Re: Mary Ann Adgedent/Increase Claflin
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Mary Ann Adgedent/Increase Claflin
6/08/99
Increase Claflin is my 3rd gr-grandfather.I only have a little bit of info on Mary Ann from her deat obit as follows: Mary Ann was the daughter of Samuel LeCount and Jerusha
Adgedent of Exeter, Rockingham County, NH and sister to John, Samuel, and George.When quite small, she left home and went to live with her aunt, Polly Adgedent.At the age of 14 she married John Walker, a bugler in the army.He died and she married Increase Claflin, he then holding a position as steward in the army.Her last wish was that if any of her brothers or relatives were living, and should hear of her death, they
should write to her son, William Claflin and daughter, Mrs. Robert Stevenson, at Little Sturgeon.Those who enjoyed an acquaintance with Mary Ann could not fail to be struck with her gentleness of manner.She had the faculty of winnning friends and holding them to the last.