John B. Sargent and Caroline Rowell, Goffstown, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

 These tombstones were photographed at the Hillside Cemetery in Goffstown, New Hampshire. 

JOHN B. SARGENT

DIED

AUG. 28, 1848

AE. 35

CAROLINE W.

WIFE OF

JOHN B. SARGENT

DECEASED

JULY 14, 1913; 

AE. 91. 

John Blaisdell Sargent was born 13 February 1813 in Goffstown, New Hampshire, the son of Joseph Sargent and Sally Blaisdell.  He married Caroline Rowell of Hooksett, New Hampshire on 8 June 1841.  He was a mason, who died young.  [History of Goffstown, New Hampshire 1733 - 1920, by George Plummer Hadley, Volume 2, page 455] 

Caroline Rowell, daughter of Peter Clement Rowell and Susan Eastman, was born 4 July 1822 in Hooksett, and  died 13 July 1913. She remarried to Thomas F. Cheney on 29 November 1865 in Manchester, New Hampshire.  The tombstone above doesn't mention Cheney.    

They had two children:

1.  George H. Sargent, born 29 April 1842 in Goffstown.  He worked for the railroad and lived in Marshall, Iowa.  He served three years in the Civil War in Company K, 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers.  

2.  Charles G. Sargent was born about 1846 and lived in Dunstable, Massachusetts. He was a painter and paper hanger. He served in the Civil War in Company K, 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and also in the 3rd Maryland Cavalry.  

John Blaisdell Sargent's father was Joseph Sargent, son of Joseph Sargent and Betsey, born 1784 in Goffstown, and died 16 February 1860 in Goffstown.  He married Sally Blaisdell and had seven children: Nancy, Levi, Lettie, John Blaisdell (see above), Lewis, Calvin B., and William Blaisdell.  He was a farmer, and a legislator.  

John's grandfather, Joseph Sargent, was born 11 November 1756 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the son of Trueworthy Sargent and Hopestill Weed.  Joseph Sargent died in 1824 in Bradford, New Hampshire.  [History of Goffstown, New Hampshire 1733 - 1920, by George Plummer Hadley, Volume 2, pages 450 - 451]  Trueworthy Sargent lived in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1776 where he signed the Association Test, [DAR Genealogical Research Databases "Record of Trueworthy Sargent", Ancestor #A100453] and was living in Goffstown by 1812. 

For the truly curious:

Sargent Record: William Sargent of Ipswich, Newbury, Hampton, Salisbury and Amesbury, New England, U.S., with his descendants and their intermarriages, and other Sargent branches, by Edwin Everett Sargent, 1899.  (see Joseph Sargent on page 81,  Joseph Sargent on page 153, and John Blaisdell Sargent on page 226)

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