Individual Details

transcribed from Huron Co., Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions, pg. 108 Fitchville Cemetery
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From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio. Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co. 1894 (pg 266 & 267)
"MARVIN HIBBARD, practical farmer in Fitchville township from September, 1854, till his death, November 4, 1879, was born on a farm in Mansfield, Windham Co., Conn., August 25, 1797.
Little is known of his father, Andrew Hibbard, save that he served honorably as a company officer during the Revolutionary war; that he was married twice, and reared seven children, two by his first wife — a son (the late Gen. Daniel F. Hibbard, of Mansfield, who died March 19, 1880, at the advanced age of ninety-five years), and a daughter (Betsey, Mrs. Park, formerly of Canterbury). The other children were John Loomis and William, who became farmers in Cortland county, N. Y. ; Marvin, the leading subject of this sketch; and Burnham, who settled in Oneida county, N. Y., but owned several canal boats for years running from Cleveland to the Ohio river. The daughter married Anthony Weaver, of Tolland, where they lived and died, leaving a numerous family. One of the sons, W. A. Weaver, has had residence in Fitchville township, Huron county, now more than twenty-five years.
The remembrance of the family is that Francis Hibbard, the Revolutionary soldier and patriot, died, having fallen from a load of hay, when his son Marvin was six years old. This affliction caused the family to be dispersed, and Marvin was apprenticed to a farmer and shoemaker in Hampton, who was a relation of the family. Making shoes not agreeing with his health, he turned his attention to out-door work. He began life for himself as a hired man on the farm in this section of the country. When he was twenty-nine he had accumulated about six hundred dollars, working for five to nine dollars per month winters and summers. As the story goes, he planned to go West to " Holland Purchase," in New York, and buy a farm, but while visiting an aunt in Randolph, Vt., he purchased a farm and made arrangements to improve it. Returning to Connecticut, he married, August 29, 1826, Zilpha Robbins, who was born September 2, 1802, near Westford. Purchasing a horse, a yoke of oxen and an ox cart for conveyance, they immediately migrated to their new home, 150 miles to the north. The farm was in a bad condition, some of it being so stony and covered with briars and hedge trees that a townsman claimed it was not worth a cent an acre. Yet this land was reclaimed and became very productive. While residing here twenty-eight years, nine children were born to them, but six of them died very young, the oldest dying when about eighteen months old. The third child, Andrew Clark, born September 17, 1829, received a good academical education at the Orange County Grammar School, at Randolph. He was teacher several terms in Vermont, also in Fitchville, Ohio. In early life he was engaged, on account of impaired health, in the sale of sewing machines and musical instruments. He is now a farmer in Fitchville. He married November 12, 1862, Sarah Augusta Palmer, daughter of the late Linus Palmer. They have three children: Edith May, Clarence Worden, and Oramel Ernest, all living.
The fourth child. Albert Keyes (born March 15, 1831), received an education at the before-mentioned grammar school, and became a mechanic, and has excelled in the manufacture of pianos and organs, also as an inventor in his business. He has been since 1854 connected with, and a member of, the Mason & Hamlin Piano and Organ Company, Boston. He has had three children, two living at the present time."

Birth	25 Aug 1797	Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut
Marriage	30 Aug 1826	Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut - Zilpha Robbins
Death	4 Nov 1879	Fitchville, Huron County, Ohio
Burial		Fitchville Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio

Spouse

Zilpha Robbins (1802 - 1884)

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