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Levi was a farmer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Daniel and Susan divorced sometime before 1880. In 1880, he was living and farming in Deerfield, and Emma was his housekeeper (1880 Census of Deerfield, NH: T-9, Roll 767, E.D. 202, Page 78A). His brother, John, was living with them at the time.
Susan and the three children (Frank, Louisa and Sarah) were living in Manchester (1880 Census of Manchester, NH: T-9, Roll 763, E.D. 122, Page 20C). Frank, Louisa and Sarah were working in a cotton mill in Manchester.
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John was a farmer, shoemaker and carpenter in Canterbury and Raymond, New Hampshire.
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MARY'S PARENTS: Hardy Wray was born 5 February 1816 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Belinda Fox was also born there, in May of 1816. They were married in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana, 21 December 1837. They died in Golden City, Barton County, Missouri, Belinda on 30 March 1899, Hardy on 12 February 1903 (Betty Randall, FOX FAMILY, PIONEERS OF SHELBY COUNTY [Hope, IN: The author, 1981], 85; Walter R. Gooldby, SHELBY COUNTY INDIANA MARRIAGES 1822-1849 [Indianapolis, IN: Heritage House, 1985], 94).
Rev. John W. Scribner spent all of his working years as a Pastor and a Teacher of the Christian faith. This statement in one of his letters was the key note of his life: "I have placed myself at God's disposal, and have relied on him for places to preach, regardless of salary."
Rev. John graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, MA in 1860. In 1864 he graduated from Dartmouth College. Soon after graduation from Dartmouth, John and a classmate, Ambrose, set out for the West in quest of schools in which to teach, not knowing where they would find them. They made their way to Cleveland, Ohio, where they parted, never to see each other again. John went on to Indianapolis. His money was almost gone, it was September, and almost too late to secure a teaching position. He looked up to the stars, breathing a prayer to God for guidance. John called upon Professor Hoss, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who knew of no school vacancies, but wrote down the name of this young stranger from the East. Later that same day, two men came to Prof. Hoss in search of someone to become the head of a small College in Hartsville, Indiana. It took the men several days to find John (mainly because a mistake had been made in the address of John's boarding place). John served as head of that College for nine years. During those years, he met and married Mary, their home was built and their daughters were born. He always looked upon those years as the best period of his life.
John left Hartsville in 1873 and went on to become Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA. He stayed there for two years, and then moved on to New Hampshire, where he served Free Baptist churches in several towns from 1875 until his retirement in 1907.
One of the places he served was Sandwich, New Hampshire. In the HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY [op. cit.], page 680, we learn of his effective ministry there. It seems that the previous ministers' pastorates were "quiet and uneventful," and the congregation had dwindled to 11 members. But, during the first year of John's ministry (1882), the congregation averaged 102, Sunday School attendance increased, quite a number of persons were baptized, and the second year "there was a marked growth in every direction." From this same article, we learn that John was "fond of historical research and his histories of the Freewill Baptist churches of the Sandwich Quarterly Meeting show great labor and accuracy."
He served a number of brief pastorates until 1912, while living at his retirement home in Ocean Park, Maine. A tribute to John was published in the WATCHMAN of Boston, 18 July 1912. Part of that tribute states: "Probably no time in his ministry was fraught with more good than those last five years. His supply work was not merely the bridging of an interim, but it was constructive on all right lines."
Mary was a teacher, as well. She began to teach at the age of 16 and taught 6 terms of some 10 to 13 weeks in length. She then entered the College at Hartsville, where she met John. She is remembered as "a grand organizer and worker in all Temperance and Missionary lines of service."
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In 1870, Sarah was living with her brother, John, in Hartsville, Indiana, where she was a schoolteacher.
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Charles served in the Civil War as a Private in Co. G, 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, enlisting at New Albany on 29 July 1861. In 1863, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was wounded, and was soon discharged from the Army. In 1873, following his graduation from Hartsville University (where he and Sarah Grace met), he entered the Law Department of Indiana University where "by diligent application he completed the prescribed course and graduated the following year." After teaching for a year, he became a lawyer in Columbus, a profession he followed until 1878. In 1879, he was appointed United States Commissioner, in 1880 Justice of the Peace, then, in 1887 was elected Mayor of the City of Columbus.
They moved to Washington, DC, sometime before 1900 (1900 Census of Washington, DC: T623, Roll 160, E.D. 53, Page 121). Charles took a position with the Pension Office (1920 Census of Washington, DC: T625, Roll 213, E.D. 326, Page 220B).