RUTH PERKINS STERLING b. at Sterling City, Sept. 27, 1773; m. Nov. 11, 1792, Joseph Atwell, b. in Montville, Conn., Feb. 29, 1768, son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Lee) Atwell1 of Montville.

ANCESTRY OF JOSEPH ATWELL

Benjamin Atwell of New London, Conn., 1663; wife Mary; constable of the
town, 1675, d. there 1683; had, the eldest of eight children, Benjamin, b. about 1668,
m. Mary (???), d. 1723. His son Joseph, youngest of six children, b. June 26, 1710; m.
Mar. 27, 1734, Martha Comstock, b. about 1715; dau. of Samuel and Martha (Jones)
Comstock. Their son Benjamin, eldest of two children, b. 1735; m. Mary Ann Lee Society at Lyme says: "Mr. Joseph Atwell of Montville to Miss Ruth Sterlin of Lyme.")
Mr. Atwell removed to Hebron, Conn., from Montville, about 1800, and thence to Pharsalia, Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1809.
He was a blacksmith and also a farmer. His carved powderhorn, made by Stephen Rogers at Lake George in 1758 and a sampler made by Ruth (on which she spells her name "Ruth P. Starlin") in 1788 at the age of fifteen, are (in 1901) in possession of Mr. Charles B. Atwell of Evanston, Ill. Ruth was known at the time of her death and afterwards as "Mrs. Pious Atwell," a child so describing her at her funeral. Joseph d. in Pharsalia, Mar. 26, 1843; Ruth d. at the home of her daughter Caroline July 6, 1861. Both buried in Pharsalia.

Their children were:

508 Lydia Atwell, b. in 1793 at Montville; d. in 1795.

509 (+)Eliza Atwell, b. Mar. 6, 1795; m. Henry Coggeshall.
b. at Bristol, R. I., Dec. 28, 1787.
Mr. Coggeshall came to Chenango Co. when a young man, where he held several local offices and served as an orderly sergeant in the War of 1812. He rose to the rank of colonel of the State Militia, being commissioned by Governor De Witt Clinton. Removed in 1840 to Waterville, Oneida Co., N. Y., where he d. Apr. 20, 1868. Mrs. Eliza Coggeshall d. at Waterville, Apr. 20, 1891.
Children (several sons and daughters d. in infancy):
1421 (+)James Sterling Coggeshall, b. June 27, 1817; m. Deidama Rurey.

510 (+)James Atwell, b. Jan. 11, 1797; m. Fanny Frink.
b. in 1796, dau. of Nathan Frink of Stonington, Conn.
In his early years Mr. Atwell was a farmer in Chenango Co. In 1826 he became an itinerant Methodist Episcopal minister upon the Chenango circuit and continued as such until 1857, when he was superannuated. He d. in Theresa, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1860; Mrs. Fanny Atwell d. at Chittenango in 1864.
Children:
1422 (+)George Benjamin Atwell, b. July 4, 1817; m. Mary Ann Peck.
1423 Francis Fellows Atwell, b. in Pharsalia, N. Y., in 1818, graduate of Cazenovia Seminary, 1838, of Manlius
Academy and of Hamilton College, A.B., 1845. Teacher in Knoxville, Tenn., and business man there for many years. When Knoxville fell into the hands of the Confederates he escaped to the North through
the mountains, traveling by night on foot. He d.
in Knoxville, unm., in 1888.
1424 Hannah Maria Atwell, b. in Pharsalia in 1820, a graduate
of Cazenovia Seminary in 1837; m. in 1844 Charles
Hill and d. in Danby, N. Y., in 1848, leaving one
child.
1425 (+)Joseph Atwell, b. Nov. 12, 1822; m. Mary Beach.
1426 (+)Fanny Eliza Atwell, b. in 1827; m. Ambrose E. Gorton.
1427 (+)James Sterling Atwell, b. July 22, 1831; m. Sophia L.
Osborn.

511 Joseph Atwell, b. in 1799; d. in 1800 at Montville.

512 (+)Mariam Atwell, b. Feb. 13, 1802; m. Elias Widger.
b. at Groton, Conn., Dec. 17, 1790, son of Eli and Lucy (Green) Widger. (Eli Widger was b. in New England,
of French parents, Thursday, May 15, 1756; m. Apr. 1, 1784, Lucy Green, b. Monday, Feb. 26, 1766, dau. of Jonathan and Lucy Ann (Angle) Green. Eli followed the sea until late in life when he removed from Groton, Conn., to Chenango Co., N. Y.) Elias Widger was a farmer. He lived in the township of Preston, Chenango Co., N. Y., until 1833, when he removed to South Otselic, the same county where he d., Oct. 25, 1872. He is buried by the side of Ruth Atwell at Pharsalia. Mariam (Atwell) Widger d. at Little River (now Lena), Oconto Co., Wis., Nov. 3, 1887, and is buried at Oconto, the same county.

Children:

1428 Daniel H. Widger, b. Dec. 23, 1822; d. aged 20 mos.
1429 David L. Widger, b. Feb. 12, 1826; d. Mar. 20, 1826.
1430 (+)Cyrus G. Widger, b. Dec. 18, 1826; m. 1st, Lucy Gibson,
2d, Fanny Adams.
1431 (+)Almeda Eliza Widger, b. Oct. 10, 1828; m. David H.
Hitchcock.
1432 Lucy Arlene Widger, b. Feb. 3, 1831; m. at Syracuse,
N. Y., Oct. 28, 1891, Charles Gilbert Alton, b. at
Sandy Creek, N. Y., Mar. 18, 1830, son of Charles
Alton, a native of Windham Co., Conn., and Almeda
Wood, b. in Vermont, who were m. Sept. 10, 1820,
and were early settlers at Sandy Creek, where they
d. Charles Alton, Jr., is a carriage and ornamental
sign painter. They resided in 1901 at Laconia,
Oswego Co., N. Y. No issue.
1433 Caroline Amanda Widger, b. Jan. 20, 1835; m. at South Otselic, N. Y., Dec. 6, 1870, Joseph Gardner. They lived (1901) at De Ruyter, Madison Co., N. Y.; no
issue; adopted in 1877 a girl baby, b. Sept. 17, 1876.
1434 (+)Elbert L. Widger, b. Jan. 21, 1843; m. Kate Williams.
1435 Lou Frank Widger, b. in Aug., 1857. The last known
of him he was in the State of Washington.


513 (+)Daniel Lee Atwell, b. Apr. 7, 1804; m. Mehitable June. He d. in Apr., 1878, in California.
Children:
1436 (+)Alexander B. Atwell m. Mary Bailey.
1437 (+)Allen Jeffrey Atwell, b. Apr. 16, 1836; m. Mary M. Van Epps.

514 (+)Benjamin Atwell, b. May 12, 1806; m. Ruby Sage
dau. of Erastus and Sarah (Dunham) Sage of South New Berlin, and d. at Waupun, Wis., Mar. 26, 1893.
Child:
1438 Orville M. Atwell, b. at New Berlin, N. Y., June 14, 1830; m. 1st, 1851, Julia A. Boiden; m. 2d, in 1888, Ada
Mather. No issue.


515 Samuel Sterling Atwell, b. in Hebron, Conn., in 1808; m. 1st, Esther Brown, 2d, Eliza Cheeseboro. Samuel
was a machinist; worked in the car shops at Cleveland,
Ohio, where he d. in 1890; had two children who d. young.

516 William Ross Atwell, b. in Pharsalia in 1811; d. at
Joliet, Ill., in 1836; left one child, Eliza Atwell, who
m. a Mr. Plumb.

518 (+)Onesimus Mead Atwell, b. June 10, 1813; m. Hannah
Coakley. dau. of John Coakley, a Revolutionary soldier. Onesimus lived (1901) with his niece, Mrs. Caroline Gardner, at De Ruyter, N. Y.
Children:
1439 Louise Atwell, d. at five years.
1440 Oscar M. Atwell, enlisted in 1861, wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862; d. Jan. 4, 1863.

519 (+)Caroline Ruth Atwell, b. Feb. 16, 1816; m. William
Sage. b. Nov. 27, 1811, son of Erastus and Sarah (Dunham) Sage of South New Berlin, N. Y., brother of Ruby Sage, who m. Caroline's brother Benjamin.

Mr. Sage was a farmer at South New Berlin, N. Y. He d. Apr. 4, 1875. Caroline d. Oct. 25, 1866.

Children:

1441 (+)Sarah E. Sage, b. Feb. 1, 1838; m. James E. Garner.
1442 (+)Joseph Erastus Sage, b. Dec. 22, 1842; m. Delia Isbell.
1443 (+)Benjamin Franklin Sage, b. Mar. 17, 1847; m. Amanda Bristol.

DATA SOURCE The Sterling Genealogy Vol 1