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Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County Chronicle

Editor: Stafford C. Cleveland

May - August 1874

7 May 1874

Died of dropsy of the heart in Jerusalem at her home, Friday, April 17^th, 1874, Miss Ida A. Mariner, aged twenty years, one month and eight days. …

Died in the town of Geneva, April 22, 1874, Mrs. Catharine A., widow of the late Milo Thompson. The deceased was born in Bloomfield, Essex county, N.J., Sept. 16, 1804 and was in her seventieth year at the time of her death. She moved from New York City to Ithaca, Tompkins county. In 1848 she came to Geneva where she has since resided….—Geneva Gazette

Among the surviving children of the lady whose decease is here recorded are Miss Frances A. Thompson of this village, and T.C. Thompson, Esq., Superintendent of the Western Division of the Erie Railway at Dunkirk.

Samuel Griswold, long a citizen of Jerusalem, died at his home in that town on Saturday May 2, 1874, aged about sixty-five years.

Died in Torrey on the 16^th inst., Mr. Manchester Townsend, a life long resident of Yates county, aged 76 years. His father is said to have been the first blacksmith that opened a shop at or near Milo Center. His mother lived to be nearly 100 years old. They were from Pa., and in the early days of this country she made a trip on horseback to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., with a boy of four or five years of age behind her, and returned in like manner, bringing with her a bag of flour upon her saddle. Mr. Townsend was one of our earliest acquaintance in this section, in 1836. He was a companionable man, but was of late years of intemperate habits.—Dundee Record

Middlesex—Died very suddenly on South Hill Saturday morning at 9 o’clock the 26 inst., Mr. Luther Elwell, aged 75 years. He leaves a wife, nine children and many friends….—Naples Record

Died

• At Emporium, Cameron Co., Pa., on the 14^th ult., Mrs. Amanda Beers, widow of the late Deacon John Beers, formerly of Barrington.

14 May 1874

On Monday morning Mr. James Royce discovered a human body floating on the water in the outlet near Eastman’s warehouse in this village. The body was found to be that of a man who had been a long time in the water, and his clothing was completely covered with mud. Coroner Beaumont took charge of the case and summoned a jury …. The body was identified as that of Peter Maloney of Elmira, who came to this place about the 8^th of January last….

Rock Stream—Married on Thursday last, Mr. John Roberts of Rock Stream to Mrs. Sarah House of Watkins.

Died in Italy last week, George Rando, aged 42 years. He was buried at Overacker’s Corners on Thursday, Mr. Marks of this village having charge of the burial.—Naples Record

Died in Geneva, Ohio, on the 12^th ult., Mrs. Sarah, wife of Mr. Charles Lafever, who is a brother of Deacon Lewis J. Lafever of this town. Her age we have no means of knowing. Her maiden name was Coe, and when a girl she lived with her parents south of Eddytown on the farm now owned and occupied by Mr. D.W. Disbrow. Some few of our oldest citizens will probably remember the family.—Dundee Record

Died at his residence near Rushville, May 3, 1874, Mr. Simon Merrill in his 72^nd year. Mr. Merrill had resided in and near this village over 56 years. He had been twice married and buried his last wife nearly ten years ago. His wives names were Hinckley, and we believe were formerly from Naples. He leaves three children—daughters. Mrs. Dr. Wightman of Branchport, Mrs. Royal Raymond and an unmarried daughter who resides at the homestead.—Naples Record

Married

• At Clifton Springs April 29, 1874, by Rev. R. Corbin, Mr. Charles A. Moor of Rushville to Miss Liusa Stevens of the former place.

Died

• In New York on Wednesday, May 6, Phebe M. Culver, wife of Theron J. Paine, aged 29 years.
• At her home in this village, on Friday May 8^th, Eliza, wife of Jonathan Whitaker, in the thirty-third year of her age….

21 May 1874

William Youngs Hulse, Overseer of the Poor of the town of Jerusalem, who died on April 17^th in his sixty-fifth year, was born in Orange county. He was one of the six children of Edward P. Hulse. His first wife was Lucretia Millspaugh, a sister of Joseph Millspaugh, formerly living on the Daniel Stephenson farm. They had one son, Daniel M., who lives in Canandaigua. Lucretia died and after several years Mr. Hulse was married to Hetty Maria Millspaugh, sister of Edward, Levi, Charles and Lewis Millspaugh in the winter of 1843-44. They had two daughters, Hannah E., wife of F.O. Chamberlain formerly Superintendent of the Poor, then keeper of the Webster House, Canandaigua, and now engaged in farming. The second daughter Cornelia is the wife of George, son of Daniel B. Tuthill of Jerusalem….

