Norwalk

There was a broad open space in Mr. Ouintard's das' on the south side of Marshall Street. Absalom Hay built a pottery not far from the east end of said street, and just south of the present Consolidated tracks. James Ouintard3"1 son of James-11'!, resided where now stands the residence of E. A. Woodward, and his dwelling was one of the fine modelled homes of that day. Opposite this house (Pardee residence of ls'jii) lived the father of the late Coold Benedict, for so many years the faithful Smith Norwalk station agent of the Consolidated road. James Ouintard3"! was c«jsn,i>ctl in the pottery business onthe site of the ls'JU Hatch, Bailey cc Co. establishment, hav.r.e Henry Chichester1 st as a partner. •H<":!v.\ son of John Taylor of Ridgebury, Conn., married Rebecca, daughter of James Ouin- tard-1''!, and had : Adeline Sobra, Mrs. George W. Merrian; Frances Louise, died in infancy ; William Starr, born May 2x, I.x2<>, of I'tica, New York ; Sarah Louisa, died young; James Najah; Julia Augusta, born ls.'io, died young; Julia Bellamy, Mrs. Sylvester Van Hoosear; Georgiana \\\, unmarried ; Rebecca W., unmarried. James Najah Taylor married Nannie Hobhie. After Mr. Taylor's decease the widow married, as his second w ife, Charles Olmstead, formerly postmaster of Norwalk. Sylvester Van Hoosear was a recent active merchant ot Norwalk (firm of Van Hoosear & Ambler). He was the son of David and Parmelia (Griimman) Van Hoosear of Wilton, Conn. He died ! ictober '.!'.., 1SS4-, leaving no children. -Orestes P Ouintard married April 20, L*W, Jane M. Bennett, and removed from Norwalk. :iThe children of Samuel D. Smith were Howard D. and Mary Ouintard. •The children of George and Sarah D. Selleck were Lottie Virginia, born June 5, 1S.".4 (Mrs. Wil- liam Moore), and Elizabeth Lucretia (unmarried). 5The children of James A. and Eunice B. Quin- tard were Harriet Virginia, born May 1!>, 1x36 (Mrs. George Mead), Oliver Perry, born October 20, IKS* (died young), Yannctta, born June 26, 1x52 (unmar- ried). NORWAL K>. 4^3 Francis E., sou of James QuintardsrJ, married, October 20, 1844, Ann M. Joeelyu, and had: Marj' Estelle, born July 21, 1847 (Mrs. Francis Burritt) ; Anna Maria, born November 23, 1849 (Mrs. Clarence L. Wheeler). Peter Quintard3rJ, son of Peter-"' by his first wife, died unmarried April 11, 1832. Evert1*1, son of Peter QuintartF*' by his first wife, married Hannah Raymond and had Susannah, born November n, 1771, Susan, born January 2, 1775, Caroline, and Anson. Mrs. Evart Quintard1*'- married, second, a Hamlin. Anson, son of Evert1"' and Hannah Quintard, married Polly Sanford of Redding and had Eliza (Mrs. Oscar Weed), Eli S.,1 Mary Frances (Mrs. Elbert Curtis), Frederick A. (Jiage 240). Isaac, son of Peter Quintard-*1, married, November 13, 1793, Elizabeth, born January 14, 1769, daughter of Ezra and Deborah (Stuart) Pickett, and had : Ann, born February 25, 1796, Mrs. Lewis Hendrick ; Evert2"1, born January 24, 1798; Charles, married Maria, daughter of James, J ell iff and removed from Noiwalk; George,2 born April 3, 1802, died January 4, 1825; Henry, unmarried, born 1809, died October 12, 1847. Eliza, unmarried. lEli S. Quintard married Mary, daughter of James and Fanny (Whitlock) Stevens, and had Fred- erick, unmarried. Marv Francis Quintard married, September 1846, Elbert Curtis, and had Rebecca, Harriet Ann, William Anderson. Elbert Curtis married, second, October 7, 1NS7, Harriet N. Curtis of Huntington, Conn.; had twins, Harriet Ann and Mary Frances. Mary Frances died in infancy. William A., son of Elbert and Mary F. Curtis, married, May 13, 1N75, Emma Jeannette, daughter of Woodruff Eyttleton and Emma Eliza (Whitmore) Barnes, and had : Mai Ovington, born May 1, lN7i> ; William Elliott, born December 2.S, lssl. 2George, son of Isaac and Elizabeth Quintard, married, first, Eliza Davis of Ridgcfield and had Ann (Mrs. James Hyatt), Sylvester, James, and George, the last two of whom died young. He married, sec- ond, Maria, daughter of John and Eunice (Smith) Locltwood, and had : John Henry, born March 6, 183", ; Frederick F., born February I'll, 1837 ; Mary Elizabeth, born October 3(1, 1839; Charles Augustus, born January 1, 1S42 ; William M-, born April 24, 1844 ; George Franklin, born April 5, 1 S47. James and Ann Hyatt had Eleanor (Mrs. George Fairchild), and Jane (Mrs. Youngs). Sylvester, son of George and Elizabeth Qiirotard, had two children. Jofin Henry, son of George and Maria Quintard, married, September 30. 1N57, Esther Maria, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann (Jai vis) Church, and had: Samuel Church, born November Isftl, died young ; George Henry, born March Itl, 1SC.7; John Church, bom I iclober in. 1KT1 ; Susannah Maria, burn September IX, ls7a. John H. Quintard died Octolx-r 10, 18SI5. Frederick F..son of George and Maria Quintard, married, first, Mary Chapman, and, second, Helen Ray. There were no children by the first wile and only a child who died in infancy by the second mar- riage. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George and Maria Quintard, married, first, Harmon Gilbert of Wilton, and, second, Henry Stephenson. No children. Charles Augustus, son of George and Maria Quintard, married Josephine, daughter ol George Brady, and had Frederick, Florence, Bessie and Lewis, tin oldest of whom is the only one married. William M., son of George and Maria Quintard, married, first, Latieia Humphrey, and had Edward, Grace (Mrs. Samuel Boyce), Helen (Mrs. Clarence Sagne), Augusta, Charles, William and W alter. Mr. ( luTntard married, second, Mary B„ daughter of Rev. Romeyn Berry of Rhinebeck, N. V., and had Romeyn, Alfred and two who died in infancy. NOR W A I. K. Evert Quintard2"", for many years the highly respected citizen and noted cabinet manufacturer and furniture dealer of Norwalk, married, first, November 29, 1819, Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy and Abigail (Smith) Whitney,1 and had: William Lewis, born September 20. 1820 ; Francis Edmond, born March 29, 18*5-5 Mary Elizabeth, born October 10, 1827, Mrs. Bennett D. Lum. Evert Quintard*"1 married, second, Mrs. Maria St. John of Darien. William L. Quintard married, May 13, is4<>- Lydia Ensign Treat, born October X, 1R23, and had : Mary Caroline, born March 24, 1S47 (Mrs. Charles A. Tucker); William Evert, born November 5, 1X4K, died, unmarried, October 19, 1 886. Mrs. Charles A. Tucker was married August 1, r8S3, and died June 14, 1897. Her hus- band, Charles Arthur, son of Samuel B. and Amanda M. (Hazel) Tucker of West Hartford, Yt., married, second, June 29, 1899, Georgia Alice, daughter of Edward R. Barnum of Bethel. Francis E. Quintard married, first, January 1, 1846, Harriet M., daughter of Increase and Sally (Patchen) Allen, and had : Harriet Frances, born May 10, 1847, died November 25, 1847 ; Charles Augustus, born November 7, 1848; Homer Allen, born January 17, 1851, died July 9, 1854 ; Henry Francis, born February 19, 1853, died July 12, 1853. Mrs. Francis E. Quintard died February 25, T853, and her husband married, second, November 24, 1853, Matilda, daughter of Nathan and Delia (Scofield) Lounsbury (see page 370), and had : George Franklin, born April 3, 1S4-7, son of 1 .. «.-};-.- and Maria Ouintard, married Julia, daughter of William Byxbee, and had Arthur, Mary Elizabeth, Ada (died young), Edna, Elsie and Hazel. 01' these children Arthur alone is married. Edward, son of William XI. Ouintard, married, September 2, 1N97, Grace, daughter of Jacob A. Per- kins of Poughkeepsie, N. V. The children of Mrs. Samuel Boyce are Edward Ouintard and William. The children of George and Eleanor (Hyatt) Fairchild were Jane and George. George Henry, son of John H. and Esther Maria Ouintard, married, September 24, 1K9II, Addie M., daughter of Henry Bramble, and had no children. John C, son of John and Esther Maria Quin- tard, married, October <>, 1897, Carrie, L., daughter of George A. and Elizabeth (Halstead) Redmond, and had John Henry, born July 19, 1S9K. John C. Ouin- tard died December 19, 1S9S. rThe home of Timothy and Abigail Whitnev is depieted on page45. Its two heads were of Norwalk, Conn., and Hadley. Mass., stock. Timothy Whit- ney (son of Timothy) descended from Henry Whit- ney, Sr.. the settler. His wife, who was a Widow Wood when he married her, was a daughter of Elia- kim and Abigail (Hoyt) Smith (see page 363), and a granddaughter of Ebenezer and Abigail (Bouton) Smith. Her two uncles, Ebenezer and Ephraini Smith, married the two daughters, Elizabeth and Is- abel, of John Rartlett, and through her great grand- father, Kiliab Smith, she, with Mary Lyon, the foun- dress of the Mount Holyoke, Mass., Seminary, was co-inheritor of the Lieutenant Samuel Smith blood. Her brother Noah was the " Smith Island " Norwalk harbor resident and her niece Betsey was Mrs. Absa- lom Day, to whose husband the Methodist Elder handed ten dollars with the charge that Mr. Day should see the sum multiplied nntil an amount suffi- cient to build a church was raised. Mr. Day complied with the command; and with John Hoyt, Noah and Matthew Wilcoxon (Wilcox), Ebenezer Crofut and Jesse Warren, bought from Holmes Saunders, August 1. 181.">, the lot whereon Norwalk's first Methodist Episcopal Church was already built (between Febru- ary 16 and August 1, 1815). The price paid for the lot (site in 1S99 of the new M. E. brick and stone Church in South Norwalk) was the sum of $250. N O R W A L K. 425 Harriet Frances, born August 2, 1855, married Eugene L. Boyer June 22, 1887.1 Frederick Homer, born January 24, 1857. Mrs. Matilda Quintard died December 23, 1867, and Francis E. Quintard married, third, May 5, 1869, Cornelia C. Clark of Harwinton, Conn., and has no issue. Charles Augustus, son of Francis E. and Harriet M. Quintard, married, June 18, 1873 Emma, daughter of Leander and Huldah (Piatt) Beers, and had : Helen Beers, born June 7, 1879; Percy Clark, born September 8, 1882 ; Fennie Allen, born September 17, 1884, died November 7, 1892; Emma Treadwell, born March 16, 1887 Frederick Homer, son of Francis E. and Matilda Quintard, married, November 2 1881 Mary Emma, daughter of Goold and Arminda (Horton) Benedict, and had no issue. SCRIBNER.