Leumel and Richard Starkweather Families from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: STARKWEATHER
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 359-361

STARKWEATHER, LEMUEL, came to this town early in the present century (1815) from 
Mansfield, Ct. He was born in 1792, and, after coming here, married Almira, daughter of Elisha 
Eldridge, and first commenced keeping house on what is known as the old Carlisle place, but 
subsequently purchased the farm lying north of the Isaac Jennings place. Here he lived during life. In his 
early days he was considered a famous schoolteacher for winter district schools. Where other teachers 
failed to secure order, in turbulent schools, his services were much in demand. An instance is related of 
a school where the large boys made it a pastime, winters, to carry out teachers, and three teachers had 
been made to yield by their united strength on this occasion in one winter. The ringleader of the clan was 
a large, burly negro. Mr. Starkweather’s services were sought, and he was not reluctant in engaging the 
school, feeling that his physical strength, which was not feeble, and his moral courage, were adequate to 
any emergency that might arise in the school room ;---in fact he courted the opportunity of having a little 
(to him) coveted sport with the boys. It was not long after he commenced the school, at the appointed 
time, before he saw that mischief was brewing, but he kept perfectly quiet, not seemingly noticing what 
was going on. At the forenoon recess the boys all formed in a line, each with a billet of wood in his 
hand, with Sambo for captain. Various military orders were given by Sambo, which were skillfully and 
promptly obeyed by those under his command, all of which, were noticed by Mr. S., through the 
window. A signal was given for a return of the boys to the schoolroom, when Sambo ordered his 
company to "shoulder arms!" They then all filed and marched for the door, the negro taking the lead. He 
had no sooner stepped over the threshold of the door than the teacher yelled out with all his strength of 
voice "Ground arms!" at the same time dealing an unmerciful blow with the palm of his hand on the side 
of Sambo’s head, which brought him to the floor, helpless and quivering. The rest of the boys, seeing 
their captain fall, beat a hasty retreat, disbanded their forces, and returned quietly to the schoolroom, 
viewing as they passed in one by one their chieftain prostrate and pale with fright, as a negro could be. 
This was the last act of the drama; rebellion was totally silenced for that winter. Mr. Starkweather was 
considered by his townsmen a man of good practical judgment, and was chosen several years one of 
the selectmen of the town. He was also honored by a seat in the State Legislature in 1834, ‘7, ‘8. He at 
last succumbed to that scourge of New England, consumption, in 1844, aged 52, which disease he 
transmitted to several of his posterity. His wife died in 1866, March 28. Ch.
I. George Freeman, b. July 7, 1815, in Mansfield, Ct.; m. Pamelia S., only dau. of Dr. Eber 
Carpenter of Alstead, by whom he had nine children of promise, seven of whom died, soon 
after arriving at their majority. The surviving children are 1st, Dr. C. F. Starkweather, residence 
Hartford, Ct. 2nd, Edward S., insurance agent, Rockford, Ill. 3d, Katie C., resides at Keene. 
He and his wife are still living in Keene. For many years he has been an insurance agent.
II. Edna Augusta, b. July 20, 1817; m. George Wilson, of this town.
III. Ashley Gardner, b. Aug. 18, 1819; d. March 21, 1864.
IV. Persis Marilla, b. Dec. 24, 1821; m. a Haskell.
V. Almira Amanda, b. Mar. 29, 1824.
VI. Sophrona Eliza, b. Mar. 21, 1826; m. Silas Hills.
VII. Charles O. Mera, b. May 10, 1828.
VIII. Henry Augustus, b. July 1830.
IX. Otis Lemuel, b. Apr. 27, 1885; m. Harriet Kingsbury, of Keene, he d. Sept. 5,1873.
X. Leonard Bisco, b. Oct. 11, 1838, and at his majority, went to Chicago, Ill.
XI. William H., b. in 1841, d. Nov. 14, 1871.

STARKWEATHER, RICHARD, married Sally C. Crossman and came to Walpole, from 
Mansfield, Conn., in 1821, and moved on to the farm now owned by Dolphus Booth, lying just east of 
his residence. He was a brother of the late Lemuel Starkweather of this town, and a farmer by 
occupation and also a fine singer. Ch.
I. Ephraim Crossman, b. Nov. 18, 1819, and m. Catherine Russell, of Boston. The fruits of their 
marriage were six ch., three living
II. Celia, b. Nov. 9, 1821, m. Henry Amerage, of Malden, Mass., and had two sons.
III. Adeline, b. Nov. 28, 1823; m. .Moses Fisher. (See Fisher.)
IV. Archibald, b. Oct. 28,1825; m. Abby A. Taylor, of Boston, and resides in Brookline, Mass. 2 
ch.
V. Josiah, b. Nov. 20, 1827; m. Jennie Wyman, of Boston, where he lives, by trade a 
paperhanger.
VI. Sarah, b. July 5, 1830; m. Lemuel W. Spear; 1 ch
VII. Mary J., b. Jan. 1838; d. unm.
VIII. Phebe Augusta, b. Sept. 1835; m. W. J. Swift, of Coventry, Conn., ch. 2 sons.
IX. Julia, b. Dec. 1837; d. young.
X. Harriet Isabella, b. Apr. 13, 1842; m. Clinton W. Hatch, of Coventry, Conn., 1 ch.