YALE IINIVEHSI 1 > l IBHAH 3 9002 07111 7064 D[ "ISiivsthcft Booki for. the fauimiing ef g. ColUgi in. this Cetony'i »1n-*^ Genealogy Notes Town of Spafford Onondaga Historical Association Mortuary Records with Genealogical Notes OF THE Town of Spafford Onondaga County, New York BT Captain George Knapp Collins PUBLISHED BY Onondaga Historical Association DBHLER PRiaS loir BORODINO CEMETERY PHr ' '- \:^^,*I^?S\>' ¦;" fr^^Hi^P'^ '^'-^^^^S?^''^'''''^^^3E l''V---::M;-'^^^' \ '--Miv^^^" ' -^^i-S^ ¦"^: ^K^'^'-f' ¦ '¦ ^' '** tx. -..'%*¦- SPAFFORD CEMETERY INTRODUCTION There are nine burial places within the town of Spaftord, six public and three private, none of which have been incorporated, although some steps have been taken in that direction in two instances, but as yet there is no public record of any act of that kind. Of the six public cemeteries two, known as the old Borodino and the Nunnery Ceme teries, have been abandoned and are now in disuse, leaving four, one at Borodino, one at Spafford Comers, one at Cold Brook, and one at Spafford Hollow, still in public use and in fair condition. Of the three private burial plots, known as the Davis, Lewis, and Stanton Yards, only the latter is now in the possession and keeping of the family making use of it, and is in fair condition, but in the case of the other two, which have gone out of the possession of the original families for whose use they were set apart, they are sadly neglected and gone to waste, as such plots sooner or later always will be under similar circumstances. Outside of the places enumerated above, there is a single grave of a Mrs. Parker, on the Breed Farm on Lot No. 11, TuUy, and there is said to be one or two unmarked graves on Lot 77, Marcellus ; but as to these, in the absence of stones to designate them, even the names of those interred cannot now be ascertained. Just north of the town line, in the adjacent town of Marcellus, is a public cemetery connected with the Thorn Hill Baptist Church, which is quite generally used by the people residing in the northern end of this town as a burial place for their dead. The tombstone records of this Ceme tery also appear in the following pages, as a full statement of the dead of this town would be incomplete without them. In closing this brief introduction it seems proper to say that, in the preparation of the following pages, it become necessary to visit the several burial places located in this town, and observe their condition. It appears that, in many * ONONDAGA HIST<«ICAL ASSOCIATION instances, private care and attention has been bestowed upon portions of the several general cemeteries now in use, but there has been no general or systematic care and atten tion given to these burial places, such as the enlightened and progressive spirit of the present age seems to demand. These four public cemeteries, now in use, should be incor porated, and proper officials appointed, who will receive the generous gifts which tender and loving hearts are always wilKftg to nlake, foi- purposes of this kind, and judiciously ^t>6nd the same in hesmUiyitig, pit&seifvmg aiid caring for these sacred places, fHstde haIloi»-ed by fke ashes of our beloved dead. Mortuary Records and Genealogical Notes ACKLES. 4-lpiira < Davis) , wife of Ovid Ackles, died February 14, 1861, age 34 years. Ovid Ackles, son of Horton and Mary Ackles, and grandson of William Ackles, was bor^ in J^Fayette, N. Y., and came to this town, with his pg,rents and his brother Samuel, about 1840; his father and mother returned to LaFayette, w'here the former died in 1880, and the latter in 1883. Ovid Ackles married (1) Almira Davis, daughter of ?ebulon ^nd Hannah (Ames) Davis, (2) Cook, aad (3) Esther Comue. After the decease of his first wife, he also retumed to LaFayette, where he died. His childrn by his first wifie, borii in Spafford, were : Robert, married Cecelia Woolsey; Mary, married Martin Strail; Frank H., married Flora Gai"field, daughter of Daniel Garfield of La Fayette; and George H., married Jennie Carr. By his second wife (Cook) Mr. Ackles had one daughter, Dora, married Louis Ruhlmaii; and by his third wife (Esther Comue), Mr. Ackles had: Jennie and Lena, each now (1899) residing in TuUy unmarried. William Ackles, the grandfather of Ovid Ackles, at an early date came from Orange County, N. Y., first to Cayuga County, and then to LaFayette, with five brothers and a sister: John, Charles, Brant, Richard, Tartiilus and Sarah, and resided there until his decease. Robert Ackles (son of Ovid) by his wife, Cecilia Woolsey, had several children. Frank H. AckJes (son of Ovid), who is a wmjnerieial traveler, by his wife Flora Garfield, has one son, Horace F. Ackles, who is unmarried, an artist, and resides in Washington, D. C. George H. Ackles, (the third son of Ovjd), resides in Preble, N. Y„ aiwJ by his wH^ Jennie Cayr had •* Mortinaer A., marrieid 4nijie Coilibon, 4^ught(8r of Pavi4 COjH;pi;i, glditPJ* of Sk^neatpl^ ^emcwi^t, resides in SkftniBi^teJes, N. Y.; 6 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Harley Jaman Ackles, unmarried, assistant editor Skane ateles Democrat, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; and Ina May Ackles unmarried. (Thom Hill) Matilda (Spaulding), wife of Samuel Ackles, Died January 15, 1864, age 36 years, 9 months, 8 days. Samuel Ackles, son of Horton and Mary Ackles and grandson of William Ackles, was born in Christian Hollow, in the town of LaFayette, N. Y., May 20, 1819. He came to this town with his parents and brother, Ovid Ackles, about 1840. Like his father before him he is a farmer; resides near Thom Hill, N. Y.; he married (1) Matilda Spaulding, daughter of Isaac and Didama (Allen) Spauld ing, February 10, 1853, and (2) Mary Harvey, daughter of Paul and Sally (Hisocck) Harvey. By his second wife Mr. Ackles had two children : Grace, bom March 4, 1868, mar ried Frank B. Mills, (seedman at Rose Hill) , son of George C. and Eliza J. (Finch) Mills, P. 0., Rose Hill, N. Y., (they have one son, Frank B. Mills, Jr.) ; and W. Harvey Ackles, bora October 22, 1870, married Nettie Smith; he is a farmer, residing near Thorn Hill, N. Y. Mr. Samuel Ackles' first wife, Matilda Spaulding, was a descendant of Edward Spaulding, who settled in Braintree, Mass., about 1634, and died at Chelmsford in the same State about 1653, in the eighth generation: Matilda, Isaac, Jeremiah, Jere miah, Isaac, Edward, John, Edward. (Borodino) . ADAMS. In Memory of Roderick C. Adams, Died July 27, 1844, age 70 years, 7 months, 7 days. (Borodino) . Philander C, son of Roderick C. and Nancy Adams, Died November 17, 1844, age 16 years, 9 months, 22 days. (Borodino) . In Memory of Timothy Adams, who died 16 August, 1812, in the 52 year of his age. (On Febmary 25, 1806, he received a deed of the north half of the States Hundred Acres on lot 74, Marcellus, and conveyed the same in March following, Avithout wife. In his will, dated January 29, 1812, and probated September SPAFPOED MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 7 5th of the same year, after a small bequest to the Ist Baptist Church of Marcellus, (Thom Hill), he gave his estate equally to his mother, Reley Adams, and his sisters, Lydia Case and Rebecca Woodford.) (Old Cemetery, Borodino). ADLAM. Stephen, son of Richard and Charlotte Adlam, Died March 24, 1872, age 20 years. (Richard and Charlotte Adlam, bom in England, were the common ancestors of the Spafford Hollow Adlams.) (Spafford Hollow.) Emma Jane, daughter of Richard and Charlotte Adlam, died July 5, 1854, age 1 year 9 months. (Spafford Hollow.) Alice P. (Moss) , wife of John Adlam, died January 6, 1891, age 30 years, 5 months. (John Adlam, son of Richard and Charlotte Adlam, married Alice P. Moss, daughter of William Moss.) (Spafford Hollow.) R. Lewis, son of John and Alice P. (Moss) Adlam, died January 15, 1891, age 11 months. (Spafford Hollow) . ALBRO. Freelove, wife of Stephen Albro, died January 23, 1838, age 75 years. (Stephen Albro was a soldier of the Revolution.) (Borodino.) ALLEN. Aaron Allen, died October 25, 1848, in 68 years. (Aaron Allen, at the time of his decease, resided on lot 52, Marcellus, in the present town of Skaneateles. In his will, dated October 17, 1848, and probated January 10, 1849, he mentioned his wife Tryphena S. Allen, and his children: Julia S. Wiltsie, Harriet R. Benedict, Mary D. Allen, and Arvine K. Allen.) (Thom Hill.) Tryphena S., wife of Aaron Allen, died October 12, 1873, Age 90 years. (Thom Hill.) 8 ONONDAGA PISTOlWeAL ASSOCIATION Ellen JI., daughter of Aarp^ and Tryphena S- Alle»^ di^d May 22, W^6, ag? 22 years, 5 mont;fts, 5 d^i^^- "Reader stand stiJI »nd drop a tear, Think of the djjpt t^at slm[n^>ers heve, And when yon r^ad the fate of me Think of the glass that runs for thee." (Thom Hill.) Mary p. Aljen, (daughter of Aarop and Tryphena S. Allen), died April 26, 1892, age 71 years. (Thom Hill.) ALVORD. Deary, son of Thomas R. and Sarah A- (Webster) Alvord, died September W, 1^64, age 4 years, 8 days. (Thomas R. Alvord married Sarah A. Webster, daugh ter of William and Mary Webster.) (Gold Brook.) ANDERSON. John Anderson, died September 30, 1890, age 83 years, 3 months, 16 days. (He was bom June 14, 1807, and married Catherine Olds, June 25, 1832. Mr. Anderson was, for many years. Captain of an Artillery Company organized at Borodino, where he resided nearly all his lifetime. In his will, dated September 23, 1890, and probated December 1, 1890, he mentions his wife Catherine (Olds) Anderson, and his children : John H. Anderson of Georgetown, California ; and George C. Anderson of Spafford; he also mentions his daughter-in-law, Delphene Anderson, wife of John H. ; his sister, Catherine Tupper of Michigan ; and his niece, Betsey Tupper, daughter of his siste?: Gattierine, Gieorge C. Anderson is an ^mploy^ of ^he general governmient ait Washington and unmarried-) (Borodino,) Catlijerine Olds Anderson, (wiffs of John Andersw) , died March 13, 1891, aged 78 years and 3 days. (Borodino.) Jpnnie, d^ghtpr pf Jphn and Catherine (Olds) Ander son, died January 11, 1880, age (No stpn^,) (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES g Cornelius Anderson, died June 9, 1843, age 30 years. (He was a brother of John Anderson and died unmarried.) (Borodino.) Rebecca Anderson, died October 22, 1830, age 24 years. (She was an adopted daughter of Stephen Smith and died unmarried.) (Thorn Hill.) Among the Andersons Who resided in this town, and who left no dead were : Thomas B. Anderson g,nd his three sisters: Eli?a, Susan and Louisa, who were bom on the east shore of Maryland, and from there first moved to Eli- cott Mills in the same State, and at an early date to this town and settled in Borodino. Thomas B., married Caro line Grout, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Clark) Grout, he was a merchant. He and his wife died in Pennsylvania, but were buried in Oakwo.od Cemetery, Syracuse, N, Y.; tl^ey were father and mother of Mrs. R. A. Bonta, whose hnsband is Cashier of New York State Banking Company of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Eliza, married Edward Baxter, died and was bnried in Liyerppol, N. Y. ; Susan, married Thomas Jenkins at Elicott Mills, Md., she died in Syracuse, N. Y., mother of Clinton Jenkins of Syracuse, N. Y. ; and Louisa, married Orrin Stebbins, resided in Betts' Corner, but died and was buried in Phoenix, Oswego County, N. Y. ANDREWS. Little George, son of Dudley and Calista (Perkins) Andrews, died August 31, 1853, age 6 months. (Dudley Andrews was a son of Elder Benjamin Andrews, who came from Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y., and for many years ministered over the Baptist Church at Spafford Corners. By his wife Mary, Elder Andrews had the following children: Dudley, m. Calista Perkins, daughter of Hopkins and Polly Perkins; John P., m. Harriet ; Christopher, died unmarried; Susan, m. Nelson Perkins, son of Hopkins and Polly Perkins; Mary, m. (1) Nelson Shaw, (2) Stephen Foote; Sophia, m. in Groton and never came to this town; Lovlna, m. Elder Bennett ; m-d Melissa F., m. Asahel M. Roundy, son of Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy. le ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION John Andrews, by his wife Harriet, had the following : Dudley B., m. Helen Ripley, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, (7 children) ; Sophia, m. Charles Ripley, son of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, (3 children) ; and Benjamin, died in the army in Florida, near close of War of 1861. (Cold Brook.) ANGEL In memory of Anna, wife of Abraham Angel, died Febmary 17, 1839, age 79 years, 3 months, 13 days. " Go home my friends Wipe off your tears, Here I must lie 'Till Christ appears." (She came to this town about 1830, and probably resided with her daughter, Polly Angel, wife of Peleg Sprague, on lot 10, Sempronius, in the Nunnery settlement. In her will, dated September 1, 1834, and probated April 30, 1839, she mentioned her children : Polly Sprague, wife of Peleg Sprague, and (Gemsha) Mehitable Lewis), wife of Gershom Lewis.) (Borodino.) ANTHONY. Isaac Anthony, (son of Giles and Alice (Chase) An thony) , born August 12, 1796, died November 16, 1858. (Borodino.) (Mr. Anthony was of Quaker descent and born in Ports mouth, R. I. He came to this town from Cambridge, Wash ington Co., N. Y., where he probably married his wife Par- melia Phelps, daughter of Daniel Phelps, and settled June 10, 1823, on Lot 12, Sempronius, where he remained until his decease. His emigrant ancestor, John Anthony, (born 1607, died July 28, 1675) came to this country, April 16, 1630, from Hemstead, England, in the ship Hercules, and finally settled in Portsmouth, R. I., where he was made freeman, March 16, 1641. His wife Susanna died in 1675. Their children were: John, Susannah, Elizabeth, Joseph and Abraham. Abraham Anthony (John) , died Octobed 10, 1727. He was SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 11 Deputy in 1703-4-5-7-8-9-10-11. In the years 1709-10 he held the office of Speaker of the House of Deputies. He married December 26 1671, Alice Wodell, daughter of William and Mary Wodell, and by her had: (at Ports mouth, R. I.), the foUoiwng children: John, Susanna, Mary, William, Susanna (2), Mary (2), Abraham, Thomas, Alice, James, Amy, Isaac and Jacob. Abraham Anthony, Jr., (Abraham, John) bom April 21, 1682, married February 7, 1716-7 at Swansey, R. I., Elizabeth Gray, and had children : (first seven in Swansey, and the balance in Portsmouth) as follows: Abraham, Mary, Edward, Thomas, Philip, Elizabeth, Isaac, Sarah, Elisha, Jonathan, Peleg and Daniel. Isaac Anthony (Abraham, Abraham, John) born 7th, 3 m 1727 at Swansey, R. I. (ml) February 15, 1753, Ruth Russell ( daughter of Seth and Hannah Russel of Dart mouth, (2) November 19, 1760, Hannah Slocum, daughter of Giles and Ann Slocum, (3) Rebecca and had the following: (by first wife) : Honnah, Isaac, and Seth, and (by second wife) : Giles, Ruth, and Seth, and (by third wife) : Rebecca, Alice and Isaac. Giles Anthony (Isaac, Abraham, Abraham, John) b. October 20, 1761, married at Portsmouth, R. I., January 4, 1786, Alice Chase, daughter of Aaron and Ehzabeth Chase, and by her had the following (bom at Portsmouth) : Hannah, b. October 27, 1789; Alice, b. October 11, 1792; Giles, b. July 15, 1794 ; Isaac, h. August 12, 1796 ; Harriet, b. July 21, 1799 ; Elizabeth, b. February 1, 1802 ; and Mary, b. February 25, 1805. Isaac Anthony (Giles, Isaac, Abraham, Abraham, Jph^i) b. August 12, 1796, at Portsmouth, R. I. In his will, dated August 2, 1858, and probated March 3, 1859, he mentions his wife, Parmelia Anthony, and his children: Julius, P. Anthony and Catherine Gait, wife of Thomas A. Gait, of Sterling, Whiteside Co., Illinois; Elliott Anthony, of Chi cago, Illinois; Daniel P. Anthony, Jane Harvey, wife of Dorwin Harvey, son of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey, Sarah Anthony, and Ruth Anthony of Spafford, N. Y, Giles died before his father.) (Borodino.) Sarah P. Anthony, (daughter of Isaac and Pamelia 12 •NONDAGA HISTOWCAI. AflBOCIAtlOW (Phelps) Anthony), bom October 16, 1837, died January 28,1862. (Borodino,-) Giles, son of Isaac and Pamelia (Phelps) Anthony, died November 9, 1853, age 30 years. " Rest brother, rest from all thy toils Now death hatii set thee free; Though thou art seen no more by us Thou shalt with Jesus be." (Borodino,) Martha A. (Shaw), wife of Georgp H. Anthony, di^d October 26, 1868, age 35 years, 6 months. " Gone but not forgotten." (George H. Anthony, son of Harvey Anthony, married (1) Martha A. Shaw, daughter of James Shaw of Spafford Hollow, and (2) Esther Root, daughter of Henry and Anna Root, also of Spafford Hollow.) (Cold Brook.) Esther (Root) , wife of George H. Anthony) . (Cold Brook.) ARNOLD. Lydia, widow of Joseph Arnold, died October 1, 1846, in the 76th year of her age. (She was the mottier of Mrs. Harriet Lyon, wife of David T. Lyon, and came from Otisco, N. Y.) (Spafford.) AVERY. James Avery and his wife Mercy came to this town at an early date, and settled on the southwest comer of Lot 21, Tully ; these lands he and his wife conveyed to Benjamin Homer, November 29, 1811. He then purchased and re sided for a short time on the souiiiwest comer of Lot 33, Tully, but sold it to Jonathan Berry in 1824, and moved on to Lot 41, Tully, all of which he had purchased except Sur vey 50 acres in ihe northeast comer. His residence, during his remaining stay in town, was near the Joseph Prindle residence, so well known on said lot in subsequent year^. Lot 41 was conveyed by him in parcels to Thomp^n Bur- dick il8W, Elmer D. Jenks (1822), Elijah Baker (1826), and to Caleb N. Potter (January, 1829 and December 1829) '. SPAFFORD MORTtJAlSY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES IJ He was Tmstefe of the 1st Free Will Baptist Church in 1828, and as such was One of the ^antees of the lands upon ¦vfr'hieh the church edifice of that society was erected about that time. He left no descendants in this town, and very littk is known of him even by the old residents, outside of his numerous business transactions, which indicate that he Was an active and successful business man. Of his family no record remains. BABCOCK. Elihu Babcock, (son of John and Ruth Babcock), died January 8, 1819, age 40 years. (He came probably from Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., to gpatford, (theft Tully), before Febmary 13, 1810, and settled on Lot 10, Sempronius, amnog the first settlers. At the time of his decease he was residing on a farm of 1^1 acres, owned by him in the southwest comer of said lot, running down to the east shore of Skaneateles Lake. In his Will, dated January 19, 1819, and probated March 4, 1819, he mentions his Wife Hannah Babcock, and his children: Thomas, Malentha, (m. Calvin Stteeter), Cyrus, Ruth, Worden aftd Sophia.) (Thom Hill.) Suth, daughter of Elihu and Hannah Babcock, died March 19, 1836, age 22 years. (She died unmarried.) (Thorn Hill.) John Babcock, Jr., (son of John and Ruth Babcock), died October 24, 1849, age 68 years. (He probably came early from Washington Co., N. Y., among the first settlers, and took up his residence near his brother Elihu, on Lot id, Sempronius, and subsequently moved ihto the Village of Borodino, where he remained until his decease; he was a cooper by trade. He married first Nfancy Stoddard, second Ellis Wallace, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace, and third Lucy Sprague, widow of SOlotnoh Sprague. Itis children were: Laura Ann, m. A^a Hall, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) Hall; Loviiia, m. Worden Babcock, son of Elihu aiid Hannah Bab cock; Ira, m. Julianna Palmer, daughter of Amos and Mary (fearber) Pabner, April 13, 1834; Matilda; Mercy, m. 14 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION WiUet Palmer, son of Amos and Mary (Barber) Palmer; Rebecca, Hannah, John, Elihu, Darhis, Isaac, Permelia, m. (1) Jacob Pollock and (2) George W. Breed, son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed; and Charies, b. Febmary 21, 1840. died in Dallas, Nebraska, December 16, 1897, m. Chariotte Walker, January 1, 1863, in Pennsylvania.) (Borodino.) Worden Babcock, died January 3, 1849, age 29 years, 7 months, 5 days. (Borodino.) John H. Babcock, bom October 11, 1807 died May 5, 1874. " At Rest." (He is not known to be related to the other Babcock famihes of this town. He resided, at the time of his decease, on the place known as " Split Rock," east of the Skaneateles and Homer road, on the N. W. comer of lot 12, Sempronius.) (Borodino.) WiUie J., son of William and Elizabeth Babcock, died January 23, 1875, age 1 year, 1 month. (William Babcock was a son of John H. Babcock.) (Borodino.) Sarah Lavinda (Carr), wife of Thomas A. Babcock. Died January 9, 1873, age 38 years 2 months, 14 days. (She was a daughter of Thurston and Lorane (Green) Carr. Sarah, Thmston, William, Thurston, Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Robert, Benjamin.) (Spafford.) Elizabeth (Bulfinch), wife of John Babcock, died De cember 18, 1851, in her 74th year. (She was a sister of Joseph Bulfinch. Her husband, John Babcock, was one of the first settlers in town, (Oct. 8, 1806) and lived on 47 acres west of the Skaneateles and Homer road, on lot 21, Tully, at Spafford Comers, the same farm afterwards owned and occupied successively by Silas Cox, Joseph Cole and Dr. John Collins. He was at one time prominent in town affairs, being the first Supervisor at the organization of the town of Spafford in 1812. He went West about 1825. (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 15 BACON. Amos Bacon, died July 24, 1840, age 72 years. (He married Abigail Cady and had : William, m. Phebe Isdell, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Harris) Isdell; Amos, Jr., m. Clarissa Fowler; John, m. Sally Churchill, daughter of John and Martha Churchill; Achsah, m. Wil- lard Doty, son of Warren and Sarah (Wood) Doty; and Abigail, who died at 22, unmarried.) (Cold Brook.) Abigail (Cady) , wife of Amos Bacon, died February 14, 1844, age 72 years. (Cold Brook.) Abigail, daughter of Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon, died March 1, 1835, age 22 years, 1 month, 10 days. " Death is a debt to nature due, Which I have paid and so must you." (Cold Brook.) John Bacon, (son of Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon), died April 22, 1844, age 43 years, 9 months. (He married Sally Churchill, daughter of John and Martha Churchill, and had: Warren, died unmarried; David, m. Ruth E. House, and moved to Chautauqua Co., N. Y. ; Phelena, moved to Campbell, Mich., and married a Mr. Gibson; Harrison, m. Frances Churchill, daughter of Orville and Mary J. (Riggall) Churchill; and Irene, died young.) (Cold Brook.) Sally (Churchill), v/ife of John Bacon, died May 24, 1899, age 90 years. (Cold Brook.) Warren Bacon, (son of John and Sally (Churchill) Bacon) . Died June 6, 1850, age 24 years. (He died unmarried.) (Cold Brook.) Irene Bacon, (daughter of John and Sally (Churchill) Bacon) . Died December 16, 1836, age 15 months. (Cold Brook.) Cora, daughter of David and Ruth E. (House) Bacon) , died October 9, 1860, age 20 months. (David Bacon, son of John and Sally (Churchill) Bacon, 16 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIAIfl^Mf married Ruth E. House. He moved to Chautauqua County, N. Y.) (Cold Brook.) Frances (Churchill) , wife of Harrison fiacon, died Fda- ruary 11, 1885, age 30 years. Harrisoii Bacon, son of John and Sally (Churchill) Sacon, married Frances Churchill, daughter of Orville and Mary J. (Riggall) Churchill.) (Cold Brook.) tn memory of John H. Bacon, who died June 18, 1834, in the 24th year of his age. (Cold Brook.) Orsollj son of Amos (Jr.) and Clarissa (Fowler) Bacon, died March 8, 1857, age 14 years, 9 months, 19 days. " 0 ! that with yonder sacred throng We at his feet may fall. And pour the everlasting song And crown Him Lord of All." (Amos Bacon, Jr;, son of Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon, married Clarissa Fowler.) (Spaiford.) Augustus, son of Amos (Jr.) and Clarissa (Fowler) Bacon, died June t, 1858, age 21 years, 8 months, 15 days. (Spafford.) Sarah E., daughter of James and Martha (Woodworth) Bacon, died August 17, 1877, age 1 year, 9 months, 24 days. (She sleeps." (James Bacon, son of William and Phebe (Isdell) Bacon, married Martha Woodworth, daughter of Joel C. and Sarah (Eadie) WOodworth. William Bacon, son of Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon, in his will dated December 14, 1878, and probated February 10, 1879, mentions his wife Phebe Bkcoil, and his children: James (above mentioned), of Spafford, N. Y.; John, of Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y.; Charles, m. Emma J. Davis, daughter of Col. Lewis C. and Mary (l^ressy) Davis of Spafford, N. Y., Emeline, m. Arlo Woodworth, soil of Joel C. and Sarah (Eadie) Woodworth, then of Sl)afford, N. Y.; Wesley, Of Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y., aiid Prank of Spafford, N. Y., then all of full age. WiUiam died at Spaffoi'd, December 17, lg78, three days after making his will, at the age of 68 years. (Spatdrd.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 17 Perry D., son of Charles and Emma J. (Davis) Bacon, died November 15, 1878, age 5 years, 5 months, 25 days. (Charles Bacon, son of William and Phebe (IsdeU) Bacon, married Emma J. Davis, daughter of Col. Lewis C. and Mary (Pressey) Davis.) (Spafford.) BAKER. Ashbel S. Baker, (son of Simeon C. Baker) , died Decem ber 25, 1849, age 29 years, 1 month, 22 days. (He was a son of Simeon C. Baker of Marietta, N. Y., and m. (1) Sarah A. Streeter, daughter of Alexander R. and Susan (Carpenter) Streeter, and (2) Norrissa . He died from an injury received in a friendly scuffle with Charles Bailey. He left him surviving, his widow Norrissa Baker, and children: Sarah Ann, afterwards m. Roland Rollo of Sennett, N. Y. ; Charles, and Clarrissa Baker, all three minors; the first of whom was adopted into the family of Orrin Eddy, whose wife Harriet Streeter was her aunt.) (Borodino.) Sarah A. (Streeter), wife of Ashbel S. Baker, died May 5, 1845, age 21 years, 3 months, 13 days. (She was a daughter of Alexander R. and Susan (Car penter) Streeter). (Borodino.) Sally Ann (Taft), wife of Ziba D. Baker, died March 26, 1846, age 34 years. (Ziba D. Baker, son of Josiah and Sally Baker, married Sally Ann Taft, daughter of Ellis and Cynthia (Knapp) Taft; they were father and mother of Cynthia, widow of Benjamin McDaniels, deceased, and now a resident of this town. Josiah Baker died in this town and was buried in Borodino Cemetery (no stone) . He had by his wife Sally the following children: Sally, m. Mr. Carley; Ziba D., (mentioned above) ; Susan, m. Gardner Barber (deid) ; George, m. Mary Ann Austin, resides in Chicago, 111. ; and Morris Baker, resides in Independence, Iowa.) (Cold Brook.) IS ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BALL. Charles T., son of J. M. and H. M. BaU, died October 28,^ 1850, age 2 years, 1 month, 21 days. (Mr. J. M. Ball was a shoemaker, and a transient resi dent of Borodino.) (Borodino.) BARBER. Ruhif Barber, died May 31, 1832, in his 4fltii year. (In his will, dated May 29, 1832, and probated July 27, 1832, he mentions his wife Annice Barber, and his children : Ruluf Jerome, (m. Samantha Young; she subsequently m, James H. IsdeH), of Spafford, N, Y.; Emily; Calvin, (m. Amanda A. ) ; Everett, (m. Louisa ), moved to Michigan; Lucian; Sylvia, (m. Ira Young of Cayuga Co., N. Y.) ; Homon (m. Harriet Mason) ; Sarah Ann, (m. James Smith) ; and Daniel Hugh Barber.) (Cold Brook.) In memory of Jerome Ruluf Barber, (son of Ruluf and AnniceBarber) , who died October 23, 1837, age 33 years, 9 months, 17 days. " He's gone to rest, thy husband dear, \ Then why shoulds't thou complain. Or grieve, or sigh, or shed a tear. Or wish him back again?" (He married Samantha Young, who after his \ decease married (2) James H. Isdell, son of Andrew and Mary (Harris) IsdeU; she and her second husband are both now deceased.) (Cold Brook.) Emily, daughter of Ruluf and Annice Barber, died Nov ember 24, 1839, age 34 years, 5 months, 6 days. (Cold Brook.) Loin, son of Ruluf and Annice Barber, died August 13 1827, in his 3rd year. (Cold Brook.) Mr. Lucian, son of Ruluf and Annice Barber, died June 4, 1835, age 21 years, 2 months, 18 days. (Cold Brook.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 19 James M., son of Samuel and Thankful Barber, died Oct. 10, 1825, age 10 months, 16 days. (Spafford.) Rathbone Spafford, 1807-1887. Julia A. (w.) , 1816-1888. Menry J. Barber, 1814. (Spafford.) Robe (Wilcox) , wife of Rathbone Barber, died Novem ber 4, 1859, age 77 years, 9 months, 11 days. (After the death of his wife Robe Rathbone moved to Junius, N. Y., where he married a second time. .He died at the latter place and was buried there by the side of his second wife. By his wife Robe he had the following diil- dren : Rathbone, Jr., m. Julani^ Ann Harris, daughter of William and Nancy (Davis) Harris ; Jeremiah, m. and lived in Junius, Sraieca Co., N. Y. ; Reuben W., m- Purlina Morris, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Springer) Morris resided in Barry Co., Mich., and had three daughters there; Charles, m. Betsey RandaU, daughter of Silas and Mercy (Harring ton) Randall; Ruth, m. Jerome Reed, and resided in Alle gany Co., N. Y. ; Robey, m. Clark Havens (both dead) ; and Daniel, m. Cornelia Belknapp, and died in Pennsylvania. Rathbone was a brother of Mary Barber who married Amos Palmer.) , (Spafford.) Paulina Morris, widow of Reuben W. Barber, 1825-1857. (Spafford.) Henry E., died March 3, 1874, age 8 months, 2 days. Julia A., died July 2, 1878, age 2 years, 7 months, 6 days. Children of Bradford and Phebe (Cox) Barber. Bradford Barber was a son of Rathbone, Jr., and Jul- ania Ann (Harris) Barber. Rathbone Barber, Jr. lived most of his life on the Psalter Pullman farm on Lot 32, Sempronius, where were born to him by his wife Julania the following children : Addison, m. Juliette Servant, and resides in the town of Niles, Cayuga Co., N. Y. ; Frederick m. Alvira Servant, and resides in Niles, N. Y. ; Frank, m. (1) Mary Owen, (2) Samantha Belknapp, and resides in Skaneateles Village, N. Y. ; Bradford, m. Phebe Cox, resides in Niles, N. Y. ; Alice, m. John Randall, son of Hosea and Charlotte (Clark) Randall, resides in Scott, P. 0. address. Glen Haven; Mary, m. Harrison Morris, son of Uriah and 20 ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Frances (Worden) Morris, Skaneateles Village, N. Y. ; Jane (mute), resides unmarried, in Spafford, N. Y., and Lewis, m. Amy Johnson and resides in Niles, N. Y. Rathbone, Jr., and his wife Julania, at the time of their decease, were livmg in the town of Niles, N. Y., but both were buried in Spafford Cemetery. (No stone.) (Spafford.) BARKER. Darius Barker, died July 3, 1840, age 43 years, 9 months, 23 days. • (Darius Barker came to this town from Easton, Wash ington Co., N. Y., May 4th, 1832, and settled on lots 41 and 42, Tully, where he remained until his decease; by his wife Mary Cooper, he had the following children : William C, m. Betsey Ann Knapp, daughter of Elijah and Betsey (Bur- dick) Knapp, resides in Homer, N. Y.; Charles, moved to Chautauqua Co., N. Y. ; Cornelia, m. (1) George W. Lyon, son of David L. and Harriet (Arnold) Lyon, and (2) John Wallace, bom in Ireland, she resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Sarah Mary, m. John Cotterall, he is dead and she resides in Scott, N. Y. ; Charlotte, m. (1) James Hill Norton, son of Robert and Susan (HiU) Norton; (2) Mr. Tanner, she is now dead; Caroline, m. William Smith and moved to Cali fornia; and Benejah, m. in Oregon and died in Washington, D. C, his widow and one child still reside in the latter place. Wliliam Cooper Barker, by his wife Betsey Ann Knapp, had the following children : George Eugene, (physician and surgeon) m. (1) Helen Elisiff Westcott, (2) Ada ScammeU (both wives now dead), resides in Spafford, N. Y.; Charles Emerson, m. Ida Norton, daughter of Erastus and Mary (Isdell) Norton, of Spafford, N. Y., and Perry Knapp, m. Cornelia Desdemonia Knapp (second cousin), daughter of George Frink and Betsey Ann (Gale) Knapp, resides in Homer, N. Y.) Mary, widow of Darius Barker, died February 18, 1889, age 93. (Spafford.) Messer Barker at an early date was a merchant in the Village of Borodino; he also dealt extensively in real estate. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 21 commencing these transactions April 28, 1818 and ending April 1, 1840, in which his wife, Ann Eliza, joined. In the latter part of the year 1838 he moved from Borodino and settled in Plymouth, Richland Co., Ohio. Hon. Sidney Smith says : " Messer Barker had a family of one son and I think four daughters. They were an unusually bright family ; they left Borodino for Ohio before they were fully grown." The son, Frank Barker, married and died in Ohio. BARNES. Harvey Barnes, died May 14, 1891, age 87 years. (He married Avalinda Holmes, daughter of John and Lydia Holmes, and by her had: Edwin F. m. Mary A. Travis, daughter of John Travis; and Christina, m. (1860) William H. Clark, son of Amasa P. and Lydia (Bingham) Clark, of Borodino, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Edwin F. Barnes, (son of Harvey and Avalinda (Holmes) Barnes.) Died December 10, 1872, age 32 years, 10 months, 17 days. (He married Mary A. Travis, daughter of John Travis.) (Borodino.) Laura, daughter of Noah and Julia Barnes, died April 23, 1835, age 23 years, 1 month. (Borodino.) Hiram -Barnes, died November 1, 1842, age 42 years, 3 months, 6 days. He was a brother of Harvey Barnes. (Borodino.) BATES. Mary A. (Sharp), wife of Ransford R. Bates, died February 23, 1862, age 39 years, 9 months, 10 days. (She wasa daughter of Chester and Anice (Churchill) Sharp, and a granddaughter of John and Martha ChurchiU, one of the first settlers in Cold Brook.) (Cold Brook.) 22 »NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BAXTER. Several members of the Baxter family came to this town from Pittsfield, Mass., at an early date, and settled at Borodino and in that vicinity, among whom were Daniel, John, William Bently, Edward and Septimus, five brothers, and possibly one or more sisters, but of the sisters we have no positive information ; and in fact nothing more is known of Septimus than his name. Daniel Baxter came before the Fall of 1817, and first settled on lot 14, Sempronius, west of the Center, but in course of one or two years thereafter moved to the Village of Borodino, where he carried on a general mercantile business for twelve or fifteen years there after. From 1817 to 1832 he had numerous real estate transactions in Borodino and in idiat vcinity, in which he was joined by his wife Susan. He was Supervisor of the town in the years 1830-1-2, and his general reputation was that of a substantial business man. He was Member of Assembly of the New York Legislature from this town in 1828. He went West early in the thirties. John Baxter resided in the Village of Borodino before the Marcellus end of the town was incorporated into the original town of Spafford. He was a successful farmer and business man, and sometimes acted as surveyor ; several of the roads of the town were laid out and surveyed by him, and are so recorded in the town records. In his real estate transactions he is joined by his wife Delia; he also went West and settled in Michigan. William Bentley Baxter married Mary Hillebert, daughter of John C. and Elizabeth (Berry) HiUebert. He was also a farmer residing near Borodino and went West. Edward Baxter came originally from Pittsfield, Mass., to Volney, Oswego Co., N. Y., and from there moved to Borodino, where he carried on a general mercantile business for a number of years. From Borodino he moved to Phoe nix, Oswego County, N. Y., and from there to Liverpool, N. Y., where he remained until his decease. While residing in Borodino he married Eliza Anderson, sister of Thomas B. Anderson, then of that place, and by her had three chil dren, the first two bom in Borodino and the last in Phoenix; George, bom March 6, 1839, married Anice Sitts, of Clay' N. Y. ; he has been for several years Supervisor of the Town SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 23 of Salina, is a successful business man and now resides in liverpool, N. Y.; Charles^ bom 1843, married and resides in Arizona ; Clinton, bom 1846, and is also married, resi dence unknown. Mr. Edward Baxter died in Liverpool in September, 1895, at the advanced age of 91 years, and was buried at that place; his wife died in 1862 or 3, and was also buried at the same place. BEARSE. Aaron Bearse, died February 14, 1842, age 58 years. (He married (1) Phebe Smith, (2) Rebecca Earl, daughter of David and Anna Earl, and (3) Harriet Cleve land, sister of Benajah Cleveland. He came to this town among the early settlers and took up his residence on a farm, probably under a contract, on lot 13, Sempronius, for which he subsequently took a deed, February 29, 1812. In his will, dated November 16, 1841, and probated February 24, 1842, he mentions his wife Harriet Bearse, and his children: David; Lyman, m. Mary Emily Langdon, he died West before October 13, 1853; Isabenda (m. 1) Anson Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell, and (2) Albert E. Pulton, son of Emerson Fulton; Ford; Aaron E.; Ward, m. Mary Bums, daughter of Felix and Elizabeth ( Walace) Bums ; Harriet ; and Esther M. Bearse ; the two latter died unmarried.) (Borodino.) Phebe (Smith), wife of Aaron Bearse, died October 11, 1819, in the 35th year of her age. (Borodino.) In memory of Rebecca (Earl) wife of Aaron Bearse, died February 7, 1830, age 38 years, 9 months, 22 days. (Thom HiU.) BECKER. Peter Becker, son of David and Gertrude (Van Buren) Becker, born June 11, 1800, died July 29, 1889. Age 89 years, 1 month, 18 days. " He rests well." (He was bom at Easton, Washington Co., N. Y., and is supposed to have been a descendant of John Becker, who 24 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION in 1656 was Clerk at Fort Casimir on the Deleware, in 1660 kept school in New Amsterdam (N. Y. City) , and in 1663 and afterwards was a Notary Public and School master, in Greenbush and Albany, N. Y. He was one of a family of seven children, three boys and four girls, who resided in Washington and Saratoga Counties in this State. After his marriage to his first wife, Mary Eadie, he first settled in Scriba, Oswego Co., N. Y., in the year 1836, and from there came to Scott, N. Y., and resided for about four years on the Vincent Farm. March 9, 1840, he purchased a farm of ninety-nine acres of Henry Ide, on Lot 12, Sem pronius, and resided in this town afterwards until the time of his decease. His v/ife, Mary, died April 2, 1866, and he married (2) Asenath Patterson, widow of Calvin Patterson, and former widow of William Case, her maiden name was Asenath Warner. His children were by his first wife.) (Borodino.) David Becker, born July 7, 1820. William Becker, born April 18, 1823. Elizabeth Becker, bora Sept. 6, 1825. Henry Becker, bora July 27, 1827. James Becker, born October 8, 1830. Alexander Becker, born June 2, 1833. John Becker, born July 12, 1836. Thomas Becker, bom February 12, 1838. Children of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker.) (David Becker married Eunice Legg, daughter of William and Amanda (Fulton) Legg, and had two children: Mrs. Ellis A. Tucker of Little York, N. Y., and Mrs. Emma Gere of Beatrice, Nebraska. Mrs. David Becker was bom in February, 1833, and is now deceased, buried by the side of her husband in Borodino Cemetery. (No stone) ; Wil- Uam Becker, married Joanna Robinson, daughter of Archi bald and Amy Robinson; Elizabeth Becker died unmarried; Henry Becker died unmarried ; James Becker married Mary Boothroy, resides in Syracuse, N. Y.; Alexander Becker married Mary Newell, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Cuy- kendall) NeweU, his wife is dead and he resides in Syra cuse, N. Y. ; John Becker married Elizabeth Shuttleworth born in England and now deceased; and Thomas Becker married Elizabeth Babcock.) (Borodino. > SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 28 Mary (Eadie) Becker, wife of Peter Becker, died April 2, 1866, age 67 years, 9 months, 27 days. (Borodino.) Asenth (Patterson) (Case) (Warner) Becker, wife of Peter Becker, died January 23, 1886, age 74 years, 6 months. (No stone.) (Borodino.) Elizabeth (Shuttleworth) Becker, wife of John Becker, bom 1842, died 1894. (John Becker was a son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker. (Borodino.) Henry Becker (son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker) . Bom July 27, 1827, died September 8, 1895. (Borodino.) Alexander Becker, (son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker) . Bom July 2, 1833. (Borodino.) Mary Newell, wife of Alexander Becker, bom November 27, 1833, died December 13, 1895. (Alexander Becker, son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker, m. Mary Newell, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Cuykendall) Newell. Alexander resides in Syracuse, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Joanna (Robinson) wife of William Becker. Died May 30, 1878, age 55 years, 5 months, 7 days. " Mother we miss Thee." (William Becker (son of Peter and Mary Eadie) Becker m. Joanna Robinson, daughter of Archibald and Amy Robinson.) (Borodino.) David Becker, (son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker). Died November 19, 1862, age 43 years, 4 months. (He married Eunice Legg, daughter of William and Amanda (Fulton) Legg. He was a merchant at Borodino, and prominent both in business and town affairs. He was Supervisor of the town in 1860.) (Borodino.) Eunice Legg, wife of David Becker. Died at Geddes, N. Y., July 31, 1879, age 46 years, 5 months.) 26 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (She was bora February, 1833. No stone.) (Borodino.)" Fannie, daughter of John and EUzabeth (Shuttleworth) Becker. Died September 28, 1864, age 2 years, 6 months. (Borodino.) BEELER. (Private in Capt. Kean's Co, 4th U. S. Regt. of Riflemen in the War of 1812, is buried in an unmarked grave in the southeast comer of the Spafford Cemetery. He was a pen sioner of the United States for loss of a leg, resulting from a wound received in battle in the year 1814. He came to Spafford from Springfield, New York. He died after 1821, but at what date is not known. At the time of his decease, he was living at Roundy 's Tavern at Spafford Comers.) No stone. (Spafford.) BENNETT. Lucinda, wife of Isaac Bennett. Died October 20, 1830, age 39 years, 4 months, 21 days. (Thom HiU.) Lucy Hutchens, wife of Lyman C. Bennett. Died April 5, 1882, age 52 years. " In life beloved, in death lamented." (Lsrman C. Bennett (b. in Virgil, N. Y., November 20, 1831), son of Stephen and Waity (Hill) Bennett, married Lucy Hutchens, daughter of C!ol. Phineas and Betsey (Bocker) Hutchens. She was bom in Spafford, N. Y., April 6, 1830; one child.) (Spafford.) Phineas Hutchens, only child of Lyman C. and Lucy (Hutchens) Bennett. Died March 29, 1866, age 9 months,^ 11 days. " Our Little Phinney." " O ! the little feet, in the glorious street. Can never go astray. Too fraU, too pure for Earth." (Spafford.) WiUiam J. Bennett, (son of Stephen and Waity (Hill) Bennett. Died October 9, 1860, age 21 years. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 27 (He was a cripple, and at the time of his decease was living with his brother, Ljrman C. Bennett.) (Spafford.) The family of Christian Bennett resided and buried its dead just over the Spafford line, in the town of Tully, in the locality commonly called " Bennett Hollow," yet on account of its close business and social relations with the people of this town the foUowing is offered : Christian Bennett the elder, (called by himself Chris- John Bonats) , was born at Frankfort on the Rhine, and was a soldier under Napoleon the First in the French Revolution. After his discharge from the French Army he first settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and from there emigrated to the town of Tully among the first settlers. He died in Bennett Hollow, and was buried there by the side of his wife, Hannah Fralick. He had three children registered in the family Bible, as Peter Bonats, Gershom Bonats, and Christian Bonats. Christian Bonats, Jr., bom in Germantown, Pa., August 14, 1781, married January 8, 1812, Elizabeth Adare. He came to Tully at an early date, and in 1816 purchased his large farm of 155 acres in Bennett Hollow, where he re mained until the time of his decease, September 25, 1866. He was trustee of School District No. 8 (a joint district for the towns of Spafford, Tully and Preble) from 1852 to 1857 inclusive. He and his wife, Elizabeth, were buried in the Cemetery near the School House, in Bennett Hollow. His children, all bom in Bennett Hollow, were: Jane, bom February 7, 1813, died January 1898, in Iowa, married WiUiam A. Higley ; Joseph Adare, bom March 18, 1815, died March 23, 1836, in Bennett HoUow ; Lydia Maria, bora Feb ruary 22, 1817, married Isaac HoUenbeck in 1839, and resides in TuUy, N. Y., (7 children) ; Henry Staley, born December 20, 1819, died in Pennsylvania, (2 children) ; Sarah Ett, bom April 5, 1823, died March, 1872, married (1) Anthony Straile and (2) George Warne, (2 children) ; Mary Elizabeth, bom August 17, 1829, married Richard A. VanDenburg, resides in Soott, N. Y. (4 children) ; James Edward, bom March 23, 1827, died in Preble, N. Y., mar ried Hannah Van Denburg, (2 children) ; and John Chris- 28 ©N0NDA6A HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION tian, bom November 13, 1833, married May 20, 1856, H. Amelia Doran of Syracuse, N. Y. Col. John Christian Bennett born November 13, 1833, and living- in 1888 in London, England, married May 20, 1856, at Syracuse, N. Y., H. Amelia Doran, now living in Syracuse, N. Y., and by her had : John Christian, Jr., bom in 1858, residing in Boston, Mass., unmarried; Joseph Adare, born in 1862, married and lives in Texas, Sergeant in 23d United States Infantry; Andrew Doran, born in 1865, merchant in Syracuse and married; and Carl Lee, born in 1867, married Jessica Marie Kline in New York City, where he now resides. John C. Bennett obtained the rank of Colonel from the State of New York, as commanding officer of the 51st Regiment of New York Militia, located at Syracuse, N. Y. BERRY. Jonathan Berry. Bora March 17, 1771, died August 13, 1849. Jonathan Berry came from Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., and settled on Lot 12, Sempronius, in March, 1803. He remained there until March 3, 1810, when he purchased the States Hundred Acres on Lot 89, Marcellus, of Daniel Tinkham. Soon after he took up his residence near where Jeremiah Olmstead now resides on this purchase, and re mained there until the time of his decease. Mr. Berry was a leading business man, and without question dealt more extensively in real estate in his adopted town than any of his fellow townspeople. Among other transactions he pur chased nearly all of lots 10 and 12, Sempronius, and sold out in parcels to suit his purchasers, who cleared and settled upon the lands. His real estate transactions, however, were not confined to the vicinity of his residence, but extended to all parts of the town, without reference to his individual uses and purposes. The public records indicate that he had a natural bora taste for speculation in real estate, which to a certain extent met with success, for at his decease he left a very valuable property of this kind, to be distributed among the members of his family. By his wife Thankful he had the foUowing children : Joseph R., married Sarah Kneeland, daughter of Asa and Hannah (Green) Kneeland, SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 29 resided in Winslow, Stevens Co., Illinois; Mary, married Isaac Knapp, son of Peter and Dinah (Guion) Knapp; Eliz abeth, married John C. Hillebert of Borodino, N. Y. ; Nelson, married (1) Lucretia Lyman, (2) Amy Ann Eddy, and (3) Abigail Stringham, after his decease his last wife married (2) George Maxson of Scott, N. Y., he left him surviving two sons, William G. and Fred M. Berry ; Thankful, married James Bemus, resided in Chautauqua Co., N. Y. ; Sophia M., married John J. Rowan, son of John and Nancy Rowan, she died in Otisco, N. Y. ; Adeline, married Edwin Eddy, then of Borodino, N. Y. ; Ann W., married Winchester, she died before her father and left four sons; Jonathan Berry, Joseph R., Andrew J., and George W. Winchester; Simeon, married , he died before his father and left four children : Jonathan, Timothy M., Mary Ann, married Job Springer, and Edward G. Berry; and Ruth Frances Berry, who died before her father, un married.) (Borodino.) Thankful, wife of Jonathan Berry. Bom May 15, 1777, died August 26, 1847. " There is rest for the wearied spirits above." (Borodino.) Ruth Frances, daughter of Jonathan and Thankful Berry. Died July 27, 1841, age 21 years. (Borodino.) Nelson Berry, son of Jonathan and Thankful Berry. Died March 30, 1884, aged 84 years. (No stone) . (He married (1) Lucretia Lyman, (2) Amy Ann Eddy, and (3) Abigail Stringham, who after his decease married (2) George Maxson of Soott, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Lucretia (Lyman) , wife of Nelson Berry. Died January 22, 1856, age 36 years. (Borodino.) Amy Ann (Eddy), wife of Nelson Berry. Died June 22, 1857, age 42 years. (Borodino.) Zara Berry. Bom February 22, 1801, died March 14, 1875. (He was a nephew of Jonathan Berry, and probably came from Washington Co., N. Y., the home of the Berry 30 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIOW family. He married (1) Harriet Rathbone, daughter of James and Margaret (Ashley) Rathbone, and (2) Sophia Hillebert, daughter of John C. and Elizabeth (Berry) Hille bert. By his first wife he had Harriet, married Shuler Conover of Skaneateles, N. Y.; and by his second wife: Mary, married John Perry Lewis, son of John R. and Roxana (Moon) Lewis, now dead and buried in Borodino Cemetery; Charles and Helen, who died young; George, married and living at Grand Lodge, Mich.; and Frank, married and living at Minneapolis, Minnesota.) (Borodino.) In memory of Harriet (Rathbone) , wife of Capt. Zara Berry. Died October 12, 1828, age 21 years, 10 months, 16 days. (Thom HiU.) Sophia (Hillebert) , wife of Zara Berry. Born Decem ber 26, 1813, died April 29, 1886. (Borodino.) Charlie, son of Zara and Sophia (Hillebert) Berry. Died November 16, 1865, in his 9th year. (Borodino.) Helen, daughter of Zara and Sophia (Hillebert) Berry. Died September 14, 1838, in her 4th year. (Borodino.) BIERCE. Several members of the Bierce family formerly resided in Cold Brook and the town of Scott ; Augustin Bierce mar ried the widow Niles, and by her had the following children : Chauncey, married Harriet Brown, dau^ter of Judge Brown of Scott, N. Y., he resided both in Spafford and in the town of Scott, N. Y. ; Datus W.„ married Emily Cole of Cazenovia, N. Y., he resided in Cole Brook, but died in Cort land, N. Y.; Niles H., married (1) Laura Smith of Roches ter, N. Y., and (2) Mary Smith of Batavia, N. Y., he resided first in Scott and then in Batavia, where he died; and Emeline, married Albert Rowe of ScottsviUe, N. Y., she last resided in Albany. Mrs. Bierce, by her first husband Niles, had four chil dren (half brothers and sisters of the foregoing) who also resided in Spafford and Scott: John E., married (1) Sarah SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 81 Peters, and (2) of Smithport, N. Y. ; George, married Mahala Bowdish and resided in Scott, N. Y. ; Lucinda, married Martin E. Knapp as his first wife, resided in Cold Brook, and later in Scott, where he died, buried in Cold Brook; and Harriet, married Ambrose S. Higgins and resided in Scott, N. Y. BILLINGS. William Billings. Died July 3, 1846, in the 76th year of his age. (He married Rebecca Fisher, daughter of Amos and Margaret Fisher, and by her had: Delos W., married Rhoda Stanton, daughter of Benjamin and Amy (Perkins) Stanton; Clarinda, married Mr. Ausmond; and Waterman Billings of Seneca Falls, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Rebecca (Fisher), wife of WiUiam Billings. Died June 15, 1864, aged 75 years. " Gone but not forgotten." " She was the sunshine of our hearts, An angel to us given, Just when we came to love her most God called her back to Heaven." (Borodino.) BITTLES. Samuel Bittles. (The headstone in this case is so badly weather wom that no part of the inscription can be read except the name. Mr. Bittles came to this town from Homer, N. Y., with his brother Thomas Bittles, October 26, 1818, and settled on lot 88, Marcellus, where he remained until the time of his decease in 1827. In his will, dated June 12, 1827, and pro bated December 18, 1827, he mentions his wife Mary Bittles, and his children: Margaret Bittles, and Eliza Shearman, wife of Charles Shearman.) (Old Borodino Cemetery.) 82 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BLUNDEN. Eliza (Alvord) , wife of Thomas Blunden. Died January 15, 1888, age 74 years. " Our dear mother at rest." (She was a sister of Anna Alvord, the last wife of Silas Randall, and of Thomas R. Alvord of Kellogg Settlement, in the town of Scott, N. Y.) (Cold Brook.) BODLEY. Mary A., wife of Henry Bodley. Died June 26, 1886, age 84 years. (The Bodleys came from Cayuga County, N. Y.) (Thom HiU.) Olive E. Bodley. Bom March 15, 1839, died August 23, 1877. " I would not live always." (Thom HiU.) BOUGHTON. The Boughton family was represented in the town of Spafford in the persons of Rev. Alanson Boughton, Nathan Culver and Mrs. WiUiam I. Skellie, the mothers of each of the two latter being a Boughton. Alanson Boughton was of the seventh generation, in line of descent from John Bouton, born about 1615 and came to America in the " Assurance," July 1635, and landed in Boston, Mass., in December of the same year. After resid ing in Boston and Watertown, Mass., he finally settled in Connecticut, first in Hartford and afterwards in Norwalk. (John, Joseph, Jackin, Ebenezer, Timothy, John, Alanson.) Alanson Boughton, born in Scipio, N. Y., May 23, 1807, died in Moravia, N. Y., March 21, 1878. He was a Baptist minister, but first followed teaching in Jamesville, Onon daga County, N. Y. He first ministered over the Baptist Church in Volney, Oswego Co., N. Y., then in Nonesuch and Sempronius, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Also in Milan and Locke, in the same State, and then in Spafford, N. Y. In 1857 he was School Commissioner in Cayuga County. He married (1) April 15, 1829, at Onondaga, N. Y., Charlotte Keeler, SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 83 daughter of Jeremiah Keeler; she died in Jamesville, Sep tember 12, 1835, and then he married (2) at that place, March 29, 1836, Hannah Squire, formerly of New Baltimore, N. Y. His children were: Nelson, bora in Nunda, N. Y., October 1, 1830, murdered September 6, 1859, married Mary Fisher, daughter of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher, at Spafford October 2, 1854 ; and perhaps others. Nelson Boughton (son of Alanson and Charlotte (Keeler) Boughton), by his wife Mary Fisher, had two children, one of whom, Angeline, was born in Skaneateles, N. Y., November 7, 1855, married December 11, 1875, James Allen, Jr., and settled in Julian, Clark Co., Da. (3 children : Harly Hall, William Nelson, and Daniel Hall Boughton Allen, the latter is a graduate of West Point Academy, a son-in-law of General Thomas Wilson, and is now 1st Lieu tenant or Captain in the regular army.) Nelson Boughton died in Nunda, Freeborn Co., Minn. BOWEN. Elijah Bowen. Died May 20, 1807, age 50 years. (Thorn HiU.) Patty Bowen, widow of Elijah. Died July 15, 1851, age 90 years. (Elijah and Patty Bowen were related to Delina Bowen, wife of Dr. David Kingsbury of Clintonville, N. Y.) (Thora HiU.) Joseph W. Bowen. Died January 3, 1875, age 68 years. " An honest man is the noblest work of God." (In his will, dated March 11, 1874, and probated in 1875, he mentions his wife Hannah Bowen, and his son Alonzo Bowen.) (Spafford Hollow.) BOUTELL. Hannah, wife of Alpheus Boutell. Died November 8, 1849, age 75 years, 9 months, 3 days. (Alpheus Boutell lived and Died in Spafford Hollow. By his wife Hannah he had : Samuel, married Catherine Wil liamson, daughter of James and Hannah Williamson; Lor enzo, married (1) Margaret Rainey, daughter of Robert Rainey, (2) Cornelia (Stanley) Rood, widow; David B., married Anna Hobert, and lived and died in Tully, N. Y. ; 34 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCTATION Harriet, married Warren Kinney, lived and died in Amber, N. Y. ; and Parmelia, married Charles Kingsley, and lived and died in Otisco, N. Y. Samuel Boutell and his wife, Catherine Williamson are both dead. Their children were: Samuel G., married Carrie Fish, both dead and left one child ; Carrie E. BouteH ; Alexander J., married Jennie M. Gay, daughter of Bamett A. and Amanda F. (Smith) Gay, wife dead and he resides in Tully, N. Y.; and Martin J. married Helen Grout, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Grout, he is an astrologer and resides in Syracuse, N. Y.) ) (Spafford Hollow.) Margaret (Rainey), wife of Lorenzo Boutell. Died April 19, 1850, age 38 years, 7 days. (Lorenzo Boutell, son of Alpheus and Han-nah BouteH, married (1) Margaret Rainey, daughter of Robert Rainey, and (2) Cornelia Stanley, widow of a Mr. Rood of Moravia, N. Y., deceased; he died and was buried in Amber, N. Y. He first settled on the west side of Spafford Hollow, on the first farm south of the Buck Tail Road, and for twelve years was Justice of the Peace in that town, commencing his term in 1838. From there he moved to the Village of Amber, where he remained to the time of his decease. He had seven children, (three by the first and four by the second wife), among whom were: Spencer, Catherine, Parmelia and Charles ; the latter by the second wife, now residing in Amber, N. Y.) (Spafford Hollow.) In memory of Sarepta A. P., daughter of David B. and Anna (Hobart) Boutell. Died April 28, 1830, age 4 years, 1 month, 8 days. (Spafford HoUow.) Parmelia M., daughter of David B. and Anna (Hobart) BouteU. Died October 24, 1883, age 10 years. (David B. Boutell, son of Alpheus and Anna Boutell, married Anna Hobart, and resided over the Spafford line in the Town of TuUy. In his wiU, dated July 28, 1876, pro bated October 30, 1876, he mentions his wife Anna (Hobart) BouteU, and his children : Emily Boutell ; Mary Barker, Harriet Waggoner, Herbert Boutell, Edward Bou tell and Martha Boutell.) (Spafford HoUow.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY MICORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 85 BREED. Rufus Breed. Bora April 24, 1785, died 1865. (Rufus Breed married his cousin Mehitable Breed, daughter of Allen and Lucy (Taylor) Breed, November 28, 180S, and came to this town from Hope, Hamilton County, N. Y., July 12, 1839, and settled on Lot 11, Tully, on premises formerly owned by Samuel Parker, smd now known as the Breed Homestead, on the Skaneateles and Homer Road. His children, all born before coming to this town, were: Aisa, bora September 11, 1806, married October 30, 1828, ; Elizabeth, born Novemiber 11, 1808, married May 20, 1828, ; Rufus, bora June 3, 1811, married April 2, 1834, ; Nathaniel, bora July 2, 1813, married Tryphena Proper of Trumansburg, N. Y. ; George Washington, bom April 12, 1818, married (1) March 20, 1840, Polly Ann Owen, daughter of Timothy and Lydia Owen, (2) Parmelia Bab cock, daughter of John, Jr. and Ellis (Wallace) Babcock, and widow of Jiacob Pollock, he died in Sempronius, Cayuga Co., N. Y. ; Allen, 'bom August 25, 1820, married Minerva Rounds, daughter of Russell and Lydia (Harrington) Rounds ; and Reuben, born July 24, 1825, married April 2, 1834 : , and moved to California where he died.) (Borodino.) Mehitable (Breed), wife of Rufus Breed. Born in Nel son, N. Y., December 8, 1783; died February, 1865. (She was a daughter of Allen and Lucy (Taylor) Breed. Her father, Allen Breed, was bom in Marblehead, Mass., July 14, 1759, and died at her home in Spafford, April 2, 1842. Allen Breed was a soldier in the War of the Revoliu- tton, having enlisted in the beginning of the war in 1775, at the age of 16 years, and served during nearly the entire period of that conflict to its close, and for meritorious service was advanced from Private to Lieutenant. At the time of his decease he was a pensioner of the United States. His wife, Lucy Taylor, died March 23, 1825, and was buried in a private cemetery at Mayfield, Montgomery Co., N. Y. Allen Breed died of old age, and may have been buried in a private plot, on the farm occupied by his son-in-law, Rufus Breed. (Allen Breed's wife says he was buried in Spafford Cemetery feat has no stone.) Mehitable Breed, through her 36 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION father, was descended from Allen Breed, born in England and settled in Lynn, Mass., in 1630, as follows : Mehitable, Allen, Josiah, John, Allen, Allen Allen.) (Borodino.) Nathaniel Breed (son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed) . Died May 18, 1876, age 63 years. " Dead but not forgotten." (He married Tryphena Proper of Trumansburg, N. Y. In his will, dated April 17, 1876, and probated April 15, 1888, he mentions his wife, Lorantia E. Breed, and his chil dren, Delia and Frank Breed. In the petition made by the widow she described herself as Lorantia E. Anthony, formerly Breed.) Allen Breed, (son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed) . Born August 25, 1820, died 1891. (He married Minerva Rounds, daughter of Russell and Lydia (Harrington) Rounds. In his will, dated December 19, 1891, and probated February 4, 1892, he mentions his wife Minerva Breed, and his children : Helen Breed ; Anna Trip, wife of George Trip; and Lettie Burns, wife of Charles Burns. His wife still resides on the old Breed homestead, on Lot 11, Tully. (Borodino.) George Washington Breed, (son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed) . Bora April 12, 1818, died 1898. (No stone.) (He married (1) Polly Ann Owen, daughter of Timothy and Lydia Owen, and (2) Parmelia Babcock, daughter of John Jr. and Ellis (Wallace) Babcock. He moved to Sem pronius, Cayuga County, N. Y., where he died. He had at least three children by his first wife: Martha, married Horace G. Cady, of Auburn, N. Y. ; Mary, married Alonzo Cady, now deceased, and Jewett, married Miss Williams. (Borodino.) Polly Ann (Owen), wife of George W. Breed. Died June 7, 1869, in her 54th year. " Dearest Mother how we miss thee. And thy loss we deeply mourn. But again we hope to meet thee Where we never shall part again." (She was a daughter of Timothy and Lydia Owen.) (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 37 Reuben T. Breed, (son of Allen and Lucy (Taylor) Breed. Died June 20, 1888, age 82 years. (He married (1) Purlina M. Patchen, widow of Moses Prindle, (2) Juliette Legg, widow of LeGrand Rathbone. By his first wife he had one child : Helen Breed, who married Edwin Johnson, son of Jonathan and Esther (Woodworth) Johnson, she is now deceased and left one child: Grove Johnson, residing in Spafford, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Juliette. Died June 6, 1899, age 78. Purlina M. Breed. Died October 27, 1861, age 61 years, 4 months, 10 days. (Borodino.) BRIGGS. Daniel Briggs. Died August 17, 1849, age 80 years. (Daniel Briggs resided over the Spafford line in the town of Skaneateles. In his will dated May 15, 1848 and probated in 1849, he mentioned his wife Rhoda Briggs, and his children : William S. Briggs, Russel Briggs, and Harriet De Reimer, wife of Cornelius D. De Reimer ; his son Hiram Briggs was then deceased since 1817. Hon. Sidney Smith says : " Russel Briggs, one of the sons of Daniel and Rhoda Briggs, settled in Michigan ; his son, Clinton Briggs, grandson of Daniel and Rhoda, settled in Omaha, Nebraska, and was the first Mayor of that City." " William S. Briggs, the other son of Daniel and Rhoda Briggs, succeeded his father as owner of the farm upon which he settled when he came to Skaneateles, and occupied it until his death in 1898, at the age of 89 years.") (Thom HiU.) Rhoda, wife of Daniel Briggs, died August 17, 1857, age 78 years. (Thom HiU.) Hiram, son of Daniel and Rhoda Briggs. Died October 25, 1817, age 16 years, 6 months and 23 days. (Thom HiU.) Nettie H., daughter of Charles and Ida (Taylor) Briggs, died February 15, 1884, age 1 year, 9 months. " Our loved one has gone." (Charles Briggs, son of George W. and Charlotte M. 38 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Rich) Briggs, married Ida Taylor, daughter of Rev. Albert Taylor, she is now deceased and buried in Borodino Ceme tery. No stone. George W. Briggs, married Charlotte M. Rich, daughter of Dorr and Anna (Becker) Rich, and by her had: Charles, married Ida Taylor; Phylitta A., died young; and Gertrude, married Albert Thompson.) (Borodino.) BROWN. Jacob Brown, (son of John and Catherine (Ritiker) Brown) . Bora May 17, 1809, died November 2, 1891. John Brown, bora in Massachusetts, married there Cath erine Ritiker, born in Germany, and after his marriage settled in Rome, N. Y., where his son Jacob was bora; from there he moved to New Hope, Cayuga Co., N. Y., where he died. He was a cooper by trade, as also was his son, Jacob, who followed him to his new home in Cayuga County Jacob Brown, married Debora C. Morris, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Springer) Morris, born April 7, 1815. By his wife Debora C. (who in 1898 resided in Fair Haven, in the town of Scott, N. Y.) , he had the following children : Phebe Ann, m. William H. Craig, residing in Cold Brook, N. Y.; Jefferson Jacob, bora August 5, 1836, m. (1) An geline Hibbard, died in Seneca Falls, N. Y., (2) Juliette Daniels, born November 4, 1842, died November 5, 1884, and (3) Jennie Harrison, resides at Fair Haven, in the town of Scott, N. Y. ; Ellen, bom January 7, 1838, died Sep tember 22, 1859, m. Clark Spencer; William H., born Feb ruary 29, 1839, m. Esther A. Craig, resides in Spafford, N. Y., (member of Co. " H," 16 N. Y. Heav. Art. Vols. War of 1861) ; Charles, m. Melissa Webster, residing in Borodino, N. Y.; Charlotte, born April 10, 1846, m. (1) Byron Van Benschoten, (2) Charles Hurd, residing in Fair Haven in the town of Scott, N. Y.; Jane (Tian), bora April 10, 1846, m. James Hibbard, she died and was buried in Spafford; Diadama Lucy Ann, born May 31, 1848, died April 4, 1864, unmarried; Harriet M., m. William Henry Lyon, son of George W. and Cornelia (Barker) Lyon, husband dead and she resides at Fair Haven, town of Scott, N. Y. ; Schuyler, m. Angeline Hibbard (dead) ; James, m. Catherine Almy' residing in Borodino, N. Y. ; and Vincent, m. Emily Bennett, residing m Fair Haven, town of Scott, N. Y.) (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GBNBALOGIGAL NOTES 39 Debora C. Morris, wife of Jacob BroWn. Bora April 7, 1815. (Spafford.) Diadama Lucy Ann, daughter of Jacob and Debora C. (Morris) Brown. Born May 31, 1848, died April 4, 1864. (She died unmarried.) (Spafford.) Juliette Daniels, wife of Jefferson J. Brown. Died Nov ember 5, 1884, age 42 years, 1 day. (Jefferson J. Brown was a, son of Jacob and Deborah C. (Morris) Brown.) (Spafford.) William H. Brown, (son of Jacob and Deborah C. (Morris) Brown.) Bom February 29, 1839. (He married Esther A. Craig) . (Spafford.) Esther A. (Craig), wife of WiUiam H. Brown. Bom April 29, 1840. ' (Spafford.) Arthur E., son of George H. and Jennie (Craig) BroAvn. Died January 13, 1892, age 11 months. (George H. Brown, son of William H. and Esther (Craig) Brown, married Jennie Craig, daughter of Wesley and Amy (Randall) Craig.) (Spafford.) ' Melissa (Webster) , wife of Charles Brown. Died Sep tember 26, 1879, age 33 years. (Charles Brown, son of Jacob and Deborah C. (Morris) Brown, married Melissa Webster. She was from a New Hampshire family.) (Thom Hill.) Margaret, wife of Aaron S. Brown. Died April 24, 1874, age 37 years, 6 months. " Gone but not forgotten." (Borodino.) Jedidiah BroWn. Died July 28, 1838, age 65 years, 6 months, 6 days. (Jedidiah Brown was killed by the kick of a horse. In the petition for Letters of Administration by his widow, Emma Brown, dated August 7, 1838, she mentions his chil dren as follows : Clarissa, Jedidiah, Jane, Huldah, and Loa Brown, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Hannah Pool, wife of Alfred 40 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Pool of Erie Co., N. Y. ; Alvah Brown, and Stephen Brown of Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Lovina H. Hosf ord, wife of Isaac D. Hosford, and Lucy Brown, of Grass Lake, Jackson Co., Mich.; Phebe Lawrence, wife of Zimie Lawrence, of Addi son Co., Vt. ; and Betsey Brown of Addison Co., Vt. ; all of f uU age except : Jedidiah, Jane, Hulda and Loa, who were minors.) (Thom HiU.) BROWNELL. ; Edward J. BrowneU, (son of Simon and Mary Ann (ChurcheU) BrowneU). Born September 19, 1821, died October 4, 1851. " Farewell my wife and children dear. Farewell my father and mother near. My brothers and sisters all farewell, I am going home with Christ to dwell." (Simeon BrowneU married Mary Ann Churchell, daugh ter of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell, and had the following children: Lorenzo, married South and died in St. Joseph, Mich. ; Charles, married in Navarino, N. Y., and died in Dowagiac, Mich.; Mary Ann, married a Mr. Wilder and died in Dowagiac, Mich. ; Sidney, married (1) Scrivens, (2) Springer and resides in Cleveland, Ohio ; Edward J., married Rachel Martin, daughter of Ran dall B. and Rachel (Clark) Martin; Jane, married Stephen Tinkham, son of Relly and Chloe (Grinnell) Tinkham; George, married (1) a Miss Wellington and (2) in Michigan where he now resides ; and Simeon, Jr., who married West- Simeon and his wife, Mary Ann Churchell, also moved West about 1852 or 1853. Edward J. BrowneU, by his wife Rachel (Martin) BrowneU, had two children: Irving and Edna Jane, the latter married Perry McKay, son of Frederick and Louisa (Hutchens) McKay, as his first wife, she is now deceased. After the death of Edward J. BrowneU his widow, Rachel, married (2) Richard E. Loss of Skaneateles, N. Y.) (Spafford.) " Mother "— Rachel (Martin) BrowneU, (wife of Ed ward J. BrowneU) . Born October 3, 1823, died August 5 1876. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 41 " Servant of God well done. The glorious warfare past. The battle is fought, the race is won. And thou art crowned at last." (She was a daughter of Randall B. and Rachel (Clark) Martin. After the decease of Mr. BrowneU she married Richard E. Loss of Skaneateles, N. Y.) (Spafford.) BRYAN. Lena L. Bryan, (daughter of William and Fannie (Mas ters) Bryan) . Died May 24, 1895, age 3 years, 8 days. (William Bryan married Fannie Masters, daughter pf Stephen Masters.) (Spafford HoUow.) Clara M. Bryan, (daughter of William and Fannie (Masters) Bryan). Died April 22, 1895, age 9 months. (Spafford HoUow.) BRYANT. Louisa (Gregory) , wife of Thomas Bryant. Died June 28, 1873. age 37 years. (Thomas Bryant married (1) Gregory, (2) Louisa Gregory, a sister of his first wife, all three born in England, and (3) Ruth Eggleston, daughter of Deacon Ben jamin and Elizabeth (Wiltsie) Eggleston of Thora Ilill. He had one child: Anna, married Eudelbert Churchill, of Cold Brook, by his first wife, and two: Sarah, married Seymour Churchill of Cold Brook; and Joseph Henry, who died young, by his second wife. No issue by the third wife.) (Borodino.) Joseph Henry, son of Thomas and Louisa (Gregory) Bryant. Died August 26, 1872, age 5 years, 9 months, 23 days. (Borodino.) BUFFINGTON. Charles H. Buffington. Died January 6, 1852, age 35 years, 3 months. 42 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION " This stone was erected by Borodino Lodge, I. O. of 0. F., as a token of esteem for their deceased brother." (He was a teacher and died single. At the time of his decease he was reading medicine with Dr. Isaac Morrell, of Borodino. He was related to Mrs. Jacob W. Darling, prob ably a nephew.) (Borodino.) BULFINCH. Joseph Bulfinch. Died October 3, 1873, age 88 years. " Where the weary are at rest." (Joseph Bulfinch was born in Boston, Mass., was liber ally educated, and in early life was a teacher in a Vermont Seminary. In 1818 he came to Spafford and settled on a farm on Lots 32, Sempronius, and 21, Tully, where he remained until the time of his decease, pursuing the occu pation of farming and civil engineering. He was frequently called upon by his townspeople to fill town offices, and seldom during his active life did his name fail to appear in the list of town officials. Among the offices held by him were Supervisor, Assessor, Poor Master, School Commis sioner, Inspector of Schools and Town Trustee, but most f reuuently his name appears in the town books as Inspector of Schools; in fact for many years teachers in the schools of Spafford obtained their permit to follow this vocation from Joseph Bulfinch. He married Lydia Harrington be fore coming to this town, and by her had the following children : Sarah Ann, married Andrew J. Eliot, son of Elias and Charity (Warner) Eliot, he is dead and she is residing (1899) in Onondaga Valley, N. Y.; Lydia, died at 11 years; Joseph Harrington, married Lucy Ann Eliot, daughter of Elias and Charity (Warner) Eliot; and Mary, married Dr. Daniel George Frisbie, residing in GrinneU, Iowa. Joseph Harrington Bulfinch, born in Boston, Mass., December 6, 1816, and died at Yankton, S. D., November 12, 1897, inherited the literary tastes and studious habits of his father without his self confidence, and while he had few, if any, peers in the community in which he from time to time resided, as a man and a scholar, his inherent modesty fre quently prevented him from holding positions of pubUc trust and confidence, which his natural and acquired ability fitted SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 48 him to occupy. In early life he followed the avocations of his father, farming and civil engineering, and at one time he held a commission as Major in the Militia of the State of New York. By his wife, Lucy Ann Eliot, who survived him and in 1899 resided in Yankton, S. D., he had : George W., married Jennie Swartz, he is now deceased, leaving his widow and one daughter, Alice May Bulfinch, residing in Williamsport, Pa.; James, a twin of George, died young; and Alice M., who married Nelson J. Cramer, (lawyer), resides in Yankton, S. Da.) (Spafford.) Lydia Harrington, wife of Joseph Bulfinch. Died De cember 31, 1861, age 73 years. (Spafford.) Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Harrington) Bul finch. Died Monday, February 13, 1837, age 11 years, 6 ntionths, 22 days. " Pause, my young friends a while before you further go, I once was gay as well as you, but now here lie low ; Nor did I think I so soon must take my leave of you. But death called loud, I must obey and bid you all adieu ; Remember you must soon like me be mouldering in the clay. Those earthly fieeting joys must soon pass away; But there is a heaven of endless joy where saints immortal reign. There free from sin, from sorrow, from grief and every pain." (Spafford.) BURDICK. Russell M. Burdick, Esq. Died December 29, 1^0, age 53 years, 11 months, 24 days. " Man knoweth not his time." (Russell M. Burdick, descended form a Seventh Day Baptist ancestry, came to Spafford from Scott, N. Y., where he had brothers and sisters; he probably came originally from Brookfleld, Madison Co., N. Y. He married (1) Esther Whiting, daughter of Thomas and Esther Whiting; and (2) Philura Seeley, daughter of Samuel G. and Ada (Fowler) Seeley, and widow of Mr. Eldridge. He came to this town before 1825, and from time to time held various 44 SNONDAQA HISTORICAL ASS^«ATION tov/n offices, among which were: Supervisor, Assessor, ToMTi Trustee and Justice of the Peace ; the latter he held for many years, and by reason of which he was commonly called Esquire Burdick. He had eight children, seven by his first wife and one by his last: Lovinia, married George Youst Fisher, son of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, she died in Seneca Falls, N. Y.; Melissa, married John S. Cole, son of Easton and Polly (Lewis) Cole, she died in Michigan; Oscar F., married Lovedy Tinkham, daughter of Russel and Mary (Cook) Tinkham, he died in Michigan; R. Verona, accidentally killed when young; Fernando Cortez, died South; Ira Whiting, died single in Michigan; Dorleska L., married Porter P. Cole, son of Easton and Polly (Lewis) Cole, resides in Michigan; and Mary E. (by second wife), married V/illiam CuUen Bockes, the latter is dead and she resides in Scott, N. Y.) (Spafford.) In memory of Esther (Whiting), wife of Russell M. Burdick. Died July 3, 1841, age 39 years, 4 months. (Spafford.) Russell Verona, son of Russell M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick. Died October 14, 1845, age 13 years, 4 months, 7 days. (Accidentally killed by a wagon running over him.) (Spafford.) In memory of Thompson Burdick, (son of John and Elizabeth (Babcock) Burdick) . Died October 5, 1830, age 77 years. " For the great day of his wrath cometh. And who shaU be able to stand." (Thompson Burdick was born in the town of Westerly, R. I., September 1, 1753, and was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, serving as a member of Capt. Samuel Ward's Co., Col. Varnum's 1st Regt. R. I. Line (Continentals) from May, 1775, to January 1, 1777, participating in the Siege of Boston, the battles of Long Island, White Plains and Tren ton, and receiving a gunshot wound in the battle of White Plains. He was discharged from the Continentals at Cross- wick Meeting House, in the State of Pennsylvania, but afterwards served on different tours of duty as part of the Militia of his native State, among which was one made in an endeavor to drive the British from Newport, R. I. On SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 46 this latter occasion he came near losing his life, from drown ing off Judith Point, R. I., by the capsizing of barges used in carrying soldiers employed in that expedition ; sixteen in all were thrown into the water, of whom only eight were saved, among the latter was Thompson Burdick. Mr. Burdick was fouth in line of descent from Robert Burdick, the first settler in this country, and the common ancestor so far as known of the Burdick family generally in America. Tradition says that Robert Burdick came to this country from a small village in England, near the border line of Wales, but at just what time is not recorded. In November, 1652, he was baptized at Newport, R. I., and four years afterwards was made Freeman at the same place. In 1661 a company was formed, at the latter place, to colonize what was afterwards known as Westerly, R. I. Of these were Robert Burdick and Tobias Saunders. In Nov ember of that year, Mr. Burdick and Mr. Saunders made a clearing, and put up a log house at the latter place, but were promptly arrested by order of Governor John Endicott, of Massachusetts, carried prisoners to Boston, tried and fined forty pounds apiece as trespassers, and ordered to give bonds to keep the peace. They were kept in prison several months, during which time they appealed to England for redress, but in the end the colonization company paid their fines, and they returned to Rhode Island. On November 2, 1655, Robert Burdick married at Newport, R. I., Ruth Hub bard, daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard, who was said to be the first white child bora in Springfield, Mass., (January 11, 1640) , and by her had nine children who arrived at maturity: Robert, Hubbard, Thomas, Naomi, Ruth, Benjamin, Samuel, Tacy and Deborah. Samuel Hub bard and his wife Tacy Cooper, and their three daughters, Ruth, Rachel and Bethia were among the first to embrace the doctrines of the Seventh Day Baptist in this country, and to them, more than to any other persons, belongs the credit of the establishment of that denomination in America. Robert Burdick, after passing through various vicissitudes incident to the settlement of the Narragansett country, in Rhode Island, finally established himself at Westerly, R. I., where he reared his family and continued to reside until the time of his decease. Hubbard Burdick, son of Robert, resided in the Town 46 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIOM of Hopkinton, R. I., and was one of the grantees of 5,300 acres of land in that town, sold by order of the Rhode Island Court, October 2, 1711. This grant was situate in the western part Of that town. He married Hannah Maxson, daughter of John and Mary (Moshier) Maxson, and had four sons : Hubbard, Nathan, John and Ezekiel. John Burdick, s age 35 years, 7 days. (She was a daughter of Robert Rainey.) (Spafford.) Harriet (Littlefield), wife of Gilbert W. ChurcheU. Born April 24, 1828, died JUne 16, 1868. (Spafford.) Anson Churchell, (son of James and Hannah Dobbs) Churchell.) Bora November 30, 1813, died October 25, 1849. SPAFFORD MORTUAftY RECORDS WlTH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 59 " Disease I met with when far from home. No friend or kindred to me come, And when to native land returned The vital spark had ceased to bum. My wife and child with tears and pain. Cannot call back from deaht's cold chain." (He married Izabenda Bearse, daughter of Aaron and Phebe (Smith) Bearse; and by her had one daughter, Eliza, who married Erastus E. Brown. After his decease his wife married (2) Albert E. Fulton. She died May 21, 1875, and Was buried by the side of her second husband in Borodino Cemetery.) (Spafford.) Peter Churchell, (son of James arid Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell) . Born May 29, 1798, died July 23, 1876. " No sighs are heard in this shadowy place. No voice of them who weep. He has fought the fight and finished the race, God giveth him rest in sleep." (He married (1) Lucinda Crane, daughter of Stephen arid Else (Grinnell) Crane, and (2) Charity Rainey, widow Of James B. Williamson, and sister of Robert Rainey. His children were: James, married Carr, daughter of Almon and Arathusa (Morse) Carr, residence Onondaga Valley, N. Y. ; he died May 21, 1899, leaving widow, one son and three daughters: George, married Eveline Norton, daughter of Robert and Susan (Hill) Norton ; Caroline Gale of Otisco, N. Y. ; and Lorilla Patten, wife of George A. Patten of Spafford, N. Y., the latter has two children,- Alton W., of Spafford, N. Y.; and Flora B., wife of Emmett L. Gordon, of Preble, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Lucinda (Crane), wife of Peter Churchell. Born Feb ruary 10, 1800, died February 16, 1831. (Spafford.) Charity (Rainey), wife of Peter Churchell. Born April 14, 1799, died March 1, 1869. " When the day at last is done. When the race of life is o'er, God will give his wearied one Rest for evermore." (Spafford.) 60 ©NONDASA HISTORICAL Aa»0«SATI©N William Churchell, (son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) ChurcheU). Died May 15, 1882, age 76 years, 2 months. (He married Celinda Fisher, daughter of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher. He left no descendant, but an adopted daughter Jennette, who married Sullivan A. Carr, son of Almon and Arathusa (Morse) Carr.) (Spafford.) Celinda (Fisher), wife of William Churchell. Died May 15, 1878, age 69 years, 25 days. (Spafford.) George ChurcheU, (son of Peter and Lucinda (Crane) ChurcheU). Died October 4, 1893, age 64 years, 5 months. (He married Eveline Norton, daughter of Robert and Susan (Hill) Norton, and left him surviving, his wife Eve line, and the following children: Arthur B,, of Syracuse N. Y. ; Lena E., of Titusville, Pa.; and the following grand children: Mabel E., Russel, Arthur, Harold, and Edward J. Churchell, minor children of his deceased son, Edward J. Churchell, then residing with their mother, Olive Churchell, at Syracuse, N. Y. ; Eveline, Mary, Bessie, John, and Flora Morgan, minor children of his deceased daughter, Flora Morgan, residing with their father, WiUiam H. Morgan, at Cortland, N. Y.) (Borodino.) CHURCHILL. In memory of John Churchill, who departed this life Sep tember 27, 1817. Age 59 years, 6 months, 15 days. (Mr. Churchill by his wife, Martha, had the following children. John, Alvin, married Sally Seeley, daughter of Samuel G. and Ada (Fowler) Seeley; Chauncey, married Catherine M. Merry; Sally, married John Bacon, son of Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon; Irene, married (1) Lucius Vail, and (2) Harvey Anthony, Jotham, and Joab, who died at 18 years.) (Cold Brook.) Martha, wife of John Churchill. Died February 13, 1839, age 63 years. Joab, son of John and Martha Churchill. Died Novem ber 24, 1846, age 18 years, 14 days. Alvin Churchill, (son of John and Martha Churchill) . Died March 27, 1878, age 84 years, 4 months, 20 days! SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 61 (He lived on the East hill in the Cold Brook neighbor hood, just over the county line in the town of Scott, N. Y. He married Sally Seeley, daughter of Samuel G. and Ada (Fowler) Seeley, and by her had the foUowing children: Mary Fidelia, married Edwin Pratt of Homer, N. Y. ; Clar issa Marisa, married Peter Curtis, of Scott, N. Y. ; Orville C, married Mary J. Rigall, daughter of Milo Rigall, resi dence Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y. ; Lyman S., married (1) Mary Ann Alvord, widow of Ezra Randall, and (2) Harriet A. Alvord; Philena S., died young; and John M., died in the War of 1861.) (Cold Brook.) Sally (Seeley), wife of Alvin Churchill. Died June 23, 1885, age 79 years, 6 months, 6 days. (Cold Brook.) Philena S., daughter of Alvin and Sally (Seeley) ChurchiU. Died August 16, 1834, age 3 years, 2 months, 19 days. " Gone to rest." (Cold Brook.) John M. Churchill, (son of Alvin and Sally (Seeley) Churchill.) Company " D " 157 Regt., N. Y. V. Died at Annapolis, Md., September 4, 1863. Age 22 years, 4 months, 14 days. "He rests in God." (Cold Brook.) Little Martha V., daughter of Samuel Lyman and Har riet A. (Alvord) Churchill. Died June 3, 1882, age 5 years, 4 months, 26 days. " Suffer little children to come unto me." (Samuel Lsonan ChurchiU, son of Alvin and Sally (Seeley) Churchill, married (1) Mary Ann Alvord, widow of Ezra Randall, and (2) Harriet A. Alvord.) (Cold Brook.) Mary Ann (Alvord) , wife of Samule Lyman Churchill, and formerly wife of Ezra Randall. Died April 6, 1862, age 34 years. (She was a half sister of Silas Randall's second wife.) (Spafford.) Chauncey Churchill, (son of John and Martha Churchill) . Born in 1808, died in 1896. (He married Catherine M. Merry, and by her had the 62 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION following children: Sylvester, married Helen Doud; John, married twice in Illinois, where he resides; Senneth, mar ried Mr. Shaw and died in Illinois without issue ; Sylvenus A., married (1) Caroline Eadie, daughter of John W. and Abigail (Doty) Eadie, and (2) Minnie Woodworth, daugh ter of Cyrenus -^nd Charlotte (Norton) Woodworth, (he had two boys and a girl by first wife and a boy and a girl by his second) ; Oliver, married Roe, daughter of Jpbn Roe, (one daughter) ; Caleb W., married (1) Achsah Eadie, daughter of John W. and Abigail (Doty) Eadie, and (2) in Illinois, where he resides, (two sons and a daughter by first wife and several children by second) ; Benjamin, married Carrie Churchejl, daughter of James and (Carr) Churchell, residence Onondaga Valley, N. Y. (ojie daughter) ; Jason, married in Illinois, where he resides; LaFayette, nxajcried Amelia Pratt, resides in Illinois; Olive C, died young in 1838; Olive (2) married William KeUogg; Helen, married George Burroughs, son of John P. and Eliz^ (Lowery) Burroughs; Anice, ma^^r^ed Chester Sharp and moved to Micbiffan.) (Cold Brpok.) Catherine M. (Merry), iRrife of Chauncey ChurchiU. Born in 1812, died in 1865. (Cold Brook.) Olive C. ChurchiU, d,auhter of Chauncey and Catherine M. Merry) Churchill. Bom in February and died in May, 1838. (Cold Brook.) CarUe (Eadie), wife of Sylvenus A. ChurchiU. Died September 2, 1888, a^e 44 years. (She was a daughter pf John W. and Abigail (Dpty) E^die.) (Cpld 3rppk.) ^chsaji |3^fiie, wife of Caleb W. Churchill. Died August 11, 1882, age 32 years. "Asleep in Jesus." (Cold Brook.) CLARK. John G, Claris. Died October 7, 1855, in his 50th year. (He married a Tpwn.) (Cold Brook.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 63 Ann, wife of Richard Clark. Died April 5, 1860, age 54 years. (Spafford HoUow.) Elvira, wife of John Clark. Died April 7, 1864, age 34 years. (Spafford Hollow.) Asa G. Clark, (son of Amasa P. Clark.) Enlisted at Albion, N. Y., July 15, 1862, in Co. " C," 4th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, and was killed at the Battle of Reams Station, Va. August 25, 1864, age 27 years. " No bugle call now disturbs the weary one ; Rest noble spirit in thy grave unknown. We will find and know you among the good and true. When the Robe of White is given for the coat of blue.'" (Borodino.) CLEVELAND. Benajah Cleveland. Died December 18, 1862, age 73 years, 10 months, 20 days. (He married Mary Clark and by her had: John, mar ried Caroline Doty, daughter of Willard and Achsah (Bacon) Doty, dead; Lydia S., married William S. Smith, son of Ir^ and Ruth Smith; Mary, married Charles H. Ferry, son of Chester and Saba (Buffington) Ferry; Emily, married Lansing Sheldon, son of Caleb and Lillis (Howard) Sheldon, she is dead and buried in Oakwood Cemetery, and he resides in Syracuse, N. Y. ; and Martin H., died March 20, 1838, at 4 years.) (Borodino.) ) Mary Clark, wife of Benajah Cleveland. Died April 19, 1883, age 86 years, 1 month, 2 days. (Borodino.) Martin H., son of Benejah and Mary (Clark) Cleveland. Died March 20, 1838, age 4 years, 2 months. (Spafford Hollow.) COBB. In memory of Elizabeth, wife of Caleb Cobb, who died September 26, 1827, age 39 years. (Thora HiU.) 84 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION COE. Almena A. Coe, wife of Ira Coe. Died January 27, 1843, age 42 years. (Ira Coe, from 1823 to 1839, owned lands on lot 10, Sempronius.) (Borodino.) Coe, Edward B., son of Ira and Almena A. Coe. Died January, 1837, age 1 year, 2 months. (Borodino.) COLE. Electa A., daughter of Easton and Polly (Lewis) Cole. Died January 2, 1838, age 20 years, 8 months, 22 days. " Weep not for me, my parents dear. Because I leave your arms; My work is done, I am going home To feast in Jesus' arms." (Easton Cole, son of Ebenezer and Chloe (Easton) Cole, and grandson of Samuel and Anne Cole, born at Foster, R. I., married Polly Lewis, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Stanton) Lewis, at Foster, R. I., December 6, 1807, and by her had children: Nelson, married (1) Sarah Savage, and (2) Amy Vincent, daughter of Michael and Amy Vincent, formerly of Scott, N. Y,, and (3) Babcock, he died in Michigan; Susan, married Asa B. Knoble, died in Michigan; Purlina, died unmarried in Michigan; Electa, died young in Spafford; Joseph Lewis, married (1) Philura Lyon, daughter of David T. and Harriet (Arnold) Lyon, (2) Julia Wilson, widow of Dr. John E. Lyon, and (3) Julia A. McDaniels, daughter of John and Polly (Hankins) Mc Daniels, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Lauren, married and died in Michigan ; John S., married Esther Medissa Burdick, daughter of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick, she died in Michigan and he now resides in NorviUe, Jackson Co., Michigan; and Porter P., married Dorleska Burdick, daughter of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick, resides in Brooklin, Mich. Easton Cole, his wife and family, excepting Joseph L., all moved to Michigan many years ago, and he and his wife died there.) (Lewis Yard.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 65 Philura (Lyon) Cole, (first wife of Joseph L. Cole). Died May 4, 1872, age 53 years. " Thou art gone loving mother, Where the weary are at rest." (She was a daughter of David T. and Harriet (Arnold) Lyon.) (Spafford.) Cassius E., son of Joseph L. and Philura (Lyon) Cole. Died October 17, 1848, age 3 years, 5 months, 2 days. (Spafford.) Charles E., son of Joseph L. and Philura (Lyon) Cole. Died May 7, 1851, age 8 months, 9 days. (Spafford.) J. Bardett, son of John T. and Esther Medissa (Burdick) Cole. Died January 2, 1852 age 11 days. " Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest, God called thee home when he thought best." (Spafford.) Joseph Cole, who in 1835 purchased land at " Spafford Corners," on Lot 21, Tully, was a half brother of Easton Cole, and came from Foster, R. I. His first wife was an Arnold and his second was Mercy, who came to this town with the Biddlecoms. He had two children: Silas, who married a Miss Nostrant of Preble, N. Y. ; and Amanda, who married Russel Cook, son of Joseph and Mary Cook, of Fal mouth, England. The whole family moved to Michigan, and all the older members of it died there. COLLINS. John Collins, M. D. (son of John and Lucy (Burdick CoUins) . Born February 10, 1804, died August 15, 1853. (" Dr. John Collins was born in Brookfield, Madison Co.,New York; graduated from Hamilton Academy, and from the Medical CoUege at Castleton, Vt., in 1829; came to Spafford in 1830, and practiced medicine there until his decease. On his paternal side he was of the seventh gener ation,* in a continuous line of succession of Johns from Henry, starchmaker, and Ann, his wife, who came in the ship " Abigail," with their three children and five servants, June 29, 1635, from Stepney Parish, London, England, and settled in Essex Street, Ljmn, Essex Co., Mass. 66 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1 Henry Collins was possessed of property, was a man of influence and more than ordinary intelligence, and his name is often spoken of in connection with the early transactions of Essex County. He was at one time a member of the General Court ; was one of the men in charge of the public lands, and his name on one or two occasions is spoken of as an advocate, employed in the defense of persons tried in Court for public offenses. By his -wdfe, Ann, he had four children: Henry, John, Margery, and Joseph; the latter probably bom on shipboard during the passage to America, as his name is not mentioned in the Custom House Clear ance bill, or in public records of Essex County. John Collins (son of Henry and Ann) , was a ship owner, and was lost at sea with a son bearing his name. By his wife, Abigail Johnson, he had sixteen children, Mary, John, Samuel, Abigail, John, Joseph, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Mary, Daniel, Nathaniel, Hannah, Sarah, Lois, Alice and William, twelve of whom sur-vived him. The name of the youngest, a young child still in the arms of the mother, was on the death of the father changed by her from William to John and afterwards was so called. ' This John Collins, who was a Quaker, married Susanna Daggett and, probably on account of religious persecution, moved to Rhode Island, and with five others took up a tract of 3,000 acres of wild land, in what is now the northeastern part of the town of Hopkinton, Washington Co. Of Susanna Daggett, who was born in Saco, Me., tradi tion has handed down this story, which years ago found its way into print. When a small child, she was taken to the wigwam of an Indian Chief by his squaw, who found her lost in the woods. Late at night the Chief, returning home, told the squaw of a plan to exterminate the whites. She cautioned him, saying there was a little pale face sleeping in a bed of skins in the wigwam. The Chief then told her the child must die, to which she remonstrated, saying that she had promised to take her home in the morning. The Chief, passing a firebrand over the face of Susanna and observing no signs of consciousness, spared her Ufe, and she was able afterwards to give her friends timely warning of the plans of the Indians. From John and Susanna are descended a large share of the numerous Collins families who have resided or originated in Washington Co., R. L SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 67 Their descendants have been scattered to all parts of the Nori;hem States, and everywhere have been classed among the reputable men and women, in the communities in which they have resided. They have been represented in all pro fessions and business pursuits, and notwithstanding the Quaker stock, in times of war have contributed generously of their numbers to the armies and navies of the tJnited States. This John Collins, by his wife Susanna, had ten children : Rebecca, Hazekiah, Sarah, Jedediah, Lydia, John, Ebenezer, Benjamin, Samuel, and Abigail of whom : John Collins, the great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a Quaker preacher of unusual talents, and great power and influence in the denomination to which he be longed. According to the custom of this sect his remains and that of his wife, Mehitable Elizabeth Bowen, now repose in unmarked graves, in the "burial yard" near the little Quaker Church one mile west of the Village of Hopkinton, R. I. TO John and Mehitable were bora nine children, six in Hopkinton, and three of the youngest in the town of Ston ington, Conn.: John, Susannah, Amos, Benjamin, Samuel, Sarah, Abigail, Stepben and Ruth. John Collins, the first born of John and Mehitable, had a large family of children ; by his first wife, Mary, he had : Mary, John, Mehitable, Stephen, Samuel and Daniel. The last named : John CoUins, bom at Hopkinton, R. I., April 18, 1771, moved to Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., before 1796, with a party of first settlers in that town, from Washington Co., R. I., and Stonington, Conn. After arriving in Brookfield he was united in marriage with Lucy Burdick, daughter of Thompson and (Tabitha (Wilcox) Burdick, another first settler from Stonington, Conn., and a Revolutionary soldier in the 1st Regt. of Continentals of the Rhode Island Line. Lucy Burdick, wife of John Collins, was of the fifth genera tion by descent from Robert Burdick, one of the first settlers in the town of Westerly, R. I., and one of the first Deputies for that town in the General Court of Rhode Island. He came from England between 1633 and 1650, and prior to coming to Westerly, was a freeman in Newport, R. I. By his wife Lucy Burdick, John Collins had eleven children, all born in Brookfield, N. Y., as foUows : Lucy, born August 30, 1798, died October 17, 1798; Polly, bora October 20, 68 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1799, died August 9, 1875, at Unadilla Forks, N. Y., un married; Betsey, born April 12, 1801, died May 2, 1843, married WiUiam Palmiter, October 12, 1829; John, born February 10, 1804, died August 15, 1853, married Mary Ann Roundy, daughter of Capt. Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy, widow still living, 1899, with her son, Capt. George K. CoUins, in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Oliver, bom August 8, 1805, died in Ohio, leaving him surviving two sons and a daughter, among vvhom is Hon. A. P. Collins, President of the Wes- leyan College of Salina, Kansas ; Alvin, bom April 19, 1807, died March 23, 1811; Nancy, bom May 27, 1809, died April 16, 1875, married William Lewis March 4, 1830; William, bom June 1, 1811, died March 5, 1878, at Unadilla Forks, N. Y., married (1) Esther Spicer, (2) Susand Crandall, and (3) Emeline Knapp, daughter of Elijah and Betsey (Bur dick) Knapp, the latter residing 1899, in Spafford, N. Y. ; Henry, bora July 14, 1815, killed in 1864 by Rebels in Missouri, married Lucinda Wheeler; Lydia Ann, bom August 15, 1820, died in Niles, Mich., married (1) John Orton, son of Osmer and Rachel (Fisher) Orton, and (2) Elihu Fisher, son of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher; Samuel, bora March 17, 1822, married Mary Yaw. John Collins and his wife, Lucy Burdick, were buried at UnadiUa Forks, N. Y. Dr. John CoUins, by his wife Mary Ann Roundy, had the following children : Albert, bom April 1, 1834, died April 12, 1834; Lucy, born May 27, 1835, died June 8, 1836; George Knapp, born April 15, 1837, married June 9, 1858, Catherine Sager, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Smith (Grote) Sager, attorney and counseUor at law, resides at Syracuse, N. Y. (five children) : Charles, born December 14, 1841, died July 5, 1843; Henry, born 1844, died 1844 John Asahel, bom July 17, 1845, died August, 1900, married February 18, 1862, Eliza Button, at South Hollow, N. Y Edwin, bora May 19, 1847, died July 22, 1849, and Frank, bora April 27, 1850, married Julia Holzer, January 22, 1874, residence, Syracuse, N. Y. (Spafford.) Albert, 1834-1834. Henry, 1844-1844. " Lucy, 1835-1836. Edwin, 1847-1849. Charles, 1841-1843. Children of John and Mary Ann (Roundy) Collins. (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 69 COLTON. Gideon Colton. Died September 10, 1832, age 70 years, 3 months, 2 days. (Gideon Colton came to this town from Whitestown, Oneida County, N. Y., and settled on one hundred acres In the northeast corner of lot 10, Sempronius, which he pur chased from Nicholas Fish, the soldier who drew that lot, January 17, 1806. He probably came to Whitestown from Vermont, and perhaps earlier from the State of Massachu setts. By his wife, Rhoda Fowler, who was buried in Boro dino Cemetery, he had two children : Alanson, bom Decem ber 18, 1813, died April 27, 1885, married Charity Ide, daughter of Rev. Rogers and Esther Ide ; and Harriet, bom January 2, 1812, died January 13, 1871, married Henry Ide, son of Rev. Rogers and Esther Ide. (Nunnery.) Rhoda Fowler, (wife of Gideon Colton) . Died April 9, 1842, age 65 years. (Borodino.) Alanson E. Colton, (son of Gideon and Rhoda (Fowler) Colton.) Bom December 18, 1913, died April 27, 1885. (In the application for letters of administration upon his estate, dated February 23, 1886, mention is made of his widow. Charity (Ide) Colton ; and his children : Hiram A., married Sarah Van Allen ; Henritte, married Mark Harvey ; Frank, married a Harris ; Harriet, married ¥/iltsie of Mar cellus; Eudora, married Henry I. Haight of Spafford; and David Colton, married Mason, daughter of John L. and Phebe (Newell) Mason, all of full age.) Charity Ide, his wife, 1814-1901. (Borodino.) COOK. Elnora, daughter of Russel and Amanda (Cole) Cook. Died October 21, 1843, age 2 months, 4 days. (Russel Cook, son of Joseph and Mary Cook, born in Springfield, N. Y., married Amanda Cole, daughter of Joseph Cole, half brother of Easton Cole. His father and mother, Joseph and Mary Cook, came to this country from Falmouth, Cornwall Co., England, settled in Springfield, N. Y., and had a large family of children, among whom 70 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION were: Mary, bom in Falmouth, England, married Russel Tinkham, son of Daniel and Ada ( Winsor) Tinkham ; Pea- body; EUiott; Russel, married Amanda Cole, both died in Michigan; Lovedy, married Zenas Tinkham, son of Daniel and Ada (Winsor) Tinkham; Susan, married Mr. Curtis; Charlotte, married John R. Conine; Fanny, married Mr. Berison; Isabel, married Erastus Stark. All of this family, except Mrs. Russel Tinkham, so far as known, moved to Michigan, and most of them died there.) (Spafford.) CONKLIN. Samuel Conklin. Died November 22, 1839, age 73 years. " 'Tis finished, 'tis done, the spirit has fied. The prisoner is gone, the Christian is dead. The Christian is living through Jesus love, And gladly receiving a kingdom above." (Samuel Conklin settled on Lot 76, Marcellus, before December 22, 1796, on which day he received a deed of 109 acres of land in the northwest corner of that lot, from Gil bert Palnier the first settler within the present limits of this town. His first wife was Elizabeth, and after her decease in 1821, he married the widow Converse of Onondaga, but had no issue by either marriage.) (Thom HiU.) Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Conklin. Departed this life April 1, 1821, age 58 years. (Thom HiU.) COON. David Coon. Died August 16, 1857, age 80 years, 1 month, 22 days. (David Coon, born in Saratoga County, N. Y., married (1) Phebe Van Camp, bom in Cayuga County, N. Y., and died in Skaneateles, N. Y., and (2) Elizabeth Nye, born In Saratoga Co., N. Y., and died in Spafford. His children were : Polly, died in Skaneateles ; Parmelia, died in Skan eateles; Ruth, married Edwin S. Edwards, both dead, and buried in this cemetery, (no stone) ; Betsey, died in Cayuga County; Sylvia, died in Skaneateles; James Van Rensselaer, :SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH fiENBALOGICAL NOTES 71 died in Michigan ; Phebe, died in Pennsylvania ; Catherine, died in Lysander, N. Y. ; and Samuel, died in Skaneateles, N. Y. David Coon and his son. Van Rensselaer, were both harness makers by trade.) (Spafford.) James Cpon. Died November 16, 1817, age 38 years. (His wife's name was Olive.) (Thorn HiU.) Olive, daughter of James and Olive Coon. Died October 31, 1838, age 28 years. (Thom HiU.) Atlanta, daughter of James and Olive Goon. Died Feb ruary 2, 1842, age 26 years. (Thom HiU.) COPP. Timothy Copp. Died March 24, 1836, age 81 years. (In his will, dated May 1, 1835, and probated August 10, 1837, mention is made of his wife. Patience Copp, and of his children : Jesse of Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Isabella Han sen, wife of John B. Hansen of Lysander, N. Y. ; Sally Enos, wife of James Enbs of Allegany Co., N. Y. ; Daniel; Rebecca Wood, wife of Orry Wood ; Anna Coville, wife of Jonathan Coville; Lovina Coville, wife of Elisha Coville; John E.; Timothy D. ; Sally Ann Benedict, wife of Odin Benedict; and Alcina Baldwin, wife of Philander Baldwin, each of Chau tauqua County, N. Y. ; and Thomas Copp of Spafford, N. Y., all of full age.) (Thorn HiU.) Derindk, daughter of John and Mary Copp, died January 18, 1824, in 17th year. (Thom Hill.) CORNELL. Pardon, son of William and Hannah (Green) Cornell. Died November 11, 1844, age 5 years, 29 days. (William W. Cornell, son of Pardon and Candace (Otis) CorneU, married Hannah Green, daughter of John Green. Pardon Cornell was a teacher, and supposed to be a son of William D. Cornell, who died January 3, 1866, at the age of 80 years, and was buried in Borodino Cemetery. He and his brother William moved to Michigan. By his wife. Can- 72 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION dace Otis, he had the following children: Cynthia Ann; ^Jane ; William W., married Hannah Green, daughter of John Green ; Blakely and Pardon. (Spafford.) William D. Cornell. Died January 3, 1866, age 80 years. (His wife was Jane . He is supposed to be the father of Pardon and William Cornell, who moved to Michigan.) (Borodino.) John Cornell, of a different family, resided on the " Side Hill." He married Miranda Cady, and by her had the fol lowing children : James Cornell, he died at Cedar Springs, Kent Co., Mich., February 22, 1894, age 56 years ; Mary Ann, married Simon B. Wallace, son of Daniel and Caroline (Mar shall) Wallace, resides at Borodino, N. Y. ; and Adelia, married William Quick, son of WiUiam Quick from London, England, resides at Navarino, N. Y. COWAN. John William, son of Thomas M. and Keziah D. Cowan. Died June 11, 1843, age 6 years, 11 months, 13 days. (Borodino.) David H. Cowan. Bom in 1838, died in 1887. (He married Biancy E. Crane, daughter of George W.. and Mary Ann Crane. Their children were: George Thomas, married Nora Woodworth, daughter of Arlo and Emma (Bacon) Woodworth; Flora B., married Charles M. Davis, son of John Davis; Nora M., now residing in Spaf ford, N. Y., unmarried; and Lena K. Cowan, died young. The Cowan family came to this town from Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y.) (Borodino.) Biancy E. (Crane), wife of David H. Cowan. Living ing in 1899. (Borodino.) Lena K., daughter of David H. and Biancy E. (Crane) Cowan. Died October 4, 1881, age 1 year, 8 months, 12 days. " This sweetest bud of earth so fair. Has gone to Heaven to blossom there." (Borodino.). SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 73 COWLES. Harriet S. (Smith), -wife of Ebenezer Coming Cowles. Died December 25, 1871, age 43 years, 1 month, 11 days. (Ebenezer Corning Cowles, son of Ebenezer and Lydia (King) Cowles, married Harriet S. Smith, daughter of Jared Smith. He was one of the famous "Cowles* Triplets," who formerly resided at the head of Otisco Lake, in Otisco Hollow, N. Y., Ebenezer Coming, Cornelia, and Cordelia Cowles. After the decease of his wife, Harriet S. Smith;, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he married a second time. (Thorn HiU.) COX. David, born September 30, 1821, died December 4, 1831. Harriet, born May 9, 1827, died August 8, 1833. Children of Silas and Abigail R. (Spaulding) Cox. (Silas Cox came to Spafford on or before 1819, and settled on lots 12 and 14, Sempronius, where he remained until 1825; he then bought the farm at Spafford Corners owned by John Babcock, on Lot 21, Tully, afterwards owned by Dr. John CoUins, and resided there until about 1835 or 6. He then moved into the town of Otisco, N. Y. From Otisco he moved to Battle Creek, Mich., and died there July 29, 1855. He married February 4, 1815, Abigail Rowland Spaulding, daughter of David and Ruth (Clare) Spaulding, and sister of Ann Spaulding (teacher) , who married George Spaulding of Borodino, N. Y.; she died August 12, 1864. Besides the foregoing infant children, Mr. Cox had by his wife, Abigail R. Spaulding, the following additional chil dren: Ruth, married Dr. Simeon French, she is dead and Dr. French was living 1898, at Battle Creek, Mich., at the age of 82 years ; Susan, married Rev. Mr. Gardner, resides at Battle Creek, Mich.; Edward, moved to Michigan; Adeline, residing at Battle Creek, Mich. The descent of Mrs. Cox through the Spaulding Line is as follows: Edward, Benjamin, Edward, Benjamin, Asa, David, Abigail.) (Spafford.) 74 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION CRAIG. William H. Craig (son of John and Polly Craig) . Bom August 18, 1818, died November 2, 1890. " Gone but not forgotten." (William H. Craig was born in Wells, Hamilton Co., N. Y. He first settled in Truxton, where he married Hannah HoUenbeck, and by her had four children. She died in 1852, and he then married Phebe Ann Brown, daughter of Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown, and by her had four more children, making eight in all. In 1854 he moved from Truxton to Glenville, and frorii there to Cold Brook, in the town of Spafford in 1867. He remained at the latter place until the time of his decease. Among his children, who have resided in Spafford, are: Esther A., married William H. Brown, son of Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown, resides in Spafford, head of Buck Tail Road ; Abram, married Mary J. Randall, daughter of Robert and Mary Ann (Fay) Ran dall, (he has four children) : William, married Jennie Weeks and has two children, Olive E. and Ralph; Ella J.; Robert, and Mary E.) ; Wesley, married (1) Amy Randall, daughter of Silas and Anna (Alvord) Randall, and (2) (Cold Brook.) Horace, infant son of WiUiam H. and Phebe (Brown) Craig. Died February 1, 1856. (Cold Brook.) CRANE. Stephen Crane. Bom 1775, Died May 17, 1851. " Gone but not forgotten." (He married Elsie Grinnell and by her had: George W., married Mary Ann ; Samuel, married (1) Ahnira L. Bishop; (2) Parthena Hutchens, widow of Lewis B. Marshall and daughter of Col. Phineas and Betsey (Bocker) Hutchens, and (3) Catherine Shaw, daughter of James Shaw of Spafford Hollow; and Harriet, who died single.) (Spafford.) Else (Grinnell), wife of Stephen Crane. Died March 12, 1844, age 67 years. " I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7. (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 75 Harriet Crane, daughter of Stephen and Else (Grinnell) Crane. Died June 10, 1865, age 44 years, 11 months, 11 days. (She died single.) (Spafford.) George W. Crane, (son of Stephen and Else (Grinnell) Crane) . Died February 26, 1879, age 67 years, 7 months, 16 days. (No stone.) (In his will, dated May 18, 1878, and probated in 1879, mention is made of his wife, Mary Ann Crane, and his chil dren: Moses, married Margaret ; Rebecca Holmes, wife of John Holmes; Biancy Cowan, wife of David H. Cowan; Lucinda Streeter, wife of George Streeter, and Lovilla Purchase, wife of Charles H. Purchase.) (Borodmo.) Mary A., wife of George W. Crane. Died December 22, 1885, age 71 years, 1 month, 9 days. (Borodino.) Sarhuel Crape, (son of Stephen and Else (Grinnell) Crane) . Died June 10, 1887, age 72 years. (Borodino.) CROSS. In memory of Abigail, wife of Joseph Cross, who died February 3, 1829, age 73 years. (Thorn HiU.) Truman Cross. Died November 17, 1842, age 34 years 1 month. " Go home, dear wife, dry up your tears, I must lie here 'till Christ appears. I trust we soon shall meet again To celebrate redeeming love." (He married Emma Legg, daughter of Capt. Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg, and by her had one son Otis, who mar ried Hortense Ide, daughter of Henry and Harriet (Colton) Ide, late of Borodino, N. Y. After the decease of Mr. Cross his widow, Emma, married Jonathan Woodworth, son of James and Hannah (Fish) Woodworth. She and her second husband are now deceased.) (Thom HiU.) Otis Cross, (son of Truman and Emma (Legg) Cross) . Bom in 1840, died in 1892. 76 aNONDAGA HISTORICAL ASat««aATI©N (He married Hortense Ide, daughter of Henry and Har riet (Colton) Ide, and by her had one son, Frank Cross, married Ida Hicks, October 2, 1889, and resides in Syracuse, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Hortense Ide, wife of Otis Cross. Born in 1836. (Still living, Borodino, N. Y.) (Borodino.) CULVER. Helen E., daughter of Nathan and Amanda (Skellie) Culver. Died March 3, 1853. (Nathan Culver, son of Moses and Amy (Boughton) Culver, was born in Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., he married Amanda Skellie, daughter of William I. and Eliza beth (Boughton) Skellie, and came to Spafford about 1844, and resided there and in the Village of Scott for a number of years, and finally settled in Syracuse, where he died; (buried in Oakwood Cemetery, in that city) . Besides him self, his father and mother had other children, as follows: Andrew, t-wice married and lived and died in Cambridge, N. Y. ; Maria, married James Donahue, moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., and finally lived and died in Vermont; Azor, married Caroline Pratt, and resided in Lyons, N. Y. ; Rhoda, married David Doagg (Scotch) and moved to Washington Territory; Mary Ann, married Mr. Hornbeck and resided in Vermont ; and -three others, who died young. Nathan Culver, by his wife, Amanda Skellie, had the following children: Elizabeth, died young in Cambridge, N. Y.; Helen E., died young in Spafford; Eva A., living unmarried in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Oscar W. Culver, living unmarried in Syracuse (letter carrier.) (Spafford.) CURTIS. Peter Curtis, son of Eli Curtis. Died September 9, 1869,. age 43 years. " He is gone but not forgotten." (He married Clara Marisa Churchill, daughter of Alvin and Sally (Seeley) ChurchiU.) L (Cold Brook.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 77 Leonidas M., son of Peter and Marisa (ChurchiU) Curtis. Died February 3, 1860, age 2 years, 6 months, 19 days. " So do our treasures ever die." (Cold Brook.) DARBEY. Squire Darbey, son of Truman Darbey. Died February 20, 1851, age 28 years, 10 days. (Mr. Truman Darbey lived on the west side of Spafford Hollow, a short distance south of the head of Otisco Lake. Besides his son. Squire, he had a daughter Rebecca, who married James R. Williamson, son of James B. and Charity (Rainey) Williamson.) (Spafford Hollow.) DARLING. Joseph Darling. Bora November 11, 1806, died May 6, 1895. (He m-arried Polly Spaulding.) (Borodino.) Polly Spaulding, wife of Joseph Darling. Bora August 16, 1822, died September 28, 1876. (Borodino.) Hiram Linus Darling, (son of Jacob W. and Mary H. (Buffington) Darling.) Died November 1, 1874, age 48 years. " Good night dear friends, nay do not weep, I am weary now and want to sleep ; But I shall wake with the morning light of day Etemal ; good night, good night." (Jacob Darling, commonly called Elder Darling, was a Free Will Baptist minister. He came to Spafford early and was first known as a teacher. He attended the Free WiU Baptist Church, presided over by Elder John Gould, which then had its place of worship near the school house, on the hill east of Spafford Comers. After the Mormon exodus, which materially affected the member^ip of this church. Elder Darling came forward as a leader, and ministered over the remaining membership for many years thereafter. About 1827, he settled on a farm on the west side of the 78 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Homer and Skaneateles road, on Lot 12, Sempronius, and remained there until about 1855 or 6. He then moved to Virgil, Cortland Co., and soon after to Caroline, Tompkins Co., both in this State. By his wife, Mary H. Buffington, he Jiad the foUowing children : Hiram Linus, married Annie Eliza Holmes, daughter of John and Lydia (Barnes) Holmes; James H., of Waverly, Van Buren Co., Mich.; Francis A., of Eleroy, Stevenson Co., 111.; Eugene M., of Luveme, Rock Co., Minn.; Harriet D. Cox, of Leseur, Minn.; ^elen M. MiUer, of Lanar, Carroll Co., 111.; EUa L. and C!arrie A. Darling, of Freeport, Stevenson Co., Illinois. Elder Darling was deceased at the time of the death of his son Linus, and his widow was then residing at Eleroy, Stev enson Co., IU., and his children as above stated. His son, Linus,' was by profession a dentist, but was also a respect able practitioner of law among his friends and acquaint ances. He was never admitted to practice in the higher Courts of the State, but in Justice Court he was generally recognized as a competent practitioner. He left no issue of his marriage with Miss Holmes, who survived him.) (Borodino.) Annie Eliza (Holmes) , wife of H. Linus Darling. Died June 30, 1892, age 65 years, 5 moniiis. " My trust is in Jesus." (Borodino.) DAVIS. Elias Davis. Bom in 1763, died June 17, 1851, age 88 years. (No stone.) (Elias Davis was one of the first settlers in this town, to which he came in 1806, in a boat from Skaneateles, where he first settled in 1803. The deed of his farm of 200 acres, (in the southwest comer of lot 14, Sempronius) , was dated April 27, 1812, but in this he is described as a resident ol St>afford, showing that he was already residing on the land, which he probably held under a contract of much earlier date. He is claimed to have been buried in this burial yard, by the side of his wife Freelove, although no stone marks his last resting place. By his wife Freelove he had the following children: Nancy, married William Harris; Col. Lewis C, married (1) Margaret Fisher, daughter of Amos and Margaret Fisher, and (2) Mary R. Pressey, daughter SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 79 of Moses Pressey; Capt. John, married Sybel ; and Julia, married a Mr. Canfield.) (Davis Yard.) Freelove, wife of Elias Davis. Died August 20, 1840, age 72 years, 1 month, 21 days. (Davis Yard.) In memory of Capt. John Davis, (son of Elias and Freelpve Davis.) Who died after an illness of one hour. Died in a fit at Onondaga, on the 27th day of May, 1829, aged 33 years, 2 months, 13 days. (In the apphcation of his wife Sybel, June 23, 1829, fox letters of administration upon his estate, no mention is made of any children of the deceased.) (Davis Yard.) Col. LeAvis C. Davis, (son of Elias and Freelove Da-vis) . Died May 7, 1853, age 63 years, 1 month, 12 days. (He married (1) Margaret Fisher, daughter of Amos and Margaret Fisher, and (2) Mary R. Pressey, daughter of Moses Pressey. In the petition for letters of administra tion upon his estate, by his -widow Mary R. (Pressey) Davis, dated May 13, 1853, mention is made of the following chil dren: Joline, of Spafford, N. Y, ; Laurette, -wife of Ben jamin Wallace of Niles, Cayuga County, N. Y. ; John C, married Maria Arvilla Conine, daughter of Richard Conine, of Preble, N. Y. ; Lewis B., of Spafford; Ilhoda, wife of Richard Van Vranken of Geddes, N. Y. ; Moses J., of Spaf ford ; Van Buren, married a Miss Hathaway and moved to Dakota; Porter; Mary E. ; Prery; Emeline A.; Orlanda, and Julia E. Davis, all of Spafford, N. Y. Judson Davis, an older son of Lewis C. Davis, married Elizabeth Spaulding, daughter of David and Lucy Carry Spaulding; he moved to Missouri and died there. As he is not named in this peti tion he may have been dead at that time.) (Davis Yard.) In memory of Margaret (Fisher), -wife of Lewis C. Davis. Died October 26, 1833, age 41 years, 26 days. (Davis Yard.) Perlina Davis, (daughter of Judson and Elizabeth (Spaulding) Davis). Died August 28, 1849, age 6 years, 1 month. 80 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Judson Davis was a son of Col. Lewis C. and Margaret (Fisher) Da-vis.) (Davis Yard.) Jefferson Davis, (son of Judson and Elizabeth (Spauld ing) Davis) . Died May 21, 1849, age 4 years 2 months, 25 days. (Davis Yard.) Byron Davis, (son of Judson and Elizabeth (Spaulding) Davis) . Died August 26, 1849, age 2 years, 4 months, 23 days. (Davis Yard.) Porter Davis, (son of Col. Lewis C. and Mary (Pressey) Davis) , Co. "F," 122 Regt., N. Y. V., CivU War. Died AprU 17, 1889, age 49 years. (Borodino.) Zebulon R. Davis. Died May 23, 1871, age 71 years. " Though lost to sight to memory dear." (Borodino.) (Mr. Davis married first Hannah Ames, and second, Polly Gale; daughter of John and Martha Gale of Spafford, N. Y. He and his first wife were from Washington Co., N. Y., and first settled in Marietta, N. Y. From there they moved to Skaneateles, and thence to Thom Hill, where his first wife died and was buried. At the time of his decease he and his second wife were residing -with his daughter, Mrs. John Maxson, in Cold Brook. He had no issue by his second wife.) (Cold Brook.) Hannah (Ames) , wife of Zebulon Davis. Died August 25, 1835, age 31 years. (Thom Hill.) Polly (Gale), -wife of Zebulon Davis. Died December 24, 1869, age 76 years. " Mother, we miss thee." (Cold Brook.) Farrand, son of Zebulon and Hannah (Ames) Davis. Died September 4, 1844, age 20 years, 2 months, 23 days. (Thorn HiU.) Esther, wife of Farrand Davis. Died September 4, 1865, age 89 years. (Thom HiU.) «PAFPORD MORTUARY BffiCORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 81 DEDRICK. William Dedrick. Died October 25, 1855, age 61 years. (He came from Rhode Island, married Thurzy McCausey and by her had three" children: William John, married (1) Sophronia E. Babcock, and (2) Sarah Lindsey; Eliza beth, married Isaac Eglin ; and Robert A., died unmarried. William Dedrick had a brother. Constant H. Dedrick, who died in Skaneateles after his decease. In his will. Constant mentions no wife or children, but the following: Thurzy, " widow of my brother William Dedrick, deceased, his son John, and his daughter Elizabeth Eglin, wife of Isaac Eglin." He also mentions the following: Sarah Bennett of Skaneateles ; Helen A. Young, wife of Orsen Young ; Sophia Stiles, wife of Ezra StUes; and Minerva J. Vandenburgh, wife of John H. Vandenburgh.) (Borodino.) Note. — Hon. Sidney Smith, writing of Constant H. Dedrick, says : " Constant H. Dedrick had a wife, but no children. His wife probably died before his decease. Sarah Bennett was the daughter of Cephas and SteUa (Kneeland) Bennett, Baptist Missionary to Burmah and gr£.ld daughter of the distinguished Baptist minister. Rev. Alfred Bennett of Homer, N. Y. She was sent to America and lived for a considerable time with the Dedricks. Sophia Stiles was a sister of this Dedricks' wife, and Helen A. Young and Minerva J. Vanderburgh were the daughters of Mrs. Stiles." Thurzy (McCausey), wife of William Dedrick. Died March 20, 1878, age 82 years, 7 months. (Borodino.) Robert A., son of WiUiam and Thurzy (McCausey) Dedrick. Died October 28, 1850, age 30 years. (Borodino.) William John Dedrick, (son of WiUiam and Thurzy (McCausey) Dedrick) . Born February 26, 1822, died (Borodino.) Sophronia (Babcock) , (wife of William John Dedrick) . Died September 9, 1878, age 49 years. 8 months. (Borodino.) Sarah (Lindsey), wife of (Wm.) John Dedrick. Bom November 13, 1843, died December 24, 1893. (Borodino.) 82 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION DERBYSHIRE. Mrs. Pruella, wife of Zacharia Derbyshire. Died August 12, 1823, age 31 years, 7 months. " Death is a debt to nature due, Which I have paid and so must you." (Zacharia Derbysbire married for a second wife Hannah Williamson, daughter of Comelius and Eliza (Qstrander) Williamson. (Spafford.) Mrs. Hannah (Williamson), wife of Zachariah Derby shire- Died September 17, 1834, age 30 years, 3 months. 17 days. " I have fought a gppd fight, I haye finished my cpurse, I have kept the faith, thenceforth there is a cro-wn of right eousness Laid up for me which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, ShaU give to me at that last day." (Spafford.) James, son of Zachariah and Hannah (yi'^iUiamson) Derbyshire. Died August 4, 1827, age 4 years, 4 days. (Spafford.) DERBIN. WiUiam Derbin, Private Co. " B," 3rd N. Y. Artillery. War 1861. Died June 25, 1888, age 61 years. (Mr. Derbin was an Englishman.) (Thom Hill.) DIBBLE. Fannie, daughter of Leroy A. and W. D. Dibble. Died April 2, 1865, age 1 year, 3 months. (Borodino.) DOOLITTLE. Warren Dpolittle. Died August 6, 1884, age 72 years.) (Warren Doolittle was bom in WaUingford, Conn., September 13, 1812, and married Ruth L. Stacy of North Haven, Conn., October 5, 1834, and by her had four chil dren: Gilbert M-, born September I, 1835, and died July 2, 1843; MiUicent C, bom December 20, 1839, died January SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 83 25, 1840; Ellen M., born June 1, 1844; and Gilbert M., bom April 14, 1846. The two latter are now residing at Boro dino, N. Y. Mr. Doolittle, about 1840, moved from WaUing ford, where he was bom ,to Hartwick, Otsego Co., N. Y., where he remained until the Fall of 1841, and then came to Borodino, where he remained until the time of his decease. Early in life he joined the Baptist Church in his native place, and after coming to this town united with the First Baptist Church of Marcellus, at Thorn Hill, and there held the office of Deacon twenty-nine years. He was first a Democrat, but on the organization of the Republican party identified himself with that organization. He was an active and useful citizen, and generally respected. Mrs. Doolittle died in 1900.) (Thom HiU.) Gilbert M., son of Warren and Ruth L. (Stacy) Doo little. Born 1835, died in 1843. (Thom Hill.) DpTY. Sarah (Wood), wife of Warren Doty. Died July 31, 1862, age 90 years, 2 months, 18 days. (Warren Doty, son pf Samuel and Mercy Doty, was bom at Saybrook, Conn., April 23, 1768, and died at Martina- burgh, Lewis Co., N. Y., in 1807. He was of the sixth generation, in line of descent from Edward Doty, whp came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, in the ship " Mayflower," as foUows: Edward, Edward, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel War ren. (See Doty genealogy.) He married at Stephentown, N. Y. Sarah Wood, born at Cherry Valley, N. Y., M^rch 13, 1772, and by her had five children : Reuben, Diana, Silas, Willard and Mercy; pf whom WiUiard pnly settled in this tpwn.) (Spaffprd.) Willard Doty (son of Warren and Sarah (Wood) Doty. Died March 13, 1882, age 83 years, 8 months, 9 days. (He was bom in Lo-wville, Lewis Co., N. Y., July 4, 1798, ^nd came early to Spafford, where he married (1) Decem ber 11, 1817, Achsah Bacon, daughter of Amos and Abigail (Cody) Bacon, and second, Sarah Jane Eliot, widow pf David Ripley, arid daughter of EUas and Charity (Wamer) Eliot- He had no issue by his second wife, but by the first 84 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION had: Abigail, bom December 11, 1818, married John W. Eadie, son of James and Martha (Smith) Eadie, March 15, 1843; Warren, bom January 21, 1821, married March 15, 1843, Emily Tinkham, daughter of Russel and Mary (Cook) Tinkham, (they had four children: Orlando, born March 27, 1846, married March 27, 1872, Maria Scribner, no living issue; Willard R., bom June 18, 1847, married September 15, 1859, Jennette Maxson, daughter of Henry (" Dork ") Maxson, has two children, Rollo and Nellie, the latter mar ried William Barber ; Mary A., bom March 6, 1849, married February 15, 1870, Willard Norton, son of Erastus and Mary (Isdell) Norton, has one daughter, Angeline; and Sarah, born August 26, 1854, married June 4, 1872, John Robinson son of Peter ;) Sejonour, born Jefferson Co., N. Y., April 3, 1823, died Sept. 10, 1862, married in Spafford, October 10, 1852, Emily Isdell, bom in Saratoga Co., Janu ary 15, 1828, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Harris) IsdeU, she died April 10, 1864, no issue; Caroline, bom in Lewis County, August 7, 1825, married John Cleveland, son of Benajah and Mary (Clark) Cleveland, February 8, 1860, and has one chUd Emeline, (Lina), bom October 6, 1865, married Irving Harrington, son of Alfred G. and Vestelina E. (Woodworth) Harrington; Emeline, born Le-wis County, December 12, 1827, died October 24, 1862, at Spafford, un married; Willard, Jr., bom March 16, 1830, killed by a run away horse September 15, 1846 ; and Orphana, born March 26, 1834, died May 31st, 1898, married James Hill, son of Alexander and Ann (Kenyon) Hill.) (Spafford.) Achsah (Bacon) , wife of Willard Doty. Died November 5, 1862, age 67 years, 27 days. " Verily there is rest for the righteous." (Spafford.) Emelme, daughter of Willard and Achsah (Bacon) Doty. Died October 24, 1862, age 34 years, 9 months, 13 days. (She died unmarried.) „,.