Born: 01 Feb 1801 Wolcott, New Haven, CT Married: to Elijah W Bronson 16 April 1818 Southington, Hartford Co., CT  Died:  4 May 1863  TN FATHER Jeremiah (Jerry) Moulthrop MOTHER Sarah Upson HUSBAND Elijah W. Bronson CHILDREN 1. Emily Bronson b.  01 Jul 1820 2. George Egbert Bronson b. 25 Jan 1823 3. Charles Bronson b. 01 Apr 1825 4. Sarah F. Bronson b. 03 Oct 1827 5. Dwight Bronson b. 21 Sep 1829 6. Henry Bronson b. 03 Aug 1832  d. 15 Sep 1851 Memphis, TN 7. Hester Ann Bronson 26 May 1834 8. Robert Lucas Bronson b. 24 Feb 1836 9. Ely Merrick. Bronson 18 Dec 1838

photo courtesy of David Gary

Frances (Fanny) Moulthrop
by Susan Brooke
Aug 2021

From the marriage records of 1st Congregational Church, Fanny Molthrop married Elijah W. Brunson in Southington on April 16, 1818. (1)  In the same records there is a record of Hester B. Molthrop  marrying Joseph Neal on Oct. 20, 1812.  A Rev. Ogden baptized (in the same church) Charles Elijah, Orsephus Billings, Sarah Maria and Edward Gustavus, children of Joseph Neal. (2) Since the bible record above states that Fanny was married at Joseph Neal's it is safe to assume Hester was her sister or half sister. (3)
Fanny moved with her husband to Twinsburg, Ohio in 1819 (see page for her husband).  In the 1830 and 1840 census records there was an elderly lady living with them, probably Fanny's mother, Sarah.  However, in 1850, Fanny and Elijah were in White Co., TN and Fanny's mother died in Twinsburg, Summit Co., OH in 1853. 
Two of their sons were deaf and were sent to Columbus to the Ohio Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb around 1835.
The Methodist Episcopal church in Warrensville was effected November 12, 1837.  Fanny Bronson was one of the first members. (4)
By 1850 Fanny and her husband and most of her 9 children were in Tennessee.  The Civil War must have brought considerable pain to this family.  They were split over their loyalties as was most of that part of Tennessee.  Elijah and Fanny had a grandson fighting with the Union army until 1861, a son-in-law who was killed fighting for the Confederacy on July 4, 1863 and a son, fighting for the Confederacy, who was captured  Nov 25, 1863. (see page for Elijah W Bronson)   In 1860 their son, George E. Bronson, named a child, Abraham Lincoln Bronson.  His brother, Robert Lucas Bronson, countered by naming his son Jefferson Davis Bronson in 1861. 
Two years later Fanny Moulthrop Bronson died of cancer on 4 May 1863 at the age of 62.

Sources

(1) Sketch of Southington, Conn., by Rev. Heman R. Timlow, Hartford, 1875, page 240

(2) Sketch of Southington, Conn. by Rev. Heman R. Timlow, Hartford, 1875 pages 244 and 277

(3) Elijah W Bronson born: Jan 12, 1794      Fanny Bronson born: Feb 1, 1801      Elijah W Bronson and Fanny Bronson married at Southington at Joseph Neals, April 16, 1818      Fanny Bronson died of cancer on the 4th of May 1863      E. W. Bronson married to Jane McBride July 23, 1865 in White Co., Tenn.

Bible of Elijah Bronson

Bible transcribed by DAR

Samuel Delaney

(4)   History of Cuyahoga County in three parts pg. 530 and pg. 533.