He is married to Frances Ann Conklin.
They got married on October 5, 1836 at Geneva, Ontario County, New York, he was 26 years old.
Child(ren):
JOSIAH J. FENTON, the youngest child of the Rev. War soldier JOHN FENTON and his second wife, ELIZABETH ROBERTS, was born 21 June 1810 Romulus, Seneca Co., New York, and died in San Francisco, California 9 November 1853.
Josiah J. Fenton was a deputy clerk in Seneca County, New York courthouse in the 1830s as evidenced by his signature on deeds recorded in that county. He is probably the same Josiah Fenton who ran for office on the Anti-Masonic ticket in 1831 from Waterloo, NY, and the man who was at the heart of the failure of the Farmers' Bank of Seneca County at Romulus, Seneca Co., NY in the 1840s, and received a prison sentence in 1843.
[References: John Fenton's Revolutionary War pension file R3494); Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State of New York. New York State Court of Chancery, Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, editor. Peabody v. Fenton, et al , pages 451-453; DAR application of Marjorie Fenton [DAR ID Number: 42790], DAR Lineage Books; Wyckoff, William Foreman: The Wyckoff Family in America: A Genealogy, page 6; Tryniski, Thomas M. "Old Fulton NY Postcards" and "Old Newspapers", Internet website http://fultonhistory.com/; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, December 12, 1853, page 2, column 3. Also, 1840 Fed census, Varick, Seneca Co., NY, page 237; 1850 Fed census, New York City Ward 15, New York Co., NY, p. 10-B The widow, Frances Conklin Fenton and her children John and Caroline and/or Carrie could not be located in the 1860 Fed census.]
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Josiah Fenton 40, clerk, born New York; Frances Fenton 29, born New York; John C Fenton 13, born New York; Caroline Fenton 10, born New York; Ernest Fenton 4, born New York; Margaret Concklin 50, born New York; Bridget Henry 19, born Ireland.