AMOS THURBER and POLLY THURBER BACON

AMOS THURBER and POLLY THURBER BACON

The following files and photograph were provided by Pam Daniels Hobson. They include background information on AMOS THURBER and POLLY THURBER (two of the children of BARNABUS THURBER and THANKFUL GRANT); two depositions by AMOS THURBER; an 1861 photograph of POLLY THURBER BACON; and census information from the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s that shows where POLLY and WILLIAM BACON's children were.

Background Information on Amos Thurber and Polly Thurber Bacon

AMOS⁵ THURBER¹, b. March 24, 1763¹; d. April 24, 1843, Portage Co., OH¹; m. MARIAH SPERGO¹, August 27, 1827¹.

Notes for AMOS THURBER:

Investigation in other sources showed that Amos Thurber, who prepared two affdavits in support of the pension application of Lucina (Meigs) Daniels, had told enough of his own family connections to identify himself as a son of Barnabus Thurber.

His pension file tells that he was born in Wrentham, Mass., that he was 69 years old when he signed a paper on 15 Oct 1832, and that he was living in Cumberland, Rhode Island, when he enlisted in February or March, 1777. He was discharged in March, 1781. After the Revolution he lived in turn in Fayette County, Penn., Berkeley County, (now West) Virginia, Hampshire County, (now West) Virginia, and Palmyra, Portage County, Ohio.

Amos Thurber died 24 Apr 1843. His widow Mariah (Spergo) Thurber also applied for a pension. She was probably his second wife. Amos and Mariah were married 27 Aug 1827 in Mercer County,Penn., by Alexander Wright who supplied a certificate of marriage. Mariah said she had four children by him.

Horatio Gates Thurber, of Salem Twp., Ashtabula County, Ohio, made a deposition about the service of Amos Thurber. When Horatio was born, Amos was in the service and sent, in a letter to his parents, the name Horatio Gates for his newborn brother. Amos returned home after about 10 years and was then first identified to this brother.

Ref: Pension Application File R 10,581.

Amos Thurber was one of the early settlers of Palmyra Twp., Portage County, Ohio. It is noted in the 1885 History of Portage County that Amos held some early elective offices.

POLLY⁵ THURBER (BARNABUS⁴, JONATHAN³, JAMES², JOHN¹)¹ was born March 17, 1777¹, and died December 12, 1863 in Palmyra, OH¹. She married WILLIAM BACON¹ May 18, 1796 in Salisbury, CT¹, son of NEHEMIAH BACON and RUTH ADAMS.

From a glass cut lent by Wells Bacon Shilliday of new Milford, Ohio.

Notes for POLLY THURBER:

In 1800 Mrs. William Bacon (Polly Thurber) remained in Connecticut with three children while her husband walked to Palmyra, settled one and one-half miles south of the center, made improvements, walked back to Connecticut, and brought his family in an ox wagon in 1802. Mrs. Bacon used to exchange bread for venison with the Indians.

--Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve (1896), p. 187-188.

The 1885 History of Portage County, Ohio, states that William and Polly had ten children. Four survived until 1885: William R., Gustavus P., Almon T., and Chauncy C.

The first two children were born in Salisbury, Conn.; the third in Putney, Vt., and the others in Palmyra, Ohio.

Children of POLLY THURBER and WILLIAM BACON are:

i. BETSY⁶ BACON¹, b. January 2, 1797, Salisbury, CT¹.

ii. NANCY BACON¹, b. November 25, 1798, Salisbury, CT¹; m. (1) WILLIAM CRANNY¹, May 17, 1814, Portage Co., OH¹; m. (2) JOSIAH GILBERT¹, July 31, 1817, Portage Co., OH¹.

iii. POLLY BACON¹, b. October 3, 1800, Putney, VT¹.

iv. SALLY BACON¹, b. December 27, 1803, Palmyra, OH¹; d. April 1, 1878, Waldron, MI¹; m. HORACE DANIELS¹, May 13, 1825, Portage Co., OH¹.

v. WILLIAM RANDOLPH BACON¹, b. August 21, 1806, Palmyra, OH¹; m. EUNICE EDWARDS¹, January 12, 1830¹.

vi. ELMINA BACON¹, b. September 5, 1808, Palmyra, OH¹; d. July 11, 1854¹.

vii. HORATIO THURBER BACON¹, b. March 18, 1811, Palmyra, OH¹; m. ELIZA PENNOCK¹, December 25, 1833, Portage Co., OH¹.

viii. GUSTAVUS PECK BACON¹, b. May 29, 1813, Palmyra, OH¹; d. May 21, 1898, Palmyra, OH¹; m. CHRISTIANA WOODWARD¹, October 10, 1836, Portage Co., OH¹.

ix. ALMON TISDALE BACON¹, b. January 28, 1816, Palmyra, OH¹; d. October 2, 1903, Edinburg, OH¹; m. CORDELIA CAROLINE DARLING¹, 1843, Portage Co., OH¹.

x. CHAUNCY CLARK BACON¹, b. June 28, 1819, Palmyra, OH¹; d. December 21, 1887¹; m. (1) LAURA DIX¹, 17 November 1842**, Portage Co., OH¹; m. (2) ELIZABETH M. JONES , May 20, 1856, Portage Co., OH¹.

