BIOGRAPHY: Source --- "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840", Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, 1914 (Evangelical Publishing House) pg 604
Jabez Brainard, born 1759, son of Simon and Hepzibah Spencer Brainard, a soldier of the American Revolution, rests in Erie street cemetery at the right of the main drive, and not far from the Erie street entrance. His brother Simon Brainard was a lieutenant in the Conn. Continentals. His brother Jeptha Brainard served seven years in the revolutionary army. His brother Asa Brainard also was a soldier of the American Revolution.

The parents of these patriots lived in Chatham, Conn. Soon after the close of the war, Jabez Brainard married Lucy Bingham, daughter of Deacon Elijah and Sarah Jackson Bingham, and removed to Leamsted, N. H., where he lived many years. He was a leading member of the Presbyterian church of that town, and was familiarly known as "Deacon Brainard."

His only son Nathan Brainard established himself in business in Cleveland, and hither at the death of his wife came Jabez Brainard seeking and receiving in the loneliness of his declining years the ministrations that only kinship and love can bestow. And in this city, in 1852, in the once well known Brainard residence on Sheriff street, he died aged 94. A large part of the history of Cleveland is to be found in the lives of many old families of this city allied through marriage to the descendants of this revolutionary hero.

Deacon Jabez Brainard was of slight build, and of medium height. He had blue eyes that twinkled with mirth, or shone with intelligence. He was exceedingly original in his speech, w?thal a Puritan by inheritance and instinct, a markedly pious man even in the days when irreligion was rare in the community. His desk, a beautiful piece of Colonial furniture, stood in the library of his grandson, the late Prof. George Brainard, and doubtless is still treasured and used by the family.

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In another of his series of Cleveland's Revolutionary War hero's, Mr.
Kelley discusses Jabez Brainard, last of the suviving veterens.

The Last Leaf--

Jabez Brainard, forebear of Cleveland's musical family,born in
Connecticut in 1758, died in Cleveland in 1852, probably was the cities
last surviving veteren of the Revolutionary War. He was buried in Erie
Street Cemetery to the right of the main drive, until his remains were
removed to Lake View Cemetery.
Ninety-four when he died, his life was a story of military service,
family life in a New England town, as leader of a church and, finally of
residence in Cleveland, where he marched with other white-haired
veterens on Public Square. The date of his death, as entered by Ohio's
Military Register and approved by the State, is at variance with the one
I give. But mine, from cemetery records, undoubtedly is correct. Honah
Hanchett is said by these military records to have died here in 1860.
An orderly, in the Revolution, he lived to be 92. But his buriel place
is listed unknown and there is no record showing he lived here.
Jason Robbins of Solon, lived to be 90, and Obidiah Cooper,buried in
Warrensville, to be 92. Josia Wicox of Brecksville lived to be 91, while
Jared Farrand, buried in Fairview, and John Sheppard of North Royaton,
passed the century mark, but these lived without the city limits.

The " Deacon "--

Jabez Brainard was the son of Simon and Hepzibah Spencer Brainard of
Chatham, Conn. His brother, Simon, was Lieutenant in the Continnentials
with whom brother Asa was a marine. With peace, Jabez wedded Lucy
Bingham, daughter of Deacon Elijah and Sarah Jackson Bingham, and for
many years resided in Lemsted, N.H. Leader of the Presbyterian Church,
he was " Deacon Brainard." His son, Nathan, came here in the
mid-thirties and opened a music store on Superior Street. He bought
land on the east side of Sheriff (E. 4th) Street an with his four sons,
built a home. Like myself, many will recall the later quaint Brainard
brick terrace with mounting steps and areas on the site of McCrory's
west entrance.
When his wife died in New England, Jabez came here to pass his last
years with son Nathan. " Deacon" Jabez Brainard was of slight build and
medium height with humorous, inteligent blue eyes. H? possessed a
Puritanic manner of speaking with the piety and religious convictions of
a day when there were few churches. His ornamental colonial desk was
long treasured in the library of his grandson. Prof. George Brainard.
His desendants were many. The late Miss Annie Brainard, a prominent
member of Trinity Cathedral congregation, whose home was on Kenilworth
Drive, was a great granddaughter. Her father, Silas, and her
grandfather, Nathan, built Melodeon Hall on the site of the Wilshire
Building. Later they renamed it Brainard's Hall. All four grandsons
married, had families and were well known. Silas married Emily C. Mould,
daughter of Henry Mather, married her sister, Laura V. Mould. Prof.
George W., noted organist and music teacher, married Louise Hills,
daughter of Nathan C. Hills; Joseph Mather, the fourth granson, married
Helen Cushmen Hills, her sister, and their only child, Nelly Brainard,
became Mrs.Wilson Black Chisholm and all their decendants are all sons
and daughters of the Revolution.
Amos Brainard, buried in old Brookmere Cemetary, Brooklyn, settled
in the southwestern part of the city. Mrs. Perry Geller,1637 Holyrood
Road, tells me she is directly descended from a brother of Jabez. Her
ancestry traces back through her father, George Brainard, to Enoch
Brainard, veterinary surgeon in the Civil War. His father, Enoch
Southworth Brainard, settled in Newburg and married his cousin, Abigail
Brainard, daughter of Silas, a son of the Revoluntion.
The removal of Jabez Brainard's remains to Lake View Cemetery took
place in 1915. He rests in his original Tombstone, near the man
entrance.
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OBIT: Name: Brainard, Jabez
Date: 1852
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: 1752 - 1852. Lakeview Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 2. Nathan BRAINARD   b. 20 Jul 1787, Lemster,, New Hampshire; d. 1869, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 3. Harriet BRAINERD   b. 3 Sep 1790, ,, New Hampshire; d. 15 Jan 1853, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio; bur. Erie St. Cemetery.

