SUMMIT COUNTY OHIO - Grave News From Tallmadge (WOLCOTT, ALLYN, PORTER, GILLETT) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Al Dawson at788@detroit.freenet.org October 18, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today I found the graves of Deacon Guy Wolcott and Abigal ALLYN Wolcott in the Old Tallmadge Cemetery right next to the library and just south of the infamous Oval intersection of Tallmadge, Ohio. Deacon Guy Wolcott was born in Windsor, CT 7 August 1760. He married Abigal Allyn in Windsor 5 October 1781, on her 16th birthday. He died in Tallmadge, Ohio 2 September 1823, "age 63 years" as it says on his stone. Abigal ALLYN Wolcott was born in Windsor, CT 5 October 1765. "The History of Torrington, CT" - where the family lived prior to moving to Ohi - incorrectly states that Abigal died in Torrington. But her grave, next to her husband's, lists her death-date as 21 February 1836 "age 70" Next to these graves are the graves of Guy Wolcott Jr born 13 October 1787; died Tallmadge 2 December 1865 "age 78" and his bride Annis PORTER Wolcott d. 2 February 1882. There are other WOLCOTT, PORTER and other first families of Summit County (though when they were buried, it was Portage County) like UPSON, TREAT and GILLETT (Abigal Wolcott, daughter of the ancestors cited above, married Nathan Gillett, Jr. She was Guy Jr's sister. Nathan Gillett, Jr and Abigal Wolcott Gillett, parents of Charlotte Gillett who married my oft-mentioned ancestor Elijah Mason, are buried in a Middlebury (now East Akron ) cemetery private and fenced off. Nathan Gillett and Lucy HARRISON Gillett are in Tallmadge, however, several rows away. BTW if you are in Tallmadge and need ANYTHING, the Bumpass Emporium, across the street from the graveyard, lives up to it's name: fudge, Christmas tree ornaments (got a nice Victorian-style one to hang as a Tallmadge reminder on my tree) lottery tix - you name it, they got it! And in nearby Munroe Falls up 91 a few miles north, I bribed my family by treating them to Sunday buffet at a lovely place called "The Triple Crown" Horsey decor, with names of famous horses etched on glaass of each booth. :) -- Al Dawson, Berea, OH. MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973.