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Descendants of Joseph Bemis


      983. Elijah6 Bemis (Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)5105 was born 28 Jun 1778 in Southboro, Massachusetts5106,5107, and died 01 Aug 1844 in Southboro, Massachusetts5108,5109. He married Sally Wilson5110 08 Dec 1805 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5111, daughter of Cyrus Woolson and Persis Angier. She was born 26 Mar 1785 in Framingham, Massachusetts5112, and died 26 Apr 1868 in Marlboro, Massachusetts5112.

More About Elijah Bemis:
Name 2: Elisha Bemis5113

More About Sally Wilson:
Name 2: Sally Woolson5114

More About Elijah Bemis and Sally Wilson:
Marriage 1: 08 Dec 1805, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5115
Marriage 2: 09 Oct 18055116
     
Children of Elijah Bemis and Sally Wilson are:
  2032 i.   Henry A.7 Bemis5116, born in Southboro, Massachusetts5116.
  2033 ii.   Hiram Bemis5117, born 20 Jul 1806 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5118,5119; died 20 May 1809 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5120.
  More About Hiram Bemis:
Name 2: Hirman Bemis5121
  2034 iii.   Harriet Bemis5121, born 10 Jul 1808 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5121,5122.
  Notes for Harriet Bemis:
Not sure if this is the correct person. (sld:03/18/06)

[VR:Southborough:95] Marriage Record of Harriot (Bemis) and Joseph Jenison, Jan. 22, 1833.

[Massachusetts Centinal Marriage Notices]
Bemis, Harriet, m. Joseph Jennison in Southborough (CC.Feb.5,1833)

  More About Harriet Bemis:
Name 2: Hariot Bemis5123
+ 2035 iv.   Cyrus Bemis, born 30 Dec 1810 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.
  2036 v.   Mariah Bemis5124, born 17 Jan 1813 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5125,5126; died 07 Mar 1835 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5127.
  More About Mariah Bemis:
Name 2: Maria Bemis5128
Name 3: Moriah Bemis5129
+ 2037 vi.   Elijah Bemis, Jr., born 20 Feb 1815 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.
  2038 vii.   Emery Bemis5130, born 07 Mar 1817 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5130,5131.
  Notes for Emery Bemis:
[VR:Southborough:95] Marriage Record of Emery and Susan Maria Walker, int. Dec. 4, 1841.

  2039 viii.   George Bemis5132, born 06 May 1819 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5132,5133.
  2040 ix.   Horace Bemis5134, born 04 Mar 1821 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5134,5135.
  2041 x.   Roxana Bemis5136, born 09 Apr 1823 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5137,5138. She married Stephen A. Howe5139 22 Oct 1845 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5140.
  More About Roxana Bemis:
Name 2: Roxanna Bemis5141

  More About Stephen Howe and Roxana Bemis:
Marriage: 22 Oct 1845, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5142
  2042 xi.   Sarah Bemis5143,5144, born 14 Feb 1825 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5145,5146; died 15 Oct 1828 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5147.
  2043 xii.   Lucius Bemis5148,5149, born 11 Jun 1827 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5150,5151.
  2044 xiii.   Alvira Bemis5152, born 09 Aug 1829 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5153,5154.
  More About Alvira Bemis:
Name 2: Elvira Bemis5155



      986. William Peter6 Bemis (Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)5156,5157,5158 was born 26 Apr 1787 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5159,5160, and died 03 Jan 1868 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts5161. He married Sally Hawkins5162,5163 24 Apr 18145163, daughter of Samuel Hawkins and Hannah Dinsdale. She was born 1795 in "of Boston"5163, and died 18705163.

Notes for William Peter Bemis:
[Draper:118] He lived in Holliston, Mass.

More About William Peter Bemis:
Name 2: Peter Bemis5164
Cause of Death: Congestion of lungs5165
Christening: 1788, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5166

More About Sally Hawkins:
Ancestral File Number: 14GW-3RQ5166

More About William Bemis and Sally Hawkins:
Marriage: 24 Apr 18145166
     
Child of William Bemis and Sally Hawkins is:
+ 2045 i.   Augustine Samuel7 Bemis, born 20 Oct 1816 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died 31 May 1896 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts.


