Moody & Lucy (Farnum) Chase & Moody Chase, Jr.
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In reply to:
Re: 6 gen. anc. chart of ch of Richard & Joyce (Keesling) Lawson
Richard 1/27/12
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the letter that I have from J. B. Chase named only one child of Moses & Hannah (Brown) Chase, so I had to use other sources for their 14 children & 100 grandchildren.
I will now return to the letter from J. B. Chase as my primary source for the wives & children of Moody Chase, Sr..Although he did not give much about Moody's son James Morris Chase, and there is much more information available about some of the other children of Moody Sr, I will not add much, in brackets, to what he did give, except for James Morris Chase.If you are interested in additional information about one or more of the children of Moody Chase, Sr, please let me know.
J. B. Chase wrote: "Children of Moses Chase and - - - :[Hannah Brown]:
"Moody Chase[b.] Oct. 10, 1770, Cornish, N.H. m. (1) Rebecca Chapman [of Cornish], who died June 10, 1794, age 23 m. (2) Rhoda Cook of Claremont [Sullivan Co, NH], Jan. 28, 1795 She died Feb. 21, 1796, age 27 m. (3) Lucy Farnham (no date) [md Lucy Farnum on June 6, 1796 at Litchfield (now Morris), Litchfield Co, CT].
"Children of Moody Chase and Rebecca Chapman:
"Benjamin Chapman Chase, [b.] Sept. 8, 1793
"Infant, who died two days before mother's death.
"Children of Moody Chase and Rhoda Cook:
"Rhoda Cook Chase [b.] Feb. 15, 1796; m. Feb. 9, 1815, Jesse Vose
"Children of Moody Chase and Lucy Farnum:
"Harvey Farnham Chase [b.] May 5, 1797; m. Nov. 3, 1836, to Sarah D. Woodbury of New London [4 ch].He was educated at Kimball Union Academy; removed to McComb (sic) [Macomb], Ill., where he spent his life as a farmer, DiedDec. 9, 1878.Had one son, James Phineas Chase, born in Cornish, July 17, 1838, before he removed west.
"Rebecca Chapman Chase, b. July 4, 1798-[tombstone - August 4, 1798]
[1850 FC of Lyndon, Caledonia Co, VT with her brother George Clement Chase; 1860 FC of Macomb, McDonough Co, IL with William & Hannah (Chase) Withrow {her sister}; 1870 FC of {Parkersburg} Scott Twp, Montgomery Co, IN with her brother Moody Chase {Jr}; 1880 FC of Macomb, IL with William & Hannah (Chase) Withrow; Rebecca d. single May 7, 1881 at Macomb, IL.]
"James Maurice Chase, b. April 4, 1800
[Lucy Farnum or Farnham's sister Rhoda Farnham md (1) James Morris.Most other records say James Morris Chase was b. April 4, 1800 at Cornish, NH, and he was no doubt named for his maternal uncle by marriage, James Morris.James Morris Chase md (1) in 1832 to Salina Ann Venable of Shelbyville, ShelbyCo, KY - 7 ch.He md (2) in 1854 to Andrea C. Lang or Lange of Quincy, IL - no known children.He was prepared for college by John Adams at Phillips Academy of Andover, Essex Co, MA, and graduated at Dartmouth College, 1827.He taught for 10 yrs. at a private school in Shelbyville, while studying for the ministry with Rev. Archibald Cameron of the Louisville, KY presbytery.James was licensed to preach in 1831, and md the dau of Judge Venable of Shelbyville the next year.On April 7, 1837, he was ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Macomb, IL, where he was dismissed in 1846, probably soon after his 46th birthday, upon which his father died. He then began farming, and taught Latin & Greek at McDonough College at Macomb.He also preached at nearby Camp Creek 1853, Mount Sterling 1854 & Ebenezer until a short time before his death.He died Feb. 10, 1865, at his home near Macomb, of typhoid pneumonia due to exposure while a delegate of the Christian Commission to the army at Chattanooga, TN, near the end of the American Civil War.His son William Thomas Chase had died about a year earlier due to exposure, while in the army near Knoxville, TN.]
"*Moody Chase, Jr., [b.] Feb. 25, 1802; grad. Kimball [Union] Academy in class of 1825; at Dartmouth College in 1829; Andover Theological Seminary in 1832.A Presbyterian minister in several parishes in Indiana. Died in Parkersburg, Ind. Mch. 22, 1879.He married (1) Sarah Stuart Bailey, Sept. 17, 1832 [1 ch], (2) Hannah B. Jewett, b. 1816 at Peperell (sic) [Pepperell], Mass [9 ch].
[Since Moody Chase, Jr. eventually became my 2nd grt grandfather, I naturally have much more about him and his wives & children.I have already posted much about my 2nd grt grandmother, Hannah Baldwin (Jewett) Chase, who died in 1899 at Topeka, KS, where I was born, and they will be the subjects of my later post.]
"Lucy Maria Chase, [b.] Mch. 12, 1804; d. Mch. 31, 1825, aged 21, while being educated at Kimball [Union] Academy.Inscription on her tombstone: 'Short Toils - Short Woes - Loved friends were thine, Now joys eternal and divine.'
"Hannah Brown Chase, b. Oct. 5, 1806; at Kimball Union Academy, 1822-23; a teacher several years; married William E. Withrow of Malcomb (sic) [Macomb], Ill. [as his 2nd wife; no known ch.]
"Harriet Eliza Chase, b. Dec. 8, 1808[md Wm E. Withrow, as his 1st wife; no known ch.]
"George Clement Chase, b. Sept. 16, 1811 - Graduated Kimball Union Academy, Class of 1836; Dartmouth [College], 1844 (sic) [1841]; in the Medical Department in 1847; physician at Lyndon, Vt. and Downieville, California, where he died June 20, 1878.He married Maria Field of Lyndon, Vt.
"Newton Whittlesey Chase, b. Nov. 13, 1813[d. Oct. 1, 1839 at Macomb, IL; no known wife or ch.]
"Albert Chase, b. April 25, 1817.Grad. from Kimball Union [Academy] in 1840; Dartmouth [College], 1844; Medical Dept. in 1847; Physician at Hononi (?) [Hanover] and San Francisco, where he died in spring of 1903."
Lucy (Farnum) Chase, dau of Gad & Jane (Bishop) Farnham, was born Sept. 18, 1773 at Litchfield (now Morris), Litchfield Co, CT, and she died on her own 70th birthday on Sept. 18, 1843 at Macomb, IL.Her husband, Moody Chase, Sr., died on April 4, 1846 at Macomb on their son James Morris Chase's 46th birthday.Moody & Lucy (Farnum) Chase had 10 children & 22 grandchildren.
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