„ , , (Spafford.) Willard, Jr., son of Willard and Achsah (Bacon) Doty. Died September 15, 1846, age 16 years, 6 months. (He was accidentally killed by a mnaway horse.) (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 85 Seymour Doty, (son of Willard and Achsah (Bacon) Doty. Died September 10, 1862, age 39 years, 5 months, 7 days. (He married Emily Isdell, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Harris) Isdell. He was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., April 3, 1823. No issue.) (Spafford.) Emily Isdell, -wife of Seymour Doty. Died April 12, 1864, age 26 years, 2 months, 27 days. (She was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., January 15, 1828. No issue.) (Spafford.) Lottie S., daughter of Willard and Jennette (Maxson) Doty. Died December 14, 1877, age 4 weeks. " Sweetly sleeping in Jesus." (Willard Doty, son of Warren and Emily (Tinkham) Doty, married Jennette Maxson, daughter of Henry ("Dork") Maxson.) (Cold Brook.) Lovedy E., daughter of Willard and Jennette (Maxson) Doty. Died April 15, 1879, age 1 year, 5 months. " Sleep on and take thy rest." (Cold Brook.) DUNBAR. Caroline M., our mother, -wife of Thaddeus Dunbar. Died June 12, 1845, age 39 years, 4 months. " Angels have called thee from us, have piloted thee home. Oh ! from our sore bereavement may true submission come. Pen cannot paint our sorrows, nor words our anguish tell. How can we dearest Mother, how can we say farewell." (Thaddeus Dunbar married (1) Caroline M., and (2) Eliza Williamson, daughter of Cornelius and Eliza (Os- trander) Williamson.) (Spafford.) EADIE. James Eadie, a native of Scotland. Died November 2, 1839, age 79 years, 6 months. (Mr. Eadie first settled in Albany, N. Y., where he married Martha Smith, a native of that place. From there 86 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION he moved to Rensselaerville, Rensselaer County, N. Y., and from there to this town, where, after a short stay in the MarecUus end, he finally in 1829, settled on Lot 11, Tully, on the Saneateles and Homer Road, and there continued until his decease. By his wife, Martha Smith, he had the following children : Elizabeth, married David Jenkins, Syra cuse, N. Y.; Margaret, married (1) Luther Manley, and (2) Truman Skeels; Jerusha, married James H. Fitzgerald; Daniel S., married Matilda Cowan and went to Chautauqua County ,^ N. Y., where he died ; James, Jr., married Zeruah Monk; John W., married Abigail Doty, daughter of Willard and Aehsah (Bacon) Doty; Delila, married Shubal Waldo of Aurora, N. Y. ; Sarah A., married Joel C. Woodworth, son of James and Hannah (Fish) Woodworth; Euphemia, married David Wiltsie; Charlotte, married John Wiltsie; both Wiltsie families are of Panama, Chautauqua County, N. Y. ; Mr. Eadie, while residing in Albany, followed mer cantile pursuits, but in this town was a farmer.) (Spafford.) Martha (Smith), wife of James Eadie. Died October 11, 1853, age 77 years. (Spafford.) Margaret, (wife of Truman Skeels), and daughter of James and Martha (Smith) Eadie. Died June 18, 1857, age 58 years, 9 months, 27 days. (Spafford.) James Eadie, Jr. (son of James and Martha (Smith) Eadie. Died May 27, 1879, age 60 years, 11 months, ll days. " He is not dead but sleepeth." (James Eadie, Jr., married Zeruah Monk, arid by her had two sons and three daughters : Frank married Eva A. Bass, daughter of Wliliam and Catherine (Eglin) Bass; Charles A. Eadie, Arigeline, Anise and Alice.) (Spafford.) Zeruah (Monk) , wife of James Eadie, Jr. Died Nov ember 4, 1881, age 56 years, 3 months, 14 days. (Spafford.) John W. Eadie, son of James and Martha (Smith) Eadie. Died October 20, 1873, age 57 years. (No stone.) (John W. Eadie married Abigail Doty, daughter of Willard and Achsah (Bacon) Doty, and by her had the SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 87 foUo-wing childreri: Caroline^ married Sylvenus A. Chur chill, son of Chauncey and Catherine (Merry) ChurchiU; Achsah, married Caleb W. Churchill, son of Chauncey and Catherine (Merry) ChurchiU; Mary, EUa, Nettie, Sarah Elesebert, Willard Eadie, and Martha Eadie, who died young.) (Spafford.) Abigail Doty, wife of John W. Eadie. Died January 8, 1899, age 82 years. (No storie.) (Spafford.) Martha, daughter of John W. and Abigail (Doty) Eadie. Died March 22, 1849, age 2 years, 6 months, 7 days. (Spafford.) Peter, son of David S. and Mathilda (Cowan) Eadie. Died May 26, 1849, age 22 years, 21 days. (David S. Eadie, son of James and Martha Smith Eadie, married Matilda Cowan.) (Borodino.) Frank Eadie, sori of James, Jr., and Zeruah (Monk) Eadie. Bora September 4, 1852, died in 1895. (Frank Eadie married Eva A. Bass, daughter of William and Catherine (Eglin) Bass, born in Hamilton County, N. Y., and by her had one daughter, Linriie, bom September 6, 1885-. At the time of his decease he was a merchant in the Village of Borodiri:o.) (Borodino.) Eva A. (Bass), wife of Frank Eadie. Born in 1855, (living in 1899.) (Borodino.) EARX. In memory of David Earl. Died August 16, 1818, age 66 years. (In his will, dated May 22, 1818, and probated October 19, 1818. he mentions his wife Anna Earl, and the foUowing children ; William, married Polly Pitts ; Nathaniel ; David ; Peter; Rebecca, married Aaron Bearse, second wife;Mary; and Anna Gordon.) (Thom HiU.) Anna Earl, relict of David Earl. Died February 2, 1843, age 86 years. (Thom HiU.) 88 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION David Earl, Jr. (son of David and Anna Earl). Died March 1, 1838, age 56 years. (Thom HiU.) William Earl, (son of Da-vid and Anna Earl). Diea July 1, 1873, age 75 years, 6 months. William Earl, by his wife Polly Pitts, had the folIo-wlng children: Shepard, married Emeline Smith, daughter of Jared and Rhoda (Harvey) Smith; Ulyssa, married Ed ward Weston, son of Edmund C. and Clarinda (Rathbone) Weston; Sarah, married Henry Weston, son of Edmund C and Clarinda (Rathbone) Weston, her husband is now deceased and she resides in Spafford; Anna, married Thomas W. Burns, son of Felix and Elizabeth (Wallace) Burns, her husband is now deceased; David, and William P. Earl, both died young and are buried at Thom Hill. The- Earls and Pitts both originally came from the Town of Onondaga, N. Y.) (Thom HiU.) Polly (Pitts), wife of WiUiam Earl. Died April 26, 1889, age 86 years, 8 months. (Thom HiU.) In memory of David, son of William and Polly (Pitts) Earl. Died August 6, 1827, age 4 years, 7 months. (Thom Hill.) WiUiam P., son of William and Polly (Pitts) Earl. Died April 5, 1842, age 15 years, 4 months, 17 days. (Thom HiU.) Other Earls at Thorn Hill. EDDY. Sylvanus Eddy. Died September 2, 1852, age 64 years.. " Weep not for me, my companion and children dear. But prepare to meet me in Heaven." (Mr. Eddy, at the time of his decease, was residing on the west side of the road, leading from the residence of Col. Hutchens to Ed-win S. Edwards, on Lot 22, Tully. His -wife, whose name is not known, died in Aubum, N. Y. Among his children were: Sylvanus, Jr., married Sarah A. Knight (who died on the east side of Otisco Lake, in the town of Otisco, and who in her will, dated February 12, 1874, pro bated July 10, 1886, mentions the following children: Asa;, SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 89 Mercy P. Eddy ; Mary Lewis, and one grandson : William J. Eddy, son of Myron Eddy, deceased) ; Samuel, who resided in Auburn, N. Y. ; Martin; Lovina, married Washington Babcock; Catherine; Mary; and perhaps others who died young.) (Spafford.) Richard M. Eddy. Died April 20, 1875, age 57 years, 11 months, 4 days. (He married Rich, daughter of Dorr and Anna (Becker) Rich. They came from Washington County, N. Y. Mary A., his wife, died January 31, 1848, age 76 years, 2 months. (Borodino.) Seth Eddy. Died June 19, 1839, age 65 years. (Seth Eddy came to this town from Floyd, Oneida Co., N. Y. By his wife Terzy he had the following children: Theron ; Edwin, married Adeline Berry, daughter of Jona than and Thankful Berry; Lilley (or Amelia) , married Wil liam Wallace, son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace ; and Olive, married Morgan Wallace, son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace. (Borodino.) Sophia B., daughter of Edwin and Adeline (Berry) Eddy. Died March 5, 1873, age 22 years. (Edwin Eddy and his wife, Adeline Berry, are both dead, and buried in this cemetery.) (No stone at the graves of Ed-win and Adeline.) (Borodino.) Orrin Eddy. Died August 26, 1897, age 88 years. (No stone.) (He came to this town from near Fort George, N. Y., and married Harriet Streeter, daughter of Alexander R. and Susan (Carpenter) Streeter. He had by her one son: Orrin F. Eddy, who married (1) Nettie Smith, and (2) Harriet Alvord, daughter of Shubel Alvord of Scott, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Eddy also had an adopted daughter, Sarah A. Baker, daughter of Ashbel and Sarah A. (Streeter) Baker, who married Roland Rollo of Sennett, N. Y. Mr. Eddy was living with his adopted daughter in 90 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Sennett at the time of his decease. He was a blacksmith by trade, a Republican in politics, and much respected.) (Borodino.) Harriet (Streeter), -wife of Orrin Eddy. Died March 31, 1872, age 52 years, 5 months. (Borodino.) Nettie (Smith), wife of Orrin F. Eddy. Died October 7, 1852, age 34 years, 10 months, 3 days. (Borodino.) (Harriet Alvord, the second wife of Orrin F. Eddy, died at Scott, N. Y., January 19, 1890.) (Borodino.) Julia Ann, daughter of John and Fanny (Williams) Eddy. Died October 31, 1840, age 5 years, 2 months. ( Johri Eddy, by his wife Fanny, besides Julia Ann, above mentioned, had other children, among whom were: John, Jr., and Deborah B., who married Washington Wallace, son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace. John Eddy and his wife moved away from Spafford.) (Borodino.) EDWARDS. Edwin Seymour Edwards, son of Solomon and Abigail Edwards. Bora in Skaneateles, N. Y., March 30, 1806. Died in Spafford, September 23, 1890. (Ed-win S. Edwards married April 24, 1832, Ruth Coon, daughter of David and Phebe (Van Camp) Coon, and by her had the foUowing children : Julius A., bom December 2, 1833, married Esther Lowery. She died March 7„ 1894, and was buried in Spafford Cemetery, they had one son, Edwin W. Edwards, who married Jennette B. Haskins, and have one daughter, Julius now resides with his son near Preble, N. Y.; Edwin D., bom October 13, 1838, married Charlotte G. Adkins, and has one son and one daughter living, ha-ving had three other children who died young, resides in Syracuse, N. Y. ; and John Orlando, bom January 25, 1842, died June 30, 1843. Mr. Edwards was a farmer, but read and practiced medicine. He was Supervisor oi this town in 1861-3, Overseer of the Poor in 1848-9, besides at different times holding other minor town offices. He was frequently caUed upon to act as executor and adminis trator in the settlement of estates, and was generally re- SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 91 spected by Ms toWris[)oopie. He and his wife were members of the M. E. Church, in which society Mr. Edwards was for a iOng time the chorister of the choir, and superintendent of tbe Suriday School. He was descended from Alexander Edwards, who came from Wales in 1640, and settled early in Springfield, Mass., as foUows : Edwin, Solomon, Solomon, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, ifTathaniel, Alexarider. (No stone.) (Spafford.) Ruth Coon, wife of Ed-win S. Edwards. Bom December 22, 1805, died in Spafford. (No stone.) (Spafford.) John 0., son of Edwin S. and Ruth (Coon) Edwards. Died June 30, 1843, age 1 year, 5 months, 5 days. " Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." (Spafford.) Esther Lowery, wife of Julius A. Edwards. Died March 7, 1894, age 52 years. (No stone.) (Julius and his wife Esther had one son, Ed-win W. Edwards, who mai^ried Jennette B. Haskins, arid has one daughter.) (Spafford.) Ebenezer Edwards, son Of Solomon and Catherine (dlark) Edwards. Died January 11, 1830, age 52 years. " Come hither mortal. Cast an eye And go thy way and prepare to die." (Ebenezer Edwards was an uncle of Edwin S. Edwards. In his will, dated December 15, 1829, and probated April 10, 1830, he mentions his wife, Sybel Edwards, his adopted daughter Calista Mead, and his children : William ; Solomon ; Sereno; and Polly Edwards. The branch of the Edwards family through which Ebenezer and his nephew, Edwin S. Edwards, trace their descent from Alexander Edwards, the emigrant ancestor. Came to Skaneateles Irom Nothampton, Mass., in the year 1809: Eberiezer, Solomon, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Alexander.) (Thom HiU.) EGGLESTON. Dea Berijamiri Eggleston, left us January 9, 1868, in the full assurance of a blissful immortality, through Christ his Saviour, age 85 years. 92 ©NONDASA HISTORICAL JWRMtlATieN " Precious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saint." (He married Elizabeth Wiltsie. In his wiU, dated Feb ruary 18, 1865, and probated March 23, 1868, he mentions his -svife, Elizabeth Eggleston, and his children: Myron; Rolf e ; John ; Theodore, married Sarah A. Gardner ; Delilah Goodridge; Adeline Wood; Catherine Coon; Rebecca, mar ried Austin Wyckoff of Navarino, N. Y. ; Mary, married Augustin Vanderburgh, son of Stephen and Maria (Cal kins) Vanderburg; Ruth M. Eggleston, and Sarah E. Patterson.) (Thorn Hill.) Our Mother, Elizabeth (Wiltsie) ) , -wife of Dea Benjamin Eggleston. Departed this life August 31, 1874, age 85 years, 5 months. " With a good Hope in Christ of a Blessed and glorious Resurrection to Etemal Life." (Thom HiU.) Sarah A. (Gardner) , wife of Theodore Eggleston. Died February 20, 1874, age 37 years, 6 months. " In earnest of Heaven was her pillow in Death." (Theodore Eggleston was a son of Dea. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wiltsie) Eggleston.) (Thora HiU.) EGLIN. Isaac D. Eglin. Bora October 4, 1824. Died Novem ber 22, 1904. (He married (1) Elizabeth Dedrick, daughter of William and Thurzy (McCausey) Dedrick; and (2) Ailce Case daughter of Aaron G. and Rebecca (Monk) Case.) (Borodino.) Elizabeth (Dedrick), wife of Isaac Eglin. Died April 14, 1886, age 58 years, 10 months, 25 days. " Dearest husband ! thou dearest friend of my Mortal years, thou trusted one thou tried, Thou art still living in the vaUey of tears. But I am at thy side." (In her will, dated June 25, 1878, probated July 7, 1890, she mentions her husband, Isaac D. G. Eglin, but no chU dren. She also mentions her brother, WiUiam J. Dedrick, of Spafford; her uncle, Samuel Dedrick of Rhode Island ^ SPAFFORD MORTUARY RBCORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 03 her uncle, Henry Dedrick of Rhode Island ; TUson Wood and his sister, Louisa, children of her Aunt Harriet Wood, late of Rhode Island, deceased; her aunt, Sally Reed, of Rhode Island; her aunt, Catherine, sister of her father, William Dedrick ; and Mrs. Helen Williams, daughter of Charles Mc Causey of Spafford.) (Borodino.) Alice (Case), wife of Isaac Eglin. Born January 16, 1859. Died December 14, 1905. (Borodino.) Lehana Delbert, only son of Isaac and Elizabeth Dedrick) Eglin. Died July 5, 1877, age 24 years, 6 months, 5 days. " No sin, no grief, no pain, Safe in my happy home. My fears all fied, my doubts all slain, My hour of triumph come." (Borodino.) ELDRED. Louisa M., daughter of James and Juliett Eldred. Died April 17, 1843, age 2 years, 3 months, 21 days. " None but a parent's heart can tell How much it costs to bid this lovely child farewell." (Cold Brook.) ELIOT. Andrew J. Eliot, (son of Elias and Charity (Warner) Eliot) . Died September 27, 1886, age 70 years. (The paternal grandparents of Andrew J. Eliot were Andrew and Jennie (Ayers) Eliot. Their children were: Daniel, married Hannah Carpenter; Lucretia, married Ste phen Giles; Elisha, died young; Jacob, married Patience Tripp; George, married Jennie McCarthy; MoUie, married William Seward; Peter, married Jerusha McCarthy; Luke, married Betsey ; Hannah, married Daniel Hoyt; Betsey, married Nahum Thompson; and Elias, married Charity Warner. Elias Eliot, bom in Decatur, Otsego County, N. Y., in January, 1793, died in Spafford, May, 1841 age 48 years, and buried in Geddes, N. Y., married in 1813 Charity Warner, born April 9, 1795, and died in Deadwood, S. Da., September 9^ •NONDAGA HIS^ORIICAL ASSOCIATION 2, 1895, age 100 years, 4 months^ 23 days, daughter of Charles and Sarah (StockweU) Warner, and by her had the following children : Sarah J^ne» bom March 1, 1815, mar ried (1) David Ripley, son of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey) Ripley, and (2) Willard Doty, son pf Warren and Sarg^ (Wood) Doty, and by her first busband had seven children (see Ripley) ; Andrew J., born February 11, 18;i7, married Sarah Ann Bulpncb, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Harrington) Bijlfinch; Li;cy Ann, borji Febrnary 17, 1819, married Joseph H. Bulfinch, son pf Joseph and I^ydia (Harrington) Bulfinch, she bad tbree phildren, only one surviving: Mrs. Alice M. Cramer, with whom in 1899 she resided in Yanton, South Dakota (see Bulfinch) ; Charles, born Decemher 1, 1,821, married Lodemia Hawkins, and has one phild, NeUie; Elias E., bom July 28, 1822^ married Helen Mprey, had two daughters, Nettie and Nellie ; Wesley ^., born January 5, 1824 ; married Jennie -TT , and has one daughter Jennie; Lewis H., bom February 13, 1826, married (1) Henrietta Morey, (2) Mary Treadwell, no issue ; James M., bom October 11, 1828, died at the age pf 26, unmarried, at the GUpbe Hotel, in Syracuse, N. Y. ; George Yf., bPrn I^ovember 11, 1831, mar ried in Ohico, Cal., np i^sne; Warner A., born January 31, 1833, marrjed I^ottie §paids, and had seven children: Charles, Cbappcey, Craig, Willie, Kathlyn, Flora, Raymond ; Helen C, bom April 9, 1836 married Col. Gideon C. Moody, her husband has been United States Senator from South Dakota, s^e has had fiye children: J^eljie, Ch^rleg, James, Burdett, and Wa^^^er. she now resides in Peadwood, S. Da. ; and M^ry Elizg,betb, born April 5, 1838, married Thomas Chandoin, Jjouisville, Ky,, five children, Alice, Thpmas. George, Elipt and pbarle^. She is now depeased- Elias ElJQt, when be resided in Spaffprd, lived on Ripley HiU, SPVfth pf the Ripley Place, so called, on Lpt 42, Tully. Apdrew J. Elipt, by his wife Sarah Ann Bulfinph, had five chiJdren ; Jane Ann, married Ne-wton Batep (no issue) ; Mary, (now dece3,sed) , married Jobn Van Bensphpten, son of James and (Price) Van Benschoten, two chil dren ; S^rah, married Edwin Van Benschoten, spn pf James and —¦ — (price) Van Benschoten, husband dead, one son, resides at Onondaga Valley, N- Y.; Andrew, died ypjjRg; arid J^ewis Henry, died young. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 95 Mrs. Charity (Wamer) Eliot, the mother of Andrew J. Jlliot, was in many ways a remarkable woman, of strong personality, high Christian character, and full of kindness and motherly tenderness. Her father, Charles Warner, was a soldier of the Revolution, and died at Geddes, N. Y. By his wife, Sarah StockweU, he had nine children : Esther, Lucy, Charity, Sophia, Betsey, Mary Sarah, Charies and Israel ; several of whom, besides Charity, lived to a remark able old age.) (Spafford.) Lewis Henry, son of Andrew J. and Sarah A. (Bulfinch) Eliot. Died September 12, 1851, age 9 months, 11 days. (Spafford.) ELISON. Hannah, wife of George Elison. Died August 1, 1841, age 28 years, 4 months, 12 days. " When ere my children do draw nigh And on this marble cast an eye. Then on this willow drop a tear For one who always loved you dear." (Spafford.) Mary, daughter of George and Hannah Elison. Died December 24, 1830, age 4 monttis, 15 days. (Spafford.) EMMONS. Mary A. (Abbott) , wife of Lewis Emmons. Died April 14, 1884, age 54 years. (Lewis Emmons came from LaFayette. By his wife, Mary A- Abbott, he had two children : George, married Mary L. Grinnell, daughter of Ansel and Asenath (Bennett) Grin neU; and Milton, married Laura Stanton, daughter of Samuel H. and Sarah (Patterson) Stanton. (Borodino.) Anna M. Patten, wife of William A. Emmons. Died February 2, 1869, age 40 years. (William A. Emmons came from LaFayette; his wife was a daughter of William and Fanny (Rathbone) Patten.) (Borodino.) Frank, son of William A. and Anna M. (Patten) Emmon. Died June 2, 1868, age 3 years. (Borodino.) 96 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ENGLISH. Mary (Taft) , -wife of John W. English. Died November 14, 1849, age 33 years. (John W. English, son of Richard and Eliza English, married Mary Taft, daughter of Ellis and Cynthia (Knapp) Taft. The English family, through mistake, were from Ire land. The family left Spafford about 1836, and settled in Ohio and Michigan, where its descendants remain. (Cold Brook.) ENOS. Chloe, -wife of Joseph Enos. Bom May 4, 1777, died January 19, 1843. (Joseph Enos also died at Thom Hill, September 20, 1852, age 73 years.) (Thom HiU.) Jessie, daughter of Charles H. and Josephine (Williams) Enos. Died July 18, 1878, age 1 year, 2 months. " God's little angel gone home." (Charles H. Enos was an adopted son of Joseph Enos, Jr. In 1898 he was residing at Rock Creek, Minn.) (Borodino.) FAY. John Fay. Died June 23, 1857, in his 68 year. (Mr. Fay, by his wife, Isabel, had the following children: Andrew, married Milly Harris, daughter of William and Nancy (Davis) Harris; Jeremiah, who died unmarried at the age of about 28 years ; and Mary Ann, married Robert RandaU, son of SUas and Mercey (Harrington) RandaU.) (Spafford.) Isabel, wife of John Fay. Died June 2, 1859, in her 68th year. < (Spafford.) Jeremiah Fay, (son of John and Isabel Fay) . Died June 3, 1859, age 27 years, 10 months, 14 days. (Spafford.) FERRY. Asa Ferry. Died January 9, 1864, age 84 years, 8 months, 12 days. (He married first Ruhama , who died Novem- ^AFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 97 ber 5, 1818, second, Christina Buffington, who died May 11, 1852, in her 73rd year, and third. Harmony . In the petition for letters of administration upon his estate, made March 9, 1864, by his wife. Harmony Ferry, mention is made of the following children : Chester, married Saba Buffington, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Harvey, then residing in Wisconsin; Malinda, married Joseph K. Lamb, he then deceased and she -then of Wisconsin; Dolly, married Asa Keen, of Ohio; and Lavina, married Clark Bowker of Wis consin.) (Borodino.) Mrs. Ruhama, wife of Asa Ferry. Died November 5, 1818, age 40 years. (Thom HiU.) Christina (Buffington) , -wife of Asa Ferry. Died May 11, 1852, in her 73rd year. (She was a -widow when she married Mr. Ferry, and the mother of Charles H. Buffington, who died January 6, 1852, and was buried in this cemetery.) (Borodino.) Chester Ferry, (son of Asa and Ruhama Ferry) . Died March 16, 1876, age 76 years, 6 months. (He married Saba Buffmgton, whom he survived. In the petition for letters of administration upon his estate by his son, Charles H. Ferry, dated April 21, 1876, mention is made of the following children : Charles H., merchant, resid ing in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Asa P., of Rockford, Kent Co., Mich.; George H., of Canonsburgh, Kent Co., Mich.; Jane, married Sylvester H. Sheldon, they are both dead, and buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y.; Harriet Davis, of Rockford, Mich. ; Henrietta Miller, of Canonsburg, Stevens Co., Mich.; Martha Barnes, of Navarino, N. Y.; Ruhama Ida, of EUery, Stevens Co., Illinois; Americus V., of Skaneateles, N. Y., and John T. Ferry, of Rockford, Mich. Harriet died young.) (Borodino.) Saba (Buffington), wife of Chester Ferry. Died Feb ruary 16, 1873, age 70 years. (Borodino.) Harriet, daughter of Chester and (Saba) Sarah Ferry. Died March 31, 1836, age 3 months, 27 days. (Borodino.) 98 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION FILKINS. George D. Filkins. Died March 30, 1855, age 42 years. (He married Margaret Fisher, daughter of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, and by her had three children: Ensign D., who was a soldier in the War of 1861, and died unmarried at the age of nearly 26, in the year 1863; Angeline, married George Spencer Carr, son of Thurston and, Lorane (Green) Carr, at Spafford, March 5, 1871 resides in Heber, Arkansas; and Orrissa, married Marcus N. Seeley, son of Hiram and Betsey Jane (Jacobs) Seeley, her husband died in 1892 and she now resides in Syracuse, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Margaret (Fisher) Churchell, former -wife of George D. Filkins. Died March 1, 1879, age 66 years, 2 months, 21 days. (After the decease of her first husband, George D. Filkins, she married Alexander M. ChurcheU, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell, as his third wife. She was buried by the side of her first husband.) (Spafford.) Ensign D., son of George D. and Margaret (Fisher) Filkins. Died September 28, 1863, age 25 years, 10 months, 13 days. (He was a Union soldier in the War of 1861.) (Spafford.) FISHER. Sacred to the memory of Amos Fisher, who died October 28, 1833, age 82 years, 6 days. (The Fishers came to this town from Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., before 1820, and settled on the southeastern part (of subdivision No. 6) of Lot 1, Tully. By his wife, Mar garet, Mr. Amos Fisher bad the foUowing children: Rachel, married Osmer Orton of Spafford, N. Y.; Dakin, married Sally Youst, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Clarissa Cone of Mayville, Chautauua Co., N. Y. ; Amos, of Otsego, N. Y. ; Rebecca married WiUiam Billings, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Sarah, married Ossage Cone, of Pomfret, Chautauqua Co., N. Y.; Eli, married Nancy , of Spafford, N. Y.; Mary, married Erastus Wait, of Chagrin, Ohio; Orrissa, married »PAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 99 Jeremiah Crane, of Bane, Orleans Co., N. Y. ; John, died in Spafford, unmarried ; and Margaret, married Col. Lewis C. Davis, Margaret died before her father and left the follow ing children : Judson, Joline, Laura, John, and Lewis Davis. Mrs. Margaret Fisher survived her husband, and is supposed to have been buried -with her husband in the Davis Yard. (No stone.) (Davis Yard.) John Fisher (son of Amos and Margaret Fisher.) Born at Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. July 15, 1794, died December 31, 1874. (He died unmarried.) (Davis Yard.) Dakin Fisher, (son of Amos and Margaret Fisher). Died June 21, 1849, age 68 years, 10 months, 8 days. " How suddenly he's called away Eternity to view. No time to regulate his house nor bid the world adied." (He married Sally Youst, and by her had the foUo-wing children : Philip, married Harriet Legg, daughter of Capt. Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg; Elihu, married Lj^-dia Ann Collins, daughter of John and Lucy (Burdick) Collins and widow of John Orton ; George Y., married Lavinia Burdick, daughter of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick; Margaret, married (1) George D. Filkins, and (2) Alex ander M. Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell; Celinda, married William Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell; and Orrissa, married Franklin Roundy, son of Capt. Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy; Mercy, died at 22 years, unmarried.) (Spafford.) Sally (Youst), wife of Dakin Fished. Died December 2, 1860, age 77 years, 6 months, 13 days. " Our Mother's gone but not forgotten." (Spafford.) Mercy, daughter of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher. Died April 8, 1844, age 22 years, 9 months, 24 days. (Spafford.) Harriet (Legg), wife of Philip Fisher. Died June 8, 1844, in her 34th year. (Philip Fisher, son of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, married Harriet Legg, daughter of Capt. Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg, and had the following children : Otis, married 100 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Maria Maxson ; Oscar, married Ann EUza Frederick, daugh ter of Jacob and Rachel (Newkirk) Frederick! Angeline, died unmarried; William Eaton, married Phebe Ingerson, adopted daughter of Peter Ingerson ; and Mary, married (1) Nelson Boughton at Spafford, October 2, 1854, and (2) Silas J. White, March 19, 1863. In 1885 she resided at Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa. By her first husband, Mary has one daughter, Angeline, married James Allen, Jr., and by her second husband she has a son, who is a West Point graduate and now in the regular Army of the United States. PhUip Fisher is also deceased.) (Spafford.) Angeline, daughter of PhiUp and Harriet (Legg) Fisher. Died March 27, 1853, age 20 years. " To live in the memory of those we leave behind is not to die." (Spafford.) WiUiam E. Fisher, (son of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher) . Died March 30, 1868, age 32 years. (A soldier in the War of 1861.) " Our son is gone but not forgotten.) (He married Phebe Ingerson, adopted daughter of Peter Ingerson of Spafford Hollow.) (Spafford.) Nancy E., daughter of Eli and Nancy Fisher. Died January 11, 1835, age 8 years, 2 months, 23 days. ' (Eli Fisher was a son of Amos and Margaret Fisher; he was bora probably in Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., before 1802, married his -wife Nancy before October 15, 1823, at which time she joined him in a deed, conveying land in Spafford Hollow on Lot 23, Tully. A few days subse quent he purchased 25 acres of Comelius Williamson, on Lot 12, Tully. There are no descendants of this marriage knovm to the -writer. For many years Eli Fisher ran the Potashery at Spafford Comers, before 1850; he was then an old man and worked for Levi Hurlbut and Asahel M. Roundy, and boarded at their houses. He and his -wife have been dead for about fifty years. They have no stone mark ing their graves in this to-wn.) (Borodino.) AUce, daughter of Edgar and E (Brown) Fisher. Died October 18, 1881, age 1 year, 3 months, 3 days. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES IQl (Edgar Fisher is an Englishman, and his wife is a daughter of Tmman and Abigail (Moore) Bro-wn of Thom Hill, and a granddaughter of Zenas and Abigail Moore. In 1898 Mr. Fisher was residing on the Comelius Williamson Farm, on Lot 12, Tully.) (Spafford.) FITZGERALD. Mrs. Anna, -wife of Jeremiah Fitzgerald. Died August 15, 1834, age 85 years. - (Jeremiah Fitzgerald came to this to-wn from Walkill, N. Y., in the Spring of 1806, and settled on 300 acres owned by him on lot 70, MarceUus. He died in 1817 (and was buried in the old Boodino Cemetery, on the farm of Alex- ' ander Becker, north of the Village of Borodino, now in dis use. (Thorn HiU.; Jeremiah Fitzgerald. Died September 25, 1816, age 65 years. In his will, dated August 20, 1810, and probated Feb ruary 17, 1817, he mentions his wife, Anna Fitzgerald, and the following children : William ; Elizabeth, married Warren Kneeland, son of Jonathan and Mary (Spencer) Kneeland; Susanna; David, married Phebe ; John, married Abigail ; and Jeremiah, married SyMa . He also mentions his two grandchildren, Jane and James H. Fitzgerald, children of his daughter, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, who subseuent to their birth, married Warren Kneeland. James H. Fitzgerald married Jerusha Eadie, daughter of James and Martha Smith Eadie.) (Thora HiU.) FORCE. Sally Force, wife of Henry Force. Died October 8, 1843, age 54 years, 3 months, 5 days. " Here let me rest my weary head 'Till Christ, my Lord, shall raise the Dead." (Henry Force resided on Lot 75, Marcellus. He died September 25, 1847, in this town (no stone) . In the peti tion of Dr. Isaac Morrell, a creditor, dated October 6, 1847, for letters of administration upon his estate, no mention is 102 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION made of a -wife, but of the following children: WiUiam; Kellogg; Jane; Sarah, married Dorwin Day; Adeline, mar ried William CampbeU; and Henrietta, married Annariah Manley. All were then of full age except Jane, who was a minor.) (Borodino.) FORD. In memory of a son of John and Chloe Ford. Died April 14, 1821. (Cold Brook,) Daniel, son of John and Chloe Ford. Died April 3, 1820, in his 10th year. (John and Chloe Ford resided on the west part of Lot 44, Tully, in Cold Brook. Among their children, besides the foregoing, were : Elisha, married Smith, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; John B., married Sally Miner, widow of Sanford Thayer, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Lydia, mar ried Orrin To-wn, of Cold Brook, N. Y., and , married Ansel Bacon.) (Cold Brook.) FOSTER. Albert Foster, (son of Samuel Foster). Born July 24, 1800, (in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) Died January 8, 1879, (in Spafford, New York.) (He married (1) Clarissa Maxson, daughter of Thomas and (Sessions) Maxson, at Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn., January 2, 1823, and settled first in Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y., where he remained about eight years, and from there came to this town and settled in Cold Brook about 1833. He finally settled on Lot 33, Tully, about 1841, where he remained until the time of his decease. After the decease of his first wife he married (2) June 5, 1867, at Spafford, N. Y., Clarissa G. Reynolds, widow of Horace Smith, but by her had no issue. His children by his first -wife were : LaFayette, bom July 23, 1824, married October 23, 1850, at Spafford, N. Y. Sarah Jane Ripley, bom De cember 3, 1832, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, resides in Sioux City, Iowa, and has three children, Albro; Emma and Ernest, each married and each having SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 103 three children; Thomas Maxson, bora October 1, 1826, merchant in this town to the time of his decease, December 26, 1898, unmarried; James S., bom November 20, 1828, died September 29, 1890 at MitcheU, South Dakota, married April 6, 1852, in Spafford, Frances Ann Ripley, bom January 17, 1835, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley; Charles W., bom May 19, 1832, died April 11, 1875, near Yankton, S. Da., married February 27, 1853, at Spafford, N. Y., Mary A. Burroughs, bom October 29, 1835, daughter of Alvin Burroughs, and had four children ; and George I., bom December 29, 1837, mar ried at Davis, IU., December, 1873, Phila Smith, resides at Fargo, North Dakota, and had two children.) (Cold Brook.) Clarissa (Maxson), Wife of Albert Foster. Bom De cember 26, 1798, died May 5, 1866. (She was bom in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) (Cold Brook.) Clarissa G. (Reynolds), wife of Albert Foster. Bom June 1, 1809, died November 5, 1873. (At the time of her marriage to Mr. Foster she was widow of Horace Smith, (second wife), with one son by Mr. Smith, Frederick R. Smith.) (Cold Brook.) Bennie, son of James S. and Frances A. (Ripley Foster. Died March 1, 1860, age 6 months. (James S. Foster, son of Albert and Clarissa (Maxson) Foster, married Frances A. Ripley, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, and by her had, in addition to the above, the following children : Clara J., married Osgood H. Carney, and had three children : Foster Dewitt, married Cora Westfall and resides in Yankton, S. Da. ; Kate Morri son, married Carl E. Bigelow and has one child, Ruth, resides in Galveston, Texas ; and Carol Earl, died in infancy ; Cora, married George H. Miner and had six children: William Vance, married Blanche , two children, Helen and Grace ; Frances, married Ory P. Shaw, one son, Miner; Cora, unmarried; Charity Eliot, unmarried, and Laura, died in infancy; Albert David, married Hattie Whalen and had four children: Fannie, James, Clara, and Martha; James and Martha died in infancy; Fannie An- able, unmarried; Martha Aldrich, unmarried; and Thomas 104 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Maxson, unmarried. Mr. James S. Foster died in Mitchell, S. Da., September 29, 1890.) (Cold Brook.) In memory of Lydia, -wife of Levi Foster, who died April 21, 1827, age 45 years, 3 months, 1 day. (Levi Foster came from Onondaga, N. Y., January 2, 1816, and settled on Lot 21, Tully, on the farm now occupied by Joseph L. Cole (1899), and from there moved to the Nunnery neighborhood, and resided on Lot 12, Sempronius, where his wife died. He moved away from town after the death of his wife, and very little is kno-wn of him or his family at the present time.) (Nunnery.) FREDERICK. Jacob Frederick. Died March 18, 1865, age 69 years. (Jacob Frederick came to the Marcellus end of this town before 1823, and settled at or near the Village of Borodino, but soon afterwards moved to a farm near Spafford Village) , his wife was Rachel Newkirk, and by her he had the follow ing children : Sarah M., married Roswell Bro-wn of Moravia, Cayuga County, N. Y.; John W., married (1) Miss Jennings of Poughkeepsie, N .Y., by whom he had a son, William J. Frederick, member of Board of Underwriters, Syracuse, N. Y.; he married (2) Mary Antonette At-water in 1868, she died in 1879, leaving a daughter, Georgia, who in 1879 married Dr. Ernest F. Clymer of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Lewis W., married Louisa Beeman, resided at Homer, N. Y., and Cold- water, Mich. ; Lucetta, married Horatio Smith, resides South Butler, Wayne Co., N. Y.; Ann Eliza, married Oscar F. Fisher, son of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher, resides in Homer N. Y.; Minerva J. married Darius Applebee; George P., died prior to his father's decease, married S F , and had one daughter, Mary C. Frederick of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Alanson S., married Sarah Thompson, daughter of Nathan P. and Margaret (Hutchins) Thomp son, he and his wife are both deceased ; he is buried in Liver pool, N. Y., and she in Spafford Cemetery, left two children, Roswell T., married Catherine Kingsbury, , daughter of Andrew E. Kingsbury of Homer, RosweU is a real estate broker in Syracuse, N. Y., and Caroline Frederick, un married, resides in Homer, N. Y. ; CaUsta B., married C. B. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 105 Miller of Cazenovia, N. Y., dead ; and Caleb H., accidentally killed by the cut of a scythe, at the age of eleven years. At the time of his decease, Jacob Frederick was residing in the Village of Spafford Corners. He was Low Dutch. John W. Frederick married for a third wife. Miss Emma Wood, of Syracuse, N. Y., who survived him. By his third -wife he had no issue; he died in 1895.) (Spafford.) Rachel (Newkirk) , wife of Jacob Frederick. Died April 5, 1877, age 79 years. (Spafford.) Caleb H., son of Jacob and Rachel (Newkirk) Frederick. Died August 20, 1846, age 11 years. (Accidentally killed by the cut of a scythe in the thigh.) (Spafford.) George P., son of George and S F. Frederick. Died February 8, 1845, age 5 months, 20 days. (George Frederick was a son of Jacob and Rachel (New kirk) Frederick.) Sarah Thompson -wife of Alanson S. Frederick. Bora in Spafford, April 11, 1837. Died in Homer, N. Y., March 18, 1898. (Spafford.) (Alanson S. Frderick, son of Jacob and Rachel (New kirk) Frederick, died and was buried in Liverpool, N. Y.) . (His -wife has no stone.) (Spafford.) FULLER. Alice L., daughterof Francis M. and Mary Fuller. Died April 19, 1863, age 2 years, 6 months, 29 days. (Spafford Hollow.) FULTON. In memory of Robert Fulton who died March 28, 1829, age 78 years. " Let not the dead forgotten lie. Lest living men forget to die." (Robert Fulton, by his wife Sarah, had three children ¦who were weU known residents of this town : Eleazer Emer- lOfl ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION son, born February 2, 1789, died at Borodino, N. Y., March 30, 1853, married Pamelia ; Robert C, bom 1800, died January 12, 1852, at Borodino. N. Y., married ; and Amanda, bom August 27, 1803, died at Boro dino, N. Y., September 4, 1856, married William Legg and had one daughter, Eunice A., who married David Becker, son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker, both dead, and buried in this cemetery.) (Borodino.) In memory of Sarah Fulton, -wife of Robert Fulton, who died May 4, 1846, age 82 years, 4 months. (Borodino.) • Eleazer Emerson Fulton, (son of Robert and Sarah Fulton) . Died May 30, 1853, age 64 years, 1 month, 2 days. (Eleazer Emerson Fulton by his -wife Parmelia had the foUo-wing children: Albert E., born 1821, died August 8, 1885, at Lansing, Mich., married (1) Izabenda Bearse, daughter of Aaron and Phebe (Simth) Bearse, and -widow of Ansel Churchell, and (2) Mrs. Martha Hutton, widow of Caleb Hutton, of Lansing, Mich., no issue by either mar riage; Heman D., married Eliza L. and resides in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; and Hiraim W., bora at Elbridge, N. Y. ; died at Forbs, Mo., March, 1884 (buried in this cemetery) . (Borodino.) Parmelia, wife of Eleazer Emerson Fulton. Died Novem ber 4, 1871, age 78 years, 7 months. " A true wife, a faithful mother, A devout Christian, a character worthy of imitation." (Borodino.) Albert E. Fulton, (son of E. Emerson and ParmeUa Fulton) . Died August 8, 1885, age 64 years, 2 months, 18 days. (Borodino.) Izabenda (Bearse) , -wife of Albert E. Fulton. Died May 21, 1875, age 58 years, 1 month, 15 days. (She had one daughter only, Jennie E. ChurcheU, by her first husband, Ansel Churchell, who married Erastus E. Bro-wn, now of Lincoln, Nebraska.) (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 107 Hiram W. Fulton, (son of E. Emerson and Parmelia Fulton) . Bom at Elbridge, N. Y., April 23, 1827. Died at Forbes, Mo., March, 1884, in his 57th year. (Borodino.) Ella A., daughter of Heman D. and Eliza L. Fulton. Died June 4, 1675, age 20 years, 5 months. (Heman D. Fulton, son of Eleazer Emerson and Parmelia Fulton, by his wife, Eliza L., had the following children: Eva P. ; NeUie L. ; Mary E., and Albert W. Fulton ; the first three reside in Skaneateles, N. Y., with their parents and the latter in West Satecoy, California.) H. D. Fulton, 1822-1909. Eliza L. Town (w.) , 1828-1902. (Borodino.) Robert C. Fulton, (son of Robert and Sarah Fulton). Died January 12, 1852, age 53 years. (Robert C. Fulton married , and had thee children : Jerome, who died in Preble, N. Y. ; married John Weston, Jr., and , married John Colter.) (Borodino.) GALE. John Gale, Esq. Died May 17, 1836, age 71 years. (John Gale settled in the Marcellus end of the town before 1807. By his wife, Martha, he had four children: John, Jr., married Miss GrinneU, daughter of Isaiah and Jane (Crane) GrinneU ; Samuel, married (1) Sally Manley, and (2) Rebecca Mead ; Richard, married Amelia E. ; and Mary, married Zebulon Davis as his second wife, she died and was buried in Cold Brook.) (Borodino.) Mrs. Martha, wife of John Gale, Sr. Died May 23, 1831, age 69 years, 2 months, 14 days. (Borodino.) John Gale, Jr., (son of John and Martha Gale) . Died December 31, 1852, age 53 years. (Borodino.) Samuel Gale, (son of John and Martha Gale). Died October 25, 1864, in 79 years. 108 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION " And now behold his race is run. His suffering o'er, his labor done. May living friends be ready too, To bid this fieeting world adieu." (He married (1) Sally Manley, and (2) Rebecca Mead. The latter died and was buried in Cleveland, Ohio. By his first wife he had: Betsey Ann, married George Frink Knapp, son of Elijah and Betsey (Burdick) Knapp ; and by his second wife he had : Judson, married Hulda Davidson, he was a teacher, School Commissioner, and now resides in Homer N. Y. ; Cornelia, married Joel Townsend, resides in Texas ; and Charles, married Eliza , died out West, Samuel Gale first resided in the Nunnery neighborhood, and then on Lot 42, Tully, near the county line on the Skan eateles and Homer road. (Thorn Hill.) In memory of Sally (Manley) Gale, (wife of Samuel Gale, who died March 12, 1821, age 27 years. (Thom HiU.) GAY. Barnett A. Gay. Died September 17, 1883, age 67 years. He came from Preble, N. Y., and married Amanda F. Smith, who is also deceased and buried in this cemetery. She has no stone. By his wife, Amanda, Mr. Gay had the following children : Frances, married Albert Kemp ; Martin Frink, married Ida May Lyon, daughter of George W. and Cornelia (Barker) Lyon; Theresa, married Wesley Moon; and Jennie M., married Alexander J. Boutell, son of Samuel and Catherine (Williamson) BouteU. She is now deceased.) (Cold Brook.) Ida May Gay, daughter of George W. and Cornelia M. (Barker) Lyon. Died May 27, 1884, age 26 years. (She married Martin Frink Gay, son of Bamett A. and Amanda F. (Smith) Gay). (Spafford.) Mrs. CaUsta Gay. Died November 25, 1885, age 70 years. (No stone.) (She was the wife of Robert M. Gay, formerly of Spaf ford Hollow.) (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 109 GARUTHERS— (CARUTHER) . Thomas Garuthers. Died May 17, 1857, age 73 years. (His wife Maria, after his decease, married John T. Gregory. They were all English.) (Thom HiU.) GEER. Morris Geer. Died at Thorn HiU, December 23, 1888, age 90 years. (No stone.) (He was bora in Ireland, and married Mrs. Joanna Dunn, widow, and by her had one son: James Geer, of Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Dunn by her first husband also had one son : Peter Dunn.) (Borodino.) Joanna Dunn), wife of Morris G^eer. Died September 20, 1855, in her 50th year. (Borodino.) GIFFORD. Henry A. Gifford. Died March 18, 1892, age 83 years. " Dearest loved one we have laid thee In the peaceful grave's embrace, But thy memory will be cherished, 'Till we see thy heavenly face." (Mr. Gifford was the father of Morey Gifford, of Marietta, N. Y.) (Thora HiU.) Betsey, wife of Henry A. Gifford. Died at Thom HiU, July 27, 1881, age 69 years. (No stone.) (Thom HiU.) Filura, daughter of Nicholas and Rebecca (Caton) Gifford. Died August 9, 1853, age 1 year, 6 months. (Nicholas Gifford came from the South, and settled in 1853 just north of the county line, on the State's Hundred on Lot 44, Tully; by his wife Rebecca Caton he had: Andrew J.; Dennison; Manly; Vinal, married Mercy A. Barber, daughter of Charles and Betsey (Randall) Barber, he is now in Auburn State's Prison ; Almus, in 1876 was in House of Refuge at Rochester, N. Y.; DeviUo, formerly of Cortland, N. Y. ; Rosetta and Filura, died young. Nicholas 110 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Gifford died in Aubum State's Prison, April 15, 1876, and his -wife, prior to his incarceration, perished of cold in a neighbor's dooryard, in Cold Brook, having been driven from home by her husband, on a cold winter's night, clad only in her night clothes. She was buried in this cemetery. (No stone.) (Cold Brook.) GILBERT. Mary (Enos) , wife of Nathan Gilbert, and daughter of Joseph and Chloe Enos. Died February 3, 1886, age 53 years. ' (Thom HUl.) GILLETT. In memory of Norman L., son of Ambrose S. and Charity (Lewis) Gillett. Died October 16, 1828, age 8 years, 7 months, 5 days. " Ye weeping friends your tears refrain. This blooming youth shall bloom again." (He was accidentally killed by the cut of a scythe in the thigh. His mother, Charity Lewis, was a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Stanton) Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. GiUett left Spafford and went West.) (Lewis Yard.) GREEN. Mariam Green. Died October 20, 1866, age 98 years, 8 months, 13 days. "Asleep in Jesus." (She was the mother of Mrs. Thurston Carr and Mrs. Hiram Mason, who were sisters.) (Spafford.) Eber, son of Christopher and Elizabeth S. (Ne"wman) Green. Died July 5, 1834, age 7 years, 3 months, 3 days. (Christopher Green, son of John and Mary (Hill) Green, married Elizabeh Newman and lived in Spafford on Lot 1, TuUy. He came to this town from Otisco, and purchased Sub-division 5( S. W. comer), containing 132 acres on said lot, of Joel Palmer, who held the same under contract, dated Febmary 11, 1807. Mr. Green took a deed February 23, SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 111 1818. From this town he moved to Warren County, Pa., where he died in 1867. He was bom in Hoosick, Rensselaer County, N. Y., 1794, and by his wife Elizabeth Ne-wman had: Harriet, Sally, Morrell, Lsonan and Eber, who died young. John Green, the father of Christopher, in the United States Census for the year 1840, was returned as a Revolu tionary soldier, residing in Spafford, aged 79 years, and in the Green genealogy is claimed to be descended from John Green of North Kingston, R. I., as follows: John ( ) , John, Benjamin, John. He was born in Rhode Island 1760-1, married Mary Hill, and resided first In Hoosick, Rensselaer County, N. Y., and from there came to Spafford, where he died after 1840. His children were : Christopher, born 1794, died 1867, in Warren County, Pa., married Eliza beth Ne-wman ; Henry, born April 16, 1796, died in Spafford, April 6, 1879, age 83 years, married Anna Maria Coon in Marcellus April 7, 1831, she was bora in Marcellus October 10, 1813, and died in Spafford in 1874 ; Joel, born August 4, 1799, married Nancy Frink, daughter of George and Nancy (Burdick) Frink, August 24, 1826. He was a Seventh Day Bap-tist Preacher, he had three children, of whom Albert C, only survives, he married Caroline F. Meyer and resides in Mosiertown, Pa. ; John, married Lucy Stoddard, and resided in Spafford. He is now deceased and his wife has since married twice and resides in Georgeto-wn, N. Y. He had three children : Henry A., Philo, and Hannah ; Amon, died in 1868, married Eunice Belknap, and lived at Eagle, Warren County, Pa.; Esther, married Samuel W. B. San ford, and lived at Sanford, Pa.; Mary, married Seneca Stevens and lived in Michigan ; and Electa, married Horton Applebee. Henry Green, second son of John and Mary (Hill) Green, born in Hoosick, N. Y., by his -wife, Anna Maria Coon, had the following children:, bprn in Spafford: Albert, born August 11, 1832, died in Skaneateles and buried in Spafford, married Melissa Wheeler in Scott, N. Y., December 3, 1852 ; Alexander, born December 15, 1833, married in Scott, Matilda Rounds, daughter of Russel and Lydia (Harring ton), Rounds, blacksmith, resided in Spafford (dead); George W. M., bom April 17, 1835, married Persis Hazzard at Great Bend, Pa., resides in Pennsylvania ; Mary A., bom 113 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION June 12, 1836, died in Otisco, January 20, 1861, married Erastus Griffin in Aubum, N. Y., November, 1855; Henry M., bom July 6, 1839, married June 2, 1864, in Preble, N. Y., Phidelia Riggals, resides in Spafford ; Lucy M., born September 7, 1840, married (1) in Aubum, May 24, 1869, George Hinds, (2) Charles H. Sweet, resides in Carthage, Mo.; Martha L., bom April 3, 1842, ; Rhoda A., born Novem ber 30, 1844, unmarried, resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Ben jamin S. born March 5, 1846, died March 22, 1847 ; Caro line, born April 18, 1847, married in Syracuse, N. Y., October 20, 1869, DeviUo Norton, son of Seymour and Sally (Lyman) Norton, resides in Spafford; Frances, born Janu ary 12, 1849, married George Springer, resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.; Orlando M., born January 18, 1851, died May 16, 1874, in Spafford; and Helen, born June 18, 1853, married William Dennis, resides in Auburn, N. Y. Henry Green and his wife are supposed to have been buried in Spafford Cemetery. (No stone.) (Stanton Yard.) Albert Green, (son of Henry and Anna Maria (Coon) Green) . Died March 28, 1878, age 45 years, 7 months. " There is rest in Heaven." (He married in Scott, N. Y., December 3, 1852, Melissa Wheeler.) (Spafford.) Orlando M. Green, (son of Henry and Anna Maria (Coon) Green). Died May 16, 1874, age 23 years, 4 months, 5 days. " Around my bed stood those that wept, And sighed to part with one so dear. But he in Jesus gently sleeps Without a groan, -without a fear." (Spafford.) GOLDEN. WiUiam, son of J and Lucy C. Golden. Died June 18, 1837, age 1 year, 10 months. (Spafford.) Abigail (Gale) , wife of WiUiam Golden. Died Febmary 12, 1840, age 33 years, 5 months, 4 days. (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 113 Albert, son of William and Abigail Golden. Died March 30, 1835, age 10 years, 9 months, 15 days. (Borodino.) GOODRICH. Jane R., daughter of Richard C. and Christie Ann (Rob ertson), Goodrich. Died November 2, 1843, age 6 years, 7 months, 11 days. (Richard C. Goodrich, married Christie Ann Robertson, daughter of James and Isabel (Eadie) Robertson. After the decease of Richard C. Goodrich, his wife married Daniel Lyon of Otisco, N. Y., as his second wife. Mr. Lyon and his wife Christie are both now deceased, and buried in Otisco.) (Spafford.) GOODWIN. Louis Goodwin. Died June 16, 1856, age 42 years. (He came to Cold Brook from Columbia County, N. Y., but was born in Germany. He married Julania Smith, daughter of Lemuel D. and Polly (Seeley) Smith, and grand daughter of Samuel G. and Ada (Fowler) Seeley.) (Cold Brook.) GORDON. Alexander Gordon. Died October 3, 1885, age 63 years. (He married Matilda Wallace, a sister of John Wallace; they were all born in Ireland. In his will dated June 6, 1885, and probated November 18, 1885, he mentions his wife Matilda Gordon, and the f oUo-wing children : Eliza J., married Lyman C. Bennett, son of Stephen and Waity (Hill) Bennett; William J., married Ella Mason, daughter of Elbridge Mason; Wallace, (dead), married Helen Nor ton, daughter of Erastus and Mary (Isdell) Norton; Car son; and Emmett Gordon, married Florence Patten, daughter of George A. Patten, resides in Borodino, N. Y. (Borodino.) Matilda Wallace, wife of Alexander Gordon. (She was living in 1898 with her daughter, Mrs. Bennett, in Spafford. Died in 1900.) (Borodino.) 