Identifier: wakefieldmemoria00byuwake (find matches)
Title: Wakefield memorial : comprising an historical, genealogical and biographical register of the name and family of Wakefield
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wakefield, Homer, b. 1865
Subjects: Wakefield, John, 1614?-1667 Wakefield family
Publisher: Bloomington, Ill. : Privately printed for the compiler
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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hers, of course,thought it outright heresy. It was a common saying with believers that no Universalistdied m his faith, always renouncing it at the approach of death. In reply to this it wasoften said Uncle Joe Wakefield wont renounce his religion at death or any other time.He was elected justice of the peace for his town and ever after was called Squire Wake-field. Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, of California, in 1890, wrote of his Aunt Susan (Sawyer)Wakefield: She was a superb woman, built on the model of her mother physically,mentally, and morally, who was a jewel of a woman. Everybody respected and lovedher. Other mother Judge Sawyer wrote: She was a sterling woman, one of the saltof the earth. 58 Posterity of John Wakefield of Boston. Susan Sawyer, born Dec. 20, 1787, Sterling, Mass. Married Sept. 20. 1803, Joseph WakeHelcl, Jr. Died July 23, 1836, Watertown, N. Y. t-t- ^ ^ ^^ ,—- i-l O) ^ Di -I e 1-! P -^0 (U f-^ >-i O M w - - P n, ^ Qi w —( - • ltd ;=•&-■ Pa c/> (T _
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5-1 a O Ct i—n-p w oP Q O (^ - - pr- T^P N Seventh Generation. 59 Joseph Wakefield served in the militia at battle of Sacketts Harbor,May 29, 1813. He was so distinguished for his uprightness and honesty thathis obituary, published at his death in the Watertown, Times, titled it withthe quotation, An honest man is the noblest workof God. In order todistinguish him from his cousin, Joseph H. Wakefield, son of Thomas andElizabeth (Hardy) Wakefield, who also resided near Watertown, he, beingmuch the taller, was called familiarly Long Joe. His will of May 4,1812,bequeathed his property to his surviving widow and children, as belowenumerated. Elisha Wakefield and John G. Dresser were appointed soleexecutors. CHILDREN. 848 1. Elizabeth (Betsey), born August 6, 1804: married, firstly, to William Waters; married, secondiv, to William Bolin; she died June 1, IK.5.3. 849.-2. Elisha, born November l, IHOli; married, firstly. December 34, 1832,Daphne Baker; married, secondly. September 16, 1839

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