William Nelson Pittman Family

William Nelson Pittman Family

How we are related:

William Nelson Pittman

James Nelson Pittman

May Ellen Pittman Brewer

Ina Beatrice Brewer Johnson

Marion Allan Johnson Speakman

Most of the information for this post is taken from the website:

William Nelson Pittman

Navarro County, Texas

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/biographies/p/pittman_william_nelson/index.htm

There is much more information than I will post here, so please visit the link to see the wealth of research data available there, although I have added a few additional things.  Thanks to Dana Stubbs and Edward Lynn Williams for permission to re-post their work.

William Nelson Pittman

"William Nelson Pittman was born 24 May 1822 (according to Winnie Pittman’s Bible; 25 May according to his tombstone) in Alabama (according to 1850&1860 Census-North Carolina; 1870 Census-South Carolina). He was one of 10 known children born to Matthew and Mary Y. (Harkey) Pittman both originally of North Carolina.  His father fought in the Revolutionary War.

An undocumented genealogy for Pittman Ancestors going back to Thomas Pittman, Sr. who was born 1614, and died about 1688 in Surry County, Virginia can be found here:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~morganandrelatedfamilies/families/pittman.htm


More information about research and issues here:

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/PITTMAN/1999-05/0926483811


Military and pension data can be found here:

http://genealogytrails.com/main/military/1813revwarpensioners.html
http://revwarapps.org/rnc1.pdf

William married 12 August 1847 in Mississippi to Winnie Christina Pryor the daughter of Samuel Odle and Unity (Fox) Pryor. Winnie was born 20 Nov 1830 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama."

They are listed on the 1850 U.S. Census of Choctaw, Mississippi.

1850 United States Federal Census

Name	William N Pittman
Age	28
Birth Year	abt 1822
Birthplace	North Carolina
Home in 1850	Western Division, Choctaw, Mississippi, USA
Gender	Male
Family Number	32
Household Members	Name Age William N Pittman 28 Winney Pittman 19 Mary E Pittman 1 William Wesley Stewart 19

Minerva (Winnie) Christina Pryor

"At the outbrake of the 1860’s war the family was living in Choctaw County Mississippi. William enlisted into the Confederate Army on November 2, 1861 at Greensboro, Mississippi. At the organization of the Choctaw Rough and Readies, October 25, 1861, he was elected captain and served in what became Co D, 3 MS Inf. CSA. He fulfilled his tour of duty through the four years of conflict without much injury but came out worn, dirty and tired. It was told by one of William and Winnie’s sons that his mother ran the plantation during the war with the aid of the slaves and her children. As this son was reminiscing of his mother he said he could almost hear the noise the spinning wheel made as she spun fabric for their clothing late at night."

1860 United States Federal Census

Name	W N Pittman
Age	38
Birth Year	abt 1822
Gender	Male
Birth Place	North Carolina
Home in 1860	Township 21, Choctaw, Mississippi
Post Office	Oakland
Family Number	1582
Household Members	Name Age W N Pittman 38 Manurva C Pittman 30 Mary E Pittman 11 William J Pittman 9 James N Pittman 7 Thomas H Pittman 5 John M Pittman 4 Not named Pittman 2

Civil War Military Records

"The family moved by wagon train to Texas and is first found in 1868 on the Anderson County tax list with a total value of $3,100 and taxed in the amount of $5.15. The next year, 1869, he is listed on the Navarro County tax list. Here William had obtained four parcels of land amounting to over five hundred acres.

Navarro County was also where Isaac Pittman, William’s brother, had died and was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Corsicana in 1859."

1870 United States Federal Census

Name	W Pitman
Age in 1870	48
Birth Year	abt 1822
Birthplace	South Carolina
Home in 1870	Beat 1, Navarro, Texas
Race	White
Gender	Male
Post Office	Corsicana
Household Members	Name Age W Pitman 48 W C Pitman 39 M E Pitman 21 J N Pitman 18 T H Pitman 16 J M Pitman 14 S V Pitman 10 F B Pitman 12 M E Pitman 8 R L Pitman 4 G W Pitman 2 B F Pitman 2 G W Price 21

William was active in public affairs:


Corsicana Observer, November 26, 1873

Announcements

To the Voters of Navarro County—I am a candidate for Justice of the Peace of Beat No. 1. I have served fifteen years as a Justice, and feel competent to discharge the duties of the same. W. N. Pittman

Corsicana Observer, May 6, 1874

Comments

Pittman says that his cabbage head alluded to in the Dresden locals was not bitten by the late frost but was bitten many years ago while in his youth & has taken the big head.

