Flavia Field (Colton) Brockway (1805 - 1889)

Born 18 Aug 1805 in Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John Hall Brockway — married 3 Feb 1829 (to 1870) in Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1889 at age 84 in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States

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Biography

Flavia Field Colton, 1804-1888, was the daughter of Samuel Colton (1778-1811) and Anna Gregory Warriner (1778-1853). Flavia married John H. Brockway on 3 February 1829 in Connecticut. They had three daughters.^[1]

John H. Brockway and Flavia Field Colton were married on 22 January 1829 in Connecticut/Longview, Hampden, Massachusetts.^{[2] [3]}

Their daughter: Emeline Brockway was born 5 December 1829 in Ellington, Tolland, Connecticut, the daughter of John H. and Flavia F. Brockway.^[4]

Their daughter: Mary Field Brockway was born on 3 March 1839 in Ellington, Tolland, Connecticut, the daughter of John H. and Flavia F. Brockway.^[5]

In 1850, the Brockway family lived in Ellington, Connecticut. The household included John H. Brockway, 49, born in Connecticut, a lawyer, with $7000 in real estate; his wife Flavia, 44, b. MA; their children, all b. CT: Emeline C., 20; Louisa W., 18, in school; and Mary T., 11, in school. Also living with them were Ephraim H. Demock, 23, b. CT; and Eliza McGuire, 16, b. Ireland.^[6]

Flavia Field (Colton) was born in Massachusetts in 1805. She married John Hall Brockway. They had at least three children. Flavia died, a widow, aged 84, in Berkeley, California (where her daughters lived) in 1889. She is buried with daughter Emeline in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California. She and her unmarried daughter Emeline are also memorialized on John Hall Brockway’s cemetery monument in Ellington Center Cemetery, Ellington, Tolland, Connecticut. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ familysearch.org Life Sketch, with sources (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MV4F-QGR)
2. ↑ Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7G7-MXX)
3. ↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHGC-3J2)
4. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WR-XY9)
5. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WR-XTB)
6. ↑ 1850 US Census, Ellington, Tolland, Connecticut (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M68Y-R79)
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #127015439