Selected Families and Individuals

Source Citations

Samuel MARTINDALE

¹Melvin, G.,
gmelvin@bristolbay.com>, Ancestry.com.

²Census, Federal - 1850 - Addison Co., Vermont, Orwell, Ancestry p. 16 of 35. "Line 15        Dwelling # 117    Household  # 127

Samuel Martindale  36   M   Farmer    r.estate value $600
Lucinda                   30
Cordelia                     7
Lucy                         73."

³Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174, 2 Jun 1880. "Martendael, Saml   age 65                farmer   VT  Eng   NY
                   Lucy J        39?         wife                   NY NY     NY
Colvin, Truman              14     step-son                 NY NY     NY
           Byron                 10          "                        NY NY     NY."

⁴Census, Federal 1860, Charlestown, Calumet, WI. "Name: Saml Martindale
Age: 46
Birth Year: abt 1814
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Vermont
Home in 1860: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Post Office: Charlestown
Family Number: 951
Value of Real Estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Saml Martindale 46
Lucinda Martindale 42
Elizh Martindale 17
Sarah Martindale 9."

⁵Census, Federal 1870, Charlestown, Calumet, WI, 7 Jun 1870. "Name: Samuel Martindale
Age in 1870: 55
Birth Year: abt 1815
Birthplace: Vermont
Home in 1870: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Gender: Male
Post Office: Gravesville
Value of Real Estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Samuel Martindale 55
Lucinda Martindale 52
Emma Martindale 18
Roly Martindale 8."

⁶Weston East Cemetery, Christy, Clark Co, Wi near Loyal. I have a rubbing of his gravestone.  It list birthdate of 1814 but no place. Christy is abt 7 miles SW of Loyal in Clark Co.(DZS).

⁷Weston East Cemetery, Christy, Clark Co, Wi near Loyal.

⁸Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.121738436, internet. "Birth: 1814
Death: 1890


Family links:
 Parents:
 Thos. Martindale (1759 - 1843)
 Lucy Bennett Martindale (1772 - 1851)

 Spouses:
 Lucinda Martindale (1817 - 1873)*
 Lucy Janette Nutting Martindale (1841 - 1909)*

 Children:
 Rolla Martindale (1863 - 1882)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Chapel Hill Cemetery
Christie
Clark County
Wisconsin, USA
Plot: K-009

Created by: Bob Ottinger
Record added: Dec 14, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 121738436."

Lucinda E. LAWRENCE

¹Rhynard, Milt, Milt's Secondary Family History, , Ancestry.com, Milt's Secondary Family History File.

²Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 135, 30 Jul 1860.

³Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174.

⁴Census, Federal - 1850 - Addison Co., Vermont, Orwell, Ancestry p. 16 of 35. "Line 15        Dwelling # 117    Household  # 127

Samuel Martindale  36   M   Farmer    r.estate value $600
Lucinda                   30
Cordelia                     7
Lucy                         73."

⁵Erma Schaper. Notes from 1983 visit by Dianne Stevens with Erma Schaper at her home near Butternut, WI. Erma thought this woman's birth name was Elizabeth Lawrence.
Perhaps Lucinda Elizabeth ?.

⁶Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, internet. "Birth: 1817
Death: Nov. 16, 1873


Family links:
 Spouse:
 Samuel Martindale (1814 - 1890)

 Children:
 Rolla Martindale (1863 - 1882)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Greenwood City Cemetery
Greenwood
Clark County
Wisconsin, USA

Created by: Bob Ottinger
Record added: Dec 15, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 121783249."

Sarah MARTINDALE

¹Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 135. " Census, Federal 1860, Charlestown, Calumet, WI.
"Name: Saml Martindale
Age: 46
Birth Year: abt 1814
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Vermont
Home in 1860: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Post Office: Charlestown
Family Number: 951
Value of Real Estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Saml Martindale 46
Lucinda Martindale 42
Elizh Martindale 17
Sarah Martindale 9."."

Rolly MARTINDALE

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 79, 7 Jun 1870.

²Clark Co., WI Internet Library, ALHN & AHGP website, http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark.htm, message 590. "ROLLY MARTINDALE (1862 - 1882)
Died, at Longwood, Clark County, Wis., Feb. 15th, 1882, Mr. Rolly Martindale, aged 20 years.He made his home with his sister, Mrs. Demouth, of Christie. He was a good boy moral in his habits. Though a great sufferer for the last two years, he was always cheerful and happy, and because of his buoyant and lively disposition, no one thought that he was so near death. Yet the dreaded disease was constantly advancing to a fatal termination. Rolly leaves a number of friends who deeply feel his loss. The funeral took place from the residence of his sister on Friday, Feb. 17th, attended by a large concourse of people.
Source: NEILLSVILLE REPUBLICAN PRESS 2/23/1882."

Henry BEELAR Bealer

¹Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/.

²Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, ED # 40, sheet 2A (Ancestry p. 3 of 17). census taker is Mrs. Della Armitage
This Census shows Sam is a farmer in the general farm industry. He owns his home but it's mortgaged.

³Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, ED # 40, sheet 2A (Ancestry p. 3 of 17).

⁴Oregon's Wisconsin Colony, Neillsville Press; Neillsville, Clark Co., WI; 18 Jun 1925. "
OREGON’S WISCONSIN COLONY
Mrs. Della Armitage of Neillsville, Wis., arrived in Portland Tuesday morning, June 9, called here by the serious illness of her father, Henry Bealer.
J. C. Martindale and daughter, Viola, Mrs. H. T. Morse and daughter, Lillian and Mrs. Della Armitage drove from Portland to Salem Tuesday to visit the latter’s father, who is very ill in a hospital there.
J. C. Martindale and Mrs. Della Armitage called on Mr and Mrs. John Clark and Clint Tuttle of Woodburn Tuesday afternoon.
S. L. Demouth and wife of Maplewood, J. C. Martindale of Portland and Mrs. Della Armitage autoed to Clatskanie Thursday to see the latter’s ranch, which is located in the hills, five miles south of there.
Word was received in Portland Thursday after that Henry Bealer, formerly of Neillsville, Wis., had passed away at the Salem Hospital that morning. Arrangements have been made to have funeral at Ridgon’s undertaking parlor Saturday and the remains will be laid to rest in the Salem Cemetery.".

⁵Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930

Groom's Name: Henry Beelar
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Penn.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Eva Maria Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 08 May 1883
Marriage Place: Neillsville, Clark, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Fredrick Beelar
Groom's Mother's Name: Sylvina Madison
Bride's Father's Name: Jacob Demouth
Bride's Mother's Name: Cordelia Lawrence
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-9
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275834
Reference Number: item 2 fn 0914."

Eva Maria DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 71, 1 Jun 1870.

²Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/.

³Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174. "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth  age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia  age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A.  17, b. WI
Dau: Eva  16, b. WI
Son: John  12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel  6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet  3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah  1, b. WI."

⁴Ancestry.com. "Source: Neillsville Times (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) 21 Dec 1886

Beelar - Mrs. Eva Beelar, wife of Henry Beelar, of York, died at her home on Friday, Dec 17th, at the age of 23 years.  The deceased was born at Hayton, Calument Co., Wisconsin, 18 Dec 1863, to parents Jacob & Cordelia (Martindale) Demouth.

She was the oldest daughter of Mr. & Mr.s Jacob DeMouth, of Weston.  About a year after her marriage she took up her residence in Neillsville, where she added many of her list of friends.  She was naturally very stong and active, the very picture of health until within a year or two.  For many months and since her removal back to York, she has been an invalid.  Had it not been for her strong constitution and her resolute will, she would have been carried to the grave much sooner.  A bright little daughter, less than two years old, is left behind, almost too young to miss a mother's love.  The funeral was attended from the Hyslip school house, on Sabbath morning last, by a very large number of people.  Rev. W. T. Hendren preached a brief discourse, allowing much of his time to be given to prayer and praise."

⁵Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930

Groom's Name: Henry Beelar
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Penn.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Eva Maria Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 08 May 1883
Marriage Place: Neillsville, Clark, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Fredrick Beelar
Groom's Mother's Name: Sylvina Madison
Bride's Father's Name: Jacob Demouth
Bride's Mother's Name: Cordelia Lawrence
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-9
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275834
Reference Number: item 2 fn 0914."

BEELAR

¹Compiled by Jim & Kathy Heath, 1997, Clark County Cemeteries.

John Clem DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 71, 1 Jun 1870.

