Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Mary Caroline, born March 24, 1847 (Mrs. Charles A. Tucker); William Evert, born November 5, 1848, died, unmarried, October 19, 1886. Mrs. Charles A. Tucker was married August 1, 1883, and died June 14, 1897. Her hus- band, Charles Arthur, son of Samuel B. and Amanda M. (Hazel) Tucker of West Hartford, Vt., 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, 1853, 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, 1847, son of George and Maria Quintard, married Julia, daughter of William Etyxbee, and had Arthur, Mary Elizabeth, Ada (died young), Edna, Elsie and Hazel. Of these children Arthur alone is married. Edward, son of William M. Quintard, married, September 2, 1897, Grace, daughter of Jacob A. Per- kins of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The children of Mrs. Samuel Boyce are Edward Quintard and William. The children of George and Eleanor (Hyatt) Fairchild were Jane and George. George Henry, son of John H. and Esther Maria Quintard, married, September 24, 1890, Addie M., daughter of Henry Bramble, and had no children. John C, son of John and Esther Maria Quin- tard, married, October 6, 1897, Carrie, L., daughter of George A. and Elizabeth (Halstead) Redmond, and had John Henry, born July 19, 1898. John C. Quin- tard died December 19, 1898. 1The home of Timothy and Abigail Whitney is depicted on page 45. 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 Ephraim Smith, married the two daughters, Elizabeth and Is- abel, of John Bartlett, 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, 1815, 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 1899 of the new M. E. brick and stone Church in South Norwalk) was the sum of $250. NORWALK 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, 188.1 ' Mary Emma, daughter of Goold and Arminda (Horton) Benedict, and had no issue. SCRIBNER. Benjamin Scribner1"', the head of the Norwalk Scribner family, came from Huntington, Long Island, to Norwalk. He here married, March 5, 1679-80, Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah (Andrews) Crampton, and his children, as birth-tabulated on page 106, were Thomas1"', Benjamin'2ud, John1*', Hannah, Ruth, Joseph1"', Lydia, Elizabeth and Abigail. Ben- jamin Scribner1"' died while away from home in Danbury, October 15, 1704. The settlement of his estate was not made until some years later. Thomas13', his oldest son, had by his wife Sarah five sous, viz: Benjamin, Jr., Thomas2"1, Philip, Zacheus and Uriah. Zacheus removed to Ballston, N. Y., and had son Daniel. The daughters of Thomas Scribner1"' were Sarah (Mrs. Gershom Bradley), Ruth (Mrs. Phineas Hanford), Wait (Mrs. Nathaniel- Disbrow), and Hannah. Benjamin Scribner2"'1 had sons Stephen, Matthew, Abraham, and daughters Hannah (Mrs. Gray), Rachel (Mrs. Fairchild), Lydia, Elizabeth, Isabel, Ruth and Abigail. John Scribner1"' married. March 9, 1709-10, Deborah, daughter of Lieutenant William and Mehitable (Rusco) Lee, and had Mary, born March, 1711, and Rebecca, born October 12, 1 71 2. Joseph Scribner1"' married, Mary, daughter of John1"' and Ruth (Rusco) Abbott. Matthew1"', son of Benjamin Scribner'2ud, married Martha Smith, born 1720, and had: Nathaniel, born December 23, 1743, removed to Dutchess County, N. Y. ; Matthew'2"'1 (Rev.), born February 7, 1746; Martha, born February 20, 1748, Mrs. Cable; Enoch, born August 29, 1750, died September 21, 1816; Elijah, born June 25, 1753 ; Jeremiah, born December 15, 1755; 1 Eugene Leslie Boyer, born February 8, 1843, son of David H. and Esther (Scofield) Boyer, married Harriet Francis Quintard and had : Frederick Quintard, born April 14, 1888; Ruth Lounsbury, born November 13, 1890; Eugene Francis, born March 12, 1894. 