Biography of Benjamin Church Mead
Benjamin Church Mead was born on November 4, 1804 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the son of Jeremiah Mead, Jr., who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War (b. 1755 in Greenwich, Connecticut; d. on October 20, 1831 in Butler County, Ohio) and Esther Peck Mead (b. on July 12, 1756 in Greenwich; d. 1819 in Butler County, Ohio).
Benjamin was a boy when his large family left Greenwich for southern Ohio in 1817.
His daughter Emma Mead Beeler would later write about the Mead family's trip to Ohio in her family history: "The family of Jeremiah and Esther Mead and their nine children made a sizable caravan. Luke and Hugh, then in their middle or late twenties, may have had wives and perhaps children along. Harriet may have been married by then too, in which case her husband, Isaac Peck, no doubt traveled with them. Eliza's marriage is recorded later in Ohio. Walter, Benjamin, who was 13, and three younger sisters, Frances, Charlotte, and Maria, made up the family. Jeremiah's brother Levi and members of his family may have also been in the party."
He married Ann Cunningham before 1832, in Butler County, Ohio. She was born in 1811 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, and died in 1834 in Butler or Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin Church Mead and Ann Cunningham Mead had one child:
· James W. C. Mead, b. December 19, 1832 in Ohio; d. after 1910, probably in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; m. Claudia de Ville d'Avery on July 7, 1856, probably in New Orleans. She was born on January 27, 1839 in France and died in 1913 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married Mary Livingston Brown on April 21, 1840 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was born on December 31, 1810 in New York City.
Mary's parents were Bush G. Brown, a shipbuilder and master carpenter in New York City (b. May 9, 1783 in New York City; d. August 10, 1821 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi) and Hannah Daniels Brown (b. December 27, 1783 in New York City; d. September 20, 1822 in New York City).
Bush Brown died of yellow fever while on a business trip to Louisiana and Mississippi – where he had gone to set up a grist mill manufacturing enterprise – leaving his widow Hannah Daniels Brown and six children behind in New York City. The following year Hannah Daniels Brown died, also of yellow fever, leaving six orphans: Ephraim Daniels Brown, age 18, and his five sisters. Julia, the youngest child, was only three years old when her mother died.
Bush and Hannah Brown's children were sent to live with various relatives and friends. Mary and Julia were taken in by their mother's dearest friend, Mary Livingston, to the Livingston Manor in Clermont, Columbia County, New York. An early handwritten record of the children of Bush and Hannah Brown showed the third child as "Mary Brown," but later her name invariably appeared as "Mary Livingston Brown" or "Mary L. Brown," indicating that she took the name "Livingston" to express her gratitude to her mother's friend, Mary Livingston.
When Mary was about 24 years old, she came to Ohio, traveling nearly all of the way in a canal boat. She lived with her sister, Eliza, who had preceded her by several years and was married to Elisha Peterson.
Not long after relocating to Ohio, Mary met a young widower, Benjamin Church Mead. He had a son, James Watson Cunningham Mead, who was seven years old.
Their daughter Emma Mead Beeler would write about their meeting later in her family history: "He stood high in the community and came of a good old substantial family from Connecticut. He persuaded her to share his hearth and home. They were married in 1840 and went immediately to his home one mile north of Springdale which they called Locust Farm . . . Mary never regretted in uniting her life with his. The ten short years they lived together proved him to be a kind and considerate husband and a loving and devoted father. Six children were born to them, four dying in infancy. In 1850 their dear father entered into rest. Mary survived him 47 years and died at the age of 85."
The children of Benjamin Church Mead and Mary Livingston Brown Mead were:
• Walter Scott Mead, b. March 6, 1841, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. March 23, 1843, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Emma Walker Mead, b. September 19, 1842, Springdale, Hamilton Co., Ohio; d. August 11, 1928, New York City, New York; m. John Beeler, September 19, 1865, Towanda, McLean County, Illinois; b. March 16, 1837, Sharonville, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. February 12, 1920, Denver, Denver County, Colorado.