Endnotes

1. Daniels, Almon E., Some Descendants of John MackDaniels of Groton, Connecticut, (Arlington, VA, 1958).

Pension Application File W3959
David Daniels, Conn.; Widow Lucina These two depositions by Amos Thurber were included in Lucina Meigs Daniels' application for a pension based on her husband's service during the Revolutionary War. Amos describes his service as well in his depositions.
[Deposition of March 7, 1841]

The State of Ohio Portage County SS.

Personally came before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Amos Thurber who being duly sworn according to law on his said oath deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with David Daniels in the Army of the Revolution the last time that he recollects of seeing him in the army was at Yorktown in the state of Virginia after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis with his army. Says that he had been credibly informed that after the war was over he settled in Salisbury Litchfield County in the state of Connecticut also that he had formed a connexion in marriage with one of Janny Meigs daughters in that town after which he moved with his wife and family to the west. That the deponet Came into the State of Ohio some time in the Year of 1803, the first Night that he arrived in the township of Palmyra Portage County Ohio he came across the said David Daniels found that he resided in that neighbourhood that they lived near neighbors considerable part of the time from that time untill he died which as near as he can recollect in the tear of 1813 that he knows that the widow Lucina Daniels was the reputed wife of said David Daniels. That she remains with her children on the same farm that they lived on when he first came to This town Also says that he was informed and verily believes that said D. Daniels had enlisted for and during the war when he deponet was in the service knows that he had been in the army a considerable time that he belonged to a company of Light infantry. The first time that he recollects of seeing said Daniels he belonged to a Company of Light Infantry at Ammawalk in the State of New York and has seen him often in the army and from what he has heard and seen has no doubt but that said Daniels has bee n in the Army of the Revolution about seven years, that he became acquainted with him at said Ammawalk in the winter before the surrender of Cornwallis and saw him repeatedly untill that time Knows that he was a Corporel in the Company to which he belonged further this deponet saith not.

Amos Thurber
State of Ohio )
Portage County SS)

Palmyra March 7th A. 1841 On this day personally came Amos Thurber
who being duly sworn according to law
deposeth and saith that the foregoing
deposition By him is the
truth the whole truth and nothing but
the truth Before me
Wm V. Mervin Justice of the Peace

[Deposition of November 30, 1842]

Amos Thurber now living in and a resident of the Township of Rootstown in the County of Portage and State aforesaid being duly Sworn doth depose and say that he served in the Revolutionary war for upwards of four years, and that he knew and was well acquainted with David Daniels in the army, that although the said Daniels was not in the same company as this deponet, he saw him on several occasaions in the service while in the army, some of which times he now distinctly recollects, were at Princetow n, at Elktown, at Annapolis, and also with the troops immediately after the Surrender of Cornwallis, and deponet could relate many incidents which took place in the army while the said Daniels and this deponet were in the army, and which they have often talked over long after they came out of the army and since they both came to reside in the Township of Palmyra in the County of Portage aforesaid if the same were necessary. When deponet saw him at Princetown, he was in a company of what was called selected or picked men from his Regiment, and when he saw him at Annapolis, was the time Barron De Stuber was drilling and marshalling the troops at that place. From the first time to the last time deponet saw him the said Daniels in the Revolutionary service and army was more than three years, and deponet believes he had been in the army for some time before this deponet saw him in person in the army so as to know him. This deponet enlisted under Lt. Ebenezer W. Comlin and served or was under Capt. William Two or Tou (pronounced "Too") of Newport who was afterwards a staff officer and under Col. Israel Angel and deponet enlisted and entered the service in the year 1777 and was stationed at a little redoubt say about a quarter of a mile or so from Yorktown at th e time Cornwallis surrendered, and while deponet also remembers of seeing and conversing with him the said Daniels (who was then an American Soldier) immediately after the surrender, and he remembers the conversation about the " Damned British" and the Catholics and Prostestants".

