Clarence Wallace Hitchcock

Notes:

Clarence and Maria farmed in Denton Montana and were members of the
Methodist Church.

Clarence married Maria Curtis Holdeman on 14 Jan 1890. Maria (daughter of Abraham A. Holdeman and Elizabeth Curtis) was born on 01 Aug 1869 in Burr Oak, Noble Township, Branch, Michigan U.S.A.; died on 09 Oct 1949 in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana U.S.A.; was buried on 11 Oct 1949 in Lewistown City Cemetery, Lewistown, Montana U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

1. Lester Clarence Hitchcock was born on 22 Oct 1893 in Aberdeen, Edmonds, South Dakota U.S.A.; died on 12 Sep 1977 in Lewiston, Montana U.S.A..
2. Ruth Elizabeth Hitchcock was born on 17 May 1895 in Aberdeen, Edmonds, South Dakota U.S.A.; died on 25 Dec 1957 in Salem, Marion, Oregon U.S.A.; was buried in Gilchrist Cemetery, Salem, Marion, Oregon U.S.A..
3. Mark Abraham Hitchcock was born on 10 May 1897 in Aberdeen, Edmonds, South Dakota U.S.A.; died on 13 Jul 1952 in Vaughn, Montana U.S.A.; was buried on 15 Jul 1952 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana U.S.A..
4. Ralph Henry Hitchcock was born on 29 May 1900 in Aberdeen, Edmonds, South Dakota U.S.A.; died on 26 Aug 1975 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana U.S.A..
5. Amber Sophia Hitchcock was born on 30 Jun 1902 in Wilton, North Dakota U.S.A.; died on 06 Jul 1977 in Salem, Marion, Oregon U.S.A.; was buried on 09 Jul 1977 in Rest Haven Memorial Park, Eugene, Oregon U.S.A..
6. Ella May Hitchcock was born on 20 Jan 1906 in Underwood, North Dakota U.S.A..
7. Marie Irene Hitchcock was born on 05 Nov 1907 in Bloomingdale, Michigan U.S.A.; died on 17 Apr 1994 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon U.S.A..
8. William Sibley Hitchcock was born on 17 Sep 1909 in Texline, Texas U.S.A.; died on 14 Sep 1977 in Choteau, Montana U.S.A.; was buried on 17 Sep 1977 in Choteau Cemetery, Choteau, Montana U.S.A..
9. Anna Belle Hitchcock was born on 04 Jun 1912 in Salem, Marion, Oregon U.S.A..

Notes:

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+ Standard Certificate of Death for Physicians; Registered No. 1548; South Dakota Department of History, Division of Census and Vital Statistics. Document # 29782.
+ Information from Colleen (POWERS) MAHAN
+ Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6
+ Portrait & Biographical Album of Jackson Co- Chapman Bros- 1890
+ The Hamlin Family - Gen. of James Hamlin of Barnstable, MA - p 694-5
+ http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sd/biography/memor99/hitchcock.txt (http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/sdfiles.htm)

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[From E. W. Powers March 7, 1950 for Ruth Hitchcock Bressler]
Henry was in the Civil War and when he came home his wife, Clifford, Clayton and Clarend were living down in Coss County just south of Van Buren County Michigan

During the Civil War served for the North.

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"...member 103rd OH Inf. Vols, enlisted 1862; discharged 1866; farmer; removed to Edwardsburg, MI in 1866; to Bloomingdale (MI) 1868; (Sophia) died near Jackson, MI July 2 1870; he remarried and moved to Dakota, 1883; postmaster, Albion, South Dakota..."

One reference gives birth as 19 Jan 1839

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[Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and
representative citizens of South Dakota...; Published by G. A. Ogle &
Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 954-956]
Henry S. Hitchcock Biography


HENRY S. HITCHCOCK, one of the first to settle in Richland township, is now one of the substantial agriculturists of that portion of Edmunds county. His success has been due to his own perseverance and good management, and his efforts have not been expended for his own good alone but for the upbuilding of the better interests of his community. He is one of the prominent citizens of that region, and takes an active part in matters pertaining to the growth of the thriving district where he chooses to make his home. He is an ex-soldier who may well be proud of his army record, and no soldier ever served his country with a more loyal heart or earnest effort. Mr. Hitchcock has a fine estate, and his home farm is the southeast quarter of section 22, in Richland township, Edmunds county. Here he is passing his declining years enjoying the peace and comforts of a pleasant home.

