Stephen Batchelder and Betsey Cram
Stephen Batchelder
- Born
- 20 MAY 1785[1] at Deerfield, N.H.
- Died
- 15 JUN 1856[3] at Rockford, Ill.
- Buried
- [5] at Cedar Bluff Cemetery, Rockford, Ill.
- Married
- 08 DEC 1808[6] at N.H.
- Also m.
- (2) Hannah Morrill
The marker entry at Cedar Bluff Cemetery, Rockford, reads Stephen Batchelder, Jr., with his birth on 20 May 1785, the date given in the tree, and his death on 15 June 1856, which fills in the day of the death recorded in the tree as June 1856.[7]
Pierce’s genealogy of the Batchelder family, printed in 1898, gives Stephen Batchelder’s birth on 20 May 1785 and his marriages on 8 December 1808 to Betsey Cram and to Hannah Morrill, and says that he moved to Ohio in 1830 and died there in June 1856. The tree places his death on 15 June 1856 at Rockford, Illinois, where the Find a Grave Index records his burial at Cedar Bluff Cemetery, Rockford, under the name Stephen Batchelder, Jr. The month and year of the death agree; the place does not. The tree keeps Rockford. The 1850 census lists Stephen, aged 65, with Hannah and sons born in New Hampshire, in Guilford Township, Winnebago County, Illinois; the death record of his son Hiram F. Batchelder in 1905 gives Hiram’s birth on 12 July 1831 in New Hampshire, which does not fit a move to Ohio in 1830; and the burial is at Rockford. Pierce compiled the entry forty-two years after the death, names no informant and no children of this marriage, and his Ohio may be a slip for Illinois or an earlier residence. Needs independent verification: a record that fixes where he lived between 1830 and 1850, such as a land or probate record.[8]
Betsey Cram
- Born
- 21 OCT 1787 at Deerfield, N.H.