Invite to Dinner #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

I’d make my roasted chicken sitting atop potatoes and carrots and invite 3^rd Great Grandmother Mary (Hazen) Ogden to sup with me. While enjoying coffee and Dutch apple pie, I’d share what I learned about her and ask if she would tell me about herself. If only I could act out this scene.

Mary Hazen was born about 1801 in Orange County, New York and married Gilbert B. Ogden Jan. 11, 1817 in Brookfield (Slate Hill), Orange Co., New York. They began a family and became the parents of fifteen children.  Gilbert passed June 6, 1848 at the age of 52 in Wantage, Sussex Co., New Jersey.

My research highlights Gilbert B. Ogden’s military service during the War of 1812; how glad I was to find Mary benefited by selling bounty land acquired from Grandfather’s service. See my blog post Gilbert, Mary and the War of 1812 for all the details.

Then I delighted in finding Mary Hazen among the Old School Baptist Church membership rolls Oct. 7, 1815. MYSTERYMONDAY: 3RD Great Grandmother Mary (Hazen) Ogden was an Old School Baptist Lady discusses my findings.

 

Now I will introduce family lore that’s been passed down. Mary and Gilbert’s daughter, Harriet C. (Ogden) Clark, told her daughter Lillian (Clark) Hewitt that her parents ‘courted’ around Cuddebackville. (Cuddebackville is located about 10 miles north of Port Jervis, Orange County, New York near Otisville and Mount Hope.)

 

I noticed two of Mary’s sons—John Stewart Ogden and Joseph Stewart Ogden shared the middle name of Stewart. According to Tracy Elliot Hazen’s book, The Hazen Family in America, Edited for Publication by Donald Lines Jacobus, a John Hazen married Lizzie Stewart. John Hazen’s parents settled in Minisink, Orange Co., NY after leaving Connecticut. Could John Hazen and Lizzie Stewart be Mary’s parents? I don’t know but I’ve wondered about it for many years.

 

The Rootsweb WorldConnect Project holds Bonnie Stout’s work “Descendants of William Buchanan and Patience Hazen”. Bonnie located earlier research proving Patience Hazen was a daughter of John Hazen and Elizabeth Stewart.

The author writes:

   "There is very little known about Patience Hazen, before she married William Buchanan. One record has Patience was born in Scotland and the other ones being born in New Jersey, Sussex County. We are led to believe it was New Jersey as it was found on death certificates of her son Robert's and her own. Patience's death certificate states she was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, daughter of John Hazen and Elizabeth Stewart, both being born in New Jersey, Sussex County. Patience Hazen was born May 25, 1804 and died Feb. 11, 1885, her death certificate states, some records from relatives state it was 1884. She died in Chemung County, New York at Elmira and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery located in the City of Elmira, bounded by Bancroft Road, West Hill Street and Davis Street and Woodlawn National Cemetery on the other side. It is a very large cemetery and is well kept.”

Sussex County, New Jersey borders Orange County, New York making Patience Hazen a lady of great interest to me. Could Patience and Mary be sisters? Fellow researchers please help if you can.

Serendipitous? Let’s hope so.

Source for Bonnie Stout’s Research

William Buchanan and Family; Author: Dolezal, Mildred Huff & Kildow, Lorraine Dolezal; Publication: Compiled and privately printed Fall, 1973; Note: Compiled and printed by Dolezal & Kildow, R.R. #3; Omaha, Nebraska; Repository: Copy owned by Janie Stout;
Media: Manuscript

After Dinner

Bernard Hall

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MYSTERY MONDAY: 3RD Great Grandmother Mary (Hazen) Ogden was an Old School Baptist Lady

Mary Hazen married Gilbert B. Ogden Jan. 11, 1817. Elder Ball, a clergyman associated with the Old School Baptist Church at Brookfield, Orange County, New York, performed the ceremony. (Brookfield would later be known as Slate Hill.)

3^rd Great Grandfather Gilbert was a War of 1812 veteran serving with the New York Militia in 1814 as a private. Please see my earlier post titled

Gilbert, Mary and the War of 1812

If the facts provided by Mary in her application for bounty lands due her from Gilbert’s military service are accurate, she was born in 1801 and married Gilbert when she was about 16 years old. Some Brookfield Old School Baptist Church records exist but unfortunately, Mary and Gilbert’s marriage was not among them.

But there is good news! I was able to locate Mary Hazen’s name in the membership rolls dated Oct. 7, 1815. This would have been a few years before her marriage to Gilbert.

You’ll notice a Mrs. Hazen in column 2. Was she Mary’s mother? Where’s her father?

Old School Baptist Church

Brookfield aka Slate Hill

1803 – 1839 Log

Page 6

 

I didn’t find Mary again until June 7, 1834. Mary Ogden’s name was among the church members. The 5^th name appearing after Mary’s was ‘Sena Hazen’. Hmmm, could she have been a relative?

Old School Baptist Church

Brookfield aka Slate Hill

1803 – 1839 Log

Page 21

Page 17 of the Articles of Faith of the Baptist Church of Brookfield noted Mary Ogden no longer associated with the church in their Dec. 1, 1849 session. By this time Gilbert B. Ogden had passed and Mary was a 48 year old widow. Great Grandmother was probably living in Sullivan County, New York with her younger children at this date.

Old School Baptist Church

Brookfield aka Slate Hill

1839 – 1903 Articles of Faith

Page 17

Help finding Mary’s parents and siblings are welcome and appreciated!

Note: I viewed the Old School Baptist Church Brookfield records at the Orange County Genealogical Society, Goshen, NY