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Notes for David Patchin, 21 Feb 1803 - 11 Jul 1840
From "Sketches of the Life ofJohn Patchin":
Our spring and summer term in Kirtland Academy closed about the middle of July 1840. On the 12th of July while sitting in my boarding house, I saw through the window my brother Augustus ride up on horseback in front of the house, leading a horse already saddled and bridled. I hurried to the door and asked him, "What is the matter?"
He answered, "Brother David is dead, and I have come for you to attend his funeral."
In a few days our term was to close with an exhibition in which I was to take a part. I had prepared an oration of the subject, "Virtue, the Safeguard of American Liberty." I was very ambitious to speak my piece. Could I attend my brother's funeral and return in season for the exhibition? I feared not. Still, of course, it was my duty and privilege to attend the funeral. My brother David resided in Troy. I had been much in his house during the two winters that I taught school there. His family consisted of his wife and one daughter. He and his wife were both very earnest Christians. Sometimes he was known to continue all night in prayer for a revival in his neighborhood. The blessing he prayed for seemed always to be granted after such seasons of prayer. He died most happily, his last words being, "Heaven's gates are opened." The memory of the just is blessed.
Notes for George S. Patchin, 30 Aug 1806 - 23 Jan 1882
A George Patchen is shown as postmaster of Primerose Post Office, Dane County, Wisconsin in 1859. Listed in U.S Post Office 1859 publication "List of Post Offices in the United States"
Notes for Horatio Patchin, 21 Nov 1808 - 27 Jul 1844
From "Sketches of the Life of John Patchin":
My brother Horatio, then in the prime of manhood, thirty-six years of age had come into the old homestead to live and to take care of father and mother the rest of their days. When I reached home in June all were in usual health, and well pleased with the prospects for future years. But death came with ruthless footsteps crushing our earthly hopes and overthrowing the plans that we thought so wisely laid.
A terrible fever swept through my father's neighborhood carrying off large numbers, both old and young. My brother Horatio was one of its victims. I stood by his dying bed. I had never seen a person die. The scene was deeply solemn and impressive. It has always remained engraved on my memory. How weak is human strength! How frail is human life! Mother, standing by Horatio's death bed, spoke words of submission that I cannot forget. "I don't know but God will take from me all of my children. If He does He will take no more than rightfully belongs to Him."
Notes for Daniel Tomlinson Patchin, 21 Sep 1810 - 1888
Could be the Daniel T. Patchin found at this web site. The age appears right, anyway, as well as the middle initial.
Copy of data from this URL is:
PATCHEN (3-3)
Daniel T 39 M Ohio Farmer 600
Sarah 39 F Cont
Mary S 12 F Ohio
Louisa 9 F Ohio
Charles S 7 M Ohio
Robert 4 M Ohio
Willis 1 M Ill
1850 Census Macoupin County Illinois
Notes for Augustus Eleazer Patchin, 21 Nov 1817 - 14 Feb 1902
Wisconsin 10th Infantry Regiment
Regimental History
Battles Fought
Battle at Bellefonte, Alabama
Battle at Pulaski, Tennessee
Battle at Paint Rock Bridge, Alabama on 28 April 1862
Battle on 03 May 1862
Battle on 14 May 1862
Battle on 15 May 1862
Battle on 04 June 1862
Battle on 02 July 1862
Battle at Larkinsville, Alabama on 04 July 1862
Battle at Mud Creek, Alabama on 22 August 1862
Battle at Mud Creek, Alabama on 23 August 1862
Battle at Larkinsville, Alabama on 30 August 1862
Battle on 31 August 1862
Battle at Chaplin Hills, Kentucky on 08 October 1862
Battle at Perryville, Kentucky on 08 October 1862
Battle at Nolensville, Tennessee on 26 December 1862
Battle at Stones River, Tennessee on 31 December 1862
Battle at Hoover's Gap, Tennessee on 24 June 1863
Battle at Woodville, Alabama on 02 July 1863
Battle at Chickamauga, Georgia on 19 September 1863
Battle at Chickamauga, Georgia on 20 September 1863
Battle on 02 October 1863
Battle on 09 October 1863
Battle at Tunnel Hill, Georgia on 07 May 1864
Battle at Lay's Ferry, Georgia on 14 May 1864
Battle at Allatoona Hills, Georgia on 03 June 1864
Battle on 18 June 1864
Battle at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia on 02 July 1864
Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia on 05 July 1864
Battle at Peach Tree Creek, Georgia on 22 July 1864
Battle on 14 August 1864
Battle on 15 September 1864
Notes for Peter Hayward, 1725 - 1 Aug 1791
From "New Hampshire As It Is" by Edwin A. Charlton from Part II: A Gazetteer of New Hampshire by George Ticknor, Tracy and Sanford Publishers, Claremont, N.H., 1855 as transcribed by Michelle McKenzie:
Surry was incorporated March 9, 1769. The first settlement was made in 1764, by Peter Heyward. He began clearing land and cultivating it in the summer preceding, making his home at the fort in Keene. He was accustomed to go to his farm in the morning, and return to the fort at night, guarded only by his dog and gun, though the savages were at that time lurking in the woods.
