Timothy Chase was one of my 3rd
great-grandfathers. Although I have listed his father as Charles
Chase on my website, I am not completely confident that is correct.
It is based on a statement made in a local history from Nebraska in
an article about Luman Chase, one of Timothy's sons. Since it is
likely that Luman provided the information and Charles would have
been his grandfather it does have some credibility. But I haven't
found any other documentation for this relationship. If there are any
Chase cousins reading this and you have some other source for this,
please let me know.
Timothy's birthdate of 17 Jun
1812 has been calculated from his stated age at his death. The
county where Timothy was born is still uncertain. In the 1850, 1860
and 1870 censuses his birthplace was reported as New York. But that
is not very precise.
It
was the last day of 1832, 31 December, when Timothy married Lucy
Irene Howe, the daughter of Ichabod and Irene (Scovill) Howe, in
Cornwall Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut. On the 1840 census
the family was in Sharon Township which adjoined Cornwall on the west
side. Then by 1850 they were in Goshen Township, which joined
Cornwall on the east side.
Timothy
was one of my "moving" ancestors. He and the family left
Connecticut and were in Leroy Township in Lake County Ohio by the
1860 census. In 1870 the family was living in Illinois in Rivoli
Township in Mercer County. Then they moved to Saline County Nebraska
where Timothy died on 5 Jul 1877. He was buried in Atlanta Cemetery
in Atlanta Township in Saline County. Apparently Timothy had made an
application for a homestead there in Saline County because 2 years
after he died on 30 Jun 1879 a patent for 80 acres was issued to Lucy
I. Chase, widow of Timothy C. Chase, deceased. It was almost 3 years
later when Lucy died, 10 Mar 1882. She was also buried in Atlanta
Cemetery.
Timothy
and Lucy had 8 children who appear to have inherited the "moving"
gene. They all died in different counties:
- Sarah = Ashtabula County, Ohio
- Crawford = Cherokee County, Kansas
- Wells Morgan = Clay County, Nebraska
- Lucy Jane = Sherman County, Kansas
- Ralph = Lake County, Ohio
- Emily = Harper County, Oklahoma
- Luman = Spokane County, Washington
- Marsh = Furnas County, Nebraska.
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