Ephraim Nash

  General Notes:

GEN: _FA1 GEN: PLAC Made pumps for the farmers in the area GEN: _FA2 GEN: PLAC Died at age 78From "The Nash Family or Records of the Descendants of Thomas Nash of New Haven, Connecticut 1640" by The GEN: Rev. Sylvester Nash GEN: They settled in that part of Hadley that is now called Moody's Corner (1850), in the town of Granby, about 2 miles from South GEN: Hadley Meeting House. His house is said to have stood a little south east of the present residence of Mr. Erastus Nash, one GEN: of his descendants. His vocation is not precisely known. There is an old account book yet extant which shows that he made GEN: pumps, but it is probable that his chief attention was turned to agriculture. GEN: Some of the descendants have a tradition that he lived with his son Elisha the latter part of his life, but in an old account GEN: book of Dr. Crouch of Hadley, yet extant, there is a charge against Eleazer Nash, for a visit to his Father as late as 1756; GEN: and Ephraim Nash died in 1759. GEN: His residence with Elisha must therefore have been short if at all. Of the death of his wife Joanna, there is no record. The GEN: following is the inscription on his grave stone, which stands in the burying ground near South Hadley Meeting House. GEN: 'In Memory of Ensign Ephraim Nash who died November 9, 1759, at age 78."

Ephraim married Joanna Smith, daughter of John Smith and Joanna Kellogg, on 10 Jan 1705 in So. Hadley, Hampshire, Mass. (Joanna Smith was born on 1 Sep 1686 in So. Hadley, Hampshire, Mass. and died after 1729.)