Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . the side of his last wife in New Oregon Ceme-tery. He had, in early life, acquired a good high school education, and later hefollowed different occupations. From 1840 to 1854, he worked at the black-smiths forge. The remainder of his life was spent in farming and stock was a great reader of current news and of Bible history; always taking alive
Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . the side of his last wife in New Oregon Ceme-tery. He had, in early life, acquired a good high school education, and later hefollowed different occupations. From 1840 to 1854, he worked at the black-smiths forge. The remainder of his life was spent in farming and stock was a great reader of current news and of Bible history; always taking alively interest in all public questions, although never seeking office nor acceptingpublic offices tendered him. Children of Willard ayid Hannah (Elhs) Converse: Stillman Amos Converse, liorn in Marlborough, N. H., 24 Jan. 1S32; rereivcd a goodromnion-school education, and engaged in farming, first as an employC-, and lateras a farm owner. In 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co. I, 9th regiment Iowa Vol-unteers, for three yeirs service in the Civil War. He participated in many engage-ments, among which were the Battle of Pea Ridge and the siege of Vicksburg, where22 May 1863, his regiment led the charge on the enemys breastworks. During. Willard Converse. 4:^t5 ^be (lonvcrec jraniil\) tills assault he was severely woiiiuled in the lower thigh, and was sent home on afurlough of aliout six months. Recoverin;; sufficiently, he re-enlisted for anotherperiod of thiee years, and started out with Shermans army in its march to the sea;but, at the battle of Atlanta, w-hile on duty in the advance picket line, he was shotdown near Joiiesboro, and was buried with others in an unknown grave. He mar-ried, ! Oct. 1S63, Mary Margaret Weygandt, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wey-gandt. Zkhiiah LicRETi.\ CoxvKHsF., born in Marlborough, X. (i July : residence 1902,and for ten years Worcester, Mass. She resided in Pawtuxet, K. I.,from 1872 to 1892 She married, 1st, 17 -Nov. 1849
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