      987. Ezra6 Bemis (Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)5167 was born 13 Apr 1789 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5167,5168,5169, and died Aft. Jun 1833. He married Lovina Woolson5170 12 Jan 1815 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5171,5172, daughter of Cyrus Woolson and Persis Angier. She was born 09 Jan 1790 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts5173, and died 01 Jun 1847 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5173,5174.

Notes for Ezra Bemis:
Date of death in [Draper:118] "Jan. 12, 1815" appears incorrect based on the birth dates of his children through June, 1833. [Steve Dahlstrom:02/15/2002]

More About Ezra Bemis:
Died 2: 12 Jan 18155175

More About Lovina Woolson:
Name 2: Lavinia Woolson5176

More About Ezra Bemis and Lovina Woolson:
Marriage: 12 Jan 1815, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5176,5177
     
Children of Ezra Bemis and Lovina Woolson are:
+ 2046 i.   John Woolson7 Bemis, born 05 Aug 1815 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 27 Nov 1880 in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
+ 2047 ii.   Martha Ann Bemis, born 28 Nov 1816 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
  2048 iii.   Charles Angier Bemis5178, born 04 Mar 1818 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5178,5179; died in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts5180. He married Caroline Thead5181 02 Nov 1842 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts5182,5183.
  Notes for Charles Angier Bemis:
[1850 Census - Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts - September 21, 1850 - page 19(378) - image 19]
Charles A. Bemis, 32, bootmaker, born in Massachusetts;
Caroline L. Bemis, 34, born in Massachusetts.

  More About Caroline Thead:
Name 2: Caroline Thed5184

  More About Charles Bemis and Caroline Thead:
Marriage: 02 Nov 1842, Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts5184,5185
+ 2049 iv.   Cyrus Woolson Bemis, born 21 Apr 1820 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 21 Aug 1885 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
  2050 v.   Mary Ann Bemis5186, born 17 Jan 1822 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5186,5187; died 17 Jan 1822 in Southboro, Massachusetts5188.
+ 2051 vi.   Ezra Curtis Bemis, born 04 Jul 1823 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 01 Feb 1874.
  2052 vii.   William Eustis Bemis5188, born 20 Dec 1824 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5188,5189; died 10 Jun 18865190. He married Caroline Sophia Walker5190 01 Mar 1849 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5191; born in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts5192; died 05 Mar 1897 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts5192.
  Notes for William Eustis Bemis:
[Draper:122] Children: two sons and two daus.

[1880 Census - Holliston (District 366), Middlesex, Massachusetts - June 8, 1880 - page 28 - image 28]
Manfred Bemis, 29, dealer in bread?, born in Massachusetts (parents in Massachusetts);
Cora Bemis, 26, wife, keeping house, born in Massachusetts (parents in Massachusetts);
next home:
William E. Bemis, 55, bootmaker, born in Massachusetts (parents in Massachusetts);
Caroline S. Bemis, 53, wife, keeping house, born in Massachusetts (parents in Massachusetts).

  More About Caroline Sophia Walker:
Cause of Death: Morbus cordis - exhaustion5192
Medical Information: Heart disease. A catch-all phrase for death by natural causes when the exact cause was not evident

  More About William Bemis and Caroline Walker:
Marriage 1: 01 Mar 1849, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5193
Marriage 2: Marlboro, Massachusetts5194
+ 2053 viii.   Nancy Levina Bemis, born 26 Oct 1826 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 21 Apr 1885.
  2054 ix.   Hiram Newton Bemis5195, born 28 Apr 1830 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5196; died 02 Jan 1831 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts5197.
  More About Hiram Newton Bemis:
Name 2: Hirman Newton Bemis5198
Died 2: Jan 1831, Southboro, Massachusetts5198
  2055 x.   Eleanor Sophia Bemis5198, born 27 Jun 1833 in Southboro, Massachusetts5198. She married Thomas Clarke Wells5198 30 Oct 1856 in Manhattan, Kansas5198; born 26 Apr 1832 in Hopkinton, Rhode Island5198,5199,5200; died 09 Jan 1907 in Manhatten, Riley, Kansas5200.
  More About Eleanor Sophia Bemis:
Name 2: Ellen Sophia Bemis5201

