William Shelton1

     William Shelton married Susanna Strong, daughter of Thomas Strong and Susanna Thompson.

Child of William Shelton and Susanna Strong

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

George Shelton1

     George Shelton was the son of William Shelton and Susanna Strong. George Shelton married Betsey Wooster.

Child of George Shelton and Betsey Wooster

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

Betsey Wooster1

     Betsey Wooster married George Shelton, son of William Shelton and Susanna Strong.

Child of Betsey Wooster and George Shelton

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 56.

George Wellington Shelton1

     George Wellington Shelton was the son of George Shelton and Betsey Wooster. George Wellington Shelton married Margaret Gray Atwood.

Child of George Wellington Shelton and Margaret Gray Atwood

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

Margaret Gray Atwood1

     Margaret Gray Atwood married George Wellington Shelton, son of George Shelton and Betsey Wooster.

Child of Margaret Gray Atwood and George Wellington Shelton

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

George Gregroy Shelton1

     George Gregroy Shelton was the son of George Wellington Shelton and Margaret Gray Atwood. George Gregroy Shelton married Ida Elizabeth Sherman.

Child of George Gregroy Shelton and Ida Elizabeth Sherman

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

Ida Elizabeth Sherman1

     Ida Elizabeth Sherman married George Gregroy Shelton, son of George Wellington Shelton and Margaret Gray Atwood.

Child of Ida Elizabeth Sherman and George Gregroy Shelton

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

Harriet May Shelton1

     Harriet May Shelton was the daughter of George Gregroy Shelton and Ida Elizabeth Sherman. Harriet May Shelton married Frederick Kellog Hollister.

Child of Harriet May Shelton and Frederick Kellog Hollister

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

Frederick Kellog Hollister1

     Frederick Kellog Hollister married Harriet May Shelton, daughter of George Gregroy Shelton and Ida Elizabeth Sherman.

Child of Frederick Kellog Hollister and Harriet May Shelton

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

Margaret Shelton Hollister1

     Margaret Shelton Hollister was the daughter of Frederick Kellog Hollister and Harriet May Shelton.

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 56/Item 209.

Mary Pinney1,2

     Mary Pinney married Sgt. John Strong, son of John Strong Jr. and Elizabeth Warriner. Information and sources provided by Gary Parsons who also quotes Ralph C. Guffey, P.O. Box 180103, Dallas, TX 75218-0103.

Child of Mary Pinney and Sgt. John Strong

Citations

  1. [S87] Henry Parsons, Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Pp 32, 33.
  2. [S88] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England marriages: Prior to 1700, Pp 719.

Deacon David Strong1,2

b. 15 December 1704, d. 25 January 1801
     He was a farmer at Bolton, CT, and for 65 years deacon in the Congregational Church. He removed from Windsor to Bolton about 1730 -- living some three miles from the centre of the town on the road to Buckingham (then Eastbury). Deacon David Strong was born on 15 December 1704. He was the son of Sgt. John Strong and Mary Pinney. Deacon David Strong married Thankful Loomis, daughter of Moses Loomis and Joanna Gibbs, on 3 May 1732 at Bolton, CT. Deacon David Strong married Abigail Pettibone, daughter of John Pettibone and Mary Bissell, after 9 December 1760. Deacon David Strong died on 25 January 1801 at Bolton, CT, at age 96.

Children of Deacon David Strong and Thankful Loomis

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.
  2. [S84] Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight Elder John Strong, Vol I:Pg 39.

Thankful Loomis

b. circa 1709
     Thankful Loomis was born circa 1709. She was the daughter of Moses Loomis and Joanna Gibbs. Thankful Loomis married Deacon David Strong, son of Sgt. John Strong and Mary Pinney, on 3 May 1732 at Bolton, CT.

Children of Thankful Loomis and Deacon David Strong

Moses Loomis1,2

b. 15 May 1671, d. 15 April 1754
     Moses Loomis was born on 15 May 1671 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. He was the son of Nathaniel Loomis and Elizabeth Moore. Moses Loomis married Joanna Gibbs on 27 April 1694. Moses Loomis died on 15 April 1754 at age 82.