²Clark County Genweb site, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/clark. "BioM: Barber, Lillie & John Demouth (1892)
Posted By: Dee Zimmerman >Date: Monday, 11 August 2003, at 9:00 a.m.
Clark County News November 1892; Compiled by Dee Zimmerman for her weekly column "The Good Ole Days" published Nov. 13, 2002.
Mr. John C. Demouth of Ft. Yates, North Dakota, and Miss Lillie Barber, of Longwood, were wed on Nov. 16, 1892. The marriage was officiated by Rev. James Jefferson, of Louisville, Wis., at the Commercial House in Colby.
Top of Form 1
Bottom of Form 1."

³Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, Ancestry p. 14 of 18. John and Lillian appear on this census by themselves.  I could not find father Jacob, mother Cordelia, or brother Don. About 1/3 of the information for this ED was illegible.

⁴Census, Federal - 1910 - Santa Clara Co, California, Burnett Twsp, ED # 65, Ancestry p. 24 of 40.

⁵M Celius, , email 23 Jan 2010. gives middle name "Clem".

⁶Clark County Genweb site. "Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN & PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 10/30/1913 Demouth, John (15 APR 1886 – 14 OCT 1913) John Demouth died at San Jose Co. Hospital, Cal., Oct. 14, 1913. Deceased was born at Hayton, Calumet Co., April 15, 1886; moved to Neillsville, Clark County with his parents in 1871, where he grew to manhood and was married to Miss Lillian Barber in 1892. In the year 1903 he moved with his family to Morgan Hill, Cal., where he settled on a fruit ranch, but his health failed and for four years he has been an invalid. He leaves a wife and three small children who still reside at Morgan Hill. He also leaves an aged mother and one sister, Mrs. Lottie Nutting, who reside here, also one brother Samuel of Belfield, N.D. He will be remembered by many as he attended school in Neillsville several terms. He was a man beloved by all who knew him and always proved faithful to his profession, leading an honorable and upright life. Though storms of adversity closed around him, yet his trust was ever in his God. Our sympathy goes out to his invalid wife and helpless children left in destitute circumstances."

⁷Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174. "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth  age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia  age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A.  17, b. WI
Dau: Eva  16, b. WI
Son: John  12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel  6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet  3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah  1, b. WI."

⁸John C. Demouth Obituary, Clark County Republican and Press; Neillsville, Clark, Wisconsin; 30 Oct 1913. "---------Demouth, John (15 APR 1886 - 14 OCT 1913)
John Demouth died at San Jose Co. Hospital, Cal., Oct. 14, 1913. Deceased was born at Hayton, Calumet Co., April 15, 1886; moved to Neillsville, Clark County with his parents in 1871, where he grew to manhood and was married to Miss Lillian Barber in 1892. In the year 1903 he moved with his family to Morgan Hill, Cal., where he settled on a fruit ranch, but his health failed and for four years he has been an invalid. He leaves a wife and three small children who still reside at Morgan Hill. He also leaves an aged mother and one sister, Mrs. Lottie Nutting, who reside here, also one brother Samuel of Belfield, N.D. He will be remembered by many as he attended school in Neillsville several terms. He was a man beloved by all who knew him and always proved faithful to his profession, leading an honorable and upright life. Though storms of adversity closed around him, yet his trust was ever in his God. Our sympathy goes out to his invalid wife and helpless children left in destitute circumstances." The obituary has date of birth wrong.  Should be 1868 not 1886.

⁹DeMouth Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Aug 29 1843 Cordelia E. Martindale, Orwell Vermont." An inscription in the front of the Bible reads, "Presented to Musa Irene Demouth on her fourteenth birthday, Quinion, Oct 29th 1917, by her Grandma, Cordelia E. Demouth, Loyal, Wisconsin."  below that in pencil is written "June 20, 1917".

¹⁰John C. Demouth Obituary.

¹¹Clark County Genweb site. "BioM: Barber, Sillie (1892)
Posted By: Stan >Date: Sunday, 4 September 2005, at 4:08 p.m.
Surnames: DEMOUTH BARBER
---------Source: COLBY PHONOGRAPH (Colby, Wis.) 11/17/1892
--------- Barber, Sillie (16 NOV 1892)
Married, in this city (Colby, Clark Co., Wis.), at the Commercial House, on Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 1892, Mr. John C. Demouth of Ft. Yates, N.D., and Miss Sillie Barber of Longwood, Clark Co., Wis., Rev. James Jefferson of Louisville, Wis., officiating.
Top of Form 1
Bottom of Form 1."

¹²Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930

Groom's Name: J. A. Demouth
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Lillie Barber
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 16 Nov 1892
Marriage Place: Marathon, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Jacob Demouth
Groom's Mother's Name: Delia Mortenlau
Bride's Father's Name: Joseph L. Barber
Bride's Mother's Name: Franses E. Demouth
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I00724-1
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1292018
Reference Number: 2239."

Lillian BARBER

¹Census, Federal - 1880 - Calumet Co, WI, Charlestown, Ancestry p. 8 of 29.

²Census, Federal - 1910 - Santa Clara Co, California, Burnett Twsp, ED # 65, Ancestry p. 24 of 40.

³Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, Ancestry p. 14 of 20.

⁴Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, Ancestry p. 14 of 18.

⁵Census, Federal - 1880 - Calumet Co, WI, Charlestown.

⁶M Celius, , email 23 Jan 2010.

⁷usgarchives, http://www.usgwarchives.net, http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/manistee/photos/tombstones/fernwood/erler35244ph.txt.

⁸Clark County Genweb site, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/clark. "BioM: Barber, Sillie (1892)
Posted By: Stan >Date: Sunday, 4 September 2005, at 4:08 p.m.
Surnames: DEMOUTH BARBER
---------Source: COLBY PHONOGRAPH (Colby, Wis.) 11/17/1892
--------- Barber, Sillie (16 NOV 1892)
Married, in this city (Colby, Clark Co., Wis.), at the Commercial House, on Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 1892, Mr. John C. Demouth of Ft. Yates, N.D., and Miss Sillie Barber of Longwood, Clark Co., Wis., Rev. James Jefferson of Louisville, Wis., officiating.
Top of Form 1
Bottom of Form 1."

⁹Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930

Groom's Name: J. A. Demouth
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Lillie Barber
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 16 Nov 1892
Marriage Place: Marathon, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Jacob Demouth
Groom's Mother's Name: Delia Mortenlau
Bride's Father's Name: Joseph L. Barber
Bride's Mother's Name: Franses E. Demouth
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I00724-1
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1292018
Reference Number: 2239."

Cecil Ray DEMOUTH

¹Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/. Ancestry.com - Wisconsin Deaths - gives 4 Mar 1900 as death date.

Clifford H. NUTTING

¹Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Loyal, Ancestry p. 15.

²Compiled by Jim & Kathy Heath, 1997, Clark County Cemeteries. "Clifford H., born in Maine, married Lottie Demouth and lives on a farm in Clark County. He and his wife have four children-Erma, Robert, Reuben and Emma."

³Darlene and Joan Holt visit 26 Aug 2005.

⁴Darlene and Joan Holt visit 26 Aug 2005.

⁵Obituary, Park Falls Herald, 16 Sep 1965 p. 12. "CLIFFORD NUTTING
Funeral  services   for  Clifford Nutting, resident of the Town of Agenda,  were  held on Saturday Morning  at 11:00 from  the NoVitzke Funeral Chapel  with the Rev. Richard Klabunde officiating. Interment was in the Union Cemetery at Butternut.

Mr. Nutting passed away on Wednesday, September 8, at the Smith Nursing Home, following a lingering illness. He was 95 years old.

He was born April 3, 1870, at Showheggan, Maine. At the age of one he moved with his parent s to Wisconsin. On December 9, 1903, he was married to Lottie Demouth at Christie, Wisconsin. The couple came to the Park Falls area in 1917, where Mr. Nutting was engaged in farming and woodswork.

He is survived by 2 daughters, Mrs. Oscar (Irma) Schaper, Butternut, and Mrs Emma Holt of Park Falls; 2 sons; Robert, Park Falls, and Clifford of Menomonee Falls, Wis. Also surviving are 17 grandchildren and 44 great grandchildren." received from M. Celius 6 Jun 2012.

⁶Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930

Groom's Name: Clifford Nutting
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Madison Center, Main
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Lotta May Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace: Christie
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 09 Dec 1903
Marriage Place: Clark, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Benjamin F. Nutting
Groom's Mother's Name: Josephine Hayden
Bride's Father's Name: Jacob Demouth
Bride's Mother's Name: Cordelia Martindale
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00339-4
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275880
Reference Number: 989."

