati. Lizzie Roletta was born April 27 , 1865,
and died in January, 1876. Mary Harris was born in May,
1863, and married Thomas Crosby of Delphi. Ind., and has one
son. Margaret Duterow was born October 2, 1870. Louise
Lancetta was born October 7, 1873. ]\Iorris C. — the tallest man
in the kinship, 6 feet and almost 6 inches, — has a son, Douglas
Dean, born May 30. 1903, and a daughter, Margaret Louise,
bom December 7, 1904.
Adaline Cory was born in 1830. married to Dr. Amos B.
Casterline in 1852. and died April 18. 1859. Henry Irvin died in
infancy; dates of his birth and death are lost. John Christopher
was born October 27, 1835, and died August 21, 1889. He
enlisted September 17, 1861, in the 36th Regiment. Indiana
THE MILLER FAMILY 33
Volunteers. He was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro,
between December 31, 1862 and January 2, 1863. After nine
months' confinement at home with that very painful wound,
he returned to the field and was in the battle of Chickamauffa
and other actions. He was made 1st Lieutenant before his dis-
charge, January 24, 1864. In that year he was married to Mary
McAlister of Rochester, X. Y., who survived him several years.
Ellis Tilford was born January 8. 1839. and died May 30, 1908.
He was married in 1864 to Huldah Miller and had three sons
and two daughters. Eva was born December 20, 1864, and was
married to Joseph M. Banker, February 3, 1898. William Den-
man was born July 15, 1866. and was married August 1. 1889,
to Frances Henrietta Ouesnel. of French descent. Ruth Alden
was born June 2. 1872. George Edward was born September 8,
1874, and was married December 5. 1900. to Edna Borthick of
Glendale, Cal. They have one daughter and three sons, — Frances
Helen, born December 8. 1902; Edward Borthick, born July 8,
1904; Harold Denman, born November 13, 1907; — these all in
Glendale— and Paul Littleton, born September 30, 1911, at San
Dimas, California. Rolph Matthews was born ?^Iarch 7, 1879,
and was married April 6, 1905, to Edna May Patten of Los
Angfeles.
Omar, the youngest son of William and Abby D. Byram, was
born, probably, in 1842, and lived to about three years of age. — a
lovely and beautiful child. The dates are lost.
HI. John Dexm-kx was born December 31, 1806, and died
October 23, 1884. He was married March 10, 1830, to Htddah
Ann, daughter of Ebenezer B. Ayers of New Lexington, O., who
was born at Montgomery. Orange Co., N. Y., February 3, 1810.
They had one son and eight daughters, three of whom died,
unnamed, in early infancy. Their first child, Abby, was born
in Dayton, O., February 12, 1831, and died near New Lexington,
January 3, 1833.
Harriet N'ezvell was born July 6. 1835, on Stone Lick Farm.
near New Lexington, as were all the younger children of the
family. She was married May 21. 1857. to Rev. John Huo-hes
Harris, who was born near Akron. O., Mav 22, 1832, and cfied
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at Glendale, Cal., November 26, 1886. Their daughter, Ann
Judson, was born near Akron May 5, 1858, and is the care-taker
of the home in Glendale. Lydia Sigourney was born at Mc-
Arthur, O., May 30, 1859, and was married October 1, 1884, to
Rev. Cyrus Hamlin. They have one son, Winthrop Abbott, born
August 17, 1891, at Beloit, Wis. After a number of years spent
in pastoral work they were called in 1896 to Tougaloo Univer-
sity, near Jackson, Miss., where he is still Dean, and Professor
of several branches, and she is Principal of the Department of
Music.
Alurray ]\IcCheyne Harris was born in Aurora, 111., July 1,
1866, and was married April 16, 1888, to Helen Hubbard Field
of Los Angeles. He was the founder of pipe-organ building in
Los Angeles, and has built some of the best known organs in
the country.
Sophia was born November 7. 1836, and was married June
17, 1873, to Thomas Kirkpatrick Galloway,' of Scotch descent,
who died at their home at ]vIontgomery, O., August 1, 1903. She
has since made her home at Glendale, Cal. Robert Scott was
born March 9, 1838, and died August 21, 1892. On January
1, 1857, he married Nancy Ann Taylor in Eaton, O. Their
family embraced six sons and two daughters. The eldest, Edwin.
was born April 23, 1859, and died in Memphis, Tenn., April
9, 1909. He was married February 2, 1885, at Oskaloosa, la.,
to Leah Rachel Lloyd, who was born, in Rhyl, North Wales.
John Denman was born October 1, 1860, and died ^lay 21,
1899. He was married at San Antonio, Texas, April 23, 1891,
to Catherine Elizabeth Walter, who was born at Bingen on the
Rhine. Their children are Hazel Elizabeth, born !March 7, 1892,
and Ethel Mary, born December 23, 1893, both at San Antonio.
Hugh ^liller was born January 10, 1864, and died August 28.
1899. Frank was born December 24, 1865, and died when a
little boy, June 23, 1869. Robert Charles was born September
4, 1869. He married ^lary Elizabeth Lane, daughter of Turner
Hugh Lane and Mary A. ^McDonald, a direct descendant from
Robert Bruce. Their children are Mary Luella, born January
22, 1899, and Elizabeth Lane, born March 30. 1906, both in
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THE MILLER FAMILY 35
Memphis, Tenn. Mary was born December 23, 1871, and married
June 8, 1891, to William Franklin Babcock. George Taylor was
born August 31, 1874, and died in early manhood, June 13. 1900.
Huldah Anna was born August 4, 1876. Lives with her mother
in Chicago.
Huldah was born April 6, 1842, and married in 1864, to
Ellis T. Byram. The record of their family will be found
under the head of Byram, No. II. Alice was born June 20,
1843, and was married August 25, 1886, to Elias Ayers of
Lewisburg, Preble Co., O. Their home is in Glendale, Cal. After
the death of the mother of this family, August 3. 1860, the father
was married October 28, 1862, to Mrs. Susan Devon Coo'k, who
died March 18, 1872. He died in Glendale, Cal., October 23,
1884, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles.
Both his wives were buried at Eaton, Ohio.
IV. Dickerson was born October 4, 1809, and died June 26,
1884. He was married October 8, 1840, to Emily Collett. who
was born April 18, 1822, and died June 10, 1871. They had
two sons and four daughters. Drusilla was born May 7, 1842,
and died January 21, 1862. She married L. Z. Cook, February
21, 1861. and had one daughter, Drusilla A., who married J.
G- Miller December 24. 1884, and died April 5, 1886. Amanda
was born August 23, 1843, and died November 23. 1880. She
was married November 27, 1877, to Abraham Lincoln Brown
and had one child that died without name in a few days.
Sarah E. was born May 12, 1846, married November 5, 1867,
to Owen Davis, and died March 11,4'8?4. Maria was born July /f7^
7, 1851, married March 2, 1880, to Taylor Webster Price, and
died December 13. 1892. John Denman was born February 13,
1856, and died August 30 of the same year. Milton Latta was
born June 11, 1860, and married March 24, 1880. to Emma Cain,
who died June 25, 1893. There were three sons born to them, —
Harvey E., born April 11, 1890, and died October 31, 1891;
Ralph W'., born August 16, 1893, and died May 5, 1900; and
Frederick Ray, born June 19, 1902. Milton and his little son
live at Goshen, Ind., in the home of Mrs. Cain, the mother of
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his wife. Dickerson ^kliller went in early manhood to North-
eastern Indiana, and the entire Hfe of his branch of the family
has been spent there.
V. Melyne was born March 12, 1812. and died May 27,
1889, at Rochester, Ind. He was married February 12, 1838, to
Aletha Ann Ivins, who was born in New Jersey, October. 1817,
and died ia Eaton, O., October, 1858. They had two sons
and one daughter. Joseph Warren was born July 7, 1839, at New
Lexington, O., and died at Brighton, England, December 26,
1875. He was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting at Gelena,
111., September 21, 1861. He was mustered in as 1st Sergeant
in Co. D, of the 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for the period
of three years, November 20, 1861, was promoted to 1st Lieuten-
ant and Captain, and promoted again as Captain and Assistant
Adjutant General by the President. He took part in the move-
ments at Forts Henry and Donaldson : and at Pittsburg Landing
he was shot in the thigh. After leaving hospital in Cincinnati,
he returned to the front, and was in active service in Western
Tennessee, at Vicksburg, and elsewhere, till the close of the war.
George Ivins was born December 20, 1840. near New Lexington,
and was married at Lima, Ind., March 17, 1870, to Marion
Semple Ackerman. who was born January 1. 1842, at Easton.
Pa. Their daughter. Belle Catherine, was born February 18,
1872, at Rochester, Ind., and married March 13, 1894, to Ed-
ward Lewis Zeis. George I. ^^liller enlisted October 12, 1861,
as Corporal of Co. D, 47th Indiana Infantry, and went to the
front in December. Was in service at New Madrid, Mo., and at
Vicksburg and onward to New Orleans, and with General Banks
in the Red River campaign. Mustered out December. 1864.
the end of his term of service.
Helen America was born January 6. 1843, at College Corner,
Ohio, and died March 21, 1878. at Richmond, Va. Melyne
Miller himself saw service in the last year of the war. He was
commissioned 1st Lieutenant in January, 1864, and mustered
with Co. E., 130th Indiana Infantry, which ConTpany he assisted
in recruiting. In ^Nlarch, 1864. he went to the front with his
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Company, in the 23d Corps. General McPherson, and took part
in the campaign which terminated in the capture of Atlanta.
He resigned in September, 1864. on account of disability.
VI. LoCKEY Marsh was born April 13, 1815, and died
October 5, 1871. She was married at Liberty, Ind., October
23, 1833, to Ansehii Douglas Johnson, who was born iVIarch 18,
1811, near Lynchburg, Va.. and died near Liberty, Ind.. June 26,
1874. They had five sons and six daughters, all of whom grew
up except one.
Deborah Jane was born November 2. 1834, and died October
24, 1890. She was married September 10, 1857, to Rev. John
C. Tidball, who died November 8, 1870. Melyne Miller, born
July 20, 1836, was married June 26, 1862, to Anna N. Smith,
and had five sons and two daughters. The eldest, William Frank,
was born July 19, 1864, married January 30, 1889. to Edith
Hayworth, and had one son, Richard ^Melyne, born May 22,
1890. Mary E. was born May 4, 1866, and married May 26,
1886, to Rev. George W. Isham. Their children are, — Anna
Elizabeth, born at York, Neb., April 16. 1887, and Robert
Melyne, born January 20. 1889, at ^^ladras, India, where they
spent some time in missionary work among the Eurasian people,
who speak the English language. Emma A. was born August
23, 1868, and died November 17, 1879. Charles D. was born
May 20, 1871, and married May L. Dunlap January 11. 1893.
John M., born September 25, 1873, married Retta Swain ]^Iarch
16, 1901. Albert Denman, born June 2, 1880, married Bessie
Templeton August 2Z, 1905, and has one son, Lloyd Albert, born
April 17, 1908. Edgar Oran. born December 12, 1876, married
Lillian Pachler December 13. 1905, and has one son, born May
7, 1908, named Robert Edgar. ^Melyne M. Johnson was a
soldier in the Civil War, enlisting for one year. April, 1861, in
the 16th Indiana Volunteers. He served in the Army of the
Potomac, and was discharged at Washington City at the end
of his term.
Sarah Amanda was born July 29. 1838, and married December
11, I860, to Rev. Samuel Howard Lock wood, who died Sep-
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tember 15, 1864. They had a son, Edmund Janes, born De-
cember 19, 1861, at Laurel, Ind., and a daughter, Laura Emma,
born October 11, 1S63. at Moore's Hill, Ind. Rev. Edmund J.
Lockwood was married December 25, 1883, to Mary B. Hester,
and has a daughter, Laura, born July 6, 1884, at Alaynard,
Iowa, and a son, Howard M., born at Edgewood, Iowa, October
9, 1888. He is pastor of a large M. E. Church in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. His sister, Laura, is at the head of the Department of
English Literature in Wellesley College, Mass. Matilda Ann
was born October 25, 1840, and died July 3, 1860. David Melvin
was born September 15, 1842.
After a number of years of active business life in Iowa, he
went to the Pacific Coast, and is now settled at Monrovia, Cal.
The complete records of his family have not been received.
Orell Mary was born January 14, 1845, and married January
30, 1868, to Martin Kingery. They had a daughter, Ida Luella,
bom October 18. 1868, and three sons, — Fred D., born May
28, 1871, Clinton Herbert, born March 14, 1875, and Rollin j',
born May 27, 1878. All were born near Liberty, Ind. The
family went to Kansas in March, 1879, and to Billings, Okla.,
in September, 1895. so that some of the eight grandchildren
were born in Kansas and the rest in Oklahoma. Ida Luella
was married February 17, 1892, to Willis A. Williams and
has one daughter, Orell Mary, born October 21, 1893. Fred
was married November 11. 1897, to Lura Belle Dupy and has
five sons, — Arthur ^vlartin, born February 6, 1900; Ray, born
January 11, 1902; Willis Howard, born' April 8, 1904; Earl,
born August 31. 1907; and Perry Elwood, born February 15,
1910. Rollin was married to Sidonia Minnie Gellerman x\pril
8, 1908, and has Clarence Elmer, born February 4, 1909, and
Thelma Louella, born July 8, 1910. Emma Rebecca was born
August 18, 1847, and died August 18, 1886. She was married
in February, 1870, to Elisha Ridenour and had five children, —
Emmet, born December 26, 1870, and died August 9, 1886;
Nellie, born September 11, 1872, married to Charles Frederick,
and living in Washington D. C. ; Sadie, born, — date lost, —
and died in November, 1907; Addie, born, — date lost, — and
JOHNSONS 39
married to William T. Reed, living in Topeka, Kan. Martha
was born February 14, 1850, and died when nearly a year old.
Arthur IVilliam was born May 22, 1852, and married No-
vember 26, 1875, to Addie E. Williams, who was born June
8, 1853. Their children are Gertrude L., born November 29,
1876; Mark T., born December 18, 1878; Elsie Mabel, born
August 19, 1881. — these all near Liberty, Ind., — and Herbert
Earl, born February 7, 1885, in Davenport, Iowa. This person
has an unusual war record. Upon the breaking out of the
Spanish War, early in 1898, a hurry order was sent to the Gov-
ernment Arsenal at Rock Island, — opposite Davenport, — for army
material, and even young boys were employed when their service
was sufficient. Earl was put in the Canteen Department, where
harness makers' tools were employed in stitching up the leather
covers, an awl being used to make holes for the needle. With
one of these an accident occurred by which he lost entirely the
use of his right eye. John Denman was born August 22, 1854.
and married November 7. 1880, to Emma Calista Vosburg, who
was born March 17, 1862. Their children are, — Lucretia May,
born October 6, 1881. married October 30, 1907, to Guy Adam
Miller ; their son, Guy Denman. born October 18, 1909. at their
home in Des [Moines. la. Emma \'era, born April 27, 1884, mar-
ried to Samuel A. Meyer. September 16, 1908, and has a daugh-
ter, Lucile Johnson, born at their home in Denver. Col., De-
cember 7, 1910. Leighton Denman, born September 14, 1894,
lives with his parents in Basin. Wyoming.
Elwood Terrell was born September 11. 1857. and died March
4, 1900. He was married April 3. 1879. to Hannah Eikenbury,
who died March 18. 1897. They had a son, Leroy, born No-
vember 7. 1879, and died March 30. 1897; a daughter, Lennie,
born June 17, 1881, who was married to Ray Nickles February
8, 1900, and had Pearl, born in July, 1901 ; twins, Louis, and
Lois, born October 5, 1908,— Louis died in March, 1910; and
Elizabeth, born in March, 1910. A daughter, Alpha O., born
September 21, 1884. was married to Riley Davis March 31, 1907,
and has a daughter, Martha, born February 8, 1908. The young-
est child of Elwood and Hannah. Florence Adaline. was born
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August 4, 18^7. All the children of Anslem D. and Lockey M.
Johnson were born in or near Liberty, Ind.
VII. Mary Catherine, born September 18, 1817, and died
February 27 , 1904, at the age of eighty-eight years and six
months, the most advanced age of any one in this branch of
the Denman family.
She was married June 17. 1840 to Samuel B. Storer, who was
born August 11, 1811 in Middlesex Co., X. J., and died December
23, 1884. To them were born three sons and three daughters.
Isaiah, born August 21, 1841, and died December 14, 1884. Was
married to Sarah Barron in and had Katie, born
September 21, 1868; Charles, born November 1, 1873; Warren,
born August 24, 1882; and Bessie, born March 4, 1885. Mary
Ann was born ]vlarch 15, 1844, and married to Kensinger,
who is now dead. Silas was born October 3, 1847. Is un-
married. Laurinda was born December 2, 1849, and died August
7, 1905. Adaline, born January 7, 1857, and married July 8,
1858, to John H. Xovinger. Their children were, — William. E.,
born April 22, 18^6, and died December 6 of the same year;
Delia Mae, born ;March 21, 1878, married February 2. 1903, to
Joseph Kroeger, and has one child, Gertrude Adaline, born
February 7, 1904; Lura Belle, born August 7, 1880; Minnie
Pearl, born February 3. 1882, and died October 12, 1887 ; Cathe-
rine Elizabeth, born November 17, 1884. was married January
12, 1905, to Willard Burrows and had one child, Thelma Mae,
born ^larch 31, 1909, and died six days afterward.
William, the youngest child of S. B. and M. C. Storer, was
born July 4, 1859, and died December 30, 1898.
Isaiah Storer was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting De-
cember 3, 1863, in Company K, 9th Regiment, Indiana Volun-
teers ; sick at Atlanta. Ga., and brought for recovery to Camp
Dennison, Ohio. Returned to service, and was mustered out
at close of the war, June 8, 1865.
VIII. HuLDAH was born near New Lexington, Ohio. June
3, 1823, and died at Connersville. Ind., April 26. -i^Si^T in her
eighty-third year. She was married September 21, 1847. to
MILLER FAMILY— WAINWRIGHTS 41
Benjamin Johnson Wainwright, who was born January 23, 1824,
at Jamestown, Va., and died October 9, 1898. at Black Rock,
Ark. They had seven children, the first a daughter, born and
died August 13, 1848. Mary Anice was born November 11,
1849, and married March 17. 1865, to Dr. T. P. Wagoner of
Knightstown, Ind., where she died Alarch 1, 1900, leaving no
children. William Warren was born June 1, 1854, and married
June 2, 1876. at Milton, Ind.. to Wilhelmina C. Baker, who was
born at Crefield, Germany, and was eldest daughter of Leopold
and Wilhelmina Baker, who located in Milton in 1864. They
have six children, — Harry Archibald, born February 24, 1877,
married May 11, 1907, to Emma K. Frank of Connersville, Ind.,
and has Francis Jack, born January 29. 1908. at Oak Park, 111.,
and William Nelson, born September 29. 1910, at Connersville,
Ind.; Mabel Claire, born January 10. 1879; Charles Franklin,
born January 16. 1881; Emmet Perry, born April 26. 1886;
Bennie Frederick, born June 6, 1888 ; William Warren. Jr., born
May 29, 1890. Margaret Susanna was born August 3, 1859,
and died February 7, 1863. Ida Belle was born September 24,
1862, and died June 14, 1863. Charles Franklin was born July
11, 1864, and died October 10, 1865. These last three are all
buried at Columbus City, Iowa. Orell Louella was born No-
vember 3, 1866, and married January 23, 1886, to John Todd.
Their children are John Jr., born January 6, 1887, and Clarence,
born June 28, 1888. Their home is in Logansport, Ind.
IX. Susan Axn was born June 14, 1829, near New Lex-
ington, Ohio, and died at Liberty. Ind.. September 25, 1853.
She never married.
Many of the New Jersey Denmans migrated westward at an
early day, but the Miller family was the only whole family
who did so; father, mother, and the seven children who were
born before 1818. They left Westfield early in September of
that year, in company with parts of two other families and
t-wo young men. and proceeded in wagons as far as Pittsburg,
occupying about a week on the journey.
There a flatboat was purchased and loaded with the several
outfits. The horses and one wagon were taken overland to
42 FROM NEW JERSEY TO OHIO
Cincinnati by one of the young men, and the other wagons
were taken apart and put on board, to be put in use again
at the end of the river journey. The inexperienced emigrants
found the river so low that much inconvenience befell them ;
and five weeks passed before they arrived at the goal on No-
vember 13. They wrote to friends "back in Jersey" not to
try it at that time of the year. The compensations can best be
told from their letters.
A young girl writes of the early part of the course: "I saw
more than I ever saw before. When we came to the moun-
tains, how I wished you were there ! We found so many chest-
nuts ; and you never saw so many winter grapes in your life.
I, and all the women would walk, and the young men would
club off the chestnuts and pull down the grape vines, and we
could sit down and rest till the wagon came up." They doubt-
less took short cuts, while the heavy wagons kept to the best
grades.
A twelve-year-old boy said of a heavy wind storm on the
river: "It nearly overset the boat, and it did upset the dinner
pot," doubtless over the fire.
One mother said: "We could knit and sew on the boat as
well as in a room ; and wash and iron. I had to bake all our
bread. W^e could go ashore and buy flour at 20 shillings or
$3.00 a hundred, the best of beef for five cents a pound, and
good butter at 16 cents a pound. If you could see the corn on
the banks of the Ohio you would think there never need be want."
After arriving at Cincinnati and going to spend a little time
with a friend who had settled a few miles back from the river
some years earlier, the same hand writes : "He lives in a good
large house, has three cribs full of corn, and three or four
barrels of flour in this upper room where I am now sitting. He
has eight children, two or three barrels of dried peaches, four
fine cows, twenty sheep, and everything in plenty."
Following these comical details is the more general remark :
"I can safely say I am content. It is better than I expected. You
can never believe till you corne and see." Shortly afterward, at
another house of an earlier immigrant, a wedding occurred which
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is thus described by the same young girl: "It was a very pretty,
sight, so many on horseback, about fifty in all. The girls were
all dressed in white or silk. . . . It is very easy to provide
for a wedding here, with plenty of wheat flour and sugar, and
butter and cheese and eggs, and chickens and everything else."
It seems worth while to preserve these glimpses of life nearly
a century ago. So, also, as to the evidence that New Jersey's
poorer soil, not yet recovered from the impoverishment incident
to the Revolutionary War, prepared emigrants for surprises in
the rich new regions of the Ohio and Miami Valleys.
LINE OF PHILIP.
Philip Dexmax was born in 1704. at Newtown on Long
Island, as were all the children of John Denman and ^Nlary Gano.
and died at Springfield, N. J., in 1780. He married Sarah,
daughter of John Crane and Esther Williams, and had a family
of two daughters, — Mary and Abigail, and six sons, — Joseph,
Jacob, William, Philip, :\Iathias and Samuel. Marx married
Daniel Pierson and had a daughter, Abigail Mary, who married
a Scotchman named William Drennan, and had a daughter Mary,
born in 1814, who married Lowell Fletcher of Boston, and had
nine children. This whole family moved to Cincinnati, where Mr.
Drennan died in. 1832, and where there are some of their descen-
dants still living. The other daughter, Abigjjil, married Xehe-
miah Woodruff in 1769. We have no further record of her. The
eldest son, Joseph, born in 1735, was married first to his cousin,
Catherine Townley. the daughter of Etifingham Townley and
Rebecca Crane, the sister of Sarah Crane, his mother. The
Townley ancestors came from England in 1683. and were con-
nected with Sir George Carteret. Colonial Secretary of New
Jersey. After the death of his first wife, in 1774, Joseph was mar-
ried in 1778 to Sarah Woodruff, the sister of his brother Philip's
second wife, Abigail Woodruff". She died in about ten months.
leaving no child. The third wife, a widow whose name is not on
record, also left no family. The fourth wife, Sarah Woolley,
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sister of Col. Abram Woolley. died childless. The marriage of
Joseph Denm.\n to his first wife. Catherine Townley. occurred
in 1755 or 1756. when he was but twenty or twenty-one. They
had SL family of eight children, two who soon died, and Alathias,
born 1760. Xancy. Samuel. Joseph. Sarah and William. The
records of some of these children are very incomplete. Mafhias
was married in 1785 to Rhoda Elstone and had five children.
Joseph married Sarah \\'illis in 1788. Sarah married Abram
Miller and had three children. JVilliam, the youngest child of
Joseph and Catherine, married Phebe Woodrufif and had seven
children. — David, born in 1792; Joseph, in 1794; Aaron C. in
1796; Elizabeth, in 1798; Jennie, in 1800; Luther, in 1804; Wil-
liam Parsill, in 1806.
Of these seven children of William Dexmax and Phebe
Woodrufif, David, the eldest, married Rosetta Maibee ; Joseph
married Abigail Miller, and died in 1871 ; Aaron C. was married
in 1825 to his second cousin, Phebe. youngest daughter of Philip
Denman and Abigail Woodrufif; Elizabeth married Benjamin
Scudder. and died in 1874; Jennie died in infancy; Luther mar-
ried Caroline Denman }^Ierrill and had nine daughters (see
below) ; William Parsill married Louisa Littell. David Denman
and Rosetta ]Maibee had a large family. Joseph Denman and
Abigail Miller had thirteen children. Others had smaller families.
The Nine Daughters of Luther Dexmax and Caroline D.
Merrill.
They were Emeline Clark, Sarah Elizabeth. Mary Clark, Louisa
Littell. Mathilde Scudder. Ellen Hendrickson, Anna ]\Iaria,
Phadora Clay, and Olivia Frazee. Emeline C. was born August
31, 1829. and died unmarried January 2, 1868. Sarah E. was
bom November 30. 1831. and married in June, 1853, to Jacob
Bogart, and had James Washington, and Mary Elizabeth who
died in infancy. Captain Bogart was killed in the battle of the
Wilderness, May 6, 1864. Mary C. was born July 29, 1833, and
married October 2. 1853. to Thomas Grinnell Ritter of Hobo-
ken, X. J., and had three children. — Anna Laboyteaux. born
August 7. 1854; William Eugene, born February 26, 1857, and
NINE DAUGHTEES— LOST. AND FOUND 45
died March 8. 1861 ; and William Henry, born April 20. 1862.
Anna L. was married three times, — first to Frank Douglas, by
whom she had one daughter. ]vlabel Evelyn, who married Lin-
wood E. Connaway ; then, second, to Henry C. De Hart, who was
killed in an accident by the running away of his horse. Then,
seven years later, she married Charles Lewis Cameron, but had
no more children. William H. Ritter married Etta Louise Denton
and had one son. Charles William. Louise L. was born in Jan-
uary, 1836, and married in 1858 to Charles Orton Campfield of
Hanover, X. J., who died in 1888. They had three children. —
Frederick ^Melville. Ida Clark, and George Washington, who was
born October 27, 1862. and died in 1865. Frederick ^L ,was born
May 23, 1859. married Sarah and has two daughters ; he
lives in Toledo, O. Ida C. was born March 8. 1861, married
David Blair, has several children, and lives at Temperance, Mich.
Mathildc Scuddcr was born April 16, 1839, and is unmarried.
Ellen H. was born :\Iay 4. 1841. and died unmarried November
10, 1875. Anna M. was born April 16. 1844. and died January
3, 1854. Phadora C. was born September 5. 1846, married to
James Edward White of White Plains. X. J.. December 28. 1873.
They have one daughter. Edith Denman, who is unmarried and
is a teacher in Orange. X. J. Olivia F. was born July 23, 1849.
and died Alarch 22, 1854.
Lost, and Found.
We will return to Joseph Denman and Sarah Willis, who were
-married in 1788. Their children were Catherine, born in 1789;
Phebe. born in 1791 ; Isaac, born January 10. 1794. and married
April 15, 1815. to Jane Osborne, and died at Springfield. X. J.,
February 15, 1891, at the age of ninety-seven years, one month
and five days. — the longest lived Denman on record. He was
■called "Patriarch Isaac" by his kindred ; and it is said of him that
he retained all his powers up to within a year of his death, when
he lost his sight. His wonderfully retentive memory was of
.great value to those seeking accurate family records, and his
beautiful countenance and cheery spirit made him always a
-delightful companion. Aphia. the next child of Joseph Denman
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and Sarah Willis, was born in 1796 and died in 1814. John, the
next, was born in 1798, and no record concerning him beyond the
date of his birth is found in the old papers, although the full
records of all the others were given in due form. He dropped
out of sight and out of knowledge of the rest of the family.
This single recorded fact concerning John, the date of his
birth, has nevertheless proven the link for determining the origin
from him of a large connection of Denmans in northern and
western New York and Pennsylvania, who, though possessing
considerable fullness of detail in records of later generations,
knew nothing of their descent back of their grandfather, John.
Of his record they knew only that he was born September 1,
1798, that he had an older brother Isaac, and that the name of
their father was Joseph. It is known by the New Jersey branch
that the son who disappeared went from New Jersey to northern
New York in early manhood, unmarried, after which no more
was heard of him. This identical date of birth, coupled with the
fact of the same names of father and brother, fully serves to
demonstrate that the John of New York was the lost John of
New Jersey. The records of his descendants show that he was
married in Herkimer Co., N. Y., to Harriet Hoagland, who was
born September 9, 1800. We now give the record of the thirteen
children of John Denm.vn and Harriet Hoagland.
They were,— Isaac, Sarah Ann, Louisa D., William, Charlotte,
Jane, David Nelson, Almira. Nathan, Wiltha Catherine. Phebe
Minerva, Rosellen, and Emma.
Isaac was born June 9, 1822, and died at Little Falls, N. Y.
He married Polly Snyder and had several children. The eldest,
Jane, married and had a daughter, Grace, who married a Pickard
and had one son. Martha married a Castor. Others were Hattie,
Jay and Charles. Sarah Ann was born August 10, 1823. at Fort
Plains, N. Y.. and died at Shelby, Orleans Co., N. Y. She mar-
ried David A. Lighthall, and had seven children,— James, who
died ; Alida, who married George Flint and lives in Syracuse ;
Ella, is married ; Mary died ; Frank ; John, who was born
ATarch 15, 1859. and died May 5, 1905, married Clara Coleman
July 5, 1878, and had Florence May, born April 13, 1880, at
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Shelby, N. Y. ; Walter, who married Lany Alter at Hersville,
N. Y., lives at Johnstown, N. Y.. and has a daughter, now ]Mrs.
George Cress, living at Fort Plains. X. Y. Louisa D. was born
May 23, 1825, and died February 20, 1907, at Milford, N. Y.
She was married October 3, 1849, to Xathan L. Chase, who died
July 23, 1880, at Laurens. N. Y. They had Janette, born August,
1850, and died December 2S. 1851 ; Jennie, born October 20, 1852,
married J. M. Bennett of West Laurens, N. Y., and had Perry R.,
born December 23, 1874, who married Nellie Hoag and had a
son, Martin. They next had Bertha E.. born August 31, 1876,
who married F. L. Armstrong and had a daughter, ^Margaret.
Then Stella M., born January 31, 1882; Fred M., January 27,
1883; Carl J., August 2, 1889, and Leon L., March 13, 1892.
Louisa D. Chase's next child. Lottie, who was born January 23,
1859, married C. E. Osborn and had Jay L., who married Alta
Seagar ; Lena, born date not given ; Blanch, married Alten Barr,
and had one son ; Legrand ; and May. Then followed two sons,
Frank J. Chase, born December 18. 1860, married iMice McLaury
and had Alta, and John ; and William X., born March 2, 1863,
married Florence J. Evans, and had Lyle X'^., born July 17, 1902,
and Mayne F., born February 27, 1909.
William, fourth child of John Denman and Harriet Hoagland.
was born February 8, 1827. at Fort Plains, X. Y., and died in
February, 1910, at Albany, X'. Y. He married Isabel Youngs at
Schoharie, X^. Y., and had Othello, who lives at Syracuse ; Maria,
who married, first, Plenty, and second, J. R. Parsons of
Jersey City ; Maria ; Jennie ; Ada ; Flora ; William.
Charlotte, who was born also at Fort Plains, N. Y., Decem-
ber 3, 1829, was married at Little Falls, N. Y., April 5, 1849, to
Walter Clark, born February 15. 1826, and had four children, —
Justin, Justis, Lillian, and Victor W. The eldest was born June
6, 1861, and died September 9. 1862. Justis was born June 22,
1853, and married Harriet Randolph }vlarch 2, 1881, at Stafford,
X. Y. They had Clyde Victor, born July 18. 1884, at Bethany,
N. Y., married at Grand Rapids, Mich., September 5, 1907, and
had a son born July 25, 1908; Lillian, born also at Little Falls,
August 7, 1858, and died January 27. 1894, at Medina, X. Y.
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She married Edward Snell September 18, 1884, at East Bethany,
and had Walter, Harvey, Nina, and Lillian, who was born April
15, 1890, at Medina, and married Carlton Gardner March 1, 1911.
Victor W. was born September 5, 1865, at Bethany, N. Y., and
married Florence Reed December 18, 1888. Jane, who was born
May 1, 1831, at Fort Plains, was married January 27, 1862, to
James Peck, born January 16, 1827. They had Nettie, born
November 27, 1854, at Little Falls, and married April 26, 1877,
to Eli Empie at Balaria. N. Y. Their children were Grace ]M..
born Nevember 13, 1881, at Leroy, N. Y., and married to Wesley
R. Nellie June 24, 1908; Howard Denman, born March 31. 1885,
also at Leroy ; Wellington Henry, born December 19, 1858, at
Richfield, N. Y.. married March 26. 1879, to Mary A. Garred at
Alexandria, N. Y. ; second wife Bessie May Matlock of Athens,
Tenn., on Nevember 16, 1*896.
David Nelson, seventh child of John Denman and Harriet
Hoagland, was born July 9, 1833, at Fort Plains, N. Y., and died
in February, 1909. at Greensburg, Pa. He was married in Febru-
ary, 1859, at East Springfield. N. Y., to Emma Whitman, who
was born April 15, 1839. They had five children, — Fred B.,
Everett Nelson, Mayne Raymond. Selina Elgertha, and Bird
Lena. Fred B., who was born April 2, 1860, was married at
Latrobe, Pa., in 1880, to. Julia Baird, and had seven children;
Eugene Nelson, born in 1881 at Latrobe; William, born and died
there in 1883 ; Thomas Floyd, born in Pittsburg, in 1885 ; Emma,
Ijorn and died there in 1888; Homer Fred, born there in 1890;
John in 1894 ; and Charles, born and died there in 1896. Everett
Nelson, who was born June 19. 1862, in New Jersey, married
Mary Kuhns in September, 1885, and had Rachel Kuhns, born
August 19, 1887, at Greensburg, Pa., and died June 11. 1907;
David Nelson, born ]^Iay 20. 1895. and Mary Everett, born April
13, 1902, both at Greensburg. Mayne Raymond, born April 16.
1867, near Richfield, N. Y., was married June 19, 1901, at
Moundsville. W. Va., to Meta Roberts, who was born September
.2, 1876. and had Emma Adelaide, born May 25, 1902, at Wilkins-
burg. Pa. Their home is in Scranton, Pa. Selina Elgertha. born
November 9, 1868, near Richfield, N. Y. ; Bird Lena, born Octo-
LOST, AND FOUND 49
ber 31, 1873, at Greensburg, Pa., was married there August 6,
1896, to J. F. Beatty, and had Gertrude Elizabeth, born June
8, 1897, and John Frank, Jr., born November 17, 1900.
Almira, the eighth child, was born February 14, 1835, at Fort
Plains, N. Y., and died September 30, 1905, at Pavilion, X. Y.
She married Samuel Stafford of Little Falls, and had one daugh-
ter and two sons, all born there. Jennie L., born October 1. 1858,
was married to George AI. Lent March 20, 1895 ; Leslie A., born
June 1, 1860, married Adella Corell and has a daughter Pearl,
born in November, 1885 ; William Burton, born May 28, 1870,
was married to Margaret Mozier and has Bessie, born in Jan-
uary, 1899, and Clay, in December, 1901, both at Little Falls,
N. Y.
Nathan was born February 12, 1837, and died in 1891. Wiltha
Catherine was born February 12, 1838, and died Alay 20, 1877.
She was married February 22, 1859, to Rufus Plank, who was
bom December 25, 1835, and had one daughter and two sons,
Orpha, born November 6, 1859, who married Charles G. Henne-
burg December 11, 1887, and has Ethel M. C, born September
29, 1888; Edgar M., born July 31, 1866, and died Alay 17, 1867;
Grant, born April 8, 1868, married Lida Fuller, and has a son,
Edgar M. Phebe Minerva, born in May, 18-I-1, at Starkville,
N. Y., married George Snyder, and died about 1870. No further
record. Rosellen was born September 12, 1843, at Starkville, and
married October 21, 1869, at Mt. Vision, N. Y., to H. Wayne
Higgins, who was born February 24, 1840, and died June 6,
1900. They had one daughter and one son,— Isore May, who
was born January- 7, 1871, married Eugene Jeffery December
16, 1893, and had five children; Howard, born July 6, 1895, at
Exeter, N. Y. ; Wesley, born February 24, 1897. and died in Feb-
ruary, 1910, at New Berlin ; Ruth, born July 16. 1899, at Triangle ;
Paul, born in July. 1900. at Morris. N. Y. ; and Stanley, born
May 23, 1901, at Fly Creek; Clyde Levi was born August 24,
1877, and married December 12. 1900. at West Exeter, to
Edna May Johnson, who was born April 21. 1883. They have
Harold Wayne, born February 12. 1902 ; Frank Kenilworth, bom
June 7, 1903, and Clyde Raymond, born September 20, 1907.
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Emma, the thirteenth child, was born January 15, 1845. at
Starkville, N. Y.. and married at Richfield to Delavan Joslyn.
They -had a daughter and a son, — Viola ]^Iay, born January 8.
1867, was married in 1889 to Eugene Parker, and had Josie
Marian, born Xovember 22, 1891 ; Emma Dell, born November 12,
1892; Edith May, August, 1894: Paul, 1896.— these four at Rich-
field ; Lyman Jay, at Denman's Corners ; Claude Eugene at Ilvon ;
Jay Ostrium was born July 3. 1870. at Richfield, and married
Viola Higgins August 12. 1891. They have three daughters, all
born at Exeter, — Doris Anita, born December 27, 1892; Myrtle
Edna, born January 26. 1895. and Lois Julia, born November
28, 1907.
Jacob, the second son of Philip Denman and Sarah Crane, who
was born in 1739 and died in 1777. was married to Haxnah
HoEL of Westfield. N. J., May 25. 1773. and left two sons. Jacob
and Major. The younger son. Major, was married December 21.
1800, ^o Rhoda Connet. They had seven children, — William
Hoel. born May 18, 1803; Elizabeth, born April 20, 1806; James
Chandler, born June 23, 1808: Phebe A., born August 26, 1814;
^lary D. H., born December 31, 1816; Lydia S.. born August 26,
1819, and Ellen R.. born February 21, 1822. There is no further
record of this family.
Jacob, the elder son of Jacob Denman and Hannah Hoel. who
was born ]^Iarch 31, 1774, and died in April, 1853, married
Rebecca Townley and had eight children, — Hannah, born Decem-
ber 25, 1802; Charles Hoel, born December 5, 1804; Israel, born
February 28, 1807; Elizabeth, born May 22, 1809; Jane, born
July 11, 1811; Jacob Smith, born September 27, 1814; Moses
Townley, born December 28, 1817, and Phebe Wade, born Octo-
ber 10, 1820. Hannah, who died June 1, 1883, was married in
January, 1821, to Simeon W^ Middaugh, and had six children, —
Almira, Sarah Jane, Myron, Kate, Lucy and Edgar. No dates
of this family are at hand, but it is known that Kate and Lucy
are the only ones who have families. Charles Hoel, who was
born December 5, 1804, and died December 8, 1890, married
Sophia B. Coddington and had eight children, — Jacob Israel,
FAMILY OF JACOB 51
Sarah Rebecca, Mary Jane, Hannah, EHzabeth Ann. Katherine
Phebe, John B., and Benjamin Coddington. Of these, the third,
Mary Jane, died at the age of eighteen, and the youngest died in
infancy. Jacob Israel, the eldest, had four children, — Charles,
who died in infancy, Mary Jane, Claire H., and Horace. Mary
Jane married Warren J. Xelson of West Pawlet. Vt.. and has
three children. — John, Raymond, and Lois. Claire H. married
Katherine Andrews of Princeton, X. J., and has Lois Margaret,
born January 24, 1892, in Philadelphia ; Katherine 'Sia.y, born
December 12, 1894, in Chieng ]^Iai, Siam ; and Clarice Dorothea,
born August 24, 1899, in Chieng Rai, Siam. — the first white child
born in that city. Horace is Dr. H. B. Denman of Pawlet, Vt.,
who has two daughters, — INlarian and Theda. Sarah Rebecca,
eldest daughter of Charles Hoel Dexmax, married Simeon
Wells of Pike, Wyoming Co., X'. Y., and died early in 1911.
They had three daughters, — Mary Jane, who died in childhood ;
Elizabeth, who married Frank Prentice of Silver Lake, X. Y.,
and has a son, Howard ; and Ida, who married Will Whipple of
Perry, X. Y., and has four children, — Raymond. Katie, Mary
and Roy. Of these all but the youngest are married and have.
each, one or more children. Hannah was born September 17,
1834, in Benton, Yates Co., X. Y., and died at the same place
May 10, 1900. She was married July 6, 1864, to ^latthew Simp-
son of Ithaca, X. Y.. and had two daughters. — Mina and Emma.
Mina was born at Ithaca. Xovember 8, 1869. and married May 3,
1905, to Willard L. Ansley. who died July 24. 1909, leaving one
son, born June 26, 1908. Emma Simpson was born April 5,
1871, in Varick, Seneca Co., X'. Y., and married September 27,
1893, to Herbert Beattie of Hall, Ontario Co.. X. Y. They have
three children, — Harold Goldsmith, born March 27, 1896; Donald
Simpson, born June 26, 1902, and Walter Scoon, born Februarv
17, 1907.
Elisabeth Ann, who was born March 11, 1836, married John
Truesdell of Benton, Yates Co.. X. Y., and had Charles D., who
married Carrie Rector and had no children : Wallace Samuel, who
married Adelaide Parce of Fairport, X. Y.. and has two children,
Grace and Marion ; Minnie S., who married Frank S. Allen of
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Ballona, N. Y., and has one son, Glenn Tuesdell, who married
Edith Haines of Geneva, N. Y. ; LilHe, who died about 1907, aged
thirty-four, unmarried. Kathcrine Phchc married Ashley W.
Barden of Bellona. N. Y. : has no family. John B. married
Frances Daine, and died in 1876, leaving two sons. — Charles
Hoel, who died unmarried in 1899, and Willie Ernest, who is liv-
ing, unmarried, in Bellona. X. Y. Israel, the second son of Jacob
Denman and Rebecca Townley, lived and died at Wauseon. Ohio.
He married, and had children, the first being twins, Tryphena and
Trv'phosa, one of whom died in infancy. The other grew up, and
married Dr. Bennet of Wauseon, and had a family. Later chil-
dren were Charles, who died unmarried, and Edward, of whom
further knowledge is not at hand. Elizabeth, second daughter
of Jacob Denman, who was born May 22, 1809, and died March
22. 1895, married Alexander Simpson of Ithaca, N. Y., as his sec-
ond wife, and had five children. — Charles, Eugene, Emma Re-
becca, Clara Elizabeth, and Ada Augusta. Charles was born
January 26, 1839, became a Presbyterian minister, preaching at
Pike, and Sherman, X. Y., and other places. He is now living
with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Atherton, in Honolulu, who has
two children. His son, Dr. Clarence Simpson, lives in Detroit,
Mich., and has one child. Eugene was born October 12, 1842,
and was killed in battle in Maryland during the Civil War,
September 15, 1862. Emma Rebecca was born November 6,
1845, and died July 5, 1867. Clara Elizabeth was born August 7,
1849, and married Frank Root, by whom she had a daughter who
died in babyhood, and a son, Louis Denman. Ada Augusta was
born November 21. 1852, and died February 26, 1888.
Jane, the next daughter, who was born July 11, 1811, died un-
married when over eighty years of age.
Jacob Smith Denman married Wealthy Riggs of Candor. N. Y.,
and had a son. George, who lives in Hudson. Ohio, and has a
daughter, Helen, who was married in 1900. Wealth}- Riggs Den-
man died, and later her husband married her sister, Jerusha. by
whom he had one son, Herbert, an artist in New York, now
dead. Moses Tozcnley Denman married Katherine Lounsberry
and settled on a farm near Brookton, X. Y. They had two sons, —
WILLIAM AND PHILIP 53
Richard, and Charles Arthur. Richard married Adelaide
and lives in Brookton. He has one son, Dr. Carl Denman, of
Ithaca, N. Y., who has two little children. Charles Arthur mar-
ried Ida . and settled on his father's farm near Brookton.
He died about 1910, leaving five children, none of whom are yet
married, — Ralph, Irving, Harold, Margaret, and Hubert. Phebe
Wade Demnan, who was born October 10, 1820, and died when
past eighty years of age, was married to Allen Dickinson of
Rochester, X. Y. He was engineer on a railroad and was killed
while on duty. They had two children, — Bradford, who married
and settled in Dickinson county, Kansas, where his widow and
sons still live ; and Maritta, who married Frank Bertron of
Canisteo, N. Y.
Williain, third son of Philip and Sarah, who was born in 1747,
married Prudence Bedford and emigrated to Morrow Co., Ohio.
They had a large family, and many descendants from them are
scattered over the western states whose records are not suffi-
ciently clear and direct to admit of transcription here.
Philip, the fourth son, who was born in 1749 and died very
suddenly on January 10. 1825, was married first to Sarah Brook-
field, who died in 1771, soon after marriage, leaving no children.
On December 5. 1781. he was married to Abigail Woodruff, who
was born in 1760 and died in 1841. After the death of Philip in
1825, she was married to his widowed brother Mathias in 1836.
Abigail and her first husband, Philip, had four sons and four
daughters, — Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, Allen, Sarah, Elizabeth,
Mary and Phebe. Jacob married Betsy De Camp. Isaacmarried
Elizabeth Searles. Abraham married Charlotte Remsen of Lone
Island. Allen died unmarried. Sarah married William ^Merrill of
Staten Island. :\Iary married John B. Clark of Ohio. Phebe,
the youngest, born in 1802, married her second cousin, Aaron C.
Denman, and had three children. Jacob Denman and Betsy
De Camp went to Ohio, and had children whose names are not
on record. Isaac Denman and Elizabeth Searles had two chil-
dren, Margaret and Philip. Abraham Denman and Charlotte had
two children, Cornelius Ludlow, and Matilda Remsen. Cornelius
L. married Caroline Dye, and had two daughters, — Charlotte and
54 LINE OF PHILIP
Lillian. Matilda R. was married three times, first to John N. -
Scudder, by whom she had two children. — Charlotte and Ben-
jamin N. Her second husband was Benjamin F. Heaton, by
whom she had two sons, — Denman. and Eugene, both of whom
died in infancy. She afterward married Dr. Stuart Craig Marsh,
of Rahway. X. J., having no other children. She died in Xewark,
N. J., October 28, 1911, at the age of ninety-one years, one month
and eight days. Sarah Denman and William Merrill had two
children, — Josiah Denman, who was drowned in the Hudson
River when twelve years old. and Caroline Denman. who married
her second cousin, Luther Denman. Elizabeth Denman and
William Frazee had three sons and five daughters, — George,
Philander, Augustus. Julia, Elizabeth, Abby Jane, Olivia, and
Augusta, most of whom married and had families. Mary Den-
man and John B. Clark had a considerable family, some of whom
married and had children.
Mathias, the fifth son of Philip Denman and Sarah Crane, was
born February 13, 1751, on the homestead established by his
father at Springfield, X. J., after leaving Long Island in 1717.
Though retaining this as his home through life. Mathias was
fond of pioneering in new territory, and made repeated trips to
southern Ohio. Having been a Revolutionary soldier, he received
from the L'. S. Government it. 1788 a patent for 747 acres of mili-
tary lands situated in what is now Hamilton county, Ohio. He
sold two-thirds of this grant for twenty pounds, or about one
hundred dollars ; and he and his two partners, the purchasers, one
of whom was Israel Burnet, laid out a village which they callfed
LosantiviUc. This name was a combination of Greek. Latin and
French terms, and signified "The town opposite the mouth ;"
that is. the mouth of the Licking River. We can imagine the sit-
uation ; new country, with only .its natural features to suggest a
name for the new town. The place soon same into notice, and in
1790 the Territorial Governor changed the name to Cincinnati.
Besides this first grant of military land made in 1788, upon
which Cincinnati was founded. [Mathias Denman received in 1800
several other grants, each of 4000 acres, most of which he located
in Delaware, Coshocton and Licking counties, Ohio. Many of
MATHIAS AND PHEBE 55
his numerous descendants afterward made homes at different
points on these lands. This pioneer Denman was married in his
twentieth year, on September 15, 1770, to Phebe, the eldest daugh-
ter of Capt. Enos Baldwin and Phebe Williams, then in her
eighteenth year. He died at his home at Spring-field, X. J., Jan-
uary 24, 1841, when but a few days under ninety years of age.
She died there in 1833. aged eighty-one. After her death he was
married, in 1836, to Abigail Woodruff Denman, widow of his
older brother Philip, she being seventy-five years of age and he
eighty-five. She survived him only a few years, dying September
15, 1841. The large family of Mathias will be given below.
Samuel, the youngest son of Philip Denman and Sarah Crane,
was born in 1753 and died in l/82. He married Elizabeth Ackan.
They had no children. '
Mathias and Phebe Dexmax had a family of twelve children,
all born at the old home in Springfield, N. J.: — Sarah,*'Samuel,'*^
Jacob, Aaron, Davidf Phebe. Eliza, Jacob, Mary Williams, Char-
lotte, Matthias Baldwin, and William Parsill. Sarah was born
Februarv- 5. 1772, and died January 9, 1835. She married William
Parsill. Had no children. Sainncl was born July 2, 1774, and
married on December 10. 1801, to Anna Maria Hampton. He
died September 8, 1816. leaving one son, Samuel, who was born
in Philadelphia March 10, 1806, and died at Lawrence, Kansas,
July 5, 1871. He was married in 1826 to Susan Boyle, at Lancas-
ter, O. Their children were Anna Maria, Hampton Boyle, Mathias
Baldwin, Eleanor, Thomas Ewing, Mary, and Susan Rose. Samuel
was married a second time, but had no other children. The
records of this family are interrupted at this point, by reason of
loss by fire of the property of one of the descendants, and with
it a collection of genealogical material. From other sources parts
of the earlier records have been collected, to which the latter are
appended. The incomplete character of these parts of records
forbids any attempt at filling out full lines ; but it is certain that
those whose names will follow are descendants of Samuel, the
grandson of Mathias Denman.
David Denman, who was born in Xew Jersey, migrated to
Jassemine Co., Ky., where he married Polly Arnold and had sons,
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Aaron, James and Hampton. Aaron lived a bachelor and made
his home with James. In May, 1828, they all moved to Decatur
Co., Ind. James, who had married Patsy Davis in Kentucky in
1826, had six sons and three daughters, — Jonathan B., who had a
son, William O. D. ; Martha A., who married William John-
son of Greensburg, Ind. ; William Josiah, who married ]vlary J.
Burch in 1856, and had six sons and one daughter ; Hampton, who
lived, later, in Leavenworth, Kansas ; Mary J., who married P. W.
Harding, and died in 1885 in Mexico, Mo. ; George, died in 1863,
leaving a son, George, at Des Moines, la. ; Frank, now deceased,
leaving two sons in Toledo, Ohio, — Ira C. and George M., both
noted medical specialists ; Sarah, who married James Kirby, of
Robertson, Ills., and Joshua, who died in 1863-, leaving a son,
William, at Greenup. Ills.
The children of William Josiah Denman and Mary J. Burch
were, — William C. of Xicholasville. Ky. ; Edward E., San Fran-
cisco, Cal. ; George B., Atlanta, Ga., who died September 21.
1911; James E., Louisville, Ky. ; Charles Francis. Xicholasville;
Robert M., Wichita, Kan. ; and Minnie S., who married ' ' ■
Young, and lives in Lexington, Ky.
Jacob was born March 11, 1777, and died in less than one
month.
Aaron was born Octobe/ 9, 1778, and died February 15, 1855,
at Quincy, Ills. He was married in 1799 to Eliza Mulford, by
whom he had three children, — Anna Maria, born in 1800. who
married William Chaloner and had four children ; Phebe Smith.
born in 1802. who married Francis Worley and left five chil-
dren ; and Mathais Baldwin, born in 1804, who married Sarah
Atwater, and died in August, 1876, leaving no children.
David was born September 3, 1781, and died June 2, 1846. He
was married April 13. 1805, to Mary, daughter of Elijah and
Phebe Lyon, and had a family of ten children, all born in Spring-
field, N. J. In 1834, when the youngest child was nine years old,
he migrated to Ohio and settled upon a large farm in Coshocton
county, which was a portion of one of the L'. S. land grants to
his father, Mathias Denman. (This large family will be given
.separately.)
FAMILY OF MATHIAS 57
Phebe. the second daughter of Mathias Denman, married
Oliver Wade of Xew Jersey. They had eight children, nearly
all of whose numerous families remained in New Jersey. Elica,
the next daughter, was married, in 1806, to Abram Roll Woolley,
of the U. S. Army. They had nine children, several of whom
'died early, and only two of whom had families. These two were
Henry Baldwin Woolley, who left three daughters ; and Charles
Woodruff W^oolley, who was born at Council Blufifs, la., in
1823, entered the U. S. navy as ^Midshipman in 1841, and re-
signed as Past r^lidshipman in 1855, having done service in the
Mexican War. He married Catawba Sandford, of Covington,
Ky., in 1848 : settled in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1880. where his wife
died in 1883, and where he survived her until April 5, 1907.
They had six children, all born during his military life. William
W. was born in 1849. in Washington, D. C, and died in 1906.
He married Hattie E. Bradford, and had a daughter, Edith S.,
who died in 1907, and a son, Herbert L. Sue Dana was born
January 4, 1851, at Fort Ripley, Minnesota Territory; lives in
Buft'alo. Charles Woodruff, Jr., was born in Memphis, Tenn.,
May 28, 1854; lives in Buffalo. Dana Sandford was born at St.
Paul, Minn., May 8, 1857 ; married June 23, 1886, to Clarissa
Eliza Battey, daughter of Julia Handel and Charles Battey, of
Providence, R. I. They have two sons, — Sandford Battey, bom
April 28, 1887, and Lawrence Denman, born March 31, 1890.
Kate Sandford was born at St. Paul, Minn., October 12, 1860,
and married November 2, 1890, to William Prendergast Bemus.
Their children are, — Denman Woolley, born March 28, 1894. and
Marion Barnes, born February 17, 1898. Mrsj Bemus died
June 4, 1911, in Los Angeles, Cal.
Jacob A., sixth son of Mathias and Phebe, was born September
23, 1789, and died February 23, 1790. His twin sister, Mary
Williams, was twice married : first, in 1810, to Joseph Tenbrook,
of Springfield. He died in 1817. In 1822 she married Charles
Atwater, of Xew Haven, Conn., where she died March 21, 1877,
in her eighty-first year. She had no children by either mar-
riage. Charlotte, tenth child of Mathias and Phebe, was born
February 14, 1792, and died January 25, 1857. She married
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Rodney Wilbur, who died in 1871. They had nine children.
Mathias Baldicin and \Villiani Parsill. twin sons, the youngest
of the family, were born October 28. 1796. Mathias died June
13, 1797, and his brother July 17. 1797.
David Dexmax and ^NIary Lvox had ten children, — Aaron D.,
Phebe Williams. Emma. Mary Tenbrook, Rodney Wilbur,
Samuel. Charlotte Wilbur. Anna ]\laria. John Martin and Louisa.
Aaron D., who was born April 19. 1806. and died August 14,
1881, was married November 16. 1828. to Eliza Ann, daughter of
Moses and Lydia Coudit of Orange. N. J., and had three chil-
dren,— David Francis. George and ]\Iathias. The two younger
sons died early. George, who was born December 14, 1832. died
March 7, 1837; and ^Mathias. September 2. 1843. died March 16,
1863. David Francis, born April 5. 1830. and died April 12.
1904, was married October 15. 1855. to ^latilda Ward Whiting,
born May 24, 1835. w^ho was a lineal descendant of William
Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth Colony, and by an
intermarriage between the Bradfords and the Aldens, also lineally
descended from John Alden and Priscilla ^Nlullins of the May-
flower. To this couple were born six children, — Clara Belle.
Alfred Whiting. Alida May, Emma Louisa. Herbert, and ]^Iathias
Whiting. Clara Belle was born July 14, 1857, and married July
26, 1882, to Edwin Joseph Olney, a lineal descendant of Thomas
Olney who, born in England in 1600. came to Boston in 1635,
and the next year joined with Roger Williams in the purchase of
Providence Plantation. Rhode Island, and was afterwards pastor
of what was probably the first Baptist church in America. Edwin
J. Olney and Clara Belle Denman had four children. — Anna B.,
married in 1907 to Rev. J. M. Pengelly, a Baptist minister of
Toulon, Ills. ; Dorothea, who is a teacher in the Coshocton. O..
public schools ; Eleanor, assistant librarian in the Coshocton
Public Library : Francis Denman. a student in Dennison Univer-
sity, Granville, O. The Pengellys have two daughters. — Eleanor
Dorothea and Marguerite.
The next three children of David F. and [Matilda W. Denman. —
Alfrerl W.. Alida M. and Emma L., all died in infancy. The
FAMILY OF MATHIAS 59
fifth child, Herbert, born September 4, 1864, was married August
3, 1895, to Olive Temple, and has two sons, — Francis Temple, and
Donald. The youngest child, Mathias W., born January 24, 1870,
was married November 8, 1899, to Frances Prendergast, and has
one son, David. David Francis Denman's war record is of inter-
est. He was mustered into service May 13, 1864, as First Lieu-
tenant, Company E, 143d Regiment, Ohio Vokmteer Infantry,
and- served four months. He was in General Butler's Depart-
ment ; was in hospital at Fortress Monroe with malarial fever,
resulting from the nature of the work which several companies
of that regiment were called to perform. — building pontoon and
other bridges in swampy places and across the rivers which the
Division had to cross in their various movements during the sum-
mer. Of some companies more men died by fever than by bul-
lets. They first did garrison duty on the fortifications around
Washington, but were soon called out to rougher and more dan-
gerous work. Some of their time was spent on the Appomattox
near General Butler's headquarters. Denman frequently saw
the General, and also General Grant, and he tells of the striking
contrast between the two men : Butler, a large man in full uni-
form, wath more than the regulation amount of ornament, always
with his sword grazing the ground when on foot ; Grant, below
middle height, usually in a private's blouse, with no marks of his
rank, and always without a sword. Lieut. Denman was called
to serve as captain for some time while his superior officer lay
in hospital with the fever.
Phehe irHliains, second child of David Denman and 3*1 ary
Lyon, was born December 20, 1807, and died December 18. 1873.
She married Arnold Metlbury June 16. 1836. The evidently
incomplete record of their family is as follows : Marcia. born
March 15. 1837, was married in 1865 to Samuel Denman, who
died leaving no children. She was married January 29, 1900, to
Joseph W. Dwyer of Raton, Xew Mexico, who died March 25,
1901. She died December 16, 1908. Edzciii, born July 14, 1839,
died June 15, 1859. Caroline, born November 21, 1842. was
married October 5, 1871, to Velasco J. Knapp, who was born June
5, 1842, at Somerset, \'t. They had three children, — May, born
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August 1, 1872, and died in 1879; Edwin, born September 4, 1874;
and Flora ]\Iarcia, born October 2, 1879. Mary, born April 23,
1847, married S. L. Hoover. She had a daughter Christobel, born
in 1883, who married James Durfee in 1906, and has a son,
James, Jr., born April 13, 1912. Emma, the third child of David
and Mary, was born January 21, 1810. She married John F.
Titus, by whom she had two daughters, — Mary Louise and Emma.
She was twice married afterward, but had no more children.
Mary Ten Brook, the fourth child, was born December 16, 1811,
and died October 14, 1813. Rodney Wilbur, the next, was born
February 11, 1814, and died in San Francisco June 26, 1884. He
married Marie Therese Taylor. March 12, 1834, and had nine
children, — Hannibal, born August 18, 1835, died March 1, 1844;
James M., born June 20. 1837, died October 23, 1838; Elmira
Augusta, born February 3. 1839, died February 21, 1844; James
Arthur, born June 3, 1841, died October 8, 1852; David x\Ibert,
born February 23, 1843. married January 15, 1868, to Amanda
Ann Johnson, and had four children. — Carlos Denman, Richard
M., Anna Balle. and Roy Wilbur : Theodore Frelinghuysen, born
October 9, 1844, married Emily H. Taylor, and has one son,
Eugene Abadie ; Sarah Isabella, born January 31, 1848. died July
5, 1857 ; Olive Theresa, born Nfovember 25, 1849, died November
15, 1850; and Eugene Weber, born November 21, 1855, married
February 27, 1881, to Lucinda D. Wilcox and had a daughter.
Olive Marcia, born July 19, 1884.
Samuel, sixth child of David and Mary Denman, was born
June 14, 1816. and died November 27, 1859. He married CaroHne
Stuart, who was born May 6, 1826. Their children were Mary
Stuart and Carlos Lyon. Mary Stuart was born ]vlay 17, 1852,
married September 27, 1876. to Joseph W. Maxwell, and had
three children, — William Keeper, born October 27, 1877; Edith,
born January 6, 1883 ; and Stuart Denman, born January 8, 1885.
Carlos Lyon Denman was born April 9. 1854, and married Mary
E. Hershman and had three children, — Mary Edith, born April
23. 1884, and died in Asheville, N. C, March 28, 1910 ; buried in
the old Denman Cemetery near Coshocton. O.. where are buried
her great-grand-parents, her grand-parents, and numerous other
FAMILY OF MATHIAS 61
relatives; Charles Hershman, born August 20, 1888; and Helen,
born September 20. 1891.
Charlotte IVilbcr, seventh child of David and Alary Denman,
was born August 15. 1818. and married in her twentieth year to
Alonzo Ransom. They had four children, — Anna !Maria, Mary
Lucretia, Weltha Louise, and Charles Edwin. Anna M. was born
July 13, 1838, and married Ezra H. Lynde. They had one son,
William Ransom, born November 12. 1856, who was married June
21. 1882, to Harriet Amelia Beall. and has William Beall. born
September 17. 1886; and Eugene Horton, born July 19. 1891.
Mary L. was born August 27. 1840. and married June 7. 1860. to
Orlando Farquhar. Their son. Harry Denman. was born in 1866.
Weltha L. was born April 18, 1853. and married January 5. 1876,
to John Jackson Rose. Their daughter. Charlotte Ransom, born
October 13, 1876. was married June 24. 1901, to Carl Herbig. and
had Gordon Ranne. born !\lay 1, 1902; Alargaret W^eltha, born
September 20. 1904; and Carl Henry, born October 13. 1907.
Charles Edwin Ransom was born June 3. 1856, and married
November 15. 1882, to Elsie Smith. They had Harry Smith, bom
June 4, 1885. and married October 12, 1908, to Marie Armstrong,
who have Betty Jane. lx)rn in November, 1911; and Charles
Edwin, Jr., born March 24. 1887, and married April 24, 1909, to
Agnes Hanlon.
Anna Maria, eighth child of David and Mary Denman, was
born August 12. 1820, and died October 24, 1862. She was mar-
ried at Zanesville, O., May 8. 1846. to Rev. John D. Rich. They
had two children. — !\Iary Alma, and Denman Whitefield. Alary
Alma was born June 6, 1847. at Roscoe, O., and married Septem-
ber 25, 1867, at Minneapolis, Minn., to Charles Wesley Johnson.
.Their children were Alma N'orton. born June 30, 1868, and
Charles Louis, born October 7, 1870.
