Today I walked the in Proprietor's Cemetery on South Street in Portsmouth NH. Photo of grave stone: William Stearns (1804-1881) and wife Martha Winkley (180?-1879). William was the son of John Stearns and Sara Lane.
According to Stearns Genealogy and Memoirs, Volume 1 (Avis Stearns Van Wagenen) William was born August 5 1803 in Deerfield NH. He was a machinist, a representative in NH state legislature, and a Colonel.
John Stearns son of Rev Joshua Stearns. They are from Isaac Stearns line. Martha could be daughter of John Winkley and Ruth Foy.
From Ruth Stearns family William Dennett Stearns, son of Joseph Oliver Stearns and Helen “Nell” Dennett from Salisbury High School, June 1883
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