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Lydia Bisbee

Female 1811 - Aft 1880  (69 years)

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  • Name Lydia Bisbee  [1, 2, 3, 4]
    Birth 26 Jun 1811  , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Gender Female
    Census 7 Aug 1820  Smithfield Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Religion 25 May 1833  Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Received into First Baptist church 
    Census 1 Jun 1840  Busti Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Census 25 Sep 1850  Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Census 11 Jul 1860  Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Census 2 Jun 1880  French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Death Aft 1880 
    Person ID I43  Bisbee
    Last Modified 19 Apr 2010

    Father Reuben Bisbee,   b. 27 Jul 1776, , Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1865, Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
    Mother Lydia Cushman,   b. 25 Sep 1775, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Sep 1856, Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Marriage 10 Oct 1797  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 14] 
    Family ID F31  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Truman D. Reynolds,   b. Abt 1808, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1875 (Age 67 years)
    Marriage
    • The conclusion that Reuben Bisbee's daughter Lydia became wife of Truman D. Reynolds is not directly proven, but the circumstantial evidence is compelling.
      1) From Reuben Bisbee's 1865 Last Will and Testament, we know that Lydia Bisbee's married name was Reynolds.
      2) Lydia Bisbee was born in 1811; according to the census this Lydia Reynolds was born about 1811.
      3) Lydia Bisbee grew up in Madison County, New York; according to the census Lydia Reynolds was born in Madison County.
      4) Lydia Bisbee's parents were born in Massachusetts; according to the census Lydia Reynolds' parents were born in Massachusetts.
      5) Mrs. Truman Reynolds lived in and around Wattsburg during the mid- to late 1800's. Three of Lydia Bisbee's siblings--Joseph, Reuben and Betsy--all lived in close proximity to Mrs. Reynolds at one time or another. In 1875 and 1880 she is living right across the road from the Joseph Bisbee homestead.
      6) Through 40 years of electronically searchable census, no other "Lydia Reynolds" has surfaced, who is of Lydia Bisbee's approximate age and place of birth.
      7) If Lydia Bisbee and Mrs. Truman Reynolds are indeed the same person (as your compiler believes they are), then Lydia's son Erastus married his first cousin Ruth, daughter of Joseph C. Bisbee, a conclusion supported by evidence that their two children suffered afflictions often associated with marriage between first cousins.
    Children 
     1. Almira Reynolds,   b. Abt 1835, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Polly M. Reynolds,   b. 24 Jan 1840, , , , Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 1906 (Age 66 years)
    +3. Erastus D. Reynolds,   b. 28 Jun 1844, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 1884, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
     4. William H. Reynolds,   b. 18 Jul 1846, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1880 (Age 33 years)
     5. Hannah Reynolds,   b. Abt 1849, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     6. Phillip Reynolds,   b. Abt 1851, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     7. Richard Reynolds,   b. Abt 1852, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +8. Abigail Jane Reynolds,   b. 27 May 1856, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jan 1943, Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F7186  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 26 Jun 1811 - , , New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 7 Aug 1820 - Smithfield Town, Madison, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsReligion - Received into First Baptist church - 25 May 1833 - Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1 Jun 1840 - Busti Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 25 Sep 1850 - Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 11 Jul 1860 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 2 Jun 1880 - French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1232] Bisbee, Reuben: Last Will and Testament, (Madison County Courthouse, Wampsville, New York. Probate File # 2621).

    2. [S2183] Reynolds, William H (I20152): 1875 NY State Census, (Chautauqua County Courthouse, Mayville, New York. Dwelling 1875, family 48.).

    3. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 5.

    4. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 7.

    5. [S1339] Margaret J. Bisbee, Bisbee, Reuben (I28): Family Bible List, (Erie, Pennsylvania. Self published, 1974: pp 1-2.).

    6. [S1344] Hope S. Klee, Bisbee, Reuben (128): Family List (Kibbe), (Cortland, New York: student paper, State University, 1965. p. 35.).

    7. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 21.

    8. [S1540] Bisbee, Reuben (I28): 1820 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M33, roll 73; page 47, line 14; image downloaded 8/14/2008), 1820-Smithfield.11.jpg.

    9. [S1903] Transcribed by DAR Monument Chapter, Minneapolis, Records of the First Baptist Church of Lebanon, Madison County, New York, (Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Microreproduction of original typescript (244 leaves) written in 1948. Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968. Film GS #860284.), p. 29, 0532970.
      "25 May 1833. Lydia Bisbee related her Christian experiences, she having been baptized before. Voted to receive her"

    10. [S1932] Reynolds, Truman D (I18312): 1840 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M704, roll 271; page 81, line 6; image downloaded 9/2/2008), 1840-Busti.27.jpg.

    11. [S1938] Reynolds, Truman D (I18312): 1850 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M432, roll 777; page 70(B), line 2, dwelling 111, family 114; image downloaded 9/2/2008.), 1850-Venango.16.jpg.

    12. [S1943] Reynolds, Truman D (I18312): 1860 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M653, roll 1107; enumerated page 20, master page 20, line 9, dwelling 1410, family 155; image downloaded 9/2/2008), 1860-Amity.20.jpg.

    13. [S1947] Reynolds, Lydia Bisbee (I43): 1880 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T9, roll 815; enumeration district (ED) 57, enumerated page 2B, master page 374B, line 23, dwelling 21, family 21; image downloaded 9/2/2008.), 1880-French_Creek.57.2.jpg.

    14. [S1233] Athrop Foster, editor, Vital Records of Kingston, Mass. to 1850, (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1911.), 176, 204.
      Under Marriages: "Bisbe, Reuben [int. Reuben] Jr. and Lydia Cushman [int. 2nd], Oct 10, 1797; Cushman, Lydia [int. 2nd] and Reuben [int. Reuben] Bisbe Jr., Oct 10, 1797."