John Martin, the ninth child of David and Mar\' Denman. was
born October 12. 1823. and died January 15, 1882. He was mar-
ried April 29. 1847. to Elvira Stuart, and had five children ; three
of the.n died young. Ella M.. born October 25, 1853. married,
June 5, 1872. John Hack ; and Carlos Leslie, born August 4. 1861.
62 FAMILY OF THOMAS
Marx Louise, youngest of the ten children, who was born
December 3. 1825, was twice married, first to Joseph Addison
llHiite, and then to Arthur Field, and left no family.
\
LINE OF THOMAS
Thomas Dexman was born in 1706 or 1707, and died in 1793.
He married a daughter of David ^^lulford. and had five sons and
five daughters. Of the daughters there is but partial account
given, one having no record. Catherine married a Whitehead,
Elizabeth a Gould. Mary a Day. and had one son named Moses.
Another married a ^^lulford and had one daughter, Mary. The'
five sons were John, Isaac, Jacob, Thomas, and Stephen. John,
who was born in 1739 and died in 1823, married Sarah ,
name uncertain, probably Terrill. — and had ten children. — Hiram
Terrill, Chloe or Clara, Julianna. Fannie. Xancy Terrill, Ehza-
beth who married a Parkhurst. Prussia who married Benjamin
Reeves in 1818, Phebe who married a Roberts. Polly who married
Jonathan Meeker, and Charlotte who married a ^IcHanem.
Isaac, second son of Tl^omas. was born in 1743 and died in 1791.
He married Abby , and had one son, Elias. who died un-
married, and one daughter, F russia Crane. Jacob, third son of
Thomas, married Elizabeth Pike, sister of Brigadier-General Pike
of the War of 1812. They had one daughter. Abigail, who mar-
ried Daniel Ayers, and had seven children. — Jacob Denman, Wil-
liam, Eliza, Phebe, Daniel. Maria and Benjamin. This family
migrated from X'ew Jersey to ^Michigan. After the death of his
first wife Jacob married Elizabeth Woodruff, nee Cauldwell,
daughter of Robert Cauldwell. whose father came from Ireland
about 1732. By her he had eight children. — Elizabeth, who mar-
ried Stephen Muchmore and had four children ; Moses, who mar-
ried Patty [Morehouse and had five children ; Aaron, who did un-
married at the age of forty-five : Isaac, who went to sea as a ship
carpenter and never returned ; Robert, who married Jane, daugh-
ter of Luke Miller, had five children, and emigrated to Ohio;
Hiram, who married Sally Hardy and had one son, Theodore ;
\
ESTHER PARCEL DENMAN
:Taa
JACOB S. DEN MAN
SMITH DENMAN AND ESTHER PARCEL 63
Hetty, who married \Mlliam B. Parcel ; and Smith, who married
Esther, daughter of Esther Baldwin and Xicholas Parcel, a Revo-
lutionary soldier who was killed at the battle of Springfield, N. J.,
June 7, 1780. The spirit of the American army is expressed in
the words inscribed on his tombstone in the cemetery at White
Oak Ridge, N. J. :
"Behold me here as you pass by,
Who bled and died for Liberty.
From British tyranny I now am free.
Prepare, my friend, to follow me."
Esther and her twin brother, Enoch, who died in childhood,
were born in February before the battle in which their father was
killed. She married Smith Denman in 1801 and died !March 5,
1867.
Thomas, fourth son of Thomas 1st, married Joanna Chandler
and had two sons, John and Oliver, and five daughters. — Phebe.
Polly, Sarah, Joanna and Esther. John married Diademia Dean
and had ten children. Of his brothers and sisters no record is
found.
Stephen, youngest son of Thomas 1st, married Sarah ,
and died in 1824. Their children were Calvin. George, Hampton,
Charlotte, Prussia, Electa, and Abby. Prussia married John Drew,
Abby married Benjamin Reeve, who, after her death, married her
cousin Prussia, the daughter of her father's eldest brother, John.
Smith Dexman. who was born August 17, 1777, and died
March 15, 1844, was married October 21. 1801, to Esther Parcel,
who was born February 5. 1780. and died March 5, 18G7. They
had seven daughters and one son. 'Polly Smith, born December
19, 1802, and died February 19. 1831, was married to Joseph C.
Ward May 12, 1821. Patty, born May 12. 1804, died ,
married March 12, 1823. to Ira Squier. Abby, born June 11,
1806, and died May 31. 1887, was married September 5, 1827, to
William C Reynolds and had a daughter, Josephine, who married
David Crowell of Hacketstown. X. J. Phebe Williams, born June
13, 1808, and died , was married to James F. Hopping on the
:!.%'
rlf.
64 LINE OF THOMAS
same day as the marriage of her sister Abby, September 5, 1827.
Elisabeth, born February 5, 1811, and died -, was married May
30, 1832, to Thomas K. Ross. Catherine Parcel, born July 2,
1814, and died , was married October 1, 1834, to Calvin
Sayre Dennis. Charlotte, born February 14, 1817, and died
August 22, 1849, was married to William Pierson December 31,
1834, and had one daughter, Jacob Smith's record will be given
farther on.
Family of Phebe IV. Denman and James F. Hopping, who was
born :^Iarch 31, 1804. and died April 12, 1843. Their children,'
who were all born at Columbia, N. J., were Theodore Anderson,
born March 3, 1829, and died November 29, 1899; Harriet
Lavinia, born June 20, 1832, and died August 20, 1874; Helen
Maranda, born April 15. 1834. and died in November, 1869; Den-
man, born December 25, 1838, and died May 8, 1895.
Theodore Anderson Hopping was married February 14, 1855,
to Harriet Louise Baker, who was born at Whippany, N. J., Octo-
ber 30, 1830. and died March 25, 1898. The children of this mar-
riage were Clara, born ]\Iarch 14, 1858, and died December 12,
1899; Helen ^I., born October 20, 1860, and died June 4, 1880;
Franklin Austin, born November 4, 1862, and died August 27,
1864; Louise Baker, born January 12, 1866; Theodore, born
November 7, 1867; Ida and Grace, twins, born February 1, 1870.
Grace died in infancy. Dayton, born July 13, 1871, and died June
7, 1875. This family lived at Columbia, N. J., now Florham Park.
Theodore Hopping was married September 9, 1896, to Mary Ellis
Blake, who was born at Scranton, Pa., December 2, 1870. Their
children are Theodore Denman, born February 1, 1899, at San
Rafael. Cal., and Roberta Blake, born at Santa Paula, Cal, March
21, 1902. The family now have their home at Glendale. Cal.
Ida, the youngest sister of Theodore, was married on September
10, 1912, to Benjamin Taylor Van Alen, of Jersey City, New
Jersey.
Elizabeth Denman and Thomas K. Ross had two sons and two
daughers, — Libron, Serena, Isabella, and Erastus. We have no
record of Libron. Serena died unmarried in June, 1910. Isabella,
now deceased, was married to Gershom Rusling and had three
FAMILY OF SMITH DENMAN 65
daughters, Elizabeth, Miriam and LilHan : Elizabeth married
Frank Jarvis, now dead, and had one child, who died in infancy ;
Miriam married Dr. F. F. Demarest. of Passaic. N. J., and has
one daughter and two sons, — Theodora, Frederick, and Cornell;
Lillian never married. Erastus married Mary- Quayle of ^Nlorris-
town, N. J., who still survives him. They had no children.
Catherine Parcel Denman and Calvin S. Dennis had six chil-
dren,— George, who died in infancy ; Alvira, Evelyn Louisa,
Susan, James Eugene and Charlotte Augusta. Alvira married
Matthew Waters and had five children. — George Wellington,
Leona Evelyn, Carrie Augusta, Lulu Alvira and Wilberforce
Newton: of these, Leona died at the age of six years; George
and Carrie are unmarried, both residing in Chile, South Amer-
ica; Lulu married Deward H. Van Xess of Newark, N. J., and
has three daughters, Edith Harriet, Grace Alvira and Dorothy
Wakeley ; Wilberforce Newton Waters married Jane Mead
Coyte and has two sons, Ernest Wilberforce and Deward Wil-
berforce.
Evelyn Louisa Dennis died vmmarried in October, 1899.
Susan Dennis married Alexander King of Newark, N. J., now-
deceased. They had a son who died in infancy, and a daugter,
Mary king, who married George C. Pyle and has one son, Cal-
vin Dennis Pyle, born in 1889. Mrs. Susan King is now Mrs.
William Mills, and, with her famliy, lives in Inglewood, Cal.
James Eugene Dennis married Isabella Marsh Tronson, and
they had three children. — Zeh., Inza lona, and Calvin Luke.
Zeh married Flora Williams, and they had several children, of
whom a record is not at hand. Calvin L. is also married.
Charlotte Augusta Dennis married Horatio N. B. L'mbach.
They have one daughter, Katherine Pauline.
Jacob Smith Dexman, born November 16, 1821, and died
October 20, 1897, was married February 23. 1843, to Selina
Eleanor Lyon, who died February 15, 1857. Selina E. Lyon was
the daughter of Wm. Henry Lyon, born in 1803, and Eleanor
Ten Eyek, a lineal descendant of Sarah Rapaelje, the first white
child born in New Netherlands, — whose parents were Catelyn
66 LINE OF THOMAS
Trico, a French Huguenot born in Paris. 1605. who came to
America in 1623, and Jan Joris Rapaelje, a member of a distin-
guished family for centuries the possessors of large estates in
Bretagne (Brittany) and ranking high among the French nobil-
ity. Some of these had been leaders in the old Crusades : and
all were Protestants. In the great religious struggles of the sev-
enteenth century they were expelled from France, as also was
Francis Gerneaux. born in 1620. and his family, some of whom
were afterward closely linked with members of the Denman
family in the Colony of Xew York.
Jan Joris Rapaelje came from Rochelle, in France, to New
Netherlands, in 1623, and his daughter Sarah was born June 9,
1625.
The children of Jacob Smith Denman and Selina Eleanor
Lyon were Charlotte Irene. James Lewis, ^lary Esther, Robert
Smith and Prairie Louise : the youngest being so named after
the removal of the family from Xew Jersey to the prairies of
Minnesota.
Charlotte Irene, who was born March 16. 1844, and died
January 3. 1870, was married January 20, 1866, to Abram Wil-
ton Lozier, and had three children, — Abram Clement, born in
November. 1866. and died at the age of twenty-one; Robert
Ten Eyck. born in ^lay. 1868; and Jessie Charlotte, who was
born January 1. 1870, and married January 15, 1896, to Harry
S. Payne. They have a son. Robert Lozier Payne, born July 3,
1898. All this family live in New York City.
James Lczcis Denman was born February 6, 1846, married in
1872 to Emma A. Phelps, and lives in Hot Springs, S. Dakota.
Their daughter. Charlotte Lozier Lewis, was born March 10.
,1874, and married January 20, 1910, to George A. Jones, and
lives in Idaho. Mary Esther Denman was born January 17,
1848. and died October 29. 1911. She was married February 22.
1872. to Samuel Burns of Omaha. Neb., and had three chil-
dren,— Selina ^lay, Samuel Jr.. and Robert Ten Eyck. Selina
May was born January 17. 1873, and married February 5,
1896, to Charles Thomas Kountze. Their children are Herman
Burns, born October 28. 1896. and died September 21. 1900;
JACOB SMITH DENMAN 67
Charles Denman, born October 28. 1899 ; Elinor Lyon, born
September 16. 1900. Samuel Jr. was born April 18, 1876. and
married to Marguerite Preston June 15. 1905. Their children
are Barbara, born April 10. 1906. and ]\Iarjorie, born August
11, 1910. Robert Ten Eyck was born June 18, 1882. Robert
Smith Dctunan was born December 19, 1849. and died September
8, 1864. Prairie Louise Denman was born July 18. 1852, and
died August 22, 1864. She was the first white child born in
Winona, ^linn.
After the death of his first wife in February, 1857. Jacob
Smith Denman was married, January 21. 1858, to Augusta
Fletcher, who died December 30, 1888. Their children were:
Sarah Fletcher, born November 25, 1859, who now lives in
Omaha; Jacob SJicrman. born March 6, 1861, who went to
Alaska, and who married Jessie Raymond in June, 1909 ; Peter
Rollin, born September 3, 1862, and died June 8, 1863 ; Katie
Isabel, born February 21. 1865, was married November 22. 1887,
to Harvey Jackson Wells, who died January 16. 1894; Benjamin
Saxton, born February 18. 1868. was married to Lillie Alexander
in May, 1892. and lives in Whitewood. S. Dakota; their twin
children. Ben Lewis and Lillian Esther, are the only twins in the
family since their great-grandmother Esther and her twin brother
Enoch, the children of the Revolutionary soldier. Nicholas Parcel
; Cakin Kingslex was born August 14, 1870.
LATER COMERS TO AMERICA
Two brothers, William and John Denman. came from Sussex
County, England, to America in 1795. They were descendants
of the William Denman of Newhall Grange, Brampton, in Cum-
berland, who is found on record in the latter part of the four-
teenth century as possessing that Manor.
