Bouton-Boughton Family

4.307 iv. Gertrude Augusta Boughton, b. Victory, Ca- yuga county, N. Y., March 8, 1838. She was bom mute and at the age of eight years was sent to the New York Institute for Deaf-Mutes, where she ac- quired a good education, graduated and returned to live with her parents, where she continued until the summer of 1876 she went to visit friends in Cayuga county when she lecame acquainted with Mr. Samuel Allen Taber, of Scipio, Cayuga county, son of William Taber, of Scipio, where he was bom Jan. 27, 1829, and they were married at 975 Fulton street, Brooklyn, Jan. 4, 1877, and settled on his farm at Scipio, where they still resided in the autumn of 1885, never having had any children. In spring of 1886 they bought a handsome residence in Auburn, N. Y., where they wereUving at No. 9 Hamilton avenue in 1889. 4.308 V. Eliza Kunaanna Boughton, b. New York city, July 26, 1842. In infancy she manifested unusual intelligence and at her death she seemed to have anticipated the approaching 'glory, and she happily passed the mortal bourne April 11, 1850, aged nearly eight years. 4.309 iii. Eliza Boughton, b. CUnton, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Oct. 14, 1811. By reason of the poor health of her mother during her childhood she very early learned to be helpful in household cares, and displayed an aptitude unusual in one so young. At the age of about fifteen years she was sent to the Friends' board- ing school at Nine Partners, where religious instruction as well as school education was enjoyed, and on her return to her home she devoted herself and all her energies to the interests of the family; moving with them to Victory in 1834, she continued to have the principal charge of the family until May 20, 1842, BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. 463 when she married Ebenezer L. Wanzer, of Ledyard, Cayuga county, N. Y., son of Husted and Lucy Leach Wanzer, of Quaker Hill, N. T., where he was born Dec. 20, 1795. He was a widower with seven children, all living at home, among whom she went and enjoyed the greatest respect and esteem as long as she hved. He was a successful farmer while his health lasted, but for several years prior to his death his health was not sufBcient for the arduous duties to which he had .been accustomed, and he sold his large farm and bought a smaller one adjoining the one he sold, and by will left the use of his real and personal estate to his widow during her life. Together they made several toui's of visitation to the quarterly meetings belonging to the section where they lived, and, as public Friends, were highly esteemed in the society. After a somewhat pro- tracted illness he died June 19, 1874:, at his home in Ledyard and was buried in Friends' burying ground there. After his death she continued to live upon the farm, and, as health and opportunity permitted, engaged in doing good to the needy until, in the effort, her own health and strength gave way, and she died, in a bright hope of a joyful meeting with parents and loved ones in heaven, on Sept. 7, 1883, aged nearly seventy-two years, and was buried in Friends' burying ground at Ledyard, where a plain stone marks the place. She never had any children. 4,810 iv. William Leason Boughton, b. Clinton, N. Y., August 27, 1814. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Friends' boarding school at Nine Partnei-s, after which he lived with his parents and learned the tailor's trade with his father, but in the latter part of his minority devoted his time to farming, and in April, 1S31, on the removal of his parents from Washington, Dutchess county, to Victory, Cayuga county, N. Y., he being nearly twenty years old, • drove his father's team, with a load of goods, from Washington to Victory, a distance of about four hundred miles. To his energy and ability the suc- cess of the few years followmg this removal was largely due. Uncleared lands lying useless were to be brought under cultivation, the sturdy forest trees to be converted into lumber, and a new dwelling to be erected — ^all of which was accomplished before the 464 BouTON-BouGHTON Familt. end of three years, and largely the result of his per- sonal efforts. November 14, 1838, he married Diana Ann Morton (daughter of Rev. Otis and Nancy Gibhs Morton), from Hubbardtown, Vt., where she was born Jan. 17, 1823. They settled at Victory and farmed his father's land and taught school during the winter at Conquest and at near Clyde in Wayne county, N. Y. In 1845 they moved to New York city, where he worked as cutter in clothing stores, and in 1848 moved his family to Milwaukee, Wis., where he went to take charge of a clothing store for (his brother) Boughton & Knapp. The climate of Milwaukee not seeming to agree with her, she made a visit to her cousin, Mrs. Davis, on Cal well's Prairie, where soon after she died June 27, 1 850, and was buried in the cemetery two miles west of Waterford, Wis., where a marble tablet bears the following inscription: Sacred to the Memory OF DIANA ANN BOrjOHTON, Wife of William Bouohton, Who Died June 27. 