He further states that although the said Daniels went from the State of Connecticut and deponet did not know he had removed from there to the State of Ohio, yet this deponet when he saw him in the Township of Palmyra in Portage County, he recognized him to be the same David Daniels he had known (as above stated) in the Revolutionary War, and after some conversation in relation to their service, etc. in the war, deponet found the said Daniels had moved to and was living in the said Town of Palmyra with his family.
Deponet further says that he lived a near neighbour to the said David Daniels in the said Town of Palmyra for about twelve years up to the death of the said Daniels, which he remembers was some time during the late war with England (called the War of 1812), and he further says that he was well acquanted with the wife and family of the said David Daniels, and their Children , viz. Electa Daniels now the wife of Jabez Gilbert 2d and with Frederick Daniels Esqr. now a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Portage and son of the said David Daniels, and also Horace Daniels, Orville Daniels, Harvey W. Daniels and Almira Daniels, all children of the said David and Lucina Daniels and deponet was and is personally well acquainted with them all as such Children, and with the said David and Lucina Daniels as husband and wife up to the time of the death of the said David in 1813 and with his widow since the death of her said Husband up to the present time.
And he further says that although he was not present at the marriage of the said David Daniels to the said Lucina Daniels yet he knows the fact to be that they have lived and kept house together and have raised up their family of Children as husband and wife and that they have always been so considered and accepted and reputed amongst friends and neighbours as lawfully husband and wife, and he never heard such fact contradicted or in any way disputed.

He further says that he also knew by sight and by Reputation Old Mr. Janna Meigs of Salisbury Connecticut the father of the said Lucina Daniels, now the widow of the said David Daniels, and knows the fact that it was always well understood and publickly reported that she married to the said David and that he the said David Daniels married the said Lucina Meigs in the Spring after Genl. Washington came in to be President the second time.
And deponet further knows the fact to be that the widow Lucina Daniels who now resides with the said Harvey W. Daniels is the same person who has always lived with the said David Daniels as his wife, and is now his widow and is considered and accepted by friends and neighbours as the widow of the said David Daniels.

Deponet further says that he now in the receipt of a pension from the Government of the United States of about Eighty Dollars ($80) a year, and further he says not.

Amos Thurber
Sworn to and subscribed by the above
named Amos Thurber, this 30th day of
November 1842 before me, the said Amos
is also personally and publicly known to
me as a person of credibility and as a
credible witness.
N.B. Four interlineations before execution
Frederick Daniels
Justice of the peace
Bacon Family Records (from 1959)

William Bacon m. 18 May 1796 Salisbury, Conn., to Polly Thurber
Their children:
1. Betsey Bacon	b. Monday	Jan. 2, 1797
2. Nancy Bacon	b. Sunday	Nov. 25, 1798
3. Polly Bacon	b. Friday	Oct. 3, 1800
4. Sally Bacon	b. Tuesday	Dec. 27, 1803
5. William Randolph Bacon	b. Thursday	Aug. 21, 1806
6. Elmina Bacon	b.	Sept. 5, 1808
7. Horatio Thurber Bacon	b. Monday	Mar. 18, 1811
8. Gustavus Peck Bacon	b. Saturday	May 29, 1813Q
9. Almon Tisdale Bacon	b. Sunday	Jan. 28 1816
10. Chauncy Clark Bacon	b.	June 28, 1819

Enos Morris m. 16 Apr. 1888 Portage Co., Ohio, to Martha A. Bacon
Their children:
1. Bert Morris	b. 15 July 1889	d. 12 Oct. 1925
2. Ray Morris	b. 26 May 1891	d. 29 Aug. 1900
3. Harley Morris	b. 2 July 1893
4. Ruby Morris	b. 5 Oct. 1895
(One nephew Frank Morris lives (1959) in Saginaw, Michigan)

John W. Bacon (son of Gustavus) lived in Missouri. His only daughter died last fall (1959). She lived in Brookfield, Mo. Her daughter is Mrs. D.W. Bowzer, of 218 Missouri St., Macon, Missouri.

Chozens Bacon (son of Gustavus) lived in Sheridan, Wyoming, at the time of his death. There are three of his children still living. They are all in Seattle, Washington. One daughter is Miss Ruby Bacon, 1303 Campus Parkway, Apt. 207, Seattle 5, Washingt on.

Erastus C. Jenkins m. 11 Aug. 1886 Portage Co., Ohio, to Lodisa Alwilda Bacon
Their children:
1. Gustavus Jenkins	b. 21 Jan. 1887
2. Charles Jenkins	b. 19 Aug. 1889
3. Arthur Jenkins	b. 10 May 1893
Lodisa Alwilda Bacon	b. 14 Sept. 1852	d. 4 Aug 1950; buried in Palmyra.
Erastus C. Jenkins	b.	d. 14 July 1930

William B. Byers m. Emeline L. Bacon

They had three sons who have died, but their children live around Palmyra.

