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Vital
Records Extracted from the Yates County Chronicle
Editor:
Stafford C. Cleveland
May
- August 1875
6 May 1875
Married
- By the Rev. Wm. Laurie at Penn Yan, April
17th, 1875, Mr. Lemuel C.
Benham to Miss Franc S. Mosher.
- In Penn Yan, April 29th,
1875, by Rev. T. R. Peters, Mr. James I.
Lent of Sheffield, England
and Miss Ida C. Hubbard of this place.
Died
- In Jerusalem, Friday,
April 30th, 1875, of diphtheria, Philip, youngest child
of Jackson and Lillian Brown.
The Wellsville (Allegany county) Reporter
of last week has an extended obituary notice of Charles H. Simmons, who died
in that place April 22 at the age of forty-two years. It is stated that Mr.
Simmons was born in Penn Yan in 1833. His parents soon after moved to Allegany
county. At the age of sixteen he opened a store at Oswayo, Potter county, Pa.,
where he accumulated a considerable property. In 1864 he removed to Wellsville,
where he has been remarkably successful in his business enterprises, and a great
benefactor of the town.
Rev. Tertius S. Clark, a former pastor of the Presbyterian
church in this village, died at Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio, April
14th, 1875, at the age of seventy six years.
Died in Wayne on the 15th
ult., of old age and paralysis, Mrs. Julia Bishop,
widow of the late Capt. Orrin Bishop, age 81 years. Her maiden name was Bassett,
being a sister of Mr. Allen Bassett of Barrington.
She was born in North Haven, Conn.,
in 1794, and when a child went with her parents to South Egremont, Mass.,
where her father died in 1800. Sometimes after this her mother married Mr. John
Boice and the family again moved to and resided for
some years in Hillsdale, Columbia
county. Here she lived adjacent to the Hudson river at the
time when Robert Fulton placed his impracticable impossibility upon that
noble river in the shape of a steamboat…Here she grew to womanhood and was married
to Mr. Bishop, and about the year 1814 in company with Mr. Boice
and Hiram Bishop, a brother of her husband who had married her only sister,
she came to t his section and settled upon the farm now occupied by Mr. A.C.
Eaton in Barrington. Some time after this she with her husband came to this
village, then known as Harpending’s Corners, where he established himself in business
as a wagon maker, and erected for a dwelling the house now occupied by Col.
H.G. Stafford on Main Street.
After residing there several years they sold their property here and returned
to Barrington, settling upon a farm of thirty acres adjoining the farm of Mr.
Alan Bassett, her brother….Mr. Bishop died in March 1858, leaving her in care
of her youngest daughter who had married our youngest son, and with them she
has resided during her widowhood….She was the mother of four children, one son
and three daughters. The son died over 30 years ago; the daughters are yet living….—Dundee
Record
The many friends of Curtis Boardman of Starkey will be deeply grieved to hear
of his death which happened at his father’s residence near Trumansburg about
April 16 ult….
13 May 1875
Uriah Hanford – This well known
citizen died very suddenly on Monday at his residence near this village at the
age of nearly seventy-five years. …He came to this place from Unadilla in 1823…He
was we understand originally from Walton, Delaware
county. He was a member of the mercantile firm of Betts & Hanford, Mr. Betts
being his brother-in-law. They did business on the corner where the store of
Armstrong & Hollowell now stands. June 21, 1824. He married Mary E. Wagener, daughter of Abraham
Wagener. In 1827 they moved on the farm where they have since resided, she surviving
him at the age of nearly seventy years….His three children survive him. Annette
W. married Edwin R. Randall, who died in 1869. Mary E. resided single at the
parental homestead. George A. married Mary C. Brown daughter of the late James
Brown of the Friend’s society, and resides in Penn Yan….
John H. Hiscock died at Branchport on May
5th, 1875…aged fifty four years. He was born in Vermont
February 26, 1821, and was
the son of Whitney Hiscock, who came to Milo
at an early day. Whitney’s children were Joel (the deer-hunter and glove-maker),
William, John, Susan, Joseph, Fanny and Charles. When Charles was two years
old the mother died and the children were placed in different families. Whitney
married and was killed on Seneca lake, being caught in some manner by the machinery
of a steamboat. John at the age of fourteen was bound to James Stever of Jerusalem
and lived with him for several years. He was married to Eveline
Laird on July 13, 1845 and commenced farming
on the Beddoe tract on which is now Thomas Shull’s farm at Darby’s Corners.
A daughter Helen A. Hiscock was there born in February 21st, 1847, who
died at the age of four years and three months. The deceased was engaged during
several years in lumbering with Peter H. Bitley, who
had married a sister of Mrs. Hiscock….His wife and
an adopted daughter Carrie, aged thirteen years, survive him…The remains of
the deceased were interred in the Bitley cemetery.
Married
- On Wednesday May 5, 1875, at the residence
of the bride’s mother by the Rev. E.G. Moses, F. Wayland Ayer and Rhondann,
only daughter of the late S. Biddle Gilman, M.D., all of Philadelphia.
Isaac Hart, youngest son of Benjamin and Maria T. Hart, died in Jerusalem
May 3, at the age of twenty-eight years.
Mrs. Margaret Hogan, mother of Hon. William Hogan, member of Assembly from
Seneca county, died at Seneca Falls
May 1st, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
We publish this week the marriage notice of Mr. F.W. Ayer, who will be remembered
as the son of the late Prof. N.W. Ayer, so long a popular high school teacher
in Penn Yan…
Rushville - Deaths from scarlet fever in this vicinity are becoming alarmingly
frequent. A little son of Mr. Avery, living about a mile south of this village,
died on Tuesday, and another child of his – a daughter – is not expected to
recover. A son of Mr. Charles Henry aged 5 years died Wednesday evening. Mr.
John French’s daughter, and a little son of Mr. Orlin
Blodgett are dangerously ill…
20 May 1875
….Augustus W. Prentiss and Amy McCauley were married at the residence of the
bride’s mother at Stanley, Ontario county, May 15, 1850, by Rev. S. Topping,
then pastor of the Seneca church….[He] is a son of
John Prentiss and Margaret Fulton his wife and a grandson of Thomas Prentiss,
a pioneer of Milo, within the boundaries of which town John Prentiss was born.
He is also a great-grandson of James Parker, the celebrated pioneer of the Friends’
Settlement. He was born in Huron Co., Ohio,
whither his parents moved soon after their marriage in the town of Seneca.
Amy S. McCauley, [his wife] is the daughter of Thomas McCauley and Anna Rippey his wife, of the town of Seneca…They
have had five children, two of whom, a son and a daughter, survive….
Died
- At Syracuse, May
17th, 1875, Arthur Stark, only child of Walter H. and
Mary Booth, aged 1 year and 9 months.
Eben H. Mead, a printer and a former foreman of the
Chronicle office, died of small-pox in New York
on the 7th inst. He was a son of Lewis Mead of Geneva….He
was thirty-six years old.
Captain Edward Cole, whose decease we record this week, was one of the noblest
soldiers of the 148h Regiment, and belonged in the company which went to the
war commanded by Capt. Martin S. Hicks. …Capt. Cole leaves a wife and two daughters….
Died at the residence of Hon. D.A. Ogden in this village on Thursday morning
May 13, 1875, Mrs. Mary
Lawrence, widow of Melatiah Lawrence, at the age of 87 years. Mrs. Lawrence
was the mother of Hon. M.H. Lawrence, of Mrs. D.A. Ogden and Mrs. Oliver Stark…
Died very suddenly on Monday afternoon, May 17, 1875, at his home at Benton
Center, Josiah H. Youngs, aged 75 years….[He] was born
in Otsego county March 13th, 1800…He first married Julia A. Mather
in Bath and she died about 1840, the mother of four young children, but one
of whom survives, Mr. Charles H. Youngs….[He] married for his second wife Abigail
P. Rugg of Potter, who survives him. They have had
three children, two surviving. One, Mr. Herbert Youngs, is an insurance agent
at Bath, and Harriet is the wife
of Henry Guthrie, residing in Benton….
Married in Penn Yan, May 12th by Rev. J.P. Farmer, Mr. Charles W.
Smith of Rochester and Miss Jenny
R. Lynn, eldest daughter of Mr. John Lynn of this village….
Departed this life in Jerusalem
on the evening of May 13, 1875,
Captain Edward Cole, aged thirty-six years, formerly of the 148th
Regt. Of New York State Volunteers….[He] was the son of Simeon Cole, one of
our oldest and most respected citizens….He went home on the night of the sad
event, unexpectedly to the family—which consisted of his wife and two children,
his wife’s mother and brother, and the brother’s wife—and laboring under temporary
insanity beyond any doubt, for he had complained of dizziness in the head and
physical depression during the day, tried and finally succeeded in forcibly
entering the house in the dark, where he came to his untimely end at the hands
of his brother-in-law Pierce, while defending the family against a supposed
assassin and robber….
Died in Wellsville on Sunday morning the 9th inst., Abraham V. Dean,
aged 37 years. [He] was born at Branchport…Brief services were held at the house
Tuesday morning, after which the friends departed for Branchport with the remains…--Allegany
County Reporter
The funeral services of Miss Sarah Hayes, daughter of Mr. David Hayes of Dundee,
were attended at the Presbyterian church [in Dundee] on Sunday last…She died
on Thursday the 13th inst., at the age of twenty-nine years, leaving
many friends….
Sarah, daughter of David Hayes of Starkey died of consumption April
14, 1875, after a lingering illness.
Many citizens of Starkey remember Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, whose obituary you
published a few weeks since, as well as her father William Eddy, after whom
Eddytown was named. It is said he felled the first tree in Starkey, on what
is now the farm of Nicholas Webb.
Starkey, May 19, 1875
X.Y.
27 May 1875
At a funeral yesterday on Logan street—that of Eliza Reedy—the pallbearers
were selected from the female friends of the deceased, …We are of the opinion
that this is the first case of the kind ever occurring in Elmira.—Elmira
Advertiser
Last week we gave a brief notice of the death of Mrs. Mary Lawrence who died
at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Oliver Stark (and not as stated last week
at the residence of Mrs. Ogden) on the 13th inst., aged eighty-seven
years. Mrs. Lawrence was among the earliest settlers of the county and had lived
probably as long in the county as any person in it at the time of her death.
