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1767- Grandfather Daniel Bachelder
was born in Lowden, New Hampshire January, 1767.
Died January 13, 1852.
Twelve children were born,- Sias, 1796; Jonathon, 1776;
Dorothy, Hanna; Anna; Judith; Polly, Jethro, 1784; Abigail, Samual Locke,
Nathaniel, 1792; Daniel, February 1798.
1798 - Father Daniel Bachelder, born February
18, 1798, Lowden, N.H.
1. Married Phebee Hyde, 1823, Franklin, Vermont.
Children -
Phebee, 1824, died young;
Harriet, 1826;
Harlow, 1828;
Judith Ann, 1832;
Luther ??
2. Married Electa Killan, March 31, 1832, died
June 50,1845.
Children -
Daniel, August 24, 1833, died July, 1851.
Sias, January 8 1835. Married Lucetta Peters,
La Platte, Nebraska, 1866.
Marietta, December 24, 1836. Married Gavin Gilmour
in Montreal .
Their children- Electa, Granville, Gavin, Susan, Marietta,
Arthur.
Jethro, born July 27 , 1840. Married Sarah
Jane Cousens of Ottawa, Capital of Canada,
March 16, 1867
Their children-
Annie Maud; Walter Sias; Marietta Matilda;
William Cousens; Arthur Lloyd; Elizabeth Wilhelmina;
George Whitfield; Electa Caroline.
5. Married Caroline Reynolds, 1853. No children.
Daniel Bachelder had little schooling. Being dissatisfied,
left home in Stanstead with an older brother, Sias. Started for Montreal
on foot. Did not reach there. Built a tannery at Rougemont, P.Q.
among English American settlers. That business did not pay. Bought two
farms side by side, one for his brother Sias, in 1822 at Sheriff's sale
for $400.00 each. Built small house to live in, then married. Their two
sons live on the farms now (1930). These farms covered with heavy timber
meant plenty of work for these brave pioneers. Patriotic for a part to
the United Empire Loyalists who preferred the Government of England to
that of the United States. First in loyalty to the crown.. In 1837 taking
military duty in the French Rebellion, gaining the honorable title of Lieutenant
Colone1 of that district.
Took a leading part in establishing an Episcopal church,
was complete in 1845. (The previous year he moved 36x36 barn
40 feet so my mother could see the church building. ) Carpenters were Isaac
Tewney, Thomas Sloggett of Granby, Onus Crawfield of Abbotsford. Glazer
was Walter Drake of Abbotsford. Took part in a separate Protestant school.
Also worked to start a mail route from Montreal to Sherbrooke. First Postmaster
of Rougemont, Justice of the peace. Progressive farmer. Lived an honorable
life. Died a much regretted friend, 20th May 1882.
Nine children were born.
Phebee Hyde from Vermont - first wife, five children,-
Phebee, died young.
Harriet married Daniel Austin. He supplied
the troops in Chambley and Montreal with beef.
Harlow Hyde married Margaret Reid. Had five
children.
Luther P. married Helen Sloggett. No children.
In 1853 he had contracted to build a church in Brottleboro, Vermont. Died
there in September of typhoid Fever.
Judith Ann married James Code of Rougemont.
Three daughters born. She died in 1878
Daniel Bachelder married (2nd time) Electa Killan
in 1832. Four children were born. -
Daniel K. attended private school under Judge Day.
Went swimming in April 1851, had quick consumption and died July.
Sias, born January 8, 1835, married Lucetta
Peters in Nebraska, Dec 25, 1866. Had seven children. Died in 1903.
Marietta born Dec. 22, 1836 Married Gaven Gilmore
in Montreal in 1856. An augers and bitts manufacturer. Very successful.
Started poor, died wealthy. Word was as good as his bond. Six children
were born. Electa married the Rev. Bilton, died 1909. No issue. Gavin drowned
in his 8th year; Granville married Miss Alice______. Three children were
born. Gavin died young, Alice, Gavin and Susan. Married Rev. W.F. Fyles
in Manitoba. Arthur narried in Magog. Ruth in business in Montreal.
Jethro Bachelder. Born July 27, 1840. Married
Sarah
Jane Cousens of Ottawa, Canada on 16th of March, 1867. A beautiful
Christian, very charitable. Played the organ in the church many years.
God blessed me most when she married me. Eight children were born.
Annie Maud (b.1868)- married F.C.
Alcorn in Winnipeg, now a coffee and tea merchant. No issue.
Walter Cousens, born 1870. Died in. his fifth year
of scarlet fever.
Marietta Matilda (b.1872)
William Cousens (b.1874) died at 14
years of age of pneumonia.
Arthur Lloyd, born 1875, married Miss Myrtle
Standish of Rougemont. Now living in Manitoba.. Three sons born. A farmer,
does all his own work with gasoline engines. (1930)
Elizabeth Wilhelmina, (Lila) (b.1877?)
George Whitfield, born 1880, Married Margaret Gauley
of Goderich, Ontario. Ten children born. An engineer on C.N.R. at La Tuque,
P.Q. Children-Frederick, Doris, Walter, Carol, Jethro, Lewis, Robert, Edward,
Joan. Marietta died in infancy.
Electa
Caroline- Nurse, served overseas in World War 1, 1910-1919. On return
resided in Los Angeles, California
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