Abigail Bissell
Wife of James Eno, whom she married at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1678, and probably the mother of Sgt. James Enos, a founder of Union. Born at Windsor in 1661, probably a daughter of Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb; her husband's stepmother was her own grandmother, the widow of Thomas Holcombe. She died in 1728 and is buried at Simsbury.
Life
- 1661Born6 Jul 1661, Windsor, Connecticutcompiledprobable
- 1678Married James Eno26 Dec 1678, Windsor, Connecticutcompiledprobable
- 1728Died19 Apr 1728compiledprobable
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Family
- Father
- Mother
- Spouse
- James Enocompiledprobable
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Daughter of Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb of Windsor; wife of James Eno. Buried at Simsbury (source). Through her the Enoses descend from both John Bissell of the ferry and Thomas Holcombe. Her husband’s stepmother was her own grandmother: James Eno the barber had married Thomas Holcombe’s widow.
Research: research/mcmillan/McMillan_Humphrey_Bell_Connections.md.
Connections
- Famous kin
- Gen. Roger Enos
Officer on Arnold's march to Quebec in 1775, later commander of all Vermont's troops as a major general of militia, and founder of Enosburgh, Vermont
Gen. Roger Enos is the first cousin, six times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Gifford Pinchot
First chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania; a founder of American conservation
Gifford Pinchot is the fifth cousin, twice removed, of the centre of this tree. - William Phelps Eno
"The father of traffic safety," who devised the stop sign, the one-way street, the traffic circle and the pedestrian crossing, though he never learned to drive
William Phelps Eno is the fourth cousin, three times removed, of the centre of this tree.
- Gen. Roger Enos
- In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Abigail's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.