Individuals Within
Roughly as they appear
Senders and Recipients
Sarah Ann Burt Lincoln
Nathan Loomis Look - husband
Laura Graves Lincoln - mother, wife of Alanson who died in 1842
Ellen Maria Lincoln - sister
Willard Stone - husband
Janette Cemantha Lincoln -sister
(George Holmes husband)
Olivia Kendall Lincoln - sister
(Dr. Samuel Taylor husband)
Charles Francis Lincoln - brother - running MA farm in 1850 with Lucius, RE worth $3500
Martha Jane Woodward - wife
Harriet Clark - wife
Lucius Graves Lincoln - brother - see Charles above
(Ellen Chamberlain - wife)
Sarah Isabel (Belle) Look - daughter - pedigree tree
Polly (Mary) Loomis Look - mother of Nathan Loomis Look
Laura Lincoln Look - daughter
Susan Columbia (Thomas) Look - N. Loomis Look remarried in 1862 in Memphis, 1829-1902.
Lincolns Mentioned
George Burt Lincoln - first cousin, son of brother Burt
Prudy Lincoln - aunt, sister of father Alanson
Lucy Lincoln - aunt, sister of father Alanson, married Joseph Goddard
Samuel Look - son
Edward Loomis Look - son
Grace Adelia Look - daughter
Individuals Other Than Lincoln’s & Look’s Who Are Mentioned In The Letters
Petersham, MA & vicinity
Ayres, Elias and Ann C (Hawkes), of New Braintree, Ann was 2nd wife m. 1843
Ball, Lewis
Beaman, Maria
Mr. Bemis (stage driver)
Mrs. Blanchard
Brown, Mary
Brown, Mr. & Mrs. (left $10,000 in debt)
Cleveland, A.J. (& Baltimore) - probably Alonzo Jewell Cleveland, teacher, b 1815
Cross, Mr. ‘s daughters
Fales, Emeline - Married John Ellsworth in 1858, father Daniel was a farmer, died in 1908
Fales, Lucy - Married Jotham Bigelow in 1854, father Daniel was a farmer. died om 1907
Gale, George (went to California, returned?)
Gale, Lewis - A Lewis Gale of Petersham m. Eliz. Willard in 1834 and died in San Francisco in 1853
Gates, Miss
Goddard, Emily - daughter of Lucy Lincoln above, died in 1858 of consumption
Gower, Ellen
Gower, Susan
Hopgood, Seth m. Lydia Wilson in 1831, died in 1864
Thomas Howe and Charlotte Bigelow after marriage temporarily took in two Peckham girls whose mother had died at age 26. He was a farmer with real estate worth $1600 in 1850.
Johnson, Ellen
Kendall, Mr.
Loring, Mr.
Mason, S. Angeline - Wedding acrostic - in 1859 high school class suggests she was 10 in 1848
Merry, Mrs.
Parmenter, Sumner
Porter, Emeline
Rice, Mr. (buggymaker)
Spooner, Maria
Stone, Mary
Mr Swan (stage driver)
Russell Taylor
Adin Tolman, ran a leaf splitting shop next to Olivia's
Walker (?), Rufus
Walker, Lewis
Winters, Mrs.
Other locations
Mr. & Mrs. Avery (Kentucky) - see below.
Burnap, Mrs. (Childs), South Hadley, MA
Mr. & Mrs. George Capwell (Julia Look’s in- laws)
Capwell, Albert Bentley (Julia's brother) (of Wyoming & Brooklyn, NY)
Childs, Mr., Springfield, MA
Wales Stone, Springfield, MA
Mrs. Jones, West Land Lake, NY
Mt. Holyoke College
Moore, Miss, asst Principal, Holyoke
Miss Logan
Miss Higginbotham of Westfield, MA
Porter, Catherine Ann, Somerville NJ - married Rev. Frederick Pitkin
Trumbull, Julia S. , algebra, Holyoke
Whitman, Miss, asst Principal, Holyoke
Wright, C., history, Holyoke
Virginia
Baker, Mr. (minister)
Ballard, Dr.
Bannister, Elizabeth (servant/slave)
Barnett, Mary A. M. widow, nee Wade, 1st husb. James Barnett, then Wm. A. Bragg in 1856
Breckenridge, Mr. & Mrs. (builder) - Capt. Cary and Emma Walker (Gilmer), 3 sons died in battle, CSA
Rev. Chevalier - Nicholas, married Gen. Jeb Stuart's sister Bethenia, b. 1809 Middletown, CT, d. 1868
Childs, Lizzie
Crockett, Mrs.
Crockett, Miss Mary
Crockett, Miss Virginia
Gardner, Kate -Catherine McClanahan Gardner 1836-1908, m. James Wade Montague, Kitty
Gaunt, Mr. (d. April 1853)
Gilmer, Mrs. (old) - Mary "Polly" (House) Gilmer, 1785-1854, Wife of Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, Esq.