Children of Moses Loomis and Joanna Gibbs

Citations

  1. [S52] Henry R. Stiles History of Ancient Windsor II, Vol. II:Pg. 436/Family 23.
  2. [S137] Elisha Scott Loomis, Joseph Loomis, Page 139/Item 52.

Joanna Gibbs

     Joanna Gibbs married Moses Loomis, son of Nathaniel Loomis and Elizabeth Moore, on 27 April 1694.

Children of Joanna Gibbs and Moses Loomis

Thankful Strong1

b. 12 October 1740
     Thankful Strong married Stephen Cone III. Thankful Strong was born on 12 October 1740. She was the daughter of Deacon David Strong and Thankful Loomis.

Child of Thankful Strong and Stephen Cone III

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Stephen Cone III1

     Stephen Cone III married Thankful Strong, daughter of Deacon David Strong and Thankful Loomis.

Child of Stephen Cone III and Thankful Strong

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Mehitable Cone1

     Mehitable Cone was the daughter of Stephen Cone III and Thankful Strong. Mehitable Cone married Eleazur Pitkin.

Child of Mehitable Cone and Eleazur Pitkin

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Eleazur Pitkin1

     Eleazur Pitkin married Mehitable Cone, daughter of Stephen Cone III and Thankful Strong.

Child of Eleazur Pitkin and Mehitable Cone

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Eli Pitkin1

     Eli Pitkin was the son of Eleazur Pitkin and Mehitable Cone. Eli Pitkin married Hannah Miller Torrey.

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Hannah Miller Torrey1

     Hannah Miller Torrey married Eli Pitkin, son of Eleazur Pitkin and Mehitable Cone.

Child of Hannah Miller Torrey and Eli Pitkin

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Frederick Walker Pitkin1

     Frederick Walker Pitkin was the son of Eli Pitkin and Hannah Miller Torrey. Frederick Walker Pitkin married Fidelia M. James.

Child of Frederick Walker Pitkin and Fidelia M. James

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Fidelia M. James1

     Fidelia M. James married Frederick Walker Pitkin, son of Eli Pitkin and Hannah Miller Torrey.

Child of Fidelia M. James and Frederick Walker Pitkin

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Robert James Pitkin1

     Robert James Pitkin was the son of Frederick Walker Pitkin and Fidelia M. James. Robert James Pitkin married Amy Moore.

Child of Robert James Pitkin and Amy Moore

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Amy Moore1

     Amy Moore married Robert James Pitkin, son of Frederick Walker Pitkin and Fidelia M. James.

Child of Amy Moore and Robert James Pitkin

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Amy Pitkin1

     Amy Pitkin was the daughter of Robert James Pitkin and Amy Moore. Amy Pitkin married Robert Lawrence Stearns.

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Robert Lawrence Stearns1

     Robert Lawrence Stearns married Amy Pitkin, daughter of Robert James Pitkin and Amy Moore.

Child of Robert Lawrence Stearns and Amy Pitkin

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Marion Lloyd Stearns1

     Marion Lloyd Stearns was the daughter of Robert Lawrence Stearns and Amy Pitkin.

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 59/Item 236.

Sgt. Joseph Barnard1,2

b. 20 June 1681
     Sgt. Joseph Barnard was born on 20 June 1681.3 He was the son of Joseph Barnard and Sarah Strong. Sgt. Joseph Barnard married Abigail Griswold, daughter of Edward Griswold and Abigal Williams, on 4 October 1705 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.

Children of Sgt. Joseph Barnard and Abigail Griswold

Citations

  1. [S52] Henry R. Stiles History of Ancient Windsor II, Page 58.
  2. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, page 65/Item 65.
  3. [S84] Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight Elder John Strong, Volume II, page 1465.

Moses Barnard1

     Moses Barnard was the son of Francis Barnard and Lucretia Pinney. Moses Barnard married Hannah Barnard, daughter of Edward Barnard and Mabel Pinney.