She emigrated from Sunbury, Pa.,
with her first husband Jesse Alfred to the town of Milo
in 1805…Part of the time she lived in the village
of Penn Yan, but most of the time
in the country a few miles south toward Milo
Center on a farm. She was married
at seventeen, and mounted a horse behind her husband and traversed the mountains
of Pennsylvania and the wilderness
of western New York to begin life
in a region then almost an unbroken forest. Mr. Alfred, her first husband, died
in 1809 or 1810, leaving one child Rebecca, who afterward married William
Way. Mrs. David B. Aspell of Milo Center
and Mrs. C.M. Bridgman of Jackson, Mich.,
are the children of Mrs. Way.
In 1811 Mrs. Alfred was married to Melatiah Lawrence, eldest son of John Lawrence
of Milo, in this county. In 1824 Mr. Lawrence died, leaving
four children, viz: James Lawrence, deceased; Hon.
M.H. Lawrence, Mrs. D.A. Ogden and Mrs. Oliver Stark. Mrs. Lawrence lived the
widow of her last husband fifty-one years….
“Little Nellie,” who may be remembered as the publisher at one time of the
Penfield Extra, received a very kindly obituary in the Rochester Union
of Monday last. She died in Rochester
twenty-six years old of consumption, leaving a husband, Mr. Henry Braden, and
two children. She also leaves two sisters, one of which is the wife of Mr. Vreeland, Foreman of the Penn Yan Express printing
office.
Myron J. Brown a young married man and a clerk was drowned in the lake at Geneva
last Thursday evening….He leaves a wife to whom he has been two years married,
and also an infant two months old.
Died at the house of his father in Benton,
May 23, 1875, Mr. Charles
C. Hazen at the age of twenty-five years….He was a son of Caleb Hazen, Esq.,
of Benton and his wife, so early left a widow, is a daughter of Dr. John C.
Mills of this village….
Rushville—George B. Whitman died suddenly at his home in this village on Wednesday
morning, may 19th, 1875. …His age was sixty years. He was born in
Westmoreland, N.Y.,
and came to this vicinity when quite young. He was married to Miss Mary Ann
Walbridge of Middlesex March 18th,
1846, and resided in that town many years. He removed to this village
three years ago. He leaves a son—an only child—Mr. Henry B. Whitman of this
village, a brother Mr. Charles Whitman of Middlesex, and two sisters, Mrs. Joshua
Fitch of Canandaigua and Mrs. Wheeler of Middlesex…
Willie Trank, youngest son of Mr. Andrew Trank,
died of scarlet fever on Sunday, May 16th, 1875, aged 6 years
and 7 months…
On Wednesday evening May 19th Maud McMillan, eldest child of Mr.
E. McMillan, died of scarlet fever aged 6 years…--Naples Record (last
three items)
In the obituary notice of Sarah Hayes last week the date of her death should
have been May 14, 1875.
She was the youngest daughter of David F. and Emeline Hayes, and was twenty-nine years of age.
3 June 1875
The death [of Hon. Melatiah H. Lawrence] occurred on Thursday last, May
27, 1875. [He] was born in 1812, and was sixty-three years old. His
father, Melatiah Lawrence, was a son of John Lawrence, the noted pioneer of
Milo…Mr. Lawrence was a farmer, and lived and died on
the homestead of his grandfather….In In the fall of
1849 he was elected a member of Assembly. In 1851 he was the Democratic candidate
for State Senator in the district composed of Yates, Seneca and Tompkins counties…He
was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856 and again in 1864,
and was also one of the Presidential Electors in 1856….His wife, Margaret H.
Bogart, daughter of Isaac H. Bogart, formerly of Dresden, died in 1864 at the
age of forty-eight years, leaving five children, who survive both their parents.
Maria, the oldest daughter, is the wife of James C. Wood, Esq., a leading lawyer
of Jackson, Mich.
Capt. Melatiah H. Lawrence, Jr., who was a brave a deserving soldier of the
126th regiment, is an officer of the government in the New York Custom
House. He carries the scars of Gettysburg
and the Wilderness as memories of the war in which he rendered faithful service.
John B. Lawrence, a graduate of Cornell
University, Margaret V. and James
D. Lawrence are the remaining children, who still abide at the homestead. Mrs.
D.A. Ogden and Mrs. Oliver Stark of this village are sisters of Hon. M.H. Lawrence,
and the only survivors of their family.
Married at Randolph, Wis., April 25, 1875, by M.F. French, Esq., Dexter S.
Woodward of Oak Grove, and Mrs. Mary E. Hopkins of Beaver Dam, Wis., formerly
of Starkey.
Married at the Presbyterian parsonage, May 19, 1875 by Rev. N.L. Bosworth, Mr. Plummer
Skiff and Miss Velnette Bailey, grand-daughter of
Lewis Misner, all of Starkey.
Mrs. S.S. Ball received a day or two since a telegram from San Francisco stating
that her brother Delos Reeves died in that city May 31.
Joshua Simmons, an aged resident of Jerusalem,
died on Saturday, May 23rd,
1875, at the age of about seventy-five years. He had lived many years
in that town, and was a respected citizen.
Married at the residence of the bride’s parents, 123
West Avenue, Rochester, N.Y.,
May 25, 1875, by Rev. Joseph
A. Ely, Charles K. Newberry and Florence A. Disbrow….
Died in Jerusalem, Thursday,
May 27, 1875, Henry Van Sickle, at the age of about forty years.
Mr. Van Sickle was a native of Seneca county and formerly
resided near Sheldrake, where he married his wife Maria Bishop. He had resided
in this county for the past few years….
Died May 23, 1875 at his
father’s residence in Benton, Charles
C. Hazen, aged 25 years. …
Isaac D. Mckeel of Hector, formerly Member of Assembly from Schuyler
Co., died on Wednesday of last week….
10 June 1875
Died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Jacob H. Shepherd at Milo
Center, on Thursday,
June 3, 1875, Mrs. Esther Aspell, widow
of the late William W. Aspell, at the age of seventy-five years. [She] was the oldest
of the children of the late David Briggs, and was born very near the spot where
she died, in April 1800….Upwards of fifty years ago she married William W. Aspell,
who was a most respected citizen and a leading Methodist and class-leader at
Milo Center. He died at the age of seventy-two years in 1865, and she has resided
since with her daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Jacob H. Shepherd at her old
homestead….She was the mother of three children, Mr. David Aspell
of Milo center, who married Helen Way; Mary A., wife of John C. Fiero,
and Elizabeth S.. wife of Jacob H. Shepherd. The mother
of Mrs. Aspell lived to the remarkable age of ninety-one,
dying in 1869, and her father lived to the age of eighty-two, dying in 1857.
Her father’s house in the early years was the home of the itinerant preachers,
as was her own in later years. It is related of her mother, Anna Chambers, that
with her sister Polly, when they were but fourteen and sixteen years of age
respectively, they traveled through the woods from Bath
in 1796 to attend a quarterly meeting in the Wheeler neighborhood in Benton….
Mr. Isaac Nugent, an old resident of Penn Yan, died at his residence on Main
street last Tuesday evening.
He was aged about sixty years.
Mr. H.L. Huntington, an old and respected citizen of Waterloo,
died in that village on Friday last, the 28 inst.
Married
- In Barrington May
29, 1875, by Rev. James Parker, Mr. Charles Shuter
and Miss Anna Clark.
17 June 1875
Died at Canandaigua June 8, 1875,
at the residence of his daughter Mrs. S.H. Torrey, Edward Perry, Esq., of Rushville,
Yates county. The remains were taken to Rushville….Mr. Perry was the third son
and fifth child of Captain Rous and Desire Perry, who were among the earliest permanent
settlers of the town of Potter on “lot 10 of the fourth farm range,” and which
remained the homestead until after the death of the father and mother, which
occurred the father in 1853 and the mother in 1854, at the ripe age, he eighty-nine
and she eighty-five. …Edward Perry was born therefore at the homestead in the
town of Potter about 1802-3, and
was at the time of his death somewhat over seventy years of age. He married
Harriet, daughter of Elisha Woodworth of Benton, and they at once made their
home on a farm now owned and occupied by their son Woodworth N. Perry, Esq….His
family consisted of one son and three daughters. The son Woodworth N. who resides
on the original homestead. Jane S. is the wife of the Rev. Nelson Snell of Rochester, Caroline D. became the wife of Dr. Fisk H. Day and died in
her early married life. Mary is the wife of Samuel H. Torrey, Esq., of Canandaigua….R.H.W.
Died in Penn Yan on Tuesday, June 8th, 1875, Isaac Nugent, aged
64 years….The funeral of the deceased took place on Wednesday the 9th
inst., from his late abode…after which his remains were conveyed to our pleasant
“Lake View Cemetery,”… A Friend
Nathaniel Gorham, who died in Canandaigua May 19, 1875, in the seventy-seventh
year of his age, was a grandson of that Nathaniel Gorham associated with Oliver
Phelps the elder, in Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase in 1788.
Mr. C.W. Clawson of Middlesex will celebrate his golden wedding next Wednesday,
June 23.
Robert Edwin Burns, son of James Burns, late of this village, died at Chicago
on the 7th inst., in the twenty-third year of his age….
Died at Clinton, Lenawee county, Mich.,
May 14, 1875, William S.
Millspaugh, formerly of Yates county, in the seventy-third
year of his age. [He] was born in Orange county in 1802,
and there married Hannah Hamilton, who died after they had lived some years
in Michigan. They moved from Orange
county to Yates county in 1833, and resided about two
miles south of this village on the Bath
road until 1853, when they moved to Michigan.
After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Julia Savage of this village,
who survives him…..By his first marriage he had eight children of whom six survive
their parents, two daughters remaining still at the parental home. Two sons,
both of whom were married men with families, fell in the service of the union
during the war. Archibald died of exhaustion on Sherman’s
march to the sea, and David, taken prisoner in Alabama,
was after his release on the ill-fated steamer Sultana when the explosion of
her boiler killed two hundred persons of whom he was one. Two sons, George T.
Millspaugh, a respected farmer in Jerusalem,
and Alexander H. Millspaugh, a worthy mechanic of
this village, remain citizens of Yates county.
Died at his residence in Reading
Center, on June 5th, 1875, Alonzo Simmons, in the
77th year of his age. [He] was born in Whitehall, Washington Co.,
in 1798….He was a soldier of the war of 1812…In 1824 he came to the now beautiful
and thriving village of Dundee, Yates county, where he soon became one of the
first and most successful merchants in this part of the State. Here he was married
to Anna Huson, daughter of Nathaniel Huson. After a few years’ residence in
Dundee he moved to Rock Stream, where he continued the mercantile business until
1843….He leaves a widow and four children. His daughter Susan, wife of C.W.
Barnes….; Charles,…who resides in Reading center; Laura,
who has remained with her parents…; and George, a well known and enterprising
merchant of Watkins.—Watkins Express
Died at his residence in Momence, Kankakee Co., Ill.,
on Thursday, May 13, 1875,
Edward Alexander Porter, aged forty-five years. [He] is well remembered as a
cousin of Robert T. Porter and son of Robert Porter, who died there on the 3rd
of January last. He was born in Middlesex, and lived here in West Hollow nearly
all his life. He was married in 1850 to Sarah Miller, and nine years ago moved
west.—Naples Record
Died
- In Seneca Falls, June
6, 1875, Mrs. Caroline Cleveland, widow of the late Er
Cleveland of Sheldrake, Seneca Co., aged fifty-nine years.
- In this village, at the residence of his son on Monday the 14th
inst., Michael Carroll, aged eighty years.
24 June 1875
Died at his home at Lisle, Dupage county, Ill.,
June 12, 1875, Henry C. Wheeler, of
heart disease, at the age of sixty-eight years. …His grandfather George Wheeler
was earliest owner after the lessee distribution of lot 37 of township seven
of the first range, now a large part of Penn Yan, and also of much other land
in Benton. His mother, Martha Hull, was a daughter of Eliphalet Hull, one of
the foremost and best of the original settlers of township No. eight…He resided
for several years on the place recently owned by George A. Sheppard. To promote
the health of his wife he sold out there several years ago and moved to Minnesota
and thence to Illinois….He was buried in the beautiful Oak Wood Cemetery near
the shore of Lake Michigan….[He] married May 10, 1832, Marianna, daughter of
the Rev. Elijah Spencer, who survives him at the age of sixty-one years. They
have had several children, but two of whom survive,
one son and one daughter, Carrie. …
Died on the 18 inst., at his home near City Hill, three miles south of Dresden,
Edward D. Denniston, aged 74 years. [He] was born
on the 25th day of May, 1801 at or near New
Bridge in Bergen
county, New Jersey.
While yet a boy he with his parents moved into the town of Seneca,
Ontario county….He
lived a few years on the “Old Downey Farm” two miles north of Dresden.
He then bought the Nabby Sherman farm and moved on
it, here continued to reside up to the time of his death. In 1826 he married
Miss Mary Jones of Seneca, and went to housekeeping in Benton,
where they had born unto them seven children, all of whom survive as does Mrs.
Denniston. Caroline married Thomas Spencer, Elizabeth
married George Hayes, Margaret married William A. Hayes, Perry married Ann Meek,
Theodore H. married Fanny Smith, Dewitt C. married Susan Meek and Johnson married
Louisa Dunlap….
Died in Jerusalem, June 14, 1875…Mrs. Mary Watkins, widow of the late Abraham
Watkins, at the age of nearly sixty years. [She] was born in Orange county August
11, 1815, and was the daughter of the late James Wilcox and Sally his wife who
were early settlers on the green tract…Her funeral was held at the Methodist
church at Italy Hill….Frances, her oldest daughter, is the wife of Uriel
Shearman of Jerusalem. Imogene, the second daughter, married James Ansley
of Jerusalem. Ida, the third daughter,
is the wife of Silas W. Andrews of Potter. John, the only son, married Emma,
daughter of Loren T. Thomas and resides in Jerusalem.
Married
- At the home of the bride in this village, June 18, by Rev. John P. Farmer,
Mr. C. Frank Burns of Chicago and Miss Lida Moore
of Penn Yan.
- In Bethel Baptist Church June 16, by the Rev. A.C. Mallory of Benton Center,
Mr. Charles H. Johnson and Miss Lillie V. Pulver
of Gorham.
A very pleasant marriage ceremony took place at the M.E.
Church in this village on Wednesday
afternoon, when Dr. Howard Strong of Canton,
Ill., and
Miss Nettie E. Tuell of
this place took upon themselves the hymeneal vows. Rev. J.P. Farmer officiated….—Democrat
James Seamans, a former resident of Middlesex, died
at his home in Canandaigua last week from injuries received from a vicious horse.
He was buried last Saturday at Pine Corners, in Middlesex.
Branchport—We have lost a bright little boy of less than six years, Willie,
only son of David H. and Sophia Paris, who died of diphtheria on Saturday, June
19….A daughter Hattie, of about fourteen years, remains to cheer her stricken
parents.
Mrs. Anna, relict of the late Jonathan Andrews, died at the residence of her
son-in-law Elijah Casterline on Tuesday, May 15, in
the eighty-eighth year of her age. …For several years she has made her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Casterline….She leaves three
children, Mrs. Casterline, Mrs. Robert Baskin and
Mr. Delos Andrews, all residents of Starkey.
Died in Eddytown June 18, Deacon Abiel Baldwin, at
the age of eighty-five years….
1 July 1875
On Tuesday June 15th the funeral services of Mrs. Mary Watkins were
held in the M.E. Church
at Italy Hill—the Baptist meeting-house being unfinished…The deceased was born
in Orange county August
14, 1815. She was a daughter of James and Sally Wilcox. In February
1844 she married Abraham Watkins, a well-known citizen of Jerusalem, who died
near Italy Hill in December 1871….Already beyond the age of “three score years
and ten,” her mother, Mrs. Sally Wilcox is left to mourn a daughter’s death.
