"Mrs Pingree" Could use some company
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We had been tossing around the idea of putting a geocache near “Mrs. Pingree's” gravestone. Supposedly old cemeteries are an acceptable place to put caches for people to find because cachers are respectful of the locations that the finds are in. Maybe “Mrs. Pingree” could have some more company to “visit” with if geocachers came to sit a spell with this cache.
We thought it would be fun to see if we could find out some information about “Mrs. Pingree” from the Internet. Interestingly enough there is a fair amount of genealogical data out there due to some diligent and extensive family quests into the past. This is what we found and thought you might be interested in it as well.
The "Adams Family Cemetery" was officially discovered in 1969 by Sal Falzoi then "re-discovered" by Jon Daskovitz in 2009. Guess it isn't official until someone records it since we have been visiting this plot for as long as I can remember.
Abiah Pingree (the last name has many different spellings throughout the family tree) was born in 1807 in Springfield, New Hampshire. She was descended from English ancestors who came to America as early as the 1600's. Her parents were Andrew Pingrey and Abiah Straw. She had a brother Andrew Jr. In 1830 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts she married Mora Adams (b. September 23, 1799, Holliston, Massachusetts, one of 11 children). This was Mora's second marriage. His first wife, Calista Moore, (b. 1804) died March 6, 1828. I believe they may have had a son, Mora Jr. (I find reference to him living with his wife, Juliettie, in West Almond in the 1865 census. He was of an age that he would have been born earlier than Mora's marriage to Abiah. If I speculate further I would guess that his mother died during his birth. Thus a fondness for the woman and thus Mora and Abiah naming a daughter after her, however this is speculation all on my part)
Mora and Abiah lived in Livingston County, New York before moving to West Almond, New York in 1836. They had three children, all born before moving to West Almond.
They were:
Henry (b. 1832, d. 1853),
Calista (b. May 2, 1834, d. 1922,) on June 2, 1854 she married Isaac Totten (b. March 30, 1830) of West Almond. They moved to Michigan and possibly had six children.
Francis (b. 1836 in Livingston County) He married Lucinda Knight (b. 1836) of West Almond. According to the 1865 census they had two children Ella-5 and Lorna-3 1/2 (names have also been referred to as Lenna or Luna Elinore. I believe they are the same.) Later children of Francis and Lucinda are Warren (b. 1866) and William (b. 1871).
Abiah Pingree had a sudden and tragic death on October 20, 1838 according to a letter written by Mora to his father and later published in 1937 in the New England Quarterly. A total of 19 letters, written mostly by Mora to his father, Jonathan (married to Jemima Hall), appeared in an article titled, A Yankee on the New York Frontier, 1833-1851 by George Partridge, Volume 10, number 4, pages 752-772. A copy of the letter which describes the events around Abiah’s death is included in the cache.
Mora later married Sarah Stafford (b. July 29, 1823). They had five children (according to the 1865 census). Their names were Aaron-10, Sylvanns?-7, Martha-5, John-4 and George-8/12. Both Mora (d. October 9, 1879) and Sarah (d. May 11, 1879) are buried in a cemetery plot located at the southern dead end section of Miller Road, Tucker Road, in West Almond.
There you have what we have found out in a nutshell. It is as accurate as we could possibly make it. We wish all families had so much information about their ancestors available!
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