Orrilla Shackford, also know as Orila or Aurila, the daughter of Samuel and Susannah(Hobbs) Shackford was born on November 11, 1811 in Duxbury, Vermont. She was the oldest of eight girls spaced out about every two years — one boy died very young but all the girls married.
We assume Orilla married Ira Jewell sometime about 1834 as their first child was born in 1835. We don’t know much about Ira who is listed in the 1840 census in Waterbury in a household with two adults and two female children under the age of 5 who we believe are their two children Lucetta and Lotisa, and one female between ages 5-10 who we haven’t identified. Ira is named on the death records of Orilla’s two oldest children and is on the same page of the census as the second husband of Orrilla’s mother Susannah. We suspect he died around 1841 as Susannah most likely married her second husband, Samuel Wells Woodward around 1844 based on the birth date of her third child, Ira Shackford Woodward.
Susannah’s second husband Samuel W Woodward purchased some land in Waterbury on October 16, 1848. She and her husband and Susannah’s four children which are now listed with Samuel’s last name are shown in the 1850 census which for some reason seems to list Samuel’s name as James. He is listed as a clergyman. Samuel and Orilla are in the 1860 census with son Ira (listed as Samuel?), daughter Susanna, and Orilla’s mother Susannah (Hobbs) (Shackford) French. Samuel’s occupation is listed as a farmer.
Orilla died on June 25, 1862 of consumption at the age of 50 in Waterbury, Vermont. She was buried in the Old Waterbury Center Cemetery. Her husband Samuel Woodward who had sold land on February 9, 1864 to her son Ira and to her (not sure we understand this as she had already died but perhaps this transfer was to her heirs) died on August 24, 1864 and was buried in the same gravesite. On November 21, 1865, this same land and land purchased by Orilla (Shackford) Jewell from Benjamin Fisk on July 12, 1841 was sold by Orilla’s living children, Susanna French (and her husband Daniel), Lucilla Rowell, and Loticia Clark for $500 to George W Woodward of Waterbury. Will be hunting for that 1841 deed which may give some insight as to Orrilla’s first husband – think I can access it at the FamilyHistory Center – will check on next trip there.
CHILDREN:
Lucetta M Jewell (1835-1870) – married Alva S Rowell and Edward Parkhurst French
Lotisa M Jewell (1836-1878) – married William Chauncey Preston, Ira Downer Clark, and Alonzo Hayden
Ira Shackford Woodward (1845-1865)
Susanna Orilla Woodward (1848-1883) – married Daniel French
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SOURCES:
1840 United States Federal Census, Washington County, Vermont, population schedule, Waterbury, page 354, Ira Jewell; digital images, Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com : accessed 8 March 2024).
1850 US Federal Census, Washington County, population schedule, Waterbury, Page 308 (stamped), dwelling 2014, family 2122, James or Samuel Woodward – clergyman; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 23 April 2023).
1860 US Federal Census, Washington County, population schedule, Waterbury, Page No 168, dwelling 1279, family 1353, Samuel W Woodard; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 10 June 2019).
Find a Grave, Find A Grave, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 6 November 2014), Orrilla Shackford Woodward, Find A Grave Memorial# 53220078.
Find a Grave, Find A Grave, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 8 March 2024), Samuel W Woodward, Memoria ID 53220071.
“Shackford Genealogy Manusript,” ; SG SHA5, Folder (56) William Shackford; Shackford collection by Samuel Burnham Shackford; New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. # 245 Orilla Shackford (sources cited included Samuel S Foster and Lydia S Place – may be coorespondance from them mentioning Orrilla at the NEHGS).
Vermont, Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008, , Orilla Woodward, 25 June 1862; digital images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 6 November 2014).
“Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908,” digital images, Ancestry (Ancestry.com : accessed 8 March 2024), Samuel Woodward d Aug 24, 1864.
“Waterbury. Deeds 1862–1872,” digital images, FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org : accessed 8 March 2024), Land purchased by Samuel Woodward.
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