Amos Babcock (1811 - 1887)

Born 22 Oct 1811 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Died 8 Jan 1887 at age 75 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Babcock Name Study.

Amos's mother was Ruhama Hare, the second wife of Captain Elijah Babcock.

In 1870 Amos resides with his widowed sister, Annah Watkins Babcock Burritt in Canton, Illinois. Amos, at age 58, is a real estate dealer is extremely wealthy by the looks of the value of his real estate. He also resides with a much younger woman, Carried Lucas of Ohio, later to be his spouse. ^[1]

In 1873 Amos and Carrie Licy Lucas had a son named Edgar, but he died shortly after birth. The three are buried at the same plot in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ^[2]

A Letter Explains Amos's unique Babcock lineage  

"A Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland: A Great-grandson of Moses Cleveland" contains an 1879 letter by Amos Babcock to A.H. Babcock of Des Moines describing the coming to America of a distinct Babcock line in the early 1700 from England to Providence. Three Babcock brothers immigrated named Timothy, Amos, and Stephen. Captain Elijah Babcock is part of this line and he is the father of the letter writer Amos of Cedar Rapids, the youngest of all the children (born at Ashford like the others)

Captain Elijah's second wife was Ruhama/Zeruiah(?) Hare.

Their children were:

Annah Watkins, born 1810 (m. Dr. Harvey Burritt)

Amos, born October 22 1811

This appears to be a Babcock line distinct from the Milton Babcocks of early Massachusetts  and the Westerly Babcocks of early  Rhode Island. It provides much more detail about the family in general and Elijah's military exploits in specific.  

Note: There is a cousin connection between this Amos Babcock and Colonel AC Babcock of Penn Yan, New York. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9S-J858 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-VM9M-WT?i=930&cc=1880619 https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LHKG-9MB The Cleveland Family Genealogy shows a migration of a number of Elijah and Annah Babcock's children and related Chamberlain children through Steuben New York, to Canton, Illinois, then on to Iowa. A similar migration can be seen by Colonel AC Babcock whose actually seem to be from a different line of Babcocks.

Sources

1. ↑ 1870 US Census
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129815435/edgar-babcock

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105885063/amos-babcock

• A Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland, page 199