In Jun 1803 Lovina married Jabez Hitchcock (61039) , son of Ebenezer Hitchcock (51090) (23 Jul 1750-) & Abigail Prichard (51136) (14 May 1752-), in Connecticut. Born on 14 Oct 1781 in Derby, CT. Jabez was baptized in St. James Church, Derby, in Oct 1782.634 He was baptized as “Jabesh Hitchcock”. Jabez died in Portage County, Ohio, on 22 Jun 1875; he was 93. Buried in Palmyra West Cemetery, Portage County.

Jabez was probably named for his mother’s brother, Lieut. Jabez Prichard, who had died in the Revolutionary War in 1777, just a few years before Jabez was born.

Jabez and Lovina moved from Sharon, Connecticut, to Boardman, Ohio, in about 1811.

Donna Perry is a descendent of Julia Hitchcock, Jabez and Lovina’s eldest daughter. She is the holder of the family bible. A scan of the family information listed in the bible sent 19 Nov. 2004, provides the following information:
Jabez Hitchcock and Lovina Bunnell was married June, 1803.
    Jabez Hitchcock born Oct 14th 1781
    Lavina Bunnell born Nove 22nd 1788
    Julia Hitchock born April 23rd 1804
    Sarah L.Hitchcock born December 18th 1805
    Caroline Hitchcock born December 7th 1807
    Judson V. Hitchcock born December 8 1809
    Jane Hitchcock born Jany 5 1812
    Ruthana Hitchcock born December 22nd 1813
    Rebecca Hitchcock born December 17 1816
    Clara Hitchcock born December 31st 1818
    Charles Hitchcock born April 27th 1821
    George M. Hitchcock born Oct 27 1824
    Frederick Hitchcock born Jany 1st 1827
    Jabez Hitchcock born February 26 1831

1810 Federal Census. Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Roll 2, page 210
Family of Jabez Hitchcock
    1 male under 10 [Judson]
    1 male 26-44 [Jabez]
    3 females under 10 [Caroline, Sarah, & Julia]
    1 female 16-25 [Lovina]

1820 Federal Census. Canfield Township, Trumball County, Ohio
Roll 89, page: 291
Family of Jabez Hitchcock.
    1 male 10-16 [Judson]
    1 male 26-45 [Jabez]
    4 females under 10 [Clara, Rebecca, Ruthana, & Jane]
    3 females 10-16 [Caroline, Sarah, & Julia]
    1 female 26-45 [Lovinia]
One person is employed in agricuture.

1830 Federal Census. Canfield Township, Trumball County, Ohio
Roll M19-141, page 261
Family of Jabez Hitchcock:
    one male under five [Frederick],
    two males 5-9 [George & Charles]
    one male 20-29 [Judson]
    one male 40-49 [Jabez Sr]
    two females 10-14 [Rebecca]
    two females 15-19 [Ruthana & Jane]
    one female 20-29 [Caroline]
    one female 40-49 [Lovinia]

1840 Federal Census, Montville, Medina County, Ohio
Roll 412, page 285
Family of Jabez Hitchcock:
    1 male 5-10 [Jabez, 9]
    1 male 10-15 [Frederick, 13]
    2 males 15-20 [Charles, 19, and George, 15]
    1 male 50-60 [Jabez, 58]
    1 female 50-60 [Lovinia, 51]

1850 Federal Census, Montville, Medina County, Ohio
Roll 709, page 311.
Jabez Hitchcock, 68, farmer, b. CT
    Frederick Hitchcock, 22, farmer, b. OH
    Lydia Ann Hitchcock, 20, b. OH
    Jabez Hitchcick, 18, laborer, b. OH

1860 Federal Census. Medina, Medina County, Ohio
Series: M653 Roll:1007 Page: 211
P.O. Court House
    This may refer to a different Jabez Hitchcock. He is 65 years old, born in New York, has $50 in personal wealth, and does not own land. He apparently lives in a building with Alpheus Lucus who is 42 and was also born in New York. Both are laborers.

An article from the Canfield Weekly Herald, 27 July 1865 mentions Jabez.

        AN OLD SETTLER

Old father Jabez Hitchcock of Medina, Ohio, for 20 years a resident of Canfield, is now spending a few weeks here visiting relatives and friends. He is now 84 years old, and apparently as hale and hardy as 40 years ago. He originally came from Litchfield County, Connecticutt during the early settlement of Canfield. (Taken from the handwritten books of the Henry R. Baldwin Genealogical Records, v. 27, page 43)

1870 Federal Census. Palmyra Township, Portage County, Ohio
Roll 1258, page 274B
    Moses Gilbert, 31, farmer, b. Ohio
    Aaron Gilbert, 33, farmer, b. Ohio
    Phebe Gilbert, 36, keeps house, b. Ohio
    Jabez Hitchcock, 88, farmer, b. Connecticut
    Eunice Gilbert, 38, b. Ohio
    Margaret Gilbert, 72, taileress, b. Vermont [Margaret (Robinson) Gilbert, widow of Ezra Gilbert]
    Christina Gilbert, 14, b. Ohio
Real estate is worth $5,000 and personal property, $600.
Living two families down the road are Hela H. Gilbert, 72, and his wife Tirza, 60. He was born in Connecticutt and she in Ohio. Real estate is worth $7720 and personal property $1500.

