Descendants of Richard Sears

Seventh Generation

(Continued)

3257. Henry Morris Sears (Daniel , Joshua , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 10 Mar 1808 in Sandisfield, MA. was buried in , 1241.

S.P. May p.368 Henry Sears removed to New York State

He had the following children:

	5893	M	i	James Amos Sears was born 22 Feb 1854 in . was buried in , 2484.
	5894	F	ii	Sears was born 1856 in . was buried in , 2485.

3258. Daniel Sears Rev. (Joseph , Joshua , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 13 Apr 1801 in Sandisfield, MA. was buried in , 1242.

S.P. May p.368 Daniel Sears was a Methodist clergyman, and removed to Wachita,
LA

Daniel married M Ross. M Ross was born 1805 in .

They had the following children:

	5895	M	i	Joseph Sears was born 1827 in . was buried in , 2486.
	5896	M	ii	Daniel Sears was born 1829 in . was buried in , 2487.

3260. Joshua Milton Sears (Joseph , Joshua , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 19 Sep 1808 in Sandisfield, MA. was buried in , 1244.

S.P. May p.368 Joshua Sears was prominent in town affairs, and was Rep. to
State Leg. in1862. He now lives in New Boston, Sandisfield, MA, with his son.

Joshua married Catharine Bosworth, daughter of Jabez Bosworth. Catharine was born 1811 in .

They had the following children:

	5897	F	i	Helen Marcia Sears was born 13 Oct 1833 in Sandisfield, MA. She died 9 Dec 1844 and was buried in , 2488.
	5898	F	ii	Catharine Bosworth Sears was born 1 Aug 1840 in Sandisfield, MA. was buried in , 2489.
+	5899	M	iii	Edmund Bacon Sears

3261. Edmund Hamilton Sears Rev (Joseph , Joshua , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 6 Apr 1810 in Sandisfield, MA. He died 16 Jan 1876 in Weston, MA and was buried in , 1245.

BIRTH-FATHER-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-DEATH-BIOGRAPHY: Samuel Pearce May, THE
DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD SARES(SEARS) OF YARMOUTH,MASS; 1638-1888; Albany, Joel
Munsell's Sons, 1890; pp 369-370; NEHGS Library, Boston, MA.
Rev Edmund H Sears was graduated at Union Coll. in 1834, and at
Cambridge Theo. School in 1837; began to preach as a missionary at Toledo, OH, remaining nearly a year, - was ordained Pastor of 1st Church(Unitarian),
Wayland, MA, 1839, installed as colleague of Dr Field, Pastor of the Unit.
Church at Weston, MA, in May 1865, and succeeded him as Pastor in Nov 1869.
He visited Europe in 1873, and was severely injured by the fall of a tree in his orchard in 1874.
He was a man of singularly modest and retiring nature. His health had long
been feeble, and he shrunk from personal display of any sort. But as a writer, as a preacher, and as a man, he has left a memory which will be long and lovingly cherished by all who knew him.
A saintlier soul has rarely been enshrined in mortal frame.
But for his early impaired health and enfeebled voice, he would have been
deemed eloquent in utterance, no less than in style, for his delivery had every attractive and impressive quality, within the limited spaces in which he alone dared to seek a hearing.
Those that knew him felt that his place was with the beloved apostle, in
closest union and sympathy with his Divine Master.
There was a sweet serenity of spirit in his whole demeanor,speech and
character, which made him in every relation of life unspeakably dear.
Simple, modest, unassuming, even diffident, he was the last person to make of set purpose any manifestation of piety; but a beauty of holiness so pure and radiant as his could not be kept under cover.
All who came within its sphere felt profoundly the sanctity, purity and
loveliness of its character.
His style was the transcript of his thought and feeling.
There was a view of high poetic inspiration, not only in those lyrics which
are finding their place in the worship of Christian sanctuaries wherever the
English tongue is spoken, but almost equally in his prose, which is never otherwise than rhythmical, glowing and fervent.
Amongst other works of his were: lyrics to the Christmas
song "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear","Regeneration,""Athanasia,""The Fourth
Gospel the Heart of Christ,""Sermons and Songs of the Christian
Life,""Christian Lyrics etc, and he edited, with Rev R Ellis, "The Monthly
Religious Magazine."
In 1857 he published an historical romance entitled "Pictures of the Olden
Time," in connection with which he edited the "Sears Genealogy," from papers
furnished him by Hon David Sears [5768] of Boston, but which have since been
found to contain much erroneous inforamtion based upon legends incapable of
proof. See ante, "English Ancestry."

Sears In Memorium - 1898 Memorial of Little Katy ; At Sturgis Library,
Barnstable, MA

BIRTH-BIOGRAPHY: W J Burke and Will D Howe, Editors, American Authors and
Books; 1640-1940; New York, Gramercy Publishing Co, 1943; pp 674-675; Book in
Duncan Public Library, Duncan, OK; Unitarian clergyman, hymn writer. His nest known hymns are "Calm on the listening ear of night," and "It came upon a Midnight clear."

BIOGRAPHY:THE GOSPEL IN HYMNS; 1870; ; p 517; from Phebe Ann Glaze, N
Hollywood, CA; Rev Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) American Unitarian. SEARS was a humble clergyman who lives only in two Christmas hymns. Born in the Massachusetts Berkshires, educated at Union College and the Harvard Divinity School (1837), he spent most of his life as pastor at Wayland, MA. In addition to his preaching he did editorial work for twelve years on the Monthly Religious Magazine and wrote several volumes on religious subjects. His first hymn, written while a divinity student, was "Calm on the listening ear of night" - still frequently used. His second is found in all of our hymnals.
"It came upon a midnight clear" [1846]. No Christmas is perfect without the
singing of this hymn. It is one of the finest ever written, not only because of its melodious rendering of the Biblical story of angels and shepherds (stanza 1) but because it is one of the first to emphasize the social significance of the angel's message (st 2-5).
In stanza 2 unrolls the never-ending procession of Christmas days. The
remembered angels and their song are reminders that the world was not intended to be weary, its plains need not be sad and lonely, nor its sounds a Babel instead of a symphony. These angels are the very hope of man springing
eternally in the human breast.
Stanza 3 hints at the actuality rather than the ideal: the devastations, the slaughter, the hatreds, the vengeance, the struggle for power, the savage greed of men have drowned out the celestial music for two milleniums. As the poet was writing these lines his fellow citizens were killing Mexicans in order that they might enslave more Negroes, and the Civil War was looming over the horizon.
Stanza 4 becomes more personal. It urges all who find the burden of life too heavy-victims of poverty, disease, social injustice-to listen awhile to the angelic reminder that Good Will is heaven's law of life and can yet heal all their wounds.
Stanza 5 relieves the picture of human wrongs by reminding us that the song
is still valid. Eternal in the human heart springs the hope, the passioante
faith, that what men so desperately have longed for - that "Age of Gold"- will surely come to pass. "Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs" are all answering, "Yes!"
It came upon the midnight clear,
Tha glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold:
Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,
From heav'n's all gracious King!
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still their heav'nly music floats
O'er all the weary world
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hov'ring wing;
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.

Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring:
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing!

Fo lo! the days are hastening on,
By prophet-bards foretold,
When, with the ever-circling years,
Comes round the age of gold;
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendours fling,
And te whole world send back the song
Which now the angels sing.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index, 2d ed, Gale Research, ISBN 0-8103-1094-5, p140; Alli, Alli SUP, AmAu, AmAu&B, ApCAB, BiDAmM, ChPo,-S1,-S2, DcAmAu, DcAmB, DcNAA, Drake, NatCAB 8, OhA&B, PoChrch, REnAL, TwCBDA, WebE&AL, WhAm HS

Mayflower Index: No. 29,932 Edmund H; spouse Ellen Bacon; father Joseph

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Edmund Hamilton Sears
1810-1876
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Born: April 6, 1810, Sandisfield, Massachusetts.

Sears attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, and Harvard Divinity School. He served at Unitarian churches in Wayland, Lancaster, and Weston, Massachusetts. He also helped edit the Monthly Religious Magazine. His works include:

Regeneration (1854)
Pictures of the Olden Time (1857)
Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life (1875)
Died: January 14, 1876, Weston, Massachusetts.

Hymns:

Calm on the Listening Ear of Night
It Came upon the Midnight Clear

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Edmund married Ellen Bacon, daughter of Ebenezer Bacon Hon and Abigail Crocker, on 7 Nov 1839 in Barnstable, MA. Ellen was born 11 Apr 1811 in Barnstable, MA. She died 24 Apr 1899 in Weston, MA.

S.P. May hand notes indicate she died after book was published

Edmund and Ellen had the following children:

	5900	F	i	Katharine "Katy" Sears was born 25 Feb 1843 in Lancaster, MA. She died 12 Jan 1853 in Wayland, MA and was buried in , 2491. d. of scarlet fever
+	5901	M	ii	Francis Bacon Sears
	5902	M	iii	Edmund Hamilton Sears was born 20 Apr 1852 in . He died 1942 and was buried in , 2493. S.P. May p.369 grad Yale, 1874; lives in Weston. Handnotes show grad Harvard vice Yale Harvard Univ directory [C 1870-4 A.B.; A.M. Washington, MO 1897 Ed.] Burke's Genealogy - Instructor in Latin and Greek, Univ. of Calif, 1875-83, Principal of large private school (Mary Institute)in St Louis, under the charter of Wash. Univ., 1891-1925, author of several books, including the Political History of XIX Century. Harvard, A.B. 1874. Wash. Univ of St Louis, MO Litt.D. Residences: Algonquin Club, Boston and Californian Club, Los Angeles. Author's Club, London, England LS writes that he was her grandfather's brother and a series of essays, reminiscences of thos days, appeared in the New Yorker, became the basis for a Broadway play, "Junior Miss," later adapted into a motion picture. Biography and Genealogy Master Index, 2d ed, Gale Research, ISBN 0-8103-1094-5, p140; AmLY, WhNAA, NatCAB 31, WhAm 2
				Edmund married Helen Clark Swazey, daughter of George Washington Swazey MD, on Jun 1895. Helen was born 1874 in <, 2493>. Burke's Family Genealogy of British Ancestors p.2905
	5903	M	iv	Horace Scudder Sears was born 26 Feb 1855 in , MA. He died 1923 in D.S.P. and was buried in , 2494. 1900 Census Vol 54,993,2,4 Weston, Middlesex, MA !Yarmouth Register 2 Dec 1916-The people of Cotuit wish to express their thanks to Mr Horace S Sears for the fine concrete road he has constructed around the shore for the good of the public, as well as for himself.

3262. Mary Sears (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 2 Jul 1788 in Sandisfield, MA. She died in Orange, NJ and was buried in , 1246.

Mary married Living

They had the following children:

	5904	M	i	Living
	5905	F	ii	Living
				Living married Living
	5906	M	iii	Living
	5907	F	iv	Living
				Living married Living
	5908	M	v	Living
	5909	F	vi	Living
				Living married Living

3263. Alfred Sears (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 25 Sep 1795 in Sandisfield, MA. He died 13 Oct 1880 in Rockford, IL and was buried in , 1247.

S.P. May p.370 Alfred Sears served as a musician in the war of 1812; was a
farmer and merchant in the interior of New York State for many years, and in
1855 removed to Rockford, IL, where he continued top reside until his death.
!BFW He was in Capt J Nye's Co, Lt Col S K Chamberlin's Regt, Mass Vol Militia
from 14 Sep to 30 Oct 1814, called out by the Gov of Mass to suppress a
Threatened Invasion during the War of 1812-14, served at Boston
He died at one o'clock at his son's (B.C. Sears) residence, 303 S Winnebago
St, Rockford. Obit says born Tolland, Berkshire co, MA

Alfred married Eliza Daland, daughter of Philip Deland. Eliza was born about 1801 in Paris, NY. She died 5 Apr 1868 and was buried in Rockford, IL.

CHILD-SPOUSE: CarDel Scribe: Vol 20 No 4, p 29 Jul 83 Queries; Blaine Winslow

IGI shows Deland

Alfred and Eliza had the following children:

+	5910	M	i	Barnas C Sears
+	5911	M	ii	Delos Ambrose Sears
	5912	F	iii	Mary E Sears was born 1831 in . She died 30 Sep 1892.
				Mary married Orson Curtis Fay. Orson died 15 Nov 1911 in Ae 79. Perhaps brother to Barnas' wife Louisa Fay

3264. Belinda Sears (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 23 Aug 1798 in Sandisfield, MA. She died 30 Nov 1868 and was buried in , 1248.

S.P. may p.229 She lives in Youngstown, OH

Belinda married (1) Living

They had the following children:

	5913	F	i	Living
				Living married Living

Belinda also married (2) Living

Belinda also married (3) Living

3265. Sally Sears (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 1 Jul 1801 in Sandisfield, MA. She died after Nov 1880 and was buried in , 1249.

S.P. May p.229 Now lives in Fountain, So. Minn.
!History of Fillmore co, MN they celebrated 60th wedding anniv.

Sally married William Bolles on 15 Nov 1820. William was born 28 Feb 1798 in New Bedford, MA. He died after Nov 1880.

SPM p.229 rem. to central NY where he engaged in manuf scythes; was foreman of
E Remington & Sons works for many years, now lives in Fountain, MN

William and Sally had the following children:

	5914	M	i	Living
	5915	F	ii	Living
	5916	F	iii	Living
	5917	F	iv	Living
+	5918	M	v	William Allen Bolles

3266. Barnas Sears Rev (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 19 Nov 1802 in Sandisfield, MA. He died 6 Jul 1880 in Saratoga, NY and was buried in , 1250.

S.P. May p.371 Barnas was buried at Brookline in his wife's family tomb.
Rev Barnas Sears, D.D., LL. D., S.T.D., grad Brown Univ., 1825, and Newton
Theo Sem'y, 1829; studied several years at Halle, Leipsic and Berlin; was two
years Pastor 1st Bapt Ch, Hartford, CT; afterward Prof Ham. Theo Sem'y, NY,
(now Madison Univ) and Prof. and Pres. Newton Theo Sem'y, Newton, MA
In 1848, he succeeded Horace Mann as Sec. Mass. Board of Education, and was
from 21 Aug 1855 to Feb 1867, President of Brown University.
From 1867 until his death, he rendered valuable services as General Agent of
the Trustees of the Fund given by the late George Peabody for the benefit of
Southern education.
He published "Nohden's Grammar of the English Language," in 1842; "Classical
Studies," 1843; "Ciceronia, or the Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin," 1844;
"Memoir of Rev Bela Jacobs," 1847; "Life of Luther," 1850; since republished in
England with the title "Mental and Spiritual Life of Luther", 1850; numerous
reports on education, occaisonal addresses, and contributions to reviews and
other periodicals, and to "Appleton's American Cyclopedia."
In 1838, and for several years he edited the "Christian Review," and later
"Bibliotheca Sacra."
In 1864, he published a discourse on the "Completion of the first century of
Yale College."
Dr Sears was in public life from the time he returned to this country from
Europe in 1837, unitl the year of his death, 1880.
By many he was considered one of the greatest men of the age, and no doubt he
was the foremost educator.
He had made every effort to sevure his own scholarship, as his parents were
unable to render him much assistance, and what he possessed himself he earnestly
wished others to share.
He never was in the company of the young that on parting, they had not
something to remember, which he had imparted in a pleasant manner.
His social and domestic life was not so full of incidnets as might be expected
, considering his peculiar gifts of wit, conversation and quick repartee, for he
was a devoted student, even to the last days of his career.
Each year he was accustomed to take some one of the languages, and renew his
intimacy with it.
He spoke and wrote with comparative ease, Greek, Latin, French, German,
Spanish and Italian, and had a fair knowledge of Hebrew and Sanscrit.
In English he was a sure authority, and it was an absolute pain to him to hear
it badly spoken by those who should use it correctly.
His wife was accustomed to say that she almost wished she was book, as then
she should receive his attention occasionally, and his children sometimes
remarked that they wished company would come, so that the sound of his voice
would be heard.
Such things rather pained him, while he treated them as jests, and he would
lay aside pen and paper, and endeavor to "be sociable," but soon he would be
seen in his own familiar place, utterly oblivious to his surroundings.
He had a very warm and affectionate nature, and although separated from all
his brothers and sisters for many years, he seldom spoke of them without emotion
Of his mother he had the tenmderest remembrance; he always described her to
his children, who never saw her, as one of the best and sweetest Christians.
His father was quick-tempered and uneven in his spirits, but the mother was
uniform and mild.
He had an old uncle Simeon, who use dto be rather severe with his mischievous
nephews.
Although Barnas was his favorite, he was very impatient at his fondness for
books, and when he found him stretched under the shade fo a tree, or sheltered
from sight in any sequestered nook, he would chide him for laziness, and not
unfrequently lay his riding whip about the boy's legs.
In spite of his fault-finding, however, he was proud of his talents, and in
later life often said, he "always knew that youngster would make his mark."
While religious in the deepest and truest meaning of the word, Dr Sears was
neither sectarian or narrow minded.
He had a broad catholic spirit, and saw good in all men.
When others were sitting in harshest judgement on some unfortunate one, he
had a word of exculpation, or a loophole for possible escape.
In a little pocket diary, found in his coat after death, were a few rules for
self-government. One was, "Criticise yourself severly, others mildly." Another
was, "If not able to say a kind thing of the absent, keep silent."
These maxims were most faithfully observed.
He had inherited a quick temper, but by the time his family were grown, he had
it under perfect control.
After he died, an old colored man-servent, who had lived with him for many
years, told his associates that he had never heard his master speak angrily, anda colored girl who waited on Mrs Sears seventeen years bore the same testimony.
Every one loved him who served him, and while the whole country took sad note
of his death, there was no sincerer regret anywhere than amongst the humble poor
, who were connected with him in domestic life.

