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| Selah Graves m. Apr 6, 1794 Rockingham VT b. Feb 1, 1767 Killingworth CT d. Oct 29, 1838 Pike NY |
Bela b. Aug 31, 1794 d. Sep 10, 1870 |
Ralph b. Feb 17, 1796 d. May 14, 1875 |
John Roundy b. Jan 28, 1799 d. Jul 4, 1888 |
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Lewis b. Jun 26, 1801 d. Jul, 1893 Cuba, Allegany Co. NY |
William b. Apr 28, 1807 d. Jan 24, 1894 |
Sabra b. Jun 26, 1809 d. Michigan |
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| Mary Jones b. Sep 16, 1811 Springfield VT d. Aug 15, 1900 Lake Washington MN |
Hiram b. Jan 19, 1814 d. Aug 10, 1907 |
Allen Sigmour b. Oct 9, 1816 |
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Harriet b. Dec 30, 1820 d. Aug 18, 1859 |
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Sabra Roundy and Selah Graves were married at First Church in Rockingham Vermont
on Apr 6, 1794. |
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Photographs taken at the First Church in Rockingham VT in Jun 1980: Inside of church from window showing view outside with Connecticut River and New Hampshire in the distance (top), and from balcony (bottom). Graveyard and back of church. Grave Stones |
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Selah was a blacksmith and wagon-maker. He settled his family in Springfield VT
in 1796. He moved to Pike, Allegany County, NY, where he bought a farm about a
mile from the town, about 1822. |
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The 1800 Census for Springfield, Windsor Co. VT lists the members of Selah's
household as 3 males under 10 (Bela, Ralph and John), 1 male 26-44 (Selah), and
1 female 26-44 (Sabra). |
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When Sabra's father died in 1805, his will bequeathed her "30 acres and one
likely cow." |
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Daughter Harriet married a grandson of her father, Nathan, named Phineas Bigelow Woodward.
He was the son of Harriet's first cousin, Betsey Graves who was a
daughter of Nathan's son Phineas. |
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Sources: Graves, John Card, "Notes on the Graves Family", unpubl. mss. in the Grosvenor Collection, Buffalo Public Library, Buffalo, NY. Hayes, Lyman S., and William D. Hayes, The Old Rockingham Meeting House, Erected 1787, and the First Church in Rockingham, Vermont, 1773-1840, P.H. Gobie Press, Bellows Falls, Vt., 1915, pp. 66,75. Heads of Families at the Second Census taken in the Year 1800 Vermont, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore MD, 1972, p. 175. Pike, NY Town Historian's files, indexed by Robert French; transcribed by V-18-1976. Rockingham First Church, Rockingham, Vt. "Records", New Eng. Hist. & Geneal. Reg., 56:255, 1902. |
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