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wife of Timothy ! >w;g::t. D.D., LL.I)., the present ] ministrations. able head of Yale University. Mrs. Roger M. Sher- "O the men and O the manners," pulpit-ejacu- man, whose husband's uncle's (Hon. Roger Sherman) lated an aged Norwalk pastor, when putting the fact name Mr. Skinner bore, was one of the accomplished of the sirnplicitv-truthfulness of gone generations women of her day and was character-charming as : against tendencies of the opposite sort in latter times, well as culture-conspicuous. Her Norwalk stay was Modern modes to such an extent obtain that it is per- briel but her Fairfield sojourn was example-profitable haps impossible at the present day to deservedly ap- as long (forty one years) as she there remained. Her predate the commendable side of the fathers' strict ob- virtues and those of Iter New Canaan brother-in-law servance of the first day of the week. To older New (Rev. Justus Mitchell) are to-day re-called (see page England piety Sunday was not wearisome nor its holy 200). She was of uncommon literary taste and when duties irksome. Ushered in by Saturday evening's compelled, through infirmity, to herself forego the prelude-calm the sacred tide was so restfully and re- pleasure of reading she delighted to listen to anoth- freshingly potential that when the Lord's day light er's voice kindly and gladly employed in her favor, j faded on Sunday night the old hymn, running sub- On one occasion — it was Saturday afternoon — her in- stantiallv: terest in the Subject, to the recital of which she had Increase, O Lord, o„r f„kh; increase our hope, been an eager auditor, was so intense that she dwelt Ami fit us to ascend upon her Friend's tones as long as the sun's ravs were Where congregations ne'er break up, visible. When the orb of day sunk to sleep, how- And Sabbaths ne'er shall end, ever, her Sunday began, and so directing her neigh- summed up not alone the fathers' and mothers' prec- bor to close and lay away the volume, come again, I ious Sunday services but was the language of their she asked, when the Sabbath shall have past. Her I emotions also at the going out of the privileged friend was on hand on Monday morning, but Mrs. ! twenty-four hours. NOR WALK. The Norwalk Lock wood- Hawley descent is from Rev. Thomas and Abigail (Goldi Hau ler, of Ridgefield. Rev Thomas Hawley, born Sept. 29, 1689, son of Capt. Joseph and Lydia (Marshall) Hawley, of Roxbury, Mass., married, 1711. Abigail, daughter, of Deputy Gov. Nathan and Hannah (Talcott) Gold, of Fairfield, and had Ezekiel ; Jos- eph; Abigail (Mrs. Peter Lockwood, of Norwalk); Elijah; Dorothy; Thomas; Nathan; Lydia (Mrs. Nathan Beers, of Norwalk); Hannah (Mrs. Nathaniel Benedict, of Norwalki, and Ebenezer. It is interesting to note that three of Rev. Thomas Hawley s four daugh- ters married in Norwalk. William Hawley, born March 20, 1735, who married Catherine King father and mother of Mrs. William S. Lockwood, of Norwalki, was the son of Thomas and Kejiah iScribneri Hawley, which Thomas, born Feb. 28, 1756, was the son of Capt. Thomas and Elizabeth (Goldi Hawley. which Capt. Thomas, born Feb. 20, 1721-2, was the sixth child and fourth son of Rev. Thomas and Abigail Hawley. Capt. Thomas and Elizabeth Hawley were married Jan. 13, 1747-8. Mrs. Capt. Hawley was the daugh- ter of John and Joanna (Hawley) Gold. John Gold, father of Mrs. Capt. Hawley, was a son of Deputy Gov. Nathan and Hannah [ Talcott) Gold, of Fairfield. His wife, Joanna Hawley, was a daughter of (probably) Thomas Hawley, of Stratford. Mrs. Capt. Haw- ley's sister, Sarah, married David, son of Gideon and Ann (Burr) Allen, of Fairfield. Ann Burr was a daughter of Nathaniel, who was son of the first of the Fairfield Burr familv, viz.. Jehu. The children of William and Catherine 'King) Hawley were Catherine (Mrs. Win. S. Lockwood, of Norwalk); Jane; William King; Elizabeth; Mary Ann; Grace Ingersoll; Elijah Scribner ; Margaret; Charles Henry ; Henry Augustus and Frances X. Stephen Buckingham St. John, born Oct. 3. 1779, was the second son of William1 and Mary Esther (Beldeni St. John and the brother of Polly (or Mary l Esther St. John, who married Buckingham St. John Lockwood. His first wife, whom he married Feb. 14, 1S01, was Sarah, bom Oct. 22. 1780. daughter of John and Sarah iSt. John I Cannon. 