George Washington Vesey was the son of Benjamin Vesey (1764-1828). His biography below makes no guesses about his mother's name. The death record of older brother James M Vesey, aka James Madison Vesey, said James' parents were Benjamin Vesey and Eunice. No maiden name was given for her, nothing written down in her own era, so she could say, while living, "That's wrong" or "That's right."

[New Research 2024, Causing confusion, was another Eunice, called Eunice Lamb, never married to Benjamin Vesey. She was the mother-n-law of the men's older sister, Abigail Vesey. (Abigail had, early in 1816, when still in Vermont, married a returning War of 1812 soldier called Nathaniel French. Nathaniel's mother, born Eunice Spear, was left widowed when Nathaniel's father died, whereupon she remarried, to Amos Lamb, whose first wife had also been a Spear. The exact marriage date of Eunice and Amos is unknown, but their first child together was in 1802 at Granville (formerly Kingston, Vt). They would be together for six decades, burials circa 1862 at Granville.

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Biographical Sketch From Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana

Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers

Chicago, 1893

371

George Vesey descended from the old family of the name, in Vermont, and came to Penn Township in 1847, buying 160 acres of land which he cleared from the dense woods and made into a good home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Vesey were members of the Baptist Church, he being a deacon for many years. Politically he was a staunch Republican. He was the father of six children by his first wife: Emily, Anna, William, Lucius, Horace and Roxie. Mr. Vesey lived to the age of sixty-seven, and died on his farm in May, 1887. He was a man of excellent reputation, and was well known throughout St. Joseph county for his integrity of character. He was an industrious pioneer citizen. His wife, Olive Graham, was born in York State, of English descent.

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Ontario, Canada, County Marriage Registers 1858 to 1869

Ellen M. Smith age 23 b. Burford Twp,

Father: John P. Smith;

Mother: Sarah E. Smith

Spouse: Vesey, William B. age 28

Father: George Vesey;

Mother: Olive Vesey

Residence: Lynden, Wentworth County

Microfilm roll: 1030067