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Joseph,1"' son of Ephraim Lockwood, the settler, had, as has been previously noted, one of the ample and arable home properties of ancient times. It embraced the entire south front on the present YVestport road from the Cameron corner (N. E. corner of New- town Avenue and the YVestport road) to the Fairfield County Children's Home, and the lot extended north quite towards the North Centre School house of to-day. The early Lockvvoods made sage lands-choice, and some of the later members of the family have acted as wisely. The fine W. B. E. Lockwood North Avenue and France Street home, garden and meadow grounds is convincing proof of the statement. On the prominent Newtown Avenue site, now occupied by the old Cameron building, was, it is probable, born, Joseph, "'■ son of Joseph1"1- and Mary Wood Lockwood. His Norwalk father and Stamford mother brought up the lad to diligence and until he became of age to choose a wife, whom he found in Huntington, Long Island. The young Joseph2d- was obliged to make a home for himself as his father's house fell to his (Joseph Lockwood211-) brother Isaac, and from Isaac it went to Isaac's soldier son, Hezekiah (see note page 291). Jos- eph2d- consequently went to "Sticky Plain," since " Pudding Lane," now Main Street, and was the owner of a" large slice of that level and well laying land, through a portion of which the Centre Avenue of 1896 has been cut. Joseph*1- and his Rogers wife had ten children, the oldest of whom Ebenezer,' married May 22, 1776, Mary, baptized Aug. 20, 175S, daughter of Lieutenant Nathan and Martha2 (Couch) Godfrey, of Fairfield, and had twelve children, the oldest of whom, Benjamin, born Sept. 18, 1777, married Feb. 9, 1803, Elizabeth, daughter of Jarvis and Hannah (Meeker) Kellogg, and' had five children, the youngest of whom, LeGrand, (see page 188 and note page 213) born Aug. 14, 1820, mar- ried Anna Louisa, born Aug. 17, 1823, daughter of Seth YVilliston and Fanny (Benedict) Benedict, which Seth W. Benedict, a lineal descendant of Thomas, founder and father of all the Benedicts of this town, was a Norwalk and New York City resident of intelli- gence, integrity and influence. He was at one time proprietor of the old and honored Xarwalk Gazette, and his ancestral home, which it was his pleasure often to visit, and which his Lockwood son-in-law elected for the erection of his elegant country seat (see page 213) holds his name in esteem. There were three other own brothers (Samuel, Abraham and Charles) of Rev. William Jarvis and Iris four sisters. 'Sarah, sister of Ebenezer Lockwood, married Ozias,'-'. (Capt.) born Jan. 29, 1737, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Clark) Marvin. Mrs. Ozias Marvin""- was a daughter of Geo. and Deborah (Gold) Clark. Deborah Gold was a daughter of Nathan Gold, of (-airfield. She married Ensign Geo., son of Geo.'st. and Mar, Clark, of Millord, 1639. Matthew Marvin was tile son of Samuel, who was the son of Mat. thew,»d. who was the son of Matthew Marvin, the set- tler. Joseph Lockwood Marvin, born Dec. 31, 1772, was the son of Capt. Ozias and Sarah (Lockwood) Marvin. His son William, born Nov. 20, 1804, (see page 152) was the father of Josiah R. and William E. Marvin, of East Norwalk^ 1896. 2This mother-in-law of Ebenezer Lockwood and grandmother of Legrand Lockwood, of Norwalk, died May 31, 1 yfi : , and her husband married, second, the N O R VV ALK. 313 From "A Brief Book of Family Chronicles" issued by intimate friends in honor of the silver anniversary' of the Lockwood-Benedict nuptials, June 9, 1S67, extract is here made: "At the head of the column of days sacred in the family register stands the ninth of June, A.D., 1842, when LeGrand Lockwood and Ann Louisa Benedict. both of the City of New York, and aged, respectively, twenty-two and nineteen years, were, by Rev. George B. Cheever, solemnly joined in marriage. " During the quarter of a century which followed eight children, of whom six were sons and two were daughters, were born to them, blessing and hallowing these nuptial ties. k " LeGrand, Jr., was born January 5, 1844. Williston Benedict, born March 19, 1846. Roswell Kbenezer, born August 31, 1847. Henry Benedict, born April 23, 1852. Arthur Augustus, born January 6, 1856. Anna Louise, born June 21, 1858. Florence Isabel, born February 23. i860. Edwin Eugene, born October 23, 1862. Roswell Ebenezer, died May 6, 1849. Anna Louise, died November 12, 1858." Mr. and Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood were of old Norwalk stock. They were gener- ous almoners of this world's goods, were of noble natures and their Norwalk home, which both of them adorned, was of finished elegance. LeGrand, Jr., son of LeGrand and Ann Louisa Lockwood, married May 10, 1865, Kate Havens, daughter of Rev. Samuel B. S. and Frances M. (Havens) Bissell, and had: Fanny Havens, born Dec. 31, 1867. [Died Feb. 20, 1875.) Katherine Bissell, born July 5, 1872. Louise Benedict, born Oct. 31, 1873. Hilda LeGrand, born Oct. 29, 1 881. widow Sarah Nash, whose daughter Sarah N'ash, born Jan. 17, 175,5, was the great-grandmother of Maj. Gen. Darius Nash Couch, of Norwalk, 1S96. 