Saturday, August 23, 2014

In Memoriam August 23rd

1652 Mary (White) Loomis in Windsor, CT.  The daughter of Robert & Bridget (Allgar) White she was baptized in Shalford, England in 1590.  Mary married Joseph Loomis in Messing, England in 1614 and they had eight children: Sarah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, John, Thomas, Nathaniel and Samuel.  The family immigrated to Massachusetts on the Susan & Ellen in 1638 and moved to Connecticut in 1639.  Mary was 61 when she died.

Sarah Long
1653 Sarah (Hill) Loomis age 32 in Windsor, CT.  Baptized in England in 1621, she married Joseph Loomis in 1646 and they had three children: Sarah, Joseph and Mary.  Sarah was the daughter-in-law of Mary (White) Loomis above.

1721 Zerviah (Bushnell) Holden age 65 in Norwich, CT.  She was the daughter of Capt. Benajah & Zerviah (Leffingwell) Bushnell.  Zerviah was born in Norwich in 1721.


1857 Sarah Long 11 month old daughter of James & Elizabeth Long.  She is buried in Long Cemetery in Crestwood, KY.

1870 Leonard Cagle Gurley in Wayne Co., IL age 47.  The son of William & Polly (?) Gurley he was born in North Carolina in 1823.  He married 1) Nancy Warren and they had six children: Daniel, John, Eliza, William, Sarah and Mary and 2) Susannah Morehead and they had seven children: Henry, Nancy, Alfred, Elizabeth, James, Alice and Leonard.  Leonard was a farmer and ran a store in the Johnsonville area.  He is buried in Bailey Cemetery in Wayne Co., IL.

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