Person:Ezra Wardwell (3)

"He went to Vergennes, Addison, VT, when a young man, was married there, and was in business for some years, afterward became a Methodist preacher, and was stationed at Marlboro, Munsonville and Deering, Hillsborough, NH. He taught several terms of school and did work as an evangelist. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was ordained as a local preacher, about 1847. He was admitted on trial to the New Hampshire Conference in 1848. His clerical appointments were at Hillsborough Bridge, also Deering, in 1848-49. He was the first Methodist preacher at Antrim. He moved to Sullivan, and died in the Hosea Foster house, Sept. 24, 1850. He had no academic diploma. " -History of the Town of Sullivan, New Hampshire

"In 1835 E. D. Woodbridge and wife (heirs of S. Strong) leased all the land lying upon Lewis Creek about the bridge on the main road, with use of all irons and machinery on said premises," to Perly W. Frost and Ezra Wardwell for twelve years. Frost and Wardwell built or ran a pail factory on the south side of the creek, just below the bridge. In 1837 they leased it to Frederick B. Nims. There was never much done at pailmaking, and some years later the building was destroyed by fire." -HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF FERRISBURGH (Vermont) http://www.middlebury.edu/~lib/AddisonCoHistory/chap20HAC.html

"Bro. Ezra WARDWELL, a local deacon in the M.E. Church, died in Sullivan, N. H., Sept. 28, aged 38 years. He was converted about fourteen years since in Ferrisburg, Vt., and was soon after appointed class leader, and about fourteen years since was licensed as a local preacher. After the N. H. Conference of 1848, He was employed as a travelling preacher on Deering and Hillsboro' circuit, where he continued to labor until about the first of January last, when his health failed. At the commencement of his sickness he was subject to some aberrations of mind; and as his fever abated, instead of any improvement, his mental derangement increased and continued until death. He probably died of consumption; but on examination it was ascertained that his brain was badly diseased. I have met with but few men whose life seemed to carry so universal conviction to all who knew them, of deep piety, as Bro. Wardwell's. He was truly, we think, a good man and a faithful minister of the Gospel. Bro. Wardwell was it great sufferer both in body and mind, and the remembrance, especially of his mental sufferings, is painful to all his friends, but is associated with it cheering confidence that he has attained the rest where pains and sorrows never come." -Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal 13 November 1850

1. ↑ William Wardwell of Andover With an Informal Collection of His Descendants through the 8th Generation, Majorie Wardwell Otten 2002.
2. ↑ Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal 13 November 1850.