'The Rev. Curtis Trowbridge Woodruff, an at- tached friend of the Lockwoods, was actively inter- ested in this handsome celebration. 3 '4 NORWALK. LeGrand Lockwood, Jr., died in New York City. April I, 1887. Williston Benedict, son of LeGrand and Ann Louisa Lockwood, married October, 1869, Janet Isabel, daughter of Jas. Wm. and Mar}- Day (Wells) Dominick,' and had : Louise, born Aug. 15, 1870, (Mrs. Aldred Warren). Bertha Day, born Feb. 1 8, 1872. Isabel Dominick. Henry Benedict, son of LeGrand1"- and Ann Louisa Lockwood, married Aug. 17, 1885, Rosa Cooper, daughter of J. P. and Emily (Gray) McCay, of Baltimore, and had: Violet, born Jan. 2. 1887. Edwin Lockwood, uncle of LeGrand and son of Ebenczer and Mary (Godfrey) Lockwood, born Sept. 8, 1799, was a genial gentleman. He married, first, Oct. 22, 1829, Emily Ives, of New Haven, and had Emily Ives, born Oct. 12. 1830, who only passed eleven summers. Mr. Lockwood married, second, August 2, 1832, Emily, daughter of Henry and Eleanor (Burr) Olmstead, of Ridgefield, and had : Elizabeth A., born April 29, 1833. Ebenezer, born Nov. 23, 1837. (Died Feb. 27, (Died Jan. 26, 1S57.) Edwin F.. born June [4, [834. Charles Edwin, born June I, 1 84 1. (Died March 7. 1838.) (Married Marv Amelia Smith.) Eliza J., born Dec. 12, 1836. Ellen E. born Aug. 5, 1846. (Died June 17, 1838.) (Died Nov. 28, 18+7.) Elvira, born March 17, 1849. (I)icd Feb- ** l858-' The second Mrs. Edwin Lockwood's (Emily Olmstead I admirable nature and man- ners endeared her to a large circle of relatives and friends. 'The Doniinicks were formerly Norwalk visitors, extensive Saratoga County property and summer as were also branches of the Corning and Delavan home, a startling shout arose from a company of families. The first were New Yorkers, the last two j school boys (a grandson of LeGrand Cannon was one were of Albany association. Mr. Williston B. Lock- of the number) there bathing, " Jimmie Perry is miss- wood here met bis Dominick bride. Edward Corn- I ing." In a moment the aged man watt waist deep in who spent a brief portion of his childhood in | water and a second afterward was diving beneath the surface. Rising to the level he held aloft the lad's stiffened form and, exhausted, left to another to com- plete the heroic deed and bear the rigid body to the lake-bank where, after almost herculean efforts, the youth was restored. Mr. Delavan had walked across his rolling acres to show a Norwalk party the roman- tic spot when the depicted scene occurred. He was Norwalk, married a Dominick. Himself and a son of (tin, \V lietts (George) were brothers-in-law. The s,.n> of Edward C. Delavan, John S. and William M., are fondly Norwalk-remembered. William M. died young and John S. (M.D.) in early life. Words in- adequately portray the grand qualities of these roval- natured brothers. With their sister Marv (Mrs. Al- bion Ransom, deceased), one of the best of women, I one of God's noblemen. His second wife was Mi' tin y were children, bv his first marriage, of the emin- I Harriet Schuvler, of liallston, N . Y., by whom he ent philanthropist, Edward C. Delavan. Delavan is had one daughter. His son-in-law, Albion Ransom, a household Albany name and a lofty Albany mem- (Ransom & Co., Albany,) was the uncle of lliewifeof ory. Edward C. Delavan spent his life and employed | the Rev. Richard P. H Vail, D. D., pastor, in 1896, of his large wealth for the benefit of his fellow men. He \ the Stamford Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. Vail, was a humanitarian nut alone in profession but in I the Delavan bovs, LeGrand C. Cramer and the rescued practical performance. Standing, May 27, 1854, on 1 voting Pcrrv (son of lion. Amos S. Perrv, of Park the edge of Ballston Lake, which was bordered bv his Place, Triiv, N. Y.,) were former school mates. NORWALK. 3'5 Charles Edwin, son of Edwin and Emily (Olmstead) Lockwood, married July i, 1875, Mary Amelia, only daughter of George W. and Emily (Gregory) Smith. There are no children by this union. LOCK WOOD-BO ALT DESCENDANTS. LOCKWOOD. Gen. I. — Ephraim and Mkrcte (St. John) Lockwood. II.— Joseph161- and Mary (Wood) Lockwood. " III.— Joseph"1- and Rebecca (Rogers) Lockwood. IV.— David and Martha (widow Trowbridge) Lockwood. V.— Ruth Lockwood, born Jan. 9, 1780. boalt. Gen. I. — John,s1- and Elizabeth (Clemence) Boalt. II. — Richard Boai/iV"1- born April 30, 1696. III. — David, b. March 31, 1740, and Sarah (Mott or de la Mott) Boalt. IV. — John and Ruth (Lockwood) Boalt. The generation-difference, numerical-wise, between the Lockwood and Boalt de- scendants is accounted for from the fact of the latter family's fifty years later Norwalk ar- rival than the family of the Lockwoods.