Samuel Danforth and Lucy Auger of Rupert, Vermont

Samuel Danforth of Bennington, Vermont

As with his grandfather Samuel Danforth and his great grandfather another Samuel Danforth, little is known about this Samuel Danforth. Hardwick town records show that he was born on 19 March 1771 the eldest child of Jonathan Danforth and Susanna White.  He has the distinction of being the first American Danforth in our line not born in Billerica and the last to be born a subject of England. 

Samuel Danforth’s childhood but have been grim.  When he was born, his father Jonathan was a successful merchant and farmer and was a useful and respected member of the Hardwick community. He had even been elected town tax collector.  However as tension between Great Britain and Massachusetts Colony increased leading to war, his father was an obdurate Tory to the great alarm of the town. The Revolutionary War thus was a difficult time for the Danforth family of Hardwick for his father was arrested for Tory sentiments and placed under house arrest which would have limited the family’s income as towns people boycotted the businesses of suspected Tories.  Jonathan refused to accept the town had any authority over him and in violation of sanctions against him was often away from his family months at a time. On one of these occasions after being gone for a period of time Samuel Danforth’s family estate was confiscated as forfeited property. When his father returned Jonathan Danforth was put on trial as an enemy of the United States for his support of the Loyalist Ruggles family and for basically being an obdurate person.  He was acquitted of being guilty of treason and his property was returned but he moved his family to the neighboring town of Barre to wait out the war

In the meantime Samuel Danforth’s mother Susannah White Danforth died in 1779 during these hard times when Samuel was only 8 years old.  No doubt her early death was brought on by the turmoil Jonathan Danforth’s actions brought on his family. While Samuel Danforth never knew his paternal grandparents, his maternal grandparents were Rev. David White and Susannah Wells who died when he was an adolescent. His grandfather had been the minister of the Congregational Church at Hardwick for over 40 years when he died. Fortunately his grandfather Rev. David White was much beloved town and some of his uncles on both sides of the Danforth and White families had been American soldiers.  Still it can be fairly certain that Samuel Danforth grew up fairly ostracized by the other children of Hardwick.

To make matters worse, his father married Anna Ruggles in 1780, the niece of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, who had been the wealthiest man in Hardwick but had become a traitor when he and others in the Ruggles family, including Anna’s brothers,  fled to Canada rather than live under American rule. Anna Ruggles became Samuel Danforth's step mother at the age of nine and because she would have children of her own by Samuel's father, he may have been a neglected step-child. 

The war ended when Samuel Danforth was 10 years old and Great Britain recognized America’s Independence when he was 12 years old.   Samuel Danforth thus grew to young manhood as an American citizen.  After the war years, Samuel’s father regained the confidence of the townspeople of Hardwick.

Samuel Danforth was 16 years old when America adopted the Constitution of the United States and 19 when George Washington was elected the first President.  No doubt during these years he worked for his father learning the trade of being a merchant. As Jonathan’s eldest son he may have traveled to distant places such as Albany, New York and New Haven, Connecticut buying or selling merchandize.

It is not known when Samuel Danforth struck-out on his own. He is still listed in the household of his father Jonathan Danforth in Hardwick as a male over the age of 16 years in the 1790 Census.  He would have been 19 years old at the time. He had six siblings still at home, his younger full brother and sister were Jonathan age 17 and Permelia age 13.  His half siblings were Susannah Danforth age 9, Joseph Ruggles Danforth age 6, Hannah Danforth age 4 and Lyman Danforth age 2.

After 1790 and before 1790 Samuel Danforth  left the home of his father in Hardwick probably with his brother Jonathan.  He is next located  about 150 miles north west of Hardwick to  Bennington County in  the hamlets of Rupert and Dorset nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont about three miles from the state line of New York. In the decade of the 1790’s Vermont was filling up with people from the older New England States of  Massachusetts and Connecticut. Many of the Vermont communities created in the 1780's and 1790's were by Worcester County, Massachusetts people where Samuel Danforth was from. So no doubt Samuel Danforth was aware of the area either by friends and neighbors or perhaps by word of mouth in community Gazettes.

It is possible that Samuel Danforth ended up in Bennington County, Vermont because of Thomas Bassell and his wife Lydia Allcock. About 1795, Samuel Danforth married Lucy Augur a native of New Haven Connecticut. How they became acquainted is not known. However Lucy Augur's half sister Lydia Allcock had married a wealthy merchant named Thomas Bassell who in 1790 was listed as living in Dorset, Vermont, 8 miles east of the village of Rupert, Vermont.

Thomas and Lydia Basell were  important figures to Samuel Danforth and Lucy Augur wife as that their first born son was named Thomas Bassell Danforth and later a daughter was named Lydia Danforth.

Whether Samuel Danforth met Lucy Augur in New Haven, Connecticut or whether he met her later in Bennington County is unknown. He could have been lodging in New Haven and met Lucy Augur while attending church there or it  is a possibility that Lucy Augur may have come to Vermont to work in the household of her half sister Lydia Bassell who was 15 years older than Lucy. The Augur family themselves never removed to Vermont but had stayed in New Haven, Connecticut where Lucy’s father was a respected Deacon in his church.

However Vermont became Samuel Danforth home, it provided a new beginning away from the social stigma of being the son of a man still thought by many people as being disloyal to the United States. Samuel Danforth became a merchant in the village of Rupert a small farm.  He had his younger brother Jonathan and sister Permelia come to Vermont to work for him.

Lucy Augur was the youngest daughter of Deacon Abraham Augur, by his second wife Sarah Ingraham. Both her parents had been married before and had large families from previous souces.  She was born 14 July 1771 and was about four months younger than Samuel Danforth. Her mother Sarah was 43 years old and her father Abraham Augur was 47 years old at the time of Lucy’s birth.

A marriage date or location has not been located for Samuel and Lucy Danforth but as their first child was born in April 1796 they were certainly married before July 1795.  Their son was born in Rupert according to town records.  They were both about 24 years old when they married.

Lucy’s father Abraham Augur had three sons and seven daughters by his first wife Elizabeth Bradley. Her mother Sarah Ingraham's first husband was Thomas Allcock also spelled Alcott by whom she had 2 sons and 3 daughters.  Abraham Augur married the widow Sarah Ingraham Alcott on 17 February 1765 in the town of New Haven, Connecticut. Tother they had thirteen children between them when they married and Abraham and Sarah became the parents of three sons and 1 daughter more.

Abraham's parents were John Augur and Elizabeth Bradley.  John Agur was born circa 1687 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony to Robert Augur and Mary Guilbert. His grandfather Matthew Guilbert was one of the foremost men in the settlement of New Haven Colony and was a Deputy Governor of the Colony.  John was a shoemaker, and probably lived in East Haven, Connecticut Colony.  On Feb 25, 1709, a half division of land was made to  "John Augur age 21,” and this is believed to be the land on which afterward stood the house occupied by his son "Daniel Augure".  John Augur married Elizabeth Bradley on 1 July 1710 at East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.  Elizabeth Bradley was born on 16 November 1686 at Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, the daughter of Isaac Bradley and Elizabeth Clements.  John Augur died in 1726 about 40 years old and fathered four sons and three daughters before his death. His widow Elizabeth Bradley died on 17 June 1749 at East Haven, New Haven Connecticut, at age 62. The Children of Elizabeth Bradley and John Augur were Mary Augur died  24 Oct 1787 age 76, John Augur died 31 Mar 1804 about 90, Daniel Augur   b. 1716, d. 18 Feb, Isaac Augur   b. 1718, d. 29 Jan, Elizabeth Augur   b. 1722, Abraham Augur   b. 1724, d. 31 May 1798  and Lydia Augur

John's youngest son Abraham was only about two years old when his father died. Abraham Augur was born 1724 and was about two years old when his father died. He graduated at the age of 14 from Hopkins' Grammar School in 1738 which was an elementary English schools in East Haven   During this time parents wanted children who could read and write English and understand basic arithmatic.  At the age of 16 the court appointed, John Potter, Jr. as his legal guardian on 8 July 1740.   John Potter was about 45 years old. Why he chose him is unknown but when John Potter died in 1790 a Peter Augur was one of his witnesses.

Abraham Augur was living in Amity Parish where in 1742, the Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge was ordained and it was after him that the modern town of Woodbridge was named.  In 1661, the area of Amity was the location of one of the hideouts of three of the judges who signed the death warrant for King Charles I. Abraham Augur at the age of 22 years married Elizabeth Bradley on 21 May 1746 in Amity Parish.  She was probably a distant cousin of Abraham on his mother’s side. He lived in his mother in law, Martha Tuttle Bradley's house at the "old Oak Corner" until the death of his first wife Elizabeth Bradley in 1664.  Elizabeth Bradley was probably the daughter of Benjamin Bradley Jr. of Woodbridge, Connecticut. She is buried in the Hillside Cemetery in Woodbridge and her tombstone reads "Here lies ye body of Mrs. Elizabeth Auguer wife of Mr. Abraham Augur, who died Nov. 6, 1764 in the 39 year of her age A member of ye Church of Christ in Amity who lived a godly life and died in the Faith of the Gospel Also 2 of her infants lieth by her side viz Abraham and Jeremiah."

Abraham Augur wrote in his family Bible “Nov the 6^th day 1784 it pleased Almight God to take away by death my well beloved wife and loving friend which I pray God to sanctify to me and my children for our everlasting good.”

Abraham Augur married a little more than 3months later the 36 year old widow of Thomas Allcock who had died in 1760. Abraham Augur and Mrs. Sarah Allcock were married 17 February 1765 in New Haven. She was Sarah Ingraham born 18 December  1728 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She was the daughter of John Ingraham and Lydia Bruce.  Sarah Ingraham and Thomas Allcock had two sons and three daughters before Thomas Allcock died. They were David Allcock who died in infancy, Sarah Allcock wife of Joseph Peck, Anna Allcock wife of Abel Curtis, Lydia Allcock wife of Thomas Bassell, and another son named David Allcock husband of Eunice Peck.

Abraham Augur and Sarah Ingraham were the parents of  three sons and one daughter. They were Joel Augur husband of Phila Amelia Newhall, Jeremiah Augur died in infancy, Lucy Augur wife of Samuel Danforth and Abraham Augur Jr who died unmarried.   Their son Joel Augur graduated from Yale College in 1784. Abraham Augur Jr died in Philadelphia of small pox at the age of 21.  Abraham Augur Sr. recorded the death of his so Abraham as being natural and not from being inoculated. “ In the year 1795 on the 19^th of June , the God of Heaven who hath all power in hs hands seed fite to take away by death our dear son Abraham who died with the smallpox the natural way in the city of Phila.”

Abraham Augur and his children moved to New Haven where he became a “New Light" adherent. The term New Light was first used during the religious revival called the First Great Awakening which spread through the British North American colonies in the middle of the 18th century Rev. Jonathan Edwards was a leader in the Awakening, and taught experiences with grace causing a "new light" in their perspective on sin and atonement New Lights generally referred to Congregationalists and Baptists in New England who took different positions on the Awakening than the traditional branches of their denominations. New Lights embraced the revivals that spread through the colonies, Often many "new light" Congregationalists who had been converted under the preaching of George Whitefield left that connection to become "new light" Baptists when they found no evidence of infant baptism in the apostolic church.

 Abraham Augur and twenty-six others including his wife Sarah withdrew from the First Church of New Haven also known as the White Haven Church and formed a new light church called Fair Haven Church also known as the 2^nd Church of New Haven.  Sarah Augur and her first husband Thomas Allcock were members of the White Haven Church as early as 1752.

Many of Abraham Augurs children were married in the New Haven 2^nd Church including Lydia Augur and Thomas Bassell who were married 28 September 1781.  Abraham Augur was chosen a deacon in the Fair Haven Church on 11 October 1773. He held that office for twenty-five years until his death in 1798 although in 1796 the White Haven and Fair Haven reunited as the United Society Church.

In early Colonial Records Abraham Augur was an inn holder at New Haven. In May, 1767, he received 5 £ 5 shillings and 6 pence for billeting soldiers.  As conflict rose between the British and the Americans, Abraham Augur sided with the Patriots. On 6 November 1775 he voted with others that all Tories “be desired peacefully to depart from the town as soon as may be.” On 11 December 1775 he was chosen as one of a "Committee of Inspection" to look after Tories and “expose their machinations.”  During the revolution from 1776 to 1779 he served as a selectman for the town of New Haven and after the war he was elected to terms in 1783, 1784, and 1785. A charter incorporating the City of New Haven was granted 8 January 1784, and at the first election, on 21 January 1784, Abraham Augur was chosen councilman.  

Abraham Augur died 31 May 1798 30 days after his wife Sarah had died on 1 May 1798 in New Haven. They was buried in the old burying groun, but his tombstone was later removed to the Augur family plot in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven. His tombstone reads, “In Memory of Deacon Abraham Augur who died 21 May 1798 age 74.”

It is doubtful that Lucy Augur Danforth ever saw her parents again after her marriage as they died three years afterwards.  When her parents died Lucy was pregnant with her second son.

 Samuel Danforth and Lucy Augur named their first child Thomas Bassell Danforth .  Thomas Bassell Danforth was born 7 April 1796 in Rupert, Bennington County, Vermont.  The following year, Samuel Danforth's only brother, Jonathan Danforth died while home in Hardwick  on 3 April 1797. Jonathan was 26 years old and had never married.  The following year on 15 October 1798 another son was born in Rupert. He was named Samuel after his father.

The 1800 Census, taken after August, listed Samuel Danforth as living in the neighboring village of Dorset in Bennington County. Dorset was known for the marble quarries located there. He is listed as a free white male between the ages of 26 and 44. His actual age would have been 29 years old. He is listed with three males under the age of 10. They would have been Thomas Bassell Danforth, Samuel Danforth Jr, and Charles Danforth.  Another male listed as between 16 and 25 years is unidentified. It is not his younger brother Jonathan who died in 1797.  His half brother Lyman would have only been 12 years old in 1800.

There are three females listed in Samuel's home, only one being identified as his wife Lucy Augur Danforth. She is listed as being between 26 and 44 and her real age was 29 years old like her husband. The other women were an adolescent between 10 and 15, and  an adult over 45 years old.

While the census stated that the family was enumerated in Dorset, Rupert’s vital records stated that Charles Danforth was born 26 August 1800 and listed the residence of Lucy Danforth as Rupert.

Lucy Augur's half sister Lydia and her husband Thomas Bassell had moved to Troy, New York  by 1800.  Troy is about 50 Miles southwest of Rupert.  Close enough for family visits on occasions.   A tax record showed that in September 1800 Thomas Bassell was taxed on land worth $1750 and personal property worth $640.  The 1810 Census placed Thomas Bassell in a suburb of Troy called Lansingburg.  When he died in 1825 he was called Capt. Thomas Bassell and he is buried in the Lansingburg cemetery next to his wife Lydia who died in 1836. They died without having any known children.  However both Sarah Peck and Lucy Danforth, sisters in law of Thomas Bassell,  both named sons after him, Thomas Basil Peck and Thomas Bassell Danforth.

