Name: Knowles, Betsey C. (1808-1882)
Title: Member, Methodist Episcopal Church, Northfield, 1826.
Other Names: Cass, Betsey C.
Born: 03/11/1808
Birthplace: Northfield, NH
Died: 05/03/1882
Death Location: Tilton, NH
Residence: Northfield, NH 1808-1832
Sanbornton, NH 1832-1867
Tilton, NH 1867-1882
Nationality: American
Occupation: Housewife
Father: Knowles, William (1781-1864)
Mother: Thorn, Zilpha (1782-1876)
Relations: Second wife of William Dyer Cass; his first wife was Laura Worthen Sanborn (the maker of another sampler owned by the NHHS).
Spouse: Married William Dyer Cass (1792-1867), August 2, 1832.
Notes: Lucy R. H. Cross, History of Northfield, New Hampshire 1780-1905... Part II. Genealogies. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Company, 1905), 201-202.
Lucian Hunt, "Centennial Address at Northfield, New Hampshire," The Granite Monthly. A Magazine of History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, 4(October, 1880)1, 24.
Ezra S. Stearns, History of Plymouth, New Hampshire. Volume II. Genealogies. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Printed for the Town of Plymouth by the University Press, 1906), 100.
Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives