Charles Porter Jewett is listed at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ He enlisted in the Union Army and is a Civil War Vet. http://recorder.cuyahoga.oh.us/resources.htm He's buried at Lakeview Cemetery as a Veteran Cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: "doriswaggoner@juno.com" <doriswaggoner@juno.com> Date: Sunday, April 3, 2005 9:30 pm Subject: [OHCUYAHO] JEWETT, Moses, Oct 3, 1788 Hollis NH - 1850 ? Cleveland ? > > Looking for info on Moses JEWETT, b. Oct 3, 1788, Hollis NH, moved > to Conn at unknown age., married Eunice ANDREWS, b. 1792, > probably there. Family story says they came to Cleveland in 1808. > Have record of his buying a burial plot there in 1810, so he was > there at least that early. Children Esther A. b. 1813; George A. > b. 1816; Lydia A, b. 1818; Alvah b. 1821; Charles Porter b. 1825; > Eunice b. May 30, 1828; Mary Jane, b. 1830; Julia Towsley, b. > 1833. The children at least through Alvah were born in Cleveland. > Eunice, my ancestor, was born in Newburgh (now Newburgh Heights). > > > In Newburgh, the family lived on a farm on Miles Ave, and he was a > prominent farmer, as he had been prominent in Cleveland, though I > do not yet know his occupation there. Apparently his sons were > prominent businessmen and his daughters moved in society. > > His wife died in 1832, and in 1836 he married Adeline ADAMS. She > had eight children of her own. Moses and Adeline had two children > together, both of whom died as infants. Charles Porter JEWETT > married his stepsister Adeline ADAMS. > > Oddly enough, several of the ADAMS children and their families are > buried in the plot Moses JEWETT purchased, but he is not. I have > not been able to find his burial place. > > Some stories indicate he died in 1850. However, the place varies. > One says Cleveland. An obituary for his daughter Eunice's > husband Nicholas S. BASTION states that before their marriage in > 1851, Eunice lived in Dayton, OH with her father. This implies he > was still alive then. Numerous queries in that area have turned > up nothing. Neither have queries in the Cleveland area. > > I would appreciate any information at all on Moses JEWETT, either > on his early life in Cleveland, or on his death. > > Thank you, > Doris Waggoner > Seattle > > > ==== OHCUYAHO Mailing List ==== > Register your surnames and queries at > (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyaho/cuyaoh.htm) > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >