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��and Ruth (Jackman) Cheney, was born April i8, 1769, married Mary (Plum- mer) Prescott, daughter of Bensley Plummer, of Goffstown, and died No- vember 13, 1805. By her first husband Mrs. Cheney was the mother of Ed- ward and Daniel Prescott, who resided in Boston ; of Abigail Prescott, whose first husband was William Drake, and whose second husband was the Rev. Thomas Perkins, of New Hampton; and Martha Prescott, who married Horace Hunkins, of Sanbornton. By a former marriage, with Sarah Bur- bank, of Thornton, N. H., Elias Cheney was the father of Moses Cheney, whose sons, Ex-Governor Person C, Cheney, Rev. Dr. Oren B. Cheney, Elias H. Cheney, Charles G. Cheney, and Moses Cheney, Jr., and several daughters, have added luster to the name. He was also father, by this marriage, of Eliza, who married Nathaniel Chandler, of New Hamp- ton ; Ruth, who married Simeon L. Gordon, of Holderness ; Sally, who married Thomas Blaisdell, of Holder- ness.

The children of Elias and Mary {Plummer) (Prescott) Cheney were Gilman Colby, who died unmarried, in Boston, and was buried in the grounds of King's Chapel ; Charles Colby, who died unmarried, in Holderness ; and Person.

Person Cheney, born February 12, 1801, in Thornton, married January 18, 1825, Anne Wadleigh Morrison (born February 14, 1801 ; died June 18, 1879), daughter of Jonathan and Esther J. (Perkins) Morrison, of San- bornton. [Jonathan Morrison was a wldier in the Continental army. His wife, Esther, was the daughter of Mas-

��ter Abraham Perkins, a noted teacher of Sanbornton, and an officer in the Continental army.] He was an active and energetic business man, both in Holderness and in Boston, until, in the prime of life, he was stricken with the brain fever which made him an invalid for many years before his death. He died Nov. i, 18S3. Mrs. Cheney was an educated and cultivated woman, of strong character, who took great pains with her children, impressed on them the need of an education, and at- tended personally to the formation of their minds and characters. She was self-reliant, a scholar and writer ; she had ideas and originality ; she was deeply religious, never doleful, always cheerful and pleasant and bright ; possessed of perseverance and will, she was amiable, affectionate, and benevolent ; sympathetic, a lead- er in the church, always doing good ; retaining her faculties to the last ; her children call her blessed.

Children : — I. Eliza x'Xnn Cheney, born Marchi'12, 1827; married J. H. Applebee, of St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; died in May, 1872. H- Major John Tirrell Cheney, born February 25, 1830, of Cheney's Battery in the Army of the Tennessee, and for a long time a mem- ber of Gen. Frank. P. Blair's staff, in. Person Cheney, Jr., born May 19, 1 83 1, who resides in Dixon, III., and who has been mayor of that city. IV. Thomas Perkins Cheney. V. Samuel Thompson Cheney, born January 23, 1835 ; killed at battle of Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864, while Orderly Sergeant of Company E, 1 2th Regiment New Hampshire Vol- unteers. VI. Mary Tirrell Cheney, born November 13, 1837 ; married

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