Abigail Bracket Greene

Abigail Greene's headstone (inscribed on both sides):

Front -- (Verses)

Truth, Goodness, Beauty, / She Lived and Led to.

Back -- (Verses)

Love was not/Till noble hearts existed/Nor mankind's noblest being,/Free Love was born.

All that is earthly,/But shows the Ideal/The once Unattainable/Here becomes Real

The Indescribable/Here is it done/Love endless material/Draweth upward and on.

20 Maj. Erastus Lyman8, b. 1761; m. Abigail Bracket. They had one dau. Abigail Bracket, who was m. at Northampton, April 30,1821, to Wm. Greene, a lineal descendant of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame. He has been in business in Cincinnati where he acquired a large fortune, and where he was distinguished for his efforts in connection with common school education. On the death of his wife, a woman of rare gifts and of most elevated character, July 18, 1862, he removed to East Greenwich, R. I., and has since occupied his ancestral estate. He was elected lieutenant governor of the state, in 1866, in the gubernatorial term of Gov. Burnside, and held the office two years. He is now m. a second time and has retired from public life. East Greenwich, R.I.

Children, Seventh Generation: (Note: Children of Abigail Bracket Greene and William Greene -- Jessica German)

23 1 Catharine Ray, b. Nov. 20, 1824.

24 2 Anne Jean, b. April 20, 1827; d. July 31, 1831.

By 2d wife, Rachel Hutchins of Northampton. (Note: Second wife of Erastus Lyman -- Jessica German)

25 3 Sally, m. Dana, a broker in Cincinnati.

26 4 Harriet, d. unmarried about 1840.

27 5 Martha, b.— unmarried. Spends her winters in Cambridge, Mass., and her summers at Nahant.

28 6 Charlotte, m. Rev. Wm. Silobee, formerly pastor of the Unitarian church in Northampton, but now of Trenton, N. Y. She d. about 1850, leaving a son who graduated at Harvard in 1869, and is now studying medicine in Boston, and a dau. resides with her father in Trenton.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Genealogy of the Lyman Family in Great Britain & America: The Ancestors & Descendants of Richard Lyman, from High Ongar in England, 1631
• Author Lyman Coleman
• Publisher J. Munsell, 1872
• Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized Jun 13, 2007
• Length 533 pages
• Page 392
• https://books.google.com/books?id=IR43AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&d...