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The above data was supplied from records in the possession of Miss Ruby Morris, a granddaughter of Gustavus Peck Bacon, who lives in the home on the original farm of William Bacon. (1959)

1850 Census Portage Co., Ohio, Palmyra Twp.

1378-1449	Polly Bacon	73F	RI
	Almira	42F	Ohio
	Polly Lewis	49F	Vt

1379-1450	Gustavus P.Bacon	37 Farmer	Ohio
	Christena	36F	Penn
	John	12M	Ohio
	Emiline	10F	Ohio
	Hiram	8M	Ohio
	Betsey J	5F	Ohio
	Cozzens	3M	Ohio
	Mary	1F	Ohio
	Martha	1F	Ohio

1663-1747	Almond T. Bacon	34 M Farmer	Ohio
	Cornelia	23 F	NY
	William	3 M	Ohio

1673-1755	Chauncy C. Bacon	31 M Farmer	Ohio
	Lura	21 F	Ohio
	Sophrena	7 F	Ohio
	Leonard	4 M	Ohio
	Ellen	3F	Ohio

1860 Census Winnebago Co., Ill., Town of Rockford.

2589-2610	Horatio T. Bacon	50 M Farmer	NY
	Eliza	4 F	NY
	Edwin	14 M	Ohio
	Almina	16 F	Ohio
	Leaumy ?	4 F	Ill

1860 Census Portage Co., Ohio, Edinburg Twp.

337-337	Almond Bacon	48 M Farmer	Ohio
	Cordelia C	34 F	Ohio
	William	13 M	Ohio
	Willis	7 M	Ohio
	Mary	2 F	Ohio

1860 Census Portage Co., Ohio, Palmyra Twp.

629-632	Polly Lewis	59 F	Vt.
	Gustavas P. Bacon	47 M Farmer	Ohio
	Christina	45 F	Penn
	John	22 M Farmer	Ohio
	Emeline	20 F	Ohio
	Hiram	17 M	Ohio
	Cozous	13 M	Ohio
	Mary	11 F	Ohio
	Martha	11 F	Ohio
	Lodica	7 F	Ohio
	Esther	5 F	Ohio
	Franklin	3 M	Ohio
	Polly	84 F	Mass

1870 Census Williams Co., Pulaski Twp., Bryan

261-261	Chauncy Bacon	50 M Laborer	Ohio
	Sophronia	26 F hskpr	Ohio
	Leonard	24 M Laborer	Ohio
	Ellen Barnes	22 F Hskpr	Ohio
	Alice Bacon	19 F	Ohio
	Arthur Barnes	1 M	Mich
	Clara Barnes	2 F	Mich

1870 Census Portage Co., Ohio, Palmyra Twp.

53-52	Gustavus P. Bacon	57 M Farmer	Ohio
	Christina	50 F Hskpr	Penn
	John W	32 M Farmer	Ohio
	Chozens	23 M Farmer	Ohio
	Martha	21	Ohio
	Charley	M	Mo
	Lodica	17 F	Ohio
	Ester	16 F	Ohio
	Franklin	14 M	Ohio
	Lizzie	22 F	Mo
	John	3 M	Mo

1870 Census Portage Co., Ohio, Edinburg Twp.

76-73	Wm Bacon	23 M Farmer	Ohio
	Ella	18 F Hskpr	Ohio
86-83	Almon Bacon	54 M Farmer	Ohio
	Cordelia	44 Hskpr	NY
	Willis	17	Ohio
	Mary	12 F	Ohio
	Amos Shriver	24 M Farmer	Ohio

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Portage County, Ohio, Marriages:
Nancy Bacon m. William Cranny	17 May 1814
Nancy Bacon m. Josiah E. Gilbert	1 July 1817
Sally Bacon m. Horace Daniel	13 May 1825
David C. Bacon m. Jane W. Pritchard	21 June 1827
Lawton Bacon m. Betsey Maria Goodell	30 Aug 1827
Wm. R. Bacon m. Eunice Edwards	30 Jan 1830
Lametta Bacon m. Benjamin Wait	3 Mar 1829
Horatio Bacon m. Eliza Pennock	25 Dec 1833
Gustavus Bacon m. Christiana Woodward	10 Oct 1836
Ira Bacon m. Julia Ann Goodsell	1 Mar 1840
Chauncy Bacon m. Laura Dix	17 Nov 1842**
Almon T. Bacon m. Cordelia Caroline Darling	1843(1)
Chauncy C. Bacon m. Elizabeth M. Jones	20 May 1856
Polly Bacon m. Lewis	? (1)

** The original information submitted by P. H. Daniels had the marriage of Chauncy Bacon as 2 January 1842.� I have changed it to reflect the date that appears in Portage Co. records.

(1)These two marriages do not occur in the collected records and may have occurred elsewhere.

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