Peter and Salley (Pierce) Hazelton

Another project started.  Another conundrum. To begin with .....

    Peter Hazelton (1793-1846) was born in Concord, Rockingham, New Hampshire, to Ballard and Sarah (Noyes) Hazeltine. The spelling of the name is Hazelton in our family, but the earlier version was usually Hazeltine; some branches of the family continued with this version. But there are many other versions: Haselton/Hasleton/Hazleton/Hazletine/etc. As most of us who do genealogy know - the spellings can get the better of us at times.

    Peter married Sarah "Salley" Pierce/Pearce, probably in June 1817, in New York. The 1850 census, the only one where Salley is listed individually, states she was born in Rhode Island. Her children give RI when listing where their mother was born. Only a daughter once stated New Hampshire, but since that is where her father (Peter) was born, it probably was an error.

    I don't know why Peter was in New York, probably for land. I assume that is where they met. In my great-grandmother's, Mary Ella (Hazelton) Childs, notes, she states Salley "was from Gains" when she married. Gains and Gainesville, NY are in Genesee County, where Peter requested (but probably never owned) land. Mary Ella gives some possible clues as to Salley's parentage, but more on that after some initial introductions.

    We have NO idea who Salley's parents were. I do not believe they were James and Phebe (Wood) Pearce from Little Compton, Rhode Island, as people suggest on the many Ancestry.com family trees. I have proven that beyond a doubt, for my benefit anyway. Another article, another day. Anyone with any information on Salley's parentage - other than the above mentioned Pearces, please let me know. If you do think it is the Pearce family - please include documentation for your reasoning.

    In this article I will start with a basic descendants chart of Peter and Salley's daughter, Nancy Jane, the first of their seven children. The rest of the children will be added in subsequent articles. I am hoping to get the attention of descendants - other than Brooks Bowman (my great-great-grandfather) - of the other other children, for possible information to help in the quest of finding Salley's parents. Brooks and his wife, Sarah Ann Lane, had three daughters. Roscelia and Frances (Frankie), though married, had no children. Mary Ella and her husband, Carlos W. Childs, had two daughters, Frances Hazelton (Hazel) and my grandmother, Edna Ella. Hazel never married. Edna's descendants are Brooks' only descendants.

    All of Peter and Salley's children were born in Genesee County, New York. The family removed to Calhoun County, Michigan in 1836. Peter died in 1846 and Salley died in 1852.

1) Nancy Jane Hazelton (1819-1891) - Nancy had daughter, Lelia Luella, out-of-wedlock, on 24 February 1850, in Marengo, Calhoun, MI. Lelia probably spent her early years with the neighbor family of Roswell Wilcox as Wilcox is the name she used when she married at 16. She did eventually (or maybe always) know her mother, Nancy, and Nancy spent her last years with Lelia and family in Kansas and is buried there. She promised Lelia that she would reveal the father's name, but according to family lore she never did. It would be wonderful if a descendant of Lelia and Oscar Ware had DNA analyzed to give us a possible answer.

    Oscar and Lelia lived most of their lives in Kansas. The first two children (of eight) were born in Michigan, before they moved to Kansas. The children scattered to several states in their adult years. This is what I have learned about the family, researching online - not all is verified:

1 Oscar Anson Ware (1844 - 1923)

+ Lelia Luella (Wilcox) Hazelton (1850 - 1929)

     2 Walter Leon Ware (1868 - 1929)    (settled in Oklahoma)

     + Sara Elizabeth Elliott (1870 - 1937)

          3 Ira Alvin Ware (1891 - 1952)

          + Mary V. ? (about 1891 - )

          3 Bernice R. Ware (1894 - 1989)

          3 Vera Alma Ware (1896 - 1977)

          + John William Thompson (1889 - 1962)

          3 Dora Dorothy Ware (1898 - 1978)

          3 Blanche Isabelle Ware (1899 - 1980)

          + John C. Manuel (1899 - 1953)

          3 Edith Belle Ware (1901 - 1902)

          3 Josephine Ware (1903 - 1916)

          3 Florence Marie Ware (1905 - 1969)

          3 Oscar Ansen Ware (1906 - 1969)

          + Ruth Eva Laws (1913 - 1972)

          3 Orsen Murray Ware (1908 - 1990)

          3 Maurice Leon (Ted) Ware (1911 - 1970)

          + Alma ? (1907 - )

          3 Iris Earline Ware (1913 - 2006)

     2 Alma Bell Ware (1869 - 1948)       (settled in California)

     + Edward Benjamin McArthur (1856 - 1930)

          3 Arden McArthur (1885 - )

          3 Leslie Austin McArthur (1890 - 1985)

           + Jessie E. Spidell  (1898 - 1977)

          3 Forrest McArthur (1891 - Bef. 1900)

          3 Lelia McArthur (1892 - 1949)

          + Kales Carlton Schrontz (1888 - 1958)

             4  Dorothy Schrontz     

     2 Mabel Anna Ware (1871 - 1960)     (settled in Washington)

     + William Ansel Shalor Eastman (1865 - 1940)

          3 Clarence Bliss Eastman (1894 - 1946)

          + Mary Hazel Baskett

          3 Elwyn Ansel Eastman (1896 - 1969)

          + Margaret Tapping ( - 1995)

          3 Verne Hazelton Eastman (1902 - 1976)

          + Helen E. Anderson (1899 - 1987)

     2 Minnie Grace Ware (1874 - 1942)   (died in Arizona; probably childless)

     + Stephen Bruce

     + George H. Ellis (1873 - 1944)

     2 Essie May Ware (1876 - 1943)    (stayed in Kansas)

     + William Welker Fisher (1874 - )

         3 Iva Bell Fisher (1898 - 1902)

         3 Nina Lucille Fisher (1902 - 1972)

          +W. Archie Morehead  (1898-1988)

         3 Glenn William Fisher   (1909-1929)

     2 Stella Maude Ware (1882 - 1978)     (settled in Idaho)

      + Albert Robert Denny (1879 - 1944)

          3 Ruth Mary Denny (1905 - 1995)

         + George Warren Hill (1889 - 1951)

         3 Esther Lorraine Denny (1911 - 1946)

     2 Lora Lucille Ware (1886 - 1958)     (died in California)

     + David Allen (1881 - )

          3 Nina Allen    (1913 -  )

     2 Ruth Adell Ware (1889 - 1983)    (settled in California)

     + John W. Hess (1883 - 1969)

         3 Ardath Marie Hess

         + ? Brown

         3 Winford Gene Hess

         3 Marjory Hess

         3 Donald Keith Hess

         3 Geraldine Hess

To be continued.....