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The Opinion Press 
Bradford, Vt. 

Illustrations bj' Rumford Engraving Company. 



COPYRIGHT 1904 

BY 

George W. McGaffey. 



All rights reserved. 




Geo. W. McGaffey's Residence. Glover, Vt. 



HAVING been confined to my house for several years with what has been 
known in northern Vermont for more than a century as the Sherman 
Rheumatism, I, at the request of several relatives, assumed the work 
of writing for publication the genealogical history of the McGaffey family, 
of which I am a member. No doubt there are others belonging to the 
family who are better fitted to do this work, both by education and liter- 
ary ability, than myself, but as none of them saw fit to undertake it, 1 
took it up. But it has proved a far greater task than I anticipated. The 
collecting, compiling and reconciling the contradictory records and 
family traditions of a family six-hundred years old, originating in a foreign 
country and scattered throughout the United States and Canada, is not 
an easy task, and especially to one confined to his room and chair thus 
necessitating doing the work wholly by correspondence. The family 
with its many connections by marriage is a very large one and widely 
scattered and my book has grown from the small pamphlet intended, to 
a bound volume of considerable size, containing nearly a hundred first 
class half-tone illustrations, which have been procured and inserted at 
great expense, greatly enhancing the C(jst of the book, but 1 feel sure early 
subscribers will be amply repaid for the extra cost by the addition to the 
contour of the book. The writer of genealogical history must confine 
himself to cold hard facts, he cannot, like the writer of fiction, draw upon 
his imagination to make his story interesting. The writer of fiction after 
securing the attention of his readers, can take them along \vith him through 
the scenes and incidents of his story. He can picture beautiful things, 
grand scenery, lofty mountains and deep valleys, he can create a hero 
and heroine whose ultimate destinies will deeply interest his readers, he 
can put them in perilous situations and rescue them, he can create a 
villain whose deeds will excite the utmost indignation in the minds of his 
readers, and who will be hoping all through the story that in the end 
retribution and justice will overtake him. He can picture a storm at sea 
so vividly tliat the reader can see the careening and tossing of the ship, the 
huge waves sweeping over her, the extreme peril of some of the characters 
of his story, and their final rescue after being so near death's door that 
their escape seemed impossible. All this interests and appeals to the 
general reader, their sympathies are aroused or their indignation excited 
by the deeds of the different actors in the story, and a story of love and 
romance, although they have been told for thousands of years, still interest 
readers at the present time, the same as they have ever done. But the 



4 McdAFFhY (lES EALOCY . 

u:('ii(':iloir\- wrilci- is (Iciiic'l nil this, lie iiiiist foiifinc liiiiisclf io matter that 
is uiiiiit<'r('sliii<i" t<> the <iciicral rcailci'. ninl |)()ssil)]y to son if of tliosf who aro 
coiincctcd by iiamf and tics of hlood to tlic family whose liistory he is 
writiiiii:. aixl much of which they are for the first time learniufz;. Then 
a<^ain 1 lia\"e |)asse(l the threescore ami ten mih' post of life, and arrived 
at that period when th(> mental faculties are supposed to he on tlie decline 
and the mind to lose the l)rilliancv ])ossessed in middle life, so the read- 
ers of my hook must be iiiduliicnt in their criticism and overlook faulty 
diction and unfrrammatical i)hrases. and if some families and persons have 
a fuller recoi'd than others and what may seem an undue ]irominence in 
this history, it will b(> owinu- to the fact that 1 have been able to obtain 
a more full account of them from records and traditions. Some care 
so little for family liistory that they have kept no record of their own 
families, other families have become so nearly extinct that but little in- 
formation can be had re<rar(lin,<); them. It is a difficult matter to unravel 
and ])ut in proper and intelli,e;ent form the many conflicting accounts 
and records of so inunerous and widely scattered family and for such a 
lon<r period of time, and no doubt there will be discrepancies, but my aim 
has l)een to make a history as nearly correct as possible. But I will not 
weary my readers with a long preface to my book, but will submit it to 
their criticism, hoping it will be received in the same spirit and purpose 
in which it is written, a spirit of friendliness for all whose history has been 
com])iled, and a purpose of having a history to transmit to our posterity 
that will be of interest and value to them. 

GEORCiE WASHIXCiTOX M(( I A I !• KY. 



Doubtless some of the patrons of my book will be disappointed at not 
fimling in it repi'oductions of ])ictures sent me, but some of the older 
Tintypes, Anil)rotypes and Daguerotypes were so dim, and others 
defaced, that a satisfactory engraving could not be made from them. 
-As full records have not been obtained of some families, blank pages are 
left so adilitioiial liistory can be written if any one (h^sires to do so. 

.XITHOH. 



Son^e Historv of ScotkuKl 

and two of hc^v brave clefencJnvs, 

Willinin Wullcice and Poherr Bruce. 



T^HE name "McGaffey" origin- 
' ated ill Scotland in the 14th 
century, and alth()iii;h ScotLand is 
one of the smallest of the European 
Countries, possessing an area of only 
29,820 square miles, it has produced 
more famous men than any other 
country of its size on the globe. 
The names of Wallace, Bruce, Burns, 
Scott, Wyntoun, Dunbar, Douglass, 
Ramsay and a host of others will 
remain in history through all ages, 
and the members of the McGaffey, 
McClaiy, and McCrillis families 
now living can point with pride to 
Scotland as their fatherland. 

Scotland occupies all the Island 
of Great Britain north of the Cheviot 
hills and the Tweed river, and in- 
cludes the Oakland, Shetland, Heb- 
rides and all the Islands of the 
western coast. The country is rich 
in coal and iron, the mining district 
extending from the Solway firth as 
far north as Perth. Lead is also 
mined, and great quantities of 
granite are quarried in Aberdeen- 
shire and the Isle of Mull. There 
were 20,375,478 tons of coal mined 
in 1886. The fisheries of the east- 
ern coast are also of great value, 
and employ 100,000 people. There 
were 776 factories of textile goods 
in 1886 engaged in the manufacture 
of cotton, woolen, flax and jute. 



The p()i)ulation in 1890 was 4,000,000 
The established religion is Presby- 
terian, with a meml)ershi]) of 579,043 
The other churches are : P^ree Church, 
333,098. United Presbyterian 182,- 
170, Episcopal 76,939. Roman 
Catholic 320,000. Scotland has for 
more than 200 years possessed a 
common school system, under 
which its people become more gener- 
ally educated then under any other 
in Euro])e. The Universities are 
of high standing, and no country 
of same size can boast of an array 
of men eminent in literature and 
science equal to those whom Scot- 
land has ])roduce(l. There are four 
great universities, Aberdeen, Edin- 
burg, Glasgow and St. Andrews. 
Scotland has an extensive foreign 
commerce, Glasgow being the chief 
port. It is well supjilied ' with 
roads, canals and railroads, Edin- 
burg is the capital, and is one of the 
most interesting cities in the world 
in historic associations. The his- 
tory of Scotland teems with ro- 
mantic incident. The earliest 
annals of it were written by the 
Romans in their account of its 
partial conquest and occupation 
for 300 years. The few facts known 
anterior to this are not clear. After 
the long series of luifortunatc events 
during the reign of the Stuart 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



dynasty, the crown of Scotland was 
united with Enghmd under James 
VI. but \\'ith this union Scotland 
gave up none of her ancient laws, 
nor her forms of religion, to l^oth 
of which her people held with 
tenacity and fidelity. Sir Wm. 
Wallace the famous .Scottish pat- 
riot, and the Washington of his 
country, was the son of Sir Mal- 
colm Wallace a knight of 2:ood 
family in the south western part of 
Scotland. Sir William was born in 
1274 at Ellerslie in the Abbey par- 
ish of Paisley, nine miles from Glas- 
gow, about the middle of the reign 
of Alexander III, one of the ablest 
and best of the Scottish kings, and 
who was accidentally killed April 18, 
1283 by falling from the precipice 
of Kinghorn on the coast of Fife. 
Sir Malcolm Wallace was killed in 
a battle with the English at Loudon 
Hill in 1295. History tells but 
little of Sir Williams' education or 
early years, but he sprang into 
fame by defeating England's in- 
vasion of Scotland at the battles of 
Stirling, Cambus Kenneth. Annan- 
dale, Stanmore and others. At the 
battle of Camlnis Kenneth near 
Stirling, 20,000 English under com- 
mand of Lord Montgomery were 
defeated by 5,000 Scots led by 
Wallace. Montgomery surrendered 
himself and what of his army that 
had not been killed in the engage- 
ment, prisoners to Wallace. A 
massive monument 220 feet high 
stands near the spot as a national 
memorial to Wallace. His statue 
stands upon the top, and another 
at Aberdeen. Despite the centuries 
that have elapsed since his time, 
the world has not forgotten Wallace 
the mightiest and most daring of 
all Scotland's chieftains. Neither 



will it forget his shameful betrayal 
into the hands of his enemies by the 
traitorous John Monteith, under the 
guise of friendship. When King 
Edward offered pardon to the 
other Scottish chiefs. Wallace was 
excepted by name. If he chose to 
surrender he might do so, but it 
was to be \\'ithout conditions and 
his life was to be at the mercy of 
the King. Efforts were made to 
dis;()ver his retreat and secure him 
alive or dead. In the Autumn of 
1295 Wallace married Marion Eraid- 
foot, heiress of Lammington, and 
retired to Ellerslie to live in fancied 
securitv from his enemies. Eut 
ever after the battle of Fal'-'irk, and 
a partial cessation of hostihties. 
the English King felt no security 
of eventually completing the con- 
Cjuest of Scotland as long as Wallace 
was alive and at liberty, so vigorous 
measures were taken for his capture, 
a party of English Cavalry led by 
Hesselrigge, Gov. of Lanar'-, were 
dispatched to Ellerslie to arrest him 
as a traitor, but Wallace received 
notice of their coming, an I as he 
ha<l but few men at Ellerslie, and 
to avoid bloodshed, he retired to 
an obscure cave in the mountains 
\\dthout a thought that his family 
would be molested. The troop 
arrived and after posting guards 
around the house, Hesselrigge with 
some of his attendants dismounted 
and entered the house and not find- 
ing Wallace, his wife was summoned 
to their presence and Hesselrigge 
demanded to know the hiding place 
of her husband, this she refused to 
reveal, and finding his threats did 
not move her, he changed his policy 
to entreaties and promises. He 
promised that if she would disclose 
the hiding place of her husband 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



that she should become the wife of 
an Enghsh Earl, and pointed out to 
her that Scotland would soon be 
overrun and concjuered by the 
Eng-lish and that her husband would 
be killed in battle or hung as a 
traitor, but that her life would be 
safe as the promised wife of an 
English nobleman and that her 
refusal would be of no avail as her 
husl^and was sure to be captured 
within a few days. But finding 
that neither threats nor promises 
moved her in her determination to 
protect her husband's liberty, he 
became enraged and drawing his 
sword he, to the horror of his attend- 
ants, plunged it through her heart, 
killing her almost instantlv, and 
destroying the life of her unlxjrn 
child. Then ordering his men to 
set fire to the buildings, he departed 
full of rage at his failure to capture 
Wallace, the taking of whom he 
expected would ])lace him in high 
favor with the King. The horrible 
news was carried to Wallace by a 
trusty servant, and with a heart 
filled with sorrow and indignation 
he left his retreat in the mountains 
to arouse and gather a force of his 
Clansmen for the double purpose 
of arresting further invasion of his 
country, and avenging the foul 
murder of his beloved wife, and 
distruction of his home. 

Travelling by night to avoid 
detection by his enemies, he arrived 
nearly famished and greatly ex- 
hausted, at the home of Sir John 
Monteith who professed great 
friendship for him and anxiety for 
his safety, and persuaded him to 
remain through the night, and as 
dwellings were being searched for 
him the barn was considered more 
safe and after seeing him safely 



secured in the barn, this human 
devil hastened to betray him to his 
enemies, who came upon him in the 
night, and overpowering him by 
the weight of numbers capturing 
and securely binding him. No 
place except the tower in London 
was deemed strong enough to hold 
him and he was imprisioned there, 
the King thirsted for his blood, a 
mock trial was held and he was 
condemned to die for treason. He 
was executed August 23, 1305 and 
l)y means that will forever be a 
foul blot upon the reign of King 
Edward I. 

John D. Stoddard in his published 
lectures on Scotland, thus describes 
his execution : — " He was first hang- 
ed but was cut down while yet alive; 
then portions of his body were torn 
out and burned before his face ; and 
finally after the most atrocious 
suffering, his head was struck off 
and placed upon a pole upon London 
Bridge. Even then his body was 
dismembered, his right arm was 
displayed at Newcastle; his left at 
Berwick; one leg was sent to Perth, 
the other to Aberdeen. " But Eng- 
land's diabolical triumph was of 
short duration, within six months 
after the death of Wallace, Scotland 
had risen again and had i)roclaimed 
the gallant Bruce her King. A 
complete record of his exploits 
would fill many pages. A hundred 
episodes in his career could give 
material for epic poems. The 
story of his struggles for Scotland's 
freedom are matters of history. 
Homeless, penniless, hunted by 
England, excommunicated ])y the 
Pope, he nevertheless fought des- 
perately on, until the object of his 
life was attained and not a particle 
of Scottish heather was crushed 



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McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



beneath an Eno-lish foot. Scotland 
is (lotted with monuments and 
statues erected in memory of Wal- 
lace and Bruce, and they will be 
revered, and their praises sung 
long after the memory of the cruel 
and bloodthirsty Edward T has sank 
into insignificance. 

Bruce, the surname of a family 
illustrious in Scottish history, de- 
scended from Robert de Bruis, a 
Norman Knight, Avho accompanied 
William the Conqueror to Eng- 
land in 1066, The elder R'obert 
Brvice, Earl of Carrick. swore fealty 
to Edward I in 1296, and his son 
the younger Bruce was induced to 
follow his example, but after his 
father's death, and he succeeded to 
the title, he abandoned the cause of 
Edward, and with his Carrick 
vassals joined the Scottish leaders 
in arms for the independence of 
their country. After Wallace's de- 
feat at Falkirk, Bruce burned the 
castle of Ayr to the ground to pre- 
vent its falling into the hands of the 
English and retired into the recesses 
of Carrick. 

In 1299 the year after Wallace 
had resigned the Regency, Bruce, 
then in his 2oth year, was ad- 
mitted one of the four Regents 
who ruled the kingdom in the 
name of Baloil. After the death 
of Wallace, he soon wTested Scot- 
land from the English. On the 
accos'sion of Edward II in 1327, 
hostilities rec mmenced, and the 
Scots being again victorious, a 
final treaty was ratified in a Par- 
liament at Northam]:)ton, March 
4th recognizing the independence of 
Scotland and the right of Bruce 
to the throne. This result was 
accomplished by the defeat of the 
English at the battles of Ban- 



nockburn, *where, one authority 
says the EngHsh had 200,000, and 
another says 100,000 men, — led 
by King Edward II, were defeated 
by 30,000 Scots under the command 
of Bruce. 

Before the battle. Bruce had caus- 
ed innumerable holes and trenches 
to 1)8 dug and carefully concealed 
by turf. Accordingly the field, 
which looked to the enemy firm 
and undisturl^etl, was, in reality 
a death-trap for the English cav- 
alry. As the invading host ad- 
vanced the Scots knelt down and 
solemnly invoked the aid of God, 
"What are they doing" cried the 
English King, " Kneeling already 
for our mercy?" But he w^as soon 
undeceived, for, rising from their 
knees they awaited the approach 
of their foes until the English Cav- 
alry became confused by l^eing 
precipitated into the holes and 
trenches that had been dug where 
they were expected to make their 
charge upon the Scots, and as horse 
and rider were piled upon each 
other the Scot bugles sounded 
the charge and they rushed upon 
the English with their battle axes 
and lance, and their l)owmen with 
their death dealing arrows, all 
attacked them with a fury that was 
irresistible, and in a short time the 
English were completely vancjuished 
and fled in wild disorder from the 
field. This defeat of the English 
gave Scotland her independence; 
and seated Bruce upon the throne. 
After his accession to the throne 
he married Isabelle ^lar daughter 
of the Earl of Mar. He died June 
7, 1329 in his 55th year. His heart 
was extracted and embalmed, and 
delivered to Sir James Douglas, to 
be carried to Palestine and buried 



McGA FFEY GENE A LOG Y 



in Jerusalem, l)ut Douglas was 
killed fighting against the Moors in 
Spain, and the sacred relic of Bruce 
with the body of its tlevoted cham- 
pion was brought to Scotland and 
buried in the Monastery of Melrose. 
He was born in 1274. *As some 
of the McGaffey ancestors took 
part in the battle of Bannockburn 
the following poems are deemed 
appropriate in this family history. 

AUTHOR. 

McGaffey and McClary Rode. 

McGaffey and McClarey rode 

From distant Galloway, 
To where the Clans were gathering 

To give the Saxons fray; 
Their hoi-ses galloped side by side, 

Bespattered deep with clay. 

They stood when morning spread her wings 
And signalled night a truce. 

First with the Gaels at Bannockl)urn, 
Stanch comrades of the Bruce; 

They gripped their Claymores hard and 
fast. 
Their bridles hanging loose. 

And there the white haired Abbot kneeled, 
Coarse rol)ed and sandal shod; 

Then bore aloft a crufix, 
Along the trembling sod, 

In solemn mass to consecrate 
The Scottish cause to God. 

Then l)lew the Savon trumpet shrill. 

And sombre challenge bore; 
While riding down in brave array 

Came gallants, many a score. 
Five hundred English men — at arms 

With Gloster to the fore. 

Before them was the rugged lines 

Of Caledonia hills; 
Around their flank the archers pressed 

Equipped with bows and bills; 
Wiiile swishing through the clamorous air 

Sailed by the grey goose quills. 

MacGaffey and McClary rode 
That day with Robert Keith; 

Like lightning from its cloud outsprung, 
Each Claymore left its sheathe; 

Five hundred horsemen there they charged 
And drew the Archers teeth. 



Then panic seized the Sassenach; 

His army turned and fled; 
While round about its broken course 

A spiders net was spread. 
Which piled within its fated folds 

The dying and the dead. 

And Edward swerved his chargers head 

To Sterling Castle down; 
Where; then was all his proud array? 

His Knights of high renown? 
The Bruce had curbed that pride 

And won the Scottish crown. 

And fierce upon the flying foe 

The Gaelic warriors fell. 
While disembowelled chargers groaned, 

Like spirits dammed in Hell; 
And luridly, witli fire and sword. 

Wild waved the l)attle spell. 

The Highland Claymores drank their fill. 

The Lowland arrows too, 
God's will it was, that evenings grass 

Was wet with bloody dew; 
And gouts of Saxon gore had smeared 

The heather's bonny blue. 

Aye! so! Those days are grey and cold 

As ashes in an urn; 
Yet proud am I in truth to know, 

As Scotia's page I turn, 
MacGaffey and McClary fought 

With Bruce at Bannockburn. 

Earnest McGaffey. 



The Fallen Heroes of Bannockburn. 

Rest, sweetly rest, oh heroes brave! 

In thy most sacred beds. 
Thy triumphant flag henceforth shall wave 

Above thv sleeping heads. 
No more wilt thou thy sword unsheathe; 

Thine armor is laid down; 
And angel hands thy brow will wreathe 

With glory's starry crown. 

Ah! in remembrance deeply blent 

Those sad eventful hours, 
When forth from loved homes ye went 

To face the battle powers; 
To strike a sure and steady blow 

For liberty and right, 
And bear vour loved banner through 

The thickest of the fight. 



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McdAFFi:)' (;i:\i:MJH;y 



oil! how tliy iKilriol l)()^^olll.s l)li'd; 

How were tliy liciirls iiiadc s;h1, 
To tliink (lie foe l)y \\\\\\i. VAward led 

And from fornuT triuinplis had, 
Should seek your native land to flood 

In war's cnsansiuincd waves, 
And carxe in sorrow and in blood 

rnnuniix-reil heroes }ira\es. 

Ah! (hero were seasons when it seemed 

As if no <:linunerinfi ray 
Through all the darkness gleamed, 

To lisiht the darksome way; 
When 'neath dissension's seething waves 

Your cause must sink at last. 
And l»y your fallen heroe's graves 

The iMiglish anchor cast. 

But on Bannockhurn's field there stood 

A host witii firmness tired; 
As true a hand of l)rotherhood 

As ever right inspired; 
Their covmtrv's future fate they held 

Within tiieir stalwart hands, 
And safely thev their cause uplield 

In sjiite of Britain's bands. 

And from this strife, so great and grand, 

This sacred sacrifice, 
Was seen a nobler, freer land, 

A fairer country rise; 

Whose flag so dear to hearts so true, 

Resplendently should wave 
.\bove a country firm and true. 

For which their lives tliey gave. 

Keep green the turf above tlicir lieads; 

Fold them in sunn\- l)owers; 
.\nd scatter o'er their lowly l)eds 

Affection's choicest flowers; 
Raise monuments above their clay, 

And marble pillars high; 
Time's march may crumble them away. 

Their fame can never die. 

And now as history's page we turn, 
.\nd with eager gaze we read; 

< »f how (iiose i)atriots hearts did yearn 

To clieck old i'lngland's greetl; 

< )ur homjige we cannot refuse 

To those who gave their life, 
Or to the noble Robert liruce. 
The leader of tlic strife. 

Farewell, brave patriots, farewell. 

Thy mf)rtal race is o'er; 
Thy souls have gone in iieaven to ilwdl, 



Beyond the battles roar; 
With well poised lance and battle axe, 

We wrougiit your country's good, 
And saved it from the Britain's tax. 

And won your nation's gratitude. 

(\. W. McGaffey. 

Sketch of Mary Stuakt. 

Mary Stuart. C^ueen of the 
Scots, the (laughter of James \' of 
Sfotlaiid and Mary of Gtiise, was 
Ijorn in Linhthgow Pahice, Scot- 
lantl in 1542. and was brought to 
the block in Fotheringay Castle, 
Xorthhaniptonshire, England in 
locS7. On the death of her father 
she became Queen of the Scots 
before she was a week old, and was 
crowned the following year (1543) 
at Stirling Castle. Her early life 
until she was nineteen was spent 
in I'rance, where in 1558 she married 
the Dauphin of France who in the 
following year became King, and a 
year later died in 1561. At the 
invitation of the Scots, she went 
to Scotland and assumed the Scottish 
Crown. In 1565 she married her 
cousin. Lord Darnley, who was a 
great grandson of Henry MI of 
England, and thus like herself was 
a near heir to the English Crown. 
The marriage however, was an un- 
hap]iy one, and the Scottish Queen 
got ioolisldy entangled witli a fa\"or- 
ite .tlie Earl of Bothwell. who mur- 
d('r(Ml Darnley and married Mary. 
This led to a rising among the 
Scottish nobles, who made tlie C^ueen 
a prisioner, and placed on th(> throne 
her son .Taines W. Escaping to 
England. .Mary threw herself on 
the i)rotection of Queen Elizalieth, 
only to find iierself practically a 
prisioner for Hfe. She was conliiHMl 
first at Carlisle, then in various 
other Eniilish Castles, and finally 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



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she was removed to Fotheringay, 
where, for comphcity in a plot 
against the hfe of EHzabeth, she 
was l)eheaded, behaving in her last 
hours with great courage and dig- 
nity, and at the same time asserting 
her innocence. 

Sir Walter Scott. 

The fifteenth century was fertile 
in Scottish poets. James I, King of 
Scotlanil, Andrew Wyntoun, Wil- 
liam Dunbar, Gawin Douglass, 
Allan Ramsay, Robert Burns, and 
others. Later came Sir Walter 
Scott, born in Edinburg in 1771. 
He came of the old border family, 
the Scots of Harden, a t)ranch from 
the house of Buccleuch. Though 
he matured into a man of robust 
health, as a child he was feeble and 
sickly, and was smitten with a 
lameness which remained with him 
through life. His childhood was 
passed mostly at Sandyknowe, the 
farm of his grandfather, in Roxl)urg- 
shire. 

Between the years 1779 and 1783, 
he attended the high school at 
Edinburg. In 1783 he went to 
the university, and remained there 
three years. In 1786 he was articled 
apprentice to his father, in whose 
office he worked as a clerk until 
1792, in which year he w^as called to 
the bar. In his profession he had 
fair success, and in 1797 he was 
married to Charlotte Margaret Car- 
penter, a lady of French Ijirth and 
parentage. 

Toward the end of 1799, through 
the interest of his friends. Lord 
Melville and the Duke of Buccleuch, 
he was made sheriff-depute of Sel- 
kirkshire, an appointment that 
brought him £300 a year, with not 
verv much to do for it. Meantime 



in a tentative and intermittent 
way, his leisure had been occupied 
with literature, which more and 
more distinctly announced itself 
as the business of his life. 

His first publication, a trans- 
lation of Burger's ballads," Lenore" 
and the "Wild Huntsman," was 
issued in 1796. In 1798 appeared 
his translation of Goethe's drama of 
" Goetz von Berlichingen;" and in 
the following vear he wrote the fine 
ballads, "Glenfinlas," "The Eve 
of St. John" and "Gray Brothers." 
The year 1802 gave to the world 
the first two volumes of his " Border 
Minstrelsy " which were followed 
in 1803 by a thirtl and final one. 
This work won for him at once a 
])rominent place among the literary 
men of the time. In 1804 he 
issued an edition of the poem "Sir 
Tristam. " By the publication in 
1805 of the "Lay of the Last Min- 
strel," Scott became at a bound the 
most popular author of his day. 

During the next ten years be- 
sides a mass of miscellaneous work 
he gave to the world the poems 
"Marmion," "The Lady of the 
Lake," "The Vision of Don Roder- 
ick," "Rokeby," The Bridal of 
Trivermain " and anonymously pub- 
lished "The Lord of the Isles," 
and the " Field of Waterloo, In 
Waverly, " which appeared without 
his name in 1814. He achieved 
the first of a new and more splendid 
series of triumphs "Guv Manner- 
ing," "The Antiquary,"' the Black 
Dwarf," "Old Mortalitv," "Rob 
Roy" and the " Heart of Mid- 
lothian." rapidly followed, and 
the "Great Unknown" as he was 
called became the idol of the hour. 

in 1820 to set a seal upon all 
this distinction, a baronetcy was 



li 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



bestowed 111)011 him as a special 
mark of royal favor. Hut now at 
the age of 00 financial ruin over- 
took him. The publishing house 
^\'ith which he had been long con- 
nected, through no fault of his, 
failed with enormous liabilities. 
From that time on, his life became 
heroic and his character sublime. 
He regarded his pecuniary troubles 
from the standpoint of honor. He 
thought that by devoting the rest 
of his life to his creditors, he could, 
finally pay them every farthing 
that he owed, and he succeeded, 
but it cost him his life. He re- 
doubled his efforts and in the next 
ten years he produced upwards of 
twenty novels. I^ut the strain 
upon him was terrific. 

In 1830 he was smitten down 
with paralysis from which he never 
rallied. It was hoped that the 
climate of Italy might benefit him, 
and the government placed at his 
disposal a frigate in which to j^ro- 
ceed thither. But in Italy he 
pined for his home at Abbotsford, 
where in his prosperous days he 
had built a veritable castle of red 
sandstone trimmed with granite, 
where he subsequently resided, 
and which became his joy and pride 
It was his own creation, and every 
part of it was intended to recall to 
him some tower or romantic ruin 
which he had admired and des- 
cribed. He likened it, therefore, 
to one of his romances carved in 
stone. Not long, however was he 
destined to enjoy it undisturbed, 
the very year it was completed 
came the financial crash that left 
him with liabilities of six-hundred 
thousand dollars, which he earned 
and paid off in six years, hy the 
unceasing labor of his brain. But 



it cost his life, and he died at 
Abbotsford in 1832 and was buried 
beside his wife in the okl Abbe}^ 
at Dryburg. 

The true old Scottish dialect 
"The Gaelic," is further removed 
from that of Ramsay and Burns, 
which is simply a dialect of North 
English, then the latter is from 
Russian or Sanscrit. Ethnologic- 
ally speaking, the lowland Scotch 
ilialects are forms of the Angle or 
English, as spoken by those North 
members of the Angle or English 
race, who became subjects of the 
king of the Scots. More particu- 
larly they are the form of the 
>, orthrumbrian or North English. 

Using the term "Scottish" to 
denote the dialect used north of 
the Tweed, and omitting all con- 
sideration of anything written in 
Celtic, we may di\ide the history 
of Scottish literature into two 
periods; the first, extending from 
the date of the earliest composition, 
to the union of England and Scot- 
land under one King; the second 
from that time until the present 
-lay. 

The first Scottish poet was John 
Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, 
who died in 1395. His great work 
is the poem of "The Brus," in 
which he celebrates the struggles 
and final victory of the Scottish 
King. Robert I. Another Scottish 
poet of the fifteenth century was 
Henry the ]\Iinstrel, commonly call- 
ed Blind Harry, the author of a 
]ioem on the life of Sir William 
Wallace. 

The accession of king James to 
the crown of England was un- 
propitious to the vernacular liter- 
ature of Scotland. The language 
began to be looked upon as a vulgar 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



13 



dialect of the English, and the best 
authors com])osed in the Classic 
English of the Scots. It was in 
that language, Drummond of Haw- 
thornden, wrote his verses. Arch- 
bisho]) Spottiswood and Bishop 
Burnet their histories, and Arch- 
bishop Leighton and Henry Scougal 
some of their theological works. At 
this time arose a Scottish poet of 
true genius, Allan Ramsay, author 
of "the Gentle Shepherd," which 
was published in 1725. The close 
of the 18th Century was made 
famous by the appearance of the 
most illustrious of Scottish poets, 
Roliert Burns. It is as an English 
writer that Sir Walter Scott is 
famous, but many of his lyrical 
pieces, and the dialogues in his 
novels, where the speakers use 
their owa tongue, entitled him to 
be ranked as the last and greatest 
of Scottish writers. 

There is no doubt that in spite 
of the manifestations of literary 
genius in the Scottish dialect dur- 
ing the ISth and 19th centuries, 
that dialect for the last two hundred 
years has been going through a 
process of uninterrupted decay. 
The introduction of South English 
as the standard of classic form of 
speech after the union of the crowns, 
and still more after the union of 
the parliaments, slowly but surely 
ruined the old Anglian tongue of 
Scotland, until most of its peculiar- 
ities disappeared and a jargon grew 
up that was neither pure English 
nor pure Scotch. The literary 
talent of the Scotch poets seem to 
be not entirely lost, as is evidenced 
in the person of Ernest McGaffey 
of Chicago, who is a descendant 
of the Scotch McGaffeys, and is 
known as the " Poet Lawyer, " 



He is the author of several books 
of poems ])ublished by the New 
York houses of Charles Scribner's 
Sons and Docld, Mead & Co., some 
of which have reached a second 
edition. 

From the memoirs of the Rev. 
George McGuffie, in the "Priests 
of Etal " is taken the following 
extract from the correspondence of 
Ernest McGaffey to the"Gallovidian 
Journal:" I have followed with 
great interest the accounts of the 
McGaffey family with the many 
changes from Macguffog to the 
present style of s]:)elling, one of the 
latest histories of Robert the Bruce 
mentions a Macguffoug or Mac- 
gaff ey who fought at Bannock burn 
with Robert, also a MacClary, 
according to family legend, was 
with Robert Bruce. 

Robert Burns. 

Robert Burns, another of the 
great lyric poets of Scotland was 
born Jan. 25, 1759, in a small cot- 
tage near Ayr. His father was a 
nursery gardener at the time, and 
afterward the occupant of a small 
farm. He had to struggle all his 
life with j^overty and misfortune, 
but made every exertion to give 
his children a good education; and 
the young poet enjoyed an amount 
of instruction and miscellaneous 
reading which to those unaccjuaint- 
ed with the habits of the Scottish 
peasantry, would seem incom- 
])ati])le with the straightened cir- 
cumstances and early toil which 
were his lot. 

About his 16th year he began 
composing verses in the Scottish 
dialect, which attracted notice in 
the vicinity and extended the circle 
of his acquaintances, and thus he 



II 



Mrc. 1 FFF.y cem:. I ij)(; v 



l)('c;\iii( cxpiiscil Id iciniilations. 
whicli. actiii<i upon an cxtroniely 
sociable and passionate disposition, 
liroko in njion the previous sol)riety 
ami corrertness of his life. He 
resolved to leave his native land 
and tjo to .laniaiea. Partly to 
procure the means of paying; his 
passatje he puhlislied a collection 
of his poems at Kilmarnock in 1786. 
The recej)tion these met with was 
hiirhly favorable, and his o^enius 
was recognized in (piarters where 
he had not looked for notice. 
While preparino; to embark he re- 
ceived a letter encouratrino; him to 
go to Edinl)urg and issue a new 
edition. 

This was the turning point of his 
life. Duiing his stay in the Scottish 
Metr()|)olis he associated with all 
that was eminent in letters, rank 
and fashion, and his conversational 
powers excited little less admiration 
than his poetry. The profits of 
the publication enabled him to take 
the farm of Ellisland, near Dumfries 
where he settled in 1788, having 
publicly ratified his marriage with 
Jean Armour. With his farm he 
conjoined the duties of an excise- 
man; but after three or four years, 
he was obliged to give up farming, 
and from that time lived in Dum- 
fries, dei)endent on his salary from 
the excise, which, never rose above 
£70. 

The striking contrasts in the lot 
of the rich and the poor with which 
his residence in !Odin])vn'g had im- 
pressed him. made him hail the 
French Revolution with enthusiasm, 
and some im])rudent expressions of 
his having l)eeii reported to the 
authorities, destroyed his prosjx'cts 
of promotion in the service, and 
onh' the inicvfcT'ciicc '>f mm i::- 



fluential friend prevented hint from 
losing his ofhce. Such was then the 
terror of innovation, and the hatred 
of everything like liberal opinions, 
that many of the bettei classes who 
had feted the poet, now shunned 
the "Jacobin" as they sti:,matized 
him. Embittered by what he felt 
to be injustice, he recklessly allowed 
those habits of dissipation to grow 
upon him which made the more 
respectable of all classes look coldly 
on him; and the remorse thus 
occasioned in his calmer moments, 
aggravated that tendency to mel- 
ancholy which the gloom and toil 
of his early years had prol^ably 
implanted in his constitution, and 
he died July 21, 1796. 

Scottish music is famed for a 
class of national airs of a peculiar 
style, possessing a wild, dignified, 
strongl}- marked and expressive 
character. They are generally con- 
sidered to be of great antiquity, 
but there is a deficiency of evidence 
regarding their early history. No 
musical manuscript of Scottish airs 
is now known to exist of an older 
date than 1627. and we have no 
knowledge when, and by whom, the 
early Scottish melodies were com- 
posed, or how long they continued 
to be handed down from generation 
to generation. The most valuable 
of now existing early collections of 
Scottish melodies is the manuscripts 
noted down by Sir John Skene, of 
Hallyards, about the year 1630. 
The Bagpipe was a favorite musical 
instrument with the Scottish min- 
strels. 

.M( (Iaffkv (Ii;ni:alo(;y. 

The name " McGaffey " has been 
spelled in \arious ways, as Mcflavin 
Mcr.ufHn, McClufTok, McGuffoug, 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



15 



McGaffie, McAfee, McGiiffie etc. 
They belong to the Clan McGuffie, 
and bear their armorial devises. 
Patrick McGuffok was a Bailie 
within the castle of Dumfries in 
1291. The name does not appear 
in any Scottisli records between 
this period and 1464, which is easily 
explained when we consider the 
troublous times. Few families can 
trace their ancestry beyond that 
period. McGuffie is a very old 
surname and was purely Celtic and 
Gallavodian, it is a name of fre- 
quent occurrence in Galloway. The 
Rev. Thomas Douglas, (biographer 
of Rev. George McGufhe,) says: 
"The nearest approach I can find 
to the name of "McGuffie" is that 
of Caffuog. pronounced Caffie, or 
when the prefix "Mac" was added 
would form MacCaffie or as was 
pronounced in Galloway "McGaffie 
The Caffougs are descended from 
Fiacha an elder ])rother of Neil of 
the nine hostages, and the name 
occurs in the genealogical pedigree 
of many ancient and ])owerful 
families. A Scot's Herald states, 
that the McGuffies were a verv 
ancient and powerful family, that 
they are descended from Fiacha, 
an elder brother to Neil of the Nine 
Hostages, there can be no doubt. 
The tenth in descent from Fiacha, 
is Artgoile, who had two sons, 
Ardgal and Aodh. From Ardga 
besides Caffiogs sprang the O' 
Clearies, ancestors of the McClary's 
of today. The Caffuogs name is 
found written in old documents 
variouslv, thus: McCaffuogs, Mc- 
Guffie. ^McGuffoc, McGuffog, Mc 
Guffok, Anderson on surnames 
says that the arms of the McGuffies 
were — Argent, two croziers in a 
saltive azure, between a man's 



heart in chief, gules and three 
mullets in the flank and base of 
the second, crest, a dove proper, 
motto " Industria et Lahore," The 
ensign's armorial used by the Mc- 
Guffiogs of the cross — Michael, is: 
Argent, fesse, sable, between three 
boars heads, couped of the last 
crest, a boars head as in the arms. 
Motto ^' Arma parata fero." 

The McGuffogs, possessed lands 
in central antl western Galloway, 
Richard McGuffog obtained from 
Robert the Bruce, with whom he 
fought on the field of Bannocburn, 
and with whom tradition says he 
shook hands before the battle be- 
gan. A charter of the lands of 
Killsture and Clonentis, in the 
parish Lorbie, Hugh McGuffog of 
Rusco Castle was one of the com- 
missioners of Kirkenbright in the 
Scottish parliament, (luring the 
reign of William the III. Colonel 
John McGuffie of Cubbicks in the 
Stewart rv of Kirkenbright was killed 
on Flodden Field Sept. 9, 1513. He 
left by his wife Felicia, daughter 
of John Home. of Ardmillian, three 
sons and two daugliters. The 
eleventh in direct heritable descent 
from Colonel McGuffie is Jacob 
McGuffie of Cross Michael, who 
married Margaret, only daughter 
of William Coulthart of Coulthart 
and Colly n. In the west window 
of the church of Bolton-le-gate, 
Cumberland, a stained glass me- 
morial has been placed containing 
the full armorial achievements of the 
Coultharts, descendants of the Coul- 
thartus, a Roman Lieutenant who 
fought under Julius Agricola, at 
the foot of the Grampian Mountains, 
and who married Marsa, daughter 
of Kadalyn Chief of the Norantes, 
which caused him, insteatl of re- 



i<; 



Mra.\FF/:y ckmim.ocy 



luniiii^ l<i I^•Ill('. to sottlf in llio 
rouiitrv to whicli lie lunl cninc 
with tlio Roman Icuioiis to aid in 
(•oii(|U('riii,<i. In the third ])ancl, 
there is a shield of arms with this 
inscri|)tion, "Ad (}loriam, Dei et, 
in mcnioridm Marf/aritaf. Gul. Cnult- 
hart. 111. Jacohi Mac Guljie ux ob 
Marl. MIH'CLVI." Thouj^h the 
^enpah)fry of this family is thus 
de(hi('ed from a jirocenitor ex- 
tremely remote, the line has been 
traeed unhrokenly by means of 
Monkish chronicles, baronial leases, 
testamentary depositions, sepul- 
cliral inscriptions, sasine prece])ts. 
judicial decreets and family jiedi- 
grees thrown into one connected 
detail, the family history has been 
laboriously compiled by Alexander 
C'heyne. R. A. barrister-at-law and 
Cleorge Parker Knowles, geneal- 
ogist and heraldic artist. 

Rev. Thomas Douglas. Waltham 
Cross. London. .say.s that Miss 
-McCJuflie of Ingleside. Howden. 
Cheshire, informed him that there 
were ])archments in her possession 
relating to the Hugh McGufTock of 
Rusco Castle, and she states that 
the family luune has descended 
from father to son since the days 
of Richard McCuffok. who fouglit 
with the l^ruce. It is stated that 
the arms of the McCuffies are the 
same as ilie Duke of Argvle. It 
aj)pears that the name of McGuffie 
is of very ancient date, one of the 
oldest names in Caledonia. That 
they were a warlike race is evident 
from theii' history. They fought 
against the Roman legions, and 
King James at Flodden Field, and 
with Robert the Bruce, at Bannock- 
burn. The desceiulants of the clan 
.Mcdullie or Mcduffog of Cialloway 
Countw Scotland, who.se earlv 



history and genealogy are thus 
tiaced. have become quite numer- 
ous throughout the United States 
and Canada, and the McClarys of 
this country sprang from the same 
stock, to wit: from the O'Clearies, 
descendants of the Ardgal. pre- 
viously mentionetl. 

The Scots were a Celtic race, and 
their original seat in New liritain 
was in Argyle, frf)m whence they 
spread themselves along the west 
coast from the firth of Clyde to the 
modern Ross. The name of Scot- 
land seems to have been given to 
the united kingdf)m of the Picts 
and Scots in the tenth century. It 
was then sometimes styled, by way 
of distinction, Scotia >;ovia, (>''ew 
Scotland) and it was a considerable 
time afterward before the name of 
Scotland was applied to it. to the 
exclusion of Ireland. This inter- 
change of names was a fruitful 
source of dispute between Irish 
and Scottish writers in the sixteenth 
century, and later. The first prince 
of the British Scots was Fergus, 
son of Frc, who crossed over to 
Britain about the year 503. His 
great grandson Conal. was king of 
the British Scots when Columba 
began the conversion of the Picts 
Conal's ne])hew. Aidan. was a 
powerful prince, and more than 
once succes-sfully invaded the h'.ng- 
lish l)order. The history of Aitlen's 
successors is obscure and un- 
interesting. In the middle of the 
ninth century, by a revolution 
the Scots ac(|uii'ed a ])redominance 
in New Britain. Kenneth, lineal 
descendant of Aidan. laid claim 
to the British Kingdom. Nearly the 
last addition to Scotland in the 
south took ])lace luider Malcolm II. 
son of Kenneth, who actpiired the 



McGA FFE Y GENE A LOG Y 



Merse and Tevoitdale from the 
Earl of Northumbria, and thus 
advanced his kingdom on the east 
border to the Tweed. 

The long reign of Maleohii III. 
was the commencement of a great 
social and political revolution in 
Scotland. His residence in Eng- 
land, and marriage to the English 
princess Margaret, led to the in- 
troduction of English customs, the 
English language, and an English 
population in the North and West 



districts of the kingdom. 



English 



influence continued to increase 
during the reigns of Edgar, Alex- 
ander I, and David. David was 
a great reformer in church and 
state. David's grandson, Malcolm 
IV, reigned for twelve years, and 
William the Lion, Malcolm's brother 
ruled from 1165-1214. Alexander 
III was one of the ablest and best 
of Scottish kings. By a treaty 
with the king of Norway, he added 
to his kingdom "Man" and the 
other islands of the west sea. On 
the death of the infant grand- 
daughter of Alexander III, in 1290, 
the succession to the crown w^as 
disputed. The decision between 
the two chief claimants, Baliol and 
Bruce, was referred to Edward I, 
of England. This great king was 
bent on uniting the British Islands 
under one sceptre; and in the pur- 
suit of that object he sacrificed 
humanity, honor, and justice. The 
national spirit of the Scots was 
finally aroused, and there ensued 
a long struggle for independence. 
The reign of Davitl II, and those 
of his successors, Robert II an<l 
Robert III, (the first two princes 
of the house of Stuart), were the 
most wretched periods of Scottish 
history. The vigorous rule of 



James I, restored trancjuility, l)ut 
he was assassinated. James II, 
James III, James IV, James V, 
Mary, and James VI, all succeeded 
while under age. The last addition 
to the Scottish Kingdom was made 
in the reign of James III, when the 
islands of Orkney and Shetland 
were made over to him as the 
dowery of his Queen, Margaret of 
Denmark. 

During the reign of James V, 
religious discord added another 
element to the evils with which 
Scotland was afflicted. James VI 
struggled hard to establish an 
absolute supremancy,both in church 
and state. After his accession to 
the English crown, he was ap])ar- 
ently successful in carrying out 
his designs, but the opponents of 
the crown bound themselves to- 
gether by the solemn league and 
covenant, and their efforts were 
completely successful, but their suc- 
cess led to the utter overthrow of 
the monarchy by Cromwell. The 
government of Charles II, and 
James VII, was oppressive and 
corrupt. The result was the Rev- 
olution which seated William and 
Mary on the throne. The tlis- 
content of the Scotch was greatly 
increased by the fears of English 
influence. The state of matters 
grew so threatening after the acces- 
sion of Queen Anne, that the ruling 
English statesmen l)ecame satisfied 
that nothing but a union between 
the two kingdoms could avert the 
danger of a disputed succession to 
the throne, and of a civil war. 
They were successful in carrying 
through their designs, though it was 
opposed by a ma j ferity of the Scot- 
tish people. The Act of Union was 
formally ratified by the parliament 



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of Scotland in 1707. 

Scotland has greatly increased 
in j^rosperity in the last century. 
The arms of Scotland are, or. a lion 
ram])ant gules, armed and langued 
azure, within a double tressure 
flory counterflory of fleurs-de-lis 
of the second, supporters, two 
luiicorns argent armed maned and 
unguled or. gorged with open 
crowns, with chains affixed thereto, 
and reflexed over the back of the 
last. Crest — A lion sejant affronte 
gules crowned, or holding in the 
dexter paw a sword, and in the 
sinister a scepter, both erect proper, 

The Peesbyteriax Church ix 
scotlaxi). 

