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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Stephen Longfellow: Birth: 14 AUG 1805. Death: 19 SEP 1850

  2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Birth: 27 FEB 1807 in Portland, Me. Death: 24 MAR 1882 in Cambridge, Mass

  3. Elizabeth Longfellow: Birth: 24 AUG 1808. Death: 05 MAY 1829

  4. Anne Longfellow: Birth: 03 MAR 1810. Death: 24 JAN 1901

  5. Alexander Longfellow: Birth: 20 MAY 1814. Death: 14 FEB 1901

  6. Mary Longfellow: Birth: 28 JUN 1816. Death: 03 FEB 1901

  7. Ellen Longfellow: Birth: 12 JUL 1818. Death: 12 JUL 1834

  8. Samuel Longfellow: Birth: 18 JUN 1819. Death: 03 OCT 1892


Notes
a. Note:   H37
Note:   Zilpah Wadsworth was born in 1778, the second child and first daughter of Peleg and Elizabeth Wadsworth. She grew up in the house on Congress St., surrounded by her nine brothers and sisters. Zilpah was especially close to her sister Eliza, who was just one year younger. Zilpah found pleasure and relaxation in writing, and her letters and journals provide a charming glimpse of her girlhood. She and Eliza were "sweet girls" with "an unaffected softness of manners" and enjoyed a busy social life. Zilpah was "tall, attractive, with dark hair, lively blue eyes" and a "blooming" complexion. The prevailing interest of Portland's young women was Portland's young men, who were "as plenty as apples in autumn." None of them aroused Zilpah and Eliza Wadsworth's interest, however, until the 1799 arrival of tall, attractive, twenty-three-year-old Stephen Longfellow IV, a Harvard graduate seeking a career in law, they married in January 1804, but he had eyes for her sister Eliza prior to their marriage and the death of Eliza August 1, 1802. Zilpah devoted herself to nursing her sister and with Stephen watched by her bedside. Before her death Eliza bequeathed to Zilpah her most cherished possession, a lock of George Washington's hair. As they aged, both Stephen and Zilpah succumbed to ill health. Stephen Longfellow died on August 3, 1849, after more than a decade of "bad days." Zilpah died on March 13, 1851. When Henry received the news of her death by telegraph, he left immediately for Portland. "In the chamber where I last took leave of her?a sense of peace came over me, as if there had been no shock or jar in nature, but a harmonious close to a long life." Zilpah bequeathed her half of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House to her daughter Anne. When Lucia died in 1864, she too left her share to Anne, whose increasing responsibility for the house became a legal fact. (internet) http://www.hwlongfellow.org/family_stephen.shtml


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