Wise men think they know but little and fools think they know it all.

Several letters by William can be found in the Corsicana, Texas, newspapers.  

View them on the above mentioned website.  I'm posting this one for the farmer in the family.

Corsicana Observer, June 3, 1874

Agriculture

Eds. Observer:

Are farmers selfish in Texas? Or do they know all? Seldom do I see an agricultural article communicated in your columns. I recollect well when I was about 25 years of age, I flattered myself that I was a scientific farmer, and I have lived 27 years since and I now see and know that I did not know the first rudiments of agricultural science. It is a deep and profound science that is continually progressing. There is a commendable spirit of enterprise growing up in this country. Many Granges have already been organized in this county, and I understand there will be an agricultural store opened in Corsicana this year. If farmer’s clubs were also organized for the discussion of questions of practical value, and for the interchanges of opinions founded on individual observation and experience-as I hold experience to be the best taught wisdom-many good ideas might be imparted in this way. One might give his experience on the proper distance to cut out cotton, how many stalks of corn should be left to the acre, &c.

If our farmers could be induced to abandon only universal prejudices of daddy’s custom of carrying the pumpkin in one end of the bag and a rock in the other, it would be much better for them. The prevailing custom should be onward. Cotton is called King, and it must be related in some way to a Kingdom, for it always keeps its subjects pressed down, as a cart loaded with many thieves. We have not been troubled a great deal with the King’s evil since the revolutionary war until recently with King cotton.

It is ruinous for our country to purchase all their supplies with cotton. We shall never be prosperous while we do it. A few more panics will cause our people to raise their own meat, horses and mules cheaper than we can raise cotton to buy them with; but as I remarked before, it takes time to get out of daddy’s old groove in which daddy has run so many years.

The cotton question reminds me of an old corn song I used to hear the negroes sing at corn shuckings: “Negro make de cotton and de white man get de money.” So the farmers toil and labor, exposed to the beating storms and burning sun, deprived of time even to worship his Creator, for the speculator to get the money; for he bets more of it than any man in proportion to the amount invested and labor done in raising it. The people often and emphatically declared that they will cease raising so much cotton. They remind me of the sinner’s return to his Savior, after hearing the devil’s dark dungeon depicted in all its benighted black forms. He resolves to abandon his evil ways and seek life. Just so with the cotton raiser. After all the evil is portrayed and laid before him, when planting time comes around he steps over and loses all sight of his former vows.

It is true the agricultural prospect in this section is quite gloomy. The farmers are the most independent people on earth, if they will only unite, and I think this work is rapidly progressing and will soon be completed, when they will not need a drummer to run around and hunt up business, or like the candidate when he meets you-“Howdy, howdy, howdy. How do you do? Tolable. How do you do? Tolable. How is all your folks? Tolable. How is yours? Tolable. How is your neighbors? Tolable. How is yours? Tolable. All going for me this time? Sorter tolable.” And after the election, no go.

Notwithstanding that farming is an honorable pursuit, a great many boys and young men desert the labor of the farm and turn their attention to other pursuits less useful and much more demoralizing.

Hogs cannot be raised on the range in this country, and corn is too costly a crop to feed them on entirely; therefore, we should endeavor to raise more grain. Rye and barley are excellent food for hogs. Until our farmers stop following the flowing tide to financial ruin, in planting nothing but cotton, times will get no better but still grow worse. If the people would raise only half the amount of cotton it would only require one-half the labor, and they would realize the same amount of money for it.

I will not intrude any further on your space. The Legislature has adjourned and the Legislators returned home. After a session of four months they passed a yearling and fish law, and received $800,00 to each one.

Respectfully, W. N. Pittman

CHILDREN:


1.  Mary Ellen (Nellie) (Nettie) Pittman Weaver Holmes
BIRTH 14 FEB 1849 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH After 1920 * Texas, USA

2.  William Joseph Pittman
BIRTH 26 SEP 1850 • Mississippi, USA
DEATH 22 MAY 1921 • Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, USA

3.  James Nelson Pittman
BIRTH 23 MAY 1852 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 21 NOV 1917 • Italy, Ellis, Texas, USA

4.  Thomas Henry Pittman
BIRTH 24 FEB 1854 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 8 NOV 1919 • Hico, Hamilton, Texas, USA

5.  John Manly Pittman
BIRTH 11 MAY 1856 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 13 JAN 1922 • Navarro County, Texas, USA

6.  Fannie Belle Pittman Meador
BIRTH 24 DEC 1857 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 8 OCT 1948 • New Mexico, USA

7.  Sally Unity Pittman Hamilton
BIRTH 30 OCT 1860 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 28 AUG 1947 • El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA

8.  Martha Eugenia Pittman Blasingame Rushing
BIRTH 17 AUG 1863 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 20 DEC 1930 • Mangum, Greer, Oklahoma, USA

9.  Robert E. Lee Pittman
BIRTH 4 NOV 1866 • Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 10 MAR 1911 • Estancia, Torrance, New Mexico, USA

10.  George Pryor Pittman
BIRTH 30 SEP 1869 • Navarro County, Texas, USA
DEATH 11 MAR 1892 • Hamilton County, Texas, USA

11.  Frank Pryor Pittman
BIRTH 30 SEP 1869 • Navarro County, Texas, USA
DEATH 2 SEP 1926 • Wichita County, Texas, USA

12.   Nora Dozen Pittman (so named because she was the 12th child)
BIRTH 9 FEB 1873 • Navarro County, Texas, USA
DEATH 3 JUN 1873 • Texas, USA

13.  Cora Elizabeth Pittman Scales
BIRTH 22 FEB 1875 • Navarro County, Texas, USA
DEATH 24 MAY 1950 • Nolan, Texas

14.  Nancy Virginia Pittman Sims
BIRTH 17 SEP 1876 • Navarro County, Texas, USA
DEATH 4 AUG 1932 • Bell, Texas


William Nelson Pittman died May 21, 1879.  I have posted his will on FamilySearch.  In 1993 a monument was erected honoring his military service.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=PIT&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSsr=2921&GRid=14238816&

Winnie (Pryor) Pittman was left a widow at the age of forty-nine years with six children under sixteen, the youngest age two years. She managed the estate of her husband and ran the farm while raising the rest of her children alone. She had moved to Ellis County to be close to a son by the 1880 census and the 1900 census she was in Hamilton County Texas where she was living with a son, Robert Lee Pittman. Robert Lee Pittman and his mother eventually moved to Estancia, New Mexico where they died and were buried at the Estancia Memorial Cemetery in Torrance County; Winnie died August 8, 1910.

William Pittman Memorial

How we are related:

William Nelson Pittman

James Nelson Pittman

May Ellen Pittman Brewer

Ina Beatrice Brewer Johnson

Marion Allan Johnson Speakman

The Fable of the Red and Orange Towels

The Fable of the Red and Orange Towels

In 1969 when Roger and I opened our wedding gifts, we found that we had been given a generous number of towels.  I arranged them in two piles.  Those that were white or blue we kept; those that were pink or yellow we put aside for gifts.  But there was one set of towels I didn't feel belonged in either pile.  I would certainly never hang red and orange jacquard towels in my bathroom, and I didn't feel comfortable giving them to anyone as a gift, either.  So I put them away and they sat forlornly on the shelf for several years. 