In 1802 Samuel Danforth lost his sister Permelia Danforth to fever on 16 December at the young age of 25 years.  She was living with Samuel Danforth and Lucy Augur.  She was unmarried and buried in the Rupert Cemetery.   Permelia was probably in Rupert to take care of Lucy and her young children as that Lucy was pregnant with her fourth child who was born about a month after the death of Samuel’s sister. A girl was born on 11 January 1803 that was named after Lucy’s half sister Lydia Bassell and Samuel’s sister Permelia.

Two years later a son named Jonathan Edwards Danforth was born 15 February 1805 and a daughter named Susannah White Danforth was born 5 May 1807. All these children were born in Rupert, Vermont.  These two children were named after Samuel Danforth’s parents although Jonathan might have also been named for Jonathan Edward the great New England minister.

Samuel Danforth was listed as living in the village of Rupert in the 1810 Census. He was the father of three more children by his wife Lucy Augur than he had in 1800. The 1810 Census reported Samuel Danforth's household as containing 11 people with 7 of them being under the age of 16 years. Samuel Danforth was listed as being been 26 and 44 as that he was 39 years old. Two males were listed as under 10 years and they were probably Charles and Jonathan Edward. Two males were adolescents between 10 and 15 years old. They were 14 year old Thomas Bassell and 12 year old Samuel Junior. Two female children under the age of ten were Lydia Permelia and Susannah.  One female adolescent was listed as born between 1795 and 1800. There is no known daughter that could have met these criteria so she may have simply been a servant.  Three adult women are listed in Samuel's household only one being his wife Lucy who was 39. A young woman between the age of 16 and 25 and an older woman between the ages of 26 and 44 were also listed as a part of his household. 

In 1812 a second war with Great Britain broke out when Great Britain was interfering with the sovereignty of the United States. At the age of 41 years Samuel Danforth enlisted for  a term of a few months and his troop went to Lake Eire to fight the British in Canada. He was mustered out in 1813 but his 17 year old son Thomas Bassell Danforth also enlisted and fought with the American Regulars.  They may have traveled through western New York and saw the potential of the region.

On 25 July 1815 Lucy Augur Danforth gave birth to a daughter when she was 44 years old. She had complications from the birth and never recovered her strength. She may have died of Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever, a bacterial infection in the days before antibiotics.  Signs and symptoms usually included a fever and it usually occurs after the first 24 hours and within the first ten days following delivery.

On 9 August 1815  Lucy Augur Danforth died leaving seven children behind, the eldest being 19 years old and the youngest less than a month old.  She was buried in the Rupert Street Cemetery beneath a tombstone with the inscription: "Here Lies The Body of the Wife of Samuel Danforth 9th August 1815.

It is doubtful that Samuel remained a widow for long as that four of his children were under the age of 12 and one was an infant. He did remarry to a woman named Mary who had children of her own so she would have been a widow but her last name is unknown.

The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June and every month of the year had a hard frost. On June 11, 1816 a temperature drop of 30 degrees was recorded in Williamstown Massachusetts just 45 miles to the south of Rupert.  Frozen birds dropped dead in the fields and many Vermont farmers who had already shorn their sheep had them freeze to death. A Bennington Vermont farmer wrote in his diary that it rained all night then began to snow from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. "The heads of all the mountains on every side were crowned with snow. The most gloomy and extraordinary weather ever seen." Temperatures dropped to as low as 40 degrees in July and August as far south as Connecticut. It was also known as ‘Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death’ and the ‘Poverty Year.’

The Year Without A Summer had a far-reaching impact. Crop failures caused hoarding and big price increases for agricultural commodities. People went hungry. Farmers gave up trying to make a living in New England and started heading west.  Accordingly, Vermont alone experienced a decrease in population of between 10,000 and 15,000, erasing seven previous years of population growth. It was probably during this time the Danforth Family moved away from Bennington County. 

After the death of his wife, Samuel Danforth moved from Rupert to Windsor, Massachusetts where  he is enumerated in the 1820 U.S. Census.   His oldest sons, 24 year old Thomas Bassell Danforth and 22 year old Samuel Danforth Junior had already left home by that year may have already moved to the Fingers Lake District of New York State as part of the general westward movement from New England.  They are however not listed as heads of any house hold and were probably working as laborers.  They even may have stayed in Rupert as that is where Samuel Danforth Jr married in 1823. 

The 1820 United States Census enumerated Samuel Danforth’s household on 7 August 1820 consisting of 9 individuals, five of whom were under 15 years old born after 1805. A male child under the age of 10 is unidentified. He cannot be Jonathan Edward Danforth who was born in 1805 and is probably one of the two boys  listed between the age of 10 and 15. This would indicate that the two unidentified boys were the sons of Samuel's second wife Mary.  The male listed as between 16 and 25 was certainly Charles Danforth real age 20 who was attending College at nearby Williamstown. 

Samuel Danforth Sr was enumerated as a male over 45 years and his real age was 49 years.  A female child under the age of 10 would have been Lucy Augur Danforth age 5 years old.  Susannah White Danforth was listed as a female 10 to 15 years old and whose real age was 13 years old and Lydia Permelia Danforth who was 17 years old was listed as a free white female between the age of 16 and 25.   Mary Danforth was listed as between the ages of 26 and 44 which would have made her born between 1776 and 1796. 

In is not known when Samuel Danforth Senior moved to Ithaca to keep a store there but it was probably around 1823. Two of Samuel Danforth’s sons, Samuel Danforth Jr and Jonathan Danforth were both married in 1823 when Samuel Danforth relocated to the village of Ithaca.  Jonathan E Danforth married Matilda Haywood in 1823 as that their first child William Danforth was born in October 1824.  The Haywoods were from Dutchess County, New York.  William Danforth might have been the only grandchild Samuel Danforth ever knew.  Matilda F Haywood was the daughter of

Samuel Danforth Junior having made some money went to Rupert, Vermont to marry his child hood sweetheart Harriett Brown whom he married 17 September 1823 in Rupert by Rev. Daniel Marsh. 1762-1843 Congregational Church.

Ithaca is located on the southern shore of Cayunga Lake in central New York. That area of New York was some 235 miles west of Williamstown was a bustling frontier community and economically prosperous with the construction of the Eire Canal linking the Great Lakes with the port of New York City. Transient teamsters and salt barge workers gave the town a rowdy reputation in its pioneer days, and the fledgling village seemed doomed as the “most isolated place on the Eastern Seaboard.”

Ithaca became a transshipping point for salt from curing beds near Salina.  This prompted construction in 1810 of the Owego Turnpike. Then when the War of 1812 cut off access to Nova Scotia gypsum used for fertilizer, Ithaca became the center of trade in Cayuga gypsum. By 1821, with a population of 1000 the village was incorporated at the same time was organized and separated from the parent Town of Ulysses. The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 (and of a canal connecting Cayuga Lake to it opened trade routes to both Ohio and eastern New York.  Today Ithaca is the home of Cornell University.

The census listed four individuals engaged in agriculture which suggested that Samuel Danforth Sr was farming during this period with the help of his sons Charles and Jonathan and one of his step son.  The family perhaps stayed in Windsor until 1823 when Charles Danforth attended Williams College.  He is the only son of Samuel Danforth that was given a higher education and graduated there in 1826.

Charles Danforth was converted to the Presbyterian religion and decided that he wanted to go into the ministry.  The campus in Williamstown, in the Berkshires of rural northwestern Massachusetts was founded in 1793. By 1815, Williams had only two buildings and 58 students and was in financial trouble, so the board voted to move the college to Amherst, Massachusetts.

In 1821, the president of the college, decided to proceed with the move and he took 15 students with him, and re-founded the college under the name of Amherst College. Some students including Charles Danforth and professors decided to stay at Williams and were allowed to keep the land, which was at the time relatively worthless. Edward Griffin was appointed President of Williams and is widely credited with saving Williams during his 15-year tenure. When Griffin came to Williams College in 1821, it had two professors; one planned to move, and the other was gravely ill. Griffin raised funds and saved the college. An alumnus of Williams College in the 1850's was President James Garfield.

Samuel Danforth died not long after settling in Ithaca on 17 December 1824 at the age of 53 years. He was survived by his widow Mary Danforth and all of his children and the one grandchild.  Thomas Bassell Danforth was 28 years old and Samuel was a married man age 26.  Charles Danforth was 24 years old, and Lydia P. Danforth was 21 years old and would marry the next summer.  Jonathan E Danforth was married and thus the only children still at home would have been 17 year old Susannah W Danforth and 9 year old Lucy A Danforth.  Samuel Danforth is said to have been buried in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York but no marker has been located.

Samuel Danforth’s death must have been sudden as he died intestate without a will and his second wife Mary was granted administrix to the estate on 15 January 1825. In that record he is listed as "of Ithaca".  No probate record has been found to show the distribution of Samuel Danforth’s estate but a third would have gone to his widow and the remaining 2/3 to his seven children.

His widow is listed simply as Mrs. Danforth in the 1830 Census of Newfield in Tompkins County.  She is listed between the ages of 50 and 59. This would give her birth between 1771 and 1780. Compared to the 1820 census this would suggests she was born between 1776 and 1780.  In her household were  just her and a female age between 15 and 19 years old. This may have been Lucy Augur Danforth as she was born in 1815. It also could have been simply a hired girl.  All of Samuel Danforth’s children were scattered by this time. The 1840 census listed Mary Danforth as between the ages of 60 and 69 consistent with the 1830. However the girl is gone and Mary Danforth has only a male between the ages of 20 and 29 living in her household. This male was born between 1811 and 1820  which is also consistent with a the age of a male in Samuel Danforth's 1820 census.  He is probably an unmarried son taking care his mother.

There is no record of Mary Danforth's death or what were the names of her sons. Interestingly the 1840 Census stated that one of the people in the household was engaged in commerce which was the trade of Samuel Danforth.  This probably was the male.

 After the death of Samuel Danforth Senior, his children all were drawn to different sections of the country.  Although they had a grandfather still living in Hardwick, Massachusetts and also had some half-aunts and uncles in the east, the children of Samuel Danforth seemed to be drawn by the great migration urge of the 1820's and 1830's which were pulling Americans into the lands west of the Appalachia Mountains or to better prospects in the Southern States. 

Whether there was friction between their stepmother or some other issue, Thomas B Danforth, his brother Samuel Danforth, and his wife and son, and the youngest daughter Lucy Danforth all moved out of New England to Augusta, Georgia.   Thomas B Danforth and his brother’s family were there by 1825 and Lucy probably came when she reached her majority.

In 1825 New York land prices were rising but the economy stagnating but why the oldest sons of Samuel Danforth chose to move to the Southern States is a mystery when the natural migration was west into Ohio.  They did have second cousins who had moved to Augusta, Georgia in the 1770’s.  Samuel Danforth’s cousin Joshua Danforth was a merchant farmer in Georgia and is likely Samuel Danforth may have had correspondence with him as they were both merchants. Thomas Bassell Danforth and his brother Samuel Danforth Junior remained in the South for the rest of their lives and raised their families there. Samuel Danforth Jr remained in Georgia where Thomas B Danforth would move further west and settle in Mississippi.

It is likely that these brothers did not leave Ithaca until after the marriage of their sister Lydia Permelia Danforth in July of 1825.  She married a farmer named Henry Seymour Nash and is the only one of Samuel Danforth’s children to have remained in the area of Ithca.

THOMAS BASSELL DANFORTH of Desoto County, Mississippi

Thomas Bassell Danforth was born 7 April 1796 Rupert, Bennington, Vermont and named after his mother’s brother in law Thomas Bassell a merchant in Lansingburg, New York. When he was born his father, Samuel, was 25 and his mother, Lucy, was 24. He died in September 1877 at the age 81 years in Coldwater, Tate, Mississippi. He was married three times and had six sons and five daughters. After moving to Georgia where he was a merchant and farmer he married Matilda Burdine the daughter of John Burdine circa 1824  Wilkes County, Georgia.  She died young and he married her older sister Sophia Burdine. He had four children by this union before his wife passed away in Tennessee. He married as his third wife Lucretia Morgan  the daughter of Theophilus Morgan. They were married on  2 June 1845 in Hernando, DeSota, Mississippi. He had six more off springs by his 2^nd wife. He died in September 1877 in Coldwater, Tate County Mississippi, having lived a long life of 81 years, and was buried in Mississippi.
1. Samuel "Oscar" Danforth born 1825 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia. When Oscar F Danforth was born  his father, Thomas, was 28 and his mother, Matilda, was 16. He married Virginia Elizabeth Jessup on June 5, 1851, in Todd, Kentucky. They had six children in 10 years. He died on June 2, 1879, at the age of 55.
2. John Burdine Danforth born 1827 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia. When John Burdine Danforth was born his father, Thomas, was 32 and his mother, Sophia, was 23. He had five brothers and five sisters. He died as a child in March 1834 in Fayette, Tennessee.
3. Matilda Susan Danforth born 1831 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia When Matilda Susannah Danforth was born her father, Thomas, was 34, and her mother, Sophia, was 25. She had six brothers and four sisters. She died as a teenager in April 1844 in Desota County, Mississippi.
4. William Robert “Billy” Danforth born 1833 Canton, Twigg County, Tennessee When William Reuben Danforth was born  his father, Thomas, was 37 and his mother, Sophia, was 28. He married Alabama Tennessee Thomas on October 14, 1858, in Carroll, Tennessee. He died in 1863 at the age of 30 probably in the Civil War.
5. Sophia Danforth born 27 July 1847 Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Mississippi.  When Sophia Danforth was born her father, Thomas, was 51, and her mother, Lucretia, was 33. She married J D Richard Taylor on July 1, 1876, in Coldwater, Mississippi. She died in 1880 in Coldwater, Mississippi, at the age of 33, and was buried in Senatobia, Mississippi. No issue.
6. Theophilus Bassell Danforth born 12 March 1849 Fluellen Crossroads, DeSota, Missossippi. When Theophilus Bassell Danforth was born on his father, Thomas, was 52 and his mother, Lucretia, was 35. He married Minerva Ann Holt and they had eight children together. He then married Angnett Besley on October 29, 1899, in Gordon, Texas. He died on March 24, 1930, in Lingo, Roosevelt Couny, New Mexico, at the age of 81.
7. Alice Anne Danforth born 24 February 1852 Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Mississippi. When Alice Anne Danforth was born Thomas, was 55, and her mother, Lucretia, was 38. She had four sons and four daughters with Percy Robert Nicholson between 1873 and 1892. She died on February 14, 1934, in Crosbyton, Crosby County, Texas, at the age of 81.
8. Charles Bryant Danforth 31 August 1854 Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Mississippi. When Charles Bryant Danforth was born his father, Thomas, was 58 and his mother, Lucretia, was 40. He had one son with his common law wife Alice Keaton in 1884. He died on January 12, 1934, in Crittenden, Arkansas, at the age of 79, and was buried in Memphis, Tennessee.
9. Lucy Lucretia Danforth born 12 October 1857  Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Ms
10. Harriett Brown Danforth born 10 April 1861 Marshall County, Mississippi. When Harriett Brown Danforth was born her father, Thomas, was 65, and her mother, Lucretia, was 47. She had seven brothers and five sisters. She died as a child in 1870.

