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Andrew CLARK

1Donald 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 8, p 1988.

2W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 160. " ... of Milford ..."


Annie

1W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 160.


Eleazer PRINDLE

11800 Oxford Census.

2Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap26. " ... of Watertown ..."

3Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Ap124.

4Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Ap111.

5Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002, p. 288.

6David Davis and Levi Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Gunntown Cemetery, #130. http://www.oxfordpast.com/gtcemscan130.html.

7David Davis and Levi Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Gunntown Cemetery, #130. http://www.oxfordpast.com/gtcemscan130.html.

8Gunntown Cemetery, Photograph - Naugatuck, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem3895.html.


Abigail

1David Davis and Levi Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Gunntown Cemetery, #130. http://www.oxfordpast.com/gtcemscan130.html.

2David Davis and Levi Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Gunntown Cemetery, #130. http://www.oxfordpast.com/gtcemscan130.html.

3David Davis and Levi Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Gunntown Cemetery, #130. http://www.oxfordpast.com/gtcemscan130.html.

4Gunntown Cemetery, Photograph - Naugatuck, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem2876.html.


Sergeant Homer RIGGS

1Compiled by Authority of the General Assembly Under Direction of the Adjutants-General, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and  Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1889.), p. 74. "First Regiment C. V. Cavalry
Company D
Privates:
Riggs, Homer
Residence: Oxford
Date of Enlistment: Nov. 13, '61
Date of muster in this organization: Nov. 14, '61
Remarks: Cap'd June 22, '62, Moorefield, Va.Par. Sep. 14, '62. Re-en. Vet. Dec. 17, '63. Pro. Com.-Sergt. Co. H, Dec. 18, '63."

2B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour, CT, The Seymour Record, 1913), Chapter 6. . "  Homer, the younger son, married Mary Davis of New Rochelle, N.Y.  He enlisted and served during the Civil War and lost an arm.  Some time after the close of the war he was appointed pension agent with headquarters in Vermont. He still holds a position as pension agent and is now located in Washington, D. C.  (He is remembered in Seymour as at one time a student in the Glendenning Academy.)." http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-06.html.

3The Diaries of Laura Davis  1856-1857. . "Sun 4th Clear. Snow blew some, Mr. E. Riggs & his son Homer came in the morning. Father went and helped break paths." Jan 1857
http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.

4The Diaries of Laura Davis  1856-1857. "Tues 6th Very cold and windy. Homer Riggs came in just at night to have Father go and help break paths again. Says it is drifted worse than ever." Jan 1857
http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.

5Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 511. "The War of the Rebellion ...
Soldiers Furnished by the Town of Oxford ..."

61850 Oxford Census.

71880 New Rochelle, N. Y. Census.

81900 Washington D.C. Census.

91910 Washington D. C. Census.

10Compiled by Authority of the General Assembly Under Direction of the Adjutants-General, Connecticut Men in the War of the Rebellion, p. 85. "First Regiment C. V. Cavalry
Company H
Com.-Segeants:
Homer Riggs
Residence: Oxford
Date of Enlistment: Nov. 13, '61
Date of muster in this organization: Nov. 14, '61
Remarks: Pro. from Priv. Co. D. Dec. 18, '63. Wd. and capd June 28, '64, Stony Creek, Va. Par. Nov. - '64. Disc. dis. Feb 16, '65."

11George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 278.

12George T. Davis, Descendants of Colonel John Davis, p. 70.


Mary Esther DAVIS

1George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 70. "Resides in Washington D. C."

21880 New Rochelle, N. Y. Census.

31910 Washington D. C. Census.

4Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 541.

5George T. Davis, Descendants of Colonel John Davis, p. 70.

6George T. Davis, Descendants of Colonel John Davis, p. 70.


Sheldon CHURCH

1W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), pp. 177-8. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. Oxford Legislature - 1840, 1844
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/177.html.

2Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 133. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp133.html.

3Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 103, 114. . http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/103.html
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/114.html.

4W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 156. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/156.html.

51840 Oxford Census.

61850 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

71860 Humphreyville Census. "Farmer."

8George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 34.

9Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 43.

10Donald 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 5, p 1101. " ... of Seymour ..."

11George T. Davis, Descendants of Colonel John Davis, p. 27.

12Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 423.

13George T. Davis, Descendants of Colonel John Davis, p. 27.

14Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

15Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 423.

16Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

17Trinity Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem5556.html.

18Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 8053. " ... by Joseph T. Clarke - Woodbridge VR."


Laura E. LINES

11850 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

21860 Humphreyville Census.

3George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 34.

4Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 43.

5Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

6George T. Davis, Descendants of Colonel John Davis, p. 27.

7Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

8Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 423.

9Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

10Trinity Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem5556.html.

11Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 8053. " ... by Joseph T. Clarke - Woodbridge VR."


Charles CHURCH

11850 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

2Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 424.

3Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

4Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

5Trinity Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem4091.html.


Noyes CHURCH

11850 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

21860 Humphreyville Census.

3Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 424.

4Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

5Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 54. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan54.html.

