Here is something I found in an old Terre Haute, Indiana, newspaper. Some of it was difficult to read so I hope I got all the names spelled correctly. My ancestor was Gershom and Pamelia's son, Chester. After the death of his wife, Charlotte, Chester remarried to Nancy Moore in Tippecanoe Co., IN. Would love to hear from other descendants of Chester and Nancy! Adina Watkins Dyer West Lafayette, IN _______________________________________________________ Terre Haute Tribune, June 22, 1947 GERSHOM TUTTLE “Three hundred and fifteen years ago the watchman on Beacon Hill above the little village that was Boston, saw on the far horizon what has been hoped for over many weeks. It was the ship Planter and as it landed amid the welcoming people, who were never far from starvation in those early days, there came ashore William TUTTLE and his wife, Elizabeth, first of the name to reach the shores of America. Of their children we know that a son Simon had a son who became known as Deacon Timothy and Timothy had among others, a son whom he named Gershom, and three following generations used the name. A great-grandson of Deacon Timothy, after serving in the War of the Revolution, came with his family to Vigo county. He died in 1818, aged 80 years. Of his son Gershom we know a great deal more for he in turn left a large family. Born in 1769, he married in 1788 Pamelia Strong CLARK who was born in 1770. To them were born Dennis, Chester, Edwin, Cynthia, Pamelia, Mary, Amanda, Clark and Ara. Some of these came to Vigo county, married here and with but few exceptions spent all their lives here. The eldest son, Dennis, married Laura PORTER and they had Perry, Gaylord, Pamelia, Charlotte, Benjamin, Julia, Catherine and Mary. Dennis was born in 1792 and died in 1807, probably in New York as did Edwin. Chester, born in 1796, married Charlotte STEVENS and had Chauncey. Cynthia, born in 1803, married first Perez PORTER, second Nathaniel HUNTINGTON and last James HUNTINGTON, his brother, but left no descendants. Pamelia, born in 1805 married Gaylord PORTER who may have been of the same family as Laura and Perez. Mary, born in 1807, married in 1820 to Alva HITCHKISS, and died in 1886. They had Walter and Mary. Amanda, born in 1809, married in 1825 to Henry MARKLE, and lived in Lafayette and Bloomington, where they rest in the city cemetery. They had John, Gershom, Amelia, Sarah and Kate. Clark Strong, born in 1811, married in 1832 to Harriet McSweaney, and had Hannah, Frank, who married Mary NAUFLE? An, and Aula. Harriet died, and in 1852 he married Nancy A. HARBERT. These had Emma, Dennis, Richard, Hattie B., Dellie E. and Carrie. Ara, the last of the issue of Gershom and Pamelia, died near Danville, Ill. Perry Erie?, the son of Dennis and Laura, married in 1841 to Julia A. CRANE and had Nellie Frances, Harriet Electa, Eliza Lorgan, Laura Ophelia, Millie Morrow, Zenlah Kate and Martha Washington. We have no trace of his brothers and sisters. Chauncey, son of Chester and Charlotte, married Mary Ann Stites and had a son, Morton. John, son of Henry MARKLE and Amanda, married Isabella CRANMER, who died within the year and his second wife, Martha, had two sons, William and Milliard Fillmore and a daughter named Queen Elizabeth who married in 1880 S.T. WOODWARD. Gershom, another of the name from early generations, was born at Lafayette and buried there, married Ella J. RICHETTS and had Harriet and Cora. Amelia married Ambrose CUNNING, Kate married a man named Douglas and Sarah married William BROWNING at Bloomington and had Walter, Emma, Laura J., David W. and William Lincoln. Clark Strong by his first wife had Frank who married Mary NAUGLE and of his sisters Hannah and Aula we know nothing. Of his children by the second wife, Dennis C. married in 1881 Luella TAYLOR and had Zula H. and Frank Naylor. Of the issue of Perry TUTTLE and Julia CRANE, Millie Morrow married William H. RIPPETOE and had Louis, Raymond, William and Earle. Herbert MARKLE married in 1903 to Harriet E. ANDREWS and had Katherine A., Mary Elizabeth, Harriet Jane and Herbert A. His sister, Cora, married Oscar R. ARMSTRONG and has Robert, James and John. Sarah and her husband, William BROWNING had Walter, Emma, Laura J., who married first Joseph McPHEETERS and second a man named SMITH and a son David W. born in 1850 and died in 1907 who had a daughter named Sadie A., born in 1879 and died in 1900. Frank N. TUTTLE married Ethel E. SPEAR and had Richard C., Betty Jane, Frank N. Jr., Beverly Maxine, Maurice Rudolph and Gretchen Lee. Martha Washington TUTTLE married Herbert SPELLMAN and Raymond RIPPETOE married Lucy FERRILL and Chas. FERRILL who married Nell GOODRICH and they have Miriam, William F. and Joyce. William RIPPETOE married Margaret FERRILL, a sister of the wife of Ray RIPPETOE. No doubt there are many more descendants of this old soldier of the Revolution and the Indiana branch headed by his son of the War of 1812 and the writer would be glad to learn of their connection.”