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Polly <I>Manly</I> Babbitt

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Polly Manly Babbitt

Birth
Massachusetts, USA
Death
4 Sep 1872 (aged 73)
Castleton, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
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Castleton, Rutland County, Vermont, USA Add to Map
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died aged 72y 7m; scrofula [a tuberculous infection of the lymph nodes in the neck]

dau of David Manley & Tilly (__) Manley

according to the Babbitt genealogy, Polly was of Easton, Mass.

m. Dyer Babbitt 2 Dec 1819
at Castleton, Vermont

On 17 Sept 1840 four of Polly's seven children perished in a fire that burnt the home to the ground.

children:
Amos Phillips b. Nov 1823 d. 1 Nov 1882
William D 1826 - 1840
Mary Jane 1828 - 1840
Lyman J 1830 - 1840
Luthera M 1833 - 1840
Dyer W b. 7 Jan 1836 d. 3 July 1851
Oscar L b. 3 June 1838
Valorus M b. 7 Mar 1839/40 d. 29 Dec 1915 m. Maria Smith
Zeruah Jane b. 10 Jan 1843 m. Weston B Arnold
Luthera b. 1 June 1846 d. 6 Nov 1831 m. Seneca Field Jr. & Daniel T Johnson & Manly Johnson

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE
The house of Mr Dyer Babbitt of Castleton, was burnt on the night of the 17th inst. The wife of Mr Babbitt and 7 children were in the house at the time, but the fire had made such progress before they were awaked, that only Mrs Babbitt and 3 children were able to make their escape from the house, and the remaining four children perished in the flames - two girls 6 and 12 years of age and two boys 9 and 14 years of age. How the fire originated we are not informed. Mr Babbitt had left home the day before the accident for Illinois.-The Rutland Herald
[published Tuesday, October 6, 1840, Caledonian, St.Johnsbury, Vt. - the story was carried in newspapers in New York, NY, Philadeliphia PA, Baltimore MD, Boston MA, Newark NJ and perhaps other locales]

[Babbitt family history by William Bradford Browne, Taunton, Ms, 1912, pg 296-298]

died aged 72y 7m; scrofula [a tuberculous infection of the lymph nodes in the neck]

dau of David Manley & Tilly (__) Manley

according to the Babbitt genealogy, Polly was of Easton, Mass.

m. Dyer Babbitt 2 Dec 1819
at Castleton, Vermont

On 17 Sept 1840 four of Polly's seven children perished in a fire that burnt the home to the ground.

children:
Amos Phillips b. Nov 1823 d. 1 Nov 1882
William D 1826 - 1840
Mary Jane 1828 - 1840
Lyman J 1830 - 1840
Luthera M 1833 - 1840
Dyer W b. 7 Jan 1836 d. 3 July 1851
Oscar L b. 3 June 1838
Valorus M b. 7 Mar 1839/40 d. 29 Dec 1915 m. Maria Smith
Zeruah Jane b. 10 Jan 1843 m. Weston B Arnold
Luthera b. 1 June 1846 d. 6 Nov 1831 m. Seneca Field Jr. & Daniel T Johnson & Manly Johnson

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE
The house of Mr Dyer Babbitt of Castleton, was burnt on the night of the 17th inst. The wife of Mr Babbitt and 7 children were in the house at the time, but the fire had made such progress before they were awaked, that only Mrs Babbitt and 3 children were able to make their escape from the house, and the remaining four children perished in the flames - two girls 6 and 12 years of age and two boys 9 and 14 years of age. How the fire originated we are not informed. Mr Babbitt had left home the day before the accident for Illinois.-The Rutland Herald
[published Tuesday, October 6, 1840, Caledonian, St.Johnsbury, Vt. - the story was carried in newspapers in New York, NY, Philadeliphia PA, Baltimore MD, Boston MA, Newark NJ and perhaps other locales]

[Babbitt family history by William Bradford Browne, Taunton, Ms, 1912, pg 296-298]

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143923508/polly-babbitt: accessed ), memorial page for Polly Manly Babbitt (4 Feb 1799–4 Sep 1872), Find a Grave Memorial ID 143923508, citing Hillside Cemetery, Castleton, Rutland County, Vermont, USA; Maintained by Anonymous (contributor 47283828).