RESIDENCES: 1785 - 1823 Lemster, N.H.
1823 Washington, N.H.
1834(?) 21 Prospect Street, (southeast corner of Sheriff) Cleveland, Ohio

OCCUPATION: Owned a music store, "Brainard and Mould" at 34 Superior Street, Cleveland, Ohio

1. 4. Fanny BRAINARD   b. 1812; d. 1875.
2. 5. Silas BRAINARD   b. 19 Feb 1814; d. 8 Apr 1871.
3. 6. Harriet BRAINARD   b. 1818; d. 1838.
4. 7. Henry Mather BRAINARD   b. 1823; d. 6 May 1855, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
5. 8. George W. BRAINARD   b. 1827; d. 24 Mar 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
6. 9. Joseph Mather BRAINARD   b. 1830.
7. 10. Mary BRAINARD   b. 1833; d. 1837.

BIOGRAPHY: Source --- "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840", Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, 1914 (Evangelical Publishing House) pg 540

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Ozias Mather of East Haddam, son of Dr. Augustus Mather, married, in 1808, Harriet Brainard. She was the only daughter of Deacon Jabez Brainard, the revolutionary soldier, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. She was also the sister of Nathan Brainard, the pioneer.

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Mather died in 1813, in Washington, N.H., and Harriet Brainard Mather was left a widow with two little sons, one of them an infant born the year his father died.

BIOGRAPHY: She married, secondly, Edm?nd Lawrence of Groton, Mass., and in 1853, while on a visit with Cleveland relatives, she died, aged 63 years, and was buried in Erie St. cemetery. Mr. Lawrence survived her but a year, his death occurring in West Danvers, Mass. Her children were:

BIOGRAPHY: Henry Brainard Mather, b.1809; married, 1840, Ellen Everett, daughter of Charles Everett. Henry B. Mather died in Boston, Mass., in 1884.
Samuel Holmes Mather, b.1813; m. Emily Washington Gregory.

1. 11. Henry Brainard MATHER   b. 1809, ,, New Hampshire; d. 1884, Boston,, Massachusetts.
2. 12. Samuel Holmes MATHER   b. 1813, ,, New Hampshire; d. 14 Jan 1894, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

BIOGRAPHY:
BRAINARD, SILAS (19 Feb. 1814-8 Apr. 1871) turned an avocation for music into a business that supplied Cleveland with much of its early musical scores and instruments. The son of a merchant, he was born in Lempster, N.H., the son of Nathan and Fanny (Bingham) Silas. He was educated at New Hampton in the same state. He came to Cleveland in 1834 with his father and started in the grocer? business as N. Brainard & Son. An accomplished flutist, the younger Brainard also became active in the city's embryonic musical circles. He joined the CLEVELAND MUSICAL SOCIETY and began arranging music for its members. In 1836 he started his own music business, which eventually became an institution under the name S. BRAINARD'S SONS. Beginning with the retailing of music and musical instruments, Brainard added a publishing business in 1845 and purchased Watson's Hall at the same time, running it as Melodeon Hall and later Brainard's Hall . A house organ which he began in l864 as Western Musical World became one of the country's leading music publications under the name Brainard's Musical World. Although once regarded as having few peers as a flutist, he apparently subordinated his performing talents to the demands of his business. He was noted as the author of a Violin Instruction Book and numerous musical arrangements, some of which appeared under an assumed name. Brainard married Emily C. Mould and had 6 children: Charles, Henry, Fanny, Emma, Annie, and Laura. He died of inflammatory rheumatism in his residence at 348 Prospect Ave., survived by at least 3 sons: Charles, George, and Henry. Brainard was buried in WOODLAND CEMETERY .

