Susanna Adams
1778 - 1870 (92 years)Set As Default Person
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Name Susanna Adams [1, 2] Birth 11 Jul 1778 Suffield,Hartford,Connecticut,United States [3] Gender Female Death 29 Dec 1870 Rutland,Worcester,Massachusetts,United States [4] Burial Jan 1871 Rutland,Worcester,Massachusetts,United States [5] - Buried in the Wheeler Lot
Headstones Submit Headstone Photo Notes - SUSANNA5 ADAMS, wife of Nathan Halladay was born July 11, 1778 at Suffield, Conn. but her family removed to Marlboro, Vt. when she was about five years old and she was brought up amid the hardships incident to pioneer life in Vermont.
When about 10 or 12 years old, she was out with her younger brother Rufus who behaved badly and in order to control him she asked him if she should call a bear. At that moment hearing a noise and looking around she saw a large bear climbing over a fence near her. She had the presence of mind to seize her brother and finally made her way to the house unharmed.
Upon the death of her husband in Buffalo she was left alone with her six children.
Two of these, Rhoda the eldest and Lucius the youngest were taken sick and soon followed their father, and the widow with her four remaining children was left to make her way back to Vermont as best she could. But Susanna Adams Halladay was equal to the occasion.
Descended from the Adams and Underwood families she inherited some of their indomitable spirit and perseverance. Her goods and probably her team were at the bottom of Lake Erie and all her ready money had been used in the expenses incident to the sickness and death of three of her family.
She was hundreds of miles from any one she knew and there were no swift means of communication as now between her and her old home. In her trouble she wrote to her brother Capt. Simeon Adams who sent his team all the long distance from Marlboro, Vt. to Buffalo and brought home his sister and her family and helped them start again in life. Let this act be recorded to the credit of Simeon Adams of Marlboro.
After returning to Vermont the family necessarily separated. Henry learned the trade of a tanner at West Halifax, Vt., Willard was put upon a farm; Almira learned the tailor's trade, and Susan, the youngest, remained with her uncle Simeon Adams
until her mother's second marriage. Mrs. Halladay several years later married Henry Babbit, a farmer of Colerain, Mass. whom she survived.
She lived afterwards with her son Willard, then a large lumber manufacturer at West Readsboro, VT. but finally went to live with her daughter, Mrs. Susan H. Wheeler at Rutland, Mass. where she died Dec. 29, 1870 aged 92 years and 5 months and was buried in the Wheeler lot in Rutland Rural Cemetery.
Mrs. Halladay was a woman of ability and quick at repartee. When she was more than 80 years old a grandson who had just married brought his wife into her presence and introduced her, saying, "Well, Grandma, this is my wife. What do you think of her?"
The old lady quickly replied, "Well, I see that she has made one mistake already."
"Oh! Grandma," said the grandson, "You are too smart for me." [6]
Person ID I2836 Rgstrong Family genes. | Descendants of William Halladay, 1677/1678-1764 Last Modified 25 Jul 2023
Father Capt. Simeon Adams, b. 30 Nov 1724, Suffield,Hampshire,Massachusetts Colony,British Colonial America d. 1 Aug 1803, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States (Age 78 years) Relationship natural Mother Susanna Underwood, b. 22 Sep 1747, Westford,Middlesex,Province of Massachusetts Bay,British America d. 14 Sep 1845, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States (Age 97 years) Relationship natural Marriage 8 Jan 1765 Family ID F1331 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Nathan Halladay, b. 22 Aug 1771, Simsbury,Hartford,Connecticut,United States d. 1816, Buffalo,Niagara,New York,United States (Age 44 years) Marriage 12 Nov 1797 Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States [1, 3] Children 1. Rhoda Halladay, b. 14 Oct 1798, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States d. 1816, Buffalo,Niagara,New York,United States (Age 17 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. Henry Halladay, b. 11 Oct 1800, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States d. 7 Aug 1803, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States (Age 2 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 3. Almira Halladay, b. 14 Mar 1803, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States d. 27 Oct 1862, Stamford,Bennington,Vermont,United States (Age 59 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 4. Henry Adams Halladay, b. 2 Mar 1805, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States d. 18 Mar 1890, Troy,Rensselaer,New York,United States (Age 85 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 5. Nathan Willard Halladay, b. 1 Oct 1808, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States d. 25 Aug 1867, Heartwellville,Bennington,Vermont,United States (Age 58 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 6. Susan Halladay, b. 17 Dec 1810, Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States d. 7 May 1902 (Age 91 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 7. Lucius Halladay, b. Aft 1811 d. 1816, Buffalo,Niagara,New York,United States (Age 4 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F1325 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Mar 2006
Family 2 Henry Babbit, b. Colrain,Franklin,Massachusetts,United States d. Bef 1870 Marriage 14 Dec 1820 Marlboro,Windham,Vermont,United States [7] Family ID F1330 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Jul 2023
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Sources - [S17] Wheeler, Daniel Merrick, "Chapter X, The Ancestors of NATHAN HALLADAY, Father of Susan Halladay Wheeler, 1810-1902," in The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of Their Ancestors., ((Pittsfield, Mass.?. unknown. 1924.) [online] Ancestry.com), 20 Sep 2005, 1736-1818, pg. 105, http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=27293. (Reliability: 3).
- [S34] Wheeler, Daniel Merrick, Chapter XI, Nathan Halladay and Allied Families" in The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of Their Ancestors., ((Pittsfield, Mass.?. unknown. 1924.) [online] Ancestry.com), 27 Sep 2005, 1724-1803, pg. 116, http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=27293. (Reliability: 3).
- [S34] Wheeler, Daniel Merrick, Chapter XI, Nathan Halladay and Allied Families" in The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of Their Ancestors., ((Pittsfield, Mass.?. unknown. 1924.) [online] Ancestry.com), 27 Sep 2005, 1771-1816; pg. 111 & 1724-1803, pg. 116, http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=27293. (Reliability: 3).
"He followed his trade, that of a tanner, both at Marlboro, Vt. and at Richmond, N.H. where he lived for a short time with his family." - [S34] Wheeler, Daniel Merrick, Chapter XI, Nathan Halladay and Allied Families" in The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of Their Ancestors., ((Pittsfield, Mass.?. unknown. 1924.) [online] Ancestry.com), 27 Sep 2005, 1771-1816; pg. 112 & 1724-1803, pg. 116, http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=27293. (Reliability: 3).
- [S34] Wheeler, Daniel Merrick, Chapter XI, Nathan Halladay and Allied Families" in The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of Their Ancestors., ((Pittsfield, Mass.?. unknown. 1924.) [online] Ancestry.com), 1771-1816; pg. 112, http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=27293. (Reliability: 3).
- [S34] Wheeler, Daniel Merrick, Chapter XI, Nathan Halladay and Allied Families" in The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of Their Ancestors., ((Pittsfield, Mass.?. unknown. 1924.) [online] Ancestry.com), 27 Sep 2005, 1771-1816; pg. 111, http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=27293. (Reliability: 3).
"He followed his trade, that of a tanner, both at Marlboro, Vt. and at Richmond, N.H. where he lived for a short time with his family." - [S1310] The Reverend Ephraim H. Newton, The History of the Town of Marlborough Widham County Vermont, (Montpelier, VT: Vermont Historical Society, 1930.), 25 Jul 2023, chp vii: 119., F59.M4N56. (Reliability: 3).
Marriages Henry Babbit and Susan Halladay Dec. 14, 1820 Rev. E. H. Newton