Bethiah Bent (1802 - 1891)

Born 5 Oct 1802 in Paris, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Tristram C. Norton — married Jan 1825 in Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Aug 1891 at age 88 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Bethiah Bent was born at Paris, Maine, on 5 Oct 1802, the daughter of William Bent and Olive Cushman (Besse) Bent.^[1] The 1850 census says she was then 47 years old.^[2]

Marriage

Bethiah Bent married Tristram Norton of Livermore, Maine.^[1][3] Bethiah Bent of Paris, Maine, and Tristram Norton of Livermore, Maine, published their intention to marry at Livermore on 21 Jan 1825.^[4]

Death

In 1880, the widow Bethia Norton was living with her son-in-law and daughter, William and Christiana Griffith, at Livermore, Maine, at the age of 77.^[5] Bethia (Bent) Norton died in 1891 at the age of 88.^[3] Her gravestone at the Kilbreth Cemetery in Livermore is now broken but formerly said that she died on 24 Apr 1891.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Allen H, Bent, The Bent family in America. Being mainly a genealogy of the descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, with notes upon the family in England and elsewhere (Boston, Mass., 1900), page 84
2. ↑ Bethiah Norton in the Tristram C. Norton household, family #291, in United States Census, 1850', database with images, FamilySearch, Maine > Oxford > Livermore > image 36 of 43; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 179
4. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; Livermore Vital Records, 1811-1842, unpaginated; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 356 of 718
5. ↑ Bethia Norton, mother-in-law, in the William G. Griffeth household, family #227, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > Livermore > ED 17 > image 20 of 26; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
6. ↑ Transcription of the inscription on the gravestone of Bethiah Norton,recorded in 1977, citing "field notes of Mrs. Ethel Colby Conant," in Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, database with images, FamilySearch > Nichols, Hannah G-Norton, Lewis > image 1265 of 1548; Maine State Library, Augusta. There is a photo of a broken stone for "Bethiah Wife of T. C. Norton" at Find A Grave: Memorial #53658700 for Bethiah (Bent) Norton, but the dates are missing.