| |
|
 |
|
 1795 - 1889
-
| Born |
21 Apr 1795 |
Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
1889 |
Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| Died |
02 Feb 1889 |
Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| Notes |
- This genealogical and biographica1 information was sent to the Shelburne Museum, in 1962.
Cullen Friend Sturtevant was born at Pittsfield Massachusetts on April 21, 1795, and died at Hartland. Vermont on February 2, 1889. He married Harriet Morey, daughter of Reuben and Martha (Frizzell) Morey at Strafford, Vermont, on Nov 27, 1833. She was born at Strafford on December 11, 1807, and died at Heartland on June 20, 1874. Both Cullen and his wife are buried in the Village Cemetery at Hartland, Vermont.
The seven children of this couple were all born at Hartland, Eveline, born on August 29, 1834 married William J Sumner at Hartland on Feb 12, 1866, and died, a widow at Rye Beach, New Hampshire on November 18, 1929. Amelia Morey Sturtevant, born on September 15, 1835, died, unmarried, at Hartland on May 19, 1854. Caroline, born on March 23, l837, married Frederick Bates at Hartland on August 18, 1859, and died at Findlay, Ohio on Sept 10, 1910, after living most of her life in Titusville, Pennsylvania. She, her husband, and their younger son, Crayton Holden Bates (1877-1951), and daughter Harriet (1868-1936), are buried in Wood1awn Cemetery at Titusville.
Cullen eldest son, Francis Crayton Sturtevant, was born on Dec 13, 1838, and died at Hartford, Connecticut on December 21, 1916. He went to Hartford about the time of the Civil War, and there married, in 1869, Harriet Mellen Ellis, daughter of Gregory and Amy, who was born at Warren, Connecticut in 1848 and died at Hartford on November 22. 1905. Three of their four children were unmarried. The oldest son, Harry Crayton, born August 21, 1870 and died at the age of 20 years, September 22, 1890 of tumor in the brain. Florence Mellen born July 19, 1873 was living in 1962 at Newton, Massachusetts. Their son Albert Morey Sturtevant (1876-1957) was for many years' professor of German at the University of Kansas. The youngest, Francis Raymond Sturtevant, born at Hartford, Connecticut on December 18, 1877, and died at Baltimore, Maryland on June 28, 1934, married Avis Atwood at Boston, Massachusetts on June 12, 1907. In 1961 their son, Francis Raymond Sturtevant, Jr. (born at Taunton, Mass. in 1923), and his son, Francis Raymond, 3rd., were the only descendants in direct, male line, from Cullen Friend Sturtevant.
The fifth child, and second son, Albert Audubon Sturtevant, was born on September 22, 1840, and died at Hartland on January 4, 1922. By Louise Rice Marsh (daughter of Henry T. Marsh, of Woodstock, Vt.) to whom he was married in 1869, he had two daughters, Lillian Amelia and Pearl Estelle. From late boyhood until he retired to the town of his birth he worked as a mechanic, during the Civil War for Colt Fire Arms Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and later for various concerns in that city and in Europe. He was something of an inventor, a clever wood carver, a musician, and poetic humorist.
The youngest daughter, Ann, was born on Sept. 13,1842 Married George H. Hebard (1840-1902 of Hartford, Ct. and died on March 8,1936 at Kansas City, Kansas. Both she and hear husband are buried in the Old north Cemetery at Hartford, Ct. They had no chi1dren.
His youngest son, Wilber Reuben Sturtevant, born on Nov 22, 1844, died at Hartland on April 29, 1927. He married Leonora Robinson (daughter of Corne1ius and Mary (Pike) Robinson at Vt. on Oct. 18,1871. She was born, at Chelsea (November 16, 1848; died at Hartland on July 3, 1936; and is buried beside her husband in the in the village Cemetery at Hartland. For most of his 1ife Wi1ber was a merchant and civic leader in that town. He was town clerk for over a half-century, town historian, senior deacon in the Universalist Church, active in social and fraternal organizations, a musician, composer, and poet. Wilber had four daughters. The eldest, Florence Hortense Sturtevant (January 30, 1873 to Dec. 1 1957) never married, though she was exceptionally talented and active throughout her long life. She succeeded her father as Heartland's historian; taught music, was an author and poetess, and did much to improve life in her community. Her sister Amelia died young. Wi1ber's third 3 daughter, Alice Robinson 1877 to 1955), Married Jesse L. Wills at Hartland Sept. 29 1910. From this union one son, Arthur Frederick, born Feb15, 1912 a soldier in World War II, lives in Petersburg, Virginia. The youngest daughter, Helen Ruth, born in 1883 was living Hartland in 1961. She married there on June 29, 1909, Frank Alvin Durphey by whom she had four sons and two daughters, who, in turn, have all raised fami1ies of their own.