…Our friend, Miss Sarah M. Dean, whose demise occurred week before last in Jerusalem was one of the best and most companionable of womankind…Her age, writing from recollection, was about forty-three. She has been a resident of the county during her life, and  of the town of Jerusalem for more than fifteen years past…                                              Miles

Aaron R. Wheeler, an ex-Sheriff of Seneca county died at Waterloo on Thursday last aged sixty-nine years.

Died in Fredonia May 13, 1874, of typhoid fever, Jennie N., second daughter of H.R. and Sophia E. Sanford, aged nearly nine and one-half years….

Married at the home of the bride at Potter Center, on Sunday, May 17, 1874, by Rev. Mr. Thorne, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Chauncey Weatherwax, Esq., of Penn Yan and Miss Emma, daughter of Milton Shutts, Esq., of Potter….

Died in Rushville May 13, 1874 of cancer, Mr. John N. Fisher, aged 60 years and 3 months. [He] was the eldest son of Mr. Peter Fisher of Gorham, [and] was born February 14, 1814, and has spent his entire life in this village and vicinity. He was married to Miss Ann Slover, September 28, 1835; they had five children, their eldest son, J.W. Fisher, resides in Canandaigua; the eldest daughter, Mrs. Vosberg, in Savannah, Ga.; another son, George Fisher, in Memphis, Tenn. Charles and a sister reside at Rushville.—Naples Record

28 May 1874

Amasa Smith died in Penn Yan on the 18^th inst., at the age of sixty-four years. Mr. Smith was for about thirty years a respected citizen of Bellona. For some time he was postmaster at that place. During the past few years he resided in Penn Yan.

Died in Starkey, May 13, 1874, at the residence of her son, John S. Almy, Mrs. Hannah Almy, wife of James T. Almy, in the eightieth year of her age. She was taken to Potter for burial, where she sleeps beside the mother of her husband, a lady who lived to the remarkable age of 103 years. The family resided about fifty years on the Green Tract in the northwest corner of Jerusalem. James T. Almy died in 1869, aged seventy-eight and his mother died in 1853.

Alexander T. Stewart, and exemplary citizen of this village…died at the residence of Geo. D. Stewart, Esq., on Wednesday night….—Democrat

Died in Catlin, Chemung county, April 25, 1874 of pneumonia, Mrs. Jane Mattison, wife of Mr. Isaac Mattison, aged about 67 years. Her maiden name was Bartholomew, a sister of David and Joseph Bartholomew formerly well known in this region. Her early life was spent here and for several years after her marriage she resided in Barrington where she was much respected….—Dundee Record

Mr. Frederick Burnham of Rushville came to Canandaigua to witness the balloon ascension. While here he was taken with one of the fits to which we understand he was subject. He was taken into the Webster House where he bled copiously. Two or three days after having sufficiently recovered to be moved, he was conveyed to his home in Rushville, where he died on Sunday the 17^th inst. His age was 48 years.—Ontario County Journal

Died in Starkey May 15^th, Mrs. Hannah Beyea, wife of John R. Beyea, aged 56 years. …Her remains were brought to Penn Yan for interment in “Lake View Cemetery” on Sunday last.—Democrat

Married

• On Wednesday May 20^th, 1874, in St. Luke’s church, Branchport, by the rector, the Rev. Cameron Mann, Julia Louisa Wheeler to John Navarre Macomb, Jr.

4 June 1874

Mrs. Mary A. Donaldson, the divorced wife of the celebrated balloonist, was married at Reading, Penn., on Thursday evening last, to Thomas Nankervis of Berks county, a handsome young fellow who had just returned from working in the Lake Superior copper mines. The parties had first met and made each other’s acquaintance in the forenoon of that day.

From the Warsaw (Ill.) Bulletin—Elizabeth Cole, widow of the late Smith M. Cole was born in the state of New York February 1^st, 1791, and died May 12^th, 1874, aged 83 years, 8 months and 11 days.  She resided in her native state until three years ago when she came to this city to make her home with her son, Calvin Cole, Esq….

