Roxanna Howe (Richardson) Ware (1784 - 1874)

Born 9 Feb 1784 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Ware — married 11 Apr 1810 in Watertown, MA

Descendants

Died 4 May 1874 at age 90 in Talledega, Alabama, USA

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Biography

Roxanna Howe Richardson, daughter of Peter Richardson and Hannah Bond,^[1] was born 9 Feb 1784 in Brighton [Boston], Middlesex [Suffolk] County, Massachusetts, per the family bible.^[2] The birth records for Brighton, which begin in 1771, unfortunately are missing for the years 1776 to 1786.^[3]

Brighton was a sparcely-settled agricultural area south of the Charles River known as Little Cambridge. It was officially set off from Cambridge in 1807.^[4]

Roxanna was living in Watertown, north of the Charles River, when at age 26 she married 11 Apr 1810 Jonathan Ware, age 28, of Watertown; the service was performed by Watertown’s pastor Richard J. Eliott. The intentions had been filed five months earlier on November 18, 1809.^[5][6] A wheelwright, he had come to Watertown from Needham MA.

She moved with her husband first to Lynn MA, then NY City, Spartanburg SC, finally settling in Bibb and Shelby counties Alabama, where her husband built the state’s first iron forge. See husband’s profile.

She died on May 4, 1874 and buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Talladega AL.^[7]

Children

1. Hannah Bond Ware b. 1810
2. Horace Ware b. 1812
3. Frances Howe Ware b.c.1817
4. Cyria Ann Ware b.c.1826

Research Notes

Her grandson John H. Clabaugh said: My grandmother Roxanna was related to the Templetons & Howes and other old pilgrim families. Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, was one of them as was the husband of Julia Ward Howe.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991: NAME: Roxanna Ware GENDER: Female RELATIONSHIP: Daughter OTHERS LISTED: Name Peter Richardson Margaret Richardson Peter Park Richardson Francis Roger Richardson Horatio Richardson Frances How Roxanna Ware
2. ↑ Ware Family Bible.
3. ↑ Brighton Birth Register. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2495/40904_2636947__0002-00052?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=40904_2636947__0003-00107
4. ↑ Brighton Center History. http://www.bahistory.org/BriCenterHistory.html
5. ↑ Watertown Record Bk.2, pp.160,243: both of Watertown
6. ↑ Watertown Records (1894) Second Book, p.201, 235. https://archive.org/details/watertownrecords05wate/page/200/mode/2up
7. ↑ Oak Hill Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7102023/roxana-ware