One brother, Isaac Wilcox of Jerusalem,
and four children—John, Mrs. James Ansley, Mrs. Uriel Shearman and Mrs. Silas W. Andruss—are
now living. A son, Myron, died at the age of fifteen….
We learn that the wife and daughter of Isaac Hewitt, residing on the lake road
in the south part of this town, were thrown from a wagon yesterday, and the
girl, a child of nine years, was instantly killed. It appears they were driving
a span of horses when the double whiffletree broke from some cause, which frightened
the horses and they swung round, upsetting the wagon. One of the horses was
also killed, as we are informed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ovenshire, widow of the late William Ovenshire, died in Barrington
on Tuesday, well advanced in years.
Died from diphtheria at Branchport, June 19, Willie, only son of David H. and
Sophia E. Paris, aged 5 years and 4 months….
8 July 1875
Dr. Herbert Boardman, a physician thirty years of age, died in Rochester
last Sunday morning of diphtheria. He had lived but two years in Rochester,
and had taken a high rank in his profession. He was a son of Hon. Truman Boardman,
formerly a Senator from this district, and a cousin of Mrs. J.S. Jillett of this village….
George Dey, son of Capt. Warren S. Dey
about six years old, was suddenly killed at Watkins last Saturday forenoon.
…Elmira Daily Advertiser
Died in Glenora June 27, at the advanced age of seventy-eight
years, Mr. Hiram Gay. …He leaves an aged companion, two sons and one daughter.
He was an old settler, having come to Starkey when the country was comparatively
new….
Married in Canisteo June 22, by Rev. C.C. Millspaugh, Mr. Edward A. Carter and Miss J. Ella Walker.
They have the best wishes of many friends in Starkey.
Died at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
May 22nd, Dr. Joseph Pierce, aged about 67 years. He was a brother
of the late Samuel and Abel Pierce, formerly of this town, and the last son
of the family. The family consisted of nine children, only one of whom survives.—Dundee
Record
Frank E. Burk, son of Edward M. and Lametta M. Burk
of Italy Hollow, died June 13 after two weeks’ illness….
Mary E., wife of John C. Miller, undertaker and cabinet-maker, died at Branchport
June 29, 1875, aged fifty-five
years. She was the daughter of Noah Davis, whose wife was an Edwards of the
town of Benton. Their children were
Sarah, wife of Jeptha A. Potter of Penn Yan, Mary
E., Hannah and Edward. The deceased was married to Mr. Miller in 1842. A son,
John C., Jr., was born in 1844, who was a clerk in an office of the government
in Virginia during a portion of
1864, was stricken down with yellow fever, reached home and died in a few days
at the age of but twenty years and eight months….
Died in the town of Wayne, Steuben county, on Friday, July 2, Mrs. Mary, wife
of Martin Putnam…aged thirty-three years, leaving…two small children…The deceased
was the only daughter of the late Joseph Roat, for many years an enterprising and respectable citizen
of Penn Yan….
Married
- In Benton, July 5, by Rev. A.C.
Mallory, Mr. George W. Brown and Miss Lizzie Cole, both of Penn Yan.
15 July 1875
William Jones of Starkey met with a sudden death on Saturday the 3rd
inst. He was driving rapidly down the steep hill at Big Stream Point, when as
he was turning at the foot of the hill the wagon upset, throwing him violently
to the ground. He was taken up unconscious and died at 1 o’clock next morning. His age was 50 years.
A barn of Daniel Horton in Barrington
was set on fire by a flash of lightning last Friday afternoon and burned up.
A lad sixteen years old, a son of Mr. W. Brace, a tenant residing on the place,
was killed instantly as he stood under the basement of the barn….
Died on Monday July 12, 1875,
Mrs. Caroline Rohde, wife of Lewis S. Rohde of this village at the age of 50
years. [She] was the daughter of Deacon Daniel Hedges of Milo,
and had been married about fifteen years….[She] was the mother of three sons, one of whom, a bright
and amiable lad died a few months since, another died in infancy. The other
survives, and Mr. Rohde has a daughter by a previous marriage, the wife of Mr.
Isaac C. Cornell, associate editor and proprietor of the Chronicle.
On Saturday, July 3, Wm. Jones, son of Benjamin Jones of Rock Stream, was thrown
from a wagon near Glenora, fracturing his skull so
badly that he lived but a few hours.
22 July 1875
Married
- At Benton Center M.E. Parsonage, July 20, 1875, by Rev. A.F. Countryman,
Mr. Charles Sidway of East Bloomfield and Miss Lydia
Crosby of Benton.
W.F. Leaman, the well known painter for so many years
a resident of Geneva, and who has embellished, improved and beautified so much
of Geneva during the past score and more of years, died on Sunday morning.—Geneva
Courier, July 14th
Mr. Leaman was the father of Mrs. William H. Watson
of this village, and his body was brought to this place for interment.
James Mantel, a well known citizen at the Foot of the Lake
in this town, died on Thursday the 15th inst., in the sixty-ninth
year of his age. Mr. Mantel was a native of England.
He formerly resided at Lyons, and
was taken there for burial. He had resided twenty-two years at the Foot of the
Lake, where he conducted the business of manufacturing
earthen ware….His wife survives him. They lost a son some years ago, and their
only remaining child is a daughter, the wife of Oscar Conklin, who continues
the business of his father-in-law.
On Friday, the 9th inst., in Barrington,
Eddie W. Brace, a son of Amariah Brace, was instantly
killed by lightning, in the 17th year of his age. Mr. Brace occupies
the farm belonging to Mr. Daniel Horton, and heretofore occupied by Mr. Alden
Horton, and on the afternoon named above was at work around the barn on the
premises getting out manure….
Died in Barrington, of old age and debility, June 28, 1875, Mrs. Elizabeth
Ovenshire, second wife and widow of the late William Ovenshire, Sen., in the
83rd year of her age. Her maiden name was Gibbs, a sister of Mr.
John Gibbs, now of Barrington. She
was born June 5, 1795 in
Philadelphia, Pa.,
and came to this country with her parents when quite young. She was married
to Mr. Ovenshire June 6, 1816, and spent her life from this time within a short
distance of the place where she died. She was the mother of ten children, eight
of whom survive her. She also raised the children of her husband by his first
wife, four in number, and saw them all married and settled around her….—Dundee
Record
Died in Benton July 10, 1875,
Mrs. Asenath Pembroke, aged 80 years. …She was the
daughter of Valentine Perkins and Abigail Ketchum, the third of a family of
five daughters and four sons, of whom remain Mrs. Samuel Allen and three brothers.
She was born in New Paltz, Ulster
county, in 1796, and came with her parents to this then western wild in 1806,
settling in Ontario county in
the town of Seneca. She was married in 1812 to
John Pembroke, a well known citizen of Benton, and with him lived until his
death in 1857….She was the mother of three children, two daughters and one son,
all of whom she survived, although they lived to mature years. Three grandchildren
survive her, of whom Mrs. Geo. H. Banks is the only grand-daughter, with whom
she lived…
William H. Olmstead, eldest son of Charles Olmstead, Esq., died at the residence
of his parents in Potter on Tuesday July 13, 1875, after an illness of several weeks.
He was twenty-three years of age….
Hyland Green died in this village [Rushville] on Wednesday morning, July 14,
after an illness of only a few hours, apparently from an overdose of opium….He
was fifty six years of age…and adopted son of Ira Green, who died about thirty
years ago. After the death of Mr. Green he remained with and cared for his widow
until her death, which occurred some three years since.—Naples
Record
Henry C. Harpending [of Dundee], Esq., was afflicted
with son-stroke the other day. Mother and child are said to be doing well.
Died in Streeter, Ill., of erysipelas,
on May 23, 1875, Mr. Wm.
Bridgman, aged 73 years. He was for many years a Presbyterian clergyman, and
will be remembered by many of our readers as having formerly been pastor of
the Presbyterian Church in this village.—Dundee Record
29 July 1875
[Henry Sherwood, a] well known citizen of Corning,
died at Avon on Friday morning last, at the age of fifty-two
years….
5 August 1875
Alexander Hamilton, a son of the great Alexander Hamilton, died Monday in New
York, aged 90.
The last of the ex-presidents, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee,
died of paralysis on Friday last at the age of sixty-seven years….
Miss Fanny H. Crozier, whose death is commemorated in the resolutions we publish
in another column, was a woman of rare personal worth, whose death is much deplored
by all who knew her.—She was the wife of Mr. George
E. Crozier of Benton, and the mother
of one son. Her decease leaves a void in her family too sad for contemplation.
She was nearly thirty-nine years old.
Dr. J.O. Hill of Farmersville, Seneca county, met
a most melancholy death on Saturday July 24th….
Starkey—Marriage enterprises have been rather dull here of late, but one case
has come to light that occurred last May. The parties are Mr. Joel Pike and
Miss Stella VanHouten. We wish them joy evermore.
Died at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Lindsley, July 29th, Mr. ----
Baker of consumption. The subject of this notice was a gentleman from Massachusetts,
who came here [Middlesex] some time ago to recuperate….A bright little boy of
five years is thus left fatherless. There are also other near relatives in Massachusetts,
where his remains were taken for interment.
Damon D. Johnson of Middlesex was married in Penn Yan at the residence of S.B.
Ayres, on the 23rd of June to Miss Susan DeWick. We are glad the notice was sent in before the honeymoon.—Naples
Record
12 August 1875
Died near Dresden on the 4th
inst., Mrs. Julia Ann Mingo, wife of Daniel Mingo, aged 48 years. [Her] maiden
name was Julia A. Watkins; she was born at Bath, Steuben county, resided there
until about thirty years ago, when she was married to Daniel Mingo and came
to this town—Torrey—to reside. She was the mother of several children (1 pair
of twins, which died a few weeks after their birth). She leaves five children,
3 boys and two girls….”M.” Dresden,
Aug. 10, 1875
Died at her home in this village at two o’clock on Wednesday morning, August
11, 1875, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush, wife of Charles V. Bush, at the age of fifty-six
years…..She was a native of Pulteneyville, Wayne county,
and was Elizabeth Shipley in her maiden life. She married Charles V. Bush in
her youth…She leaves a husband and four sons. Two daughters who had reached
womanhood passed on before their mother to the better land.