SAMUEL DANFORTH Jr. of Wilkes County, Georgia 

Samuel Danforth Junior was born 15 October 1798 in Rupert, Bennington, Vermont and  died circa 1853 age about 55 years in Dansburg, Wilkes County, Georgia. He married Harriett Brown on 17 September 1823 in Rupert, Bennington, Vermont. When Samuel Danforth was born his father, Samuel, was 27 and his mother, Lucy, was 27. He and Harriet Brown hey had six children in 15 years. He died in 1855 in Augusta, Georgia, at the age of 57

The 1830 census listed Samuel Danforth as living in District 180 in Wilkes County, Georgia.  He had acquired 14 slaves within the five years he had moved to Georgia and had 21 persons, white and black living within his household.  He was 32 years old in 1830 and is listed as a free white male between the ages of 30 and 39.  His wife Harriet Brown Danforth was a free white female between the ages of 20 and 29.  There are three children listed in the household. 1 male and 2 females all under the age of 10. Two other adults, a male and female ages between 20 and 29 were also listed in Samuel’s household. They probably worked for Samuel and may have been an overseer as that Samuel had so many people held in bondage.  Three African Americans  1 male and 2 females were listed as between the ages of 55 and 99.  Two African Americans males were listed as between 36 and 54 years old  and 3 males were between 24 and 35 years old. Two males and 3 females were between the ages of 10 and 23 years and only a boy was under 10 years old.  Six of the African Americans held in bondage were males and certainly were farmer workers.

Records of a blacksmith account book of Samuel Danforth from 1836 and 1838 is preserved in the Duke University archives.

The 1840 Census showed that the family of Samuel Danforth Jr was still located in Wilkes County now in District 178. Eighteen people both free and enslaved were listed in his household with five people employed in Agriculture. This would probable meant his slaves as they was 5 African American males listed of the age to be farm workers.

Samuel Danforth Jr would have been 42 years old when the census was taken and he is listed as a free white male between the ages of 40 and 49. His wife Harriett Brown Danforth was listed as a free white female between the ages of 30 and 39.  Children within the household were a teenage boy between the ages of 15 and 19 born between 1821 and 1825, an adolescent girl between the ages of 10 and 14 born between 1826 and 1830, another girl between the ages of 5 and 9 years born between 1831 and 1835 and 2 infant girls under the age of 5 born between 1836 and 1840. 

Two other adults lived within this household a free white male between the ages of 30 and 39 and a free white male between the ages of 20 and 29.  The enslaved African Americans was a youth between ages of 10 and 23, three males between 36 and 54, 1 male between the ages of 55 and 99.  The female African Americans were 3 girls under the age of 10, 1 female between the ages of 10 and 23 years and a female between the ages of 24 and 35 years.

The 1850 Census for the family of Samuel Danforth was taken the 4 September and included several people who probably worked for him as well. He is listed in Division 94 of Wilkes County, Georgia as “Saml Danforth age 52 and born in Vermont and whose occupation was a merchant. Harriet T Danforth was age 48 born in Vermont and Emma Danforth was age 10 born in Georgia and attending school. None of Samuel Danforth’s other children are residing in his household.

Three men and a woman were listed in Samuel’s household who were either lodgers or worked for him. They were a woman named A S Reab age 55 who was listed as a native of North Carolina.  This person is certainly Almira Sarah Brown Reab the widowed sister of Harriet.  She should have been listed as a native of Vermont. She was the widow of George B Reab who died 15 Sep 1823 at the age of 32.   George Reab had been a Prisoner of War during the War of 1812 and married Almira Brown in 1816.  They had at least one son George B Reab Jr born in 1817.  Almira Brown Reab lived with her sister until her death circa 1850. Letters Almira wrote to relatives in the north talked about adjusting to life in the South and are preserved in the Duke University in North Carolina.

The other lodgers were John Collins age 22 whose occupation was clerk and a native of North Carolina, H. Dowdy age 45 whose occupation was a tailor and a native of Virginia, and Wylie Bryant an 18 year old farmer and native of Georgia.

The Slave schedules for 1850 show that Samuel Danforth still enslaved eight African Americans. Four males and four females. The oldest is a female age 50 followed by a female 48, a male 45, a female 30, a male 25, a male 20, a male 11 years old and a female 10 years old. The eleven year old is listed as a “Mulatto” while all the others were listed as black.

It is not known when Samuel Danforth Jr died. But an account found in acts passed by the Georgia’s General Assemby show that he died prior to 28 February 1856 “ An Act for the relief of Martha W Clower of the county of Clarke, Harriet T. Danforth of the county of Wilkes, Mary Ann Barnett of the county of Baldwin, Anna Bulkley and Harriet Seymore of the county of Paulding, Sarah Mann Tant, and Eleanor Maloney of the county of Richmond, and Susan Price of the county of Wilkes. Approved 28 February 1856.  Why Harriet T Danforth required relief is unknown unless her husband died in a state of debt.

Samuel Danforth died before the 1860 Census was taken on 19 June 1860. Previous census records show that he was the father of at least one son and four daughters.  His widow Harriet is listed as H.T. Danforth in the 1860 Census of Wilkes County, Georgia whose PO address was the village of Washington. She was listed as 55 years old and born in Vermont and her occupation was given as “hotel keep”.  An account book for a boarding house ran by Harriet T Danforth from 1857 through 1860 is preserved in the Duke University Archives.  Washingto is about 12 miles southwest of Danburgh.

Her daughter Emma N. was a 19 year old school teacher. Living in her household were her married daughter Louisa E Walton, her son in law John H. Walton and grandchildren Charles C Walton and Robert E Walton.  Lodgers were a 25 year old clerk named W.T Anderson, a 23 year old Harness maker named Charles Quinn, and a 25 year old doctor named Henry Faust.

After the Civil War Harriet T Danforth is listed as 67 years old and living within the household of an African American domestic servant age 70 who was named Bina Burton. Also within the household was a 29 year old house painter named Thomas D Moore. Harriet Danforth was listed without an occupation just “at home.”  The census was taken 23^rd of August 1870 with the Post Office Address was Washington.   Bina Burton was enumerated at the 366 dwelling and Harriet Danforth’s physican son in Law John Walton was listed at the 362 dwelling. He was worth $3000 in real estate and $1000 in personal estate. Between John Walton and his mother in law were several African American farmers and domestic servants probably former slaves of the Walton family.

In 1871 Harriet Danforth returned to Danburgh when she was appointed Post Mistress for the town but the Military Government that controlled Georgia after the war. Her salary was $22.  She would continue to be Post Mistress for the village until her death in 1882 when Emma Wynn was appointed to replace her on 9 May 1882.

The last census in which Harriet Brown Danforth is located is the 1880 census  taken on 18 June. She is listed as a widow age 78 and mother in law to Dr. John Walton in whose household she is living.  Her occupation was listed as Post Mistress.

1. William Brown Danforth born  in Vermont, when his father, Samuel, was 27 and his mother, Harriet, was 23. He married Nancy R. Dunaway on January 13, 1843, in Wilkes, Georgia. They had six children in 16 years. He died on March 5, 1899, in Pulaski, Georgia, at the age of 74.
2. Lucy Danforth born 1829 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia. No more knowledge
3. Louise E Danforth was born in 1830 in Augusta, Georgia, when her father, Samuel, was 32, and her mother, Harriet, was 28. She married John H Walton on December 21, 1848, in Wilkes, Georgia. They had six children in 12 years. She died in 1892 in Danburgh, Georgia, at the age of 62, and was buried there.  In 1860 this family owned 29 slaves.
4. Miss Danforth 1835 died young. No more information
5. Emma Almira Danforth was born on July 6, 1840, in Wilkes, Georgia, when her father, Samuel, was 41, and her mother, Harriet, was 38. She married Samuel K. Wynn on February 11, 1864, in her hometown of Danburgh. They had three children in 11 years. She died on April 21, 1925, in her hometown at the age of 84.

REV. CHARLES DANFORTH of Lorain County, Ohio

 Samuel Danforth's third son Reverend Charles Danforth Rev. Charles Danforth was born in Rupert, Vt., 23 August  1800.  He  was fitted for college with the Rev Mr. Moses Hallock, of Plainfield, and entered college in 1822. Moses Hallock  taught a classical school in his home in Plainfield. He “began to receive students into his family” and started his preaching and teaching that continued for more than 30 years. For a dollar a week the person received board and tuition. This source says that Hallock taught over 300 students of whom 132 entered college and 50 became ministers and six becoming missionaries. In the records of Williams College it is said that for a long time in the early struggles of that institution, the question of how many students were to enter at the beginning of each college year depended in a great measure upon the number Mr. Hallock could furnish. Half the class were not infrequently from his school...

He studied theology at Auburn New York which was home to Auburn Theological Seminary once one of the preeminent theological seminaries in the United States. Charles Danforth graduated in 1826 with a degree in divinity from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. 

He was licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of Cayuga, New York that included the village of Ithaca to do the work of the evangelist, and first engaged in the work of the ministry at Graham Fork in Jennings County, Indiana. He remained in this field only a portion of one year. He next passed some time in different places, till he came to Austinsburg, in Ashtabula County in  the northeastern most part of Ohio.

Reverend Charles Danforth married in April 1830 a 30 year old Presbyterian lady named Cornelia Flower Sadd originally from Hartford, Connecticut.  Reverend Charles Danforth and Cornelia Sadd were the parents of only four known children, Edward Griffin Danforth, Mary E. Danforth, Charles Franklin Danforth and Cornelia Lydia Permelia Danforth.  

As an Evangelist, Rev. Charles Danforth traveled to various areas where Presbyterian churches were being formed. “Dr. Danforth labored in different places as a domestic missionary. “In 1831 he labored in the bounds of the Miami Presbytery Ohio. Here his ministry was much blessed, and about eighty persons were added to the church in the space of two years.”  Rev. Charles Danforth’s son Edward Griffin Danforth was born while he was residing in Bath Township in what was then Medina County near Lorain County.

We next find him in Orwell, Highland, Ohio where he was much encouraged by an interesting revival. His son Charles Franklin Danforth was born in 1836 while residing in Orwell in Ashtabula County.

By 1839 he was in Springfield, Pennsylvania where his youngest daughter was born in 1839. “He passed some time, and an interesting work of grace occurred, in which some eighty persons were added to the church.”

Afterwards he labored some few years in the bounds of the Chillicothe Presbytery, where more than forty persons were brought into the kingdom.” Records show that he was in the Chillocothe Presbytery from 1842 through 1852 but he “was permitted to labor for a season, and to witness evident tokens of God’s presence and blessing” in other places all in Northern Ohio and Chautauque county, New York.” In Ohio he secured a position as the minister of the Brush Creek Presbyterian Church in Highland County, Ohio where he served for almost 35 years until he retired. 

The 1850 U.S.  Census dated 3 September 1850, shows that Reverend Charles Danforth was living in the Brush Creek Township in Highland County, Ohio.  He gave as his occupation "preacher" and said he was 50 years old and born in Vermont.  His wife's  name is mistakenly listed as Permelia instead of Cornelia.  The children in the household were Charles F. Danforth age 13 and Lydia Permelia Danforth age 10 both born in Ohio.  Why Edward G Danforth and Mary E Danforth were not enumerated is unknown but may have been away at school. Edward G Danforth would have been 18 years old and Mary E Danforth would have been 16 years old.

“About 1854 Mr. Danforth  took up his residence in Oberlin and preached occasionally, but devoted most of his time to secular employments. He however much regretted in his last days that he had turned aside from the work of the ministry. In nothing did he find so much delight as in preaching the gospel.”

Rev. Charles Danforth was able to provide a Repertory education for all his children at Oberlin College. Edward G Danforth attended school from 1857 to 1860, Mary E. Danforth attended from school 1854 to 1855 and in 1856 attended college and graduated in 1858 with a degree in literature.  Charles Franklin Danforth attended school from 1854 through 1857 and college from 1858 through 1862.  Lydia Cornelia Danforth attended school form 1854 through 1856 and college from 1856 to 1860 when she got a degree in literature like her older sister.

The 1860 Census show that Rev. Charles Danforth family was living in the town of Oberlin in Lorain County Ohio as of the 20th of June.  Charles Danforth is a 59 year old Clergyman worth $2500 in real estate and personal property worth $200. In his household is his 55 year old wife Cornelia F Danforth , 28 year old Edward Danforth, 23 year old Charles F Danforth, 21 year old Cornelia Danforth and 21 year old Henrietta  Matson. Charles and the women were all listed as students and Charles has $150 worth of personal property almost as much as his father.  Henrietta Matson was probably a lodger and friend of Cornelia.  Edward’s occupation was given as “tinner”.  A tinner was a tinsmith who made usually small items for sale out of tin. It’s a trade he would do for the rest of his life.  The daughter Mary Danforth was already married at the time of this census.

When the Civil War began in 1861, Edward Griffin Danforth served as a Corporal in Company K of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry from July 1861 through 1862. Both Reverend Charles Danforth and his brother Jonathan Edward Danforth had sons who served in the Northern Union Army during the Civil War while their brothers Thomas Bassell Danforth and Samuel Danforth ahd sons who fought for the Confederacy.

When the war ended Reverend Charles Danforth went to live with his son's family In the winter of 1867 “Mr. Danforth became quite feeble. In the spring he availed himself of a favorable opportunity to make a public confession of his sins, and fully resolved to devote himself more entirely to the Lord. In this peaceful state of mind he lingered for some weeks, and in a peaceful frame of mind bid adieu to earth. He had his reason to the last, saying, “the Saviour is with me.”  He died 29 April 1867 at the age of 66.