Child of Moses Barnard and Hannah Barnard

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Hannah Barnard1

     Hannah Barnard was the daughter of Edward Barnard and Mabel Pinney. Hannah Barnard married Moses Barnard, son of Francis Barnard and Lucretia Pinney.

Child of Hannah Barnard and Moses Barnard

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Olive Barnard1

     Olive Barnard was the daughter of Moses Barnard and Hannah Barnard. Olive Barnard married Edward Lewis.

Child of Olive Barnard and Edward Lewis

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Edward Lewis1

     Edward Lewis married Olive Barnard, daughter of Moses Barnard and Hannah Barnard.

Child of Edward Lewis and Olive Barnard

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Olivia Lewis1

     Olivia Lewis was the daughter of Edward Lewis and Olive Barnard. Olivia Lewis married Jervis Landon.

Child of Olivia Lewis and Jervis Landon

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Jervis Landon1

     Jervis Landon married Olivia Lewis, daughter of Edward Lewis and Olive Barnard.

Child of Jervis Landon and Olivia Lewis

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Olivia Landon1

     Olivia Landon was the daughter of Jervis Landon and Olivia Lewis. Olivia Landon married Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens1

b. 30 November 1835, d. 21 April 1910
     Twain, Mark, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression.

Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he was four years old. There he received a public school education. After the death of his father in 1847, Clemens was apprenticed to two Hannibal printers, and in 1851 he began setting type for and contributing sketches to his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal. Subsequently he worked as a printer in Keokuk, Iowa; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and other cities. Later Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War (1861-1865) brought an end to travel on the river. In 1861 Clemens served briefly as a volunteer soldier in the Confederate cavalry. Later that year he accompanied his brother to the newly created Nevada Territory, where he tried his hand at silver mining. In 1862 he became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, and in 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning "two fathoms deep." After moving to San Francisco, California, in 1864, Twain met American writers Artemus Ward and Bret Harte, who encouraged him in his work. In 1865 Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields, and within months the author and the story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," had become national sensations.

In 1867 Twain lectured in New York City, and in the same year he visited Europe and Palestine. He wrote of these travels in The Innocents Abroad (1869), a book exaggerating those aspects of European culture that impress American tourists. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon. After living briefly in Buffalo, New York, the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Much of Twain's best work was written in the 1870s and 1880s in Hartford or during the summers at Quarry Farm, near Elmira, New York. Roughing It (1872) recounts his early adventures as a miner and journalist; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) celebrates boyhood in a town on the Mississippi River; A Tramp Abroad (1880) describes a walking trip through the Black Forest of Germany and the Swiss Alps; The Prince and the Pauper (1882), a children's book, focuses on switched identities in Tudor England; Life on the Mississippi (1883) combines an autobiographical account of his experiences as a river pilot with a visit to the Mississippi nearly two decades after he left it; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) satirizes oppression in feudal England.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the sequel to Tom Sawyer, is considered Twain's masterpiece. The book is the story of the title character, known as Huck, a boy who flees his father by rafting down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim. The pair's adventures show Huck (and the reader) the cruelty of which men and women are capable. Another theme of the novel is the conflict between Huck's feelings of friendship with Jim, who is one of the few people he can trust, and his knowledge that he is breaking the laws of the time by helping Jim escape. Huckleberry Finn, which is almost entirely narrated from Huck's point of view, is noted for its authentic language and for its deep commitment to freedom. Huck's adventures also provide the reader with a panorama of American life along the Mississippi before the Civil War. Twain's skill in capturing the rhythms of that life help make the book one of the masterpieces of American literature.

In 1884 Twain formed the firm Charles L. Webster and Company to publish his and other writers' works, notably Personal Memoirs (two volumes, 1885-1886) by American general and president Ulysses S. Grant. A disastrous investment in an automatic typesetting machine led to the firm's bankruptcy in 1894. A successful worldwide lecture tour and the book based on those travels, Following the Equator (1897), paid off Twain's debts.

