Nehemiah Tolles married Polly, daughter of Captain Jesse
Beecher. Their children were: Daniel, married Maria Newton; De
Etta, married Jerome Downs; and Christine, married Edward Beecher,
son of Lyman Beecher, and had one daughter, Leta Beecher. Edward
Beecher was elected representative from Bethany in 1878. He died
in 1881.