Norwalk

Hooker St. John, born Apr. 8, 1782, died aged sixteen, Sept. 2. 1798. Susanna St. John Airs. Eliphalet Lockwood) was the oldest child of Capt. Joseph St. John. iJ- who was a son of Joseph'-'- and Sarah (Bettsi St. John, which Joseph'*"- was son of Mark and Elizabeth 1 Stanley: St John, which Mark was son of Matthias St. John, the settler. Mrs. Joseph St John, born Sept. 3. 1709, (the mother of Mrs. Eliphalet Lockwood) 'Benj. lien-, Jr., bom Nov. 7, 17;;, was a <ou „( father of Bern'. Jr., (James.) gave to his father, Belt}. ISenj.'-i. and tteberca (Taylor) Belts, and a srrandson Bells1-'- the house and lot on the Wilton road where of Jame- and Hannah fltouton) B.-it-. and trn-at the family lived (opposite the Lambert plate). jrratKta.il of I'll .-. Beit-, (lie settler. l'hi- -rand- -•Daughter of Rev. Azel Roe. I). 1). N O R W A L K 293 was the daughter of Nathan and Susanna (Hooker) Selleck. Xathan Selleck, born Sept. 12, 1786, was the oldest child of Jonathan and Abigail iGold] Selleck, and his wife, Su- sanna, baptized June 8, 1690, was the only child of William Hooker, of Farmington, Conn. As William Hooker was the son (third) of Rev. Samuel (and Marv Swanzev) Hooker, who was the son of Rev. Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford, it follows that all of Eliphalet and Susanna Lockwood's descendants are of Thomas Hooker blood. These same Lockwood descendants are also of the blood of .Major Xathan Gold, of Fair- field, and of Hon. Richard Law, of Stamford. Hooker, Law and Gold is one of the strongest family combinations in New England. William, the oldest son of Eliphalet and Susanna Lockwood, married, Dec. 31, 1796, Hannah, born June 26, 1776, daughter of James and Sarah (Weed) Selleck, of Nor- walk. James Selleck, born 1742, was the eighth son of David and Mercie (Waterbury) Selleck. David Selleck, born Dec. 23, 1700, was the oldest child of Nathaniel and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, of Stamford. He was married, Jan. 3, 1723, to Mercie, born Jan. 27, [706, daughter of Lieut. David and Sarah (Weedi Waterbury, which David and Sarah were married (Lieutenant Waterbury's second marriage) Aug. 11, 1698. David Selleck's mother is supposed to have been the daughter of Jonathan Lockwood, of Stamford, which Jonathan w as a brother of Ephraim Lockwood, lst- of Norwalk. The children of William and Hannah Lockwood were : William Selleck, born Oct. 1, 1797. Hooker, born April 2, i8or, died July 5, 1801. Susanna, born May 31, 1803, (Mrs. George St. John). Charlotte S., born Dec. 29, 1805, (Mrs, Leonard Bradley). William Lockwood died Jan. 17, 1843. His son, William S., one of Norwalk's staunchest and most excellent sons, married Oct. 26, 1831, Catherine, born Dec. 17, 1807, daughter of William and Catherine (King) Haw ley, of Ridgefield, and had : Jane Elizabeth, born July 20, 1839.' (Mrs. Henry E. Haw-ley, married Feb. 12, 1862.) William Augustus, (M.D.) born March 26, 1 841. 2 •Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Win. S. and Cather- ine (Ilawlev) Lockwood, married February 12, 1862, Henry E., son of Irad and Sarah (Holmes) Hawley, and had : Elizabeth, born Jan. 25. 1865, (died • oung '. Edith Judson, born September 7, 1866, (Mrs. Coleman Williams). Sarah, born October 15, 1868, (Mrs. T. Halsted Myers). Henrietta Eugenia, born May 19, 1881. Edith Judson, daughter of Henrv E. and Jane Elizabeth Hawley, was married Jan. 24, 1894, to Cole- man W illiams, and had Sarah, born Feb. 5, 1895; Edith, born May 4, 1S07, and Coleman Hawley, born March 31, 1898. Sarah, daughter of Henry E. and Jane Elizabeth Hawley, married October 6, 1897, T. Halsted Myers. Her sister, Henrietta Eugenia, is unmarried. AVilliam Augustus, M.D., son of William S. and Catherine (ilawlev) Lockwood, married Nov. 12th, 186S, Frances Isaacs, born July 18, 1846, daughter of Frederick and Ann Terrell (Isaacs) St. John, and bad Arthur, who died voting, and Frederick St. John, born October 30, r869, who married, June 26, 1897, Minnie Apell,of New York. Mrs. Dr. Win. Augustus Lock wood died March 8, 1882. 294 NOR WALK. Charles Edward, (M.D.) born Dec. 31, 1842.' Arthur Hawley, born Jul)- 17, 1844 '{died young). Hannah Selleck, born Feb. 9, 1846, (Mrs. George B. St. John).' Henry Buckingham,3 born Aug. r, 1S47. William S Lockwood died July 27. 18X6. and his wife died Oct. 30, 1873. Susanna, daughter of William and Hannah Lockwood, married, as his first wife, Feb. 14, 1826, George, born Aug. 1, 1803, son of Stephen Buckingham and Sarah iCan- non) St. John, and had : Susanna L.. born Feb. 2, 1827. Charlotte Bradley, born Aug. 21, 182H. lined AaR. 1, 1832. 1 (Died Aug. 17, 1X32.) George Buckingham, born Sept. 14, 1832. The first Mrs. George St. John died September 23, 1832, and her husband married, second, March 6, 1834, Mary Lockwood DeForest, 4 daughter of William DeForest, of Fairfield, now Bridgeport, (see page 279) and had : Sarah Cannon, born Oct. 22, 1836. Man' Amelia, born June 25, 1840. 