Notes for Benjamin Carpenter, 8 Sep 1729 - Jun 1820
Web site states:
"The History of Woodstock, Connecticut," by Clarence Winthrop Bowen #634, Carpenter Gen. Benjamin and his son Benjamin were on the military roll of a company formed mostly in the town of Gilsum, under Col. Ashley, in the Revolution. Benjamin enlisted in Elijah Weeks' company, raised out of Col. Ashley's regt. of militia, June, 1777, to reinforce the Continental army at Ticonderoga; marched 50 miles and returned home. Went the second time and marched to Col. Moody's at Otter Creek and returned with the retreating army. Benjamin of Surrey (probably the same, or his son) enlisted July 28 and discharged Dec. 17, to recruit the Continental army, and both father and son served 6 months at this time.
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Web site states:
He moved to Ashford, Conn., from there to Surrey, N.H., and from there to Landgrove, Vt. "A friend of humanity and benefactor of mankind." He settled in Surry as early as 1775/6 and was one who signed the Association Test May 1776; for many years he lived in S. W. part of Surry supposedly at No. 223, where his son and grandson also resided.
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Web site states:
Military: Benjamin and his son Benjamin were on the military roll of a company formed mostly in the town of Gilsum, under Colonel Ashley, in the Revolution. Benjamin enlisted in Elijah Week's company, raised out of Colonel Ashley's regiment of militia, June, 1777, to reinforce the Continental army at Ticonderoga; marched 50 miles and returned home. (Ordered July 3d and 4th). Went the second time and marched to Colonel Moody's at Otter Creek and returned with the retreating army. Benjamin of Surrey (probably the same) enlisted July 28 and discharged Dec. 17, (or son,) to recruit the Continental army and both father and son served 6 months, at this time.
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Web site states:
Sources:
Type: Book
Author: Amos B. Carpenter
Periodical: "A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America.
Publication: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1898
Title: Reproduced on Broderbund Software's Family Archive CD #117
Text: "Carpenter's of Rehoboth"
Text: History of the Town of Surry, Cheshire County, New Hampshire by Frank Burnside Kingsbury, published by the town of Surry, New Hampshire 1925.
Text: pg 520
Type: Book
Author: Amos B. Carpenter
Periodical: "A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America.
Publication: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1898
Title: Reproduced on Broderbund Software's Family Archive CD #117
Text: "Carpenter's of Rehoboth"
Text: pg 123
Notes for Benjamin Carpenter, 21 Oct 1760 - 5 Feb 1838
Web site states:
Benjamin doubtless came to Surry with his parents prior to the Revolution; lived at No. 223.
