The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

(P. 297.) (i) Mary Viola' Scoville [Fam. 16, S.-], born 27 Oct., 1847; married 27 Aug.,
1S65, Caleb A., son of Francis and Marica (Dings), Palmatin. He was born 19 Apr., 1844, in
Binghampton, N. Y. Farmer. Res. (1885) Colesburg, Pa. CMdren.- (a) Francis A.* (Palmatin),
b. 7 Apr., 1868. (6J Annie R.^ (Palmatin), b. 29 May, 1870. (c) Carrie M.^ (Palmatin), b. 28
May, 1873. (dj Viola^ (Palmatin), b. 22 Feb., 1880. fe) Gilbert A.^ (Palmatin), b. 3 Aug.,
1882. (2) William Herbert' Scoville, b. 4 Aug., 1849; "i- 3° Dec, 1869, at Whitesville, Alle-
gany Co., N. Y., Julia, dau. of Theodore and Charity (Cuatt) Carpenter, and a lineal descendant
of John Paulding. She was b. 8 Apr., 1850. He is Postmaster and general merchant at Coles-
burg, Pa. ChUdrc7i: (a) Esca G.^ (Scoville), b. 11 May, 1872, in Bingham, Pa. (b) Hattie''
(Scoville), b. 16 Aug., 1881, in Harrison, Pa. (3) Harry Austin' Scoville, b. 10 Mch., 1851,
in Harrison, Pa.; m. (i) 14 Nov., 1877, Frances May, dau. of Willkinson W. and Elizabeth
(Cahil) Johnson. She was b. 15 Apr., 1857, at Woodhull, Steuben Co., N. Y., and d. 16 Aug.,
1878, at Coudersport, Pa. He m. (2) 28 Sept., 1882, Milla, dau. of Sheldon and Eunice (Wood),
Armstrong, who was b. 4 Oct., 1859, at Coudersport, Pa. He is an attorney-at-law, admitted to
the bar at Coudersport, Pa., 5 Mch., 1879; and there resides. Child (by 2d m.): (a) De Forest
Armstrong 8 (Scoville), b. 21 Feb., 1884, in Coudersport, Pa. (4) Perry Eugene' Scoville, b.
22 June, 1857; m. m West Union Township, Steuben Co., N. Y., 28 Sept., 1882, Ida Miller.
Farmer. Resides upon the paternal homestead, in Harrison, Potter Co., Pa.
(P. 298.) Marys Humphrey [Fam. 16 (398), S.=]. Since printing the meagre account of
Mary 5 Humphrey, lirst wife of Rev. Joseph Fairbank, given on page 298, his oldest daughter
(by his third marriage), Mary Dian, now Mrs. A. B. Price, of No. 4 Wauchusett St., Worcester,
Mass. (who was named conjointly after her father's first wife and her friend Diana Cook, of whom
presently), has kindly forwarded to us an interesting old original manuscript auto-biographical
sketch of her, relating to her religious life and experience. This was, evidently, toward the end
of her life, after her health and vision had failed, dictated to her intimate friend and amanuensis
Diana Cook,* of Marlborough, Mass., who, after her death, appended also to the same sketch, in
the same hand and over her own signature, and dated at Marlborough, Mass., Aug. 7, 1812, the
loving tribute of a graphic narative of the later events of Mrs. Fairbanks life, and a pen picture
of her character and person. This brochure consisted of forty-nine closely written quarto pages
the auto-biography occupying the first twenty-eight. The first three and most of the fourth and
fifth pages, apparently relating to her childhood, are unfortunately lost. The remaining continuous
account proceeds from the age of fifteen years, and relates her solemn vivid spiritual convictions,
and her particular and varied exercises of mind, under Methodist teaching and fellowship. It
reveals a tender conscience, great consistency of faith and purpose, and a complete Christian
consecration. She died 29 June, 1812, aged 27 years.
Rev. Joseph Fairbank is said to have been born in Union, Ct. The name of his second
wife, who is said to have been buried in the State of New York, is not ascertained. He married
(3), as her third husband, about 181 5, Widow Hannah Russell, whose maiden sur-narae was
Willber, in North Adams, Mass., and there resided a few years. In 1S29 and for several years
afterward, he was settled on a farm in Fitch ville, Vt. He afterward removed to Springfield, Vt.,
* DiAXA Cook was bom in RLirlborough, M.iss.. 5 June, 1785, the oldest child of Ananias Cook. He was son of Rev. Nathaniel
Cook, of Cumberland, R. I , and brother ol Nathaniel Cook, who served under John Paul Jones "on the ship Alfred, of 32 guns," and
died in 1846, aged 99 years. Ananias Cook died in Marlborough, Mass., 15 Apr., 1852, aged 91 years. This family claims descent from
Francis Cook, ol the Mayflower. They have been of notable character, vigor and longevity, and were allied by marriage to the Bellows,
of R. I, of whom was the mother of President Garfield. Diana Cook was an early and devoted convert to Methodism, studied at the
then famous Leicester Academy, and was subsequently a teacher, till her marriage to Deacon John Lyscom, ol Lynn, in 1822, whom she
survived many years, and died at the home of her only surviving child, Caroline M., widow of George Ross, deceased, of Springfield,
Mass., 21 Oct., 1873, aged 88 years, retaining her (acuities and habits of social and intellectual culture and enjoyment to the end.
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