Sixth Generation


44. Moses DEWEY (*) (*+) was born on 29 April 1789 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.399,401 (The attached map is of the Westfield, Hampden County, MA, area. Westfield is located just west of Springfield and Chicopee, MA.)

(The Death record of his daughter Permelia listed his place of birth as Ohio.) He appeared in the census in 1810 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.668 He lived in Northampton Township, Summit County, OH about 1816.401 Moses died on 8 September 1825 at the age of 36 in Northampton Township, Summit County, OH.401,669,670
Electa FOWLER (*) and Moses DEWEY (*) (*+) were married on 9 August 1813 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.4,398,401,671 She must have been visiting in Westfield, MA, when she met Moses. They married there and then returned to her birth place in Ohio, where their children were born. She may have been a descendant of Ambrose Fowler, one of the founders of Westfield.

45. Electa FOWLER (*) was born on 2 May 1790 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.399,672

(The attached map is of the North Hampton, Clark County, OH, area. North Hampton is located south of Cleveland.) She died in 1843 at the age of 53 in Northampton Township, Summit County, OH.399,401,670

Children were:

i.

Richard D. DEWEY was born on 10 September 1814 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.673,674,675

The 1840 Census for Bainbridge, Geauga County, OH, contained the household of Richard D. Dewey. The household consisted of one male, age 20-30 (possibly Richard, age 25); two males, age 15-20 (possibly Ralph, 16 and Norman, 20); one female, age 10-15 (possibly Mary, age 14); and one female, age 15-20 (possibly Permelia, age 18). If that was him and his siblings, their mother may have died before 1840. He died on 29 June 1882 at the age of 67 in Solon, Cuyahoga County, OH.400,675

ii.

Electa DEWEY was born in 1816 in North Hampton, Clark County, OH.400 She died in 1816 at the age of 0.400

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iii.

Norman N. DEWEY (*) (*+).

iv.

Pamelia DEWEY193,254 was born on 6 January 1822 in North Hampton, Clark County, OH.128,141,401,675,676 (Her birthplace may have been Bainbridge, Geauga County, Ohio.) She appeared in the census in 1850 in Flora Township, Sauk County, WI.677 She appeared in the census in 1860 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.128 Pamelia appeared in the census in 1870 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.129 She appeared in the census in 1880 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.131

(She could not be located in Monroe County in the 1900 Census, although she died there in 1901.) She died on 3 January 1901 at the age of 78 in Oakdale, Oakdale Township, Monroe County, WI.286,675,676 According to the Death Registration record, she died of "heart disease," which she had suffered for ten years. Pamelia was buried on 7 January 1901 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.127,193,676 in the Oak Grove Cemetery. (She also has a gravestone marker in the Ridgeville Methodist Cemetery on Highway A.)

v.

Judge Ralph DEWEY was born on 8 January 1824 in Northampton Township, Summit County, OH.141,401,673,675 He owned 40 acres on 10 August 1858 in Monroe County, WI.300 Although he lived in Iowa, he is believed to have been the Ralph Dewey who purchased property described as "the South East Quarter, of the South West Quarter, of Section fifteen in Township Sixteen, North of Range two West, in the District of Lands subject to sale, at the La Crosse, Wisconsin." He appeared in the census in 1860 in Washington Township, Washington County, IA.193 Ralph died on 8 April 1896 at the age of 72 in Washington, Washington Township, Washington County, IA.673,675
He was buried in Washington, Washington Township, Washington County, IA.193

vi.

Mary DEWEY was born on 22 April 1826 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY.401,673,675 She appeared in the census in 1850 in Independence, Cuyahoga County, OH.193