His widow Cornelia Sadd Danforth moved back to Brush Creek in Highland County to live with her daughter Mary and her husband Thomas Jefferson McKeehan who was a dry goods merchant there. She died 28 November 1878 in Sinking Springs at the age of 73. 
p.334-5. History of the Presbytery of Erie - "CHARLES DANFORTH. 1829-1867. Charles Danforth, the son of Samuel and Lucy (Auger) Danforth, was born at Rupert, Bennington County, Vermont, on the 23d day of August, 1800. His father was son of Jonathan Danforth, of Hardwick, Mass. His mother, Lucy Auger, was a native of New Haven, Conn. He was fitted for college by Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plainfield, Mass. He graduated at Williams College in 1826. His was a life of struggles and vicissitudes. With a desire to work for the cause of Christ, and for the good of souls, he found the way often full of obstacles and sore discouragements. There was to his inner ear the voice, " Go work to-day in my vineyard," and the discouraging thought, that weakness of constitution and narrowness of means would be in his way; so he pressed on in study and resolution, possibly one of the martyrs of the church militant. His theological education was obtained at Auburn Theological Seminary, where he was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Cayuga, in 1829; and, at the same meeting, ordained to do the work of an evangelist. He soon after went out to labor in the States of Ohio and Indiana. He afterwards labored several years in the bounds of the Presbyteries of Miami and Chilicothe. On the 11th of April, 1838, he became a member of the Presbytery of Erie, and removed from its bounds in 1840. He labored for a time in Springfield, Pa. In April, 1830, Mr. Danforth was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia F. Sadd, daughter of Harry Sadd, of Austinburg, Ohio. They have had five children, three daughters and two sons. The second daughter went as a missionary to Africa, and was connected with the Mendi Mission. Whilst there she became the wife of Rev. S. J. Whiton, of the same mission. After laboring a little more than a year in that benighted land, she was called to rest in Jesus. Her departure was greatl lamented by all who knew her. Mr. Danforth adhered to the New School branch at the division. During the last years of Mr. Danforth's life, he suffered greatly from ill health. In fact, for several years he had no pastoral charge, but resided at Oberlin, Ohio, preaching occasionally as opportunity offered and strength permitted. In the spring of 1867, he was greatly afflicted with lameness, and other symptoms of failing health. His liver became complicated with disease of the lungs, when he rapidly sunk. He died at Oberlin, Ohio, on the 29th day of April, 1867, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his ministry. In the last weeks of his life, he made a thorough reexamination of his hope, and felt that he could trust all in Christ. The Rock seemed firmer under his feet,"
1. Edward Griffin Danforth was born on May 20, 1831, in Bath, Ohio, when his father, Charles, was 30 and his mother, Cornelia, was 26. He married first Rosella Angelia Paige on May 10, 1865, in Lorain County, Ohio. However this marriage did not last and they divorced. He then married on 6 Novemeber 1866 Mary Belinda Burr and they had one daughter together. He died on May 21, 1919, in Springfield, Ohio, at the age of 88, and was buried there. Edward Griffin Danforth enlisted with the 41st Ohio Vol. Inf. (Gen. Hazen's Regt.) and took part with the regiment in the battle of Shiloh, and was in the service one year when sickness unfitted him for duty and he was discharged from service. “He has never fully recovered”. He is a tinner and works at his trade. Located in Springfield, Ohio.
2. Mary Elizabeth Danforth was born on February 28, 1833, in New Jersey, when her father, Charles, was 32, and her mother, Cornelia, was 27. She had two sons and five daughters with Thomas Jefferson McKeehan between 1859 and 1879. She died on April 28, 1882, in Sinking Spring, Ohio, at the age of 49, and was buried there.
3. Charles Franklin Danforth was born on September 20, 1836, in Orwell, Ohio, when his father, Charles, was 36 and his mother, Cornelia, was 31. He married Mrs. Augusta Richardson Pierson on November 22, 1862, in Lorain, Ohio. They had one child during their marriage. He died on May 23, 1911, in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 74, and was buried there. He was a farmer who raised grapes until moving to Cleveland where he worked as a bookkeeper. His  Mrs. Josephine M. Danforth Gillett was born 11 March 1874 at Oberlin and went to a Medical College where she graduated as a medical doctor in 1897.  Josephine M. Danforth was the first woman doctor to practice medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.
4. Lydia Permelia “Cornelia”Danforth was born in 1839 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, when her father, Charles, was 39, and her mother, Cornelia, was 34. She had two brothers and one sister. She married J.C. Wilton and died on November 18, 1864, in Good Hope, Western Cape, South Africa, at the age of 25. She was a Presbyterian Missionary.

LYDIA PERMELIA DANFORTH NASH of Washington County, New York

  Lydia Permelia Danforth, was born 11 January 1803 in Rupert, Bennington, Vermont.  Lucy Augur married 25 July 1825 back in Bennington County in the town of Pownal. Her husband was Henry Seymour Nash the son of Pelatiah Bliss Nash and Sally Towner and he lived in Granville, Washington County, New York at the time of their marriage.  Lydia Nash lived in New York State all her married life where her husband made a living as a blacksmith. 

Henry Nash and Lydia’s home in 1830 was in Granville, Washington, New York. The census from that year showed a household of two adults and a daughter under the age of 5. Lydia was listed as between the ages of 20 and 29 with her actual age being 27.  Henry was listed as a male between the ages of 30 and 39 with his actual age being 31.

Lydia Nash converted to the American Baptist Church in the 1830's and raised her family as Baptists.  Her son Charles Henry Nash became a Baptist minister and moved to Barton, Florida.  

The 1840 census of  Granville, Washington, New York listed 8 persons in the household of Henry Nash with two of these persons engaged in commerce which would have been blacksmithing. They would have been Henry Nash a “Free White Male - 40 thru 49 and an unknown Free White  Male - 20 thru 29. Lydia was listed as a “Free White Female - 30 thru 39.  They had five children by now 2 Free White Males - Under 5; 2 Free White Females –ages  5 thru 9, and a Free White Female between the ages of 10 thru 14.  These children were  Mary Frances Nash  born 7 October 1826,  Lucy Auger Nash born 27 February 1831,  Ellen Maria Nash born 10 June 1833, Charles Henry Nash born 6 December 1835 and Albert Augustus Nash born 16 April  1838.  All these children were born in Granville, Washington County, New York.

The 1850 Census for Henry and Lydia Nash was taken on 28 September. Henry is listed as “H F Nash” age 51 and a native of Vermont. He was a blacksmith by trade in Granville, Washington County. Included in his house hold were his wife Lydia Nash age 47 also a native of Vermont, and their children, “Amelia” [Mary Frances] age 24, Lucy Nash age 19, Ellen Nash age 17, Charles Nash age 14, Albert Nash age 12, Joseph Nash age 9, and Maria Nash age 7.  Also included in the household was a future son in law 24 old Matthew Quinn a native of Ireland and who was listed as a blacksmith also.

There are problems in this census as that a daughter Josepha Adeline Nash born 6 February 1841 was listed as a male named Joseph and a son named George Harvey Nash born 11 March 1845 was left off the list. George Harvey Nash died as an infant with some records saying on 5 September 1851. However if he actually died 5 September 1850 he would not have been enumerated on 28 September.  A daughter named  Josepha Adeline Nash Nash was born on 8 March 1843 and is listed in the census as “Maria”.

Lydia Nash died in October  some records say 1851 but others 1854 probably at the age of 51 years of pneumonia and a  fever.   In 1855 a New York State census was taken showing that Lydia was not included in the household of Henry S Nash was a widower and “Residence Granville, Washington, New York”. His was listed as 56 and he stated he lived in Granville for 30 years [1825]. He was a blacksmith who also was a land owner. Listed in his household were “Hellen” [Ellen] Nash age 22, Lucy Nash age 24, “Chas” [Charles] Nash age 19, Albert Nash age 17, J A Nash [Josepha Adeline] age 14, and MP [Josepha Adeline] Nash age 12.   Also included in his household was a 40 year  old widow named Sarah Bennett who was listed as “Aunt/sister”. She was a native of Vermont and had only been in Granville for two years.  She probably came to nurse Lydia Nash and be a house keeper for the family.

On the eve of the Civil War Henry S Nash had remarried a woman named Mary Lucinda Hatch. She was born 21 October 1806 in Whitehall, Washington County, New York the daughter of Elisha Hatch and Rebecca Vine. It was her first marriage so she was not a widow and was probably in her 50’s when she married. The 1860 census listed her age as 54 [1806] and a native of New York.  The 1860 census for the family of Henry Nash was taken 1 August and his Post Office address was North Granville, Washington, New York. He was a 61 year old blacksmith with real estate worth $1400 and personal property valued at $500.  His household only included his wife “Lucinda” and his 22 year old son Albert Nash who was also a blacksmith. A few households away was his son in law Matthew Quinn married to Henry’s daughter Lucy Augur Nash. Matthew Quinn was still a blacksmith with $1200 worth of real estate and $500 worth of personal property. Matthew and Lucy Quinn had two children Mary E Quinn age 6 [1854] and George P Quinn age  5 [1855].  These ages may be wrong as that Lucy was still included in her father’s household in 1855.

Henry and Lydia’s eldest daughter Mary Frances married Alvin L Tooley about 1855 and moved to Kendall in Orleans County, New York, and his daughter Ellen Maria Nash had married William Sidney Thompson who moved by 1860 to Danbury, Connecticut to work in the hat industry there. Due to the fur felt hat coming back into style for men and increasing mechanization in the 1850s, by 1859 hat production in Danbury had risen to 1.5 million annually.  Ellen Thompson and her 17 year old sister Marion were both living in Danbury in 1860. Danbury was about 180 miles south of Granville.

When the Civil War commenced in 1861, Henry Nash’s son Albert Nash and son in law Sydney Thompson enlisted to fight for the Union.  Albert Nash served in Company A of the 22^nd New York Infantry and also in Company D of the 2^nd New York Cavalry.  Sidney Thompson served in Company B of the 23^rd Connecticut Infantry. He was mustered out 31 August 1863 with the rank of Sergeant.

New York State took another census in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. Henry Nash gave his age as 68 and had been married twice. He was a landowner and blacksmith and still resided in Granville, Washington. His wife Mary L Nash gave her age as 58 and stated it was her  1^st marriage.  His son Albert A Nash was 27 years old a Black smith by trade but also still in the Army. A young boy named Charles H Morris age 9was also listed in the household and the word “colored boy” is crossed out in the census.

On 18 July 1870 Henry Nash was enumerated in the federal census as being 71 years old and a blacksmith by trade. He still lived in Granville with a personal estate valued at $2000 and real estate valued at $1800. The only other person in the household was his wife 61 year old [1809]  Mary Nash. Five years later in the 1875 New York State census Henry Nash gave his age as 76 and still a resident of Granville. While others men around were listed as retired he was still listed as a black smith.  Mary L Nash gave her age as 68 [1807]

Most records state that Henry died in either 1876 or 1879. There’s no tombstone found to give an more accurate date.  However his widow had a tombstone when she was buried in the Hatch Hill Cemetery. She died 30 June 1882 about 75 years old.

1. Mary “Frances” Nash  was born 7 October 1826 Granville, Washington,New York. She is listed in the 1900 census as being 73 years old and living in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut married for 48 years. She said she was the mother of three children who were still living as of 1900. When Mary Frances Nash was born father, Henry, was 27, and her mother, Lydia, was 23. The 1850 census has her living away from home in neighboring Rutland County, Vermont within the household of Oliver Prey  who was a young man and a moulder by occupation. A moulder made moulds for castings, such as brick making or metal work. She was listed as 23 years old and also within this household was 22 year old Alvin L Tooley also a moulder.  Alvin Tooley was enumerated twice one within the household of Oliver Prey and once in the household of his father Cyrus E Tooley.  Alvin was born in April 1828 probably in Granville, New York the son of Cyrus Tooley and Mary Sophronia Lumbard. Alvin and Frances were married in Vermont probably around the time her mother died and by 1860 they had moved to Kendall in Orleans County, New York where Alvin was a farm laborer working for his brother Norman. They were the parents of Frederick Clarence Tooley born July 1856 in Vermont, Ella Lucy Tooley born July 1857 in Vermont, and Alvin Delos Tooley born in April 1859 in Orleans County.  There is no record of Alvin serving in the Civil War although he had to register for the draft in June 1863. On that record he is listed as Alvin E. Tooley age 34 and a married farmer living in Orleans County, New York.  In the 1865 census of Alvin is listed as a 36 year old farmer born in Washington County, Mary F is his 36 year old wife born in Washinton County and their three children Fred age 9 born in Vermont, Ella age 7 born in Vermont, and Delos age 6 born in Orleans.  A business directory for Kendall from 1869 listed Alvin L Tooley of “west Kendall as leasing a 63 acre farm. His brother Norman owned a 60 acre farm. The 1870 Census of Kendall, Orleans, New York listed Alvin L Tooley as a 40 year old who “works on farm” as he did not own any property he probably worked as a tenant. His personal property was $850. Included in his household were his wife and three children. By 1875 Alvin moved his family to a farm valued at $1500 in Alden, Eire County, New York. Here he is listed as A L Tooley age 45 born in Washington County, his wife is “F M” also born in Washington  while his son and daughter Fred and Ella were born in Vermont and Delos in Orleans. Sometime over the next five years Alvin Tooley gave up farming and moved to Danbury, Connecticut. He and his grown children were all working as factory laborers. Alvin age 51 was working in a hat factory as was his two sons 24 year old Fred C. and 21 year old Delos A.  His 22 year old daughter Ella L worked in a shirt factory.  However by 1888 the Danbury directory listed Alvin as a carpenter. The 1900 Census lists Alvin and Frances Tooley as living at 99 Elm Street in Danbury, Connecticut. It lists them as being married for 48 years. He was still working as carpenter.  It is not known when Frances Nash Tooley died but sometime after 1900 and before 1910 in Danbury. Alvin’s death date is also unknown but he died between 1902 and 1906.  His two sons married and had one daughter each.  Ella L Tooley married Arthur Webb but had no issue.

2. Lucy "Alger" Nash born 27 February 1831 Granville, Washington New York

When Lucy Augur Nash was born on February 24, 1831, in Granville, New York, her father, Henry, was 32, and her mother, Lydia, was 28. She had four sons and one daughter with John Gilman Meder between 1860 and 1872. She died in 1908 having lived a long life of 77 years, and was buried in Danbury, Connecticut.  John Gilman Meder [Meader] was the son of Charles H and Hepzibah Meeder [Meader].  He was born in 15 July 1830 in Massachusetts. Lucy and John  Meder were married before 15 June 1860 when they were enumerated in the census of Danbury, Connecticut. They were living next to John’s parents and he was listed as a 28 year man working as a “hatter”  meaning in the hat industry. He owned $1800 worth of real estate and $300 in personal property. Lucy was listed as a 22 [1838] year old woman when she was actually 29 years old and John was 30 years old.   Lucy’s first born was a son named Francis G Meder who was actually born 4 days before the census was taken but he is not recorded. As the civil war began in 1861 there is no record of John G Meder having served. In fact a IRS tax to support the war showed that he paid $10 on goods he had manufactured. The 1870 Census listed John and Lucy Meder  as living in Danbury as of 2 July. They were living next to John’s brother Charles H Meder’s family and included in their household was Lucy’s widowed mother in Law Hepsibah Meder. John G Meder was listed as a hatter with $1200 worth of realestate and $500 worth of personal property. Four of John and Lucy’s children are included in the household.  The last census for John G Meder is in 1880 taken on the 9^th of June. He was a 49 year old who worked in a hat factory in Danbury. His 20 year old son Francis also worked in a hat factory. Lucy Meder was listed as 48 years old and keeping house. The other children within the household were 18 year old Lucy E Meder, 15 year old John H Meder, 12 year old Frederick E and 8 year old Edgar C Meder. Also still in the household was Lucy’s mother in law age 70.  John G Meder died at the age of 52 on 17 December 1882.  Lucy never remarried and in 1900 she is listed as head of a household consisting her son John H Meder and his family and her unmarried daughter Lucy. Her residence was 60 Pleasant Street in Danbury as of 2 June 1900.  She satted she was a widow and mother of 5 children. Lucy Nash Meder died in 1908 and was buried next to her husband.

