Susannah Holland ⁸

  General Notes:

Her father Richard Holland was a prominent farmer and businessman at South
Bolton at Holland's Landing. Her niece Sarah Foster married John's son
Joel Banfill then went to Dracutt Mass. The history is in the History of
of Brome County by Rev. Ernest Taylor. Stone in Row 12, No.18. or Row 6.

EXTRACT:
The Advertiser and Eastern Townships Sentinel
published in Knowlton, on page 1, 26 June 1857 issue.

A word of Consolation
To Mr. & Mrs McLachlan
by Mrs. Susannah Banfield

For you dear friends I now can feel
Your sorrows well I know--
Five of my children, they are dead
and in their grave laid low.

We should not murmur nor complain
'Twas God that struck the blow
For what intent we know not now--
Hereafter we shall know.

He's taken from your earthly plants,
To bloom afresh in heaven,
To taste the sting of sin I can't
In Christ it was forgiven.

Although your trials are severe,
Yet kiss the afflictive rod--
And look beyond this vale of tears,
And see a smiling God.

He'll give you every grace you need,
And fill yours hearts with love--
Then when you leave this earth below,
You'll meet with them above.

Bolton, C.E.
On Microfilm NJ.FM.844 Public Archives, Ottawa, Ont.

NOTE: Susannah Holland the author was first the wife of Nathan
Taylor and after his death, he was kicked in the stomach by a
horse, she married Nathan Banfill. She had 9 children by Nathan
Taylor and 4 by Nathan Banfill, of the 13 children 5 died.

In the Mississquoi Historical Society archives is a letter
from Verne R. Spear, West Hawley Stage Route, Charlemont, MA 01339.
Nathan Taylor was # 7 of the 12 children of Daniel Taylor and
Sobriety Davis. He was a farmer, carpenter, and blacksmith. At the
age of 19 he married 17-year-old Susannah Holland. Nathan, like his
mother Sobriety, was a prodigy of strength, a veritable Sampson
according to tales that have come down to us.
Mary Taylor O'Reilly told me on August 28, 1954 that her
grand-father (Nathan Taylor) fought off wolves from a high cubical
rock in the Notch one night. He defended himself with a club.(SLH
there is apparently some confusion over who this happened to... see
the last paragraph of "George Dyer Taylor".)
Nathan was the father of 9 children when death overtook him at
the early age of 34. When shoeing a horse he was kicked in the
stomach. This injury developed into a cancer from which he died.
Susannah's second husband was Nathan Banfill (son of Benjamin
Banfill and Sarah Mills). That marriage she had four children, all
sons. This was not a happy marriage, in contrast to her first one.
In later years she knit many,many pairs of mittens, selling
them for a pittance, to save up money to pay for a gravestone for
her first husband. Among Susannah's last request was the plea that
she might be buried besides her first husband. The four sons were
not sympathetic to her desire; besides, it would mean providing
another gravestone, since the inscriptions on the first left no
room for her name and record. She was therefore buried beside her
second husband and inscriptions for both were made on one monument.

Susannah married Nathan Mills Banfill, son of Benjamin Banfill and Sarah Mills, on 24 Jun 1839 in Potton Method. Circ. F2. (Nathan Mills Banfill was born on 1 Sep 1813 in Topsham, VT, died on 21 Mar 1881 in East Bolton Methodist Church and was buried in Union Cemetery South Bolton, Que..)

Susannah next married Nathan Taylor circa 1823 in South Bolton, Que. (Nathan Taylor was born in South Bolton, Que and died circa 1937-1938 in South Bolton, Que.)