'Charles Edward, M.D., son of William S. and ' rently been graded liv tin- Wm. B. E. Lockwood fam- Catherine (Haw-lev) Lockwood, married February 12, . ity, was known as long ago as Feb. 26, 1725, liv the 1867, F. Leila, daughter of Commodore Edward and I name of Lockwood's Hill." The handsome preen • Esther M. Shubrick, and had Minnie Shubrick, born sward which fronts the 1S96 substantial stone dwell- Nuv. 16, 1S67. This daughter, Minnie or Mary Shu- ing of Col. Frederick St. John Lockwood was tile brick Lockw ood, married Eve: slev, son of Wilt. Henry purchase (£60) Oct. 7, 17 IS, from John BolHon bv the Harrison and Maria (Eversley ) Childs, and had : uncle (Samuel Cluckstone) of Mrs. John Cannon, nu- Dorothy Shubrick, born Aug. 4, 1891. from which uncle the properly fell to Mis. Cannon, Everslev. born Fell. 3, 1893. upon which her husband (of Lockwood family asso- William Henry Harrison, born Dec. 24, 1S94. ciatioll) erected Norwalk's first Cannon home, and on ■Mr and Mrs. Geo. B. St. John reside in the re- which stands also to-day a section of the heavy tim- markablv preserved home of Mrs. St. John's father bcred barn which the son {Samuel) of Mrs. John Can- (the late William S Luckwootlj, corner of Knight non (Esther Perry, see page 13) originally built at Street and \orlh Avenue. This house, the picture, the summit of '• Mill Hill," and which Col. B ticking, inside and 0111, of peace, was built in 1809. It is one ham St. John Lockwood removed to Fast Avenue, of the three Lockwood brothers' (Eliphalct, William where, a half century ago, it was known as "the old and Buckingham Si. John) home sites of the early red barn," the generous "bays" of which packed part of the closing century. The deep ground-, now with sweetly-scented fresh cut hay, sport-tempted, for a larger part, an emerald lawn, were hastily summers quite agonc, the Troy, Cannon and Warren passed on Sunday morning, July 11, 1779, by a detach- young blood. Joseph St. John, the ancestor of all of ment of either Tryon's or Garth's men who, when Elipbalet Lockwood'sJJ. line, serenely lived where they reached the spot, chanced to see a serving man now bloom the Earle flower beds on Earle's Hill, and at the well of the afterward Eliphalet Lockwood,3<l. although none of his lineage have any claim to-Uay to and now the Wm. B. E. Lockwood home. At once a the spot (so valuable that the lot adjoining it sold, a sol<lier(perhaps more than onejaimed and fired, but the , half-century before the Revolution, for £300), slill it colored employee dodged quickly and escaped harm. is a curious coincidence that the family coat of arms Mr. and Mrs. St. John, the present occupants of the 1 was, only a few years since, accidently found buried ancestral William and William s. Lockwood hei i- i beneath the ancient Joseph St. John home-hearth soil, lage, enjoy the old memories of the place, and take, I thus, as it were, silently attesting to its early propri- amid its many endearing associations, true comfort. ctoiship. Their premises and neighborhood are old Lockwood j Mlenry Buckingham, son of Wm. S. and Cather- ground. The long, ancient and modern Lockwood- ine (lluwlev) Lockwood, married November 10, 1880, tenure of Norwalk properly is s,„„ewhat remarkable. Helen Louise Muffin, No children. A portion of the Ka-t Avenue ele* ation which has rt.. .She was first cousin of Mrs. Roger Sherman Skin- NORWALK 295 Charles, born June 29, 1838. Leonard, born June 28, 1S42. Marcus DeForest, born May 21, 1845. The children all died young. Their father died Jan. 4, 1852, and their mother died Sept. 23, 1832. The Norwalk Lockwood-King descent is from Gen. Joshua King, born in Braintree, Mass., Nov., 24, 1758, who entered the army as a youth when the war of the Revolution broke out, and served through the war in Col. Elisha Sheldon's Dragoons. Col. Sheldon's headquarters were at one time in Lower Salem. With the Oblong country and its Con- necticut vicinity Sheldon and King were familiar, and at the time of Major Andre's Salem- durance Lieut. King was in command of the distinguished prisoner. He married Anne, born April 5, 1765, daughter of Rev. Jonathan and Dorcas (Moss) Ingersoll, of Ridge- field. The mother of Mrs. Gen. King was a sister of Abigail Moss (Mrs. Rev. Elisha Kent) and aunt of Moss Kent, who was the father of Chancellor James Kent. The child- ren of Gen. King were Catherine (Mrs. William Hawley, whose daughter, Catherine, mar- ried William S. Lockwood, of Norwalk); Frances; Sophia; John Francis; Rufus How- ard (the father of J. Howard King of 1896) ; Ann Maria; Charles Clark; Joshua Inger- soll; Mary Ann; Grace. Gen. Joshua King died Aug. 13, 1839, and his wife nine years previous, Dec. 30, 1830. The Kings and Hawleys have been generous abettors of the fortune and fame of the New England cradle of their ancestors, sightly Ridgefield. The homes, in that goodly town, of the present generation of both families are imposing and inviting abodes and calculated to long preserve the King and Hawley names. ner, (see note page 280) who was the mother of ttie .Sherman had, hv sev eral hours, anticipated her valued