Notes for Emmanuel Downing, 12 Aug 1585 - after Nov 1660
From web site:
per WR: [Emmanuel was] a friend of Winthrop and Saltonstall, who settled at Salem (Mass)
email 7 Jul 1997 from Elise Heinz, 2728 N. Fillmore St., Arlington, Va. 22207 :
'my family tradition is that "Anthony Stoddard married well, his wife being
the niece of Governor Winthrop." We (my grandmother who spent a long
widowhood with her spinster sister "doing" ancestors) show Emanuel Downing
married to Lucy Winthrop (1601-1679)
In "Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards of Stockbridge, Mass., and Their
Descendants: A Genealogy," (The Robert Clarke Co., Cincinnati, 1903), William
H. Edwards said (p. 3) of Solomon Stoddard:
"Mr. Stoddard was the son of Anthony Stoddard, who came from England to Boston
about 1639, and who married Mary, daughter of Hon. Emanuel Downing, of Salem,
and Lucy, his wife."
Notes for Anthony Stoddard, 1615 - 16 Mar 1686/87
Don't know if it's "our" Anthony, but:
English Origins of American Colonists
[p.166] GENEALOGICAL NOTES FROM THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY EXAMINATIONS. BY J. R. HUTCHINSON.
[p.170] GENEALOGICAL NOTES FROM THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY EXAMINATIONS. BY J. R. HUTCHINSON.
page 171
Anthony Stodderd of St. Michael le Querne, linen-draper, deposes 12 Sept., 1623, aged 53.He was perhaps father to Anthony Stoddard of Boston, N. E., linen-draper, 1639.*
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From Francis Russell Stoddard, Jr.'s "The Stoddard Family: Being an Account of Some of the Descendants of John Stodder of Hingham, Massachusetts Colony":
Anthony was a man of great influence. He was a well known merchant, a Recorder of Boston, and for twenty-three years he served as Representative in the General Court.
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Posted by Peter Stoddard:
... in my research I have found the "Stoddard" origin to be occupational: Herder of Studs" [ie. horses]. It draws snickers when I mention it to people, but it makes sense: Sheppard = herder of sheep, Goddard = herder of goats, etc.
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From kent.stoddard@shaw.wave.ca on GenForum:
"It is said that George Stoddard had a munument erected to him in the parish church of St. Olave, Tower Street, about 1585. He was a merchant of London, and his life is described in Hall's "Society of the Elizabethan Age." His son Nicholas was a soldier.
A part of the family emigrated to Scotland at an early date, probably before the fifteenth century, and preserved the name as Stoddart and as Stodart. ... "THE STARTING BOOKLET ON THE STODDARDS..." by Charles Stoddard of NH in Jan 1984 [author of STODDARD TRIBELOIDS](quoting a book "Anthony Stoddard of Boston and his Descendants" written by Rev. Elijah W. Stoddard 1849.)"
Notes for Esther Warham, 8 Dec 1644 - 10 Feb 1735/36
M. P. Kuhns, "The 'Mary and John': a story of the founding of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630" has her name as Hester Warham (same spouse)
DEATH: M. P. Kuhns, "The 'Mary and John': a story of the founding of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630", 1971 gives her date of death as 10 Feb 1736, as does "A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England ..."
Web site states that the inscription on her tombstone in the Old Burying Ground in Northampton, MA reads as follows:
In Memory of
Mrs. Esther Stoddard
The virtuous wdo and Relict
of the Revd Mr. Solomon Stoddard
formerly Pastor of the Church
in this Town
who died Febry 10th
AD 1736
in the 92d year of her age.
Notes for Solomon Stoddard, 26 Sep 1643 - 11 Feb 1728/29
From web site:
He was the spiritual leader of the town of Northampton, Massachusetts for 57 years.
From web site:
His home is located at 54 Prospect Street, Northampton, MA. It is a private residence and not open to the public. He pastored the Northampton Congregational Church prior to Jonathan Edwards (see Jonathan Edwards).
History of Northampton Massachusetts from its Settlement in 1654, Trumbull, Vol. 2, p. 212:
For seventeen years or more after his marriage to Mrs. Mather, he lived in the Mather homestead, at the corner of Main and Pleasant Streets, in the house built by the town and given to the first minister.
From Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century page 895:
STODDARD, SOLOMON, clergyman, author, was born in 1643 in Boston, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, and pastor at Northampton, Mass., from 1669 until his death. He was the author of Appeal to the Learned; Guide to Christ; Safety in the Righteousness of Christ; and Doctrine of Instituted Churches Explained, a reply to Increase Mather's Order of the Gospel, and one which occasioned much exciting controversy. He died Feb. 11, 1729, in Northampton, Mass.
From web site, quoting "Inscriptions on the Grave Stones in the Grave Yards of Northampton and of Other Towns in the Valley of the Connecticut, as Springfield, Amherst,
Hadley, Hatfield, Deerfield, &c. with Brief Annals of Northampton"
Transcribed by Thomas Bridgman, Northampton, Mass.,
Published by Hopkins, Bridgman & Co. 1850. 227 pages.
A Facsimile Reprint Published 1996 by Heritage Books, Inc.,
1540 E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, MD 20716,
1-800-398-7709 ISBN 0-7884-0590-X
His gravestone epitaph in the "Old Burying Ground" in Northampton:
Here is intered
The Body of the
Rev. Mr. Solomon Stoddard A M
Sometime fellow of Harvard College, Pastor of ye Church in
Northampton, N.E. for near 60 years, who departed this Life 11
February 1729 and in the 86 year of his age; A Man of God, an
able Minister of the New Testament, singularly qualified for that
sacred Office and faithful therein; A light to the Churches in
general, a peculaiar blessing to this; Eminent for the holiness of his
life, as remarkable for his peace at death.
Notes for Anthony Stoddard, 9 Aug 1678 - 6 Sep 1760
Joyce Stoddard says: "There is a tombstone (one of the oldest in America) over his grave. It is noted in the Hale collection of Connecticut cemetery inscriptions."
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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, page 895:
STODDARD, ANTHONY, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 9, 1678, in Northampton, Mass. He was minister at Woodbury, Conn., from 1702 till his death. He was clerk of probate forty years; was the lawyer and physician of his people, and one of the most extensive farmers in the town. He published an Election Sermon. He died Sept. 6, 1760, in Woodbury, Conn.
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Accession Number: 1957.4.1 Title:
Sitter: Stoddard, Anthony (b.1678,d.1748?)
Artist: Unidentified Artist
Classification: Painting
Materials: Oil Canvas
Date: 1715-1735? Dimensions: 76.2cm x 63.5cm (30" x 25")
Current Owner: Yale University Art Gallery Acquisition: Gift of Gerard, Mary D, 1957
Notes for Henry Thompson, about 1750 - ----
"at his marriage, [he] had started with wealth and high position, but lost both and his children were not only deprived of a mother but of advantages for education and of the position in society they should have inherited. (from Diary of Elizabeth Prudence Wakeley Patchin)
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Don't know if it's "our" Henry, but:
HEADS OF FAMILIES THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1790 CONNECTICUT
NEW HAVEN COUNTY
HAMDEN TOWN
page 100
Name of head of family: Thompson, Henry
Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1
Free white males under 16 years: 3
Free white females, including heads of families: 4
Notes for Hannah Thompson, about 1794 - 7 Jan 1874
From "Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin":
She was a collateral descendant of Jonathan Edwards, of Connecticut; and was a woman of uncommon mental gifts, of most exemplary character, and domestic virtues.
Notes for Salmous Wakeley, 17 Mar 1794 - 1867
Spelling of first name appears to be "Salmous" or "Solmons". I have looked at it closely in the two accounts of it I have, from the Oberlin College archives, in the hand of Elizabeth Prudence Wakely (Wakeley). It is given, however, as "Solomon" in a typed note in the archives, from the "Congregational Year-Book, 1902, page 33. I have chosen "Salmous" as the preferred spelling because that is what is given in the book "Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin" by H.A.Tenney & David Atwood.
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From the "Memorial Record..." above, we copy:
Hon. Salmous Wakeley...His ancestors were of Welsh descent, and had been settled in New England for some generations. Although not publicly distinguished, they were characterized, generally, by physical vigor and hardihood; by industry, practical good sense, sagacity, and integrity.