Cemetery Records for Palmyra Township, Palmyra West Cemetery, Portage County, Ohio state that Jabez died 22 June 1875. He was 93 years old and a Veteren of the War of 1812.

The Index to the Grave Records of Servicemen of the War of 1812, State of Ohio, complied by the Ohio Society United States Daughters of 1812, Edited by Phyllis Brown Miller, compiled 1988, page 100, states, “HITCHCOCK, Jabez; b. 1782; d. 1875; bur. Palmyra, Port. Co., OH; Co. Hist.; emblem on grave; (1943).”

In an email regatding Jabez Hitchcock/Lovinia on Sun, 06 Jan 2002 at 18:29:51, Jennifer Hutchinson wrote: “Ruth Anna and Caroline (Hitchock) married brothers. Ruth Anna married Ezra J Hunt on 28 Jan 1836 in Trumbull County, Ohio. Caroline A. married Seymour M Hunt on 30 August 1832 in Trumbull County, Ohio.
    Caroline's death notice reads: "Hunt, Caroline, w. of Seymour M., dau. of Jabez and Lovina Hitchcock, of Medina, d. March 23, 1852 in Hartsgrove, ae 46th yr."
    I don't yet have definite proof that Ruth is the daughter of Jabez and Lovinia yet, but she did name one son Jabez and a daughter Caroline.
    I also am running into the name Judson Vantile Hitchcock in the same area at the same time that may be a brother to Caroline and Ruth. Ruth also named a son Judson.
    Lots of coincidences, but no proof yet.
    I am a descendant of Ruth and Ezra. I am sending a copy of the family group sheet for them I have been able to compile. The information came from a typescript of their family Bible information. Their daughte, Susan Maria Hunt is my great great grandmother. “
    The copy of the family group sheet included with this email reads as follows:

Husband: Ezra J. Hunt
    Born: June 19, 1806 in Luzerne Co., PA
    Married: January 28, 1836 in Trumball Co., OH
    Died: April 15, 1886 in Hartsgrove, Ashtabula, OH
    Father: William Hunt
    Mother: Susanna Lovell
Wife: Ruth Anna Hitchcock
    Born: July 23, 1813 in Canfield, Trumball Co., OH
    Died: January 10, 1893 n Hartsgrove, Ashtabula, OH
    Father: Jabez Hitchcock
    Mother: Lovinia
Children
1 Name: Jabez H. Hunt
M Born: August 15, 1839 in Ashtabula Co., OH
2 Name: Alfred Charles Hunt
M Born: January 15, 1841 in Ashtabula Co., OH
3 Name: George Seymour Hunt
M Born: May 17, 1842 in Ashtabula Co., OH
4 Name Judson Hunt
M Born: April 23, 1844 in Ashtabula Co., OH
5 Name Susan Maria Hunt
        Born: January 21, 1846 in Hartsgrove, Ashtabula Co., OH
F Married: October 31, 1875 in Ashtabula Co., OH
        Died: January 11, 1926 in Montville, Geauga, OH
        Spouse: Horace Alvin Rhodes
6 Name: Caroline A. Hunt
F Born: January 6, 1850 in Ashtabula Co., OH
7 Name: Plympton Hunt
M Born: August 16, 1854 in Ashtabula Co., OH


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The following email from Deane Holmes has a wonderful story about the descendants of this HIichcock family. (The part ‘came from Holland’ is in error since the Hitchcock family came to Ohio from Connecticut.)

Subject: [HITCHCOCK] surname: Hitchcock & Justice
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:49:32 EDT
From:
To: HITCHCOCK-L@rootsweb.com

A story I have written by my grandmother in 1976

THE SOURCE OF THE LINEN TOW THREAD: THIS THREAD IS 120 YEARS OLD

Crocheted into doilies by Clara Morrison Rhodes — from 1940 1974

Jabez Hitchcock Sr., and his wife came from Holland. His son, Vantile Hitchcock, was my mother’s grandfather. He had four daughters; Dorcas, Hattie, Julia, and Macklin. His daughter Dorcas married Isaac Justice, a Judge in Youngstown, Ohio. To this union was born Flora Justice Mancil and my mother, Lilla Helen Justice Morrison.