John Metcalf, brother of Jabez H. and Hiram Metcalf of Naples died at his residence in that place on Saturday the 16^th ult., aged 49 years….Most of his life had been spent in the vicinity where he lived.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, a notice of whose decease we copy from an Illinois paper, was one of the earliest born among the white settlers of Yates county. Her father, James Scofield, was one of the very first settlers within the present boundaries of Penn Yan. Her life was mostly spent within a brief distance of her birthplace.

William Rodney a classmate of ex-Governor Seymour in Hobart College, and long a teacher of note in Geneva, died in that place May 24^th at the age of seventy years.

Married

• By the Rev. G.M. Peters, at the residence of the bride’s aunt Mrs. S.J. Sprague, on Wednesday May 17^th, 1874, Sarah M. Frost of Penn Yan to James P. Fulton of Stanley.

Died

• In Barrington on the 19^th ult., after a long illness of years, Mrs. Mary Maples, wife of Mr. Isaac H. Maples, aged 67 years.

11 June 1874

Dr. C.C. Cameron of Rondout committed suicide in New York on Sunday last. He had formerly resided in Oswego, Kansas, and was highly esteemed by Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Hobart who had employed him as a physician. Pecuniary embarrassment so disheartened him that he took laudanum and finished his existence.

An Express robber was killed on the Michigan Central railway one evening in the early part of last week. He was shot by the messenger whom he attempted to kill and rob while the train was in motion. It is said he was afterward identified as a person by the name of Quenan, connected with a circus and belonging at Penn Yan. He is therefore supposed to be a son of one Patrick Quenan who was killed several years ago by falling from the railway bridge in this place. …

Died at the residence of Andrew Finger in Benton on Sunday June 7, 1874, Henry Barnes, aged eighty-five years. Since the death last year of Rachel Ingraham and Experience (Ingraham) Barnes, Henry Barnes has been…the only survivor of the Society of Public Universal Friends. The last one now is gone. [He] was born in Connecticut early in the year of 1789, and was the youngest of four children, all sons of  Samuel Barnes and Abigail Dains his wife….Abigail was a sister of Jonathan, Castle and Ephraim Dains, who came to the New Jerusalem…with the Friend’s Society. It was in March 1793, when Henry was four years old, that his parents…came to the Friend’s Settlement….Twice he was married after he was forty-six years old; first to Sarah, sister of Dr. David Whiting, and after her death to Elizabeth, widow of David Mills of Benton, who died several years ago….He has been much indebted to the kindness of two of his nieces, daughters of his brother Samuel Barnes. It was at the home of one of these, Rosetta (wife of Andrew Finger), that he has found his home for the past two or three years….His body was laid to rest in the southwest Benton cemetery.

Died at her home near Penn Yan, June 4^th, in the 57^th year of her age, Mrs. Mary E. Shannon, wife of Deacon Geo. W. Shannon. [She] was born at Northumberland, Saratoga county, January 20^th, 1816….In her 19^th year she was married to Mr. Darius Gould, but was left a widow with three little children at the early age of twenty-five. After remaining a widow for eight years she was again married to Mr. George W. Shannon in the year 1852, since which time the vicinity of Penn Yan has been her home….P.

The descendants of Otis Barden removed last week from their family burying ground on the old homestead premises in Benton, the remains of their buried friends to the public cemetery at Bellona. Among the graves thus removed was that of James Parker, one of the foremost pioneers of the Friend’s Society.

Benjamin Bush, residing near Bellona, came to his death by paralysis on Sunday night last, at the age of forty-eight years. On Friday afternoon while riding home from Geneva he was stricken with paralysis and fell from his wagon. He lingered insensible about two days before he expired. He was a son of the late John L. Bush.

Died

• Of dropsy, May 14^th, 1874, at the residence of her son, J.W. Payne of Benton, Sarah, wife of John Payne, in the 77^th year f her age.
• At Branchport June8th, Barney Paris, aged fifty-three years.

18 June 1874

Hon. Francis Kernan, while at Binghamton yesterday as one of the attorneys in the Dwight trial, received a telegram announcing the death of his daughter, Mrs. McCarthy of Syracuse.

