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.)
3rd
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
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?
.jpg "Old School Baptist Church Brookfield aka Slate Hill 1803 – 1839 Log")
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 5th 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
