OBIT: Name: Brainard, Alva
Date: 1/11/1865
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: age 58. Harvard Grove Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

OBIT: Name: Brainard, Mrs. Melissa
Date: June 27, 1897
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard-Mrs. Melissa, June 25, 1897. Mrs. Melissa Brainard, aged 87 years, widow of the late Alvah H. Brainard, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Harriet B. Gleeson. Funeral Sunday June 27, at 2:30 p. m., standard, at No. 1737 Woodland Hills ave.

1. Henry BRAINERD b. Abt 1828, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 23 Jan 1848, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
2. Harriet BRAINARD b. Abt 1831, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. Eunice BRAINARD b. Abt 1835, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 4 Jan 1925, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
4. Demming BRAINARD b. Abt 1838, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 11 May 1908, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
5. Addison BRAINARD b. Abt 1844, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. Apr 1917, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
6. 1. Charles BRAINARD b. Abt 1848, ,, Ohio.
7. George H. BRAINARD b. Abt 1849, ,, Ohio; d. 5 Jan 1890, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

Descendant of Daniel Brainard.

MIGRATION: Came to Newburgh, Ohio when nearly 50 years of age.

OCCUPATION: Farmer and shoemaker.

MARRIAGE: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/haddam_non-bailey_marriages.htm

MARRIAGE: The information listed below was found in a file folder in the Town Clerk's Office, Town of Haddam. It is titled "Marriage Records of Dec. Ezra Brainerd, Justice of Peace". A note in the upper left corner reads as follows: "transferred from orig. sheets found by Rev. William James in attic of T. Holmquist house on Ague Springs Rd." Ague Springs Road is in Haddam Neck.

MARRIAGE: 19 Mar 1789 Amos BRAINERD, Jr. & Rachel BRAINERD, both of Haddam Neck

DEATH: Crushed by a falling tree during a storm while he was out in the fields with his oxen.

OBIT: Name: Brainard, Amos
Date: 1823
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: age 51. Harvard Grove Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio

Cousin of her husband thru her father, Dudley.

1. John R. BRAINARD b. 1789; d. 7 Sep 1849, Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. Selinda BRAINARD b. 16 Mar 1791, Middletown,, Connecticut; d. 8 Sep 1859.
3. Nancy BRAINARD b. 1 Feb 1794; d. 1 Mar 1860, Brooklyn Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; bur. 1 Mar 1860, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
4. Amos BRAINARD, Jr. b. 1795, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 26 Mar 1870, , Williams, Ohio or , Defiance, Ohio.
5. Demming BRAINARD b. 1798; d. 1860.
6. Julia Selden BRAINARD
7. Timothy BRAINARD b. 1801; d. Abt 1828.
8. 2. Alvah H. BRAINARD b. 1807; d. 11 Jan 1865, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
9. Hiram Ackley BRAINARD b. 4 Oct 1808, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 22 May 1887, Chesaning,, Michigan.
10. Sylvester BRAINARD b. 1809.
11. Emily BRAINARD b. 4 Jun 1811, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Michigan.

DEATH: Killed on the Ohio Canal by a cave-in of soil.

1. Silas OWEN
2. Betsey OWEN
3. 3. Lucy or Melissa OWEN b. Abt 1810; d. 25 Jun 1897, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
4. Lydia OWEN

1. Martha BRAINERD b. 23 Mar 1758, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. Phebe BRAINERD b. 18 Oct 1759, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. Elizabeth BRAINERD b. 4 Aug 1761, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. Elisha BRAINERD b. 30 Dec 1763, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. Anna BRAINERD b. 6 Feb 1766, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 24 Jun 1829, Vermont.
6. Abigail BRAINERD b. 6 Feb 1768, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. Jemima BRAINERD, (twin) b. 13 Jul 1769, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
8. 4. Amos BRAINARD, (twin) b. 13 Jul 1769, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 19 May 1823, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
9. John BRAINERD b. 28 Jul 1771, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
10. Jabez BRAINERD b. 23 Apr 1773, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. Mindwell BRAINERD b. 4 Sep 1756, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 28 May 1843.
2. Timothy BRAINERD b. 6 Aug 1758, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1801.
3. Eli BRAINERD, [infant] b. 11 Jun 1761, East Haddom, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 3 Nov 1761.
4. Anna BRAINERD b. 25 Dec 1763, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 11 Jan 1832.
5. Experience BRAINERD b. 3 Oct 1765, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1812, Rush, , Ny.
6. Eli BRAINERD b. 11 Sep 1766, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 7 Mar 1817.
7. Dimmis BRAINERD b. 25 Jun 1768, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 21 Aug 1848.
8. 5. Rachel Ackley BRAINERD b. 29 Jan 1770, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 15 Mar 1848, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
9. Asenath BRAINERD b. 20 Sep 1772, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 15 Jul 1825, Rush, Monroe, New York.
10. Lydia BRAINERD b. 20 Jul 1773, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
11. Eunice BRAINERD b. 24 Jun 1775, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1830.
12. Sophia BRAINERD b. 1 Jun 1778, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Jun 1864.
13. Virtue BRAINERD b. 4 Jun 1780, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1830.
14. Cynthia BRAINERD b. 20 May 1782, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 8 Feb 1850.
15. Dudley BRAINERD b. 2 Mar 1785, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 27 Oct 1847.
16. Baby BRAINERD b. 15 Jun 1755, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 15 Jun 1755, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.