3. Ellen Maria Nash was 10 June 1833 in Granville, Washington, New York. When Ellen Maria Nash was her father, Henry, was 34, and her mother, Lydia, was 30. She had six children with John "Sidney" Thompson. She died on October 25, 1912, in Danbury, Connecticut, having lived a long life of 79 years, and was buried there. Ellen Nash and Sidney Thompson were married circa 1860 when they were listed on the 1860 Census dated 18 July. Sidney Thompson was listed as a “hatter” and within their household was Ellen’s 17 year old sister Marion who was working as a “trimmer”.  Ellen Thompson was pregnant with her first son at the time. He would be born 4 November 1869 and named George. The ancestry of Sidney Thompson has not been located. He was born 6 September 1836 at Bethel, Fairfield, Connecticut. When the Civil War began, Sidney Thompson enlisted in Company B, Connecticut 23rd Infantry Regiment on 14 Nov 1862. He was promoted to Full Sergeant on 01 Jul 1863. He was mustered out on 31 Aug 1863. A daughter named Nellie was born in October 1862 but she died the following year on 12 December 1863.  Sidney and Ellen had three more sons, William Sidney born 15 Jan 1865, Henry Clinton born 26 February 1867, and Charles Edward born 11 March 1875. The 1870 census is the last census in which Sidney Thompson is listed. That census was taken 30 June where Sidney is listed as a hatter with only $200 worth of real property. A woman named Mary Smith a 35 year old dress maker  lived with the family as a border. Sidney Thompson died 4 November 1876 at the age of 40 leaving Ellen a widow with five children the oldest being 16 and the youngest an infant.  The 1880 census showed that Ellen took in 2 boarders to help with her finances and her two oldest sons were working in a Hat Factory.  Ellen and her youngest son Charles Edward have not been located in the 1900 census. She is  not within the household of any of her other sons. The last census she is located in is the 1910. She is living within the household of Laura Nash a 54 year old nurse for a private family and Ellen is listed as her “sister in law”.  Ellen is 76 years old and was the mother of 5 children 4 of whom were still living. She died 25 October 1912 in Danbury, Connecticut.

4. Rev. Charles Henry Nash was born 6 December 1835 in Granville, Washington, New York. When Charles Henry Nash was born his father, Henry, was 37 and his mother, Lydia, was 32. He married Marion E Mason 26 Oct 1864 in Granville, New York and they had three children together. Marion E Mason was born on 30 Sep 1840 in N. Granville, NY and died on 5 Jun 1876 in Glens Falls, New York. He then married Mary Whitney Dikeman on April 16, 1878, in Glens Falls, New York and had four more children.  Mary Whitney Dikeman was born on 30 Dec 1856 in Rutland, Rutland Co., VT and died on 23 Mar 1950 in Tampa, Florida.  He died on January 28, 1936, in Tampa, Florida, at the age of 100, and was buried there. Charles Henry Nash attended Madison College in Hamilton, New York which was a Baptist theology school at the time to become a Baptist Minister. Today Madison is the Colgate University. The 1865 census of New York listed Charles Henry Nash as a Baptist Clergyman in Essex County, New York. He later moved to Queensbury, in Warren County New York and moved to Concordia Kansas after the death of his first wife where he was a First Baptist Minister according to the 1880 Census. He came to Florida in December 1882, and was the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Ocala, Marion County until 1891. Shortly after arriving in 1883 Ocala burned to the ground. “During this time, the First Baptist Church took giant steps forward. The church sold the property on which the present courthouse now stands, bought a lot on Magnolia Street, and built a beautiful brick church. It was located where the Marion Hotel now stands.”  Charles H Nash is listed in the 1900 Census of Sanford, Orange County [now Seminole County], Florida as a minister age 64. He was renting a house on Magnolia Street. He was listed with his second wife Mary Whitney Dikeman whom he said married in 1878.  His children by his second wife was still living at home and his daughter Edith was a music teacher. Shortly after this census was taken the family moved to Tampa when The Palm Street Avenue Baptist Church in Tampa was organized in 1900. Charles Henry Nash was it’s first minister in 1901 and served until his retirement in 1906 at the age of 70. He was the father of George Albert Nash, Minnie Louise Neeley, Frederick Henry Nash died as an infant, Edith Ella McIntosh, Alice Pearl Patch, Charles Harold Nash, and Leslie Dikeman Nash.

5. Albert Augustus Nash was 16 April  1838 in Granville, Washington, New York When Albert Augustus Nash was born his father, Henry, was 39 and his mother, Lydia, was 35. Albert Nash was a blacksmith by trade when he enlisted 16 September 1863 in the 22^nd New York Infantry and served as a blacksmith. He enlisted at Saratoga, New York and was mustered out at Talladega, Alabama 8 November 1865. His military record described him as 5 feet 7 inches tall with gray eyes, sandy colored hair, and of a light complexion. He marriedLaura E last name unknown in 1876. He moved to Danbury Connecticut to work in a hat factory as a “hatter”.  He died on March 17, 1906, in Danbury, Connecticut, at the age of 67, and was buried there. His widow lived with his sister Ellen Maria Thompson in the 1910 census of Danbury.  She died sometime after 1936 and 1940 in Danbury. Albert and Laura Nash had no issue.

6. Josepha Adeline Nash was born 6 February 1841, Granville, Washington, New York. When Josepha Adeline Nash was born her father, Henry, was 42, and her mother, Lydia, was 38. She married Sheldon P Wilson in 1859. He was born in Granville, Washington County, New York the son of Orin and Eliza Wilson. They had three children during their marriage. The 1860 Census show that Sheldon was a farmer 27 year old farmer worth $500 living in Middle Granville, New York with a 19 year old wife and a 9 month old baby daughter. Two others listed in the household were a 20 year old laborer named Nelson Thayer and a 23 year old servant named Cathra Stearns. During the Civil War there’s no record of Sheldon Wilson serving in the military although in June 1863 he registered for the draft as a 28 year old laborer. The 1865 New York census enumerated the family of Sheldon Wilson with that of a farmer named Jacob Sykes. Sheldon listed his occupation as a 30 year old laborer born in Washington County.  Josepha Wilson stated she was a 27 year old mother of 5 children however only three are listed in the household. During the next 5 years the family moved to the community of Hampton, still in Washington County where on 20 July 1870 Sheldon Wilson is listed as a 36 year old farmer with $500 worth of personal property. He must have been leashing his farm. Within his household are his 29 year old wife Josepha, 10 year old daughter Emma, 8 year old son Charles, and 5 year old daughter Coralinn.  Sometime during the 1870’s Sheldon Wilson gave up on farming and moved to Danbury, Connecticut to work for wages. The 1880 census show that the family was living in Danbury and Sheldon was working 45 years old and working in a fur factory. His 20 year old daughter Emma Wilson worked in a shoe store and 18 year old Charles Wilson was a hat finisher.  Josepha and Coralinn were at home.  A 1885 directory for Danbury showed that Sheldon Wilson lived at 25 Pleasant Street and worked as a hatter. His son who would have been 23 lived at the same address and worked as a hatter also.  The 1900 Census of Danbury for Shelton P Wilson showed that he was 65 years old born in April 1835 in New York. His occupation was given as a farmer who owned his owned home.  His wife Josepha A Wilson and he were married 41 years. She said in this census that she was the mother of only 3 children. Sheldon Wilson died in 1905 and Josepha Nash Wilson died in 1909. They are buried next to each other in the Kenosia or Lake Cemetery  In Danbury. Their children were Emma L Wilson, Charles F Wilson husband of Fanny E Barnum, and Coralinn C. Wilson wife of William M Parker. None of these children had offspring.

7. Marion Permelia Nash was born 8 March 1843 in Granville, Washington, New York When Marion "Maria" Permelia Nash was born her father, Henry, was 44, and her mother, Lydia, was 40. She married Christian Quien in 1866. They had two children during their marriage. Christian Quien was born 18 July 1843 in Bavaria the son of German emigrants George and Katherine Linden Quien.  At the beginning of the Civil War Christian enlisted in Company A, Connecticut 11th Infantry Regiment on 24 Oct 1861. He was promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on 18 Jul 1863. He was promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant on 14 Apr 1864. He was mustered out on 21 Nov 1864. In 1866 he married Marion Nash who was living in Danbury.  The 1870 census of Danbury had Christian working as a grocery store clerk worth $200 in personal property and Marion Quinn was working in “domestic duties.” By 1880 Christian Quien had moved his family to Bridgeport. He was 36 years old and gave his occupation as Life Insurance Agent and “census enumerator”. His wife “Maria” was a housekeeper and they had a 4 year old daughter Maria Grace Quien. Also within their house hold was Marion’s 21 year old nephew Alvin D Tooley and her 20 year old niece Emma Wilson. They were both employed in a shoe factory. By 1900 the family was back in Dansbury living at 86 West Street. Christian Quien and Marion’s 27 year old married daughter. Marion Smith’s family lived in the household as well as an unmarried 18 year old daughter  Lela. Christian stated his occupation was a Real Estate Agent.  The 1910 census stated that Christians occupation was that of a broker for Real Estate and a Pension Agent.  This is the same occupation he gave in the 1917 Military Census. In that record he said he was 5 feet 8 ½ inches tall and weighed 156 pounds and lived at 60 Wooster Street in Danbury.  Chrsitian Quien died 12 July 1919. His widow Marion lived another 8 years and died on July 18, 1927, in Danbury, Connecticut, at the age of 84, and was buried there.  They were the parents of two daughters Marion Grace Quien wife of William Clark Smith and Lela May Quien wife of Seth Field Sanford.

8. George Harvey Nash When George Harvey Nash was born on March 11, 1845, in Granville, Washington, New York New York, his father, Henry, was 46 and his mother, Lydia, was 42. He had two brothers and five sisters. He died as a child on September 5, 1851, in his hometown.

JONATHAN DANFORTH of Geauga County, Ohio

Jonathan Danforth was born 15 February 1805 Rupert, Bennington, Vermont and died May 27, 1879 in Geauga Co. Ohio. When Jonathan Danforth was born on February 15, 1805, in Rupert, Vermont, his father, Samuel, was 33 and his mother, Lucy, was 33. Jonathan Danforth was 19 years old when his father died and 20 years old when his older brothers left New York State for Georgia.  Jonathan must have spent most of his young life in Massachusetts as that in almost every census he gives that state as the place of birth and not Vermont. 

He married Matilda F Haywood circa 1824 probably in Thompkins county, New York.  Matilda Haywood according to census records was born in Vermont circa 1801. Her father’s name is unknown but thought to have been William as that Matilda’s only known brother was named William Haywood.  Their mother was a woman named Birthena last name unknown. She was born circa 1771 and died 20 February 1861 at the home of her son William Haywood in Perry, Lake County, Ohio. She is located in the 1850 census as enumerated with her grandson Charles Danforth in the household of Henry Cummins. Charles Danforth married Henry Cummins daughter Cordelia that year. Birthena Haywood is listed in the 1860 census as living with her daughter Deborah McMakin in Painsville, Lake County, Ohio. She is listed as 90 years old and born in New York. She is buried in the Perry cemetery in Lake County, Ohio

Jonathan Danforth may have already been married to Matilda Haywood when his father died. His son Charles A Danforth was born on October 11, 1824, in probably in Ithaca, New York. His daughter Harriet was born on October 11, 1826, in probably also in Ithaca, New York.  

When his brother Reverend Charles Danforth contacted Jonathan Danforth about relocating to Ohio, he to Russell in Geagua County, Ohio where he became a farmer. He lived 12 miles south of Kirkland, where the followers of Joseph Smith were gathering to establish a Mormon Temple.  He was probably there when the Mormons abandoned Kirkland and moved to Missouri. His daughter Mary A Danforth was born in July 1833  probably in Russell Township , in Geauga County, Ohio. While in Ohio Jonathan Danforth was converted to the teachings of Alexander Campbell and joined the Disciple of Christ also known as the Christian Church.  

During economic depression known as the Panic of 1837 Jonathan Danforth lived in Ohio. B 1840 he acquired a 168 acre farm in the Russel Township. His homestead was located on the southside of the Chagrin River in the northeast corner of Russell Township. In the 1840 census he is listed as a “Free White Male” between the ages of 30 and 39  [1801-1810] Jonathan’s actual age was 35. His wife Matilda Haywood was listed as a “Free White Female” also between the ages of  30 and  39.  The children enumerated in the household were Charles A Danforth “Free White Male between ages of 10 and 14, Harriet “Free White Female” also between the ages of 10 and 14 and Mary “Free White Female”  between the ages of  5 and 9. The census stated only 1Persons was Employed in Agriculture and that would have been Jonathan.  His daughter Clarissa S "Clara" was born on August 4, 1842, in Russell Township, which completed the family of Jonathan and Matilda Danforth.

Jonathan Danforth continued to live in Russell Township , Geauga County, Ohio, as of 1 October 1850. His eldest daughter Harriet Danforth had married by 1850 a farmer named  Joseph Bernard French. The 1850 census lists Jonathan Danforth's occupation as a farmer age 46 years. He was actually 45 years old. His wife Matilda age was given as 44 and only two daughters remained at home 16 year old Mary and 9 year old Clarissa.  His 24 year old son Charles is listed in the household of a farmer who was his father in law named Henry Cummins a native of Canada. Charles gives his occupation as a farmer and enumerated with him is his 74 year old grandmother Birthena Haywood. His wife may have been giving the information to the census taker for his place of birth was listed as unknown. 

Jonathan Danforth lived in Russell, Geauga Ohio, in 1860.  He was enumerated on 7 June as a 56 year old farmer born in Massachusetts. His farm was worth $5000 and he had $600 worth of personal property.  Included in his household was “N Danforth” age 57 who was his wife Matilda who said to be born in Massachusetts. Included in the household was C Danforth who was his 18 year old daughter Clarissa and his 8 year old granddaughter “M French.”   A few households a way lived his son Charles Danforth’s family. He was listed as a 34 year old farm laborer born in New York. He was worth only $225 but as the only son of Jonathan he probably worked his father’s farm.

