James W. Towner
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 274
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Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Towner Family: The Descendants of Richard Towner, Who Came From Sussex County, Eng;, To Guilford, Conn;, Before 1685 To compile the Genealogy of a stock or family, even for a couple of hundred years, is by no means an easy task. Especially is this the case when there has been no systematic attempt to make and preserve a record of the family during the time covered by the history. In 1880 on visiting my birthplace after forty years' absence, I became interested in the Towner genealogy. Then I had not seen and knew nothing of any one of the name of Towner, except my paternal grandfather, and the families of my father, and of his only brother, Eneas; though I was then fifty-seven years old, and had lived in the states of New York, Ohio and Iowa, and had been in the army over four years during the civil war. Yet, strange as it may seem, my great-grandfather (see No. 39) Zacheus, had lived for some years and had died in Charlotte, Vt., within ten miles of where I was born, but on the opposite side of Lake Champlain. In 1838 my father with his family began moving West, finally in 1864 bringing up in Michigan. When a lad I knew of his visiting the widow of his uncle Erasmus in Vermont, and heard him speak of some of his cousins. His grandfather(39) Zacheus spent most of his life in New Fairfield, Conn., and the only thing I remember his (my father) saying of his ancestry is that his grandfather was a native of Ireland and that he emigrated to Connecticut before the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.