Notable Americans and What They Did, ed Linda S Hubbard; Gale Research; Texas
A&M Library;Pres Brown Univ - 1855

Biography and Genealogy Master Index, 2d ed, Gale Research, ISBN 0-8103-1094-5,
p140; Sears, Barnas 1802-1880 Alli, ApCAB, BiDAmEd, CyAL 1, DcAmAu, DcAmB,
DcNAA, Drake, NatCAB 1,-8, TcCBDA, WhAm HS

Barnas married Elizabeth Griggs Corey, daughter of Timothy Corey and Elizabeth Griggs. Elizabeth was born 21 Nov 1809 in . She died 23 Mar 1883 in Staunton, VA.

They had the following children:

+	5919	M	i	William Barnas Sears Capt
	5920	F	ii	Elizabeth Corey Sears was born 14 Oct 1838 in Newton Centre, MA. was buried in , 2498. S.P. May p.371 Lives in Staunton, VA
				Elizabeth married (1) Robert B Chapman on 8 May 1862. Robert was born 1834 in Providence, RI.
				Elizabeth also married (2) James Hampden Fultz Dr on 12 Oct 1874. James was born 5 May 1840 in .
	5921	M	iii	Edward Henry Sears was born 4 Oct 1840 in Newton Centre, MA. He died 22 Aug 1886 in D.S.P. and was buried in , 2499. S.P. May p.371 Edward Sears was educ. in Brown UNiv., left at commencement of senior year to join 2d Regt, RI Vols; app. 1st Lt, 6 Jun 1861; promoted to Capt after Bull Run fight, 22 Jul 1861; transf. by request to Battery G, RI Lt Art'y, 19 Oct 1861; app. A.A. Paymaster, US Navy, 27 Aug 1863; taken prisoner 2 Feb 1864, and held 8 months in Libby Prison; was one of the number placed under fire at Charleston, SC; hon. disch'd 2 Jun 1868; app. Postmaster, Staunton, VA, by Gen Grant, 5 May 1869; also Registering Officer of 17th Military Division of VA, by Gen E Canby, 2 Jun 1869; was a member of the City Council of Staunton, VA; removed to Boston in Jan 1874, and engaged in insurance business with his bro. Capt Wm B Sears; resided in Roxbury. MILITARY: LIBBY PRISON AUTOGRAPH BOOK Jan - Feb 1864; 1864; Utah Genealogical Assoc, Monograph Series No 1, The Grafton Press, 1892; p 36; CT State Library; Pay'ms, USA, Prov, RI (237) enlisetd 5 Jun 1861, 1st Lt - Co D, 2d RI Infantry promoted: 22 Jul 1861, Capt, Co D transferred: 28 Oct 1861, 1st Lt - Battery G, 1st RI Light Artillery resigned: 14 Nov 1862, to become paymaster captured: Sears is listed among Naval officers in Libby Prison during Spring 1864. Glazier, Willard M, "The Capture, the Prison Pen & the Escape" pub 1866, pg 343. Also Dyer, Elisha, "Annual Report of the AG of Rhode Island for the year 1865" pub 1895 pg I, 197, II 922.
				Edward married Amelia L Wiley on 20 Apr 1869 in Brooklyn, NY. Amelia was born 1848 in Providence, RI.
	5922	M	iv	Robert Davis Sears was born 28 Jun 1842 in . He died 30 Apr 1904 in Brookline, MA and was buried in , 2500. S.P. May hand notes show death date.
	5923	M	v	Edward Dwight Sears was born 28 Jun 1852 in . He died 10 Nov 1882 in Staunton, VA and was buried in , 2501.