The earth was last week heaped above the remains of one of our old citizens [Barney Paris]. He was born in Montgomery county in Palatine, September 14, 1821, and was one of the fourteen children of James and Nancy Paris. Their names were James, John, Frederic, Barney, Charles, Ann, Jacob S., Hiram, David H., Peter, Mary (wife of Lorenzo Caple), Tyler and three others. The father, James, died at Fred. Paris’ house a few years since. James Jr., a drover and hotel keeper died soon after the war. Barney was married to Jane Lynn daughter of Daniel (senior) and Jane Lynn on March 8^th, 1850. They have no children. An adopted daughter has lived with them a number of years. Barney has lumbered with Peter H. Bitley; kept the Branchport Hotel; also a boarding house and restaurant….

William Haines, son of Daniel Haines of Benton, aged seventeen years, dropped dead of heart disease on Friday the 5^th inst.

Branchport—A boy was presented to Duane H. Hurd and wife on Tuesday morning. Mother and son are doing well, and all are happy.

25 June 1874

Died in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon last the 18^th inst., …Mrs. Harriet N., wife of Mr. Elisha W. Fargo, commission merchant of New York, aged 52 years. The deceased was a daughter of the late Samuel Wise, Esq., a resident of Yates county many years ago, owning and residing upon the fine farm now possessed by Hon. Guy Shaw. He removed to New York, where he died….[She] leaves…two children: George Lee Fargo, and a married daughter Mrs. Julia, wife of Mr. George Wilde—all of Brooklyn. Also, one brother and three sisters, viz., Mr. John J. Wise of Penn Yan; Mrs. Adaline Stark of Chicago; Mrs. Augusta, wife of Judge McGrew of San Quentin, Ca.; and Mrs. Mary, wife of Edgar Hyatt, merchant of New York, residing in Brooklyn.

Died June 15^th, 1874, in Leavenworth, Kansas, Mrs. Maria W. Taylor, widow of James Taylor Esq., formerly of Penn Yan, aged 79 years. …She was born in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer county in 1795, and there in 1819 married James Taylor, to whom till his death four and one-half years ago she was a most unselfish and devoted wife….

2 July 1874

Edgar Adams, a citizen of Middlesex, died of consumption, June 22d, at the age of thirty years.

Died of consumption at the residence of his uncle, Dudley W. Dox, in Torrey June 21, 1874, Ernest B. Dox, at the age of twenty-seven years. The deceased was a son of Peter G. Dox formerly of Albany and his wife Susan L., oldest daughter of Abraham Dox. He had resided with his uncle in Torrey during the past six years….

Isaac VanTuyl, for many years a resident of Jerusalem, died at Townsend’s Settlement a few miles west of Watkins, Schuyler county, on June 27^th, aged seventy-two years. The funeral services were held at Kinney’s Corners. His remains were interred in the private burial ground of the associate of the Friend, Sarah Luther, on East Hill. The farm is now owned and occupied by Albert V. Dean….

Died at Starkey…on Wednesday, June 24, 1874, Miss Clara, second daughter of Smith B. Elliott, aged twenty-three years….The funeral services were held in the Seminary Chapel, sermon by Rev. A.T. Abbott of Stanfordville, and burial in the cemetery near the residence of N.T. Webb.

Married

• On Friday, June 19, by Judge James W. Fowler at his office, Henry Edger of New York to Marie Andreef, formerly of –bourg in the Government of Yitshak, Russia.

Died

• In Barrington on the 20^th ult., Mrs. Patty Smith, wife of Mr. Warren Smith, aged 42 years.

9 July 1874

Died at his residence in the town of Torrey, Wright Brown, Esq., on Sunday June 28^th, aged 78 years. Mr. Brown has been a resident of the locality since 1808, and was the son of Wright Brown, who was born in New Hampshire in 1750, and was associated with his father in the French war and afterwards in the Revolution….[The] Mr. Wright Brown of whom we write was born June 1, 1796, and he was the fourth child of a second marriage. Mr. Brown the father was induced to emigrate to this section and in 1808 settled on what remained his homestead about forty acres, and also formed a portion of the son during his life, he having added many acres to it. Mr. Brown married Emily King of Port Byron, and they have four children—Sarah D. Margaret R., Richard K. and Justina B. The two last named are unmarried and reside on the homestead with the mother….