June 21, 1969

Time passed, and when our two oldest sons began swimming lessons at the ages of 7 and 5, I found I had a towel dilemma.  All the swimmers would lay out their beach towels on the bleachers at the high school while they had their lessons in the high school pool.  Since the towels all looked pretty much alike, our boys had trouble finding theirs.  Sometimes other children took our towels by mistake, and week after week there seemed to be "towel problems."  Searching my mind for a solution, I thought of those two red towels.  The next time I took the boys to swimming, they laid out their two red towels a little self-consciously, but when their lesson was over, they had no trouble finding those two splotches of red.  No one seemed to covet them and they never disappeared.  My two boys were easy to spot in that sea of little bodies.  I just looked for the two wrapped in red, scooped them up, and whisked them home.  How glad I was I had not discarded the two unconventional gifts.

Mark, Sam, and Aaron - Mar Vista 1976

Over time, I found other uses for the towels.  Our family was blessed with a little daughter who dreaded trips to the mountains because she got car sick.  She would climb into the car with her forehead knit in worry.  "What if I get sick?" she would say. "Not to worry," I would answer, handing her a red and orange towel.  "Put this on the seat beside you and grab it if you feel sick.  It will be easy to find in an emergency." Later, as we rolled down the highway, I would look back and see her asleep on the seat, the towel she clutched in her hand wadded up under her head for a pillow, her forehead smooth and relaxed.  Those towels became like members of the family, traveling with us to Canada, Utah, Mexico, and other places that ordinary bathroom towels never see.  They went on camping trips, fishing trips, and hikes.  But they never hung in boredom on the bathroom rack. 

Anne - Fresno 

We found a myriad of uses for these bright friends.  Over the years the towels were doll blankets, turbans, capes, and rugs.  The uses seemed endless; and because of their unusual color scheme, they were never misplaced or lost. 

Fresno Front Walk - 1989
Aaron, Anne, Sam, April, Mark, Sue, Roger

Shining up the windows and outside patio lamps for an open house in Fresno after Mark’s wedding, I found myself polishing and cleaning with a red towel.  The memory took me back to my own wedding and reminded me of all my experiences with that towel in the years since.  It had become a little ragged with time -  not as flashy as in former years, but still useful.  On this particular day, I reflected on the towel as I made great sweeping strokes across the sliding glass doors and I thought of the important lessons that towel had taught me about life.   

There have been times in my life when I have felt a little like these two friends. Perhaps I was not able to live up to others’ expectations, didn’t quite fit in, or my skills were not the talents that seemed to be needed at the moment.  An oddball, an outcast - all orange and red when soft pastels were the style.  At these low moments I have tried to remind myself that the Lord understands us, even when we are unable to understand each other.  No respecter of persons, he looks on the heart and not on the outward appearance and abilities.  He accepted the widow’s mite because it was all she has to give.  He loved impetuous Peters, doubting Thomases, persecuting Pauls, and wayward Almas.  He not only loved them, but made them mighty in his service because they were willing to give what they had.  The beauty of a garden is in its variety and contrasts.  God's garden is no different.

I thought of a scripture in the 12th chapter of Corinthians that spoke of the diversity of gifts and mentioned the importance of the “less honorable” gifts.  Surely, at first glance these towels seemed to be “less honorable” in their gifts, and while capable of the functional work of towels, they fell short in their decorative suitability. Nevertheless, how greatly they had enriched our lives and how often they had shared our special moments.  How dear they had become!  They were much more a part of our lives than the towels we thoughtlessly hung on the towel rack to dry.  

There are people in our lives who are like that, too.  They are a little unconventional and at times we don’t know how to put their unorthodox gifts to work.  But if we are able to unleash their potential, our lives will be blessed.  


"And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness."  (1 Corinthians 12:23)     

May we learn to value and cherish the uncomely among  us, and the uncomely parts that we find in ourselves, for God hath “set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.”  (1 Corinthians 12:18)

THE COLEGROVE FAMILY

The Colegrove Family

How we are related:

Francis Colegrove (1667-1759)

Stephen Colegrove, Esq. (1695-1787)

Nathan Colegrove (1734-1807)

Nathan Colegrove, Jr. (1769-1814)

Clark Tracy Colegrove (1793-1853)

Harley Ingersoll Colegrove (1838-1881)

Minnie Colegrove Ashby

Geneva Ashby Speakman

Daniel Vaughn Speakman

Most of the information on the early Colegroves comes from this website and is undocumented
http://www.simonhoyt.com/colegrove.html
COLEGROVE / COLGROVE REGISTER PAGE 
Credit Source File: Contact: Terry Colegrove <TColegrove1@msn.com> at http://www.ancestry.com
John Edward Hoyt <jeh493411@chartermi.net>, found at http://www.ancestry.com
http://www.simonhoyt.com/colegrove.html

“The Colegroves in America are of English descent.  The earliest records of people with the name Colegrove in Britain can be traced to the 16th century and were found in the Oxfordshire area of England. The name is supposed to be derived from a Grove on the little river Cole.  This river forms the boundary for some distance between the Counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, and is the most western of the southern tributaries of the Thames which are called Rivers.  The grove was probably at or near the present town of Coleshill in Berkshire.”
“The history and genealogy of the Colegrove family in America : with biographical sketches, portraits, etc.” 1894 by William Colegrove (public domain)



Francis Colegrove
Francis Colegrove (c. 1667 – c. 1759) was an English colonial immigrant, born most likely in Oxfordshire or London, England (although others have suggested Glamorgan, Wales), who settled in Warwick, Rhode Island, in about 1688. He is the first known Colegrove in America. His immigration is important in the fact that most people that bear the surname Colegrove in the United States can be traced back to him.


In Colonial Rhode Island
Records can be scantly put together that seem to imply that Francis Colegrove came to America from England between 1680 to 1688. He had a daughter named Elizabeth around 1688. Francis married a woman named Ann in Rhode Island. A likely reason Francis moved to Rhode Island from Britain, was that many separatists and Baptists from the Swansea area of Wales were moving to the American colonies for religious and political freedom.

Francis, who was a farmer, and his wife joined the Newport Sabbatarian Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island, which was the first Seventh Day Baptist group in North America in August of 1698, being baptized as adults. Stephen Mumford came to the colonies in 1665, and formed the Newport Church, where Francis and Ann attended, in 1671. During the 17th century, many Baptists, as well as many non-conformists and separatists, found refuge from persecution in Britain and other colonies such as Massachusetts, in the colony of Rhode Island, which had been set up by Baptists Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in the 1630s and 1640s.

Sabbatarian Meeting House, built in 1729 by Richard Munday 

PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17123156



Family
Francis and Ann Colegrove had at least six children: 
1.  Elizabeth: their eldest 
2.  Jeremiah Colegrove, who died in 1710 at Port Royal, Nova Scotia during Queen Anne's War.
3.  Eli Colegrove (in 1689)
4.*Stephen Colegrove (1694)
5.  Francis Colegrove, Jr. (about 1697)
6.  John Colegrove (1714)

A Sons of the American Revolution Application implies that there was a son named William (1688-1728) whose mother was a second wife Hannah, but this is likely Ann - the names are related and sometimes interchangeable.  

Later life
Francis was a farmer in the new world. There is record of his owning land in the "Narragansett Country", which was an area of Rhode Island named after the Narragansett (tribe) of Native Americans. He was given the land to recompense the loss of his son, who helped him with farming. Here is an excerpt on Francis, known by some today as "The Patriarch," from William Colegrove's Book :

"He was evidently an active, enterprising, pioneer farmer, who attended to his own business and kept out of politics, --- thus setting an excellent example --- which has been followed by his descendants. The death of his oldest son seems to have been a severe blow to him in respect to his business, compelling him to ask a little relief from the Legislature of the Colony, --- which relief, it is pleasant to know, was readily granted. The following is from The R.I. Colonial Records, V. 4, p. 136; ‘Proceedings of R.I. and Prov. Plantations at Newport, 27 February 1711-12.’"

A prominent land holder, Francis Colegrove owned land in other places. On June 28, 1709 a committee that had been formed by the Rhode Island general assembly, sold a large tract of land known as the 'Shannock Purchase' located near Richmond, Rhode Island. Francis was among the recipients of the land.

