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Note: REFN53 Abby is also spelled Abbie in several places. From the notes of Glenn Weaver Martin, Sr.: Abbie wife of Jerome--on all of his civil war records. (National Archives.) Abbie wife of Jerome on Civil War Pension records. (National Archives.) In a July 20, 1998 letter Betty Jean Lees wrote,"Patience (Dyer) Franklin's second husband was Samuel Tillinghast". Patience Dyer married Samuel Tillinghast June 28, 1849. According to the 1850 US census for Warwick, Kent, RI, "William J. Dyer, 54, machinist; Sarah Dyer 53; PatienceTillinghast 26; Samuel Tillinghast 28, mariner; Abby A. Tillinghast 7; Hannah Tillinghast 5." I believe that first it should be William T. Dyer; second that Abby A. Tillinghast is Abby A. Franklin; third that Hannah is another daughter of John A. and Patience (Dyer) Franklin. Somewhere in the 1844 to 1849 period John and Patience must have been divorced, or perhaps John A. died. By the 1850 census Patience and Samuel Tillinghast were married and I believe that Samuel must have adopted Abby and Hannah, or else they just gave the two girls the Tillinghast name. In future references I have for Abby A. she is always Franklin.
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