A Mrs. Cassiday, her sister and her little son, residing in Hector, Schuyler county, took refuge in the cellar during a thunder shower on Monday, June 29^th. Mrs. Cassiday escaped uninjured, but her sister, who stood on one side of her, and her son on the other, were both killed.

The New York Times says the robber who was killed some time ago while attempting to rob the Express Messenger on the Michigan Central Railroad, has been fully identified as Charles Queenan. His supposed confederate, Eugene Bassler, who secured $2750 in money and left Queenan to his fate, has been arrested.

Barzillai Slosson died at his home in Geneva on Sunday, June 28, at the age of sixty-four years. He had resided there about forty years….

Married at the residence of Col. O.G. Loomis on Monday, June 17^th, by Rev. J.M. Powell, Rev. F.A. Trippett of the West Virginia Conference, M.E. Church, to Miss Mary A. Loomis, all of Mason county, West Virginia….—Point Pleasant [Mason Co., West Virginia] Weekly Register

Married at the home of the bride in Penn Yan, on Thursday, June 25, 1874, by Rev. M.S. Leet, Rev. Marcellus A. Churchill of Buffalo and Miss Jennie R., only daughter of Benjamin L. Hoyt, Esq….

On Tuesday of last week Allen Andrews, eighty-four years old, who had for a long time been a resident of Starkey, left for Michigan to reside with his daughter. He was accompanied by his son, Dr. J.M. Andrews of New York city. This last winter he buried his wife and a son, Chester Andrews, and since that time has felt very much alone in the world.

[Died] in Barrington, on the 21^st inst., after an illness of two days, Mrs. Amy Dean, widow of the late Levi C. Dean, aged nearly 77 years. Her maiden name was Inscho; was born near Belvidere, Sussex county (now Warren), N.J. in August 1797. Her father died while she was a child, and her mother married as a second husband to whom she was a second wife, Mr. Peter Beam, Sen., of her native place. In June 1809 Mr. Beam came to this town with his family, among whom Amy was numbered, and with whom she lived until some sixty years ago, when she married Mr. Levi C. Dean….They lived in quiet and peace in marital union until March 1869, when he died suddenly leaving her on the little farm where they had lived in Barrington…They had reared eight children, four sons and four daughters, and all of these with one exception are supposed to still survive…--Dundee Record

16 July 1874

Mrs. Mary C. Wadsworth, widow of the late Gen. James S. Wadsworth, died in New York June 30^th, at the age of sixty-two years.

Died on Monday July 13, 1874, at the residence of Dr. R.R.C. Bordwell, Mrs. Sarah E. Kenyon, widow of the late Green Kenyon, aged sixty-eight years. [She] was before marriage Sarah E. Austin, and was a native of Providence, Rhode Island, from which state she and her husband…who died in 1866, came to this county many years ago. They lived formerly in Milo and more recently in Jerusalem….

Married on Wednesday July 8 at the residence of the bride at Rock Stream, by Rev. William Henry of New York, Mr. B.F. Hitchcock of Cincinnatus, Cortland county, to Miss Helen Hewey.

Died in Starkey July 11, Frank J. Hall, at the age of twenty years…

23 July 1874

Rev. Henry Boehm, the patriarch of American Methodism, was 100 years old June 8. He has been a preacher 73 years.

There died in Ogdensburg recently one of the oldest, if not the very oldest person in the county. His name was John Spooner. Mr. Spooner was born at Cedars, Quebec on the 2^nd of January 1773, three years before the Declaration of Independence.

David Stiles died at Dubuque, Iowa, September 24^th, 1873, aged one hundred and eight years….

Died at her son-in-law’s, Elnathan R. Hunt, Esq., in Potter, on Thursday July 15^th…Mrs. Lydia Weare, widow of the late Daniel G. Weare of Potter….Born in 1784, she was married at Whately, Mass., in 1811. In 1812 they emigrated to Western New York, and settled in the town of Seneca near what was once the old Glass factory about two miles south of Geneva….In 1819 the family took up their residence in the town of Potter, then Middlesex…Mr. Weare died at Potter Center in 1863…Their family consisted of four daughters and three sons surviving, viz: S.C. Weare of Benton; Dr. Daniel G. Weare of Fairport; Orrin D. of Oregon; Mrs. H.B. Williams of Palmyra; Mrs. Elnathan R. Hunt of Potter; Mrs. Henry Lazarus of Jerusalem; and Mrs. Delight Case, now of Michigan.

