The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

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024-5. Dorcas Fry, b. Feb. 17, 1810; m. Sept. 19, 1833, Charles
R. Tucker {d. Dec. 21, 1876) ; d. Dec. 18, 1875.
Charles R. Tucker was extensively and successfully engaged in the
whale fishery and oil business.
[362-8]. Timothy 6 Earle ('Robert ,5 Robert ,4 Ratyhj
William? Ralph 1
), son of Robert and Sarah (Hunt)
Earle, 3. March 2, 1778, in Leicester, Mass. ; m. Feb.
6, 1806, Ruth Keese (6. March 13, 1785 ; d. March 8,
1855, in Worcester, Mass.), dau. of Richard Keese, of
Peru, now Au Sable, N. Y. ; d. March 23, 1819, in
Leicester. His widow m. his brother Henry [360-6].
Timothy Earle, the youngest of the five brothers, assumed the
support, during life, of his father and mother, in consideration of the
homestead—now called Earle Ridge—upon which they lived ; and
this was his residence during his comparatively short but active life.
He died of an acute brain disease, at the age of forty-one years.
Early in life he established a manufactory of cotton and wool hand-
cards. With less mechanical ingenuity than some of his brothers,
he had great enterprise and business talent. With these elements of
success, and a cautious avoidance of too large purchases of raw
material during the high prices of the war of 181 2, he amassed a
respectable fortune for the time and place in which he lived. As
mentioned on a foregoing page, he erected in 1815, a grist-mill and
saw-mill, directly south of the Friends' cemetery, and at a distance
from it of forty or fifty rods. The mill was taken down in 1865.
Beside his homestead, he owned, at the time of his decease, the
farm next south, upon which was the residence of his great-grandfather
Ralph, and the one at the head of the Lynde reservoir. He
had nearly completed a large, new residence, which was soon afterward
occupied by his widow. More than half of this house has been
removed, and the part now remaining is owned and occupied by
Frank C. Bauer.
Timothy retained his membership of the Society of Friends until
his decease.
The children of Timothy and Ruth (Keese) Earle were :
925-1. Anna K. Earle, b. Oct. 12, 1806; m. Oct. 6, 1830,
Samuel H. Colton, of Worcester, Mass. ; d. March 28,
1842 ; issue, 1 son, Samuel, who d. in early infancy.
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