Stearns, Franklin, 1815-1888
Born in 1815 to farmer and merchant Simeon Stearns and his wife Irene Newcomb in Winhall, Vermont. When Franklin was 13, Simeon Stearns moved his family to Madison County, New York.
When he was 18, Franklin Stearns moved to Richmond, Virginia and worked on the James River Canal. He married Emmy F. Haley (1818-1845), and they had one child, Zenus "Zeny" Barnum Stearns (1845-1890). On September 2, 1847, Franklin Stearns remarried, to Caroline Virginia Willey Stearns (1820 - 1877), and they had six children, of whom only Franklin Stearns Jr. (1848 - 1898) survived both parents. When Franklin Jr. returned from Paris after the American Civil War, he married Emily Palmer of New York, they received Farley farm as a wedding present from his father. Franklin Stearns' son Erastus Willey Stearns (1852-1878), married Caroline Poe of Orange County, and had a son Erastus Willey Stearns Jr. (1877-1929). Their sons Daniel (b. 1850), Allen (b. 1855) and Luther (b. 1859) all died in childhood. Franklin Stearns' daughter Irene "Rena" Louisa Stearns (1854-1886) married Jeremiah Morton Halsey and had six children, of whom three survived into adulthood.
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