Adams County Wisconsin Genealogy

Contributed by Jackie Cairns

After reading the Biography of Martin Woodruff in the reference book mentioned below, I feel some corrections are to be made. Mary Hadlock was indeed the daughter of Winthrop Hadlock and Roxanna Sanborn. Winthrop probably died in NH but I have found no record of this. Roxanna married Jesse Niles and I find them in Hartford CT in 1850 now with children, Mary, ae 12, b. NH, Albert J, ae 5, b. CT and Sarah A. ae 2, b. CT.

Jesse is buying government land in WI as early as Dec 1850. He was a Sawyer by trade and I do believe he died in the sawmill accident mentioned in the Woodruff biography. He and is cousins were all in the lumber business.

Jesse is gone by the 1855 WI State Census. In 1860 Roxanna is living in another household as a housekeeper with young son, Stillman, ae 7, born in WI. Sarah is enumerated with Mary and Samuel Chase and son, Alvin.

Roxanna was the daughter of Benning Sanborn and Mary Hall. She died 28 Mar 1893, in Kilbourn (present day WI Dells) Sauk Co., WI and is buried in Webster's Prairie Cemetery along side her third husband, Cyrus Follett, whom she married about 1869.

Benning Sanborn is my 4 times great grandfather. He was the son of Richard Sanborn and Martha Morse, married 07 May 1776. Richard lived in Haverhill, NH at the time of his Revolutionary service but died in Bath, NH in 1828 and his name appears on the Bath Revolutionary War Monument.

**Jackie Cairns**

Sources:
Sanborn Genealogy - The American Sanborns
1850, 1860, 1870 US Census
1855 WI State Census
The Barbour Collection
Adams County WI Deeds
Grafton Co NH Deeds
Revolutionary War Pension Papers
Obit: Reedsburg Press 06 April 1893
NH Revolutionary War Rolls
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Biographical Sketch of Martin Woodruff [and his wife Mary Hadlock]
Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Pages 463 - 464

Below are the exerpts that I believe are wrong in the Woodruff Biography:
[...moved when twelve years of age with her parents from Hartford, Connecticut (halfway true) ]
[Mrs. Woodruff's father met his death in a sawmill a short time prior to the death of the mother, who died in Delton, Sauk county, in March, 1893. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Marin Sanborn, of Bath, New Hampshire.]

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