114 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION GROVE. Reuben Grove. Died January 28, 1860, age 25 years, 1 month, 24 days. (Borodino.) GREGORY. John T. Gregory.Bom at Ashton, Somerset, England. Died at Skaneateles April 4, 1882, age 82 years. " My dust retums to dust, aU for the best. My soul will go to God arid be at rest." (He married Maria Camthers, widow of Thomas Car- uthers.) (Thom Hill.) Maria, wife of John T. Gregory, and former wife of Thomas Camthers. Died February 17, 1885, age 84 years. (Thom HiU.) GRIFFIN. Infant son of Erastus and Lilly (Craig) Griffin. Died January 1, 1889, age 11 weeks. (Erastus Griffin married Lilly Craig, daughter of WiUiam H. and Phebe A. (Brown) (Craig.) (Cold Brook.) GRINNELL. Isaiah Grinnel. Died January 19, 1861, age 88 years. (He resided on Lot 13, Sempronius, where he settled be fore 1824. He married Jane Crane, probably a sister of Stephen Crane, and by her had: John, married and lived in Orleans County, N. Y. ; Eliza, also married and lived in Orleans County, N. Y.; Seymour, married EUzabeth Bab cock, daughter of John and Betsey (Bulfinch) Babcock; Ansel, married (1) Asenath Bennett, and (2) Emeline A. Kinyon, -widow of Joseph Monk; , married John Gale, Jr., son of John and Martha Gale ; and , married Jane (-widow) , died March 24, 1866, age 89 years. (Borodino.) Jane (Crane), wife of Isaiah Grinnell. Died May 24, 1866, age 89 years. (Borodino.> SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 118 Seymour Grinnell, son of Isaiah and Jane (Crane) Grinnell. Died November 24, 1887, age 74 years. (No «tone.) (By his wife, Elizabeth Babcock, he had three children.) (Borodino.) Elizabeth (Babcock), wife of Seymour Grinnell. Died at Scott, N. Y., September 28, 1891, age 77 years. (Borodino.) Ansel Grinnell, son of Isaiah and Jane (Crane) GrinneU. Died January 25, 1889, age 72 years. (No stone.) (He married (1) Asenath Bennett, of Spafford Hollow, and (2) Emeline A. Kinyon, -widow of Joseph Monk. In the application for Letters of Administration upon his estate, made by his -widow, Emeline A. Grinnell, dated November 12, 1889, she mentions the following children : George Riley, married Lucinda , she died at Scott, N. Y., June 6, 1886, buried in Borodino Cemetery (no stone) , he resides in Scott, N. Y.; Eliza Ann, married Adelbert C. Stanton, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; and Mary L., married George Emmons, resides in LaFayette, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Asenath (Bennett), wife of Ansel Grinnell. Died October 10, 1862, age 44 years, 10 months, 22 days. (Borodino.) Mary Jane, daughter of Ansel and Asenath (Bennett). Died November 9, 1857, age 1 year, 1 month. (Borodino.) GROUT. Abigail Hudson was born October 15, 1753. Was married to John Grout, October 15, 1770. Was married to WiUiam Clark, October 4, 1780. Died December 17, at 4 o'clock A. M., 1820. Age 67 years, 2 months, 2 days. " God my redeemer lives and often from the skies Looks down and watches all my dust 'till he shall bid it rise." (Spafford.) Adeline M., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Clark) Grout. Died September 17, 1836, age 19 years, 2 months, 12 days. (John Grout born June 14, 1776, came to Spafford before 1819, and settled on Lot 21, TuUy; by his -wife, Elizabeth 116 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Clark, bom May 27, 1781, he had the following children: Joel H., bom October 29, 1808, married Lucretia Roundy, daughter of Daniel and Laura (Hoyt) Roundy; Sylvanus N., bom September 28, 1806, married (1) Julania Stanton, daughter of Benjamin and Amy (Perkins) Stanton, and (2) Elizabeth Brown of Scott, N. Y., sister of his brother John's wife; John, bom October 13, 1831, married Sarah M. Brov^m, born August 14, 1831, of Scott, N. Y., they are both deceased. (In the petition for Letters of Administration upon his estate, dated June 12, 1891, the following children are mentioned: Helen, married Martin J, Boutell, son of Samuel and Catherine (Williamson) Boutell, resides in Syracuse, N. Y., Lyra E. RusseU, of Rock Rapids, Iowa, John J. Grout, of Roch Rapids, Iowa, and Ernest Eugene Grout) ; Caroline E., bom February 12, 1814, married Thomas B. Anderson; and Adeline M., bom July 5, 1817, died Sept. 17, 1836.) (Spafford.) Joel H. Grout, (son of John and Elizabeth (Clark) Grout.) Died February 16, 1858, age 49 years, 3 months, 18 days. (By his wife, Lucretia Roundy, he had two daughters: Adeline and Laura, both married and residing in Illinois. His wife also moved to Evanston, Illinois, after his decease, and died there in 1895.) (Spafford.) Julania (Stanton), wife of Sylvanus N. Grout. Died March 9, 1849, age 34 years, 8 months. (Spafford.) Celia, daughter of Sylvanus N., and Julania (Stanton) Grout. Died October 3, 1844, age 2 years, 8 months, 15 days. (Spafford.) Helen M., daughter of Sylvanus N. and Julania (Stanton) Grout. Died June 15, 1836, age 8 months, 1 day. (Spafford.) Edwin, son of Sylvanus N. and Julania (Stonton) Grout. Died March 1, 1844, age 3 days. (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 117 James, son of Eebnezer and Polly (Perkins) Grout. Died January 4, 1823, age 3 years, 2 months. " Let parents warning take And not of a child an idol make." (Ebenezer Grout was a brother of John Grout, who married Elizabeth Clark.) (Spafford.) GUTSELL. Charles M., died September 11, 1861, age 2 years, 10 months, 17 days. Milo J., died September 10, 1861, age 1 year, 3 months, 10 days. Children of James and Maria (Jacobs) Outsell. " Our Little Ones." " Lovely and pleasant in their lives ; And in their death they were not divided." (James Gutsell was a minister ; he married Maria Jacobs, daughter of Elias and Betsey G. Jacobs.) (Spafford.) HALL. Hannah (Wilcox), wife of Simeon HaU. Died July 20, 1838, age 52 years.) (Simeon Hall's wife was a sister of Mrs. Rathbone Barber. Mr. Hall lived on the lower lake road, on Lot 31, Sempronius, just north of Rathbone Barber. He was not related, so far as known, to the Samuel Hall famity living east of him. Among his children were: Alzina, married Darius Plumer; and Sophia, married Solomon Burdick.) (Spafford.) Asa Hall, (son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) HaU.) Died February 11, 1882, age 70 years, 14 days. (Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) Hall were Rhode Island Quakers, and came to Sempronius from Mayfield, N. Y., where their son, Asa, was born, in 1818. Rufus Hall, the father of Samuel, probably was born of Samuel and Dinah HaU, in Exeter, R. I., June 8, 1744. He married Anna Hoxsie. His son Samuel, bora May 10, 1772, and died January 24, 1846, married Febmary 23, 1797, Eliza beth Macumber, born February 17, 1772, died September 118 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 13, 1853, and by her had the following children : Anna, bom December 29, 1797, died April 28, 1818 ; David, born April 7, 1799, died December 12, 1829, married JuHette Knight, September 29, 1824 ; Silas, bom October 4, 1800 died August 22, 1804 ; Mercy, bora June 22, 1802, died unmarried Nov ember 2, 1871, buried Spafford Cemetery ; Lydia, born Jan uary 25, 1804, died September 25, 1875, married John Rich ardson September 28, 1828; Hannah, born November 27, 1805, died January 2, 1875, married Reuben S. Palmer, November 29, 1834; Rufus, bora January 10, 1808, died June 1, 18 — , married Clarissa Belknap, January 6, 1833; Daniel, bora October 2, 1809, died June 20, 18ll ; Asa, bom January 28, 1812, died February 11, 1882, married Laura Ann Babcock, November 16, 1834, and Elihu, born January 30, 1814, died Febmary 12, 1814. Asa Hall, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) Hall, married Laura Ann Babcock, daughter of John, Jr. and Nancy (Stoddard) Babcock, and by her had: Philetus, of Sempronius, N. Y. ; Arthur F., married Clarissa A. Ripley, daughter of John L. and Clarissa (Loss) Ripley, October 6, 1869, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; N. Elizabeth, married Jona than D. Ripley, son of John L. and Clarissa (Loss) Ripley, she died November 13, 1866, and left two children: Arthur, and Lillian; and Julius J., died November 17, 1845. Asa Hall was a miller by occupation, and attended the Baptist Church at Thom Hill, where his wife was a member.) (Spafford.) , Laura Ann Babcock, wife of Asa Hall. Died September 30, 1845, age 27 years, 7 months, 3 days. (Spafford.) Julius J., son of Asa and Laura Ann (Babcock) Hall. Died November 17, 1845, age 2 years, 5 months, 27 days. (Spafford.) Mercy Hall, (daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macum ber) HaU. Died November 7, 1871, age 69 years, 4 months, 10 days. "Asleep in Jesus." (Spafford.) James T., son of Nicholas and Lydia Hall. Died January 31, 1832, age 3 years, 13 days. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES ll9 " Adieu my sweet and precious babe, I give thee back to God. With flowers I'll deck thy early grave." (Spafford.) HAIGHT. Rhoda F., daughter of Mott and Mary Haight. Died March 17, 1840, age 5 months. (Mott Haight was a teacher. He had a brother, William Haight, who died in Skaneateles, N. Y., about 1884, and on account of the death of his only child, Arthur Haight, prior to his decease, it was necessary in probating his -will, in 1884, to cite all his collateral kinsmen, who were at that time as follows: (1) Children of his deceased brother, James Haight: John Haight of Johnstown, Rock County, Wis.; Lindley D. Haight, of Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa; (2) children of his deceased brother, Mott Haight: Arthur M. Haight, of Parma, Jackson Co., Michigan; (3) children of his deceased brother, Titus Haight: Hannah Wanzer, of Austin, Cook County, 111. ; Sarah W. Cornell, of Appleton, Outagamie County, Wis.; Mary J. Haight, of Mandana, Onondaga County, N. Y. ; Catherine J. Irish, of Mandana, Onondaga County, N. Y. ; Henry J. Haight, mar ried Eudora Colton, daughter of Alanson and Charity (Ide) Colton, resides in Borodina, N. Y. ; and Francis E. and Egbert Cornell, children of Elizabeth S., deceased daughter of Titus Haight, who married Francis E. Cornell, her chil dren then resided -with their father at Verbank, Dutchess County, N. Y. ; (4) Children of his deceased brother, John S. Haight: Charles H. Haight, of Sycamore, DeKalb Co., 111. ; Edgar Haight, of Sycamore, DeKalb County, 111. ; Char lotte M. Bockes, wife of Dennis Bockes of Skaneateles, N. Y. ; (5) Children of his deceased brother, Zebulon Haight: Anna Haight, of Salina, Salina County, Kansas; Lewis Haight, of Pawnee Rock, Barton County, Kansas; Amy Arnold, of StanfordviUe, Dutchess County, N. Y. ; Maria DueU, of StanfordviUe, Dutchess County, N. Y.; Phoebe Jane Griffin, of Clinton Comers, Dutchess County, N. Y. ; Esther Alley, of La Grangerville, Dutchess County, N. Y. ; Charlotte A. Underbill, of Croton Landing, West chester County, N. Y. (6) Children of his deceased sister, Anna M. Sutton : Silas H. Sutton, of Breckenridge, Summit 120 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION County, Colorado; George H. Sutton, of Maple City, Cawley County, Kansas; Melissa Sutton, of Coffin's Summit, Dut chess County, N. Y. ; Sarah E. Gardner, of West 45th Street, New York City. (7) Children of his deceased brother, Enoch Haight : Charles B. Haight, of Owosso, Shiawassee County, Mich. ; and Charles Kipp, AUce I. Fenton, both of Chicago, Illinois, and Charles W. Kipp, of Clay Center, Clay County, Kansas, children of Mary Kipp, deceased daughter of Enoch Haight, deceased.) (Borodino.) Ernest C. Haight, (son of Henry I. and Eudora (Colton) Haight) . Died January 15, 1887, age 11 years. (Henry I. Haight was a son of Titus Haight; his son,. Ernest C, was killed by accident.) (Borodino.) HAMILTON. Lydia C, wife of John Hamilton. Died June 28, 1852, in her 53rd year. (Borodino.) HARMON. Joseph Harmon. Died April 23, 1892, age 73 years. (He came to this town from Sempronius, Cayuga County, N. Y., and married (1) Mary Jane Williamson, daughter of Comelius and Eliza (Ostrander) Williamson, and (2) Mary Jane Raymond, daughter of Nathan and Maria (Wil liamson) Rajonond, and niece of his first wife. He left no issue surviving him, his only child, by his first -wife, Jennie, died in 1865. His will, dated December 25, 1883, and pro bated July 13, 1892, and the petition for its probate men tions his wife, Mary Jane Harmon, no children, but the fol lowing next of kin : Elizabeth Burdick (sister) , of Homer, N. Y. ; Orrin S. Harmon, (brother), of Forrestville, Chau tauqua County, N. Y. ; Lorinda Case (sister) , of Sempron ius, Cayuga County, N. Y. ; Edwin L. Harmon (bother) , of Moravia, Cayuga County, N. Y.; Mary Van Schoick (sister) of Greenwood, Steuben County, N. Y.; Maria Graham and William B. Harmon, (daughter and son of Alexander Har mon, deceased brother), both of Sempronius, Cayuga. County, N. Y.; Morris G. Craft, (son of Almira Craft,. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 12l deceased sister) , of Homer, N. Y., and Frank Harmon, (son of Franklin Harmon, deceased brother), of Buffalo, N. Y. At the time of his decease Mr. Harmon resided on Lot 31, Tully, on the Skaneateles and Homer road, just south of Spafford Corners — Russel M. Burdick farm.) (Spafford.) Mary Jane (Williamson) , wife of Joseph Harmon. Died February 17, 1879, age 53 years. (Spafford.) Mary Jane (Raymond) , wife of Joseph Harmon. (Li-ving in 1898.) (Spafford.) Our Jennie, only child of Joseph and Mary Jane (William son) Harmon. Died March 16, 1865, age 9 years, 6 months. " Of such is the kingdom of Heaven." (Spafford.) HARRINGTON. John Harrington. Died September 15, 1869, age 76 years, 7 months, 4 days. (John Harrington came to this to-wn from Foster, R. I., (where he was bora) , with his wife Catherine, and settled east of Skaneateles Lake, on Lot 41, Tully. His children by his -wife Catherine were: Catherine, married her cousin, Whipple Harrington, who died in Homer, N. Y. ; Jenks, married Lydia Johnson, he died near Oneida Lake; Lydia, married Russel Rounds, he is dead and she is living in 1898, with her son-in-law, John OdeU, in Spafford, N. Y.; Gary, married widow Martha Barker, both dead, reputed son, Marion Harrington, inherited his estate; Sally, married Hiram Coon, moved to Michigan; Paulina, married Simeon Morris, son of Samuel and Jane Springer Morris; Polly, married Simeon Morris, son of Samuel and Jane Springer Morris, as his second -wife; a son, drowned in Skaneateles Lake ; and Phebe, married Truman Worden, both dead, and buried in this cemetery.) (Spafford.) Catherine, wife of John Harrington. Died September 23, 1867, age 78 years, 8 months, 28 days. " Gone but not forgotten." (Spafford.) 122 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Gary Harrington, (son of John and Catherine Harring ton). Died October 23, 1884, age 64 years, 1 month, 2 days. (His wife, Martha Barker, was buried at Watkins, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Stanley D. Harrington, (son of Alfred G. and Vestelina E. (Woodworth) Harrington). Bom November 23, 1869, died November 25, 1892. " A model Christian son, brother and friend. Industrious, economical, charitable and affectionate. Courageous in doing right, intelligence lighted his Path to duty, which he saw in serving God and Humanity. He has gone to his Saviour in whom he trusted. And left none but pleasant memories of His earthly probation. Ilequiem in pace, 0 ! optome filie." (Jenks Harrington, (son of John and Catherine Harring ton) , by his wife Lydia Johnson, had the following children : Alfred G., married Vestelina E. Woodworth, daughter of Joel C. and Sarah (Eadie)) Woodworth; Clarissa, married Alfred Hitchcock, dead; Sidney, married Phebe Clark, daughter of Thomas Clark, he died in Cortland, N. Y. ; Rens selaer, died unmarried ; Oscar, married in Canastota, N. Y. ; Almira, married Mr. Hopkins, her husband is dead and she resides in Cortland, N. Y. ; Norman Manuel, name of wife unkno-wn; Emily, married Samuel Morris, son of Simeon Morris, resides in Homer, N. Y. Prof. Alfred G. Harrington, (son of Jenks and Lydia (Johnson) Harrington), by his -wife Vestelina E. Wood- worth, had the foUo-wing children: Lettie, married Amos Maxson as his second wife, resides in Soott, N. Y. ; Howard, resides in Spafford, unmarried ; Marius, married Orra Max son, daughter of Amos and Lodema (Barber) Maxson; Lilly, resides in Spafford, unmarried ; Irving, married Lina Cleveland, daughter of John and Caroline (Doty) Cleve land, resides in Spafford, N. Y.; Stanley D., died in 1892; William, resides in Spafford, unmarried ; Harrold, resides in Spafford, unmarried; Howard, died in 1868; Adelbert, resides in Spafford, unmarried; Alice, married George Brown, of Cortland, N. Y. ; and Adelle, resides in Cortland, unmarried. Professor Harrington was a man of fine edu cation, and for many years a successful teacher in the SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 123 schools of this State. For a few years last past, he has been living on a farm in this town, supplementing his labors on the farm with literary work, for which he has a strong predilection. The Professor has been honored with the degree of Master of Arts.) (Spafford.) A John Harrington, (not related to above family) at an early date resided on the Col. Jenney Farm (1899) Lot 32, Sempronius, he moved to Michigan; -vdfe, Julia M. Howard Harrington, (son of Alfred G. and Vestelina E. (Woodworth) Harrington) . Bom February 15, 1859, died February 23, 1868. (Spafford.) Horatio, son of Aimer S. and Arminda Harrington. A member of Company " D," 122d Regt., N. Y. V. KiUed in Battle of Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864, age 22 years. " My Country called me." (Aimer S. Harrington and his wife, Arminda, came to this to-wn from Brookfield, Madison County, N. Y., about 1850, and settled on Lots 11 and 12, Sempronius; he after wards resided on Lot 76, Marcellus, north of Borodino.) (Borodino.) HARRIS. William Harris. Died May 17, 1842, age 54 years, 2 months, 25 days. (He married Nancy Davis, daughter of Elias and Free love Davis, and by her had: Julania, married Rathbone Barber, Jr., son of Rathbone and Robe (Wilcox) Barber, dead; Phebe D., married John C. Tinkham, son of Russel and Mary (Cook) Tinkham, dead; Jane, married her brother-in-law, John C. Tinkham, as his second wife, dead ; and Mary, married Fred Hoover of Aubum, N. Y.) (Davis Yard.) Mary Flaurence, daughter of Rev. I. and Mary H. Harris. Died November 6, 1861, age 2 years, 10 months. " Gone to live -with Jesus." " She sang sweetly here, she sings sweetly in Heaven." (The Rev. Mr. Harris came to this town from Munroe County, N. Y., and after a short stay, moved away.) (Borodino.) 124 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION HARVEY. Medad Harvey. Born June 3, 1771, died December 16, 1845. (Medad Harvey come to this to-wn from Fort Ann, Vt., about 1800, and settled on Lot 76, Marcellus, where he remained until the time of his decease. His wife was Anar Buell, by whom he had the following children : Paul, mar ried Sally Hiscock, daughter of James and EUzabeth His- cock, he died at Thorn Hill, N. Y. ; Lucinda, married Cyrus Smith, son of Job and Elizabeth (Keeler) Smith, she died in Chautauqua County, N. Y. ; Samuel, married Mary Reed, he died in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. ; Sally, married Ensign Austin, she died in Skaneateles, N. Y.; Harriet, married Sedgv/ick Austin, she died in Sennett, Cayuga County, N. Y. ; John, married Theda Reed, he died in Cattar augus County, N. Y. ; Rhoda, married Jared Smith, she died in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Electa, married Henry Vary (brother of Charles), she died in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Leonard, mar ried (1) Jane A. Rathbone, daughter of James and Mar garet (Ashley) Rathbone, and (2) , he died in lUinois; Isabel, unmarried, (1898), living in Chi cago, 111. ; Dorwin, married Jane Anthony, daughter of Isaac and Pamelia (Phelps) Anthony, he died in Chicago, 111.; and Medad, married Ann Van Atten, died in Illinois.) (Thom HiU.) Anar (Buell) Harvey, (wife of Medad Harvey). Bom June 24, 1775, died September 8, 1858. (Thom HiU.) Paul Harvey, (son of Medad and Anar (BueU) Harvey). Died August 22, 1852, age 53 years. (Paul Harvey was born at Fort Ann, Vt., and came to this to-wn, (Marcellus end), with his parents. He married Sally Hiscock, daughter of James and Elizabeth Hiscock, and by her had the following children : Anna, married Seeley Strong, she died in EUery, Chautauqua County, N. Y.; Adeline, she died unmarried at Thorn HiU, N. Y.; Alfred,. married Elsina Patterson, daughter of Volney and Susanna (Green) Patterson, he resides EUery, Chautauqua County, N. Y.; Eleanor, married Nelson Hillebert, son of John C. and Elizabeth (Berry) HiUebert, (1898), residing iii Social ity, Cattaraugus County, N. Y.; Job, married Chloe Ann Mason, daughter of Asa and Anna (Shelden) Mason, SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 123 December 27, 1849, he died at Borodino, N. Y., March 25, 1900, burial in Borodino Cemetery; Mark, married (1) Hen rietta Colton, daughter of Alanson and Charity (Ide) Col ton, and (2) Mary A. Unckless, daughter of John and Mary A. (Snook) Unckless, (he has a son, Frank Harvey, resid ing at Thorn Hill) , he resides at Borodino, N. Y. ; Harriet E., married Darius S. Mason, December 26, 1849, son of Asa and Anna (Shelden) Mason, she is now deceased; and Mary, married Samuel Ackles, resides at Thom Hill, N. Y.) (Thom HiU.) Sally (Hiscock), wife of Paul Harvey. Died August 3, 1879, age 83 years. (She was born in the to-wn of Augusta, Madison County, N. Y., and came to this to-wm -with her parents, James and Elizabeth Hiscock, from her native place, about 1812, and resided with them, (until her marriage), on Lot 69, Mra- cellus. She was married to Mr. Harvey in this town. It is claimed that her father was a Soldier of the Revolution.) (Thom HiU.) Adaline Harvey, (daughter of Paul and Sally (Hiscock) Harvey. Died April 4, 1895, age 79 years. (She died unmarried. In her will, dated May 11, 1893, probated June 11, 1895, she mentions : Frank Harvey, son of her brother, Mark Harvey; and W. Harry Ackles, and Grace Mills, wife of Frank B. Mills, children of her sister, Mary Ackles, wife of Samuel Ackles, all residing at Thom Hill, N. Y. In the petition for probate, the. following brothers and sisters were mentioned as heirs at law and next of kin : Job Harvey, Mark Harvey and Mary Ackles, of Spafford, N. Y., Anna Strong of Jamestown, N. Y. ; Alfred Harvey of St. Clair-ville, Chautauqua County, N. Y., and Eleanor Hillebert of Dajrton, Cattaraugus County, N. Y.) (Thom HiU.) Jane A. (Rathbone) Harvey, consort of Leonard Harvey. Died October 16, 1833, age 24 years. (Leonard Harvey, son of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey, married a second wife in lUoinois.) (Thom HiU.) Mark Harvey, (son of Paul and Sally (Hiscock) Harvey) . Born August 6, 1832, (living in Borodino in 1899.) (Borodino.) 126 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Henrietta Colton, wife of Mark Harvey. Bom November 80, 1836, died June 15, 1888. (Borodino.) Mary Ann Unckless, secOnd wife of Mark Harvey. Born July 31, 1841. (She was living in 1899.) (Borodino.) Paul A. Harvey, (son of Mark and Henrietta (Colton) Harvey) . Bom June 11, 1871, died March 21, 1891. " Tmsting that all be well." (Borodino.) Harry J. Harvey, (son of Mark and Henrietta (Colton) Harvey) . Bom December 22, 1869, died March 15, 1891. " To die is gain." (Borodino.) Jessie, daughter of Frank and Josie A. Harvey. Died January 6, 1887, age 2 years, 11 months, 15 days. (Frank Harvey, son of Mark and Henrietta (Colton) Harvey, married Josie A. (Borodino.) HAY. Bethany Hay, (daughter of Henry and Bathsheba (Sat- terly) Hay. Who departed this life March 15, 1832, in her 12th year. " God calls and I must go And leave aU fleeting earthly things below." (Henry Hay lived on the Samuel Gale place, on the Skan eateles and Homer road, next to the county line on lot 42, Tully. He moved from Spafford in the Spring of 1835.) (Spafford.) HAYES. Maria S., daughter of Erastus and Irena Hayes. Died May 13. 1829, age 20 years, 7 months, 9 days. " She is forever gone from things below, (3one from a world where sorrow grows. Gone to a world of joy and rest, To dweU forever -with the happy blest." (Thom HiU.) Hosea Horace Briggs, son of Erastus and Irena Hayes. Died September 3, 1828, age 15 years, 5 months, 11 days. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 127 (He was accidentally killed. Erastus Hayes first settled on the east part of lot 89, Marcellus, April 11, 1825, moved from there to lot 22, Tully, February 12, 1835, and from thence went West about 1850, -with his only surviving child and son, Hiram W. Hayes. Erastus Hayes originally came from Otsego County, N. Y., and settled on Lot 50, Homer, N. Y., in 1807, and from there to the Marcellus end of this town, as above stated, in 1825. Hiram W. Hayes, son of Erastus and Irena Hayes, mar ried Almeda Tinkham, daughter of Daniel and Adah (Wind sor) Tinkham, and by her had: Cynthia Maria, married Orphaniel Bessey, she died in Spafford, leaving no issue; Briggs, married Mary McCormack, he died in Michigan; Candace, married Dana Root, husband dead, and she now residing in Quincy, Mich, (four children) ; Calvin, married (1) Calista Ripley, daughter of John L. and Clarissa (Loss) Ripley, and (2) out West, he is now (1899) residing in Pomona, California; Olive, died unmarried in Spafford, N. Y., and Arzena, married a Mr. Slocum, and died in Michigan. Hiram W. Hayes was in 1898 residing -with his son Calvin, in Pomona, California.) (Thora HiU.) HAYFORD. Mercy, wife of John Hayford. Died January 10, 1849, in her 82nd year. (Borodino.) Benjamin Hayford. Born in 1812, died in 1887. (He married (1) Elizabeth French, daughter of Titus and Elizabeth French, (2) Mercy French, sister of his first wife, and (3) Lottie M. Baker. In the application for Letters of Administration by Orrin I. Hayford, his son, of Borodino, N. Y., filed March 31, 1887, mention is made of Lottie (Loretta) M. Hayford, his widow (since deceased), and of the following children : Orrin I. Hayford, of Boro dino, N. Y.; Annette L. Harrington, of Berren Springs, Mich.; William Francis Hayfrod, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Eliza J. Quick, wife of Charles B. Quick, of Borodino, N. Y. ; and Cyrus Duane Hayford, bom October 18, 1840, (by second wife), married Mary Schoonmaker, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Barker) Schoonmaker, resides in Tully, 128 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION N. Y. Cyrus D. Hayford had two children : Blanche and Alice M. Hayford. Blanche is now deceased.) (Borodino.) EUzabeth (French), wife of Benjamin Hayford. Bom in 1812, died in 1846. (Borodino.) Mercy (French), wife of Benjamin Hayford. Born in 1822, died in 1858. (Borodino.) Lottie M. (Baker), -wife of Benjamin Hayford. Died August 5, 1895, age 66 years. (Borodino.) William Hayford. Died at Borodino. (He married Asenath French.) (Borodino.) HAVENS. (Borodino.) Ebenezer Havens, son of Daniel W. and Abigail (Burling) Havens. Born March 23, 1803, died January 18, 1875. Daniel W. Havens was bom in Washington County, R. I., about March 20, 1762, and settled in Scott Hollow, at the head of Skaneateles Lake. He was a shoemaker by occu pation ; a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, and was buried in the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery at Scott, Cortland Co., N. Y. His wife, Abigail Burling, of German extraction, survived him about three years, and then died and was buried at the same place. Their children were: Abbie, married Joseph Cummings of Cortland County, N. Y. ; Whitman, enlisted in the War of 1812, nothing more of him ; Clark B., married Robey Barber, daughter of Rath bone and Robe (Wilcox) Barber, both dead; Ebenezer, mar ried Laura Pettis, daughter of Joseph Pettis; and Daniel, he also enlisted in the War of 1812, and never retumed. Clark B. Havens, son of Daniel and Abigail (Burling) Havens, by his wife, Robey Barber, had the foUowing chil dren, all bom in Spafford: Adelia, married Dr. Charles Merrell, formerly of Skaneateles, N. Y., now deceased; Hezekiah, married Daintha Oland, of Skaneateles, N. Y.; he was killed by a falling limb of a tree; Sally, married Stephen Randall, son of Stephen and Ruth RandaU, she died and Randall married for a second -wife Diantha Oland, SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 129 widow of Hezekiah Havens. RandaU was finally dro-wned in Skaneateles Lake; Christina, married Jessey Pullman, son of John and Mabel (Pettis) Pullman; Annette, married , now deceased; t-win of Annette, died young; and Elizabeth (" Betsey"), married Gordon Mason and moved to Illinois. Clark B. Havens married a second wife in Illinois, where he resided for a time before his decease, but by her had no issue. Ebenezer Havens, son of Daniel and Abigail (Burling) Havens, married Laura Pettis, March 9, 1825, on Randall's Point, on Skaneateles Lake, in the to-wn of Spafford N. Y. By her he had the following children, all born in this to-wn : Mary Jane, born July 29, 1827, married (1) James Apple bee, and (2) William Bulfinch Allen, son of Sumner and Mary (Sherman) Allen, resides in Spafford, has one son by Allen: William B., Jr., married Mrs. Ann Thompson; Joseph, and Daniel, twins, born December 4, 1829, died young; Dwight, born July 13, 1830, married (1) Henrietta Ball, (2) Mary Willett, he starved to death in Danville Rebel Prison, N. C, in the War of 1861 ; AbigaU E., born May 27, 1832, married (1) Washington Morris, son of Samuel and Jane (Springer) Morris, dead, and (2) Samuel Allen; Nancy Maria, born March 11, 1837, married (1) Andrew Ne-wman, and (2) John Jacob Volkart; Matilda A., bom December 25, 1838, married (1) Nathan Bond, and (2) Harvey Randall, son of Stephen and Ruth Randall, she resides in Wisconsin ; Lauretta E., bom May 23, 1840, mar ried Ichabod J. Wallace, son of William and Pamelia' (Eddy) Wallace, her husband is dead, and she resides at Glen Haven, N. Y., had one son Morgan, married -widow Flora B. Wallace, and died June 9, 1891; Cornelia, born December 15, 1841, died young; and Ebenezer, born May 19, 1843, married Myra Bradford, March 17, 1879, resides at Glen Haven N. Y.) (No stone.) (Spafford.) Laura Pettis, wife of Ebenezer Havens. Born May 23, 1805, died March, 1884. (She was a daughter of Joseph Pettis, and was bora in Jefferson County, N. Y. She came to this town when a small child, and resided until her marriage on Randall's Point, on the east side of Skaneateles Lake. She and her husband, Ebenezer Havens, were two honest, upright, pure 130 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOaATION minded and good people, and were generally respectd. They were weU kno-,,, Sam.uel E. Manley (son of .Elijah), died in 1880, and in h^s |Will, dated August 16, 1880, and probated January 5, 1$.81, he ihentiori^ no wife, father, moth,er, brother or sister (they all then being deceased) ; but the foUo-wing nephew ^nd nieces : Henrietta Selkirk of Bradley, Allegan County, Mich., and Alfred Otis Legg of Skaneatples, ,N. Y., .children of his deceased sister, Maria (Manley) Legg; and Emily Bi^iggi^ of, Omaha, Nebraska, daughter of his deceased Drbtiier, Hananiah Manley.) i (Thom HiU.) Betsey, -wife of Elijah Manley. Died February 7, 1851, age 63 years, 8 months. (Thorn HiU.) 166 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Elviia Manley, (daughter of Elijah and Betsey Manley). Died December 24, 1837, age 32 years, 17 days. (Thom HiU.) William N. Manley. Died September 23, 1888, age 80 years, 21 days. (Thom HiU.) James C. Manley. Died January 11, 1851, age 23 years, 3 months. 14 days. (Thom HUL) Luther Manley. Died January 9, 1824, age 66 years, 9 months, 14 days. (Thorn HiU.) Hannah, widow of Luther Manley. Died October 7, 1835, age 78 years. (Thorn Hill.) Morris Manley. Died September 9, 1812, age 21 years, 8 months, 20 days. (Thom HiU.) MARSHALL. Sergeant Phineas B. Marshall (son of Lewis B. and Par thena (Hutchens) Marshall, Co. "D," 122 Regt., N. Y. Vols. Inft. Died at Washington, D. C. November 23, 1862, age 21 years, 8 months. (Lewis B. Marshall married Parthena Hutchens, daughter of Col. Phineas and Betsey (Bocker) Hutchens, and by her had two children: Phineas B., died unmarried; and Orpha Rosette, died young. After the decease of Lewis B. Mar shall, who died before his son, his widow married Samuel Crane for a second husband. In the application for letters of administration upon the estate of Phineas B. MarshaU, by his uncle, Simeon R. Marshall, in 1863, mention is made only of uncles and aunts as foUows : Simeon R. MarshaU, Margaret Thompson, Caroline Patterson, Louisa McKay, Phineas Hutchens, Orrin Hutchens and Lucy Bennett.) (Spafford.) Cyrenius Marshall. Died September 23, 1857, age 62 years. (Borodino.) Orpha Rosette, daughter of Lewis B. and Parthena (Hutchens) MarshaU. Died June 27, 1849, age 5 years, 8 months. (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY REGARDS WITH €ENEALOGICAL NOTES 167 MARTIN. Aaron Martin. Died October 26, 1840, age 71 years. Lucy, -wife of Aaron Martin. Died December 12, 1858 age 92 years, 4 months, 4 days. (Borodino.) Lucy Martin, wife of John R. Martin. Died December 17, 1840, age 31 years, 9 months, 10 days. (Borodino.) James Augustus, son of Lyman and Amanda Martin. Died March, 1849, age 11 years. (Borodino.) Lucy Maria, daughter of Lyman and Amanda Martin. Died August 10, 1850. (Borodino.) Rachel, wife of Wendall B. Martin. Died August 9, 1848, age 51 years, 11 months 27 days. (Borodino,) MASON. Abigail (Udell), wife of Hezekiah Mason. Died May 12, 1836, age 73 years, 9 months. (The Masons of Spafford trace their descent from Samp son Mason, shoemaker, who first appears upon the records of Dorchester, Mass., in 1651, Rehoboth, in the same State in 1657, and Swansea Mass., ten years later, where he remained until his decease in September, 1676. In religion he was a Baptist as were very generally his descendants. The name of his wife is not kno-wn, but the following are ascribed to him as his children: Sampson, Noah, John, Samuel, Sarah, Mary, James, Joseph, Bethiah, Isaac, Pela- tiah, Benjamin and Thankful. Isaac Mason (son of Sampson, Sr.), bom July 15, 1667, was a Deacon in the Second Baptist Church of Swansea, Mass., from the time of its organization in 1693 to the date of his death January 25, 1742. By his -wife Hannah, he had the following children: Hannah, Mary, Isaac, Samp son, Nathan, Oliver, Hannah (2), Benjamin and Mary; the first five born in Rehoboth and the balance in Swansea. Sampson Mason (son of Isaac and Hannah Mason) , bom in Rehoboth, Mass., February 24, 1700, married Experience Lewis, and had the following children : Nathaniel, Nathan, Hannah, and Benjamin, 168 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCTATION i Re,y. Nathan Mason (son. of Sampson and Experience (Lewis) Mason), bom |»Tovember 12, 1726, was a Baptist ipinister. He emigrated to Nov^ Scotia in 176.3, but re turned to , Swansea about 1771. He finally settled in Cheshire, Burl^shire County, Mass.>, where he died in 1804 at the age of 80 years. ^ Nathan Mason married July 10, 1748, , |Uizabeth Wood, and by her had: Chloe, Hezekiah, Nathan, Elizabeth, Sampson, Daniel, , Bethena, and Experi ence ; the first four bom in Swansea, Mass. ^ Hezekiah Mason (son of Rev. Nathan and Elizabeth (^V^od) Mason), born a;t Swansea,,, Mass., November 18, 17S4, was also a Baptist minister, and for many years m,m- istered pver the Baptist Church at Cheshire, Mass. He was an active and influential man, ^pth in civil and religipus affairs in the latter place. , On December 9, 1795, he pur chased four hundred and fifty acres of land in this to-wn, on lot 68, Marcellus, on which his two sons, Avery and Asa, settled about June 18, 1804, but he never came here to reside; if he was ever here at all Ms stay was only tem porary, super-vising the settlement pf his spns Ayery and Asa, His first wife, Sarah, died at Cheshire, Mass,,, in June, 1811, and he married in the following November, Abigail Udell, widp:w of William. Shelden of Shepherdtowpj N, Y., where Mr- Maspnhad th^n taken up his, abode. He continued to .reside at the latter place until his decease, March 9, 1825, (age ,71), Ms body being taken back to Cheshire for burial. , His children were: Avery, married Sally Pierce of Rehoboth, Mass. ; Asa^ born March 21, 1782, died March 11, 1865, married (1) Chloe, Bowen,, bprn in May, 1784, died March 17, 1811,, buried old Borodino cemetery (Alexander Becker farm) , no stpne, and (2) Anna Shelden, daughter of William and: AbigaU (UdeU.) Shelden; Thurstin, married Mercy (or ^hebe) Bourne; Anson, mar^ ried Phelinda Mason, .daughter of Levi i Mason (third cpusin) ; Hiram, married Maria , Preen^; both died in Spaf ford; Hezekiah, married Sybil Eddy; CMoe, married, a Mr. Popple; Saily, married Samuel Martin, of Cheshire, Mass.; Hanna^, married Jonathan Nichols; Freelove, married a Mr, Aidridge; and perhops two others whose names are not siwn. , ,. ,„ . ,- (,,,,, ^, ^ ,„^ Mrs, Mason, before her marriage tP Mr, Maspp, had.,by her first husband, William Shelden, eleven children, some SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES IgQ of whom came to this town and a record of whom appears in these notes under the name of Shelden.) (Thom HiU.) . , Asa Mason, (son of Hezekiah and Sally Mason). Died March 11, 1865, age 83 years. (He was bom in Cheshire, Berkshire Co., Mass., March 21, 1782, and married January 2, 1803, Chloe Bowen, who died March 17, 1811, and was buried in the old Borodino cemetery on the Alexander Becker farm, and (2) May lO, 1812, Anna Shelden, daughter of William and Abigail (Udell) Shelden. Mr. Mason came to town about June 18, 1804. By his first wife he had : Nancy, born January 22, li804, married Feb ruary 19, 1821, Harrison Pierce, son of Major Pierce, she died in Michigan \ Hezekiah, born January 16, 1806, married (1) Betsey Chapman, and moved to Michigan, where he married a second time; Elay, born January ^1, 1808, died young; and Destamona Adeline, born January 11, 1810, married (1) Mason Wood, and moved to Michigan, where she married a Mr. Harrington for a second husband, (by her second husband she had four children : Polk and Dallas (twins), Maria, married a Mr. Baker, and Harriet E., mar ried a Mr. Goss.) By his second wife, Anna Shelden, Mr. Mason had eight children : PhiletUs, born July 6, 1814, died young; Chloe Ann, bora March 29, 1816, died young; Laura Lavender, born June 9, 1818, died young ; John Leland, bom January 27, 1820, married November 6, 1845, Phebe Newell, daughter of Stephen and Mary (CuykendaU) NeweU; James RusseU, born JUne 6, 1821, married February 1, 1844, Betsey Ann Hicks, he is dead ; Darius Shelden, bom April 4, 1823, married December 26, 1849, Harriet E. Harvey, daughter of Paul and Sally (Hiscock) Harvey, he is dead; Chloe Ann (2) born January 25, 1825, married December 27, 1849, Job Harvey, son of Paul and Sally (Hiscock) Harvey, resides (1899) in Borodino, N. Y.; and Sarah Abigail, bom September 28, 1835, died yourig.) (Borodino.) Chloe Bowen, wife of Asa Mason. Died March 17, 1811, age 26 years, 10 months. (She died of typhoid fever during the dangerous illness of her husband, and was buried in a small cemetery, riow in disuse* on the Alexander Becker Farm. No stone.) (Old Borodino Cemetery.) 170 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Anna Shelden, wife of Asa Mason. Died September 5,. 