Lottie May DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Loyal, Ancestry p. 15, 21 Apr 1910.

²M Celius, , email.

³Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174. "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth  age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia  age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A.  17, b. WI
Dau: Eva  16, b. WI
Son: John  12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel  6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet  3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah  1, b. WI."

⁴Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174.

⁵Obituary, unknown newspaper. "Mrs. Clifford H. Nutting, who had been ailing from complications from diseases for more than two months, passed away on Saturday afternoon at the home of her daughter in the town of Agenda.  Mrs. Nutting would have been 70 years of age this Oct., 30th.
Lottie May Demouth was born in the town of Weston, Clark County, and later moved with her folks to Christie, Wis., where she was married Dec. 9, 1903 to Clifford Nutting of Loyal, Wis.
The family moved to this locality Nov. 18th, 1918, where she has since resided.
Rev. B.F. Shoenfeld conducted funeral services at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the First Congregational Church, and burial was made at Butternut.
Immediate surviving relatives include her husband and the following sons and daughters: Mrs.
Oscar Scharper, Mrs. Albert Holt, Ivan, all of the town of Agend: Robert, Park Falls.  There are also fifteen grandchildren.  One son, Reubin, preceeded his mother in death.
Out of town relatives who attended the funeral were: Mrs. A. Ifflond of Fairchild, a niece; Lisle Armitage, Mrs. Bruce Armitage, Mr. Fen Shaw, Julius Boshusack, all from Nielsville, Mr.
and Mrs. R. Nutting, Mr. and Mrs. L. Drager and Mr. William Nutting of Medford." received from M. Celius 6 Jun 2012.

⁶Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930

Groom's Name: Clifford Nutting
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Madison Center, Main
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Lotta May Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace: Christie
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 09 Dec 1903
Marriage Place: Clark, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Benjamin F. Nutting
Groom's Mother's Name: Josephine Hayden
Bride's Father's Name: Jacob Demouth
Bride's Mother's Name: Cordelia Martindale
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00339-4
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275880
Reference Number: 989."

Rueben NUTTING

¹Darlene Linsmeyer Email, 17 Mar 2005.

Jacob DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1830 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequanac Twsp, Roll m19-82, P. 141.

²May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".

³Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949.  Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her.  In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.

⁴Crayon, Percy, Rockaway Records of Morris County NJ Families, Rockaway Publishing Company, Rockaway NJ: 1902. "The DeMont Family

In my collections made in the centennial year (1876) some account of the DeMouth family were given to me by a member of that family, which I do not find in the Morris County history, which I will make mention here that the record may be preserved.

The DeMont, or DeMouth family were formerly residents of France, French Hugenots who fled from France on account of their Protestant faith and removed to Hanover in Germany, and from thence emigrated to America in June, 1709, and became the first settlers of Rockaway Valley, of this township. They were the first white settlers in the valley, and this family was in possession of old papers and deeds dating from 1709 to 1730, and an old relic, a razor hone of petrified wood,  which came over with the family, and had traditionally been preserved in the family a long time during their residence in France. Several other relics were well preserved and of great antiquity.

The early family records had been lost, but history mentions Frederick, and Jacob a probable son.  They were also among the earliest settlers at New Foundland in this (Rockaway) township.  The mythical inscription "P. x S. 1773" on the triangular stone above the door of the old stone house now owned by Theodore Brown, may be interpreted that the building was erected by Peter Snyder in 1773. It was an addition to the original stone house built just 40 years previous upon the lands owned by a member of the DeMouth family, who located there from Rockaway Valley about 1730, and inherited by the wife of Peter Snyder, who was a daughter of this early settler at New Foundland.

Mr. Thomas DeMouth, who gave me this information, lived and owned lands where the Clinton Reservoir now is, these lands being occupied by his father, Thomas, a descendant of the original family in America.  He was born (the elder Thomas DeMouth - DZS) Sept. 2, 1804, died July 2, 1881.  Married Betsey Levi, of Litchfield, Ct.  Her people were among the first settlers of that county.  She was born Oct. 1, 1799, died Sept. 8, 1887.  Both buried at Oak Ridge.  Children: Wesley, who served in the war '61-5; Electa, married Rev. Peter D. Vreeland, Nov. 12, 1856; Elizabeth, married Patrick Burns Nov. 16, 1867; Thomas, Jr., born Oct 4, 1838, died Aug. 4, 1858; Hiram, born Mar.30, 1840, married Stagg, died about 1880; Abner and Minerva." citation from pages 87 - 88.

Regarding the authors reference to the DeMouths fleeing from France to Hanover in Germany, I believe he may have been confused by a record found in Morris County of the Demouths living at Hanover, New Jersey. Refer to "The Palatine Families of New York" by Percy Crayon p. 144, "Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731." Eulenkill and Hanover refer to a place of Palatine settlement in New Jersey.

⁵Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com. "Vanderhoof - Morris Co deeds, 1809 -1815
21 Oct 1809Peter Nim/NIx(sic), Peq. Peter Vanderhoof, Peq. $200.00 land in Peq. being part of tract of 1250 acres returned to Gov William Penn May 12, 17-5, recorded Burlington book B folio 39. Beg. at a large heap of stones where a white oak (the 3rd corner of the whole tract) formerly stood by the side of a great rock thence....to a corner of a tract granted by Lemuel Cobb to Jacob Demouth MARCH 1, 179_(8?) ...along Demouth line to his corner stake ...containing 76 38/100 acre. wit: Silas Cook James A.V Duyne

11 April, 1815Abraham I Vanderhoof and caty, Caldwell, Essex Co Peter Vanderhoff, Peq. $1,000. Peq, lot 2 containing 86 57/100 which Abrah. I Vanderhoof bought of John Nix 31 Dec 1814, situate both sides of John Parliaman's Saw Mill Brook...begin at heap of stones being John Parliaman's corner in the outside line of Penn's tract ...from a large heap of stones, N corner of Demouth's purchase from Penn'[s agent abt 1756...to a rock...to a small hickory sapling ...to a small spanich oak by the road....wit: David Harrison-Peter Jacobus." Land record - 1815.

⁶Rootsweb. "
Vanderhoof - Morris Co deeds 1815-1822
3 June 1816David Occaback(sic) & Lizabeth, wife, late Elizabeth Hopler and William VanWinkle and wife Sarah, late Sarah Hopler to Henry Tuttle (sic), Jacob Vanderhoof, Morris, James Shaw, James Lyon $1.00Peq, ...part of land Conrad Hopler, late of Peq, by will 10 May, 1815 bequeathed to his daughters then living...Beg in a line of land of Richard B (?) Faesch/Laesch (?) called the Boonetown tract...wit: Silas Cook, Jacob Demouth." Jacob is witness to a land deal - 1815.

⁷Jean Ricker, Boonton Township Official Website - History         , http://www.boontontownship.com/index.htm. "Our early community was settled by well educated and prosperous families who have always supported an excellent school system. From as early as 1783 eight different institutions of learning have been constructed in this small community. In 1842 the Rockaway Valley Methodist Church was erected by a congregation organized in 1785 by Jacob DeMouth. In 1918 the Mt. Zion Baptist congregation was founded by the Reverend David R. Russell."

⁸Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)

The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.

Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.

Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.

Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.

The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).".

⁹Munsell, History of Morris County, New Jersey, 1882, Chapter XIII, Rootsweb.com/~njmorris/. ""Justices of the Peace.—From 1776 to 1844 the justices of the peace of each county were appointed in joint meeting, to hold their office for five years, and were considered county officers. Besides those who were also judges, and whose names appear as such, there were appointed for Morris county the following: ...Jacob DEMOUTH, 1815, 1820, 1826, 1832; . . ."."