Our subject was born in Eaton township, Loraine county, Ohio, January 17, 1839, and was the eldest in a family of five children, two sons and three daughters, born to Mark S. and Polly (Morgan) Hitchcock. The
paternal grandfather of our subject, Manly Hitchcock, was of English descent, and the maternal grandfather, Ira Morgan, was a native of Connecticut, and both were by occupation farmers. The parents of our subject were married in Loraine county, Ohio, and the father was a farmer during the greater part of his life, but engaged in the hardware business during the last years of life at Jackson, Michigan.

Our subject was reared on a farm and had little school advantages, those early days affording the country pupil a limited education. Mr. Hitchcock engaged in farming in 1869 in Ohio and afterward went with his family to Bloomingdale, Michigan, and was a farmer there for sixteen years. The farm was well improved, consisted of fifty acres; a small stream running through the land afforded good water for stock,
and an orchard of one hundred and fifty trees with small fruits in abundance made a model farm, but sickness visited the family and three children and the wife our subject died while there and the health of
Mr. Hitchcock was failing. He went to Edmunds county, South Dakota, in 1882 and located on his present farm.

He erected a ten by twelve shanty and was his own housekeeper for two years, at the end of which time the family joined him in the new home. He had a small house erected, and a barn and granary and the
improvements on the property had already begun. When he located in Dakota Richland township was the extreme western limit of the surveyed land, and all supplies were hauled from Aberdeen, eighteen miles
distant. Our subject now possesses one hundred and sixty acres of land, and cultivates about one hundred and fifty acres. He engages mostly in raising small grains, but is interested to some extent in the raising of cattle and horses.

Mr. Hitchcock enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Third Ohio Infantry, July 22, 1862, and spent the winter of 1862 -63 in Frankfort, Kentucky, and the following summer went through Tennessee and Kentucky after Morgan's men. Many skirmishes and active duty kept them on the move through the summer of 1864, and the winter following our subject was taken ill with typhoid fever at Louisville, Kentucky. He was discharged early in 1865 and went back to old home.

Our subject was married in 1859 to Sophia Hamlin, a native of Dover, Ohio. Three sons and one daughter were born of this union. Mrs. Hitchcock died July 2, 1870. Our subject remarried, Miss Annie Graham
becoming his wife August 20, 1871. Mrs. Hitchcock is a native of Preble county, Ohio, and was born in 1847. Her grandfather, James Graham, was a native of Virginia. Her father, Joseph Graham, was a harness maker by occupation, and the mother died when Mrs. Hitchcock was but twelve years of age, after which the family was broken up and she was thrown on her own resources for a livelihood. She was reared in Morning Sun, Ohio, and there received her education. Two children, a son and a daughter, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, as follows: Fred S. and Ella C. Our subject has been called upon to fill various local offices, and has given his service freely, and for the good of all. He has been a member of the town board two years, of the school board nine years, and seven years has acted as assessor. He has been a delegate to many county conventions and advocates the principles of the Republican party.

Henry married Sophia Amanda Hamlin on 20 Nov 1858 in Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A.. Sophia (daughter of David Hamlin and Roxana Crocker) was born on 18 Mar 1841 in Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio U.S.A.; died on 30 Jun 1870 in Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Ref: Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co, OH - Vol 1-6


Mi Death Index - Rec. 590, Ledger page 141[ Inflammation of the bowels]

Alternate birth year: 1842

Notes:

[riverrat1981.ged]

(The Hamlin Family Genealogy says that she and Henry S. were married in Laporte. OH??)

REF: The Hamlin Family - Gen. of James Hamlin of Barnstable, MA - p 694-5

Notes:

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+ Hitchcock Genealogy- 1894- p 170
+ History of Jackson Co (MI)- p ?
+ Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6. p ?
+ Census records- 1850,60 OH; 1870,80 MI
+ Jackson City directories
+ Death certificate
+ Descendants of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, L.I.; S.C & R.B.Brush; 1982; page 190.

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[Is this Mark and Polly?]
1840 Ohio: Hitchcock, Marcus
Township: Munson
County: Geauga
State: Ohio
Year: 1840
Page: 163
1 male - (20-30) and 1 female - (20-30)

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[From Michigan Historical Society Records, Vol. 11 page 17 (found on Ancestry.com 09.Dec.2005)]
After a long illness, Mark S. Hitchcock died at his residence, No. 506 West Main street, Oct. 18, 1886, in the 66th year of his age. Some weeks ago Mr. Hitchcock was stricken with typhoid fever, but had nearly recovered, when a severe cold developed a chronic urinary trouble which ended his life.

