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From "A Brief Book of Family Chronicles" issued by intimate friends in honor of
the silver anniversary' of the Lockwood-Benedict nuptials, June 9, 1867, extract is here
made:
"At the head of the column of da)-s
.sacred in the family register
stands the
ninth of June, A.D., 1842,
when
LeGrand Lockwood and Ann Louisa Benedict,
both of the City of New York, and aged, respectively, twent)--two and nineteen years,
were, by Rev, George B. Cheever, solemnly joined in marriage.
" During the quarter of a century which followed eight children, of whom six were
sons and two were daughters, were born to them, blessing and hallowing these nuptial
ties. ^
" LeGrand, Jr., was born January 5, 1844.
Williston Benedict, born March 19, 1846.
Roswell Ebenezer, born August 31, 1847.
Henry Benedict, born April 23, 1852.
Arthur Augustus, born January 6, 1856.
Anna Louise, born June 21, 1858.
Florence Isabel, born February 23, i860.
P^dwin Eugene, born October 23, 1862.
Roswell Ebenezer, died May 6, 1849.
Anna Louise, died November 12, 1858."
Mr. and Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood were of old Norwalk stock. They were gener¬
ous almoners of this world's goods, were of noble natures and their Norwalk home, which
both of them adorned, was of finished elegance.
LeGrand, Jr., son of LeGrand and Ann Louisa Lockwood, married Ala)- 10, 1865,
Kate Havens, daughter of Rev. Samuel B. S. and Frances M. (Havens) Bissell, and had:
Fanny Havens, born Dec. 31, 1867.
(Died Feb. 20, 1875.)
Katherine Bissell, born July 5, 1872.
Louise Benedict, born Oct. 31, 1873.
Hilda LeGrand, born Oct. 29, 1881.
widow Sarah Nash, whose daughter Sarah Nash, born
Jan. 17, 1755, was the great-grandmother of Maj. Gen.
Darius Nash Couch, of Norwalk, 1896.
'The Rev. Curtis Trowbridge Woodruff, an at¬
tached friend of the Lockwoods, was actively inter¬
ested in this handsome celebration.
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