¹⁰Demouth Papers received from researcher Linnea B. Foster, December 2003, Morris County Deed E 90, New Jersey Archives, Trenton, N.J., 10 Apr 1797. "This Indenture made the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety-seven Between Adam Miller and Anna his wife late Anna Demouth of the Township of Pequanack in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey of the one part and Jacob Demouth of the Township County and State aforesaid of the other part. Whereas Adam Demouth deceased of the Township of Pequanach aforesaid died intestate and at the same time was seized of a considerable estate both real and personal in the County of Morris and elsewhere and where as the same descended to his two children Jacob Demouth and Anna Demouth now Anna Miller agreeable to division made by law and by them divided with respect to quantity and quallity and whereas the premisses hereby intended to be released is the portion of the said Jacob Demouth and by agreement is the full of his share of said estate including what he has already received.  Now this Indenture witnesseth that the said Adam Miller and Anna his wife for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings in hand paid before the sealing and delivery here of the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have given granted bargained  sold released conveyed and quit claimed and by these presents doth give grant bargain sell release convey and quit claim to the said Jacob Demouth his heirs and assigns forever all that tract of land situate in Pequanack aforesaid ______ tract of the homested farm of the said Adam Demouth __________ at white oak tree standing in a swamp ______________________________________________________________

marked TB being the beginning corner of the whole plantation ________ (1) North forty one degrees East one hundred and fifty one chains and forty seven links* to a rock oak tree being second the corner of Penn Tract thence (2) North forty nine degrees West three chains thence (3) North forty one degrees East sixteen chain and fifty six links to East corner of the lot which the Adam Demouth  purchased of Isabella Kearny thence (4) North forty nine degrees West seventeen chains and and sixty three links to a small rock oak speri marked with the letters LP and TD being a corner of John Parleman Jun-r land which he bought of Adam Miller and his wife thence by the same and John Van Reipa (5) South forty one degrees West one hundred chains and ninety one links to said Van Reipa's corner stake thence (6) North forty nine degrees West twenty five chain and sixty seven links to a stake and stones fi_ed in the outside line __ the whole plantation being the Beginning corner of  John Van Reipa's plantation thence (7) along the outside line of the whole plantation South forty one degrees West sixty six chains and fifty links to a large white oak tree standing in Frederick Miller's line by the road thence (8) South forty nine degrees East forty six chains to the Beginning Containing five hundred and twelve acres and forty eight hundreths of an acre be the same more or less Also ninety six acres and sixty six hundreths of an acre situate at the North east side of the green pond in the Township of Pequanack aforesaid as may appear by a return thereof returned the 27th day of November in the year 1786 and recorded in Book S(?) No. 8 page .00 also twenty nine acres and ninety three hundreths of an acre situate fifty three chains and forty links North east from Green Pond in the Township Pequanack aforesaid as may appear(?) by a return thereof returned the 28th day of November 1786 and recorded in Book S(?) No.8-102 also sixteen acres situate in Pequanack aforesaid adjoining the old homested being part of a tract of  thirty two acres and a half returned the 5th day of May 1745(?) to Frederick Demouth and recorded in Book L No. 2 page 216 also eight acres and eighty eight hundreths of an acre situate about three quarters of a mile from a meadow called S_______ meadow in the Township of Pequanack aforesiad as may appear by a return thereof to Frederick Demouth dated the 26th day of May 1762 and recorded in Book S No5 page 4 also all the land situate in the County of Sussex that shall or do appear to belong to the estate of the said Adam Demouth deceased as by the returns thereof  reference to the same being

will at large appear Together with the buildings fences improvments profits priveleges hereditaments and appurtenances to the same premiseses belonging or in any wise appurtaining Also all the estate right title interest property claim and demand whatsoever of the said Adam Miller and Anna his wife which they now have or ever had or ought to have to the bargained lands and premisses To have and to hold all the above described bargained lands and premisses with the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the said Jacob Demouth his heirs assigns to the only sole proper use benefit and be___ of the said Jacob Demouth his heirs and assigns forever In Witness Whereof the said Adam Miller and Anna his wife have hereunto set their hands and seal the day above first written

Sealed and Delivered  l      Adam Miller   (seal)
                                   }
in the presence of        l      Anna Miller    (seal)

The word (oak) below the first line of the second page
and the word (Perlman Jun-r) 8th line of the same page
and (twenty-five) below the 12th line of the same page
and (seven) below the 13th line of the same page
and (East side) below the 22 line of the same page
were all interlined before sealing and delivery

John J Faisch Jun-r - Richard B. Faisch

State of New Jersey  l  Be it remembered that on this ninth day
                                }
Morris County __     l  of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven
appeared before me John J. Faisch one of the judges of this inferior Court of Common please for said County Adam Miller and Anna his wife  grantors in the within Indenture or deed of release and severally acknowledged that they signed sealed and delivered the same as their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and the said Anna being by me privately examined and apart from her husband acknowledged that it was her voluntary act without the threats or compulsion of her husband Acknowledged befor me the day and year above written.

John J. Faisch

Recorded _______ 5 1801

C. Russell Clk." property settlement between Jacob and his sister Anna after their parents deaths. 10 Apr 1797

* A chain is a unit of length. It measures 66 feet, or 22 yards, or 100 links,[1] or 4 rods (20.1168 m). There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. An acre is the area of 10 square chains (that is, an area of one chain by one furlong). (Wikipedia).

¹¹Demouth Papers received from researcher Linnea B. Foster, December 2003, Morris County Deed K3-236, New Jersey Archives, Trenton, N.J., 19 Feb 1836. "This deed concerns the settlement of land between heirs of Jacob Demouth (b. 1863).  On the one hand are heirs Frederick Demouth, Adam Demouth, John Demouth, Charlotte Demouth, Richard and Elizabeth Kayhart (formerly Elizabeth Demouth), James Demouth, Jacob Demouth.  On the other hand is heir Thomas Demouth. The agreement transfers the 400 acre homestead farm to Thomas Demouth." Transfer of homestead farm to Thomas Demouth from sibs.

¹²Demouth Papers received from researcher Linnea B. Foster, December 2003, Jacob Demouth Inventory, 22 Sep 1835. "Jacob Demouth Inventory as of 22 May 1835

5 sheep             7.00          amt Brot up       68.87
3 lambs             2.00         1 lot of tools          .50
1 black cow      10.00         1 chest                .25
1 heifer              6.00          1 large wheel       .75
1 sm shoat        3.00          1 small wheel       .75
1 desh & bkcs   1.00          1 pr. steel yaros   .25
1 lot of books     5.00          1 old musket      3.00
1 lot pamphlets  1.00          8 3/4 yds full
1 bell                  .25                 cloth           8.00
1 stand               .50          Blanket and
1 feather bed                                 Quilt       1.00
   ticking         15.00          1 iron kettle        1.00
1 bedstead &                      1 crow bar         1.00
   cord              1.00          grain in the
1 small case       .12                   ground     10.00
1 cupboard        7.00          Accounts
7 old chains      1.00       est___ _ond     5.75
2 tables            1.00                               $101.12
1 stove pipe       2.00          3 gums                 .50
1 loom              5.00
1 frying pan         .50                              $ 101.62
                   $ 68.87

Appraised by us  Peter F. Kanouse   Joseph Scott

Morris County S: James M. Fleming the administrator of Jacob Demouth being duly sworn did depose and say that the real and personal estate of said deceased is insufficient to pay the debts of said deceased according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Jas. M. Fleming."

¹³Rockaway Methodist Church Centennial Pamphlet, 20 Sep 1942. This pamphlet says Jacob Demouth was the founder and a member of the Rockaway Methodist Church.

¹⁴A Celebration of Legend, Fact and Spirit 1785 - 1985, Rockaway Valley United Methodist Church; 1985. "From:  A Celebration of Legend Fact and Spirit
1785 - 1985
The Rockaway Valley
United Methodist Church


p. 3 "Dedicated to Jacob Demouth and his first class and all who have followed them"

p.7 (Photo of inscription in the old Stewards' book in Jacob Demouth's handwriting)
"The Stewards Book
For Elizabeth Town Circuit   1800

John Dow - P.
Branard  Dickenson
James Totten  dismissed                              Stewards
Jonathan Harned - P. displaced  1802
Jacob Demouth

The Business of the Circuit to be Recorded
By one of the Stewards Leagaly "
----
"The members of this little class which first met in the Demouth plantation house standing in the upper Valley on the celebrated William Penn Lot No. 48, (1) exactly on today's Four Corners,were counted among those zealous adherents of the faith, and Francis Asbury,  "Prophet of the Long Road," by persistent, church-family tradition, personally visited and by his enduring touch encouraged the tiny congregation and bolstered its enthusiasm for thirty years, until his death in 1816. ...

"... our congregation was formed in 1785. It is believed that a wandering circuit rider, his name lost in time, rode through the Demouth plantation gates and found welcoming pupils for an embryonic class.

p. 7 & 8"... Four years later (1800), Jacob Demouth's name appears as a steward in THE STEWARDS' BOOK FOR ELIZABETH TOWN CIRCUIT, and the first documented intelligence appears about his early class, indicated simply as 'DEMOUTHS' in the early conference report from 'Staton Island' on August 9 & 10.  In that year of 1800 Jacob could have been no newcomer to Methodism - no neophyte would have travelled that long distance as an istalled Stewardentrusted with the supervision and administration of Circuit concerns and income. In the next twenty-five years he rode far and wide on his church missions, visiting Barbados Neck, Elizabeth Town, Belle Ville, Paramus, New Ark and Turkey. ...
"THE STEWARDS BOOK ... April 14, 1804 ... Jacob Demouth's (collection amounted to) $3.06. By all accepted accounts Cook's, Demouth's, and a class at BoonTown came together as a congregation in 1800, all exhorted by Jacob Demouth.
The Demouth class did appear on the earliest Quarterly Meeting report of August 1800 . Figures for sundry collections appear both in English pounds and American dollars. ... Steward Demouth's class made a donation of 0.16.0. ... By 1810 the Cook gathering had separated completely from Demouth's ...
Jacob Demouth's house, which is mentioned over and over again  in annals of the past as being the rallying point of the community's earliest Methodist gatherings should have been on  (Bishop Asbury's tour in 1806) itinerary. ...

p.8-9 "It is believed that our founding fathers from the German Palatinate, among them the Millers, the Estlers, the Stickles, the Kanouses, the hoplers, the Occobocs, and, yes, the Demouths (French Huguenots who fled to Darmstadt, Germany), were, when they set sail for the new country as early as 1710, of Lutheran persuasion. However from long alliance by assocaition and marriage with the Dutch many attended the First Reformed Dutch Congregation in old BoonTown, an off'shoot of the Pompton Plains church, served by the same itinerant preachers whose sermons and lectures were in the Dutch language.  ...                                          
"The Bergen Dutch Reformed Church records from 1664 - 1801 contain family names of Decker, DeGroot (DeGraw), Demouth, Van Winkel, Van der Hoof Vreeland and VanZile. The forefathers led active church lives, moved from the crowded Passaic and Hackensack Valleys to our corner of old Pequannockk, Hanover and Rockaway Townships and attended either the old BoonTown church close to the Parsippany border, or the "Pumptan" house of worship.
An earlier Jacob Demouth, great-grandfather of our church founder, was married in the "Pumpton" church in 1736, its founding year, by the Reverend Johannes Van Driessen, self-styled 'extra-ordinary Instructor.'  Its ancient Kerck Boeck record includes the familiar names of Demouth, Decker, Miller. Gould, Van Winkel, Romine, Hiler, Vreeland Vanderhoof, Fredericks, Kock (Cook), Pier, Husk, Young, Crane, Smith, Van Zile, DeGraw, Sisco, Brown, Kerhart (Kayhart), Carmen, Taylor, Nix, Ryker, Rhinesmith, Mead, Witty, Ryerson, Conklin, Doland and Struble. ...
our citizens who travelled to BoonTown or the Plains for a good sermon in familiar Dutch (5) were left without consistent pastoral guidance. ..."

p.10 "we must credit (the Reverend Peter Kanouse) with what information we have about the spook (a good Jersey Dutch word!) which frequented the Clay Hole and Beaver Brook marshes near the present day church.
The last decade of the 18th Century was a time when superstition held sway in every reach of old Pequannock, and people of good and sensible character believed in ghosts, spirits and witches. Our particular crony was Will-o-the-Wisp, who danced his luminous way from the Owlkill (Owl Creek, Montville) up every eerie stretch of the Rockaway River. To avoid preternatural encounter, credulous night-time travelers bound for old BoonTown and other parts east, north or west detoured past Jacob Demouth's house by way of Taylortown and Dark Woods Road (Kingsland Road), traversing the brook bridge only by light of day. Swamp fire, bobbing points of lights caused by ignis fatuus or "foolish fire," was much more prevalent two centuries ago when undrained, stagnant swamps covered large uninhabited areas. Our European forefathers already knew about this atmospheric illumination caused by gasses escaping from the miasma of the brook and river bogs; in some places it was called Jackie Lantern, in other places Spunkie.  Surely just the very gullible were frightened by this familiar phantom. ...

"Remember that all during these periods of contention involving either personalities or actual church doctrine, Jacob Demouth's exhortations were reaching new and eager converts.  By the year 1800 his little society was prospering and making unhampered music to the Lord.  Jacob himself was a Methodist Steward.  The Reverend Joseph F. Tuttle in his 'Annuls of Morris County' stated that the Methodists had 'made a stand at Mr. Jacob DeMott's or as we pronounced it, Temont's, and for a time they seemed to absorb every other denomination.' ...

1818, Montville, new church, New Dutch Reformed Church, Henry Demouth, Deacon. By 1819 it had split in two with two cemeteries. There are Demouths buried in each of them.

pp. 10 - 12 "Most families which had been involved in the arguments that disturbed all the local churches before and after the Revolution found it politic, peaceful and convenient to support the newer and nearer Methodist classes exhorted by Jacob Demouth. The scene was set. In 1782 the first complete English language Bible had been printed in Philadelphia, and the big silver-clasped Dutch, French and German Bibles had been laid aside.  By 1790 the very strong and popular Reverend Jacob Green was dead.  Inter-denominational marriages had weakened the long established Dutch Reformed community. The war was over, and the Good News could again be proclaimed by the traveling preachers who came right to the dooryard.  Our now populace community was ready for the circuit preacher's enkindling sermons.  A youthful Jacob and Deborah Demouth opened the doors of the stone plantation house to the fledgling Methodist congregation.  Salvation was at hand! ... (7)

p. 12"On July 13, 1816, he married Oliver Levi and Mary Demouth, daughter of Jacob and Deborah...
Deacon Lorenzo Dow, the famous New Jersey evangelist dubbed, 'the walking preacher,' held meetings at Benjamin Munn's in July 1816, so we know local Methodists were in the gatherings there and among his listeners. Munn's class near old BoonTown went on the Stewards' list in 1801, and Quarterly Conference meetings were held in his barn.  There is an interesting statement in the daily journal kept by Evangelist Dow's wife, Peggy: '....from thence (Morris Town) we went to brother Munn's, had a meeting at night... the next day we went to an appointment with an old man's, whose house had been a preaching house for twenty or thirty years.  Here the congregation was small but a tolerable time....Early the next morning we proceeded on our journey, and struck turnpike, through Pumpton Plains, so on across country.'  Could this 'old man' have been Jacob Demouth, who in those years was a marrying Justice of the Peace, busy with his own and neighboring concerns, but still conducting his little class? The staunch old steward of Methodism certainly merited such courtesy.
In August 1824, the Reverend David Best, 'an Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church,' joined in wedlock two young couples from the founding families: Joseph Shaw and Sarah Ann Winget, and Richard Keyhart and Elizabeth Demouth, another daughter of Jacob and Deborah. We therefore know that that Preacher Best was a visiting elder in local homes and can imagine the wedding scene in the Demouths' homestead which was already three-quarters of a century old. The Keyhart-Demouth marriage united two fervent, next-door Methodist families: the Kayharts were leaders for many years in the 'Stony Brook Primitive Methodist Church' which evolved from the earliest classes there. In 1821 Quarterly Meeting at Elizabeth Town lists one Abraham Gerhardt, a variation of the name, in attendance.

p.13 Accounts of income and expenses from circuits of Essex
and Staten Island:
cash received from:  (no dates)
Demouth    $2.35
Demouth      2.41

p. 14 "Another (Circuit rider) is traveling preacher, George M. Crane (8) ...

"Still another is Jacob Bostedo, who by verifiable tradition, helped "settle" Jacob Demouth's congregation, and who is also credited with being the probable founder in 1807 of the West Milford Presbyterian Church.  Jacob, whose daughter Jennie married David Lozaw, was also a Congregationalist!  In the late 1700's he headed a little church of that denomination in Split Rock, proving Munsell's historian more than correct when the statement was made that Jacob Bostedo was "not settled over any church."  The Reverend Jacob Bostedo, who most certainly itinerated in our community, died in 1832 in his 81st year.  He is buried in the Zeek graveyard in Marcella.  Like the Demouths, the Bostedos and Losaws were French Huguenots, their names originally Bostedier and L'Oiseau.  The work of this estimable man, counselor to Jacob Demouth, is a wonderful illustration of the complicated background and diversity of our early church organization:

