5. JARED4 CANFIELD (*DENNIS I 3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born December 19, 1789 in Danby, Rutland, VT, and died November 24, 1870 in Norwalk, Huron Co., OH. He married (1) CHARLOTTE KING. She was born in Danby, VT. He married (2) PHOEBE DART. He married (3) KATHERINE SLY.

Notes for JARED CANFIELD:
Jared was in the War of 1812, and guarded a munition dump on the Niagara River.

Notes for KATHERINE SLY:
Catherine Sly was a Sac Fox Indian of the Algonquins and was the aunt of the Catherine Sly wo was Dennis Canfield's second wife. She was likely born in New York State and she died near Norwalk, OH, and was buried in Milan, OH.

Children of JARED CANFIELD and CHARLOTTE KING are:
7. i. DENNIS5 CANFIELD, b. September 19, 1814, Danby. VT; d. January 07, 1893, Norwalk, OH.
8. ii. SARAH CANFIELD, b. May 20, 1815; d. 1868.

Children of JARED CANFIELD and PHOEBE DART are:
9. iii. CHARLOTTE5 CANFIELD, b. December 06, 1816, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. August 26, 1898.
iv. CHLOE CANFIELD, b. January 15, 1819; d. August 20, 1846.
10. v. ALLEN CANFIELD, b. September 24, 1820, Hanburg, Erie Co., NY; d. September 25, 1880, Scotch Ridge, OH.
vi. ROSWELL CANFIELD, b. March 21, 1822; d. September 04, 1841.
11. vii. SILAS SPRAGUE CANFIELD, b. March 13, 1824, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. June 30, 1902, Scotch Ridge, OH.
viii. NOBLE L. CANFIELD, b. March 20, 1826, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. March 03, 1827, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY.
12. ix. LAFYAETTE CANFIELD, b. December 19, 1827, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. December 03, 1903, Amsden, OH.

Children of JARED CANFIELD and KATHERINE SLY are:
13. x. PHOEBE5 CANFIELD, b. January 10, 1832, Near Hamburg, Erie Co., OH; d. May 04, 1916, Rossford, OH.
xi. MAHALA CANFIELD, b. November 13, 1833; d. March 11, 1908; m. JOHN JOHNSON.

Notes for JOHN JOHNSON:
John and Mahala moved to Waterloo, IA, and had several children.

14. xii. HENRY CLARK CANFIELD, b. February 16, 1836; d. November 08, 1919.
15. xiii. AMON JARED CANFIELD, b. November 24, 1839; d. December 23, 1915, Sylvania, OH.
xiv. ROSELIA R. CANFIELD, b. 1842; d. 1915.

Notes for ROSELIA R. CANFIELD:
Roselia was unmarried.

xv. LAURA A. CANFIELD, b. 1846; d. 1924; m. FRANK BENEDICT.

Notes for LAURA A. CANFIELD:
Laura had no children.

xvi. OSCAR CANFIELD, b. 1850; d. 1867.

Notes for OSCAR CANFIELD:
Oscar was killed by a train.

6. DENNIS4 CANFIELD (DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born April 12, 1792 in Danby, Rutland, VT, and died May 05, 1878 in Hamburg, Erie Co., NY. He married (1) BETSY THOMAS. He married (2) PHOEBE GRIFFIN December 20, 1813 in Hamburg, Erie Co., NY. She was born April 15, 1793, and died July 20, 1849 in East Hamburg, Erie Co., NY.

Notes for DENNIS CANFIELD:
Dennis's mother, Polly, died when Dennis was only about 3 months old. He was taken into the family of Salathiel Albee (or Albye) who might possibly have been an uncle on his mother's side of the family. The Albee family moved to East Hamburg, NY, in 1808, taking Dennis with them. Dennis served in the War of 1812.

Dennis was a minister of the Methodist Episcopalian denomination.

