Martha Tripp

Martha married Samuel Sherman on 23 Feb 1680 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island. Samuel (son of Hon. Philip Sherman (Shearman), (immigrant) and Sarah Odding, (immigrant)) was born in 1648 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island; died on 09 Oct 1717 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Samuel Chase on 28 Feb 1699 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island. Samuel was born on 14 Jul 1673 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts; died on 19 Feb 1755 in Swansea, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Daniel Baker in 1693 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island. Daniel was born on 15 Nov 1675 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts; died on 13 May 1745 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a farmer and a man of remarkable strength and endurance. It is recorded that he pitched twenty tons of hay in one day. He was familiarly know as "Ebenezer Greenward". [RVS-68]

Ebenezer married Elizabeth Havens on 16 Mar 1741. Elizabeth was born about 1705 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died after 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Rebecca Lawton on 28 May 1732 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Lawton and Content Irish) was born on 19 Oct 1715 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island; died in 1740 in Tiverton, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phebe married Edward Slade on 6 Dec 1720 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Edward (son of William Slade and Sarah Holmes) was born on 14 Jun 1694 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died on 4 Apr 1755 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Lydia Slade on 20 Oct 1726 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Lydia (daughter of William Slade and Sarah Holmes) was born on 8 Oct 1706 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died on 20 Oct 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1790, Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire
• Census: 1810, Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

Notes:

Samuel, Jotham (Jonathan) and Reuben found in this Rootsweb tree: Sterling/Letellier/Smith/Phillips
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=azgnilrets02&id=I52824


Samuel Sherman was a Patriot in the Revolutionary War, recognized by the DAR. He married Mary Crary, 15 APR 1758 in Gloucester, Providence County, Rhode Island at his residence. He married second, after his daughter Hannah Sherman was born, in October 1783, Hannah Unknown. He made a bargain with his daughter, Hannah, and her husband, Chester Taylor, to take care of him and his wife in their old age.

Burial:
Samuel Sherman land
Lisbon
Grafton County
New Hampshire, USA

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46992992


Census:
Name: Samuel Sharmon
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Number of Free White Males 16 and Over: 3
Number of Free White Females: 4
Number of Household Members: 7

next door:
Jonathan Sharmon

Reuben Sharmon

nearby:
Judd, Jewet, Andrus Parker, Jeremiah Brown, Martin, Robins, Richardson

next door: Beckford Spooner, Thomas Spooner



Census:
1810 Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire
Name: Samuel Sherman
[Samuel Shermon]
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males 45 and Over: 1
Free White Females 45 and Over: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 2

Reuben Shermon (son)
Name: Reuben Shermon
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males 16 to 25: 2
Free White Males 45 and Over: 2
Free White Females Under 10: 2
Free White Females 16 to 25: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 8


Jotham Shermon (son)
Name: Jotham Shermon
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males Under 10: 1
Free White Males 10 to 15: 2
Free White Males 45 and Over: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1
Free White Females 10 to 15: 2
Free White Females 16 to 25: 1
Free White Females 45 and Over: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 9

Chester Taylor (son-in-law - Hannah)
Name: Chester Taylor
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males Under 10: 2
Free White Males 26 to 44: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 5

Samuel married Mrs. Hannah (..) Sherman after 1784 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Hannah was born about 1736; died after 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary Crary after 15 Apr 1758 in Gloucester, Providence Co, Rhode Island. Mary was born on 01 Jun 1740 in Uxbridge, Worcester Co, Massachusetts; died in 1788 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Ruth Beadon about 1758. Ruth was born in 1730; died in 1795 in Cambridge, Washington Co, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Lydia Baker on 4 Jan 1756 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Lydia (daughter of Ebenezer Baker and Lydia Slade) was born on 4 May 1731 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died in 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phillip married Mary Reed about 1760 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Mary was born on 31 Mar 1736 in Freetown, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died on 9 Oct 1755. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Edward Slade on 4 Jan 1756 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Edward (son of Edward Slade and Phebe Chase) was born on 11 Nov 1728 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died in 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1790, Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire
• Census: 1810, Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

Notes:

99-04-24 Fm: Al Beasley To: SHERMAN-L

Reuben Sherman RI & VT line, W11310, BLW#100785-160-55

He filed and was awarded pension August 14, 1832. He d. 5/3/1843. His wid (Ruth) m. Elijah Howard.
When he d. she filed for Reuben's pension. He enl at Glouchester under Capt. Carr, RI troops at age 15 and fought the British. In 1781 enl under Capt Nehemiah Lovell on Lake Champlain fighting Indians. He is buried in Lisbon, NH. The inscription on his gravestone reads - "For ye are dead and your life is hid in Christ in God" "A Revolutionary Soldier." Ruth was the wife of Reuben Jr, then Reuben SR then E. Howard [Hon. Phil, Peleg, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, him]

I have copies of the applications and other records if anyone wants more detail.
Al Beasley - {The pension was $66.66 a year.}

_____


Birth: Feb. 22, 1763
Glocester
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA
Death: May 3, 1843
Lisbon
Grafton County
New Hampshire, USA

Reuben Sherman was the son of Samuel and Mary Crary Sherman. He, his brothers, and his father received land for settling in Concord, now Lisbon. Reuben's father's land was where the town library is sited today. Reuben shot a bear in a tree by the house, there, the first winter the family lived in Concord. The bear meat may have saved their lives. Reuben, Sr., and his father, were Patriots in the Revolutionary War, recognized by the DAR. The "Baral Cache" claims Reuben's first wife was Priscilla Welsh. He later married Lydia Dexter, daughter of Joseph and Martha Smith Dexter; marriage date unknown. He later married Mrs. Ruth Smith Sherman, in 1827, in Barnet, Caledonia, VT. She was the daughter of Josiah Smith and the widow of Reuben's son, Reuben, Jr., who died in 1823.

Burial:
Salmon Hole Cemetery
Lisbon
Grafton County
New Hampshire, USA

findagrave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=sherman&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSst=32&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=46859038&df=all&


Census:
1810 Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire
Name: Samuel Sherman
[Samuel Shermon]
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males 45 and Over: 1
Free White Females 45 and Over: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 2

Reuben Shermon (son)
Name: Reuben Shermon
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males 16 to 25: 2
Free White Males 45 and Over: 2
Free White Females Under 10: 2
Free White Females 16 to 25: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 8


Jotham Shermon (son)
Name: Jotham Shermon
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males Under 10: 1
Free White Males 10 to 15: 2
Free White Males 45 and Over: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1
Free White Females 10 to 15: 2
Free White Females 16 to 25: 1
Free White Females 45 and Over: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 9

Chester Taylor (son-in-law - Hannah)
Name: Chester Taylor
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males Under 10: 2
Free White Males 26 to 44: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 5

Reuben married Lydia Dexter about 1784. Lydia (daughter of Joseph Dexter and Martha Smith) was born before 21 Apr 1765 in Athol, Worcester Co, Massachusetts; died after 1805. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reuben married Ruth E. Smith in Oct 1827 in Barnet, Caledonia Co, Vermont. Ruth (daughter of Josiah Smith) was born in Oct 1797 in Bath, Grafton Co, New Hampshire; died on 12 Aug 1875 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1810, Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

Notes:

Census:
1810 Concord, Grafton Co, New Hampshire
Name: Samuel Sherman
[Samuel Shermon]
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males 45 and Over: 1
Free White Females 45 and Over: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 2

neighbors nearby:

Reuben Shermon (son)
Name: Reuben Shermon
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males 16 to 25: 2
Free White Males 45 and Over: 2
Free White Females Under 10: 2
Free White Females 16 to 25: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 8


Jotham Shermon (son)
Name: Jotham Shermon
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males Under 10: 1
Free White Males 10 to 15: 2
Free White Males 45 and Over: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1
Free White Females 10 to 15: 2
Free White Females 16 to 25: 1
Free White Females 45 and Over: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 9

Chester Taylor (son-in-law - Hannah)
Name: Chester Taylor
Township: Concord
County: Grafton
State: New Hampshire
Free White Males Under 10: 2
Free White Males 26 to 44: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 5