William Dexmax was born at Ditchley, Sussex County,
England, November 10, 1763, and died at Neversink, Sullivan
68 LATE COMERS TO AMERICA
Co., N. Y., December 10, 1858. He was married at Headcom,
County Kent. England, June 24, 1790, to Ann Boorman, who
was born at Staplehurst, County Kent, August 9, 1772, and died
at Neversink, N. Y., June 5, 1847. They had eleven children:
John, William, Elizabeth, Edward, Thomas, Elizabeth the second,
Jane, Martin. Ann, Henry, and Samuel. Of these the first three
were born at Hythe, County Kent, in England, and all the others
in Sullivan Co., Xew York. John, who was born March 7, 1791,
and died March 23, 1878. at Birmingham, Erie Co., Ohio, was
married October 13, 1819, to Miranda Blackman, and had fifteen
children, all of whom but one lived to grow up. This man's
history, too extensive for these pages, is full of interesting inci-
dents of life in the early days in Northern Ohio. It can be fur-
nished to those who may wish to transcribe it on the blank pages
of their book. IVilliain, who was born February 8, 1793. and
died March 14, 1875, at Xeversink, N. Y., was married December
24, 1817, to Xancy Curry, and had eleven children, all of whom
were born in the State of Xew York. (Their record will be
given separately.) Elicabcth, who was an infant when the
family came to America, died in August, 1795, shortly after their
arrival in X'ew York. Bdzcard was born August 12. 1797. mar-
ried X^ancy Porter, and died in Ohio, May 17, 1864. Thomas
was born April 8, 1800, and died at Birmingham, Ohio, July 28,
1848. Elizabeth the second was born June 17, 1802, and died
at the Neversink home ]\Iarch 18, 1869. She was married Jan-
uary 11, 1826, to Peter C. Hall, and had seven children. Jane
was born April 21, 1804, and died in California in 1864. She
married Miles Wheaton and joined the Utah Mormons. Martin
was born April 6, 1806, and died at Townsend, Huron Co., Ohio,
in January, 1872. He married Sallie Ann Washburn. Ann was
born August 15. 1809. and was married at the X^eversink home
February 25. 1831, to Stephen Townsend. who was born there
June 30, 1807. and died ^March 25. 1883. at Mayfield. De Kalb
Co., 111. She died September 22. 1902. at Malta. De Kalb Co..
111., when past ninety-three years of age. — the oldest Denman on
record except her father, who was ninety-five, and "Patriarch
Isaac," of the Philip Denman line, who was past ninety-seven.
WILLIAM DENMAN
ANN DENMAN TOVVNSEND
FAMILY OF WILLIAM DENMAN 69
Ann Denman and Stephen Townsend were the parents of
ten children, six of whom were born in SulHvan Co., N. C, and
four in De Kalb Co.. 111., after they had crossed the country in
wagons, about a thousand miles, in 1840. IVilliam was born
November 7, 1831. and died within the same month. Amos W.
"was born September 22, 1832, and died in Sycamore, 111., xA.ugust
25, 1887. Nancy was born April 20, 1834. She married
West. Ellen was born March 3. 1836. She married Jack-
son. Frances was born March 27, 1838. and died in New York.
September 4, 1840. Louisa was born May 7, 1840. and died in
Illinois. March 28, 1843. Kate was born August 10. 1842. She
married Brundage. and died at Malta. 111., February 15.
1896. Jane was born September 16, 1845. and died February 25.
1846. IVilliam H. was born March 16. 1847. Harriet E. was
born January 15, 1849.
Henry, son of William Denman, was born February 28.
1812, and died in Pennsylvania in August, 1884. He married
Annie Wright. Samuel was born at Neversink, and died in
Ohio in 1887.
Family of William Denman and Nancy Curry. These
parents liv^ed and died in the State of New York ; but most of
their children migrated to California. They were : John, Daniel,
Michael, Stephen, Ezekiel, James, Thomas, Anna, Elizabeth,
Martin P.. and Cynthia Frances.
John was born October 27. 1820, and died in March, 1864.
Daniel was born February 3. 1822, and died in March, 1875.
Michael was born March io. 1824. and died April 26. 1906. He
was married April 29. 1851. to Mary A. Tyrrell, and had Wilbur
J., born June 29, 1853 ; Wilson R.. born June 17, 1855 ; Nancy D.,
born April 17. 1857; Mary Louise, born July 24, 1858; and Sarah
Elizabeth, born February 4, 1861. Nancy D. married Charles
Asa Raymond of Ridgefield, Conn. Stephen was born in March,
1826. and died May 23, 1850. in Sullivan Co., N. Y.,— killed by
a tree falling upon him while cutting timber. Ezekiel was born
December 2. 1827, and died in 1894. He was married in New York
state October 5, 1855. to N. Louisa Hardenburgh, who was
bom September 24. 1834, and died January 10, 1870. He was
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afterward married, August 15, 1877, to Isabel St. John. (His
family will be given separately.) James was born April 15,
1829, and died in 1909. ■ He was married in San Francisco, April
6, 1871, to Helen V. Jordan. They had a son, William, born
November 7, 1872, and a daughter, Mary, born August 8, 1879.
Thomas was born April 14. 1831, and died August 18, 1869.
Anna was born April 11, 1833. and died September 13. 1862.
Elizabeth J. was born March 14. 1837, and died December 3,
1874. She was married in Xew York to Solomon O. Barlow and
had five children, whose record will be given separately. Martin
P. was born February 2, 1839, came to California in 1864, has
always been a farmer, and lives in Santa Cruz. He was married
in Petaluma, September 26, 1866. to Antoinette Schofield, and
has a daughter and two sons. — Frances E., born July 10. 1877,
married in 1906 to Rose, lives in Berkeley ; Charles E., born
December 12, 1878, lives with his father at Santa Cruz; and
Robert S., born August 5, 1883, who is a teacher and also lives
with his father. Cynthia Frances was born February 4, 1841,
came to California in 1863, and was married December 20, 1864,
to Samuel Cassidy, editor of the Petaluma Argus, a pioneer
paper of Sonoma county. He died in 1903. She still lives in
Petaluma. Their five children are : Sarah Frances, born June
18, 1866, Librarian of Petaluma; B. Franklin, born January
16, 1870, married to Jessie Buckles, lives at Vallejo and has a
government position on ]^Iare Island. They have a son born
about 1902 and a daughter born in 1904. Samuel D. Cassidy,
born August 14, 1873, married Xellie Holland about 1904, is a
merchant' in Petaluma, and has no children. Minnie Belle Cas-
sidy, born May 2, 1875, is a teacher in the Oakland public schools.
Elizabeth J. Den man and Solomon Q. Barlow had five
children. Eva R. was born in Xew York April 17, 1861, married
in California December 16, 1881. to Thomas Mordecai. and had a
daughter, Fannie, who was born in July, 1885, married in 1908
to Walter Foster, and has two sons ; and a son, William, born
in 1888, who married Hannah Gould in 1908 and lives en the
Barlow ranch near Petaluma. Annie D. and Fanny D., twins.
FAMILY OF WILLIAM DENMAN 71
were born July 4, 1864. Fannie was married April 14. 1884, to
Rev. William H. Darden, and has a daughter, Rena, born Jan-
uary, 1888,. and a son. Earl, born in 1891. Thomas E. was born
February 2, 1867. and died in 1904. He was married in 1890 to
Laura Miller and had six children. He engaged in farming
and fruit growing near Petaluma. where his widow afterwards
carried on the business successfully, and was known as "The
Berry Queen of Sonoma County." Elizabeth L. was born Fe]>
ruary 12, 1870, and was married in 1902 to Wilbur McNeil, a
professor in a college in Honolulu. The mother of the Barlow-
family died in 1874. the father in 1895.
Ecekiel Dcnman and Louisa Hardcnburgh had six children. —
Frank H.. Xellie L.. Ida Belle, Carrie E.. John R. and Catherine
D. Prank H. was born August 7, 18.56. and married February
4, 1885, to Charlotte T. Edwards. He is president of the Peta-
luma Savings Bank, and cashier of the Sonoma County National
Bank. Nellie L. was born September 28, 1857. Ida Belle was
born November 18, 1859, and married June 8, 1887. to George
P. McNear. bank president and grain dealer in Petaluma. They
have four children. — ^Miriam, born in 1888; E. Denman, in
1889; George P. Jr., in 1891, and Louise, in 1894. Carrie E.
was born July 6. 1861, and married ]\Iarch 23, 1887. to James
Edgar Allen, and lives in Petaluma. Joh)i R. was born August
27, 1865. and married December 5. 1888. to Ella M. Parsons, and
has a son. Charles, born in 1891, and a daugter. Nellie, born in
1899. He is a farmer and dairyman near Petaluma. Catherine
D. was born February 12. 1867. and is unmarried.
Esekiel , and James were the pioneer Denmans in California,
coming by way of Panama in 1851. They began mining in
Calaveras county ; but the next year turned their attention to
farming in Sonoma county. Here Ezekiel continued till 1869,
when he engaged in banking in Petaluma ; and he was president
of the Sonoma County Bank when he died in 1894. James Den-
man. who was a graduate of the New York State Normal
School, soon began his life work, of teaching, first in Petaluma.
and then in San Francisco. His name is identified with the
history of education in that city, and is perpetuated by the
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Denman School, and the Denman Medals for Girls. He spent his
life there, dying in 1909. His son William is a lawyer there,
married in 1908. His daughter, Mary, was married in 1904 to
Major B. Franklin Cheatham of the U. S. Army, living first in
Manila, and now in Washington. D. C. They have two sons.
John Denman, the younger brother of William, was born in
November, 1776, at Ditchley, Sussex county, England, and died
August 1, 1812, at Hyde Park, Dutchess county, X. Y. He was
married in ^March, 1803, to Elizabethe Armstrong, who was born
July 27, 1776, and died August 7. 1859. They had three chil-
dren: Ann, Asahel Augustus, and Jane. Ann was born March
24, 1804, and died August 24, 1884. She married Peter Pells,
November 2, 1831, and had four children, John Peter, Elizabeth,
Mary, and Asahel Denman. Of these, John Peter married ]\Iary
Louisa Schryver, March 1, 1860, and had Mary Ella, born
December 26, 1860, and Fanny, born December 15. 1861. Eliza-
beth, born November 23, 1833, died single, date not given. Mary,
who was born ]\Iay 5, 1840, married Robert ]vIajor, February 23,
1876, and has one child. Mary Elizabeth, born January 4, 1878.
Asahel Denman Pells, who was born September 4. 1841, was
married to Esther Baker, September 24. 1878. and has three chil-
dren, Mary Esther, born October 23, 1879; Wilson Irving, born
June 21, 1881, and died July 31, 1885, and Benjamin Aleaxnder,.
born September 10, 1884.
Asahel Augustus was born November 10, 1805. and died Jan-
uary 16, 1866. He was married June 6, 1832. to Ann Secor
Peck, who was born October 16, 1810, and died November 11,
1861. They had seven sons and four daughters: Richard Nelson,
Augustus Nathan, Sarah Elizabeth, born 1837 and died 1838,
William Miller, John Frederick, born and died 1842. Anna Maria,
Mary Frances. Asahel Augustus. Jr., Frances Henry, Caroline
Peck, Arthur Rice. Richard Nelson, born March 10, 1833, was
twice married, first on June 13, 1861. to ]\Iary Emily Bishop, who
was born June 13. 1839. and died April 22, 1862. He was mar-
ried May 17, 1876, to Emilie Anna Myers, who was born Decem-
ber 10, 1834. and died January 13, 1908. No children by either
FAMILY OF JOHN DENMAN 73
marriage. Augustus Nathan, who was born November 13, 1834.
and died March 11, 1906, was married October 20. 1857, to Mary
Abigail Holmes, who was born March 10, 1837. and died August
29, 1906. They had three children: Asahel Holmes, born Novem-
ber 29, 1859, unmarried ; Charles Sing, born March 20, 1862,
married in June, 1888. to Anna Simmons and had Mary, born
February 5, 1890, and Milton Simmons, born September 1, 1891 ;
Frederick Lockwood, born September 2. 1863. married in June,
1887, to Fanny Savage, and had Craig, born Alarch 14, 1888;
Edith, born October 8. 1890; Grace, born December 2, 1891, and
Augustus Nathan, date not given.
William Miller, born January 27 , 1839, and died November 24,
1899, was married November 5, 1863, to Jennie A. Fleming, who
was born April 12, 1839. They had one child, Frederick Henry,
who was born June 21. 1866. and married June 19, 1895, to
Catherine W[ Cory and has Ruth, born x\ugust 2, 1896, and
William Miller, born May 6, 1901.