  Notes for Thomas Clarke Wells:
[Kansas Historical Quarterly, "Letters of a Kansas Pioneer", May 1936 (Vol. 5, No. 2), pages 143 to 179]

Thomas Clarke Wells, the son of Thomas Potter Wells and Sarah Elizabeth Clarke, was the eighth and last Thomas Wells born in direct line, descendants of Nathaniel Wells who emigrated to this country in 1629 from Essex County, England. His mother died in 1834 and his father made two subsequent marriages, the first to Clarissa Sherman in 1836, who died in 1846, and the second to Julia Esther Johnson in 1848. Two children were born of each marriage. They were: (1st) Thomas Clarke, 1832, and Frances Elizabeth, 1834; (2nd) George Henry, 1837, and Theodore Backus, 1840; (3rd) Herbert Johnson, 1850, and Helen May, 1861.

Mr. Wells was born April 26, 1832, in Hopkinton, R.I., spent his early life in Kingston and Wakefield and at the academy of East Greenwich, and as a young man planned to enter his father's bank. Ill health, however, forced him to leave the Atlantic coast and in 1855 he came West, taking a claim near Juanita, and subsequently one near Manhattan. On October 30, 1856, he was married to Miss Eleanor Bemis of Holliston, Mass., who lived on a near-by claim. As the accompanying letters, written to his father, stepmother, and half brothers show, Mr. Wells was a Free-State man, on one occassion joining a party which started to the defense of Lawrence, and was active in the affairs of his community, particularly in the work of the Congregational church in Manhattan where he was a charter member. He died in Manhattan, January 9, 1907.

The originals of the letters published here are preserved in the Manuscript division of the Kansas State Historical Society. They were presented by Elizabeth J. and Emily P. Wells, of Kingston, R.I., nieces of Herbert J. Wells, who is mentioned in the letters. Included in the series are several letters written by Eleanor Bemis Wells to her new relatives. Spelling and punctuation as contained in the original letters have been followed throughout.
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[1860 Census - Manhatten, (Unknown Townships), Riley, Kansas Territory - image 17]
Thos C Wells, 28, farmer, real estate of $3000, personal property of $700, born in Rhode Island;
Eleanor Wells, 27, born in Massachusetts;
Nancy L. Bemis, 30, born in Massachusetts.

[1870 Census - Manhatten, Riley, Kansas - June 10, 1870 - page 16 - image 16]
Thomas Wells, 38, farmer, real estate of $5000, personal property of $655, born in Rhode Island;
Eleanor Wells, 36, keeping house, born in Massachusetts.

[1880 Census - Manhatten (Dist. 255), Riley, Kansas - June 16, 1880 - page 26 - image 26]
Thomas Wells, 48, farmer, born in Rhode Island (parents in Rhode Island);
Eleanor Wells, 46, wife, keeping house, born in Massachusetts (parents in Massachusetts).

[1900 Census - Manhatten, Riley, Kansas - June 1, 1900 - page 104]
[Genealogy.com: Kansas, Riley County, Roll 498 Book 1, Page 104)
Thomas C. Wells, 68 (April 1832), married 43 years, born in Rhode Island (parents in Rhode Island), farmer;
Elenor S. Wells, wife, 66 (June 1833), married 43 years, no children, none living, born in Massachusetts (parents in Massachusetts)

  More About Thomas Clarke Wells:
1860 Census: Manhatten, (Unknown Townships), Riley, Kansas Territory5202
1870 Census: Manhatten, Riley, Kansas5203
1880 Census: Manhatten (Dist. 255), Riley, Kansas5204
1900 Census: Manhatten, Riley, Kansas5205
Reference: Letters of a Kansas Pioneer5206

  More About Thomas Wells and Eleanor Bemis:
Marriage: 30 Oct 1856, Manhattan, Kansas5207
+ 2056 xi.   Sarah Newton Bemis, born 10 Jan 1832 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 19 Apr 1891.

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