When Jabez Hitchcock Sr. and his wife came from Holland they settled in Pennsylvania. The raised flax, made their own thread, wove it into cloth, from which they made their clothing — you could not buy manufactured clothing in those days.

First they made the ‘tow’, then spun it into thread on the spinning wheel or spindle; this was a two year process. In 1955 the process was shortened to ten days. Then they wove it into cloth. The two I have, and the thread and piece of cloth, was made by these people, my Great-Great Grandfather and Grandmother. It was given by Grandpa Isaac Justice to sister Alizia, mother’s aunt, then to mother when she went back to Youngstown, Ohio, at the time her father died in 1903. My mother had it thirty six years, then it was given to me in 1939 when mother passed away.

Jabez Jr., brother of Vantile Hitchcock, was the father of George, Herman, Wilber, Rebecca, Jane and Clara. Clara married Homer Warner, and became the grandmother of my Aunt Clara, Aunt Nettie, Uncle Frank and Uncle Charley.

Grandpa Justice’s second wife was their mother, and they were my mother’s half-sisters and brothers. She was the woman he married after the death of my mother’s mother, Dorcas, who died by falling down the cellar stairs, while pregnant. Mother was seven years old at that time. John Justice, a cousin of Jabez Jr.s children, married Nancy Sexton (Grandpa Justice’s second wife was a second cousin to his first wife) Nancy Sexton, daughter of Stephen Sexton of Poland,Ohio. To this marriage was born Aunt Alizia and Isaac Justice, who became my mother’s father and my grandfather. Aunt Alizia married John Thompson, she was the on who gave mother the linen thread, woven cloth, and skein of ‘Tow’.

Written by Clara Morrison Rhodes, daughter of Lilla Helen Justice and George Morrison. Mother was the daughter of Isaac Justice, and Judge and Dorcas Hitchcock Justice. Told to me by Aunt Clara Trusdail, half-sister of mother, just before World War II when my husband, Miles Rhodes and I were in Youngstown, Ohio on a visit

On 28 Nov 1819 Charles A. first married Almira Gunn, daughter of James Gunn & Jerusha Sprague (2 Mar 1772-2 Aug 1806), in Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio.680 Born ca 1800 in Ohio. Almira died in Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio on 8 Aug 1826. Buried in Canfield Village Cemetery.

Almira, also spelled Almyra, Gunn.

On 29 Mar 1827 Charles A. second married Tryphena Babbitt, daughter of Stephen Babbitt (14 Sep 1764-1803) & Mary Beach (-23 Feb 1841), in Trumbull County, Ohio.680 John Woodruff, J.P. Born ca 1795 in New Jersey. Tryphena died aft 1870.

Tryphena, also spelled Triphena, Babbitt, or perhaps Bablet.

In 1870, Tryphena was living with her daughter Jane Taylor’s family in Canfield.

Horace first married Mary A..

On 16 Nov 1840 Horace second married Fanny Perkins in Derby, CT.140

Fanny first married Asa Sperry, second Horace Bunnell.

On 22 Mar 1815 when Ruth Ann was 17, she married Chauncey Hodge (61089) , son of Philo Hodge (51161) (9 Jan 1756-30 Jan 1842) & Lucy Newton (28 Mar 1768-1 Jun 1853), in Fairfield, CT. Born on 10 Jul 1790 in Woodbury, CT. Chauncey died in Roxbury, CT, on 5 May 1853; he was 62. Buried in Roxbury Center Cemetery.

1850 Federal Census. Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Roll 43, page 91B
    Chancey Hodge, 60, $3500 real estate
    Ruth A. Hodge, 52
    Lucy Hodge, 81
All were born in Connecticut. Their son Albert’s family lived next door.

Roxbury Center Cemetery, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut
    Chauncey Hodge, b. 10 Jul 1790, d. 5 May 1853
    Ruth Ann Hodge, b. 8 Feb 1798, d. 8 May 1867

On 26 Jan 1825 Clara married John L. Fairchild, son of Abraham Fairchild (ca 1773-Apr 1822) & Anna, in Oxford, CT. Born ca 1801 in Ridgefield, CT. John L. died in Oxford, CT on 27 Apr 1860. Buried in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford.

1840 Federal Census. Oxford, New Haven County, Connecticut
Roll 28, page 338
Family of John L. Fairchild
    1 male under 5 [George]
    1 male 30-39 [John]
    1 female 10-14 [Sarah]
    1 female 30-39 [Clara]

1850 Federal Census. Oxford, New Haven County, Connecticut
Roll 46, page 371A
    John L. Fairchild, 49, miller, $145 real estate
    Clara Fairchild, 50
    Sarah M. Fairchild, 21
    George A. Fairchild, 11
All were born in Connecticut.