• Eliza Perlee Mead, b. ca. 1844, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. Oct. 20, 1902, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
• Frances Mead, b. ca. 1845, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. May 31, 1845 or 1846, Springdale
• Frances Etta Mead, b. July 7, 1846, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 5, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
• Elmore C. "B.C." Mead, b. May 25, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 30, 1851, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin died of cholera during a cholera epidemic on August 12, 1850 in Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
On May 11, 1853, Mary Livingston Brown Mead – at the time a 41-year-old widow with two daughters, Eliza 13 and Emma 11 – married William Durland Hilts (b. February 9, 1806 in Morris County, New Jersey), a widower with five sons and four daughters, who had been the appraiser of her husband's estate. There were no children from this marriage.
William Hilts died on September 26, 1874 in Illinois. He is buried at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington (McLean County), Illinois. His Find-a-Grave memorial number is 13989312.
Mary Livingston Brown Mead Hilts died on June 3, 1897 in Walnut Hills, Stark County, Ohio.
Benjamin Church Mead was born on November 4, 1804 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the son of Jeremiah Mead, Jr., who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War (b. 1755 in Greenwich, Connecticut; d. on October 20, 1831 in Butler County, Ohio) and Esther Peck Mead (b. on July 12, 1756 in Greenwich; d. 1819 in Butler County, Ohio).
Benjamin was a boy when his large family left Greenwich for southern Ohio in 1817.
His daughter Emma Mead Beeler would later write about the Mead family's trip to Ohio in her family history: "The family of Jeremiah and Esther Mead and their nine children made a sizable caravan. Luke and Hugh, then in their middle or late twenties, may have had wives and perhaps children along. Harriet may have been married by then too, in which case her husband, Isaac Peck, no doubt traveled with them. Eliza's marriage is recorded later in Ohio. Walter, Benjamin, who was 13, and three younger sisters, Frances, Charlotte, and Maria, made up the family. Jeremiah's brother Levi and members of his family may have also been in the party."
He married Ann Cunningham before 1832, in Butler County, Ohio. She was born in 1811 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, and died in 1834 in Butler or Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin Church Mead and Ann Cunningham Mead had one child:
· James W. C. Mead, b. December 19, 1832 in Ohio; d. after 1910, probably in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; m. Claudia de Ville d'Avery on July 7, 1856, probably in New Orleans. She was born on January 27, 1839 in France and died in 1913 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married Mary Livingston Brown on April 21, 1840 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was born on December 31, 1810 in New York City.
Mary's parents were Bush G. Brown, a shipbuilder and master carpenter in New York City (b. May 9, 1783 in New York City; d. August 10, 1821 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi) and Hannah Daniels Brown (b. December 27, 1783 in New York City; d. September 20, 1822 in New York City).
Bush Brown died of yellow fever while on a business trip to Louisiana and Mississippi – where he had gone to set up a grist mill manufacturing enterprise – leaving his widow Hannah Daniels Brown and six children behind in New York City. The following year Hannah Daniels Brown died, also of yellow fever, leaving six orphans: Ephraim Daniels Brown, age 18, and his five sisters. Julia, the youngest child, was only three years old when her mother died.
Bush and Hannah Brown's children were sent to live with various relatives and friends. Mary and Julia were taken in by their mother's dearest friend, Mary Livingston, to the Livingston Manor in Clermont, Columbia County, New York. An early handwritten record of the children of Bush and Hannah Brown showed the third child as "Mary Brown," but later her name invariably appeared as "Mary Livingston Brown" or "Mary L. Brown," indicating that she took the name "Livingston" to express her gratitude to her mother's friend, Mary Livingston.
When Mary was about 24 years old, she came to Ohio, traveling nearly all of the way in a canal boat. She lived with her sister, Eliza, who had preceded her by several years and was married to Elisha Peterson.
Not long after relocating to Ohio, Mary met a young widower, Benjamin Church Mead. He had a son, James Watson Cunningham Mead, who was seven years old.
Their daughter Emma Mead Beeler would write about their meeting later in her family history: "He stood high in the community and came of a good old substantial family from Connecticut. He persuaded her to share his hearth and home. They were married in 1840 and went immediately to his home one mile north of Springdale which they called Locust Farm . . . Mary never regretted in uniting her life with his. The ten short years they lived together proved him to be a kind and considerate husband and a loving and devoted father. Six children were born to them, four dying in infancy. In 1850 their dear father entered into rest. Mary survived him 47 years and died at the age of 85."
The children of Benjamin Church Mead and Mary Livingston Brown Mead were:
• Walter Scott Mead, b. March 6, 1841, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. March 23, 1843, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Emma Walker Mead, b. September 19, 1842, Springdale, Hamilton Co., Ohio; d. August 11, 1928, New York City, New York; m. John Beeler, September 19, 1865, Towanda, McLean County, Illinois; b. March 16, 1837, Sharonville, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. February 12, 1920, Denver, Denver County, Colorado.
• Eliza Perlee Mead, b. ca. 1844, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. Oct. 20, 1902, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
• Frances Mead, b. ca. 1845, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. May 31, 1845 or 1846, Springdale
• Frances Etta Mead, b. July 7, 1846, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 5, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
• Elmore C. "B.C." Mead, b. May 25, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 30, 1851, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin died of cholera during a cholera epidemic on August 12, 1850 in Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
On May 11, 1853, Mary Livingston Brown Mead – at the time a 41-year-old widow with two daughters, Eliza 13 and Emma 11 – married William Durland Hilts (b. February 9, 1806 in Morris County, New Jersey), a widower with five sons and four daughters, who had been the appraiser of her husband's estate. There were no children from this marriage.
William Hilts died on September 26, 1874 in Illinois. He is buried at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington (McLean County), Illinois. His Find-a-Grave memorial number is 13989312.
Mary Livingston Brown Mead Hilts died on June 3, 1897 in Walnut Hills, Stark County, Ohio.
Biography of Benjamin Church Mead
Benjamin Church Mead was born on November 4, 1804 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the son of Jeremiah Mead, Jr., who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War (b. 1755 in Greenwich, Connecticut; d. on October 20, 1831 in Butler County, Ohio) and Esther Peck Mead (b. on July 12, 1756 in Greenwich; d. 1819 in Butler County, Ohio).
Benjamin was a boy when his large family left Greenwich for southern Ohio in 1817.
His daughter Emma Mead Beeler would later write about the Mead family's trip to Ohio in her family history: "The family of Jeremiah and Esther Mead and their nine children made a sizable caravan. Luke and Hugh, then in their middle or late twenties, may have had wives and perhaps children along. Harriet may have been married by then too, in which case her husband, Isaac Peck, no doubt traveled with them. Eliza's marriage is recorded later in Ohio. Walter, Benjamin, who was 13, and three younger sisters, Frances, Charlotte, and Maria, made up the family. Jeremiah's brother Levi and members of his family may have also been in the party."
He married Ann Cunningham before 1832, in Butler County, Ohio. She was born in 1811 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, and died in 1834 in Butler or Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin Church Mead and Ann Cunningham Mead had one child:
· James W. C. Mead, b. December 19, 1832 in Ohio; d. after 1910, probably in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; m. Claudia de Ville d'Avery on July 7, 1856, probably in New Orleans. She was born on January 27, 1839 in France and died in 1913 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married Mary Livingston Brown on April 21, 1840 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was born on December 31, 1810 in New York City.
Mary's parents were Bush G. Brown, a shipbuilder and master carpenter in New York City (b. May 9, 1783 in New York City; d. August 10, 1821 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi) and Hannah Daniels Brown (b. December 27, 1783 in New York City; d. September 20, 1822 in New York City).
Bush Brown died of yellow fever while on a business trip to Louisiana and Mississippi – where he had gone to set up a grist mill manufacturing enterprise – leaving his widow Hannah Daniels Brown and six children behind in New York City. The following year Hannah Daniels Brown died, also of yellow fever, leaving six orphans: Ephraim Daniels Brown, age 18, and his five sisters. Julia, the youngest child, was only three years old when her mother died.
