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¹1880 Oxford Census.

²1900 Naugatuck Census. "Hotchkiss Street | Laborer Rubber F." His step-children and mother-in-law living w/ them.

³1910 Oxford Census.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 121.

⁵Marriage License. Photograph Courtesy of Alan Downes
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15153.jpg.

Clara SMITH

¹Marriage License. Photograph Courtesy of Alan Downes
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15153.jpg.

Frederick DOWNS Jr.

¹1910 Oxford Census.

Franklin L. DOWNS

¹1850 Oxford Census.

²1860 Oxford Census. "Farming."

³1870 Naugatuck Census. "Farmer." Franklin and Charlotte are living w/ his parents.

⁴1880 Oxford Census. "Works on a farm."

⁵1900 Middlebury Census. Divorced. Boarder at the home of Elizabeth M. Nichols and her mother Harriet (Cook) Roberts.

⁶Family. Divorce Record photograph Courtesy of Alan Downs
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15156b.jpg.

⁷Family. "Death Record photograph Courtesy of Alan Downs
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15156a.jpg."

⁸W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 121.

⁹W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 117.

¹⁰1850 Oxford Census.

¹¹Record of Marriage in the Town of Oxford. Photograph Courtesy of Alan Downes
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15156.jpg.

Charlotte Elizabeth SMITH

¹1850 Middlebury Census.

²1870 Naugatuck Census.

³1900 Wallingford Census. Living w/ son Nelson.

⁴1910 New Haven Census. Living w/ daughter Charlotte Hendricks.

⁵Marriage License. Photograph Courtesy of Alan Downes
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15153.jpg.

⁶Family. Divorce Record photograph Courtesy of Alan Downs
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15156b.jpg.

⁷1900 Wallingford Census.

⁸Record of Marriage in the Town of Oxford. Photograph Courtesy of Alan Downes
http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15156.jpg.

Nelson Henry DOWNS

¹1880 Oxford Census. Living w/ his grandmother, Jane M. Burnett.

²1900 Wallingford Census. His mother is living w/ him, Charlotte Thompson.

³Draft Registration card Courtesy of Alan Downes. http://www.oxfordpast.com/doc15903.jpg.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 121.

⁵1900 Wallingford Census.

Mary Elizabeth DOWNS

¹1850 Oxford Census.

²1860 Oxford Census.

³1870 Naugatuck Census.

⁴W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 117.

⁵1850 Oxford Census.

Nelson J. BOTSFORD

¹1850 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

²B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 8. . " Nelson, the youngest son, went to New York early in life and for many years was engaged in the glass and crockery business under the firm name of Botsford and Lacey. They were located on Murray Street. It was his custom every fall during the hunting season to come to Oxford and visit the scenes of his boyhood days and his coming was always looked forward to with pleasant anticipations. He died about the year 1900." http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-08.html.

³1880 Manhattan, New York Census. "lamp dealer."

⁴Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 402.

⁵1850 Oxford Census.

⁶David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), p. 19. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan19.html.

⁷David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, p. 19. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan19.html.

Jennie

¹David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), p. 19. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan19.html.

²1880 Manhattan, New York Census.

³David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, p. 19. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan19.html.

⁴David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, p. 19. http://www.oxfordpast.com/pbcemscan19.html.

Charles Sigourney SANFORD

¹1850 Oxford Census.

²1860 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

³1870 Oxford Census.

⁴1880 Oxford Census. "Farmer."

⁵1900 Oxford Census. "Farmer." Living alone.

⁶B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 7. . "
We next come to the old Tubal Sanford homestead. This, like many of the old landmarks, is fast going to ruin and decay and will soon be numbered with the things that have been. Uncle Tubal, as he was familiarly called, was a soldier in the war of 1812, enlisting Sept. 13th, under Capt. Medad Hotchkiss. Where or how long he served is not on record.
He was twice married. His first wife was Polly Newton of Woodbridge. They had four children, Eliza married Lewis Tolles of Bethany; Mary Ann, who married Smith Botsford of Seymour; and two sons, John and Ellsworth, who went to New Haven and resided there and were engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. His second wife was Lucinda M. Barnes of Naugatuck. By the second marriage, three children were born -- Polly, who married Egbert Burnham of Naugatuck, and Delia, who married Bennet Scoville of Oxford. the son, Charles S., married Caroline Smith of Middlebury. he is still living but is blind and very infirm and is cared for by the town. The place was recently sold to Stephen Gazey. Tubal Sanford died April 14th, 1871, aged 87 years.
Just above the last named place we branch off from the main road and follow the mountain or short cut road that was used by the early settlers to travel to Naugatuck, thereby saving about one and a quarter miles each way."
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⁷1850 Oxford Census.

