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Family: Daniel Holden Damon / Betsy Louisa Bisbee (F8460)


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  • Male
    Daniel Holden Damon

    Birth  Abt 1807  Eaton Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  21 Mar 1871  , Putnam, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Father  Thomas Damon, Jr. | F8622 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Lovisa Furbush | F8622 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Betsy Louisa Bisbee

    Birth  30 Jan 1818  , Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Christening  19 May 1833  Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  Yes, date unknown   
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    Father  Reuben Bisbee | F31 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Lydia Cushman | F31 Group Sheet 

    Male
    Orlando F. Damon

    Birth  Abt 1839  , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  23 Apr 1863  Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Female
    Marriah Damon

    Birth  Abt 1842  , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Male
    + George William Damon

    Birth  Abt 1855  , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  Yes, date unknown   
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    Spouse  Mary Ella Stepleton | F8619 
    Marriage  7 Mar 1873  [1]  , Putnam, Ohio, USA  [1] Find all individuals with events at this location

  • Notes  Married:
    • Identification of Betsy Louisa Bisbee with this family stems mainly from her father's will, an online genealogy of the Damon family, and from the census.
      1) In his 1865 Last Will & Testament, Reuben Bisbee bequeaths to his daughter "Louisa Damond (sic)."
      2) The 1850 and 1860 census give Daniel Damon's wife as Betsey L. and Louisa, respectively.
      3) Betsy Louisa Bisbee and Betsy Louisa Damon are both born in New York in 1818.
      4) A Damon family genealogy has Daniel born in Eaton, Madison County, New York. No supporting census data has been found, but Eaton is very near Lebanon.
      5) In June of 1837, Betsy Bisbee is granted a letter of Dismissal from the First Baptist Church of Lebanon, Madison, New York, an indication she is moving away from Lebanon.
      6) Daniel and Betsy's first (known) child, Orlando, was born about 1839 in New York (Orlando will die in the 100th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War.)
      7) In the 1840 census, Daniel, Betsy and Orlando are living in Columbus, Warren, Pennsylvania, next door to Thomas Damon, who is probably Daniel's father. One Porter Damon (probably his brother) is also living in Columbus.
      8) In the 1850 census Daniel, Betsy, Orlando and Marriah are found in Clymer, a village in the Town of French Creek, Chautauqua County, New York. Residing in nearby Erie County, Pennsylvania, is Betsy Bisbee's probable sister, Lydia Reynolds. Also nearby in Bloomfield, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, is her brother Reuben. Her brother Joseph will move into the area in 1857.
      9) By the 1860 census, the Damons have moved on to Putnam County in northwest Ohio. Daniel dies there in 1871. Betsy Damon is not found in the 1880 census, and it is not known if she remarried and/or died in the interim. Their last known residence (from the 1870 census) is in Monterey township, Putnam County, and they are probably both buried there.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1521] Richard A. Damon, Jr., Damon, Daniel Holden (I22115) Family: Damon Genealogy, (Penobscot Press, 1997: Richard A. Damon, Jr., 120 Van Meter Drive, Amherst, Mass. 01002, pp. 77-78.).