Roxana's Children

by Bonfield, Lynn A.; Morrison, Mary C.

• ISBN13: 9780870239816
• ISBN10: 0870239813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

"Although centered around the lives of Roxana Brown Walbridge Watts (1802-62) and her descendants, this thoroughly researched, well-written biography of a farm family is as much a social history of village life in 19th-century Vermont, specifically the town of Peacham. . . . Highly recommended". -- Choice

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Preface	xiii
Authors' Note	xviii
Part I	1	(22)
The Mother Who Held the Family Together	3	(20)
Roxana Brown Walbridge Watts
Part II Roxana's Wanderers: The Children Who Left Vermont and Stayed Away	23	(94)
Migrants to the Midwest	27	(34)
A Bride Who Went West at Seventeen	29	(10)
Martha Walbridge Gregory
From a Factory in Lowell to a Minnesota Log Cabin	39	(13)
Sarah Walbridge Way
A Surveyor, Lawyer, and Farmer in the West	52	(9)
Charles Watts
Migrants to California	61	(36)
From Teacher to Mother in Vermont and California	63	(16)
Chastina Walbridge Rix
A Yankee Schoolteacher Who Crossed the Isthmus in Bloomers	79	(18)
Clarissa Walbridge Rogers
To and Fro	97	(20)
The Artist	98	(19)
Julian Walbridge Rix
Part III Roxana's Stay-at-Homes: The Children Who Made Their Lives in Vermont	117	(88)
Returned from California	121	(22)
Wheelwright, Gold Rush Miner, Soldier	122	(13)
Dustan S. Walbridge
A Case of Mental Illness	135	(8)
D. Augustus Walbridge
Lifelong Vermonters	143	(30)
A Village Pastor	145	(13)
Lyman Sargeant Watts
Soldier, Farmer, Citizen	158	(15)
Isaac Newton Watts
Subject to Family Claim	173	(32)
From Student to Farm Wife	176	(15)
Alice Watts Choate
The Care Giver	191	(14)
Lucy Ella Watts Choate
Epilogue: Peacham Today	205	(4)
Notes	209	(38)
Bibliography	247	(10)
Index	257