3. Emily Parsons (Moses ) was born on 10 May 1794. She died on 28 Jun 1859.
EMILY PARSONS married May 18, 1812, TIMOTHY GRAVES, of Northampton, Massachusetts. He died October 15, 1819. She died June 28, 1859.
Emily married Timothy Graves son of Lucius Graves and Clarissa Harlow Hickox on 18 May 1812. Timothy was born on 15 Mar 1790 in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, U.S.A..
They had the following children:
+ 7 M i Edward Parsons Graves + 8 M ii Lewis Lyman Graves 9 F iii Harriet Graves was born on 4 Oct 1820. Harriet married Levi Wright. 10 F iv Emily Maria Graves was born on 5 Aug 1823. She died about 1837. + 11 M v Charles Fred Graves 12 F vi Esther Ann Graves was born on 25 Sep 1829. Esther married Dr. Joseph Roberts.
4. Edward Parsons [scrapbook] 1, 2 (Moses ) was born on 14 Mar 1797 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. He died on 6 Apr 1874 in Kent, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A.. He was buried in Apr 1874 in Brimfield - Restland Cemetery, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A..
EDWARD PARSONS learned the trade of carpenter and joiner early in life. The family resided at Northampton, Massachusetts until 1830, when he moved to Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. His wife and infant son joined him some months later. A year later, in 1831, they moved to Cleveland, Ohio. While in Cleveland, he assisted in the erection of the American House, one of the old landmark hotels of that city. In the autumn of the same year they moved to Brimfield, Portage County, Ohio. There he bought a tract of timberland over 200 acres in area, whose building improvements consisted of a log cabin. He cleared it, cultivated it, and erected suitable buildings for a residence and farming operations. In the summer of 1838, however, ill health forced him to sell his property and move to the town of Brimfield. At Brimfield he kept a store, and he was the fourth postmaster at Brimfield township serving for over eight years from July 10, 1841 to January 24, 1850. They lived at Brimfield until 1868, when he retired and moved to Kent, Ohio. He was prominent in public affairs, and in politics he was a Whig. He was said to be a man of great physical and mental vigor. In 1835, he was one of the founders of the Episcopal parish of Kent and for thirty years served as senior warden of the church. Edward died, age 76.
EDWARD PARSONS (deceased), who was a pioneer of Brimfield Township, this county, was born in Northampton, Mass., March 14, 1797, son of Moses and Esther (Kingsley) Parsons, also natives of Massachusetts. The Parsons family is a very old one and the name appears often in the early history of the old Bay State. They were originally of English extraction. The subject of this sketch lived in his native village until a man grown, in the meantime learning the trade of his father, that of a carpenter and joiner. At this place, when about twenty-nine years of age, he made the acquaintance of Miss Clementina Janes, then teaching school at Northampton, a daughter of Peleg Cheney and Martha (Coy) Janes, of Brimfield, Hampden Co., Mass., where Mr. Janes was a large mill owner. The Janeses were of English extraction, and the Coys of Irish origin, though both families for generations previous were natives of Massachusetts or Connecticut. This acquaintance resulted in the marriage of Mr. Parsons and Miss Janes on January 1, 1828, and two years and a half afterward Mr. Parsons with his wife and son, Edward A., born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., January 25, 1829, moved to Ohio and first settled at Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, for one year; thence went to Cleveland, remaining six months, and finally, in the fall of 1831, took up their residence in the township of Brimfield, Portage County. Here Mr. Parsons worked at his trade at odd intervals, but never to any extent, making farming his main occupations, at which he was very successful, for although buying only fifty acres at the start, he afterward became the owner of 200 or more acres near the village of Brimfield. He was one of the most substantial and highly respected citizens of the township. In 1868 he retired from active farming, and moved to Kent, where he resided until his death, April 6, 1874. He was from early manhood a devoted member of the Episcopal Church (as was his wife), himself and a Mr. Cogswell being the founders of the first church organization of this denomination in his native village of Northampton, Hampshire Co., Mass., where he was Junior Warden. At Kent he took the same interest, and was one of the organizers of the Episcopal Church in the village, and for the erection of this house of worship he contributed liberally of his means and served as Church Warden for many years. In politics he was originally a Whig, and in sentiment a believer in liberty and equal rights of man, and on the formation of the Republican Party, he always acted and voted with that party. On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, two of his sons volunteered and served in the Union Army: Timothy G., for four years, most of the time in the Quartermaster's Department; and William C., for ten months as an artilleryman. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons reared a family of six children: Edward A., born January 25, 1829; Timothy G., born September 17, 1832; Harriet J., born June 24, 1835, died October 2, 1876; Martha Kingsly, born April 1, 1838; William Cheney, born February 19, 1841; Clementina, born September 30, 1843. All the children were born in Brimfield, Ohio, except Edward A., who was born at Northampton, Mass. Mrs. Parsons is now eighty-two years of age, and is an exceedingly amiable and worthy lady, well preserved for her years, retaining all her faculties. She resides with her daughter, now Mrs. Clementina Barber, wife of Charles H. Barber, the present Postmaster of Kent. ["History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885]
Edward married Clementina Janes 1 daughter of Peleg Cheney Janes and Patty Coy on 1 Jan 1828 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. Clementina was born on 24 Jul 1802 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. She died on 14 Apr 1892 in Kent, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A.. She was buried in Apr 1892 in Brimfield - Restland Cemetery, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A..
Clementina was a school teacher at Northampton, Massachusetts.
They had the following children:
+ 13 M i Edward Augustus Parsons + 14 M ii Timothy Graves Parsons + 15 F iii Harriet Janes Parsons + 16 F iv Martha Kingsley Parsons + 17 M v William Cheney Parsons + 18 F vi Clementina Parsons
6. Thomas Parsons (Moses ) was born on 16 Oct 1803. He died on 15 Nov 1865 in Peru, Massachusetts, U.S.A..
Thomas married Maria Elwell on 22 Feb 1825. Maria was born on 4 Jul 1804.
They had the following children:
19 F i Mary Barber Parsons was born on 1 May 1826. She died on 5 Dec 1828 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. + 20 M ii Moses Parsons 21 M iii Lorenzo Parsons was born on 12 Jan 1829. He died on 29 Jan 1830. 22 F iv Mary Elizabeth Parsons was born on 10 Jan 1831. She died on 29 Jan 1831. 23 M v Thomas Lorenzo Parsons was born on 6 Aug 1832 in Brimfield, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A..
THOMAS LORENZO8 PARSONS was born August 6, 1832 at Brimfield, Ohio. He married November 29, 1863 at Ravenna, Ohio, ELIZABETH H. TRIBON, born about 1842. His occupation was listed as "grocer" in the 1860 and 1880 censuses for Ravenna.Thomas married Elizabeth H. Tribon on 29 Nov 1863 in Ravenna, Ohio, U.S.A.. Elizabeth was born about 1842. 24 F vi Lydia Parsons was born on 15 Sep 1834 in Brimfield, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A.. She died on 10 Oct 1834. + 25 F vii Pamelia Maria Parsons 26 F viii Lydia Kingsley Parsons was born on 12 Sep 1837. She died on 2 Sep 1855. + 27 F ix Mary Frances Parsons 28 M x Harlan Page Parsons was born on 28 Sep 1844 in Rootstown, Ohio, U.S.A.. Harlan married Celestia A. McMannus on 27 Oct 1867. Celestia died on 22 May 1873.