1850. • After her death he returned to New York city to engage in his former occupation, and on July 4, 1851, he married second, widow Maria Ann Rockwell, and settled in New York city, and subsequently moved to Brooklyn, where they continued to live untU spring of 1857, when owing to the depression of business in New York city they moved to Ashkum, Iroquois county, 111. The climate proved unhealthy and after some weeks of malaria fever she died Dec. 11, 1857, and was buried a quarter of a mile west of Ashkum depot at a place selected for a burying ground. The following spring, March, 1858, he returned to New York city, where on the 15th of August, 1860, he married third, Mary Eliza Goodell (dau. of Joseph and Melinda Goodell), formerly of Waterford, N. Y., where she was born Oct. 7, 1832. They settled on a farm near New Brunswick, N. J., moving the follow- ing year to Newark, and subsequently sold the Newark property and bought at Bncksburgh, N. J., BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. 465 where they lived and carried on the clothing business for several years; moved to Mt. Kisco, N. Y., and again returned to New York city and worked at cutting clothing at Elfelt & Levy's, his family residing at Asbury Park and Bricksburgh (now Lakewood), where they were living in autumn of 1886. He being at the time on a visit at his daughter's, Helen A. Rice, at Waterford, Racine county, Wisconsin. He moved subsequently to Trenton, N. J., where they were living, 1889. Children of William and Diana Ann Morton Bonghton. 4810 4,811 i. Charles Augustus Boughton (son of William and Diana Ann Boughton), born Victory, Cayuga county, N. Y., July 18, 1841, moved to Illinois with his parents, where he lived until the call of the government for volunteers for the army to put down the southern rebellion, when he went to Camp Douglas near Chicago, HI., and enlisted in the 42d Regiment Illinois Vols., Col. Roberts' 20th Army Corps. He served in Tennessee under Gen. Rosecrans, and was assigned to the duty of carrying the mail from the base to the front, often through perilous routes infested by the enemy. Was seized with camp fever and sent to hospital at St. Louis, where after suffi- cient recovery to leave was discharged and sent home unfit for the service, with constitution so much impaired as never to have fully recovered. On his return to Chicago he*^ married Nov. 8, 1864, Sarah Aurora Field (dau. of Seargent and Sarah Field), formerly of Peacham, Vt., where she was bom Jan. 7, 1842; settled in Chicago, and in 1870 moved to Williamsburgh, Kansas, where he pur- chased a farm, but owing to the grasshopper plague, which continued until his means were nearly ex- hausted, he returned to Chicago, Dl., and embarked in the restaurant business, which prospered for a time and then again he found himself witnout means and moved his family to Cayuga county, N. Y., where at Levana, on the Cayujgalake, they resided, 1889. He embarked a second time in the restaurant business at Auburn, N. Y., in 1889, in company with his brother, William E. Boughton. Children of Charles A. and Sarah A. Field Bonghton. 4811 4,312 i. Annie Luella Boughton, b. Waterford, Wis., Aug. 6, 1865, at home unmairied, 1889. 30 466 BouTON-BouGHTON Familt. 4,313 ii. Charles Herbert Boughton, b. Chicago, HI., May 11, 1861*. 4,311 iii. Helen Eliza Boughton, b. Williamsburgh, Kan., Feb. 29, 1872, at school at Shiwoods, 1889. 4,315 iv. Edna Aurora Boughton, b. Williamsburgh, Kan., Dec. 3, 1874, and d. March 22, 1875. 4,3L6 V. Clifford Leroy Boughton, b. Chicago, DL, Dec. 22, 1879. 4.317 ii. Helen Amelia Boughton (dau. of William and Diana A. Boughton), bom Clyde, Wayne county, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1844. After the death of her mother she lived for a time in Brooklyn, wherein May, 1863, she was baptized into the First Baptist church, and 1865 went to i-eside with the relatives of her mother at Waterford, Wis., wherein 1866, April 11, she married John T. Rice (son of Ira and A. Caldwell Rice), of Waterford, Wis., where he was bom May 24, 1839. He was brought up on his father's farm near Waterford, and at the call of his country he enlisted in the 15th Regiment Wisconsin Volun- teers, was commissioned, and went with his regi- ment and participated in the battles of Island iTo. 10, Stone River, Murphreesboro, Pittsburgh Landing, Chicahominy and Atlanta. After the war he pur- chased a large tract of land in Kansas and returned to Waterford, Wis., where he engaged in farming. He was elected in the fall of 1884 to the state legisla- ture of Wisconsin, having previously held several important offices in Racine county, Wis. He built a good dwelling on his farm near Waterford, Wis., where he resided in the autumn of 1889. Children of John T. and Helen A. Bougrhton Bice. 4817 4.318 i. Nettie Mabel Rice, b. Waterford, Wis., March 3, 1867; living at Waterford with parents spring of 1889. 4.319 ii. EnrrH Estelle Rice, b. Waterford, Sept. 19, 1868. 4.320 iii. Coka Heijen Rice, b. Waterford, April 2, 1872. 4.321 iv. Evelyn Belle Rice, b. Waterford, Nov. 6, 1876. Children of William L. and Mary £. Goodell Bon^liton. 4811