Bush and Hannah Brown's children were sent to live with various relatives and friends. Mary and Julia were taken in by their mother's dearest friend, Mary Livingston, to the Livingston Manor in Clermont, Columbia County, New York. An early handwritten record of the children of Bush and Hannah Brown showed the third child as "Mary Brown," but later her name invariably appeared as "Mary Livingston Brown" or "Mary L. Brown," indicating that she took the name "Livingston" to express her gratitude to her mother's friend, Mary Livingston.
When Mary was about 24 years old, she came to Ohio, traveling nearly all of the way in a canal boat. She lived with her sister, Eliza, who had preceded her by several years and was married to Elisha Peterson.
Not long after relocating to Ohio, Mary met a young widower, Benjamin Church Mead. He had a son, James Watson Cunningham Mead, who was seven years old.
Their daughter Emma Mead Beeler would write about their meeting later in her family history: "He stood high in the community and came of a good old substantial family from Connecticut. He persuaded her to share his hearth and home. They were married in 1840 and went immediately to his home one mile north of Springdale which they called Locust Farm . . . Mary never regretted in uniting her life with his. The ten short years they lived together proved him to be a kind and considerate husband and a loving and devoted father. Six children were born to them, four dying in infancy. In 1850 their dear father entered into rest. Mary survived him 47 years and died at the age of 85."
The children of Benjamin Church Mead and Mary Livingston Brown Mead were:
• Walter Scott Mead, b. March 6, 1841, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. March 23, 1843, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Emma Walker Mead, b. September 19, 1842, Springdale, Hamilton Co., Ohio; d. August 11, 1928, New York City, New York; m. John Beeler, September 19, 1865, Towanda, McLean County, Illinois; b. March 16, 1837, Sharonville, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. February 12, 1920, Denver, Denver County, Colorado.
• Eliza Perlee Mead, b. ca. 1844, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. Oct. 20, 1902, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
• Frances Mead, b. ca. 1845, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. May 31, 1845 or 1846, Springdale
• Frances Etta Mead, b. July 7, 1846, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 5, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
• Elmore C. "B.C." Mead, b. May 25, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 30, 1851, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin died of cholera during a cholera epidemic on August 12, 1850 in Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
On May 11, 1853, Mary Livingston Brown Mead – at the time a 41-year-old widow with two daughters, Eliza 13 and Emma 11 – married William Durland Hilts (b. February 9, 1806 in Morris County, New Jersey), a widower with five sons and four daughters, who had been the appraiser of her husband's estate. There were no children from this marriage.
William Hilts died on September 26, 1874 in Illinois. He is buried at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington (McLean County), Illinois. His Find-a-Grave memorial number is 13989312.
Mary Livingston Brown Mead Hilts died on June 3, 1897 in Walnut Hills, Stark County, Ohio.
Benjamin Church Mead was born on November 4, 1804 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the son of Jeremiah Mead, Jr., who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War (b. 1755 in Greenwich, Connecticut; d. on October 20, 1831 in Butler County, Ohio) and Esther Peck Mead (b. on July 12, 1756 in Greenwich; d. 1819 in Butler County, Ohio).
Benjamin was a boy when his large family left Greenwich for southern Ohio in 1817.
His daughter Emma Mead Beeler would later write about the Mead family's trip to Ohio in her family history: "The family of Jeremiah and Esther Mead and their nine children made a sizable caravan. Luke and Hugh, then in their middle or late twenties, may have had wives and perhaps children along. Harriet may have been married by then too, in which case her husband, Isaac Peck, no doubt traveled with them. Eliza's marriage is recorded later in Ohio. Walter, Benjamin, who was 13, and three younger sisters, Frances, Charlotte, and Maria, made up the family. Jeremiah's brother Levi and members of his family may have also been in the party."
