page_title: James Wadsworth (of Geneseo)
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: James Wadsworth (of Geneseo) / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Elizabeth Wadsworth, married Charles Augustus Murray - died 8 December 1851, a sister of General James S. Wadsworth, of Geneseo
context_page_description: James Wadsworth was an influential and prominent 18th and 19th century pioneer, educator, land speculator, agriculturalist, businessman, and community leader of the early Genesee Valley settlements in Western New York State. He was the patriarch of the prominent Genesee Valley Wadsworths.
context_section_description: On October 1, 1804, he married Naomi Walcott (1777–1831) of East Windsor, Connecticut, who he had met on his travels to Connecticut. The couple immediately moved to James’ farm in Geneseo and raised a family, including:
  Harriet Wadsworth (1805–1833)
  James Samuel Wadsworth (1807–1864), a Union general in the American Civil War who was mortally wounded in battle during the Battle of the Wilderness, who married Mary Craig Wharton in 1834.
  William Walcott Wadsworth (1810–1852)
  Cornelia Wadsworth (1812–1831)
  Elizabeth "Elise" Wadsworth (1815–1851), who married Sir Charles Murray (1806–1895), the British diplomat, shortly after her father's death, and was the mother of Charles James Murray, dying in childbirth.
  Wadsworth died on June 7, 1844 in Geneseo, New York.
caption: His daughter, Elise, by Thomas Sully
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