Cullen, the eldest son of Dr. Friend Sturtevant, was rather typical of the old stock Yankees who developed Vermont's traditional ways of life in the 19th century. He grew to manhood in a rural community where all means of livelihood were based on and backed by subsistence farming. About 1822, in partnership with his brother, Thomas Foster Sturtevant, Cullen began factory production of cloth, at Hartland, from locally grown wool. Another brother Fitz-Edward Sturtevant 1 associated with them in the firm of C.P. and T. F. Sturtevant, around 1826, when they bought Aaron Willard mill and began making Grey cashmere, which had wide market and brought them considerable fame. In 1840 a new mill was built. Ten years later1 Cullen bought out his brother's interests, and in 1865, when he was seventy years of age1 sold out to enjoy a well-earned retirement. During his successful career as a manufacturer, he developed a method of cleansing raw wool that was soon adopted by the industry. A genial man of many accomplishments, Cullen was an excellent musician, a fisherman and lover of nature, a
Avid reader, an active churches man1 and a participant in the social and cultural life of his community.
For the celebration of the 100th birthday of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Martha Morey, he composed a "centennial Tribute " that he delivered before the numerous relatives assembled at her farmhouse in Strafford on April 16 1876, Some of those present journeyed from Ohio and South Carolina for the event. That morning this matriarch had risen at dawn, made her bed, and built up the kitchen fire, routed out the hired man, made up his bed, and fed her chickens, all before any of her family that had come to honor her were awake.
Cullen was a sixth generation descendant from Samuel and Ann (Lee) Sturtevant of Plymouth Massachusetts; his lineage being: Friend5 Josiah4&3, Samuel 3&1 .His grandfather, Dr. Josiah Sturtevant of Plymouth and Halifax, (1720-1775) had been a man of prominence and wealth in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts. A surgeon, lawyer, Justice of the peace, deputy sheriff, and captain of province troops, he beget eighteen children by his two wives, Pricilla (daughter of Judge Thomas Croade), and Lois Fuller (who was widow Foster when Josiah married her at married her at Plymouth in l757). Throughout the increasing tensions with English rule Josiah remained an uncompromising loyalist, despite the patriot stand of his brothers, most others of his clan, and the majority of his neighbors. For this, he suffered increasing persecutions. At the outbreak of hostilities he galloped from Halifax to Boston during the night of April 19/20, 1775, so closely pursued that he lost his saddlebags in the chase. There he was confirmed in his Captain's commission by the British commander, Gage, and put in charge of a military hospital in which he contacted small-pox and died on August l8, l775. He was buried in the crypt of the Old South Church, at Boston. Much of Dr. Josiah's estate was confiscated, including 1488 acres of land he had in the Hartland-Woodstock area of the New Hampshire grants. Aided by relatives, his widow and younger children had a most difficult time in Plymouth County for the next decade. In the fall of 1788 widow Lois Sturtevant remarried, at Halifax, to Samuel Savery, of Wareham and soon after they removed to Woodstock, Vermont.
Cullen's father, Dr. Friend Sturtevant (1767-1830), the 13th of Dr. Josiah's offspring, was studying medicine with his half--brother, Dr. Thomas Sturtevant of Middleboro, when his mother, with some of his sisters and at least one of his younger brothers went to Vermont. In 1793 he married, at Middleboro Massachusetts, Sarah Porter. After a brief experience of frontier life at Holland Patent, near Rome, New York, they settled in Pittsfield, Massachusetts by the spring of 1795. Ten years later Dr. Friend moved his family to Woodstock, and in 1807 to Hartland, where he practiced until his death at age 63. During the War of 1812 Dr. Friend served, for a time, with the U.S. Army as a surgeon, being stationed at Plattsburgh, N. Y. His teacher, Dr. Thomas Sturtevant, was also an army surgeon in that conflict. Dr. Friend was a jovial, freehearted, much respected man, who transmitted to his descendants his keen sense of responsibility and his desire to make this world a better place in which to produce happiness
|
| Person ID |
I26 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
11 Jun 2012 |
| Father |
Friend Sturtevant, b. 19 Feb 1767, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 26 Aug 1830, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
Sarah Porter, b. Abt 1772, Massachusetts, USA , d. 20 Jan 1864, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Married |
25 Apr 1793 |
Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| Family ID |
F32 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Harriet Morey, b. 11 Dec 1807, Strafford, Orange, Vermont, USA , d. 20 Jun 1874, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| Married |
27 Nov 1833 |
| Children |
| | 1. Eveline Sturtevant, b. 29 Aug 1834, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA , d. 18 Nov 1929, Rye Beach, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA |
| | 2. Amelia Morey Sturtevant, b. 15 Sep 1835, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA , d. 19 May 1854, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| | 3. Caroline Sturtevant, b. 23 Mar 1837, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA , d. 10 Sep 1910, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, USA |
| | 4. Francis Crayton Sturtevant, b. 13 Dec 1838, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA , d. 21 Dec 1916, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| | 5. Albert Audubon Sturtevant, b. 22 Sep 1840, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA , d. 04 Jan 1922, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| | 6. Ann Sturtevant, b. 13 Sep 1842, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA , d. 08 Mar 1936, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, USA |
| | 7. Wilbur Reuben Sturtevant, b. 22 Nov 1844, Vermont, USA , d. 29 Apr 1927, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
|
| Family ID |
F20 |
Group Sheet |
-
-
| Sources |
- [S39] Descendants of Samuel Sturtevant, Robert H. Sturtevant, (Name: 1986 Edition;), 6-71.
|
|
|
|
