Betsey E. Babcock

Betsey Avery Babcock. — The name of Mrs. Betsey Babcock is a familiar one in Ravenna township and its vicinity, for here she has resided for many years, from the period of its earliest settlement, and she has won in all these years many stanch and true friends. She was born on the 30th of May, 183 1, to Reuben and Corrinna ((Lewis) Avery, the father from New York and the mother from Connecticut. Her grandparents located in western Lorain county, Ohio, as early as 1800. Reuben Avery, a shoemaker, located in Aurora, Ohio, and was there married to his second wife, and as she owned a farm, he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and also cleared and improved the land. He lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and one years, and died in the year 1873.

Their daughter Betsey remained at home with her parents until her marriage, and she was the youngest of her father's eighteen children. Her marriage to Albert Babcock was celebrated on the 26th of April, 1854, and they then bought the farm on which the widow resided for fifty-one years, they having in the meantime cleared it from its virgin wildness. It is a one hundred and eighty acre tract, and there the husband passed away in death on April 26, 1905. He was one of the prominent and successful agriculturists of Ravenna township, and his name was honored wherever known. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Babcock was blessed by the birth of six children, namely :

• John T.,
• Adelaide M.,
• Mary Corrinna,
• Martha M.,
• Jeanette M. and
• Josephine B.

Bibliographic information:

• History of the Western Reserve
• by Upton, Harriet Taylor; Cutler, Harry Gardner, 1856-
• Published 1910
• Topics Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History, genealogy
• Volume 2
• Publisher Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
• Pages 886
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Language English
• Call number 31833024056142
• Digitizing sponsor MSN
• Book contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• Collection allen_county; americana
• Scanfactors 11
• Full catalog record MARCXML
• Page 1133
• Identifier-access http://www.archive.org/details/historyofwestern02upto

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CHILDREN OF CORINNA 44 LEWIS AND REUBEN AVERY, HER SECOND HUSBAND.

95. v. Amelia, was born December 22, 1823. She married, January 1, 1846, Merrill Stanton, and resides at Streetsboro, Ohio.

96. vi. Minerva, was born October 21, 1825, and married, May 9, 1852, Julius Olds. She died July 2, 1883.

97. vii. Seth A., was born December 27, 1826. He married, first, February 26, 1850, Paulina Terrell. He married, second, May 21, 1859, Mrs. Mary Smith, and now resides at Ridgeville, Ohio.

98. viii. Henry, was born July 15, 1828, and married, November 29, i860, Martha Stanton. He died April 14, 1890.

99- ix. Reuben N., was born December 10, 1829. He married, January 1, 1854, Frances Hatch, and now resides at Aurora, Portage county, Ohio.

100. x. Betsey, was born May 30, 1831. She married, April 26, 1854, Albert Babcock, and lives at Rootstown, Portage county, Ohio.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Book VXIII. of the Genealogy of the Lewis Family
• Author Simeon Dunham Lewis
• Publisher C.W. Moulton, 1891
• Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized Apr 16, 2007
• Length 66 pages
• Page 38
• https://books.google.com/books?id=KOswAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=...