Betsey Straw

   Cause of her death was fever/old age.

  General Notes:

e-mail Aug 2000 per B. Clarine - "I have a book in my posession called "A Corner In Ancestors:Odell Family." It had belonged to my grandmother Eleanor Robinson Weddel. In this book the lineage of the Robinsons are listed from Jacob Robinson in Wales and shows descendancy 6 generations. My grandmother and her sister are the last ones mentioned as children. A few pages later it shows the following:
GRANT
Susan Coffin of England married a man by the name of STRAW. Betsey Straw her daughter, married Silas GRANT. She had the following brothers and sisters: David, Simeon, Valentine, Sally, Polly and Susan. Sally married Robert Parcher, Waterbury, Vermont. Polly and Susan married two brothers, Israel and Peter Smith, Waterborough, Maine, five miles from Alfred County seat. Betsey STRAW, born May 20th 1784, married Silas Grant of Lyman, Maine; moved to Ripley, Maine. Children: Mary 1803; Orin 1804; Hiram 1805; Susan 6 Sept 1807, married Cyrus Spaulding (my great great great grandfather); Wealthy born 11 July 1809, married William Bryde/Bowdoin; Lydia born 10 May 1811, married Bradbury Lovell, Cambridge, Maine; John born 15 Jan 1813; Royal born 22 Dec 1814; Esther 1816; Samuel born 9 May 1818; Jacob born 4 April 1820; Lizza born July 1822, married John Rogers, Springfield, MA and Melissa born July 1824.
Alexander Grant came from Scotland and had two brothers, Daniel and Foss. Alexander's children were James, Silas of Lyman, Maine, Hipseyboth (married a Goodwin) and Daniel."

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  Medical Notes:

also an "h" noted after fever

Betsey married Silas Grant Jr, son of Silas Grant Sr and Mary Chadbourne. (Silas Grant Jr was born in 1779 in Lyman, York County, Maine, died on 6 Dec 1850 in Ripley, Somerset County, Maine and was buried in Fush Hill Cemetery in Ripley, Maine.)