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Descendants of Joseph Bemis

2140. Jennett Dwight⁷ Bemis (Samuel⁶, Wait⁵, Samuel⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁰¹⁰⁷ was born 27 Aug 1832 in Lyndon, Caledonia, Vermont¹⁰¹⁰⁷. She married Charles Augustus Gale¹⁰¹⁰⁷ 14 Jul 1850 in South Royalston, Massachusetts¹⁰¹⁰⁷, son of Otis Gale and Elmira Sherwin. He was born 15 Aug 1825 in Royalston, Massachusetts¹⁰¹⁰⁷.

More About Charles Gale and Jennett Bemis:
Marriage: 14 Jul 1850, South Royalston, Massachusetts¹⁰¹⁰⁷

Children of Jennett Bemis and Charles Gale are:

+	3766	i.	Susan⁸ Gale, born 01 Nov 1857.
	3767	ii.	Caroline Knapp Gale¹⁰¹⁰⁷, born 01 Dec 1864¹⁰¹⁰⁷.
	3768	iii.	Ada Amorth Gale¹⁰¹⁰⁷, born 04 Nov 1866¹⁰¹⁰⁷.
	3769	iv.	Elmira Jeanett Gale¹⁰¹⁰⁷, born 11 Apr 1869¹⁰¹⁰⁷; died 03 Jun 1893¹⁰¹⁰⁷. She married Charles H. Clark¹⁰¹⁰⁷ 01 Jul 1890 in Greely, Colorado¹⁰¹⁰⁷.

More About Charles Clark and Elmira Gale:
Marriage: 01 Jul 1890, Greely, Colorado¹⁰¹⁰⁷

2144. Harrison Otis⁷ Bemis (Samuel⁶, Wait⁵, Samuel⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁰¹⁰⁷ was born 07 Sep 1841 in Lyndon, Caledonia, Vermont¹⁰¹⁰⁷. He married Mary Maria Patt¹⁰¹⁰⁸ 10 Aug 1862 in Danielsonville, Connecticut ^10109,¹⁰¹¹⁰, daughter of Welcome Patt and Mary Douglas. She was born 09 Mar 1844 in Scituate, Rhode Island ¹⁰¹¹¹.

Notes for Harrison Otis Bemis:
[Draper:139] Mr. Bemis enlisted as a private in B. Comp. 18th Conn. Vols. July 10, 1862; discharged as Sergeant, June 27, 1865.

[A Collection of Family Records, with Biographical Sketches, and Other Memoranda of Various Families and Individuals Bearing the Name Douglas:85] Harrison Otis Bemis, W. Killingly, wh. res. ('78). He serv. 3 yrs. civil war (18 Conn. regt., in 13 batt.); shoe-cutter ('78)

More About Mary Maria Patt:
Name 2: Mary Maria Patte¹⁰¹¹¹
Date born 2: 29 Mar 1844 ¹⁰¹¹²

More About Harrison Bemis and Mary Patt:
Marriage: 10 Aug 1862, Danielsonville, Connecticut ^10113,¹⁰¹¹⁴

Children of Harrison Bemis and Mary Patt are:

+	3770	i.	Herbert Willard⁸ Bemis, born 20 Apr 1866 in Killingly, Connecticut.
	3771	ii.	Mabel Frances Bemis ^10115,¹⁰¹¹⁶, born 17 Jul 1868 ^10117,¹⁰¹¹⁸; died 16 Jul 1870 ¹⁰¹¹⁹.
	3772	iii.	Mildred Ethel Bemis^10119,¹⁰¹²⁰, born 16 Apr 1872¹⁰¹²⁰; died 30 Jul 1873 ^10121,¹⁰¹²².

More About Mildred Ethel Bemis:
Date born 2: 06 Apr 1872 ¹⁰¹²³

2147. William⁷ Bemis (Daniel⁶, Joseph⁵, Edmund⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁰¹²⁴ was born 24 Apr 1812 in Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts ¹⁰¹²⁵, and died 02 Jun 1892 in Plymouth Twp., Rock, Wisconsin ¹⁰¹²⁶. He married Polly Jones¹⁰¹²⁶.

More About William Bemis:
Name 2: William Bemiss ¹⁰¹²⁷

Children of William Bemis and Polly Jones are:

3773	i.	Helen⁸ Bemis ¹⁰¹²⁸.
3774	ii.	Cora Bemis¹⁰¹²⁸.
3775	iii.	Duressa Bemis¹⁰¹²⁸.
3776	iv.	Amber E. Bemis^10128,¹⁰¹²⁹. She married John H. Carle¹⁰¹²⁹ 04 Jun 1865 in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin¹⁰¹²⁹; born in Massachusetts¹⁰¹²⁹.

More About John Carle and Amber Bemis:
Marriage: 04 Jun 1865, Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin¹⁰¹²⁹

2148. Edmund⁷ Bemis (Daniel⁶, Joseph⁵, Edmund⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁰¹³⁰ was born 25 Sep 1813 in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts¹⁰¹³⁰, and died 07 Jun 1884 in Monmouth, Colorado ¹⁰¹³¹. He married Louisa Hall¹⁰¹³¹ 12 Feb 1837 in Elba, New York¹⁰¹³¹. She was born 18 Feb 1817 in New York¹⁰¹³¹.

More About Edmund Bemis and Louisa Hall:
Marriage: 12 Feb 1837, Elba, New York¹⁰¹³¹

Children of Edmund Bemis and Louisa Hall are:

+	3777	i.	Horace Greeley⁸ Bemis, born in Alabama, Genessee, New York.
+	3778	ii.	Maria Louisa Bemis, born 10 May 1841 in Alabama, Genessee, New York; died 16 Aug 1875 in Silverton, Colorado.
	3779	iii.	Delephene Charlotte Bemis¹⁰¹³¹, born 17 Feb 1844 in Alabama, Genessee, New York¹⁰¹³¹; died 17 Oct 1862 in Evansville, Wisconsin¹⁰¹³¹.
	3780	iv.	Frank Bemis¹⁰¹³¹, born 18 Oct 1845¹⁰¹³¹; died 05 Mar 1847¹⁰¹³¹.
+	3781	v.	Charles Edmund Bemis, born 29 Jul 1850 in Wisconsin.
	3782	vi.	Luella Bemis¹⁰¹³¹, born 31 Dec 1854¹⁰¹³¹; died 03 Oct 1862 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin¹⁰¹³¹.

2149. Albert⁷ Bemis (Daniel⁶, Joseph⁵, Edmund⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁰¹³² was born 16 Oct 1816 in Hamilton, Madison, New York ¹⁰¹³³, and died 14 Feb 1890 in Evansville, Wisconsin ¹⁰¹³⁴. He married Martha Ann Fowle¹⁰¹³⁵ 23 Mar 1842¹⁰¹³⁵. She was born 25 Dec 1820 in Monroe County, New York¹⁰¹³⁵, and died 09 Sep 1913 ¹⁰¹³⁶.

Notes for Albert Bemis:
1850 US Census, Plymouth,Rock County,WI; Roll M432_1005, p. 263, lines 19-25
Bemis, Albert,age 29,Farmer, b. NY
Martha, age 28, b. NY
Jacob, age 6, b. Wisconsin
Louisa, age 3, b. Wisconsin
Holley, Anthony O.,age 16,Farmer, b. Ireland
Deaven, James, age 23, Farmer, b. Ireland
McDonald, Jane, age 14, b. NY

1860 US Census, Plymouth,Rock County,WI;;p. 114, lines 11-17
Bemis,Albert, age 42,Farmer, b. NY
Martha A.,39, b. NY
Jacob T., age 16, Farm Laborer, b. Wisconsin
Louisa J., age age 13, b. Wisconsin
Arthur T., age 9, b. Wisconsin
Donahue,Margaret, age 17,Servant, b. Ireland
Scott,Elizabeth, age 20, Teacher common, b. NY