The title Presbytery comes from 
the Greek word '' presbytaros " mean- 
ing senior or elder ; and is appro- 
priated by the Presbyterians be- 
cause their church government is 
bosed upon the principle of govern- 
ment by ministers and ruling elders. 
The Presbyterians of Scotland werv 
first organized into a church at 
Edinburg, Scotland, Dec. 3, 1557. 
This was done in protest against 
the prelatical churches, which had 
become much corrupted in their 
hierarchy. The first covenant was 
subscribed by several of the Scotch 
nobility. The government of the 
local church, or societ}', was lodged 
in a directorv called the "Kirk or 
Session, " consisting of the minister 
or ministers, (if there were more 
than one), and the lay elders, one 
of the ministers, and all, whether 
lay or clerical, having the right to 
vote. From the decisions of this 
"Session or Kirk" an appeal could 
be had to the Presbytery, which 
was usually constituted of the min- 
isters of a certain number of con- 



gregations and one "ruling elder" 
from each congregation. Further 
appeals could be taken to synods, 
and general assemblies, in churches 
so large that for convenience the 
])resbyteries of a district are group- 
ed into a "Provincial Synod," and 
all the provincial synods are sub- 
ordinated to a General Assembly; 
but in respect there were consid- 
erable diversities and the" supreme " 
church court, whether synod, or 
general assembly, was variously 
constituted by direct representa- 
tion of each congregation, of each 
presbytery, or of each provincial 
synod. Nor was the diversities of 
this kind regarded as in the least 
degree affecting the principle of 
Presbyterianism. 

Presbyterian Churches generally 
recognize an order of Deacons as 
existing in the church, with power 
only over its secular affairs; but in 
many Presbyterian clmrches this 
office is merged in that of the elder, 
and all its functions are exercised by 
members of the Kirk Session. 
A tendency to revive the distinct 
office of deacon has, however, been 
recently manifested in some of the 
Presbyterian churches. Some Pres- 
byterians maintain the divine right 
of Presbytery, as the one system 
of church government authorized 
by the word of God; others only 
maintain that Presbyterianism is 
consistent with the word of God; 
while many Presbyterians main- 
tain that the Presbyterian System, 
whatever its imperfections as exist- 
ing anywhere, is, of all systems 
that ever existed in the church, 
the most agreeable to the principles 
of church government which may 
be deduced from scripture. Pres- 
bvterianism variouslv modified, is 



McGA FFEY GENE A LOGY 



19 



the form of church government 
subsisting in many protestant 
churches, but it is most perfectly fle- 
veloped in Britain and America. 
In Britain it prevails chiefly in 
Scotland, although in the revo- 
lution in the 17th century, it was 
for a very short time in the ascend- 
ant in England also. The consist- 
orial system of the continent of 
Europe cannot, in any of its modifi- 
cations, be regarded as essentially 
Presbyterian, although in some 
respects it approaches Presby- 
terianism. The French consist- 
orial system is more nearly Presby- 
terian than the German, and is not 
perfectly so, only from the pressure 
of the civil power. In other 
churches also, as well as in the 
protestant church of France, Pres- 
byterianism is more or less modified 
by the relations of the church to.ihe 
state. 

The first general assembly, con- 
sisting of six ministers and thirty- 
four laymen was organized in Edin- 
burg, Dec. 20, 1560. Until that 
date the reformers had used the 
Book of Common Order, in use by 
the English Church in Geneva. 
Early in 1560, the Privy Council 
appointed a commission of five, 
including the famous John Knox, 
the great Scottish reformer, who 
had separated from the Roman 
Catholic Church in 1535, but who 
did not openly proclaim himself a 
protestant until 1543. Later Knox 
greatly encouraged the reformers 
until 1560, when the Scottish par- 
liament threw off the old church 
affilliation, and founded the now 
renowned Kirk, or Church of Scot- 
land. The commission of five re- 
ferred to above, committed to 
I)aper "their judgements touching 



the Reformation. " The first book 
of discipline presented by the com- 
mission was adopted by the churches 
but was rejected by the nobles, 
who were charged with desiring to 
appropriate to themselves the pat- 
rimony of the old church. The 
second book of discipline appeared 
in 1581, deriving its system directly 
from the scriptures. This was at 
once adopted by the Assembly, 
and soon confirmed by King James. 

This is still in force, as is the 
Westminster formula of doctrine 
which was confirmed at the same 
time l)y the i)ersistent efforts of 
Knox and Melville. The throne 
recognized by formal decree the 
new system of Calvanistic doctrine 
and government, and the Presby- 
terian church became the es- 
tablished church of Scotland. 

An act of parliament finally 
confirmed the whole body in 1592, 
with the signature of James I of 
England and James VI of Scotland. 
A few years later the king began 
to intrigue for the establishment 
of the English Episcopal system, 
and the bloody riots and perse- 
cutions which followed during his 
reign and that of his successors, 
Charles I and James II, and the 
dow^ifall of the house of Stuart, 
are matters of history. It has been 
well said "the Scottish Presby- 
terians made good martyrs. " In 
1690, after the long sad years of 
persecution and trouble, the Scotch 
Presbyterians were again relieved 
of the pressure of ]:)relacy, and the 
Westminster confession was once 
more recognized by royal decree. 
A minority of able, earnest zealous 
opposed the new order, and as a 
result the Reformed Presbyterian 
Church was organized. This seces- 



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si on took i)lace iu 1691, but the 
seperate churches were not organ- 
ized into a Presbytery until 1743. 
The l^resbyterian Church has been 
recognized as the state church of 
Scotland since 1707, as fully as 
the Episcopal church has been 
recognized as the established church 
of England. 

The United Presbyterian church 
of Scotland was organized by a 
union of the secession church and 
the relief Presbyterians, who separ- 
ated from the old church, (the 
former in 1733 and the latter in 
1760) because they were unwilling 
to permit the state to dominate 
the churches in the appointment 
of ministers. In 1834 the Scottish 
General Assembly passed the fa- 
mous "Veto Edict," giving to 
church sessions the right to reject 
any state appointments which they 
should not apj^rove. The State 
Court set aside this act, and its 
decision was sustained on appeal 
to the higher court. For a while the 
Assembly yielded, but the fires of 
opposition burned too intensely 
to be smothered, the famous dis- 
ruption of 1843 and the Free Church 
of Scotland was organized. The 
session was letl by Chalmers, Can- 
dish, Welsh, Cunningham and 
others. The Free church took off 
about one-half of the membership, 
and at once became a powerful 
rival. From that time the record 
is that of three influential Presby- 
terian Churches in Scotland, viz: 
the Established Church of Scotland, 
the I'ntied Presbyterian Church, 
and the Free Church into vrhich 
the Reformed church merged in 
1876. 



The Scottish Covexaxt.s. 

The covenants known in Scottish 
history and tradition are chieflv 
two, "The National Covenant." 
This was a bond of union or agree- 
ment, drawn up at Edinburg in 
1638 by the leading Presbyterian 
ministers, and subscribed by vast 
numbers of persons in all ranks of 
life. It embodied the Confession 
of _ Faith of loSOand 1581, sub- 
scribed by James II in his youth, 
and again recognized in 1590 and 
1596, and was binding on all who 
signed it to spare nothing which 
might save their religion. The 
proximate cause of this extraord- 
inary manifestation of feeling was 
the attempt of Charles I to en- 
force Episcopacy and the use of the 
service-book in Scotland. The sub- 
scribing of the National Covenant 
began on the 28th of February 
1638. in the Greybriars Church ancl 
churchyard at Edinburg. Numer- 
ous copies were also circulated 
through the country for signatures, 
a circumstance which accounts for 
many copies being still extant. 
The General Assembly, which met 
at Glasgow Nov. 21," 1638 ratified 
the National Covenant and the 
Confession of Faith which it em- 
braced, and deposed the whole of 
the hirarchy that had been es- 
tablished by Charles I. The Na- 
tional covenant was subsequently 
ratified by the 5th act of the second 
parliament of Charles I. held at 
Edinburg June 11, 1640. and sub- 
scribed by Charles II, at Spey 
June 28, 1650, and at Scoon Jan. 
1, 1651. Those who subscribed 
the National Covenant promise 
to "continue in obedience to the 
doctrine and discipline of this 



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Kirk". They also give assent to 
various acts of parliament in the 
reign of James VI, which besides 
repudiating the jurisdiction of the 
Pope, and all the ceremonial ob- 
servances and errors of the Romish 
Church, ordain "all savers, willful 
hearers, and concealers of the mass, 
the maintainers and restors of the 
priests, Jesuits, trafficking Papists, 
to be punished without any ex- 
ception or restriction. " 
Solemn League and Covenant. 

This was a document of four or 
five years later than the National 
Covenant, since the signing of 
which Charles I had broken with 
the English parliament, set up his 
standard at Nottingham (Aug., 
1642) and from his various successes, 
it was thought he might be able to 
reinstate Episcopary in Scotland. 
With some alarm on this grountl, 
the Scotch willingly received over- 
tures from commissioners de]:>uted 
by the English parliament. Hopes 
were held out to the Scottish nation, 
that in the event of success against 
the King, the Presbyterian model 
should supersede the Episco])alian, 
both in England and Scotland. 

Approving of a measure of this 
kind, the Scottish estates entered 
into what was called a solemn 
League and Covenant with the 
English parliament, one of the 
provisions of the bond of agree- 
ment was that the Scotch should 
send an army into England against 
the King, which they did in Jan- 
uary 1694. The Solemn League and 
Covenant was subscribed by many 
of all ranks in Scotland and Eng- 
land, including the Assembly of 
Divines at Westminster, was rati- 
fied by the General Assembly at 
Edinbiirg Aug. 17, 1643, and the 



Scottish parliament July 15, 1644, 
and subscribed by Charles II, at 
Spey, 1650, and at Scoon, 1651. 
While the National Covenant refers 
to the observance of the Presby- 
terian polity within Scotland alone, 
the Solemn League and Covenant 
is much more comprehensive. 

Those who subscribed in, setting 
out with a profession of attachment 
to the church of Scotland, are to 
bring aljout a uniformity of religion 
and church discipline in the three 
Kingdoms, and further "That we 
shall in like manner, without re- 
spect of persons, endeavor the 
extirpation of popery, prelacy (that is 
church government by Archbishops, 
Bisho]:»s, their Chancellors and com- 
missaries. Deans and Chapters, 
Archdeacons, and all other Eccles- 
iastical ofhcers depending on that 
hierarchy), superstition, heresy, 
schism, profaneness and whatso- 
ever shall be found contrary to 
sound doctrine and the power of 
Godliness, lest we partake in other 
men's sins, and thereby be in danger 
to receive their plagues; and that 
the Lord may l)e one, and his name 
one, in the three kingdoms. " 
McGaffey History Continued. 

In the fall of 1718 a colony of 
16 families of Scotch Irish came 
from Londonderry, Ireland, to Ports- 
mouth, N. H., harbor, they wintered 
on board the ship, and in the spring 
of 1719 travelled until they came 
to wdiat is Londonderry, N. H., 
where they located. The names 
of McGaffey or McClary do not 
api)ear amoung those of this colony, 
but the next year (1720) Neal Mc- 
Gaffey — the writers great great 
grandfather — with his family, to- 
gether with John McClary and 
family, a family named Harvey, 



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and one named McCrillis came 
from Ireland and joined the colony 
in New Hampshire. 

The geneaologist "Gustave An- 
jou" puts the time of their coming 
to America in 1730, but unbroken 
family traditions say 1720, which 
undoubtedly is correct. >-eal Mc- 
Gaffey moved to Epsom, >■. H., in 
1737 and was killed by the Indians, 
He was a son of John McGaffey 
who lived in Galloway. Scotland. 
He was cjf the McGuffie Clan, and 
was possessed of large estates l)oth 
in land and money. He was a 
conspicuous leader among the 
covenanters and after their defeat 
at the battle of Bothwell Bridge 
his estates were confiscated. It 
was then that John McGaffey and 
his kinsman ^IcGlary and their 
families took refuge in Ulster County 
in the north of Ireland. Nine 
years afterward they again fought 
side bv side at the seige of London- 
derry, under William of Orange. 
From Ireland they came to America 
and their descendants again fought 
side by side in the Revolutionarv 
War. Thus it will be seen that the 
Scotch ancestors of the McGaffeys 
and McClarys of today lived in 
troubleous times, and were en- 
gaged in warfare a great part of the 
time for centuries. But they pos- 
sessed sturdy characters and an 
indomitable will and courage, which 
was only develo])ed and intensified 
by their adversities. 

The Roman power had subdued 
almost the entire world, but had 
given up the attempt to break 
completely the brave remnant of 
the Scots who had been forced to 
take refuge amoung the wild shelter 
of their Caledonian Mountains, 
where, as occasion came, thev 



would emerge like an avalanche 
upon the neighl)oring nations who 
were under the protection of the 
Roman legions. Great walls were 
built in order to keep them back, 
but they were torn assunder, and 
it was only by intermarriage with 
the Picts that their ferocity towards 
that race was at length partially 
subdued. 

In the fourth edition of a work 
entitled, "The Priests of Etal,"by 
Rev. George McGuffie I find the 
following written l)y John McGaffey 
of Chicago, a correspondent of the 
" Weekly Scotsman. " " Something 
concerning the descendants of the 
McGaffeys and McClarys, in the 
Western Hemisphere may be of 
interest to her who writes "The 
Scotsman, " over the signature 
"Neil's Granddaughter, " and other 
readers who have apparently be- 
come interested in the subject. 

Margaret, McGaffey McCrillis, 
widow of Henry McCrillis, died in 
Sandwich, N. H., in 1855, at the age 
of 98 years. She retained her 
mental faculties unimpaired up to 
about the time of her death. She 
was a living repository of the tradi- 
tions and history of that branch of 
the McGaffey family to which she 
belonged. If a record had ])een 
kept of all she was accustomed to 
relate, much that the descendants 
of these families now living would 
be glad to know, might be written. 
Well versed in the history of the 
wars in Scotland during the 17th 
century, in which the covenanters 
participated, she often told myself 
and my sister incidents of battles 
wherein her ancestors the IMcGaffeys 
and McClarys bore a part. After 
the defeat of the covenanters at 
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ed estates of the heads of these two 
famines in Galloway were confis- 
cated, and her great grandfather, 
Neil McGaffey, fled to Ireland with 
his family. He was accompanied 
by his kinsman McClary and family, 
and he brought with him a good 
sized treasure in gold, wdiich he had 
secreted and saved from the wreck 
of his fortune. In 1688 they both 
joined the forces of King William 
and fought at the seige of London- 
derry. As in Scotland and Ireland, 
so in this country the McGaffeys 
and McClarvs fought side by side. 
In 1775 Col. McClary at the head 
of his regiment was killed at the 
battle of Bunker Hill, and his 
kinsman Lieut. Andrew McGaffey 
of the same Regiment was severely 
wounded. 

In answer to the author's request 
to the War Department at Washing- 
ton, D.C., information was received 
that owing to the limited clerical 
force of the Department, and the 
pressure of current business, the 
Secretary of War had found it 
necessary to direct that the records 
of not more than two soldiers should 
be furnished any one correspondent. 
I then forwarded the names of 
Neal and Andrew McGaffey, and 
received in return the following 
reply — 

Mr. "George W. McGaffey, 
Grover, Vermont. 

The records show that one Neal 
McGaffey served as a sergeant in 
Captain Michael McClary's Com- 
pany, 3d Battallion New Hamp- 
shire Troops. Commanded by Col- 
onel Alexander Scammell, Revo- 
lutionary war. His name appears 
on a company muster roll, dated 
June 15, 1777, covering the period 
from November 8, 1776, in which 



it is shown that he was appointed 
January 25, 17 — for a period of 
three years. His name also appears 
on a return, dated August 2, 1778, 
at White Plains Camp, which shows 
that he enlisted at Epsom. He 
was appointed Sergeant Major Dec. 
23, 1778. This name is also borne 
on the rolls of Major Jason Wait's 
Company of the same Regiment 
for the months of August, Sep- 
tember and October, 1780, showing 
that the soldier bearing it enlisted 
January 30, 1777 for three years, 
and was promoted to the rank of 
Ensign November 14, 1777. 

The records show that many 
men named Andrew McGaffey 
served in various organizations of 
New Hampshire troops in service 
during the Revolutionary War, Init 
from the date submitted it is im- 
possible to identify any particular 
one of them as the soldier whose 
record you recjuest. It is proper 
to add, however, that one Andrew 
McGaffey served as first Lieutenant 
in Captain Micheal McClary's com- 
pany, 3d New Hampshire Regi- 
ment. Commanded by Colonel 
Alexander Scammell. He was com- 
missioned November 8, 1776, as 
1st Lieutenant, and was promoted 
to the rank of Captain — Lieutanant 
in the same Regiment December 
22, 1778, received his discharge 
from the service June 1, 1779. 

The records further show that 
one Andrew McGaffey served as a 
private and drummer, in Major 
Jason Wait's Company of the same 
Regiment. He enlisted March 1, 
1780, for the period of three years 
and was transferred on or about 
November or December, 1780, to 
Captain P^noch Chase's Company 
2nd New Hampshire Regiment, 



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Commanded by Colonel Georue 
Reed, and his name is last born on 
the Company muster roll for the 
month of April, 17S3, dated May 
23, 17S3. It a])pears from these 
records that he came from the 
town of Epsom. 

By authorities of the 

Secretary of War. 
Chief Record and 
Annual Pension Ofhce. 
The foregoing records prove con- 
clusively that several of the Mc 
Gaffeys took part in the Revolu- 
tionary War, both as privates and 
Commissioned officers, and done 
their duty in a brave and fearless 
manner that l^rought them promo- 
tion in rank. Their brave Scotch 
ancestors could have truly foretold 
that no cowardly or traitorous blood 
would ever flow in their veins, they 
sprang from a warlike race that 
knew no fear. From family records, 
and traditions I learn that there was 
a Lieutenant Meal McGaffey in the 
battle of Bunker Hill and that 
Lieutenant Andrew McGaffey, was 
desperately wounded in the same 
l)attle. There was also a John 
McGaffey, son of Neal McGaffey. 
the first emigrant to this country 
' bearing the name of McGaffey, 
who was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary War. He was a great 
grandfather of the writer. 

Lieutenant Andrew McGaffey, 
(grandson of emigrant Neal) re- 
covered from his wounds and mar- 
ried Hannah Wallace — a col4teral 
descendant of Sir William Wallace — 
and they had six sons and four 
daughters. David, Betsy, James, 
Andrew, Rachel, George, Eben, 
Hannah, William and Neal. and 
these ten children at one period of 
their joint lives measured in the 



aggregate sixty feet in length and 

weighed a ton. Would you look 

among such men and women for 

cowards and sneaks in a time of 

])eril or necessity? The descendants 

of Andrew McGaffey have become 

(piite numerous in this country, 

Hon. A. 1^. McGaffey of Denver, 

Colorado, belongs to this branch 

of the McGaffey family Some of 

the eldest children of Andrew and 

Hannah McGaffey went to Maine 

and engaged in the lumber business, 

others followed until only Neal 

was left in New Hampshire. He 

married Peggy McCrillis — daughter 

of John and Margaret McGaffey 

McCrillis, they had three daughters 

and one son, all of whom are dead. 

The following names and dates 

were taken from headstones in the 

McGaffey cemetery, on the old 

homestead in Sandwich. N. H.. by 

Caroline C. McGaffey, daughter of 

George William: 

Xeal McGaffey died Nov. 30, 1852, age 63 
Peggy his wife died April 2, 1860, age 72 
Louisa McGaffey died Mar.l3, 1853, age 27 
Irene McGaffev^^died Sept. 11, 1888, age 74 
Elden McGaffey died Aug. 9, 1859, age 40 
Mehitable McGaffey Jan. 28, 1890 age 74 
Delia Louise died Aug. 16, 1855, age 2 
Ida Anna McGaffey died date illegible. 
Franklin McGaffey died date illegible 
Samuel McGaffey died date illegil)le. 
Lydia McGaffey, wife of Samuel, died June 

20, 1844, age 78. 
Josiah McGaffey died Mar. 21, 1842, age 56 
John son of Josiah, no date. 
Lieut. Andrew McGaffey, died Aug. 20, 

1826 age 83 
Henry McCrillis, husband of Margaret 

McGaffey, who was daughter of Xeal, 

died Aug. 5, 1804, age 67 
Margaret his wife died Apr. 5, 1855 age 97 

From Lyndon Center' Cemetery. 

John McGaffey died Aug. 1810 age 82 
Stephen McGaffey died Jan 29, 1880 age 87 
Sarali his wife died Dec. 26, 1867, age 72 
Mary H. their daughter died July 7, 1856, 
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Charles E. son, died Nov. 29, 1870 age 27 
George C. son, died Nov. 22, 1820, age 3mo. 
William McGaffev died Feb. 12, 1869 age71 
Eliza liis wife died Dec. 22, 1868, age 65 
Nettie J. daughter of G. W. and A. E. 

McGaffev died June 8, 1866 age 6 mos. 
Henry McGaffev died June 7, 1830, age 18 
Louisa McGaffey died Feb. 19, 1831, age 23 
Hiram McGaffev died Nov. 11, 1831, age 31 
Clarissa McGaffey died July 10, 1832 age 28 
Mary tiie mother of the four last, died 

"Sept. 8, 1S32. 
All five died from Consumption. 
William Worlcman the husband and 

father died Mar. 31, 1845, age 77. 

From Lyndon Town Records. 
John McGaffey first purchase of Heal 

Estate, Aug. 29, 1789. 
Wm. W. McGaffey first purchase of Real 

Estate Sept, 1, 1798. 
James Sherman first purchase of Real 

Estate Jan. 24, 1803. 
Andrew McGaffev elected constal)le Jan. 

21, 1793. 
Wm. Workman McGaffey elected vSelect- 

man and Lister in 1796. 
David McGaffey married Sally Gates, 1799 
John McGaffey married for his 2nd wife 

Widow Margaret Sanborn of Epsom, 

N. H.s Nov^ 6, 1800. 

"Mac" as a prefix of surnames, 
signifies "son of" and is therefore 
cognate with the "Ap" of the 
Welsh, the "Fitz" of the Anglo 
Norman, and the "O" of the Irish. 
The name McGaffie " or as now 
written "McGaffey" originated in 
Scotland in the 13th century. The 
name has been written MacGavin, 
MacGaffin, McGaflin, McGuffie, 
McGuffok, McGuffoug, McGuffie, 
McGaffie, McGaffey, MacAfee, Mac- 
Guff y, etc. 

Patrick McGuffok was a Bailie 
within the Castle of Dumfries in 
1291. And in the Scottish records 
of July 10, 1526, license is given 
Margaret Barnat to marry John 
McGuffee and during his life his 
name was spelled McGuffan and 
McGaffee. There also appears a 
record of the death May 11, 1531, 



of Agnes MacGuffee, daughter to 
John MacGuffan. He also had a 
son, Alexander McGuffee who mar- 
ried Janet Stone Oct. 18, 1556. 
They had four children, John, Janet, 
Robert, Alexander who died young. 
John McGuffey married Margaret 
Baxtor, then in a rent of land in 
1596 his name is written John Mc- 
Gaffey. He had a son, Neil Mc- 
Gaffey Iwrn in 1600, who married 
Marion Miller. Neil McGaffey had 
a son, Hugh who became Sheriff of 
Galloway, he also had a son John 
born in 1640. 

Early in 1679, Archbishop Sharp, 
Primate of Scotlantl, issued a pro- 
clamation requiring that the san- 
guinary statutes against con- 
venticles should be rigorously en- 
forced. A number of the inter- 
comimed persons, dreading in- 
creased persecution, "resolved to 
lift up their testimony against the 
defections and sins of the times, " 
assembled at Rutherglan, May 27, 
and burned the Act Recissory and 
all the Acts restoring Prelacy. This 
bold step led to the battle of Drum- 
elog, on the following Sunday, in 
which Clanerhouse and his Dragoons 
met with a serious reverse. The 
battle of Bothwell Bridge followed 
on the 22d of June, when the 
Covenanters were in turn disastrous- 
ly overthrown and dispersed by an 
army of ten thousand men led by 
Monmouth. In the following year 
the persecution of the Covenanters 
was pursued with unrelenting se- 
verity. This was a dark period in 
the history of the church of Scot- 
land. To be found on the road 
with a Bible in posession, or dis- 
covered in the act of prayer, or of 
going to or coming from hearing 
sermon, was of itself held as evi- 



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MrCArri:)' (;i:\i-:mj><;y 



(loiifc of treason, and punisliahlc 
with instant dt'ath. IIavin<!; taken 
part in the battle of P)()th\\cll 
Brid.ue. .John McCafTey had to fly, 
with a lar^c number of others: 
some went to the continent joininji 
the Scottish church at Rotterdam, 
others emigrated to Ireland, and 
among these were John McGaffey. 
He appears there first in 1680, and 
on Mar. 14. 1682 he married Mar- 
garet, daughter of Andrew McCrillis 
of Londonderry, who had fled to 
Ireland, a cov^entanter, from Dum- 
ferlinc. in company with Michael 
McCleary. 

The children of John and Mar- 
garet McGafTev were — John, born 
Dec. 28, 1682. Samuel born Oct. 6. 
1683 died an infant, Neil born Jan. 
3. 1685, Andrew, born May 16, 1689. 
Margaret born in 1691. John mar- 
ried Sarah, daughter of James O' 
Connor. Amlrew married a Picken 
of Dublin but had no children. 
Margaret married John Picken. had 
a son Neil. Xeal McClaf^'ev. born 
Jan. 3, 1685, married Margaret 
McClary, daughter of Michael Mc- 
Clarv and sister of James McClary 
and Maj. Andrew McClary who 
distinguished himself for great 
bravery and who was killed at the 
battle" of Huidxer Hill. Michael 
McClary came from Dumferline. 
Scotland. He was a Coveiumter 
and after their defeat at Bothwell 
Ikidge he fled to North Irelaiul 
with John McCJaffey. Andrew Mc- 
Crillis and others. In 1720. John 
McClary and Neal McCaffc^v with 
their families, a family of the name 
of Harvey and one by the name of 
McCrillis came from North Ireland 
and settled in Londonderry. X. H. 
In 1734 Neal moved to Kpsom. N.H. 
where he was killed bv the Indians. 



He was at work in the woods hew- 
ing timber, the Indians surprised 
and overpowered him, killing him 
with his own ]:)road axe. The 
children of Neal and Margaret 
Mc(iaffey were John, Andrew, 
Phebe, Rebecca and Jane. Phebe 
never married. Jane married An- 
drew liean, Rebecca married a 
Mr. Foss. These were among the 
earliest settlers of Epsom. In the 
Epsom records appears the mar- 
riage of Hannah McGaffev in 1801 
and Sally McGaffey in 1807, but 
the writer has not been able to 
trace them. Andrew, second son 
of Neal McGaffey. married Hannah 
Wallace of Epsom, a lineal descend- 
ant of Sir Wm. Wallace. Their 
children were. David, born Jan. 7, 
1776; Betsey born Nov. 25, 1778; 
James, born May 7, 1780; Andrew, 
born April 15, 1782; Rachel, born 
!\Iarch 2, 1784, George Wallace, 
born Jan. 16, 1786; Eben. born 
Dec. 21, 1789; Hannah, born Julv 
25. 1793: William, born July 29, 
1795. David married Miss Liberty 
Smith of Sandwich, N. H., June 25, 
1801. 

John McGaffey. 

John McGafTey^,^ son of Neal 
married Jan. 8, 17f6. Jane McClary 
tlaughter of John McClary and 
sister of Micheal McClary who was 
2iid Lieut, from April to Dec. in 
1775, 1st Lieut, in 1776. Cajit. in 
3d N. H. Regiment in 1776. and 
reported as killed at the l)attle of 
Saratoga. Tlicro was a David Mc- 
Clary killed at the battle of Ben- 
nington, and Cajit. Andrew Mc- 
Clary, brother of the writer's great 
grandmother, was killed at the 
l)attl(^ of Bunker Hill. The children 
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were, Neal, born Sept. 30, 1756; 
Margaret, born Feb. 27, 1758; 
Samuel born Jan. 13, 1S60; John. Jr. 
born Nov. 21, 1761 ; Jglne born Nov. 
8, 1763; Andrew born Sept 14, 1765; 
Wm. Workman born Aug. 21,1767; 
Agnes born June 8, 1|69: Molly 
born Sept. 20, 1771; James born 
Oct. 20 1773; David born May 8, 
1779. 

John McGaffey was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary war and his 
name is on a monument in the 
cemetery at Lyndon Centre, Vt., 
erected in memory of the soldiers. 
He came from Sandwich with his 
wife and some of his younger child- 
ren and purchased a farm in the 
Passumpsic valley south of Lyndon 
Corner in 1789. His wife died 
about 1798 and Nov. 6, 1800 he 
married Margaret Wallace Sanborn, 
widow of Eliphalet Sanborn of 
Epsom N.H. She came to Lyndon 
to live but was never contented 
there and after a few years they 
parted and she returned to New 
Hampshire to live with her chil- 
dren and he staid with his in 
Vermont. He died in 1810 and 
was buried beside his first wife in 
the old burying ground near where 
they lived, and after the cemetery 
was established at Lyndon Centre, 
they, with others were taken up and 
moved to the new cemetery. His 
second wife, — Margaret Wallace 
Sanborn, after her return to New 
Hampshire lived on the old San- 
born homestead until her death 
in 1842 aged 98 years. She was 
married to her first husband Eli- 
phalet Sanborn Nov. 19, 1761. 
He was born July 19, 1730. 

The people in Scotland were 
divided into Classes, the land own- 
ers and Clan leaders belonged to 



the higher class, and were called 
"Gentlemen" to distinguish them 
from the lower class called "Yeo- 
men. " This distinction was kept 
up for a time after coming to this 
country in matters of business that 
required signatures. The writer 




Soldiers' Monument, Lyndon 
Center, Vt. 

has before him a deed of real 
estate given by his great grand- 
father which recites as follows: 
Know all men by these prefents. 
That I, John McGaffey of Sandwich 
in the county of Stafford and state 
of New Hampshire "Gentlemen" 
For, and in contidcration of the 
sum of Thirty Pounds Lawful 



McGAFFEY GENE A LOG Y 



money, to me in Hand paid before 
the Delivery hereof, by Samuel 
McGaffey of Sandwich aforesaid 
"Yeoman," the receipt whereof 
I do hereby acknowledge have 
given, granted, bargained, sold and 
released; and l^y these Prefents do 
give, grant, bargain, sell, aline, 
release, convey and confirm to him 
the said Samuel McGaffey his Heirs 
and Assigns one hundred acres of 
land in Sandwich aforesaid, then 
follows description of land and 
warranty and concludes as follows: 
In witness whereof I have here- 
unto set my hand and seal this 
first dav of Februarv Anno Domini 
1786. 

John M((tAFFf:Y. 
Signed, Sealed and Delivered 
in the presence of 
Daniel Beede 
Joshua Beede, 
State of j 

New Hampshire > Sandwich the 
Strafford, ss. ) first day of 
February 1786. 

Then the above named John 
^IcGaffey personally appearing ac- 
knowledged the above written in- 
strument to be his free act and deed. 
Before me, 

D. Beede, Justice Peace. 

Margaret McGaffey married Hen- 
ry McCrillis. They had twelve 
children, — Jane, John. Henry, David, 
William, Peggy, James, Xeal, Mary, 
Nancy. Betsey and Andrew. Jane 
McCrillis born in Sandwich, X. H., 
ched Oct. 17, 1874. She married 
Calvin Philbrick and had five chil- 
dren, — Calvin Jr., Freeman, Sarah, 
Mary, Jane and Addie, they lived 
in Lowell. John ^IcCrillis, born 
Dec. 30, 1779 died Sept. 18, 1854. 
He was a physician and lived in 
Wakefield, N. H. He married and 



had three children — Louise, who 
died in Burns\\'ick, Me., unmarried 
In Aug. 1826 the other children 
were Wm. H. and Harriet. William 
became a leading Law^^er in Bangor, 
Me., he was born in Georgetown Me., 
:\Iarch 4, 1813. studied law \\\\h. 
Allen and Appleton in Bangor and 
was admitted to the bar in Kenne- 
bec County and commenced prac- 
tice in Bangor in 1834. For many 
years he was the leading lawyer 
in the county and state. In 1838 
he was appointed County Attorney 
of Pennobscot County, by Gov. 
Kent, which office he held while 
the AVhigs were in power. He 
was elected the same year by the 
F.epublicans of Bangor to the House 
of Representatives of Maine and 
re-elected in 1859-1860. He was 
one of the wealthy prominent men 
of Bangor, he died unmarried and 
left a large estate to his sister 
Harriet who married Rufus Gris- 
wold, who was editor and publisher 
of "Poets and Poetr}- of America." 
They had one son — William Mc- 
Crillis who graduated at Harvard 
in 1875 and was at one time Libra- 
rian of Congress. He has four 
children that live in Cambridge, 
Mass. (3) Henry AlcCrillis Jr. was 
born in Sandwich Sept. 4, 1781. 
He was a physician in Montville, 
Me., and married Mrs. Sally Shepard 
of Tam worth, N. H., he had no 
children and was lost at sea. (4) 
David AlcCrillis born in SanchAnch 
Sept. 14. 1783, died in 1871. He 
married a Miss Towle, resided in 
Waterville. Me., had four children: 
Alonzo, and David Jr., and two 
daughters. The sons were both 
lawyers, Alonzo of the firm of 
Jordan and McCrillis of Great Falls, 
N. H. He was killed by being 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



29 



thrown from a carriage. David of 
New Hampshire and David of Ban- 
gor both died young. One daughter, 
.Mrs. S. J. Swinburn left three chil- 
dren, Crillis a son and Celia and Jose- 
phine Celia is a teacher in Boston 
Public Schools, the other daughter, 
Mrs. Towle of Boston had two sons, 
George who was a lawyer, died at 
St. Thomas, Bermuda, the other 
son E. D. Towle is a Unitarian 
Minister. (5) William McCrillis, 
born in Sandwich Sept. 13, 1785 
died Nov. 4, 1809 being lost at sea- 
(6) Peggy McCrillis born in Sand- 
wich Dec. 22, 1787 died April, 2. 
1859, married Neal McGaffey of 
Sandwick, had three children, Elden 
Caroline and Irene unmarried, Elden 
married Mehitabel Tewksbury of 
Sandwich, they had two children: 
Ellen antl George. Ellen married 
Oliver Ambrose and they resided 
on the okl McGaffey place in Sand- 
wick which is now owned by Mr. 
Ambrose, his wife died in the spring 
of 1903, no children. George Mc- 
Gaffey married but left no children. 
(7) James McCrillis born in Sand- 
wich May 14, 1790, died Aug. 5, 
1819, married Rebecca Hackett 
and lived in Meredith, N. H. (8) 
Neal McCrillis born in Sandwich 
March 31, 1792, died Dec 3, 1878. 
Married Abagail Foss, of Sandwich 
and resided on the old home farm, 
they had three children :Mary, Sarah 
and William. Mary born in 1823 
died young, Sarah born Sept. 9, 
1825, married Charles WVed of 
Sandwich, she is still living with 
her only child, Mary N. vv'ho married 
Edward Richard Pickthall of Bos- 
ton. They now reside at 189 
Central St. Somerville Mass. Wil- 
liam, son of Neal McCrillis, born 
April 30, 1821 died May 24, 1895. 



He married Mary Watson of Farns- 
worth, they lived on the old farm. 
They had six children: Francella 
who died when 3 years old, Abagail 
born Feb. 3, 1854 married Arthur 
Butler of Lemspter, N. H., they 
live at 6730 Normal Ave. Chicago, 
have one child, Crillis born March 
16, 1887. Mary born June 15,1856 
not married, a practicing physician 
in Evanston 111., she graduated 
from the Boston University School 
of Medicine in 1858. Her address 
is Century Building, 800 Davis St. 
(4)Alonzo born Aug. 2,1858 married 
Lulie M. Clark of Sandwich Nov. 
23, 1886. They have four children: 
Anna born Sept. 30, 1887; Margaret 
born Mav 6, 1889; Nealborn Oct. 
28, 1890; Mary born Dec. 8, 1900. 
They reside on the old home farm 
and are the fourth generation that 
has'occupied it. Sarah born Jan. 
30, 1863, unmarried, lives in King- 
ston, R. I. Wm. Neal born Oct. 6, 
1868 married Lula Abbott of An- 
dover. Me., Aug. 8, 1860, they live 
at Rumford Falls, Me., and have 
six children: William born July 21, 
1892; Martha Francilla, Henry, 
Mary, Louise, Donald and Sarah 
Abbie. (9) Mary I\IcCrillis born Apr 
5, 1794, married Sanuiel Quimby of 
Sandwich, they had two children, 
Michael and Nancv who was born 
Nov. 17, 1825, died Dec. 21, 1902. 
She married Nov. 11, 1875 Samuel 
McGaffey who was born in Sand- 
wich Jan. 16, 1833 and was a son of 
Eliphalet McGaffey son of Samuel 
McGaffey residing at Villisca. Iowa. 
(lO)Nancy McCrillis, born in Sand- 
wich Sept. 15, 1796 died Julv 3, 
1833. (11) Betsey McCrillis born 
in 1799 married a physician. Dr. 
Doten. Thev had two daughters, 
Mrs. J. H. Adams and Mrs'. S. J. 



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MraAFFh) (iEMlMJXiV 



(l<»l(lsiiiitli who was a writer and 
l)iil)lic s|)('ak('r of considcraljlp note. 
(12) Andrew McCrillis horn in Sand- 
wich .March ll. Isoi. died June 19. 
1872. He Hved in H<.chester. X. H.. 
wa.'^ married hut liatl no eliihh'en. 

The hi.^torv of the MeCJaffey.s, 
MeCrillises and MeClarys were 
elo.^ely interwoven hoth in Sef)thind 
and this country. They foujiht 
side l)v side in Scotland. Ireland 
and America. Intermarried in all 
three of those countries and their 
descendants are very numerous 
and widely scattered throughout 
America. 

Sa.mihl .McG.vffev. 

Samuel McGafFey. son of John 
was horn in Sandwich Jan. 13. 1760, 
died March 25, 1823, married Lydia 
Sanhorn June 10. 1783. She was 
horn Dec. 24. 1763, died June 20, 
1844, she was the daughter of 
Eliphalet and Margaret Wallace 
Sanhorn. Margaret was .sister to 
Hannah Wallace who married Maj. 
Anih'ew McClaffey. They were lin- 
eal descentlants of Sir Willam 
Wallace. The children of Samuel 
McCiaflfey were' Peggy Margaret 
born June 30. 1784 (hed June 9, 
1823: Josiah horn Jan. 6, 1786, 
died March 21, 1842; John born 
Mav 28, (Hed Mav 13. 1848; Samuel 
Jr. 'horn Mav 10. 1789, died Dec. 



1840. 

horn 

1823; 

died 



,N. 1.S29; -Neal l)orn June 26, 1794. 
ihed Julv 7, 1867; Rachel horn 
March 19, 1797, died March 8. 1883; 
Eliphalet, born Ai)ril 18, 1900. died 
June 2. 1881. Peggy Margaret 
McGaffev married Stejjhen Fellows 
Jr. Mav 2. 1802. He was horn 
Nov. 18, 1786, died Feb. 8, 
Their children were Harriet 
Mav 1. 1809, died June 9, 
(2) Michael born Oct. 7. 1810, 
Dec. 11, 1899. (3)Marv Jane horn 
March 9. 1812, died April 12. 1836; 
(4) Julia Marion born Dec. 31. 1813, 
died May 18, 1856. (5) Simon born 
Nov. 20. 1836. livins: at Charlotte, 
Mich. (6)Lvdia McGaflfev. born 
March 6. 1817, died July i5, 1903. 
(7)Samuer McGaffev, born Xov. 
23. 1818, died June' 26. 1856. (8) 
William born Sept. 11, 1820 died 
Jan. 7, 1899. (9)Alfred. horn Jan. 
1. 1822, died Feb. 20, 1895. (10) 
Margaret V)orn May 19, 1823 died 
Jan. 29, 1840. For his second 
wife Stephen Fellows, Jr.. married 
Rachel McGaffev, sister of his first 
wife. Sept. 7, 1823. Their children 
were (l)Hannah born Oct. 12, 1824, 
died Feb. 26, 1890. (2)George born 
Feb. 22, 1826, died Mav 15, 1900. 
(3)Albion born Sept.' 16. 1827. 
died March 5. 1865. (4)Stephen 
X. horn May 30. 1830, living in 
Iowa Citv. Iowa. (5)Marv L. born 
Feb. 26,' 1838, Hves in Iowa City, 
Iowa. 



Rl.fOKI) OF Sa.MIKL McG.VFFEE and ScniE OF His DESfKXDEXTS. 

NAMK. RORX. MAHHIED. DIED. 

Samuel .McGaffev Jan. l.'i. 1700 June 10, 17S3 Mar. 25, 1823 

Lvdia Sanhorn . ". Dec. 24 1763 June 20, 1844 

Pepjiv Maniaret McGafTey June 30, 1784 Mav 2, 1808 June 9, 1823 

Jo.-<i.ili .Mc(;affev Ian. 6, 1786 .' Mar 21, 1842 

John McC.iffcv Mav 2.S, 1787 Married Mav 13, 1848 

.^aiiiucl M.Caffcv Jr Mav 10. 1789 Dec. 8, 1829 

Ncal .McGaffev. !. June 26. 1794. Nov. 23, 1819 Jvilv 7, 1867 

Hadicl .McGaffev .Mar. 19. 1797 Sept. 7. 1823 March 8, 1883 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 31 

NAME. BORN. MARRIED. DIED. 

Eliphalet McGaffey Apr. 18, 1800 March 13, 1823 Jan. 2, 1881 

Neal McGaffev . . . ". June 26, 1794 

Hannah McNeil Sept. 3, 1801 Nov. 23, 1819 

Otis McGaffev Aug. 30, 1820 

OUver McGaffev 1825 

Julia M. McGaffey July 1, 1832 

Otis McGaffev Sr! Aug. 30, 1820 .... May 12, 1841 

Mary J. McCoUister March 4, 1822. . . .Mav 12, 1841 March 28, 1896 

Mary J. McGaffey May 11, 1842 Dec. 3. 1857 

Sarah Emilv McGaffey Mav 11, 1842 Dec. 3, 1857 

Delia F. McGaffey Aug. 17, 1845. . ..Julv29, 1862 Feb. 22 1898 

John W. McGaffey Feb. 7, 1847. . . . .Aug. 29, 1869 

Josiah McGaffey 

Mary Bayden Have no date 

Sallv McGaffey No date 

Wyatt McGaft"ey No date 

Joseph McGaffey No date 

Mary McGaffey " No date 

John McGaffey No date in infancy 

Mary M. McGaffey No date 

John McGaffey No date 

K. D. Keith. .' Sept. 15, 1831 

Mary J. McGaffey May 11, 1842 Dec. 3, 1857 

Wilbur D. Keith Dec. 22, 1858 Feb. 3, 1890 

Sept. 1, 1881 

Ida E. McGaffey July 11, 1861 March 21, 1877 

Amelia McGaffev Aug. 21, 1863 Aug. 21,1863 

Edgar McGaffey Apr. 13, 1865 Jan. 21, 1867 

Edna Keith . . . " Oct. 20, 1867 Jan. 23 , 1872 

Sumter Keith May 4, 1870 July 11, 1896 

Marrianna Keith Nov. 14, 1874 

Deiha F. Keith Aug. 1, 1877 

Alabama Bee Keitli April 4, 1880 • 

Sam'l Evans Oct. 28, 1832 

Sarah Emily McGaffey Dec. 14, 1843 Nov. 24, 1863;  March 11, 1888 

Thomas Otis Evans Sept. 9, 1865 Feb. 6, 1887 

Frank Evans March 1, 1867 Sept. 16, 1867 

Lizzie Evans Feb. 16, 1869 July 1, 1891 

Marv Evans Feb. 16, 1871 Jan. 7, 1890 

Wihie Evans Feb. 16, 1873 Oct. 19, 1891 

David Evans July 16, 1877 

Chas. Evans Sept. 26, 1879 

James A. Evarts Nov. 29, 1881 Jan. 26, 1883 

Emma M. Evans Nov. 29, 1881 

Richard J. Parsons Aug. 25, 1862 

Delia F. McGaffev Aug. 17, 1845. . . .July 29, 1862 Feb. 22, 1892 

Richard J. Passons Jr March 22, 1863. . .Nov. 21, 1882 

Thomas P. Harris April 15, 1841 

Delia F. Parsons Aug. 17, 1845. . . .Nov. 26, 1865 Feb. 22, 1892 

Wilbur D. Keith Dec. 22, 1858 

Alice Loris Aug. 3, 1861 Sept. 1, 1881 Nov. 7, 1888 

Ida F. Keith Aug. 13, 1882 

Hezeltine L. Keith Sept. 29, 1883 

Minnie C. Keith Oct. 6, 1886 

Wilbur D. Keith Dec. 22, 1858 Feb. 5, 1890 

Fannie Ines Keith Aug. 3, 1861 

Geo. A. Williams Dec. 5, 1851 



N Wli;. HOHN. .MAUIUKI). DIKl). 

Ida K. Kcitli .Iiilv 11. ISfil Marcli 21, 1X77 

Maiv K. Willianis. . .lulv M), 1 S7s Aue. 7, 1878 

C;«.). A. Wiiliii ns Jr. . . .lulv 3, 18,S() Dec. 10, 1882 

Jasepliine Willians . .Oct 23, 18S2 Jan. 30, 1887 

KMt!i S. WUlan-i . .Saot. 23, IS-ii 

Alf>)r(l Willliam.s . .t)ct. 15, 1SS6. . 

