Severance has his birth as May 1830
He married Emma J Kately on Dec 13,1862 at Colrain,MA. She was born about 1845, a daughter of John Kately III and Josephine ____ Kately. She remarried, on Jan 1,1866 at Greenfield,MA, to Allen Murdock(here?).
Children: one daughter, Eliza, born in 1863. She appears to be the "Lizzie" Nelson who married Charles Edward Newcomb in 1882, and she died in 1900 (findagrave)