He married Ann Cunningham before 1832, in Butler County, Ohio. She was born in 1811 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, and died in 1834 in Butler or Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin Church Mead and Ann Cunningham Mead had one child:
· James W. C. Mead, b. December 19, 1832 in Ohio; d. after 1910, probably in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; m. Claudia de Ville d'Avery on July 7, 1856, probably in New Orleans. She was born on January 27, 1839 in France and died in 1913 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married Mary Livingston Brown on April 21, 1840 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was born on December 31, 1810 in New York City.
Mary's parents were Bush G. Brown, a shipbuilder and master carpenter in New York City (b. May 9, 1783 in New York City; d. August 10, 1821 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi) and Hannah Daniels Brown (b. December 27, 1783 in New York City; d. September 20, 1822 in New York City).
Bush Brown died of yellow fever while on a business trip to Louisiana and Mississippi – where he had gone to set up a grist mill manufacturing enterprise – leaving his widow Hannah Daniels Brown and six children behind in New York City. The following year Hannah Daniels Brown died, also of yellow fever, leaving six orphans: Ephraim Daniels Brown, age 18, and his five sisters. Julia, the youngest child, was only three years old when her mother died.
Bush and Hannah Brown's children were sent to live with various relatives and friends. Mary and Julia were taken in by their mother's dearest friend, Mary Livingston, to the Livingston Manor in Clermont, Columbia County, New York. An early handwritten record of the children of Bush and Hannah Brown showed the third child as "Mary Brown," but later her name invariably appeared as "Mary Livingston Brown" or "Mary L. Brown," indicating that she took the name "Livingston" to express her gratitude to her mother's friend, Mary Livingston.
When Mary was about 24 years old, she came to Ohio, traveling nearly all of the way in a canal boat. She lived with her sister, Eliza, who had preceded her by several years and was married to Elisha Peterson.
Not long after relocating to Ohio, Mary met a young widower, Benjamin Church Mead. He had a son, James Watson Cunningham Mead, who was seven years old.
Their daughter Emma Mead Beeler would write about their meeting later in her family history: "He stood high in the community and came of a good old substantial family from Connecticut. He persuaded her to share his hearth and home. They were married in 1840 and went immediately to his home one mile north of Springdale which they called Locust Farm . . . Mary never regretted in uniting her life with his. The ten short years they lived together proved him to be a kind and considerate husband and a loving and devoted father. Six children were born to them, four dying in infancy. In 1850 their dear father entered into rest. Mary survived him 47 years and died at the age of 85."
The children of Benjamin Church Mead and Mary Livingston Brown Mead were:
• Walter Scott Mead, b. March 6, 1841, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. March 23, 1843, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Emma Walker Mead, b. September 19, 1842, Springdale, Hamilton Co., Ohio; d. August 11, 1928, New York City, New York; m. John Beeler, September 19, 1865, Towanda, McLean County, Illinois; b. March 16, 1837, Sharonville, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. February 12, 1920, Denver, Denver County, Colorado.
• Eliza Perlee Mead, b. ca. 1844, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. Oct. 20, 1902, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
• Frances Mead, b. ca. 1845, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. May 31, 1845 or 1846, Springdale
• Frances Etta Mead, b. July 7, 1846, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 5, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
• Elmore C. "B.C." Mead, b. May 25, 1849, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio; d. August 30, 1851, Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
Benjamin died of cholera during a cholera epidemic on August 12, 1850 in Springdale, Hamilton County, Ohio.
On May 11, 1853, Mary Livingston Brown Mead – at the time a 41-year-old widow with two daughters, Eliza 13 and Emma 11 – married William Durland Hilts (b. February 9, 1806 in Morris County, New Jersey), a widower with five sons and four daughters, who had been the appraiser of her husband's estate. There were no children from this marriage.
William Hilts died on September 26, 1874 in Illinois. He is buried at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington (McLean County), Illinois. His Find-a-Grave memorial number is 13989312.
Mary Livingston Brown Mead Hilts died on June 3, 1897 in Walnut Hills, Stark County, Ohio.
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