Flora Williams . Jan. 21, ISXd 

Laura B. W illiaiu- . .Sept. 26, 1, SOI 

Marv E. William.'^ . Oct. 28, ISOo 

Sunitpr Keith . . Mav 4, 1870 

Flora Keed . . . Sept. 13, 1876. . . . July 1 1 . 1896 

Tlioma.s ( )tis Kvaiis Sept. 19, 186.5 

Lula M. lliiihtower March 11, 1870. . Feb. 6. 1887 

Samuel Evans. . . . . Dec. 2, 1887 

Daniel H. Evans Sept. 8, 1888 Apr. 22, 1889 

Marv E. Evans Feb. 16, 1890 Apr. 28, 1891 

Bervl Evaas Oct. 7, 1892 

Jacob S. C. Evans Nov. 29, 1894 

Jesse C. p:vans Apr. 20, 1897 

Ruth Evans Nov. 24, 1899 

Amelia V. McGaffev Nov. 15, 1848 Sept. 1, 1862 

Cha.s. Xeal McOaffev 1st June 20, 1851 .\us. 1852 

Chas Xeal McGaffev 2nd Dec. 26, 18.53 . . . .June 30, 1875 

Otis McGaffev Jr..! Aujj. 5, 1858 Sept. 1, 1881 

Chas. Xeal McGaffey Dec. 26, 18.53 

Anna Bell Blaufort Dec. 9, 1856 Jmie 30, 1875 

Melville ( ). McGaffev Aug. 17, 1876 

Alfred B. McGaffev" Sept. 1. 1878 

Annie Bell ". . . . Mav 12, 1881 

Ella B. McGaffev . June 30, 1884 

Chas. X. McGaffev Jr May 4, 1886 

Mav McC McGaffev May 9, 1891 

Otis McGaffev Jr. ." Aug. 5, 1858 

Laura Jane Boone Dec. 19, 1864 Sept. 1, 1881 

Annie Laura McGaffey Aug. 20, 1882 

Delia Prir.ce McGaffev Feb. 9, 1884 

Sadie Evans McGaffev Dec. 18, 1885 

Mav Boone ." Oct. 7, 1887 

Lillie ( )tis McGaffev Dec. 2. 1889 

Lizzie Keller McGaffev July 12, 1891 

W. (). Mellican . . Xov. 2, 1866 

Lizzie Evans Feb. 16, 1869 July 1, 1891 

Marv E. Millican July 1, 1892 ' July 1, 1892 

Paulines. Mullican Jan. 23, 1894 " 

William O. .Mullican Jr Sept. 23, 1896 

Willie Evans Feb. 16. 1873 

Louisa A. Lamb Aug. 27, 1874. . . .Oct. I'J, 15)91 

Robert E. Evans Aug. 20, 1892 

Hazel E. Evans Oct. 12. 1894 Sept. 17, 1895 

David E. Evans Aug. 31, 1898 

W. E. Baker 

Xancv Evans Jan. 30. 1875 Dec. 28, 1898 

J. E. Pal'u.T .laii. J'.t. 1.S.32 June 2, 1887 

Marv Helen .McGaffev July 1, l.S(i9 

Alice Wvatt Palmer." Sept. 4. 1894 

Claude Blanche Palmer Jan. 27. 1897 

R. J. Pa.stons March 22, 1863 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



33 



NAME. 



BORN. 



MARRIED. 



DIED. 



Nancy C. Hale Nov. 22, 1860. . . .Nov. 21, 1882 

Richard H. Parsons Dec. 21, 1885 

Willie Hale Parsons Nov. 14, 1887 

Frances E. Parsons June 4, 1892 

Clara M. Parsons Nov. 14, 1894 

John Wyatt McGaffey Feb. 7, 1847 

Alice A. Garner Oct. 14, 1851 Aug. 29, 1867 

Mary Helen McGaffey July 1, 1869 June 2, 1887 

Chas. Otis McGaffey Jan. 3, 1872 Mar. 3, 1872 

Claude Wyatt McGafTey May 10, 1876 

Richard J". McGaffey May 7, 1897 

John Wyatt McGaffey Feb. 7, 1847 

Lizzie J. Cross Sept. 26, 1861 .... Dec. 10, 1895 



Josiah, son of Samuel McGaffey 
married Mary Bay den, daughter of 
Joseph Bayden who was the first 
physician to settle in Sandwich, 
N. H. Their children were: Sally, 
Wyatt, Joseph, Mary, John, Mary 
M., John, the first Mary and John 
died in infancy. Wyatt went to 
Ohio, thence to Texas and was 
drowned in crossing Taylor's Bayou 
near Sabine Pass in 1840; Joseph 
died in Cal, Sally married Elwell 
Pratt and died without issue in 
Ohio, John married Louisa A. Pratt 
of Ohio and is now living inChicago. 
He had four children, Wyatt, 
Ernest, Edith and Blanch, all are 
married, Wyatt has three children, 
Edith, two, Blanch one, Ernest had 
two who both died in infancy. 

Mary M. married Aaron Beede 
of Sandwich. Their children were 
Mollie, Lizzie, Sally, Aaron, Josiah, 
Amy, Neal, Lenora, Annie, Lenora, 
the first Lenora died in infancy, 
Josiah died in Minn., Mollie died in 
Sandwich, and left two children, 
Lizzie is a widow, has three chil- 
dren, Sally has four, Aaron three, 
Lenora two, Eli was married in Aug. 
1902, has no children, Annie died 
single. Amy and Blanche both 
single, their home is with their 
mother in Sandwich, N. H. 
John McGaffey son of Samuel, born 



in Sandwich, N. H.. May 28, 1787, 
died May 13, 1848. He married 

in N. H. Lucy and had two 

daughters, Lucy M. who died at 
16. He went to Ohio where his 
wife and daughter both died, he then 
went to Louisiana and there mar- 
ried Sarah Garner by whom he had 
seven children: Rachel born Nov. 
12, 1827; Lucillaljorn July 17, 
1829; Samuel H. born April 21,1832; 
Ann, born April 12, 1835; Neal 
born Dec. 3, 1837; Mary born Jan. 
24, 1840; Lydia born Dec. 7, 1842. 
Rachel and Lueilla both diedciuite 
voung. Samuel H. died at 14. 
Ann "died Nov. 28, 1835. Neal 
married Jane Burch in 1858, they 
had seven children (l)John W. 
born in 1860 is still single. (2)In- 
crease F. born in 1862 married and 
has five children, (3) Charles 
Neal, born 1864, married, has 
two children; (4) Mary Lillian 
born in 1868 is single; (5)Flavella 
married has five children; (6) Homer 
is single; (7) Cordelia born in 1874 
married died in 1891 leaving one 
child. Mary McGaffey married T. 
R. Jackson in 1856, their children 
were (1) Sarah born May 5, 1858; 
(2) Mary E. born May 12, 1860; 
(3) Ollie S. born May 15, 1862.(4) 
Fannie A. and (5) Florence A. 
born Sept. 16, 1864; (6) Neal born 



34 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



July 12, 1869: (7) Wm. H. born 
June 11, 1872; (8) Robert born 
Dec. 26, 1874, died March 1, 1875; 
(9)GeorgeL. born June 12,1876; (10) 
Cornelius R. born Sept. 15, 1878; 
(ll)Chas. H. born Aug. 31, 1881 
died Sept. 12, 1881. Sarah Jack- 



Jackson died in infancy. Wm. H. 
Jackson married and has two chil- 
dren. George L. Jackson married, 
has one child. Cornelius R. Jack- 
son married, has one child. T. R. 
Jackson, husband of Mary McGaffey 
died Nov. 20, 1898. Samuel Mc- 




Neal McGaffey. 



son married J. ^I. Regan, has seven 
children, Mary E. Jackson married 
E. D. Southett died in June ,1887, 
lea\'ing one child. Ollie S. Jack- 
son married Jane Sowell, has six 
children. Fannie A. Jackson mar- 
ried S. N. Adams, has six children. 
Florence A. Jackson married C. H. 
Arceneaux, has one child. Neal 



Gaffey Jr. married Amelia Drew 
of Earns worth, both died young 
with consumption leaving two little 
girls who were reared in their 
grandfather's family. Neal, son of 
Samuel McGaffey married Hannah 
McNeil. They went to Circleville, 
Ohio. Thev had one son, Otis 
born at Circleville Aug. 30, 1820. 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



35 



In 1822 they moved to Fort Ball, 
North Ohio, where another son, 
Oliver was born in 1825. In 1829 
they moved to Michigan, her pa- 
rents going with them and in 1831 
her father died. In July 1832 
their daughter, JuHa M. was born. 



reaching Sabine Pass Dec. 25, 
1839, where they found Neal's 
brother John and family and Wyatt 
McGaffey. John left New Hampshire 
and was on the Texas border in 1824, 
and located at Sabine Pass in 1832. 
Wyatt McGaffey was drowned in 




Otis McGaffey. 



In 1829 while in Ohio his father and 
Stephen Fellows who married his 
sister Peggy, visited them. While 
in Michigan they had with them 
Mary and Lydia Fellows both 
married, also Michael Fellows and 
Wyatt McGaffey who taught school 
there. In the fall of 1839 Neal and 
his son Otis started for Texas, 



crossing Taylor's Bayou near Sa- 
bine Pass in the summer of 1840. 
Neal and his son Otis in 1840 went 
north about two hundred miles 
and decided to locate in East 
Texas, and he went back to Micli- 
igan for his family, and in the fall 
returned, and two other families 
with him and located in Jasper 



36 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



County, Texas. In 1845 he moved 
to Sabine Pass where he died in 
1867, his wife died in 1862. His 
brother John died in 1848 leaving 
two children. Neal born 1838, ^larv 
born 1840. In April 1841 Oti's 
went back to Michigan and May 18, 



Sarah Emily, married Capt. Samuel 
Evans of Fort Worth, died at 
Luling in 1888; 3d, Delia Francis, 
married R. J. Parsons in 1862. 
he died at Sabine Pass same year 
and in 1865 she married T. P. Harris 
who died at Luling 1813. his wife 




Mrs. Oti.s McGaffey, 



married Mary Jane McCollister who 
was born in Troy, X.Y.. in 1822. her 
parents moving to Circleville in 
1824. She and Otis were schoolmates 
in Circleville. In August 1842 they 
returned to Texas, their children 
were 1st, Mary Jane, born in Michigan 
May 11, 1842, married K. D. Keith 
now living at Luling, Texas; 2nd 



died in 1892; 4th, John Wyatt 
married Alice Garner who died in 
1895. he then married Lizzie Cross 
from whom he was divorced a little 
later on. In 1902 he married Mrs. 
]\Iollie Hall and they are now living 
at Luling. 5th, Amelia, who died at 
Sabine Pass in 1862 at the age of 
15. 6th. Charles Neal born in 1851 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



37 



and died at Sabine Pass in 1852; 
7th, Charles Neal bom Dec. 26, 
1853 and named for the brother 
who died in 1852. He was born 
at Sabine Pass where he hved for 
23 years, moved to Luling in 1876 
and from there to Dallas in 1899. 



Chas. N.'s wife was born in 
Baltimore, Md. Dec. 9, 1856, they 
were married at Galveston, Texas., 
Melville 0. eldest child of Chas. N. 
McGaffey married Alice Cochran 
at Luling in 1898, now living there. 
Alfred B. married S. K. Houston 




Charles N. McGaffey. 



He married Annie Bell Beaufort 
of Baltimore, Md., June 30, 1875, 
their children are, Melville Otis 
born Aug. 17, 1876; Alfred Bird 
born Sept. 1, 1878; Annie Bell born 
May 9, 1881; Lilla Beaufort born 
Jan. 30, 1884; Chas. Neal, Jr.,born 
May 4, 1886; May McCollister born 
May 12, 1891. 



1899, lives at Luling. Annie B. 
unmarried, lives with her parents 
at Dallas. Lilla B. married Dr. 
R. D. Lindley of Dallas. Chas. 
Neal Jr. living with his parents at 
Dallas, May McCollister lives at 
home. Alfred B. has two children 
Annie B. born May 13, 1901 and a 
baby boy born Jan. 15, 1904, not 



38 



MrCAFFJ-:)- CIIMIMJHIY 



named at this writiii<i. Lilla H. 
and Dr. Lindley have one child, 
RedalUuin Lindley born June 13, 
1903. Chas. N. Senior is state 
deputy for the modern Order of the 
"Praetorians, "a society for fraternal 
life and accident insurance. The 
ancient Praetorians were picked 
soldiery from the Roman army, 
who attained great distinction and 
immense power, and eventually, 
practically controlled the Empire. 
Their loyalty and charity to each 
other, their reverence for the sanc- 
tity of home, their respect for the 
tenents and usages and dignity 
of state are world renowned and 
admired. 

Mary Jane, eldest child of Otis 
Mcfiaffey was born at White Pigeon. 
.Mich., Mav 11, 1842, and mar- 
ried K. D.' Keith, Dec. 3, 1857 at 
Sabine Pass, Texas. Their children 
were, Wilbur D. born Dec. 22, 
1858 at Sabine Pass; Ida E. born 
July 11, 1861 at Sabine Pass; 
Amelia born Aug. 21, 1863 at Sabine 
Pass; Edgar born April 18, 1865 at 
Sabine Pass; Edna born Oct. 20, 
1867 at Sabine Pass; Sumpter born 
May 4, 1870 at Sabine Pass; Marri- 
anna born Nov. 14. 1874 at Luling. 
Te.xas; Delia F. born Aug. 1. 1877 
at Luling; Alabama B. born April 
4, 1880 at San Antonio, Texas, 
Amelia died Aug. 21, 1863 at Sabine 
Pass. Edgar died Jan. 21. 1866 
at Sabine Pass, Edna died Jan. 
23, 1872 at Galveston. Texas: 
Wilbur D. married Alice Loris 
Sept. 1, 1882 at Harwood, Texas, 
their children were: Ida born Aug. 
13, 1883: Hazel born Sept. 29, 1884; 
Mamie born Oct. 6, 1886. Ida E. 
Keith married G. A. Williams at 
Luling. Texas. March 21, 1877. 
Sumpter married Mora Reed at 



Luling, July 8, 1896. Marianna 
married T. W. Glasgow at Luling, 
Dec. 14, 1898. Alabama B. mar- 
ried J. E. Schlottman at Luling. 
Dec. 6, 1900. Delia V. married 0. 
H. Stair at Luling Jan. 27, 1904. 
Ida E. Keith had ten children, 
Marv Jane born Julv 30, 1878; 
George A. born Julv 3, 1880; Joe 
born Oct, 23, 1882; Keith S. born 
Sept. 23, 1884; Alfred born Oct. 
15, 1886; Flora born Jan. 21, 1889; 
Laura B. born Sept. 28, 1892; 
Mary born Oct. 28, 1895; and two 
infants not named at this writing. 
Marv Jane died Aug. 7, 1878; Geo. 
A. died Dec. 10, 1882; Joe died 
Jan. 20, 1887. 

Oliver, second son of Neal Mc- 
Gaffey, born in Ohio, went to Texas 
in 1840 and married Cornelia Brown- 
ing in 1847. He died in 1851 leaving 
one daughter, Julia, who married 
Felix Vaughn. His widow married 
a Hopkins, and after his death 
married a Trimble, resides at San 
Antonio, Texas. Julia Maria, only 
flaughter of Meal McCiaffey married 
a Burch, has formally lived at 
Beaumont, Texas, but cannot trace 
her. *Rachel, daughter of Samuel 
McCiaffey married Stephen Fellows, 
Jr., antl had five children: Hannah 
born Oct. 12, 1824, died Feb. 26, 
1890; George born Feb. 22. 1826, 
died Mav 15, 1900; Albion born 
Sept 16,^1827, died March 5, 1865; 
Stephen N. born May 30, 1830, 
living in Iowa City. Iowa: Mary L. 
born Feb. 26, 1838, living in Iowa 
City, Iowa. *Rachers history later. 

Eliphalet McGaflfey, son of Saml. 
was born in Sandwich, N. H., Apr. 
18, 1800, died June 2, 1881. He 
married March 13, 1823, Apphia 
Chase of Sandwich, who was born 
Apr. 14. 1798. died .Inly 22, 1883. 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



39 



Both of them were born, Hved and 
died in New Hampshire. Their 
children were Peggv, born Dec. 26, 
1825, died July 22, 1853; Emily 
born Dec. 17, 'l826 died Aug. 28, 
1869; Wm. born June 24, 1828. died 
Oct. 13, 1881; Fideha born Ang. 25, 
1830 died March 2, 1871; Samuel 
born Jan. 16, 1833, still living at 
Villisca, Iowa. Wm. McGaffey born 
in Sandwich June 24, 1828, re- 



and Ancil T. William D. McGaffey 
born Aug. 24, 1863, remained at 
home until the summer of 1881 
which he spent in Lynn, Mass., but 
on the death of his father, Oct. 31, 
1881, he returned to assist in the 
management of the farm and in 
1885 was married to Albina Kentner 
of Glenville, Neb., and in the fall 
of 1886 they moved to Glenville 
where he now resides. Three chil- 




Residence of Samuel A. McGaffey. 



mained at home until the fall of 
1854 then went to Ohio and taught 
school through the winter. In the 
spring of 1855 he visited Illinois 
but soon returned to Sandwich 
and May 31, 1862, married Mar- 
garetta F. Davis of Sandwich, and 
in Feb. 1863 he again went west 
and purchased a farm in Palmyra, 
Lee County, 111., on which he re- 
sided until his death Oct. 31, 1881. 
Three children were born to them 
on this farm, Wm. D., Samuel A. 



dren were born to them, Arthur, 
Ethel and Frances. 

Samuel A. McGaffey, born in 
Palmyra, 111., Dec. 10, 1866, grew 
to manhood on his father's farm 
and Feb. 18, 1891 married Ida E. 
Burger of Palmyra and now owns 
and occupies a large finely improved 
farm adjoining the old homestead 
but lying just across the county 
line in Ogle county, where he is 
extensively engaged in farming and 
dairying. They have one child, 



40 



MrCMl'EY (iENEALOGY 



Clara Elizal^oth Inmi Fol). 20. ISOO. 
Ancil T. McCaffev born in Pal- 
myra, 111.. Sept. 21,' 1875 lived at 
home until liis mother's death in 
1890. The tollowin.ir two years 
were sjient with his brother Win. 
D. in Glenville. Neb. Then he re- 



farniinir and dairying; one half mile 
from the city of Dixon where he 
will extend a ready welcome to 
relatives and visitors. Peggy Mc- 
(Jaffey, daughter of Eliphalet mar- 
ried James E. Hemic. Emily mar- 
ried Jonathan Morrison, Fidelia 




Louisa Locke McGaffey. 



turned and entered the high school 
at Dixon, 111., from which he grad- 
uated and entered the State Uni- 
versity at Champaign where he 
completed his education. He was 
married Feb. 22. 1899, to Lulu .M. 
Hutton. Three children have l)eeu 
born to them, Margaretta, Earnest 
and Eudora. He is engaged in 



married O. P. Fowler, Samuel 
marri(>d Nancy Quimby, but the 
writer has no record of their fam- 
ilies. 

.John Mcdaffey Jr. born in Sand- 
wich. N. H., Nov. 21, 1761, married 
Belle Tripp. Their children were 
William. Richard, Samuel, Polly 
and Nancy. Wm. McGaffey born 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



41 



in Sandwich Nov. 21, 1789 died at 
Cassville.P. Q., Sept. 12, 1855, mar- 
ried Mary Quimby, born Aug. 1899 
died June 5, 1881 aged 81 years, 10 
months, buried at Cassville. P. Q. 
Their children were: Louisa Locke 
born June 14, 1818, died April 18, 
1894; Marietta, Sarah, Florinda, 




Ida a. J1\con. 

Betsy, Clarissa, Coffin, Alvin, Adel- 
bert, Margaret, Colburn and Com- 
fort. Louisa Locke McGaffey mar- 
ried Danl. S. Bacon, born at Ayer's 
Flat May 22, 1811 died at Bard- 
ford, P. Q., Oct. 4, 1889. Their 
children were: Mary R. born July 
10, 1840; Eli S. born Feb. 11, 1842; 
Wm. A. born Dec. 15, 1843; Helen 
Rosalie born March 17, 1845; Anna 
Tyler born March 22, 1847; Mari- 
etta J. born Oct. 11, 1849; Sarah 
J. born May 12, 1851; Susan M. 
born March 2, 1853; Ida A. born 
March 12, 1857; Carrie C. born Feb. 



17, 1860; Rosa E. born March 18, 
1863. Mary R. Bacon married 
Hiram Howe Nov. 13, 1866, they 
reside in Barnston. P. Q. Mr. 
Howe has been Secretary and 
Treasurer of Branston since 1868. 
Their children were: Minnie A, 
born Nov. 27, 1867; W. F. Howe 
born April 18, 1875; Helen Grace 
born Feb. 14, 1884 died March 6, 
1884. Minnie A. Howe married 
Elmer J. Andrews Nov. 13, 1891 
and died July 31, 1893, had one 
daughter Georgia R. Andrews who 




W. F. Howe. 

died in June 1893. W. F. Howe 
son of Hiram Howe, lives in Bran- 
ston, P. Q., is not married. Eli S. 
Bacon married and lives in Coati- 
cooke, P. Q., has one son, two 
daughters. Have no record of Wm. 
A. Helen Rosalie Bacon married 
three times, at present is the wife 



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McGA FFKY CENEA LOCY 



of Carlos Cox of Massa\vip|)i. P. Q. 
Her first husl)aii(l was Xoniian C. 
Buckland of Harfonl. 1'. (^. had 
two (laughters, Jennie Celia and 
Nettie. Jennie Celia Buckland. 
born in Harford Jan, 17. 1S66. 
married Rev. Frank Gardner horn 



Louisa May born in Waterloo, N.Y., 
Jan. 28. 18X8; Harold Adino born 
in Elizabeth. X. J.. Sept. 18, 1892; 
Irma Cecelia born in Eatontown 
X. J. Aujr. 27. 1894. all interesting. 
l)rigiit looking children. Richard 
McGaffev married a Wvman had 




Mrs. 1'haxk (Jakdxkk. 



in New York City April 16, 1856. 
He is an eminent clergyman of the 
Methodist t^piscopal Church, has 
had pastorates in Waterloo. X. V.. 
Elizabeth an 1 Eatontown. X. .).. 
and at present resides at Sunbury. 
Pa. Four chiklren have been born 
to them: Xorman Buckland born 
in Coaticook, P. Q., Mar. 27, 1886; 



two children, son and daughter, 
Samuel McGaffev have no record of. 
Polly McGafTey married a Messer. 
Xancy McGaffev married a Morill. 
had two children. Adelbert and 
Harriett, lived at Griffith's Corner, 
P. C^. Marietta McGaffey married 
(iearge Jonos. 1st husband no chil- 
dren, 2d husbanil Reulien Heath 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



43 



who died in Hatley, P. C^. Sarah 
McGaffey married All)a Wyman 
had six children: Joseph A., Viola. 
Ivus, Clarence, Timothy and Fred, 
Florinda McGaffey married Orange 
Bartlett, had five children, Charles, 
Effie, Fred, Willie and Etta 



lives in Chicago. Etta married 
and lives at Beebe Plain, Vt. Wil- 
fred, married lives in Boston. Bet- 
sey McGaffey died young. Clarissa 
married Chester Locke, lives in 
Turner. Mo., has one son married, 
and lives in Australia, and one 




Alvin McGaffey. 



Joseph A. Wyman lives in Portland. 
Me. Ivus in Barnston. P. Q., 
Viola in Greensboro, Vt., Timothy 
in Burke, Vt., Clarence in Massa- 
chusetts, Fred in California. Chas. 
Bartlett, son of Florinda McGaffey, 
married and lives in Somerville, 
Mass. Effie Bartlett married, lives 
in Roxbury, Mass. Alfred married 



daughter marrietl lives in Turner, 
Me. Coffin Q. McGaffey married 
Sarah Tilton, had three children. 
Flora, who died, Nellie married 
and lives at Mechanics Falls. Me., 
has nine children. William Mc- 
Gaffey married lives at Cumberland 
Mills, Me., had two sons, Coburn 
who was accidentlv killed at 10, 



44 



Mr(;.\FFi:y (;i:.\i:.\/j>(;y 



ftC^' 



ami A(l''lt)(rt who (lie*! yMuitr. 

Alvin McCiaffey, son of William 
married Abbie M. Cass. Tlicv had 
four cliildnMi: Idclla \'. born July 
4. 18")S is not niarri('(l lives in 



was born Sept. l(j, l^^o, married 
Kllen E. Edwards in 1884 a lady 
who is descended frf)m an old 
jjurlish family of hifih rank and 
wealth. Thev have one son, Har- 



Boston; Lillian A. born .May 29, old E. born .May 11, 1885. Mr. 
1860. married W'ilbiu' C. >-oyes MeGaffey is a traveling agent for 




Mrs. Al\ix .McG.vffky. 



Oct. 1(). bSS-l, ttic\- have two chil- 
dren Raljih W. born Feb. 18, 1886; 
Alvin i\ born Oct. 31, 1887. they 
live in ik-thlehem, N. H., where 
Mrs. Noyes died March 29, 1904. 
Jennie E. daughter of .\l\-iii and 
Abbie McGaffev was boin .Mai\ 
16. 1863 and (lied .Ian. 20, 1872. 
I'^incr \]. McGaffev son of .Vhin 



the \\'oi-c(-ster Salt Gomj)any, they 
reside at Lisbon, N. H. 

.\lvin ^h'Gaffey was a man of 
st(>rliiig integrity and sturdy char- 
acter, he was for several years a 
Dc^puty Sheriff at Beebe Plain. Vt. 
antl a terror to evil doers, he tlied 
at Bethlehem, X. H., and Mrs. 
McCiaffev lives with her son Elmer 









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McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



45 



at Lisbon N. H. 

Jane McGaffey daughter of John 
and Jane McClary McGaffey, was 
born in Sandwich, N. H., Nov. 8, 
1763 and died there in 1853. She 
married Maj. Stephen Ethridge, 
son of Nathaniel Ethridge of 
Sandwich, he died in 1834. They 
had fourteen children nine of whom 
lived to maturity, there were, (1) 
Dolly, (2) Nathaniel, (3) David, 
(4) Jane, (5) Stephen, (6)Samuel, 



Nathaniel Ethridge married Nancy 
Kiml)all of Sandwich had six chil- 
dren: Andrew. Nancy, Mary, Jane, 
Harriet, Martin, and John. Mary 
Jane married a Dodge of Beverly, 
Mass., Harriet married 1st, Wm. 
Dodge of Beverly and 2nd, Ezra 
Batchelder of Beverly. Martin and 
John were lost at sea. Nathaniel 
married a 2d wife and had one son, 
Stephen, he afterward moved to 
Maine and died there. David Eth- 




WlLBUR C. NOYES AND FAMILY. 



(7) James, (8) Lewis, (9) Andrew, 
(lO)Stephen, (11) Betsey, (12) Asa 
C. and two who probably died in 
infancy without being named. 
Dolly Ethridge married Jeremiah 
Smith of Sandwdck had seven chil- 
dren, (1) Ruth married Wm. Dins- 
more, (2) John married Harriet 

(3) James, married Lydia Skinner, 

(4) Eliza, married Lyman Webster, 

(5) Lewis, married a Dinsmore, (6) 
Jeremiah married Ruby Skinner, 
(7) no record. 



ridge marrried Polly Watson had 
three children, 1, Lewis Burleigh, 
who occupies the old farm married 
Mary Goodwin, (2), Sarah married 
Joseph Hanson, (3) Stephen married 
Nancy Wallace. Mrs. Sarah Eth- 
ridge Hanson has a daughter Mrs. 
John Sanborn who lives in Somer- 
ville, Mass. Jane Ethridge married 
Samuel Kimball of Sandwich but 
lived only a short time after mar- 
riage, she hatl been an invalid for 
a long time and her physicians 



46 



Mc(JAFFJ::y (JK.XEALO'jY 



pronounced her incurable, but Mr. 
Kimball to whom she had been 
long engaged in.sisted on their 
marriage. Stephen P^thridge, Jr., 
died quite young. Samuel Eth- 
ridge. son of Maj. Stephen married 
Lvdia Cook, daughter of Joel Cook 



Tougaloo. Mi.'^s., Jul\' 11. Is72. 
Hannah Ethridge married Thos. 
H. Beetle of Sanchnch. They had 
three sons: Samuel E. born Nov. 
9. 1844: Chas. A. born Aug. 23, 
1S4S: Herman H. born Dec. 29, 
1857, all born in Sandwich, N. H. 




Elmer E. McGaffey. 



of Sandwich. They had nine chil- 
dren, six girls and three boys, Eliza 
Jane. Hannah, Crace, Cordelia, 
Maria, Albert. Josiah, Lytlia and 
Samuel Stephen. 

Eliza Jane who never married 
served as a teacher for the American 
Missionary Association for several 
vears and died verv suddenlv at 



Samuel E. Beede is a teacher by 
profession, is married and has had 
three children, two of whom are 
living, Charles A. and Herman H. 
Carry on a general farming and stock 
raising business on the farm that 
their father settled on in 1865 in 
Cad wick, 111., they also do an exten- 
sive business in raising and shipping 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



47 



pop corn, their business card is 
"Beede Bros. Choice Rice Pop 
Corn, Cured Without the Aid of 
Rats and Mice. " Chas. A. re- 
ceived his education in the district 
schools and at his uncle's Academy 
in Sandwdck, was married April 



uel married James W. Bean of 
Sandwich, a Methodist clergyman 
who at one time was a member 
of the N. H. Conference, he cUed 
at Lanark, Illinois. Cordelia and 
Maria both died in Sandwich un- 
married. Samuel S. Ethridge mar- 




Mrs. Elmer E. McGaffey. 



7, 1884 to Viena G. Mackay, they 
have no children. Herman H. 
Beede has never married, Thos. 

Sandwich 
Chad wick 
Ethridge 
27, 1822, 
22, 1893. 



never 

H, Beede was born in 
Jan. 17, 1819, died in 
8, 1887. Hannah 
in Sandwich Oct. 
in Chadwick Mav 



Jan. 

born 

died 

Grace Ethridge daughter of Sam- 



ried Mattie LeBoquet, and had 
two sons, Henry who died in in- 
fancy and Chas. A. who is a banker 
in Des Moines, Iowa. Josiah Eth- 
ridge died when three years old. 
Rev. Albert Ethridge married 
for his first wife Marcia A. Forrest of 
Northfield, N. H., daughter of John 
E. and Marcia Eastman Forrest. 



48 



Mr(;.\ FFKY aicxi:. \ Loav 



Tlu'y li.'ul llir-"(' (lautflitci's. one of 
them ilicil in infniicy. (Uic at 17. 
and the eldest, JvCiiora \\. at ?A. 
She married Dr. C. A. Weirick.Prof. 
ill ('hicag;o Homeo])athif' C'ollejiC. 
He was also a i)raetitioiier in Chicago 
Mrs. Weirick ](>ft two cliildreii. 



June 1S7"). Arzella M. Lovejoy, 
daughter of !•>. 1». Lovejoy of 
Ottawa. 111., who has proved to be 
an almost j^erfect companion, and 
hel])er to him in his ministerial 
work. They have one son. Albert 
Samuel wlio is a book-keeper and 




Harold E.. son of Elmer \\. McGaffey, 



a son and a daughter. The son. 
Dr. Albert .1. Weirick is a practic- 
ing ))hysician at Kem))ton, 111., the 
daughter Mabel Iv Weirick has 
been travelling for several years and 
at present is at Longmont near 
Denver, Colorado. 

After the death of his first wife. 
Rev. Albert Ethridge married in 



office helper in Chicago. For about 
one half of his active life Mr. Va\\- 
ridge has been in educational 
work. 1st. in his native town, and 
2nd at Dover Academy, Dover 111., 
3d. as Principal of Schools at 
Princeton, 111., 4th. County Supt of 
schools in Bureau County 111, oth. 
in Chicago, l)ut his preferable and 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



49 



most gratifying work has been in 
the Christian Ministry in which he 
is still engaged. Both Albert and 
Samuel Ethridge have degrees 
from Wesle>an University, Middle- 
town, Conn. Samuel is a lawyer 
and Albert is a 
Minister, ordained 
had pastorates at 
Norman 111., and 
1896 at Marseilles, 111., where he 
now resides. He retired from regu- 
lar pastorial work in 1896. Have 
not the history of James and Lewis 
Ethridge. Andrew died at 17. 



Congregational 
in 1857. Has 
Deer Park, III., 

from 1874 to 




Jane McGaffey. 

Betsey C, married George Page of 
Sandwich, had two children, Geo. 
H. and Louisa. 

NfAsa C. and Betsy C. were twins, 
the youngest of this typical family 
of pioneer days. Asa C. was born 
at Sandwich' Aug. 9, 1803, his 
early life was that of the hardy 
farm boy of his day, his education 
was that given in the famous 



"httle red school house" of the 
early days and possessing a splendid 
phyisicjue inherited from his sturdy 
ancestors, he laid the foundation, 
physical and mental for a long and 
useful career. March 20, 1827 he 
was married at Sandwich, to 
Asenath R. S. George of Sutton, 




Capt. Asa C. Ethridge. 

Vt., a young lady of splendid 
attainments and noble familv, she 
was born Feb. 24, 1803^ For 
several years they lived at Sand- 
wich, then in 1833 moved to Sutton, 
Vt. They had six children, two of 
whom were born in Sandwich. 
Mary J. who married Giles E. 
Humphrey, and Hiram L. While 
living in Sutton two more children 
were born, Susan E. who married 
Benjamin F. Sanborn, of Brighton, 
Mass. and Ellen A. who married 
Milo Jenkins of Kirl)y. \\. When 
Capt. Ethridge located in Sutton 
he settled on a farm on "South 



50 



Mr(;.\FFi:y <ii-:\KAij)(;Y 



Ki(l<2;e" so cuIUmI. He served his Liout. of Infantry, ami Aii^'. 14, 
town in various offices and was a 1S32, (lov. Sanuicl Dinsniore corn- 
man of sound jud.uincnt. firnnioss. missioned him "Ca])tain of tlic 7th 
and absohilc intciiriiy. In is^O Co. of Infantry in the 19th Regt. " 
he purchased a farnr at liurke For thirty-five years he was a de- 
Hollow, and later accjuired tiie old voted member of the Methodist 
grist mill, now used as ihe I'urke church. The maternal great grand- 




Rev. Albert Ethkidgk. 



%thridge 



Creamery. In ls72 .Mis 
died and Capt. l^thridge sold his 
pro])erty and went to live with his 
daughter, Luella i{. at I'lighton. 
where he die(l Dec. Ki, 1S7(J. 
While a resident of Sandwich, 
Asa C. I'vthridge was a leading and 
public spirite(l citizen and took a 
deep interest in all public matters. 
Tn bs.31 he was commissinned a 



fatliei- of Mrs. Mt bridge. Jethro 
Sanborn. accor( hug to the rolls 
in the bui-eau of ]iensions at Wash- 
ington, "cnlistetl in 1755 as a pri- 
vate in Capt. Jacob Webster's 
Comi)any to serve his majesty 
King (Jeorge II. in a Regt. raised 
for an expedition to Crown Point." 
Jethro Sanborn, 2d grandfather of 
Mrs. luliiidge, served as a soldier 



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o 



n 

 



52 



Mr(i. 1 /••/•7-; Yd i:.\ /•;. i log y 



of the Revolution. I'd). 22, 177G 
he was ]):ii(l foi- 2:! days service. 
This service was in one of th(^ com- 
panies of "Miiiulc Men" that went 
to \\'iii1cr Hill ill Dec. 1 77o. He 
aijaiii saw serN'icc duriiiii- 1776 as a 
private in Capt. John Calfe's Co. 
Col. P.artlett's Re<«;t. This enlist- 
ment must have l)een of short du- 
ration for Sept. 8, 1776 we find him 
in Capt. Ezra Currier's Co., Col. 
Abraham Drake's Regt.. to rein- 
force the continental army near 
Stillwater, " Tiiis service lasted 
three months and eight davs. He 




Mrs. Ellkx A. .Jenkins. 

was present at the historic surrender 
of Burgoyne. his service in the 
Revolution was from New Hamp- 
shire. After the close of the war 
he iiio\'e(l to \'crnioiit , and in 1S12 
again entere(l tlie army of his coun- 
try in the war of that year. He was 
born in 17oo. the year in which his 
father saw service in the army of 
King fJeorge II. 



Mary J. Kthridge, daughter of 
Capl. Asa C. manued (lih's K. 
Humj)hn'y of l>urke, \'t., and had 
one child, luiiily (). who nuirried 
Cyrus Bruce of liurke for her 1st 
husband and had one child Ethel 
M. who graduated from the State 
Normal School at Randoljjh and 




Mrs. Nellie Jenkins Jeffrey. 

who now is a higlily successful and 
uni\(M-sally esteemcMl teacher in the 
East Burke i)rimarv scliool. Emily 
A. marrietl foi' her second hvisbanil 
Densmore W. (iorham, a successful 
farmer in Kirby. \'t. Two sons. 
Warren and Howard 1). uei-e born 
to them. Warred died in infancy 
and Howard 1). resides on the home 
farm. Hiram Ethridge married 
Julia Tripp of Charleston. \'t., had 
no children. Susan E. Ethridge 
mnrrie(l B. I-'ranklin Sanborn of 
Brighton. Ma.ss. liad one sou. Harry. 
Ellen A. I'lthridge born in Sutton 
Mar. 22. 1888 married Milo Jenkins 
of Kirbv March "). 18(5."), and had 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



53 



one child, Nellie Amelia, born June 
29, 1869, who attended the public 
schools of Kirby and graduated 
from the Lyndon Commercial Col- 
lege and Lyndon Institute in 189L 
Taught school in Kirby, Burke, 
Newark and Lyndon, June 12, 
1891 she married William H. Jeffrey 
-a native of Maine, now a resident 
of Burke. Three children have 
been born to them, Marion Betsey, 
Milo Eleazer who died in infancy 
and J. Milo. Mr. Jeffrey is a 
writer of some note, and has devot- 
ed much of his time to travel, news- 
paper, magazine and book work, 
and recently published a volume of 
unusual merit and worth, devoted 
to the historical and biographical 
review of Caledonia, Essex and 
Orleans Counties, under the title 
of "Successful Vermonters. " Sa- 
rah L. Ethridge was educated 
in the village school in Burke with 
the addition of a few terms at 
Barnston Academy, taught in the 
public schools of Caledonia and 
Essex Counties for eight years 
previous to her marriage to Ezra 
Powers of West Burke, Feb. 3, 
1870, where she residetl luitil the 
death of her husband Oct. 27, 1888. 
One son was born to them, Frank 
Ezra, born Sept. 25, 1875. After 
the death of her husband she 
moved to Lyndon to give her son the 
educational advantages of attend- 
ing the school at Lyndon Institute, 
but his death occurring Jan. 31, 
1893 she resumed teaching, but at 
the end of two years was compelled 
to resign her ])()siti()n as teacher on 
account of trouble with her eyes, 
and she now resides with her sister 
Mrs. Jenkins near East Burke. 
Her son was a member of the Senior 
Class at the time of his death. 



-Luella R. Ethridge, youngest daugh- 
ter of Asa C. was born in Burke. 
Vt.. Jan. 24, 1845, was married in 
Burke to A. F. Pinney, May 1, 
1872, who died at Island" Pond,' Vt., 
May. 26, 1894. They had three 
children, Claribel A. born Apr. 15, 
1874; Frank Ravmond born Aug. 
27, 1877; Lilhan" B. born Nov. 29, 
1888. Clarabel, married Jan. 14, 
1900, George M. Smith of Lyndon- 
ville. Vt. They reside at St. 
Johnsl)ury, Vt., have no children. 
Frank Ravmond married Mary 
Packard at Lee, Mass., May 17, 
1900, they have one child, Harold 
F. born Oct. 7, 1901. Lillian B. 
Pinney lives with her sister, Mrs. 
Smith at St. J()hnsl)\ny. Frank 
Raymond Pinney resides at Lenox- 
dale, Mass. 

Lydia A. Ethridge, daughter of 
Samuel and grand daughter of 
Maj. Stei)heu Ethridge, born May 

11, 1836, was educated at Tilton 
Seminary, Tilton, N. H., and Hills- 
dale College, Mich., and married 
1st, Noah Franklin Cotton, Feb. 
22, 1857 (a son of John and Belinda 
Sinclair Cotton of Moultonboro, 
N. H.) who was born there Aug. 

12, 1835, graduate of New Ham])ton 
Institute, N. H., and Hillsdale 
College, Mich. Principal of Main- 
ville Academy, Ohio. At the out- 
break of the Civil War he enhsted 
in Co. "0" 17th Regt. Ohio Vols., 
in Oct. 1861, and died in Army 
Hospital at Lebanon, Ky., Vvh. 18, 
1862. By this marriage wer(> born 
two sons, 1st Edward Bvron, born 
Feb. 22, 1858, who died Apr. 5, 
1858; 2nd Frank Ethridge, born 
Sept. 27, 1861. Her second mar- 
riage was Mar. 30, 1864 to John 
Langdon Cotton (a biother of her 
1st husband) who was born in 



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Moiiltoiilioro. Oct. ;^1. 1.S83. He 
was for nuiiiy years in the slioe 
manufacturino; business in Stoneham 
Mass., but since 1883 has been en- 
gatjcd in farniin<rin Iowa. They had 
one son. Nornuui L. born July4.1SGG 
in Stoneham. Mass.. where he was 
educated in the pubhc schools. 
In July 1883. he went with his 
parents to Whittemore. Iowa. 
where for several years he worked 
on his father's farm summers and 
taught school winters. Then he 
was emjiloyed for several years 
a.s_ clerk and business manager ])\- 
a large lumlior. hardware, coal and 
live stock firm in Whittemore, and 
in 1899 became Cashier of the Lone 
Rock Bank at Lone Rock Iowa, 
which position he still occupies. 
Dec. 24. 1891 he married Marietta 
Cook of Burt. Iowa, she was a 
daughter of Russell and Rhoda 
Goodwin Cooke formed v of Sand- 
wich. X. H.. she died Dec. 20. 1892. 
and May 10. 1898 he married Jessie 
E. Angus at Burt. Iowa. She was 
born in Rochester. Minn., Dec. 25. 
1867 and was a daughter of George 
S. Angus, who was born in Perth. 
Scotland in 1840. They have three 
children: Langdon Angus born Mar. 
23. 1899 in' AVhittemore: Mal)el 
Eleanor born June 24. 1900 in Algo- 
na. Iowa and Jolm Willis born Jan. 
8, 1902 in Lone Rock, Iowa. Frank 
E. Cotton born in Stoneham. Mass., 
Sept. 22, 1861. was educated in 
Stoneham ])ul)lic schools and Am- 
herst College, wliere he graduated in 
1883. He taught school one winter 
in Illinois, then worked four years 
for a lum])er Co. in Kulelaine.Wis., 
and St. Louis, Mo., then four years 
with a contracting heating Co. in 
St. Louis and in April 1892 removed 
to Woburn, Mass.. to take a respon- 



siljle ])osition with a maufacturing 
firm where he remained until the 
dissolution of the firm in 1904, and 
is now employed in the office of the 
R. H. White Co's department store 
in Boston. Nov. 12, 1889, he mar- 
ried Anna Cordelia Putney, daugh- 
ter of Geo. Henr}' and Cordelia 
Tapley Putney of Stoneham. born 
at Dan vers. Mass.. Aug. 29. 1861. 
Their children are Edith Frances, 
born in St. Louis, Oct. 12. 1890. 
Rachel Ethridge born in Woburn. 
Mass. , Apr. 23. 1894. Mr. Cotton has 
been for five years a member of the 
school board of the city of Woburn 
and Mce President since its con- 
struction of the Lowell and Boston 
Street Railway Co. 

Andrew McGafTey. son of John, 
son of Xeal. was born in Epsom. 
X. H. Sept. 14. 1765. married 
Marv Cass. Their children were 
Daniel, born in Lvndon, \X., Jan. 
9, 1800: Andrew. Jr.. Xeal, Anson, 
Hannah and Mary Jane. Daniel 
married Mary Ripley born in 
Morristown. Vt. March 28. 1797. 
their children were Mary M. born 
in St. Johnsl)ury. \'t. Xov. 14. 1821; 
Jurial. born in Lyndon Feb. 26, 
1824: Alonzo. l)orn in St. Johnsbtiry 
Mav 20. 1826: Andrew, born in 
Hardwick. \'t.. .\pi. 17. 1828. 
Lydia, born in St. Jolmsbury Aug. 
26. 1830: Chas., born in St. Johns- 
bvny Aug. 6, 1832; Lois, born in 
St. Johnsbury June 20, 1835; 
Kmily, born in St. Johnsl)ury Xov. 
18, 1838: Addie, Ijorn in St. Johns- 
bury, July 11. 1843. 

Mary M. married Leonard Howard 
of St. Johnsbury. their children 
were Alma, Alfonl. Mary K.. Henry, 
Carrie and Bertha. Alma married 
Geo. Atistin. had two children 
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55 



no record, Mary E. married twice, 
1st husband, Isaac Switser, 2nd, 
Smith, has one daughter, Grace 
Switzer. Henry have no record, 
Carrie married Stilhnan Kent of 
St. Johnsbury, has two children, 
Florence and Grace. Alonzo Mc- 
Gaffey was a soldier in the Civil 
War, died at Ship Island Mav 17, 
1862; Jurial died Aug. 29, 1870; 
Lois married Edward Hublmrd, 
died Dec. 29, 1879; Andrew mar- 
ried Lovina P. Spaulding July 27, 
1853, they reside in Burlington, 
Vt., their children were: Frank B. 
born Sept. 20, 1855 died Jan. 9, 
1856; Ed. Ozias, born Mar. 6, 1858; 
Caroline L. born Apr. 7, 1860, died 
Feb. 12, 1864; Mary M. born Mar. 
18, 1862, died Jan! 10, 1865; Ella 
L. born Oct. 8, 1864, married 
Walter L. Hodges of Burlington, 
Apr. 2, 1885. Their children are 
Bernard A. born Mar. 26, 1887 
Ethel M. born Mar. 25, 1889 
Lillian C. born March 25, 1894, 
They reside in Burlington. Fred 
R. 6th child of Andrew McGaffey 
born Sept. 3, 1867 died March 24, 
1870; Chas. G. born Oct. 28, 1869 
married Lillian S. Bromley Sept. 
26, 1893, reside at Burlington, have 
one son, Robert B. born June 30, 
1897. 

Ed. Ozias, son of Andrew Mc- 
Gaffey, was born in Dixon, 111., Mar. 
6, 1858 and when about six years 
old his parents moved l)ack to Ver- 
mont. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools at Burlington and at the 
age of 22 was employed by his uncle, 
O. D. Mathews, who was in the 
hardware business in Stowe, Vt. 
At the age of 24 went west and was 
employed by Saw^yer & Thing 
hardware dealers in Stillwater, Minn, 
was with them one year then went to 



St. Paul. Minn., and worked the 
city trade two years for Drew & 
Bias, wholesale hardware dealers, 
then was employed as traveling 
salesman by Adam Decker & Co. 
wholesale hardware. Traveled in 
Minnesota, Dakota and Wisconsin 
for 9 years, then left the road in 1894 
and went to Buffalo, Minn., where 
he has since been engaged in the 
retail hardware business. He mar- 
ried, Dec. 28, 1887, Sophia M. Miller 
and they have one child, Edward 
Chas. born in St. Paul, Apr. 8, 1894. 
Andrew McGaffey, Jr., born in 
1797, married Flarinda Morse of 
Danville, Vt., Jan. 10, 1807. He 
died in 1877 and she died Aug. 1, 
1888. Their children were Jane, 
who married Frank Adams of 
Danville, where she now resides, 
Augusta married Israel Kelsey and 
went to Arkansas, where a daughter 
was born. About five years before 
the Civil War commenced they 
moved to Mississippi intending to 
get back to Vermont as soon as 
Mrs. Kelsey 's health, would permit 
travelling, but they were detained 
by ill health, another child was 
born and both mother and child 
died. Mr. Kelsey and his little 
girl were afterward stricken with 
the fever and both died. It was 
six months after their death that 
the news first reached their friends 
in Vermont and then it came by way 
of a flag of truce. Clara, youngest 
daughter of Andrew McGaffey, mar- 
ried Albert W. Simpson of Lowell, 
Mass., in 1861. They now reside 
at White River Junction, Vt. He 
is mail agent on the B. & M. R. R. 
from Newport, Vt., to Springfield, 
Mass. Their children are George, 
born in Lowell, Mass., in 1863, mar- 
ried Grace Floyd of Los Angeles, 



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McGA Fh'EY CKSKMJXiY 



C"al. Tlu'v reside in ("alit'oniia. 
Artliui'. Iiiiiii ill Hri<ilit<in, Mass., in 
1868; mame.l Ahhie Wilbur of 
Riverside, Cal.. I'eside at Sacra- 
mento. Mora liorii in Danville. 
Vt.. in 1S72. married ^^■illiam Hall 
of lioston. Mass., in 1 !)()]. ,Iose- 
l)hine, l)orn in St. .lolmshury, \'t.. 
in 1S76, married ^^' alter Saxie of 
Quechee, \'t., liAes at White River 
Junction, \X. 

Neal McGafTey son of .Andrew 
died (jnite young, Anson liveil and 
died in Lyndon, Vt., have no record. 
Hannah married a Mr. Hackett, her 
children were Hiram, Andrew, 
Mary Jane married a Moulton, had 
ane son and oiu^ daughter, the son 
had fcnir childnMi. Have no record 
of Andrew's .\hiry Jane. Have no 
record of Daniel's son Charles, 
F.mily his sister married Moses 
W^riiiht, had two children, Mary 
and .Mildred. Ahiry married Daniel 
Fulford, had two children, Flor- 
ence and Loula. 

W m . W orkman M ( ( Ja ffey , son of 
John, was born in Sandwich, N. H., 
Aug. 21, 1767. He married Molly 
Babb of Portsmouth, N. H.. who 
was born Sept. S, 1767. Fhey 
lived in Sandwich until 1793. when 
they came to Lyndon, \t., and 
finally settlecl on what was known 
as "Cold Hill," about two miles 
west of Lyndon Corner. Tlieii- 
children were Philip, born Oct. 1. 
1790; Stephen, born Dec. 10. 1702; 
Sally, born Sei)t. 21, 1705; William, 
born Nov. 27, 1707; Hiram, born 
May 31, 1000: Laura born Aug. 7, 
1802; Clarissa, born Dec. 11, 1S04; 
Louisa, born .April o, 1S07; John, 
born Sei)t. 0. ISOO; Henry, born 
April 25, 1813. Two oi' these 
children, Philip and Stephen. wer(> 
born in Sandwich, the others in 



Lyndon. .Mr. .Mc(iaffey was a 
large, powerful man, full of energy 
and hard woi-k. In 1706, three 
years after coming to Lyndon, he 
was elected selectman and lister 
for the town, was afterward ap- 
pointed deputy sheriff and was at 
one time Ca))tain of a .Militia Co. 
His wife and four of his children 
died from consumption in the vears 
of 1831-1832 and 1S33. all "their 
deaths occurring within the space 
of two years. After the death of 
his wife and the foiu' children, 
Hiram, ( larissa, Louisa and Henry, 
he made his home with his surviv- 
ing children until his death. He 
died in Lyndon, March 31, 1845. 
The writer was quite a small boy, 
but remembers his grandfather 
when he lived at his father's in 
Sutton as a large, portly, genial, 
social man, who walked with two 
canes and sat in a high leather 
covered chair in consecjuence of 
having rheumatism. 

Philip McGaffey, son of Win. W. 
was born in Sandwich, N. H., (_)ct. 
1, 1700 and came to Lyndon with 
his i^arents in 1793. His early 
years were spent on his father's 
farm on Cold Hill working on the 
farm summers and attending the 
district school winters. In 1814 
he married Betsey Sherman, daugh- 
ter of .lames and Klizabeth Fenner 
Sherniau. They were reared on 
afljoining farms and atteud(Ml the 
same district school. .Mr. McCiaffey 
bought a farm on Cold Hill where 
he remained until 1S2() when he 
sold his farm and bought one in 
A\'heelock, \'t., where he remained 
until 1S3S, when he sold out and 
moved to Sutton, \'t., where he 
purchased a farm coutaining 160 
acres, nearly all woodland. Here 




John McGaffey. 




Wm. Workman McGaffey'h Residence, "Cold Hill," Lyndon, Vt. 



McGA FFE Y GENE A LOGY 



57 



he remained, clearing land, burn- 
ing coal, raising clover and timothy 
seed and flax, he also raised thous- 
ands of bushels of potatoes which 
he hauled to a starch factory four 
miles distant and sold for 12^ cts. 
per bushel. He was an untiring 
worker both summer and winter. 
There was a large amount of cedar 
timber on his farm and the winter 
employment was the getting out 
rails for fencing the farm, and 
cedar fence posts to sell, many of 
which were hauled to St. Johns-' 
bury, 17 miles away. Here he 
remained until 1857 when he moved 
to Sutton village with his youngest 
son, Geo. W. where he died in the 
fall of 1860. The children of Philip 
and Betsey McGaffey were: John, 
born in Lyndon, Apr. 17, 1815, died 
in Wheelock, March 20, 1831; 
Julia Ann, born in Lvndon, Sept, 
8, 1816, died hi Wheelock April 29, 
1839; Wm.Harrison,born in Lyndon 
Apr. 9, 1819, died in Lyndon May 
14, 1887; Marv Ann born in Lvndon 
Mar. 16, 1821, died at West Concord, 
Vt., Dec. 25, 1891; Benj. Frankhn 
born in Lvndon, Jan. 15, 1825, died 
in Nashua. N. H., Sept. 21, 1848; 
Maria Louisa, born in Wheelock, 
March 9, 1830, now living at Lyndon 
Centre, Vt., George Washington, 
born in Wheelock, Nov. 9,. 1832, 
now living in Glover, Vt. 

Wm. Harrison McGaffey, born in 
Lyndon, Apr. 9, 1819, remained at 
home until he Avas 16, then entered 
the employ of Ward Bradley at 
Wheelock Hollow as clerk in a 
general store, where he remained 
about ten years, then after a vaca- 
tion of six months took charge of 
the Farmers and Mechanics store 
at Sutton Corner, where he re- 
mained two years then was em- 



ployed as clerk by Kittridge & 
Colby, general merchants at Lyndon 
Corner, and at the end of two 
years became a i)arlner in the busi- 
ness. In 1846 Kittridge sold out 
and the firm was Colbv tt McGaffev. 
In 1851 McGaffey ' bought out 
Colby and ran the business alone 
until 1873 when l^e formed a part- 
nership with O. W. Newell which 




William H. McGaffey. 

continued about five years, when 
he sold out to his partner and was 
out one year, then bought out New- 
ell and continued the business until 
his death. May 14, 1887. With the 
exception of the one year he was 
continuously in the same store 
for a period of 41 years. During 
this time he was the representative 
of the town in the Vt. Legislature, 
but in disposition he was retired, 
seclusive, even tempered and al- 



58 



Mrf;.\FFi:y r;i:\i:.\Lor;y 



ways tlic .same; a iiiati nf few words 
and keeper of his own counsel, 
never asked or proffered advice, 
very constant and rep;ular in his 
habits, extremely temperate, used 
no liquor or tobacco in any form. 
one of the neatest and most accur- 
ate of bookkeepers, with a pen- 
manship as plain as print, very 
prompt in paying his bills, he estab- 
lished a credit among wholesale 
dealers surpassed Ijy none, l)ut he 
was a poor collector, very lenient 
to old customers in straightened 
circumstances, never pressing a 
payment. In 1885 he was stricken 
with paralysis of the entire left 
side, his clerk notified at once his 
brother Geo. W. who was in busi- 
ness in Cilovcr, he came and took 
charge of the business, but upon 
an examination of the books was 
astonished at their condition, 
accounts which had run for twent}' 
years without a settlement, and 
unsecured claims ranging from one 
hundred to forty-five hundred 
dollars each. He at once went to 
work to collect and secure wliat 
notes and accounts he could with- 
out resorting to legal proceedings 
and in ten weeks had collected and 
secured several thousand dollars, 
but his business at home needed his 
attention and his brother having 
rallied somewhat, the business was 
left in charge of the clerk who had 
been in the employ of Mr. Mc(Jaffey 
for nine years. He ran the l)usi- 
ness twenty months previous to Mr. 
McGafTey's death. In the settle- 
ment of" the estate al)out $21, .300. 
of worthless notes and accounts 
were found, and several farms and 
residences that had come into Mr. 
McGaflfey's hands during his busi- 
ness career had to be sold ,at a 



large discount because of the fall- 
ing off of the price of real estate, 
but the large amount of debts the 
clerk had contracted during his 
twenty months administration was 
every dollar ]:)aid. There were no 
debts, and money deposited in 
two banks when he took charge 
of the business. Wm. H. McGaffey 
married Eusebia E. Young of 
Kirby. Xt.. one child was born to 
them. Wilbur, who only lived 
about eighteen months. His wife 
was born Jan. 4. 1836 and died 
Feb. 21. 18.")9. 

Marv Ann McGaffev married 
John True of Sutton, Vt. They 
resided for several years in Sutton 
village, then he sold his residence 
there and bought a farm in Concord, 
\'t., After living on his farm for 
several years he sold it and bought 
a residence in West Concord ^'illage 
where he died in 1881. His wife 
died at West Concord in 1891, she 
was a cripple with the "Sherman 
Rheumatism'' for several years 
before her death. They had four 
sons, George, Adna, I' rank and 
William. George died quite young, 
Adna married and lives in St. 
Johnsbury, is a book-keeper for 
G. H. Cross in his bakery. Frank 
married and lives at Hyde Park, 
\'t.. Wm. H. married and lives 
at West Concord. Vt. 

Benj. Franklin McGaffey re- 
mained at home on the farm until 
he attained liis majority, then went 
to Nashua, N. H.. where he died of 
tyi)hoi.l fever, Sept. 21. 1848. 

Maria Louisa McGaffey married 
Josepli H. I. Richartlson of Sutton. 
\'t., Dec. 31, 1852. he was born 
March 29. 1826. died Nov. 8, 1860. 
They lived in Sutton village and 
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and then went to Lyndon Corner 
and lived in her brother's Wm. H.'s 
house, as he had no family. She 
remained there until July 1897 
when she moved to Lyndon Centre 
where she now lives. She has two 
sons, Fayette M. born May 10, 1856 
and Wm. H. born Feb. 'l3, 1860. 
Fayette who lives in Lyndon is a 
tinman by trade, has never married. 
Wm. H. married Gertrude Grow, 
daughter of Hubbard Grow of 
Glover. Vt. He succeeded his 
uncle W. H. McGaffey in the store 




?'J:xc^ 9vi' (, 



Louisa McGaffey. 



at Lyndon where he had acted as 
clerk for ten years before his uncle's 
death, but not making a success of 
the business, he and his wife went 
to California about 1900 where they 
now reside. 

George Washington McGaffey, 
born in Wheelock, Vt., Nov. 9, 
1832, remained on his father's farm 
until 1851, then entered his bro- 



ther's store at Lyndon Corner as 
clerk where he remained two years, 
but his father's health becoming poor 
and his mother l:)eing a cri]:)ple from 
rheumatism, necessitated their em- 
ploying help both indoors and out 
and in the winter of 1854 he re- 
turned home and Mav 8, 1854 mar- 




G. W. McGaffey and Wife, 1856. 

ried L. Helen French, daughter of 
Lindol French of Glover, Vt. She 
was born in Glover, Jan. 4, 1837. 
Mr. McGaffey remained in charge 
of the farm three years, then re- 
moved (taking his parents with 
him) to Sutton village where he 
bought out an old merchant and 
entered the mercantile business, 
running a hotel at the same time 
and the farm. But the failure of 
the man whom he bought out, and 
his inability to carry out the terms 
of their bargain, rendered the 



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MrdA FFKY (!i:m:.\logy 



carryiiifr on of liis morcantilc busi- 
ness (lifliciilt and at tlio end of three 
years he sold out that i)art of_his 
business and in tlic s))rin<i of l.SOO 
went to Cahfornia. He owned 
the l)uil(Hno; where he lived, so his 
family had a home during his 
alisenee. He landed in San Fran- 
cisco from his ocean trip, and found 
that city overrun with idle 
menseekino;emi)loyment,but after a 
few weeks investi<:ation he bought a 
boarding stable and feed store, and 
the day he .took possession, a wild 
broncho, that he purchased with 
the stable and which wss broken 
only to the saddle, kicked him and 
smashed the bones of his right leg 
just below the knee so that several 
pieces protrutled through the skin. 
He was placed upon a cot bed in the 
stable, an eminent surgeon (Pres- 
ident of the Medical College) was 
called, the l)roken bones put in 
place antl within a few days the 
limb was put into a starch bandage 
from the end of his toes to the hi]^. 
placed in a luirrow wooden box, and 
for fifty-eight days he was com- 
pelled to lie upon his back without 
turning upon either side, and was 
confined to the bed for six months. 
Eight thousand miles from home 
l)y the route then travelled, in a 
strange country, it took a large 
stock of the Scotch grit, inherited 
from his sturdy ancestors, to carry 
him through all this, but he kept up 
his courage and continued his 
business through it all. l)ut getting 
u|)()n crutches, found that his leg 
was stiff, the knee joint having 
grown perfectly solid during this 
long period of inactivity, and it 
was only relieved from this condi- 
tion after liis return to Wrmont 
by using force to bend the leg and 



Ijreak the cartilage that had grown 
solid in the joint. This was done 
by the most eminent surgeon then 
in the state. "Old Dr. Bugbee" of 
W'aterford, \'t.. so called, to dis- 
tinguish him from his sons who 
were also physicians and surgeons. 
This breaking of the joint was much 
more severe then simply breaking 
a bone, but the operation was borne 
by the patient without anesthetics 
of any kind, and without any 
intended disrespect to the medical 
fraternity generally, he would say, 
that had he followed the instruc- 
tions of his San Francisco surgeon he 
would have come back to Wrmont 
with only one leg. But toward the 
last of his confinement to his bed 
he cut open the bandage over the 
knee joint, contrary to the wishes 
of the surgeon, and found ilis- 
charging sores u])on each side. 
Mortification would have been the 
result had not circulation been 
restored by the loosening of the 
liandage. and then amputation. 
This he learnetl after getting on to 
the street from a man with one leg, 
who had a  broken leg treated in 
the same manner as his had been, 
and the bandage remained until 
mortification ensued and amputa- 
tion was imperative. When Mc- 
Ciaffey l)ecame able to walk by aid 
of a cane, he sold his business and 
returned to \'ermont. In 1SG7 he 
sold his residence in Sutton village 
and moved to South CUover, purchas- 
ed some old style mills, e(|uipped 
them with modern machinery. 
piH'chased two lots of timber land 
antl engaged in the lumber business, 
had a jiost office established v>vo- 
cured the ai)pointment of post 
master, had a seven year lawsuit 
with the town of (Jlover regarding 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



61 



the water power of his mills, won 
his case, but at an expense of 
.$7000. He remained there until 
1878 when he moved to Glover 
Village, where he now resides. Dur- 
ing his residence in Sutton village 
great excitement prevailed over 
the discovery of oil in upperCanada. 
The villagers formed a company 
and appointed him an agent to 
visit the oil lands and investigate 
the conditions, and if they were 
satisfactory to purchase a claim. 
He ]:)rocured an optical on a certain 
tract and returned and reported. 
The company was preparing to 
purchase machinery for sinking 
and operating a well, when the 
price of crude oil suddenly dropped 
from four, to one and a half dollars 
per bbl., and the scheme was 
abandoned. 

From the age of ten imtil he 
was sixty two, when he became 
incapacitated from labor by rheu- 
matism, there were but few idle 
hours in his life. At the time of his 
return to the farm, the Passumpsic 
R. R. was being extended from St. 
Johnsbury to Barton, and passed 
through his father's farm which 
contained a large amount of cedar as 
well as hardwood timlier. He con- 
tracted to build four miles of fence 
on the railroad and in the winter of 
1855-6 he put on to the line of the 
road 15,000 cedar ties and material 
for four miles of fence, and the suc- 
ceeding summer built the fence. Dur- 
ing the winter he was up at four 
o'clock in the morning and at day- 
light his teams were ready to start 
for the cedar swamp which was 
nearly a mile from the house. After 
moving to the village, at one time 
he ran a store and hotel, was con- 
stable and collector of taxes, high- 



way surveyor, school committee, 
undertaker and ran the farm wdiich 
he had moved from, and in the 
winter of 1858-9 cut and put on to 
the R. R. 500 cords of hardwood. 
His capacity for hard work was 
unexcelled. He was also collector 
of taxes in the time of high taxes 
during the Civil War, was after- 
wards Deputy Sheriff, and at pres- 
ent writing has been Notary Public 
for thirty-seven years in succession. 
In the years 1893 and 1894 his 
rheumatism which had ])een grow- 
ing worse for several years became 
very bad, and the summer of 1895 
he spent in Bremen, Ga., where at 
that time there was a big boom in 
fruits lands, and the raising of fruit, 
principally grapes and strawberries 
for exportation to Chicago, New 
York and other large cities. Mr. 
McGaffey purchased thirteen acres 
of land adapted to fruit raising and 
handsomely located alongside of 
the Southern Pacific R. R. five 
acres of which was timber land. 
Reserving f of an acre on a gentle 
rise near the R. R. for a building 
site, he had the remaining 7j acres 
set to grapes and strawberry plants, 
apple, prune and peach trees, 
erected a store house 20x30 near 
the R. R. track, the floor of which 
was on a level with the floor of 
cars on the track. He was also 
one of the incorporators of a com- 
pany that procured a charter for 
erecting and operating a canning 
factory at Bremen, and purchased 
100 shares of the stock. In August 
business called him back to Vermont. 
On his return trip he reached Boston 
by steamer at 6:30 p. m. took a night 
train for Vermont and owing to a 
sudden drop of 40'^ in the tempera- 
ture took a violent cold and was con- 



(iL' 



MciiM'FKY (iLSKMJJi.y 



fined to his IxmI U)V three weeks, ami 
upon liettiiifj; up I'ouiid he could not 
walk without crutches, and ne\-er 
has since. The climate of Georjria 
agreed with him and was beneficial 
to his rheinnatisni. and he intendeil 
to make that his future home had 



Helen McCJaffev were, Edward L. 
Idiiii in Aug. 13, ISoo: Eva Frances, 
l)!>ni Oct. 2. 1857; Lilla Augusta, 
horn Jan .:-5, lSo9. died Nov. 20,1860 
of diphtheria; Lilla E. born Aug.2, 
lS(i2: Laura S. born Dec. 25, 1862. 
Ivlward L. McGaffey, born in 




L.nw AIM) L. .McCJaffkv. 



he not been prostrated by rheuma- 
tism. In 189()-18<)7, overproduction 
of gra))es and strawberries and an 
advance in rates of transportation, 
loosened the fouiulation of the boom 
and the bottom finally fell out, leav- 
ing a very large hole in the pockets 
(jf the investors which is there vet. 



The 



cinldren 



<; 



eo. 



\\' 



and 



Sutton, V't. Aug. 13. 1855, remained 
at home until he attained his ma- 
jority, with the excei)tion of three 
summers in the White Mountains 
of New Hamj^shire. When of age 
he commenced working in a box 
factory at Barton Landing, \'t. 
He married L(»ll Rogers. daughter of 
Dean RogHM's of Barton T,:uiding. 




Eva McGaffey. Lilla McGaffey. Laura McGaffey, 

Daughters of G. W. McGaffey. 



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63 



She died five years after marriage 
with the old stvle consumption, 
wasting away through four long 
years of suffering, to a mere shadow. 
Edward L. possessed ambition l)e- 
yond his strength, and working 
overtime, and the inhaling of the 
fine wood dust which filled the air 
in the factory, brought on hemor- 
rhage of the lungs and for weeks 
his life hung by a thread that 
threatened to snap at any moment. 
But he finally partially recovered 



l)lood came from a rupture in the 
upper part of the right lung. He 
was obliged to seek outdoor em- 
ployment and entered the employ 
of the B. & M. R. R. and became a 
passenger conductor. But his 
trouble continued, but at longer 
intervals and he was obliged to take 
long vacations, going to Colorado 
Springs, Arkansas, Hot Springs, 
New Mexico, and other places, and 
received some temporarv benefit 
but never a cure, and he died at 




LiLLA McGaffey and Son. 



and was employed by E. E. Staf- 
ford as clerk in a general store, but 
at intervals he was prostrated by 
the hemorrhage, discharging two 
full quarts of blood at one bleeding. 
This statement may be questioned 
by those who believe that the loss 
of a spoonful of blood from the 
lungs will kill any person, but the 
writer has the wT)rd of a competent 
and reliable physician, that he had 
seen him discharge two quarts 
at one time. As many as eight 
physicians attended him during 
the twelve years he had this bleeding 
at times, and all of them said the 



White River Junction, Dec. 23, 
1891. During all these prostrations 
from bleeding his indomitable will 
and ambition to work never left 
him and before a full recovery of 
strength, would resume his duties 
as a conductor, and frequently 
at the end of a day's run he would 
finish the trip of some other con- 
ductor who wished to be relieved. 
Supt. Folsom in speaking of him 
said, "He has the most sand of any 
man I ever knew." Eva F., 2nd 
child of G. W. McGaff"ey, married 
J. H. Scott of Glover, Vt., and now 
lives at Springfield, Mass. He has 



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McGA FFE Y GENE A LOG Y 



been in the employ of tlie B. cV: M. 
R. R. some twenty years, is foreman 
of the woodworkers of the division 
of which he has f'har«:e. They 
have two children. Lola Helen, born 
Aug. 11, 1876, who is now with her 
parents in Springfield, and Charles 



Ri\('r Junction. She died with 
consumption, Dec. 23. 1897. leaving 
one son, Tracy Edward, born in 1892 
who has l)een under the care of his 
aunt Laura since his mothers death, 
and is being educated in a boys 
college at >Iontreal. P. (^. Laura 




Stephen .M( (iAFFEV. 



Burleigh born May 8. 1879. He is 
head clerk in a wholesale and retail 
drug store in Worcester. Mass. Lilla 

A. Mcfiaffey. l)orn .Tan. .'1 1859. 
died Nov. iSiiO. of diphtheria. 
Lilla A. .McCJafTey born Aug. 2. 1862. 
married David B. Hall of Barton. 
\'t. He became an engineer on the 

B. cV: M. R. R. and lives at White 



S. married John W. Mathie of 
Glover, and in 1901 procured a 
divorce for cruelty and non-supjiort. 
She has two tlaughters, Lottie Ann, 
born June 1.5. 1888: Alice Helen 
born Jan. 5. 1893. They were 
being educated at the I'rsuline 
Convent, Stanstead, P. Q.. but the 
eldest one having trouble with her 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



65 



eyes from overstudy, they are at 
present, (April, 1904) with their 
mother at Springfield, Mass. Ed- 
ward L. and Lell McGaffey had one 
daughter, Meta M. McGaffey, who 
is a dressmaker in Hartford, Conn. 
Stephen, 2nd child of Wm. 



Their children were, 1st Judith, who 
married John Stanford first hus- 
band and after his death she mar- 
ried Silas Parks of Lyndon. She 
died Apr. 17, 1900 leaving two 
sons, Gordon Stanford, who is a 
bookkeeper in Minneapolis, Minn., 




Mrs. Stephen McGaffey. 



■>— -Workman McGaffev, was born in 
Sandwich, N. H.. " Dec. 10, 1792 
and came to Lyndon, Vt. with his 
parents in 1793. He marrietl 
Sarah Hoyt, daughter of Abner 
Hoyt of Lyndon. He lived in 
Lyndon until his death, Jan. 29, 
1880. His wife died Dec. 26, 1867. 



and Charles D. Stanford a lumber 
manafacturer at Bangor, Me. 2nd 
Geo. C. who died in infancy, 3d 
Jtavie E. who married Charles 
Foisom of Lyndon, Nov. 8, 1847. 
They reside on a farm near Lyndon- 
ville, once owned and occupied by 
David McGaffev, a brother of Mrs. 



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Mr(;.\ FFKY (!EM:.\ Locy 



Folsom's grandfather. Thcv liavc 
three children, Harley E., Lucy A., 
Stephen M. 

Harley E. Eulsoni was Ijorn in 
Lyndon, Vt. Jan. 14. 1850, received 
a common school education and at 
the age of 16 entered a store at 



B. i\: M. since that time. In 1889 
was apiiiiiiiKMl Sn|)t. <>f the St. 
Johnsl)virv and Lake Champlain, 
R.R. and in 1894 Supt. of Connecti- 
cut River Division of the B. & M. 
In 1899 was elected Pres. of the 
St. J. iV L. C. R. R. which office he 




11. 1-;. I-'OI.SOM. 



Lyndon as clerk, where he re- 
mained four years, then l)ecame 
clerk in the general freight ofhce of 
the Passumpsic R. R. for two years, 
was then appointed Supt. of the 
road, which ofhce he held until 
the road was leased to the Boston 
tV: Maine in 1SS7, and has been 
Supt. of the northern Division of 



has held regularly since. In 1878 
he married Clara S. Bailey of Troy, 
Vt. who tlied in Oct. 1880, leaving 
one son. born in Aug. 1880. who is 
a fireman on the B. it M. In Dec. 
1887 he married Jennie L. Darling 
of Lvndon, their infant son ("has. 
1). died in March, 1896. They have 
one daughter, Flavia G., born in 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



67 



July, 1900. Mr. Folsom's long 
career of official life with the differ- 
ent railroads with which he is con- 
nected is ample proof of a business 
capacity, fidelity to duty, honest 
integrity, upright character and 
tact, surpassed by none and equaled 
by few. His advancement at the 
age of 22 from clerk to Supt. of the 
Passumpsic R. R. and to Division 
Supt. of the B. & M. at the age of 
31, and Pres. of the St. J. & L. C. 
R. R. at the age of 43 shows an 
intuitive sense and grasp of rail- 
road business that but few attain 
at any age. 

LucyA. Folsom, born in Lyndon 
July 16, 1852, married A. W.'Stone 
May 11, 1881. Their children 
were Agnes Moore, born March 21, 
1883; Louisa McGaffey, born July 
16, 1885; Florence Folsom, born 
Oct. 19, 1889. Agnes M. married 
Frank V. Steel of Manchester, 
N. H.. Oct. 20, 1903. They re- 
ride in Manchester. Louise Mc- 
Gaffey died June 17, 1898 and 
Florence Folsom died Dec. 17,1900. 
Mr. A. W. Stone and wife reside 
in St. Johnsbury. His work has 
formerly been machinist and 
locomotive engineer, but for the 
past few years they have lived on 
a farm. Stephen M. Folsom is 
freight agent for the B. & M. R. R. 
at Bellows Falls. Vt.,but have no 
record of his family. 4th, Aurilla 
B. born Nov. 12, 18*26, married A.J. 
Willard an attorney at law at 
St. Johnsbury, she died Jan. 10, 
1900, leaving three sons, Wm. J. 
who married Martha L. Sanborn 
of Lyndon and is now Agt. for the 
Canadian Pacific Dispatch, Boston, 
Mass. Chas. A. one of the Justices 
of the Superior Court at Manila, 
Phillipine Islands, and Herbert J. 



who now is in Cannon City, Colo. 
5th, Louise M. born vSept, 7, 1829 
married J. Meigs Weeks of Lyndon 
Sept. 7, 1848. He was born Nov. 
28, 1824, entered a store as clerk 
in 1840, and 1846 commenced 
mercantile business for himself at 
Lyndon Corner, and has continued 
the same business up to the present 
time (1904). His wife died Jan. 
16, 1862. Their children were, 
Edward H. born May 26, 1849 
died Jan. 26, 1872; Helen Louise 
born May 6, 1853, married and lives 
in Boston. She has two daugh- 
ters, Mrs. Helen H. Streeter of 
Roxbury, Mass., and Mary E. Cross 
who lives in Minnesota. Lucius K. 
third child of Mr. and Mrs. Weeks 
was born Dec. 9, 1855 and died 
Aug. 31, 1859. Clinton B. have 
no date of his birth, lives at St. 
Johnsbury is one of the firm of 
Bundy & Weeks, carriage dealers. 
Marv'E. born Feb. 21, 1858, Ste- 
phen M. born June 22, 1861, died 
Feb. 12, 1862. 6th, , Martha _a 
daughter of Stephen McGaffey was 
born in Lyndon, Feb. 12, 1832, 
married Chas. Otis Denison of 
Lyndon Oct. 10, 1849. Their 
children were Sarah Adelaide, born 
Oct. 27, 1855. Chas. Otis, born 
Sept. 6,1860, both born in Lyndon, 
Sarah A. married Chas. Henry 
Mower of Lyndon, Oct. 17, 1876. 
Their children were, Ralph Henr}^ 
born Aug. 24, 1879, died May 1, 
1882. Gordon Denison, born June 
1, 1886; Mildred EHzabeth, born 
Dec. 19, 1891, children all born in 
Lyndon. Chas Otis Denison, Jr., 
married Nov. 26, 1893. Nellie 
Mac Wilcox at Lenoxville, P. Q. 
Their children are Muriel McGaffey 
born Sept. 3, 1894; Benj. Franklin 
born Nov. 10, 1896. Present res- 



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McGA FFI:' ) ' CF-SE. \ IJX! Y 



idence Lyndonville, \'t. Marllui 
G. McGaffe3''s first husband died 
in Lyndon, May 1, 1860, and on 
Sept. 1. 1S64 she married Thas. C\ 
Miller of Lyndon who died Jan. 
5, 1894. She now resides with her 
daughter, Mrs. Mower at West 
Lebanon. N. H. 



left him unfit for service. He sent 
in his resignation and was honor- 
ably discharged Jan. 22, 1863. by 
ord(>r of Gen. Heintzleman. The 
brothers in law, J. M. \\'eeks and 
Silas Parks went to Washington 
and brought him home, he being 
too feeble to return alone. He 







Stephen R. McGaffkv 



Slephen Riley, son of Stephen 
McGaffey, born Apr. 25, 1843, 
married KatherineJ-Jemis, daughter 
of Amasa~and Eliza Hall Bemis. 
Jan. 6, 1864. he enlisted in the 
U. S. Service from Lyndon. Sept. 
17, 1862 and went as Capt. of Co. 
"G" loth Vt. Reg. Vols. He soon 
contracteil typhoid fe\er which 



never fully recovered, the fever 
settled in one leg and always 
troiil)l(Ml hini. He livetl on a farm 
in Lyndon until the fall of 1868. ^\ 
then went into n Jj/^tpj^ a t Lyndon aS V'^ 



Corner where he remained about 
ten years. He was in the custom 
office at 'Canaan. Vt., from 1886 to 
1890. He died at Lyndon, Apr. 



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McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



69 



22, 1891, and was buried under the 
Masonic ritual on his fifty-seventh 
birthday. His widow resides at 
Roswell, N. M.,with her son Lucius. 
Their children were Lucius Kimball, 
born Sept. 28, 1864, Amasa Bemis 
born June 2, 1872. 

Lucius Kimball McGaffey is an- 
other Vermont boy that has done 
honor to the Green Mountain State. 
At an early age he went to New 
Mexico, and soon after embarked 
in the real estate and insurance bus- 
iness, and with a high sense of honor 
and integrity, coupled with a keen 



capacity, and were all well-to-do 
people, and this added to the 
sturdy ]:»ush and energy of the Mc- 
Gaffeys, has placed him on the high 
road to success. His election as a 
delegate from the fifth Texas dis- 
trict to the National Convention to 
be held at St. Louis, tells of his 




Mrs. Stephen R. McGaffey. 

business capacity, and with the 
push and energy characteristic of 
native born Vermonters, he has 
built up a flourishing and very re- 
munerative business. His mater- 
nal ancesters — the Demises — were 
noted for their thrift and business 




Lucius K. McGaffey. 

standing in the community where 
he lives. At nearly forty he is still 
unmarried. None of the dusky 
maidens are sufficiently attractive 
to lure him from his bachelorhood. 
His mother superintends his house- 
hold, and "mother's cooking is the 
best." 

Amasa Bemis McGaffey. 

It falls to the lot of but few Ver- 
mont boys to achieve the honor 
and distinction that has come to 
Amasa Bemis McGaffey at the age 
of thirty-four. After completing 



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McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



his education, \\v left Vermont for 
New Mexico. He worked in the 
j2;eneral office of the A. T. iV S. F. 
R. R. for several years, hut finally 
embarked in business for himself, 
in the wholesale and retail crockery 
and glassware business. In 1001 



rading Co.. 



the l»cnhani Indian 
of which he was made president 
and manager. They have since put 
in a large l^ranch at Los Angeles and 
had a mammoth e.xhibit at the St. 
Louis Exposition. Mr. .McClaffey 
is located at Albuquerque. N. M.. 




Am.\s.\ P). .McCIaffky. 



he was. made western manager for 
the Hyde Exploring Expedition. 
This comj^any was composed of 
New York capitalists with a jiaid 
in capital of S2oO,00(), doing a gen- 
eral Indian trading business with 
trading posts scattered all over the 
Indian re.servation. In 1903 the 
company was re-incorporated as 



where he has a store for the sale 
of Navajo blankets and Indian 
goods, conceded to be the finest 
store of the kind in the world. His 
duties as president and manager 
recpiire him to make trips with an 
Indian escort to the trading posts 
on the reservation. New Mexico 
has a Territorial Fair Association. 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



71 



and at a meeting of the Association 
held Feb. 3,1904, Mr. McGaffey was 
elected president. The Albuquer- 
que Morning Journal of Feb. 4, 
says: "At a meeting of the N. M. 
Fair Association last night, A. B. 
McGaffey, president of the Benham 
Indian Trading Co. and one of 
the most popular young business 
men in Albuquerque, was elected 




Herbert Steven McGaffey. 

president for 1904. Mr McGaffey 
was nominated by Hon. 0. N. 
Marron, president of the last fair, 
and his election was made unan- 
imous on a motion by Mr. Mandell. 
In Mr. McGaffey the Association. 
has secured the ideal president, 
since that gentleman possesses the 
abundant energy and capacity for 
hard work which is so essential to 
successful management of an enter- 



prise of the magnitude which the 
Territorial has assumed in recent 
years. " 

Oct. 9. 1894. A. B. McGaffey 
married Mabel F., daughter of H. E. 
Fox of Albuquerque. Their chil- 
dren are, Herbert Steven, born 
Oct. 15, 1896; Ramer, born Feb. 
9, 1901, died June 17, 1902; Donald 
Fox, born April, 1902. 

8th, Mary Helen, daughter of 
Stephen McGaffey, born in July, 
1836, died Julv 7, 1856, never mar- 
ried. 9th, "Sarah F. McGaffey, 
born July 7, 1838, married Horace 
Miller of Lyndon. They reside on 
a farm near Lyndonville. They 
have no surviving children. Mrs. 
Miller is so busy making butter 
that the writer has been unable 
to get her personal or family history 
for this work. 10th. Charles E. 
McGaffey, born in 1843, died Nov. 
29, 1870. 

Sally, 3d child of Wm. Workman 
McGaffey, born in Lyndon ,Vt., Sept. 
21, 1795, married Ephraim Willard 
Hubbard son of Ephraim Hubbard 
of Chesterfield, N. H., who came 
to Lyndon about 1792. E. W. 
was born Oct. 3, 1794 and was 
married in 1817, their first child 
died at birth and there is no record 
of it. Mary Ann Whitney, their 
2nd child was born in Lyndon Nov. 
5, 1820, married in Lyndon in 1841 
Philip Mathewson. son of Arthur 
and Betsey Mathewson, born in 
Gloucester," R. I., in 1817. The 
children of Philip and Mary Ann 
Mathewson were Arthur Hall, born 
in Lyndon in 1842; Alburtus 
Delos, born in Gloucester, R. I., in 
1844, died in Pawtucket' in 1846; 
Sarah Adalaide, born in Pawtucket, 
R. I., July 21, 1846; May Frances 
born in Pawtucket, Nov. 30, 1848; 



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McGAFFEY GENE A iJKiV 



Allnirtus D. 2n(l, born in Paw- 
tuckot. Apr. 29, 1S50. Lilla Estella 
born in Lyndon, Dec. 3, 1854; 
Mable Isora b(ini in IaihIoii, Nov. 

5, isr)6. 

Arthur Hall .Mathew.son niarricil 
Ruth Horton in Woonsocket, R. I.. 
Sept. 19, 1864 and died Apr. 26, 
1S91. His wife died June 20, 1903. 
Their children were, Ora Maude, 
born in 1870, died 1872; Cora 
Estelle.born 1875. died 1897; Wil- 
lard I', born Oct. 20. 1876. married 
Lucy Kenney March 21, 1900, 



ton. Mass., no chijilren. Albertus 
1). Mathewson 2nd. niarriecl in 
rxl)ri<lfie, Ma.ss., Jan. 17. 1902 
Florence Louise Seagreave, reside 
in rxljridire. Lilla Iv Mathewson 
inarrie*! in Providence. June 5, 1886 
Pvobert Smith of En<>;land. Their 
children were Robert Smith, Jr,. 
who died in infancy: Arthur Al- 
burtus Smith, born June 22, 1890; 
Mabel Mathewson Smith, born July 
20, 1893. Mr. Smith lives in 
Providence, his wife died Apr. 26, 
1904; Mabel Isora Mathew.son mar- 




.Mh. and Mrs. E. W. Hubbaku. 



Their children were. Irene Maude 
born Sept. 9, 1900; Henrv Hubbard, 
born Dec. 19, 1902. Their resi- 
dence is in Uxbridge, Mass. Al- 
bertus I). Mathewson died in Paw- 
tucket in 1846; Sarah A. Mathew.son 
married in Providence, R. I., June 
30, 1874, Philander A. Gay of 
Rockville, Mass., have one son, 
Hope Williams, born in Providence, 
R. I., March 2, 1876. They re.side 
in Boston, Mass. May Frances 
Mathewson married in Providence 
October 13, — Jerome H. Brings of 
Middleboro, Mass. Reside in Brock- 



ried in Providence, R. I., Apr. 27, 
1882, Heniy I'rancis Dawley of 
Coventry, R. I., she died in Prov- 
idence Dec. 9, 1884. 

Chas. K. son of E. Willard Hub- 
bard, was born in Lyndon, Feb. 
27, 1822, married Dorinda Morgan 
of Lvndon, Feb. 16, 1S57. who died 
Mav"4, 1860. Thev had two chil- 
dren, Wm. H. born Oct. 27, 1858, 
he married Emma Lamson of 
Omaha, Neb.. Oct. 1, 1896, is now 
living in St. Louis. Mo. Wallace N. 
Hubbard born Dec. 22. 1860 mar- 
ried Aildie Strceter of Lvmlon 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



73 



May 25, 1881. They had one son 
born Mar. 7, 1882, they reside at 
Lyndon Corner. For his 2nd wife 
Chas. K. Hubbard married Celestia 
Morgan of Lyndon, sister of his 1st 
wife, Dec. 23, 1864, she died Apr. 
29, 1866. For his third wife he 
married Nancy E. Dickerman of 
Lyndon, Auo-. 13, 1866. They had 
four chiklren: Lilla Belle, born 
July 23, 1867, died Sept. 3, 1868. 
George C, born Aug. 16. 1868. 
He lives at Springfield, Vt., is not 
married. Herbert J. born Oct. 16, 
1870, not married, works for B. & M. 
R. R. at Lyndonville, Vt. ; Addie 
May, hcivw June 22, 1897, lives at 
home. Chas. K. Huljbard died 
Feb. 24, 1904; his widow lives at 
Lyndon Centre. 

Hiram M. Hubbard, born Julv 27, 
1825, died Nov. 26, 1870, never 
married. Ad aline K. Hubbard. ]:)orn 
Aug. 13, 1830, married Charles H. 
Branch in Providence in 1853, se- 
cured a divorce in 1856 and married 
Silas H. Ladd in 1863, and died 
in Springfield, Mass., July 21, 1878, 
had no children. Wm. Henry 
Hul)bard, born Feb. 28, 1834, mar- 
ried Lucy Ann Illslev of Ports- 
mouth, N. H., Marcli. 26, 1856, 
had one child, Chas. Henry, born 
Jan. 19, 1857, died April 25, 1857. 
His wife died in Portsmouth Apr. 
26, 1857. Wm. H. married for his 
second wife Sarah H. Went worth 
in Saco, Me., July 7, 1886. He 
enlisted in the war of '61-5, Mav 20, 
1861, in Co., "G" 3d Vt. Vol. Inft. 
mustered into the service as 2nd 
Sergt. July 16, 1861 at St. Johns- 
bury, Vt., and left for the front 
July 24. Was promoted 1st Sergt. 
in Sept. He incurred the ill will 
of the Lieut. Col. and received no 
farther promotion until that officer 



was court martialed for cowardice 
and left the service. After that, 
Wm. H. filled all the grades up to 
Lieut. Col. When a vacancy of 
Major occurred the first part of 
April, the Col. called the line and 
staff officers to the Atljutant's tent 
and told them he wished them to 
vote for one of their number for him 
to recommend to the Governor for 
promotion as Major; out of 14 votes 
Hubbard received 9. He was twice 
wounded, once at Opequan Creek 
near Winchester, Va. Sept. 12, 1864 
and at Cedar Creek Oct. 19, the day 
of Sheridan's famous ride. At the 
close of the war when the order 
came for his Regt. to be mustered 
out he was detailed by the Colonel 
to superintend the making out of the 
muster rolls, preparatory to being 
nuistered out. He received his 
orders of detail at six o'clock p. m. 
had his horse saddled and rode to 
Division Headcjuarters to get blank 
rolls, and instructions from the 
chief mustering officer of the Di- 
vision, returned to camp and set 
men to work making a proof copy 
for each Co. which were completed 
at eleven o'clock, took the copies 
to headquarters, where they proved 
to be aU right, returning to camp 
and set four men to write and one to 
read copy for each Co., and before 
daylight the rolls were completed 
and at 11 a. m. the Regiment, was 
mustered out, and next morning 
started for Burlington, Vt., where 
they were paid off and received 
their final discharge papers, July 
17, 1865, four years and one tlay 
after being mustered into the V . S. 
service. Sarah Adelade Hubbard, 
born Sept. 15, 1838, died Oct. 25, 
1841. Wm. H's wife's parents 
were Ebenezer and Sarah Lane 



Mr(;. \ I-I-E ) GENE A LOG Y 



W(Mit\vorth. E. Willanl Hul)l)artl 
dietl at Lyndon. \'t.. .Mar. S, ISGS. 
Since writing!; the foreijoinfj; W. H. 
Hubbard's wife .lied April 4. 1904, 
and liis residence is now at I'x- 
brid<i;e. Mass. 

