 |
Freeman-Smith History and Ancestry
|
|
| |
 1791 - 1867 (75 years)
-
| Name |
PULSIFER David |
| Birth |
06 Dec 1791 |
Rockingham, Windham Co, VT  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1867 |
Brimfield, IL |
| Notes |
- Resided between Rockingham and South rockingham. His farm joined that
ofElias Pulsipher and the neighborhood was known as "Pulsipher
Hollow". He was for many years a drover and drove cattle and sheep
from northern N.H. and Vt. on foot to Boston markets before the
Cheshire R.R. was built, and later loading on the cars at Fitchburg,
winchendon, and Bellow Falls; seriously injured early in the 1850's
by being crushed in a car by unruly cattle and never fully recoved.
He was a large man, of great energy, deeply interested in public
affairs, in the education of his children and in the churches of the
town. He sold his farm about 1860 and removed to South Rockingham and
in 1865 to Brimfield, Ill. where he died in 1867 at the home of his
daughter, Elizabeth.
|
| Person ID |
I7033 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
10 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
PULSIFER David, b. 29 Sep 1757, Pomfret, Windham Co., CT d. 14 Jan 1835, Rockingham, Windham Co., VT (Age 77 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
RUSSELL Priscilla, b. 20 Feb 1754, of Walpole, NH d. 12 Jun 1816, Rockingham, Windham Co., VT (Age 62 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
15 Oct 1778 |
Rockingham, Windham Co., VT |
| Family ID |
F10451 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
LANE Rebecca, b. 1794, "of Walpole" d. 05 Feb 1847, Rockingham, Windham Co., VT (Age 53 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Mar 1815 |
| Children |
| | 1. PULSIFER Lewis d. 21 Jun 1825, Rockingham, Windham Co., VT [natural] |
| | 2. PULSIFER Mary d. 24 Sep 1821, Rockingham, Windham Co., VT [natural] |
| | 3. PULSIFER Elvira, b. 07 Mar 1816 d. 16 Jun 1881 (Age 65 years) [natural] |
|
| Family ID |
F7033 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Apr 2024 |
|
|
|
|