Jonathan married Mehitable Blanchard about 1779. Mehitable was born in 1759; died on 21 Jul 1829 in New Hampshire; was buried in Salmon Hole Cem, Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Almira Judd after 1807. Almira (daughter of Levi Judd and Joanna Robbins) was born on 06 Mar 1781 in Landaff, Grafton Co, New Hampshire; died after 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married (..) Dame on 26 Nov 1807. (..) was born about 1766; died after 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Sarah Chamberlain in 1825. Sarah was born about 1783 in Newbury, Orange Co, Vermont; died after 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary W. "Polly" Titus about 1794. Mary was born on 16 Apr 1783 in Bath, Grafton Co, New Hampshire; died on 26 Oct 1825 in Brooklyn, Windham Co, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Chester Taylor in 1802 in Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Chester was born in 1788 in Northampton, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts; died on 02 May 1850 in Lyman, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baker married Hannah Pierce on 18 Mar 1784 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Hannah was born on 17 Sep 1766 in Swansea, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died on 2 Feb 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Slocum. John was born in 1775 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died on 1 Apr 1818 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Addressed to: Miss Electa Moor, Juliet, Will County, Ill, probably late February, 1841 or 1842.]

Dear children, I now write to let you know that we are well. Owing to the cold weather we did not arrive at Andover till the eighth day. We met with no accident, but suffered severely with the cold, but did not quite freeze. We found Morrison and Mary living in the company house. They had been expecting us a long time. Our house was not done so we had to move in with them; not very convenient. Mary was invited and accordingly went to a splendid party at xxx Thompson's for the purpose of celebrating Gen. Washington's birthday. Morrison has bought a quarter section of land at Red Oak Grove with a small house on it to which they will move the first of April, so he will not go to Missouri this year, but says he shall before a great while. After paying for his land he will have his mare, six oxen, one cow and calf, twelve hens left. The distance from us is eight miles. Morrison and Mary, your father and I have been to Rock Island, found the market very poor. English goods high and had hard work to get a shilling per pound for butter, brought our cheese back, bought nothing worth mentioning. When the boats come with goods will be cheaper and more plentyful. If Eliza has money she had better buy all her little articles at Juliet [Joliet] for there's not much of a store kept here. She had better fetch her coverlet yarn too and get it woven at Richland Grove. Your father and Reubin work like niggers at splitting rails and have got almost done. They have neither of them spent an hour of needless time since we came here, and I am making shirts for the boys. We feel a great deal of anxiety about you and especially at night all the rest are asleep. The boys must take good care of everything or Dan will not get that black lamb. Electa, your father says you must take care of the pork and if the brine gets out put in more water and salt. I wish you would twist all the stocking yarn for there is not a wheel within ten miles of this xxx. Mary wrote us a letter long ago, which she expected we had received before we left home. If it's in the post office now let it stay there. I want you should write as soon as you get this. Write everything about everybody, about the calves, lambs, and everything else. I want to see you all and especially that poor little thing. Give my love to Mrs. Waldrum [?] and family, to William, Mrs. Hartshorn [?], Pruggs Billings, and all that enquire. I expect your father will be out as soon as the grass will do. Write. Tell Dan that the fellow who draws off this sheet wants to see him and John. I think Mary was thankful for the present that you sent her especially the two yards. Your father wants John to tell Mr. Davison he should always doctor all the calves, lambs, pigs in season, except that one that runs. You must correct the mistakes and straighten the lines yourselves for I cannot spend time. Adieu for the present. Signed John & D. [Deborah] Moore [A list of names of family members that presumably should read the letter is on the left margin.- Mr. & Mrs. Davison, Electa and Eliza Moore, John & Dan Moore.]

[October 2008, revised notes, by Bill Pixley. regarding letter written by Deborah Sherman Moor.]

Capt. John and Deborah Sherman Moor(e) arrived in IL in 1836 from NH. They stayed at New Lenox Twp., near Joliet several years before settling in Andover, Henry, IL. By that time, Priscilla and Mary, the oldest daughters were married. Priscilla and John Davison would remain in New Lenox because of the huge acreage they owned. Mary C. and Morrison Francis would have to acquire their own land and went to Henry Co., IL, apparently with a land company or firm whose mission was to settle easterners in Henry Co. According to Morrison Francis' obituary, "within a year or two of his marriage"--23 Apr 1840--"Mr. Francis opened a farm on the prairie south of here"--Andover--"near Red Oak Grove". Since the letter states that Morrison was about to move to Red Oak Grove, it would likely have been in 1841 or 1842. A search of land records should establish a more exact date. The party, celebrating "General Washington's birthday" (22 Feb), indicates the Moores and Reuben S. Sherman traveled from Joliet to Andover about February. So we have a date of February or March 1841 or 1842, when the letter was written. The "Reubin" in the letter working with John, must have been the son of Deborah's brother, Reubin, Jr. This boy, Reubin S. Sherman, was born in 1823, of Reubin, Jr., and Ruth Smith Sherman. He did not remain in IL, but returned to NH and married, 16 Sep 1847, Adeline Little and fathered four children. He died in Lisbon, NH, 14 Feb 1896, age 72.

Henry County, IL, biographical sketch (pg. 227) for Morrison Francis who was no longer living (d. 1873), so information was given totally by his wife, Mary Crary Francis:

"Mrs. Mary C. Moore Francis was born Sept. 13, 1820, in Lisbon, NH. She is of Irish extraction, and her grandfather, John Moore, was a native of NH. He also married a lady of NH birth and they raised seven (sic) children. John J. (sic) Moore, the father of Mrs. Francis, was born in Bedford, Merrimac Co, NH. He was a farmer and married Deborah, daughter of Reuben Sherman. She was born in New Hampshire and came with her husband in the Spring of 1836 to Hickory Creek, Will Co., Ill. In 1840 they came to Henry County and located in the township of Andover, where they died."

Encyclopedia of Biography, Walter Goodman Cowles sketch, pg. 29.

Giving a descendancy of Moor(e)......"their son Capt. John Moor (1790) and his wife, Deborah (Sherman) Moor, the latter named daughter of Reuben Sherman, and they were the parents of Mary C. Moor, aforementioned."

Baral Cache-- Capt John Moore, Jr b. Bedford, Merrimack Co, N.H.. on 29th Oct, 1790; d. 1849-50
John Moore and Deborah Sherman, b. June 3, 1787
Deborah Sherman (dau. Ruben Sherman & Priscilla Welch (or Webb) Concord, Grafton Co, State of New Hampshire on the 3rd day of June 1787 John Moore and Deborah Sherman, m. Nov 24, 1814

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=azgnilrets02&id=I38005

Deborah married John Moore on 24 Nov 1814 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. John was born about 1787 in Bedford, Hillsboro Co, New Hampshire; died after 1825 in Andover, Henry Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reuben married Ruth E. Smith before 1819. Ruth (daughter of Josiah Smith) was born in Oct 1797 in Bath, Grafton Co, New Hampshire; died on 12 Aug 1875 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Electa married Jesse Richardson about 1823 in Grafton, Worcester Co, Massachusetts. Jesse was born about 1802; died after 1832 in of, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Randilla married Charles Stevens about 1857 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Charles was born about 1828; died before 1860 in of, Portland, Cumberland Co, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is misplaced. A tree with this Smith is here:
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/80293279/person/48438208884/facts

Smith married Luna Sherman about 1833 in New York. Luna was born in 1807 in Massachusetts; died in 1872 in Collins, Erie Co, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Smith married Lucinda P. Harding on 4 Jul 1829 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Lucinda was born in 1810 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island; died on 20 Nov 1834 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Smith married Thirza Porter on 26 Mar 1835 in Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Thirza was born on 18 Jun 1810 in Lyman, Grafton Co, New Hampshire; died on 1 Jan 1862 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Mrs. Anna C. (..) Sherman about 1835 in New York. Anna was born in 1819 in New York; died after 1850 in of, Collins, Erie Co, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mial married Rhoby Bowers about 1815. Rhoby was born on 21 Apr 1794 in Somerset, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jan 1866 in Columbia, Bradford Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Julianne Higginbotham on 24 Oct 1832 in Louisiana, Harris Co, Texas. Julianne was born on 25 Sep 1815 in Athens, Clark Co, Georgia; died on 22 Nov 1852 in Houston, Harris Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Letter from Mary Crary Moore Francis to her husband, Morrison, who was traveling either to or from the California gold fields. [Letter transcribed as originally written. whp]

Andover July 22 1852

Dear Morison

It is only three weeks since I wrote you but thinking you may not get the letter I thought best to write again soon. I received your letter last week written from Fort Larramie was pleased to hear you were getting along so well

Little Nelson Ayres died the 5th of July after an illness of about five weeks

Mrs Esbian is dead she left an infant a few hours old There has a great many s(w)eeds come here and they say there is seventy more coming tomorrow. Father has not paid that note yet Mortimer went to see him last spring he could not pay him and not willing to pay him but six per cent interest he wrote to him and said he would sue him. Father wrote answer that he would good interest if he would wait longer

Lennings has not paid yet I believe Mortimer got 50 dollars on his note

The meadow grass is cut and put up in good order I think


August 25th

You see by the date it is one month since I commenced this letter we were all in good health at that time but not so now. Our dear Little Fanny is very sick, she has been so six days, she has a disorder of the brain.