Index of Awards of Claims of Soldiers of the War of 1812

Page 81, No. 11,117 Allowed $75.00
Canfield, Dennis 18th Regiment (Dobbin's) NY Militia-Rank, Private

More About DENNIS CANFIELD:
Burial: Water Valley Cemetery, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY

More About PHOEBE GRIFFIN:
Burial: Water Valley Cemetery, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY

Children of DENNIS CANFIELD and BETSY THOMAS are:
i. JOHANNA5 CANFILED.
ii. JOSEPH CANFILED.
iii. HORACE CANFILED.

Children of DENNIS CANFIELD and PHOEBE GRIFFIN are:
16. iv. REBECCA5 CANFIELD, b. October 20, 1813, Danby, Rutland, VT; d. April 29, 1899.
17. v. SALATHIEL ALBEE CANFIELD, b. February 14, 1816, East Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. November 15, 1883, Elton, NY.
18. vi. WILLIAM CANFIELD, b. September 29, 1817, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. December 20, 1883.
vii. DANIEL CANFIELD, b. December 20, 1819, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. August 17, 1820, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY.
19. viii. HENRY CANFIELD, b. December 20, 1820.
20. ix. JONATHAN CANFIELD, b. December 25, 1822, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. February 18, 1899, Union City, PA.
21. x. JARED CANFIELD, b. December 18, 1824.
xi. HORACE CANFIELD, b. October 15, 1826, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. June 04, 1844.

Notes for HORACE CANFIELD:
Horace died from injuries he got while wrestling.

22. xii. HIRAM CANFIELD, b. October 15, 1826, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. February 23, 1915, Rockdale Twp., Crawford Co., PA.
23. xiii. ALBERT TRACY CANFIELD, b. August 25, 1829; d. In Civil War.


Generation No. 5

7. DENNIS5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born September 19, 1814 in Danby. VT, and died January 07, 1893 in Norwalk, OH. He married (1) MARYETTE WHITE. He married (2) CATHERINE SLY. She was born February 03, 1822, and died November 22.

Notes for DENNIS CANFIELD:
Dennis enlisted as a fifer in Co. C, 123rd Regimentof the O.V.I. in the Civil War.

Catherine told him that if he left with yound children and an unfinished house, she wouldn't write to him once, and she didn't.

Dennis was one of the guards of Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy, who is buried in the cemetery at Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. The story about this guard duty is" that Belle Boyd appreciated his consideration, and thanked him prettily and profusely when he did not insist on standing by her during her visits to the the 1864 (circa) equivalent of the Powder Room. Dennis had been ordered not to let her out of his sight, regardless. Belle answered nature's demands in privacy as far as Dennis was concerned.

There is a question as to whether Dennis was born in Danby, Rutland Co., VT or Hamburg, Erie Co. NY.

Notes for CATHERINE SLY:
Catherine was a Sax-Fox Indian of the Algonquin tribe. She was also the niece of the Catherine Sly who was the third wife of Dennis Canfield's father, Jared Canfield.

Children of DENNIS CANFIELD and MARYETTE WHITE are:
i. MARY6 CANFIELD, d. 1862.

Notes for MARY CANFIELD:
Mary never married.

ii. CORA CANFIELD, b. Huron, OH.

Notes for CORA CANFIELD:
Died in infancy.

Children of DENNIS CANFIELD and CATHERINE SLY are:
iii. FRANCES6 CANFIELD, b. July 27, 1845; d. October 25, 1919; m. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TILLOTSON, March 14, 1867; b. February 24, 1839; d. February 14, 1917.
iv. CLARK CANFIELD, b. October 26, 1845; d. 1922; m. ORPHA BARTLETT; b. 1849; d. 1939.

Notes for CLARK CANFIELD:
Clark enlisted as a drummer boy in Company C, 123rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry in August 1861, before his fourteenth birthday.

v. RALPH CANFIELD, b. November 09, 1852.
vi. CHARLES CANFIELD, b. October 29, 1861; d. 1943.
vii. KORAH CANFIELD, b. October 15, 1849.
viii. MARY SOPHIA CANFIELD, b. February 12, 1842.

8. SARAH5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born May 20, 1815, and died 1868. She married HARVEY HALSEY. He was born 1808, and died 1871.

Children of SARAH CANFIELD and HARVEY HALSEY are:
24. i. JULIA ANNE6 HALSEY, b. March 04, 1840, Hamlet, NY; d. June 04, 1926, Jacksonville. FL.
25. ii. HENRY HALSEY, b. 1848.

9. CHARLOTTE5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born December 06, 1816 in Hamburg, Erie Co., NY, and died August 26, 1898. She married BENJAMIN BUXTON. He was born September 15, 1802 in CT, and died August 10, 1899.

Notes for CHARLOTTE CANFIELD:
Soon after the first trains were sunning between Buffalo and Toledo, Charlotte took a trip "out West" to visit her brothers Allen, Silas, and Lafeyette who had moved with their famillies to Wood Co., OH. She stepped, with carpet bag in hand, from the train in Elmore, OH with many tales of this amazing journey. While on the train, the conductor had ordered her to remove her carpet bag from the seat, not once, but several times so a woman standing could be seated. She refused not once, but several times. When the conductor finally asked her to please put that carpet bag on the floor so this woman can sit down, she said, "Yes sir, I will and I would have done it in the first place had you asked me decent." She added, "There was good stuff in that bag, had that man known it." Charlotte was bringing her sister-in-law some Star soap bars, the first soap bars made in Buffalo.

More About CHARLOTTE CANFIELD:
Burial: Prospect Lawn Cemetery, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY

Notes for BENJAMIN BUXTON:
Benjamin, with his gun and dog, wlaked from Ct. to the neighborhood of present day Buffalo, settling first on land, where the US Steek (?) Co., is located. His dog disappeared and six weeks later scrached on the Buxton family door in CT. Malaria was prevalent near Lake Erie, so Benjamin later traded his land in Buffalo for land near Hamburg, NY, where he and Charlotte raised their family. He had such a good memory for details the when he was near 90 yrs. old, he settled some land disputes by remembering hwere certain original courses were located.

More About BENJAMIN BUXTON:
Burial: Prospect Lawn Cemetery, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY

Children of CHARLOTTE CANFIELD and BENJAMIN BUXTON are:
i. EUNICE6 BUXTON.
ii. SAPHRONIA BUXTON.
iii. EMERY BUXTON.
iv. CHLOE ANN BUXTON.
v. ALMIRA BUXTON.
vi. MITILDA BUXTON.
vii. SILAS ROSWELL BUXTON.
viii. FRANK B. BUXTON.

10. ALLEN5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born September 24, 1820 in Hanburg, Erie Co., NY, and died September 25, 1880 in Scotch Ridge, OH. He married MARIA CLARK October 1844 in Milan, OH. She was born May 28, 1825 in Tompkins Co., NY, and died May 21, 1894.

Notes for ALLEN CANFIELD:
Allen was a farmer and carpenter, working with his brother, Lafayette, at Milan. He worked on some of the brich buildings at Norwalk, OH, putting in finished wood-work. Allen finished boat cabins in Milan, OH. In a few years he also moved to the Black Swamp, building his house on the road known at the McCutchinville Rd. The house was not far south of the end of the covered bridge across the Portage, near the village known as Householders Corners, now Scotch Ridge. This was Allen and Maria's only home.

Notes for MARIA CLARK:
Maria was the seventh child of Cyrus and Lucy Clark. Since the Clarks lived near Danby, NY, it is a safe guess that they came from the Clark family of Danby, VT, who married into the Dart family of which Jared Canfield's third wife, Phoebe, was part of.

Children of ALLEN CANFIELD and MARIA CLARK are:
i. ROSWELL6 CANFIELD.
ii. LUCY CLARK CANFIELD.
iii. ELLEN MARIA CANFIELD.
iv. AMELIA SOPHRONIA CANFIELD, m. CHAUNCEY MURCH, August 04, 1880, Wood Co., OH.
v. EDSON ALLEN CANFIELD.
vi. CLARK LAFAYETTE CANFIELD.

11. SILAS SPRAGUE5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born March 13, 1824 in Hamburg, Erie Co., NY, and died June 30, 1902 in Scotch Ridge, OH. He married MATILDA ADALINE ALLEN WETHERELL 1847. She was born November 27, 1827 in Eden Erie Co., NY, and died February 10, 1885 in Pemberville, OH.

