Betsey D. Leighton

   Cause of her death was epilepsy.

  General Notes:

per IGI files: a Betsey Leighton was born 16 May 1833 in Danville, VT the d/o Wm Hale Leighton and Comfort Weeks

1850 Danville, Caledonia, VT
Betsey D. Leighton is age 17 and lives with her 2 brothers John D and Harrison


1870 St. Johnsbury, Caledonia county, VT
Charles H. Straw 1831
Betsey 1833
William L. 1859
Esther 1866

In 1880 she is age 47 and living in the Poor House in Danville, VT and listed as married

She is buried in the Center Strafford Cemetery in Strafford, NH in the CLARK plot. Her sister Patience Leighton married a CLARK.

Find A Grave Memorial# 57789592
Daughter of William Hale and Comfort (Weeks) Leighton. She was born in Danville, VT in 1833. Sometime between 1850 and 1858 she married a Mr. Clark. In 1858 she married Charles Straw. Together they had 5 known children:
William
Charles
Eliza
Edgar
Estella
William drowned at age 12. The all died young.
In 1880 Betsey was living in the poor house in Danville, VT and listed as married. Her husband Charles was boarding with another family in St. Johnsbury, Vt and working as a carpenter.
Betsey's sister Patience married Timothy Clark and the two sisters are both buried in the Clark Plot in Strafford, NH
Research of Christine Jenot on Rootsweb.

Betsey married Charles Alva J. Straw, son of John Straw and Abigail Jane Crosby, on 20 Jan 1858 in VT. (Charles Alva J. Straw was born on 27 Aug 1829 in Thornton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, died on 1 Dec 1914 in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.). The cause of his death was pyloric obstruction due to old duodenal ulcer.

Betsey next married Clark.