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• Birth	26 Jun 1798	Westchester,Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	6 Jun 1899  [1]
  Person ID	I92779	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Nathaniel FOOTE, b. 7 Feb 1742, Colchester, New London, Connecticut
  Mother	Abigail FOOTE, b. 13 Mar 1757, Colchester,Connecticut
  Family ID	F528	Group Sheet
  Family	Alfred Isham LOOMIS
  Married	6 Apr 1826  [1]
  Family ID	F40349	Group Sheet

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: Mrs. Abigail (Foote) Loomis joined the Wadsworth Chapter on November4, 1897, when ninety-nine years old. She had lived in the lifetime of every President of this country, having been born before the death of Washington, and her memory of the events of her early life extended with clearness back to the time of John Adams, second President. She was sixth in descent from Nathaniel Foote, 1st, who was one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Another ancestor of Mrs. Abigail (Foote) Loomis was Thomas Kimberly, who with Mr. Davenport, Mr. Eaton and other gentlemen of good fortune, were the founders of New Haven. Abigail Foote, the patriot's daughter, and his eleventh and youngestchild, received her education in the public schools of her native place and atBacon Academy. In 1826 she was married to Alfred Isham Loomis and her entire married life of fifty-six years was spent in the old homestead, where she went as a bride. This homestead has been handed down from father to son since the settlement of the town two hundred years ago. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. Loomis celebrated their golden wedding. After her husband's death Mrs. Loomis made her home with her daughter. (footnoted - it was Mrs. Philo Bevin of East Hampton, Connecticut) Alfred Isham Loomis and Abigail (Foote) Loomis, his wife, had seven children, fifteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren, as follows: ABIGAIL Foote, b. Feb. 11, 1827; m. Chas. E. Brownell, Moodus, Conn., Nov. 25, 1852; five children; GEORGE Loomis Brownell, b. July 13, 1854; m. Sept. 8, 1881,Elizabeth M. Reed (b. Nov. 6, 1854, dau. of Joel S. and Seraphina Haynes Everett missionaries to Turkey, and, upon the death of both parents in her infancy adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Reed of Brookfield, Mass.) Their children are: Leroy, b. July 27, 1886; d. Oct. 21, 1901 Carl Reed, b. Nov. 21, 1889 EDWARD Cole Brownell, b. Jan. 27, 1856; m. Aug. 23, 1882, Leila J. Alexander (b. Mar. 14, 1859). Their children are: Edward A. b. Jan. 11, 1885 Abigail Foote, b. June 20, 1888 Sylvia Judd, b. June 8, 1893 CHARLES Howe Brownell, b. July 7, 1859; m. Nov. 24, 1885, Annie Wentz (b. June 1, 1864). Their children are: Helen, b. June 22, 1889; d. June 22, 1889 Roger Wentz, b.Nov. 5, 1892 Margaret, b. May 22, 1894; d. Mar. 10, 1895 MARY Hammond Brownell, b. April 15, 1861; d. 1862, ae. 10 months. ABIGAIL Foote Brownell, b. July13, 1863; d. April, 1879 ALFRED Isham, b. Nov 2, 1827; d. April 21, 1866. JANE Clarissa, b. July 31, 1832; m. Philo Bevin April 9, 1863; no children. GEORGE Champion, b. Jan 30, 1835; d. Jan. 30, 1847 EMILY Harvey, b. Mar. 20, 1837;m. Edward A. Bliss, April 4, 1861; four children EDWARD Milton Bliss, b. Jan6, 1863; m. Nov. 14, 1901, Ada Richards of Pittsburg, Penn. ALFRED Loomis Bliss, b. Aug. 17, 1866; m. June 18, 1902, Frances Lincoln Smith of Arlington, Mass. JENNIE Louise Bliss, b. June 11, 1871; d. Jan. 9, 1884 HELEN Augusta Bliss,b. Sept. 22, 1872; m. Jan. 14, 1903, Cushman Hartley Case, of Suffield, Conn. ISRAEL Foote, b. Nov. 8, 1839; m. Elizabeth McFadden, Nov. 8, 1866; three children: ALFRED Israel, b. Jan. 10, 1868; d. 1893 CHARLES Brownell, b. Nov. 3, 1869 MARY Abigail, b. Aug. 28, 1871; m. John Mac Donald; eight children MILTONLathrop, b. July 16, 1842; m. S. Emeline Tracy, Nov. 11, 1869; three children: GEORGE Tracy, b. July 17, 1871; m. Gladys Jones of Hebron, Conn.; one child namely, Emeline Tracy, b. 1898 JOHN Robbins, b. Aug. 23, 1873 CAROLINE Buell, b. May 23, 1882 DEATH: Mrs. Loomis was a member of the Congregational Church at Westchester, Conn., from the time she was twenty-six years old, and for seventy-four years her life was lived in full accord with the vows she then made. It was the custom in those early days for young people of studious habits tocommit to memory choice selections from the English poets. Being favored with aretentive memory, Mrs. Lomis, when one hundred y

• Sources

  [S60] Rootsweb.com surname boards, Foote surname board.