Notes for AZEL STEVENS ROE, SR:

Son of John and Susannah Ravaud (Stevens) Roe.
Born: August 16, 1798 in New York City, New York.
Died: November, 1887 in East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Buried: Town Street Cemetery, East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Occupation: Clerk, Wine-merchant and author.
Married: (1) Mary Walker August 16, 1819 in Unknown.
(2) Fanny Leffingwell Bartlett November 12, 1828 in East Windsor, Windor County, Connecticut.

Author. He received an academic education, and, after serving as a clerk in a mercantile house in New York, became a wine-merchant in that city He finally retired from business and settled at Windsor, Connecticut Having lost most of his property by freely indorsing for persons that subsequently failed, he applied himself successfully to literature He published "James Montjoy, or I've been Thinking" (New York, 1850); "To Love and be Loved" (1852); "Time and Tide, or Strive and Win" (1852) ; "A Long Look Ahead" (1855) ; "The Star and the Cloud" (1856), " True to the Last" (1859); "How could lie Help it?" (1860); "Looking Around" (1865); "Woman our Angel" (1866); "The Cloud in the Heart" (1869); and "Resolution, or the Soul of Power" (1871). Most of his works were republished in London.