'William St. John, horn 1744, died Feb. 1, tSao, : (subsequently bishop J Kemper, of rile Northwest, was the fourth child and third s„n of Capt. Joseph 'a. i •' loved, after his Norwalk Church Bervices on Sunday and Susanna St. John. His sister Susanna was the " ere over, to visit and converse with old Mrs. Win. St. mother of Col. Buckingham St. John Lockwood and Ill's brothers were Stephen (Co).), Hooker, who died at the age of forty, and Buckingham, a Yale tutor, John,'' whom the providence of God debarred from attendance upon public worship. She was an excel- lent woman, and is well remembered to da v. Her who was drowned May 5, 1771, while tailing! from gl andfather was John Bartlett, but as her mother was New Haven to Norwalk. Mrs. William Si. John was I a child by Mr. Bartlett's second marriage she was not Mary Esther, daughter of John and Rebecca (Hart- of William Havnes descent (the firs; Mrs. John Bart- lett) Bclden. The two lived in the meadow home— I lett was a daughter of Mr. Havnes). Her Helden formerly Ralph Isaacs'— the site of which is now hi- | brothers were Isaac, Amos, John "and Henry, and her sected by Morgan Avenue. This home was burned by sister Sarah married Samuel, father of LeGrand Can- Tryon on July It, 1779. and Mr. Lockwood rebuilt on lion. This was vigorous blood. John Kelden's voice the N. E. corner ( 1896) of East and Morgan Avenues. Mr. Lockwood was a Congregational)*-! and his wife a Church of England woman, she overlived, by many years, her husband, and at the close of life was invalid. "My father." writes Mrs. Elizabeth as he called to his men or others from his grounds (opposite St. Mary's Church on West Avenue of 1896) was distinctly heard on the east side of the river. Mrs. St. John lived to nearly one hundred t ars of age, and she was the grandmother of well Adains, of Wisconsin, „,-, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. known Norwalk son- and daughter NORWALK. 297 John Cannon (Dr.), born July 7, 1752, was son of JohnIst (Commodore) and Esther (Perry) Cannon (see note page 13). Sarah, his wife, was a daughter of Col. Stephen and Ann (Fitch) St. John. The first Mrs. Stephen Buckingham St. John died April 14, 1808, leav- ing an only child George (Deacon George), and her husband married, second, May 21 1 181 1, Charlotte, born May 26, 1784, daughter of David and Sarah (Isaacs) Bush, of Green- wich, and had : Elizabeth, born June 30, 1814, (Mrs. James A. Hoyt). In the house which William and Mary Esther St. John occupied before was built their permanent house (on the lot, now vacant, first south of the Jas. H. Bai- ley residence, south end of Norwalk Green) was born June 4, 1741, Ralph, youngest son of Ralph'st. and Mary (Rumsey) Isaacs. Ralph2'1- left Norwalk and established himself on "Cherry Hill," in the town of Branford. He was a Yale man, class of 1761, who, soon after quitting college married Mary, daughter of Peter and Abigail Peril, of Milford, and had seven children. One of his daughters, Grace, named for iiis Norwalk sister, Mrs. Luke Babcock, married Jon- athan Ingersoll, LL.l)., of New Haven, the third child of Rev. Jonathan and Dorcas Ingersoll, of Ridgefield, and the brother of Mrs. General Joshua King, of the same town, who was the grandmother of Mrs. William S. Lockwood, of Norwalk. Dr. Jon- athan and Grace (Isaacs) Ingersoll had a daughter, Grace, concerning which Norwalk - descended lady, S. G. Goodrich (Peter Parley), thus writes: "Grace Ingersoll; how beautiful the name, how suggestive of what she was in mind, in person, in character! On a certain occasion, Grace, who was a companion of my older sister's, came to our house. I imagine she did not see or notice me. Certainly she did not discover in the shy boy in the corner her future biographer. She was tall and slender, yet fully rounded, with rich, dark hair, and large Spanish eyes — now seemingly blue and now black, and chang- ing with the objects on which she looked, or the play of emotions within her breast. In complexion she was a brunette, yet with a melting glow in her cheek, as if she had stolen from the sun the generous hues which are reserved for the finest fruits and flowers. Her beauty was in fact so striking — at once so superb and so conciliating — that I was both awed and fascin- ated by her. Wherever she went I followed, though keeping at a distance, and never losing sight of her. She spent the afternoon at our house, and then de- parted and I saw her no more. "It was not long after this that a Frenchman by the name of Grellet, who had come to America on some important commercial affairs, chanced to be at New York,, and there saw Grace Ingersoll. Such beauty as that of the New Haven belle is rare in any country; it is never indigenous in France. Even if such could be born there, the imperious force of con-