Twain's work during the 1890s and the 1900s is marked by growing pessimism and bitterness-the result of his business reverses and, later, the deaths of his wife and two daughters. Significant works of this period are Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), a novel set in the South before the Civil War that criticizes racism by focusing on mistaken racial identities, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), a sentimental biography. Twain's other later writings include short stories, the best known of which are "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1899) and "The War Prayer" (1905); philosophical, social, and political essays; the manuscript of "The Mysterious Stranger," an uncompleted piece that was published posthumously in 1916; and autobiographical dictations.

Twain's work was inspired by the unconventional West, and the popularity of his work marked the end of the domination of American literature by New England writers. He is justly renowned as a humorist but was not always appreciated by the writers of his time as anything more than that. Successive generations of writers, however, recognized the role that Twain played in creating a truly American literature. He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous and colloquial, yet poetic, language. His success in creating this plain but evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture and for the more formal language associated with those traditions. His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both of whom pointed to Twain as an inspiration for their own writing.

In Twain's later years he wrote less, but he became a celebrity, frequently speaking out on public issues. He also came to be known for the white linen suit he always wore when making public appearances. Twain received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1907. When he died he left an uncompleted autobiography, which was eventually edited by his secretary, Albert Bigelow Paine, and published in 1924. In 1990 the first half of a handwritten manuscript of Huckleberry Finn was discovered in Hollywood, California. After a series of legal battles over ownership, the portion, which included previously unpublished material, was reunited with its second half, which had been housed at the Buffalo and Erie County (New York) Public Library, in 1992. A revised edition of Huckleberry Finn including the unpublished material was released in 1996.

"Twain, Mark," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Samuel Langhorne Clemens married Olivia Landon, daughter of Jervis Landon and Olivia Lewis. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on 30 November 1835 at Florida, MO. He died on 21 April 1910 at age 74. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY.

Citations

  1. [S82] Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner, Princess Di, Page 65/Item 258.

Sgt. Richard Case1

d. 7 October 1830
     Sgt. Richard Case was born at West Granby, Granby, Hartford Co., CT.2 He was the son of Richard Case and Ruth Case. Sgt. Richard Case married Jemima Moore, daughter of Sanders Moore and Damaris Tuller. Sgt. Richard Case died on 7 October 1830 at West Granby, Granby, Hartford Co., CT.2

Children of Sgt. Richard Case and Jemima Moore

Citations

  1. [S101] Ruth Cost Duncan, John Case, Page 62/Item 134.
  2. [S418] Ruth Cost Duncan, John Case 2nd Edition, Page 60, Item 134.

Ruth Case1

b. 1759, d. 1854
     Ruth Case was born in 1759 at Canton, Hartford Co., CT.2 She was the daughter of Richard Case and Ruth Case. Ruth Case married Moses Miller, son of Ichabod Miller and Sarah Holcombe. Ruth Case died in 1854.

Citations

  1. [S101] Ruth Cost Duncan, John Case, Page 30/Item 52.ii.
  2. [S502] Norman W. Ingham, "Ichabod Miller."

Moses Miller

b. 4 January 1760
     Moses Miller was born on 4 January 1760 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.1 He was the son of Ichabod Miller and Sarah Holcombe. Moses Miller married Ruth Case, daughter of Richard Case and Ruth Case.

Citations

  1. [S502] Norman W. Ingham, "Ichabod Miller."

George Case1

b. 4 December 1761, d. 20 March 1850
     George Case was born on 4 December 1761 at West Granby, Granby, Hartford Co., CT. He was the son of Richard Case and Ruth Case. George Case married Lucy Hayes, daughter of Asahel Hayes and Anne Clauson. George Case died on 20 March 1850 at age 88.

Child of George Case and Lucy Hayes

Citations

  1. [S101] Ruth Cost Duncan, John Case, Page 62/Item 135.

Japhet Case1

b. 1776, d. 1809
     Japhet Case was born in 1776 at Canton, Hartford Co., CT. He was the son of Richard Case and Ruth Case. Japhet Case married Chloe Thrall, daughter of Ezekiel Trhall, on 16 July 1794 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. Japhet Case died in 1809.

Children of Japhet Case and Chloe Thrall

Citations

  1. [S101] Ruth Cost Duncan, John Case, Page 63/Item 136.