Almost simultaneously with the coming of the Weare family to the town of Potter was that of Mr. George Hunt and wife and son, Elnathan R., their only child, from North Kingston, R.I. in 1820. …Mrs. Hunt’s maiden name was Harriet Ross. She was a sister of Mrs. Geo. G. Wyman of Potter, was born in Connecticut in 1787, and died at her more recent home in Jerusalem February 11, 1874, leaving her aged husband now in his eighty-third year….W.

Frank J. Hall, of whose sickness and death a brief notice has appeared in several papers, was a son of Mr. James M. and Mrs. Phebe M. Hall. He was born in Eddytown May 20^th, 1855, where he died July 11, 1874, aged 19 years, one month and twenty-one days….A.F.C.

Hermann Misward was the name of the man found dead near Rock Stream on the Lake Shore a short time since. Papers found on his person identified him as a Prussian soldier twenty-six years of age. He had a furlough of two years, dated Dec. 24, 1873.

It is with profound regret that we hear of the death on Sunday last of our old friend John Perryman of Middlesex, at the age of seventy-one years. …He was a native of Rhode Island, and has been a resident of Middlesex for most of his active life….

Died in Dresden June 10^th, 1874, Mrs. Kinney, aged seventy-one years. Mrs. Kinney had for a number of years been living with her son William, her husband having been killed by an accident on the railroad some years ago (the Erie, I think). She leaves several daughters in this section: Mrs. William Hause of Watkins; Mrs. John J. Smith and Mrs. Ira B. Fowler of Starkey.—Express

Miss Ruth Van Etten of Owasco, Cayuga county, came to her death in Watkins Glen last Thursday by an unlucky fall from the rocks….She was an intelligent young lady of twenty-five years and was accompanied by friends who were horror stricken by the terrific casualty….

Died after a short sickness in Orange, Schuyler county, the wife of John B. Ackley. The family were for many years residents of Starkey….A husband and two daughters remain, one of the latter is the wife of William Chapman still resident in this town.

From the Schuyler County Democrat—A few weeks ago, about the 17^th of June, a notice appeared in the daily New York Tribune stating the death of a Mr. Armitage of England. It went on to say that Mr. Armitage on his death-bed stated that in 1859 he was in this country and in the village of Dundee. That he secretly married a young lady named Candace Bliven, second or third daughter of John Bliven of that place. After the marriage he left Dundee and left his wife there, and has never been back to claim her…She that was Candace Bliven is still living and at once corroborated the story….It is believed that Armitage was than a younger son of some of the nobility of England…and that the marriage had to be kept still in order not to jeopardize his interest in the property…Whether the lady will come into possession of any property… remains to be seen.

30 July 1874

In the obituary notice of Mrs. George Hunt published last week, we learn that her age was stated at too great a figure by ten years. An incident of her life which should have been mentioned is the fact that she was the first silk grower in Yates county….

Mrs. Sarah Truesdell, wife of C.E. Truesdell, died of typhoid fever in Syracuse July 14, in the sixty-fourth year of her age. Till within about a year past she has resided in Starkey since an early age when she came from the eastern part of the state with the family of her father the late Nathaniel Huson. Among her sisters remaining are Mrs. Alonzo Simmons of Reading and Mrs. Eli Townsend of Starkey. Dr. R.H. Huson of Lawrence, Kansas, is her brother.

[Died] in Syracuse on the 14^th inst…Mrs. Sally Truesdell, wife of Mr. Charles Truesdell, formerly of this town, in the 64^th year of her age. Her maiden name was Huson. She was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Nathaniel Huson, Sen., who once owned the farm now owned by Mr. T.J. Conklin near this village. She was born in Columbia county but came here with her parents when young….—Dundee Record

Died

• At Milo Center, Wednesday evening, July 22, Mrs. Mary L. Springsted, wife of William Springsted, aged 26 years.

6 August 1874

Henry V. Prime, a colored man died in Havana, July 17^th, 43 years old who was the first colored juror drawn in the state. He was a citizen highly esteemed.

