Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
LOOMIS, OLIVER, from East Windsor, Conn., 1785; m. Jude, da. of Gideon Adams, who died in 1814, aged 50, leaving three children, Jerusha, Gideon A. and Mary.
He was a man of staunch political principles of the Jeffersonian school. He died in
1837, aged 73.
Jerusha is the wife of J. Ward, of Norwich, Conn.
LOOMIS, GIDEON A., m. Amanda, da. of Elijah Brown, and settled on the present homestead of his only surviving son, Orla. His wife died in 1835, aged 42, leaving six children, Orla, Lucia, Laura, Candace, Owen and Lester. Lucia married Benoni Blossom, of Poultney; Laura m. Loammi Lee, of Granville, N.Y.; Candace m. George D. Martin; Owen was in the army from Minnesota; was with Sherman in his march through the south, and died in South Carolina; Lester died in 1854, aged 20.
LOOMIS, ORLA, m. Julia C., da. of David Robinson, and succeeded to the homestead. Their only son, George B., m. Hattie Snell.
LOOMIS, NATHANIEL, from East Windsor, Conn., 1810; settled on the John Stark homestead. He died in 1829, aged 49, leaving four children, Maria, Miranda, Benjamin N. and Henry W. Maria m. Josiah Goodspeed, and removed to Illinois: Miranda m. Orlin Hulett, who died near thirty years since; Benjamin N. is an attorney at Binghamton, N. Y.,
and has been law partner of the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson; Henry W. is in Saratoga.
LOOMIS, ELIJAH M., is a son of Abner Loomis, who came from Connecticut in 1801. His mother dying in his infancy, he was brought up by his uncle, Roswell Loomis, whose widow, Mercy, still lives, at the age of 86, and is the oldest person in town. He m. Jane,
da. of James Bassford, who died in 1834, aged 27, leaving two children, Edmund and Mary. Edmund m. Maria,
da. of Hiram Smith, of Rupert; Mary m. George Clark.
Next, Mr. Loomis m. Nancy, da. of Thaddeus Smith, of Rupert, who died in 1861, aged 54, leaving five children.
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