Aged 45 years.~Son of Joseph and Abigal (Holmes) BACON; b. in Woodstock, Connecticut, September 04, 1771; d. Hartford, August 27, 1817; m. December 24, 1800, Alice PARKS of Lebanon, Connecticut.
David was at Mansfield in 1799 with his brother, Dr. BACON. He went in 1801 to Detroit, Michigan, as agent of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, lived in Detroit and Mackinaw, Michigan, and became founder of Tallmadge, Ohio, named after Col. Benjamin TALLMADGE of Litchfield, Connecticut, of Revolutionary War fame. He hoped to found from Tallmadge a college modeled after Yale College. A few miles from Tallmadge was founded, ten years after his death, the Western Reserve College. David BACON returned East, preached in Connecticut in several towns, and taught school in Litchfield and Harford. In 1815 he published Scott's Family Bible, and traveled on horseback in Connecticut and Massachusetts selling Bibles and preaching. Dr. Abiel HOLMES asked him to return to the West to preach to the Indians, but he declined. He was buried in North Cemetery, Hartford.
Children of David and Alice (Parks) BACON:
1) Leonard BACON.
2) Susan BACON.
3) Julia BACON.
4) Alice BACON.
5) Delia Salter BACON.
6) David Francis BACON.
7) Francis BACON.
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David was at Mansfield in 1799 with his brother, Dr. BACON. He went in 1801 to Detroit, Michigan, as agent of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, lived in Detroit and Mackinaw, Michigan, and became founder of Tallmadge, Ohio, named after Col. Benjamin TALLMADGE of Litchfield, Connecticut, of Revolutionary War fame. He hoped to found from Tallmadge a college modeled after Yale College. A few miles from Tallmadge was founded, ten years after his death, the Western Reserve College. David BACON returned East, preached in Connecticut in several towns, and taught school in Litchfield and Harford. In 1815 he published Scott's Family Bible, and traveled on horseback in Connecticut and Massachusetts selling Bibles and preaching. Dr. Abiel HOLMES asked him to return to the West to preach to the Indians, but he declined. He was buried in North Cemetery, Hartford.
Children of David and Alice (Parks) BACON:
1) Leonard BACON.
2) Susan BACON.
3) Julia BACON.
4) Alice BACON.
5) Delia Salter BACON.
6) David Francis BACON.
7) Francis BACON.
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Aged 45 years.~Son of Joseph and Abigal (Holmes) BACON; b. in Woodstock, Connecticut, September 04, 1771; d. Hartford, August 27, 1817; m. December 24, 1800, Alice PARKS of Lebanon, Connecticut.
David was at Mansfield in 1799 with his brother, Dr. BACON. He went in 1801 to Detroit, Michigan, as agent of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, lived in Detroit and Mackinaw, Michigan, and became founder of Tallmadge, Ohio, named after Col. Benjamin TALLMADGE of Litchfield, Connecticut, of Revolutionary War fame. He hoped to found from Tallmadge a college modeled after Yale College. A few miles from Tallmadge was founded, ten years after his death, the Western Reserve College. David BACON returned East, preached in Connecticut in several towns, and taught school in Litchfield and Harford. In 1815 he published Scott's Family Bible, and traveled on horseback in Connecticut and Massachusetts selling Bibles and preaching. Dr. Abiel HOLMES asked him to return to the West to preach to the Indians, but he declined. He was buried in North Cemetery, Hartford.
Children of David and Alice (Parks) BACON:
1) Leonard BACON.
2) Susan BACON.
3) Julia BACON.
4) Alice BACON.
5) Delia Salter BACON.
6) David Francis BACON.
7) Francis BACON.
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David was at Mansfield in 1799 with his brother, Dr. BACON. He went in 1801 to Detroit, Michigan, as agent of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, lived in Detroit and Mackinaw, Michigan, and became founder of Tallmadge, Ohio, named after Col. Benjamin TALLMADGE of Litchfield, Connecticut, of Revolutionary War fame. He hoped to found from Tallmadge a college modeled after Yale College. A few miles from Tallmadge was founded, ten years after his death, the Western Reserve College. David BACON returned East, preached in Connecticut in several towns, and taught school in Litchfield and Harford. In 1815 he published Scott's Family Bible, and traveled on horseback in Connecticut and Massachusetts selling Bibles and preaching. Dr. Abiel HOLMES asked him to return to the West to preach to the Indians, but he declined. He was buried in North Cemetery, Hartford.
Children of David and Alice (Parks) BACON:
1) Leonard BACON.
2) Susan BACON.
3) Julia BACON.
4) Alice BACON.
5) Delia Salter BACON.
6) David Francis BACON.
7) Francis BACON.
~
Gravesite Details
Info of the Old North Cemetery was compiled by Charles R. Hale, 1932.
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Records on Ancestry
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Geneanet Community Trees Index
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Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889
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Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920
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U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
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Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
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