Mark S. Hitchcock was born in Ontario county, New York, in 1821, his parents, Manly and Chloe Hitchcock, being natives of Waterbury, Conn. They moved to Lorain county, Ohio, in 1824, and lived in Cleveland until their death. While a youth Mark Hitchcock worked on a farm summers and attended district school winters until he married Miss Polly Morgan, at the age of twenty years, and then engaged in buying and shipping live stock for several years, after which he embarked in the grocery business, which he followed in connection with farming until 1864, when he was elected sheriff of Lorain county and held the office for four years. He removed to Jackson county in 1868 and purchased the farm three miles north of this city, which he owned until last year, when he sold it to Charles R. Durand, and bought the store, No. 188, in the Durand block. In 1879 he bought the hardware stock of Rice & McConnel in this city and managed it one year in partnership with his son-in-law, George W. Fifield, who then sold out and a new firm was organized January 1, 1880, with M. S. Hitchcock, Reuben E. Clark and Charles S. Hitchcock as partners. Three years later Mr. Hitchcock sold his interest in the business and the firm became Clark, Helmer & Houk, who conducted the business a years and then transferred it back to M. S. Hitchcock & Co., the present firm. In 1880 Mr. Hitchcock purchased an interest in the Eureka Coal Co. and was elected superintendent and treasurer the same year.

Mr. Hitchcock’s first wife died in May, 1854, leaving five children, and two years later he married Mary A. Bush, of Lorain, Ohio, who survives him.

During his illness all of Mr. Hitchcock’s children were at his bedside, but, with the belief that he was recovering, his son Henry returned to his home in Nebraska some days ago, and his daughter, Mrs. Henry Kennedy, returned to her home at Tougaloo, Mississippi. The other children are Wallace W. Hitchcock, grocer, of 504 North Blackstone street; Mrs. George W. Fifield, 420 Williams street; Mrs. David Town, of Blackman; Charles S. Hitchcock, [p.69] No. 240 West Main Street, and Miss Clara, who resides with her parents.

Mr. Hitchcock was a prominent and active member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, a man of good business ability and highly esteemed by a very wide circle of friends.

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[From a letter written by E. W. Powers March 7 1950 for Ruth Hitchcock Bressler]
Mark Hitchcok was sheriff in Elyria Ohio. Later he moved to Jackson Michigan.

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Mark came to OH with his parents abt 1824; worked on the family farm until he was 20, when he engaged in buying and shipping livestock for several years; then was in the grocery and provision business and farming until 1864, when he became Sheriff of Lorain Co and served four years in this office. In 1868,
he moved his family to a farm 3 miles north of Jackson, MI. He purchased a hardware store (Rice & McConnell) in 1879 and settled in the city. His son-in-law, George Fifield, was his partner for a year; he ran the store for a year by himself and Jan 1, 1880, took his son, Charles S, and Rueben E. Clark as
partners, each owning one-third interest.
Mark purchased an interest in the Eureka coal mine and was elected Supt. and Treasurer in Dec 1880. He also served as a Justice of Blackman Twp for some years. He and Mary were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


Find-A-Grave Memorial Number: 23909394

Mark married Mary Morgan on 05 Jun 1839 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A.. Mary (daughter of Ira Beebe Morgan and Louisa Bronson) was born about 1817 in Ohio U.S.A.; died on 27 May 1853 in Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A.; was buried in Butternut Ridge Cemetery, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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REF: Hitchcock Genealogy- 1894- p 170
History of Jackson Co (MI)- p ?
Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6. p ?
Census records- 1850 OH
Desc.of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington,L.I.- S.C & R.B.Brush -
1982- p 190

Find A Grave memorial # 43176142

Notes:

"David ll ...came from Lee, Berkshire, MA, settled in Dover, Cuyahoga Co (OH).."
[History of Lorain Co, OH - Wright - p 759]

David married Roxana Crocker on 26 Oct 1830 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio U.S.A.. Roxana (daughter of Noah Crocker and Betsey Foot) was born on 01 Jul 1807 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts U.S.A.; died on 17 Mar 1891 in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

History of Lorain County, Ohio; Wright; page 759.