1867, in her 74 year. (Borodino.) James Russel Mason, son of Asa and Anna (Shelden) Mason. Born June 6, 1821, died November 7, 1882, age 62 years. (No stone.) Hiram Mason, (son of Hezekiah and Sally Mason). Died June 4, 1877, age 83 years, 5 months, 23 days. (He married Maria Green, and by her had: Sarah; Harriet; Elbridge E., married Almira Maxson, he is now deceased; Martin, married Laverne Maxson; Mortimer, married Esther Vail, resides in Borodino, N. Y.; Jerome, married Julia Hill, daughter of William and Mary Jane (Vincent) Hill, no issue, resides Spafford, N. Y.; Columbus; Hiram, and George W., the last three died unmarried.) Mortimer Mason (son of Hiram and Maria (Green) Mason), by his wife, Esther Vail, had: James, married Emma Burns, daughter of John Burns, resides near Boro dino, N. Y. ; Hiram, married Flora Yates, resides in Syra cuse, N. Y.; and Ida, married Charles Briggs, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Maria Green, widow of Hiram Mason. Bom October 3, 1799, died Febmary 24, 1890. (Spafford.) Elbridge E. Mason, (son of Hiram and Maria (Green) Mason. Died February 6, 1886, age 66 years. (Borodino.) Almira A. (widow) . Bom May 30, 1825, died April 21, 1902. Anice E. Mason, daughter of Elbridge E. and Almira (Maxson) Mason. Died October 4, 1867, age 15 years. (Borodino.) George W., son of Hiram and Maria (Green) Mason. Died Febmary 5, 1854, age 17 years, 6 months. " As quick as thought Death's arrow flew And pierced me to the heart." (He was drowned.) (Spafford.) MASTERS, Emma A., wife of Stephen Masters. Died December 2, 1875, age 40 years, 10 months. (Spafford Hollow.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 171 Adelia A., daughter of Fred C. and Lydia A, Masters. Died May 5, 1886, age 4 months. (Fred C. Masters is a son of George and B. Masters.) (Spafford HoUow.) "Our Baby," Alfred William, son of George and B. Masters. Died April 2, 1881, age 7 months. (George Masters is a cousin of Stephen Masters.) (Spafford Hollow.) MAXSON. Reuben Maxson. Died January 20, 1883, age 77 years, 3 months, 20 days. (He came to this town from Scott, N. Y., where his first ¦wife, Polly, died. He married after coming here Emeline Pressey, daughter of Moses Pressey; she is also deceased, and buried in this cemetery. (She has no stone.) (Borodino.) Elizabeth, daughter of Reuben and Polly Maxson. Died December 16, 1861, age 15 years. (Borodino.) MAYBEE. (Maby on stone.) Thomas, son of Stephen and Phebe Maybee. Died Nov ember 21, 1831, age 12 years, 9 months, 14 days. (Borodino.) MAYNARD. Caroline, wife of Milton Maynard. Died June 7, 1883, age 52 years, 5 months. (Milton Maynard married for a second wife Eliza Ben nett, daughter of Stephen and Waity (HUl) Bennett.) (Borodino.) Mary E., wife of Adelbert Maynard. Died June 1, 1878, age 24 years, 5 months, 11 days. (Adelbert Maynard, son of Milton and Caroline May nard, married (1) Mary E. Smith, and (2) Lydia Howe, daughter of Henry Howe.) (Borodino.) Henry, son of Moses and Sally Maynard. Died AprU 20, 1842, age 5 years, 11 months. (Borodino.) ¦ '-, f U I i ¦ 17a ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION McCAUSEt. lifery. (Cpon)v wife of Charles McCausey. Died October 13, 18-59, age 44 years. f "A f aithfulwife and mother.' (Charles McCausey, 1815-1901, married (1) Mary Coon, 1816-1859, (2) Eggleston, and (3) Williams.) (Borodino,) McDANIELS. John McDaniels, , (spn of Timothy Mc,DanieIs). Died April 7, 1873, age gi years, 8 months, 22 days. , , (Accprding to family tradition Tinipthy McDanipls cs^me to, this country from Ireland, and settled in New York City, -where he died of Asiatic cholera,, leaving two sma^ children : John and Bridget, who, after his decease, were taken to Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., and reared in the family of ^ud'ge Wickham. ,, Subsequentlythp daughter Bridget mar ried George D. Wickham, the only child and son of her, fpste^ father, Judge Wickham. Gteorge D. WicHiam became a large land holder, and among his other possessions owned the principal parts of Lots 44, TulUy, and Lot 14, Sempron ius, in this town, and at an early date, John McDaniels, und,er. a (Contract from his Jbrother-in-law, Mr- Wickham, settled on the, latter pf ^aid lots, and thenp^ 100 acres on the nprth-west comer of the former Pf said lots, where he remained until the date of his decease. Before coming to this town, Mr. McDaniels. (bom July 15, 1790) married Polly Hankii^s (bom .^i^gust 31, 4-793) , ^d by her.had the following children: Eliza A., bom July 15, ,1812, died March 16, 1867, married Jeremiah Whiting,. she, was buried in Scott, N. if.; (Jeorge "V\[., bpm Aijg^st 31, 1814, died at pnpndaga VaUey, N. Y., March 13, 1898, married Elizabeth Winans, -who also died, at Onondaga VaUey, N- Y., March 18, 1898, at the age of 70 years; Caroline B., bom l^pvember 13, 1816, di^,May 22, J877, married Pe^er EUis Taft, son of Ellis and Cynthia (Kiiapp), Taft, she was buried in Auburn, N. Y. ; Emily B., bom October 17, 1818, dif d May 1, 1896, ,n}arried Jerum Babcock, she was buried in Scott, N. Y,; John, Nelsoi|, bom March 3, 1822, married Apnis Perkins, daughter of Hopkins '^nd P^Uy Pj^rki^s,, wife de^d ^n Orton). Died February 21, 1862, age 63 years, 4 months. (Uriah Roundy says : Zenas Orton married (1) Hannah Coon , and (2) the widow Harris. His daughter, Olive, married Tensart Wilbur, she died 1899, at the age of 77 years.) (Borodino.) Orson E., son of Zenas and Sally Orton. Died April 15,. 1855, at 17 years, 8 months, 20 days. (Borodino.) OSTRANDER. Ann Eliza, daughter of Peter and Nancy (WiUiamson) Ostrander. Died December 30, 1851, age 2 months. (John I. Ostrander, Jr., son of John I. and Catherine Ostrander of Albany, N. Y., married Anna Muer (Soctch), and by her had the following children : John, was a printer, and died of cholera in New Orleans, La. ; Ames, was killed' in the Mexican War; Peter, married Nancy Williamson, daughter of Comelius and Eliza (Ostrander) Williamson, he was a printer by trade; William H., married Renett Weed of Albany, N .Y., he was a merchant and accountant, and resided in Tully, N. Y., he at one time was in a bank at Skaneateles, N. Y.; Alexander, married Mary King of Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., he was a harness maker and resided in TuUy, N. Y. (They were father and mother of George A. Ostrander of Syracuse, N. Y., who died 1915) ; Philip, married and resided in Syracuse, N. Y., member of Company " A," 149th N. Y. Vols. Inft, engraver by trade, dead; Robert, married Anna Russel of Hartford, Conn., harness maker and teacher; Thomas, married , his wife, after his decease, married Charles Tallman, of Syracuse, N. Y., as his third wife; Gloriana; Catherine, married Harvey McCune ; and EUza, married Charles Tall- man, of Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Peter Ostrander came from Albany to Tully, but at one time resided on a cross road in Spafford Hollow, according to a statement of William M. Tuttle, formerly of Otisco Hollow, now of Vesper, N. Y.) (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 195 OWEN. Timothy Owen. Died April 27, 1878, in his 92nd year. (In an obituary notice, pubUshed at the time of his decease, it was stated that, "he was bom at Tyringham, Mass. ; moved with his parents to Navarino, N. Y., when he was 15 years of age ; two years later he worked clearing land at the foot of Skaneateles Lake, where the village of that name now stands; he then went to Sempronius, where he lived four years, and then bought the farm kno-wn as trie Owen farm, one and one-half miles north of Stafford Cor ners, where he resided until 1857 ; he then moved to Boro dino, where he lived untU his death. July 16, 1842, he joined the Free Will Baptist Church. By his wife, Lydia, he had one daughter, Polly Ann, who married George W. Breed, son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed.) (Borodino.) Lydia, -wife of Timothy Owen. Died June 21, 1870, age 83 years. (Borodino.) In an application for a pension by Daniel Owen of Spaf ford, dated September 1, 1820, he makes the following claim: That he served in the War of the Revolution as a member of Capt. William Hull's Company, in the Regi ment commanded by Col. Charles Webb, of Connecticut Troops, in the service of the United States; that he served for the period of one year and was discharged at Morris- town, N. J., in 1776; that he had a -wife, Lydia, and a daughter and a granddaughter, who resided with him in Spafford. The Connecticut records show that the regiment in question, during the time stated, served for a short time along the coast of Long Island Sound, then, on requisition of Washington, was accepted as Continentals and ordered to Boston, where it remained until the evacuation of that place by the British. The regiment was then marched to New York, and took part in the battle of Wliite Plains, and then at Trenton, N. J. The Martyr Spy, Capt. Nathan Hale, executed by the British in New York City, was a member of this regiment. Mr. Owen purchased, on March 17, 1824, eighteen acres of land on the Nunnery road, on Lot 12, Sempronius ; these lands were afterwards conveyed by his widow, Lydia Owen, and his daughter, Eunice C. Snyder, then of Cortland. N. Y., 196 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION March 31, 1841. After his decease his pension was con tinued to his widow, who was on the pension list in 1841 and 1842, and therein described as of Spafford. PALMER. Amos Palmer. Died June 9, 1823, age 50 years, 7 months. (Amos Palmer, born October 29, 1772, according to family tradition was from Rhode Island, came from there first to Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y. After a short residence at the latter place, he moved to the East Side Hill, in this to-wn, on or before 1809, and remained there until he moved to the farm now occupied (1899) by Arthur Hall, on Lot 23, Sempronius, September 22, 1822. By his wife, Mary Barber, born July 27, 1771, and whom he married October 4, 1795, he had the foUowing children: Charity, bom October 25, 1796, married Benjamin Hewett, May 16, 1830; Polly, born April 9, 1798, married John ChurcheU, April 14, 1818; Amos, Jr., born October 1, 1800, died young; Daniel, bom May 30, 1804, married Betsey Oliver, March 21, 1827; Willet, born May 2, 1806, married Mercy Babcock, February 10, 1834, resided in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Reuben S., bom September 12, 1809, married Hannah HaU, November 29, 1834, resided in Spafford, on the old homestead and died -without issue ; James V. , born May 24, 1811, married Lydia Belknap, February 20, 1833, resided in Aubum, N. Y. ; SaUy, bora September 18, 1812, married Edward Robinson, January 1, 1845; Julania, born June 19, 1815, married Ira Babcock, April 13, 1834 ; and Hezekiah Gorton, born May 1, 1817, married Cynthia Capron, daughter of Benjamin Capron, September 29, 1840. (Spafford.) Mary Barber, wife of Amos Palmer. Died November 5, 1845, age 74 years, 3 months, 3 days. (Spafford.) Reuben S. Palmer, (son of Amos and Mary (Barber) Palmer) . Died April 21, 1883, age 73 years, 7 months, 8 days. ! (Spafford,,)' Hannah Hall, wife of Reuben S. Palmer. Died January 2, 1875, age 69 years, 1 month, 5 days. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RBC(»DS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 197 (She was born November 27, 1805, and was the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) Hall.) (Spafford.) Joel Palmer. Died February 2, 1841, age 71 years, 8 months, 17 days. " And he shall be like a tree planted by the river of water That bringeth forth his fmit in his season." Etc. (Mr. Palmer came to this town early, but his first recorded deed transaction was of 270 acres, on Lot 31, TuUy, dated April 29, 1816. He afterwards owned land on lots 1, 22, 32, 33 and 41, Tully. By his wife. Amy, he is known to have had at least two children: Randall, married Meribah Ripley, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey) Ripley; and Hosea, married Sophia Burdick, daughter of Thompson and Tabitha (Wilcox) Burdick, when married he first went to house keeping on the northwest corner of Lot 32, Tully, in a house long since gone to decay, on a small farm then reached by a private way, and now entirely isolated from any highway ; from there he moved to Pennsyl vania, where he died ; his widow then came to Scott, N. Y., where she died and was buried in Seventh Day Baptist cemetery at the latter place. Hosea Palmer (son of Joel and Amy Palmer) , by his wife, Sophia Burdick, had four children: Adison; Tabitha Ann, married Hosea Borden Potter , son of StiUman Potter ; Barton, died unmarried ; and Lucy, married Porter Brown ; all of Hosea's four children resided in Scott, N. Y.) (Spafford.) James M., son of Randall and Meribah (Ripley) Palmer. Died July 30, 1826, also his twin brother, died February 3, 1837. " Sleep on, sweet babes, and take thy rest, God called thee home when he thought best." (Randall Palmer, son of Joel and Amy Palmer, married Meribah Ripley, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey) Kipley. His wife was born February 6, 1803, and died in Scott, N. Y., where she was buried in the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery at that place.) (Spafford.) In memory of Mrs. Samantha Palmer, consort of Mr. Dyer Palmer. Died September 20, 1826, age 23 years, (In 1826, at the time of the decease of his wife, Mr. Bahner resided on the East Side Hill, on Lot 13, Sempronius, 198 ONONBAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION but in 1829, when he sold the lands he owned on that lot, he resided in Homer, N. Y., and his second wife, Sabrina, joined him in the deed.) (Stanton Yard.) Lyman Palmer, son of Dyer and Samantha Palmer. Died April 3, 1826, age 10 months, 10 days. (Stanton Yard.) No genealogy of Spafford families would be complete -without reference to Gilbert Palmer and his son, John Palmer, who were, without question, the first settlers within the limits of the present town, although we have no recora that any dead of this family were deposited in any of our cemeteries. Mr. Joshua V. H. Clark, in his excellent history of the County of Onondaga, says: Mr. Palmer came here in the Fall of 1794 from Dutchess or Westchester County, N. Y., and settled on Lot 76, Marcellus, for which he served as a soldier in the Revolution, and he gives a very graphic description of an accident which befell his son, John, by the felling of a tree, etc., a story which is familiar to all readers of that and subsequent histories of this county. We riave no data at hand to prove the incorrectness of the date which Mr. Clark fixes, as the time of Mr. Palmer's arrival here, but as he is incorrect in some of his statements about Mr. Palmer, we think it possible he may have been misinformed on that subject. His deed of Lot 76, excepting State's Hun dred Acres, is dated September 21, 1792, and is from Thomas Ostrander, the original soldier, who served for the lot. In this deed he is described as a farmer from York- town, or Amawalk, Westchester County, N. Y. Mr. Palmer probably was a soldier of the Revolution, and we are inclined to the belief that he came originally from Connecti cut, where his name appears (or another of the same name) in the Militia of that State, for the reason that many of the Palmers in this State came originally from Stopington, Conn. The name of Gilbert Palmer also appears in the Militia of this State, and he possibly may have served in both States ; but no Gilbert Palmer served in New York in any regiment or levy, entitling him to draw bounty lands in this State. It seems to us more probable that Palmer came here eariier than the Fall of 1794. He conveyed from time to time the lands which he owned, but in no conveyance was he joined by a wife; he was probably a widower while he iSPAFPORD MORTUARY REGORSS WITH «BNEALOGICAL NOTES 199 resided here. In one deed of lands on lot 76, he conveyed to a Samuel Palmer, — this was in 1806, — ^but the next year the latter and -wife, Elizabeth, conveyed away these lands, .and no more is kno-wn of Samuel, or of any record that the two Palmers named in this deed were related to each other. In his deeds to John Palmer he speaks of him as his son. We have no record of any children of Gilbert Palmer other than his son, John, and all we know of him is, that he came from Westchester County, was a tailor, resided on Lot 76, MarceUus, until about 1814, that he then sold out and moved into the -village of Borodino, and carried on his avocation of tailor there until the Spring of 1819, and then moved to Hannibal, Oswego County, N. Y. Mr. Clark says Gilbert Palmer died about 1839. It is possible that he and his son, John, both died in the latter place. The given name of .John Palmer's wife was Rachel. A Mr. Ziba Palmer, at an early date, resided in Spafford Hollow, near the head of Otisco Lake, who is credited with a family of twenty-t-wo children, but of him we have no further record. PARKER. Samuel Parker. Died October 25, 1853, age 67 years. (Mr. Parker came to this to-wn from Greenwich, Wash ington County, N. Y., and first settled on what is now known as the Breed farm, on Lot 11, Tully, where he lost his first wife. Amy. From there he moved to Spaffod HoUow, where Tie died. His second -wife was the -widow, Rebecca White. He was a member of Capt. Asahel Roundy's Company, in the 96th Regiment, of New York Militia, in the War of 1812. His children were: Marietta, married Frank Smith; Isaac, Amasa, and Polly, married James Good-win.) (Spafford Hollow.) Mrs. Amy, -wife of Samuel Parker. Died June 14, 1831, age 42 years, 10 months, 9 days. " Because a man goes to his long home, Mourners go about the streets." (This grave is in an open field, standing alone on the Breed farm, where her husband resided at the time of her decease.) (Breed Farm.) 200 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCTATION PATTEN. William Patten, (son of William Patten). Died March 15, 1872, age 77 years, 1 month, 28 days. (William Patten, Sr., was a native of Massachusetts, where he was a soldier in the Revolution ; his son, William, was born in Oneida County, N. Y., where he settled after the war of the Revolution. The latter was a clothier by occupation and came to this to-wn about 1817, and settled in what is kno-wn as Factory Gulf, where, in connection -with Elijah Manley, he conducted the clothing works at that place; soon afterwards his brother-in-law, Edmund C. Weston, took the place of Mr. Manley, and the business was subsequently conducted by Mr. Patten and Mr. Weston. Mr. Patten first married Fanny Rathbone, daughter of James and Margaret (Ashley) Rathbone, and (2) Elizabeth Da-vis, daughter of Farrand and Esther Davis, and widow of Samuel Rice. By his last wife he had one son : George A. Patten, now a resident of this to-wn. George A. Patten, bora December 30, 1842, married Lovillie, daughter of Peter and Charity (Rainey) Churchell, and by her has two children : Alton W. ; and Flora E., mar ried Emmett L. Gordon, of Preble, N. Y. Mr. George A. Patten was a member of Company D, 122d Regiment, N. Y. Vols., war of 1861, and has an honorary military record; he was in battle at Antietam, WiUiamsport, Fredericksburg, Deep Run, Gettysburg and Wilderness ; in the latter battle he was wounded.) (Borpdino.) Fanny (Rathbone) , wife of William Patten. Died October 23, 1839, age 37 years, 9 months, 27 days. (Borodino.) Elizabeth (Da-vis), wife of William Patten. Died April 17, 1851, age 42 years, 5 months, 27 days. (Thom HiU.) PATTERSON. Dinah, wife of Dr. Ebenezer Patterson. Died June 30, 1836, age 69 years, 11 months, 7 days.) (Dr Ebenezer Patterson, according to family tradition, was of Scotch extraction and came from Vermont, first to Burlington, Qtsego County, N. Y., and from there to this. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 20l town, where he died and was buried in this cemetery. (No stone.) By his -wife, Dinah, he had the foUo-wing children : Calvin, married (1) Sarah Thompson, and (2) Asenath Wamer, widow of William Case; Volney, married Susan Green, moved to Chautauqua County, near Sinclairville, N. Y., in 1855, and died there; Jonathan, married Polly Anri Knapp, daughter of Peter and Dinah (Guion) Knapp, he riaoved to Ohio and died there ; Lovina, married Zerah Baker, son of Elijah Baker, moved to Ohio ; Roxana, married Simon Baker, son of Elijah Baker, moved to Marietta, N. Y., about 1854, and died there, had several children, among whoiri were Ashbel and Marcus Baker; and Anna, who died in 1914, age 14 years.) (Spafford.) Anna, daughter of Ebenezer and Dinah Patterson. Died February, 1814, age 14 years, 5 months. (Spafford.) Calvin Patterson, (son of Dr. Ebenezer and Dinah Pat terson). (On stone Paterson). Died December 29, 1866, age 78 years, 9 months, 23 days. (He was born at Burlington, Otsego County, N. Y., and came to this town about 1812, and settled first on Ripley Hill, near the Ripley farm, (43 and 32, Tully) . These lands he sold in 1829 and settled on the Skaneaieles and Homer road, about one mile north of the Village of Borodino, on lot 75, Marcellus, where he remained until his decease. He had no issue by Asenath Warner, his second wife, but by Sarah Thompson, his first, had: Chester, bora in 1810 in Burlington, Otsego County, N. Y., married Caroline Hut chens, daughter of Gol. Phineas and Margaret (Giberson) JIutehens, February 28, 1834, in Spafford, N. Y., he died in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Laura, born in Spafford, married Amos Christler and died in Navarino, N. Y. ; George W., bom in Spafford, married Martha Rathbpne of Marietta, N. Y., he died in Jupe, 1896, in Fairmount, N. Y. ; Sarah, died in Spafford, 1819, age 11 months ; Sarah, 2d, born in Spafford, married Samuel H. Stanton, husband dead, and she now (1?99) resides in Spafford. His second wife was buried by the side of hpr first husband, William Case.) (Borodino.) Sarah (Thompson) , wife of Calvin Patterson. Died May 32, 1851, age 61 years, 4 months, 22 days. (Borodino.) 202 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION In memory of Sarah, daughter of Calvin and Sarah (Thompson) Patterson. Died June 14, 1819, age 11 months, 7 days, (Spafford,) Chester Patterson, (son of OaMn and Sarah (Thompson) Patterson), Died July 20, 1887, age 77 years. (Chester Patterson, bom at Burlington, N. Y., in 1810, resided with or near his father on Ripley Hill, and also north of Borodino. By his -wife, Caroline Hutchens, he had the following children, bom in this town: Margaret, bom 1834, died at 11 months ; Margaret, 2d, born in 1836, died in 1874 in Skaneateles, married Sherman Brown, of Scott, N. Y., and was buried in Borodino Cemetery; Francis H., born May 3, 1841, married Mary E. Ambercrombie of Chit- tenango, N. Y., member of Co. "D," 122d Regt., N. Y. Vols., War of 1861, served about three years, resides in Syracuse, N. Y. (has two children: Alice M., married Emmett D. Scribner, Syracuse, N. Y., and Roswell H., married Sarah Johnson, resided in Cleveland, Ohio) ; Marcus, bom April 7, 1847 (twin), married (1) Attaresta Prindle, and (2) her sister, Mary E. Prindle, daughters of Rensselaer and Char lotte (Vincent) Prindle; and Martha, bom April 7, 1847 (twin) , married Thomas Kelly, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y. (and has two children: Maud and Mabel, aged (in 1898) about 16 and 11 years respectively) . (Borodino.) Caroline Hutehens, wife of Chester Patterson. Died December 6, 1890, age 78 years. ^ (Borodino.) Attaresta Prindle, wife of Marcus Patterson, Died May 18, 1874. age 26 years, 6 months. " How calm she sleeps in her lonely home Where the cares of life can never come." (Marcus Patterson, son of Chester and Caroline (Hut chens) Patterson, by his first wife, Attaresta, had one chUd: Ellis C, and by his second wife, Mary E,, has : Frank, bom July 4, 1882 ; Grace, born March 22, 1884 ; and Blanche, born October 11, 1888 ; all residing with Mr. Patterson near Boro- lino, N. Y. Mr. Patterson has been Supervisor of the town.) (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 203 PEASE. Horace Pease, farmer, bom in Enfield, Conn., September 14, 1784, married Betsey Watts, October 27, 180^, first came to Manlius, N. Y., and from there to this town about 1810, where he settled on a farm on Lots 32 and 33, Tully, in Cold Brook. After many years he moved to Salem, Wisconsin, where he died April 12, 1863. By his -wife, Betsey Watts, he had a large family, all, but one or two of the eldest, were bom in this town, the others in Manlius. They were: Lucius, bom 1807, died June 24, 1816 ; Aaron, bom Febm ary 25, 1811, married Julia Weatherby and resided in Iowa; Minerva E., bom February 15, 1813, married (1) George Coddington, and (2) James Morwick, September, 1847, she resided first in Syracuse and later in Adrian, Mich.; Galusha J., bom February 28, 1815, married and resided In Adrian, Mich.; Spenecr A., bom February 23, 1817, mar ried (1) Hannah Paddock in 1839, and (2) Julia A Olden in 1851, resided in MantiUo, Marietta County, Wisconsin, He -was lawyer, doctor, printer, and Member of the Wis consin Legisalture; Charlotte A., borh March 30, 1819, married Edmund Whipple, resided in Iowa ; Almira S., bom April 29, 1821, married Henry Osborne, resided in Aubum, N. Y. ; Allen W., bom August 19, 1823, married and resided in Salem Racine County, Wis.; and Mary A., bom August 2, 1825, married Samuel Whipple and resided in Indiana. Mr. Pease was of the seventh generation, in line of descent from Robert and Margaret Pease, who came to Boston, (then to Salem) , Mass., in 1634, in the ship Francis, from Ipswich, England, and prior from Great Braddon, County of Essex, England, as follows : Horace, Gideon, John, John, John, John, Robert. The family home of this branch of the Pease family was Enfield Conn., where it resided for six generations, including Horace, who was bom and passed Ms boyhood there. (See Pease Genealogy, by Austin F. Pease, 1869.) PECK. Madison D| Peck, (son of Samuel Peck). Died January 6, 1879, age 62 years, 4 months, 2 days. (Samuel Peck's wife, who was a Manley, also died in this town and was buried in this cemetery. Their son, -Madison D., died unmarried.) (Borodino,) 204 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASS««ATl!ON Dol^ Peck, 1828-1893. Samuel Peck, J., (son of Samuel Peck.) Died Febmary 14, 1.835, age 7 years, 11 months, 19 days. (Samuel Peck, the father, moved from to-wp.) (Borodino,) PERKINS, Martha, wife of Albert Perkins. Died January 19, 1848, age 33 years, 7 months. (Borodino.) Hopkins Perkins formerly resided in Cold Brook, in this town; by his -wife, Polly, he had several children: A daughter, married Alphronus Phillips, she died in Cold Brook, and her husband afterwards married Martha Jane Taft, daughter of Bazaleel Taft, Phillips was a blacksmith ; Nelson, married Susan Andrews, daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Mary Andrews ; Calista, married Dudley Andrews, son of Rev. Benjamin and Mary Andrews; Anice, married Nelson McDaniels, son of John and Polly (Hankins) McDaniels, she died in Buffalo, N. Y. ; Delos, died unmar ried; and Cornelia, residing (1898), in Buffalo, N. Y., unmarried.) PHELPS. Erastis, son of Daniel and Eliza Phelps. Died April 17, 1827, age 1 year. (Mr. and Mrs. Phelps came to this to-wn from Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y., about Mjay, 1827, and settled on Lot 12, Sempronius. Mr. Phelps was probably a brother of the -wife of Isaac Anthony. He moved from town about 1830.) (Nunnery.) PLUMMER. William Henry, son of Darius and Alzina (Hall) Plum- mer. Died February 15, 1845, age 1 year, 8 months, 18 days. (Darius Plummer married Alzina Hall, daughter of Simeon and Hannah (Wilcox) Hall, and by her had several children ; he resided at one time in a house o-wned by Capt Asahel Roundy, standing hear his sa-wmill at the top of the Buck Tail Road, on Lot 22, Tully. (He moved out of town.) (Spafford.) STAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 205 PICKET. Philip Picket. Died January 13, 1852, age 78 years. (His wife, Hannah, died in 1839, and after her decease he married Anice Churchill, daughter of Chauncey and Cath erine (Merry) Churchill, and widow of Chester Sharp. (Cold Brook.) Hannah, wife of Philip Picket. Died February 18, 1839, age 69 years. (Cold Brook.) Diana Picket, daughter of Peter and Theda (Norton) Picket. Died September 9, 1827, age 2 years, 19 days. (Mrs. Picket was a daughter of Moses and Percy (Barber) Norton. Peter Picket built, about 1826, the Saw Mill (now known as Taft's Mill) , standing on Lot 44, Tully, in Cold Brook, just east of the M. E. Church and Cold Brook Cemetery) . (Cold Brook.) POLLOCK. Jacob Pollock. Private Company " I," 149th Regt., N. Y. Vols. Inft. Died October 9, 1886, age 70 years. (Jacob Pollock married (1) Bothwell, daughter ot Major Henry Bothwell, of Spafford Hollow, and (2) Par meUa Babcock, daughter of John, Jr., and Ellis (Wallace) Babcock. After his decease his second -wife married George W. Breed. Mr, Pollock had several children by his first wife.) (Borodino.) POTTER. Helen, daughter of Nelson and Abnina Potter. Died June 3, 1847, age 8 years, 1 month, 16 days. (Spafford Hollow.) A John Potter also resided in Spafford Hollow, who had four children : Rufus, John, Harry, and Susan. POWERS. Albert Powers, (son of Isaac and Chloe (Hall) Powers.) Bom June 7, 1822, died November 7, 1890. (Isaac Powers came from Moravia, N. Y., to Thom Hill; his wife, Chloe HaU, gave birth to fifteen children, aU dying in infancy except the foUowing: Orpha, married 206 ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Russel Manley and resided in Moravia, N. Y. ; Louisa, mar ried Mr. Lucien D. Wait, jeweler, of Skaneateles, N. Y.; Melvin, married Harriet Barnes, and moved to Michigan, where he married a second time (dead) ; Charles, moved to Michigan, where he married twice, (dead) ; he had a son, Charles, Jr., who resided in 1898 in Spafford, unmarried; Simeon, married and residing in Minnesota; Ira, married and resided in Moravia, N. Y., he has two sons, D-wight and Charles, who reside at the latter place ; and Albert, married (1) Wait, and (2) Cynthia Ack;es, daughter of Joseph Ackles. Albert Powers, bom at Moravia, N. Y., by his first -wife. Wait, had two children, and by his second wife, Cynthia Ackles, three, as follows: Annette, married William War ner of Cold Brook; Henry, married Nancy Durr, he was killed in a railroad accident in Homer ¦village, N. Y., buried in this cemetery (no stone) ; Matilda, married Albin Fisher of Spafford; John W., married (1) Nettie Wamer, daughter of Edward Wamer, and (2) Carrie Hazzard, daughter of George Hazzard; and Hiram, who died unmarried.) (Spafford.) Cynthia Ackles, wife of Albert Powers. Born April 17, 1825, died March 28, 1892. (Spafford.) Hiram Powers, (son of Albert and Cynthia (Ackles) Powers. Born October 10, 1866, died September 6, 1886. (Spafford.) Maud M. Powers, daughter of John W. and Clara (Haz zard) Powers. Died July 7, 1893, age 9 months, 14 days, (Mrs. Powers is called by her husband Carrie Hazzard.) (Spafford.) PRESSEY. Rhoda, wife of Benjamin Pressey, Died December 24, 1841, age 87 years, 3 months, 25 days. (Davis Yard.) Elizabeth, -wife of Benjamin Pressey. Died September 2, 1854, age 64 years, 4 months, (Davis Yard,) Among the children of Moses Pressey were: Emeline, married (1) David Cooper, and (2) Reuben Maxson; Mary, married (1) Col, Lewis C, Davis as his second wife, and (2) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 207 Herman Bames; Amanda; and LaFayette; the last two supposed to have been adopted. PRESTON. Jane (Mills) Preston, (wife of Robert Preston) . Died October 29, 1866, age 38 years. (She was a daughter of Alexander Mills.) (Borodino.) Erastus, son of Alexander and Mary Preston. Died Nov ember 2, 1881, age 1 year, 9 months, 10 days. (Borodino.) PRINDLE. Samuel Prindle, a soldier of the Revolution. Died Sep tember 12, 1850, age 92 years. (Samuel Prindle, born 1758, blacksmith by trade, was a soldier during the Revolution, in the Massachusetts Line (Continentals) , and served for a period of about three years and nine months, first in Capt, Williams' Company In Col. Patterson's regiment, for about nine months, and after wards in Captains Stoddard and HoUister's companies of Col. Poor's regiment. After the revolution, according to family tradition, he first settled in Rutland, Vermont, and from there came to Rensselaer County, N. Y., where he lost his wife, whose name is not kno-wn. After the decease of his wife, which was before 1820, he came to this town, and resided with his daughter Rhoda and his son, Samuel, Jr., on the East Side HiU, until his decease. He was a pensioner of the United States during the major part of his residence in this town. His children were : Samuel, supposed to have died single; Rhoda, died single; Reuben, supposed to have died single in Pennsylvania; Moses, bora June 21, 1789, married Purlina M. Patchen, after his decease his wife married (2) Dr. Reuben T. Breed, son of AUen and Lucy (Taylor) Breed; Betsey, married Mr. Potter; a daughter, married Conrad' Kellyer ; and Joseph, bora February 26, 1791, married Elizabeth Moon, daughter of Silas and Anna Moon.) (Spafford.) Moses Prindle, (son of Samuel Prindle). Died October 21, 1835, age 46 years, 4 months. 208 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION " Here to the dreary grave confined. He sleeps in death's dark bloom. Until the eternal morning wakes The slumber of the tomb." (Moses Prindle came to this town from Greenwick, Wash ington County, N. Y., where he married his wife, Purlina M. Patchen, and settled on Lot 32, Sempronius, in the Spring of 1818, and there remained until his decease. His chUdren were: Clarinda, married William B. Thompson, son of Reuben and Sally Thompson, moved to Jackson County, Michigan; Truman, moved West; Polaski, he was a physi cian and studied medicine with Dr. Isaac Morell, of Boro dino, N. Y., he died in Michigan ; Oscar, born September 13, 1828, married Melinda Rich, only daughter of Dorr and Anna (Becker) Rich, (one child only, died young) ; and Fernando C, married Mary Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Jonathan and Esther (Woodworth) Johnson, resides in Spafford, farmer, no issue.) (Spafford.) Purlina M. (Patchen) , wife of Reuben T. Breed, formerly wife of Moses Prindle. Died October 27, 1861, age 61 years, 4 months, 10 days. (She was born June 17, 1800; by her second husband she had one child, Helen, who married Edwin Johnson, son of Jonathan and Esther (Woodworth) Johnson, both dead and buried in this cemetery.) (Spafford.) Hon. Joseph Prindle, (son of Samuel Prindle) . Died May 17, 1859, age 68 years, 2 months, 22 days. (Mr. Prindle came to this to-wn -with his brother Moses, with whom he resided on Lot 32, Sempronius, until he pur chased (in 1818) his home farm on Lot 41, Tully, where he resided until his decease. He was prominent in town affairs, and amongst other offices at one time was a member of the New York Legislature. His children bom in Spaf ford, by his wife Elizabeth Moon, were : Samuel H., bom April 12, 1815, was killed accidentally, unmarried ; Minerva, married Col. WiUiam W. Legg, son of Capt Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg, both dead, and buried in Borodino cemetery; Rensselaer, married Charlotte Vincent, daughter of Michael Vincent of Scott, N. Y., both dead, and buried in Borodino cemetery; Joseph Addison, married Anna Manning, he was -SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 209 a teacher and preacher, and resided in Oswego, N. Y.; and Horace, married Angeline Norton, daughter of Robert and Susan (Hill) Norton, he is dead, widow resides in Syracuse, N.Y.) (Spafford.) Elizabeth (Moon), wife of Hon. Joseph Prindle. Died December 12, 1868, age 75 years, 3 months, 14 days. (Spafford.) Samuel H., son of Joseph and EUzabeth (Moon) Prindle. Died December 12, 1846, age 31 years, 8 months. (Spafford.) Oscar Prindle, (son of Moses and Purlina M. (Patchen) Prindle. Died November 10, 1883, age 55 years, 2 months, 27 days. (Spafford.) Infant son and only child of Oscar and Malinda (Rich) Prindle. Died April 29, 1870. " Gone but not forgotten." (Spafford.) Rensselaer Prindle (son of Hon. Joseph and Elizabeth (Moon) Prindle). Born in Spafford, Onondaga County, N. Y., June 15, 1822. Died April 15, 1899, age 76 years, 10 months. (Mr. Prindle, by Ms wife, Charlotte Vincent, had the fol lowing children, all born in Spafford on Lot 41, Tully: Mary E., married Marcus Patterson, son of Chester and Caroline (Hutchens) Patterson, as his second wife, resides near Borodino, N. Y. ; Attaresta, married Marcus Patter son as his first wife, dead, buried in this cemetery; Jay Lester, married Sarah E. Cotteral, daughter of John and Sarah Mary (Barker) Cotteral, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; and Edgar, married Helen Lyon, daughter of Spencer K. and (Baxter) Lyon. Mr. Prindle was bom and always resided on part of the homestead farm, on Lot 41, Tully.) (Borodino.) Charlotte E. Vincent, wife of Rensselaer Prindle. Born in Saratoga County, N. Y., October 7, 1826. Died January 27, 1886, age 59 years, 4 months. (Borodino.) 210 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PULLMAN. Shadrack Pullman, son of John and Mabel (Pettis) Pull man. Died June 12, 1832, age 4 years, 10 months, 3 days. (John Pullman, son of Psalter and Elizabeth Pullman, married Mabel Pettis, daughter of Joseph Pettis, who for merly resided on Randall's Point, Lot 41, TuUy, on the east side of Skaneateles Lake. (The Pettises came from St. Law rence County, N. Y.) Psalter Pullman (perhaps from Rhode Island), came to this to-wn about 1815, and settled on what was subsequently kno-wn as the Rathbone Barber, Jr., farm. Lot 32, Sempronius, where he remained, clearing the land, until about 1830, when he and all his family, except John and one daughter, went West. His children, bom in Spafford, were : Joseph M., bom October 16, 1815, married March 17, 1840, Susanna Needham, settled in Niles, Michigan; Lewis married and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan; among his children were: George M. Pullman, the Palace Car magnate; John, married Mabel Pettis, daughter of Joseph Pettis, he at an early date resided on the Skaneateles and Homer road, on Lot 31, Tully, where he kept the tavern, caUed the " Nimble Sixpence," he moved to Wis consin, where he died; Nathaniel, married Nancy , he was a preacher and went West; Moses, moved West; Esther and Abigail, one of the latter married Harmon Nor ton, son of Moses and Percy (Barber) Norton. John Pullman (son of Psalter and Elizabeth Pullman), by his wife, Mabel Pettis, had the following children, in addition to those named in this record as buried in this cemetery: Jessie, married Christina Havens, daughter of Clark and Roby (Barber) Havens, resided in 1898 in Niles, Cayuga County, N. Y.; Charles, went West; and Fred, resided in Skaneeateles, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Polly E., daughter of John and Mabel (Pettis) Pullman. Died October 20, 1838, age 16 years, 3 months, 20 days. (Spafford.) Thankful M., daughter of John and Mabel (Pettis) Pull man. Died October 26, 1838, age 14 years, 6 months, 4 days. (Spafford.) Emily, daughter of John and Mabel (Pettis) Pullman. Died January 8, 1839, age 7 months. (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 211 PURDY. Elizabeth Purdy. Died February 14, 1872, age 71 years, 7 days. (She was the mother of Hiram Purdy.) (Borodino.) QUICK. William Quick. Died January 31, 1890, age 68 years. " We miss thee." (Mr. Quick was a tailor by occupation; he was born in London, England, and from there came first to Canada, where he lost his first wife, whose name is unkno-wn. He came from Canada to Spafford Corners about 1850, and there married Jane French, adopted daughter of Samuel and Rachel French, as his second wife. After residing at the latter place several years, he moved to the -village of Borodino, where he remained until about 1885. He then moved to Aubum, N. Y., the place of his decease. By his first wife he had : Henry, died unmarried ; William, mar ried Adelia Cornell, daughter of John and Miranda Cornell, resides at Navarino, N. Y. ; and Charles B., married Eliza J. Hayford, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (French) Hayford, he is dead; and by his second wife, William Quick had: George B., married and resides at Weedsport, N. Y. ; James M., married (1) Sarah Jane Grinnell, daughter of Ansel Grinnell, and (2) Martha Grinnell, daughter of Evelyn P. Grinnell, resides in Aubum, N. Y. ; and Frank, married Mary Howe, daughter of Henry Howe, resides in Homer, N. Y. Mr. Quick's widow now resides in Auburn, N.Y.) (Borodino.) Henry Quick, (son of William Quick). Died April 29, 1862, age 22 years. (Borodino.) Sarah Jane (Grinnell), wife of James Quick. Died June 24, 1885, age 30 years, 10 months, 26 days. (Borodino.) RANDALL. Silas RandaU, (son of Silas and Hannah (Fish) Ran dall) . Died Febmary 26, 1877, age 85 years, 8 months, 27 days. 212 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Silas Randall, Sr., was a son of Capt. John Randall of Foster, R. I., and came to this town prior to 1814 and settled on Lot 31, Tully; after remaining here for a short time, he sold out his interest in the lands in question to his son, Silas, Jr., and according to family tradition went West perhaps tg Ohio. His son, Silas, Jr., after remaining here five or six years 'with his father, who then lived in a log house, situate about 40 or 50 rods west of the present Ran dall residence, on the homestead farm on Lot 31, Tully, went back to Foster, R. I., and there married' Mercy Har rington, sister of John Harrington, formerly of this town, residing on Lot 41, Tully, and brought her here where she remianed until her decease; he then married Anna Alvord, widow of Alva Wadsworth, for a second -wife. Silas Ran dall, Sr., had another son, Henry Randall, who came with him to this to-wri, and resided with his wife, Anna, after 1814 on survey fifty acres in the northeast comer of Lot 41, Tully; he was drowned in Skaneateles Lake, while boating a load of wheat to the village of Skaneateles. Silas Randall, Jr., by his -wife, Mercy Harrington, had the following chil dren, all bom in this to-wn : Robert, married Mary Ann Fay, daughter of John and Isabel Fay, they are dead, (their chil dren were: Mary Jane, married Abraham Craig; Sarah, married Lehi Wood; William, bachelor; Henry, married Tirzah Knight, daughter of John Knight; Emily, married Perry Randall, son of Hosea and Charlotte (Clark) Ran dall, as his second wife; and Elizabeth, married Albert Barber, all were Uving in 1898. Josephine, bom about 1863, li-ving at or near Glen Haven, N. Y. There were two more who died young. ) Ezra, married Mary Ann Alvord, after the decease of Ezra, his vadow married Samuel L. Churchill. Ezra and his wife are now both deceased and buried in this cemetery. (Their children were: Ahny, married Riley Webster (both dead) ; Elnora, resided in Marcellus, N. Y.; and Harriet, married Newcomb Wright, resides in Otisco, N. Y.) ; Massena, married (1) Sylvanus Knight, and (2) Nathan Bond, resides in Spafford, no issue ; Betsey, married Charles Barber, son of Rathbone and Robe (Wilcox) Barber (one child : Mercy Ann, married Vinal Gifford, resides m Spafford). Mr. and Mrs. Barber are both dead; Mary, died in 1840, age 25 years, unmarried; Nathan, marrlea Mary Ann Wadsworth, daughter of Alva and Anna SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 213 (Alvord) Wadsworth, (she was daughter of Silas Randall's second wife, Anna Alvord), (their children were: George Henry, married Harriet Knight, daughter of John Knight, the children of George Herny are : James, married Emeline Briggs; Alvin, married Alice Briggs; Nancy, married George Hill ; Silvia, died single ; Susan, married John New man ; and Alta, unmarried ;) John, the second son of Nathan, died young; Benjamin, married Sarah Wright (one child, Mary) ; William C, married Alice Worden, daughter of Walter and Margaret (Wood) Worden, one son, Albert, married Bell Powers, daughter of John W. and Nettie (Warner) Powers; Frank, married Fannie Worden, sister of William C. Randall's wife; and Adelle, married Alvin Worden, son of Walter and Margaret (Wood) Worden) ; Nathan and his wife still reside at Spafford Comers; George, died unmarried ; Martin, died unmarried ; and Silas, died unmarried; Silas Randall, by his second wife, Anna Alvord, had one daughter. Amy, who married Wesley Craig, she is now deceased (three children). Mr. Randall was a soldier of the war of 1812, and a man generally respected.) (Spafford.) : Mercy (Harrington), wife of Silas Randall. Died Sep tember 10, 1843, age 50 years. (Spafford.) Anna (Alvord) (Wadsworth), wife of Silas RandaU. Died November 15, 1878, age 72 years. (Spafford.) George Randall, (son of Silas and Mercy (Harrington) Died July 6, 1865, age 44 years. (Spafford.) Ezra Randall, (son of Silas and Silas and Mercy (Har rington) Randall) . Died September 28, 1857, age 31 years. (Spafford.) Alexander, son of Ezra and Mary Ann (Alvord) Ran daU. Died December 31, 1849, age 1 year, 7 months. (Spafford.) Mary, daughter of Silas and Mercy (Harrington) Ran dall. Died September 15, 1840, age 25 years. (Spafford.) Silas, son of Silas and Mercy (Harrington) Randall. Died October 19, 1845, age 26 years. (Spafford.) 