This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hooker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACI/2501.2 Message Board Post: He is indeed buried in Poultney, in what is called Hosford’s Crossing Cemetery which is on the west side of route 30, 3 miles north of the stop light in town. It is just beyond where the railroad crossed the highway. Here are the Hookers buried there. Apparently Marquis was married twice. Check the Schenectady website information noted below the cemetery inscriptions. HOOKER, Ruth, 1st wife of Thomas, d. Sept. 4, 1781 in 23rd y Ruth, 2nd wife of Thomas, d. Nov. 16, 1784 in 30th y. ‘Grim death behold fast your prisners here, You hold your prey in vain, For Christ your conq’ror will appear, And burst the captives chain.” HOOKER, infant twins of M.D.F and SM., b. Nov. 29, 1829 Esther Ann, d. March 9, 1830 HOOKER, Marquis D. LaFayette, Feb. 22, 1799-Aug. 18, 1831 (almost face down) HOOKER, Nathan S., d. March 27, 1824 in 30th y. HOOKER, Capt. James, d. March 20, 1824 age 37 y. RANSOM, Vesta Ann, dau. of Col. James and Lucina Hooker, d. Feb. 8,1812 in 25th y. HOOKER, Lucina, wife of Col. James, d. Sept. 2, 1832 in 66th y. HOOKER, Col. James, d. Aug. 9, 1844 age 84 y. [in East Poultney cemetery, buried between Benjamin BACHELDOR died 1838 at 74 y and William N BATCHELDER d March 2, 1828 at age 34. there are 6 stones together with the last name spelled 2 different ways. Obviously, she was not the mother of the twins or Esther Ann. Presumably Marquis was married twice, the second time to SM, but there are no SM Hookers buried in the Poultney cemeteries.] HOOKER, Lucinda, wife of Capt. M.D.F., d Jan 14, 1824 in 26th year http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/hooker.html HOOKER Colonel James, son of James and Dorothy (Parmalee) Hooker, was born at Woodbury, Connecticut, December 25, 1760, died at Poultney, Vermont, August 9, 1844. He was a soldier of the revolution, enlisting in the Eighth Regiment, Connecticut Line, and spent the terrible winter at Morristown, New Jersey, with Washington's army. He was a colonel of the Vermont militia, and ever an earnest advocate of an efficient and thoroughly organized citizen soldiery. He married (first) Lucina Christy, died at Poultney, September 2, 1832. Married (second) Chloe (Hickok) Hoyt, widow of Deacon Hoyt, of Castleton, Vermont. Children by first wife: Marquis de Lafayette Martha Stoddard. Asa Christy, married Bertha Bliss. Emily, married Stephen Ransom. Rev. Herman F.; his widow removed to Mexico, where she had a school for orphan girls. Maria, married William Goodspeed. Marquis de Lafayette (commonly called Marcus), son of Colonel James and Lucina (Christy) Hooker, was born at Poultney, Vermont, February 22, 1792, died August 18, 1831. He married Lucinda Bachelder. Children: Lucinda Bachelder, married Charles Cutler, of Guildhall, Vermont; children: Charles Hooker and Edwin Hervey Cutler Esther Ann, born in Poultney, November 29, 1829, died March 9, 1830. Mary Jeanette, daughter of Marquis de Lafayette and Lucinda (Bachelder) Hooker, was born at Poultney, Vermont, May 30, 1822. She married, October 25, 1848, Judge Francis Norton Mann