If they are on the membership roll does that mean they were a member of the church? The FM
Ames is obviously Francis Maria
Ames, wife of Aaron
Holbrook Ames. Sarah, John and Francis are all children of Aaron
Holbrook Ames. Aaron
Holbrook Ames had seven children total.
I can state with confidence that Aaron
Ames is the only person of that name with a marked grave at
Manville Cemetery. Of course, there's lots of unmarked ones.
The only records
Manville has is a list of members going back to probably the beginning. Many names don't have dates, although they were entered chronologically so the ones that don't can at least be said to fit betweens the ones that do. There are only a few years of minutes in the early 1900s.
Aaron was member No. 3 on the list, meaning if was probably an original member, although it's not clear that the list was actually started in 1830 or 1831 when the church formed.
There is an F.M. Ames, member No. 17, A Francis
Ames Jr. joined on 24 Nov. 1850 and was member No. 101. John
Ames joined the same day as No. 113; Sarah as No. 133 joined sometime between that date and March 1860, the next clear date on the list.
And that's all the people named
Ames who were on the membership roll.