Candace SPENCER

Birth: 14 Jun 1775, Middlebury, CT
Death: 11 Jan 1835, , Conn.

AFN: LM54-HK

Father: Thomas SPENCER
Mother: Phebe GRENELL

Family 1: Ashbel MUNSON

Marriage: 15 Mar 1798, Winchester, Litchfield, CT

                                                         _Thomas SPENCER __
                                      _Thomas SPENCER __|_Elizabeth BATES _
                   _Thomas SPENCER __|
                  |                  |                   _William DOUGLAS _
                  |                  |_Ann DOUGLAS _____|_Abiah HOUGH _____
 _Thomas SPENCER _|
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|                 |                   __________________|__________________
|                 |_Deborah _________|
|                                    |                   __________________
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|--Candace SPENCER 
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|                                                        _Daniel GRINNELL _
|                                     _Daniel GRINNELL _|_Mary WODELL _____
|                  _George GRINNELL _|
|                 |                  |                   _William PABODIE _
|                 |                  |_Lydia PABODIE ___|_Elizabeth ALDEN _
|_Phebe GRENELL __|
                  |                                      _Joseph BULL _____
                  |                   _Daniel BULL _____|_Sarah MANNING ___
                  |_Mary BULL _______|
                                     |                   _Joseph MYGATT ___
                                     |_Mary MYGATT _____|_Sarah WEBSTER ___

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Notes

!Source: :A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1929" by Lillian Drake Avery, NY. !Source: :A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1929" by Lillian Drake Avery, NY. To the Editor Painesville Telegraph: MRS. CANDACE (SPENCER) MUNSON The following article is from the Painesville Telegraph, 14 February 1884, and reprinted i n the April 1991 "LakeLines," the newsletter of the Lake County Genealogical Society, retrans cribed here by Kerri O'Connor. In writing the biographical sketches of the pioneer fathers , why should not the pioneer mothers have a niche in the temple of the pioneer fame? Their fe elings would be none the less when the time had come to bid farewell to fond parents and kind red, near and dear associates of childhood and youth, and go forth with a scanty outfit perha ps to seek a home in the great West. And when they had arrived in Delaware, Oswego or Oneid a counties, N. Y. they began to think they were on the frontier in earnest. A few hardy, adve nturous pioneers had gone west as far as Ontario county, settling Canandaigua, the Bloomfield s, to the east bank of Genessee River. West of that was what was called the Holland purchase , owned by a company in Holland. I think in 1798 the land had not been surveyed and no settle ments. At Buffalo was a garrison. And still settlers came on to the Reserve and settled in Co nneaut, Mentor, Harpersfield, Cleveland, Burton and Youngstown, and followed by others unti l the Western Reserve has been demolished of its vast forests, and beautiful fields and far m houses, cities and villages have taken their place together with a dense population as we s ee to-day. This shows a great change in 87 years, and where is the far West to-day. And the j ourney to the Pacific eastern shore to-day is not to be compared to the journey of an emigran t family with an ox team from New England by the great western road through the State of Ne w York, and leading road from Buffalo West to Ohio, or the great leading road over the mounta ins through Pennsylvania, previous to their building the Macadamized turnpike. Thomas Spence r, a grand-son of Sergeant Jared Spencer, born in Saybrook, Conn., January 16th, 1736, O.S. , married Miss Phebe Grinnell, April 10th, 1760. Miss Grinnell born July 20th, 1736, O.S. The y lived in Saybrook until 1772, where six of their children were born, when they removed to W inchester, Conn., where Mrs. Munson and three sisters were born, making a family of ten child ren, Mrs. Munson being the 8th child, born June 14th, 1775. Mr. Spencer was a prominent man i n the town and eight of his ten children became heads of large and influential families. Mr . S. died May 1st, 1807, aged 71; Mrs. S. died Oct. 2d, 1812, aged 77, Boyds, Winchester. Mr . and Mrs. Munson had a family of nine children all born in Connecticut, and three died youn g and six raised families. Mrs. Candace Munson united with the Congregational Church in 1814 . She transferred her church relations to the Congregational Church of Painesville. Mrs. Muns on was one of the noble women of her day, in setting good examples, and inculcating correct p rinciples of morality and religion, and a reverence for the holy Sabbath and its sanctuary pr ivileges, and these parents were steady in their attendance at meetings on the Sabbath with t heir children as long as they were under their control. They were brought up to habits of ind ustry, prudence and economy. Her examples and precepts with her foresight were all for good , not only in her family, but in the church, and in the community. Truly it can be said she w as a "Mother in Israel," always ready to attend the sick and administer consolation to the af flicted, and smooth the pillow of the dying. And the language of the wise man is appropriat e to her: "Her children arise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. " Prov. 31st and 28th; and the 26th and 27th should equally apply. She was a very conscientio us and exemplary woman, in all the relations in life adorning her profession by a well ordere d life, and dying a humble and devoted christian. Mrs. Candace S. Munson died in Mentor, Janu ary 11th, 1835, aged 60 years. I design in my next to write a sketch of their son Harry W. , a prominent citizen of Mentor. Yours truly, C. C. Bronson Tallmadge, Jan. 30, 1884.


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