Provident Savings Life Association of New York, the trustees of the Columbia Association voted Mr. Parsons $5,000 of the preferred stock of the said association in exchange for his plans of organization, and he was annually re-elected secretary and treasurer of the corporation, which offices he held at his death.

The family burial-plot and obelisk are at Utica, N. Y., but Mr. Parsons is interred near East Northport. The stone marking his place of rest bears the following inscription:

"JOHN JEHIEL PARSONS.

Born at Wilson, New York, May 21, 1827,

Died at East Northport, L. I., April 24, 1894."

"He was a Lieutenant in the Militia, Brevet LieutenantColonel Camp of Instruction for Volunteers, 1861, an Ancient Scottish Rite Mason, 32d degree, and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church.

"A man of liberal education
And active, inquiring mind:
In all the duties of life
Uncorrupt and honorable:
Sympathetic and generous,
Wishing well to all:

Happy in himself

And agreeable to his associates,

He lived for others

And died rejoicing in the

Faith of Salvation through

Jesus Christ."

Mr. Parsons married, February 2, 1846, at Buffalo, N. Y., Sarah Volinda Averill, daughter of Corporal Samuel Averill, Jr., of Gowanda, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., a soldier of the War of 1812; he was the only son of Samuel Averill, Sr., of Randolph, Plymouth, and West Brookfield, Vt., who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, a brother of Asa Averill, and son of John', line of John3, William2, William1 Averill of Ipswich, Mass.

"The Averills have been public-spirited, decided and energetic in the performance of business and duty."— Cothren's "Woodbury."

The mother of Samuel Averill, Jr., of Gowanda, was Molly Barnes, of Concord, Mass. In her Bible, preserved for three generations in the family, she wrote, in her girlhood, the following lines:

"Molly Barnes is my name,

English is my nation;
Concord is my dwelling-place,
Christ is my salvation."

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THE CHILDREN OF BREVET LIEUTENANT-137
COLONEL JOHN JEHIEL PARSONS AND

SARAH AVERILL PARSONS.

I. Albert Ross Parsons, author of the "Synthetic
Method for the Pianoforte"; "Parsifal, the Finding of
Christ through Art"; "New Light from the Great
Pyramid”; and the present Parsons's Memorial, born
at Sandusky, O., September 16, 1847.

II. Marie Emilie Parsons, born at Buffalo, N. Y.,
June 13, 1851.

III. Ella Teresa Parsons, born at Buffalo, N. Y., July
18, 1854.

IV. Kate Burwell Parsons, born at Buffalo, N. Y.,
July 15, 1856.

V. Frederick Chester Parsons, born at Indianapolis,
Ind., November 21, 1859.

VI. Harriet Sophronia Parsons, born at Indianapolis,
Ind., March 11, 1862; died at Utica, N. Y., March 2,
1869.

VII. John Edward Parsons, born at Indianapolis,
Ind., March 27, 1865.

VIII. Horace Talbot Parsons, born at Indianapolis,
Ind., April 9, 1868; died at Utica, N. Y., March 6, 1862.

NOTE.-Detailed information as to Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel John Jehiel Parsons, and his descendants, will be
preserved in the custody of the New York Historical So-
ciety.