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Note: JOHN WOODMAN and ESTHER McINTYRE John Woodman, the 6th child of Sylvester and Merebah (Brownell) Woodman, was born 18 March 1797 at Madison, Madison County, New York. He no doubt grew up on his father’s farm in a house that still stands on the west side of Lake Moraine. Very little else is known of John except that he married Esther McIntyre of Palmyra, Wayne County, New York and that he died in Madison, on 1 Mar. 1835. In 1851, his widow Esther applied for federal bounty lands based on John’s military service, evidently in the Mexican American War. It is possible that John died from wounds or disease contracted in the service. Esther made her application for bounty lands while on a visit back to Palmyra from Wisconsin. He attorney helping her to prepare the necessary applications and affit davits was S. B. McIntyre of Palmyra, no doubt a relative. Esther McIntyre, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Robinson) Mclntyre, was born 22 August 1800 in New York state. She was probably born near the town of Palmyra where several of her Robinson aunts and uncles had settled shortly before the turn of the century. It is not known where Esther grew up but her mother supposedly died in 1811 in Niagara County, New York. It is not known how she met John Woodman or where they were married. However, in her letters to her brother-in-law Brownell Woodman in the 1850’s, it is apparent that she had at some point spent some time with the Woodman clan in Madison County. John’s early death at the age of 38 left Esther with five young children, including an infant daughter Lucy. It appears that Esther gave her next youngest child Harriet Ludentia to a family by the name of Hackley, as family records from her descendants list her has Harriet L. Hackley, not Harriet Woodman. Esther regretted this action the rest of her life, expressing remorse for her separation from Harriet in her letters to Brownell Woodman in 1850: “What about my dear daughter? Have you seen her? Has she been to see you? I want to know all about her. I wish Thomas this fall, tell Thomas to go and see her before he comes west. I want to send her a presant if I could with safety. I will not undertake to describe my felings on the subject. It is better felt than told.” In an 1859 letter to Brownell she again mentioned Harriet Ludentia: “When I look on the past, Oh, the anguish of my heart when I think that the strongest ties in this world is broken . . . She is my child and I am her true mother.” In 1839 Esther married Jeremiah Hurlbut, the son of John and Hannah (Millet) Hurlbut, III and the widower of Cynthia (Harris) Hurlbut. Jeremiah and Cynthia had three children: Mary Ann, George Washington, and Hiram, who may have been young enough to be raised by his new stepmother. About 1842 Jeremiah and Esther moved to Brighton, Wisconsin, bringing with them her daughters Sophia and Lucy, his son Hiram, and their son Delos. Esther’s son Thomas apparently did not go to Wisconsin with his mother in 1842, as she begged Brownell Woodman in 1850 to try to convince Thomas to join her out west: “I want Thomas to come west without fail so tell him to write me a letter so I may know about it. Tell him if he comes to come by the way of the railroad. Tell him to take no private walks with no one and take care of his own trunk and mony and there will be no danger. Take a packet or a line boat to Buffalo. There he can see the agent. Pay his fair. Take a ticket clear through to Southport the last of Sept. or the first of Oct. is as good as any time in the season. . . See Thomas and advise him I do think that he can do a great deal better here than he can there. There is chances here that will make any poor man rich. . . Tell him to come to Wisconsin without fail. He can go to school as well here as there.” Jeremiah Hurlbut died 15 August 1850 at Brighton and on 31 Dec. 1852 at Yorkville, Wisconsin, Esther married Ruben North, the son of Ruben and Sarah North. Ruben, born about 1800 in England, was a shoemaker and later a minister. In an 1859 letter to Brownell Woodman she described their life together: “We have been out three years on the circuit. We came home last June. My husband is out all the time pretty much, a holding protracted meetings. It is a time of reviving all around, far and near. Where Mr. North has