Rev. Thomas S. Sheardown, long known as a prominent and effective evangelist of the Baptist denomination, died at his home in Troy, Bradford Co., Pa., on Thursday evening, July 30, 1874, in the eighty-third year of his age. He was born in the county of Lincoln, England, in 1791….

Died at his residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, July 28^th, James S. Rogers. Born in Sussex Co., New Jersey in 1811, Mr. Rogers removed to Jerusalem in 1833 and occupied the same homestead until his death….He leaves a wife and six children….

13 August 1874

John Stanton Gould died in Hudson on Saturday…in his sixty-third year. He was for some years President of the State Agricultural Society….

Died at his residence near Rushville, on Wednesday Aug. 5^th, 1874, after a brief illness, Mr. Joseph Blodgett, aged 81 years, 9 months and 8 days. Mr. Blodgett was born at Clinton, Oneida county, Oct. 27^th, 1792, and was the second child of a family of 9 children, 6 of whom survive, and are all over 70 years of age. He was the son of Lubin [sic] Blodgett, a revolutionary soldier and one of the early pioneers to this town. He came to this vicinity in 1806, when Joseph was about 14 years old, and made the first clearing on the farm since known as the Blodgett farm, and on which his son Joseph resided at the time of his death. Aug. 9^th, 1816, Joseph Blodgett was married to Miss Caroline Catlin; they had 8 children, of whom only 2 survive—a daughter, Mrs. Forbes, living in a western state, and a son, Mr. Albert Blodgett, who resides on the old homestead. The mother died some years since—a second wife is still living. Mr. Blodgett possessed many estimable qualities, and was highly respected by all who knew him.—Naples Record

Married

• In Benton, Aug 7^th, by Rev. A.C. Mallory, Mr. Willard Hopkins of Potter and Miss Mary Ann Tears of Benton.
• In Penn Yan on Wednesday morning Aug. 12, 1874, by Rev. J.J. Payne, Mr. George F. Seeley and Miss Cora, daughter of Nehemiah Raplee of Milo.

Died

• In Penn Yan on Tuesday evening, August 4, 1874, Samuel R. Conklin, aged 54 years.
• In Dresden, August 7, Merrick Burgess aged seventy-seven years.
• In Albany on Friday, Aug. 6, Emma L., only child of D. Stewart and Nellie L. Capell, aged seven months.

Dewitt C. Cole, whose death on Saturday is noticed by our Branchport correspondent, was a son of Simeon Cole and a worthy and highly respected citizen. He was born March 22, 1835, and consequently was thirty nine years four months and sixteen days old. At the funeral Rev. J.J. Payne preached a very impressive discourse.

Branchport—Dewitt C., son of Simeon Cole, was buried here on Sunday. He died of brain fever and is supposed to have never recovered from the effects of a kick from a horse which he received when a youth….He leaves a widow and children.

Our aged physician, Dr. Wynans Bush and wife celebrated their golden wedding on July 30^th. They have reared a numerous family….

Starkey—On Tuesday of last week Horace Sweezey was son-struck. Weight of the baby nine pounds and all are doing well.

A Mrs. Shearer, probably the oldest resident of Chemung county, died at the residence of her son in the town of Chemung, last week aged 98.

20 August 1874

Died at the residence of her son, John Benton, in Franklin county, Indiana, on Thursday, July 16^th, 1874, Mrs. Amy Benton, widow of the late Joseph Benton, at the age of eighty-five years, five months and fifteen days. [She] was in early life a resident of what is now the town of Benton. Her father, Joseph Reynolds, was a pioneer settler of that town, coming there when it was embraced within the district of Jerusalem. She was born February 1^st, 1789, and in 1807 she married Joseph Benton, a son of the noted pioneer from whom the town takes its name. Joseph Benton was a surveyor and was largely employed surveying land. He also surveyed a large number of the roads laid out in this new country previous to 1817. In that year the families of Joseph Benton, Dr. Calvin Fargo, whose wife was a cousin of Joseph Benton, Robert Havens, whose wife was a sister of Joseph Benton, Benjamin Boots, whose wife was a sister of Mrs. Joseph Benton, and Joseph Thorpe, whose wife was also a sister of Mrs. Joseph Benton, all emigrated from Township No. 8, now Benton, by way of Olean and the Ohio river to Franklin county, Indiana….Joseph Benton died in 1872 aged eighty-nine years….

