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When news came that he was wounded, the mother and eldest brother,
James, set out to join him, taking lint and bandage for his wounds. His
mother, refined, cultivated, high-minded, romantic, saw in him the "con-
quering hero " who would return to maintain the honors of his name and
blood ; she went out full of hope, seeming to have no thought that he
could lay down forever a life so full of gifts and promise. She did not
find him living. The sad party came back with only the mournful privi-
lege of burying him with his kindred.
(3.) Matthew^ born in 1792 ;
who
married Phoebe Hubbard daugh-
ter of Col. Seth Ely of North Lyme, and settled as a farmer on the
ancestral estate of Blackball, in a house built by his father ; where
he lived
to his eighty-eighth year, dying in 1880; and left his widow with several
daughters at home. To these ladies we are chiefly indebted for the loan of
family-papers used in this memorial. He occupied the house built by his
father, and owned most of his large farm. He was a domestic man, took
care of his mother, who lived to extreme old age, devoted himself to his
family, who cherish his memory with much respect and affection, and was
always ready to give a cordial welcome to the many persons of Griswold
descent, near or remote, who came to see the family-seat at Blackball, and
to renew their intercourse with their kindred. His only son, Matthew,^ is
now of Erie, Pa., and has six sons and one daughter, by two marriages.
One daughter, Lydia Maria,^ married John C. Selden of Erie, Pa.; and
another, Fanny Rogers,^ married Horace S. Ely of New York.
(4.) Frances Ann^ born in 1 795 ; who
married her cousin Chief
Justice Ebenezer Lane (see below) of Sandusky, Ohio, graduated at
Harvard College in 181 1, made LL.D. there in 1880, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Ohio, a learned lawyer and scholar ;
and
had a son,
William Griswold^ Lane, the accomplished and amiable Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas for the Fourth Judicial District of Ohio, who
was born in 1824, graduated at Yale College in 1843, ^"d died in 1877.
WiUiam Griswold Lane married his second cousin Elizabeth Diodate (69)
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