214 ONONBAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATI©N Martin Randall, (son of Silas and Mercy (Harrington) Randall. Died December 28, 1886, age 53 years. (Spafford.) John, son of Nathan and Mary Ann (Wadsworth) Ran dall. Died November 21, 1849, age 2 years, 4 montiis, 6 days. (Spafford.) Comelia V. H., daughter of Henry and Margaret Ran daU. Died December 5, 1842, age 21 years, 15 days. (Spafford Hollow.) Sarah (Havens), wife of Stephen Randall, Jr. Died August 24, 1858, age 32 years. (Stephen Randall, Sr., is supposed to have been a first cousin to Silas Randall, Jr., who married Mercy Harring ton for his first wife; he had three wives : (1) Ruth, (sur name not known). (2) Lucinda Palmer, and for a third wife, Patty Olmstead, he is supposed to have come origin ally from Foster, R. I. His children were: Hosea, married Charlotte Clark, he is dead and buried at Scott, N, Y.; his -widow is now (1899) residing at Glen Haven, N. Y. Stephen, Jr., married (1) Sarah Havens, daughter of Clark and Roby (Barber) Havens, and (2) Diantha Oland, widow of Hezekiah Havens ; he was drowned in Skaneateles Lake ; Amy, married (1) Dwight Rejmolds, and (2) Dwight Smith ; she died in Sempronius ; Mary, married Stephen De Barre, husband died on Ten Mile Point, she died at Man dana, N. Y. ; Betsey, married Charles Lewis, residing in 1898 in New Hope, N. Y. ; Deborah, married Josiah Scott, She died in New Hope, N. Y. ; Polina, married Charles Odell, living in 1898 in Niles, Cayuga County, N. Y.; Joel, married in Oswego County, N. Y, and in 1898 was residing in Iowa; Harvey, went away; Lucinda, died at Glen Haven, unmar ried, buried in Scott, N. Y. ; and Nathan, married, and in 1898 resided in Iowa. Hosea RandaU, (son of Stephen Randall), by his wife, Charlotte Clark, had the following children: Hosea, Jr., married Catherine Cummings, resides near Glen Haven, and has several children, some of whom are married; John, married Alice Barber, daughter of Rathbone and Julania, (Harris) Barber, resides near Glen Haven, N. Y., and has one son. Earl; Perry, married (1) Philinda Daniels, and (2) Emily RandaU, daughter of Robert and Mary Ann ,af AFFORD MORTUARY RECWUJS WITH OENEALOGICAL NOTES 216 (Fay) Randall, he died in 1898, widow resides near Glen Haven, several children; and WiUiam, married Abigail Morris, daughter of Samuel Morris, and widow of a Mr. Smith, resides at Glen Haven, N. Y. Stephen Randall, Sr., died in the town of Onondaga, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Minerva D., daughter of Stephen, Jr., and Sarah (Havens) RandaU. Died December 31, 1857, age 8 years and 11 months. (Borodino.) RANDELL. Rhoda, relict of Caleb Randell, died February 22, 1844, age 65 years, 7 months, 3 days. (Borodino.) Caleb Randell. Died February 3, 1857, age 84 years, 10 months, 17 days. RATHBONE. Valentine Rathbone and his son, James Rathbone, came to this town from Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Mass., in the Fall of 1801, and settled on fifty acres in the southwest corner of Lot 69, Marcellus, of which the former had a deed. In March of the next year Valentine Rathbone conveyed, without wife, these lands to James Rathbone, and the latter, from time to time thereafter, added to this purchase other lands on this and adjoining lots, until he owned at one time a very large farm of 336 acres, on lots 68, 69, and 74, Mar cellus. James Rathbone married Margaret Ashley, and by her had the following children: James Harvey, married Clorinda Pardee, he died in Spafford and was buried in Borodino Cemetery, no stone; Niles, married and died in Illinois; Charlotte, married Conrad Hillebert, brother of John C. Hillebert, of this to-wn ; Clorinda, married Edmund C, Weston, both dead, and buried in Borodino Cemetery; Sophia, married Peleg Gifford, died near Utica, N. Y. ; Fanny, married William Patten, dead, and buried in Boro dino Cemetery; Harriet, married Zara Berry, died in 1828, and buried at Thorn Hill; Jane A., married Leonard Har vey, son of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey; Mary, mar ried Benjamin Folsom, (said to be an uncle in some degree ¦of Mrs, Grover Cleveland), resided in Los Angeles, Call- 216 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCTATION fornia; Benjamin Frank, married and died in Michigan;. and William, died in Spafford, unmarried. Valentine Rath bone and his son, James Rathbone, were clothiers by trade, the former ha-ving built the first clothing mill in Pittsfield about 1768, and the latter built a similar mill in Factory Gulf, on Lot 74, Marcellus, soon after he came here. Val entine Rathbone was a prominent man in Pittsfield, and there organized a Baptist Church about 1772, and minis tered over it as Elder until about the time he came here. At one time he was converted to the doctrine of the Shakers, but afterwards abandoned that sect and worked against that faith. He was also prominent at Pittsfield in political affairs, especially in Revolutionary times. After the sale of his possessions on lot 69, Marcellus, to his son James in 1802, he purchased 300 acres on lot 54, Marcellus, and settled on the highway now kno-wn as the Skaneateles and Hamilton Turnpike, about one mile north of the village of Marietta, where he remained until the period of his death, which occurred in February 1814, at the advanced age of 90 years. According to family tradition, Valentine Rath bone was bom in Stonington, Conn., December 23, 1724, and probably was descended from John Rathbone, one of the first settlers and sixteen proprietors of Block Island (New Shoreham, R. I.) In his -will, dated November i7, 1808, probated February 17, 1814, he mentions his wife, Tabitha Rathbone, and his children: Saxon, (executor), Joshua (then dead), Daniel (then dead), James, Benjamin, Valentine, Jr., daughters Niles (then dead), Susanna, Eunice, Cynthia, and his son Reuben (then dead) . Among the list of soldiers of the American Revolution mentioned in the history of Pittsfield, Mass., as serving from that town, are the following : Daniel, James, Reuben, Valentine, Jacob, Sylvester and Charles T. Rathbone; the last three possibly may have been grandchildren of Valen tine, the others were his sons. RAYMOND. Hannah, daughter of Nathan and Mariah (Williamson) Raymond. Died October 17, 1831, age 1 year, 4 months, 6 days. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 21f " Fond desires are often crossed And parents hopes in death are lost." (Nathan Raymond married Mariah Williamson, daughter of Cornelius and Eliza (Ostrander) Williamson.) (Spafford.) REED. Jonathan Reed. Died October 16, 1828, age 54 years, 9 months, 9 days. (He married Rhoda Bowen, and by her had: Augustus, married (1) a Piatt, and (2) a woman in Onondaga Valley, N. Y. ; Hiram, married Miss Bishop, daughter of Col. Bishop; Mary, married Samuel Harvey, son of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey; Theda, married John Harvey, son of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey; Elpha, married (1) Mr. Walter Bradley, and (2) Edmund Akin; Sarah, married Mr. Lincoln (or Lime) Chapman; and Minerva, married John F. Clark of Onondaga Valley, N. Y.) (Thom HUl.) Rhoda (Bowen), wife of Jonathan Reed. Died August 17, 1859, age 75 years, 2 months, 27 days. (Thom HiU.) RICE. Mary, wife of Christian Rice. Died February 14, 1831, age 56 years, 4 months, 2 days. (Christian Rice settled on Lot 71, Marcellus, west of Otisco Lake, prior to 1815.) (Thom HiU.) Laura, daughter ofChristian and Mary Rice. Died March 9, 1830, age 15 years, 5 months, 6 days. (Thom HiU.) Samuel Rice, (son of Christian and Mary Rice). Died October 17, 1839, age 37 years. (After his decease his -wife, Elizabeth Davis, daughter of Farrand and Esther Davis, married William Patten, as his second -wife.) (Thom HiU.) 218 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Mary, wife of Luther Rice. Died August 5, 1857, age 3T years, 8 months, 15 days. (Spafford Hollow.) Marquess D. Rice. Died Febmary 14, 1864, age 22 years, 9 months, 10 days. (Spafford Hollow.) Lucretia (Norton), -wife of Stephen Rice. Died Decem ber 12, 1865, age 28 years, 1 month, 17 days. (Stephen Rice, son of Le-vi Rice, married Lucretia Nor ton, daughter of Seymour and Sally (Lyman) Norton. Near Lucretia's grave are two unmarked graves, of infant children of Stephen and Lucretia (Norton) Rice.) (Spafford.) Mary A. (Norton), wife of Orrin Rice. Died July 27, 1862, age 19 years, 6 months. (Orrin Rice, son of Levi Rice, married Mary A. Norton, daughter of Seymour and Sally (Lyman) Norton.) (Spafford.) RICH. Dorr Rich. Born July 11, 1798, died July 30, 1867. (He married Anna Becker, sister of Peter Becker, and had the following children: Chrales M., married Justina Woodworth, daughter of Joel C, and Sarah (Eadie) Wood- worth; Charlotte M., married George W. Briggs; Melinda, married Oscar M. Prindle, son of Moses and Purlina M, (Patohen) Prindle; and a daughter, married Richard M. Eddy.) (Borodino.) Anna Becker, -wife of Dorr Rich. Bom March 18, 1796, died May 29, 1884. (Borodino.) RICHARDSON. Stephen R. Richardson. Died February 13, 1857, age 31 years, 1 month. " He sleeps in Jesus." " Go home, dear -wife, dry up your tears And be prepared when Christ appears." (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECCHIDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 219 RIGGALL. Miles Riggall. Died November 17, 1861, age 62 years, 2 months, 26 days. (He married Maria Lieber; after his decease his widow married Albin Coon, of Thom Hill, for her second husband.) (Spafford,) RIPLEY, Jonathan Ripley, (son of David and Precilla (Dunbar) Ripley.) Died April 15, 1849, age 78 years, 6 months, 21 years. " Receive O Earth ! his faded form, In thy cold bosom let it lie. Safe let it rest from ev'ry storm. Soon may it rise no more to die." (David Ripley was the son of John and Meribah Ripley, who first resided in Coventry, and afterwards in West Greenwich, R. I. ; their children were : Sarah, bom in Cov entry, January 11, 1740 ; Mary, bom in Coventry, April 15, 1742, married in West Green-wich, Benjamin Adam Gallup, February 14, 1762; David, bom in West Green-wich, July 30, 1744, married Precilla Dunbar, bom March 12, 1745, supposed to have resided in Warren County, N. Y., and afterwards perhaps Hoosick, Rensselaer County, N. Y,; Meribah, bom in West Green-wich, R. I., August 6, 1746; Jane, bom in West Greenwich, R. I., January 27, 1850-1; Preserved, bom November 13, 1752, (as well as the three following) in West Greenwich, R. I.: Joshua, bom Decem ber 16, 1754; John, bom March 21, 1757; and Asa, bom May 23, 1760. The children of David and Precilla (Dunbar) Ripley are not given, except Jonathan, bom September 25, 1770, died April 13, 1848, at Spafford, N. Y., married at Hoosick, N. Y., December 14, 1791, Ruth Corey, bom February 9, 1776, died in Spafford, N. Y., February 25, 1862. Jonathan Ripley, by his wife Ruth Corey, had the foUow ing children: the first three in Warren County, N. Y., the next six in Hoosick, Rensselaer County, and the last in Spaf ford, N. Y. : Joshua, bom October 5, 1793, died May, 1859, married Mary Ayers at Virgil, Cortland County, January, 1821; Rebecca, born October 7, 1795, married Ripha Worden 220 ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASS««KATI»N December 25, 1816, at Brutus, Cayuga County, N. Y. ; James, bora October 14, 1797, died September 18, 1859, in lUinois, married Mahala Randall at Spafford, October, 1820; John L., born May 26, 1799, married Clarissa E. Loss, April 6, 1823, at Spafford, N. Y., daughter of Moses and Susanna (Ells) Loss; Whitman, born March 14, 1801, married Thankful Barber, March 1822, at Spafford; Meribah, bom February 6, 1803, married Randall Palmer, at Spafford, January 6, 1825 ; David, bom September 16, 1804, died February 8, 1865, in Spafford, married Sarah Jane Eliot, daughter of Elias and Charity (Warner) Eliot, at Geddes, N. Y., his wife, after his decease, married Willard Doty for her second husband ; Elsie, born February 9, 1807, died January 7, 1843, at Truxton, buried in Spafford Ceme tery, married Stephen Norton, January 24, 1828, at Spaf ford, N. Y. ; Maria, born March 13, 1811, married Lysander Denny May, 1841, at Joliet, Illinois ; and Silas C, born April 22, 1813, married Rosina Burgess, June 16, 1837, at Auburn, N. Y. Mr. Ripley came to this town from Hoosick, N. Y., about 1812, and settled upon Ripley Hill, on Lot 32, Tully, where he remained until his decease.) (Spafford.) David Ripley, (son of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey) Ripley. Died February 8, 1865, age 61 years. (Mr. Ripley, like his father, was a farmer, came to this town with his father, and after marriage settled on a farm adjoining his father, on the south, on Ripley HiU, where he resided until his decease. By his wife, Sarah Jane Eliot he had the following children, all bom in this to-wn : Sarah A., married LaFayette Foster, son of Albert and Clarissa (Maxson) Foster; Frances, married James S. Foster, son of Albert and Clarissa (Maxson) Foster; Helen, married Dudley B. Andrews, son of John P. and Harriet Andrews; Charles, married Sophia Andrews, daughter of John P. and Harriet Andrews, (they have had three children : Thomas, Charles, and a daughter who died in infancy) , they reside West; George, married Mary Carr, daughter of Almond Carr, (one child died in infancy), resides in Wisconsin; Lucy, married Fred C. Hills, ; and James, deceased.) (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 221 Nellie Verne, daughter of George and Mary (Carr) Ripley. Died Febmary 3, 1873, age 6 months. " Our Baby." (Spafford.) John L. Ripley, son of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey) Ripley. Bom May 26, 1799, died September 27, 1887. (No stone) . (He came to this to-wn with his father, and resided on Ripley Hill until the decease of his father, when he moved to a farm on Lot 32, Sempronius, where he died ; he mar ried Clarissa E. Loss, April 6, 1825, and by her had the following children, all born in this town : Candace S., bora Febmary 20, 1826, married Windsor Holmes, son of John and Lydia (Bames) Holmes, March 28, 1871, resided in Spafford; David L., bom January 16, 1829, married Mary E. Richardson, June 25, 1862, in Sempronius, N. Y., wife dead and he resides in Spafford; Moses D., born May 7, 1830, resides in Charles City Iowa, unmarried; Valencia, bora July 9, 1832 ; Amon J., born November 19, 1834, mar ried Harriet Carr, daughter of Thurston and Lorane (Green) Carr, (one daughter, Flora, married Edwin Morris, son of Uriah and Frances (Worden) Morris, resides in Spafford) ; Amon J., resides in Glen Haven, N. Y. ; Jonathan D., born February 7, 1837, married (1) Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Asa and Laura Ann (Babcock) Hall, and (2) Nellie Hough of Skaneateles, N. Y., resides in Spafford, N. Y.; James W., born February 25, 1839, died May 14, 1843, in Spafford ; Calista L., born April 27, 1841, died in Quincy, Michigan, April 13, 1866, married Calvin Hayes, July 4, 1860 ; George V., bora September 5, 1843, married Helen Newland December 31, 1865; Clarissa A., born Jan uary 5, 1846, married Arthur Hall, son of Asa and Laura Ann (Babcock) Hall, October 6, 1869, resides in Spafford, N. Y.; and Daniel W., bora January 4, 1849, married Lovica Phelps, June 16, 1870.) (Spafford.) Clarissa Eells Loss, wife of John L. Ripley, Born Decem ber 5, 1807, died November 29, 1891. (Np stone.) (She was a daughter of Moses and Susanna (Eells) Loss, and bora in Skaneateles, N. Y. On her mother's side she was descended from John EeUs, who came from Barnstable, England, in 1635, and settled in Dorchest'.r, Mass., as 222 • ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION follows: Clarissa, Susanna, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Samuel, Samuel, John,) (Spafford,) Nancy Elizabeth (HaU), -wife of Jonathan D. Ripley, Died November 13, 1866, age 28 years, 5 months, 19 days, (Spafford.) Nellie I., died Janaury 17, 1877, age 4 months, 15 days, Charles P, Died June 11, 1878, age 5 years. Children of Jonathan D, and Nellie I. (Hough) Ripley. (Spafford.) Mary E. (Richardson), -wife of Da-vid L. Ripley. Died October 4, 1870, age 35 years, 10 months, 14 days. (Spafford.) Joshua Ripley, the eldest son of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey) Ripley, came to this town with his father, and the members of his family were in early years well known to the people of this town, but we have no record of any dead of his descendants in any of our cemeteries. By his wife, Mary Ayers, he is known to have had the following children : Washington, killed by a falling tree, unmarried; Clorinda, went West -with her brother, David Miner; David Miner, married West ; William, died unmarried ; and John, married Sarah Peek of Truxton, N. Y., he was a soldier in the War of 1861, first resided in Truxton, and then in Homer, N. Y., where he died and was buried, he claimed to have second sight. John Ripley, (son of Joshua and Mary Ayers Ripley) , by his -wife Sarah Peck, who was living in Homer, N. Y., in 1898, had the foUo-wing: Candace Theodosia, married Charles GiUett of Cold Brook, N. Y. ; Nelson, bachelor, resid ing in 1898 in Geddes, N. Y. ; Anna, married Henry FuUer, resides with her mother in Homer, N. Y. ; George, resides in Homer, N. Y,, unmarried; and Jacob, who also resides in Homer, N. Y., unmarried, ROBERTSON, James Robertson, Died February 25, 1859, age 78 years, 7 months, 11 days, (He came from Jackson, Washington County, N, Y., about 1840, and settled on the county line road, on lot 41, Tully, where he remained until his decease; his wife, Isabel Eadie, was a sister of Peter Becker's wife, by her he had : Christia SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 223 Ann, married (1) Richard C. Goodrich, and (2) Daniel Lyon, she died in Otisco N . Y. ; Elizabeth, married Abiathar Mel-vin, son of Jabez and Rebecca Melvin, as his second wife, husband dead, and in 1898 she was residing in Nebraska; John, died, (dro-wned), unmarried; Peter, mar ried Jane Jacobson, resided in Troy, N. Y. ; Jane, married Alexander Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell, as his second wife, dead; Agnes, 1898, residing unmarried in Otisco, N. Y. ; and Mary, died unmarried.) (Spafford.) Isabel (Eadie) , wife of James Robertson. Died May 27, 1870, age 85 yars, 8 months, 6 days. " Our Mother." (Spafford.) ROBINSON. Amy, -wife of Archibald Robinson, Bom March 28, 1787, died January 14, 1852. (Archibald Robinson at one time resided on a farm on Lots 10, 11, and 21, Sempronius, in the Nunnery neighbor hood.) (Borodino.) Mariah, daughter of Richard and Mary Robinson. Died February 26, 1825, age 13 years, 13 days. (Thom HiU.) ROBISON. Abram Robison. Died July 4, 1878, age 25 years, 11 months, 4 days. " Gone to rest." (He was drowned in Skaneateles Lake, near Ten Mile Point, died unmarried.) (Borodino.) ROGERS. Nettie Eadie, wife of Charles Rogers. Died June 8, 1876, age 19 years, 1 month, 3 days. " Remember you still." (She was a daughter of John W. and Abigail (Doty) Eadie) . (Spafford.) 224 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ROOT. Norman Root. Born October 25, 1789. Died May 10, 1853. (By his wife Anna he had : Artemus ; Hezekiah, married Diana Scri-vnes ; Dana; Mary Ann, married Henry Tucker; Jenette, died as a young lady; and Esther, married George H. Anthony. In 1838 he resided on the WiUiamson Farm, west side of Spafford Hollow, about one mile south of Otisco Lake.) (Spafford HoUow.) Anna, -wife of Norman Root. Born March 25, 1794, died January 6, 1856. (Spafford Hollow.) ROSMAN. Urania Rosman. Died July 16, 1869, age 69 years. (She came from Auburn, N. Y., and died at the house of Joel C. Woodworth, unmarried.) (Spafford.) ROUNDS. Russel Rounds. Died April 11, 1856, age 38 years, 14 days. (He married Lydia Harrington, daughter of John and Catherine Harrington, and by her had the following chil dren: Matilda, married Alexander Green, blacksmith, at Spafford Comers, he died 1899 and she now resides in Spafford ; Minerva, married Allen Breed, son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed, he is dead and she resides in Spafford; Lucy, married Henry B. Knapp, son of Augustus Knapp, and (2) Joseph Leffuigwell, resides in Spafford; and Anna, married John Odell, resides in Spafford. Mr. Rounds was drowned at New Hope, N. Y., and his widow in 1898 resided ¦with her daughter, Mrs. OdeU, in Spafford.) (Spafford.) ROUNDY. Asahel Roundy, (son of Uriah and Lucretia Needham). Died February 1, 1857, age 72 years, 6 months. (He came to this town about 1807 from Rockingham, Vt, where he was bom, and remained here until his death, first residing on Lot 22, Tully, where part of his children were bora, and afterwards on the State's Hundred Acres on Lot SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 225 21, TuUy. He was of the seventh generation, in line of descent from Philip Roundy, who died in Salem, Mass., in i678. The first wife of PhiUp Roundy is not known, but in November, 1671, he married Anna Bush at Salem for a second wife; he had by his first wife: Robert, died at Beverly, Mass., November 16, 1715, married Deborah Plumb, July 13, 1678 ; Mark, he was a soldier in King PhiUp's War, and Was wounded in the Narragansett Battle in December 1675 ; and by his second -wife he had Mary, married Thomas Walter, April 19, 1695. Robert Roundy (son of PhiUp) was a Coaster, and was sometimes called Doctor, he had a warehouse in Beverly. By his wife, Deborah Plumb, he had: Elizabeth, John, Mary, Deborah, Esther and Benjamin. John Roundy (son of Robert), resided first in Beverly, and second in Marblehead, Mass.; he married (1) December 2, 1703, in Beverly, Mary Daland, (and by her had : Robert and Lydia), and (2) Elizabeth Savery at Marblehead, and by her had : John, Elizabeth, Martha, Sarah, Joseph, Abra ham and Thomas. Robert Roundy, (son of John and Mary (Daland) Roundy), was born January 7, 1704, in Beverly, and died in Lempster, N. H., June 17, 1797 ; he was a weaver by trade and settled in Windham, Conn., where he remained, during the birth of his children, and until the decease of his wife, April 3, 1781, and then went to Lempster to reside -with his son, Samuel, where he died and was buried. By his wife, Elizabeth Green, he had : John, Samuel, Robert, Elizabeth, and Mary. John Roundy, (son of Robert and Elizabeth (Green) Roundy) , bora August 23, 1726, in Windham, died in Rock ingham, Vt., married Mary Bass, born in Windham, Conn., June 20, 1729, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Parish) Bass, and by her had : John, Almond, Elmariah and Uriah. Mr, Roundy was elected at the organization of the town of Rockingham, as its first Representative. He was commonly called Captain in the public records, and all his sons served as soldiers in the War of the Revolution, Uriah Roundy, (son of John and Mary (Bass) Roundy) , bom October 27, 1756, died May 1, 1813, in Rockingham, Vt., married Lucretia Needham, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (AUen) Needham, born in Norwich, Conn., Sep- 226 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION tember 9, 1760, died in Michigan, December 5 1848, she at one time resided with her son, Asahel Roundy, in Spafford, N. Y. Mr. Roundy, by his wife, Lucretia, had the foUo-wing children, all born in Rockingham, Vermont: Daniel, bom December 1, 1780, died December 3, 1847, married (1) Laura Hoyt, and (2) Ruth Baird, December 23, 1821, at Spafford, N. Y., he first settled in Spafford and then moved West, where he died ; Hannah, born June 19, 1782, married Silas Baird, in Rockingham, Vt., June 28, 1804, she and her husband both died in Ripley, Chautauqua County, N. Y., where their descendants remain ; Asahel, bom July 29, 1784, died February 1, 1857, married Hannah Weston at Skan eateles, N. Y., January 19, 1809, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Weston ; Lucy, bom March 9, 1797, died June 2, 1850, married Lauren Hotchkiss, they were father and mother of the Rev. Velona Hotchkiss, D. D,, Baptist De-vine, who died in Buffalo, N. Y. ; Shadrack, born January 1, 1789, died July 2, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah, married Betsey Quimby; Naomi bom February 1, 1791, died June 7, 1820, married John Baird; Lucretia born March 6, 1793, died unmarried; Maria, bora May 10, 1794, died 1890, married John Hutchens in Spafford in 1816, (brother of Col. Phineas Hutchens of this town), descendants mostly in Wisconsin; Uriah, bom April 10, 1796, married (1) Polly Lyon at Spaf ford, sister of Daniel and David Lyon, and (2) Rena Bristol. He died in Iowa in 1870 ; Mary, born May 23, 1798, married Baxter Lyon; Almira, bom April 20, 1'800, died April 8, 1883, married (1) Warren Sabin in 1822, and (2) Morgan WiUiams in 1842; and Matilda, bom October 22, 1803, married George Humphrey, resided in Medina, N. Y. Daniel Roundy, (son of Uriah and Lucretia) , by his -wife Laura Hoyt, had : Lucretia, born August 17, 1810, married at Spafford, Joel H. Grout, son of John and Elizabeth (Clark) Grout, husband died in this to-wn and she moved to Chicago, IU., and by his second wife, Ruth Baird, (bom October 15, 1799, at Granville, Washington County, N. Y., died in Illinois in 1893), he had the foUo-wing: Jay, died at Manteno, Iowa, February 2, 1893, married Sarah Ger- main, January 1, 1853; Jane, born April 8, 1823, died young; Dr. Daniel Curtis, bom 1824, died in Chicago, IU., June 1897, married Elizabeth Young. He was a soldier in the War of 1861, Capt 4th Wis. Cav. Vols., and SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 227 also Surgeon in 37th Wis. Inft. Vols., wife died November 6, 1898 ; Spencer Beard, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 6, 1861, unmarried; and Porter W., married Ann Young, resides at Davenport, Iowa, he was also soldier in the War of 1861, 2nd Lieut. 4th Wis. Cav. Vols., and Hospital Steward in 37th Wis. Inft. Vols. Shadrack Roundy, (son of Uriah and Lucretia), was one of the trustees of the Free WiU Baptist Church in Spaf ford, at its organization, December 13, 1825, and left that church about 1832, and joined the Mormons and foUowed their movements, first to Pennsylvania, then to Ohio, then to Nauvoo, and finally at Salt Lake, Utah, where he died. In the latter church he was prominent, and from time to time held civil, military and religious offices with the Mor mon organization, and by that people was recognized at the time of his decease, as patriarch and saint. By his wife, Betsey Quimby, he had the following children, several of whom were born in Spafford: Lauren Hotchkiss, bom August 21, 1815, married (1) Johanna Carter, 1843, (2) Jane Coyle, and (3) Martha; Julia Rebecca, born April 5, 1817, died in 1837 in Missouri, unmarried; Bishop Lorenzo Wesley, born in Spafford, June 18, 1819, accidentally drowned in Colorado River, May 24, 1876, married (1) Adeline Whiting in 1843, she died in 1845, and he married (2) Susannah WaUace, and (3) 1858, (Plural wife) Pris- cilla Parish. (By his first wife he had two children, by his second eight, and by his third (plural) seven children. His descendants are numerous, residing in Utah ; Lauretta, bom November, 1821, married David H. Beck at Nauvoo, IU., 1841, and moved to Utah (she had ten children) ; Samantha, bom June 2, 1824, married John David Parker, Febmary 3, 1846, no issue ; Bishop Jared Curtis, bom Jan uary 5, 1827, in Spafford, married (1) Lovisa Jenny, Jan uary, 1852, (2) Eliza J. Snyder in 1855, (3). Elizabeth Drake, January, 1879, and (4) Ellen M. White, December 20, 1883, the last three were plural wives, he died May 21, 1895,. By his first wife he had nine children, and by his last (plural) he had five chUdren, by the other two plural wives he had no issue, his descendants are numerous in Utah,; Almeda Sophia, bom March 7, 1829, in Spafford, and married John David Parker, Febmary 3, 1846, the husband of her sister Samantha, as his plural -wife, both 228 ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION being married the same day, she has had ten children, resided in Utah; William Kelsham, bOrn November, 1831, died August 14, 1839 ; Naricy Jane, bom May 23, 1834, died July 6, 1885, has been twice married and had nine children ; and Malinda, bom June 23, 1838, died March 8, 1842, at Nauvoo, 111. The descendants of Shadrack Roundy in Utah will exceed two hundred in number. Uriah Roundy, (son of Uriah and Lucretia), came to Spafford early, and there married his first wife; he was also a member of the Free Will Baptist Church, and joined the Mormon Exodus from Spafford about 1833, and went to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, but when the Latter Day Saints started for Salt Lake City he left them near CouncU Bluff, Iowa, and renouncing polygamy joined and assisted in oganizing, at Gallows Hill, Iowa, the Reformed Mormon Church, v/hich exists at that place to this day. He died in Iowa. His children by his first wife were mostly bom in Spafford, they were : John, bom December 6, 1818, married (1) Sarah Shearer, and (2) Frances J. Jones, farmer, resides at Moulton, Iowa, has had nine children ; Mary, died at 28 years, married Gilbert Miller ; David LaFayette, died in infancy; Washington, bom in Spafford, September 26, 1824, married (1) Serelda Her, and (2) Alvira Williams, and (3) Mrs. Napcy Black, he has had eleven children, farmer, has been a member of the Iowa Legislature, resides at Manteno, Iowa; Jenette, born 1826, married Thomas Putnam, eight children, resides in Iowa ; Asahel, bora Sep tember 10, 1828, married Sarah Vanausdall, March 20, 1853, at GaUows Hill, Iowa, he died June 6, 1878 ten children residing mostly in Shelby County, Iowa; Ahna, died in infancy; Zebedee, bom in 1834, and died in 1855; and Martha, married Alexander Black and had eleven children. Capt. Asahel Roundy, (son of Uriah and Lucretia), came to this town or horseback from Rockingham, Vt., about 1807, and two years afterwards married his wife, Hannah Weston, with whom he became acquainted while she was teaching school at Spafford Corners, she coming here for that purpose on horseback, from her home in Skaneateles Village; by her he had the foUo-wing children, all bom in Spafford: Lucretia, bom April 25, 1810, died in Syracuse, N. Y., married (1) Dr. Horatio Smith of Otisco, N. Y., and (2) John Lathrop at Syracuse, N. Y., November 24, 1852, SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 229 she died -without issue, buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syra cuse, N. Y. ; Gordon N., bom December 4, 1811, died Feb ruary 17, 1896, at Turner, lUinois, married Maria L. Kimble, Qctober, 1840, (his children, all bom in Turner, Illinois, are: Charles Franklin, Asahel Madison, James E., (the foregoing died in infancy), Mary Ellen, Maria Louisa, Charles William, Lucy Jane, Margaret Elvira (died in infancy), Carrie Elizabeth, Franklin Gordon, and Kate Ijinda) ; Mary Ann, born January 31, 1813, married Dr. John CoUins, Apnl 4, 1832, at Spafford, husband dead, and she resides, 1899, with her son, Capt. George K. CoUinSj in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Lizana, born March 29, 1814, married Sey mour N. Wood, June 9, 1831, husband dead, and she resides (1899) with her daughter, Mrs. M. Adelle Miller, at Onon daga Valley, N. Y. ; Nancy M., bom June 28, 1816, died April 18, 1895, married Levi Hurlbut, December 13, 1838, both dead, and buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N- Y. ; Asahel Madison bom April 29, 1818, died August 19, 1857, married Melissa Andrews, daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Mary Andrews, his widow resides in Auburn, N. Y., his orily cMM : Adelphene, died unmarried at Aubum, N. Y. ; Uriah, bom July 24, 1819, married Mary Ann Tinkham, daughter pf Russel and Mary (Cook) Tinkham, April 3, 1842, resides in Spaffprd, N. Y., has been Loan Commis sioner, Justice of the Sessions, Supervisor, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster and Excise Commissioner; Franklin, bom April 28, 1822, died in Michigan, January 30, 1896, married Orissa Fishpr, daughter of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, blacksmith by trade, and was farrier in Company " 0," 4th Mich. Cav. Vpls. in the War of 1861 ; and Prpf. Charles Orlandp, born May 18, 1823, died Sep tember 30, 1892, married Nancy Burroughs of Skaneateles, N. Y., October 26, 1848, he was a teacher and A. M. from Hamilton College, among other places he taught was as Principal of the Skaneateles Academy, Moravia Academy, and Syracuse High School, his widow still survives and resides at Moravia, N. Y. Capt. Asahel Roundy received his rank as Captain from the State of New York, he com manded a Company in the 98th N. Y. Militia in the War of 1812, in a short tour of d^ty at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., in the Fall of 18i4. Hp was prominent in town affairs, ano during his active life held prominent town offices, such as 230 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Supervisor, and Justice of the Peace, he was also Post master. Uriah Roundy, (son of Capt. Asahel and Hannah), by his wife, Mary Ann Tinldiam, has two children : Adelbert, bom April 14, 1848, at Spafford, N. Y., married Juliette Little, daughter of Hon. Feremorz Little of Salt Lake City, Utah, merchant, residing at Salt Lake, Utah, (four children born at latter place: Mary, Florence, Jay T., and Dorothy) ; and Jay C, bora July 3, 1851, married (1) Alice A. Hill, daughter of WiUiam and Mary Jane (Vincent) HiU, and (2) Nettie Warner, daughter of Edward Warner, rancher, resides at Haden, Fremont Co., Idaho, (three children: Pearl, Frank, and Adelbert). Mr. and Mrs. Roundy also had one adopted son, Charles Weston, who was a first cousin of Mr. Roundy, being a son of Columbus and (Delano) Weston of Skaneateles, N. Y., he was a member of the 76th Regt. N. Y. Vols. Inft., War of 1861, and is now deceased. Franklin Roundy, (son of Capt. Asahel and Hannah), moved to Dorence, Branch Co., Mich., where he died ; by his wife, Orrissa Fisher, he had the following children, two first of whom were born in Spafford, and the others in Michigan: Flora Elizabeth, bom March 26, 1852; Evan geline, bom October 1, 1853 ; Asahel, bom January 25, 1858 ; and Charles, bom February 15, 1860. The -widow of Mr. Roundy is still living in Michigan. Charles 0. Roundy, (son of Capt. Asahel and Hanah), by his wife Nancy Burroughs had five children, the first four in Syracuse, and the last in Moravia : Frances Adelle, bom May 23, 1852 ; Mary Ella, born March 29, 1858, mar ried and resides in Moravia, N. Y. ; Sarah B., bora Decem ber 25, 1859, married and esides in Mora-via, N. Y. ; Charles B., bom March 7, 1868, died January 9, 1871 ; and Charies 0., born September 20, 1872, married and resides in Skan eateles, N. Y. Mr. Roundy's -widow is still living and resides at Moravia, N. Y. (Spafford.) Hannah (Weston) , -wife of Capt. Asahel Roundy. Died October 22, 1855, age 68 years, 1 month. (She was bom at FitzwiUiam, N. H., September 22, 1786, and came to Skaneateles ViUage with her parents on or before 1800, and resided in early childhood in a log house, 3PAFT0RD M«RTUARY REC«R»S WITH OENEALOGICAL NOTES 231 situate between the Skaneateles and Hamilton Turnpike and the Lake, on the site of the present residence of Mr. Poor in that Village.) (Spafford.) Uriah Roundy. Bom July 24, 1819, died May 29, 1902. Mary A. (w.). Bom June 29, 1820. She is now deceased. Asahel Madison Roundy, (son of Capt. Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy) . Died August 19, 1857, age 39 years, 3 months, 20 days. (He was a merchant at Spafford Comers at the time of his decease.) (Spafford.) Qharles Weston, adopted son of Uriah and Mary Ann (Tinkham) Roundy. Died July 10, 1865, age 21 years, 9 months. (For three years he was a member of Company " D," 76th Hegt. N. Y. Vols. Inft.) (Spafford.) ROWEN. John Rowen. Died October 15, 1858, age 79 years. (Borodino.) Nancy, wife of John Rowen. Died September 17, 1847, age 58 years. " Oh ! how sweet to sleep in Jesus." Sophia M. (Berry), wife of John J. Rowen. Died May 19, 1879, age 65 years, 2 months, 24 days. (John J. Rowen, son of John Rowen, married Sophia M. Berry, daughter of Jonathan and Thankful Berry; they had one daughter, who married a Mr. James Murphy and now resides in Spafford.) (Borodino.) RUST. Jehiel Rust. Died February 16, 1845, age 78 years, 4 months, 16 days. (Mr. Rust came to this to-wn before 1815, and that year settled on a farm of 60 acres on Lot 74, Marcellus, pur chased of Alexander M. Beebe; by his wife Polly he left no issue. In his -will dated March 23, 1837, and pobated May 232 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 3, 1848, he mpntiPris his wife Mary and Zipporah and John (ihappeU, children of Martin ChappeU.) (Thom HiU.) Polly, wife of Jehiel Rust. Died July 7, 1842, age 73 years, 11 months, 11 days. (Thom Hill.) SANFORD. In memory of Lucy Ann H. Sanford, who died June 10, 1837, in the 4th year of her age. (Spafford.) SEELY. Samuel G- Seely. Died September 10, 1852, age 77 years, 8 months, 2 days. (He came to this town before 1807, and settled on a farm situate in the southwest corner of Lot 12, Tully, where he remained until the timeof his decease. He was a member of Captain Asahel Roundy's Company, in the 98th N. Y. Militia, and served a short tour of duty near Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., in the Fall of 1814, in the War of 1812. By his wife, Adah Fowler, he had : Polly, married Lemuel D. Smith of Cold Brook, N. Y., (eleven children) ; Cynthia, she died October 6, 1869, age 70 years, unmarried; Sally, mar ried, Alvin ChurchiU, son of John and Martha ChurchiU, both dead, and buried in Cold Brook Cemetery; Huldah, married WiUiam Bell; Philura, married (1) Mr. Eldridge, and (2) Russel M. Burdick, she had one son, Samuel Eldridge, by her first husband, and a daughter, Mary Bur dick, married WiUiam CuUen Bockus, by her second hus band; Hiram, married Betsey Jane Jacobs, daughter of Elias and Betsey J. Jacobs, of Spafford Hollow, both dead, and buried in this cemetery; Adelia, married James BeU; and Clarissa, died February 9, 1826, age 17 years.) (Spafford.) Adah (Fowler) , wife of Samuel G. Seely, Died June 13,. 1852, age 77 years, ID months, 2 days. (Spafford.) Clarissa. Dipd February 9, 1826, age 17 years, 5 months,, 3 days. Cyntha. Died. Octqber 6, 1869, age 70 years, 35 days. Daughters of Samuel G. arid Adah (Fowler) Seely. (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY,RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 285 Hiram Seely, (son of Samuel G. and Adah (Fowler) Seely). Danied January 1, 1883, age 68 years, 2 months, 7 days. " He has gone to his loved ones." (He resided on the old homestead with his father, where he died ; by his wife, Beteey Jane Jacobs, he had : Marcus N., died March 14, 1892, age 53 years, married Orissa T. Filkins, daughter of George D. and Margaret (Fisher) Filkins, wife still living in Syracuse, N. Y. ; and Orlando R., married Anna Eddy, farmer, resides in Homer, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Betsey J. (Jacobs), -wife of Hiram Seely. Died April 19, 1881, age 63 years, 5 months. " She rests in Heaven." (Spafford.) Marcus N. Seely, (son of Hiram and Betsey J. (Jacobs) Seely. Died March 14, 1892, age 53 years. (By his wife, Orissa T. Filkins, he had two children: Eugene, died young in 1862; and Carrie, married Herbert C. Faxton of Syracuse, N. Y., husband works for Solvay Process Company. Marcus resided during his lifetime on the old Seely Homestead, on Lot 12, Tully, he was a farmer.) (Spafford.) Eugene, infant son of Marcus N. and Orrissa T. (Filkins) Seely. Died in the year 1862. (Spafford.) Francis Irvin, son of Orlando R. and Anna (Eddy) Seely. Died November 5, 1881, age 8 years, 8 days. (Spafford.) SESSIONS. Amasa Sessions, son of Nathaniel and Irene (Wales) Sessions). Died November 13, 1838, age 59 years. (Amasa Sessions was bom in Union, Conn., June 30, 1779, and came to the town of Skaneateles in October, 1798 ; he was supposed to have been descended from Samuel Ses sions, who came to this country from Wantage, Berkshire Co., England, in 1630, and settled in Andover, Mass., as fol lows: Samuel, Alexander, Nathaniel, Amasa, Nathaniel, Amasa. His father, Nathaniel Session, was bom in Pomfret, and settled in Union, Conn., where he died, October 5, 1824 ; 234 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION he married (1) Irene Wales, November 16, 1775, she died December 3, 1793, and he married for a second wife Fanny Chandler. Amasa Sessions, in a letter dated in 1838, in speaking of his father, says : " My father, Nathaniel, died at Union in 1824, age 74, and my mother in 1793. They were members of the Congregational Church. He had two wives, by whom he had six children each : Amasa, Ebenezer, (bom May 11, 1781), of Skaneateles; Susan Wright, at Vernon, N. Y. ; Irene, died at Chautauqua; Lydia Chap man, in Onondaga; Nathaniel, -with his six sons and three daughters, in Ionia, Mich.; Col. Moses Chandler Sessions, at Union, Conn. ; Polly, died at Union, Fanny Eaton, Darius and Eliza Webster, with their families, are at Macomb Co., Mich.; and Hannah, at Marcellus." Amasa Sessions, (son of Nathaniel), married (1) Sila , (2) Phebe Robins Smith, and (3) , resided on Lot 59, Marcellus, in the to-wn of Skaneateles, N. Y., where he died. In the same letter, spoken of above, . he says : " I have nine children by my second wife, with whom I lived twenty-nine years, to wit: Sila Bennett, wife of Bennett, publisher of Baptist Register, and my youngest, Phebe, (Hon. Sidney Smith says her name was EUzabeth and not Phebe) , who dwells at Utica, N. Y., Alonzo, Job S., George M., Amasa, John, Darius, and Jane M. Yates, aU at Ionia, on Grand River, Michigan." John Sessions, became a la-wyer and settled in Brooklsm, N. Y., with an office at No. 10 Wall St., New York City; and Alonzo Sessions, settled in Ionia, Michigan, where he became a man of wealth and infiuence, he not only held from time to time various to-wn offices, but was Sheriff of his county, and Lieut. Governor of the State of Michigan, he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, member of the State Legislature, and President of the First Ionia National Bank, and the Farmer's Insurance Company. AU three of Amasa Sessions' wives were bom in Connecticut.) (Thom HiU.) SUa Sessions, (wife of Amasa Sessions) . Died January 20, 1808, age 29 years. (Thom HiU,) Phebe (Smith), wife of Amasa Sessions, Died May 25, 1837, age 53 years, (Thom HiU,) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 235 Dea. Ebenezer Sessions, (son of Nathaniel and Irene (Wales) Sessions) . Died December 25, 1855, age 74 years, 7 months, 13 days. (Thom HiU,) Mary, -wife of Dea, Ebenezer Sessions. Died November 11, 1858, age 80 years, 3 months, 19 days. (Thom Hill.) In memory of Susan, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Sessions. Died April 7, 1839, age 27 years, 4 months, 7 days. (Thom HiU.) SHARP. Chester Sharp. Died May 11, 1840, age 72 years, (He married Anice Churchill, daughter of John and Martha Churchill, and had among other children, Mary A., who married Ranford R. Bates. His wife, who survived him, married (2) Philip Pickett.) (Cold Brook.) Harriet E., daughter of John Wm. and Lydia A. (Under wood) Sharp. Died February 23, 1843, age 1 year, 5 months. (John Wm. Sharp, son of Chester and Anice (Churchill) Sharp, married (1) Lydia A. Underwood, and (2) Phebe Isdell, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Harris) IsdeU, and ¦widow of William Bacon. He practiced law in Justice's Courts, and was a farmer by occupation. He had a daughter by his first wife : Olive A., who married William Kelsey.) (Cold Brook.) SHAW. James Shaw. Died November 14, 1858, age 63 years. (Mr. Shaw, for many years before his decease, resided near the westerly line of Lot 45, in the town of Tully, in a little huddle commonly called " ShawviUe," and kept a smaU store at that place; he had a very respectable family of girls, who married into well known Spafford families.) (Spafford Hollow.) 