Ezra Hixon Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: HIXON
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, page 274

HIXON, EZRA, came to this town from Franklin, Mass., and bought the place now known as the 
Bunker farm, in 1805 or 1807. He was born in Franklin, Feb. 16, 1781, and married Eunice Ware, 
born in Needham, Mass., Jan. 18, 1782. He died in Brookfield, Vt., to which place the family had 
removed in 1835, Dec. 11, 1872; she died at the same place, July 6, 1861. Ch.
I. Clarissa, b. in Alstead, N.H., Jan. 16, 1805; m. William Fisher, and d. in Everett, Mass., Nov. 
28, 1875.
II. Olive Ware, b. in Alstead, Oct.30, 1806; m. Ephraim Prentiss, of this town, and had two ch., 
Maria and Nancy; both married, and live in Hyde Park, Mass.
III. Timothy Ware, b. at Walpole, May 15, 1809; m. and lived in Boston; d. at Hyde Park, Mass., 
Nov. 28, 1878. He is remembered by the old citizens as the chubby, red-faced boy that began 
life going from house to house with a small tin trunk in his hand, selling small wares and cleaning 
old watches. At length he turned up in Boston, as a keeper of livery, and by borrowing small 
sums of money and always being punctual in payment, he was soon enabled to command any 
amount of credit he desired, which put him in the way of a enlarging his business, so that he, by 
good judgment and shrewdness, accumulated money very fast. After accumulating a sufficient 
sum, he turned private banker, and, it was said at one time, was worth $500,000. How much 
property he had at the time of his death is not known.
IV. Albert, b. at Walpole, July 30, 1812; m. a Goodenough, of Brookfield, and is still living at that 
place.
V. Avery, b. at Walpole, Feb. 2, 1816; m. an Allen, of Brookfield, Vt.
VI. George Lawrence, b. at Walpole, Aug. 23, 1818, and lives in Medford, Mass.
VII. Ezra Lewis, b. at Walpole, Aug. 14, 1824; d. at Brookfield, Vt., Sept.10, 1866.