Damon, Elijah

1783 - 1865  (82 years)

• Name	Damon, Elijah  [1]
  Birth	02 Jan 1783	Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Jul 1865	Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I851	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2014

  
  

  Father	Damon, Simeon,   b. 05 Aug 1751, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 21 Aug 1811, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Bowker, Lucy,   b. 04 Mar 1751, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 21 Nov 1815, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Marriage	08 Jun 1780	Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA   [1]
  Family ID	F592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sears, Sarah,   b. 21 Aug 1784, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 26 Jun 1865, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	24 Nov 1811	Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA   [1]
  Children	1. Damon, Elijah Jr.  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   2. Damon, Davis,   b. 05 Jul 1812, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 05 Nov 1888, Norwell, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 76 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   3. Damon, Sarah,   b. 15 Oct 1814, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 20 Mar 1872, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 57 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   4. Damon, Lucy,   b. 23 Feb 1817, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 28 Dec 1887 (Age 70 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Damon, Hosea,   b. 29 Apr 1819, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 19 May 1854, New Bedford, Bristol Co., MA (Age 35 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   6. Damon, Susan Collamore,   b. 30 May 1824, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 31 Mar 1910, East Boston, MA (Age 85 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F599	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 02 Jan 1783 - Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA Marriage - 24 Nov 1811 - Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA Death - 16 Jul 1865 - Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Damon, Elijah - Lincoln Story.docx
  		Damon, Alonzo Willard - SAR Application.docx
  		Damon, Elijah Old Ships Church

  
  

• Notes

  Exerpt from http://fingalwho.blogspot.com/2010/06/lucy-and-davis-damon.html: Elijah, Davis Damon's father, married Sally Sears of Scituate in November of 1811. Her parents were Peter Sears and Susanna Collamore. Elijah and Sally's first child was Davis, born July 5, 1812 in Scituate. Sarah came next, in 1814, then Lucy in 1817, Hosea in 1819, and then Davis' youngest sister, Susannah Collamore Damon, born in 1824, making her twelve years younger than Davis. Susan, as she was known, would become a devoted Unitarian missionary, remain unmarried, and serve her family and community in ways that merited much admiration and celebration of her life. She and Davis would grow up in Scituate on the north side of Grove Street in a Cape Cod house that perhaps still stands. "Every Sunday they drove in a chaise to the First Church, in South Scituate Village. Elijah wore his beaver hat from Paris and Sally wore a poke bonnet. The beaver hat was carefully put away in a cardboard box. Sally also wore a black veil. The children sat on a cricket. The family pew was near the front on the broad isle. The children stayed there at noon while the parents went to Mr. Sparrell's for Sunday dinner. The hat and the veil are now the property of the Norwell (once South Scituate) Historical Society. There is a granite monument to Elijah and Sally in the First Parish Cemetery." This newspaper clipping to the right (from old family archives) (see Media Tab) shows the Church in Hingham, Massachusetts, where the Damons were members for more than two hundred years. The Church, built in 1681 when Cohasset and Hingham were one community, is the oldest meeting house and the oldest wooden church in the US. It is known as the Old Ship's Church. Written on the clipping is this amazing story: "The Church where Elijah Damon took Abe Lincoln in 1851, then drove him home to Sunday dinner at South Scituate. Abe was just an unknown lawyer. He always remembered S. J. May, and used him during the War as a Chaplain in the Senate." Pretty cool.

  
  

• Sources

  [S531] Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 7, Ed. 1, (Name: Release date: October 17, 1996;), Tree #4542. Date of Import: Oct 21, 1997 [S161] Family Bible, Published in Boston in 1831 by C.D. Strong. Billings Fund, 16 March 1938.