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Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914 · scan page 258

Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Membership catalogue with death dates and family notes. Entries before 1685 are partly reconstructed; admission dates are not death dates. It does not establish cemetery of burial.

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246  FIRST   CHURCH,    NEW    HAVEN
3010.  c    Sophia  Richards  (James)  Olmstead        *Jan.,  1876
Dism.  Apr.,  185 1
Daughter  of  Lewis  and  Mary,  of  New  Canaan;    born  Oct.,  1827;
wife  of  2923.     Admitted  from  the  church  in  New  Canaan.     Dis-
missed  to  the   College   Street   Church,    March,    1852.     Re-admitted
from  that  church,  Nov.,  1868.
December  31.    301 1.    Henry  Taylor  Blake
Son  of  2061   and  2507.     Yale  Coll.   1848.     Married  3207 ;    fathe
of  3927  and  4362.     Dismissed  to  the  1st  Church,  Bridgeport,  Feb.,1
1852.     Re-admitted  from  that  church,  Oct.,  1864.
]
1849
January  7.    3012.  c    George  Parsons  Willey      Dism.  Dec,  1857
Born  1821 ;    husband  of  3033.     Admitted  from  the  Chapel  Street
Church.    *Apr.,  1885.
April  I.    3013.  c    Timothy  Dwight  Dism.  June,  1862
Son  of  Timothy  and  Clarissa;  born  Apr.,  181 1;  husband  of  3014.
Admitted  from  the  Chapel  Street  Church.  Dismissed  to  the  ist
Church,  Beloit,  Wis.     *May,  1895.
3014.  c    Lucy  Starr  Olmstead  (Timothy)  Dwight
Dism.  June,  1862
Daughter  of  Zalmon  and  Rebecca,  of  Moreau,  N.  Y. ;    born  Feb.,
1816;    wife  of  3013.     *May,  1876.
3015.  c    Mary  Woolsey  Dwight  Dism.  May,  1855
Sister  of  3013;    born  Sept.,  1814;    married  Jonathan  Huntington
Lyman.     Dismissed  to  the  Edwards  Church,   Northampton,   Mass.
*Sept.,  1885.
June  3.    3016.  c    James  H.  Dunham  Dism.  1854
Married  3082.    Admitted  from  the  church  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.
3017.  c    Hannah  Sanford  Tiittle  (w.  Pinney)  Kelsey
Dism.   1854
Daughter  of  Eliada  and  Hannah,  of  North  Haven;    born  Dec,
1822.     Admitted  from  the  Methodist  Church  in   Bristol.     Married
Charles    Ezra    Clarke.      Dismissed    to    the    church    in    Watertown,
N.  Y.    Living  1870.
3018.  c    Mary  Gouverneur  Ogden  *Dec.,  i860
Daughter  of  Rev.  Uzal  and  Mary,  of  Newark,  N.  J. ;    born  1792.
Admitted  from  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  Northern  Liberties
of  Philadelphia.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P001-0258. Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914, printed page not verified, PDF page 258. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920. cn; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/historicalcatalo00dext/page/n258/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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