p. 15  "We are again indebted to the Reverend Peter L. Kanouse for a most intriguing, earlier tale about the distaff side of Jacob Demouth's exuberant and inspired assembly.
he related for posterity the story of two 'very wicked women' who practiced the 'jerks' and the 'knock down.' 'deceiving all onlookers for years until a third joined them who also fell and never rose again.' (quoted from The Jerseyman - February 20, 1858) A wonderful story! but not complete. What were the names of these grandmothers of our who five generations ago suffered and enjoyed copious, if deceptive, effusions of the Divine Spirit?  Did the three 'fall' literally and physically, or just figuratively 'fall' form grace?  What admonition did they receive from the grave elders of the Society? What did Jacob Demouth himself have to say about these demonstrations?
But we have digressed again.  In the years before the spate of local revivals, our particular Society, according to written reports, for some reason or other had become a 'cypher.'  The Denville class, which met at the widow Cook's  had gone off on its own in 1810 and some time after erected a meeting house at Cook's Corner.  Jacob and Deborah were growing old.  Demouth's class is last listed in December 1825 Stewards' Book records with a collection of $2.50, Man(n)ing Force, presiding Elder; no other local records appear after that date. But, fortunately, something came along to enliven and revivify the fifty year old meeting. That something was probably the great camp meetings of 1832 and the stir of interest in Sunday Schools, both of which ostensibly inspired the erection of the early house of worship near the already existing cemetery on Jacob Demouth's plantation. ...
(From a family chronicle of  Edmund H. Stickle): " 'a Methodist church was built June 5, 1833. The ruins of an old cemetery (11) (Demouth Cemetery) can still be seen.  it is quite probable that the cemetery was in existence a long time before the church was built. Many of the tombstones are still standing and names and dates are readily distinguishable.' "

Here follows a photo of the tombstone  of Jacob and Deborah Demouth with this under it:
"Jacob Demouth - 1763 - 1835
Deborah Demouth 1767 - 1833
Son Frederick's name (1796-1836) also appears on the family memorial, which records the 150th Anniversary of his father's death."

pps 15 & 17 "There is no record of whether or not this rude place of worship was used even intermittently for the full nine years before the present church was constructed in 1842.  Its location by the rapidly expanding graveyard was not meant to be a permanent site.  The fact that Mr. Stickle gave a definite 'day and date'  for its erection suggests a one-day production in the old house-raising tradition. June 5, 1833 fell on Wednesday, and we can imagine the activity on high ground near the Demouth meadow at the confluence of Beaver and Stony Brooks. Men and ox teams, taking time from mid-week farm labors, must have startled the redwinged blackbirds and checkerspot butterflies which still abound there today. Certainly the surroundings were beautiful, but the building itself, by tradition, was a crude, unfurnished little shed with no creature comforts. No trace of its foundation can be found today.
Deborah Demouth, whose maiden name has sadly escaped all research to date, died in September 1833, and there were but two remaining years left for the old exhorter Jacob, who died intestate in his crumbling stone house on March 22, 1835.
In the estate settlement, what was left of his grandfather Frederick's original acreage was divided again and again, pieces sold, mortgaged, foreclosed and resold. The first church location, in the wake of death and the ensuing williwaw of land sales, suffered sad abandonment and the juxtaposed God's Acre was fast approaching its limit of some 300 gravesites."

p.16 - a photograph of the Demouth Cemetery
Beneath is these words:
" 'Come thou south wind and blow upon this garden.' Francis Asbury. 1807 Journal Entry. ...
Known internments are from the following first families: Piersen; Occoboc; Vanderhoof; Taylor; Hill; Kunc?; Losaw; Crane; Demouth; Peer; Decker; Hopler; Levi; Kayhart; Dixon; Miller; Van Winkle; Tucker; Kent; Romine; Shaw; Witty; Allgers; Kanouse; Adkins; Trumbour; and Minard"

p. 17 (Discussion of the terms "Society" and "Congregation") "the Congregation in proper Methodist terminology referring to everyone who attended the preaching services. The SOCIETY referred only to those who were steadfast adherents of the strictest Methodist discipline; the Society, in turn, was divided into Classes of about fifteen 'pupils,' instructed by the class leader or exhorter.  The Society met for public worship when a licensed, presiding elder was present to officiate in religious ceremony."

FOOTNOTES:
(1) WILLIAM PENN LOT NO. 48. Surveyed for William Penn in 1715. Of this tract Frederick Demouth, grandfather of Jacob, purchased 672 acres covering most of the upper Valley.  He already owned fifty acres in what is today Powerville when the following advertisement appeared in The New York Gazetter: 'No. 48 - 1250 acres lying upon the Branches of the Rockaway River near Frederick Temounts.'

(5)  DUTCH LANGUAGE. By 1796 Stephan Ostrander's Kerkeboeck records for the neighborhood of Persepeney (BoonTown) were written in English.  In 1803 the Rev. Wm. Provoost Knipers resumed record keeping in Dutch.
The Montville register der gedoopte (baptismal record) from 1786 to 1819 lists kinderen (children) for the following families: Estler; Cook; VanderHoof; Young; Gould; Kanouse; Miller; Kingsland; Rycker; Hopler; Conger; Vreeland; Massacker; Stagg; Struble; Parliman; DeMott (Demouth); and Mead. All of these families must have had some working acquaintance with the Dutch language.

(7) SALVATION WAS AT HAND, The following information appears in the Newark Conference Centennial History of 1957 in a brief history of the Boonton Methodist Church: Boonton, Rockaway Valley and Denville were under Methodist influence before 1785.  The first Methodist sermon was preached in the stone house of Jacob Demuth at Rockaway Valley.  The first record of a Society appears in 1800. It is recorded that 'These worthy men of God planted Methodism on these hills and in these valleys so firmly that the fruit has gladdened the hearts of the past and present generations and will, we hope, affect the latest.'

(8) GEORGE M. CRANE. In 1853, George and James Crane purchased the last piece of the Jacob Demouth plantation.  They lost the property through default, and both brothers went to Wisconsin where they remained until death. The property was then purchased by John Bott, whose wife was Margaret Stickle, daughter of Washington Stickle.  John's and Margaret's names appear on memorial windows.  The large and prosperous farm remained in the Bott family for 125 years.

(10) Note #10 is a discussion of the various records relating to when the local groups were together or separate: Demouth's, Cooks, Denville, Rockaway Valley

(11) Demouth Cemetery. Probably originated in accordance with the mores of the day, as a family burial plot. Jacob Demouth was third generation on the old plantation, and his grandfather Frederick and father Adam were in all likelihood interred here also.  Thirty-nine identifiable stones still stand in the acre which contains at least 300 burials.
No mention of the graveyard is made in any legal document found to date. In 1859 when Andrew B. Cobb sold the property to Jacob Decker, there was no allusion to the cemetery. However, after the death of Father Francis Skutil of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church in Boonton, owner from 1917 until his death in 1934, the property was transferred with the following restrictions: "Said premises are conveyed subject to the rights of the owners of plots in a cemetery located thereon and also subject to the right of ingress and egress thereto." Mr. Harold Bott, the last previous owner, took conscientious care of the property which is cosignificant with our local history.  The deed restriction is still in effect." claims Demouths were French Huguenots.

¹⁵Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report.

¹⁶Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report.

¹⁷Rootsweb, Morris Co., NJ Genweb; Demouth Cemetery.

Deborah

¹Marsha Bybee, Ancestry World Tree Project: DeMouth, internet. "gives date 3/22/1835 for Jacob DeMouth's death.".

²Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, 28 Sep 1949, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949.  Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her.  In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.

³Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, Morris Co., NJ Genweb; Demouth Cemetery.

William LEVI

¹May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".

²norma@hcnews.com, Norma's Family, Ancestry.com  8/25/2001. Norma Wright, 2770 Andrew Circle, Granbury, TX 76048.

³norma@hcnews.com, Norma's Family.

⁴norma@hcnews.com, Norma's Family.

⁵Kelly, Arthur C.M., Dutchess Co., NY Probate Records 1787 - 1865; Register of Wills and letters Testamentary and of Administration in the Sur, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.

Abigail TRYON

¹Edna Kokanour, Kokanour Family Ancestors, Ancestry World Tree Project, Edna Kokaour, .

²May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".

³Kelly, Arthur C.M., Dutchess Co., NY Probate Records 1787 - 1865; Register of Wills and letters Testamentary and of Administration in the Sur, Rhinebeck, NY 12572, p. 64, item #95, 11 May 1792. "Kelly, Arthur C.M., Dutchess Co., NY Probate Records 1787 - 1865; Register of Wills and letters Testamentary and of Administration in the Sur, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.
"Intestate:Lamb, Isaac - Amenia, US Army soldier  Date: 5/11/1792   To whom assigned: Abigail, his widow, renounced her rights and Job Mead, Amenia farmer"."

⁴The Tryon Family in America, p.63, genealogy library @genealogy.com. Copy of citation: DZS personal files.

⁵Letter from Mrs. Chas Webber to Mr. Alexander Fowler, 10 Aug 1949, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "Denver, Colorado, August 10, 1949

Mr. Alexander Fowler
Vreeland Avenue,
Boontown, New jersey

Dear Mr. Fowler,

Through Eulalia Chapman of the Denver Public Library, and May B. Leonard, assistant Librarian of the Morristown Library  of Morristown, New jersey, I have learned of your research concerning the De Mouth family.
I am a descendant of that family and am interested in additional information.
Here is some of the information I have - some as handed down by our grandmother and some from Morristown Library and our Library here.
Our grandmother Semantha Demouth, born in 1836 in Morris County, daughter of John Demouth.  Brothers and sister were Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, and Frances. Semantha married Bradley Webster and Frances married Joseph Barber. John Demouth was one of the nine children of Jacob De Mouth.  These were Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsey, and Charlotte.
"Jacob was a prominent public man. He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township for thirty years." This according to family chronicle, and I have discovered that it was Pequannock Township and find records of marriage performed by him covered the years from 1816 to 1829.  The name Pequot is confused with the records of the first Mudge, Gen. Jarvis Mudge, who lived in Pequot, now New London, in 1649.  My grandmother was not sixteen when she married so it was easy to see how she could get the names confused. She did not learn to read and write until after her marriage.
John Demouth, father of Semantha, married Mariah Levi in 1818, who came down from Connecticut to live                        with her brother (Oliver Levi, no doube, who married Mary Levi in 1816).  Also the Rockaway records mention that Thomas Demouth married Betsy Levi of Litchfield, Connecticut.  The children of William Levi, the Hessian who married the widow Lamb, were William, Oliver, John, Phoebe, Mariah, Betsy, and twins Frances and Elizabeth who died in infancy. So three Demouths married Levis.
The first settlers of Litchfield from whom John and Thomas De Mouth's mother descended were the Mudges on her mother's side. But as far as I can find out the Widow Lamb's maiden name was not Mudge, although an Abigail Mudge was an ancestor.  William Levi was a Hessian who deserted during the Revolutionary War and remained in America. He was crippled with one foot shorter than the other and a miller by trade. The descendants of Thomas De Mouth might know just who was the wife of William Levi.
We have the account of the "Beautiful stone Mansion in which Jacob DeMouth was born in 1770 and which he as an only child inherited.  In 1810 he freed his thirty slaves as his conscience would not let him keep them.   It was in this house that his nine children were born."  I would like to know if the DeMouth house near Newfoundland and the "old De Mott Place" on Pompton Plains and the house of Jacob DeMouth are the same.  If so, then the DeMouths must be descendants of Hendrick DeMott born in 1715 who came into possession of the place.  He had twelve children. Possibly Jacob Demouth born in 1770 was a grandson of Hendrick but there is a conflict of dates.  He was born in the "stone mansion" and Peter Snyder was in possession in1773 according to a letter from May B. Leonard.  I have heard my grand mother describe this old stone house but about the only thing I remember was that the white wash was over an inch thick.  And she thought the railroad cut through there and the house or part of it was destroyed.  Frank Barber, a son of Frances Demouth Barber, visited the place in 1936 and at least part of it was standing.  We have lost all touch with these relatives as that generation is gone.
Grandmother's stories were a mixture of Connecticut and New Jersey and are confused in my mind.
John Demouth lived for two years after his marriage in Connecticut, then returned to New Jersey, where his children were raised. He was killed by a falling tree in Wisconsin in 1861.
Any additional information I can get would be most welcome.
May B. Leonard stated that in 1944 the Library received a letter from Victor E. DeMouth, Pfc. Ward #100, Hospital #2, Fort Bragg, N.C.  He had worked on his family for a number of years. I know of no way to get in touch with him, but will send a letter to that address.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Chas. O. Webber
3734 Fillmore Street,
Denver 5, Colorado".".

⁶Rootsweb.com - Dutchess Co, NY, Message Board, 31 Aug 2004. "I have a book "United Presbyterian Church in Amenia: History 1748-1910" that I purchased when I was there last week, while researching for my FARR ancestors in Amenia. In the records, it has an Isaac Lamb in 1758, donating 8 L to the building of the Red Meeting House. There is also a David Lamb donating 1 L , Nathan Mead Jr 6 L, Eli Mead 1 L, and Joab Mead 4 L - 10 S. ( L= pounds S= shillings). There is no baptismal records for either of these families between 1749-1775. There were no baptism records at all for the church between 1775-1786. Job Mead is mentioned in 1794 and is refered to as Capt Job Mead, and serving on the church committee. The Church was staunchly Puritan up til 1788, when it began it's move to Presbyterian.In 1800, Capt Job Mead donated $16.25 towards repairs to the church, Job Mead Jr 3.25, Nathan Mead 3.00. I do not find any Lamb's at all. Capt Job seems as tho he is a prominant figure within the church, until his death in 1819.I do have a copy of the Old Amenia Cemetery, showing all the graves, and who is buried where. I do not find any Lamb's as being buried in this cemetery (that I can see). I do find Mead's. There are other cemeteries in the Amenia area tho.Now, as to the meaning of what you found. I am going to venture a good guess at it. There was a lot of curfuffle happening in the church for some time. Some had left and became members of the newly formed Baptist church in town, not agreeing with the ways and administration of the Amenia Church. The church council changed the terms of covenant several times over the years. Being a member, you were to be totally committed, financially as well as spiritually. The church was one of great strictness it seems, almost to a form of a dictatorship by the elders. One of a few things could be probable. a) When Isaac died, his wife Abigail renounced her rights to his ownings, as well as Job Mead, as a leader of the church, as to what the church should get. b) Isaac owed Job monies, which he chose not to collect, being Bretheren to Isaac. c) depending when it was probated, it could have been that Abigail would receive nothing if she should re-marry (possibly, Mead). I do find an "A. Mead" buried in the cemetery near Capt Job. The financial records I found as charts in the book. I will read more of the actual text, and see if I can find more about Isaac.Good Luck ...... Mark." posting by Mark Farr.

⁷Mudge, Alfred, Memorials: Being a Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge, Boston 1868, p.73, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Probate Court held March 19, 1768, "Abigail Tryon, dau. of Oliver Tryon, late of Sharon, deceased, a minor, ae. 13 years on the first day of June last, made choice of Elnathan Goodrich as her guardian."." Elnathan Goodrich was the brother of the husband (David Goodrich) of Abigail's Mother's (Deborah's) sister Martha Mudge (b. 1720).

⁸WikiTree.com, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tryon-2233. "Abigail Mudge Lamb formerly Tryon aka Levi
Born 1 Jun 1754 in New York, USA or Connecticut, USAmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Oliver Tryon and Deborah (Mudge) Tryon
Sister of William Tryon, Samuel Tryon, Deborah Tryon, Oliver Tryon, Ziba Tryon and David Tryon
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown] [location unknown]

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Abigail was the fifth known child, second known daughter, of Oliver Tryon and Deborah Mudge.[1]

After her father's death she chose a guardian: an uncle by marriage through her mother's sister.

Abigail Mudge Tryon (b June 1, 1754 in Sharon, CT) m Wm Levi by whom she had 7 children, also Isaac Lamb (no children), (to be confirmed)

Sources

↑ Quaker Births & Deaths from Oblong Monthly Meeting H974.733 F93: Heads of Families at Oblong, 1761, p. 37."

⁹Mudge, Alfred, Memorials: Being a Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge, p.73. ""b. June 1, 1755,"." This source misstates Abigail's birth through an arithmetic error. It lists her birth as "b. June 1, 1755,"  But it also cites a probate court record from 3/19/1768 which says "Abigail Tryon...13 years on the first day of June last...".

¹⁰Kelly, Arthur C.M., Dutchess Co., NY Probate Records 1787 - 1865; Register of Wills and letters Testamentary and of Administration in the Sur.

Phoebe LEVI

¹Edna Kokanour, Kokanour Family Ancestors, Ancestry World Tree Project, Edna Kokaour, .

²May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".

Frances LEVI

¹Edna Kokanour, Kokanour Family Ancestors, Ancestry World Tree Project, Edna Kokaour, .

²May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".

Elizabeth LEVI

¹Edna Kokanour, Kokanour Family Ancestors, Ancestry World Tree Project, Edna Kokaour, .

²May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".

William LEVI

¹Census, Federal - 1830 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequanac Twsp.

²Census, Federal - 1840 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequannock, Ancestry p.3 of 20. Ancestry.com images give the twsp. as "Randolph".

