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• Birth	17 Aug 1758	Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Mar 1852	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Person ID	I1591	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Simon BRAINERD, b. 7 Oct 1730, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Mother	Hepzibah SPENCER, b. Abt 1730, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Family ID	F673	Group Sheet
  Family	Lucy BINGHAM, b. 26 Feb 1767, Windham, Windham, Connecticut
  Children	> 1. Nathan BRAINARD, b. 20 Jul 1787, Lemster,, New Hampshire > 2. Harriet BRAINERD, b. 3 Sep 1790, ,, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F334	Group Sheet

• Notes

  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. OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - Know your Ohio: Cleveland's Last Surviver of RevWar *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley donkeyskid@webtv.net July 3, 1999 *********************************************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio The Kelley Family Collections Newspaper article, Plains Dealer compiled by S.J. Kelley-- 1925 And Then They Went West by Darlene E. Kelley 1998 *********************************************************************** 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. ********************************************** OBIT: Name: Brainard, Jabez Date: 1852 Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009. Notes: 1752 - 1852. Lakeview Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.