At a very early age he was placed on a farm, and, until about nineteen years old, led a life of hard and steady labor on the stony and sterile soil of his native state. He was reared in the midst of the puritanical influences which, at that day, still lingered in the region. His descriptions, in after years, of the country and its peculiarities, and the poverty and forbidding qualities of its soil, were peculiarly graphic and racy. Before attaining manhood, he also learned the trade of shoemaking; and, during most of his life, was engaged in the manufacturing of boots and shoes, or in farming; giving persistent and steady industry to whatever he had in hand.
He entered life with a very limited education; such only as he had acquired by occasional attendance in winter, at the common schools. But from his intelligence, and his interest in practical affairs, he became a well read man, and well informed citizen in matters of public concern. He had, too, a rare power of defending his views by native logic, and a comprehension which went to the "pith and marrow" of the matter.
He emigrated to New York in early life; and in 1818, he married Hannah Thompson, also a native of Litchfield county. She was a collateral descendant of Jonathan Edwards, of Connecticut; and was a woman of uncommon mental gifts, of most exemplary character, and domestic virtues.
He resided in New York, first in Cortland county, and afterwards in Erie county, until the spring of 1836, when he emigrated to Lorain county, Ohio, where he resided until 1843. To this time, he had mingled not much in public affairs, beyond being a somewhat prominent local politician, and holding minor offices of trust. His life was one of physical labor; and his time was given conscientiously to the care of his family, and provision for such education to his children as was within his slender means.
In the spring of 1843, he removed to Whitewater, Wisconsin, where he resided until just previous to his death. Whitewater, at that time, was a new village of about eight hundred inhabitants; its enterprising people, the fertile region surrounding it, and the railroad which came eight years afterwards, have made it one of the pleasantest and most prosperous inland towns of the state.
In 1846, opposing tickets were nominated by the democratic and whig parties for delegates from Walworth county to the Constitutional Convention. By general consent, Mr. Wakeley was placed on the democratic ticket, which was successful; his own majority being nearly two hundred. Unfitted, or at least disinclined, from want of previous training, to take a conspicuous part in the proceedings of this body, in which he served on the committee on a bill of rights, yet his sturdy good sense, excellent judment and patent sincerity, made him one of its safest and most trusted counselors, and secured for him the high respect of its members.
Subsequently, he represented the Whitewater assembly district in the sessions of 1855 and 1857, with credit, and to the entire satisfaction of his constituency. He was for several years chairman of the board of supervisors of Whitewater, and, as such, an influential member of the county board.
In private and in public life, so far as he had part in it, he was a man of marked individuality and force of character. In both he had decided convictions and governing principles of conduct; and, in both, inflexible integrity was always his guide. His standard of honesty and honor was a high one; and he exacted of his children and of all with whom he had influence, a rigid adherence to it. Caring little for polish or conventional formalities, he was direct, sincere, simple and just in his life and his relations with others. A man of rugged character and virtues, he belonged to that class of men for having more of which the world would be the better. Without classical culture or erudition, he had great native sagacity, and an innate gift of reasoning which seldom failed to carry him to correct conclusions.
In politics, as upon other questions of general interest, he had positive and pronounced views. In early and middle life, he was an earnest and an active democrat. In the campaign of 1828, he was one of only seven supporters of Jackson in the town of his residence; and then, as in 1832, was one of the old hero's staunchest advocates. He remained in this political fellowship until the free soil and slavery questions developed the republican party, with which he then united, and afterwards continued to act.
His children were three sons and two daughters; two of the former, Eleazer Wakeley, now [1880] of Nebraska, and Charles T. Wakeley, of Madison, having been well known lawyers of this state.
On the 12th of January, 1867, he died of pneumonia, at the residence of his son, E. Wakeley, in Madison. Until the time of his illness, being then nearly seventy-three years of age, he had retained unusual mental clearness and physical vigor. He died, as he had lived, with quiet fortitude. He was buried at Whitewater, by his neighbors and friends, in the old ground where two of his children had preceded him, and where his venerable widow has since been borne.