Roxey Crocker, ch. Noah and Betsey, was born 1 July 1807 in Lee, MA.

Andrews, H. Franklin. The Hamlin Family. Exira, IA: Published by the author, 1902.

Vital Records of Lee, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston, MA: New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903.

Notes:

History of Lorain County, Ohio; Wright; page 759.

Notes:

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[From a letter written by E. W. Powers March 7, 1950 to Ruth Hitchcock Bressler]

Manley Hitchcock born and raised in Massachusetts, came to the State of Ohio when that part of the state was a wilderness, settled where the City of Cleveland now stands, on the Cuyhoga River, county by the same name.

Sold that property for eight dollars per acre. Moved to the next adjoining county, being Lorain County where he bought land for one dollar and twenty five per acre near the center of Eton TWP where he lived and raised a large family.

Manley married Chloe Adams related to John and Quincy (Adams) that became our second and sixth presidents. She was raised in Massachusetts where they were married.

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[From "Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family 1894" Page 170]

In the War of 1812 he was employed as a teamster to carry munitions of war between Sacketts Harbor and Buffalo. He had twelve children, five boys and seven girls. About 1825 he and his brother Samuel moved to Ohio on the Western Reserve, Lorain Co. They were pioneers and on a small tract of land where they endured the hardships incident to that early day. Two boys died in infancy.

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[From Michigan Historical Society Records, Vol. 11 page 17]
Mark S. Hitchcock was born in Ontario county, New York, in 1821, his parents, Manly and Chloe Hitchcock, being natives of Waterbury, Conn. They moved to Lorain county, Ohio, in 1824, and lived in Cleveland until their death.[riverrat1981.ged]

* Manley & Chloe had 12 ch- 7 girls & 5 boys- 2 boys d in infancy. He was employed as a teamster to carry munitions of war between Sacketts Harbor and Buffalo (NY), in War of 1812. He and brother Samuel moved to the Western Reserve, Lorain Co, OH abt 1825.
** He came in 1823 to Lot 44 in Eaton Twp. (OH)

REF:* Hitchcock Genealogy- 1894- pp 146,170
Name & Fam of Hotchkiss..Hotchkiss Fam Assoc- p 97
Wallingford Vital Records
Cheshire " "
Families of Ancient New Haven-Jacobus
** History of Lorain Co (OH)- 1879
John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA & Descendants- Timothy Hopkins- p 83

Find A Grave memorial #43175176

Manley married Chloe Adams in abt.1824. Chloe (daughter of Sylvanus Adams and Sarah Hopkins) was born on 04 Feb 1785 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 19 Sep 1873 in Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A.; was buried in Lindsey Cemetery, Cheshire Corners, Allegan, Michigan U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

According to E. W. Powers March 7, 1950 to Ruth Hitchcock Bressler

Chloe Adams related to John and Quincy (Adams) that became our second and sixth prsidents. She was raised in Massusetts wher they were married
(Manley Hitchcock). Chloe Adams Hitchcock died at home in Michigan[riverrat1981.ged]

REF: John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA & Descendants- Tim. Hopkins- 1932- p 83
Hitchcock Genealogy- 1894- p 170
Waterbury, New Haven CT Vital Records

Notes:

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Ira B settled in Ridgeville Twp, Lorain Co, OH in 1810.

REF: Lorain County Researcher- Fall 1993- pp 42-43 (Chart)

Ira married Louisa Bronson in 1813 in Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A.. Louisa (daughter of Levi Bronson and Sarah Prindle) was born about 1793 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut U.S.A.; died before 1845 in Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Noah Crocker, Jr. and Betsey Foot were married 23 Oct. 1806 in Lee, MA.

Noah Crocker was a teacher. They moved to Dover, OH, about 1812-14. He was a Whig and a Presbyterian.

Andrews, H. Franklin. The Hamlin Family. Exira, IA: Published by the author, 1902.

Vital Records of Lee, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston, MA: New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903.

Noah married Betsey Foot Betsey was born on 23 Jun 1786 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts; died on 16 Nov 1860 in Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Betsey Foot, ch. David and Betsey, was born 23 June 1786 in Lee, MA. Presbyterian.

Andrews, H. Franklin. The Hamlin Family. Exira, IA: Published by the author, 1902.

Goodwin, Nathaniel. The Foote Family. Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1849.

Vital Records of Lee, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston, MA: New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903.