Joshua Franklin BRUCE & Loraine KIMBALL

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Joshua Franklin BRUCE
Loraine KIMBALL

Husband: Joshua Franklin BRUCE
Birth: 1816/7, Jay, Essex Co., NY
Occupation: farmer
Father: Joseph BRUCE
Mother: Rebecca HOUGHTON

Marriage:

Wife: Loraine / Lorrain KIMBALL
Birth: 1817/8, NY
Occupation: homemaker
Father: James KIMBALL

Children — born in Jay, Essex Co., NY:

1. Mary Louisa BRUCE, b. 1841/2; m. Wesley SOUTHMAID
2. Robert BRUCE, b. 1846/7
3. Lydia BRUCE, b. 1851/2
4. Martha "Mattie" BRUCE, b. 1854/5; m. Henry BECKWITH, of Schuyler Falls, NY
5. Cora E. BRUCE, b. 1857/8; m. C.W. SMITH of Wells, NY

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Sources:

1. Marriage Record:

2. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #51 of 66): Jay, Essex Co., NY, Roll M432_504, p. 213A, 3025/3099, enumerated 13 Sep 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Joseph Bruce 54 M Farmer 4000

Rebecca 33 F

Franklin 33 M "

Lorrain 32 F

Louisa 8 F

Robert 3 M

Daniel Hopper 15 M

Hannah Felt 33 F

Rebecca should be 53, not 33, not if she's really Franklin's mother.

3. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find, and I even did a page-by-page search of Jay. Also didn't find J.F.'s father, who should also be in Jay. Were they missed by the enumerator? Or did they slip off to Canada for a few years?

4. 1870 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #24-5 of 63): Whallonsburgh [Whallonsburg] P.O., Jay, Essex Co., NY, Roll M593_936, pp. 122B-123A, PN 24-25, 182/194, enumerated 22 Jun 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Bruce J F 54 M W Retired from business 1800 12000 NY

_____ Loraine 52 F W Keeping house NY

_____ Lydia 18 F W Teaching School NY

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Bruce Mattie 15 F W at home NY

_____ Cora 12 F W Attending School NY

Listed next to Joshua's first cousin, Henry S. BRUCE (son of Joshua's uncle, Jonah BRUCE).

5. 1880 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #5 of 8): Village of Lower Jay, Essex Co., NY, Roll T9_0832, p. 122A, PN 23, SD 7, ED 45, enumerated 20 Jun 1880, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1880: for an explanation of the column headings, please see
What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 13 24 25 26

254 234 Bruce J F W M 64 / Farmer NY VT VT

_____ Lorain W F 63 Wife / Keeping house NY VT MA

_____ Cora E W F 23 Dau / At home NY VT VT

Southm?? Mary ? W F 37 Dau / At home NY NY NY

Obviously, Cora's parents were born in NY, not VT. Listed three households from Arby BRUCE (æ 45, b. NY).

6. 1890 Census: the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.

7. 1900 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found.

8. H.P. Smith. 1885. History of Essex County [New York]. D. Mason & Co., Publ., Syracuse, NY (online at Ancestry.com). On p. 717:

Bruce. The Bruce family is among the first families of Jay. Their ancestor, Benjamin Bruce, first settled in Jay in 1804. He was a shoemaker by trade and a soldier of the Revolution. He died September 11th, 1839, leaving six children: Joseph, Jonah, Anna, Polie, Phila, and Hannah. Joseph was married to Rebecca Houghton, a native of Vermont, and the venerable Joshua F. Bruce, of Jay, is her only son. He married Loraine, daughter of James Kimball; they have four children living: Mary, who is widow of Wesley Southmaid; Robert, a farmer of Essex; Martha, now Mrs. Henry Beckwith, of Schuyler Falls, N.Y.; and Cora, now Mrs. C.W. Smith, of Wells, N.Y.

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