The third day after she was taken she had a fit which lasted five hours Dr Dunn arrived before she came out of it and is now attending her she was better a day or two but I very much fear she will take a relapse if she does it will in all probability prove fatal

I am waiting by her cradle tonight her health has been poor since she had the measles she has had the infantile remittent fever she was sick four or five weeks I know not how it will terminate with her but fear the worst I shall not send this until I do If I ever felt your presence was necessary at home it is now Friends and neighbors are very kind but they cannot fill your place.

Sept 6 our dear child is yet living but that is all this is the fourth day she has had spasms and to day they have lasted the most of the day. O the agony that she is now suffering I cannot stay with her and have taken up the pen to write a little. I think she cannot live through the night I shall be thankful when she is at rest

Sept 10 Morison our lovely baby is now at rest she passed away about twelve Oclock Tuesday night She is now an angel at the right hand of her saviour

Yesterday her little body was put in the cold grave. She was sick 18 days We wched her 16 nights and for eight or ten days expected one would be her last O what agony I have felt at thought of parting with her but her suffering was so great that I felt relieved when she was gone



Composite and abbreviation of two large obituaries.

In Memoriam. On Wednesday, Sept. 4th, 1907, ocurred the death of Mrs. Mary C. Francis at the home of her son-in-law, Walter G. Cowles, in Hartford, CT. The remains were brought to Cambridge for interment, arriving here on Saturday morning, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Keagy, and granddaughter, Mrs. Clementine Goodrich. The funeral service which was largely attended was held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. F. Dimick, Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. Valiant, of the Baptist church. The floral tributes were many and beautiful. A male quartet consisting of C. B. Taylor, L. E. Telleen, L. A. Taylor, and Roy Metz, sang several appropriate selections. The bearers were J. P. Hand, C. M. Turner, C. L. Gruey, J. F. York, H. M. Wier, and R. M. Hinman. The burial was made in the Cambridge cemetery.
The relatives from out-of-town at the funeral were: D. P. Goodrich, Hartford, Conn., Mrs. T. M. Shallenbertger, Council Bluffs, IA, Genevieve Carpenter, Menomonee, Wis., Harlow N. Higinbotham, Chicago, and James Davenport, Galesburg.
It is not an easy task to adequately review the life of one who has lived eighty-seven long years of usefulness--a life so complete in its every phase. This life had fulfilled every duty, fulfilled every obligation, and than the promise held by the average lot.

Mrs. Mary Crary Francis was born at Lisbon, New Hampshire, on the 13th of September, 1820, where she resided until 16 years of age. She was the daughter of Capt. and Mrs. John Moore, and with them and her two brothers and three sisters, came out into the west in 1836. For three years Mary Moore lived in Joliet, Illinois, where she met and married Morrison Francis, a young southerner who had come to the prairies to make his fortune. Mr. and Mrs. Francis made their first home in Red Oak, and one year later they settled permanently in Andover, where they lived many years and until some time after the death of Mr. Francis in 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Francis alike were gifted with unbounded energy and praiseworthy ambition. Mr. Francis saw great possibilities in Illinois soil and his holdings at one time amounted to about 1800 acres of choice land in and about the present village of Andover.
In 1881, Mrs. Francis left the old homestead at Andover, and since then has made Cambridge her home--tho' she has spent the greater part of this time in both the east and the west among relatives and her many friends.
To Mr. and Mrs. Francis were born eight children, six of whom reached maturity and of which number three now survive her; Mrs. Evelyn G. Dimick, Mrs. Lyde A. Keagy, and Frank F. Francis. Nine grandchildren also remain to mourn the loss of one of the noblest women our community has ever known.
Mrs. Francis was a woman whose entire life might be an example to all, and her achievements such as are worthy of more than this brief mention. Her patience in days of sorrow, and her calm integrity thro' the vicissitudes of fortune should be an inspiration to us all. She possessed, to a remarkable degree, that keener judgment and strength of mind, more often found in the sterner sex, but it was tempered with the broad charity and perception of the highest type of a noble intellectual woman. Her ability to grasp and retain a knowledge of affairs has been a great pleasure to all of her intimates, and she continued to keep this wonderful interest in all things as long as her days were spared. Few women who have lived in the more conservative period of her generation, have possessed that broad scope of wisdom and far seeing judgment as was hers. As a wife, a mother, and a member of society, she has been pre-eminently one of the truest type of women.
Her life necessarily covered a period that could not escape its tragedies, and many, many days of hope and uncertainty. When we know that she was the wife of a pioneer, one of the men whose fearless efforts have helped to make this one-time wilderness a garden in the middle west, then we realize something of her bravery and energy. It was partly through her inspiration that Morrison Francis undertook that perilous journey across the plains in 1849; it was her practical hand that helped prepare for that long, long hardship--and it was her own wonderful bravery and resource of mind and heart that sustained her thro' those months of uncertainty, with four small children as a consolation and a care.
Mary Francis' life has been one comprehensive whole of right doing and right thinking, and she leaves a memory dear to her own, and the large community, which has known her, will be conscious of a loss of a friend, a mentor, and a splendid example of womanhood.



