Onsite Records

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Biographies & Obituaries

BABBITT, WILLIAM S, Superintendent of the county farm, was born in Orleans County, Vt., December 19, 1825, and is one of the four children of Joshua and Betsey (Scott) Babbitt. His father was a native of New Hampshire, and moved to Ohio in 1826; he was a soldier in the war of 1812, and commanded a battery at the battle of Plattsburg; he was Sheriff of the county at the time of his death; his mother was a native of Vermont, and died in 1832. William S. Babbit lived with a man named Kimball until he was eleven years old, when he ran away and shipped on a Cape Cod fishing vessel, and afterward went on a whaling cruise, making three voyages. He has "doubled" Cape Horn five times, and crossed the Isthmus of Panama once. He has been twice shipwrecked, the crew being saved each time. In 1854, he quit seafaring, and settled to farming in Ross Township, this county. On December 25, 1854, he was married to Harriet Irish, a native of Vermont. To this union there followed five children, four living - John J., Aaron S., Lucia M. and Sabra H. Mr. Babbitt was a soldier in the late war in Company E, Twentieth Indiana Volunteers; eight months later he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and in 1862 promoted to a Captaincy, and transferred to Company C. At the battle of Chancellorsville, he was severely wounded and discharged July 2, 1863. He was afterward Deputy Provost Marshall and Government detective during the war. He then resumed farming until made Superintendent of the Poor Farm in March, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Babbitt are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Babbitt is a member of Lodge, 551, of Freemasons; he is also a Republican.
Source: "Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana : historical and biographical", by Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, 1852-1926; Blanchard, Charles, fl. 1882-1900, Publication date 1882, Publisher Chicago : F. A. Battey, pages 599-600 of 771 pages, no photo <https://archive.org/details/cu31924104606235/page/599/mode/1up>

Churches & Cemeteries

Members of First Universalist Church of Greensboro Vermont

Mead Hill Cemetery, Holland VT

Submitted by Pat Lavato <pattila@chesapeake.net>

PINNEY, OLIVER - d. February 1, 1866 - age 79 years, 10 months & 10 days
PINNEY, HANNAH - wife of Oliver - d. February 5, 1838 - age 42 years
PINNEY, SUSAN - dau. of O. & H. Pinney - d. November 9 1842- Age 26 years
PINNEY, ELSIE - dau of O. & H. Pinney - d. March 19, 1838 - Age 16 years
PINNEY, MARTHA - dau of O. & H. Pinney - d. October 28, 1831 - Age 1 yr. 8 mos.
DAVIS, NETTIE PINNEY- b.1863 - d.1936 (dau of Mason Bell Pinney)
DAVIS, ALFRED L. - B. 1855 - D. 1929 - Husband of Nettie Pinney
PINNEY, HENRY - d. July 24, 1892 - Age 79 years, 10 months & 16 days
PINNEY, PHILENA BOYNTON - wife of Henry - d. Sept. 3, 1889 - Age 72 yrs.1 mo.9 day
PINNEY, HATTIE B. dau of Henry & Philena - d. March 9 1864 - Age 1 year, 9 mos.
MOON, ELISHA D - b. September 6 1826 - d. December 21, 1903
MOON, MARY L. PINNEY - his wife- b. May 8, 1830 - d. July 7, 1909
PINNEY, MASON B. - b. 1836 - d. 1915
PINNEY, JULIA A MOULTON - his wife - b. 1835 - d. 1918
PINNEY HERBERT L. - their son - b. 1859 - d. 1910

History

Aboriginal Occupancy - From the Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans County, Vt. for 1883-84

Newspapers & Publications

Orleans County Newspapers 1831-1884  

Schools & Yearbooks

Newport High School 1951 - Graduation and Oracle dedication