Emeline Doud French vs Emeline Doud Crampton

We have previously posted an article on the Blog concerning Emeline Doud whose family tree is as follows; Emeline Doud / Fanny Griffin-Lyman Doud / Edward Griffin / Samuel Griffin. There exists a good deal of confusion concerning the identity of Emeline, her parentage, and who she married. The most common thread suggests that she had married Edmund Frisbee of Montgomery, Massachusetts in 1822 and on his early death Harmon French of Montgomery in 1825. The young couple made their first home in Montgomery in western Massachusetts just north of the Connecticut border noted there in the 1830 and 1840 census records. The couple eventually ended up in Hartford, Connecticut where they are noted in the 1850 census ages 50 and 49 ( birth 1799/1800 ). Harmon died in 1865 and we find Emeline in the 1870 and 1880 census records listed with a date of birth in 1802. In the 1880 census she is listed as “mother in law” in her daughter Clarissa’s household. The French family has in its history a fairly detailed family history for Harmon and Emeline. The basic facts that they present are her marriage to Harmon in Montgomery, Massachusetts in February 1825, references to her as Emeline Doud Frisbee. It notes a date of death after 1880 in Hartford, Connecticut. It makes note of the fact that she had a twin sister Eveline who married Timothy Clark, also of Montgomery, also noting a number of interactions between the families of the two sisters. There are marriage records in Guilford for the marriage of an Emeline Doud of Guilford to Edmund Frisbee of Montgomery on September 11, 1822. There is also a marriage record for Eveline Doud of Guilford and Timothy Clark of Montgomery dated October 6, 1822. In the most widely sited genealogical material for Guilford, that of Alvan Talcott, which I assume they accessed, there is a good deal of material relating to these families, but as with most such collections it is troubled with mistakes and ambiguities. Within the collection, the original of which I reviewed for this article, is found the following material.------ Under the family of Asa Doud and his 2nd wife wife Hannah Tooley is listed twin sisters Emeline, who Talcott notes married Harmon French, and Eveline Doud who married Timothy Clark. The material suggests a date of birth for Emeline around 1800. There is no mention of a marriage to Edmund Frisbee.------ Also found in the Talcott collection is the family of Lyman Doud and his wife Fanny Griffing, noted as the daughter of Edward. There are in fact two iterations of the Talcott compilation. In Doctor Talcott’s original notes we find the family of Lyman and Fanny Doud with the date of birth for their oldest child Emeline September 23, 1806. He then notes her ( 1st) marriage to S or J Hubbard Crampton. He then adds a note for another marriage to Edmund Frisbee. Late is his life Doctor Talcott edited his collections of family notes that he had assembled over a 50-year time span into a collection titled “Families of Early Guilford”. In this new work Doctor Talcott lists Emeline’s marriage to Edmund Frisbee as her 2nd marriage the assumption being that ( this time he writes “J”) Hubbard Crampton, Emeline’s 1st husband having died Emeline took a 2nd husband. If you look closely he notes her date of death in “1868”. There is no entry in either record for a twin sister Eveline. There is no record of a marriage to Harmon French. In 1984 the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, with Jacquelyn L. Ricker serving as editor, republished Talcott’s Families of Guilford cross-referencing his work with the original Guilford records. Their conclusion was that there was a “possibility” that Emeline had also married Edmund Frisbee.------Also in the Talcott collection we find listed under the family of Jonathan Crampton and his wife Elizabeth Hubbard a son Jonathan Hubbard Crampton his wife in turn listed as Emily Doud. The church records in Madison, where all of the Crampton children are recorded, list his baptismal date in 1811.