Hepzibah was born in 1793 in Deerfield in Franklin, Massachusetts, the daughter of Carmi Wright and Eunice Cooley. When she was eleven years old, her family moved to settle and farm in the Adams area in Jefferson County, New York. In 1831 at the age of 38, she married the recently widowed Sylvester Bliss. She reportedly died in 1858.
VITAL RECORDS OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO THE YEAR 1850. COMPILED BY THOMAS W. BALDWIN, A.B., S.B., MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. BOSTON, MASS., 1920
Event Place: Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States
Event Place (Original): First Church, Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Hepzibah Wright
Spouse's Gender: Female
Residence in New York
1850 Census?
"New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6QK-LRM : 13 March 2018), Hepzihah Bliss in household of Sylvester Bliss, E.D. 1, Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States; citing p. , line #19, family #266, county clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 895,241.
Name: Hepzihah Bliss
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1855
Event Place: E.D. 1, Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Birth Year (Estimated): 1793
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Wife
Household (Role Sex Age Birthplace):
Sylvester Bliss, Head, M, 63, married, New Hampshire, yrs in this town: 35; Farmer, native voter, land owner
Hepzihah Bliss, Wife, F, 62; married, Mass, yrs in this town: 50
Frame house, value: 1800;
Note: Sharing same house with Lucy A Wright age 34 and her daughter Mary S
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hepzibah by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hepzibah: