Temperance Root
1795 - 1866 (70 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Temperance Root was born on 2 Oct 1795 (daughter of Josiah Root and Temperance Whittlesey); died on 6 Apr 1866; was buried in Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, NY. Family/Spouse: Washburn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
2. Josiah Root (son of Captain Eli Root and Mindwell Sackett). Josiah married Temperance Whittlesey. Temperance died on 7 Mar 1845; was buried in Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Temperance Whittlesey died on 7 Mar 1845; was buried in Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, NY. Children:
- 1. Temperance Root was born on 2 Oct 1795; died on 6 Apr 1866; was buried in Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, NY.
- Phebe Root was born on 7 Oct 1797 in New Berlin, Chenango County, NY; died on 20 Mar 1854; was buried in Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, NY.
Generation: 3
4. Captain Eli Root was born on 15 Feb 1731 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA (son of Joseph Root and Sarah Root); died on 23 Oct 1804 in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, MA. Eli married Mindwell Sackett on 10 Jul 1755 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Mindwell Sackett Children:
- 2. Josiah Root
Generation: 4
8. Joseph Root was born on 16 Jun 1688 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA (son of Thomas Root, Jr. and Mary Spencer); died on 10 Feb 1750 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA. Joseph married Sarah Root in 1713 in Enfield, Hartford County, CT. Sarah was born about 1690 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 24 Jan 1758 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Sarah Root was born about 1690 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 24 Jan 1758 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA. Children:
- Sarah Root was born on 20 Apr 1714 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 7 May 1714.
- Joseph Root was born on 23 Aug 1715 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 7 Jun 1789.
- Thomas Root was born on 15 Oct 1717 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died in 1719.
- Colonel Aaron Root was born on 20 Dec 1720 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 31 Aug 1809 in Sheffield, Berkshire County, MA.
- Thomas Root was born on 13 Apr 1723 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died in 1779.
- Sarah Root was born on 18 Mar 1726 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA.
- Azariah Root was born on 23 Aug 1728 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 3 Jul 1777 in service.
- 4. Captain Eli Root was born on 15 Feb 1731 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 23 Oct 1804 in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, MA.
- Amos Root was born on 3 Feb 1733 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA; died about 1771.
- Lucy Root was born on 30 Apr 1738 in Westfield, Hampden County, MA.