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             Husband: Edmund Lewis DOOLITTLE (1)
                Born: 01 AUG 1807 (2)
             Married: 05 APR 1868 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (20)
                Died: 08 JUL 1873 in Seymour, New Haven, CT (3 4)
              Buried: in Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (5)
              Father: Jesse DOOLITTLE
              Mother: Betsey WOODING
             Spouses: Mary Ives DICKERMAN
                Wife: Mary Ann CABLE (6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14)
                Born: 08 MAR 1820 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (15 16 17)
                Died: 25 APR 1900 (18)
              Buried: in Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (19)
              Father: Roswell CABLE
              Mother: Hannah CHATFIELD
             Spouses: George SPERRY

Footnotes

  1. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 18.
    Just a little north opposite the Smith place stands another land mark, known as the Hawley place. David Hawley, Jr., formerly owned this place and lived here for many years. The house was built about the year 1830. Chester Smith of Chestnut Tree Hill was the builder.
    Mr. Hawley was twice married. His first wife was Mary F. Doolittle, of Skokorat, daughter of Edmund Louis Doolittle of that place. They were married May 27, 1863. Two daughters and one son were born to them, Jane E., now Mrs. George A. Candee, of Skokorat, a daughter who died in infancy, and a son, Otis Hawley, a prominent citizen of Seymour, who also lives on the old Doolittle farm on Skokorat.
    Mr. Hawley's second wife was Martha Gillette of Great Hill. One son was born of this marriage, Clifford Hawley, who lives with his mother on the road leading from the Southford Cemetery to Christian Street.
    After the death of Mr. Hawley in 1897 the place was sold to James Pendleton who occupied it for a year or two and then it was sold to W. Stafford who worked in the Seymour Iron foundry, consequently did not make a success of farming.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-18.html.]
  2. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 562.
  3. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 54.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan54.html.]
  4. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 562.
  5. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 54.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan54.html.]
  6. Harriet's Friendship Quilt (Oxford Historical Society).
    [http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/harriet-quilt/Sperry-Mary-A_Oxford-1852.html.]
  7. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 121.
    George Sperry, bu. Dec. 26, 1865, age 54 yrs., hus. of Mary Ann.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/121.html.]
  8. 1850 Oxford Census.
  9. 1860 Oxford Census.
  10. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 72.
    ... of Oxford ...
  11. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 4.
    Leaving the Treat homestead, the next we come to is the old colonial house which for many years was owned and occupied by George Sperry of Bethany. He purchased this place some time about 1850. He married Mary Ann Cable of Oxford, a Sister of Glover W. Cable. There was but a small portion of land belonging to the place and Mr. Sperry worked for the nearby farmers. For many years he was in the employ of Burrett Davis, engaged in getting ship lumber. During the September gale in ?? a tract of lumber on the Davis farm was blown down and Mr. Sperry was employed to convert this fallen lumber into railroad ties and lumber for the Naugatuck R. R. which was build about that time. Some of the timber was used to build the railroad bridge over the Naugatuck at Seymour. After the fire which burnt the Davis farm, Mr. Sperry gave the family shelter until the new house was completed the following May. He was a good hearted man and a good neighbor. He died about 1861. His wife afterwards married a Mr. Doolittle of Seymour who lived on his farm on the Skokorat road. Some time after his death she went to Oswego, N.Y., where she died.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  12. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    Mary Ann married George Sperry of Bethany.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  13. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [Excerpt from1868 map, Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm
    Mrs. M. A. Sperry, Chestnut Tree Hill Road.
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/1868ChestnutHillSouth.jpg.]
  14. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 562.
  15. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 61.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/061.html.]
  16. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 54.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan54.html.]
  17. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 33.
  18. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 54.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan54.html.]
  19. Ibid., 54.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan54.html.]
  20. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 108.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/108.html.]

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