Ann and Francis ended up in Westerly, Rhode Island by 1712, as there are records of Anne being involved in the Sabbatarian congregation there. Ann Colegrove died sometime after 1718, before Francis. No one knows for sure when Francis Colegrove died, but William Colegrove believed he may have died around 1759 or before in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Previously, more conservative researchers suggested that he may have died sometime between 1725 and 1729. More recent research shows Francis Colegrove, Sr. still alive in 1728, when he was summoned to appear at a Church meeting in regard to a dispute between his son Francis, Jr. and a William James over payment for an ox that Francis Jr had given Mr. James. The committee found in favor of Francis Jr. In the Seventh-Day Baptist Memorial of 1874, which mentions the dispute, Francis Colegrove is listed still living and attending the Westerly congregation, with a second Francis Colegrove, probably Jr., in 1740 in "a list of members made up by a Committee of the church in 1740".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

* * * * * * * *

Stephen Colegrove, Esq. was born 1695 in Warwick, Rhode Island, and died 14 June 1787 in Heartford, Oneco, Connecticut. He married Welthian Taylor 1721 in Providence, Kent, Rhode Island. She was born 1694 in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, and died before 1740 in Oneco, Connecticut. He married Phoebe Millard on 7 June 1740 in Providence, Rhode Island, daughter of Nehemiah Millard and Phoebe Shore. She was born 1707 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and died 2 December 1776 in Heartford, Oneco., Connecticut. 

Children of Stephen Colegrove (Esq.) and Phoebe Millard are:

1. *Nathan Colegrove was born 1741 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 1831 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. 
2.   John Colegrove, Esq. was born 1744 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 21 March 1817 in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island. 
3.  Jonathan Colegrove was born 1745 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 1812 in Norwich, New York. 
4.  Isaac Colegrove was born 1747 in Warwick, Rhode Island. 
5.  Phebe Colegrove was born 1749 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 1839 in Bridgewater, New York. 
6.  Charlotte Colegrove was born February 1751/52 in Sterling, Connecticut, and died in Fairfax, Vermont. 

* * * * * * * *

Nathan Colegrove married Miriam Fillmore 28 September 1761 in Norwich, Connecticut, daughter of John Fillmore and Dorcas Day. She was born 1738 in Norwich, Connecticut, and died in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. 

Children of Nathan Colegrove and Miriam Fillmore are:

1. *Nathan Colegrove, Jr. born 18 August 1769 in Norwich Connecticut, and died in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont. 
2.  John Colegrove was born 17 September 1781 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died September 1807 in Sullivan, Madison, New York. 
3.  Uri Colegrove was born 16 December 1772 in Norwich, Connecticut, and died 1 November 1842 in Erieville, Madison, New York. 
4.  Calvin Colegrove was born 1774 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died 1810 in Sangerfield, Oneida, New York. 
5.  Polly Colegrove was born in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. She married Gillette. 
6.  Eunice Colegrove was born 22 May 1778 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died 7 April 1872 in Ellisburg, Jefferson, New York. 
7.  Daughter Colegrove was born in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. She married Jonathan Griswell. 

A letter written by Nathan Colegrove to his son Uri is published in William Colegrove's book.
It was written after the death of Nathan's son John in 1807.  

* * * * * * * *

Nathan Colegrove, Jr. was born 18 August 1769 in Norwich Connecticut, and died in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont. He married Olive Tracy about 1887. She was born about 1760 in Charlestown, Washington, Rhode Island, and died in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont. 

Children of Nathan Colegrove, Jr. and Olive Tracy are:

1.  Esther Colegrove was born 2 OCT 1788 in Charlestown, Washington Co., RI. 
2.  Jenny Colegrove was born 14 DEC 1789 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Learnard. 
3.  Lura Colegrove was born 25 AUG 1791 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Pary. 
4.*Clark Tracy Colegrove was born 21 FEB 1793 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died 1852 in Blue Island, Cook Co., IL. 
5.  Olive Colegrove was born 24 APR 1796 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt, and died 1893 in Wauconda, Lake Co., IL. 
6.  Dilla Colegrove was born 30 JUL 1797 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT. She married Danial Morse. 
7.  Nathan Colegrove was born 19 DEC 1799 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died in Wolcott, Lamoille Co., VT. 
8.  Miriam Colegrove was born 12 APR 1802 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Wright. He died in Centralia, WA. 
9.   Lucretia Colegrove was born 15 AUG 1804 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Harvey Scott. 
10. Jairus Colegrove was born 31 JUL 1806 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died 24 AUG 1862 in Lew Orleans, LA. 
11.  Hampton L. Colegrove was born 14 OCT 1808 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died 9 JUN 1891 in Wauconda, Lake Co., IL. He married Polly Purmort. She died in Wauconda, Lake Co., IL. 
12. Stephen Colegrove was born 11 SEP 1810 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT. 
13. Silas Colegrove was born 27 AUG 1812 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT.

Olive and Nathan Colegrove are buried in the Mudgett Cemetery in Fairfax, Vermont

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Clark Tracy Colegrove was born 21 February 1793 in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont, and died 1852 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois. He married Permilla Ingersoll. She was born 22 February 1792 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died 14 October 1853 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois. 

Children of Clark Tracy Colegrove and Permilla Ingersoll are:

1.  Calvin Chauncey Colegrove was born December 1815 in Plainfield, Will, Illinois, and died 1894 in Benton Harbor, Berrien, Michigan. 
2.  Lester G. Colegrove was born 23 April 1818 in Jericho, Chittenden, Vermont, and died 24 November 1903 in Plainfield, Will, Illinois. 
3. Hannah Colegrove was born 17 May 1820 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois, and died 5 April 1914 in Los Angeles, California. 
4. Olive Colegrove was born about 1824 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois, and died in Plainfield, Illinois. She married Robert Wright. He died in Plainfield, Illinois. 
5.  Caroline Colegrove was born 3 February 1829 in Fairfax, Vermont, and died 14 January 1922 in Urbana, Benton, Iowa. 
6.  Lavius F. Colegrove was born October 1829 in Franklin County, Vermont, and died 2 February 1912 in Plainfield, Will, Illinois. 
7.  Marida Anne Colegrove was born 26 February 1832 in VT, and died 15 September 1909 in Plainfield, Illinois. 
8. *Harley Ingersoll Colegrove was born 3 October 1837 in Fairfield, Vermont, and died 12 October 1881 in Fillmore, Millard, Utah. 



Harley's first appearance in a census is in 1850 in Illinois.

I have been unable to locate Harley in the 1860 U.S. Federal Census.  His parents are reported to have both died in 1853 when Harley was 18, so it would not be unusual for a single young man to be missed in the census.  But in the "Report of the adjutant general of the state of Illinois," he is listed as being from Champaign, Illinois, when he enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, a county about 125 miles south of Wheatland Township where he was listed with his parents in the 1850 U.S. Federal Census.  He belonged to “Company A” in the 20th Illinois Infantry. 

Harley served until July of 1864 when he was discharged at Chattanooga, Tennessee. His discharge paper describes Harley as being 5' 11" and gives his occupation when he enlisted as butcher.

I do not know when or why Harley came to Utah.  Perhaps it was for work.

I also do not know how he met the widow, Helen McBride Brown, but Harley was baptized by Reuben McBride, his wife's father, on 28 March, 1868.

He married Helen Venera McBride on 12 December 1869, the ceremony performed by Joseph F. Smith.  Helen had been a widow raising two children for 13 years, her first husband having been killed by Indians in 1856.

Harley was endowed in the Endowment House 20 December 1869.

In the 1870 U.S. Federal Census the two Brown children are listed with the Colegrove surname.

1870 - Fillmore, Millard, Utah Territory

By 1880 Harley and Helen's three children have been born.

1880 - Fillmore, Millard, Utah

Both census records list Harley as a farmer.


Death Notice in the Deseret News

Fillmore, Utah, Cemetery

Sources:
https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00cole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Colegrove
http://www.simonhoyt.com/colegrove.html
https://colegrovefamily.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/origin-of-the-colegrove-family/

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tcolegrove1&id=I753&style=TABLE