An Agricultural Census for 1860 showed that Jonathan had a 168 acre farm with 100 acres improved and 68 woodland worth $5000. He had another $100 in farm equipment. He owned 4 horses, 6 milk cows, 22 head of cattle, 61 sheep, and 6 “swine”. The value of his livestock was $500.  On his farm he had raised 100 bushels of “Indian corn”, 30 bushels of “Irish potatoes”  18 tons of hay, and produced 500 pounds of butter and 3000 pounds of cheese. He made $24 off of slaughtered animals. As that the census did not include poultry certainly he would have had barn chickens, geese, and maybe even turkeys.  Clearly he was a dairy farmer.

The last census for which Jonathan Danforth is located is in 1870. He is listed as 67 years old and born in Massachusetts. His farm is worth $8200 and his personal estate was worth $2000. Included in his household were his wife Matilda and grandson Bailey Danforth.

The Agriculture Census of 1870 showed that Jonathan Danforth still had his 168 acre farm with 108 acres of it improved and 60 acres as woodlands. His farm was valued at $6400 with $200 worth of farm implements. He paid $75 in wages for farm labor.  He owned 2 horses, 14 milk cows, 7 head of cattle, 14 sheep, and 2 swine all valued at $800.  He raised 25 bushels of spring wheat, 80 bushels of Indian Corn, 380 bushels of oats, 150 bushels of Irish potatoes, 2 bushels of grain seed, and 20 tons of Hay. He produced 175 pounds of wool, 300 pounds of butter, 2700 gallons of milk, 300 pounds of maple syrup, and made $20 off of orchard products. He also made $125 from goods manufactured on the farm and $200 from slaughtered animals.

Jonathan Danforth died on May 27, 1879, in Geauga, Ohio, at the age of 74, and was buried in the old section of Riverview Cemetery in what was known as "Briar Hill".  The cemetery is located on the north side of Fairmount Road about 750 feet west of its intersection with Chillicothe Road (Ohio State Route 306).  He didn’t leave a  will so his estate went into probate 2 June 1879.  When Jonathan Danforth died he only had one sibling left alive Lucy Bunch who was living in Wilkes County, Georgia.

After the death of Jonathan Danforth, Matilda F Danforth went to live with her son Charles Danforth. She stated in the 1880 census that she was 79 years old and born in Vermont.  She died the 8 May 1882 and is buried next to her husband.

1. Charles Danforth  was born on October 11, 1824, in Ithaca, New York, when his father, Jonathan, was 19 and his mother, Matilda, was 24. He married Cornelia A. Cummins on July 14, 1850, in Geauga, Ohio. They had ten children in 26 years. He died on June 19, 1886, in Geauga, Ohio, at the age of 61, and was buried there. The 1870 showed that he had moved to Munson Township where he must have been leasing a farm as that he only had personal property.   The agriculture census for that year stated he was working a 50 acre farm valued at $1800. He owned 2 horses, 8 milk cows, 1bull, 2 swine worth abot $630 and he produced 15 bushels of Indian Corn, 4 bushels of beans, 20 bushels of Irish Potatoes, 3 bushels of sweet potatoes, 8 tons of Hay, $40 worth of orchard products, 40 pounds of Maple syrupe and 200 pounds of butter. He earned $60 from good manufactured on the farm and $50 from slaughtered animals. The 1880 census is the last time he was enumerated and in it he was living back in Russell Township most likely on his father’s farm as his mother in living in his household. He would live out his life on the farm in Russell Township. He died 16 June 1886 at the age of 61 and is buried in the Briar Hill Cemetery.  His widow Cordelia remarried on 9 August 1887 to Ira A Squire.and died 8 years later 4 February 1895 at the age of 63. Charles Danforth and Cordelia Cummins were the parents of Alice J Danforth wife of Fredeerick Wellington Wait, Lucien E Danforth husband of Alida Julia French, Bailey Danforth died as a youth, Traverse Orlando Danforth husband of Nellie Caroline Sheffield, Asenath Danforth died as a child, Nellie May Danforth wife of Bion S Childs, Nettie Mehitabel Danforth wife of Orin K Kickland, Florence G Danforth never married, William Marshall Danforth husband of Alma M Kickland and Lena B Davoe, and Henry R Danforth husband of Alice T Greene.
2.  Harriett Danforth was born on October 11, 1826, in Ithaca, New York, when her father, Jonathan, was 21, and her mother, Matilda, was 26. She married Joseph Bernard French on August 29, 1848 in Summit County, Ohio. They had eight children in 21 years. The French’s farm was just south east of Jonathan Danforth’s land. About 1883 the family moved to Raymond, Clark, South Dakota. She died on July 8, 1911, in Raymond, South Dakota, having lived a long life of 84 years. Harriett and Joseph French’s children were  Clarissa Irene French wife of Albert Wallace Keeney, Mary Matilda French wife of Maurice H Smith, Elijah Jonathan French never married, Samuel L French husband of Bertha Van Dyke and Mary Ann last name unknown, Martha French no further information, George Washington French husband of Grace Ethel Keeny, Phoebe Della French never married, and Alva French died 3 months.
3. Mary Danforth was born in July 1833 in Russell, Ohio, when her father, Jonathan, was 28, and her mother, Matilda, was 33. She married Hiram Bailey and they had four children together. He died in 1863 and  She then married a widower Henry N Fuller in 1870 and they had three children together. She died after 1900 in her hometown at the age of 67. Her children were William Edward Bailey husband of Susan Mina Sheffield, Lloyd Almeron Bailey husband of Jennie Adella Harper, Alida E Bailey wife of Arthur Eugene French and Willard F Richards, Jonathan Bailey no further information, Bertha Leola Fuller wife of James Charles McGreggor, Mabel O Fuller wife of George Rose, and Lucy Fuller died as an infant.
4. Clarissa S “Clara” Danforth was born on August 4, 1842, in Russell, Ohio, when her father, Jonathan, was 37, and her mother, Matilda, was 42. She married Benson W. Rose on October 4, 1859, in Geauga, Ohio. They had four children in 14 years. She died on July 1, 1907, in Painesville, Lake, Ohio, at the age of 64. Only one of her children Elmer Rose left posterity. Her children were Elmer E Rose husband of Amanda Jane Walter, Leslie N Rose husband of Eliza Benedict, daughter Achsa Rose died 6 months, son Wallie E Rose died 4 years old.

SUSANNAH WHITE DANFORTH HART ROSS of Trumbull County, Ohio

Susannah White Danforth was born 5 May 1807 Rupert, Bennington, Vermont when her father, Samuel, was 36 and her mother, Lucy, was 37. After the death of her father in 1824, when she was 17 years old she may have lived with her step mother or with her brothers Charles Danforth and Jonathan Danforth who moved to Ohio. She did not follow her brothers and sister to the South.

She married Oliver Elsworth Hart, of Brookfield, Trumbull County Ohio, who was the fifth son of Bliss Hart, a native of Burlington, Connecticut  and Sylvia Upson. Oliver E Hart was born 20 May 1799 and was 35 years old when he married 27 year old Susanna W. Danforth in May 1834.

Oliver Ellsworth Hart He was the son of a Revolutionary War soldier Bliss Hart who had been a representative in Connecticut’s state legislature.  How they became acquainted is unknown however Trumbull County and Geauga County are adjoining counties.  There’s about fifty miles between Russell Township where Jonathan Danforth raised his family and Brookfield where Susannah W. Danforth Hart raised her family.  The Hart Family were Presbyterians and that may have been the method by how the couple met.

"..Upon the death of Bliss Hart the old homestead reverted to his son, Oliver Ellsworth Hart, who afterward married Susannah White Danforth, of Palmyra, New York, a cultured, Christian lady, of excellent family, lovely in disposition, and exemplary in character. Five children were the fruit of this union, two sons and three daughters, all of whom were born and brought up, at the old homestead, except one son, who died at the age of three years. In middle life Mr. and Mrs. Hart were called to their long home. Surrounded by their children and friends they died in the triumph of a living faith, and were buried in the village graveyard in Brookfield. A beautiful monument marks their graves.”

Trumbull Co., Ohio Will Records Book 1 p. 224-226: "In the name of the benevolent Father of all, ITEM first: I Oliver E. HART of Brookfield do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament. First, I give and devise to my beloved wife, in lieu of her dower, the farm on which I now reside situated in Brookfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, containing about one hundred and twenty acres, during her natural life or until she marries and all the stock, household goods, furniture, provisions and other goods and chattels which may be thereon at the time of my decease during her natural life as aforesaid, she selling so much thereof as may be sufficient to pay my last debts. At the death of my said wife the real estate aforesaid and such part of the personal property or the proceeds thereof as may then remain unconsumed and unexpended, I give and devise to my son Simeon and enjoin it upon him or my wife for him to pay to my three daughters Harriet E. and Emiline and Maria the sum of one hundred dollars at the time of their marriage and one hundred dollars in three payments equal and annual that is thirty three dollars and thirty three cents annually without interest after he reaches the age of twenty one years and to Emiline the same and Maria the same. But should my son Simeon die before he is of age or 21 years old, then my property or what remains shall be equally divided among my living children. ITEM 2nd: I do hereby appoint my beloved wife Guardian to my four children Harriet Eliza, and Emeline, and Maria and Simeon until they arrive at the age of twenty one years or until she marries and should she marry her guardianship ceases. ITEM 3rd: I do hereby nominate and appoint Orenus HART and Levi HART, my beloved brothers, Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby authorizing and empowering them to compromise, adjust release and discharge, in such manner as they may deem proper, the debts and claims due me. I also authorize my said Executors to pay all my just debts of such part of the personal property as can best be spent. Signed and acknowledged by said Oliver E. HART as his Last Will and Testament in our presence and signed by us in presence this 16th day of April 1846. Oliver E. HART

Oliver and Susannah had five children together before Oliver died at Brookfield, on 7 May  1846, at the age of aged 47. His widow Susannah She then married a widower Elijah Ross on February 22, 1851, in Trumbull County, Ohio. "I certify that on the 22nd day of February A.D. 1851 Mr. Elijah Ross and Mrs. Susan W. Hart were by me legally joined in marriage. John Applegate." He was a nearly 60 years old with grown children and was a shoemaker by trade. He died sometime before the 1860 Census.

Susannah W Danforth Hart Ross died on 6 November 6, 1863, in Brookfield, Ohio, at the age of 56. "Mrs. Susan W. Ross of Brookfield died November 6th age 55y. Cause: Typhoid" “Dear as thou art abd justly dear We will not wept for thee Our thoughts shall check the rising tear It is that thou art free And thou shall faith’s consoling power The tears of grief restrain, Who that saw they paring tear, Could wish thee here again.” (Western Reserve Chronicle, Warren, Ohio 2 Dec 1863)