William, fourth child of W'ni. 
W()rkmanMc(Jaffey,born at Lyndon 
Nov. 27. 1707, married Eliza T>ocke 
April 8, lS2t). daughter of Jonathan 
and Sarah Simonds Locke and a 
(jrand-dau^hter of David and Betsy 
Kibbe Locke, and <2;reat, <!;rand- 
dau^hter of James and Elizabeth 
Burna]:) Locke and iireat ,<i;reat 




Wii-i,i AM .M( (; \i'Fi;v. 

grand-dau<ihter of .lames and Saiali 
Cutler Locke. James Locke was 
a son of Duncan William and Marx- 
Clark J^ocke. Duncan William 
Locke was born in London, Dec. 
13. 162S and came to this country 
with an uiu-le in 1634. He died in 



Woburn. Mass. June 16. 1720. 
The Lockes were soldiers in the 
French War. also in the Revcjlu- 
tionary \\'ar. Eliza Locke, wife 
of William .\b-(!affev. was ])orn at 
Ashbv. Mass.. Dec." 2. 1803 and 
died at Lyndon, \'t.. Dec. 22. 1868, 




Mks, ^^■II.|.|AM M((!ai-fi;y. 

and her luisl)aii(l die.l 1'\>1). 12. 1869. 
Their children were Jane Eliza, born 
Jan. 2S, 1827 and George Win. 
born Jan. 7. 1833. Jane Eliza 
married Preston W. K(Mit of I'aw- 
t ticket. R. 
1856 an<l 



I. at Lyndon March 12. 

w(>nt to Tawtuckcn to 
live. wh(>re she died Au.-i. 27. 1860. 
They had two 
Islizabeth. born 
William Wellington, born Auir. 26. 
bSGO. Sarah l']lizabeth is now liv- 
ing in Pawtucket. with her father. 
Win. Welliiiiiton dieil two weeks 
aft<>r his birth. 



children; Sarah 
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McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



75 



George Wm. son of Wm. and 
Eliza Locke McGaffey was born in 
Lyndon, Vt. Jan. 7, 1833. HLs 
mother, Eliza Locke, was of English 
descent. The Lockes were a very 
old family and many of them were 
engaged in the French and Indian 
War and also in the Revolutionary 
War. 

Geo. Wm. McGaffey's father was 
a carpenter and builder and he 
learned the same trade and worked 
with his father until 1862; he then 



the Phillipsburg Water Co. which 
was established in 1881, also pres- 
ident of the Steam Co. and of the 
Phillipsburg Club. In Mr McGaffey 
we have another instance of the 
good sense, sturdy push and energy, 
native ability and keen shrewdness 
of the native Vermonter. Volumes 
could be written of successful 
Vermonters who have gone out 
into the world and unaided only 
by native ability have carved their 
way to positions of wealth and 




Residence of William McGaffey. 



went to Pennsylvania and after 
working at his trade two years, 
engaged in the mining and shipping 
of coal with John Nutall, the firm 
name being John Nutall & Co. This 
business was successfullv continued 
until 1899. Mr. Nutall died in 
1897. In 1881. the Moshannon 
Banking Co. was organized and 
Mr. McGaffey was chosen vice- 
president and director, which con- 
tinued until 1892 when the name 
was changed to First National 
Bank and he became president and 
director. He is also president of 



honor. In 1864, Dec. 19. Mr. 
McGafTey married Elizabeth Alice 
Nutall, eldest daughter of John 
and Elizabeth Pollard Nutall and 
granddaughter of Thomas and Alice 
Crabtree Nutall. She was born in 
Love, Clough, Englantl, Apr. 27, 
1844. Their children were: Nettie 
Jane, born in Powelton, Pa., Dec. 
4, 1865 and died there June 8, 1866 
was taken to Mr. McGaffey's native 
place, Lyndon, Vt., for burial. Their 
second child, Caroline Chase, was 
born in Phillipsburg, Pa. Jan. 11, 
1873, was partially educated at 



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])rivate schools and hifih sfhools 
and finished at Mountain Soniinarv 
where she gra(kiated in 1S94. She 
was baptized ami confinncd in St. 
Paul's P. E. church where she was 
nuirri(Ml .June 27. 1 '.)()(). to John Ivl- 



gar 



!• r\ IxM'ger, son 



baptized Oct. 11. l!M);j at St. Paul's 
church. Hiram, otli child of \\'m. 
Workman McGaffey, Clarissa the 
7th. Louisa the 8th and Henry 
the loth all die 1 with consumption, 
and none of them were ever luan-ied. 
of Chas.'rhcodorc Laura, (ith. child of Wm. Work- 




Gkorgk \\".m. McG.\ffey. 



and .Mary Jane l^rachbill Fry- 
berger. He was born in Belief onte, 
Pa.. Feb. 7. 1870. His father was 
Capt. of Co. "I)"' l.'nh Reg. Pa. 
Vols, during the Ci\il war. Mr. 
Fryl)erger is cashier of the first 
National P>aiik of Phillipsburg. 
They have one son.CcMirgc .McCJaffey 
Fryberger, born May 7, 1908. 



man McCJaffey. born Aug. 7, 1802, 
married Nathaniel W. Aspenwall 
at Lyndon. Nov. P.), 1S26. He 
was the eldest son of John As])en- 
wall and was born at Bradford, Vt. 
Jan. 26. 1801. He entered the 
ministi-y of the Methodist Episcopal 
church and had various charges 
in \'(M-mont and New Hampshire, 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



77 



and went West and died at Chicago, 
Nov. 17. 1873. His wife died at 
Chicago in Mar. 1886. It is said 
of her that she was a noble woman, 
an exemplary Christian, devoted to 
her work as a minister's wife, a 
model mother, "Her chihiren rise 



Aspen wall married Hon. Lester L. 
Bond of Chicago, where he has been 
engagetl in legal practice since 1854. 
He was the son of .Jonas and Eliz- 
abeth Story Bond of Edinbiirg, 
Ohio. Coming from an old Eng- 
lish family which settled at Ipswich 




Mrs. Georgf: Wm. McGaffky. 



up to call her blessed. " Their 
children were: Samuel Augustus, 
born Feb. 4, 1828, died Jan. 5, 1831 ; 
Amy Scott, born July 20, 1829; 
Luara Diantha, born Aug. 5, 1833; 
Mary White, born Nov. 14, 1835, 
dietf Aug. 1890; John born Mar. 29, 
1838, died Mar. 1841, Sarah Caroline 
born April 2, 1843; Amy Scott 



Mass., ten years after the Pilgrims 
landed at Plymouth, he nambered 
among his ancestors, astronomers 
from the Bond family and from his 
mother, the Storys, great lawyers, 
and the sculptor and poet, Wil- 
liam Wetmore Story. Mr. Bond 
was born at Ravenna, Ohio, Oct. 
27, 1829, and died at Chicago, April 



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l(i, 1903. Throujihoul ihc rniicMl 
States he was well known as a 
patent lawyer. He made a spec- 
ialty of patent law for thirty years. 
and, while a <r;eneral j:)ractitioner, 
the trial of patent cases in the courts 
of the laro;er cities occupied prac- 



Sijcncer. born Oct. 13. 1894, Amv 
Clark, born Oct. 1. 1896, Mabel 
Bond, born Feb. 25, 1898, Alice 
Kdith born .May 13. 1902. Laura 
Diantha Aspenwall, married June 
23, 1853, Dr. Henry C. Ayers. He 
was born in Hartland. \'t. Nov. 6, 




Rev. X. W. Aspknwall. 



tically all his time. 

His widow now resitles at River 
Forest, 111. Their children were: 
Mabel Alta, born May 4, 186(3. tlietl 
in infancy; Laura Elizabeth, born 
Oct. 2, 1867, married John Luther 
Jackson. Thoy reside at River 
Forest. 111. Their eliildren are Laura 
Avis, born June 20, 1892, John 



1822. and died at Harnard. Vt., 
April 5. 1862. His widow resides 
in Chicago. Their children were: 
Mary Caroline, born May 7, 1855; 
George Latimer born July 5. 1857; 
Amv Jose])hine. born March 25, 
1860. died July 23. 1885; Henrietta, 
born Aug. 5. 1862, dietl in infancy. 
Marv Caroline Avers married Wil- 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



79 



Ham Barber. They had one child, 
Nelhe Josephine, born Nov. 28, 
1884. died in infancy. They reside 
in Chicago. George Latimer Ayers 
married NelHe McLaughhn and re- 
side in Chicago, their chilch-en were 
Lester George, born Feb. 26, 1894, 



Bailey Wygant of Marlborough' 
X. Y. They have one child, Elsie 
Amy. born March 3, 1876. They 
reside in Chicago. 
^ John xMcGaffey, 9th child of Wm. 
Workman McGaffey, married for 
his first wife Sarah Hawkins of 




Laura McGaffey Aspenwall. 



Gertrude Louise, born March 15, 
1896, died Feb. 14, 1897; Henry 
Latimer, born June 15, 1898, died 
Mav 11, 1899; Marion, born Sep- 
tember 20, 1900. 

Sarah Caroline Aspenwall married 
Alonzo Wygant, son of Thomas and 
Hannah Woodruff Wygant and 
grantlson of Bernard and Elizabeth 



Lyndon, \'t. They had four child- 
ren, Lewas, Alonzo, Williard and 
Henry. Lewis went to California 
and married Elizabeth Love, daugh- 
ter of Alexander and Jane Love who 
were natives of Scotland. He was 
married Jan. 1, 1867 at Angels 
Camp, Cal., where his widow now 
resides. Their children were John 



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MrdA FFKY (!i:xi:.\i/)(!y 



Aloxaiidcr, horn Mar. 2, 1S6S, and 1!)()(). Their first cliiM a Itoy died 

died Sept. 18, 1870. .Icnnic Aliiiira in infancy. They have a second 

born Aug. 10. INTO: LiUian .Viiiics named Doris, horn Xov. 6, 1902. 
born Mar. 23. lS7o; bewis Knii^ht bewis MeGaffey died at Angels 

born Fel). 19. 1S75: .\bil)el Alice Camp. August 4," 1881. His son. 

l)orn .June 7. bS7S. .lennie Almira bewis, married at Angels Camp 

McCaffev married Harrv Hogarth Dec. 28. 1 901 .Marv Peirano. They 




HeXKY ^b'CiAFFKY. 



of California. Jan. 1. 1899. They 
have foiu' children. Iban-y. .Mvin. 
liuth and l']\elyn. 

billian Agnes married Dr. Charles 
l-'reeman of Stockton. Cab, .June 7. 
1S97. They had two childr(^n beslie 
and (lertrude, beslie die(l in bS99. 
Mabel Alice Mc(iaffe\' married Geo. 
H. billie at San I'^rancisco. Se])t. b 



have one boy born Jan. b"). 190;b 
Alonzo MeGaffey, son of .John, went 
to California ami died in liakers- 
field. Cab, about 1878. 

Williard MeGaffey die<l in bex- 
ington, Cab. in 1870. .lohn ^b•- 
Gaffey's first wife died Jan. 3. 1848. 
and in the summei- of 1844 he mar- 
I'icd Martlia .\. Cook, who di(Ml in 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



81 



Oct. 1887. He died April 12, 1894. 
Henry McGaffey went to Pitts- 
burg, Pa., and Oct. 15, 1872 mar- 
ried Emma J. West, daughter of 
Columbus West and Catherine Edell. 
Mr. West was a native of Maryland 
and his wife was born in Troy, 



Mar. 27, 1876 
in Mar. 1877 
grandparents 
went to the 
LaFayette. I 
graduated in 
engineering. 



and his mother dying 
he was reared by his 
and at the age of 17 
Perdue University at 
nd., from which he 
1898 in mechanical 
After the death of 




Mark W. McGaffey. 



N. Y. in 1815 and died Oct. 19, 
1903, aged 88 years. Henry Mc- 
Gaffey and wife had one child Mark 
W. , who resides at Pittsburg and is 
a member of the firm of C. West 
& Co. carriage makers, the business 
having been established by his 
grandfather, Columbus West. Mark 
W. was born in Alleghany City 



his wife, Henry, who was in the 
employ of the Fairbanks Scale Co., 
left Alleghany and went to Indian- 
apolis, Ind., still in the employ of 
the Fairbanks Co., but soon after 
settling in Indianapolis he left 
the scale business and engaged in 
contracting, in which business he 
continued until his death, Nov. 1 



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1S96. His remains wore taken to 
Httsburg and buried beside his 
wife in the Alleghany cemetery. 
He stood very high in Masonic 
circles, being a 32(1 degree Mason of 
a Lodge in Indianapolis. 

Henry McGaffey, 10th child of 
Wm. Workman, born Ai)ril 25, 
1813, died with consumption June 
7, 1830. Agnes and Molly, daugh- 
ters of John McGaffey, born in 
Sandwich, Agnes, born June 8, 
1769; Molly, born Sept. 20, 1761. 
were both converted to the Mormon 
faith and went west with a delega- 
tion from New England. James 

—-McGaffey. son of John, born Oct. 23, 
1773, married Deborah Estabrooks 
of Brattleboro. \'t. in 1796. She 
was the daughter of Henjamin and 
Betsey Garrett Estal)rooks. she 
was born Apr. 24, 1775. Their 
home was in Lyndon on what was 
known as "Pudding Hill." Fruit 
trees are now standing on the 
place that were brought from 
Brattleboro and set out by the 
bride more then one hundred years 
ago. He was a kind, obliging 
neighbor, and an honest man. His 
wife died Oct. 12, 1854 and he died 
at the home of his daughter, 
Martha E. in Barnet, \X. Apr. 10, 
1856. Their children were 1st, 
Welcome, born Oct. 15, 1797; 2nd, 
Electa, l)orn Aug. 1. 1798; 3d, Polly 
born 1802; 4th, James, born Nov. 13, 
1804; 5th^Martha E., born June 15, 
1807; 6th, Amos F., born Jan. 24, 
1820; 7th, Amanda B., born Mav 16, 
1813; 8th, Wm. Harrison, born l\ov. 
5, 1817. He was a bright promis- 
ing boy and his sudden death from 
canker rash while on a visit to his 

sister. Electa Parker, at St. Johns- 
burv,was a great shock to the family. 
He died Oct. 8. 1833. He seemed to 



have a presentiment of his death, for 
on the morning of his leaving home 
he called his mother to his room 
and picking u[) a pet kitten said: 
" \'ou will be good to kit wont you 
mother, if I never come back. " 
His mother said many times after- 
ward that she had a feeling that 
she shoulil never see her boy at 




Welcomk McGaffey. 

home again alive. He was buried 
at St. Johnsburv. Some people 
no doubt will call these presenti- 
ments and teU^pathic communica- 
tions, superstitions, but the writer 
has had the same impressions of 
mind that Mrs. McGaffey experien- 
ced when her son left her that 
morning, one instance was when 
his brother Franklin left home for 
Nashua, N. H. and his impression 
that he should never see his broth- 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



83 



er alive again, came true the 
same as hers did, his brother died 
in Nashua of typhoid fever. 

Welcome McGaffey son of James, 
married Chastina Meigs, February 
22, 1827; she was born May 17, 
1807. Their children were Aurora, 
born in 1828; Caroline, born Feb. 
13, 1833; Samuel died in infancy; 
James S. born Oct. 5, 1842, died of 



first settled on the farm and was a 
prominent man in Lyndon for 
many years, after his death his son 
William carried on the farm, then 
his grandson, Edward. Two sets 
of farm buildings have been burned 
on the site of the present home, 
and the third fire would have wiped 
out the buildings again in the sum- 
mer of 1903 had it not been for the 




Allen Farm, Lyndon Center, Vt. 



apoplexy at Decatur, 111., Dec. 4, 
1893; Aurora married William Ran- 
dall, Sept. 30, 1850, he was a son 
of Job Randall, and was born Dec. 
15, 1818. They had two children, 
Edward Dexter, born Oct. 1, 1851; 
Job, born Dec. 29, 1857; Edward 
married Maggie Murphy, Oct. 7, 
1886, she was born Nov. 24, 1854. 
They reside on the old Randall 
farm which has been in the Randall 
family since Lyndon was first settled. 
Edward's grandfather. Job Randall, 



prompt action of the eldest daughter 
Irene, who bravely fought the fire 
when the l)arns were struck by 
lightning, the house having several 
times caught fire which was quickly 
extinguished by the courageous 
girl, who was alone at the time, 
with the exception of several small 
children, her father and mother 
being away from home. The 
children of Etlward and Maggie 
Randall were Irene Alice, born 
Mav 22, 1888; Anna, l)oni Nov. 11, 



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1889 andjdicd .Ian. lM , I'.iOO; Julia l"raniiii<iliaiii. .Mass.. July 13. 1893. 

Helen. Ijorn March 16, 1S91. Sarah He also died at Franiingham. 

Genevieve. Nov. 7. 1892; Edward TIicn- ''^I'lg/iJ^i^^^yj^'lj^^l- Hattie, 

Joseph, born AjH-il 8. 1894; Char- horn at Stc^^^^^a:^ June 14. 

lotte Louise, born May lo, 1897: lSo9. she niarrie(l Ir\in Jioynton 

Stephen MeGaffey born Ai)r. 22. of Framinghani January 9. 1890. 

1899. ^^"(•l(•(lIn(■ McGaffey died in He is jieneral freight agent of the 




Ralph A. Allen. 



Wheeloek. Mar. 17. 1X7."). His 
wife die(l in Lyndon, have no date 
of her death. He was at one time 
captain of a militia company ami 
exercised his men on the old 
common at Lyndon Centre. Caro- 
line, second daughter of Welcome 
McGaffev. married Isaac Kenaston 
of Shefheld. Vt. She died at South 



old Colony R. R. at South Framing- 
ham. They have one son. Kenneth 
Kenaston. born April 7. 1892. 
.lames S. son of Welcome McGaffey 
married Latira J. Fletcher of Lyn- 
don, Jan. 21, 1861. she was born 
in 1840 and died of dii)htheria. Dec. 
2, 1862. Thev hatl one daughter 
Laura Lsabel, "born Oct. 27, 1861. 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



85 



She marrietl Frank Quiinby Allen 
of Lyndon who was born in Whee- 
lock," Vt., February 10, 1858. They 
reside on a beautiful farm in Lyn- 
don, situated on the road from L3'n- 
don Centre to Wheelock Hollow. 
They have three children, Ralph 



1800. Their children were Almira 
B. born Dec. 6, 1827; Ann P:iiza 
born Nov. 18, 1880; Edwin W. 
born Jan. 21, 1888; John S. born 
Mar. 8, 1885; Ezra T. born June 19, 
1887. 
Almira 11 Parker married Caleb 




Mrs. Calkb Marshall. 



Albertus, born Mar. 81,1884; Emma 
Louise, born April 24, 1885; Howard 
Morton, born September 7, 1888; 
Emma Louise Allen married. 

Electa McGaffey, daughter of 
James, was born in Lyndon Aug. 1 , 
1797, married Quincy B. Parker 
of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Feb. 25, 1827. 
He was born in Lyndon, Sept. 27, 



H. Marshall of St. Jolnisbiny. He 
was an employee and overseer in 
the Fairbanks Scale Works and has 
now been with the Co., more than 
fifty years. Theii- children were: 
Hattie A., born .luly 16, 1853, died 
May 4, 185S; Sarah Electa, l)(»rn 
July 28, 1855, <lied July 8, 1SG5; 
Edwin Parker, born Apr. 80, 1859, 



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McGA FEE Y GENE A LOG Y 



died Oct. 19. 1896; \Villi(> 1). horn 
Sept. 9. 1863. died Au<i. 17. 1864. 
Helen M.. l)()ni November 5. 1865, 
married Frederick W. Robinson of 
lioston in 1898. i.s superintendent ot" 
the employment bureau of the 
Young Men'.s Christian Association 



their entire life. Their children 
were, Mary E. who married Mcses 
Adams and reside in .Modesto. Cal. 
they have one son, Ezra Scott: 
Hattie A. married H. F. Weeks of 
St. Johnsburv. They had two sons. 
Homer Ezra and Wendell Parker. 




MkS. OUANHii; L.\I)D. 



in Bo.ston, wliere they live. They 
have five children, three of whom 
are now livinu. Ivenneth Caleb. 
Edwin Marshal and John Rojiers. 
Ann Eliza, second daii<ihter of 
Electa and Quincy H. Parker, mar- 
ried Orange Scott Ladd in 18.')1. 
They s(>ttled on the old Ladd farm 
in ^^'aterford. \'t.. wh(M-(> tliey spent 



Homer \\. died at the age of fourteen 
and \\'endall V. at five years. 

Milo E. Ladd born in 1864. mar- 
ried .leiniie A. Stockwell of Con- 
cord, \'t. They resitle on the old 
Ladd farm in Waterford. They 
have two sons. Orange l)()rn in 1895. 
Richard, born in 1899. 

Edwin Wallace Parker, born in 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



St. Johnsbury, Jan. 21, 1833, spent 
his early life on his father's farm, 
improving the opportunities the 
district school and St. Johnsbury 
Academy afforded for procuring 
an education. At the age of twenty 
he became converted to the Meth- 



A memorial says of him, "It has 
been given to but few men to have 
so long, and so illustrious a career 
as that of the late Bishop E. W. 
Parker, D. D. " For forty-two 
years he laViored successfully in the 
land of his adoption. The con- 




BiSHOP Edwin W. Parkkh. 



odist Episcopal faith and began to 
prepare himself by a proper course 
of study for the ministry. In 1857 
he was appointed by the M. E. 
Conference to Lvmenburg, Vt. At 
the expiration of his term there he 
responded to the call for mission- 
aries for India. We have not 
space to follow his missionary career. 



version of India to the doctrine in 
which he believed was the one all 
absorbing aim and amiiition of his 
life. To this end his splendid 
powers of body, mind and soul were 
consecratetl. No journey whether 
by rail or bullock cart, or on foot, 
was too trying, no labor too severe, 
no duty too hard, no cost too great, 



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MrC. 1 FFI-: )  GENE A LOGY 



if by those tho day of India's ro- in Chiraco. ho was olocted Mission- 

dciiiptioii from iiiiiorant (hirknoss ary Hishop for southern Asia, hut 

and sin to ihc li<iht c)f civilization his health had l)ccn \\eakene«l by 

and tlie (h)etrines of Christ could be excessive toil, and it was evident 

hastened. At the end of nine to his friends before he returned 

years, himself and wife on account to India that his health was far 

of failing- health were coiniiellcd from beino- good. He made a 




I'^ZWA T. Takkkk. 



to take a furlou,t;li, and I'ctunied to 
their nati\'e land. While her(> tlu\v 
were instrumental in fouiuhnu- the 
Womans Foreisrn .Missionarv socic'tv. 



bi'a\'e fii;ht foi' life foi' eiii'ht months 
and die(l at Niani, 'Tal. a beautiful 
retreat in th(> Himaiavas, June 
4. lOOl. His wife. Lois S. Lee of 



Mr. I'arker was l'residin<r Lhh'r St. .lohnsburw whom he married 



in the North India confi^rence for 
about thirty years. In 1 <)()() at 



in 1S.")7 is still in the mission field. 
John Smith I'arker born Mar. 



the session of the li'oneial coiifei-ence S, ISoo. mai'ried Cynthia T. (iilhert 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



89 



of St. Johnsbury, four children were 
born to them, two of whom are now 
living, Mrs. Clara E. Parker and 
Mrs. Alice Caswell. One daughter 
Mrs. Etta Lynch, left two little 
daughters. Mr. Parker built a saw 
mill on Moose River in St. Johns- 



in St. Johnsbury, Vt. June 19, 1837 
and is a son of Quiney B. and 
Electa McGaffey Parker and a 
brother of Rishoj) Edwin W. Parker 
who for forty-two years labored as 
a missionary in India. Ezra T. 
remained on the home farm until 




Mrs. Ezra T. Parkkr. 



bury and engaged in the lumber 
business, but his ambition exceeded 
his strength, he died April 30, 1.S70, 
at the age of thirty-five. 

The Green Mountain State has 
furnished many men of prominence 
and worth to the West, in which 
number is included Ezra T. Parker 
of Logansport, Ind. He was born 



twenty-two years old and accjuired 
a common district school education. 
He then entered the eint)loy of the 
Fairbanks Scale Co. but soon after 
left them and was employed by 
Lamson t^- (ioodnow of Windsor, 
Vt., manufacturers of the famous 
Springfield rifle, with whom he 
continued until 1863, when he en- 



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McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



listed ill Co. "A" 12th \'t. Inft. Ho 
remained in the service nine nioiitlis, 
when his term having ex))ired lie 
was mustered out and returned to 
the employ of Lamson t\: (loodnow 
until their contract with the govern- 
ment expired. In 1S()S he went to 
Logansport and engaged in the 
lumber ])usiness with Wm. Hogen- 
l)ack. which Inisiness they carried 
on for t(Mi years, when Hogenback 
retiretl and .John McJohnston pro- 



in St. Johns])nrv. In 1875 he was 
(h"mitted from the .St. Jc^lmsbury 
Commandery and united with St. 
John Commandery, No. 24, of 
Logansport, Ind.. wherein he served 
as eminent commander in 1885-6-7. 
In 1886 he took the Scottish Rite 
degrees in the Indiana consistory 
thus becoming a Suljlime Prince of 
the Royal Secret and a 32d degree 
Mason. He secured the charter 
for Fidelity Chapter No. 58, Order 




pAkKKii tV; Jcjii.N.sTox'b Ll.mukh Factouy. 



cured an interest in the firm which 
continued business under the name 
of Parker iV: Jolinston. which has 
attained an enviable reputation 
in Commercial Circles as being re- 
liable and honest in all their deal- 
ings, and their word as good as a 
bond in the fulfillment of their 
contracts. Mr. Parker has also 
attained a jire-eminent distinction 
in Masonic circles. He became 
a Master Mason in W'indsoi- in 1X65. 
and soon afterwards took the Royal 
Arch and Knights Templar ilegrees 



Eastern Star, and is called father 
of the Chapter. In 1889 and 1890 
he served as woitliy patron of the 
same. He was married Dec. 15, 
1870 to Laura M. Wade of Logans- 
yun'X. They have three children: 
I"'rank H. boi'ii .Nov. 13. 1876; 
Lillian M. lu.ni Nov. 1. 1878; 
Bertha L. born Nov. 26, 1882. 
Frank H. is in the employ of Parker 
iV: Johnston and has charge of the 
docii-. window and glass tlepart- 
ment. He is also a i)rominent 
Mason and is Master of Orient 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



91 



Lodge No. 272. He ^'s also promi- 
nent in church and musical circles. 
Mr. Parker and family are members 
of the Presbyterian church and ac- 
tive workers in the same. He has 



bers its followers throughout the 
world, the Masonic fraternity. 

James McGaffey, Jr., born Nov. 
13, 1804, married for his first wife, 
Hannah Fields, adopted by Heman 




LiLiivN A. AND Bertha L. Parker. 




Frank H. Parker and Wife. 



not only contributed hberally to 
church and benevolent work, but 
has given of his time and energies 
for its promotion, being especially 
active in that splendidly organized 
and systematic charity which num- 



Meigs of Lyndon, by whom he had 
two children that died in infanc5^ 
His second wife was Mrs. Caroline 
Bradley of Wheelock, Xt. He was 
a merchant at Lyndon Centre for 
many years and at one time had 



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II. M. Nichols as |)artiu'r. He 
re])rosente(l Lyndon in the W'rnioiit 
legislature and was a man respect- 
ed l)y all and without an enemy. 
His first wife was an invalid and 
tenderly cared for. She died in 
1856. lie died Dec. 4, 18?:^. 

Polly McCaffey Ix.ni in 1S()2 
died in 1S()4. 

Martha K. dau.uhtcr of James 
McGaffev. born June 15, 1807, mar- 
ried Milton P. Brown Dec. 1, 1834. 
She was a remarkal)le woman in 
many ways. vShe had beauty of 
an unusual type, rich aubui'ii hair. 



ruluMilm<j!; 




.1 \Mi;s .M( ( ! AFi'i:v, .Ik. 

with beautiful reel checks and 
sparklinji- black eyes, she hatl many 
admirers, and a younger sister 
whose delight it wa.s to tease her. 
This sister was a jingler of rhymes, 
and if aimoyed by any of the family 
her reveng(> woulil be some verses 



them. .\ young man 
from Charleston, ten miles north 
of them had been paying atten- 
tions to Martha, and after one of 
his visits the young sister was 
heard singing while rocking a baliy, 




M.VRTHA 1>. P)K<i\\X. 

I'oor fvilcv AA'cclcs. once niore lie seeks 

.Vunt Patty in a foreiijn land; 
\\ lien lie come down from far Cliarleston, 

He took her by the hand. 
But auntie said "she would never wed, 

A man of his renown. 
He might jio hack in the same old track, 

He made when lie came down." 

Martha was a gi(>at worker when 
a mere child, at ten she did all the 
knitting for a family of eight, and 
when tall enough to nuuiage a 
s|)inning wheel. Aul the sjnnning. 
and later the weaving. She was 
born in that \)[\v\ of Lyndon called 
Lgypt. which was on the road 




Mrs. Matjia Howard 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



93 



leading from Lyndon Centre north 
to Sutton Corner. In the last years 
of her life she was fond of telling 
the events of her childhood, and of 
the dangers and hardships en- 
countered by the 
Her daughter, Mrs. 



early settlers. 
Hazelton, re- 



the North Congregational Church 
in St. Johnsbury. Their married 
life began at East St. Johnsbury. 
They afterward lived for a short 
time at Lancaster and Monroe, 
N. H. and moved to I^arnet, \^t. 
in 1842, where they s])ent the re- 




Martha 



LLazelton. 



members hearing her tell about the 
battle of Plattsburg and the child- 
ren lying with their ear to the 
ground to hear the rumbling 
jar from the cannon. She 
warm hearted and generous, 
many can testify to her kind deeds. 
About the time of her marriage 
she and her husband united with 



and 
was 
anfl 



mainder of their lives. She died 
Mar. 22, 1875 and he died Feb. 4, 
1885. They had two children, Wm. 
Edward who died in infancy, Mar- 
tha Amanda, born April 12, 1846. 
She married Lorenzo D. Hazelton 
of Barnet, May 11, 1872. He died 
Feb. 1, 1903. She resides at Barnet. 
Martha A. daughter of Milton 



94 



McGA FFEY (iES EA LOG Y 



r. and Martha Iv .McCiaffey Brown, 
was l)()rn in Harnet, \'t. Apr. 12. 
1S46. Her brother. Win. Kdwanl 
(li(Ml in infancy .so she was the only 
chihl ill the family. Her mother 
had some pecnliar notions regarding 
children, and Martha was not allow- 



inother. She was a great lover of 
nature and one of her pastimes was 
to sit in the window of her father's 
Srist mill and watch the rushing, 
tumbling water as it sw'ept over the 
(lam, and past the mill over another 
dam at a woolen mill, and then awav 




A^THUK \.. .M((i.\FFEV. 



ed to associate with other children, 
which made her childhood life a 
lonely one. rendered more so lie- 
cause she was full of life and animal 
spirits. Her father adored her and 
indulged all her childish freaks, he 
was her refuge from what would 
])robal)ly have l)een many times just 
punishment from the hands of her 



under the rustic bridge, a sheer 
fall of 75 ft. where the mills were 
situated. It seemed to fascinate 
her, antl she would lean far out of 
the window until snatched away 
by her father who feared for her 
safety. Her father was a descend- 
ant of an I^nglish family of cpiality, 
ami she has in her possession a copy 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



95 



was a 
war. 



of the family coat of arms. Her 
ancestors that came from England 
settled near Portsmouth, N. H. 
where her great grandfather, Ed- 
mund Brown was born and who 
soldier in the Revolutionary 
She possesses some literary 
talent and at one time was a corres- 
pondent of the Weekly Scotsman " 
published at Edinburg, writing 
under the nom de plume of "Neils 
Granddaughter." May 11, 1872, 
she married Lorenzo Dow Hazelton 
of Barnet, who died in 1903. He 
was a descendant of Robert Hazel- 
ton, one of the first settlers of 
Bradford, Mass. Her husband was 
a staunch prohibitionist and much 
interested in temperance work. 
Her address is Barnet, Vt. She is 
very much interested in family 
history and has given the writer 
much assistance in procuring family 
records. 

Amos F. son of James McGaffey, 
married Sarah Copp of Kirby, Vt., 
in 1S41. In 1855 he moved from 
Lyndon to Kirby. Their children 
were, William born in 1843, died 
in 1855; Amos Jr. born in 1845, 
is now living; Ezra, born in 1847. 
died in 1855; Lucy born in 1849 
died in 1855. These three children 
all died in the month of August of 
diphtheria. Andrew, the 4th child, 
born in 1859, died in 1868; Arthur 
L. born in 1861 is now living. None 
of the children married except 
Amos Jr. who married Delia C. 
Wood of Kirby, Oct. 28, 1869, 
who died in 1893. They had one 
son, Carlisle F. born Aug. 6, 1874, 
wdio married Lyra E. Morse of 
Concord, Vt. June 27, 1895, they 
have no children. 

Carlisle F. McGaffey enlisted in 
Co. "D" 1st Regt. Vt. Vol. Inft. 



May 3, 1898, was mustered into 
the V. S. service at Burlington, 
Vt. May 16, 1898, left Burlington 
May 19, for Chickamauga Park Ga., 
where the Regt. was stationecl 
until Aug. 25, then returned to 
the State Camp at Fort Ethan 
Allen and was mustered out Oct. 
30, 1898. Artluu' L., Carlisle F. 




Carlisle S. McGaffey. 

and their father all live together 
on a small farm in Kirby, are 
carpenters and builders and work 
at that trade when the farm does 
not require their attention. Amos 
F. McGaffey, Sr. died in 1883 and 
his wife Sarah Copp in 1895. 

Amanda Bucklin, daughter of 
James McGaffev, boi'ii May 16, 
1813, marn(Ml Willard Hunt Koach 



96 



iMcGA FFE i  GES E. 1 LOG } ' 



of South Columljia. X. H. .J;m. S. 
1833. Their chihUrii were Win. 
H., born Dec. 13. 1S34: Laura horn 
Dec. 1"). 1836, died in infancy- 
James .Mc(Jaffev, Ixtii Sept. 2."). 
1S38: Henry A."l)()rn July 12. 1S41 : 
Sihis. l)orn Nov. 10, 1S43, died in 
infancy, Cha.s. I).. l)orn Mav 21. 

1854, "died Oct. 9. 1874. Wm. H. 
Keach married for his first wife 
.Mandania Fletcher of Lyndon, in 

1855, she died in 1861 of diphtheria, 
they had one son, Albert p]d\vin. 
For his second wife he married Celia 
Harrison of Lyndon. Jan. 3, 1863, 




WiLLARi) H. Keach. 

she was born in 1839 and died in 
1879. They had one (lauf!;hter, 
Carrie I-]. I'or liis third wife he mar- 
ried Lucy Clark of Lemiiifiton, they 
had one daugliter. Ethel Margaret, 
Ijorn June 20, 1887. James Mc- 
(iaffey Keacli liyes in I'ittsburii, 



X. H. a grand army yeteran. He 
married .Mary Wright, their child- 
ren were Willie, Lsabelle, Edwin. 
Bert. Archie and Charles. Willie 
mai'i-ied Alice Hutchins. their child- 
ren were Carl H.. Mary B.. Earl 11. 
Edith C. Ida E., Xellie A., Rena 




Mrs. Aaiaxda B. Kkacm. 

and Flora, all t)right, smart children, 
lsabelle, second child of James 
Keach, born Jan. 29. 1S61. married 
George Clonyer. lulwin Keach, 
l)orn Apr. 6. 1867. was a great suffer- 
er for years with a sore foot result- 
ing from a accident, after haying 
one operation in a hospital in Port- 
land, he was ol)liged later to have 
his foot amputated, and the sur- 
geons i)aid him the compliment of 
being the grittiest patient they ever 
had. He stood the operation with- 
out a nuu'nuir, and without auius- 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



97 



thetics of any kind. James Reach's 
second wife was Julia A. Wright, 
their children were Herman, Aman- 
da, Esther and Maude. Albert 
E. son of Wm. Reach married Ida 
Bennett of Columbia, N. H. Their 
children were Gertrude M. born 
Sept. 21, 1883; Hattie A. born 
Sept. 9, 1885; Peasley A. l)()rn Sept. 
10, 1888; Hazen J. born Apr. 1, 




Henry A. Reach. 

1890; Willard H. born Feb. 16, 
1892; Lewis H. born Sept. 5, 1895; 
Howard Neal, born Sept. 10, 1897. 
Wm. and Celia Reach's daughter, 
Carrie E. married Irvin French of 
Columbia, N. H. They have one 
son, Fred E. born Oct. 1897. Wm. 
H. Reach died July, 1897. 

Henry A. Reach, son of Willard 
Reach, "born July 12, 1841, married 
Fanny L. Beecher, May 10, 1868. 
They had one son, Elmer Elwood 



born June 22, 1872, who married 
Milly Olive Aldrich of Livermore, 
Oct.' 7, 1895, who died June 19, 
1896, and on Jan. 1, 1901 he married 
Carrie E. They have one son, 
Lewis Elwood Reach, born Aug. 
25, 1902. Henry A's first wife died 
May 31, 1874, and he married Helen 
Blodgett, May 5, 1875, has no 
children by last wife. He was 
educated at Colebrook Academy 
and Amherst Normal School, Am- 
herst, N. H. They are the owners 
of a ranch at Afford, Colo., and are 
dealers in "Red Poll and Short 
Horn" cattle under the firm name 
of H. A. Reach & Son" On Sep- 
tember 28, 1868, Henry left New 
Hampshire for Cheyenne, Wyoming 
and in 1869 went from there to 
Colorado, in 1874 went back to 
New Hampshire to care for his 
parents, remained with them 
until 1895, then returned to Col- 
orado and engaged in the stock 
business. Charles D., son of Willard 
Reach, died of typhoid fever while 
holding a trust that required great 
care, and exposure of his health. 

David McGaffey, youngest son 
of John and Jane McClary McGaffey 
was born in Sandwich, N. H. May 
8, 1775, married Sarah Gates of 
Lyndon, Vt. where they lived until 
1824, then moved to Stanstead, P. 
Q., where he died Jan. 24, 1861, his 
wife died in 1858 aged 66, their 
children were, Roena, born at Lyn- 
don Oct. 25, 1812, died in Boston, 
Dec. 14, 1882; John, born in 1815, 
died in 1895, Betsey, born in 1819 
died in 1895; Henry, born in 1820, 
died in 1879; Laura, born Apr. 2, 
1824, died Feb. 3, 1872; Julia Ann, 
born in 1827, died in 1892; Stephen 
A., born in 1833, died in 1890. 
Roena McGaffey married Chas. H. 



98 



McGA FFE Y GEN E.\ LOG Y 



Roberts ill Lyiidon. Dec. o, 183:1 
had one child, Mary Evalyn, born 
at Lyndon, Jan. 12, 1837, who is 
noAv livinji in Uorchoster, Mass.. 
with her daughter, Mrs. Chas. A. 
Rogers; Mary Evalvn married James 
Monroe at Milfonf. X. H. Nov. 24. 
1858, has one child, Lizzie, born at 
Amherst, Jnne 17, 1861. She mar- 
ried Chas. A. Rogers at Boston. 



tlead, do not kn(jw about the son. 
Betsey McGaffey died in Dorchester 
Mass., in June, 1897, she had one 
son Charles by her later marriage. 
Sarah Weeks married Geo. Morse, 
had one son, Elmer, none of the 
family are living. Laura McGaffey 
married Orange Simon Holmes of 
Derby. Vt. July 13, 1847, they had 
fi\(' childicu; Chas. Dennison. born 



1 

1 






'^^BH^ w»  vi v-« 







Davtd McGafff.y Axi) Wife. 



June 24. 1884. They had one son 
Lester Monroe, ])orn in Boston, Mai-, 
in. 1886, died July 19, 1887. John 
McGaffey, son of David, married 
Laura A. Morrill, had one daughter. 
Rosa, Betsey ]\IcGaffey, l)orn in 
Lyndon in 1819, married three 
times, 1st husband Lorenzo Weeks, 
2nd, Forsythe, 3d, Sylvanus B. 
Kingslev, by her first marriage slie 
had tliree children, Sarah, Amanda 
and William, the daughters are both 



at Derby. \'\.. .hily 15, 1849. 1st. 
Harriet Annah,l)orn at Rock Island. 
I', il. Jan. 3, 1852. died Nov. 17, 
1853: 2nd, Harriet Annah, born 
at Rock Island, September 16, 1854; 
(Jeorge Orange, born at Rock Lsland 
Nov. 18. 1856, died July 21, 1860; 
Sarah Jeanette,born at Rock Islantl 
Aug. 13, 18()1. Chas. Dennison 
Hohnes married .Mary Clough of 
Newj)ort. \i., have one son, Chas. 
Lorenzo, born at Lenoxville, P. Q. 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



99 



in Aug. 1876; Harriet Annah Hol- 
mes marrietl George Edgar Nelson, 
June 11, 1872, he was born June 9, 
1852, died Oct. 17, 1878. Their 
children were Mary Belle, born 
July 19, 1874, Geo. Edgar Jr. born 
Mar. 3, 1878. He is now 2nd Lieut. 
3d Reg. U. S. Cavalry, stationed at 
Fort Assinneboine, Montana. Mary 
Belle Nelson married T. F. O' 
Rourke of Derby, Nov. 11, 1898. 
Sarah Jeanette Holmes married 
Milton B. Woodbury at Lakeport, 
N. H., Jan. 27, 1885, they have one 
child, Marion Holmes Woodbury, 
born at Lakeport, Jan. 14, 1886. 
Orange Simon Holmes was born in 
1816, died Apr. 5, 1858. His wife 
Laura McGaffey, born Apr. 2, 1824, 
died Feb. 3, " 1872; Stephen .A. 
McGaffey, son of David, married 
Caroline M. Duncklee of Amherst, 
N. H., Jan. 1, 1857, she was born 
Apr. 11, 1832. Their children were 
Kate Estelle, born Dec. 2, 1857; 
Emma Maria, born Oct. 22, 1860; 
Harry Porter, born March 6, 1864, 
died Mar. 27, 1870; Chas. Henry, 
born Nov. 1,1867; Frank Ball, born 
July 9, 1870; Kate E. married John 
R. Goss, July 7, 1878. Their chil- 
dren are Annie Jane, born April 17, 
1879; Harold John, born Feb. 10, 
1893; Kathryn, born Feb. 14,1900; 
Annie J. Goss married Geo. A. 
Featherstone and had one child. 
Mae Estelle. born Dec. 20, 1895, 
Stephen A's children were all edu- 
cated in Nashua, N. H. Kate 
E. McGaffey graduated from the 
high school in June, 1877. Her 
husband is an extensive dealer in 
poultry at Milford, N. H. The 210 
egg strain white Wyandottes is 
his specialty. Chas H. McGaffey, 
son of Stephen A. married Hattie 
G. Peters May 1, 1890. Their 



children were Arthur Porter, born 
Dec. 21, 1890, died Sept. 12, 1891; 
Hazel Caroline, born Apr. 18, 1893; 
Ruth Melissa, born Nov. 7, 1903. 
Frank B. McCiaffey married Bessie 
A. Shattuck, they have one child. 
Dorothy Idella, born Sept. 9, 1897, 
they reside in Milford, N. H. Chas. 
H. McGaffey hves in Somerville, 
Mass. Julia Ann McGaffey mar- 
ried Samuel Knight, Jr., son of 
Capt. Samuel and Mehitable Goss 
Knight. Samuel Knight, Sr., was 
born in Athol, Mass., Dec. 9, 1783, 
in 1818 he married Mehitable Goss 
who was born in Hartland, Vt., 
Feb. 2, 1787. They went to Canada 
in 1803. Sanuiel Knight Jr. was 
born in Stansteatl, May 8, 1825. 
The children of Samuel and Julia 
Ann McGaffev Knight were Joseph, 
Wm. T., Geo. W., Emma S., Mehit- 
able, and Rosalie. Emma S. Knight 
daughter of Samuel was born in 
Stanstead, P. Q., Apr. 29, 1853, 
was educated there and Feb. 28, 
1874 married Guy Brown of Hol- 
land, Vt., two daughters were born 
to them, Mabel Julia, born June 29, 
1875; Maude M. born Nov. 14, 1878; 
Mabel Julia married Thomas V. 
Sullivan, Jr., of Lynn, Mass., March 
21, 1896. They have one daughter 
Ruth, born Apr. 22,1903; Maude M. 
Brown married William Greenleaf 
of Lynn, Feb. 27, 1896. Two sons 
and three daughters have been 
born to them, Frank S., William, 
Etta M., Sadie and infant not named 
at this writing. Emma vS. Knight 
married for second husband Simeon 
F. Cory of Lyndonville, Vt., Sept. 
10, 1883, one son has been born to 
them, William T. Corey, born Nov. 
3, 1885, he is being educated in 
Lynn high school. Mrs. Corey's 
address is 95 Alley St. Lynn, Mass. 