6Trinity Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem4093.html.


Royal B. RIGGS

11850 Seymour Census.

21860 Seymour Census.

31870 Seymour Census. "Works on Farm."

41880 Ansonia Census. "Main Street  |  Paper Box Maker."

51900 Seymour Census. "Machinist."

61900 Seymour Census. "Feb 1845."

7Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 538. "born Oct. 6, 1844."

8John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family, New York, John H. Wallace, 1901, p. 59.

91900 Seymour Census.


Mary REYNOLDS

11870 Seymour Census.

21880 Ansonia Census.

31900 Derby Census.

4Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 538. "Mary Reynolds Dunn."

51900 Derby Census.

61900 Seymour Census.


Noah S. REYNOLDS

11870 New Haven Census.

21934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, Arthur Walker, Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 5. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan5.html.

31870 New Haven Census.

41934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 5. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan5.html.

51934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 5. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan5.html.


Eliza A.

11870 New Haven Census.

21880 Ansonia Census. Living w/ daughter Mary & husband.

31934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, Arthur Walker, Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 5. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan5.html.

41870 New Haven Census.

51934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 5. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan5.html.

61934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 5. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan5.html.


Norman SPERRY

11850 Cheshire, Census.

21860 Cheshire Census. "Farm Laborer."

31870 Seymour Census. "Works Augur Shop."

41880 Seymour Census. "Augur Manufacturer."

51900 Seymour Census. "Manufacturer Augur."

61910 Seymour Census. "West Church Street  |  Own Income."

7Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), pp. 482-3. "Humphreysville Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of augers, bits, etc. Proprietors, George H. Robinson, David R. Cook, Norman Sperry, Marcus Sperry."

8Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 538.

9John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family, New York, John H. Wallace, 1901, p. 59.

10Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 38. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan38.html.

111900 Seymour Census. "Sep 1843."

12Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 38. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan38.html.

13Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 38. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan38.html.


Louisa B. RIGGS

1Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 756.

21850 Seymour Census. "Ella."

31860 Seymour Census. "Louisa."

41870 Seymour Census.

5Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 538.

6John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family, New York, John H. Wallace, 1901, p. 59.

7Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 38. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan38.html.


Albert SPERRY

1Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 11951. " ... of Cheshire ..."

21850 Cheshire, Census.

31860 Cheshire Census. "Laborer."

4Ricker, Ricker Compilation, p. 11951.

5Ricker, Ricker Compilation, p. 11951.


Phebe A. TUTTLE

1Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 11951. " ... of Cheshire ..."

21850 Cheshire, Census.

31860 Cheshire Census.

41850 Cheshire, Census.

5Ricker, Ricker Compilation, p. 11951.


Albert SPERRY

1Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 11951.

2Ricker, Ricker Compilation, p. 11951.


Marcus SPERRY

11850 Cheshire, Census.

21860 Cheshire Census.

31870 Seymour Census. "Works Augur Shop."

41880 Seymour Census. "Augur Manufacturer." Living w/ brother Norman.

5Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), pp. 482-3. "Humphreysville Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of augers, bits, etc. Proprietors, George H. Robinson, David R. Cook, Norman Sperry, Marcus Sperry."

61850 Cheshire, Census.

7Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, p. 64. http://www.oxfordpast.com/trcemscan64.html.


John FRENCH

1Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 190.


Elizabeth NICHOLS

1Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 190.


Bette FRENCH

1Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 190.


Elisha FRENCH

1Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 190.


Henry FRENCH

1Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 190.


Patty FRENCH

1Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 190.


Joseph FRENCH

11820 Oxford Census.

21830 Oxford Census.

31840 Oxford Census.

41850 Oxford Census.

51860 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

6W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 63. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/063.html.

7Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 44.

8Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Riverside Cemetery (Riverside Cemetery), p. 49. http://www.oxfordpast.com/rscemscan49.html.

9Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 242.

10Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Riverside Cemetery, p. 49. http://www.oxfordpast.com/rscemscan49.html.

11Earl F. Curnan 3rd, Riverside Cemetery Map (April 2004). http://www.oxfordpast.com/RiversideMap1.html.

12Riverside Cemetery 2004 Photograph - Courtesy of Earl F. Curnan 3rd. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem2894.html.


Julia BATES

11850 Oxford Census.

21860 Oxford Census.

31870 Oxford Census. Living w/ son William.

41880 Oxford Census. Living w/ son William.

5Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 25.

6Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Riverside Cemetery (Riverside Cemetery), p. 49. http://www.oxfordpast.com/rscemscan49.html.

7Mansfield Joseph French, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Syracuse, N.Y., Edward Brothers, Inc., 1940, p. 242.

8Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Riverside Cemetery, p. 49. http://www.oxfordpast.com/rscemscan49.html.

9Earl F. Curnan 3rd, Riverside Cemetery Map (April 2004). http://www.oxfordpast.com/RiversideMap1.html.

10Riverside Cemetery 2004 Photograph - Courtesy of Earl F. Curnan 3rd. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem2895.html.