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The signed document shows that this was land in Walworth Co., so it surely is "our" Salmous:
"[Brøderbund Family Archive #255, Ed. 1, Land Records: AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI 1790-1907, Date of Import: Nov 10, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.255.1.65717.14]
Patentee Name: Wakely, Solmons
Accession Number: WI3100__.066
State: Wisconsin,Volume: 3100, Page: 66
Document Number: 31662
Land Office: Milwaukee
Aliquot Part Reference: NWSE
Section Number: 25
Township: 5 North
Range: 15 East
Meridian/Survey Area: Fourth Principal Meridian
Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale: Sale-Cash Entries
Date Signed: Jan 1, 1850
Acreage: 40.00
Signed: Yes, the document on file at the BLM contains a signature.
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According to web site, Salmous Wakeley is mentioned on page 648 of HISTORY OF WALWORTH COUNTY, WISCONSIN, 1882. According to the LDS web site, this book is available on microfilm as "FHL US/CAN Film 908346"
Notes for Levi Francis Bickford, 9 Jan 1840 - about 24 Feb 1919
Don't know for sure that it's "our" Levi, but the middle initial, the title "Rev.", the state of birth, and approximate birth date are suggestive:
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, page 109:
BICKFORD, LEVI F., clergyman, poet, was born January 9, 1840, in Hartford, Ind. He is a successful congregational clergyman of Brownwood, Texas; and fills the chair of mathematics and metaphysics in the Daniel Baker College of that city.
Again, not sure it's "our" Levi, but the Midwest is a reasonable location, correct middle initial, and age would be about right:
Enlisted 17 May 1864 as Corporal, claimed residence Wheaton
Served Illinois Enlisted I Co. 132nd Inf Reg. IL Mustered Out at Chicago, IL on 17 October 1864
Source: Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
Published 1900
Again, not sure it's "our" Levi, but the occupation is right and location is consistent with his wife's ultimate residence:
Los Angeles, California City Directories, 1888-90:
Rev. Levi Bickford, 7 Hudson Ave., Pasadena, CA
Notes for Charlotte Elizabeth Patchin, 15 Apr 1848 - 30 Jan 1933
From diary of Elizabeth Prudence Wakeley Patchin:
Lottie is with us at present. I so much enjoy her being with us, but she expects to return to the west, where she is engaged to teach music and art in the Illinois Industrial University (later the University of Illinois). She is the first lady teacher and the first music teacher of that institution.
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ILLINOIS ALVMNI NEWS
MRS. CHARLOTTE PATCHIN BICKFORD, the beloved "Miss Patchin", the University's first woman instructor and the first instructor of music, died Jan. 30, at her home in Pacific Palisades, California. She was 85 years old. Mrs. Bickford was graduated from Oberlin College in 1869, and later from the New York Conservatory of Music. For the next two years she taught in various secondary school systems, and in 1872 came to Illinois as its first instructor of music. Talented also as an artist, she taught free-hand drawing to the Gregorians from 1872 to 76. In 1879 she left Illinois to marry the Rev. Levi F. Bickford.
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THE PALISADIAN
3, 1933
Closing a long and beautiful life, death came to Mrs. Charlotte E. Bickford on Monday night, January 30 at about 11:30 o'clock, as she was peacefully sleeping. For some time her condition had been considered critical but she had not spent a day in bed. On the evening of her passing she listened to radio numbers, including an historical program, and retired at 9:30. Her last day was marked by the same serenity and poise, the same interest in current affairs, the usual expression of thoughtfulness for others that have characterized her busy life. In faith and content she turned her face toward the dawn of another life as of another day...
Just a week before her passing, Mrs. Bickford attended a meeting of the Pacific Palisades Women's Club, of which she was an ardent member, holding the place of chairman of the literary department for some time. She WGS secretary of the local WCTU in 1930 and vice-president during the year 1931-1932. Before coming to Pacific Palisades she was president of the WCTU in Highland Park, and previously in Oberlin. She was a faithful member of the Pacific Palisades Community Church and Sunday School.
