Re:Daniel B. Weston & Children in Vermont then Iowa
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Re:Daniel B. Weston & Children in Vermont then Iowa
3/18/99
I'm not at all related to this family, but have an old county memorial record book of brief bio. sketches.Written in 1895, for some counties on the southern edge of Minnesota.There is a sketch written about C. B. Weston, stating that "He was born at Mount Tabor, Rutland County, Vermont, June 28, 1835.His father Daniel B. Weston, was born at Winchendon, Massachusetts, of an old Massachusetts family that was of English origin.Daniel married Ruth Jackson, a native of Wallingford, Vermont, adaughter of John Jackson, also of the Bay State.Some of her forefathers were participants in the Rev. War.The parents of our subject resided in Vermont, and in 1858 emigrated to Howard County, Iowa, locating there as pioneers, where the father died, at the age of sixty-five years, and the mother died some time subsequently.They had nine children, viz.Ephraim, Sophia, Charles B., Dora, Catharine, Nettie, Lizzie (wife of Jeff. Clark and both are now deceased), and George, deceased.By a former marriage to Catharine Taylor, the senior Weston had three children,--Sophia, Park and William......"(there is further information on C. B. Weston, his wife, her family, and his children)(Could Elvah Finette possibly be "Nettie"?)
Margaret