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Caroline Edgerton, daughter of Eliphalet and Wealthy (Willard) Edgerton.

born:	October 8, 1805; Hartland, Windsor Co., VT.
died:	October 20, 1872; Bridgewater, Windsor Co., VT. (GI)
buried:	Mount Pleasant Cemetery; Bridgewater, Windsor Co., VT. (GI)

married:

October 27, 1830; Windsor, Windsor Co., VT. (MA Vermont Chronicle 10/29/1830)

Zopher Willard Furber, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Kimball) Furber.

born:	October 9, 1806; Dublin, Cheshire Co., NH.
died:	January 22, 1860; Tuttletown, Tuolumne Co., CA.

Children:

Emily Edgerton, b. August 21, 1831; Bridgewater, Windsor Co., VT.
Edwin Edgerton, b. December 9, 1833; Bridgewater, Windsor Co., VT.
Luther Edgerton, b. May 5, 1843; Bridgewater, Windsor Co., VT.
Mary Frances, b. January 26, 1845; Bridgewater, Windsor Co., VT.

The following biography of Zopher Willard Furber is extracted from The History of Windsor County, Vermont with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Lewis Cass Aldrich, ed.; Syracuse, New York: D. Mason & Co. Publishers;1891; pg. 64):

“Furber, Dr. Zopher W., was born in Dublin, N. H., October 9, 1806. He was graduated from Castleton Medical College, March 10, 1829. He married October 27, 1830, Caroline Edgerton, born in Hartford, Vt., October 8, 1808 [sic]. He commenced the practice of his profession in Weathersfield, Windsor county, Vt, then in Charlestown, N. H., where he secured an extensive practice. He next settled in Quechee, where he remained about four years. In 1840 he settled in Bridgewater, where he practiced his profession until 1852. In the latter year he went to California, where he died January 22, 1860. Twice during that period he returned East, with the intention of remaining, but was obliged, on account of the climate not agreeing with him, to go back to California. His primary object in going to California was for gold, but he also practiced his profession while there. He was an early Abolitionist, and was a staunch F'ree Soiler. He was held in high esteem as a man and as a physician in every community where he lived. Eliphalet Edgerton, his wife’s father, was a native of Norwich, Conn. He came
to Hartland and married there Wealthy Willard, a descendant of one of the early settlers of Windsor county. The children of Dr. and Caroline Furber are Emily Edgerton,
born August 21, 1831; Edwin Edgerton, born December 9, 1833, died November 15,1867; Luther Edgerton, born May 5, 1843; and Mary Frances, born January 26, 1845. Emily and Mary have carried on a millinery and ladies’ furnishing goods trade in Bridgewater for the last sixteen years. Luther Edgerton Furber married October 2, 1866,
Ellen, daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Clark) Headle. Mrs. Furber was born in Plymouth, Vt., March 1, 1844, one of a family of ten children, seven of whom are living. Mr.
Furber was educated in Bridgewater, and at Eastman’s Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was employed in the woolen factory now owned by F. S. Mackenzie, in different positions, for about twenty years. In 1870 he took charge of the company's boarding-house in the village of Bridgewater, and still retains that position. The children of Luther E. and Ellen Furber are Edwin E., born July 14, 1867, a student in the Harvard Medical College, Boston, and Alice E., born July 10, 1869, living at home.”