The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

Gen.] GENEALOGY. 307
s Earle ( Tyler, i Joel, 6 William ,s William ,4
[ 1 5 5-1 .
1 ] Rhoda
Ralphs William, 2 Ralph 1
), dau. of Tyler and Annis
(Morse) Earle, b. Jan. 23, 1827, in Hubbardston, Mass. ;
m. March 30, 1853, Nahum K. (b. Nov. 6, 1827; d.
Sept. 16, 1878), son of Joseph and Sarah (Wilkinson)
Lovewell, of Hubbardston, and lives, 1886, in Phillips-
ton, Mass.
Their children were
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:
Amasa W. Lovewell, b. Jan. 15, 1854.
Mary Elizabeth Lovewell, b. July 31, 1857, in Hubbardston
; d. July 25, 1885, in Phillipston.
George T. Lovewell, b. May 11, 1861, in
Mass.
Templeton,
Fanny E. Lovewell, b.
Mass.
Oct. 7, 1863, in South Gardner,
Lucy K. Lovewell, b. Oct. 2, 1867, in Phillipston; d.
Feb. 21, 1869. .
William B Lovewell,
j &
Willis H. Lovewell, j
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^o.-Twins.
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[1525-1]. Parker5 Earle (SumnerJ Joel, 6 William,*
William,* Ralph, 3 William, 2 Ralph 1
), son of Sumner
and Clarissa (Tucker) Earle, b. Aug. 8, 1831, in Mt.
Holly, Vt. ; m. Aug. 24, 1855, Melanie Tracy; and now
resides in Cobden, 111.
The following is an abridgment of a notice of him in the Rural
New Yorker, of January 10, 1885:
His early youth was passed on one of the mountain farms of his
native State, where he was trained to the ordinary methods of agri-
culture. Proposing to himself a classical education and a professional
life, he entered the Troy Conference Academy, a noted institution of
that day, at Poultney, Vermont, supporting himself, in rigid economy,
by teaching during part of the year. The death of his father brought
upon him new responsibilities which obliged him to relinquish his
plan.
In 1 85 1 he went westward, and after some years spent in teaching
and lecturing, he married and settled on a prairie farm in Northern
Illinois. Not finding grain raising very profitable, and being much
interested in the cultivation of orchard fruits, he removed, in 1861,