Notes for SILAS SPRAGUE CANFIELD:
Silas Sprague was taken by his father, Jared, to see General Lafayette on his last visit to America.

Silas and Matilda, married either 1847/1848, moved their family to Norwalk, OH in 1850/1851. They later moved to Milan, OH. At one time, Silas was the Superintnedent of the Milan schools. He taught in Wood Co., OH both before and after the Civil War. Silas served on the Wood Co., OH, Board of Examiners for Public School Teachers. He had hoped to study medicine and read many medical books. He set bones succussfully, including his son Roswell's leg that was broken while playing in his Uncle Allen Canfield's saw mill.

Silas was a Christian man, simple in his faith. He was impressed with the Quakers among whom he had taught school in New York state. Silent grace was usual at his table. He doubted that any church with a system of bishops belonged in a democratic country.

The people of Webster Twp., Wood Co., OH, were dubious when an Army officer, of dubious morals, undertook to recruit volunteers for the Civil War. They finally asked Silas to organize a company and Company K. OVI came into being. Silas Sprague Canfield, Captain of Company K, OVI, was mustered into the Union Army on September 19, 1861, at Findley, OH. Silas was captured September 20, 1863, at the Battle of Chickamauga, GA. He was honorably discharged at Columbus, OH on April 1, 186o5 by reason of the close of the war. Silas was confined in the following Southern Military Prisons: Libby, Danville, Macon, Charleston, SC and Camp Sorghum near Columbus, SC. He was Paroled on December 10, 1864 at Charleston, SC. (See Union Prisoners of War Association Certificate, Issued in Toledo, OH on June 30, 1888)

Silas and Matilda are buried side by side in Scotch Ridge, HO.

Silas wrote"History of the 21st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the was of the rebellion" published by Vrooman, Anderson & Bateman 1893 Toledo. A copy of the book is in the CA State Library in Sutro.

Notes for MATILDA ADALINE ALLEN WETHERELL:
Moses Smith, father of Laura Smith Wetherell Field (who adopted Matilda Adaline Allen) was born in 1756 at Exeter, NH. He died in 1846, in Orleans Co., NY, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War from Rowley, MA.

Children of SILAS CANFIELD and MATILDA WETHERELL are:
26. i. GEORGE SPENCER6 CANFIELD, b. August 24, 1849, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. New Concord, OH.
27. ii. HELEN MATILDA CANFIELD, b. September 26, 1850, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY; d. June 14, 1932.
iii. ROSWELL CLINTON CANFIELD, b. September 21, 1851, Norwalk, OH; d. March 09, 1940, Modesto, CA.

Notes for ROSWELL CLINTON CANFIELD:
Roswell is buried in Modesto, CA.

He was named, Roswell, for the father of Phoebe Dart, and Clinton for Governor Clinton of NY, of the Erie Canal fame. He attended Oberlin College, was a Surveyor and Mining Engineer. He went to Silver City, CO, during the silver rush. Roswell later moved to Eastern Washington state, where he taught school and practiced engineering.

iv. ALICE CHARLOTTE CANFIELD, b. November 09, 1856; d. March 27, 1940; m. EDWARD E. MCMILLEN., February 18, 1891.

Notes for ALICE CHARLOTTE CANFIELD:
Alice and Edward are both buried in Bowling Green, OH.

v. LAURA GENETTE CANFIELD, b. September 20, 1858; d. January 19, 1930; m. JOHN THOMPSON CALDWELL, October 21, 1884, Wood Co., OH.

Notes for JOHN THOMPSON CALDWELL:
John was a Presbyterian minister in Scotch Ridge, OH. He and Laura had 5 children.

28. vi. SILAS SMITH CANFIELD, b. August 18, 1861; d. March 28, 1941, Webster Twp., Wood Co., OH.
29. vii. HENRY WARD CANFIELD, b. April 08, 1867, Webster Twp., Wood Co., OH; d. January 10, 1929, Spokane, WA.