Anna ^faria was born April 24, 1843, in still unmarried and
lives in Dallas, Texas, with her next younger sister. Mary
Frances. Mary Frances was born April 15, 1846, and married
October 19, 1869, to Richard Velie Tompkins. They had chil-
dren,— George Richard, born July, 1872, and died in 1874;
Arthur Denman, born July 18. 1875. married Mary Brown, and
has two daughters, Mary Pierce and V^alerie ; Richard Velie, Jr..
born October 30, 1876, married Ethel Diamond, no issue ; Bessie
D., born July 20, 1877, married Claude Stevenson, February J19,
1907, and has Ruby Mary, born October 6, 1909 ; Mary Frankie,
born September 24, 1879. unmarried. Asa Asahel Augustus, Jr.,
was born December 3. 1848, and died October 1, 1896, unmar-
ried. Francis Henry, born January 6, 1851, was married Febru-
ary 16, 1893, to Helen Campbell, who was born December 22
1863. Their children are Richard Tompkins, born August 8
1895. and Archa Campbell, born May 23, 1900. Caroline Peck
born December 3, 1852, is unmarried and lives in Newark, N. J.
with her brother, Arthur Rice Denman, who was born February
19, 1856, and is also unmarried.
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Jane Denman, born June 1, 1807, and died December 25, 1880,
was married to Henry Clinton Lyon. May 8. 1827. Their children
were Aaron Augustus Lyon, born and died in 1828 ; John Robert,
born January 30. 1829, died unmarried, date not given; Adelaide
Elizabeth, born December 17. 1830, died in February. 1875, was
married to De Grove Lattin. December 2Z. 1849. and had three
children, — \\'illiam H., born June 24, 1851, who married Alice
Miller; Daniel B., born July 3. 1853, and married :\Iary ^lorse:
and Jane, who was born June 1. 1854, married William Wood
and had children. — William, born December, 1877, and Philip,
born December, 1879; was again married to Francis Rockwell
and had children. Julia Ann Lyon was born Octot)er 19, 1831,
and died April 20, 1853, unmarried. Horatio, born February 17,
1833, died unmarried IMarch 21, 1891. Sheridan A., born Novem-
ber 9. 1834, died in April, 1851. Asabel Denman Lyon was born
August 12, 1838, died time not given; was married Februarv 22,
1860. to Sarah Lawless. Their children were John Henry, born
June 8, 1862, and died April 26. 1864; Asabel Denman. Jr., born
September 9. 1864, was married September 3, 1885, to Sarah
Shaw and had Sarah Pauline, born June 29, 1886, and died Feb-
ruary 11, 1893. George ^^I. Lyon, born January 14, 1867, married
February 22, 1893. to Elizabeth Catherine Faust, and has Pauline
Eugenia, born June 9, 1894. Henry William Lyon, born August
29, 1840. married Rosalie Smith, July 7, 1866, and has three
daughters, Dora, Sarah Jane and Grace.
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ADDENDUM
On page 12 the statement is made that John, the eldest son of
John Denman and iNlary Williams, married Patience Yoemans,
who died in 1754, aged twenty-eight years, leaving no record
of any children ; and that no further record was found of John
himself. On page 16 it is stated that of Daniel, the third of the
four sons of John Denman and Mary Williams, no record what-
ever was found except the fact of his existence. The details
there given as gleaned from old letters and from baptismal rec-
ords, lead to some definite conclusions. Daniel, as well as John,
was married while yet in New Jersey, as a son of his was baptized
there in 1770. Since, on a later day, three of the four brothers
had children baptized, it follows that one or both of these two
men was then a man of family. The child named John, baptized
on ]\Iarch 8, 1776, was evidently the child of a father by this
time absent, from the fact that the grandfather stood' as god-
father. Since Patience Yeomans died in 1754. aged twenty-
eight, it follows that she was born in 1726. It is fair to infer
that her husband, John, was born as early as 1725, being the
eldest of four brothers whose birth dates are unknown except
that of Christopher, the youngest, in 1741. Two sisters, Mary and
Jennie, had place somewhere among the older children.
Turning to the records now collected from different points in
the south, we find the earliest location mentioned in them is
Franklin county, in northeastern Georgia. The earliest date given
is the birth of a John Denman, in Georgia, on August 8, 1781,
whose father and grandfather, we are told, had also been named
John, and were born in Georgia. These two generations would
easily fill the gap backward to the John of New Jersey, born
about 1725. Of that period we have no account, and it is not
by means of any actual record that we are able to assume the
identity of the line with that which disappeared from Xew Jersey ;
hut it is by means of incidental facts, chief of which is the re-
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appearance of the same family names. The best proof we have
is that John Denman named his eldest son Christopher, a name
found nowhere else than in this line, among all the many Denmans.
The John Dexmax who was born in 1781 married ]\Iartha
Hooper, in Georgia, and migrated to Yalabusha county, Missis-
sippi, where she died in 1837, and he in 1863. They had a family
of fifteen children, three of whom died in infancy. Those who
grew up were Christopher, ^Mathew, William, John, Richard,
Daniel, Eugene, Elvira, Alary, Susan, Louisa and Amanda. The
records of the families of some of these are more or less in-
complete and have come from widely scattered sources ; and a
few were lost by the burning of a family Bible during the Civil
War. Of CJiristoplicr, the eldest, it is only known that he h.ad
three children. — John. Ephraim. and Cynthia Ann. Mathciv's
children were.— Livonia, who married A. B. Walker and lives at
Flint, Tex., Aloses Brooks, Joshua Word, and Parks, who died
in infancy. John, who was born in 1811, had ?vIonrie. now liv-
ing at Shawnee Okla., Arminda. Arland, who was born in 1850
and now lives at Flint, Tex., and A. !\Iathew. who lives at Pres-
cott. Ark. Richard's children were, A'inson, Lafayette. Lavinia,
Louis, and Thomas, who now lives at Charleston. Aliss. Of
Daniel's children the only name known is Martha. Elvira, who
was born about 1828. married Andrew Sullivan. Their children
were, — Malvina. who married }ilark Holland. Ann Eunice, Bettie.
who married James Weeks and is now a widow without children,
Huella, and John. Elvira is still living, making her home with
Airs. Weeks at Arkadelphia. Ark. Susan married Newton Blunt ;
no record of children. Mary married Mr. Forbus, who was killed
iathe Mexican War*. Xo children.
Of the several children of John Denman of 1781, we have
our fullest records concerning the second son, Mathczv, who was
born in Georgia about 1801 and had four children ; — the daughter,
Mrs. Livonia Walker of Flint, Tex., already mentioned. Moses
Brooks who is now deceased, his family living at Granada, Miss.,
Joshua Word, and Parks who died in infancy. Joshua Word
Dexman who was born August. 1843, at Hayes Creek, Carroll
Co., Miss., was married to Mary Ellen Holland^ of Alabama,
ADDENDUM 11
lives at Mount Pleasant, Tex., and has six children ; — Clinton
Groves, born January, 1875. married Addie W'ilbanks, lives at
Hillsboro. Tex., and has Verner, Groves, Richard, Joshua, and
Kathleen; Thomas Lamar, born August, 1878, married Kathleen
Carr, and has Langton Lamar and McLean Carr ; EUa Word,
born May, 1880, married Darien Hedge, lives at La Rue, Tex.,
and has Emma Word. Joshua. Thelma, Frank Pearl, and John
Merl; Richard, born May, 1882, married Xina Crews, and has no
children; John Joshua, born June. 1885, married Marie Cotter,
lives in Ft. Worth, Tex., and has Ada Louise; Franklin Monroe,
born December, 1887, married Brodhead, and has Margaret
Ellen. This son and all other sons not located elsewhere, live at
Mt. Pleasant, Tex.
We find no records of part of this large family of John Den-
man. The third son, William, is not further mentioned. Of the
eighth son, Eugene, we find no trace of any kind ; neither is
there of the youngest two of the daughters. Louisa and Amanda.
Running back in thought to the closing years of the Revolu-
tionary War, and some years thereafter, and recalling the evi-
dence of widely scattered migration from Georgia westward,
we can account for gaps in records, and also for features in the
records obtained. It is definitely learned from two sources that
the father of John Denman of 1781 was also named John, and
that is all we know about him, except that one of our authorities
says that his father too was named John,
Observing the space of time from 1781 back to 1725. the prob-
able year of birth of the John who married Patience Yeomans, —
see above. — we safely assume that both the father from New
Jersey, and the son who must have been born there though we
have no account of it, were soldiers in the American army and
intensely engrossed in the great struggle. They and their im-
mediate descendants had much to hinder the keeping of family
records. There are several heads of later families whose parent-
age we cannot discover. Rev. ]\Ioses Denman. Dr. William Den-
man, Morgan Denman. and Felix Gilbert Denman were all in
this position. Of these the first two died in Texas after the Civil
War, and we know nothing further of them. Of Felix Gilbert
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we have records, and also of Morgan, which will be given. A
brief notice must be taken of names given children which carry
the story of the war. The efficient coadjutor of General Green
in the closing months of the war was General ^Morgan who had at
least one Denman namesake. Generals Washington and Lafay-
ette were both remembered in naming one ; and the latter name
was given to three others. Presidents ^Madison and Monroe had
each at least two such namesakes. The inference that the first
John in Xew Jersey was a soldier in the War for Liberty is rea-
sonable, since we k)iozc that his youngest brother, Christopher,
was so enrolled.
Felix Gilbert Dexmax was a young soldier in the war of
1812, entering the ranks at fourteen years of age. Was with
General Jackson at Xew Orleans. He died in Barton Co.. Ga.,
in 1861. Was a farmer of wealth, owning lands and many ne-
goes. He married X'axcy Huchesox of Virginia and had a
family of seven children ; — Monroe, Washington Lafayette, Alex-
ander Madison, Sarah Turner, Nancy. Laura, and Eliza. Of
these we have records only of the second son and the eldest
daughter.
CoLoxEL Washixgtox Lafayette Dexmax married Axge-
lixe Swaggerty of Georgia. They had three sons and three
daughters ; — SaUic who married Shirey, and had six chil-
dren; — Charles. Laura. Minnie, Leroy, Lafayette and Archie;
William Clark, who is now deceased, leaving five children; Dr.
Alexander Madison who married Mary Caroline Walker in Texas
in 1878, and had seven children. — Dr. Peyton Roland Denman of
Houston, Tex., who married Frances Wooters of Crockett, Tex.,
and has a daughter Berta ; Archie Lovell, who married David
C. Hucherson of Lufkin, Tex., and has a son, Denman Carter;
Olive Lillian. Kester Walker, Linwood Hucherson, ]\Iary Xell,
and Byford Harvey ; Marietta has no record given ; Bliza Bragg
married J. F. ]\IcCarty of Lufkin who is now deceased, and has
two children, Ellita and Spurgeon; Richard Lafayette has four
children, — Eula, Earl. Joseph Carter and Doris. Dr. A. M. Den-
man was killed in an automobile accident in 1908. Col. W. L.
ADDENDUM ' 79
Denman served in the Civil War, and died in 1866, aged sixty-
three.
Sarah Turner Dexman, eldest daughter of Felix Gilbert
Denman, was born in 1825 in Franklin Co., Georgia, and died
in 1898. She married James Allen Thompson, and had two
sons; — Rev. Gilbert Taylor Thompson, born April 15. 1847. in
Cass Co., Ga., is now pastor of Presbyterian church at Tahlequah,
Oklahoma, and has a son. Rev. James K. Thompson, D. D., pastor
of Presbyterian church at ^Muskogee, Okla. The second son.
Dr. James Allen Thoinpson, is now deceased. Being left a widow.
Mrs. Thompson married Dr. Henderson Wesley Fite, who died
in 1911. They had seven children, — Judge Augustus Warren
Fite, of Cartersville. Ga., born June 15, 1852, in Gordon Co., Ga. ;
Laura, who married Smalley and is now dead; Dr. Richard
Lafayette Fite, Tahlequah, Okla. ; Nancy J., who married
Treadwell, Lufkin, Tex. : Dr. Francis Barton Fite, Aluskogee,
Okla. ; Florence, who married Bradford, Seattle, Wash. ;
and Mary, who married 3iIontgomery, now dead; recently
married again, but name and present residence not at hand.
MILITANT DEXMANS.
Christopher Denman was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War. One of his grandsons and seven of his great grandsons
were soldiers in the Civil War. Mathias Denman was a Revolu-
tionary soldier. One of his descendants was in th'e United
States Army ; and another was in the Navy, and did service in
the Alexican War. Another fought in the Civil War. One of
the descendants of the missing brothers of Christopher Denman
was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was with Jackson at New
Orleans in 1815.
Another was a Colonel in the Civil War. Enoch Parcel, Co^'-'ttcoii -
twin brother of Esther Parcel, was killed in the battle of Spring- ^ L _ ' «
field, N. J., June 23, 1780. This is not an exhaustive list, but f~/~. ^L. l^^,
these are collected hastily from a review of the records at hand.
80 ADDENDUM
Born, in New York, July 17, 1912, Herbert Fitz-Randolph
Plass, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert EUmond Plass, grandson of
:\lr. Herbert C. Plass.
Mr. and Mrs. Mayne Raymond Denman, long of Scranton.
Pa., recently of ]Mt. Vernon. N. Y., telegraph at the last moment
the announcement of the birth of their son, Raymond Denman,
December 19. 1912.
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