Lydia Hallet (1819)

Born 1819 in Cambridge, MA

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Lydia Hallet. Given Name: Lydia. Surname: Hallet. ^[1]

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Marriage Husband Perly Ayer Ramsay. PREF Y. Wife Lydia Hallet. PREF Y. Marriage May 1847. ^[2][3] Child: Frank M. Ramsey. PREF Y. Child: Charles H. Ramsey.

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1. ↑ Source: #S199 Page 188-189; Recorded 03 Sep 2003 Certainty: 3
2. ↑ Source: #S199 Page 188-189; Recorded 03 Sep 2003 Certainty: 3
3. ↑ Source: #S644 Certainty: 1 26 Feb 2008

• Source: S198 GED Ramsey from IGI 5-8-2006 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S199 Media: Book Rumney, Then and Now Jesse A. Barney Publication: Rumney Then and Now by Jesse A. Barney Published by the Town of Rumney, N.H. 1967 AMOS CRAIG Amos Craig, son of David who was a first settler in Rumney, m. Abigail Keyes and lived in Plymouth and Rumney, is bu. in Hso. His birth and death dates ( 1779 - 1847 ). Hers ( 1778 - 1846 ) They were married in 1804. He was a shoe-maker. Their nine children: 1. Prisbee ( Presby ) b. about 1805. In the 1880 census he was still living in Rumney. His wife Mary was b. about 1802. 2. Orphia, b. about 1806 and was married about 1825 to John Daily, who d. at Hattarus Inlet, N. C. in Civil War in 1862. 3. Amos H. b. 1807, d. 1882, m. Hannah dau of David & «b»rdrbrdrsrdrw10rsp80 «i»Four Generations. Alice ( Craig) Boswell, Charles C. Craig, Ethel Grace (Perkins) Moses, Hannah (Ramsey) Craig; picture taken at corner of Wil-liam Learned House in Rumney Depot. «/i»Hannah ( Greenough ) Ramsey. She survived him and lived on in Rumney till 1916. 4. Abbie, b. about 1811, 12. 5. Oliver Hazard Perry Craig ( So named because Perry uttered the historic words, " Don't give up the ship. " in the War of 1812] ) ( Biogra-phies, Page 280.) When Oliver H. P. was 16, he started out for himself, went to Cam-bridge, Mass and learned the shoe business to follow in his father's footprints. He followed that trade for 43 years. He had a farm of 40 acres, which he bought of John Sheppard in 1852. When the Civil War broke out, he with another Grafton County man, joined with Col. T. P. Cheney and formed Co. A. 606 Reg. of New Hamp. Vol. Infantry. He was commissioned a Captain in the fall of 1862. He married Ann Dilson who died at 31, leaving four children, Oliver Jr. lived in Ashland and George was killed in the Battle of Bull Run. His 2nd. wife was Mary Jane, dau. of John Ellison of Holderness, they had four more children. Oliver was a democrat; an Episcopalian and an organizer of G. A. R. Post and was its first Commander. 6. Jacob Craig, b. about 1815; 7. Mary, b. about 1817; 8. Jacob, b. about 1820; 9. Issac L. Craig, b. about 1821. GEORGE C. CRAIG And His Forebears I. David Craig, m. Elizabeth Richardson Feb. 23, 1770. In Chester, N. H. He was a farmer, was a large, powerful man with a strong constitution. Elizabeth outlived him becoming almost a centennial, dying at the age of 99 years and 7 months (See Pention Records ). She was strong and active, in possession of her faculties up to the last. Their children follow: 1. Amos (*see his biography ); 2. Anna; 3. Stephen; 4. David; 5. Purses ( Percis ); 6. Tappan W. II. Tappan W. was b. in Warren about 1790. He was also large and strong, was an expert in the use of an axe. He would go to the woods alone, cut down large pine trees, saw them up, split them and fashion them into shingles. These handmade shingles were of superior quality and always found a ready sale. In Rumney he owned a farm in Quincy section, managing it with skill and judgment, for a period of 20 years. Afterward he retired to a small farm and died at the age of 81. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. His first wife was Sally Piper, his second wife was her sister Harriet. Their 12 children follow: 1. Betsey R. ( Published Aug 23, 1834 to James Cochran of Plymouth ), 2. Mary, 3. Rufus, 4. David, 5. Samuel, 6. Emiline, 7. Daniel, 8. Harriet, 9. Byron M., 10. Caroline, 11. Simon, 12. Abbie. III. Byron M. Craig, b. in Rumney May 19, 1833, educated in the " brick " school house. At the age of 21, he went to Dedham, Mass, where he secured a position at driving a team, in the transportation of furniture from Dedham to Boston. After three years he returned to Rumney, bought a farm known as the Perkins Place. He sold it after two years, so to be able to take care of his wife's parents, James and Lydia Ramsey. After their death he was given the farm, which was known as the Merrill Place because her parents were Merrill, because of his faithful and almost filial services. This was a valley farm with a large portion of it intervale land on Baker River. The house was at once enlarged and remodeled and the land improved in various ways. He was a model farmer and a well-thought- of citizen. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church and a Democrat. Byron and Lydia had four children: 1. Nellie G., d. at 14. 2. Mary C. b. in 1862, m. Luther Pierce of Plymouth, 3. George Cochran, b. Aug 18, 1865 ( See below ), 4. Lizzie A. d. at age 22 in 1890. IV. George C. Craig was a distinctively self-made man. His start in life was a pair of steer, his father allowed him to raise and " break ". After he trained them he sold them for . This served as a neucleus around which to gather a comfortable fortune and placed him among the leading business men of the town. After 21 he found employment at carpenter work of the railroad bridges. The savings from three seasons, added to his former "nest-egg " allowed him to purchase a horse-power engine and he followed threshing and wood-sawing for two years. Selling out at the end of that time and in company with Ralph E. Olney, opened a meat and provision store at Rumney Village. After six months, he bought out his partner and carried it on successfully for two years. He then accepted an offer made to him and bought out E. A. Sawyer owner of the old Quincy and Ward store at the Depot. He closed the sale Jan 15, 1892 and commenced business with a small stock of goods. He gradually built up the business till it was second to none in this section. 209 Some of the leading lines which he handled were; groceries, dry goods, crockery, hardware, ready-made clothing, patent medicine, paints, oil, feeds, and flour. He kept at this for nearly three decades. In the Granite Monthly, Vol. 146, 1914, Page25, he was given a write-up and his picture is shown. This was on the occasion when he was appointed Associate Justice of the Plymouth District Court by Gov. Samuel D. Felker. He held most town offices, as Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Road Agent, Representative to the General Court of 1905. He was Postmaster under Cleveland and Wilson. He was a member of the Democratic State Committee and a Baptist. The monthly wrote that he owned 1500 acres of timber land in Groton and ran a saw mill employing thirty hands. He m. Carrie E. Abbott, dau. of Daniel & Carrie M. ( Phillips ) Abbott. He had three children: Elizabeth, Roy and Ray. DANIEL HUTCHINS CRAIG ( A Native Son as was his Father ) Daniel H. Craig 3, ( Daniel 2, Alexander 1 ) was b. in Rumney Nov. 3, 1811. He was the youngest son of 8 children of Daniel and Pamela ( Hutchins ) Criag. He m. Helena Croome of Boston, Nov. 6, 1834. He d. Jan. 5, 1895 ( See Granite Month-ly) at Asbury Park, N. J., bu. in Greenwood Cem. Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a brother to Gilbert Craig, who lived where Earle Barney now resides in 1860 and is bu. at Hno. His father shortly after his birth, enlisted in the War of 1812. His grandfather Alexander was an officer of the Revolution. Daniel H. learned the printer's trade and went to New York City, while young. Before the general extention of the telegraph, he organized a system of collecting Euro-pean news, by intercepting incoming steamers, by small swift schooners, off the coast of Nova Scotia, and transmitting their dispatches from Halifax, carrier pigeons and pony express line to Boston and New York. He was interested, with the late Ezra Cornell and others in developing the tele-graph facilities of the country and became quite wealthy, but lost his fortune later through untoward investments. He built a large country place near Peekskill, N. Y. which later became a Roman Catholic Reformatory Institution. He was probably compelled to give up this property because of financial embarrassment. «u»«i»This information is from Rumney Then and Now History; arranged and collected, and compiled by Jesse A. Barney; Bi-centennial Edition, Published by the Town of Rumney, N.H. 1967, Pages 208-210«/b»«/i» Repository: #R1 Paranthetical: Y
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