100 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



Georp;e W. Knight, son of Samuel 
and Julia McGaffcy Kniglit, was 
born in Stanstead, P. Q. July 30, 
1847, where he lived until 1855, 
when his father moved to Hat ley, 
P. Q. and from there to Magog, 
v. (^ in 1857, and in 1866 received 
an appointment as customs officer 
and was stationed at Big Ford (Cor- 
ner, Barnston, P.Q.,and in 1870 was 
transferred to Stanstead Plain where 
he remained in the service until his 
death. Geo. W. was educated in 
the public schools of Canada, with 
one term in the high school at 
Barnston. When he was 18 he 
went to St. Jolmsbury, Vt. and 
worked there three months in the 
railroad shops and as fireman on a 
loccmiotive. He then went to 
Boston and worked one year in a 
moulding mill, then two years in 
Nashua, N. H., then went back to 
Boston and was employed in a 
sash and l)lind factory. While 
there he married Sarah V. Dean of 
Nashua, Nov. 17, 1869. They hved 
in Boston about two years, then 
moved to Stanstead where he work- 
ed as a carpenter. March 10, 1871 
their first child was born, Annie 
Belle and in Nov. 1871 they moved 
to Sherbrooke. P. Q. where he 
worked at his trade of carpenter. 
While living in Sherl)rooke three 
children were born to them, Geo. 
H. born Sept. 30, 1872; Viola S. 
born Oct. 28, 1873; Susan E. born 
Feb. 5, 1875. In April 1878 he 
was employed by J. C. Jones, bridge 
master on the Pa.ssumpsic R. R. 
and moved to Rock Island, P. i}. 
and while there another child, 
Gertrude M. was born to them 
May 5, 1878, they lived at Rock 
Island about four years, then mov^- 
ed to Lyndon ville, Vt., where they 



now reside. Nov. 17, 1882 another 
child, Frank W. was born to them. 
Mr. Knight is general foreman of 
the car department of the Passump- 
sic division of the B. & M. R. R. 
having been in continuous service 
with this road for nearly twenty 
seven years. Annie Belle Knight, 
daughter of Geo. W. married Chas. 
H. Bowles, Sept. 1889. Their chil- 
dren were, Eleana, born May 29, 
1893; Obid, born March 7. 1899, 
died Aug. 23, 1902. Mrs. Bowles 
died in 1899. Geo. H. Knight, 
son of Geo. W. born Sept. 30, 1872, 
married Lilla Nichols of Lyndon in 
June 1894, have one daughter, 
Ethel, born Feb, 5, 1895'; Viola S. 
Knight was born Oct. 28, 1873, 
and died with quick consumption 
Dec. 30, 1893; Susie E. Knight, born 
Feb. 5, 1875, married William H. 
Broadbelt, Sept. 19, 1893. They 
had two -children, Mildred E. born 
Apr. 12, 1894; Hayden Wm., born 
Nov. 7, 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Broad- 
belt both died with ([uick consump- 
tion and the two children are living 
with their grandmother. Mrs. Geo. 
W. Knight, who was appointed 
their guardian. Gertrude M. Knight, 
born Mav 5, 1878, married Benj, 
H. Lyster. Oct. 1902. They have 
one child, Leah Knight, born Jan. 
9, 1904, reside at Concord. Vt. 
F'rank W. Knight born Nov. 17, 
1882, married Ida xM. Geer Nov. 26, 
1903. 

Rosalie Knight, daughter of Saml. 
Kniglit and graniUlaughter of David 
McGaffey was born at Stanstead, 
P. Q. Aug. 17, 1855, marrietl Everett 
A. Wheeler, Dec. 22, 1874, they re- 
side at Franklin Falls, N. H., their 
children are (1) Myrtie Rose, born 
Sept. 27, 1875 in Orange. N. H. 
married Wm. F. Ballou, Jan. 22, 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



101 



1900. A son was born to them 
Sept. 15, 1903, who only Uved a 
few hours. (2) Edward Harvey, born 
in Groton, N. H., June 23, 1879, 
married Bertha May Kirk, June 22, 

1901. They have one dauo;hter, 
Evon Louise, born June 9, 1902. 



went with his parents to Stanstead, 
P. Q., in 1824. He married Susan 
M. Field of Stanstead, daughter of 
Jonathan Field, Dec. 31. 1845, who 
was born Oct. 7, 1818, died Sept. 
12, 1895. He died Mar. 12, 1879. 
Their children were Annie M. born 




Herbert Dexter Field. 



(3) Leona Alberta, born in Orange, 
Apr. 8, 1882.(4) Lizzie Ardelle, born 
in Bristol, N. H. Dec. 12, 1885. 
(5) Lillian Maude, born in Bristol 
Aug. 11, 1891. These children 
were all educated at Franklin Falls, 
which is their present residence. 

Henry McGaffey, son of David, 
was born in Lyndon, Vt., in 1820, 



Feb. 10, 1847; Heri)ert Henry, born 
May 19, 1850; Ida EUzabeth, born 
Oct. 5, 1853; Frederick B. born 
Nov. 10, 1856. 

Annie M. married Capt. Butnam 
Field July 1, 1880. He was born 
in Leverett, Mass., Nov. 10, 1836. 
Both are lineal descendants of 
Zachariah Field the first of the name 



102 



McGAFFEY (JESEA LOdV 



who settled in America. He came 
to Boston, Ma?s8., in 1629. Tradi- 
tion says he fled from England to 
escajie poUtical and reUgious perse- 
cution, the same as the ancestors of 
the McCiaffeys did from Scotland. 
The Field family in England traces 
back to Hubertus de La Feld, wlui 
was in the army of William the 
Conqueror, who landed in l*>ngland 
in 1066. He of the family of the 
Count de La Meld who resided 
in Colmar as early as the 6th cen- 
tury. The family coat of arms 
was: sable, three garbs, argent, 
some families adding a chevron. 
In the 16th century the name be- 
came prominent by John Field, 
who was the first to introduce the 
Copernican system of Astronomy 
in England. In recognition of this, 
to his arms was added l\v the 
Archer's Court of Heraldry, a dex- 
ter arm issuing out of clouds proper, 
fessways, habited gules, holding an 
armitary sphere by its axis. In 
1861 Capt. Field enlisted in the 
10th N. Y. Vol. and served through 
the war. In 1865 he opened a 
printing office in New York and in 
1872 moved to Greenfield, Mass. 
and in 1887on account of poor health 
moved to San Diego where he now 
is engaged in the hardware business. 
They have one son, Herbert Dex- 
ter Field, born in Greenfield, Mass., 
Sept. 27, 1881. He is engaged in 
the hardware business, is not mar- 
ried. 

Herbert H. McGaffey, son of 
Henry McGaffev. was born in Stan- 
stead, P. Q., May 19, 1850. He 
married Mar. 8, 1871 Inez B. Brewer 
of Holland. Vt., who was born in 
Holland, Oct. 4, 1852. They had 
one son, Henry Brewer, born July 
25, 1879. Mrs. McCJaffey died Dec. 



28, 1892, and May 7, 1894 he mar- 
ried Jennie A. Brewer who was 
born in Holland, June 1, 1864. 
Mr. McGaffey owns and occupies 
the farm of 865 acres in Stanstead 
on which his grandfather. Jona- 
tluui Field settled in 1808. He is 
a busy an<l successful farmer, has 
a dair\- of 21 cows and other stock 
in pi-opoi'tion, is a man of good 
judgement and sterling integrity, 
whose counsel in l)usiness meetings 



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IIkkiikkt }1i;xi;v .M(Gaffp:v. 

and town affairs is sought by his 
fellow citizens. He has a Queen's 
Medal given for gallant service in 
the Fenian Raid, in 1870. His son 
Henrv married Helene A.Batchelder 
of Piennont, N. H. March 10. 1004. 
She was born in Piermont. Nov. 
13, 1882, they reside on the home 
farm with his parents. 

Ida l^^lizabeth McGaffey, born in 
Stanstead, Oct. 5, 1953. died June 
7, 1872. In a published history 
of the town she is mentioned as 
having greatly endeared herself 
to friends and neighbors by her 
excellent and amiable qualities. 
Frederick B. McCiaffey, born in 
Stanstead, Nov. 10, 1856. married 



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103 



Helen Bowles of St. Johnsbiiry, Vt. 
in 1878. They have two children: 
Florence Josephine, born in 1888; 
Frances Louise, born in 1892. The 
family reside in Stanstead, P. Q. 
'George Wallace McGaffey, son of 
Andrew, born in Epsom, N. H. 
Jan. 16, 1786, died in April, 1852. 
He with four of his brothers, David, 
Andrew, James and Eben and 
three sisters, Betsey, Rachel and 
Hannah went from New Hamp- 
shire t-<:) Mt. Vernon, Maine, and all 
settled there except Eben who 
went to Mississippi, where he died 
in 1861. Geo. W.'s father, Andrew 
was son of John and Jane McClary 
McGaffev. Geo. W. married Mary 
C. Bean, born May 22, 1795, died 
Mar. 20, 1867. Tlieir children were 




Henry C. McGaffey. 

Selden, born July 2, 1815, died in 
Metasone, Wash., in 1887. Emme- 
line, born Oct. 31, 1818, died March 
18, 1820; George W. Jr., born Jan. 
27, 1821, died Oct. 31. 1885. Neal 
Bean, born May 22, 1823, now living 
at Mt. Vernon, Me., Andrew J., born 
July 20, 1825, Malvina, born April 
19,* 1829, died April 27, 1833. Wm. 
H. born Dec. 17, 1832, died Nov. 
26, 1845; Mary A. born Nov. 1, 
1838, died Sept. 28, 1891. 



Selden McGaffey married Eliza 
Bech, lived at Mt. Vernon a short 
time, then went to Parkman and 
from Parkman to Langerville, and 
from there to Minnesota in 1855, 
from there to Oregon and thence to 
Washington then a territory, where 
he died in 1887. His widow is still 



f^ 




l^^^^^^^^^ftbv 









Mrs. Henry C. McGaffey 

AND GrANDCHLIDREN. 

living in Anoka, Minn., at the age 
of 89. They had five children, all 
boys, Henry C, Wm. H., Wallace 
B., George M., and Selden Jr. 
Their great grandfather, Lieut, 
Andrew McGaffey was in the Revo- 
lutionary war, and was severely 
wounded at the battle of Bunker 
Hill, a bullet passing through his 
right side. The surgeons in clean- 
ing the wound passed a silk hand- 
kerchief back and forth through it 
and his courage was such that he 
sang all through the operation. 
George Wallace McGaffey had the 
title of Captain which he acquired 
in the war of 1812. 

Henry C. McGaffey, son of Selden, 
son of Geo. W. born in Mt. Vernon 
Mar. 12, 1845 went with his parents 
to Minnesota when he was ten years 



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of age and at the age of 10 enlisted 
in Co. "A" 2m\ Regt. V. S. Sharp- 
shooters, and remained in the 
service three and one hah" years. 
He was in 31 battles namely: 
Falmouth, Orange Court House, 
Howling CJreen, Rapahannfjck Sta- 
tion, Suli)hur Springs, (lainsville, 
Bull Run, South .Mountain, Antie- 
tam, Fredricks])urg, Chaneelorsville, 
(lettysburg, Woping Heights, Au- 
l)urn, Kelly's Ford. Brandy Station. 
Locust Grove, Mine Rim, Wilder- 
ness, Tads Tavern, Foe River, 
Spotsylvania Court House, North 
Anna, Tolopotong, ^lutany, Cold 
Harbor, Fetersburg, Deep Bottom, 
Squirell Levell, Boyington. Flaid-: 
Road, Hatches Run. During his 
last year of service he was a night 
scout, and during this service 
brought in 33 jirisoners. His army 
record as yet has not been beaten 
by any 16 year old boy. At the 
battle of Antietam he was shot 
through the left arm and leg and 
from those wounds he has never 
fully recovered and will carry dis- 
ability through his life time, and 
for this si:)lendid service, and his 
disal)led condition, he is receiving 
from the government he helped to 
maintain, and to which he gave his 
yoimg numhood and incurred a 
lifelong disability, the munihcent 
sum of eight dollars per month. 
There are many getting SI 2.00,1 4.00 
and 16.00 j^er month whose only 
service rendered the government 
was answering at roll call, but they 
had friends who had a "Full'' at 
headquarters. Henry C. in 1865 
married Mary E. Kent of Anoka, 
Minn., and eight years after went 
first to Oregon, then to Washington 
Territory and now r(>si(l(>s at Cos- 
luopolis. Wash., iieai- the i'acific 



coast. Their children were Chas. 
H. horn ill .\iioka in 1867; Addie 
F. who died at lili; Maude B. who 
died in her 26th year; .Jessie L. 
and Lois E. Chas. H. married, 
resides at Everett, Wash., had two 
sons, Ray and Wesley age 13 and 5. 
Addie married a Mr. Fratt and at 
her death left one child Maud E. 
who is 11 years old. Maude B. 
married Mr. Smith, died leaving 
two children, Wrn, age 13 and Leone 
age 10. Jessie L. married, lives at 
Everett, Wash, has one son, Russell 
three years old. Lois E. the young- 
est child lives with her parents. 
Maude E. Fratt their grandchikl 
lives at Melburn, Wash. Their 
grand children \'ern and Leone 
live in Cosmopolis. Wallace B. 
McGaffey lives in Anoka. Minn., 
but have been unable to procure any 
record from him. Selden McGaffey 
Jr. was born in East Lincoln, Wis. 
Oct. 12, 1857, lived there one year, 
then went with his ]iarents to Man- 
amiah. Minn. The family was driv- 
en from there by the Indians, and 
went to Anoka, Minn., where he 
has since lived. Dec. 25, 1880, he 
married Mary W. Gil])atrick. Their 
children were Lester B. born 1881; 
Lois Eliza, born, 1883, Blanche 
Hazel, born, in 1888; Harry Leo, 
born in 1890; Helen Irene, born in 
1892; Lillian Bessie, born in 1894; 
Caroline Bernice, born in 1901, 
One son, Frank Selden, died Nov. 
29, 1888. Mr. McGaffey is County 
Auditor for Anoka County. The 
family all live together at Anoka, 
Minn. 

Geo. M. son of Selden, son of Geo. 
Wallace McGaffey, was born in 
Farkman, Me., Sept. 9, 1851 and 
went with his parents to Minnesota 
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sin, and back to Minnesota while 
3^eta small boy. In 1875 he went to 
Oregon and Oct. 25, 1877, married 
Sarah Spaulding of Cornwallis, Ore. 
She was born in Missouri, August 5, 
1853. Their children were Nina 
Helen, born in Kings Valley, Ore., 
July 27, 1878. Geo. Herman, born 
in Buena Vista, Ore., Nov. 6, 1888. 
Harry, born in Cociuille Oity, June 




Mrs. Nixa H. McAfee 
AND Children. 

5, 1890; George Herman died Mar. 
7, 1889. 

Nina Helen married James Arnold 
McAfee of Stockton, Cal. Sept. 15, 
1901. They have two children. 
James Arnold Jr. born July 18, 
1902; Helen Florence, born Feb. 
16, 1904. Mr. McAfee is a con- 
tractor and builder in Stockton 
and the following article taken 
from a Stockton Daily indicates a 
revolution in the construction of 
buildings in the city. "J. A. Mc 
Afee is building a home for himself 



on Pilgrim St. that will he the first 
complete concrete structure inStock- 
ton, but it will doubtless be the 
pattern for many others because it 
will be cheaper then brick, and \\\\\ 
surely be more comfortable and 
lasting then either a frame or brick 
building. The entire superstructure 
will be of concrete and the truss 
roof will rest on soliil concrete walls, 
twelve inches thick, the Avails will 
be without joints and can be made 
in imitation of stone b}^ blocking 
and smoothing with smoothing tools. 
The foundation walls are concrete 
fourteen inches thick, resting on 
hardpan. It will be a two story 
building of ten rooms having ground 
dimensions of 50x40 feet. Mr. ^Ic- 
Afee figures that the cost of the 
construction of the walls will not ex- 
ceed the labor cost of laying brick. 
The combined price for brick in 
Stockton is $10,50 per thousand 
and brick layers are paid $6.00 
per day of eight hours, while their 
helpers are paid $3.00 per day. 
Experienced house builders say 
the concrete structure will be cool- 
er in summer and warmer in winter 
than brick. 

George M. McGaffey with his 
family went to California in Octo- 
ber. 1897, is engaged in the lum- 
ber business in Stockton and owns 
his home and three lots in the city. 

George W. McGaffey, Jr.. liorn 
in Mt. Vernon. Me., Jan. 27, 1821, 
married Elizabeth Judkins, Oct. 23, 
1847. She was born in New Sharon, 
Me., March 9, 1829. Their chil- 
dren were, Emma C, born May 18, 
1850; Lillian E., born April 22, 
1855; Florence J., born March 30, 
1858. Emma C, married Wm. J. 
Drew, xMarch 30, 1878. Their chil- 
dren were, Katie Emma, born 



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June ;;. ISSO; Win. Winter, horn 
.l;ui. 2(1, 1SS2; Frank Weslev, born 
Nov. 10, 1884; Frederick Carleton, 
born Nov. 12. 1887. died Oct. 1. 
1893. K;Uie Emma Drew mar- 
ried Dani(>l .Melvin Paddock, Oct. 
14. 1 !)();;. Win. W'inter Drew mar- 
licd Mnrion Stewart l?e(Ml, Voh. 
J 4, llJUo. They have one cliild, 
Helen Ernestine Drew, born Jan. 
12. 1904, in Norridgewock, Me. 
LilUan E. McOaffey. daughter of 
Geo. W. Jr., married Wesley B. 
Worthing of Mt. Vernon, May 26, 
1877, one child was born to them, 
Florence 1^:. born Sept. 9, 1880, 
who is a highly successful teacher in 
Cambridge. Mass. Florence J. Mc- 
Gaffey married Henj. Clough \'an- 
nah, March 30, 1879. Their chil- 
dren were, Geo. Augustus, born 
Oct. 11. 1880; Charlie Reed, born 
Jan. 27. 1SS4, cUed Nov. 23, 1887; 
Guy Liuwood, born Sept. 5, 1887; 
Benj. C, born Ang. 18, 1889; 
Thomas Reed, born January 17, 
1898. George Augustus \'annah mar- 
ried Jeanette Carter, September 23, 
1902. They have one child, Flor- 
ence Elizabeth, ])orn in Rockland, 
Me., August 23, 1903. George W. 
McGaffey. Jr.. was a sohHer in the 
Ci\il War. was Hospital steward 
in the 14th Maine Regt. For 

several years of the last of liis life 
he was postmaster at Mt. ^'ernon, 
Me., where lie died Oct. 31, 1885, 
highly respected by all that knew 
him. Have not the date of his 
wife's death. 

Neal Bean McGaffey and .\ii(h-e\v 
J., never married, but they lived 
on the home ])lace, one of the best 
farms in the town. After Xeal 
B's sister married. \w made his 
home with her and since her death 
he has lived with his niece, Mrs. 



Woi'thiiig, and is })ast M). .Vndrew 
J., his brother, died Feb. 24, 1904. 
Mary A. .McGaffey married Wm. 
II. Leightoii ill 1878. She died in 
Sept. 1891, had \w children. Emme- 
line died before she was two, and 
Malvina when she was four years 
old. Of George Wallace McGafTey's 
sisters who went from New Hamp- 
shire to Maine, Betsey married 
Andrew Brown; Hannah married 
Chajiman Brainerd; Rachel never 
married. Of his l)rothers, David, An- 
drew, and James they all married 
and had families, and many of their 
descendants are still living in Mt. 
^'ernon. They do not seem to be 
interested in family history suffi- 
ciently to reply to letters of inquiry 
regarding records. One of David's 
daughters, Hannah, married Benj. 
Philbrick, they had several children 
among whom were: Salome, Charles 
Maurice, William and Emmeline. 
Emmeline married Jerymy Towle, 
Salome married Andrew Brown. 
one of his sons David, married 
Caroline Bean, and their daughter, 
Mrs. Howard Whittier resides in 
Mt. Vernon. There is also a grand 
daughter of Betsey McCJafTey, Mrs. 
Weston Gilman living in .Mt.\'ernon, 
but the writer has been unable to 
get any records from them, so does 
not vouch for the correctness of 
the foregoing. Chas. H. McCiafTey 
married and had two children: 
John B. born July 2 1880: Lora. 
born Aug. 28, 1881. .John married 
Ethel Doust of Vienna, Me., in 1900. 
they have two children : Ray 
LinVille. born Dec. 23, 1901: Alice 
Murial, born Dec. 2.5, 1903. Charles 
H. McGaffev was the son of .lohn 
H. and Mary Doloff McCJaffey and 
grandson of .lames, son of .Andrew, 
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and died there in 1903. He has a 
sister Sarah Hving in Manchester. 
Mrs. Worthing of Mt. Vernon has 
the old leather pocket book that her 
grandfather, Geo. Wallace McGaffey 
carried through the Revolutionary 
War. The history of the Hon. 
Albert B. McGaffey of Denver 
Colorado has been delayed in the 
writing up with the hope of pro- 
curing his personal history which 
was promised the writer seven 
months since. He traces his lineage 
back to Alexander McGregor Mc- 
Gaffey of whom the writer has no 
account except that he married 
Emily Wallace. Whether she was 
a sister of Margaret Wallace who 
married Eliphalet Sanborn Nov. 
19, 1761, or of Hannah Wallace who 
married Andrew McGaffey, son of 
Neal, about 1774 or 1775 is not 
known by the writer. Albert Ber- 
trand McGaffev was born Oct. 22, 



1851 and is the only living son of 
Albert Andrew McGaffey and Mary 
Bertrand. His mother belonged 
to the Bertrand family (French) 
one of whom, Marshall Bertrand 
was exiled to St. Helena with 
Napoleon and is buried in the same 
tomb with him. Albert B. Mc- 
Gaffey has one sister, Mary S. born 
Feb. 22,1853 who married a Beatty. 
Albert Andrew McGaffey was born 
Aug. 2, 1829 and married Samantha 
Dunn. He died Mar. 20, 1872. 
He was the son of Samuel S. Mc- 
Gaffey, born Feb. 15, 1808,died Oct. 
22, 1884, he was the son of Andrew 
McGaffey and Cynthia Bullard. 
Andrew McGaffey was the son of 
Alexander McGregor McGaffey and 
Emily Wallace. 

Albert B. McGaffey married 
Anna K. Miller, they have one 
son, Kenneth Miller McGaffey, 
born April 18, 1884. 




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Genealogy of the New Cnglond Brcinch 
of the rollows ramilv. 



T^HE Fellows are of English cle- 
' scent. William the progenitor of 
the N. E. branch was born in Derby- 
shire, England about 1609, married 
an Ayers and came with his wife 
and son Isaac and probably other 
children from Derbyshire or Not- 
tinghamshire and settled in Ipswich 
Mass., in 1<S38. His children were 
Isaac, born in 1635, died April 12, 
1721, Ebenezer, no date of his birth, 
Ephriam, born 1639; Samuel, no 
date of his birth, died in 1712; 
Joseph, Elizabeth and Abigail, there 
was also a Sarah Fellows who mar- 
ried Josiah Brown, son of Nicholas 
and Elizabeth Brown. Abigail 
Fellows married Samuel Ayers of 
Newburyport, Mass., March 21,1677; 
Isaac Fellows, son of William, mar- 
ried Joanna Boardman Jan. 29,1762, 
he died at Ipswich, Mass., April 12, 
1721, his wife died March 20, 1732; 
their children were, Isaac, born Nov. 
27, 1673; Samuel, born Feb. 8, 1676; 
Ephriam, born Sept. 3, 1679; Jona- 
than, born Sept. 28, 1682; David, 
born Apr. 7, 1687, died without 
issue, Joanna born Nov. 9, 1689 
married Joseph Smith Sept. 2, 1710. 
Samuel Fellows, son of Isaac, mar- 
ried Deborah Sanborn, Nov. 15, 
1698, she was born in 1681, died 
1725. Their children were Isaac, 
born Dec. 12, 1699, died in 1759; 
John born Dec. 23, 1701, died 1725; 



Joanna, born Nov. 29, 1702; Sarah 
born Apr. 9, 1704; Rachel, born 
Mar. 10, 1706; Samuel, born Oct.' 
30, 1707. Joanna Fellows mar- 
ried Hezekiah Blake, 1724, Rachel 
Fellows married Samuel Shaw, Apr. 
5, 1725. Isaac Fellows, son of 
Samuel, married Abigail Sleeper 
Nov. 9, 1721. Their children were 
Samuel, born Oct. 20, 1722; John 
born Aug. 10, 1724; Deborah, born 
July 26, 1726; Michael born May 
20, 1737; Jonathan, born Sept. 
15, 1739; Isaac, Jr., born Aug. 29, 
1742. 

The writer's thanks are due to 
Charles S. Fellows, member of the 
Chamber of Commerce of Minne- 
apolis, Minn., for records of the 
European Fellows, Mr. Fellows has 
been engaged for forty five years 
looking up the Fellows genealogy, 
and in 1900 visited England for 
the purpose of searching records 
there. He is a descendant of 
Samuel who came about 1638 or 
1639 and settled in Salisbury, 
Mass. He found at Great Bowdcn, 
England, a record of one Leonard 
Fellows who was mentioned in the 
will of Elizabeth Morieke, 1650, in 
the same will is mentioned Wm. of 
Ipswich and Samuel of Salisbury and 
Richard of Connecticut. There was 
a Richard who settled in Hadley, 
Mass., but left no descendants 



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M cGA FFE 1  GENE A LOG Y 



named Fellows. Savage iiiciitioiis 
a William as comiiifi in the ship 
"Planter" in HV^t, who possibly 
(lid not land in Mass. at all but 
lived at the Barbadoes wlierc he 
died in IHTS. 

Sanuiel l-'ellows. son of Isaac, 
married, his children were: Stephen 
born Jan. II. 174«). died Oct. 15. 
1830: Pollv who married Mr. 




K.vcHKL McCIap^fky. 

Peasley; Judith who married Mr. 
Dollar, Gth. Stephen, married Han- 
nah Sargeaut, born Auj;-. 17, 1749, 
died Oct. 20, 1832. Their children 
were Jonathan, born Sept. 3, 1775; 
Simon, l)orn May 13, 1777, died 
Aug. 26, 1853; Michael, born Jan. 
2, 1781; Stephen Jr. born Nov. 
18, 1786, died Julv 1), 1853: John 
born Nov. 11, 1791. died Julv 3, 
1869. 
Stephen Fellows ,)r. married twice, 



his first wife was Peggy Margaret 
McCiaffey, daughter of Samuel M.c- 
Gaffev, she was born Jime 30, 1785, 
died June 9, 1823. They had 10 
children (1) Harriet, born Mav 1809, 
died Mar. 1887; (2) Michael, born 
Oct. 7, 1810; (3) Marv Jane, born 
Mar. 9. 1812, died Apr. 12, 1836; 
(4) Julia Maria, born Dec. 31. 1813, 
died May 18, 1836; (5) Simon, born 
Nov. 20, 1815, is now living at 203 
Prospect St. Charlotte, Mich. (6) 
Lvdia McGaffev Fellows, born Mar. 
6," 1817. died ^Iuly 15. 1903; (7) 
Samuel McGaffeA' Fellows, born 
Nov. 23, 1818, died June 26, 1856; 
(8) Wdliam, born Sept. 11, 1820, 
died June 7, 1899; (9) Alfred, born 
Jan. 21. 1822, died Feb. 20, 1895; 
(10) Margaret, born May 19, 1823, 
died Jan. 29, 1840. For his second 
wife Ste])lien Fellows, Jr., married 
Rachel McGaffey, sister of his first 
wife, she was born March 19. 1797, 
died March 8, 1883. Their children 
were: (1) Hannah, born Oct. 12, 
1824, died Feb. 23, 1890; (2) George, 
born Oct. 26. 1826, died Mav 15, 
1900; (3) Albion, born Sept. 16, 
1827. died Mar. 5, 1865; (4) Stephen 
Norris, born May 30, 1830. now liv- 
ing in Iowa City, la. (5) Mary L. 
born Feb. 26, 1838. now living in 
Iowa City. Iowa. 

Harriet Fellows, daughter of Ste- 
phen Jr. married Noah Beede, they 
liad two children, A. A. Beede of 
Dixon, 111., and Mrs. Abbie Ik^ede 
Treat of Le Mars, Iowa, she mar- 
ried Almon H. Treat Oct. 5, 1880, 
he died Jan. 31, 1890. Mrs. Treat's 
address is 1203 Matlison St.. Le- 
Mars. Iowa, has no children. Mich- 
ael Fellows had no children, have 
not his record. Mary Jane Fellows 
married Wm. Allen, has two daugh- 
ters, L\lc^• and Laura. Julia Maria 



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111 



Fellows married John H. Page. 
Lydia McGaffey Fellows married 
John C. Oliver. Her history later. 
Simon Fellows married and has a 
large family, his history later, 

Samuel McGaffey Fellows mar- 
ried and has three children, Mrs. 
W. T. Nowlin of San Francisco; 
Mrs. Alice F. Rigby of Mt. Vernon, 
Iowa and Mrs. Nora F. Law of 
San Francisco, Cal. William Fel- 
lows married, has two children, 
Mrs. Hattie Flanner and Norman 
J. Fellows, both of Chicago Heights, 
111. Alfred Fellows married, had one 
son Charles and one daughter Mrs. 
Miranda Young, both living in 
Kansas. Margaret Fellows never 
marred. 

Lydia McGaffey Fellows, daughter 
of Stephen Jr. born in Sandwich, 
N. H., Mar. 6, 1817, married John C. 
Oliver of White Pigeon, Me., Dec. 
9, 1835. She died in Sterling, 111., 
July 1903. Their children were 
Margaret E. born in Palmyra, 111., 
Mar. 18, 1838; Julia M., born near 
Dixon, 111., May 10, 1840. Lucretia 
A. born near Dixon, Feb. 6, 1842; 
Stephen F. born at Sugar Grove 
Palmyra, May 17, 1846. Oscar A., 
born at Sugar Grove Apr. 6, 1851; 
Margaret E. Oliver married Thos. 
H. Dickson of Palmyra, July 25, 

1860, he died Apr. 3, 1862 and she 
married Soloman Kinsey of Napa 
City, Cal. July 23, 1867. She died 
in California in 1880, she had one 
child by her first marriage, William 
O. Dickson, born September 3, 

1861, who died childless in Cali- 
fornia. She has four surviving 
children by her second husband: 
Edith, born at Grass Valley, Cal., 
May 5, 1868; Lydia B. born at 
Napa Valley, Cal., Jan. 1, 1870; 
Julia M., born in San Francisco 



Sept. 21,1874; Lulie E., born at 
Brownsville, Cal., Jan. 15, 1880. 
Edith Kinsey married a Persall, 
lives at Mendicino, Cal., Lydia B. 
Kinsey married Mr. Bell of San 
Francisco; Julia M. Kinsey lives at 
Haywards, Cal.; Julia M. Oliver 
married John A. Kline of Dixon, 
111., May 7, 1863, had one son, Louis 
A. Kline, born at Geneseo, 111., Dec. 
21, 1864; Lucretia A. Oliver married 
Geo. L. Kline of Dixon, Dec. 24, 
1865, died at Sterling, 111., July, 
1903; Stephen F. Oliver married 
Ella Murray, who died without liv- 
ing issue, he is living at Soldiers' 
Home at Quincy, 111.; Oscar A. 
Oliver married Corrinne F. Sheldon 
of Rock Falls, 111., Dec. 8, 1874, 
their children were Guy, born at 
Rock Falls, Jan. 25, 1879, died 
Jan. 8, 1896: Mantle Louise, born 
at Rock Falls, Dec. 15, 1881: Jay 
Chas. born at Rock Falls Aug. 29, 
1886; Mary Bertha, born at Rock 
Falls, April 27, 1899. Three liv- 
ing children reside with their par- 
ents at Evanston, 111. Lucretia A. 
Oliver has three hving children: 
Lydia E. born at Geneseo, 111., 
Apr. 16,1867, married Mr. Stephens, 
lives at Como, 111. John L. Kline, 
born at SterUng, Oct. 20, 1869, 
lives at Sterling, Geo. O. Kline, 
born at Sterling, March 26, 1876. 
lives at Freeport. 111. 

Simon Fellows, son of Stephen 
and Peggy McGaffey Fellows was 
born in Sandwich, N. H., Nov. 20, 
1815. He married July 10, 1836 
Elizabeth Deys who was born Mar. 
12, 1816. They had 10 children, 
50 grandchildren and 47 great 
grandchildren. Their children were 
Oliver E. born June 12, 1837; 
Albert, born Apr. 16. 1839; Charles, 
born May 25, 1841; Margaret E. 



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born .luiic 27. 1848; Electa, born 
June 0. lS4o: Ivlward S. born 
Sept. 22, 1S47: I-llizabelh D. born 
Mar. 31, 1851; J>nnneline S. born 
Feb. 3, 1854; Ernest, born June 14. 
1856; Omar D. born Oct. 10, 1860. 
Simon Fellows wife died Apr. 6, 
1890, he is still living at Charlotte, 
Mich. 

Oliver E. Fellows eldest son of 
Simon, married Mar. 25, 1861. Mary 
E. Bover, who was born Jan. 1, 
1841. 'Their children were (1) Ste- 
phen Iv born at Dixon. Til., Feb. 
5, 1862, now a resident of Hard- 
wick, Minn. (2) Fidelia, born Mar. 
13, 1863, lives at Luvern, Minn. 

(3) A. J. Fellows, born Nov. 13, 
1864, lives at Kansas Citv, Mo. 

(4) Nettie, born Nov, 23, 1866, lives 
at Sterling, 111. (5) Hattie, born 
Julv 27. 1868, died Julv 6, 1900; 
(6)" David, born Apr. 17, 1870, re- 
sides at Glenburn. No. Dakota; 
(7) John, born Aug. 16. 1872, resid- 
ence Dixon, 111., (8) Lydia,born Sept. 
29, 1874, lives at George ville, Minn. 
(9)Marv E. born Nov. 21, 1877, 
residence Dixon, Til., (10) F. E. 
Fellows, born Nov. 1,1879, residence 
Litchfield, Minn., (11) Henry, born 
June 12, 1882, residence Hardwick. 
Minn. (12) Rena. born Dec. 11, 
1884, lives at JoUiet, No. Dakota; 
Stephen E. Fellows married Au- 
gusta Moeller of Dixon., Mar. 14, 
1889, has two children, Marie Ethel, 
born Apr. 9, 1901 at Dixon, and 
Theodore Edwin, born Apr. 15, 
1904 at Hardwick, Minn. Mr. 
T-'ellows is a prosperous farmer at 
Hardwick, Minn., was l)()rn at 
I'almvra, 111., Feb. 5, 1862. His 
wiff at Dixon, Nov. 30, 1867. 
Nettie Fellows, daughter of Oliver 
E. married A. N. Sier, has four 
children; Raymond, Helen, Arthur 



and a baby not named. Fidelia 
fellows married Mr. Missman, has 
ten children, l^ert. George, Elmer, 
Guy, Eugene, Bertha, Nettie, Hattie 
Ethel and baby. Lydia Fellows 
married D. J. Fischer, has two 
children, Orville and Bessie. Mary 
E. P'ellows married W. J. Mosholder. 
has three children, Floyd, Law- 
rence, Royce. Rena I'ellows mar- 
ried L. L. Grier. Albert T'ellows, 
son of Simon, born Apr. 16, 1839, 
died Feb. 6, 1866, never married. 
Charles Fellows marrie(l Margaret 
Eitman, has two children, lives at 
Morrison TIL, Margaret E. Fellows 
married Joseph H. Bawn, has one 
child, lives at Charlotte, Mich. 
Electa Fellows married Geo. \\. 
Heath, both dead, had five children: 
Edward S. Fellows, son of Simon, 
born Sept. 22, 1847, married Libbie 

5, Ward of Round Grove, 111., Nov. 
16, 1880. They had 12 children: 

(I) Simon Henrv. born ^lav 7, 1882, 
died Mar. 10, 1895; (2) Eddie Lee. 
born July 29, 1883; educated in 
Round Grove schools, is a farmer 
not married, (3) Eva Blanche, born 
Mar. 14, 1885, lives at home; (4) 
Norma Lurene, born Nov. 18, 1886, 
is employed as assistant at County 
farm; (5) Ida Cordelia, born Feb. 

6, 1888, is yet in school; (6) Roxie 
A., Joe, born Aug. 7, 1889, at 
school ; (7) James Ward born Apr. 

7, 1891, at school; (8) Otto Deo, 
born Oct. 14, 1893, at boys school. 
(9) Roscoe Conkling, born Dec. 21, 
1894, school bov. (10) Brvan Wm. 
born Oct. 23. " 1896. school boy; 

(II) Elmer Clayton, born Feb. 11, 
1899, at home: (12) Cecil Vern, born 
Apr. 4, 1902. all sniart healthy 
children. Elizabeth D. l-'ellows 
married Elijali Bawn, has two child- 
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113 



band is dead. Emmeline S. Fel- 
lows married twice, 1st husband 
was Wm. J. Eyle, 2nd, Milford C. 
Waite, had three children l^y 1st 
husband, one by 2nd, lives at 
Morrison, 111. Ernest Fellows, son 
of Simon, was born on a farm near 
Round Grove, 111., June 14, 1856, 
was educated in the pul)lic scIkmjIs 
and took up farming near Morrison 
111., Nov. 22, 1876, he married Susan 
Adelaide Lewis. Four children were 
born to them: Ethel Grace, born Jan. 
26, 1879; Susie Vey, born Aug. 1, 
1888; Leah Rose, born Mar. 23, 
1894; Evan 0. born Nov. 20, 1898. 
He continued farming until Nov. 
1881 when he moved with his 
family to Dixon, 111., where he 
worked for the Grand DeTour 
Plow Co., two years, then returned 
to Round Grove and became 
baggage master for the Chicago 
Northwestern R. R. which position 
he held until 1887, when he became 
carpenter for the same corporation 
ancl worked at this trade until 1893, 
w^hen he moved back onto his 
farm and worked at farming until 
1902. In 1901 he was attacked 
with what he supposed was rheu- 
matism, but which finally develo]:)ed 
into creeping paralysis from which 
he is now (1904) nearly helpless. 
He was a man respected by his 
fellow citizens and held the office 
of school director and treasurer of 
the school board, also was made 
commissioner for expending the 
state money appropriated for high- 
ways. In Nov. 1902 he sold his 
farm of 95 acres in Illinois for 
S8,000, and went to Davidsonville, 
Md., where he bought a farm of 
30 acres for $4,100, where he now 
resides with his wife and three 
youngest children. His eldest 



daughter, Ethel Grace, born on the 
farm near Morrison, graduated 
from the Morrison high school and 
when 18 married Frank G. Lyon 
of Morrison, Feb. 9, 1897. Four 
children have been born to them, 
Forrest Frank, born Dec. 12, 1897; 
Lynn Ernest, born Feb. 8. 1899; 
Susan Adelaide, born June 24, 1301, 
Edith Rose, born Dec. 22, 1903. 
Mr. Lyon is a successful farmer on 
a farm near Morrison, 111. Omar 
D. Fellows married Martha V. 
Schaub, moved to Paradise, Penn. 
Hannah, eldest daughter of Rachel 
McGaffey Fellows was born in 
Sandwich, N. H. Oct. 12, 1824 and 
died in Illinois, Feb. 23, 1890, 
she married Walter Lockwood Rog- 
ers, Feb. 29, 1844, and was the 
mother of seven children: (1) Louis 
Gilbert, born Nov. 29, 1846; (2) 
Ehza Maxwell, born June 27, 1848; 
(3 and 4) Addison Albion and Alice 
Adelaide, born Feb. 28, 1853. (5) 
Mary Emma, born Dec. 16, 1854; 
(6) Anna Mahala, born Julv 14, 
1856; (7) Flora A. born Dec. 11, 
1858. Louis G. Rogers became a 
farmer near Dixon, 111., died Jan. 
8, 1891. Eliza M. Rogers married 
Thos. Howard Johnson of Dixon, 
Feb. 25, 1869. They went di- 
rectly to Colorado and have lived 
in that state ever since, their 
present residence is Loveland, Col. 
They had four children: (1) Burton 
W., born in 1870; (2)Myrna A. born 
in 1877; (3) Flora M. born in 1878; 
(4) Edna Grace born in 1880; Bur- 
ton W. Johnson married and lives 
in Colorado. Myrna A. Johnson 
married Jesse N. Richey, lives at 
Lone Tree, Iowa. Flora M. John- 
son married Gordon Goodwin in 
1900, cUed in 1903 leaving one child 
Florence Mae, who lives with her 



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band Aug. 27. 
in Dixon, 111., 
married Jame.s 



sung 



grandparent.s at Loveland. Edna 
G. Johnson married Burton I). 
Ash, lives at Loveland, Colo. Ad- 
dison Rogers died Mar. 10, 18o4. 
Alice Adelaide Rogers married 
Howard Johnson Mar. 24, 1872. 
they have two children, Elwyn 
Howard, born Feb. 19, 1873, whose 
address is 164 La Salle St., Chicago. 
Lida Maude, born Jan. 11. 1874, 
lives at Dixon, 111., Mrs. Johnson 
was born Feb. 28, 1853, her hus- 
1S.')(). they reside 
Mary Kmma Rogers 
P. Wilson of Woo- 
Ill., Anna Mahala Rogers 
lives at Elgin 111., Flora A. Rogers 
married W. D. Baum. Feb. 25, 
1897, lives at Dixon, 111. These 
seven children were all born on a 
farm near Dixon. 

Hon. Geo. Fellows, son of Stephen 
and Rachel ^IcGaffey Fellows, was 
born in Sandwich, Feb. 22. 1826. 
died ^lay 15, 1900, married and had 
seven children: Emma O. of Santa 
Rosa, Cal. Geo. A. of Cheney. Wash. 
Melvin of Spangle, Wash; Edmund 
and Stephen of Santa Clara. Cal. 
Otis and Rodnev of Mountain Mew, 
Cal. Previous to 1860 Mr. Fellows 
went to California and engaged in 
gold mining in Nevada County. 
He was successful in his mining 
operations and attained wealth 
and a high official position. Emma 
0. his eldest child married and 
resides at Santa Rosa, Cal. Melvin 
Fellows born at Brentwood. Cal.. 
March 1S76, married Augusta Pe- 
ters Aug. 1898, has three children. 
Julia, Soi)hia and Dorothv. Otis 
M. Fellows, born Sept. 16, 1861 
at Snow Point, Cal.. married Flor- 
ence Rose in 1882. For his 2nd 
wife married Kittie Coster. Dec. 
25. 1903, has no children. Walter 



Fellows son of , born May 7. 

1863 died young. Edmund L. son 
of Cieorge, born at Napa, Cal., Apr. 
4, 1865 married Laura McCoy in 
July, 1902, no children. Urville 
Fellows, born June 3, 1867 at Napa, 
Cal., died. Stephen R. Fellows 
born A))r. 15, 1872. Rodney Fel- 
lows, born Nov. 1, 1880 at Brent- 
wood, Cal. 

George Arthur Fellow.s, son of 




George A. Fellows. 

George, son of Stephen Jr. was born 
at Snow Point, Nevada County, 
California, Jan. 23, 1860, married 
Etta Chase Nov. 21. 1882. no chil- 
dren. Sept. 9. 1888 he married 
Mabel J. Harris. Has one son, 
Arthur born Sept. 29, 1898 at 
Spokane, Wash. (Jco.A. Fellows was 
the eldest son in his father's family 
and was raised in Napa, City. Cal., 
and received his education through 
the jiublic school of Nai)a until 
1874 when he went with his father's 
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County, Cal., and later finished 
his education at the University 
of the Pacific at San Jose, Cal., 
graduating with the honors of 
M. A. in a class of 15. Mr. Fellows 
resides in Cheney, Wash., where he 
is heavily interested in mining 



control the Shonee group of pat- 
ented mines located on the north 
half of the Colville Reservation in 
Ferry County, Wash. Mr. Fellows 
belongs to the Masonic Order, 
having attained the 32nd Degree 
with his membershi]! at Spokane, 




Arthur Fp:llows. 



property, and with his two brothers 
Otis M. and Edmund L. own and 
operate the famous Fellows group 
of mines originally located and 
successfully operated l^y their fa- 
ther, Geo. Fellows. These mines 
are located in Nevada County, 
Cal. In addition to these mines 
Mr. Fellows with his associates 



Wash. He is also a member of 
the A. A. O. M. Shriners, and the 
Knights of Pythias. Republican 
in politics he has received many 
honors from his fellow Roi)ublicans. 
Protestant in religion he has at all 
times lived and contributed to the 
support of Christianity. The fol- 
lowing clipi^iiig from the C^heney 



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Free Press of Cheney, Wash., where 
he has resided since May 1882, gives 
further history of Mr. Fellows: 
"Mr. G. A. Fellows our popular 
and genial station agent is a native 
of California, being born in Nevada 
County in 1860, the time of the 
great gold excitement in that state. 
His father was the Hon. George 
Fellows, who held different offices 
of public trust, and who amassed 
a large fortune in ' gold mining. 
In 1882 Mr. Fellows came to Wash- 
ington and accepted a position 
as night operator for the Northern 
Pacific R. R. Co., at this place and 
was soon promoted to day operator 
and cashier, and finally was made 
agent, which position he has held 
ever since, being the oldest agent 
in point of ser\dce on the line of 
this railway. Mr. Fellows is not 
only popular as an agent, but as a 
citizen he is one of the most enter- 
prising and prominent in the com- 
munity, and has been one of the 
leading factors in any movement 
calculated to advance the interests 
of the city. In his capacity as 
agent he is always accomodating 
and the people are well pleased 
with the treatment which he has 
accorded them during his long 
stay in Cheney. 

Albion Fellows, son of Stephen 
and Rachel McGaffey Fellows, was 
born in Sandwich, N. H., Sejjt. 16, 
1827, and died in Evansville, Ind., 
Mar. 2, 1865. His early death cut 
short a career of ))rilliant promise. 
He received his education at Rock 
River Seminary at Mt. Morris, 111., 
and Asbury University in Green- 
castle, Ind. He completed both 
the classical and Biblical Course 
at the latter instituti(jn, being 
graduated from there in 1854. 



In the autumn of thai year he 
entered the ministry, joining the 
Northwest Indiana Conference. 
Between the time of his attendance 
at the Seminary and the University 
he taught school several terms, and 
after his admission to the con- 
ference was a professor for two 
years in Fort Wayne College. The 
date of his transfer to the southern 
conference, and the names of the 
different churches he served until 
the last one is unknown to the waiter. 
HLs last charge was at Trinity 
church of Evansville, Ind., of which 
church he had been pastor two 
years before hLs death and one 
year presiding elder of that district. 
He was a young man when he died 
being in his 38th year, so had not 
the opportunities to accomplish 
much in the way of making a name 
for himself, but as before said he 
gave promise of a brilliant career, 
being deeply spiritual, finely edu- 
cated, and showing marked mental 
ability. He had written some verse, 
had a fine tenor voice and was a 
fine organist. July 20, 1854 he 
married Mary Erskine, whose family 
dales back to the time of the Scot- 
tish chiefs, and nimibers many 
eminent and famous men in its 
lists. Six children were born to 
them; Ella Delia, born Mar. 2, 1855, 
died in 1865; Lura Charlotte, born 
Nov. 2, 1857; Wilbur Stephen, born 
Nov. 7, 1859, died Aug. 2. 1860; 
Erwin Erskine. born July 5. 1861, 
died July 13, 1862; Annie Julia, born_,-\ 
Mav 15, 1863; Albion Marv, born 
April 8, 1865. 

Lura Charlotte married Geo. P. 
Heilman of Evansville, Ind. They 
have seven children, William, born 
Jan. 29, 1882; Marv Erskine, born 
Dec. 6, 1883; Helen, born Aug. 16, 



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1886; Lura Fellows, born Sept. 1, 
1888; Rose Erskine, born Oct. 29, 
1892; Geo. Philip, born June 5, 
1896; Robert, born May 17, 1902. 
All these children reside in Evans- 
ville except the time the three 
oldest are at college, but their home 
is in Evansville. Annie Julia Fel- 
lows married Wm. L. Johnston 
of Evansville Oct. 11, 1888, who 
only lived three years after his 
marriage, leaving three children 
by a former marriage. For five 
years after her husband's death 
Mrs. Johnston remained in Evans- 
ville, devoting her time to her 
husband's children who were as 
dear to her as though they had 
been her own. She possessed much 
literary ability and her leisure 
time was spent in writing books 
and magazine articles for the Cen- 
tury, Munsey, McClures and the 
Youth's Companion, during the last 
seven years, she has done much 
travelling, partly in search of ma- 
terial for her books and partly on 
account of her son's health, for 
which she spent a winter tenting on 
desert near Phoenix, Arizona, and 
the summer of 1903 on a ranch in 
Texas. Besides her magazine writ- 
ing she has published the following 
books: "Little Colonel at Boarding 
School" "The Little Colonel Stories, 
"The Little Colonel's Hero," "The 
Little Colonel" "The Giant Scis- 
sors," "Two Little Knights of 
Kentucky," "The Little Colonel's 
Hohdays," "The Colonel's House 
Party," "Cicely and Other Stories 
for Girls," "Big Brother" "Old 
Mammy's Torment, " "The Story of 
Dago, " " Aunt Liza's Hero, " " Flips 
Islands of Providence," "In League 
with Israel," "Joel: A Boy of 



Galilee," "Asa Holmes; or At The 
Cross Roads, " and others of which 
the writer has no list. A number 
of her books have been adopted on 
the hst of the State Reading Circle 
both in Indiana and Kentucky. 
"Joel. A Boy of Galilee," had the 
honor of being translated into 
Italian, and published serially in 
Rome. 

Albion Mary Fellows, born April 
8, 1865, married Hilary E. Bacon 
of Evansville, Oct. 11, 1888. Their 
children are Margaret Erskine, born 
Sept. 16, 1889; Albion Mary, born 
Jan. 4, 1892; Hilary Edwin and Joy 
born Feb. 8, 1901. Mrs Bacon 
inherited her father's talent for 
writing verse, and is also a music 
composer. She and sister Annie J. 
with only a difference of two years 
in their ages, were closely associated 
in all their early writings, went 
abroad together just before their 
marriage, had a double wedding 
and shortly after published a vol- 
ume of poems together under the 
title "Songs Ysame. " One of the 
poems of the volume by consent 
of the author is published herewith, 
under the title of "Grandfather." 
Mrs. Bacon in addition to her verse 
writing has composed a number 
of songs and several anthems for 
special occasions, some of them 
have been published. In her sister's 
book "The Little Colonels Hero," 
she composed the music for the 
play of "The Rescue of the Princess 
Winsome. " From early childhood 
her ability to draw and paint, has 
been a marked as her ability to 
write or compose music. The chil- 
dren of these sisters, Lura and Albion 
are all exceptionally bright, inter- 
esting children, and exhibit some 



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Md,M-Fl-:y (lESEMJJCY 



of the strong traits of character 
of their trran(hnother. Rachel Mc- 
Gaffey. 

GRAXDFATHEK. 

How l)road and deep was the fireplace old, 
And the fxreat hearth-stono how wide; 

There was always room for tlie old man's 
chair 
By the cosy chimney side, 

And all the children that cared to crowd 
At his knee at tlie evening-tide. 

Room for all of the homeless ones 

\Vho liad nowhere else to go; 
They might bask at ease in the grateful 
warmth, 
And sun in the cheerful glow, 
For Grandfather's heart was as wide and 
warm 
As the old fireplace, I know. 

And he always found at iiis well-spread 
board 

Just room for another cliair; 
There was always lest for anotlier head 

On the pillow of his care. 
There was always place for another name 

In his trustful morning prayer. 

Oh crowded world with your jostling 
throngs ; 
How narrow you grow and small; 
How cold, like a shadow across the heart, 

Your selfishness seems to fall, 
When I think of that fireplace warm and 
wide, 
And the welcome awaiting all. 

Albion Fellow.s Baton. 



Stephen Norris FeUows, 4ih cliild 
of Rachel McGaffey Fellows, born 
in Sandwich, X. TI.. May 30, 1830. 
married Sarah Lellingwell Matson. 
Mar. 13, 1856. Their children were 
(1) Albion Norris, horn April 17, 
IS.-)?, lives in Suffcrn. X. Y. (2) 
Olin Ste])hen, horn January 28, 
1859, lives at Middletown, X. Y. 

(3) Erwin Arthur, l)orn December 
9, 18()2, died October 15, 1X64: 

(4) Lena Leota. l)orn May 8, 1847, 
died Dec. 11, 1903: (5) Myrtle Mat- 



son, horn May 8, 1874 died June 14. 
1875: (6) Ora Mabel, born Ai)r. 27, 
1876. lives in Iowa City. Mr. Fellows 
went with his i)arents to Illinois in 
1834. His father settled near Dixon, 
111., where \w died in 1840. leaving his 
wife with a large family to struggle 
with the privations and hardships 
of pioneer life. It was at that 
time a wild, rude country infested 
with Indians and wild beasts, but 
she was a woman of great courage 
and endurance and although sur- 
rounded by all the difficulties that 
the early settlers of this wild region 
had to encounter, she braved them 
all and brought up her large family 
to manhood and womanhood. She 
lived to be nearly 86 years old and 
died at the hom.e of her daughter, 
Mary F. in Iowa City. Miir. 8. 1883. 
Stephen N. remained on the farm 
until he w';s 18 years of age when 
he entered a seminary, and later 
went to the DePauw University 
in Indiana, where he graduated in 
1854. He then went to Iowa in 
which state he has lived for the past 
fifty years. He was Professor of 
Mathematics and Natural Science 
for six years in Cornell College at 
Mt. \ernon, Iowa, then seven years 
in the ministry of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Then twenty 
years Professor of Mental and Moral 
Science and Pedagogy in the state 
Fniversity of Iowa at Iowa City, 
ilien thirteen years again in the 
ministry and at the present writing 
(April 1904) is closing his fourth 
year as agent of the Conference 
Claimants' Fund of the ui)per Iowa 
Conference. In 1871 Cornell Col- 
lege conferred on him the degree of 
Doctor of Divinity. In 1872 he 
was elected president of the state 
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1891 he was elected delegate to the 
'' Second Methodist Eccumenical 
Conference, " which met in Wash- 
ington, D. C. In 1896 he was made 
a delegate to the General Confer- 
ence of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church which met at Cleveland, 
Ohio. His wife is still living, 
they have been married nearly 
fifty years and are growing old to- 
gether, happily and gracefully. Al- 
though past 74, Mr. Fellows is in 
perfect health, without aches or 
pains, says his heart is still young 
and that he enjoys very much the 
society of young people. 

Mary L. Fellows, daughter of 
Stephen and Rachel McGaffey Fel- 
lows, born Feljruary 26, 1S38, mar- 
ried September 16, 1857, Mathew 
Cavanagh, an eminent lawyer 
in Iowa City, where they have 
resided since 1860. He was a 
graduate from Cornell College, 
Mt. Vernon, Iowa, from which 
college his wife also graduated at 
same time, the only two first-class 
graduates at that time. In June, 
1904 the college celebrated its 50th 
anniversary and Mr. Cavanagh de- 
livered the address of the occasion. 
Samuel McGaffey Fellows was the 
first president of that college which 
was estal^lished in 1854. The chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Cavanagh are: 
Amy Rachel, born Jan. 22, 1859; 
Julia Maria, born May 11, 1860; 
Carrie, born Dec. 30, 1865; James 
Mathew, born Mar. 21, 1867; Lucv 
Mary, born July 17, 1871. The 
eldest daughter. Amy R. attended 
the Iowa State University and 
afterward graduated as a nurse 
from the Farrant Training School 
connected with the Harper Hospital 
at Detroit, Mich. She followed 
her profession for a time in Detroit, 



later for five years in San Francisco 
and is now nursing in Iowa City, 
Iowa. She is very successful in 
her chosen profession and has ac- 
cjuired the name, "Angel of Mercy. " 

Julia M. Cavanagh graduated 
from the Iowa State University 
in 1882, taught six years in the 
high schools of the State and Sept. 
6, 1888, married Wilham O.McElroy 
a lawyer of Newton Iowa. Mr. 
McElroy, like his wife, is of Scotch 
Irish descent and if their children 
do not possess sturdy, strong char- 
acters, connected with quick in- 
telligence, ready intuition and wit, 
they will greatly belie their ancestry. 
Four children have been born to 
them, Margaret, born July 27, 1889; 
Harold Wm. born Jan. 21, 1891; 
Richard C. born May 17, 1895; 
Carroll FeUows, born Aug. 22 1900. 
They still reside in Newton, which 
is "j)rima facie" evidence that Mr. 
McElroy is a successful lawyer at 
home and a prophet not without 
renown in his own country. Carrie 
Cavanagh was also educated at the 
State University, taught for a 
short time and in Dec. 1885 mar- 
ried Charles Spring of LeMars, 
Iowa, where they lived several 
years, moving thence to Chicago, 
111., where they now reside. Since 
going to Chicago, Mrs. Spring has 
graduated from the Woman's Med- 
ical College and in 1898 received 
degree of M. D. from the North 
Western University and is a success- 
ful practitioner in (Chicago. Her 
address is 5536 Prairie Ave. They 
have one son, Ray H. born in 1887. 

James Cavanagh marrietl Mav 
dinger, Sept. 30, 1890. They lived 
in Iowa City until 1901, when they 
went to San Antonia, Texas. Theii' 
children are Myra May, born Sept. 



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1891: Amy Rachel. Ix.rii Sept. 1S97; 
Maggie, liorn Sejjt. 1898. Lucy Mary 
Cavanagli was also a graduate from 
the State I'uiveisity iu 1895, taught 
a number of years, and is now an 
assistant teacher in the Botany 
department in the State University. 
Kbenezer Fellows, Jr., who was 
born in 1788, was one of the first 
settlers in Chichester, N. H. He 
had a brother James who was a 
physician in Concord, N. H. He 
also had a sister Mercy who married 
James Maxfield of Potton, Que. 
The children of l^l)enezer Fellows, 
Jr., were Joiu\than, Samuel, Hannah. 
Sarah and Ebenezar Knowton, who 
was born Dec. 10, 1825. He mar- 
ried Susan Haines -of Chichester 
and lived on the old farm on which 
his father settled. He sold the 
farm in 1864 and moved to Canada 
and Ijought 200 acres of land on 
which was a saw mill, he re- 
mained there until 1868, when he 
sold out and moved to Warren, 
N. H. where he died Feb. 24, 1904, 
his wife died Sept. 21, 1879. They 
had six children: Crosb}^ L, Charles 



I'.. Clara I-"... .Mar\- V.. Benjamin C, 
Celestia A. who was l)orn Aug. 1, 
1861. died Dec. 14, 1864. Crosby 
I. Fellows was Ijorn on the old home 
farm in Chichester, N. H. Aug. 27, 
1849, where he lived until 1864, 
when he went with his father to 
Canada. In 1870 he married Mary 
Cushman, daughter of Sowle Cush- 
man of Barford. P. Q. He located 
in Dixville, P. Q. where he and his 
wife are now living. They have 
two children. A. K. Fellows who 
lives in Charleston, Vt. and Addie 
Maude who married G. W. Cunning- 
ton and resides in Dixville. They 
have one child. Jennie May. born 
Mav 1, 1902. Have no record of 
A. E. Fellows family. Mary F. Fel- 
lows married Lewis E. Oould. has 
three children: Edwin L.. Harry F. 
and Mabel M. who married William 
Shortt and has four children: Clara 
E., Edna L., Lyda L and Mary 0. 
Have no record of Chas. F. Fellows 
or Benj. C. Clara E. Fellows died 
Feb. 24, 1S70. All of those living 
reside in Warren. X. H. 



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History of the Shernicin Pnn^ilv. 



[AMES SHERMAN, son of Chas. 
^ Sherman was of English descent. 
He was born in Rhode Island in 
1764 and became a solider in the 
Revolutionary war in 1779. After 
the close of the war he married 
Elizabeth Fenner. daughter of 
Arthur Fenner who was CJovernor of 
Rhode Island from 1790 until his 
death in 1805. She had a brother 
James, who resigned from the Unit- 
ed States Senate to became Gov- 
ernor after his father's death. 
He was elected in 1807 and served 
four years, elected again in 1824 and 
served six years, elected again in 
1843 and served until his death in 
1846. Elizabeth Fenner was born 
in Providence, R. I., in 1757 and 
died in Lyndon, \^t., Se])tember 
13, 1852. James Sherman died in 
Lyndon May 3, 1843, their children 
were: Stephen, Fenner, Mercy, 
Henry, Betsey and George, all born 
in Rhode Island. James Sherman 
came with his family from Provi- 
dence, R. I. to Lyndon, Vt., about 
1802-1803. His "first purchase of 
real estate in Lyndon is dated 
Jan. 24, 1803. He located on 
what was called "Cold Hill" about 
two miles west of Lyndon Corner. 
The following extract from a local 
paper, "The Vermont Union" of 
Jan. 6, 1893, gives a little insight 
of his characteristics. "About 1800 
James 'ITncle Jim Sherman,' 



located on 'Cold Hill.' Sherman 
was a tall, dark complexioned 
man, full of energy and hard work, 
rising at 4 and working till 8 o'clock 
at night, caring for stock, clearing 
land, burning charcoal, selling ashes 
and was known as one of the best 
farmers in town, and made his 
farm one of the most productive. " 
He was the originator of the "Sher- 
man Morgan" horses so celebrated 
in the state in US37, and for years 
afterward, in fact the fame of the 
Morgan horse is still extant through- 
out New England. "Cold Hill" 
district in Sherman's time, had more 
farms, more families and many 
more in a family than now. The 
rule was nine in a family and Cold 
Hill aimed to meet the recpiire- 
ments of the rule. The school 
house in 1830 and long afterwards 
was every winter filled with from 
30 to 40 scholars from the families 
of Ziba Tute, Uncle Jim and Philip 
Williams. Philip McGaffey, Capt. 
Jo Wilmarth, Jim Sherman, Nathan 
Weeks, Parson Swasey, Edmund, 
David, Robert and John Miles 
and others. They were all large 
families, with children full of power 
and endurance, ready to walk the 
long distance from their homes to 
the school house through snow 
drifts waist high. Today there are 
scarcely a dozen scholars living in 
the district, some of the farms are 



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back pastures, lull of cellar holes 
and bushes. Lymlou Corner was 
the only depot for supplies and the 
church seated every Sunday repre- 
sentatives from many of the Cold 
Hill families. The Corner was the 
Metropolis of Northeastern ^'ermont 
in the early days. The first town 
meeting was held Mar. 2. 1792 in 
a log cabin at the junction of two 
narrow forrest trails near what is 
now the scjuare in the village. It 
was then almost a tractless wilder- 
ness, extending nearly to Quebec. 
The town was located in 1720 by 
Jona. Arnold. David Cahoon and 
David Owen, was named Lyndon 
in honor of Arnold's eldest son 
whose name was Josiah Lyndon. 

Elizabeth Fenner. wife of James 
Sherman, had chronic rheumatism 
so that she was unable to walk for 
the last thirty years of her life, 
and it was inherited by nearly all 
her descendants, Stephen, Betsey, 
Fenner, George and Stephen Jr. 
and George Jr., all were badly 
crippled, and none of her descend- 
ants have been entirely free from 
it. The writer, her grandson, has 
been troubled with it for thirty 
five years and now, 1904, has been 
confined to his house eight years, 
unal)le to walk only by the aid of 
a crutch and cane, and has children 
and grand children afflicted with 
it. making five generations afflicted 
with what is known as the "Sher- 
man Rheumatism. " Thousands of 
dollars have been expended in 
efforts to find a cure l)ut to no avail. 

Mrs. Sherman, although imal)le 
to walk, was never too lame to work, 
day after day, from early morn 
till late evening she was in her chair 
with the wool cartls and spinning 
wheel, her constant companions. 



and her daughter Mrs. McGaffey 
sat in her chair and run her little 
spinning wheel, and in the old 
fashioned loom and wove cloth for 
the family use, for years after she 
was too lame to walk without the 
aid of a crutch. And her son. the 
writer, when in the liunber business, 
and suffering with a broken leg 




Stephen SHKiniAx. 

was hauled to his mill on a hand- 
sled and sat in his chair and put 
the big board saw in order and ran 
it, because at the time he had no 
competent sawyer. 

Stephen Sherman, son of James, 
married Margaret Sanborn, daugh- 
ter of Levi Sanborn of Connecticut. 
They had three children. George, 
who died very young, and one other 
son who did not live to gain a name. 
Their onlv daughter's name was 



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123 



Sophia D. Mr. Sherman moved 
to Greensboro, Vt., in 1808, where 
he was engaged in the mercantile 
business for many years, he after- 
wards went to North Craftsbury, 
Vt. where he died in 1853. 

Sophia D. Sherman, born in 
Lyndon, Vt., Dec. 22, 1806. died 
in Greensboro, Vt., Mar., 6, 1891. 
She married April 17, 1827, Jabez 
Finney of Rovalton, Vt. He was 
born Jan. 26, 1798 and died Oct. 21, 
1884. They were married in Greens- 
boro and lived on the same farm 
adjoining Greensboro village (their 
residence being in the villiage) dur- 




Mrs. Sophia M. Finney. 

ing their lifetime. When married 
fifty years, they celebrated their 
golden wedding. Mr. Finney was 
a man of sterling integrity and 
honesty, his townsmen elected him 
to nearly every office in their gift, he 



probably was administrator of more 
estates then any other man in the 
town during his time, and died 
honored and respected by all who 
knew him. Mrs. Finney was a 
woman universally loved and re- 
spected, intelligent, kindhearted 
and generous, all visitors at her 
home received a hearty welcome, 
and the poor and needy were never 
turned away empty handed, and 
although in her last years badly 
troubled with the "Sherman Rheu- 
matism" she remained cheerv and 
her interest in her family 
and neighbors, and 
events never flagged 
from this 
regretted, 



passing 

deeply 

sincere 

funeral, 

respect. 



and 
mourners attending 



and friends 
transpiring 
and her 
life was 
the many 
her 
attested to the universal 
and the place she held in 
the hearts of all who knew her and 
her charities. Mr. and Mrs. Finney 
were the parents of ten children as 
follows: Edson, born June 12, 1829; 
Sarah A. born July 12, 1830, died 
Mar. 28, 1833; Andrew H. born 
June 4, 1832, died Jan. 23, 1854; 
Adalaide C. born Nov. 24, 1834, 
married J. A. Sawyer of Greens- 
boro Oct. 22, 1855, she is now Hving 
in Boston, Mass, he died Apr. 19, 
1873; Jabez Finney Jr. born Jan. 
28, 1837, died Sept. 26, 1852; Sher- 
man S. Finney, born June 16, 1839 
married Elvira Guyer of Wolcott, 
Vt. Mar. 5, 1863,' died Nov. 19, 
1864, resided in Wolcott. Sophia 
M. Finnev. born Oct. 12, 1841, mar- 
ried W. W. Goss of Hardwick, Vt., 
Nov. 9, 1864, she died Jan. 11, 1866, 
resided in Greensboro, Vt. ; Sumner 
Futnam Finney, born, Oct. 2, 1844, 
married Carrie Noble of H}(le Fark, 
Vt., Dec. 17, 1878, she died May 16, 
1883, leaving two sons, Jabez Noble 



124 



M rCA FFK 1 ' (IKS AM LOd Y 



and Orville Murray. June 7. 1898 
Mr. Pinney. married his 2nd wife 
Mr.>^. Ahbie Parker Puirnett of 
Wok'ott, they reside at Pa.ssumpsic', 
^'t. where he Is engaged in mercan- 
tile business. Helen A. Pinney, 
born July 22, 1846 married Walter 



\\.. Dec. :;i. \sm. They have had 
two chiklren, Sherman Arthur, born 
Mar. 13, 1901, died Jan. 20, 1902; 
l.illa Augusta, born Aug. 23, 1903. 
They reside with his parents on the 
farm. 

Kdsoti Piiiiiov. eldest son of 




Edsox Pinxkv. 



A. Jackson of Greensboro, Nov. 1, 
1870. Mr. Jackson is a prosperous 
farmer, has a large farm near 
Greensboro ^'illage ami prides him- 
self upon having the best of stock, 
both horses and cattle, is a great 
lover of fine horses. They have 
one son, Alpha Edson who married 
Gertrude A. Ferguson of Waklen. 



Jabez and Sophia Sherman Pinney, 
was born in Greensboro. Vt. Dec. 17, 
1827. married Sarah Eliza Preston 
of Danville. Vt.. Oct. 22, 1855. 
Their chiklren were Clara Sojihia, 
born in Wolcott. Vt. June 9. 1860. 
Leon Edson an adopted son, born 
in Manchester, Vt.. May 15, 1873; 
Jabez Perlev. born in "Wolcott. \X. 



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125 



Apr. 17, 1879; Clara S. Pinney 
married Ora Mendel Reed in Talla- 
poosa, Ga. Dec. 6, 1894, they went 
to Rogers, Ark., where Mr. Reed 
had purchased a fruit farm and 
engaged in fruit raising, mostly 
apples, but he lived only a little 



of all his fellow employees and his 
early death cut short a promising 
and useful career. 

Jabez Perley Pinney remained at 
home until about 1898 when he went 
to Perdue University at LaFayette, 
Ind., and after a four vears course 




Jabez Perley Pinney. 



over three years after their marriage 
and died at Rogers, Ark., Yeh. 9, 
1898. He was a man universally 
respected by all who knew him. 
- Leon Edson Pinney became rail- 
road employee and was accidently 
killed at Rockford, 111., July 30, 
1897. He was a young man who 
won the respect and friendship 



of study graduated in Mechanical 
Engineering, is now employed by 
the Jeffery Mfg. Co. of Columbus, 
Ohio, has received one promotion 
and bids fair to stand ere long at 
the head in his profession. A 
Virginia Mining Co. sent to the 
Jeffery Co. a design for an auto- 
matic coal loading machine, the 



V2(i 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



leadiiifi' (lrau<i;htsnian made a draft 
tliat was not satisfactory to the 
(lrau<;liting departiiieiit inspector 
and passed it to Mr. Pinney to 
make a new design, throughout 
which act shows the stanchng he 
has gained with the Company dur- 
ing his first year with them. Mr. 
Edson I'inney was in l)usiness in 
Woh'ott, \'t. for several years after 
his marriage liut eventually, after 
a year or two in one of the western 
states, went south and located in 
Tallapoosa, Ga., where he lived 
until after the tleath of his daughter's 
husband, Mr. Reed, when he rented 
his residence in Tallapoosa and went 
to Rogers, Ark., to assist his daugh- 
tes in the care of her farm which 
she afterward sold and they are 
now living at West LaFayette, 
ind. Mr. Pinney inherited the 
sterling integrity and honesty of 
his father and is honored and re- 
spected wherever he lives. His 
son J. Perley united with the church 
of his Scotch ancestors, The Presby- 
terian, at Columbus Ohio, with 
twenty-five others at Kastei-, 1904. 
T. Fenner Sherman, son of .James, 
was bom ill I'ro\i(l(Mice, R. 1. and 
came to J^yndoii. \i., with liis 
parents. He married Sarah Felch 
of Waterfonl, Vt., and settled on a 
farm in Lyndon one half mile fi-oin 
his father's, where he lived until 
about 1848 when he sold his farm 
and bought a residence at Lyndon 
Centre, where he remained until his 
death in 1801. He was afllicted 
with llie Sherman Jiheumatism 
and for many years had to use a 
crutch and cane. Mrs. Sherman 
was a \-(M-y large, fleshy woman who 
tipped ihc scale al oOO lbs. she was 
a fine housekeeper and one of the 
best cooks in the count \-. her table 



was e\('r loaded with the very 
choicest food, served in a style that 
would tempt the appetite of the 
veriest dyspeptic. The writer well 
remembers visiting her on the farm 
when he was a small boy. and hear- 
ing her say after she had spread 
her table v.ith the choicest delicacies 
"Well! George, I dont know as I 
liave got anything you can eat," 
but with a growing boy's appetite 
I usually managed to make quite 
a perceptible reduction in the 
amount of food, especially the honey 
fresh from the hive. " Aunt Sally. " 
as we always called her, was ever 
pleasant, no one ever saw a display 
of anger or ill temper on her i)art, 
her good nature and the good things 
we always got to eat, made it an 
ideal ))lace for us children to visit. 
Francis \\. Sherman, their son, 
was born in Lyndon in 1836, was 
educated in the public schools of 
Lyndon and commenced railroad life 
at Lyndon str.tion on the Pasumpsic 
railroad in 1860. He continued 
this business for more then 25 years. 
\\\ 1888 he commenced l)usiness in 
New))ort, Vt.. under the firm name 
of Sherman iV l)iady. wholesale 
dealers in flour, feed, coal, iron. etc. 
This was continued until 1908 
when he l)ought out Brady and 
giving his son, Frank H. Sherman 
a one third interest in the business 
is continuing the same l)usiness 
under the name of F. AL Sherman 
cV: Co. In 1867 Mr. Sherman mar- 
ri(Ml Mary .Jane Heckwith of Burke, 
\'t., daughter of Daniel Beckwith, 
one of the pioneers in business at 
West Bvu'ke. They have two chil- 
dren. I'^rank IL. born in Newport 
in 1879, and Alice May, born in 
1887 who is now in school at Roch- 
ester. .\. \'. .Mr. Sherman is a 



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127 



reliable business man, widely known 
and respected for his honest integ- 
rity in all business matters, has 
been a director of the Newport 
National Bank for many years, 
and vice-president for more than 
twenty years. 



George S. Miles, son of John and 
Mercy Sherman Miles, was born in 
Monroe, Ohio, April 28, 1813, he 
married Harriet Kennedy of Con- 
neaut, Ohio, in 1839, they had 8 
children, three sons and five daugh- 
ters. Their eldest son, Geo. W. 




F. M. Sherman. 



Mercy Sherman, daughter of James 
and Elizabeth Sherman, was born 
in Providence, R. I., and came with 
her parents to Lyndon, Vt. She 
married a schoolmate, John Miles 
and went to Monroe, Ohio, to 
They had ten children, Geo. 
Stephen S., Betsev E., Emma 



Charles, Calista, Edith, 
Henry and Oscar. 



ive. 

S., 
I)., 

Franklin, 



was born in Conneaut, June 13, 
1842, married Fucinda Gear in 1863, 
went to McMurrian, Ark., where he 
died in 1903. 

Stephen S. Miles, born in Monroe, 
Jan. 10, 1805. went farther west and 
engaged in the lumber business, 
died Julv 6, 1838 was never married. 
Betsey E. Miles, ])orn Oct, 10, 1818, 
married Robert Bowers, Feb. 10, 



128 



.1/ cCA FFE ) • GENE A /.(Hi ) ' 



1836, had ciulil cliilili-cn. two sons 
and six dau<ilit('rs. They went to 
Wisconsin, were there about ten 
years, then to CnHfornia hy the 
overhmd route. The (hiufi;liters 
names were Chira, Cahsta, Corinda, 
l(hi, Ilattie and Sarah. Clara niar- 



IN-O. married Tlieopiliis K'cnt of 
Monroe. O.-t, 27, 1843, tliey had one 
son, John, and four (hiufjhters, the 
son and twf) dau<rliters died quite 
younu', one dauuhtcr hhi. married 
K Iwin Mitchell, had two daufihters, 
both of whom are livina;, another 




Mrs. Cai.ista 1)i:ax. 



ried Jolui Koss, Calista mari'ied 
St. John, Clorinda married Charles 
Overmire, a note(l blacksmith in 
Monroe; Ida married Herbert Bass, 
a merchant. Of Hattie and Sarah 
and the two sons ha\'e no record, 
only that they went to California 
and died there. The mother, lietsey 
E. also died in California, Dec. 9, 
1897; Emma D. Miles, born .May 24. 



(lau<iliter. 



>iz/,ie, married William 
Anderson, only lived one year after 
marria<ie. Charles Miles, born Oct. 
12. 1822. married Ruth Hutchins, 
."^i o\-. 8. 1847. They had one dauf2;ii- 
ter l)oni .\u<iust 23. 1849: Charles 
Miles died .\pril 9. ISO!), his wife 
<lied March Hi. 1902. 

Calista Miles, born March (5, 1825, 
married Chauncey Dean, Aug. 23, 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



129 



1849, who was born July 13, 1822, 
and on his 82nd birthday July 13, 
1904, was working in the hayfield 
lively as a boy. They have had 
six children, Hamilton, Cora E., 
Henry, Flora Edna, Arthur H. 
and Minnie M. Hamilton Dean, 
bom July 13, 1850, died Feb. 23, 
1870; Cora E. born, Dec. 5, 1851, 
married Stephen Edwards, Jan. 22, 
1872, had four daughters all living 
in Springfield, Pa., three of them 
married. Henry Dean, born April 
7, 1853, died when six months old; 
Flora Edna Dean, born Oct. 18, 
1854, died when two years old; 
Arthur H. Dean, born Mar. 9, 1858, 
married Vera Randall of West 
Springfield, Mar. 9, 1882. They 
have two daughters, Mabel and 
Caroline. Mr. Arthur H. Dean 
is a successful farmer in Monroe, 
Ohio, where the family now reside. 
Minnie M. Dean, born Oct. 24, 1862, 
married Sydney Hill, June 26, 1895, 
have one son, Walter D. and two 
daughters, Florence and Edna. 
Florence, born Oct. 4, 1896; Walter 
D. born July 7, 1901; Edna, born 
Oct. 26, 1903. Edith Miles mar- 
ried Hiram Norton of Conneaut, 
have three daughters, Lora who 
married Henry Lyman, Gertrude 
who married Chas. Simons, Claude 
who is single lives with her parents. 
Franklin Miles, born July 13, 1827, 
married Sarah Hutchinson, Nov. 
8, 1847, they are both living, have 
one son. Henry Miles, born May 
2, 1830, married Martha Tuttle 
Oct. 16, 1853. They have five 
daughters, one daughter Edith 
Miles, born Mar. 13, 1858, married 
Milo Phelps May 10, 1881, have 
two children, son and daughter. 
Oscar Miles, son of John, born June 
31, 1833, married Clara Gear in 1856 



and had five children, three daugh- 
ters and two sons. His wife and 
one daughter died in 1871. He 
was a man of fine talent, a brilliant 
lawyer, but the death of his wife 
and daughter, overstudy and spirit- 
ualism affected his brain and at 
present he is an inmate of the 
insane asylum in Wisconsin. 

John Miles died in Monroe, Ohio, 
Nov. 25, 1843 and his wife, Mercy 
Sherman, Aug. 4, 1873, age 83 years, 
10 mos. 21 days. She retained 
her strength and faculties to a 
remarkable degree and at 80"~Would 
walk a mile in preference to riding. 
Geo. W. Miles, son of Geo. S. 
and grandson of John and Mercy 
Sherman Miles was born in Con- 
neaut, Ohio, June 13, 1842, and mar- 
ried Lucinda Gear of Monroe Center 
July 4, 1863. They had four chil- 
dren, Hattie, Wilbur, Cora and Geo. 
Mr. Miles removed to Iowa, near 
Des Moines in 1864 and engaged 
in farming and tile manufactur- 
ing. In 1888 he moved to Arkansas 
and became interested in the lumber 
business. The following obituary 
is taken from a St. Louis, Mo., 
paper: "The funeral of Geo. W. 
Miles who was formerly a resident 
of Polk, Co., Iowa, and at one time 
county supervisor, was held at his 
home in Webster Grove, St. Louis, 
Mo., today. Mr. Miles spent his 
younger days in the vicinity of 
Polk City, but several years ago 
removed to Arkansas and eml)arked 
in the mill and wholesale lumber 
business. He was president of the 
Geo. W. Miles Lumber Co., which 
operated three large mills near 
McMurran, Ark. The general offi- 
ces of the company are in St. 
Louis, where Mr. Miles spent 
the last days of his business 



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career. His death occurred after 
a brief illness. Saturday even- 
ing-. Auf,^ 29. 1903, at " .McMur- 
ran, where he had gone to look 
after impoi-taut business affairs. 
Mr. Miles was one of the prominent 
lumbermen of the county and was 
well known by all dealers. With 
scarcely a dollar he entered into 
the lumber l:)usiness and was re- 
puted to be worth between sixty 
and seventy thousand dollars at 
his death. Besides a wife, he leaves 
four grown children, a brother 
S. L. Miles of Madrid. Iowa, two 
sisters, Mrs. T. R. Ring and Mrs. 
Mary Walker, both of Des Moines. 
Mr. Miles was a man of strong 
character and good habits and was 
loved and admired for his energy, 
thrift and kind regard for those 
about him. Many Polk County 
pioneers will movirn his loss as well 
as those who were close to him. " 
Mr. Miles was a member of the First 
Congregational Church at Webster 
Grove where he resided at the time 
of his death. He was buried in 
Oak Hill cemetery near Webster 
Grove, Mo. 

Henry Sherman, son of James, 
was born in Providence, R. I. and 
came from there to Lyndon with 
his parents. In June, 1S21, he 
married Cynthia Felch and they 
went in 1S33 to Onondaga. Co., 
X. Y. where they remained two 
years, then went to Monroe, 
Ashtabula Co. Ohio, and from there 
to Michigan, where he died 
Mar. 12, 1864. His wife was 
born J)ec. 20, 1799. an'l died 
Mar. 12. 1S74. They had 
six children (1) Charles who 
was killed bv a falling tree in 
June, 1.S43, when he was 18. (2) 
Carlton who died in infancy; (3) 



Caroline, who married John Felch 
liad eight children, o sons and 3 
daughters; (4) Mariana, who mar- 
ried Samuel Mitchell of Monroe, 
Ohio, had no children, she and her 
husband are l)oth dead: (5) Charles 
and (6) Stephen. 
;^ Charles Sherman, son of Henry, 
and grandson of James, was born 
in Lvndon, \'t., and went with his 



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^ 




Si 




5; 



Mi:. AM) Mrs. Hkxky Shkhmax. 

parents when a small boy to Onon- 
daga, County. X. Y.. and from there 
to Ashtabula County, where he 
lived until 1868, when he went 
to Black Hawk Co.. Iowa, where 
he livetl with the exception of a 
year in Kansas, until 1890. when 
he went to Tacoma, Wash., and 
after a short stay in Tacoma bought 
some wild land in Kitsap Co., 
Wash., where he lived until his 
health began to fail in 1900 when 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



131 



he went to Sumner, Wash., where 
he died May 14, 1904. He was an 
invalid for three years before his 
death, his disease was inflammation 
of the spinal cord which eventually 
brought on paralysis of the whole 
body except the vocal organs. He 
was taken to one of the city hos- 
pitals at Tacoma where he died, 
but was buried at Sumner, where 
his widow and one son now reside. 



Mr. Sherman. Of this union two 
sons were born, Chas. M. born in 
Monroe. Ohio, Nov. 12, 1866; 
Buren R. born in Black Hawk Co. 
Iowa, June 6, 1883. Charles 
M. Sherman is superintendent 
of the city schools of Sno- 
homish, Wash., is married and 
his wife is a teacher. Buren 
R. Sherman lives with his mother 
at Sumner, Wash., is not married. 




Mrs. Emily P. Sherman. 



He became a member of M. E. 
church in 1879 and could say as 
Paul said, "I have fought a good 
fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith. " He was 
married in Ashtabula Co. Feb. 22, 
1866 to Emily P. Jacobs, who was 
born in Pottawottumie Co., Iowa, 
where her parents had moved from 
Ohio but on the death of her mother 
in 1851, her father moved back to 
Ashtabula Co., where she married 



When a child Mrs. Sherman'Jhad 
one foot accidently injured from 
which she never fully recovered 
and at fifty three years of age 
suffered amputation of the right 
leg, which operation has l)een twice 
repeated since, has useil crutches 
since 1899, also has a wheel chair 
in which she is seated in the picture 
on this page. She does all of her 
house work except the family 
wash, and took nearlv all the care 



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of her husl)aiul during liis four 
years illness, accompanied him to 
the hospital where slie remained 
imtil his death. No higher praise 
of her could be said than the 
narration of the above facts. Ste- 
phen M. Sherman, youngest child 
of Henry and the only one of the 
children now living, resides at 
Rocky Ford, Colorado. 

Carlton P. Felch, son of John 
and Caroline Sherman Felch, was 
i)()rn at Kellogsville, Ohio, Jan. 23, 
1851, was educated in the common 
schools, finishing at Rock Creek 
high school, went to Osage County 
Kansas in the spring of 1878. He 
taught school in Ohio five terms 
and six in Kansas, was a member 
of the board of County Examiners 
of teachers in 1880 and 81, was 
clerk of District Court from 1884 
to 1888, was deputy in same office 
most of the time for seven years 
and since 1892 has been engaged in 
farming and stock raising. Sept. 
15, 1886 he married Ella F. Cary, 
They have two daughters, Esther 
Mina, born Aug. 18, 1887; Caroline 
Hazel, born May 20, 1889. Sarah 
L. Felch, youngest child of John 
and Caroline Sherman Felch was 
born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Mar. 
19, 1867, lived in Ohio until she 
was 10 years old, when upon her 
father's second marriage moved to 
Crawford Co., Pa., where she lived 
until 1885, then went with her 
brother to Lyndon, Kansas, where 
she has since lived. Aug. 22, 1887 
she married John Gutsmithe, a Ger- 
man, who is a harness maker and 
dealer in saddles, whij^s, blankets 
and horse supplies of all kinds. 
They have had three children, a 
babe born June 11, 1888, died in 
infancy; Otto Carlton, born Aug. 



17. 1S89; Albert Uol)ert, born Oct. 
2(), 1895, whose picture is on the 
business letter heads marked " Head 
of the P'irm." 

Betsey Sherman, daughter oi 
James and Elizabeth Fenner Sher- 
man, was born in Providence, R. 1. 
May 1, 1792, came to Lyndon, \'t., 
with her parents about 1802 and 
married Philip McGaffey in 1814, 
lived in Lyndon until 1826, in 
VVheelock until 1838, then in Sutton 
Vt., with the exception of three 
years, until her death. She died 
in Sutton in 1864. She had seven 
children, 5 of whom were born in 
Lyndon, 2 inWheelock For names 
and dates, see historv of Philip 
McGaffey. 

George Sherman, son of James 
and grandson of Charles Sherman, 
who came from England to Pro\d- 
deucc, R.. L was horn in Providence, 
Aug. 26, 1797 and came wit4i his 
parents to Lyndon, Vt., previous 
to 1800. He lived on the home 
farm with his father on "Cold Hill " 
and at his father's death succeeded 
him in the possession of the home 
place. He married Harriet CalLsta 
Fletcher, daughter of Alpheus and 
Ruth Fletcher and sister of Rev. 
E. S. Fletcher, a noted preacher in 
his time. She was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church from 
her youth, was a very conscientious 
and lovable woman and deeply 
devoted to her family, very in- 
dustrious, working from early morn 
till late at night, always had a 
pleasant word for every one and her 
kindly nature predo'minated her 
family, and no family cjuarrels 
occurred to niar the happiness of 
her large and model family. Her 
children partook largely of her 
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133 



her daughters, who were respected 
and loved by all who knew them. 
George Sherman was quite seriously 
troubled with the Sherman Rheu- 
matism, at an early age and when 
about sixty years old being unable 
to work, sold the large farm he 
occupied, and purchased a hotel at 
St. Johnsbury Centre, which he 
conducted for several years, in 1871 
he moved to North Randolph, Vt. 
where he died in 1875. His wife 
also died at s^me place Feb. 16, 
1875. ITer life had been one of 
incessant toil. When on the farm 
her family consisted of herself and 
six children, one or two hired men, 
her husband's parents and as it 
was an ideal place to visit, a large 
amount of company, and when 
in the hotel, everything was under 
her supervision, kitchen, dining 
room, sleeping rooms, all were 
looked after by her personally 
and kept in the most perfect order. 
Those two great essentirds to a good 
hotel, beds and table, were in 
immaculate condition. The chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman were 
1st, Stephen F. born May 6, 1827. 
He spent the early part of his life 
on the home farm, later went to 
Boston and during the Civil War 
he enlisted in the 14th Mass., Heavy 
Artillery and served three years, 
married Phila A. Craig of Lyndon, 
Vt., they had one child, Edith 
Blanche, who married James W. 
Kidder of Port Chester, N. Y. 
Stephen F. Sherman died at Top- 
sham, Vt. in March 1882. (2) 
Harriet C. Sherman born Oct. 4, 
1830, married Abner F. Gould of 
Walden, Vt. She died May 31, 
1855 and her husband survived her 
only about two years. She was a 
most beautiful and intelligent girl. 



partaking largely of her mother's 
kindly disposition, she was educated 
in the district school and academy, 
and commenced teaching school 
at the early age of 15. She was 
loved and respected by all who 
knew her. 3d, George Sherman, 
Jr. was born Jan. 14, 1833, the early 
part of his life was spent on the 
home farm. In the early fifties, 
soon after the discovery of gold in 
California he went to San Francisco 
and engaged in the water business. 
When the writer was in San Fran- 
cisco in 1860-61 the city was 
supplied with the water used for 
drinking and cooking by water 
carts, which consisted of a huge 
barrel mounted upon two wheels 
with a faucet in the back end and 
two hooks to hang the pails upon, 
usually drawn l)y one horse, but 
in case of a large route two were 
used, the carts were supplied from 
deep wells in different parts of the 
city. Steam engines being used 
to pump the water into huge 
tanks for supplying the carts. 
Each water man owned a route 
the same as the milkman in large 
cities. Routes were valued from 
one to two thousand dollars, accord- 
ing to the number of customers 
and the amount of water supplied. 
The writer met him there in 1860 
and found him so badly troubled 
with rheumatism as to be unable 
to run his water cart, being obliged 
to employ a man to do his work. 
In April 1860 he married Theresa 
Sherman of San I-'rancisco and two 
children were born to them, George, 
born Mar. 29, 1870 and Hattie, liorn 
Dec. 13, 1872, both of whom are 
now living in San Francisco. He 
died there in July 1872. 

4th, Rumiiia R. Shenuaii born 



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MciiAFFEY (;i:.\KAIJ)(;y 



June 6. 1834. was a o;ra(luate of 
Lyndon Academy. In 1856 she 
married George W. Stearns of St. 
Johnsbury. two children were born 
to them, Hattie .M. born Jan. 2, 
18.57 and Bertha L. born .Mar. 29, 
1869. Mrs. Stearns died at Tun- 



come a ])hysician and all his .spare 
time was devoted to the study of 
medicine. When the call for sol- 
diers came for the Civil War, he re- 
sponded by enlisting in Co. "K" 
15th \'t. Regt. went to the front, 
was ai>i)ointed Hriirade Postmaster 




Hk.XKV II. SllIUMAX. 



bridge, \\.. Jan. 25, 1895. 5th, 
Wm. H. Sherman liorn May 1, 
1841. attended the district school 
until his parents moved to St. 
Johnsbury. then the academies at 
St. Johnsi)vn'y and Newbury, \'t. 
At 18 he commenced teachiii"; 
and was (jU'te successful as a 
teacher. His intention was to be- 



of his I^)rigade, which office he 
faithfully filled until his death from 
fever July 3, 1863. His remains 
were brought home to his native 
town for l)urial. 

()th. Henry H. Sherman, born 
in Lyndon, Jan. 15 1835, went 
w hen nine years old with his parents 
to St. Johnsburv where he attended 



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135 



the district schools until he was 
17, then after one year at St. Johns- 
bury Academy he commenced clerk- 
ing in the store of Wm. H. McGaffey 
at Lyndon Corner, where he re- 
mained two years, then returned 
to St. Johnsbury and clerked in 
the stores of E. & T. Fairbanks & 
Co., and Hall & Fletcher of St. 
Johnsbury. In 1873 he went to 
Middletown, Conn., and entered the 
F. E. Nourse & Co., 
clothing and gent's 
In 1883 he became 
the business, and later 
was admitted as partner and mana- 
ger, the firm now being "Nourse, 
Sherman ik Co.," who are doing an 
extensive business. Mr. Sherman 
is a man of temperate hal^its and 
by steady and faithful ajjplication 
to business and courteous treat- 
ment of customers and employees 
has made a success in business life 
and built up a flourishing and 
remunerative lousiness. In 1881 
he married Harriet L. Hall of 
Meriden, Conn. They have two 
children, Howard H. born in Julv 
1885, and Helena in April 1887. 



employ of 
dealers in 
furnishings, 
manager of 



ni 

ADDITIONAL HISTORY 
SHERMAN. 



