Genealogy of the Fitch family in North America - citizen hylbom blog

60 FITCH FAMILY
Descendants of THADDEUS FITCH, in the line
of his son Chauncey.
Chauncey Fitch, (son of Thaddeus Fitch),
married Anna Loomis, of East Windsor, Conn.,
December 30, 1819. She was sister, of Jerusha,
wife of his brother Daniel, and also of Harriet, wife
of his brother Horace, and was born January 24,
1797. Mr. Fitch first occupied with his brother
Chester, the old homestead at Vernon Conn., and
afterwards carried on the large farm of his fatherin-law,
Gideon Loomis, at East Windsor, Conn.
In November, 1831, he started with his family, for
Olmsted, 0. The vessel on which they took passage
at Buffalo, was driven by stress of weather
into the harbor of Dunkirk. His wife was taken
sick with a fever, and the family was taken to the
house of his uncle, Ebenezar Webster, in Pomfret,
near Fredonia, N. Y., where his wife died, December
8, 1831, and was buried in the burying ground
at Pomfret. Mr. Fitch, with his mother and family,
proceeded on in a sleigh, arriving at Olmsted, 0.,
December 25. He purchased a tract of wild land
in the central part of the township, on which he established
his residence. In the fall of 1833, he
returned to Connecticut, and on August 18, was
married to Clarissa Loomis, sister of his first wife.
She was born March 28, 1802. In common with
other pioneers, in Ohio, he endured the hardships
and privations incident to the settlement of a new
country; and by persevering industry and economy,
acquired a fair property. He was for many years