Ezekiel Lisander Bascom, b. 16 Apr 1820 in Gill, Franklin County, Massachusetts, d. 22 Oct 1876 in Gill, Franklin County, Massachusetts, son of Athenodorus Bascom & Esther Newton. He married Theresa Lucinda Ballard on April 23, 1850 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (Descendant of Thomas Bascom, who emigrated to this country about the year 1634, and finally settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he died May 3, 1682)