3267. Lyman Sears (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 19 Sep 1804 in Sandisfield, MA. He died 10 Apr 1866 in Brooklyn, NY and was buried in , 1251.

S.P. May p.374 Lyman Sears lived in Brooklyn, and was of firm Burt, Sears & Co.
dealers in leather and hides, and large manufacturers of boots and shoes.

Lyman married Samantha Hubbard. Samantha was born 1814 in .

They had the following children:

	5924	F	i	Ellen A Sears was born 1836 in . She died 1848 and was buried in , 2502.
	5925	M	ii	Edward L Sears was born 1847 in . was buried in , 2503.

3268. David G Sears (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 29 Jun 1806 in Sandisfield, MA. was buried in , 1252.

S.P. May p.374 David Sears was for many years in thehide and leather business
in Hartford, CT, removed to New York and engaged in the sale of boots and shoes
firm of Sears, Morely & Co.,. removing thence to Rockford, IL, where he now
resides.

David married Olive Deming on 20 Feb 1828 in Sandisfield, MA. Olive was born 12 Oct 1806 in Sandisfield, MA.

They had the following children:

+	5926	M	i	Edwin Sears
	5927	M	ii	Rolin Sears was born 16 Mar 1832 in Sandisfield, MA. He died 22 Mar 1840 in Hartford, CT and was buried in , 2505. SP May typescript- name is Rolin
	5928	F	iii	Mary Lucina Sears was born 30 Dec 1834 in New Boston, MA. was buried in , 2506. MIDDLE NAME: Letter from W Dennis McHenry, Estes Park, CO, to Ray Sears; ; Letter dtd 20 May 1995; ; in poss of Ray Sears; He provided her middle name as Lucina and spouse's name William Alexander McHenry. b. place was Sandisfield - changed in SP May typescript
				Mary married William Alexander McHenry on 28 Jan 1864 in Scott, IL. William was born 6 Mar 1841 in . MIDDLE NAME: Letter from W Dennis McHenry, Estes Park, CO, to Ray Sears; ; Letter dtd 20 May 1995; ; in poss of Ray Sears. He provided his middle name. BIRTH-BIOGRAPHY: Samuel Pearce May, THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD SARES(SEARS) OF YARMOUTH,MASS; 1638-1888; Albany, Joel Munsell's Sons, 1890; p 374; NEHGS Library, Boston, MA; Was in the war until its close, then rem. to Denison, IA, and engaged in banking.
+	5929	M	iv	Henry Sears
	5930	M	v	George Sears was born 11 Oct 1839 in . He died 12 Oct 1866 in Elgin, IL and was buried in , 2508. S.P. may p.374 Removed with his father to Rockford, IL
				George married Lovisa J Brooks on 1 Jan 1860 in Scott, IL. Lovisa was born 12 Oct 1840 in . S.P. May p.374 She remarried

3269. John R Sears (Paul , Paul , Joshua , Paul , Paul , Richard ) was born 11 Jan 1809 in Sandisfield, MA. He died in Poughkeepsie, NY and was buried in , 1253.

S.P. May p.374 John Sears was in the grocery and real estate business in
Hartford, CT, and in New York city; removed to IL and dealt in grain and hogs.
He removed thence to Leavenmworth, KA, and engaged in the flour business,
failed, and returned to Poughkeepsie, NY, where he died.

John married (1) Louisa Hyde in Great Barrington, MA. Louisa was born 1813 in .

They had the following children:

5931

F

i

Jane Sears was born 1835 in . She died in Hartford, CT and was buried in , 2509.

John also married (2) Esther Hyde. Esther was born 1813 in New Marlboro, MA. She died in Leavenworth, KA.

They had the following children:

5932

M

ii

James Sears was born 1835 in . He died in Hartford, CT and was buried in , 2510.

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