------The French family has followed the trail from Harmon’s wife Emeline back to her marriage to Edmund Frisbee in Guilford. They have then noted that Talcott indicates that the wife of Edmund Frisbee was probably the daughter of Lyman and Fanny Doud. ------I have came to the conclusion that the Emeline-Harmon French connection is incorrect. I began to doubt the Harmon French connection for the following reasons. Found in the Guilford town records is an unambiguous entry for Lyman and Fanny Doud’s family. Their oldest child Emeline was clearly born September 23, 1806. There is no Eveline in the family. There is also no listing in the Guilford records for a marriage for Lyman and Fanny’s daughter Emeline to Harmon French. There is an entry in the Guilford town records for the marriage of Edmund Frisbee to an “Emeline Doud” of Guilford. I think Talcott named the wrong Emeline as the wife of Edmund Frisbee the time line argues against it being Lyman and Fanny’s daughter. Emeline was born in 1806 a 2nd marriage to Edmund Frisbee in 1822 which would have been at the age of 15 or 16, would have been very uncommon for that day. That also means her 1st marriage to Jonathan Hubbard Crampton would have been around 1820 his age 10/11 her’s 13/14. But the key for my conclusions is that there is a very compelling documentary trail for her marriage to Jonathan Hubbard Crampton ending with her death in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in “1868”. The trail starts with the Guilford record, which notes her birth September 23, 1806 and her marriage to Hubbard Crampton. Our trail for Jonathan Hubbard starts in Madison. We find a baptismal record for Jonathan Hubbard Crampton son of J, Crampton June 1811. We find him listed with his sisters under the Crampton name in the records of the Congregational Society “Jonathan H “P” i.e. by profession of faith, joining the Congregational Congregation at the age of 17 in 1828. His record notes that he “R” removed to Fair Haven in 1837. We also find listed a few pages later in the “Registry of Members” “Emeline Crampton”. Also in the Madison Congregational records is an entry for the birth of their daughter Elizabeth Hubbard in May of 1835 which would seem to indicate a marriage much later than the 1822 date for Edmund Frisbee’s marriage. In the Fair Haven Congregational records we pick up the trail with “Emeline” Crampton and Jonathan Crampton being admitted in September of 1837. Although Talcott refers to her as Emily, as do the later census records, in the early Connecticut church records she is refered to as “Emeline”. The Fair Haven records show that they moved (dismissed) to the New Haven North Congregation on June 24, 1838. Jonathan’s record notes that he had arrived from Madison. The 1840 census for New Haven shows him with a wife and a daughter. The town history notes that he ran a store for dry goods. The next step is the 1860 Census for Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jonathan H Crampton age 49, Emily D Crampton age 52, and Elizabeth H. Dodge 24, James H (Henry) Dodge age 28. In the history of Milwaukee is a reference to Jonathan and his partners and their dry goods store. In a passport application, which Jonathan applied for in Milwaukee, he lists his birth as 1810, born in Madison, Connecticut. In the 1870 census J. H. Crampton is part of the household of Henry Dodge and his wife Elizabeth. In the records for St. Paul’s Church in Grenville, Wisconsin we find a marriage record for Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Hubbard in the Madison records) Crampton and James Henry Dodge on December 2, 1856. In the same church records we find the burial record for Emily D. Crampton on November 18, “1868”. In the town records is an obituary for, Emily D Crampton November 18, 1868 at the age of 62 (1806). Buried in the Forest House Cemetery. In the county records we find a detailed record for Jonathan’s 2nd marriage to Ester Euginea Barum on May 5, 1873. His parents are listed as Jonathan and Elizabeth Crampton matching the Talcott record. Jonathan died March 27, 1882. Based on this documentary trail it is my conclusion that Emeline (Emily) Doud daughter of Lyman Doud and his wife Fanny Griffin, granddaughter of Edward Griffin, married Jonathan Hubbard Crampton and is buried in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It is my conclusion that Emeline Doud French the daughter of Asa Doud born in 1800 married Edmund Frisbee of Montgomery, Massachusetts in 1822 at the age of 22 and on his death married Harmon French also of Montgomery, Massachusetts in 1825. She died sometime after the 1880 census in Hartford, Connecticut.-------We have posted the following documents; 1- The family of Lyman and Fanny Doud. -2-Asa Doud. -3-Eveline Doud. -4- Edmund Frisbee. -5-6- Talcott records for Lyman Doud. -7- Talcott’s records for Jonathan Crampton Sr. -8-9- Jonathan Crampton Jr. -10-Emeline Crampton from the Madison records. -11- daughter Elizabeth Hubbard Crampton. -12-13- Church record from Fair Haven for Emeline and Jonathan. -14- Marriage for Elizabeth Hubbard Crampton. -15- Burial record for Emily (Emeline Doud ) Crampton. -16- 2nd marriage for Jonathan.