Caroline A. SMITH

¹1850 Middlebury Census.

²1860 Naugatuck Census.

³1870 Oxford Census.

⁴B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 7. . "
We next come to the old Tubal Sanford homestead. This, like many of the old landmarks, is fast going to ruin and decay and will soon be numbered with the things that have been. Uncle Tubal, as he was familiarly called, was a soldier in the war of 1812, enlisting Sept. 13th, under Capt. Medad Hotchkiss. Where or how long he served is not on record.
He was twice married. His first wife was Polly Newton of Woodbridge. They had four children, Eliza married Lewis Tolles of Bethany; Mary Ann, who married Smith Botsford of Seymour; and two sons, John and Ellsworth, who went to New Haven and resided there and were engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. His second wife was Lucinda M. Barnes of Naugatuck. By the second marriage, three children were born -- Polly, who married Egbert Burnham of Naugatuck, and Delia, who married Bennet Scoville of Oxford. the son, Charles S., married Caroline Smith of Middlebury. he is still living but is blind and very infirm and is cared for by the town. The place was recently sold to Stephen Gazey. Tubal Sanford died April 14th, 1871, aged 87 years.
Just above the last named place we branch off from the main road and follow the mountain or short cut road that was used by the early settlers to travel to Naugatuck, thereby saving about one and a quarter miles each way."
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⁵Edited 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, Ap127.

Damaris SANFORD

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 7, p 1590.

William H. JOICE

¹Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 25 - Naugatuck 1844-1853, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 251. " ... of Oxford ..."

²1850 Oxford Census.

³Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, Barbour Collection - Naugatuck, p. 251. "
... by A. K. Teele."

⁴Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, Barbour Collection - Naugatuck, p. 251. " ... by Rev. A. K. Teele."

Jane M. HICKOX

¹Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 25 - Naugatuck 1844-1853, General Editor - Lorraince Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 251. " ... of Bethany ..."

²1850 Oxford Census.

³Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, Barbour Collection - Naugatuck, p. 251. "
... by A. K. Teele."

⁴Compiled by Nancy E. Schott, General Editor Lorraince Cook White, Barbour Collection - Naugatuck, p. 251. " ... by Rev. A. K. Teele."

Ichabod E. ALLING

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. 709. "Twentieth Regiment Infantry
Company H ...
Corporals:
Alling, Ichabod E.
Residence: Seymour
Date of Enlistment: Aug. 20, '62
Date of muster in this organization: Sep. 8, '62
Remarks: Redc. to ranks June 15, '64. M. o. June 13, '65."

²Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 31, Newtown 1711- 1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, 1, 189. " ... of Humpreysville ..."

³1860 Humphreyville Census. "Fish Market."

⁴1870 Birmimgham Census. "Livery Stables."

⁵1880 Birmingham Census. "Caroline Street | Keeps Livery."

⁶1900 Derby Census. "Livery Stable Keeper."

⁷Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem29651.html.

⁸1900 Derby Census. "Oct 1825."

⁹Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, p. 211. http://www.oxfordpast.com/occemscan211.html.

¹⁰Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, Barbour Collection - Newtown, 1, 189. " ... by Rev. J. Atwater."

Laura SMITH

¹Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 31, Newtown 1711- 1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, 1, 189. " ... of Newtown ..."

²1850 Oxford Census. Living w/ her inlaws.

³1860 Humphreyville Census.

⁴1870 Birmimgham Census.

⁵1880 Birmingham Census.

⁶1850 Oxford Census.

⁷Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem15171.html.

⁸Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem15171.html.

⁹Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, p. 211. http://www.oxfordpast.com/occemscan211.html.

¹⁰Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, Barbour Collection - Newtown, 1, 189. " ... by Rev. J. Atwater."

Smith BOTSFORD

¹B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 7. . " He was twice married. His first wife was Polly Newton of Woodbridge. They had four children,." http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-07.html.

²1850 Seymour Census. "Mill Wright."

³1860 Humphreyville Census. "Millwright."

⁴1870 Seymour Census. "Mill Wright."

⁵1880 Seymour Census. "Millwright."

⁶Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 402. " ... a master millwright, having built for DeForest and Hodge, Beach Paper mill, Smith Paper mill and others located in various places throughout the state, and New York and Pennsylvania. He represented the town in the legislature of 1870. He held the office of justice of the peace."

⁷1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, Arthur Walker, Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

⁸Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 402.

⁹1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

¹⁰1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

¹¹Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 1644. " ... by Joseph T. Clark."

Mary Ann SANFORD

¹B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 7. . " We next come to the old Tubal Sanford homestead. This, like many of the old landmarks, is fast going to ruin and decay and will soon be numbered with the things that have been. Uncle Tubal, as he was familiarly called, was a soldier in the war of 1812, enlisting Sept. 13th, under Capt. Medad Hotchkiss. Where or how long he served is not on record.
He was twice married. His first wife was Polly Newton of Woodbridge. They had four children, Eliza married Lewis Tolles of Bethany; Mary Ann, who married Smith Botsford of Seymour; and two sons, John and Ellsworth, who went to New Haven and resided there and were engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. His second wife was Lucinda M. Barnes of Naugatuck. By the second marriage, three children were born -- Polly, who married Egbert Burnham of Naugatuck, and Delia, who married Bennet Scoville of Oxford. the son, Charles S., married Caroline Smith of Middlebury. he is still living but is blind and very infirm and is cared for by the town. The place was recently sold to Stephen Gazey. Tubal Sanford died April 14th, 1871, aged 87 years.
Just above the last named place we branch off from the main road and follow the mountain or short cut road that was used by the early settlers to travel to Naugatuck, thereby saving about one and a quarter miles each way." http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-07.html.

²1850 Seymour Census.

³1860 Humphreyville Census.

⁴1870 Seymour Census.

⁵1880 Seymour Census.

⁶Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 402.

⁷1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, Arthur Walker, Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

⁸1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

⁹1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

¹⁰Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 1644. " ... by Joseph T. Clark."

Charles N. BOTSFORD

¹1850 Seymour Census. "Augur Maker."

²Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 403.

John Ellsworth BOTSFORD

¹1850 Seymour Census.

²1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, Arthur Walker, Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

³Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 403.

⁴1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

⁵1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 26. http://www.oxfordpast.com/uncemscan26.html.

Lewis TOLLES

¹W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 156.

²1850 Bethany Census. "Farmer."

³1860 Bethany Census. "Farmer."

⁴1870 Bethany Census. "Farmer."

⁵W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 164. Congregational Church.

⁶W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 172.

⁷Donald 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 1847.

⁸Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 8, p 1847.

⁹D. MacAulay, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Sperry Cemetery, p. 39. http://www.oxfordpast.com/sperrycemscan39.html.

¹⁰W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 75.

Sarah Elizabeth SANFORD

¹B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 7. . " We next come to the old Tubal Sanford homestead. This, like many of the old landmarks, is fast going to ruin and decay and will soon be numbered with the things that have been. Uncle Tubal, as he was familiarly called, was a soldier in the war of 1812, enlisting Sept. 13th, under Capt. Medad Hotchkiss. Where or how long he served is not on record.
He was twice married. His first wife was Polly Newton of Woodbridge. They had four children, Eliza married Lewis Tolles of Bethany; Mary Ann, who married Smith Botsford of Seymour; and two sons, John and Ellsworth, who went to New Haven and resided there and were engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. His second wife was Lucinda M. Barnes of Naugatuck. By the second marriage, three children were born -- Polly, who married Egbert Burnham of Naugatuck, and Delia, who married Bennet Scoville of Oxford. the son, Charles S., married Caroline Smith of Middlebury. he is still living but is blind and very infirm and is cared for by the town. The place was recently sold to Stephen Gazey. Tubal Sanford died April 14th, 1871, aged 87 years.
Just above the last named place we branch off from the main road and follow the mountain or short cut road that was used by the early settlers to travel to Naugatuck, thereby saving about one and a quarter miles each way." http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-07.html.

²Donald 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 1847.

³W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 164.

⁴1850 Bethany Census. "Elizabeth."

⁵1860 Bethany Census. "Sarah E."

⁶1870 Bethany Census. "Sarah E."

⁷W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 164. Congregational Church.

⁸D. MacAulay, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Sperry Cemetery, p. 39. http://www.oxfordpast.com/sperrycemscan39.html.

⁹W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 74.

Jane Isabella TOLLES

¹D. MacAulay, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Sperry Cemetery, p. 39. http://www.oxfordpast.com/sperrycemscan39.html.

²D. MacAulay, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Sperry Cemetery, p. 39. "Jan. 27, 1837." http://www.oxfordpast.com/sperrycemscan39.html.

³W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 65. " ... Jan. 24 ..."