Juliette Doolitte: Follow up on Betsey M. Healy

In his will, Austin Dibble mentions the daughter of his wife, Betsey, Juliette Doolittle. The 1850 census lists a Juliette Doolittle age 4 in Hancock county, Ohio. She was born in Ohio. The other household members are Biro (sometimes indexed as Bird), age 47, Betsey, age 32, and Julia, age 20. All three were born in Connecticut. Doolittle Family in America, notes a Biro Doolittle, son of Benjamin Doolittle with children Charles, Susan, and Nancy. Biro reportedly died in Cleveland, Ohio. Foot Family reports a Birow Doolittle, son of Benjamin married Susan Foote in 1827 with children Elizabeth and Charles. Both born in Woodbury. Susan left Birow around 1829 and remarried. Birow was a wagon maker from Wallingford.

Land Records confirm Biro/Byro was in Woodbury in 1825 and 1830. A Byrd/Byro Doolittle is listed in the 1840 census in Hancock, Ohio. Hancock land records show Biro buying land in 1841 and 1847. In 1851 Biro Doolittle and Betsey M. Doolittle sold land in Hancock. At that same time Betsey granted a power of attorney to Aaron Bigelow. In 1853, Biro and Betsey M. sell land to Cletus Kimmel, likely the husband of Julia Doolittle. Aaron Bigelow signed for Betsey. In 1854, Biro filed divorce from Betsey M. Doolittle. She had left in 1851. 

The divorce notes her last known location was Connecticut. Biro received custody of Juliette. Per the divorce Biro and Betsey married Sept. 1, 1832 in Litchfield county, Connecticut. Nathaniel Healy the father of the Betsey Healy was likely in Hartland, Connecticut until November1830. In 1836, Nathaniel bought land in Barkhamsted indicating the family was in Litchfield county, or neighboring communities in Hartford county at the time Betsey would have married Biro. 

The likely scenario is Betsey M. Healy, the daughter of Nathaniel and Betsey Healy, married Biro Doolittle in 1832. She moved with Biro to Hancock around 1840. In 1846, her daughter Juliette was born. She left Biro in 1851. She moved back to Connecticut and was likely living with family members: in 1855 a Betsey Dolittle is living with William and Caroline Heley in Wilbraham; Betsey M. Dolittle was possibly living with her brother Nathaniel Jr. when she married Austin Dibble. After Dibble died she married Almeron Allen and died in 1892.

Notes:

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