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Betsy Louisa Bisbee

Female 1818 - Yes, date unknown

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  • Name Betsy Louisa Bisbee  [1, 2, 3]
    Birth 30 Jan 1818  , Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Census 7 Aug 1820  Smithfield Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Census 1 Jun 1830  Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Christening 19 May 1833  Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female
    Church Records 10 Jun 1837  Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Letter Of Dismissal 
    • From First Baptist Church.
    Census 1 Jun 1840  Columbus, Warren, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Census 12 Aug 1850  Clymer, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Census 26 Jun 1860  Jackson Township, Van Wert, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Census 3 Aug 1870  Monterey Township, Putnam, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I45  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  [2, 15] 
    Family ID F31  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Daniel Holden Damon,   b. Abt 1807, Eaton Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Mar 1871, , Putnam, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
    Marriage Y  [6]
    • 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.
    Children 
     1. Orlando F. Damon,   b. Abt 1839, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1863, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years)
     2. Marriah Damon,   b. Abt 1842, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. George William Damon,   b. Abt 1855, , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F8460  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 30 Jan 1818 - , Madison, 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 MapsCensus - 1 Jun 1830 - Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 19 May 1833 - Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChurch Records - Letter Of Dismissal - 10 Jun 1837 - Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1 Jun 1840 - Columbus, Warren, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 12 Aug 1850 - Clymer, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 26 Jun 1860 - Jackson Township, Van Wert, Ohio, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 3 Aug 1870 - Monterey Township, Putnam, Ohio, 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. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 5.

    3. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 8.

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

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

    6. [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.).

    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. [S1542] Bisbee, Reuben (I28): 1830 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M19, roll 93; page 351B, line 4; image downloaded 8/14/2008), 1830-Lebanon.21.jpg.

    10. [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.), 41, 0532970.
      "Betsy Louisa Bisbee given a letter of dismissal at her request"

    11. [S1930] Damon, Daniel Holden (I22115): 1840 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M704, roll 500; page 367B, line 24; image downloaded 9/2/2008), 1840-Columbus.1.jpg.

    12. [S1916] Damon, Daniel Holden (I22115): 1850 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M432, roll 485; page 2(B), line 24, dwelling 28, family 28; image downloaded 9/2/2008), 1850-Clymer.4.jpg.

    13. [S1919] Damon, Daniel Holden (I22115): 1860 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M653, roll 1045; enumerated page 73, master page 388, line 3, dwelling 513, family 506; image downloaded 9/2/2008), 1860-Jackson.2.jpg.

    14. [S1926] Damon, Daniel Holden (I22115): 1870 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2003): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M593, roll 1260; enumerated page 21, master page 371, line 26, dwelling 151, family 150; image downloaded 9/2/2008), 1870-Monterey.21.jpg.

    15. [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."