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BACON, Caroline
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Name BACON, Caroline Birth 1807 New York, USA
Gender Female Death 1892 Person ID I1841 Edgoose Last Modified 30 Jan 2026
Father BACON, Maskiel d. Yes, date unknown Mother HUDSON, Sarah d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F2764 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 SCOTT, Joseph, b. 1796 d. 1856 (Age 60 years) Children 1. SCOTT, Charles H., b. 1844 d. 1859 (Age 15 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F871 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family 2 STEBBINS, Joseph Bardwell, b. 27 May 1809, Granby, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA
d. 14 May 1837 (Age 27 years) Marriage UNKNOWN Children 1. STEBBINS, Sarah L., b. 1834, New York State, USA
d. 29 Jun 1874, Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA
(Age 40 years)2. STEBBINS, Martha d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F983 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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CAROLINE BACON 1807-1892
Caroline BACON (1807-1892) married Joseph Bardwell STEBBINS before 1834. Their daughter Sarah L. STEBBINS (1834-1874) married John Lewin EDGOOSE (1827-1889) at Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA, on 29 October 1851.
After the death of her husband Joseph Bardwell STEBBINS she married Joseph SCOTT, a widower. She gave birth to a son Charles H. SCOTT in 1844. He died in 1859. At the time of the 1860 US Federal Census, she was living with her daughter Sarah and son-in-law John EDGOOSE in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA.
The 1860 US Federal Census of Paris, Kenosha, Wisconsin, lists the following household:
John EDGOOSE, aged 33, a farmer, with real estate worth $3700, born in England;
Sarah EDGOOSE, aged 26, born in New York;
*Caroline SCOTT, a female, aged 53, born in New York.
(Ancestry.com)
(GenealogyBank: Weekly Racine Advocate (Racine, Wisconsin), 7 January 1863)
"....following accounts were allowed---
Wm. M. CREARY. Inquest.. $1 00
Caroline SCOTT, restoring Records 7 00
John EDGOOSE, ditto ditto 6 00
Board (of Supervisors) adjourned until the first Monday in January, A.D. 1863
D. P
. WOOSTER, Clerk Board Supervisors."
JOSEPH SCOTT 1796-1856
Caroline BACON (1807-1892) married Joseph Bardwell STEBBINS before 1834. Their daughter Sarah L. STEBBINS (1834-1874) married John Lewin EDGOOSE (1827-1889) at Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA, on 29 October 1851.
After the death of her husband Joseph Bardwell STEBBINS Caroline married Joseph SCOTT, a widower. She gave birth to a son Charles H. SCOTT in 1844. He died in 1859. At the time of the 1860 US Federal Census, she was living with her daughter Sarah and son-in-law John EDGOOSE in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA.
A photograph of his gravestone at Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USA, is difficult to decypher.
(www.find-a-grave.com)
GenealogyBank.com: Weekly Racine Advocate (Racine, Wisconsin), 7 January 1863:
"....following accounts were allowed---
Wm. M. CREARY. Inquest.. $1 00
Caroline SCOTT, restoring Records 7 00
John EDGOOSE, ditto ditto 6 00
Board (of Supervisors) adjourned until the first Monday in January, A.D. 1863
D. P. WOO
STER, Clerk Board Supervisors."
GenealogyBank.com: Weekly Racine Advocate (Racine, WI), 4 October 1865:
"IN PROBATE.---COUNTY COURT RACINE COUNTY.---In the matter of the Estate of JOSEPH SCOTT, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of John EDGOOSE and Caroline SCOTT, administrators of the estate of said deceased, representing among other things, that they have fully administered the estate of said deceased, and paid all debts of saidased, and the expenses of administration, and praying that a time and place be appointed for examining and allowing their final account of their administration. It is ordered, that said account be examined by the Judge of this Court on
Thurday, the 12 day of October, A. D. 1865.
at 10 o'clock A.M. of that day, at the office of said Judged, in the city of Racine in said county.
And it is further ordered, thot [sic] notice thereof be given to all persons interested, by publishing a copy of this order for one week prior to said day of examination, in the Racine Advocate , a weekly newspaper printed and published atd city of Racine.
Dated Oct. 8d, 1865.
By the Court,
JOHN B. ADAMS,
County Judge."
(revised 06.11.2022)
The 1870 US Federal Census of Paris, Kenosha, Wisconsin, lists:
John EDGOOSE, aged 40, farmer, born in England;
Sarah L. EDGOOSE, aged 35, keeping house, born in New York;
*Caroline SCOTT, aged 62, boarding, born in New York.
(Ancestry.com)
(revised 06.11.2022)

