Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJacob Fenton
Birth6 Mar 1827, Mansfield, Tolland Co, CT
Census26 Jul 1860, Worcester, Worcester Co, MA
Memoroll#532, pg 506
Census22 Jun 1870, Elmira, Chemung Co, NY
Memoroll#914, pg 234
Death5 Apr 1878, Norwich, New London Co, CT
FatherZebina Fenton (1784-1849)
MotherEsther Shumway (1788-1857)
Misc. Notes
Is listed in Worchester, MA in 1860 as a polisher (33, CT) with wife Lucy A. (25, ME), daughters Lucy M. (7, MA) and Sarah D. (2), and son Charles B. (7 mos, MA).
They had moved to Elmira, New York by 1870, where he worked as a polisher in a lock factory (43, CT) with his wife Lucy (36, ME) and 7 children.
Spouses
Birth17 Mar 1834, Saco, York Co, ME
Death18 Feb 1908, Connecticut
Misc. Notes
Listed with her parents, Charles Baird and Ann Hurd, at age 16 in 1850.
By 1880 she was apparently widowed and living with her parents in Manlius NY - Charles Baird (71, MA) a gunsmith and wife Ann M. (70, NH).
She is doing nursing (45, MA) and has her daughters Lucy (17, CT) and Carrie (3, CT) living with her.
Marriage25 Jul 1852, Worcester, Worcester Co, MA
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