426 NORWALK Keziah, born January 20, 1758, Mrs. Thomas Hawley ;a Abigail, born November 9, 1760, Mrs. Edmonds: Elizabeth, born December 10, 1763, Mrs. Dr. Spaulding. Nathaniel, son of Matthew13' and Martha (Smith) Scribner, had a daughter Martha, married Uriah Rogers, son of Rev. Matthew and Abigail (Rogers) Scribner. These had a daughter Matilda, who married, April, 1859, George W. Schuyler of Ithaca, N. Y. Rev. Matthew, son of Matthew18' and Martha (Smith) Scribner, married Abigail, daughter of Dr. Uriah and Hannah (Lockwood) Rogers of Norwalk (page 179) and had one son, Uriah Rogers. Uriah Rogers Scribner married twice. His first wife was the mother of Mrs. George W. Schuyler, before referred to, and his second wife gave birth to the founder (Charles Scribner) of the widely known Scribner publishing house of New York. Enoch, son of Matthew1"' and Martha (Smith) Scribner, married, March 22, 1781, Betty Benedict of Norwalk, and had Jeremiah, born February 18, 1782, died by accident, William, born June 14, 1783, died of fever, Mary, born September 15, 1785 (Mrs. Lewis Benedict), George, born March 14, 1786, Sally, born September 14, 1790 (Mrs. Czar Jones), Charles born March 24, 1793, died young, Joseph, born October 30, 1796. THE ENOCH SCRIBNER LINE. Gen. I. Benjamin and Hannah (Crampton) Scribner. Gen. II. Benjamin and Abigail Scribner. Gen. III. Matthew and Martha (Smith) Scribner. Gen. IV. Enoch and Betty (Benedict) Scribner. The good name of Enoch Scribner of Saugatuck still lives, and the Scribner home is a grateful memory. Jeremiah and William died, one from injury and the other of yellow fever. Mary went with her Benedict husband to New York state, her children being Lewis, Eliza- beth, Isaac, George, Sarah and Abby Jane. George, son of Enoch and Betty Scribner, married Deborah Benedict and occupied the old Westport homestead, where he died. His children were Mary Frances, Charles, James Williston, Sarah (Mrs. Rev. Isaac Cundall) and Louisa. Hveziah Scribner, born 1758, was a daughter of farmer Matthew and Martha (Smith) Scribner, and a sister of Rev. Matthew Scribner. She married, March 10, 177t), Thomas, born February 28, 1755, son of Captain Thomas and Elizabeth (Gold) Haw- ley, and her husband was cousin of Ezekiel Hawley of Norwalk, whose widow, Ellen or Elinor, married, second, March 25, 1778, Reuben, son of Daniel Betts, the oldest daughter of which Reuben Betts, Eunice, who was two months old to a day when Nor- walk was burned, married James White, son of Dan- iel1 st and Sarah (Pickett) Church. Mrs. Reuben Betts was mother of Sarah Esther, only daughter of Ezekiel and Ellen Hawley. Sarah Esther Hawley married Aaron, son of James Ohnstead (page 105), and these were the parents of Hawley Ohnstead, LL. D., of Wilton. Mrs. Aaron Ohnstead was a great granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hawley of Ridgefield. Mrs. Ezekiel Hawley first, and second, Mrs. Reuben Betts, was Elinor Ohnstead. She was married to Mr. Hawley January 4, 1775, and her only Hawley child (Mrs Aaron Ohnstead) was a very young bride. Elinor Olmsted, daughter of Samuel and granddaughter of Nathan1 st and Sarah (Keeler) Olm- sted (pages 83 and 84), was a niece of Mrs. Matthew Fitch, whose granddaughter Mercy married Adam Swan (page 219). Elinor Olmstead's father (Samuel) made his will March 16, 1761, wherein is intimated that some of the children were at that date under age. NORWALK. 427 Joseph, the youngest son of Enoch and Betty Scribner, married (see page 375) Sarah, born July 19, 1796, daughter of Jarvis and Mercie (Selleck) Kellogg of Norwalk. These excellent parents resided at the old Saugatuck home until 1851, when everything was sold out and parents and children left their native hills and removed to Rosendale, Wisconsin. They carried their sterling New England character to their new home, where the father soon be- came an important factor church, college and citizenwise. The training on week-day at the upland Saugatuck shrine of integrity, and on Sunday in the old church on Norwalk Green, had done its happy work, and the family of Joseph, son of Enoch Scribner, was a valuable contribution to western society. The children were William1"1, Martha Elizabeth, Enoch, Joseph, James Kellogg, Lucia and Harriet.