Ottawa-Sandusky County OhArchives Biographies.....LEVISEE, Aaron June 19, 1774 - June 18, 1828
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Aaron LEVISEE was born in New Jersey, June 19, 1774, son of James LEVISEE, who 
had previously moved to that State from Connecticut.  Aaron was the eldest 
child of a family of nine children.  His boyhood was passed in Connecticut and 
Massachusetts.  He acquired a fair education, followed the seas three years as 
clerk of a sailing vessel, then taught school.  While teaching a term at 
Lanesborough, Mass., he had for a pupil Anna LYON, whom he soon after married.  
She was born at Lanesborough, May 13, 1778, daughter of Thomas and Thankful 
LYON, both natives of Massachusetts.  After marriage Aaron and Anna LEVISEE 
lived in Massachusetts, in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., N. Y., in Lima, Livingston 
Co., N. Y., and in Allen, Allegany Co., N. Y.  Here Aaron LEVISEE died June 18, 
1828.  Four years later the widow migrated with her children to Townsend 
township, Sandusky Co., Ohio.  In 1844 she moved to the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. Thankful BOTSFORD, near Ann Arbor, Mich., and died there July 3, 1845.  
The nine children of Aaron and Anna LEVISEE were Almedia, born August 1, 1799, 
married Ezra LYONS, and died in Townsend township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, June 28, 
1853; Eveline, born June 21, 1801, married Hubbard JONES, and died in Townsend 
township June 13, 1873; Thankful, born July 15, 1804, married David BOTSFORD, 
and died in Washtenaw county, Mich.; Eliza Ann, born May 6, 1806, first married 
to Jonathan WISNER, afterward to Joseph CUMMINGS (she died in Townsend township 
November 6, 1838); John L. and Sarah L. (twins), born July 4, 1809, the former 
a prominent citizen of Townsend township, died at the age of eighty-six, the 
latter dying at the age of four years in 1813; Sarah Sophia, born February 14, 
1815, married Charles GILLETT, and died in Steuben county, Ind., March 16, 
1847; Emma M., born March 24, 1818; and Aaron Burton, born March 18, 1821, a 
prominent lawyer of Fargo, North Dakota.

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