Norwalk

Marv, who married Rev. Andrew Eliot, of Fairfield ; Elizabeth, who married Dr. Charles Russell, of Burlington, Vt. ; Martha, who was unmarried, and Margaret, who married Mar. 28, 1779, Stephen, son of Matthew Keeler, of Norwalk. It is mentioned by a grand-daughter of Stephen and Margaret Pynchon Keeler' that the Norwalk home of these Keeler grandparents was a delightful Norwalk and Fair- field cntrc nous meeting spot. Man* Pynchon (Mrs. Rev. Andrew Eliot), of the latter place and sister of Mrs. Stephen Keeler, presided over a beautifully situated hearthstone. Her husband as well as herself were notably related. His father was the Rev. Dr. An- drew Eliot, Sr., of Boston reputation and her husband's sister was Susannah, wife of the distinguished Dr. David Hull, of Fairfield. Elizabeth, sister of Mrs. Keeler and Mrs. Eliot, married Dr. Chas. Russell, who was located at Burlington, Vermont. Dr. Charles and Elizabeth Russell were the parents of Dr. Charles P Russell, of the U.S. N. These three sisters, Mrs. Keeler, Mrs. Eliot and Mrs. Russell were society-prominent. Margaret was for a time in delicate health and remained much at home. She was the intimate friend of Mary Esther Belden (Mrs. Wm. St. John), of Norwalk. Elizabeth's home in Burlington preceded that of the elegant establishment, in that same city, of Col. LeGrand 'The children of Stephen and Margaret [Pyuch- 011) Keeler were Margaret I* M : - Dr. F.rastus Sar- Jr.,), horn Jan. 19, 17N0; Mary, horn Jan. 20, 1781; Martha (Mrs. Hugh KnotJ, born July r6, 17S3; Elizabeth, born Jan. 17X6: Stephen, born Jan. 10, 1789; Anne, born Jan. 9, 1792; Sarah (Mrs. Chas. H. Honteeou), horn April 14, 1795. and Matthew, born Sept 13,1797. The daughter of Margaret (Mrs. JJr. Krastus Sargeant, Jr.,). Mary Ann, married Rev. Samuel Newbury, whose two daughters, Mary and Franees, married, respectively, the present Judge Austin Adams, of Dtiluth. Iowa, and Go . John lack- son 11a::'- > . of Detroit, Mich. Martha, sister of Mar- garet, married, as his second wife, Hugh Knox, whose Norwalk home w as the 1896 Cowles place on the Green. Sarah, another sister, married, Jan. 28, 1826, Cha-. II, lionteeoil, of Lansingbttrgh, N. Y. Steph- en, a brother of the girb and the namesake of his father, married and lived entirely outside of Nor- walk, while Matthew, who «i, an infant when his fa- ther died, kept, in later rear-, a draper establishment in Cedar Street, N. V. The entire family removed to New York City, where the mother, who long survived her hit-band, made her home with her son Matthew, at whose residence she died in 1X33. This mother's literary taste evidenced itself in her closing years by her fondness for letter writing, she did not" entirely lorget Norwalk. Her children's Keeler uncles and aunts (children of Stephen and grand-children of Matthew'-t.) were S.nnuel. Thomas, Isaac W illiam Sarah (M,-. Isaac Marvin), Rebecca (Mr- lames Seymour), Abigail (Mr. Olmstead). Elizabeth '(Mrs" J"b Smith), Aaron, Hannah (Mrs. Gi|,.s Mallow)' Anne (Mrs. Zebulon Philips), Margaret and Mary. The third mentioned uncle, Isaac, horn April 20, 1759. married Sept. 27, 1781, Deborah, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Hyatt) Whitney, and lived about where now stands the West Ave. residence of Cashier Price. Isaac and Deborah Keeler's youngest son, James H., born July 17, 1801, married Matilda, sister of David and Morris Stephenson, who kept for many years, the Norwalk Hotel. Two of James H. and Matilda Keeler's children were Frances Eliza- beth (Mrs. S. R. P Camp) and the late Antoinette (Mrs. Edwin Mallory). Rebecca Keeler, sister of Isaac, married James .Seymour, the grandfather of the late Misses Harriet and Ann Sevmour, of .Nor- walk. The venerable form and features of this pro- genitress are to this hour recalled. The Norwalk Keeler who was formerly connected with the New- York Custom House was not of the line of Mat- thew Kri-'cr, as has been supposed, but rather the Keeler who was of the Jehu and Lydia ( Lookwood) Keeler line. This last Keeler lineage embraces well known modern names. Jehu Keeler's wife was Lydia, daughter of James Lockwood, a founder of the " Lockwood District,'' New Canaan. Stephen, son of Jehu and Lydia Keeler, married Hannah Mar- vin, and had several children, mostly daughters, among whom was Mary, who married Seth, son of Gould Ferris, whose home was near the old Ponus lleckett wigwam-sites, now Trinity Lake vicinity, the frequented haunt in early days of game, more es- pecially the deer. Seth and Mary (Keeler) Ferris had Stephen G. Ferris, the late worthy South Nor- walk citizen of that name. NOR W ALK. ,47 Cannon, the grand nephew of Mary Esther Helden. Martha, the unmarried sister of Margaret, Elizabeth and Mary, had her name perpetuated by her niece Martha (daughter of Mrs. Stephen Keelert, who wedded (second wife) Hugh Knox,' father of John L. G. Knox. Esq., of Troy, N. Y., who married, first, Mary Mabbett Warren, of Troy, and sec- ond, Elizabeth C. Sigourney. of Hartford. Samuel2nd- and Sarah (Betts) Keeler, father and mother of Matthew Keeler.'-1 were- assigned the home-lot not distant from the Ridgefield premises of the late Abijah Res- sequie. The leaves were about to fall tSept 30. 1708,) when the Indian Catonah set his hand to the document which transferred his nature-beautiful "Candatowe" (Ridgefield) to the pale face, and the littering fragments had, it is probable, hardly dropped ere the now venerable "Ridgefield Street" was laid out on the protected eastern slope of the ancient highland mid-way between the Hudson and the Housatonic. the grand trees of which noble street were, in their prime, impervious, in a delightfully comfortable degree, almost to a ray of vertical sunlight. Samuel Keeler emigrated from healthful Ridgefield and purchased the site mow North Wilton 1 in the near vicinity of his lineal descendant, the late LeGrand Keeler, and in 1896 the property of William Keeler, son of LeGrand. This Xorth Wilton estate near ■■Bald Hill," is somewhat to the south of one" of the most remarkable rock-wilds of Southwestern New England, which spot is a part of what was known to the Xorwalk fa- •llugh Knox, a not-forgotten Norwalk ge ntleman u£ the olden school, was a son of Re\ . Dr. Hugh Knox, of one of the \Ve<t India Islands. Me was Hugh and Henrietta Knox, was a far and favorably known Trojan, and a Troy -visiting old Nnrwalker could count upon a warm greeting from him. He horn, one record says, Dec. 19, 1781, another Dec. 20, was born Nov, 15, 1803, and married, first, April 5, 17S2. He married, first, Henrietta, born June .'4, 1S31, Marv Mabln-it, oldest daughter of Stephen and 17M4, the oldest child of Samuel and Sarah (IJelden) : Martha (Mabbett) Warren, of Troy. Mrs. Knoxsur- Camion) of Norwalk, and the sister of Esther Man- . vived her bridal a little less than eight months. Her (Mrs. Moses Craft) and LeGrand Cannon (the found- I husband married, second, Miss Kli/aheth C. Sigour- er of the Cannon family of Trov. N. V.,), both of | nev, of Hartford, a lady of exceptionally fine sensi- bilities, and wIiikc home was ,1 culture-charming hearthstone. Because of her husband's Norwalk re- lations Mrs. Knox, as a widow, beautifully honored his memory, by occasional trips to this town, laying thereby, upon such as were privileged by her visits, a gratitude - debt. The daughter of John L. G. and Elizabeth C. Knox, Mary, of lovely girlhood Nor- walk recall, married Dudley, son of Hon. Geo. M. Troy. There was <>ne sun, the late John LeGrand Kuux, by this union. The Norwalk residence of Hugh Knox was on the east side of Norwalk Green (Cowle* place 1S96) and when their son was seven v ears of age Mr. and Mrs. Knox were received (Aug. 29, 1810,) by Rev. Roswell Swan, as members ul ihe First Congregational Church, which stood only a few rods from their house. The second Mrs. Hugh Knox was Martha, daughter of Stephen and Mar- j Tibbits, of Troy, and is survived by her husband and garet (Pynchoii) Keeler, by which union there were two children. Charles S., oldest son of John L. G. no children. Mr. Knox, after his removal from Nor- | Knox, has long been the head-master of St. Paul's walk, took pleasure in returning to the town. Here j School, Concord, N. H. With hi in his brother James a cordial welcome awaited the appreciative former | is now office-associate. Another brother of Charles resident, a> did also every visit from his estimable S. and James, viz., John H., is of the Troy firm of si-iei in-law, Mrs. Muses Craft. Mrs. Craft's broth- I Knox & Mead. The wife of John H, Knox is a great cr, LeGrand Cannon, was so thoroughly business-ab- grand-daughter of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, who, sorbed that Norwalk, in his later life, saw but little in 17*0, conducted Major John Andre to his Salem of him, but Samuel and Sarah Cannon's children I quarters, not a great distance from the ancient Nor could not fail to be remembered. Jno. L. G., -on of I walk northern line. 24s N O R W A L K . thers as " Mill Stone Hill " and is the site of granite conformations of surprising singu- larity and decidedly romantic environment. An ancient mill stone, cut at this quarry, stands to-day on the south side of the road leading from Bald Hill towards " Nod." A THOMAS liETTS FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATION'S.