She is survived by her daughter, Miss Claribel L., instructor in Spanish in the Santa Monica High School; two sons, Frederick L. of West Los Angeles, and the Rev. John T., Presbyterian missionary of Shunteh Fu, China, who arrived in Pacific Palisades with his family two months ago on furlough; a brother, J. W. Patchin of Traverse City, Mich., and six grandchildren, Betty Bickford Menkel, Clarice Hope Bickford, and the four children of her missionary son: Ester, Jean, Clara and John Thomas Bickford, Jr.
Notes for Lucy Frances Patchin, 30 Oct 1851 - 27 Jul 1865
From the diary of Elizabeth Prudence Wakeley Patchin, Frankie's mother:
July 29, 1865 One of the sad and eventful periods of my probation has transpired this day. I have just returned from the grave of our dear Frankie. Oh, how can I realize that our bright and joyous Fannie, our happy singing bird, has left our home forever? For two weeks past I have watched over her sick bed night and day. With what agony I watched her alarming symptoms. How I bent over her in her hours of delirium. How gladly would I have spoken the endearing words that I denied her in her seasons of health and happiness. How earnestly I prayed for, one more opportunity to tell her how much I loved her. Alas, the opportunity was gone forever. God has appointed that I should witness her sufferings, her dying strife and see her depart forever. I have been talking with dear Lottie. She is quite crushed beneath the blow. God comfort her and sanctify this great sorrow to her everlasting good. Dear Fanny, a happy angel. O dost thou look upon the darkened home thou hast left? Dost thou know how the hearts that loved thee are sorrowing?
Notes for Florence Amelia Patchin, 30 Jul 1854 - 1 Jan 1927
FLORENCE PATCHIN HUNTER LANE
Reuben Hunter sent the following beautiful tribute to his mother:
"Presumably you know of my father's and mother's ill fated adventure as pioneers in homesteading in southeastern Colorado in the '80's, of my birth in '88, of my father's illness, and of his passing in Canon City in, I believe, '92. From then on, as you know, her son was her life. Her first move was a horse and buggy drive to Orleans, Nebraska, camping out nights on the open prairie. In Orleans she taught one year in a Free Methodist boarding school.
"Her next move was to Grandpa's and Grandma's in North Olmsted, Ohio. During the years there she did a considerable amount of elementary school teaching. After the passing of her folks, and after my graduation from high school in 1905, she moved to Greenville, Ill. so that I could attend Greenvllle College. As my health failed, so that I was unable to complete my course, in 1910 we moved to Colorado. There I began my teaching career and Mother also did some teaching.
"In 1917 Lila and I were married and within possibly a year and a half or so Mother married Rev. George B. Lane, a Free Methodist minister in Colorado. In 1923 Lila and I came to Seattle with our four and a half year old son. In 1926 Mother was here on a visit. During the latter part of December she suddenly became ill. On January 1st 1927 she slipped away while in my arms. She lies at rest in the cemetery a few blocks away, where Lila also is at rest. It is to me a precious boon that she was with me in her closing hours and that her resting place is so near at hand.
"Mother was possessed of an indomitable spirit, that, with her faith in God, enabled her to face every ordeal, every thwarting experience, every challenge, with undaunted courage. After my anguish of soul in seeing my precious Lila suffer and slip away, feeling the emptiness of the house and the unutterable loneliness of heart after her departure, often have I thought of my brave little mother out there, a stranger and alone in a humble cabin in the desolate foothills at the outskirts of Canon City, watching through the night by the still form of her departed loved one. Now I realize that throughout the years that I lived with her and that she toiled and sacrificed for me, I had no comprehension whatever of her heartbreak. She was not one to dwell upon the past but, with unswerving faith, pressed onward.
"Mother, to me, was the embodiment of selfless devotion to duty, complete sincerity, unfeigned love for all, courage, faith, and reverent devout worship of God. She was the epitome of humility, self-effacement, conscientiousness, faithfulness and loyalty. Her whole being was motivated by the highest ideals,the noblest aspirations. She left a rich heritage. My debt to her is greater than I can express, greater, no doubt, than I can realize. "Her spirit rising above all hardships, disappointments and heartbreaks, she harbored no bitterness. Always thankful for her many blessings, her unswerving faith carried her through victoriously to the last. God bless her precious memory."
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