George W. Bartlett died in Italy July 29, 1874, aged fifty-nine years. He was born in that town July 3, 1815 and has always resided there, a bachelor.

Died of consumption near Rome, N.Y., July 21, 1874, Mrs. Mary Hicks, aged about forty-five years. Her maiden name was Palmer, and for several years she lived in Starkey, where she leaves a brother, John Palmer, and a sister, Mrs. E.A. Lanning….X.Y., Starkey, Aug. 18, 1874

Died in Starkey near Dundee, July 10^th, 1874, Mrs. Elizabeth Kinney, widow of the late Henry Kinney…aged 66 years, 10 months and 17 days. Her maiden name was Rockefeller. She was born in Columbia county in 1807—came with her parents to Milo in 1822, and was married to Mr. Kinney in 1824 and commenced married life there where they remained until 1832, when they changed their residence to the town of Barrington….In 1853 they came to Starkey, and on May 8, 1858, Mr. Kinney…was killed by a collision of cars on the Erie railroad….—Dundee Record

Died in this village on the 7^th inst.,…Mr. Lewis R. Littell, youngest son of Mr. William and Mrs. Elizabeth Littell, aged about 33 years.  He was born in Barrington….—Dundee Record

Married

• In Dundee, at the M.E. parsonage by Elder U.S. Hall on the 8^th inst., Mr. Eugene Tenant and Miss Florence A. Rapalee, only daughter of Henry S. Rapalee of Milo.

Died

• In Dundee on the 10^th inst.,…Mrs. Catharine Shoemaker, wife of Mr. Smith Shoemaker, aged 57 years….—Record

27 August 1874

Died very suddenly at his residence in this village on Saturday evening, August 22, 1874, Jacob Meserole, at the age of seventy-one years and seven months. [He] was born within the boundaries of the present city of Brooklyn. His family were the first settlers in Bushwick, now known as Green Point. His wife Ann Remsen also belonged to a family of early settlers on Long Island….They were married in 1829, and two years later purchased and settled on the place then known as the Jonathan Hall farm in east Benton, where they resided till 1863. They then moved to Penn Yan, where Mrs. Meserole died in 1872, at the age of seventy-one years. They had five children. Their oldest son Jeremiah Remsen died in 1845 at twenty-two. Their second son Peter married Louisa Stone of Trumansburg and was a hardware merchant in Penn Yan from 1851 to 1857. He then moved to Red Wing, Minnesota…His health failing, he returned to Trumansburg and died in 1867 at thirty-eight. The oldest daughter Elizabeth married first John P. Banks, a son of Summers Banks of Benton, in 1853. He died in 1856 leaving a daughter, and she subsequently married William Roy of Torrey. Catharine is the wife of Mason L. Baldwin, and Matilda is the wife of Silas Kinne….

Died at his home in Benton on Saturday August 22, 1874, Frank Lewis, youngest son of Thomas J. Lewis, aged nearly twenty-six years….

Died in Havana on Monday, August 17^th, 1874, Amos Brown, D.D., LL.D., in the seventy-first year of his age….

Jefferson Fraser….[died] in the city of Brooklyn last Monday….He was born at Hector, Schuyler county, forty-seven years ago. His wife was Miss Amie Harrington of Westfield, Chautauqua county, who with six children survives him…Mr. Fraser has two sisters and a mother living, the former being Mrs. S.C. Cleveland of Penn Yan, and Mrs. J.K. Ingalls of Glenora. His mother lives with the latter named.

Mr. Jefferson Fraser, only brother of Mrs. S.C. Cleveland, died in Brooklyn on Monday (Aug. 24) at the age of forty-seven years.

Died in Hopeton on Sunday evening, August 23, 1874, Mary Gill, wife of Michael Gill, aged fifty-four years….

Spencer Coon of Geneva was burned to death in his own house on Wednesday night of last week….

Died in Barrington on the 31^st ult.,… Mrs. Elizabeth Rose VanGorden, wife of John D. VanGorden, aged 47 years. She was formerly of Bradford. Some nineteen years ago she became the second wife of Mr. VanGorden who had a family of eight children….—Dundee Record