The Grandmothers/MEMORANDUM
A MEMORANDUM for the guidance of THE READER
HENRY TOWER had four brothers and one sister: HARRISON, JOHN, LEANDER, HILARY, and NANCY.
HARRISON TOWER married MARY HARRIS, Who had previously been married to a certain DR. BRANDON and to a man named CLEAVER.
LEANDER TOWER was a bachelor; and HILARY disappeared during the Civil War at the age of sixteen.
NANCY TOWER married JESSE DAVIS, to whom she bore one son, TIMOTHY, adopted after their death by her brother LEANDER.
HENRY TOWER married SERENA CANNON; their only son, OLIVER, died in infancy. After her death he married his brother LEANDER'S former sweetheart, ROSE HAMILTON. They had six children: POLLY and ADA, who did not live to maturity, JAMES, RALPH, EVAN, and FLORA.
JAMES married CAROLINE FIELDING and had no children.
EVAN, who changed his name to JOHN CRAIG, married SUSANNE ORFEO, a woman of French and Italian parentage, by whom he had one son, LEANDER ORFEO CRAIG.
FLORA was unmarried, and died at the age of twenty-nine.
RALPH married MARIANNE, the only daughter of IRA and URSULA DUFF. Their eldest son was named ALWYN.