The Sterling genealogy

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Society at Lyme says :
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THE STERLING GENEALOGY
" Mr. Joseph Atwell of Montville to Miss
Mr. Atwell removed to Hebron, Conn., from Montville, about
1800, and thence to Pharsalia, Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1809.
He was a blacksmith and also
Mrs. Ruth (Sterling) Atwell
Their children were:
a farmer. His carved powder-
horn, made by Stephen Rogers
at Lake George in 1758 and
a sampler made by Ruth (on
which she spells her name "Ruth
P. Starlin") in 1788 at the
age of fifteen, are (in 1901)
in possession of Mr. Charles
B. Atwell of Evanston, 111.
Ruth was known at the time
of her death and afterwards
as " Mrs. Pious Atwell," a child
so describing her at her fu-
neral. Joseph d. in Pharsalia,
Mar. 26, 1843; Ruth d. at the
home of her daughter Caroline
July 6, 1861. Both buried in
Pharsalia.
508 Lydia Atwell, b. in 1793 at Montville; d. in 1795.
509 t Eliza Atwell, b. Mar. 6, 1795; m. Henry Coggeshall.
510 t James Atwell, b. Jan. 11, 1797; m. Fanny Frink.
511 Joseph Atwell, b. in 1799; d. in 1800 at Montville.
512 tMariam Atwell, b. Feb. 13, 1802; m. Elias Widger.
513 t Daniel Lee Atwell, b. Apr. 7, 1804; m. Mehitable June.
514 t Benjamin Atwell, b. May 12, 1806; m. Ruby Sage.
515 Samuel Sterling Atwell, b. in Hebron, Conn., in 1808 ; m.
1st, Esther Brown, 2d, Eliza Cheeseboro. Samuel
was a machinist; worked in the car shops at Cleve-
land, Ohio, where he d. in 1890; had two children
who d. young.
dau. of Benjamin Lee of Lyme (see No. 213). He d. May 12, 1806, at Montville,
Conn.; she d. in Dec., 1821, aged 83 years. Their son Joseph, b. Feb. 29, 1768; m.
Ruth P. Sterling.