Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameRoxey Fenton
Birth1818
FatherOrrin Fenton (1784-1870)
MotherClarissa Barber (~1783-1822)
Misc. Notes
Roxy, daughter of Oren Fenton, was the wife of Calvin Wakefield and had two children: Rowland, who met his death by drowning, and Harriet A., wife of William Agens. She died in 1873, leaving one son, Ernest A. Agens.
Her husband -
Calvin, son of Peter Wakefield, was born in Pinckney, Lewis county, May 29, 1816; settled on a farm near Mill creek, Lowville, and devoted his acres to hop culture, becoming one of the largest hop growers in Lewis county.
Thomas Wakefield, grandfather of Calvin was born in New Hampshire in 1751; served in the Revolutionary war; married Elizabeth Hardy, born 1750; came to Lewis county, N.Y. about 1800, and settled in what is now [1910] Pinckney, then a wilderness, where he cleared a farm; had six sons and four daughters, all born in N.H.
Peter, son of Thomas Wakefield, was a farmer, and in winter taught school. He married Esther (born Oct. 8, 17860, daughter of Ephraim Whitcomb, a Revolutionary soldier. Peter and Esther (Whitcomb) Wakefield were parents of fourteen children; thirteen lived to maturity, of whom Calvin was fifth. Peter Wakefield died July 13, 1855; Esther, his wife, Oct. 1867.
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