Asenath Selden, dau. of Col. Richard Ely Selden and Desire Colt, b. Dec. 28, 1785 at Lyme, Conn. The Richard Selden family lived on the east side of the Connecticut River south of the East Haddam-Lyme town line. Today Hadlyme is a village, being the former location of the Hadlyme Ecclesiastical Society, the south 1/3rd of which was contained in the northwest portion of the Town of Lyme, the north 2/3rds within the southwest confines of the Town of East Haddam, Conn. Asenath d. Nov. 24, 1834 at her father's home at Lyme, Conn.
On Dec. 28, 1808 at New Haven, Conn., Asenath m. Rev. William Fowler Vaill, s. of Rev. Joseph Vaill, pastor of the Hadlyme Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Fowler, dau. of Rev. Joseph Fowler, dec'd, former pastor of the East Haddam Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Metcalf.
In 1820 Asenath's husband was selected by the United Foreign Missionary Society as superintendant of the to be developed Union Mission to the Osage Indians, southeast of present-day Chouteau, Oklahoma. At the time the location was part of the Arkansas Territory, but subsequent to the 1828 Treaty of Washington between the Cherokee and Osage Indians, Union Mission became located in Indian Territory.
Due to the hardships endured by the missionaries, in 1832 Asenath took ill without expectation of recovery and was transported back to the Selden family at Lyme, where she subsequently died.
For further details regarding Asenath's family, children and life as a missionary, see the memorial for her husband.
On Dec. 28, 1808 at New Haven, Conn., Asenath m. Rev. William Fowler Vaill, s. of Rev. Joseph Vaill, pastor of the Hadlyme Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Fowler, dau. of Rev. Joseph Fowler, dec'd, former pastor of the East Haddam Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Metcalf.
In 1820 Asenath's husband was selected by the United Foreign Missionary Society as superintendant of the to be developed Union Mission to the Osage Indians, southeast of present-day Chouteau, Oklahoma. At the time the location was part of the Arkansas Territory, but subsequent to the 1828 Treaty of Washington between the Cherokee and Osage Indians, Union Mission became located in Indian Territory.
Due to the hardships endured by the missionaries, in 1832 Asenath took ill without expectation of recovery and was transported back to the Selden family at Lyme, where she subsequently died.
For further details regarding Asenath's family, children and life as a missionary, see the memorial for her husband.
Asenath Selden, dau. of Col. Richard Ely Selden and Desire Colt, b. Dec. 28, 1785 at Lyme, Conn. The Richard Selden family lived on the east side of the Connecticut River south of the East Haddam-Lyme town line. Today Hadlyme is a village, being the former location of the Hadlyme Ecclesiastical Society, the south 1/3rd of which was contained in the northwest portion of the Town of Lyme, the north 2/3rds within the southwest confines of the Town of East Haddam, Conn. Asenath d. Nov. 24, 1834 at her father's home at Lyme, Conn.
On Dec. 28, 1808 at New Haven, Conn., Asenath m. Rev. William Fowler Vaill, s. of Rev. Joseph Vaill, pastor of the Hadlyme Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Fowler, dau. of Rev. Joseph Fowler, dec'd, former pastor of the East Haddam Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Metcalf.
In 1820 Asenath's husband was selected by the United Foreign Missionary Society as superintendant of the to be developed Union Mission to the Osage Indians, southeast of present-day Chouteau, Oklahoma. At the time the location was part of the Arkansas Territory, but subsequent to the 1828 Treaty of Washington between the Cherokee and Osage Indians, Union Mission became located in Indian Territory.
Due to the hardships endured by the missionaries, in 1832 Asenath took ill without expectation of recovery and was transported back to the Selden family at Lyme, where she subsequently died.
For further details regarding Asenath's family, children and life as a missionary, see the memorial for her husband.
On Dec. 28, 1808 at New Haven, Conn., Asenath m. Rev. William Fowler Vaill, s. of Rev. Joseph Vaill, pastor of the Hadlyme Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Fowler, dau. of Rev. Joseph Fowler, dec'd, former pastor of the East Haddam Congregational Church, and his wife Sarah Metcalf.
In 1820 Asenath's husband was selected by the United Foreign Missionary Society as superintendant of the to be developed Union Mission to the Osage Indians, southeast of present-day Chouteau, Oklahoma. At the time the location was part of the Arkansas Territory, but subsequent to the 1828 Treaty of Washington between the Cherokee and Osage Indians, Union Mission became located in Indian Territory.
Due to the hardships endured by the missionaries, in 1832 Asenath took ill without expectation of recovery and was transported back to the Selden family at Lyme, where she subsequently died.
For further details regarding Asenath's family, children and life as a missionary, see the memorial for her husband.
Inscription
Mrs. Asenath Selden
wife of
Rev. William F. Vaill
Died
Nov. 24, 1834
Æ. 49.
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Records on Ancestry
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North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-1927
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Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
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Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
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Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
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