Harvey, Misses
Kyle, Mrs.
Lane, Mr.
Latham, Lizzie
Loomis, Josiah - brother of Mary "Polly" Loomis Look, 1797-1880, born Ashfield, MA, res. Fairfax, VA
Loomis, Charles - husband of Sarah McIntyre of 1847 letter reference.
Medley, Miss Emma, daughter of farmer James and Nancy #32
Medley, Mrs. - Probably Nancy M. (Hunter)
Medley, Mr. (moved to Tenn. bought a farm) - Probably farmer James W.
Marcus Patton (went to Tennessee)
Montague, Mr. Wade (Christiansburg) - James Wade, 1833-1890, R.R. Conductor, #37
Page, Mrs. Molly
Payne, Mr. (minister)
Peck, Miss Catherine
Pepper, Angeline and Mary #37, of farmer George and Eleanor's 6 daughters and 2 sons
Mrs. Phlegar, probably either Ann Trigg m 1845 or Sarah Surface m 1853
Pierce, Crockett married Miss [Fannie A.] Dold of Lexington [1 Oct 1856][daughter of Samuel, dry goods merchant], farmer Christiansburg
(Mrs. Dr. Brown’s sister)
Price, Miss [Sarah A., daughter of John & Eliza ] (married Marcus Patton) in Botetourt in 1851. She died in 1852. He died in 1859. Merchant
Price, Mr. (old)
Shelburne, Mr. & Mrs.
Shelton, Ellen married a dr.
Mrs. Whitfield Snider, 1832-1861
Mr. Tate - Thomas Tate 1790-1866, father of Mary J. below, farmer of $15000 real estate in 1850
Taylor, Mrs. [Mary J. (Tate)] (Mrs. Barnet’s sister)
Taylor's Aunt Lizzie bound for Missouri - Elizabeth Ficklin b. 1782
Terrell, Mr. of Red Wing, MN - Henry Chides Terrell, b.1830 Augusta, VA, d. 1874, steamboat clerk
Grayson, Mrs. * (Mary Ann Tyler 1821-1856)
Tyler, Mrs. [Mary Emily Bronaugh 1799-1869]
Tyler, Mr. [William Bailey Tyler 1799-1851]
Miss Vanmeter, Sarah - teacher, age 35 in 1865, living on small farm with parents and sister in 1870
Wade, Lizzie married Mr. Folkes
Wade, Mary married Dr. Stone
Mrs. Wilmer (Mrs. Breckenridge’s sister) - Mary Peachy Gilmer m. Geo. T Wilmer, d. 1853
Woodville, Dr. James Lewis (m. Mary A. Beckenridge)
Woodward, Maria "Aunt Missy" - Mariah L. Woodward 1844-1927, sister of Martha
Various “servants”/slaves on loan
Sarah
Sally
Rose
Caroline
From Biographical Note in: Look Family Papers, Ms1976-003, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.
Susan Howes Look, daughter of Samuel and Polly Loomis Look, was born in Conway, Massachusetts on October 27, 1817. Soon after, the Looks moved to the Oneida Lake area of New York; to nearby Herkimer County a few years later; then to Utica. Around age 17, Susan Look enrolled in the Utica Female Seminary; following graduation, she served on the school's faculty for several years. She married Benjamin Avery in 1844, and the couple moved in 1848 to Louisivlle, Kentucky, where Avery established the Avery Plow Works. The Averys had six children: Lydia, Samuel, Gertrude, George, Helen, and William.
In 1858, the Averys, together with Susan's sister and brother-in-law, Julia and Albert Capwell, purchased "Hillside," a Wyoming, New York estate, for use as a summer residence. The house also became the permanent home of the sisters' parents, Samuel and Polly Loomis Look, who moved there from Virginia. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Looks were joined in Wyoming by their son, Nathan Loomis Look, and his two daughters. Nathan Look later returned to Virginia and died in Smyth County in 1907.
The Averys remained in Louisville. Following the 1885 death of her husband, Susan Look Avery sold "Hillside" to her daughter, Lydia Avery Coonley. Around this same time, Avery became an outspoken advocate of reformist causes, including women's suffrage, temperance, the free coinage of silver, and anti-imperialism. She was well acquainted with other public figures and reformers of the day, including Susan B. Anthony and Booker T. Washington. Avery was a charter member of Wyoming, New York's Warsaw Equality Club, a women's suffrage organization. The club was renamed in her honor as the Susan Look Avery Club in 1901. Susan Look Avery died on February 1, 1915.
Grandfather Enos Lincoln's farm and cooperage in Petersham, next to son Alanson's