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very successful. At the time of his marriage he lived in Canton, Ct., and afterward continued to
reside there for a few years, on the homestead with his father. He then bought a farm in
Burlington, Ct., where he was likewise engaged in teaching. He removed from thence to Collinsville,
and worked as a carpenter, and on his farm, until a long and severe illness unfitted him
for hard labor.
He was a man of good intellect, modest and retiring. Honest and upright himself, he
looked upon all men as being the same, "believing every man honest until he was proved a rogue."
Recently, one well acquainted with him remarked, "He was one of the most upright men I ever
knew." He was gentle but firm, and his word was law in his family. Though slow to anger, he
was capable of being aroused when occasion demanded. He was an earnest Christian, and patient
in suffering. He died in Collinsville, Ct, Aug. 5th, 1850, aged 49 years.
Mrs. Humphrey resides (1884) with her daughter, Jvlrs. Wellon, in Northampton, Mass.
Children:
3256. I. flLizABETH Saterlee,^ b. 20 Apr., 1829, in Canton, Ct.; married (i) in that town,
I INIch., 1S50, Elizur Thomas (son of Ralph and Climera Phelps) Rice, a native
and resident of Granby, Ct., where his parents were born and resided. When
about eighteen years of age, he removed to Canton (Collinsville), Ct., and, until
his health failed, was in the employ of the Collins Company, being most of the
time Foreman in the department of a.xes. He then engaged in farming for about
two years, at Collinsville, where he died 7 Mch., 1857.
Mrs. Rice married (2) in Northampton, Mass., 10 Nov., 1868, Walter Benoni
(son of Horatio Nelson* and Anna Arna Treat) Welton, b. 26 Apr., 1825,
Bridgewater, Ct., where his parents resided. He was a teacher for about fifteen
years; served in the war for the Union from January, 1863, to its close, as a
private soldier, but was employed as a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department
during the whole period. He is now (1884) one of the six E.xecutive Officers
of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital. P. O. address. No. 75 Elm St., North-
ampton, Mass. Children (by 1st marriage; born and died in Collinsville, Ct.):
3257. i. Mary Luella' (Rice), b. 26 May, 1851; d. 11 Apr. 1854, a:. 2 years, and 10 months.
3258. ii. Emma Almira' (Rice), b. 15 June, 1S53; d. 24 Apr. 1S56, a-. 2 years, and 10 months.
3259. iii. Dwight Elizur ^ (Rice), b. 9 Nov. 1856; d. 20 Apr. 1S57, ce. 5 months.
3260. n. Henrietta Susan,^ b. 8 Feb., 1831, Canton, Ct.; married, in Northfield, Mass., at
the residence of Judge Charles Mattoon, 14 Oct., 1850, Ephraim Bradford (son
of Calvin and Sarah Crittenden) Hill, b. 15 Jan., 1822, Williamsburgh, Mass.,
where his parents resided. He died in Southampton, Mass., 19 Sept., 1881,
£e. 59 years. He was a farmer; resided in Collinsville and Burlington, Ct. ; removed
to Leeds, Mass., and, in 1866, to Southampton, Mass., where his widow
resides (1884). Children:
3261. i. Orrin Gilbert,' b. 14 Sept. 1851, Burlington, Ct.; married, in Granville, Mass., iS Dec.
1S77, Sarah (dau. of Harlow and Mary Scoville) Coe, of Granville, Mass. Farmer.
Res. Avon, Ct., and (1884) on his father's homestead, in Southampton, Mass. Child:
(I) Frederic Ephraim," b. 24 May, 1880, Avon, Ct.
3262. ii. Orson Jerome," b. 27 Feb. 1854, Burlington, Ct.; married, at De Land, Fla., in July,
1881, Addie Hinkle, of I^uisville, Ky. Farmer. He is a large land-owner in Florida.
Kcs. (18S4) Bcresford, Fla. Child: (i) Orson William," b. 26 June, 1884. South
ampton, Mass; d. in Feb., 1886, at Berestord, Fla.
• Gcorsc Wtlton. the father of IKir.iiio Nelson Wdlon, w;.- a KLVoluiionary soldier.