Jasper Willard Dutton

(11 January 1823 - 27 June 1878)
Jasper Willard Dutton|b. 11 Jan 1823\nd. 27 Jun 1878|p100.htm|Stephen Hartwell Dutton|b. 2 Oct 1798\nd. 17 Feb 1875|p96.htm|Lemira Hodgman|b. 9 Jun 1799\nd. 10 Jun 1878|p97.htm|Stephen Dutton|b. 7 Jan 1753\nd. 19 Oct 1835|p87.htm|Betsey Hartwell|b. 21 Jun 1754\nd. s 1833|p83.htm|Joseph Hodgman Junior|b. 1753\nd. 8 Apr 1841|p102.htm|Sarah Lawrence|b. s 1755\nd. 10 Apr 1841|p197.htm|

Great-great-granduncle of Darrell Allen Martin.
Jasper was born in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, on 11 January 1823.1,2,3 He was the son of Stephen Hartwell Dutton and Lemira Hodgman. Jasper was probably age 5 and under 10 in Stephen Hartwell Dutton's household in the 1830 Census taken in Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont.4 Jasper was probably age 5 and under 10 in Stephen Hartwell Dutton's household in the 1840 Census taken in Rockingham.5 He married Lucy J. Way on 18 November 1845.6,7 He married Lephe Lockwood circa 1847.8,9 He married Ellen M. Tolles circa 1854.10,11,12 He was a head of household in the 3 September 1860 census taken in Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont, as "Chester W.", a farm laborer age 37; his personal property was valued at $150, the equivalent of $3,060 in the year 2000; Ellen M. Tolles resided in the same household, as "Ellen M. Dutton" a housewife age 33; as did John A. Clough, a student age 9; Olive Maria Dutton, age 3; Lephe Ellen Dutton, as "Lepha" age 2; and George W. Dutton (who died young), age 2/12.12 He married Mary Chandler in 1875.13,14

Jasper's life was no bed of roses. When he was 23, his first wife died at age 19. They had only been married four months. His second wife died too, aged 24; he was 30 at the time, and still childless15. When his third wife died 2 March 1862, this time leaving him with her son age 11 by her first marriage plus their three children aged 5, 3, and 1, I guess it was too much for him. The family apparently took in Olive, Lephe16, and George when, on 25 July 1862, at age 39, Jasper enlisted in the Union Army. He served with H Company, 10th Vermont Volunteers, and fought at Cedar Creek, Brandy Station, and Gettysburg.17,18 He was discharged 22 June 1865.19 It was ten years after his return from service that he married for the fourth time. Once again the marriage was short-lived, lasting only about three years; but this time it was Jasper, not his wife, who had died. Jasper died on 27 June 1878 in Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, at age 55.20 He was buried in North Springfield, Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont.

There is a stone currently located in the back yard of Marshall Dutton's house in Springfield that was apparently placed as a marker at Jasper's grave in North Springfield. I understand that similar stone markers were commonly used to mark Civil War veterans' graves. The marble marker may have been removed from there when the cemetery was moved for highway construction, but that is not certain. When it was discovered in the mid-1900s, by someone acquainted with the Dutton family, that person offered it to Marshall.
Appears on these charts
Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton

Children of Jasper Willard Dutton and Ellen M. Tolles

Cited documentation

  1. [S21] Lyman W. Densmore, Hand-book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1637-1887, second edition. (Boston: Press of Geo. E. Crosby & Co., 1887), pg. 162, "Jasper W., 11 Jan. 1823."
  2. [S117] Dutton, Ruth Alice (Williams), compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton". Latest included date 1946. pg. 0 and 1, "Jasper Willard Dutton, born Jan. 11, 1823 in Manchester, Vt.".
  3. [S187] Dutton, Chester W. [Jasper W.], 1860 US Census, Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont; www.ancestry.com September 2002, Ancestry online image 26 of 44, pg. 200, age 37, b. "Vermont."
  4. [S107] Dutton, Stephen H., 1830 US Census, Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont; NARA M19 Roll 186, pg. 88.
  5. [S174] Dutton, Stephen H., 1840 US Census, Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont; pg. 104A, NARA M704 Roll 547.
  6. [S21] Lyman W. Densmore, Hand-book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1637-1887, pg. 162, "m. 1st Lucy J. Way, no ch."
  7. [S117] Dutton, Ruth, compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton" 1946. pg. 1, "Married ... 1st - Nov. 18, 1845 to Lucy Way".
  8. [S21] Lyman W. Densmore, Hand-book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1637-1887, pg. 162, "2d, Leafy Lockwood, no ch."
  9. [S117] Dutton, Ruth, compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton" 1946. pg. 1, "Married ... 2nd.- Lephe Lockwood".
  10. [S21] Lyman W. Densmore, Hand-book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1637-1887, pg. 162, "3d w. Ellen M. Tolles."
  11. [S117] Dutton, Ruth, compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton" 1946. pg. 1, "Married ... 3rd - Mrs. Ellen Clough".
  12. [S187] Dutton, Chester W. [Jasper W.], 1860 Census Weathersfield, VT.
  13. [S21] Lyman W. Densmore, Hand-book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1637-1887, pg. 162, "4th w. Mary Chandler."
  14. [S117] Dutton, Ruth, compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton" 1946. pg. 1, "Married ... 4th - Mary Chandlier ... in 1875" [sic Chandlier].
  15. [S21] Lyman W. Densmore, Hand-book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1637-1887, pg. 162, "m. 1st Lucy J. Way, no ch., 2d, Leafy Lockwood, no ch."
  16. [S64] Dutton, Josepheas, 1870 US Census, Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont; NARA M593 Roll 1629, pgs. 39-40.
  17. [S21] Lyman W. Densmore, Hand-book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1637-1887, pg. 162, "soldier, H 10th Vt. Vols., battles Cedar Creek, Brandy Sta., Gettysburg."
  18. [S117] Dutton, Ruth, compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton" 1946. pgs. 0 and 1, "Enlisted July 25, 1862 in Company H, 10th Vermont Volunteers".
  19. [S117] Dutton, Ruth, compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton" 1946. pg. 0 and 1, "Discharged June 22, 1866" [sic, both pages, 1866] The 1866 discharge date is improbable..
  20. [S117] Dutton, Ruth, compiler, "Descendants of Stephen Hartwell Dutton" 1946. pg. 0 and 1, "Died in Chester, Vt., June 27, 1878".
 
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