Subject: Re: p. 17697, GEDCOM file last uploaded 8/25/98
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:23:50 EDT
From: Jmg1516@aol.com
To: sarafina@phoenixat.com
Dear Melissa,
I just found your info. online, and I was excited. When I went to reply to you and found Phoenix in your address, I became even more excited. Do you live in Phoenix? I live in Glendale, AZ. Are you related to the Densmores, or are you doing this for someone else?
I have some more info. for you. I'll give it to you briefly here, but my cousin has published a book on the Densmores which will probably be of interest to you.
Eliphalet (dod 11/3/11) and Hannah Treadwell Densmore (dod 1/22/02)
are buried in Washington, N.H. I'm related to their son Asa.
Asa was born 11/15 1772 and died 9/18 1856 and is buried in the Claremont,
NH cemetery. He was married 3/6 1794 to Abigail Wilson, b. 3/7 1776,
d. 8/16 1844. Asa was a carpenter and the house he built on Bible
Hill in Claremont in 1803 is
still standing. Their children's names are as follows:
John Wilson, b. 7/19 1795, d. 11/25 1867; m. 1824 to Pamelia Dunn,
b. 10/28/1798, d. 11/9 1863. (My great-great-great grandfather.)
Ann F., b. 1/25 1797, d. 12/14 1889. Never married.
Gilman, b. 5/26 1799, d. 4/30 1861, m. Welthy (or Wealthy) b. ca. 1795,
d. 12/1 1870.
Charlotte, b. 3/28 or 29 1802, d. 8/3 1864. Never married.
Lydia, b. 6/7 1804, d. 2/28 1881. Married ___Colby.
Susan, b. 12/31 1806, d. 4/15 1889. Married _____ Pettengill.
Jonathan, b. 12/10 1809, d. 11/1 1886. Married Mary C. Cambridge,
b. 1817, d. 12/1 1846. Married 2nd Clara S. Dustin, b. 1819, d. 5/19
1860. Married 3rd Hariet Towns.
Caleb, b. 11/1 1811, d. 10/27 1889. Never married. Lived
with his sister
Ann.Arvilla, b. 3/13 1814, d. 8/25 1816.
Hannah, b. 6/7 1816, d. 1/5 1865. Married Horatio, last name
unknnown, b. 10/7 1808.
Diantha, b. 6/4 1818, d. 7/13 1851. Never married.
Briefly, John W. Densmore's son Joseph Dunn Densmore (1831-1899) and
his wife Sarah Lawrence (1838-1899) had a son Charles Wilson Densmore.
Charles (1864-1917) married Ella Augusta Baker (1852-1924), and they had
a daughter
Elinor Sarah Dinsmore. Elinor (1886-1971) was married in 1916
to Lyman Spencer (1872-1969) They had four children: Julia Ann (1918-1987),
Lincoln Dinsmore (b. 1920), Selden James (b. 1923), and Patricia Jane (b.
1925).
Lincoln is my father.
I have lots more information. Will get back to you.
Jane
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Subject: Re: p. 17697, GEDCOM file last uploaded 8/25/98
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:23:50 EDT
From: Jmg1516@aol.com
To: sarafina@phoenixat.com
Dear Melissa,
Thanks for the information. I will enter the rest of what I have on the GEDCOM.
You skipped a generation before Elinor Sarah Dinsmore. Her father was Charles, son of Joseph Dunn Densmore.
In a message dated 98-09-20 23:55:30 EDT, sarafina@phoenixat.com writes:
Generation No. 5
10. ELINOR SARAH10 DINSMORE (JOSEPH DUNN9 DENSMORE, JOHN
WILSON8, ASA7, ELIPHALET/ ELIFILET6, THOMAS5 DINSMORE, ROBERT4, JOHN3
DINSMOOR, JOHN2, ACHENMEAD1) was born 1886, and died 1971. She married
LYMAN SPENCER.
Children of ELINOR DINSMORE and LYMAN SPENCER are:
i. JULIA ANN11 SPENCER, b. 1918; d. 1987.
ii. LINCOLN DINSMORE SPENCER, b. 1920.
iii. SELDEN JAMES SPENCER, b. 1923.
iv. PATRICIA JANE SPENCER, b. 1925.
Jmg1516@aol.com wrote:
>
> Briefly, John W. Densmore's son Joseph Dunn Densmore (1831-1899)
and his wife Sarah Lawrence (1838-1899) had a son Charles Wilson Densmore.
Charles (1864-1917) married Ella Augusta Baker (1852-1924), and they
had a daughter
> Elinor Sarah Dinsmore. Elinor (1886-1971) was married
in 1916 to Lyman Spencer (1872-1969) They had four children: Julia
Ann (1918-1987), Lincoln Dinsmore (b. 1920), Selden James (b. 1923), and
Patricia Jane (b. 1925).
Lincoln is my father.
>
My grandmother switched the spelling of her name to Dinsmore.
While doing some family research in the early 1900's, she found that it
had been changed somewhere along the line when one of our ancestors married
a Portuguese woman
(what a rebel ;-) ).
Some more information for you...Did you know that Eliphalet fought in the Revolutionary War? According to my cousin, Tom McIntosh:
"Eliphalet's service is well documented. He was a Minuteman at
the Battle of Concord on 19 April, 1775, being a Lieutenant in the Bedford
Militia, which carried the famous "Arm and Hammer" flag. By 17 June
at the Battle of Bunker Hill he was a Captain
in Colonel William Prescott's Regiment."
"DENSMORE Genealogy Notes," 1996, T. R. McIntosh, Harrisburg PA
Tom has the family traced back to Scotland when John Densmoor was born in about 1650 to Laird Dinsmoor. He was the second son, rebelled at the service he was required to do for his elder brother, and left home and settled with the Scotch in the province of Ulster, north of Ireland. (Tom quoted this nformation from "Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania.") In the "American Families of Historic Lineage," Tom found an account of John Jr., who was born about 1671: "He left Ireland in about 1718 for America, arriving in that year at the fort of the islands off the coast of Maine, which was known as 'The Georges,' and thus became the founder of this family in America."
Did you know also that there is a Densmore family reunion which meets
every summer in Vermont. This year was the 37th such reunion.
Let's keep in touch.
Jane