OF HENRY 



Henry Sherman, son of James, 
died in Michigan, near Alegan, 
March 12, 1864. He married Cyn- 
thia Felch, daughter of Capt. John 
Felch of Waterford, Vt. June 19, 
1821. She was born Dec. 20, 
1799, and died in Monroe, Ohio, 
Mar. 12, 1874. They had six 
children, Joseph Carlton, born Mar. 
27, 1822, died Aug. 27, 1823; 
Chas. Clinton, born Dec. 2, 1823 
died June 13, 1843 at Monroe; 
Caroline Carlton, born Jan. 22, 1830, 
died Oct. 13, 1869; Mary Ann, born 



Jan. 17, 1832, died Apr. 27, 1890; 
James, born Aug. 17, 1834 cUed 
May 14, 1904 at Sumner. Wash. 
Stephen M. born July 31, 1843, 
now living at Rocky Ford, Colorado. 
The foiu' first children were 
born in Vermont. Jan^es in 
New York, and Stephen M. 
in Monroe. He was educated 




-^ Cy^t-<H^^ 



JajhEi^ Sherman. 

in Monroe, where he remained until 
Feb. 1866, then went to Iowa and 
Oct. 10, 1868 married Lucy A. 
Treanor, who was born in Eden, 
N. Y. Dec. 24, 1848. Four chil- 
dren have been born to them, 
Henry Curtis, born May 18, 1870 in 
Benton Co. Iowa; Edna Belle, born 
Feb. 28, 1874 at Benton, and ^\\vA 
at Rockv Ford, Col.. Fel). 12, 1895 
Bertha Alline, born Oct. 2, 1876 at 
Benton Co. Lucy Treanor, born 
June 7, 1885 in Hamilton Co., 



13G 



McGAFFKY aKXKAT.ncy 



Iowa. Mr. .Shenuan iiioxcd to 
Hardin. Iowa in Ai)ril 1877. where 
he remained until 1878. then moved 
to Hamilton Co., where he re- 
mained until June 1886, then went 
by team to Curtis, Neb., and from 
there to Colorado 'u 1887. preempted 
a flaim in wha^ was tlien Logan Co. 
(now r'nilips) where h's ■\^^fe and 
two daughters joined him in 1888. 
He worked for railroad Co., until 
his health failed and in Dec. 1889 
he went to Rocky Ford where his 
family joined him in Jan. 1890, 
with the exception of his daughter. 
Edna, who remained in Iowa until 
June 1890. then joined the family 
at Rocky Ford. Bertha Alline 
married Francis J. ^"ercoe of Phila- 
delphia, Oct. 9. 1893. They have 
three children, Bertha B. born 
July 20. 1894; Vernon V. born Jan. 
15, 1895: Stephen H. born Sept. 



11, IsiiT. 

Henry C. Sherman married Grace 
\'angolder at Fort Collins, Col., 
Oct. 5, 1897. Thev have two bovs, 
Harold C. born 'in Julv 1898; 
Royal D. born in Feb. 1900. 

Mr. Stephen M. Sherman has been 
employed in a steam gristmill at 
Rocky Ford some eleven years, 
but at present his health is such 
that he has been compelled to seek 
outdoor work and is engaged in 
selling kerosene and gasolene oils 
and delivering same to customers 
about town. 

The additional hist(jry of Henry 
Sherman's family was received from 
his only son of Rocky Ford, Col., 
just previous to book going to press 
and too late to incorporate \\'ith 
that previously written. 

AUTHOR. 



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137 



Noted Men and Women of ScoNcind.' 



IN support 

' merit at the 



of the author's state- 
commencement of 
this work, that Scotland had furnish- 
ed more noted men and women than 
any other country on the Globe of 
its size, the following names are 
submitted to his readers in addi- 
tion to those heretofore mentioned. 
David Livingstone the great African 
explorer and missionary, was born 
at Blantyre near Glasgow, March 
19, 1813 ; David Hume, philoso- 
pher antl historian, born in Edin- 
burg, 1711, died there in 1776; 
Tobias George Smallett, eminent 
Scottish novelist, born in 1721; 
Thomas Garlyle, historian, essay- 
est and philosopher, born in 1795; 
James Watt, inventor, born at 
Greenock in 1736; John Ruskin the 
great writer was born of Scotch 
parents Feb. 8, 1819, also W. E. 
Gladstone was born of Scotch 
parents, in 1819. Alex. Adams, 
eminent scholar, teacher and author , 
born at Rafford, Scotland 1741; 
Robert Adams, eminent architect, 
born at Edinbui^in 1728; James 
Anderson LL.D. eminent writer, 
born near Edinburg in 1739; John 
Anderson F. R. S. Prof, of Natural 
History, born in Dumbartonshire 
in 1726. Archibald Campbell Ar- 
gyle, Marquis and member of the 
Assembly at Glasgow, born in 1598. 
Neil Amott, distinguished physician, 



born at Arbrath in 1788; Wm. 
Amott, D. D. born in 1808; Joanna 
Baillie, eminent poetess, born at 
Both well in 1761; Robert Baillie, a 
distinguished clergyman, born in 
Glasgow in 1599. Mathew Baillie, 
eminent physician, born in Scot- 
land in 1761; Robert Baillie of 
Jerviswood, politician, born in Scot- 
land about 1620. Sir David Baird, 
Baronet, l)orn at Newbyth, Scot- 
land in 1757; John Barbour, poet 
of the 14th century, born in Scot- 
land in 1316; James Gordon Ben- 
nett distinguished journahst, found- 
er of the N. Y. Herald, first issued 
in Mav 1835. was born in Scotland 
in 1795, died in 1872. His son 
James G. Bennett Jr. succeeded 
him as proprietor of the Herald. 
Thomas Black well, eminent scholar 
principal of Marischal college, was 
born at Aberdeen in 1701. Wni. 
Blackwell, the distinguished pub- 
lisher and originator of Blackwood 's 
Magazine, was born in Eldinljurg. 
Nov. 20, 1776, died 1834. Hugh 
Blair, eminent Scotch Divine, was 
born at Edinburg, Apr. 7, 1718, 
died 1800. James Blair, I). J). 
founder and first president of Wil- 
liam and Mary college was born in 
Scotland, came to this countrv in 
1685, died in 1743. Robert Blair, 
author, was born at Edinburg in 
1699 died in 1746. James Bos- 



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well celebrated as the friend and 
biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 
and member of the literary Johnson 
Club, was born at Edinburg in 
1740. Andrew K. Hoyd, rector 
of St. Andrews and publisher of 
essays antl sermons, was born in 
Scotland in 1825. Zachary Boyd, 
eminent Scottish Divine and author, 
born before 1590. Sir David Brew- 
ster an eminent |)hil()sopher, Ijoni at 
Jedburg. Scotland in 1781. Sir 
Geo. Brown, a distinguished Gen- 
eral was born in Scotland in 1790. 
John Brown, a popular theological 
writer, born in Perthshire in 1722. 
John Brown 1). I), grandson of the 
above mentioned, born in Scotland 
in 1774, professor of pastorial and 
exegetical theology. John Brown 
M. D.. LL. D., son of the above 
born in 1810. John Brown, yi. D. 
founder of the Brunonian System, 
born in Berwickshire in 1735. 
Robert Brown, an eminent botanist, 
born in Scotland in 1773. Samuel 
Brown, eminent physician and 
chemist, born in Scotland in 1817. 
Thomas Brown, a Scotch meta- 
physician, born in 1778. George 
Bruce, Scotch printer, introduced 
sterotyping in New York, inventor 
of a type casting machine, born in 
Scotlanfl in 1781, died 1866. James 
Bruce the celebrated traveller, born 
in Sterlingshire in ]7-')(). Michael 
Bruce, a minor Scotch poet, born 
in Scotland in 1746, died of con- 
sumption at the age of 21. Gilbert 
Burnett. Bishop of Salisbury was 
born at Edinburg. 1643, died in 
1715. John Burnett, painter, en- 
graver and author was born in 
Scotland in 17S4. John H. Burton 
LL.D., F. R. S. E. Scotch his- 
torian and advocate born in 1S()<). 
Rev. John Caird, I). I)., born at 



Greenock, 1820. David C'alden- 
wood. a vScotch divine and ecdesia.s- 
tical historian, born in Scotland in 
1575, died 1651. Donald Cameron 
a Scotch highland chief, born in 
Scotland 1720. John Cameron, fa- 
mous scholar and flivine. br)rn at 
Glasgow 15S0, died 1625. Richard 
Cameron, a Scotch Presby. preacher 
in the i7th Century. Sir. Colin 
Campbell (Lord Clyde) one of the 
bravest and most distinguished 
generals, was born in Glasgow in 
1792. John Campbell, Lord High 
Chancellor, born in Scotland in 
1779. Thomas Campbell, a dis- 
tinguished poet, born in Glasgow 
in 1777. Thomas Carlyle. distin- 
guished author, born in Ecclefochen, 
Scotland, in 1795. G«o. Chalmers, 
eminent historical anticjuary, born 
in Scotland in 1742; Thomas Chal- 
mers, D. D., LL.D.. born at An- 
struther, Scotland in 1780. Hugh 
Clapperton. African explorer, born 
in Scotland in 1788; Sir James 
Clark, Bart, distinguished physician, 
born in Scotland 1788; John Craig, 
eminent preacher, born in Scotland 
about 1511; James Critchton, ad- 
miral, before he was 20 had run 
through all the sciences, had master- 
ed 10 different languages, born in 
Scotland 1560; Alex. Cruden. author, 
born at Aberdeen in 1700. In 1737 
he published a complete concord- 
ance of the Old and New Testaments 
Wm. Cullen. celebrated professor of 
medicine, born in Scotland, 1710 ; 
Rev. Dr. John Gumming, conspic- 
uous writer. ])orn in Scotlantl in 
1810; Ronaleyn G. Cununing. fa- 
mous lion and elephant hunter, 
born in Scotland 1820; Allen Cun- 
ningham, poet and literateur, born 
in Scotland in 1785; Peter Cun- 
ningham, author, born in Scotland, 



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139 



1816. Wm. Cunningham D. D. born 
in Scotland in 1805; Thomas David- 
son, M. A. rector of Aberdeen 
grammar school and editor, born 
in Scotland in 1840; Thos. Dick, 
LL.D. eminent philoso])her, born in 
Scotland, 1774; David Douglas, bot- 
anist; Gavin Douglas, poet, and 
John Douglas merchant, were all 
born in Scotland, 1474, 1721, 1798. 
Alex. Duff, D. D., LI,D. born in 
Scotland 1806. Alex. Dyce, literary 
historian, born at Edinburg, 1798; 
Wm. Dyce R. A. a distinguished 
painter, born at Aberdeen 1806, 
died in 1864; Samuel M. Elliot, 
eminent occulist, born in Scotland 
in 1811; Thomas Lord Erskine, 
eminent advocate, born in Edin- 
burg in 1721 ; Rev. Ebenezer Ers- 
kine founder of the secession church 
in Scotland was born in 1680; John 
Erskine, eminent jurist and profes- 
sor of law in Edinburg University was 
born in 1695; Rev. Dr. John Ers- 
kine D. D. was born in 1721, emi- 
nent writer; John Faed, a popular 
vScottish painter, born in Scotland 
in 1810; Thomas Faed also an artist 
and painter of many famous pic- 
tures, born in Scotland in 1825; 
Patrick Fairbairn, D. D. jirincipal 
of theological college of Glasgow, 
born in Scotland in 1805; Sir Wm. 
Fairbairn Bart, Scottish ironmaster 
and engineer and one of the first 
builders of iron ships, born in Scot- 
land, 1789; Hugh Falconer, M. M. 
M. D.. F. R. S. Scotch Botanist 
born in 1808; Wm. Falconer, pub- 
lisher, born in Edinburg, 1730; 
James Fergurson, architect and 
astronomer, born 1710; Adam Fer- 
gurson a Scottish philosopher and 
historian, professor in Edinburg uni- 
versity of natural and moral phil- 
osophy, born in Scotland in 1724; 



James Furgurson, professor civil en- 
gineer, assistant astronomer at U. S. 
naval observatory from 1847 to 
1867, discovered the Asteroids 
Euphrosyne in 1854, Virginia 1857, 
Echo 1860 and received the prize 
medals of French Academy of 
Sciences in 1854, born in Scotland, 
1797, died 1867; James Fergurson, 

D. C. L., F. R. S. Scottish architect 
and writer, born in Scotland, 1808; 
Robert Fergurson, Scotch poet, born 
1750, died 1774; Sir. Wm. Fergur- 
son, Bart. F. R. S., F. R. S. E. pro- 
fessor of surgery in both Scotch and 
English colleges, writer of medical 
books, and inventor of medical in- 
struments, born in Scotland in 1808; 
Right Hon. Sir James Furgurson, 
Baronet, Governor of Australia 
1868-72 Governor of New Zealand 
1873, born in Etlinburg in 1832; 
James F. Ferrier LL.D. a metaphysi- 
cian, born in Edinburg 1808. Susas 

E. Ferrier, a successful novelist, born 
in Edinburg in 1782; Duncan Forbes 
Scottish statesman, born 1685, died 
1747; Edward Forbes F. R. S. em- 
inent naturalist, born 1815, died at 
Edinburg 1854; James D. Forbes 
D. C. L., F. R. S. born in Scotland 
1809: John Forbes, Brig. Gen. in 
armv in 1758, born in Scotland in 
1710; Sir John Forbes, F. R. S. 
eminent physician born in Scot- 
land 1787; David Fordyce, Scottish 
philosopher, born 1711, died 1757; 
John Forrest D. D. pastor oY the 
Scotch church in Charleston, S. C. 
was born in Edinburg, 1799; Alex. 
Geddes LL.D. Biblical critic trans- 
lator and miscellaneous writer, born 
in Scotland 1737; Janet Geddes, 
prominent in Scotch history, born 
in Scotland; John Gillies LL.D. 
classical historian, born in Scotland 
in 1747: Rev. Geo. R. Gleig, M. A 



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popular author, born in Scotland 
1796: Sir John Cionlon. President of 
the Royal Seottisli Academy, born in 
Edinl)urg 1790; Isabelle Graham es- 
tablished school for girls in New 
York, born in Scotland 1742; ^'is- 
count J. Graham, Capt. of Dragoons. 
born in Scotland in 1643; Thomas 
Graham, a celebrated chemist, born 
in Glasgow ISOo; James Grahame. 
Scotcli [joet, born in Scotland 1776: 
Annie Grant, Scotch authoress wlui 
lived some years in X'ermont. was 
born in Glasgow, 1755, died 1838; 
Chas. Grant, E. I. proprietor, born in 
Scotland 1746; James A. Grant, 

C. B..C.S. I. African explorer, born in 
Scotland in 1827; Ulysses S. Cirant's 
parents were Scotch ; Thomas 
Guthrie, D. D. an eminent pulpit 
orator, born in Scotland 1803; Ca])t. 
Basil Hall, R. N. distinguished 
traveller, born in Edinburg, 1788: 
Andrew Hamilton, Scotch merchant 
became (le]iuty Governor of New 
Jersey in 1686; Sir \\m. Hamilton, 
the most learned and scientific phil- 
osopher of the Scottish school was 
born at Glasgow. 1788; Sir. Wm. 
Hamilton, grandson of William III, 
Duke of Hamilton, born in Scotland, 
1730, was English ambassador to 
Naples in 1764; Wm. Harkness, 
A. M., LL.D. mathematical pro- 
fessor V . S. X. commanded I'liited 
States expeditio!! to Tasmania, l)orn 
in Scotland 1837; Sir George Harvey 
F. R. S. A. eminent artist, born 
in Scotland 1805; Robert Henry 

D. D. Scotch historian and divine, 
born in Scotland 1718; John Heriot, 
Lieutenant of R. E. Marines, 
founder of the "Sun" and "True 
Britain " newspapers was born in 
Scotland in 1760; George Heriot, 
founder of a magnificient Hospital 
in I'Miii])ur"; was born there in 



1563. was court jeweler of James 
W ; James Hogg, Scotch poet was 
born in Scotland, 1772; Henry 
Home, Lord Kames, eminent lawyer 
and author, born in Scotland in 
1696; John Home, clergyman and 
dramatist, born in Scotland. 1722; 
Jo.seph D. Hooker. M. I). C H., 
F. R. S. physician and botanist, 
born at Glasgow in 1816 ; David 
Hume, philoso])her and historian, 
born at Edinburg in 1711: .lohn 
Hunter, the greatest name in the 
combined character of physiol- 
ogist and surgeon that the whole 
annals of medicine can furnish, was 
born in Lanarkshire. Scotland. 1728, 
died 1793; Wm. Hunter. M. D. 
eminent physician and anatomist, 
was physician extraordinary to 
Queen Charlotte, born in Scotland 
in 1718; James Hutton a celebrated 
geologist was bf)rn in Edinburg in 
1726; Rev. Edward Irving, eminent 
preacher and translator of Spanish, 
Ijorn in Scotland 1792; Andrew 
Jackson, seventh president of the 
United States was of Scotch parent- 
age, his father came from Scot- 
land to South Carolina two years 
before Andrew's birth; James I, 
James II. James III, James IV. 
James \'. James I, of England 
and \T of Scotland and James 
II (if England and \T1 of Scot- 
land were all born in Scotland; 
Re\'. John Jameson, Scotch scholar, 
born in Glasgow in 1759, was 
ordained ])astor in 1781. He com- 
jiiled a dictionary of the Scottish 
language; Robert Jameson distin- 
guished as a naturalist, born in 
Scotland; Lord Francis Jeffrey, 
celebrated Scotch critic and lawyer. 
l)()rn in Fdinburg in 1773. admitted 
to the bar in 1794. became the 
editor of the "Edinburg Review," 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



141 



in 1830 he became Lord Advocate 
for Scotland and M. P. at Edin- 
burg; Wm. Jerdan F. S. A. editor of 
Literary Gazette 34 years, born in 
Scotland, 1782; Alexr. K. Johnson 
LL.D., F. R. S. distinguished 
cartographer, born in Edinburg, 
1804; James Johnson F. W. dis- 
tinguished chemist, born in Scotland 
1796 ; Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 
member of congress, 1781 Governor 
of North Carolina 1788-9, Judge 
of supreme coi!rt, 1800, born in 
Scotland, 1733, died 1816; Admiral 
John Paul Jones was born at 
Arbigland, Scotland, in 1747; James 
Keith, best known as Marshal 
Keith, born in Scotland, 1696; 
Robert Keith, Ep. bishop and his- 
torian, born in Scotland. Geo. 
Keith, Earl Marischal, born in Scot- 
land; Sir William Keith, Governor 
of Pennsylvania, 1717-26 born in 
Scotland 1680, died 1749; James 
Kemp, D. D. P. E. Bishop of Mary- 
land 181 4, Provost of the State Uni- 
versity 1816-27, born in Scotland 
1764. "died 1827; Grace Kennedy, a 
writer of exceedingly popular re- 
hgious stories , born in Scotland , 1 782 , 
died 1825; John C. King, distin- 
guished sculptor, born in Scotland 
in 1806; John Knox, the great Scot- 
tish reformer, born Scotland in 1505; 
John Laird, head of the great firm 
of Iron ship builders at Liverpool, 
known as the builders of the first 
iron steamer, born in Scotland, 1805 ; 
Archibald Laidlie, D. D. born in 
Scotland 1727, was pastor of the 
Middle Dutch Church in New York 
preached the first sermon addressed 
in English to an American Dutch 
Congregation, April, 15, 1764. John 
Law, the great financier, was born 
in Edinburg, 1671; John Lawson 
surveyor of North Carolina and 



author, born in Scotland; Robert 
Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow, 
born in Edinburgin 1611 ; Sir John 
Leslie, celebrated natural philoso- 
pher, born in Scotland ; John Ley- 
den, M. D. poet and author, born at 
Denholm, Scotland, 1775 ; Wm. Lith- 
gow, celebrated traveller, born in 
Scotland in 1583; John G. Lockhart 
one of the proprietors of Black- 
wood's Magazine, son in law of Sir. 
Walter Scott, was born in Scotland, 
1794; James MacCosh, D. D. promi- 
nent Scottish theologian and meta- 
physician in the United States 
was born in Scotland in 1851; 
Thomas MacCrie, a Scottish divine 
and church historian, born 1772, 
died 1835; Rev. George MacDonald, 
popular novelist and lecturer, born 
in Scotland 1825; Sir John Alexr. 
Mac Donald K. C. B. D. C. L. 
statesman, born in Scotland, 1815; 
Chas. Mackay LL.D. editor of 
"Glasgow Argus," correspondent 
in United States during the Civil War, 
lyric poet, born in Scotland in 
1812; Sir Alex. Mackenzie, Scotch 
explorer after whom Mackenzie river 
was named, traversed Canada to 
the north Pacific coasts; Sir George 
Mackenzie, eminent Scotch lawyer 
and politician, born in Scotland. 
1636; Henry Mackenzie, popular 
novelist, born at Edinburg in 1745; 
Wm. L. Mackenzie, first Mayor of 
Toronto, born in Scotland, 1795; 
Dr. James Macknight, eminent 
divine of the church of Scotland, 
born 1721, died 1800; Archibald 
Maclay, D. D. Baptist minister, 
President of American Bible Union, 
born in Scotland, 1778, died 1860; 
Alexr. Macleod, D. D. editor of 
Christian magazine, born in Scot- 
land, 1774; Norman Macleod, D. D. 
eminent divine of church of Scot- 



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land, born 1S12: in 1858, was ap- 
]:)ointP(l Queen's Chajjiain in Soot- 
land ; from ISoO to 1S60 was 
editor of the Kdinburg Christian 
magazine, died at Glasgow, 1872; 
Sir Theodore Martin K. C. B., 
LL.D. Bart, popular author, born 
in Edinburg, 1816 ; Davitl Mas- 
!5on, M. A. editor of McMillan's 
magazine, author of "Life of 
Milton," born at Aberdeen, Scot- 
land in 1822. .lames C. Max- 
well, physicist and author, born 
in Edinljurg in 1831 ; Lord Rol:)ert 
Maxwell. Lord of Regency. 1536 
born in Scotland 1480; John Mayne 
author and editor, born in Scf)tland 
in 1761; Gen. Alex. McDougall 
Revolutionary patriot delegate to 
the first Congress and commander 
in the battles of Long L-^land. White 
Plains and Germantown, born in 
Scotland, 1731, died New York 1786; 
Gen. Lachlan Mackintosh, Revolu- 
tionary officer, born in Scotland. 
1727; "Sir John McNeill G. C. B.. 
D. C. L. Envoy to Persia, born in 
Scotland. 1795; Andrew ^Melvin. 
eminent Scottish Reformer, born 
in Scotland, 1545; Hugh Mercer, 
surgeon in the army of Prince 
Charles Edward, came to America 
served in Braddocks campaign, 
was mortally wounded in Revolu- 
tionary War. 1777, funeral at- 
tended 1)v 30,000 people, was 
born in Scotland in 1721; James 
Mill, distinguished scholar in Greek 
and author, born in Scotland. 1773, 
was father of Stewart Mill ; Hugh 
^liller, distitignished geologist and 
author, born in Scotland, 1802 
Patrick Miller, noted inventor of 
steam machinery. l)orn in Scotland. 
1730, David B. Mitchell, Governor of 
Georgia, 1809-13, born in Scotland 
1766; Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. 



D. C. L.. V. R. S. Surveyor of New 
South ^^'al(■s and explorer of interior, 
born in Scotland, 1792; Robert Mof- 
fat, a celebrated missionary to South 
Africa, born in Scotland, 1795; 
James Burnet (Lord Monhoddo) 
Judge of Court of Session and 
author, born in Scotland, 1714; 
Alexr. Monro, eminent anatomist 
and founder of medical school at 
Edinburg, born in Scotland, 1697; 
James Graham, Marquis Montrose, 
great military leader in Scottish 
wars, born in Scotland. 1612; John 
Moore, M. D. eminent physician 
and author, born in Scotland 1730; 
Sir John Moore, English general born 
at Glasgow, Scotland, 1761; Robert 
Morison, M. D. one of the most 
eminent botanists of the 17th 
century, born in Scotland; James 
Douglas Morton, Lord High Chan- 
cellor of Scotland on the death of 
Earl of Mar, was elected Regent 
of the Kingdom; Wm. Motherwell, 
poet and antiquary, born in Scot- 
land 1797; Chas. M. Nairne. professor 
of philosophy in Columbia college, 
author of lectures and orations, 
born in Scotland, 1808; Lady Car- 
oline Oliphant Nairne. author of 
"Land o'the Leal"' and other 
Scotch ballads, born in Scotland, 
1766. died 1845; John Napier, Laird 
of Merchiston and author, born, 
Scotland 1550; Wm.Orme, a Scotch 
Congregational minister. Secretary 
of London Missionary Society, born 
in Scotland 1787; DaATid Dale Owen, 
V. S. geological surveyor, suryeys 
j)ul)lished in four large vols, born 
in Scotland 1807; Dr. John Owen, 
eminent divine and author, born 
in Scotland, 1616; Richard Owen 
M. D. ])orn in Scotland ISIO, came to 
the United States in 1827, was an 
ofhcer in the Mexican War. author of 



McGAFFEY GENEALOGY 



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a " Key to the Geology of the Workl ; " 
Robert Dale Owen, editor and 
reformer, born in Scotland, 1801 
died 1877; Mimgo Park, celebrated 
African explorer, born in Scotland 
Sept. 10, 1771; Wm. Paterson, the 
most celebrated, after John Law, 
of the commercial schemers of the 
17th century, was like Law a Scotch- 
man, born in 1658; Sir Joseph Nelo 
Paton, R. S. A. one of the most 
distinguished Scotch artists was 
born in Scotland, 1823, John Pinker- 
ton, an industrious and learned 
literateur, born in Edinburg, 1758, 
died 1826; John Playfair. mathe- 
matician and philosopher, born in 
Scotland, 1748, died 1819; Robert 
Pollok, poet and author, born in 
Scotland 1799; Thomas Pringle, one 
of the editors of Blackwood 's Edin- 
burg Magazine, poet and author; 
born in Scotland 1789, died 1834, 
Wm. D. Queensberry, fourth Duke 
of a Scotch Peer, noted sporting 
man, born in Scotland, 1724, died 
1810; Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A. 
a distinguished portrait pahiter, 
appointed Kings Lemner for Scot- 
lantl, Ijorn in Scotland 1756, died 
1823; Allan Ramsey, eminent Scotch 
poet born in Scotland 1686; Thomas 
Reid professor of philosophy in Kings 
College Aberdeen and author, born in 
Scotland 1700, died 1796; John 
Rennie, an eminent civil engineer, 
born in Scotland 1761; Robert II, 
Robert III, Kings of Scotland, 
born in Scotland 1316 and 1340; 
David Roberts, R. A. a painter of 
great eminence, born in Scotland 
1796; Frederick Robertson, Gapt. 
in the Royal Artillery, born in 
Scotland; James Robertson a Major 
General of British forces in United 
States 1776, commissioned as Royal 
Governor of New York born in Scot- 



land 1725 ; Josejih Robertson, the 
most accomplished antiquary of the 
19th century, born in Scotland, 
1810; Wm. Robertson, historian, 
born in Scotland 1721. his history 
of Scotland was published 1759; 
History of America 1779, died 1793; 
John Robinson, celebrated natural 
philosopher, born Scotland 1739; 
Alexr. Ross, Scotch teacher and au- 
thor, born in Scotland 1699, died 
1784; Admiral Sir John Ross, C. B. 
Arctic voyager and author, born 
Scotland, " 1777, died 1856; Wm. 
Roy, Major General in British army 
and Fellow of the Royal Society, 
born in Scotland 1706; John Scott 
Russell, builder of the Great Eastern 
and other large steamers, born in 
Scotland 1808; Lady Rachel Russell 
daughter of an Earl and wife of 
Lord Wm. Russell, born in Scot- 
land, 1636; Wm. Russell, noted 
educator and editor, born in Scot- 
land 1798; Robert Sandeman, found- 
er of a religious sect called Sande- 
manians, born in Scotland 1718; 
Sir Danl. Sanford, K., D. C. L. 
editor and author, born Scotland 
1798; David Scott, eminent painter 
and author, ])orn in Scotland 1806; 
Sir Michael Scott, a mediaeval 
scholar and |)hilosopher, born in 
Scotland ; Sir Walter Scott, history 
already given in this history; James 
Sharp, Archbishop and professor of 
philosophy at St. Andrews, born 
Scotland, 1618; John Sharp, D. D. 
Chaplain to Chas. 11, born in Scot- 
land 1644; Sir (Jeo. Simpson, 
governor of Rupert's Land and 
general sujierintendent of Hud- 
son Bay Company, born Scot- 
land 1797; Sir Jamly Y. Simpson, 
Baronet and noted M. D. born in 
Scotland 1811; Robert Simpson, 
professor of mathematics at Glasgow 



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university, l)()rii in Scotland 1687; 
Sir John Sinclair, agricultural im- 
prover and President of the board of 
agriculture, born in Scotland 1754; 
Catherines. Sinclair, noted authoress 
born Scotland 18()(); John Sinibert, 
noted portrait painter, born in 
Scotland 1684, died 1751; Sanil. 
Smilos, M. D. and author, born in 
Scotland 1816; Alex. Smith, poet 
and secretary of Edinbui'g university 
born Scotland 18:^0; James Smyth 
C, M. I), physician in ordinary to 
George III and author of several 
medical books, born Scotland 1741; 
Mrs. oNIarv Somerville, daughter 
of Admiral Sir Wm. Fairfax, a lady 
famed for her mastery of matha- 
matics and phvsical science, born 
Scotland 1780,' died 1872; John 
Spattiswood, Archbishop of St. 
Andrews and embassador to France, 
born Scotland 1565; Sir John Steell 

C. S. A. a noted sculpter, born 
Scotland 1804; Geo. Stephenson 
inventor of steam machinery, born 
Scotland 1781; Robert Stephenson, 

D. C. L. only son of Geo. the great 
inventor and architect, born in Scot- 
land in 1813. The Brittanna Tu- 
bular Bridge, the Victoria bridge at 
Montreal, the two bridges across 
the Nile at Damietts, the bridge 
at Newcastle, and the great viaduct 
across the Tweed at Berwick are 
some of his achievements. Robert 
Stephenson another eminent Scotch 
engineer, l)orn 1772. In 1796 he 
was inspector and engineer of 
lighthouses and during his forty- 
seven years in that office he 
planned and constructed twenty- 
three. 

Balfour Stewart, L.L. I)., F. R. S. 
a noted scientist, born Scotland 1828 
Dugald Stewart, professor of mathe- 
matics at Kdinburii inu'versitv was 



])orn in Kdin])urg 175."j: in 1772 was 
teacher of nuithematics in the 
luiiversity in 1 785 was elected profes- 
sor of moral i)hilosophy was also a 
popular author: Sir Thomas Ster- 
ling, Bart. , a British (jfhcer was born 
in Scotland 1735; John Sutherland 
M. D. Royal Commissioner of 
Sanitary Arrangements in the Criiuea 
l)orn in Scotland; James Swain one 
of the Boston Tea Party, Revolu- 
tionary patriot, born in Scotland, 
1754; James Syme. author and 
founder of a hospital at Kdinl)urg, 
born Scotland 1799; Archibald C. 
Tait. D. I). L.L. I), headmaster of 
Rugby school 1842-50, Bishop of 
London 1856. born Scotland 1811; 
Robert Tannaliill, noted songwriter, 
born Scotland 1774; Wm. Teimant 
author and linguist, professor of ori- 
ental language at St. Andrews, born 
Scotland 1785; James Thomson 
poet and author, born Scotland 
1711; Sir Win. Thomson, noted 
mathematician and philosopher, 
professor of Glasgow university, born 
Scotland 1824; Grant Thorburn au- 
thor of several books signed " Laurie 
Todd." born Scotland 1773; Alexr. 
Tillock, author and editor, born 
Scotland 1759; Alexr. Tytler, his- 
torical writer and Judge of Court 
of Sessions in Scotland, born in 
Scotland 1747; Patrick F. Tytler, 
eminent historical writer, born in 
Scotland 1791 ; \\\\\. Tytler. author, 
l)()rn Scotland 1711 ; Rol)ert Wallace 
editor of \\\v "Scotsman" born in 
Scotland 1831; Sir Wm. Wallace 
history given before; James Watt, 
mechanician, engineer and scientist 
famous as the improver and nearly 
the inventor of the steam engine, 
born Scotland 1736; Sir David 
Wilkie. eminent ])ainter. born Scot- 
land 1785; Alex. Wilson, author 



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and ornithologist, born Scotland 
1766; Daniel Wilson L.L. D. a 
distinguished writer and professor of 
history and English literature at 
the vuiiversity of Toronto, born 
Scotland 1816; George Wilson 
M. D., F. R. S. E. eminent 
chemist and lecturer Professor 
of Technology in Edinburg 
University, born Scotland 1818; 
James Wilson L.L. D., mem- 
ber of the Continental Congress 
and signer of Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, born Scotland 1742; 
John Wilson, D. D. missionary of 
the Free Church of Scotland and 
author of valuable works on relig- 
ions of India, born Scotland 1800; 
John Wilson, famous as professor 



Wilson and the " Christopher North " 
of Blackwood's Magazine, born Scot- 
land 1785; Geo. Wishart, one of the 
early reformers in Scotland and 
Greek scholar, born Scotland ; Alexr. 
Graham Bell, inventor of the speak- 
ing telephone, born Scotland 1817; 
Hugh Brown, noted poet born Scot- 
land 1800; Dan'l Douglas Home, 
a noted spiritualist, born Scotland 
1833; Rev. John Campbell Shairp, 
L.L. D., Prof, of humanity at St. 
Andrews, born in Scotland 1825; 
John Bunyan, the author of "Pil- 
grim's Progress," "The Holy War," 
"Grace Abounding," "Come and 
Welcome," etc., was born in Scot- 
land in 1628. 









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Dr. Charles French from GUsintoD, MasS'^:^ 
and Dvsan P'reoch frooa Maioe were called 
(here 3ast week to alAend the fnnsEal of- 
I their sister, Mrs. Helen McG'mffey. 

The MoN'j^noK is in, recwpt of a paoaf 
containing an obituary notice of' Mrs,, 
Salome Burton Gibson, a native ol Glover^ 
I boiy^n in Aagust, m». The paper says-, 
"Siie cams west with ber parents, when 
s&ven yeags. of age. Tliere weae no rail- 
roads at that tia3e;,tho journey was laade 
5>y canal and t:^e grer-b lakes to Chisago 
and by wagon the reat of t!ie distaHce." 
This n©tice is pu,blisked at the req'aest of 
the only liviag sister, jyira.. Mineswa E, 
Burton Bradkiy of MaxwelL^Iowa. 

Mr*.. Helen L, McGaffey^ wife of. George 
W. McGaffsy audi daughter of the lat* 
Lyndol and Najocy (McLellan)) French, 
died March 22, Sho we» born, in Glover 
January 'i, 1837, ana lived the greater part 
of her useful IMe here. May 8, 1854., she 
was married lo Geoj.»ge W. McQaffey of 
I SuttOD and tJaeir hocse for 1-t. years was lii 
this Iiatter town. Since ticen they hava- 
resided at Glover, 13, years at SoutJa Glover 
and the resaainder at Glover village. Five 
children have been boa^a to tiiem, four 
daughtera and one son. (Oap daughter 
died in infancy j the son, Edward L , died 
in 18901;. and Mrs. Ulla E. Hall died in 
1897.)i She leaves two daugbters, Mrs. 
Eva F. Scott of Springfield, Mass., and 
Mrs. Laura S. Mathie of Old Orchard, Me., 

six grandchildren, an aged sister, Mrs. 
Serveia F. Lfoaard of Manchester, N. H., 
three brothers, Heman French of Lyndon, 
Dean C. French of Dorchester, Mass., and 
Dr. Charles C. French of Clinton, Mase. 
As wife, mother and friend hers was an 
Ideal life. Never discouraged, elways 
looking upon the bright side of every 
cloud, she was a firm believer in the 
Larger Hope, intelligent, outspoken and 
progressive in thought, a beautiful home- 
keeper; sha exemplified in a high degree 
the Pria jcist'a description of an excellent 



woman. Rev. A. F. Walch, Universalist, 
of St. Johnsburj', spoke comforting words 
at the funeral service in her late home. 
The profusion of flowers around her casket 
bore silent testimony to the love of her 
many relatives and friends. Her firgj. 
Easter in that Other Home must be restful 
and happy. The burial was in the Glover 
cemecery. ^ 



i The funeral services of Mrs. Lillian Noyes, 
wife of Wilbur C. Noyes were held at the home 
last Thursday afternoon at 2 p. m., Rev. Wil- 
liam Ramsden officiated. Miss Simpkins the 
singing evangelist rendered three yery beauti- 
ful songs, one of which was "Good Night" 
and another '-Good Morning." Many beauti- 
i f ul flowers were placed upon and about the 
casket. The casket was covered with white 
brocade velvet with silver handles. Besides 
the many townspeople who were present, were 
many out of town among them Dr. and Mrs. 
Wilder of Whitefield, Mr. and Mrs. McGaffey 
and son of Lisbon and Miss McGaffey of Bos- 
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Huntoon of Whitefield, 
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Southard of Bath and 
Mrs. Clark of Landaff- The bearers ^ere F. 
P. Shattuck, William Wright. Ira Simonds 
and Bert iiav. Interment was in the family 
lot Maple street cemetery. Mrs. Noyes was 
born in Stanstead, Can., May 1860 and was 
one of a family of four children. Her brother, 
Mr. McGaffey is a resident, with his family, 
of Lisbon and her sister. Miss McGaffey 
whose home is in Boston. The widowed 
;mother has for several years made her home 
'with her daughter here. Mrs. Noyes came to 
Bethlehem twenty -two years ago and found 
employement in one of our summer hotels. It 
was iben she met Wilbur C. Noyes to whom 
I she was married in 1884, since which time 
their home has been io the hollow, next to the 
homepiace of Moses Clark Noyes. Two sons 
were born of this union. Ralph and Alvin, 
who have grown to young manhood, who were 
greatly in love with thair mother and are both 
j members of the Littleton high school. Under 
the ministry of the Rev. D. J. Smith in 1883 
Mrs. Noyes was baptised and united with the 
M. E. church where she has been an honored 
and consistent membsr and when health per- 
mitted active in its affairs. For several years 
past she has been failing in health. She had 
watched with great interest the building of 
their new house into which she had great hopes 
ot moving this month. But on Tuesday morn- 
ing of last iveek she quietly and resignedly 
passed into the horns that is beyond, mourned 
by a large circle of relatives and friends. 



SUITOR. - " — 

Samuel Mitchell, "graduate of Lyndon 
Institute Commercal school, has been 
engaged as assistant bookkeeper in the 
Lyndonville National Bank, and entered 
upon his work Wednesday. 

Deatb of Mrs. Ricliardson. 

The remains of Mrs. Louisa (McGaffey) 
Richardson were brought here from 
Lyndon Center, where she died Mondav 
night, June 24, for burial on Wednesday. 
Mrs. Richardson was the wife of Joseph 
H. I. Richardson, who died here in the 
fall of 1860, and was the town clerk at 
the time of his death. He owned and 
carried on the business of a tannery, 
where Alfred Allard's shop now is. Mr. 
Richardson built what is now Mr. 
Allard's carriage shop for a tannery and 
he did an extensive business in that line. 
Mrs. Richardson was the daughter of 
Phillip McGaffey, and a sister of W. H. 
McGaffey, a long-time merchant at 
Lyndon Corner, also George W. Mc- 
Gaffey of Glover. She was a noble 
Christian woman and attended the Free 
Baptist church here for many years, but 
transferred her membership to the 
church at Lyndon Center, being a mem- 
ber there at the time of her death. She 
leaves., two sons besides other relatives. 
She has been in poor health tor vears. 
Her husband was the first person buried 
in the first addition to the original vil- 
lage cemetery here. He died at the age 
of 34 years. He was the son of Captain 
Jonathan and Nancy (Ingalls) Richard- 
son and will be remembered by the older 
ones now living as an honest, upright 
townsman. Mrs. Richardson was nearly 
80 years of age at the time of her death. 
Your correspondent can well remember 
the time when Mr. and Mrs. Richard- 
son's intention of marriage was publish- 
ed in church, as the law required in those 
days, by Rev. J: Woodman, who married 
them. There are not a large number of 
residents here now that were here when 
J. H. I. Richardson and wife were here, 
more tnan 50 years ago, but three in the 
village, and but few in town. Captain 
Jonathan Richardson had a family of six 
children, all of whom died several years 
ago. 



NEIL OF THE mra HOSTAGES/ ^YEEKLY SCOTSMAN, SAT 

The period which em'braoed the time of this ^eat _ _  

warrior, who ruled over the destiniea ol the Eicoto- ^ ^ 3^^^ ^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ j^^^j, jj^ij^ ^.y the help of a 
Irish race for twenty-seven years, is a very eventfulj combine British and Irish force, subdued Criombh- 
and interestingr portion of our early history. The than, who was slain in battle, and Neil was crowrted 



Eroman Power had subdued fJmost the 

entire world, but had given up the 

aufcempt to break completely the brave 

remnant of the Soots who had be^n foroexi to take 

refuge among the wild shelter of their Caledonian 

mountains, where, as occasion, served, they would 

emerge like an avalanche upon the neighbouring 

nations who wore under the protection of the ik)man 

legions. Great walls were built in order- to ke«p 

them back, but they wore soon torn asunder, and it; tUot ;+ ;^ nr^ -irprv 

was only by intermarriage with the Picts that their Aye sons have prixnm so nimierous that it . now very 

;na fero'cu'y towards that race was at length partially | f^^}^^^(^^.^^S[^'^.^f:^L:^n 



Monarch of Ireland. His reign lasted for twenty 
seven years, and during that period he exhibited 
the policy of a wise and noble king, by which he 
consolidated the kin^'dom of Ireland to his d«5ceTid- 
ants for several centuries afterwards. 

Neil's descendants vrere seven sons — ^namely, La<i- 
gaire, Eogan, Eanna. Oairbre, Maine, Conall Gulban, 
and Conall Creamthine, who all left issue excep* 
Eanna and Calrbro, who left no issue. Through th'? 
course of centuries, the descendants from the other 



sulxlued. 

Years rolled on, and abouit t)\e y««r 350 A.D. wa 
jfind the same coniiibion of things as had been nearly 
' 300 years before. The Britons were still un^er the 
government of the Roman Empire; on the other 
hand, the Scots and Picts were sometim-cs on terms 
of the greatest friendship, and at others engaged in 
deadly feuds. Ireland would seem at this period to 
have be«n as a wholo in friendship with the Rornan 
Power, and as regards its position to\vards_ the Picts 
and Scots neutral, affording a eafe asylum for which- 
ever nation fled to them for pro'teotion. During the 
period preceding Neil's birth his paternal ancestors 
had wielded the sceptre 117 out of 124 years, and his 
father, E(X)haidh Moidhmeodhin, was monarch of 
Ireland when he was borm Previous to his ascension 
to the throne, and while his father, Muireadhach 
Tireaoh, was King, Prince Eochaidh had married 
Mongsine, daughter of Fiodhaig, a Prince descended i 
from the Kings of Munster. By this lady Eochaidh i 
had four sons, namely. Bryen, Fiacha, Oilioll, and 
FeargTM, the last two of whom died without is-sua 
It is supposed that Mongiiine died before Eochaidh 
was King, and having spent some time enjoying the 
hospitality of the King of Britain,he fell in love wdth, 
and married according to Christian rites, the daught«r 
of the King of Britain, whose name wac Carionn Cas 
Dubh, and ic all likelihood it had been expressly 
stipulated that in the event of children, the eldest son 
of this lady was to be King instoad of his sons by 
hv former wife. Queen Carionn Oas Dubh had cnly 
one son, who was named Noil, after .some relative 
I on his mother's side ; but, after a very few years, her 
husband was killed by Criombhthan, who was a 
brother of Moiigs^ine, Eocnaidh's fir.st wife, and for 
safety Carthan Cas Dubh was forced to abandon her 
Irish palacee and flee with her son for protection to 
her father's court in Britain. 

Eochaidh Moighmeodhin had reigned .seven years. 
and was succeeded by Criombhthan, who reig-ned 
more as regent to his nephev/s. CViombhtliau reigned 
seventeen years, during v.rhich time Neil had studied 
the art of' war under the Roman legions, and pro- 
bably won much fame for many gallant deeds before 
he turned his attention towards winning back hi.^ 
pat€.mal throne. iMaximu?, having been apjiointed 
by the Roman Empire as Lieutenant of tht Fon;es 
in Britjiin. was resolved to consolidate the Roman 
power by forcing the bhi-ee nations of Briton?, Fict-s, 
and Soots into one body under the rul« of Rome. 
To aoooraplish his purpose he promised the Picts 
the whole of tlie lands of the Scots if they would 
subdue them, and, of course, he with the Roman 
legions would be at his back to render assisDane^ if 
nece&sary. In all likelihood Neil would be found 
under the Roman forces, close to the officer direct- 
ing the operations of war, the first engagement of 
which took place in Calloway, upon the bjmks of 
fV.o Rlv^r fVoP. Rattle after battle was now fought. 



from, the gi-eat hero, 
-^A Sico-vs Hebald. 



 Neil' of the Nine Hostages. 






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