The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-03-07

| his marriage. he. with six of his broth
J ers, moved TO Woodstock. Conn,
where lie became very prominent
man and was one of the first of the
carly defenders of colonial interests.
] In 1853 he held n commission as lieu.
tenant In company II, Eleventh infan-
try, in Connecticut. He was also ac-
tive in revolutionary struggles for In
dependence.
Fourth generation Ephraim
| ChIld's first child Of Ephraim and PriS-
ella Harris Child, born in Woodstock,
January 10. 1711, married Juno 20,
1884. Mary Lyon. He died September
II. 1775. They had four children
| Filth eneration-Increase Child,
| my great grandfather second child
of Ephraim and Mary Lyon Child, was
born In Woodstock. Conn. December
| 13. 17i0. married Olive Pease, Novem'
| Der 5, 1865, Ho died June 10, 1910.
They had nine children. He was
| very prominent man In his day In
| 1175. when Israel Putnam was COM
missioncd captain in the French war.
| young Increase Child. though scarcely
! 10 years of age. in response 10 call
| for volunteers, was one of the first
to be enrolled, and served through the
seven years campaign of this war.
He fought In the battles Of Crown
| Point and Ticonderoga At the time
Of Putnam's capture In 1856, young
| Child Was marching near him When
| the revolutionary war broke out he en-
| listed under General Schuyler as cap.
I tain Under Generals Schuyler and
Gates he served through the war and
| obtained an honorable discharge
When the revolutionary war was ended
| he moved with his family to Saltwater.
| Saratoga county, New York, where he
| died
Sixth generation-The next was
| our great grandfather, Mark Anthony
| Child. third son and fifth child of In
! crease and Olive Pease Child. bron in
Saltwater. Saratoga county, ~ Y,
May 10, 177l. He married Hannah
Benedict. December s. 1893. who died
In 1918. After her death he married
Submit Peacock. He had IL children
by his first wife and by the second.
Seventh generation-The next was
| our grandfather. Alfred Bosworth
Child. who was the second child and
first son OF Mark Anthony and Hannah
Benedict Child, born in the town of
Greenfield, Saratoga county, n Y,
November 10. 1886; March 10. 1917,
he married Polly Barber. who was our
grandmother, and highly respected
lady she was. During her long resi-
dence IN this country | presume she
was as well known and as highly re-
spected as any woman in the country.
And / believe there are many living
| today who knew her and who will bear
me out in this assertion. Our grand
father Alfred Bosworth Child, moved
from New York in 1897. to Kirkland.
Ohio. He staid there but a few
months, when he left with his family
for Caldwell county, Missouri He
next came to Lee county, Iowa In
1917 he started farther west and set
tied at or near where Council Bluffs,
Iowa. now stands, On the Sth of July,
1852. he started for Salt Lake valley,
where he arrived on the first day of
| the following October having Travelled
In wagons drawn by oxen and COWS,
over one thousand miles across unln-
habited deserts and mountainous
| country He died on the % Of Decem-
Der. 1852
Thus we have direct and unbroken
| line of ancestry dating back for a per-
Tod Of 2T9 years. OF TO the time when
| Benjamin. the first emigrant. came
from Great Britain in the year 1880.
SWIkOGER RYAN HEADS
OFF REQUISlTION
Hot Springs, Ark. March 6.-George