1870 US Census, Plymouth,Rock County,WI; p. 18, lines 23-28
Bemis, Albert, age 56, Farmer, b. NY
Martha, age 51, Keeping House, b. NY
Jacob F., age 25, Farmer, b. Wisconsin
Arthur L., age 19, Farm Laborer, b. Wisconsin
Bailey, Charles, age 25, Farm Laborer, b. Prussia
Kindred, Amanda, age 18,Housekeeper, b. Penn.

1880 US Census, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO; Enum. Dist. 43,
p. 33, lines 49-50; p. 34 lines 1-5
Bemis, Albert, age 63,Husband,Farmer, b. NY, parents b. Mass.
Martha A., wife, Visiting, b. NY, parents b. NY
Bemis, Jacob, age 38, husband,Farmer, b. Wisconsin, parents b. NY
Meri C.,age 33, wife,visiting,b. Wisconsin, fath. b. NH, moth. b. NY
Annie K.,age 6, dau., At Home,b. Wisconsin, parents b. Wisconsin
Mary E., age 1, dau., At Home, b. Wisconsin, parents b. Wisconsin
Kingsbury, Sarah,age 23, Girl, Housework, b. Ill., parents b. England

More About Albert Bemis:
Date born 2: 27 Oct 1816 ¹⁰¹³⁷

Notes for Martha Ann Fowle:
[Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette, December 23, 1911]

MRS. MARTHA BEMIS NINETY-ONE YEARS OLD CHRISTMAS DAY

Pioneer Resident of County Remarkably Well Preserved For Age--Has Wealth of Reminiscence.

To have vivid memories of the experiences and important events of over three-quarters of a century, witness the settlement and population of what was almost a wilderness, the passing of a territory into statehood and the transformation of a hamlet into a thriving city, is the rare lot of Mrs. Martha Anna Bemis, who on Christmas day will celebrate her ninety-first birthday.

Mrs. Bemis is remarkably well preserved for her age, and her hearing memory and keenness of mind would do credit to many persons fifteen and twenty years her junior. The one faculty which has failed her is her sight; she has been totally blind for the last three years. In other respects she feels but very lightly the weight of her years and takes pleasure, not only in the treasures of reminiscence in her well stocked memory, but in contemporary happenings and in her children of which there are now four generations. She has been observing woman, noting the transpiration of events in state and nation as well as in the community and household, and to this day her children refer questions concerning them to her for settlement.

It is now sixty-eight years since Mrs. Bemis left her home in Genesee county, New York, and moved with her husband to Wisconsin. Of the years preceding this time, she still has memories. She remembers the celebration which attended the opening of the Erie canal which occurred when she was about seven years old, the Harrison-Tyler campaign in which miniature log cabins were carried triumphantly in Whig campaign processions, and of seeing while on a visit in Michigan soldiers just returned from the Black Hawk war. While crossing lake Erie from Dunkirk to Cleveland, on their way to Wisconsin, the vote upon which she and her husband were traveling engaged in a spirited race with another packet in the frenzy of the contest tar was fed to the fires to make them hotter, but despite overcrowded boilers and imminent danger of explosion the boat upon which Mr. and Mrs. Bemis traveled turned out winner.

Mr. Bemis, now deceased some twenty years, came to Wisconsin in 1842 and prempted land near Racine. He returned to New York expecting to return early the following spring and prove up on his claim. The fates were against him; a very cold winter followed, the ice in the upper lakes was late in breaking up, and the boats were not able to bring him to Racine until it was too late to prove up on his land.

Next paragraph this circumstance led Mr. and Mrs. Bemis to settle in Rock county. They came out from New York the following year and traveled overland to Janesville, then a straggling hamlet. The only house on the west side of the river was that of Judge Joseph Holmes, now known as the Woodruff place. Thomas Lapham conducted a business where now stands the Hayner block and a Mr. Stevens was corporate her of the tavern on the present site of the Myers Hotel Mr. Stevens also directed and operated a toll bridge across the river, the tolls of which gave rise to much complaint on the score of price. At the time Mr. and Mrs. Bemis crossed it a freshet had swelled the river, the water of which came over the floor of their wagon box.

The home at which Mr. and Mrs. Bemis put up on their arrival in Janesville was one built by J. P. Sears in 1840. It was a frame structure, uncommon at that time when logs were the usual building material. Here they boarded for six weeks while Mr. Bemis was building a house on his own land in the town of Plymouth, four miles west of the river. This was a one-and-a-half story structure, 18x20 feet in dimensions, and made of round logs. The sleepers were of peeled popular logs and Mrs. Bemis used to scrub them twice a year to keep them white.

The log house was occupied before it was completed, with only three or four boards over the roof, and about as many in the floor, and with the chinks between the logs not filled in Mrs. Bemis was once alone in this house while it was in this condition when a heavy storm broke. The rain drove in from all sides, and she was driven to take refuge in the four-post curtained bedstead. Even here she did not escape a thorough drenching.

Mr. Bemis lived in Janesville and on his farm from '42 to '80 and later moved to Evansville where he died in 1891. The vicinity where he established his pioneer home was known as the Douglas settlement, and Mrs. Bemis tells an amusing story of the inconvenience caused by the distance to the nearest grist mill, at Pecatonica, Ill., which was a day's journey by team. On one occasion, the family loaned almost their entire supply of flour to a neighbor's family which was entertaining company. Guests arrived at their own home later in the day, and the usual preparations were made for their entertainment but there was no flour for bread or biscuits. At the last moment someone came into the settlement with flour and the chagrin of the unfortunate hostess was averted.

The few incidents recounted are about one of the many of which Mrs. Bemis relates. She remembers well the visit of the first steamboat to Janesville on the fourth of July, 1844, the difficulty in had in coming up through the Monterey rapids, its wheels throwing gravel into the air, and the great excitement caused by its rival here. She also recalls the visit of Grant to Janesville while a young man, driving a team for a crew of surveyors from Galena. Her memories of the settlement of Footville by Joseph Squarefoot and his band are also vivid.

The Bemis family and their relatives played a very important part in the settlement of Rock county. In 1865 Mrs. Bemis had as many as one-hundred and two relatives within its borders. She is the mother of three children, one of whom is dead, has eight grand-children, and twelve great-grand-children. Her living children are Mrs. Louis Hayner and Arthur Bemis of Ponce City, Okla., Jacob Bemis, the third child is dead. Her grand-children are Mrs. Frank Scoville of this city with whom she makes her home, Mrs. Myrtle Campbell, Mrs. Anna Pearson of Great Falls, Montana. Mrs. Marie Pearson of Hamilton the same state, and Albert Bemis and Mrs. Lillian Robertson of Ponce City, Oklahoma.

More About Martha Ann Fowle:
Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin ¹⁰¹³⁸

More About Albert Bemis and Martha Fowle:
Marriage: 23 Mar 1842 ¹⁰¹³⁹

Children of Albert Bemis and Martha Fowle are:

+	3783	i.	Jacob F.⁸ Bemis, born 27 Jun 1844 in Rock County, Wisconsin; died 23 Jan 1902.
+	3784	ii.	Louisa J. Bemis, born 20 Jan 1847.
	3785	iii.	Edgar Bemis¹⁰¹³⁹, born 28 Feb 1850¹⁰¹³⁹; died 28 Mar 1850¹⁰¹³⁹.
	3786	iv.	Edwin Bemis¹⁰¹³⁹, born 28 Feb 1850¹⁰¹³⁹; died 04 Apr 1850¹⁰¹³⁹.
+	3787	v.	Arthur L. Bemis, born 28 Feb 1851; died in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

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