Henry County, IL, biographical sketch (pg. 227) for Morrison Francis who was no longer living (d. 1873), so information was given totally by his wife, Mary Crary Francis:

"Mrs. Mary C. Moore Francis was born Sept. 13, 1820, in Lisbon, NH. She is of Irish extraction, and her grandfather, John Moore, was a native of NH. He also married a lady of NH birth and they raised seven (sic) children. John J. (sic) Moore, the father of Mrs. Francis, was born in Bedford, Merrimac Co, NH. He was a farmer and married Deborah, daughter of Reuben Sherman. She was born in New Hampshire and came with her husband in the Spring of 1836 to Hickory Creek, Will Co., Ill. In 1840 they came to Henry County and located in the township of Andover, where they died."

Encyclopedia of Biography, Walter Goodman Cowles sketch, pg. 29.

Giving a descendancy of Moor(e)......"their son Capt. John Moor (1790) and his wife, Deborah (Sherman) Moor, the latter named daughter of Reuben Sherman, and they were the parents of Mary C. Moor, aforementioned."


Baral Cache--Capt John Moore, Jr b. Bedford, Merrimack Co, N.H.. on 29th Oct, 1790; d. 1849-50

John Moore and Deborah Sherman, b. June 3, 1787 Deborah Sherman (dau. Ruben Sherman & Priscilla Welch (or Webb) Concord, Grafton Co, State of New Hampshire on the 3rd day of June 1787
John Moore and Deborah Sherman, m. Nov 24, 1814

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Mary married Morrison Francis on 23 Apr 1840 in Henry Co, Illinois (near Joliet). Morrison was born on 05 Jun 1816 in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, Pennsylvania; died on 28 Oct 1873 in Andover, Henry Co, Illinois; was buried in Morristown Cem, Andover, Henry Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julia married Benjamin Judd, Jr. about 1858 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Benjamin was born on 19 Jun 1798 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire; died after 1862 in of, Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reuben married Adaline Little about 1847 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Adaline was born about 1830 in New Hampshire; died in 1892 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire; was buried in Salmon Hole Cem, Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Volney Morrell Wilson in 1850 in Alta, Bradford Co, Pennsylvania. Volney (son of Irad Wilson and Sallie Maria Elliott) was born on 4 Feb 1825 in Alba, Bradford Co, Pennsylvania; died on 29 Nov 1912 in Alba, Bradford Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Evelyn married Laertes Fuller Dimick on 18 Jan 1865 in Henry Co, Illinois. Laertes was born on 17 Dec 1838 in Berlin (now Swedona), Mercer Co, Illinois; died on 13 Jan 1920 in Cambridge, Henry Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Linda J. Streeter on 06 Mar 1859 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, New Hampshire. Linda was born about 1859; died after 1893. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louise married Edward Everitt Van Dyne on 10 Oct 1883 in Pennsylvania. Edward was born on 15 Sep 1861 in Troy, Bradford Co, Pennsylvania; died on 22 Jun 1922 in Troy, Bradford Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Dorothy Nearing in 1912 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Dorothy was born on 4 Apr 1888 in Pennsylvania; died on 7 Mar 1967. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph Osmun Skinner on 22 Jun 1940 in Pennsylvania. Joseph (son of Wilson Mackey Skinner and Jeannette Bellemont Speirs) was born on 4 Sep 1906 in Phillipsburg, Warren Co, New Jersey; died on 14 Mar 1988 in Troy, Bradford Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]