Samuel DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp. "1870 United States Federal Census about Samuel Demouth Name: Samuel Demouth
Birth Year: abt 1821
Age in 1870: 49
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1870: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
Samuel Demouth 49
Anna A Demouth 8
Almauza Demouth 4
Maria Demouth 73."

²Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129  (Ancestry p. 8 of 24), 27 Jul 1860.

³Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 4, 1 Jun 1870.

Anna DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 64, 1 Jun 1870. The name is longer than "Anna" but that's how it begins. I couldn't make out the rest, but it ends with "t".

James DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 84 (Ancestry p. 24 of 32), 8 Jun 1870. "1870 United States Federal Census about James Demouth Name: James Demouth
Birth Year: abt 1838
Age in 1870: 32
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1870: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
James Demouth 32
Elsey J Demouth 28
Jennie L Demouth 10
Helena Demouth 8
Sherman Demouth 6
Mary Demouth 3."

²May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".

³Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129  (Ancestry p. 8 of 24), 27 Jul 1860.

⁴Census, Federal - 1880 - Calumet Co, WI, Charlestown, p. 43A  Ancestry p. 13, NA film # T9-1418.

⁵Census, Federal - 1850 - Calumet Co., Wisconsin, District 36, Ancestry p. 30 of 42.

⁶Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, WI Soldiers and Saliors Regimental Reunion Roster, 1880 Calumet County. "Demouth, James Gravesville 16th Infantry Company D."

⁷Census, Federal - 1850 - Calumet Co., Wisconsin, District 36, Ancestry p. 30 of 42, 4 Sep 1850.

Elsey Jane MCMUNN

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 84, 8 Jun 1870.

²Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129  (Ancestry p. 8 of 24). Elsey J. is listed as "Jane".

³Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., Ancestry p. 24 of 32.

Sherman DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p.84, 8 Jun 1870.

²Census, Federal - 1880 - Calumet Co, WI, Charlestown.

Mary DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 84, 8 Jun 1870.

Nathan DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1880 - Calumet Co, WI, Charlestown.

²Wisconsin Deaths 1820 -1907, vol 16, p. 449.

³Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "
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Name: Nathan Demouth
Gender: Male
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Neilsville, , Wisconsin
Death Date: 27 Oct 1892
Death Place: Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Age: 27
Birth Date: 1865
Birthplace: America
Occupation: Rr Breakman
Race: White
Marital Status: Unknown
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name:
Mother's Birthplace:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06551-5
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy."

Joseph Lanning BARBER

¹Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 135, 30 Jul 1860.

²Joseph L. Barber - 1827, in "Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties Wisconsin" posted on Ancestry.com Message Board by Pat. "Submitter: Pat
Subject: Joseph L. Barber - 1827
Message: From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin

Joseph L. Barber, of section 10, range 2, Weston Township, Clark County, was born in Essex County, New Jersey, October 10, 1827, the son of John S. and Abigail (Kinneman) Barber, both natives of New Jersey; the former was a shoemaker by trade. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom still survive. Our subject's grandfather, John S. Barber, was a Hessian, and came to this country to fight against the Americans in the Revolutionary War, but deserted by jumping off a man-of-war, swam to the shore and joined Washington's army, in which he was an officer until the close of the war. His wife cooked many meals for Washington, as the great General made his headquarters at their house while he was in winter quarters near Morristown, New Jersey. She drew a large pension, and died about thirty-five years ago, at the age of ninety-seven years.

The subject of this sketch learned the ship-carpenter's trade, at the age of twenty-two years. He went to Chemung County, New York, where his brothes and sisters still reside. One brother (Abbott) is a wealthy man and a Knight of the Red Cross Mason. Mr. Barber came to Calumet County, Wisconsin, in 1851, where he bought land, but afterward returned to the East, and worked at his trade until 1854. In that year he came again to this State and settled on a farm, which was covered with heavy timber. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company D, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving one year, and participated in the battles of Savannah, Fort McAllister and others. His hearing was affected in the army, as was also his heart and lungs, and on account of the two latter, draws a small pension. Mr. Barber came to this county in 1884, settling on his present farm of eighty acres, forty of which is cleared.

He was married in New Jersey, in July, 1847, to Frances Elizabeth Demouth, a native of New Jersey and daughter of John and Maria (Levi) Demouth. Mr. and Mrs. Barber have had eleven children, seven of whom still survive, namely: Hannah, Samantha, Theodore, Joseph, Frank, Lillie and Albert. Hannah married George Smith of Boyd, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, and they have two children-George and Mary. Hannah has a high school education, and has taught seven years. Samanth married Sanford Chase of Jefferson County, New York and they have four children: Joseph S., Edward A., Frances C. and John L. Theodore is principal of the Alma Center School of Jackson County; was married to Flora Mc Carty and has one child-Joseph. Joseph married Sina Fadner, lives in Eau Claire, and has two children-Carl F. and an infant girl. Frank is principal of the Melrose High School, Jackson County, and is a graduate of the Neillsville High School, in both English and German. Lillie is a teacher also. Albert married Alamanz Demouth, resides in Hayton, Calumet County, Wisconsin, and has three children-George A., Lillian and Eva. Mr. Barber is a Mason socially, and politically a Republican. He has held the offices of Supervisor, Assessor, Constable, and Clerk of School Board. Mrs. Barber is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.".

³Stevens, Dianne Z., DeMouth Family History, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. This information was copied from the tombstone during a visit to the cemetery in 1983.

⁴Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968 for Joseph Lanning Barber Sr. "Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968 for Joseph Lanning Barber Sr.


Name: Joseph Lanning Barber Sr.
Gender: Male
Burial Date: 1904
Burial Place:
Death Date: 10 Sep 1904
Death Place: Greenwood, Clark, Wisconsin
Age: 76
Birth Date: 10 Oct 1827
Birthplace: Nj
Occupation: Farmer (Retired)
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Amelia Barber
Father's Name: John Barber
Father's Birthplace: Pa
Mother's Name: Mary Barber
Mother's Birthplace: Pa
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06543-0
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1310175
Reference Number: 0500." This record gives a different name than I have for mother and wife.

Frances Elizabeth DEMOUTH

¹Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 135, 30 Jul 1860.

²Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/.

³Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129  (Ancestry p. 8 of 24). Frances appears to be listed twice on 1860 Census.

⁴Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, internet. "Birth: Aug. 30, 1831
New Jersey, USA
Death: Nov. 29, 1901
Christie
Clark County
Wisconsin, USA

Died, at her home in Christie, Clark County, Wis., Mrs. J. L. Barber, Nov. 29, 1901.

She was born in Booton, N.J., Aug. 30, 1831. She was married to J. L. Barber in 1846, and their first housekeeping was at Horsehead, N.Y. In 1851 they moved to Hayton, Calumet Co., Wis., where they purchased 80 acres of wild land and remained there until 1884, when they moved to Christie, Clark Co., Wis., and have resided there up to the time of her death. On Nov. 15th she was about the stove doing some work and in a moment's time she discovered herself afire, and before the flames could be put out, her right hand, arm and shoulder extending to the knees, were burned so badly as to leave the flesh bare. She was beyond medical aid, and remained a great sufferer until the Great Physician called her home.

She leaves a husband, four sons, three daughters, two brothers, one sister, grandchildren and many friends to mourn her loss.

The funeral was held at Christie, Sunday, Dec. 1st, Rev. Kloster officiating. The remains were laid to rest in Weston Cemetery."

Bradley WEBSTER

¹Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp.

²Ancestry.com, Wolf Family Tree,  Owner:  boulderwolf4.

³Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, ancestry p. 62. p. 139 is printed on form.

⁴Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, Calumet County Marriage Index. # 8251.

Semantha Parle DEMOUTH

¹Bybee, Marsha, internet.

²Census, Federal - 1850 - Calumet Co., Wisconsin, District 36, Ancestry p. 30 of 42.

³Ancestry.com, Wolf Family Tree,  Owner:  boulderwolf4.

⁴Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, Calumet County Marriage Index. # 8251.

Freeman WEBSTER

¹Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp.

Ann WEBSTER

¹Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp.

Charles W. WEBSTER

¹May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History

dated June 1936

This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.

This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.

William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines.  Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.

After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.

Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.

There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in.  The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little.  It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near.  Such is war.

Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.

K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk

The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.

Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi.  I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.

Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.

We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.

We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey.  To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City.  They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.

One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost.  Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them.  That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.

It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte.  Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man.  He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years.  He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.

At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi.  She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother.  At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents).  The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey.  John was a farmer.  To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.

John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .

A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster.  Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it.  That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".