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Descendants of Joseph Bemis

4103. Rufus Francis⁸ Bemis (George Francis⁷, Augustus Frederick⁶, Jonathan⁵, David⁴, Jonathan³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁷⁴⁶⁶ was born 10 Oct 1860 in Lawrenceburg, IN¹⁷⁴⁶⁶. He married Mary Marie Shuck.

Children of Rufus Bemis and Mary Shuck are:

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Estella⁹ Bemis, born 1888.

Notes for Estella Bemis:
Aunt Stella worked in a shoe factory in Cincinnati and never married. She lived with her mother, Mary Marie Shuck Bemis, in Ludlow, Ky. I attended her funeral, and remember that her long, beautiful, black hair was cut short, like a man's. She was only 56, but had been put into an "old folks home" before her death

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Edward Robert Bemis, born 1897.

Notes for Edward Robert Bemis:
Grandpa Bemis was a 'Buyer' for the Fairstore, a Cincinnati department store before the Great Depression, but was moved to a warehouse so a company executive's family member could have his job after the 1929 "crash". He was in 'photo interpretation" during WW II, and was offered a good job at Eastman Kodak, but he developed glaucoma and couldn't see, and that ended that.

4108. Leonora⁸ Bemis (John Wheeler⁷, Jonathan Wheeler⁶, Seth⁵, David⁴, Jonathan³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁷⁴⁶⁷ was born 14 Dec 1894 in Jamacia Plain, Massachusetts¹⁷⁴⁶⁷, and died 15 Dec 1955 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts¹⁷⁴⁶⁷. She married Edward Pierce Hamilton¹⁷⁴⁶⁷ 28 Jun 1934 in St. Michael's Church, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts¹⁷⁴⁶⁷, son of Franklin Hamilton and Mary Pierce. He was born 25 Feb 1897 in Newtonville, Massachusetts¹⁷⁴⁶⁷.

Notes for Leonora Bemis:
[NEHGR:1956:110:225] "Memoirs"

Mrs. Edward Pierce Hamilton (Leonora Bemis), who was elected an annual member 3 Nov. 1936, died in Milton, Mass., 15 Dec. 1955.

She was born in Jamacia Plain, Mass., 14 Dec. 1894, a daughter of John Wheeler Bemis, born in Charlestown, Mass., 21 Sept. 1863, died in Weston, Mass., in November 1902, whose wife, married in Weston, Mass., 1 June 1893, was Leslie Lepington Fisher, born in Brookline, Mass., 8 Dec. 1872, died in Shelburne, N. H., 31 Aug. 1936, a daughter of George Jabez Fisher and Cornelia Walley Curtis.

She was educated in the Girls' School of Milton Academy, the May School in Boston, and the Sacker School of Design in Boston. She was a member of the Arts and Crafts Society of Boston.

She married at St. Michael's Church, Milton, 28 June 1934, Edward Pierce Hamilton (Harvard, 1918). He was born in Newtonville, Mass., 25 Feb. 1897, a son of the late Franklin Hamilton, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, whose wife was Mary Mackie Pierce of Milton. The only child was a daughter, Leslie Lepington.

Mrs. Hamilton's paternal line of descent follows: (1) Joseph Bemis, of Watertown, Mass., 1619-1694. (2) John, 1659-1732, married Mary Harrington, 1663-1716, a daughter of Robert Harrington and Susannah Gray, of Watertown. (3) Jonathan, of Watertown, born 17 Nov. 1701, married Anna Livermore, born 18 Jan. 1703/4. (4) David, of Watertown, born 24 Jan. 1726/7, died 8 Feb. 1794, married 29 Nov. 1753, Mary Bright, daughter of Nathaniel. (5) Seth (Harvard, 1795), of Watertown, born 23 Jan. 1775, died 4 April 1851, married 24 April 1808 Sarah Wheeler of Concord, Mass., born 24 Jan. 1785/6, died 22 Jan. 1849. (6) Jonathan Wheeler (Harvard, 1830; M.D., 1834), of Watertown and Cambridge, Mass., born in 1810, died in 1895, married in 1859, Lucy Coolidge Wyeth of Cambridge, 1833-1899, daughter of Jonas Wyeth and Mary Torre Hancock. (7) John Wheeler.

More About Edward Hamilton and Leonora Bemis:
Marriage: 28 Jun 1934, St. Michael's Church, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts¹⁷⁴⁶⁷

Child of Leonora Bemis and Edward Hamilton is:

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Leslie Lepington⁹ Hamilton¹⁷⁴⁶⁷.

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