S. BRAINARD'S SONS was Cleveland's leading 19th-century musical-instrument dealer and music publisher. SILAS BRAINARD founded the company in 1836 and opened a piano store in the American House hotel on Superior Ave., selling Chickering pianos shipped from the factory in Boston. In 1845 he purchased Watson's Hall, which had been built in 1840, and renamed it Melodeon Hall. In 1860 the name was changed to Brainard's Hall (later Opera House), and in 1875 to the GLOBE THEATER . In Jan. 1864 Brainard began publishing Western Musical World, a monthly journal of articles, hints to musicians, and sheet music. In 1869 the name was changed to Brainard's Musical World. Brainard took his sons, Chas. S. and Henry M., into the business, and in 1871 the company became S. Brainard's Sons. In 1876 they built a new 4-story building on Euclid Ave. near E. 4th St. to accommodate the store and publishing house. Its interior was fitted with massive woodwork, gas light, and a steam-driven elevator. In the 1870s and 1880s, Brainard's published vocal and instrumental music, songbooks, and especially political and patriotic songs. In 1878 S. Brainard's Sons established an office in Chicago; the company left Cleveland altogether in 1889, moved to Chicago, and continued to publish Brainard's Musical World until 1895. Henry M. Brainard remained in Cleveland to operate his own store, an outlet for Steinway pianos.

1. 13. Charles S. BRAINARD   d. 1897.
2. 14. Henry M. BRAINARD   d. 27 Oct 1918, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 15. Fanny M. BRAINARD  
4. 16. Emma Louis BRAINARD   d. 1883.
5. 17. Annie M. BRAINARD  
6. 18. Laura C. BRAINARD  

OBIT: Name: Brainard, Henry M.
Date: May 4, 1855
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard- On the 3d of May, in the hope of a blissful immortality Henry M. Brainard in the thirty second year of his age. Funeral on Sunday at 3 o'clock, p. m. from the residence of Brainard Sheriff street. 5/6/1855. age 32. Woodland Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 19. Alice BRAINARD  
2. 20. Alfred H. BRAINARD  
3. 21. Water M. BRAINARD   d. 5 May 1878, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

OBIT: Name: Brainard, George W.
Date: March 28, 1910
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard-George W., died on March 24th in his 83d year, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Paul C. Condit, 4218 Carnegie ave. Funeral from his late home at 2 p.m. Monday. Burial private. 1827 - 1910. Lakeview Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 22. Florence BRAINARD  
2. 23. Mary BRAINARD  

1. 24. Nellie BRAINARD  

Came to Cleveland in 1835

OBIT: Name: Mather, Samuel Holmes
Date: January 16, 1894
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #055.
Notes: Mather- Entered into rest, on Sunday morning, January 14, Samuel Holmes Mather, in the 81st year of his age. Funeral services at the family residence, No. Prospect st. on Tuesday at 2 o'clock p. m., standard time. Burial private. 1813-1894. Lakeview Cem. Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 25. Frederick Gregory MATHER   b. 1844, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 26. Charles Henry MATHER   b. Abt 1845; d. Feb 1847, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 27. Ellen Augusta MATHER   b. 1847, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

1. 28. Minnie BRAINARD   b. Abt 1854; d. 5 Jul 1883, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

OBIT:
Name: Brainard, Henry M.
Date: O?tober 29, 1918
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard-Henry M., 2195 Bellfield av., Cleveland Hts., father of Mrs. S. A. Fuller and Mrs. Norville W. Lewis, passed away Sunday, Oct. 27. Funeral Tues. afternoon. Private

1. 29. Lilly BRAINARD   b. Abt 1866.
2. 30. Emily BRAINARD   b. Abt 1867; d. 20 Jan 1874, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 31. Henry Paul BRAINARD   b. Abt 1875, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 6 Sep 1884, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
4. 32. Edith BRAINARD   d. Sep 1945.
5. 33. Bessie BRAINARD   b. Abt 1881, ,, Ohio; d. Mar 1968.

DEATH: Died at 24 yrs.

OBIT: Name: Brainard, Walter M.
Date: May 10, 1878
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard- Sunday May 5th, at 4 p. m. Walter M. in the 25th year of his age. 5/7/1878. age 25. Woodland Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

OBIT: Name: Mather, Charles Henry
Date: Feb. 10, 1847
Source: Cleveland Herald; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #055.
Notes: Mather- Last evening, 11th, very suddenly, Charles Henry, son of Samuel H. and Emily W. Mather, aged 15 months.