Samuel A. Wheaton, a veteran of the 23rd New York Volunteers and
the 14th Heavy Artillery died at Hornby,
Steuben county June
30, aged thirty-two years. He was a native of Milo, Yates
county and was well known to many in Captain Chapman’s
company, which went from this village.—Watkins Express
Middlesex—John Dinehart is happy over a new comer—it
is a boy—lucky John.
19 August 1875
Died in Italy Hollow, August 11, 1875, Samuel Graham, aged seventy-six years,
eight months, and eleven days. [He] was the son of Robert Graham and Mary Ann
Ayres his wife, and was born in the town of Chester,
Windsor county,
Vermont, Nov. 30, 1798. His father settled on lot 34, south
survey, in 1811 and in June following brought his family to his new home. While
on their way the war of 1812 was declared….He was twice married, first to Eleanor
Gilbert, Sept. 24, 1827,
who died August 30, 1833,
and second to Lydia G., eldest daughter of Elisha Barker, another pioneer of
Italy. The latter
survives him at the age of seventy-two. By the first marriage there were three
children, Gilbert, Samantha and Washington. By the second two, Helen and Elisha
H. Gilbert Graham married Mary Ann Griswold of Italy,
and after some years residence in Italy
removed to Lima, Livingston
county, where he still lives. Washington Graham married Phebe Pelton of Italy,
and for a second wife Mahala Ross of Steuben county. They reside in Barry county,
Michigan. Samantha resides single
at the old homestead. Helen is the wife of Bradford S. Wixom…and retains the
parental homestead, where they reside. Elisha B. married a daughter of Lyman
Hutchinson of Italy
and is a physician at Three Rivers, Michigan.
The subject of this notice divided his property among his children in his life
time, and retained a home with his youngest daughter. He was a cousin of Lewis
B. Graham, Esq., of this village….
Monday evening just as the dusk of twilight was fading away, Mr. Charles Ackley
and Mr. John Willoughby were passing across the Liberty
Street bridge when they
saw some object fall in the water just above the bridge…This was just as the
steamer Lily passed up the outlet. …Asel Bennett was drowned and his body was shortly after taken
from the water at that point….
Died at her home in this village on Friday morning August 13, 1875, Mary A.
Bogart, wife of Sheriff Theodore Bogart aged thirty-nine years….Mrs. Bogart
was a daughter of Daniel Brennan, a worthy citizen who died several years ago.
Her mother still survives, and her brother Major George Brennan who was an efficient
soldier in the war of the rebellion and resides at Metuchen,
New Jersey. Her half brother Mr. Charles
Brown of Toronto was here at the
time of her death. She has another half brother Mr. Henry Brown residing in
Michigan and a half sister Mrs.
Ira Murdock…..
Valorus Fish died in Italy Hollow on Monday, august
9, at the age of forty-four years. He died at the residence of his sister Mrs.
Crego. He was also a brother of Mrs. William Scott
and Mrs. Jeremiah T. Gillett. The deceased was a resident of Chicago.
The friends of Miss Ida Chapman in Starkey will be grieved to learn of her
decease, which occurred at Pine Grove, August 13, 1875. The deceased was a graduate of
Starkey Seminary, where she was noted for her brilliant scholarship. She was
about twenty years old.
Died
- Saturday August 14…Gracie, infant daughter of Morris G. and Sineche
D. Carley. Aged 5 months and 19 days.
26 August 1875
Judge Martin Grover of the Court of Appeals died at his home in Angelica on
Monday evening, August 23, at the age of sixty-five years. He was born in Otsego
county in 1810….
Married
- On Friday, August 20, 1875, at the residence of Charles Hunter, Esq., by
Rev. William Laurie, Mr. Samuel McMath of this village
and Miss Maggie M.M. Johnstone, youngest daughter
of Samuel Johnstone, Esq., of Barrahalloch, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
Died
- At her residence in Pulteney on Friday,
August 18, 1875, Mrs. Minerva Covell,
wife of William Covell, aged 61 years.
We learn that Galen Holbrook, an aged citizen of Potter and the father of D.H.
Holbrook, died very suddenly on Saturday last. …He is supposed to be about eighty
years of age.
Died in Barrington August
12th, 1875, Eliza wife of Eleazer
G. Scofield, aged 51 years. [She] was a sister of
James Smith of this village, and of Ameron and Wm. Smith of Pleasant Valley, and until within
a few years Mt. Washington has ever been her home…[Survived by a husband and
eight children.] –Hammondsport Herald
Mrs. Polly Scribner departed this life at the home of her daughter Mrs. Anna
Dense, near Shannon’s Corners in Starkey on the 10th
inst., aged 82 years, 1 month and 2 days. Her maiden name was Rhinevault,
her father was a German. She was born in New Fairfield, Fairfield
county, Conn.,
July 8, 1793. In this place
she grew to womanhood, and at about the age of 22 years was married to Mr. Atwood
W. Scribner and remained in that section until about the year 1831, when she
came with her husband and family to this country and became a resident of Barrington,
of which town she has been an inhabitant for about 44 years. She was the mother
of eight children, four sons and four daughters, of whom four, two of each sex,
survive her. Two sons died in Conn.,
and two daughters in Barrington.
Her husband died soon after these, since which time she has remained a widow,
for some years keeping a home for her children..[and then] she became an inmate of the residence of her son
Jacob B. Scribner of Barrington…--Dundee
Record