General Notes

A collection of his family papers can be viewed at the follwoing web site:

http://www.state. Vermont.us/vhs/arccat/findaid/sargent.htm

Thomas Sargent was born September 16, 1806, in Hill, Grafton County,  New Hampshire and died July 8, 1889, in Thetford, Vermont. On December 6, 1827, he married Lydia Cook (May 1, 1804-January 2, 1873), the widow of Francis Cook who had a house built in 1805 which was later to become the Sargent home. Children of Thomas and Lydia Sargent include:

Harriet S. (b. October 10, 1828) who married George S. Young of Windsor and farmed in Royalton (  );
George Washington (April 27, 1833-November 13, 1913) who married Lucy Colman of Maine on January 1, 1856. He served in the Civil War in the First Artillery of the Eleventh Vermont Volunteers from 1862 to 1865. Immediately after the war, he moved to New York State where he made machines to print newspapers. He was a carpenter by trade and he died in Malden, Massachusetts. He is buried in Norwich, Vermont;
Charles Alexander (May 12, 1839-March 16, 1911) served in the Civil War with the Fourth Regiment of the Vermont Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded December 13, 1862, and subsequently lost a leg. He married Lydia Kittridge (July 19, 1844-June 30, 1889) of Strafford on May 1, 1864. He was married a second time on June 19, 1892, to Mrs. Ella F. Kittridge (dates?) and was a farmer in South Walpole, Massachusetts;
David Pratt (b. February 16, 1841) remained on the family farm. He married Lucy Kilburn (September 11, 1853-October 28, 1872) on March 21, 1871 and Lucy E.Lovejoy (b. June 9, 1840) on June 19, 1873. His children were: Ada (b. May 21, 1872) who attended Goddard Seminary and later married William Parker of Thetford; Mabel R. (b. March 17, 1876); and, George D. (b. February 25, 1881) who was the last of the Sargents to farm the family homestead;
Solon H. (b. October 3, 1843).
According to information in a letter written by Hazel Cleaver Bush, after George D. Sargent left the farm to run a coal and wood business in nearby Lewiston, his mother or grandmother and a daughter were left in the family home. Bush writes,It was during their stay that the old lady strewed money, paper or coin, along the road one day and it was this incident Bush used as the basis for a short story entitled Spendthrift, which she published in the University of Kansas City Review ( California. 1930s).