been holding meeting, there is above thirty added to the church. . . . How are you all getting along in Madison? I want to see you very mutch indeed. I would give all my old shoes and a pair of new ones if I could see you all tonight.” Sometime during the 1860’s Esther and Ruben moved to Newton County, Missouri, possibly along with her son Delos Hurlbut. Esther wrote her last will and testament in Granby, Newton County, Missouri on 6 Nov. 1868. Esther (McIntyre) North died of pleurisy on 26 December 1872 at the home of her daughter Sophia near DeWitt, Nebraska. She had been visiting in Nebraska since that October. Esther was buried three miles east of DeWitt in a small cemetery. Her obituary noted that she had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for forty years. Children by John Woodman: 1. Anna Sophia (later Sophia Ann), born 22 Feb. 1821, probably Palmyra, NY m. Nehemiah Burgess, 17 May 1843, Southport (now Kenosha), Wisconsin 2. William B. Probably died young as he is mentioned in his grandfather Woodman’s estate records of 1835 but not in family letters from the 1850’s. 3. Thomas J., born ca. 1830, New York ml. Rebecca -?- m2. Mrs. Lidda Granger Thomas and Rebecca had two children: Elisabeth, born ca. 1856 and Parker, born ca. 1857. Thomas was in Sauk County, Wisconsin in 1868 and 1870, Newton County, Missouri in 1874 and 1880 and Gage County, Nebraska in 1885. 4. Harriet Ludentia, born 10 June 1832, New York State m. Amos F. W. Fuller, 27 Feb. 1855, Plainfield, New York 5. Lusannah B., born ca. 1834, New York State m. -?- Ide and resided Sauk County, Wisconsin in 1868 and Newton County, Missouri in 1874. Lusannah was probably named after her father’s sister Lusannah (Woodman) Brown who died in 1830 at the age of 37. She is listed as Susannah Ide Brown in her mother’s will but as Lusannah B. Ide in the 1874 probate records. She is probably also the daughter Lucy mentioned in her mother’s letters in the 1850’s. Child by Jeremiah Hurlbut: 6. Delos B., b. ca. 1841, New York State m. Olive -?- . Children: Joseph, b. ca. 1861, Ida, b. ca. 1863, Edith, b. ca. 1864, Nella, b. ca. 1866, and William, b. ca. 1869, Gerald(ine?), b. ca. 1873 and Fredie, b. ca. 1875. References: Letters to be donated to the Letter from Esther Hurlbut to Brownell Woodman, dated 28 July 1850 (or possibly 1849), Brighton, WI Letter from S. B. McIntyre to Brownell Woodman, dated 11 Aug. 1851, Palmyra, NY Letter from Sophia (Woodman) Burgess to Brownell Woodman, dated 30 Mar. 1853, Dover, WI Letter from Esther North to Brownell Woodman, dated Jan. 1859, Brighton, WI History of the State of Nebraska (1882), p. 825 Hurlbut Genealogy, or Record of the Descendants of Thos. Hurlbut (1888), Henry H. Hurlbut, Joel Munsell’s Sons, Albany, NY, p. 291 Marriage Records of Racine County, WI, Vol. 5, p. 61 Probate Records of Sylvester Woodman, Madison County, NY Tombstone record of Esther (McIntyre) (Woodman) (Hurlbut) North, Grant Township, Gage Co., NE 1880 Census, Shoal Creek Twp., Barry Co., MO (family of Delos B. Hurlbert) ----------------------------------------------------------- She and Jeremiah Hurlburt moved to Brighton, Wisconsin in about 1842. Esther McIntyre died of pleurisy at the home of her daughter Sophia near DeWitt, Nebraska. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for forty years. She is buried three miles east of DeWitt in the Rosehill Cemetery, Grant Township, Gage County, Nebraska. She and her son-in-law Nehemiah Ebenezer Burgess share the same tombstone. She was known as "Grandma North" to her family. Reuben and Esther apparently divorced between June 1870 (census) and Dec 1873 her date of death. He returned to England. NEWTON COUNTY WILL BOOK VOL. 1 Page 56 13 Nov 1867 - 12 June 1874 ESTHER NORTH late of Kenosha CO, Wisconsin now of Newton CO, Missouri To my well beloved children to wit: Mrs Harriet L Fuller of Muddilla Forks, NY, Mrs Susanah Idy Brown of Sac CO, Wisconsin and Mrs Sophia Brupas of Nebraska, each fifty dollars. My son Thomas Woodman of Sac CO, Wisconsin, five dollars and to his two children, Elizabeth and Parker Woodman, twenty five dollars cash. To my son Delos Hurlburt of Newton CO the balance of my property, $595.00, all personal property not otherwise mentioned. Cuckrom Martin, executor. Wit: Jennet G Martin, W H H Judson and S Barton
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