Twelfth Generation

603. George Washington F. ROOT (:) was born in 1805 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, MA.^{85,86,139,140} (The Woodlawn Cemetery records list his birth year as 1807.) Before 1854 he was a merchant in Chenango, Broome County, NY.⁸⁵ He and his family moved from Chenango, NY to Sparta, WI, in 1854. He appeared in the census in 1855 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.^141,142 His household consisted of 2 males and 5 females.
George owned 40 acres on 15 April 1856 in Monroe County, WI.¹⁴² His property was described as "the South East Quarter of the North West Quarter of Section Twenty Eight in Township Nineteen North of Range Four West in the District of Lands subject to sale at La Crosse, Wisconsin." He owned 40 acres on 20 February 1857 in La Crosse County, WI.¹⁴² His property was described as "the North East Quarter of the South West Quarter of Section Twenty in Township Seventeen North of Range Three West, in the District of Lands subject to sale at La Crosse, Wisconsin." He was a deacon in the Congregational Church about 1860 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸⁵ George appeared in the census in 1860 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.^140,143 His occupation was listed as "merchant."
He appeared in the census in 1880 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³⁹ His occupation was listed as "retired merchant." He died on 4 January 1899 at the age of 94 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.^144,145,146 George was buried in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸⁶ in the Woodlawn Cemetery.

George Washington F. ROOT (:) and Jane BENNETT were married about 1840.¹³⁹ Jane BENNETT¹³⁹ was born in 1819 in New York.^86,139,140 (The 1860 Census listed her age as 41, indicating a birth year of 1819; the 1880 Census listed her as 66, indicating a birth year of 1814.) She died in February 1896 at the age of 77.^147,148 She was buried in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸⁶ in the Woodlawn Cemetery.

George Washington F. ROOT (:) and Jane BENNETT had the following children:

+751	i.	Jane Blanche ROOT (:).
+752	ii.	Miranda "Minnie" ROOT (:).
+753	iii.	Ella Bertha ROOT (:).
754	iv.	Nellie ROOT (:) was born about 1855 in New York.¹³⁹ About 1880 she was a music teacher in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³⁹
755	v.	George ROOT (:) was born about 1859 in Wisconsin.¹⁴⁰
+756	vi.	Feronia ROOT (:).
+757	vii.	John Mortimer ROOT (:).