12. LAFYAETTE5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born December 19, 1827 in Hamburg, Erie Co., NY, and died December 03, 1903 in Amsden, OH. He married (1) FANNIE STOCKWELL. He married (2) ANNIS MCINTYRE January 01, 1851 in Norwalk, OH. She was born October 12, 1831 in Worcester Twp., Otsego Co., NY, and died April 16, 1889 in Webster Twp., Wood Co., OH.

Notes for LAFYAETTE CANFIELD:
When he was a youth, Lafayette went to Milan, OH, where he worked as a carpenter on the ship canal there. He and his brother Allen were carpenters and joiners. Young Thomas Alva Edison used to sit on Lafayette's tool chest and watch him work. (See Four Families in the Black Swamp" by Dr. Dwight R. Canfield)

In 1858, Lafayette and Annis moved to the farm in the Black Swamp, Webster Twp. Wood Co., OH, where they lives the lives of pioneers. Dr. Dwight Canfield writes that his father was little educated, but interested in that art.

More About LAFYAETTE CANFIELD:
Burial: Near New Rochester, OH

More About ANNIS MCINTYRE:
Burial: Near New Rochester, OH

Children of LAFYAETTE CANFIELD and ANNIS MCINTYRE are:
30. i. ANSON LADD6 CANFIELD, b. April 11, 1852, Milan, OH; d. April 23, 1929, West Milgrove, OH.
31. ii. ALLEN CLIFTON CANFIELD, b. May 18, 1855; d. January 29, 1937.
iii. JULIA MARIA CANFIELD, b. December 02, 1858; d. October 17, 1933.

Notes for JULIA MARIA CANFIELD:
Julia taught country school and also in the village of Pemberton, OH. She graduated as a trained nurse from Buffalo General Hospital and nursed for many years in Toledo.

32. iv. JOHN MCINTYRE CANFIELD, b. August 16, 1862; d. 1949.
33. v. LLEWELLYN LEONARD CANFIELD, b. October 12, 1867; d. January 25, 1929.
34. vi. DWIGHT REUBEN CANFIELD, b. March 29, 1872.

13. PHOEBE5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born January 10, 1832 in Near Hamburg, Erie Co., OH, and died May 04, 1916 in Rossford, OH. She married SETH JOHNSON. He was born April 22, 1828 in Utica, NY, and died April 07, 1876 in Near Toledo, OH.

Children of PHOEBE CANFIELD and SETH JOHNSON are:
i. Amon J. JOHNSON.
ii. Laura E. Johnson (My "'Aunt Laura'").
iii. Lavina Catherine Johnson (Died in infancy).
iv. Clarence E. Johnson.
v. Edna R. Johnson (My dad's "'Aunt'Edna").
vi. Nina Lucretia (Died in infancy).
vii. *John Seth Johnson" (My great-grandfather Johnson).

14. HENRY CLARK5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born February 16, 1836, and died November 08, 1919. He married (1) ANNA MARIA GEER DUNHAM. She was born 1850, and died 1906. He married (2) MELISSA ANNA BRAINLEY July 06, 1856. She was born April 30, 1838, and died February 06, 1881.

Notes for MELISSA ANNA BRAINLEY:
Melissa was a Medical Doctor.

Children of HENRY CANFIELD and MELISSA BRAINLEY are:
35. i. KATE ANNA6 CANFIELD, b. 1857; d. 1935.
36. ii. MOSES CANFIELD, b. 1866; d. 1933.
iii. GEORGE EDWIN CANFIELD, b. 1876; m. MARION HALL AMES.

Notes for GEORGE EDWIN CANFIELD:
George was a lawyer and his family was still living in Puyallup, WA, in 1950.

15. AMON JARED5 CANFIELD (JARED4, DENNIS3, AMON2, DAVID1) was born November 24, 1839, and died December 23, 1915 in Sylvania, OH. He married LUCINDA J. FELTON November 11, 1863 in Norwalk, OH. She was born February 27, 1837, and died February 14, 1930 in Toledo, OH.

Child of AMON CANFIELD and LUCINDA FELTON is:
37. i. EVART AMON6 CANFIELD, b. October 16, 1866; d. March 05, 1897, Toledo, OH.