Person:Joshua Atwood (7)

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Joshua Porter Atwood
b.3 Mar 1814 Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
d.27 Jul 1873 Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 22 Dec 1801
  1. Zilpha Atwood1802 - 1845
  2. Lewis Atwood1811 - 1816
  3. Joshua Porter Atwood1814 - 1873
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Joshua Porter Atwood1814 - 1873
  • W.  Julian WilsonCal 1813 - 1862
m. 5 Feb 1837
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Facts and Events
Name[6] Joshua Porter Atwood
Gender Male
Birth[1] 3 Mar 1814 Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United StatesBased on birth of eldest known child
Marriage 5 Feb 1837 Shoreham, Addison, Vermont, United Statesto Julian Wilson
Death[2] 27 Jul 1873 Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States
References
  1. ↑ Warwick (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1739-1900
    Vol. 2, p. 2.

    Family of Atwood Joshua and Polly his wife
    ...
    Joshua Porter born March 3'd - 1814.

  2. ↑ Find A Grave: Walnut Hill Cemetery, Baraboo, WI, in Find A Grave
    Joshua Porter Atwood.

    'J. P. Atwood
    died
    July 27, 1873,
    AE. 59 Yrs.
    [4?] mo's. 2[4?] d's.
    [Note: birth calculated to about 3 Mar 1814]

  3.   Columbia, Wisconsin, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    line 4.
  4.   Sauk, Wisconsin, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    line 13.
  5.   Sauk, Wisconsin, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    line 16.
  6. ↑ Source:Stevens, Ken. Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts, p. 196, says "Rosina ... called Julia Ann in the record of her marriage at Shoreham on 15 Feb 1837 to Joshua Porter Atwood who was born at Shoreham 3 Mar 1814, died 27 Jul 1873, s/o of Joshua and Polly (---) Atwood." By insisting on this marriage record with a different name, he has sloppily conflated two couples into one.

    In the 1850 census, Joshua P. and Julia Atwood are in Wisconsin (lines 4-5). They are listed under their actual names in the Wisconsin entry, so clearly are not the Joshua and Rosina that Stevens says are living in Whiting, Vt. that year (lines 24-25).

    Then in 1880, Joshua and Rosina are still alive and listed in Wisconsin (lines 37-38) after Joshua Porter Atwood (gravestone) and Julian (Wilson) Atwood (gravestone) are both dead.

    The census entries for Joshua Porter Atwood give a birthplace in Massachusetts, not Vermont, as Stevens says. His birth is found in Warwick to Joshua and Polly Atwood (Warwick VRs, Vol. 2, p. 2), showing him to be a half-brother to Parker Atwood, the father of the Joshua Atwood who married Rosina, i.e., half-uncle. Julia Wilson is not the same person as Rosina, but may possibly be Rosina's sister, the first born 1813, the second 1815. But unlike Rosina, there is no death record located for Julia that names her father (no birth record for either), and so there is currently no evidence that this is so.
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