1. Harriet Eliza Hart , was born May 24th, 1835 although other sources state 26 May 1836. She died 20 October 1922 at the age of 86 of breast cancer in Sullivan County, Indiana. After her mother died Harriet E. Hart must have looked after her younger siblings. The 4 August 1870 census showed that she was 35 years old keeping house in the household of her 26 year old brother Simeon and 28 year old sister Maria. Ten year later she had moved to the city of Warren. She still gave her age as 35 and her occupation as a “teacher, writer, and lecturer.” She was boarding on Mahoning Avenue and it must have been a nice area as her neighbors were  Court Judge, a Bank President and a Physician. She was married late in life on 9 August 1906 when she was 70 years old to a 52 year old widower. James Dickinson a native of England. She stated on the marriage license that she was 56 years.  The marriage may have been annulled as that at the time of her death she was listed as Harriet E Hart.  The last census in which she is listed is in Sullivan, Indiana. She stated that she was a widower age 70 and a farmer by occupation. She is living with a single man age 42 named Charles Goin whom she listed as her nephew but this is unlikely.  He is listed as a farmer working for wages and so more likely was a hired hand. She must have died alone as her physician filled out the death certificate.   A death notice was placed in the newspapers for her next of kin to claim the body. Birth "Warren Tribune Chronicle" 30 Oct 1922: Seek Next Of Kin Of Harriet E. Hart Word of the death of Harriet E. Hart at Sullivan Ind., was received today by Probate Judge Joseph Smith. The telegram secured by Judge Smith was as follows: Sullivan Ind. Clerk of Probate Court, Warren, Ohio Please notify the next of kin of Harriet E. Hart who died yesterday of her death. Shall we bury her? Will wait to hear. To preserve property court has appointed me administrator. John O. Chaney.” "Warren Tribune Chronicle" 1 Nov. 1922 “The remains of Miss Harriet E. Hart, who died on Sunday in Sullivan, Ind., arrived in Warren at 11:15 last evening over the Erie R. R. and was taken to the undertaking establishment of Love & Son in Cortland. The disposition of the body was directed by Hayes Barbe, of Bristolville, who is her only living relative. The remains were taken today to North Bloomfield where a short funeral service was held at the grave at 1'oclock and burial took place. Miss Hart was formerly a resident of North Bloomfield, and went to Indiana several years ago.” "Warren Tribune Chronicle" 10 Nov 1922 13:3 The remains of Miss Harriet E. Hart, who died in Sullivan., Ind., on Sunday October 20 were brought here on Wednesday laid by the side of relatives in the North Bloomfield cemetery. A short service was held at the grave where a few of her relatives were present. Miss Hart was a former resident of this place but had lived in Sullivan, Ind, for many years. She was said to have loved learning and acquiring knowledge by reading books on “poetry, history, and biography.” She was a leading member of the Mahoning County Bar and the president of the college she attended stated, “she possess a mind of the highest order as the powers of reading and forcible elegant persuasive expression.”  She was an active “temperance worker” to close saloons. 
2. EmelinePeck Hart, was born, 13 November, 1837 at Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio and at the age of 19 married on January 1st, 1856, Oscar Fitzerland Hurlbert. He was born 27 March 1836 in Pennsylvania. Emeline Hurlburt at the age of 58 died 18 December 1895 and her widower died 18 May 1900 at Bristolville, Trumbull County, Ohio. Their children are—Horace Hurlburt, Ellis Hurlburt, Frank, Hurleburt and a daughter, deceased in 1871.
3. Ellsworth Hart, died , aged 3 years. His tomstone reads "Ellsworth Hart s/o of Oliver and Susan 9/20/1842 ae 3y 4m
4. Maria Hart , born April 7th, 1841 ; married July Sd, 1870, Martin Jefferson Barbe. They were the parents of Frances Lydia Barbe born 2 Aug 1872, Oliver H. Barbe a twin to Martin Hayes Barbe born 1877, and Mary  born 1880. Martin Jefferosn was the son of Abraham and Lydia Ann Curlin
5. Simeon Oliver Hart, was born July 10th, 1844 in Brookfield, Trumbull, Ohio. He was a real estate broker, and in 1874 resided at Youngstown, Ohio. He died unmarried. Simeon O Hart was said have had a good natural ability and good education advantage. He “improved his mind by extensively reading, observation and travel.” He attended the Cleveland Law school but his “failing health” prevented him from practicing law. At the age of 15 he “united with the Disciples of Christ” and was the owner of considerable real estate in Trumbull and Mahoning Counties. In politics he was a Republican. “He commenced studying law, but entered the army in the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteers, where he remained until the close of the war. He was with Sherman in his grand march to the sea. His health became so impaired during the campaign that since his return he has not been able to finish his studies. He is a young man of fine mined, good morals, and attractive personal appearance, and was living at Youngstown, Ohio, in October, 1874." The 1890 Veteran Schedule stated that he had a disease of the spine and that he was almost helpless.  He made out his will in 1888: "I Simeon O. HART of Bristol, Ohio, being of sound mind and memory do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament as follows to wit: Item 1st: I give and devise to my sisters Harriet E. HART, Emeline HULBERT and Maria BARB all my household furniture, pictures, books, building, wearing apparel, buggies, robes, harness, gold watch and chain, to be divided between them as they may agree. Item 2nd: I give and devise to my friend Washington HYDE Esq. of the city of Warren, Ohio or in case of his death or inability to serve then to such person or persons as the Court having jurisdiction of the probate of this will shall appoint in his stead, all the rest and residue of my estate personal, real, and mixed of whatsoever character and wherever situate, but in trust to carry out the provisions of this my last will, and in carrying out said trust I direct as follows: 1st: That all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid and that my executor, with the advice of my sisters, procure and erect at my grave a suitable monument of Quincy granite, the cost not to exceed three hundred and fifty dollars to be paid out of my estate. 2nd: I make the following bequests in money: To my cousins Phoebe CHRISTY, Mrs. Lucy CHRISTY, Mrs. Venelia MONTGOMERY, seventy five dollars each; to my cousin Seth HART fifty dollars; to my cousin Thomas C. HART one hundred dollars, said bequests to be paid by my executor within one year after my decease. I also give to said Thomas C. HART my undivided half interest in about four acres of land near the village of Niles, Ohio, the other half being owned by Dr. C.T. METCALF. Any indebtedness of said Thomas C. HART to me at my decease shall be charged against said bequest of one hundred dollars. 3rd: I give to the trustees of Hiram College located at Hiram, Portage county, Ohio, five thousand dollars for the purpose of building and furnishing a gentleman's hall for students attending said College. I direct that said hall be built in a substantial manner two stories high and according to the most approved plans of ventilation, with a transom over each door from the rooms to the hallways, and to contain not less than sixteen rooms at least fourteen by sixteen feet in size. Each room to be furnished with a stool, bedstead and table, said rooms to be rented to students attending said College at twenty five cents per week, and the income thus obtained to be used, first, to pay for repairs and insurance on said building, and any balance remaining shall be divided equally at least once each year between four self supporting students attending said College to be chosen by said trustees, the preference to be given to students studying for the ministry. Said sum of five thousand dollars shall be paid by my executor to said trustees within five years from my decease from my estate, provided however that this devise to said trustees of said Hiram College is upon these express conditions to wit 1st: that said trustees procure a suitable lot for said hall with an unincumbered title thereto to them and their successors in office, in fee simple which shall be fully paid for before said five thousand dollars is paid to them by my executor and trustee, it being my desire that no part of said bequest be used for purchasing said lot, and 2nd: upon this further condition that if said sum of five thousand dollars shall be insufficient to build and furnish such a hall as is herein described, then said trustees shall supply an additional sum sufficient for said purpose. Upon the failure of said trustees to comply with either said conditions within five years after my decease this devise shall be void and go to the estate herein devised in trust for the benefit of my sisters and their children. 4th: Of all the rest and residue of my estate, personal, real and mixed, of every character and wherever situate, I devise the beneficial interest therein to my three sisters Harriet E. HART, Emeline HULBERT and Maria BARB and their children, to each one third thereof, subject however to the provisions herein after contained and taking into the account the sums charged to them respectively as advancedments next herein after mentioned. Having advanced and expecting to continue to advance to my said sisters considerable sums of money from time to time and wishing them to share my property fairly between them considering their condition in life and my obligation to them I have kept in a book an account of said advancements. I hereby direct that at my decease an account of said advancements made since the year A.D. 1865 be taken in the following manner to wit: There shall be credited on the amount charged in said book to my said sister Harriet the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars per year commencing on January 1st A.D. 1871 up to my decease. This I do because of the obligation I feel under to her she being unmarried and unable to provide for herself. On the account in said book against my said sister Maria, there shall be allowed a credit as of January 1st A.D. 1871 of five hundred dollars and a further credit of any amounts up to one hundred dollars per year after January 1st 1882 up to my decease, this I do because she injured her health while in my employ and in keeping house for me, and on the account in my said book against my said sister Emeline there shall be allowed a credit of one hundred dollars per year each year after January 1st A.D. 1882, taking the amounts as shown by said book to be charged against each of my said sisters after allowing the aforesaid credits, and when at the end of any year, any sister has received more than either the others, charging interest on the excess until an equality is reached, the several amounts so estimated and determined shall be the respective amounts with which each of my said sisters shall be charged on account of moneys advanced by me to them during my lifetime, and subject to said advancements, they shall share equally in the estate herein devised in trust for their benefit the annual income of which shall be paid to them by my said trustee subject to the provisions herein contained. 5th: I direct that within sixty days after my decease my executor pay to my said sister Harriet one hundred dollars and within one year thereafter pay to her the sum of fifteen hundred dollars to be paid her in cash, stocks, or other securities as my be agreed upon by her and my executor; securities and stocks to be taken by her at their market value. Both said sums shall be charged to her on account and as part of the principal of her interest in my estate herein devised in trust for her use and benefit, the balance of which I direct shall remain in the hands of my said trustee under this will during her lifetime, and kept invested, and the net proceeds derived therefrom paid to her quarterly or semi annually as she may desire, provided however, if the yearly income aforesaid shall not be sufficint to comfortably support and maintain her, I authorize said trustee to pay her out of the principal of said trust fund such sum annually as shall with said income give and secure to her the sum of six hundred dollares each year so long as she shall live. I hereby empower my said sister Harriet to dispose of her interest in my estate herein devised in trust for her benefit by will; and upon her decease and the lawful probate of her last will said trustee shall pay her interest in my estate herein devised in trust for her benefit then remaining to such persons and in such manner as she shall have by such last will provided and directed. 6th: I direct my executor and trustee to pay to my said sisters Emeline and Maria each one hundred dollars within sixty days from my decease, said sums to be charge to their respective interests in my estate herein devised in trust for benefit. 7th: I give to my said sister Maria BARB the use during her natural life of the farm of about forty acres owned by me in Bristol Township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and after her death the use of one half thereof to her husband Martin J. BARB during his natural life. After the termination of said life estates, I give said land to the children of said Maria BARB, then living at her decease and their heirs, absolutely. I hereby charge said farm to my said sister Maria interest in my estate herin devised in trust for her use and benefit at the sum of thirty five hundred and fifty five dollars, that being the amount I paid for it, provided however, if I shall erect a dwelling house on said land during my lifetime, said devise thereof aforesaid shall be void and said land shall in that event be held and disposed of by said trustee as a part of the estate herein devised in trust for the benefit of my three sisters afore mentioned. 8th: I give to my nephew Ellis HULBERT and his wife the use during thier natural lives, and the life of the surivivors of them to commence within one year from my decease of about nine and one half acres of land in the North West part of Lot number 39 in Bristol township, Trumbull county, Ohio, now owned by me; after their death I give said land to the children of said Ellis HULBERT and thier heirs absolutely. 9th: I direct my said trustee to pay to my nephew Horace HULBERT three hundred dollars within two years after my decease and five years thereafter to pay him any further sum not exceeding five hundred dollars that my said sister Emeline may, by writing signed by her, direct him to pay, and in like manner pay to my said nephew Ellis HULBERT, one hundred dollars if so directed to do by my said sister Emeline in manner aforesaid. If however, I shall have sold said nine and one half acres of land before my decease, I direct my said trustee to pay to said Ellis HULBERT three hundred dollars within two years after my decease, and any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars within five years thereafter that my said sister shall, by writing signed by her, direct him to pay. All sums paid under the above provisions to my said nephews Horace HULBERT and Ellis HULBERT shall be charged to the interest of my said sister Emeline in my estate herein devised in trust for her benefit. The devise of said land to said Ellis HULBERT and wife and his children shall be void in case of the sale of said land by me. 10th: I further direct my said trustee to pay to the children of my said sisters Emeline and Maria other than said Horace and Ellis upon their sons becoming twenty five years of age and their daughters twenty one years of age respectively, or at their marriage if any of them shall marry before arriving at the respective ages aforesaid, the sum of five hundred dollars and any sum five years after having recieved said first mentioned sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, each that either my said sisters shall direct by writing signed by them my said trustee herein to pay to either their respective children; all sums when paid under the above named provisions shall be charged to my said sisters' interest respectively in my estate herein devised in trust for them whose children receive such payment. 11th: I further direct my said trustee to pay to the minor children of my said sisters, who at my decease are between the ages of sixteen years and twenty one years, any sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars in any year or four hundred and fifty dollars in all that their parents if living and my said trustee under this will shall deem expedient to be used soley to pay the actual and necessary expenses of said minors in procuring an education at a high school, academy, or college away from home, and in the event of the death of my said sisters Emeline or Maria, or either of them leaving minor children surviving them, I authorize my said trustee to pay to the father or guardian of such minors the sum of fifty dollars annually for each minor child until they respectively become of age to be used in their support and maintenance. 12th: In the event of the death or separation of the husbands of my said sisters Emeline and Maria, or of either of them, I direct my said trustee to pay to them or either of them as the case may be in addition to the annual income they may receive from my estate, such additional sum annually during their respective lives out of the principal of my estate herein devised in trust for their benefit respectively, as my be sufficient with said income to comfortable support and maintain them but the amount to be received by them under this 12th provision shall not exceed five hundred dollars per year to each, and during the lifetime of their husbands the income paid to them shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars a year to each. 13th: Upon the death of my said sisters Emeline and Maria I give all their respective interest in my estate herein devised in trust for their benefit then remaining in the hands of my said trustee to their repective children living at their death and their heirs absolutely, the children of any deceased child to take their parent's share. I direct said trustee to pay to such as are of age, their share within two years after the decease of their mother and to any under age within two years after respectively becoming of age; or in case of my said sisters dying before I do or either of them, then he shall make such payments to those of age within two years after my death, and to such as are minors within two years after becoming of age as afore mentioned. In case such legacies are received in securities other than money, they shall be taken at their market value. 14th: If either of my said sisters, Emeline or Maria, shall die without child or children surviving her, or if my said sister Harriet shall die without disposing by will of her interest in my estate herein devised in trust for her, in any such event, I give and devise the beneficial interest of such sister or sisters as may die in manner aforesaid to her surviving sister or sisters, equally and their children, but the same shall be held in trust by my trustee herein and held and applied for the benefit of such suviving sister or sisters and their respective children in the same manner as if herein devised in trust for them in the first instance. 15th: I hereby appoint Washington HYDE Esq. of Warren, Ohio executor of this my Last Will and hereby revoke all former wills made by me, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this will and the execution of the trusts herein created. I hereby grant him full power and authority as such executor and trustee to sell and dispose of all my real estate wherever situate, either at public or private sale, as he shall deem most expedient and beneficial for my estate, with power to execute and deliver deeds of said real estate to the pruchasers thereof; all sales to be made for a reasonable and safe cash payment, and deferred payments upon a reasonable credit shall be secured by a first mortgage on the premises sold, with interest payable annually, unless the entire purchase money be paid in cash at time of sale. And I hereby grant my said executor and trustee full power and authority to execute all papers and writing and to do all acts that may be necessary to be done, to carry out the trust herein created; and subject to the provisions of this will to reinvest the proceeds of such real estate when sold in farming land in Trumbull or adjoining counties in the state of Ohio, with a view to the production of an income thereby, or in good interest bearing securities as in his judgement shall be most expedient, first mortgages on improved real estate being recommended as the safest securities. And subject to the provisions herein written I authorize, empower and direct my said executor and trustee to keep all the estate herein devised in trust to him safely invested in good first mortgages on improved real estate or in other safe interest beariong secruities until such times as the trusts hereby created are fully discharged and my estate finally settled up. And for the purposes aforesaid, I grant him full authority to collect all money owing to me at my decease, to sell any bank stock or other securities owned by me for their fair value in money; and hereby authorize and empower him to reinvest the same in other mortgages and safe interest bearing securities as aforesaid. It being my purpose that all my estate, except so much thereof as may be needed from time to time to pay the legacies and bequests of this will and other proper charges be at all times as near as may be kept safely invested to procure therefrom as large an income as possible. I further direct that my said executor and trustee keep accurate accounts of all his transactions which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of all partaies interested therein under my will; and that he render accounts to such persons once or twice a year when requested to do so, showing the condition of said estate to the time of rendering said account. I further direct that my said executor and trustee be allowed by the Court, having jurisdiction, his reasonable expenses and disbursements made in the execution of the trust herein created, and such compensation for his services as is just and allowed by law, and that he be required to give a proper bond for the faithful discharge of his duties as such executor and trustee. Upon his death, resignation or failure to accept said trust, I desire that the Court, in appointing an executor and trustee in his place so fare as may be, consult the wishes of the beneficiaries under this will as to such appointment. I further direct that my executor, and trustee, in making payments to the beneficiaries under this will, in all cases require a written order or receipt signed by the party to whom said payment is made before making payment thereof. I further direct that all payments if any made by me after date of this will to the children of my said sisters Maria BARB or Emeline HULBERT, shall be and hereby are charged to them as so much advanced by me on account of the legacies herein given to them; and to the extent of such payments, the legacy given to such child or children of my said sisters receiving the same, shall be reduced, and only the balance of said legacy less such payment or payments paid by my said executor and trustee. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight. Simeon O. HART s.s."

LUCY AUGUR DANFORTH of Wilkes County, Georgia

When Lucy Auger Danforth was born on July 25, 1815, in Rupert, Vermont, he parents were both 44. Lucy’s mother Lucy passed away on August 9, 1815, in Rupert, Vermont, a few weeks after she was born and Lucy would have been raised by her step mother Mary. When she was 9 years old her father Samuel passed away on December 17, 1824, in Ithaca, New York, leaving her an orphaned. The 1830 Census of Tompkins County, New York lists Mary Danforth as having a girl in her household who could have been Lucy.  It is not known when Lucy A. Danforth moved to Georgia where her two older brothers were located.

Lucy Auger Danforth married Gideon Bowles Bunch in Wilkes, Georgia, on October 22, 1835, when she was 20 years old. At the time her eldest brother Thomas B. Danforth had already moved from Georgia to Kentucky, there for she probably was living with her brother Samuel Danforth Jr. and his wife Harriett Brown.   She did name two of her children Samuel and Harriett.

Gideon Bowles Bunch was born on December 2, 1814, in Goochland, Virginia, the son of  Pouncey Bunch and Sarah Mallory. He was  21 when he married Lucy Danforth and they had seven children together. 

Gideon Bunch and Lucy Danforth are located in the 1840 census as living in District 180, of Wilkes County, Georgia. They had two sons and a daughter under the age of 5, and one slave boy under 10 years old at the time.  Their children were George Bunch, Samuel Bunch, and Sally Bunch.

During the next ten years, they had three more children who were enumerated in the 1850 Census of Wilkes County Georgia.  That census was taken 23 August and they lived in the 94^th Division of the County. Both Gideon and Lucy were listed as 35 year old and he was a farmer.  He is not listed as owning property so must have rented the farm and he only owned $200 worth of personal property which was most likely a 25 year old African American woman and her 1 year old son. The children listed in the household were 14 year old George Bunch, 12 year old Samuel Bunch, 10 year old Sarah Bunch, 8 year old Edmund Bunch, 6 year old Nancy Bunch, and 3 year old Julia Bunch. 

The family was the 83^rd household enumerated in the Division and the 84^th household was Lucy Bunch’s niece Louisa Danforth Walton and her husband Dr. John H. Walton.  Lucy Bunch’s brother Samuel Danforth was also living in the 94^th Division and was household number 145.

On the eve of the Civil War, Gideon and Lucy Bunch were off the farm and living in the town of Washington in Wilkes County as 19 June. Gideon was listed as 45 years old and a clerk worth $500 in real estate and $1500 worth of personal property.  As that he did not own any slaves at the time the personal property may have been in livestock.  Lucy was listed as 44 years old with two children still at home, her daughters 14 year old Harriet Nancy Bunch and 12 year old Julia Ann Bunch. Also in the household was Lucy’s sister  in law Helen M Bunch age 30.

In 1860 George W Bunch had married and was living in Warren County, Georgia as a farm laborer.  Samuel J Bunch was  married and living in Wilkes County, Georgia as a saw mill operator. Sallie Bunch was married to William W. Huegley and living in Wilkes County. Edmund Bunch who would have been 18 years old has not been located.

Gideon Bunch may have been working for his widowed sister in law Harriett Brown Danforth who was the proprietress of a hotel in Washington and enumerated as household 212 while Gideon and Lucy were household 219.  Harriett Danforth was also living with her son in law Dr. John H. Walton who was worth $30,000 in personal property.  

During the civil war Gideon on 4 Mar 1862 enlisted in the Confederate Army. He enlisted in Company A, Georgia 15th Infantry Regiment and fought at the Battle of Gettsburg. Lucy’s sons George W Bunch and Samuel J. Bunch also fought for the Confederacy as well as her sons in law William Hughley and John Cosby.  Samuel J Bunch was wounded in the foot but all these men survived the war.

After the war ended, Gideon and Lucy Bunch are found still in the town of Washington in Wilkes County on August 12^th.  Gideon was a 55 year old Clerk in a store worth $1500 in real estate and $500 in personal property.  Lucy was also 55 years old and “keeping house”.  The only child still at home was Julia A Bunch age 20. Included in their household was a 10 year old African American “Domestic Servant” named James Cade.

The last census in which Lucy can be found is the 1880 Census taken on June 2^nd.   Gideon Bunch went back to farming in the Anderson District where he was listed as household 26 and near him was his son in law John H Cosby at household 24.   Gideon Bunch is a 65 year old farmer and Lucy was listed as a 64 year old housewife.  Their daughter Julia Ann Bunch Cosby was living with her parents as a widow with two small children. She was the widow of John H Cosby’s younger brother Zachary Taylor Cosby.

Also included in Gideon and Lucy’s household were their grandchildren 13 year old William Bunch and 11 year old Lucy Bunch.  These grandchildren are probably the children of their eldest son George W Bunch.  William Bunch was listed as a farm laborer.

Lucy Auger Danforth died on July 21, 1885, in Wilkes County, Georgia, when she was 69 years old. She is buried in the Fishing Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. As a widower he then married Elizabeth Francis Huff Glen in 1886 in Wilkes, Georgia.  He died on February 17, 1890, in Wilkes, Georgia, having lived a long life of 75 years.  He is buried next to his wife Lucy Danforth.

1. George W Bunch was born in 1836 in Wilkes, Georgia, when his father, Gideon, was 22 and his mother, Lucy, was 21. He married Leonora "Nora" in 1855 in Georgia. Her last name is unknown. They had four or five children in 10 years. George W Bunch, a private from Georgia, fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.  He served in 14^th Battalion Georgia Infantry Company C. He lived in Warren County, Georgia. The last census on which he can be located is in Warren County, Georgia. Two of his children are listed in the 1880 census of his father,
2. Samuel J Bunch was born in February 1838 in Wilkes, Georgia, when his father, Gideon, was 23 and his mother, Lucy, was 22. When he was 19 he married Julia Ann Huguley on November 19, 1857, in Washington, Wilkes, Georgia. They had eight children in 29 years. His wife Julia Ann passed away in August 1886 at the age of 46. They had been married 28 years. He died on December 5, 1907, in Wilkes, Georgia, at the age of 69. Samuel J Bunch lived in Mallorys, Georgia, in 1900. He fought in Cobb’s Legion in Company K as a musician with the rank of a private. He was wounded in the foot and exempt from service in 1864.
3. Sallie Lucy "Sarah" Bunch was born on March 20, 1840, in Wilkes, Georgia, when her father, Gideon, was 25, and her mother, Lucy, was 24. She married at the age of 17 to William Walton Huguley on June 14, 1857, in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia. They had seven children in 17 years. Her husband William Walton passed away on December 30, 1906, in Georgia at the age of 70. They had been married 49 years. She died on October 4, 1914, in Georgia at the age of 74, and was buried in the Abilene Baptist Church cemetery in Martinez, Columbia County, Georgia. William Walton Huguley was a farmer and lived at Jackson's Crossroads, eight miles from Washington, Georgia. At 26, he enlisted in the Georgia Volunteer Infantry of the Confederate States of America in Company E, Georgia 9th Infantry Battalion on 10 May 1862. He was mustered out on April 26, 1865 at Greensboro, North Carolina.  He fought at the Atlanta Siege, in 1864.

4. Edmund Gideon Bunch was born on June 6, 1842, in Wilkes, Georgia, when his father, Gideon, was 27 and his mother, Lucy, was 26. He left Georgia and moved to western Kentucky where he had one son and two daughters with Sarah A Maggie McGinnis or McClure between 1872 and 1879. His wife’s name is given by her children as both Sarah and Maggie. He died on March 12, 1883, in Grayson, Kentucky, at the age of 40. He may not have been a well person.  On 8 Aug 1879  he was appointed Postmaster of Goff, in Graydon County until April 1880. The 1880 census has him living in Leitchfield as  a farmer with rheumatism  and had three male boarders living with the family.

5. Nancy Harriet Bunch was born on August 25, 1844, in Wilkes, Georgia, when her father, Gideon, was 29, and her mother, Lucy, was 29. She married John H. Cosby on June 19, 1870, in Washington, Wilkes, Georgia. They had three children during their marriage. She died on June 5, 1887, in Wilkes, Georgia, at the age of 42. John Cosby,  enlisted as a private July 15, 1861 in the Confederate Army. He Enlisted in Company C, Georgia 15th Infantry Regiment on 15 Jul 1861. He was wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg September 17, 1862 and was at the surrendered, at Appomattox. He was mustered out on 9 Apr 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.
6 Annie Julie (Dolly) Bunch was born on December 6, 1847, in Wilkes, Georgia, when her father, Gideon, was 33, and her mother, Lucy, was 32. Annie Julie (Dolly) Bunch married Zachery Taylor Cosby in Wilkes, Georgia, on January 3, 1872, when she was 24 years old. He was the brother of John H Cosby. Her husband Zachery Taylor Cosby passed away on June 16, 1878, in Wilkes, Georgia, at the age of 30. They had been married 6 years. Annie Julie (Dolly) Bunch then married Thomas Jefferson Waller in Georgia in 1881 when she was 34 years old. Her husband Thomas Jefferson Waller passed away on April 15, 1910, at the age of 65. Annie Julie (Dolly) Bunch married Dr. Edward Elisha Parsons on November 26, 1916, when she was 68 years old. She died on June 18, 1917, in Richmond, Georgia, at the age of 69. She had four daughters by her two husbands.  She is buried in the Abilene Baptist Church in Martinez, Columbia County, Georgia
7. Enoch Bunch was born in 1851 in Wilkes, Georgia, his father, Gideon, was 37 and his mother, Lucy, was 36. He had three brothers and three sisters. He died after 1880. in that census he is listed as age 29, a laborer and living with his brother Samuel J Bunch’s family. They lived in the 167^th District called Malloryville.  There is no Enoch listed in the household of Gideon and Lucy in the 1860 or 1870 censuses.

KNOWN GRANDCHILDREN OF SAMUEL AND LUCY AUGUER

1. Charles Danforth son of Jonathan was born on October 11, 1824, in Ithaca, New York, husband of Cornelia A. Cummins

2. William Brown Danforth son of Samuel Jr. born  in Vermont, husband of Nancy R. Dunaway

3. Samuel "Oscar" Danforth son of Thomas Bassell born 1825 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia. Husband of Virginia Elizabeth Jessup.

4. Mary “Frances” Nash  daughter of Lydia was born 7 October 1826 Granville, Washington,New York. Wife of Alvin L Tooley

5.  Harriett Danforth daughter of Jonathanwas born on October 11, 1826, in Ithaca, New York, wife of Joseph Bernard French

6. John Burdine Danforth son of Thomas Bassell born 1827 Augusta Richomond Georgia died as a child in March 1834 no issue

7. Lucy Danforth daughter of Samuel Jr born 1829 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia. No more knowledge

8. Louise E Danforth daughter of Samuel Jr. was born in 1830 in Augusta, Georgia, wife of John H Walton

9. Lucy Alger Nash daughter of Lydia born 27 February 1831 Granville, Washington New York Wife of John Gilman Meder

10. Edward Griffin Danforth son of Rev. Charles was born on May 20, 1831, in Bath, Ohio, husband of Rosella Angelia Paige and Mary Belinda Burr

11. Matilda Susan Danforth daughter of Thomas Bassell born 1831 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia She died as a teenager in April 1844 in Desota County, Mississippi. No issue

12. Mary Elizabeth Danforth daughter of Rev. Charles was born on February 28, 1833, in New Jersey wife of Thomas Jefferson McKeehan.

13. Ellen Maria Nash daughter of Lydia was 10 June 1833 in Granville, Washington, New York. When wife of John "Sidney" Thompson.

14. Mary Danforth daughter of Jonathan was born in July 1833 in Russell, Ohio, wife of Hiram Bailey and Henry N Fuller

15. William Robert “Billy” Danforth son of Thomas Bassell born 1833 Canton, Twigg County, Tennessee Hsband of Alabama Tennessee Thomas. No issue

16. Harriet Eliza Hart ,daughter of Susannah White  was born May 24th, 1835 wife of James Dickinson No issue

17 Rev. Charles Henry Nash son of Lydia was born 6 December 1835 in Granville, Washington, New York. Husband of Marion E Mason and Mary Whitney Dikeman

18 Miss Danforth daughter of Damuel Jr 1835 died young. No more information

19. Charles Franklin Danforth son of Rev. Charles was born on September 20, 1836, in Orwell, Ohio husband of  Mrs. Augusta Richardson Pierson

20. George W Bunch son of Lucy Augur was born in 1836 in Wilkes, Georgia, husband of Leonora "Nora" last name unknown .

21. Emeline Peck Hart, daughter of Susannah White  was born, 13 November, 1837 at Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio wife of Oscar Fitzerland Hurlbert.

22. Samuel J Bunch son of Lucy Augur was born in February 1838 in Wilkes, Georgia husband of Julia Ann Huguley

23. Albert Augustus Nash was 16 April  1838 in Granville, Washington, New York He marriedLaura E last name unknown no issue.

24. Ellsworth Hart, son of Susannah White died , 20 May 1839 aged 3 years.

25. Lydia Permelia “Cornelia”Danforth daughter of Rev. Charles was born in 1839 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, wife of J.C. Wilton

26. Sallie Lucy "Sarah" Bunch daughter of Lucy Augur was born on March 20, 1840, in Wilkes, Georgia, wife of William Walton Huguley

27. Emma Almira Danforth daughter of Samuel Jr. was born on July 6, 1840, in Wilkes, Georgia, wife of Samuel K. Wynn

28. Josepha Adeline Nash daughter of Lydia was born 6 February 1841, Granville, Washington, New York. Wife of married Sheldon P Wilson

29. Maria Hart , daughter of Susannah White  born April 7th, 1841 in Trumbull County, Ohio wife of Martin Jefferson Barbe.

30. Edmund Gideon Bunch son of Lucy Augur was born on June 6, 1842, in Wilkes, Georgia, husband of Sarah A Maggie McGinnis

31. Clarissa S Clara Danforth daughter of Jonathan was born on August 4, 1842, in Russell, Ohio,  wife of Benson W. Rose

32 Marion Permelia Nash daughter of Lydia was born 8 March 1843 in Granville, Washington, New York wife of Christian Quien

33. Simeon Oliver Hart, son of Susannah White was born July 10th, 1844 no issue

34 Nancy Harriet Bunch daughter of Lucy Augur was born on August 25, 1844, in Wilkes, Georgia, wife of John H. Cosby

35. George Harvey Nash son of Lydia was born on March 11, 1845, died as a child on September 5, 1851, in his hometown.

36. Sophia Danforth daughter of Thomas Bassell born 27 July 1847 Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Mississippi.  Wife of J D Richard Taylor No issue.

37 Annie Julie (Dolly) Bunch daughter of Lucy Augur was born on December 6, 1847, wife of  Zachery Taylor Cosby, Thomas Jefferson Waller and  Dr. Edward Elisha Parsons

38. Theophilus Bassell Danforth son of Thomas Bassell born 12 March 1849 Fluellen Crossroads, DeSota, Missossippi  husband of Minerva Ann Holt and Angnett Besley

39. Alice Anne Danforth daughter of Thomas Bassell born 24 February 1852 Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Mississippi wife of Percy Robert Nicholson

40. Charles Bryant Danforth son of Thomas Bassell 31 August 1854 Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Mississippi. common law wife Alice Keaton.

41. Lucy Lucretia Danforth daughter of Thomas Bassell was born 12 October 1857  Fluellen Crossroads, De Sota, Mississippi no issue

 42. Harriett Brown Danforth daughter of Thomas Bassell born 10 April 1861 Marshall County, Mississippi. She died as a child in 1870. No issue