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Julia <I>Mygatt</I> Boughton

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Julia Mygatt Boughton

Birth
Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
20 Aug 1813 (aged 24)
Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.0240341, Longitude: -80.7534762
Plot
Section B Row 02
Memorial ID
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Danbury Gazette (Danbury, CT), Sep. 14, 1813, p. 3:
DIED---In Canfield, Ohio, Mrs. Julia, wife of Mr. Taylor Boughton, daughter of Comfort S. Mygatt, formerly of this town.

BOUGHTON, Julia Ann (MYGATT)
Mrs. Eli T. Boughton – m. 25 May 1807 in Danbury, Fairfield Co. CT
Daughter of Comfort Starr and Lucy Knapp Mygatt
B. 2 May 1789 in Danbury, Fairfield Co. CT
D. 20 Aug 1813 in Canfield Twp., Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH at 24y 3m 18d of consumption
Burial – Aug 1813 in Canfield Village Cemetery, Section B Row 02, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH

Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 12 Nov 1897, Article No. 42, by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpts from biographical sketch of Comfort Starr Mygatt:
"In process of time a system of subtraction and addition was established in the family of Mr. Mygatt. In other words, marriages were reducing the number while births were adding to the number. This happy arrangement was practiced for quite a number of years, and served to preserve a fair equilibrium in the size of the family. Lewis Hoyt in 1804 enticed the oldest daughter from the fold. In 1806 Elisha Whittlesey did the same with Polly, the second daughter. In 1807 Eli T. Boughton married Julia, the third branch. The above named daughters were married at the old Danbury home. When the family came to Canfield Cupid was soon on hand. The fourth daughter, Betsey, was given with the parental blessing to Canfield's first merchant, Zalmon Fitch, in 1808. In 1814 Asahel Adams secured for a wife the last one of the first group of daughters."
"Anna Maria died in Canfield at the age of 13 with consumption, Julia (wife of Mr. Boughton) in 1813, of the same disease. Their mother died at the age of 34, death caused by the same complaint. Comfort, a son by the first marriage, died of the "prevailing fever" in 1814. At the time of his death he was affianced to Bridget Tanner."

Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 19 Nov 1897, Article No. 43 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt:
"We have but little room, and lack proper information to say much of the numerous children. We have already noted the marriages of several of his daughters. Two more of them, to-wit: Abigail, the wife of Lewis Hoyt, and Julia, the wife of Eli T. Boughton, in the summer of 1808 came to Canfield, so that his entire family for a while at least were residents of this place, but several of them not long afterwards removed elsewhere, and therefore did not become greatly identified with our history."
Danbury Gazette (Danbury, CT), Sep. 14, 1813, p. 3:
DIED---In Canfield, Ohio, Mrs. Julia, wife of Mr. Taylor Boughton, daughter of Comfort S. Mygatt, formerly of this town.

BOUGHTON, Julia Ann (MYGATT)
Mrs. Eli T. Boughton – m. 25 May 1807 in Danbury, Fairfield Co. CT
Daughter of Comfort Starr and Lucy Knapp Mygatt
B. 2 May 1789 in Danbury, Fairfield Co. CT
D. 20 Aug 1813 in Canfield Twp., Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH at 24y 3m 18d of consumption
Burial – Aug 1813 in Canfield Village Cemetery, Section B Row 02, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH

Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 12 Nov 1897, Article No. 42, by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpts from biographical sketch of Comfort Starr Mygatt:
"In process of time a system of subtraction and addition was established in the family of Mr. Mygatt. In other words, marriages were reducing the number while births were adding to the number. This happy arrangement was practiced for quite a number of years, and served to preserve a fair equilibrium in the size of the family. Lewis Hoyt in 1804 enticed the oldest daughter from the fold. In 1806 Elisha Whittlesey did the same with Polly, the second daughter. In 1807 Eli T. Boughton married Julia, the third branch. The above named daughters were married at the old Danbury home. When the family came to Canfield Cupid was soon on hand. The fourth daughter, Betsey, was given with the parental blessing to Canfield's first merchant, Zalmon Fitch, in 1808. In 1814 Asahel Adams secured for a wife the last one of the first group of daughters."
"Anna Maria died in Canfield at the age of 13 with consumption, Julia (wife of Mr. Boughton) in 1813, of the same disease. Their mother died at the age of 34, death caused by the same complaint. Comfort, a son by the first marriage, died of the "prevailing fever" in 1814. At the time of his death he was affianced to Bridget Tanner."

Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 19 Nov 1897, Article No. 43 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt:
"We have but little room, and lack proper information to say much of the numerous children. We have already noted the marriages of several of his daughters. Two more of them, to-wit: Abigail, the wife of Lewis Hoyt, and Julia, the wife of Eli T. Boughton, in the summer of 1808 came to Canfield, so that his entire family for a while at least were residents of this place, but several of them not long afterwards removed elsewhere, and therefore did not become greatly identified with our history."

Inscription

Sacred to the Memory of Julia, Wife of Eli T. Boughton who died Aug. 20, 1813; aged 24 years. 3 mo. & 18 days.

While pity prompts the rising sigh
O may the truth imprest
With awful power, I too must die
Sink deep in every breast.

E. K. Osborn. ??Sc!

Gravesite Details

This gravestone was carved by E. K. Osborn. (see bottom right of gravestone0



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