236 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL Aa*»«Ari<»I SHELbEN. WiUiam Shelden. Bora December 3, 1756, died July 27, 1805, at Stephentov/n, N. Y., married November 18, 1779, at Stephentown, N. Y., Abigail UdeU, bom August 4, 1762, died May 12, 1836, at Spafford, arid was buried at Thom Hill. Mrs. Sheldon, after the decease of Mr. Sheldon, mar ried He?ekiah Mason, November 14, 1811. Several of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Shelden also came to this town, they were as follows: Abigail, bom December 25, 1780; WiUiam, bom January 20, 1783; Benjamin, born January 5, 1785 ; Lionel, born October 16, 1787 ; Allen, born August 11, 1789; Alanson, born December 19, 1791, died May 16, 1819 ; Anna, born June 10, 1794, died September 5, 1867, at Spafford, N. Y., married Asa Mason, son pf Hezekiah and SaUy Mason, May iO, 1812, she was biiried in Borodino Cemetery ; Asa, born April 13, 1796 ; Erastus, born June 17, 1798, died August 21, 1832 ; Diadama, bom Jupe 10, 1800, died March, 1801; and Diana, bom July 30, 1804, died at residence of Hon. Sidney Smith, in Skaneateles, N. Y., May 19, 1892, married Charles A. Calkins, May 21, 1831, and settled at Thom HUl, her husband was bom September 2, 1805. Diana was the mother of Jennie A. Calkins, second wife of Hon. Sidney Smith, and George A. Calkins, of Chicago, 111. She was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Skaneateles, N. Y. SHELDON. Caleb Sheldon, son of Joseph and Jemima (Carr) Shel don, was bom in Rensselaer County, N. Y., near Steprien- town ; his parents came from Massachusetts and Connecti cut. He married Lillis Howard, daughter of Sylvester Howard, at Stephento-wn, N. Y., and settled at Rutland, Jefferson County, N. Y., and frOm there came to this to-wn in 1837, and settle^ on a farm east of Borodi^^o VUlafe, -where he resided for many years. He died at Onondaga Valley, and was buried in Oakwood Cepaeteiy. His chU dren were: Catherine, died unmarried, buried Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y.; Losing, married Emily A. Cleveland, daughter of Benajah and Mary (Clark) Cleve^ land, wife died at Syracuse, (Oakwood Cemetery) , and he resides at 207 Cortland Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.; Sylvester SPAFFORD MORTUARY RBOORDS WITH OBNaALOGICAL NOTES 237 toward, married Jane Ferry, daughter of Chester and Saba (Buffiiigton) Ferry, bpth dead, and buried in Oakwood Cbmetery. Lansing Sheldon, (son of Caleb and LiUis) , by his wife feiriiiy A. Ferry, had : Harriet married Henry Hinman, son pf George arid Ruth (Smith) Hinman, as his third wife, resides in Syracuse, N. Y.; and Lansing Grarit, married Anna Hastings of Onondaga VaUey, and resides in Syracuse, N. Y. SHERWOOD. Emiiy J., daughter of Jacob W. and Sarah Sherwood. Died February 5, 1848, age 17 years, 4 months, 21 days. (Borodino.) SKELLIE. Helen, daughter of William I. and Betsey (Boughton) SkeUie. Died July 30, 1848, age 20 years, 7 months, 20 days. " She was a dear daughter, kind sister and dear friend. To her happiness and wishes was ready to attend. In her long and painful iliness not a word of complaint. She was always a tried and obedient Saint." (William I. Skellie came to this to-wn from Cambridge, WashingtPn County, N. Y., about June 1, 1826, and settled on a farm on the east side of the Skaneateles and Homer rOad, on Lot 42, TuUy; he married Betsey Boughton, daughter of Azer and Elizabeth (Nickerson) Boughton, of Washington County, N. Y., and by her had: Amanda D., married Nathan Culver, son of Moses and Amy (Boughton) Culver, of Cambridge, N. Y., husband dead, and she resides (1899) in Syracuse, N. Y. ; James V., married Esther Wil liamson, daughter of James and Hannah WiUiamson, of Spafford Hollow, she died in Scott, N. Y., his residence not known, (two children buried in this Cemetery) ; Helen, died in Spafford, July 30, 1848, unmarried; Marion B., married Helen Newell, son of Stephen and Mary (Cuykendall) Newell husband dead, and in 1898 she resided in Buffalo, N .Y. (one child, Skellie H. Newell) ; and Josephine C., riiarried Elisha Hewett of Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Skellie died in Scott, and were buried in the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery at that place.) (Spafford.) 238 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Harley J., son of James and Esther (WiUiamson) SkeUie. Died September 28, 1863, age 13 years, 11 months, 24 days. (Spafford.) Florence Virginia, daughter of James and Esther (Wil liamson) Skellie. Died December 26, 1849, age 1 year, 20 days. " This lovely bud was nipped so soon. To rise and bloom beyond the tomb." (Spafford.) William Skellie, a nephew of WiUiam I. SkeUie, formerly resided in the Nunnery neighborhood in this to-wn, he mar ried Lucinda Foster. He was a blacksmith by trade, and once worked in the Village of Borodino. He moved to Chauteuqua County, and was at one time employed by the Chautauqua Park Assembly Association — dead. Alexander Skellie also came from Cambridge, Washing ton County, N. Y., and about April 26, 1828, settled on Lot 10, Sempronius, his wife's given name was Martha. SMITH. Ruth, wife of Ira Smith. Died August 23, 1851, age 59 years, 5 months, 17 days. (Ira Smith came to Spafford and settled on Lot 23, Tully, in Spafford Hollow, on or before January 1, 1829 ; his chil dren were: William; Franklin, married Marietta Parker, daughter of Samuel and Amy Parker; Ira, Jr., married Emeline P. Dunbar, daughter of Thaddeus and Caroline M, Dunbar, he moved to Michigan ; Chester ; Louisa, married Gordon Bailey; and Abigail, married Alphonso Kinney.) (Spafford HoUdw.) Marietta (Parker) , wife of Franklin Smith. Died May 8, 1855, age 42 years, 8 months, 1 day. (Spafford Hollow.) Caroline, daughter of Ira and Emeline P. (Dunbar) Smith. Died Febmary 10, 1851, age 1 year, 6 months, 12 days. " This lovely bud was nipped so soon To rise and bloom beyond the tomb." (Spafford.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 239 Alice A., daughter of Ira and Emeline P. (Dunbar) Smith. Died October 10, 1852, age 1 month, 20 days. " Alice ! thine angel visit cheered our lone hearts awhile. Then left us. Oh, why is it thou did'st not longer stay." (Spafford.) Horace Smith. Died August 8, 1862, age 61 years. " Our Father." (Mr. Smith came to this town from Fabius, N. Y., before 1848, and settled on the farm now (1899) owned by Col. Ed-win S. Jenney, on Lot 32, Sempronius; from there he moved to a farm on Lots 32 and 33, Tully, in Cold Brook, about 1855, and there remained until his decease. His children, excepting the youngest one, were by his first wife, whose name is not given; he married for a second wife Clarissa G. Reynolds, who sur-vived him, and after his decease married Albert Foster, for his second wife. His children, mentioned in the petition of his wife, Clarissa G., dated August 25, 1862, for Letters of Administration upon his estate, were : Joseph R., of Salmon River, Oregon Terri tory; Harriet E., wife of David Spaulding of Monticello, Cowlitz County, Oregon Territory ; Mary C, wife of Henry S. Alvord of Homer, N. Y. ; Horace, of Homer, N. Y. ; Maria J., wife of Thomas H. Alvord, of White Water, Kings County, Washington Territory; Levi G., of White Water, Kings Co., Washington Territory; RoUin C, of Jacksonville, Oregon Territory; and Frederick R., (then a minor) of Spafford, N. Y.) (Cold Brook.) EHza Smith, (-wife of David Smith). Died September 26, 1887, age 64 years. " Dear Mother." (David Smith lived in the Kellogg Settlement, in Cold Brook, in the to-wn of Scott; his wife Eliza was from Caze novia. Josie E. Smith, daughter of David and Eliza Smith, married a Mr. Collins. Flora A. Smith, another daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, died unmarried.) (Cold Brook.) Josie E. Smith, daughter of Da-vid and Eliza Smith. Died November 14, 1880, age 26 years. (Cold Brook.) Flora A. Smith, daughter of David and EUza Smith. Died June 19, 1885, age 28 years. (Cold Brook.) 240 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Lucilla, daughter of Lemuel D. and Polly (Seeley) Smith. Died October 31, 1842, age 2 years, 3 months, 14 days, (Lemuel D. Smith resided in Cold Brook; he married Polly Seeley, daughter of Samuel G. and Adah (Fowler) Seeley, and by her had the following children, in addition to the ti^o whose deaths are here recorded in this cemetery : Melvina, unmarried ; Parmelia, married a Mr. Harrington ; Julania, married a Mr. Good-win; Welcome S., married a Miss Knight; Dwight, married a Miss Knight, a sister of his brother Welcome's wife; Jane, unmarried; Louisa, unmarried; and Alvira, married a Mr. Webster.) (Cold Brook.) Ann Eliza, daughter of Lemuel D, and Polly (Seeley) Smith. Died January 21, 1852, age 19 years, 8 months, 29 days. (Cold Brook.) Isaiah D. Smith. Died November 28, 1868, age 78 years, 2 months, 11 days. (Mr. Smith came to this town from Bennington, Genesee County, N. Y., January 24, 1819, and settled on Lot 10, Sempronius; his first wife, Rachel, died in 1826, and he then married the widow Juliette Hall.) (Borodino.) Rachel, wife of Isaiah D. Smith. Died March 5, 1826, age 30 years. (Borodino.) Juliette (Hall), -wife of Isaiah D. Smith. Died Decem ber 15, 1861, age 55 years, 6 months. (Borodino.) Caroline, daughter of Isaiah D. and Rachel Smith. Died 1822. (Borodino.) Helen, daughter of Isaiah D..and Rachel Smith. Died April 13, 1842, age 3 years, 2 months, 22 days. (Borodino.) Sarah L. (Smith), wife of WiUiam B. Smith. Died August 8, 1874, age 21 years. (William B. Smith, son of Isaiah D. and Juliette (HaU) Smith, married Sarah L. Smith, daughter of Jessey Smith). (Borodino.) In memory of Job Smith. Died January 16, 1827, age 80 years. .'SPAFFORD MORTUARY RBCORDS WITH GHNHALOGICAL NOTES 241 (He was bom in Norwalk, Conn., and married there Elizabeth Keeler; from there he first settled in Greenfield, Greene County, N. Y., and from there came to this town, about February 25, 1806, and settled on a part of the State's Hundred Acres, on Lpt 74, MarceUus. He was Paymaster in the War of the Revolution. By his wife, Elizabeth Keeler, who was also born in Norwalk, Conn., he had the following children: William, married Mary , he was a farmer and settled in Richmond, Ontario County, N. Y., he never came tp this to-yrai; Sarah, married Mr. Shepard in Greene County, N. Y., she never came here, she had a son, Cyrus Smith Shepard, who resided with Ms maternal grand parents in tMs town, and went to Califpr- nia, where he died; Elizabeth, died unmarried at Thorn HiU; Stephen, married Freelove Green, he was a farmer and carpenter, and died at Thom Hill, December 27, 1825 ; Phebe, married Amasa Sessions as his second -wife, she died at Thom Hill, she had a son, Alpnzo Sessions, -yvhq settled in lopia, Michigan, and became very wealthy, he was Presi dent of a bank in Ionia, Member of the Michigan Legislature on several occasions. Sheriff of the county of his residen ;e. President of the State Constitutional Convention of Michi gan, and once Lieutenant Governor of that State. Another of her spns : John Sessions, was a lawyer in Brooklyn, N. Y., and married Elizabeth Fisher, a niece of Bishop Hunting- tpn, of Syracuse, N. Y. She also had a grandson, John Sessions, Jr., who was also a lawyer, and married a daughter of Bishop Huntington ; Lewis, married Chloe Ben son; Charles, married Sophia Bull, he died in Skaneateles at the age of 34 years ; Seth, married Lpis Hecpx, sister of Col. Warren Hecox of Skaneateles, he moved to Lyons, N. Y.; and Cyrus, married Lucinda Harvey, daughter of Medad apd Anar (Buell) Ha^^vey, he -was a merchant and settled in Marengo, Wayne County, N. Y- From there he moved to Clyde, and then tp Chautauqua County, N. Y. From Chautauqua County he moved to CaUfornia, where he was engaged in the milling business at the time of his decease. Le-wis Smith, (the fourth son of Job) , was a Lieutenant in Col, Warren Hecox's Regiment of New York Militia, in the War of 1812, arid served in a short tour of duty in defence pf Sackett's Harbor, in the year 1814, and was dis- 242 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION charged at Smith's Mills, N. Y. He was prominent in to-wn and county politics, he served as Supervisor and Justice of the Peace in the to-wn of Marcellus, (now Spafford), as Sheriff of the County of Onondaga (1826 to 1828), and was Member of Assembly in the New York Legislature, 1820, 1821, 1829, and at the time of his decease, which occurred at Thorn Hill, at the age of 43 years. He was a farmer and resided pn a farm on Lot 74, Marcellus, adjoining that of his father. Job Smith. His wife was Chloe Benson, daughter of Elkanah Benson, a native of Mendon, Mass., and who, at the time of the marriage, resided at a place known as " Benson Street," at the southwest corner of the to-wn of Skaneateles. By his wife Chloe, Mr. Smith had the follow ing children, all born in this to-wn near Thorn Hill: Hon. Sidney, bom in 1815, married (1) Adeline E. Blodgett, of Chautauqua County, N. Y., and (2) Jennie E. Calkins, daughter of Charles A. and Diana (Shelden) Calkins, after marriage he resided on the old homestead until 1870, and then settled in Skaneateles Village, where he resided until his decease in 1900, he held various offices in his native town,. among which were: Justice of the Peace, Supervisor, Town Superintendent, and Inspector of Schools, and Mem ber of Assembly in the New York Legislature, in the yeai 1857, he claimed in 1899 to be the oldest living native of the Marcellus end of the to-wn of Spafford ; Mary, residing (1898) in Skaneateles, unmarried ; WiUiam, he was educated in Homer Academy and Yale College, and first settled in Baltimore, Md., where he taught school and studied law. From there he moved to Missouri, and then to Sacramento,. Cal., where he engaged in the mercantile business. He died of cholera at the latter place in 1850, unmarried; Stephen, married Lucy Culver, daughter of Judge E. D. Culver, of Brooklyn, N. Y., he is a prominent physician in New York, City, where he was appointed Commissioner of Charities in 1881, Commissioner of Lunacy in 1882, and Delegate to the Intemational Sanitary Congress, held in Paris in 1894, he is especially remembered for his generous gift of a valuable medical library, to the Medical College connected with the Syracuse University; and Job Lewis, married Mary Ann Hana and settled in New York City. He was a graduate of Yale College, and became a prominent physician and surgeon in the latter city, he was also an instructor in the medical SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 243 schools in New York City, and is well kno-wn to the medical fraternity, as the author of a valued work on the Diseases of Children. He died in New York City in 1897. There are no kno-wn descendants of Job Smith at this time residing in the town of Spafford.) (Thom HiU.) Mrs. Elizabeth (Keeler), wife of Job Smith, Died August 31, 1835, age 87 years. (Thora HiU.) Elizabeth Smith, (daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Keeler) Smith) , Died August 14, 1848, age 72 years, (Thom HiU.) Stephen Smith, (son of Job and EUzabeth (Keeler) Smith) . Died December 27, 1825, age 46 yars. (Thom HiU.) In mmory of Asa Smith, who departed this life Septem ber 11, 1821, age 56 years, " Within this tomb by death o'er come A tender husband rests. With love sincere his children dear He frequently caressed, A master's part -with generous heart It's known he acted well ; May those he's left of him bereft His virtuous ways excell," (His -wife and children moved to Michigan,) (Thom HiU.) Jared Smith. Died March 26, 1870, age 76 years, 16 days, (Jared Smith married Rhoda Harvey, daughter of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey, and by her had the following: Emeline, married Shepard Earl, son of WiUiam and Polly (Pitts) Earl; Harriet, married Ebenezer Coming Cowles of Otisco, N, Y. ; Lydia, married William Briggs, son of Daniel Briggs ; and Seth, married and resided in Michigan. At the time of his decease Mr. Smith was the owner of what is now known as the Alanson Colton Farm, near Borodino.) (Thom HiU.) Rhoda H. (w.), died August 16, 1890, age 91 years. (Thom Hill.) Among the members of the Smith family who have resided in this town, whose names do not appear above, are 244 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIAHON the following: Isaac Smith and family, who resided on the east side of Spafford Hollow : Azariah Smith, resided on or owned 160 acres of land, in a square farm, in the north west corner of lot 34, Tully ; Alvah Smith and wife, Clarissa, settled on lot 69, Marcellus, on or before 1804 ; Amasa Smith and -wife Mercy purchased land on lot 77, Marcellus, March 9, 1818; Chester H. Smith purchased land on lot 12, Sem pronius, January 18, 1859 ; David Smith purchased land on lot 77, Marcellus, in 1803, and sold to Lemuel Smith in 1803; Daniel S. Smith of Owasco, N. Y., purchased land on lot 69, Marcellus, September 3, 1817; Ephraim Smith sold land on lot 75, Marcellus, September 25, 1815; James Smith and wife, Sarah Ann (Barber) , lots 32 and 33, Tully, 1827, to 1840; Jedediah Smith and wife, Caroline, lots 22 and 23, Tully, 1832-4; John Smith and wife Lois, lots 89 and 76, Marcellus, 1828 ; John Smith and wife Lucinda, lot 22, Tully, 1811 to 1823; Josiah Smith, lot 89, Marcellus, 1822; Lemuel Smith and wife Sally, lots 77 and 76, Mar ceUus, 1803 to 1830; Lemuel P. Smith, lot 77, MarceUus, 1827-8 ; Levi Smith and wife Lucy, lots 76 and 89, MarceUus, 1828 ; Lester I. Smith and wife Lydia, lots 10 and 11, Sem pronius, 1827, 1830 ; Lyman Smith and wife Sally, lots 10, 11 and 12, Sempronius, 1827 to 1857 ; Oliver Smith and wife Abigail, lot 77, Marcellus, 1808 to 1828; Oliver S. Smith, lot 77, Marcellus, 1811 ; Samuel Smith, lots 44 and 45, Tully, 1825 ; Sylvester Smith and wife Lucretia, lot 24, Tully, 1814 to 1821; Thomas Smith and wife Lydia, lot 32, Tully, 1827; Welcome Smith, lot 89, Marcellus, 1829, 1832 ; and WUliam S. Smith, lot 12, Sempronius, 1859. SORNBORGER. In memory of Eliza Sornborger, daughter of Henry Somborger. Died September 4, 1852, age 16 years. (After her decease her father and mother mpved to Chau tauqua County, N. Y.) (Thorn Hill.) SPAULDING. There were several families of Spauldings who resided in this town in years past, many of whose members inter- iparried with other well kno-vvn Spjafford families, but the SPAFFORD MORTUARY RBCORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 2^5 history of these has been so f blly arid WeU told in the excel lent genealogy of that family, that we Omit any further st^tem^nt Of theiii here, referring the reader to that valued work for further irifbrmation on that subject. None of that name are here now, SPENCER. Ellen Brown, -wife of Clark Spencer, and daughter of Jacob and DebOrah (Moirris) Brown, Died September 22, 1859, age 21 teatsj 9 moriths, 15 day^. " When lingering disease involved this hotise of clay, Ho-w sweet to look beyond riiy house and long to fiy away.'^ (Spaffbi-d.) SPRAGUE. FtankUn, son of Solomon arid Lucy Sprague. Died Jan uary d, 1835, age 6 years. (After the decease of Solomon Sprague, his wife Lucy iriai-ried John Babcock, Jr., as his third wife; she survived hfer last husband, and was one of the administrators of his estate.) (Borodino.) STANTON. Mary (Shearinan), wiffe of Johri Staritori. Died August 4, 1838, agte 88 years, 9 months, 1 day. (Samuel H. Stanton, iri 1898, iri speaking of his grand iJarents and their faihily said: " My grandfather, John Stanton, -vVas bom in Rhode Island, and there married rny gi-aridmother Mary Shearman, who was also bom in that State. After their iriarriage my grand parente moved to Powrial, Bennington Courity, Vt., where my grandfather died. After his decease my grandmother moved to this town, and resided with her son, Benjamiri Stanton, until her decease. The children of John and Mat-y (Shearman) Stanton were : John, died iti Otsfego COurity, N. Y. ; Thomas, died in Otsego County, N. Y. ; Samuel, died in New Lisbon, Otsego County; N. Y.; Clark; died in Italy, Yateis Courity, N. Y. ; Joseph, died iri Michigan ; William, died in Mayfield, Chautauqua C'PUnty, N. Y.; Lodowick, died in Michigan; Benjamin, married (1) Sally Noble, and (2) Amy Perkins^ 246 ONONHAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCTATION sister of Hopkins Perkins of this to-wn ; Sally, married John Noble of this town ; Susannah, married John Lawrence of Spafford; and Polly, married Russel Johnson. John Stan ton, my grand father, was a brother of Mary Stanton, the wife of Joseph Lewis, formerly of this to-wn, buried in Lewis Yard.") (Stanton Yard.) Benjamin Stanton, (son of John and Mary (Shearman) Stanton) . Died February 5, 1871, age 91 years, 22 days. (He was born in the to-wn of Pownal, Bennington Co., Vt., January 11, 1780, and married (1) Sally Noble, and (2) Amy Perkins. By his first wife he had one child: Sally, married Israel Knapp, she died in Alleghany County, N. Y. ; and by his second wife had : Sheldon, married Ruth Shearman, daughter of Peleg Shearman of this town, died in Allegheny County, N. Y. ; Melinda, married Samuel Shearman, son of Peleg Shearman, died in AUegheny County, N. Y. ; Allen J., married (1) Anna Rainey, and (2) AuriUa Clark, died in Spafford; Julania, married Sylvanus N. Grout, son of John Grout, died in Scott, N. Y. ; John, married Rebecca Fish, died in Eau Claire, Wis.; Polly, married Samuel Shearman as his second wife, and moved to Alleghany County, N. Y. ; Samuel H., married Sarah Patterson, daughter of Calvin Patterson, he died February 14, 1899, age 76 years, and his widow now resides on the old Stanton Homestead, on Lot 13, Sem pronius, in this to-wn; and Rhoda, married Delos Billings, moved to Alleghany County, N, Y, Samuel H. Stanton, bom in this to-wn, at the time of his decease left surviving his widow, Sarah Patterson, and the following children : Emmet ; Mark Stanton, Mrs. John H. Purchase; Mrs. Milton Emmons, residing in Spafford; C P. Stanton of Luddington, Mich. ; Mrs. W. F. Fairbanks, of ScottvUle, Mich., and Elmer E. Stanton, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.) Samuel H. Stanton, 1821-1899. Sarah T. Patterson (w.), 1825-. (Stanton Yard.) Amy (Perkins) , wife of Benjamin Stanton. Died March 31, 1872, age 89 years, 4 months, 20 days. (Stanton Yard.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY REC«I»S WITH (ffiNEALOGICAL NOTES 247 Frank, son of Samuel H. and Sarah (Patterson) Stanton. Died March 25, 1876, age 21 years, 10 months, 10 days. (Stanton Yard.) Infant sons of Samuel H. and Sarah (Patterson) Stan ton, who died March 6, 1858, and October 12, 1860. (Stanton Yard.) STEBBINS. Asaph Stebbins, who died April 21, 1828, age 61 years. (Letters of Administration were issued upon his estate to his brother, Sylvanus Stebbins, of Little Valley, of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., but, the petition not being pre served, no statement of the family connections are given. Tn the sale of his farm of 100 acres, in the north west corner of Lot 89, Marcellus, and 171^ acres on the south west corner of lot 76, Marcellus, the following persons con veyed to his brother, Sylvanus Stebbins, in 1828: John Stebbins and Mary, his -wife, Heman Stebbins, Erastus Stebbins and Ruth, his wife, Levi Smith and Lucy, his -wife John Smith and Lois, his wife, Chester Ferry and Roxa, his wife, Fowler Preston and Melissa his wife, Joel Lanson Preston, and Dwight Preston of Granby, Mass. In 1831 Russel Preston of Clyde, N. Y., son of Joel Preston of Granby, Mass., also quit claim his interest in the same land to the same grantee.) (Thom HiU.) Charles W., son of Menzus and Adeline E. (O'Farell) .Stebbins. Died August 28, 1881, age 4 years, 8 months, and 18 days. (Menzus Stebbins married Adeline E. O'Farrell, daughter 'Of Rev. D. M. D. O'Farrell of Spafford Hollow. Mrs. Steb bins died at or near ShawviUe (now called Bromley), in Spafford Hollow, February 3, 1899, at the age of 60 years, leaving her susviving her husband and two children : Da-vid and Menzus Stebbins) . (Spafford Hollow.) STEVENS. Lovina (Nodine), wife of Elisha B. Stevens. Died October 16, 1862, age 42 years, 3 months, 19 days. (Elisha B. Stevens, son of Elisha Stevens, married Lovina Nodine, daughter of Jeremiah, Sr., and Mana (Strope) Nodine.) (Ck)ld Brook.) 248 ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCTATION STONE. Mrs. Sally Stone, wife of Benajah Stone. Died June 16, 1825, age 41 years, 11 months, 10 days. " Afflictions sore a long time I bore, physicians were in vain, 'Till God was pleased to give me ease And free me from my pain." (Spafford.) In memory of Norman, son of Joseph and Polly Stonsi Died January 9, 183i, age 17 years, 3 months, 5 days. (Joseph and Polly Stone conveyed lands on Lots 10 and 12, Sempronius, and Lot 89, Marcellus, to John K. Stone of Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, October i6, 1829.) (Borodino.) STREETER. Alexander R. Streeter. Died December 8, 1863, age 80 years, 3 months. (He settled on Lot 10, Sempronius, on or before 1815; by his wife Susan Carpenter, he had at his decease the follow ing children : Calvin, married Malentha Babcock, daughter of Elihu arid Hannah Babcock; Harriet, married Orrin Eddy of Borodino, (both dead) ; Ada L. Howard, of Oak Grove, Wisconsin ; Dorcas Garthwait, of Bolivar, AUeghatiy County, N. Y. ; Milton, married (1) Mary Manley, and (2) Nancy A. Clark, his death preceded that of his father; Sarah A., married Ashbel Baker; she and her husband both died before her father, leaving one daughter, Sarah A. Baker; and one daughter -who married a Mr. Manley, she died before her father and left the foUowing children : Rob inson, Henry, Alanson E. Manley, and Jarie Robinson.) (Borodino.) Susan (Carpenter) , wife of Alexander R. Streeter. Died August 23, 1864, age 83 years, 3 months. (Borodino.) Calvin Streeter, (son of Alexander R. and Susari (Car penter) Streeter) . Died Febmary 22, 1889, age 84 years, 4 months, 22 days. (He marri^ed Malentha Babcock, and by her had two sons who survived him: George J., died at Borodino, May 10,. SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH CTSNEALOGICAL NOTES 249 l89l, age 50 years, married Lucinda Crane, he had a daughter Dora, who riiarried David Becker, son of Johti Becker; and Cyrus Streeter, who at one time resided on Lot 12, Semproriius. Cal-vin Streeter also formerly resided on Lots 10 and 12, SemptoriiuS.) (Boi-odino.) Malentha (Babcock) , wife of Calvin Streeter. Died May 6, 1875, age 66 years, '8 moriths. '' What peaceful hours we once enjoyed. How s-weet their memory still. But they have left an aching void This world can never fill." (Her father and mother were buried at Thom Hill.) (Borodino.) Mary (Manley) , wife of Milton Streeter. Died December 25, 1848, age 39 years, 7 months, 16 days. (Milton Streeter died January 13, 1864, and was buried in this cemetery. (No stone.) In the application for letters upon his estate, made by his widow, Nancy A. Streeter, mention is made of the following children : Alex ander Streeter, Franklin W. Streeter, and Caroline Case, ¦wife of Alexander Case.) (Borodino.) By the record of deeds, it appears that a Josiah Streeter at a very early date resided on Lot 10, Sempronius, and died there; that on February 18, 1812, letters of adminis tration upon his estate were issued by the Surrogate of Onondaga County, to Lydia Streeter, his widow, and that; among three or four others, Alexander R. Streeter was heir by descent to his lands, and conveyed the same. Another family of StregterS formerly resided at or near Borodino, whose descendants still remain, and whose lineage is traced to Stephen Streeter, born in Erigland and settled in Gloucester, Mass, iri 1639, as follows : Stepihen, Stepheri, Johri, John, John, WilUam. William streeter, was bbrri in Nfew Carilbridgfe, New York, JanUary 6, 1788, resided in Charlton, and died iri Skaneateles, N. Y., March 1, 1846. By his wife, Elizabeth Russel, borii iri Berne, Albany County, N. Y., died in Skan eateles, January 16, 1847, he had the following children born at Charlton : John, borii Ottober 13, 1813, died iti Wis consin in 1866; Joseph R., bom April 21, 1817; James 250 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Alonzo, bom September 7, 1821, married November 2, 1848 Chloe North, resided at Maple Grove, Mich. ; Reuben, bom April 10, 1824, died September 4, 1838; Sarah E., bora October 11, 1826, died November 9, 1845 ; Phebe, born Jan uary 23, 1829, died about 1850 ; Jane Ann, bom March 19, 1831, married James Nesbit, son of Robert and Nancy (Wallace) Nesbit, resides near Borodino, N. Y. ; Marvin Timothy, born October 25, 1836, married January 15, 1860, Mary D. Tinkham; Nelson R., bora October 7, 1838, married June 20, 1860, Adeline F. Randolph, resides at Groton, Tompkins Coupty, N. Y. ; and Caroline E., born November 25, 1843. STRONG. Charles Strong, (son of Capt. Strong of Tully). Bom September 17, 1830. (He married Margaret M. Hultz.) (Borodino.) Hon. Sidney Smith says : " William Strong was a large farmer in the Marcellus part of Spafford, owning more than 300 acres; residing upon the farm now owned and occupied by Frank Harvey. He sold out and left about 1836, and went to Chautauqua County, N. Y. ; he had a large family." Margaret M. (Hultz), wife of Charles Strong. Bom April 18, 1828, died December 10, 1893. (Borodino.) Parnal, -widow of Asher Strong. Died December 27, 1823, age 71 years, 5 months, 11 days. (Thom Hill.) STROPE. ' Mary, daughter of WiUiam and Lydia Strope. Died June 27, 1835, age 2 years 11 months, 26 days. (Before 1815, Peter Strope (sometimes called Strobe) came to this to-wn with his wife Louisa, and settled on ten acres of land on the southwest corner of lot 12, Sempronius, and there remained until his decease between 1829 and 1831. On March 3, 1831, the foUo-wing persons united in quit claiming the lands above mentioned, to George Strope, (Strobe) supposed to be his son: Levi Applebee, Gilbert aPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 251 A, Applebee, Mary Golden, Jeremiah Nodine and Maria, his wife, John Strope (Strobe), Nicholas Strobe, WiUiam Strobe, Delaney Strobe, Israel Russell and Catherine, his wife, and Joseph Strobe, all of Spafford, N. Y. (Cold Brook.) TAFT. Ellis Taft. Died July 3, 1857, age 75 years. (He was born at Woodstock, Tolland County, Conn., and from there moved to Mameroneck, Westchester County, N. Y., where he kept hotel for several years. From there he moved to Cold Brook, in this town, where he remained until his decease. He married at Mameroneck, October 8, 1809, Cynthia Knapp, daughter of Peter and Dinah (Guion) Knapp, and had the following children born at the latter place: Sally Ann, married Ziba D. Baker, son of Josiah Baker, she was the mother of Mrs. Benjamin McDaniels of this to-wn ; Mary, married John W. English, she died in Adrian, Mich., but was buried in this cemetery; Emily, died young; and Peter E., married Caroline B. McDaniels, daughter of John and Polly (Hankins) McDaniels, he died in Oswego and she in Aubum, N. Y. Mr. Taft was a hrother of Bezaleel W. Taft of this town, and of Mrs. Mary Mellen, wife of Dr. David Mellen of Hudson, N. Y. Mr. Ellis Taft's family are all now deceased.) (Cold Brook.) Cynthia (Knapp), wife of Ellis Taft. Died April 18, 1868, age 88 years. (She was bom May 13, 1780.) (Cold Brook.) Bezaleel W. Taft. Died February 17, 1872, age 72 years. (He was also bom at Woodstock, Tolland County, Conn., and before coming to this town resided with his brother JEUis, at Mameroneck, N. Y. He married (1) at New York City, Nancy Palmer, who was the mother of all his chil dren, and after her decease he maried (2) Lucia Norton, daughter of David and Dinah (Wilton) Norton, and -widow of Peris Miner. He came here about the same time as his brother, and settled near him in Cold Brook, on the westem part of Lot 44, Tully. His children were : John P., married Laura I. Miner, daughter of Peris and Lucia (Norton) Miner; Marcia, married Gilbert E. Smith, formerly of Syra- 262 eNONDASA HISTORICAL ASSMiAH^N cuse; now decfeased, she resides in MfeGra-i^vill^j N. Y.; Thomas J., married Lucinda Mabie, daughter of Martin arid Gertrude Mabie, resides at East Scott, N. Y.; and MartHJ Jarie, married Alphronius Phillips as his second wife, he is now deceased and she resides -with her sister, in McGraw- viUe, N. Y.) (Cold BrObfe.) Naricy (Pahner), -wrife of Bezaleel W; Taft. Died May 22, 1863, age 65 years. (Cold Brook.) TAYLOR. Wii'liam Taylor. Died July 1, 1882, age 63 years, 3 iribhthg. (Mr. Taylor and his -wife, Charlotte Hunt, -were both bom in England; their children were: Mary A., residing in Borodino, unmarried; George marripd Mary Nesbit, daughter of Robert and Naricy (Wallace) l^esbit; arid Mirinie E., married James Sweet, late P. M. at BOrodino arid son of Joseph N. a,nd l^argaret (Nesbit) Sweet) . (Borodino.) thAyer. Sanford Thayer, (son of Capt. Jerijah and Cynthia (Case) Thayer.) Bom June 9^ 1787, died August 26, i836. (He was born in Windham CPunty, Conn., and from there first settled in Vermont, where he married his first -wife, Rebecca Prisby, at Vernon, December 1, 1808. From Ver mont he moved to Cato, N. Y., and theri to Cold Brook, where he died ; he married Sally Mirier for his secorid wife. His first three children were by his first wife, and th6 othei-s by his second wife, Sally Miner. They Werfe as follows: Polly, bom January 25, 1812, mai-ried Walter Brown, resided af Vemon, Vt. ; So-phroriia, bom November 6, 1816, married Laurence T. Washburii, resided in Verriorii Vt.; Chauncey, born July 15, 1817, married (1) Herliam Crouch, and (2) Almira Preston; resided in Vernon, Vt; Sdnfbrd^ bora July 19, 1820, he was an artist; and settled and died id Syracuse, N. Y., married Nancy H. Smith, (two childreri, both deceased), he and his wife both dead; Salmon, bom STAFFORD MORTUARY lUKMHtDS WITH GBNBALOGICAL NOTES 253 December 4, 1822, married Eliza Weston, he was a black smith and resided at AUeghan, Michigan; Sarah A., bom July 10, 182§, married Peres L. Norton, son of Moses and Perpy (Barber) Norton, settled in Lanesburg, Pa. ; Stephen P., born August 27, 1827, married Harriet L. Nicholson and settled in Oswego, N. Y. ; Susan, bom July 10, 1830 ; Serena M., borri May 10, 1832, married Charles Goodyear, resided in San Francisco, California; an^ Sylyanus L. Iii., bom December 30, 1834, married Mary Hinton, he was a black smith and moved to Homer, Calhoun County, Mich. Mr. Thayer was descended from Thomas Thayer, who came from England and settled in Braintree, Mass., and was made freeman in 1636, as follows: Thomas, Fernando, Josiah, Josiah, Zephaniah, Jerijah, Sanford. He was by trade a millwright.) (Cold Brook.) SaUy (Miner), wife of Sapford Thayer. Born October 9, 1796, died September 15, 1859. (She was a daughter of Luke and sister of Peres Miner of this to-wn.) (Cold Brook.) THOMPSON. Reuben Thompson, pied November 15, 1838, age 56 years, 7 months. " Respected while Uving, lamented though dead. His sanctified spirit to ijesus had fled." (His wife Sally is also buried in this cemetery, but has no stone. In his will, dated September 27, 1838, and pro bated February 15, 1839, he mentions his -wife, Sally Thompson, and his children, Nathan P., married Margaret ^utchens, daughter of Col. Phineas and Margaret (Giber son) Hutchens; William B., married Clarinda Prindle, daughter of Moses and Purlina (Patchen) Prindle; and Edward R., married a Miss Parsons and went West.) SaUy, widPW of Reuben Thompson. Died June 6, 1849, age 62 years. (Stone.) (Spafford.) Nathan P. Thompson, (son of Reuben and SaUy Thomp son) . Died April 5, 1869, age 58 years, 7 months, 11 days. (By his wife, Margaret Hutchens, he had besides ti^e two children recorded here: Sarah, married Alanson S. Fred- 254 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION erick, son of Jacob and Rachel (Newkirk Frederick, both dead; and Jane EUen, married Frank Proper, resides in Homer, N. Y. Mrs. Thompson was stiU living in 1899, residing with her daughter, Jane EUen, in Homer, N. Y.; since deceased.) (Spafford.) Caroline, daughter of Nathan P. and Margaret (Hut chens) Thompson. Died October 6, 1843, age 3 years, 8 months, 15 days. (Spafford.) Libbie Beraice, daughter of Nathan P. and Margaret (Hutchens) Thompson. Died January 25, 1853, age 11 months, 16 days. (Spafford.) Mary P., daughter of William B. and Clarinda (Prindle) Thompson. Died Febmary 18, 1850, age 11 years, 1 month, 1 day. " My Lord did call I quiet went To meet and with him dwell. The last great debt I now have paid And bid the world farewell." (Mr. Thompson and his wife, Clarinda, after decease of their daughter, Mary, moved to Michigan, where they both died. They had one other child : Byron, who married, and in 1898 resided in Jackson, Michigan.) (Spafford.) Lyman Thompson, (a brother of Reuben) , and his wife, Nancy, from 1829 to 1837 resided in this to-wn, and owned lands at different times on lots 31, 32, and 43, Tully, and 75, Marcellus, and had children: Zipporah, married Mr. Enos; Bezaleel, ; Amanda ; and Lyman, Jr. They all moved West There was also a Nathan Thompson and wife Electa, who resided and o-wned lands on Lot 75, Marcellus, from June 24, 1815, to September, 1828, and perhaps later. And also an Amasa M. Thompson, who conveyed, without -wife, and owned lands on lots 10 and 12, Sempronius, from October 15, 1834 to 1837, Zipporah, widow of Nathan Thompson. Died May 3, 1825, age 64 years. (Thora HiU.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 255 TERBUSH. Jonas Terbush. Died November 20, 1840, age 63 years, 2 months, 26 days. (Mr. Terbush resided on the west side of Spafford Hollow, the first farm south of the Buck Tail Road ; in the petition for letters of administration upon his estate, dated Decem ber 9, 1840, and made by his wife, Polly Terbush, mention is made of the following children : Susan ; Jane ; Davenport ; and Anna Maria, married Chester Kimbal, all of Spafford, N. Y. ; and Lorenzo, of Auburn, N. Y. ; Julia Ann of Liberty, Pa.; Peter F., of Little Rock, Arkansas; and John ot Natchez, Mississippi. They were all then of full age, except: Susan, Jane, and Davenport, who were minors.) (Spafford Hollow.) Polly W., wife of Jonas Terbush. Died March 4, 1842, 3.ge 59 years, 9 months, 15 days. (Spafford Hollow.) TINKHAM. Adah (Windsor), wife of Capt. Daniel Tinkham. Died February 28, 1851, age 82 years, 3 months, 19 days. (Daniel Tinkham, son of Hezekiah and Girzel Tinkham, first settled in Vermont, and from there came to this to-wn about 1803, and settled on the State's Hundred Acres on Lot 89, Marcellus. These lands he sold in 1810, and moved on the east side hill, where he remained until after the decease of his wife, Adah, when he moved with his son, Zenas Tinkham, to SummerviUe, Mich., where he died. His father and mother : Hezekiah and Grizel Tinkham, had the following children : Elizabeth, Gehany, Renew, John, Peter, Sally, Grizel, Nehemiah, Daniel, Samuel, and Philip. Daniel Tinkham, born April 30, 1767, married Adah Windsor, born November 9, 1768, at Smithfield, R. I., who was the daughter of John and Mary (Smith) Windsor. His wife was descended from Joshua Windsor, who came to Providence, R. I., from England as early as 1637, as follows : Joshua, Samuel, Joshua, John, Adah. She was also descended from Roger Williams of Rhode Island, as follows : Roger, Mercy, Joshua, John, Adah. Mr. Tinkham, by his wife Adah, had the following children, part bom in Vermont and the balance in this town: John, born December 26, 2S6 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1790, died unmarried, buried probably at Thom HiU; Mercy, born September 3, 1792, married Calvin CampbeU, died at Grand Ledge, Mich; Russel, born July 21, 1794, married Mary Cook, died in Spafford, N. Y. ; Stephen, bom June 21, 1796, married Roxana Wait, died in Ohio ; Alanson, bom October 5, 1798, married Betsey Grinnell, daughter of Isaiah Grinnell, died in Orleans County, N. Y. ; Relly, bom December 28, 1800, married Chloe Grinnell, daughter of Isaiah Grinnell, died in Orleans County, N. Y. ; Praxana, born February 22, 1803, married John Grinnell, son of Isaiah GrinneU, she died in Orleans County, N. Y., and her husband married (2) Tacy Babcock, daughter of John Babcock ; Zenas, born April 18, 1805, married Lovedy Cook, sister of Russel Tinkham's -wife Mary, she was born July, 1806, and he and she died at SummerviUe, Mich. ; Almeda, born December 27, 1807, married Hiram W. Hayes, she died in Quincy, Mich., and in 1898 her husband was residing in Pomona, Cal; Cynthia, born April 29, 1810, married William Smith, she was living in 1898 in Pomona, Cal. ; and Adah, bora April 17, 1813, died young.) (Spafford.) Russell Tinkham, (son of Daniel and Adah (Windsor) Tinkham) . Died May 31, 1874, age 79 years, 10 months, 20 days. (He married Mary Cook, daughter of Joseph and Mary Cook, who were born in Falmouth, ComwaU, England, where they were also married and their daughter Mary born. By his -wife Mary he had the following cMldren, bom in this town : John Cook, bom May 27, 1817, married (1) Phebe Harris and (2) Jane Harris, daughters of Wil liam and Nancy (Davis) Harris, he died at Glen Haven, N. Y., but was buried at Grand Ledge, Michigan ; Delevan, bora August 28, 1818, married Lona Babcock, residing in 1898 at Cold Water, Mich, ; Mary Ann, bom June 29, 1820, married Uriah Roundy, son of Capt. Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy, resides in Spafford, N, Y. ; Emily, bom August 17, 1822, married Warren Doty, she died 1899 at Homer, N. Y., where her husband is still living; LaFayette, bom July 30, 1824, married Mary Ann Carr, daughter of Thurston and Lorane (Green) Carr, resides in Spafford, N. Y.; Marinda, born July 30, 1826, died young; Charlotte, bora Pecember 23, 1828, married David Bailey, resides in SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 257 Cold Water, Mich.; Lovedy, bom May 3, 1830, married Oscar Burdick, son of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick, both died in Quincy, Mich. ; and Lovinas, bom May 30, 1832, married Elnora Burdick, daughter of Christopher Avery and Eugenia Jane (Nash) Burdick, resided in Scott, Cortland County, N .Y., but died in December, 1900.) (Spafford.) Mary (Cook), wife of RusseU Tinkham. Died February 11, 1866, age 74 years, 3 months, 3 days. (Spafford.) Marinda, daughter of Russell and Mary (Cook) Tinkham. Died October 17, 1827, age 2 years, 2 months, 17 days. " Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest, God called thee when he thought best." (Spafford.) William Henry, son of Zenas and Lovedy (Cook) Tink ham. Died April 12, 1851, age 5 years, 4 months, 18 days. (Spafford.) TOWN. Mr. Isaac Town. Died January 10, 1819, age 62 years, 1 month. (He married Judith Turner, and by her had the foUo-wing children, mentioned in his wiU, dated December 12, 1818, and probated February 4, 1819: Alphea, Orrin, married Lydia Ford; Clark, married Electa Churchill; Simon; Pru dence, married Lauren Norton, son of David and Dinah (Wilton) Norton; Sophia; Matilda; and Sylvia.) (Cold Brook.) Judith (Turner), wife of Isaac Town. Died July 15, 1821, age 62 years, 7 months. (Cold Brook.) Orrin Town, (son of Isaac and Judith (Turner) Town) . Died October 2, 1842, age 55 years,, 5 months, 12 days. " Lovely in life, peaceful in death." (He married Lydia Ford.) (Cold Brook.) Lydia Ford, wife of Orrin Tpwn. Died November 14, 1876, age 87 years, 8 months. (Cold Brook.) 258 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Alfred C. Town, (son of Orrin and Lydia (Ford) To-wn). Died September 20, 1859, age 41 years. (He married Hannah Dalton, an EngUsh woman, and by her had the following: Orrin L.; Mary L.; William J.; Wesley A. ; and Hattie, who died in 1874, age 13 years.) (Cold Brook.) Hannah (Dalton) , wife of Alfred C. Town. Died Decem ber 5, 1874, age 46 years. " We miss thee." (Cold Brook.) Hattie To-wn, (daughter of Alfred C, and Hannah (Dalton) To-wn). Died November 26, 1874, age 13 years, 3 months. (Cold Brook.) Harriet, daughter of Clark and Electa (ChurchiU) To-wn, Died July 31, 1836, age 20 years, 11 months, 14 days, (Mrs. Clark Town is supposed to have been a daughter of John and Martha Churchill.) (Cold Brook.) TRUMBULL. Dr. Benjamin Trumbull. Died May 28, 1835, age 46 years. " There is rest in Heaven." (Dr. TrumbuU resided in the Village of Borodino; in his wUl dated May 7, 1835, and probated July 28, 1835, he mentions his -wife, Lydia C. TrumbuU, his adopted daughter, Jane Trumbull, his nephew Benjamin TrumbuU, son of his brother, Jonathan Trumbull, and also Benjamin T. Coming and Benjamin T, Kneeland for respect shown by being named after the deecased. In the petition for probate, men tion is made of the following brothers and sisters : Jonathan Trumbull of Spafford, N. Y. ; Asaph Trumbull of New York City; Philomelia Rolls, wife of John Rolls of Cortland Co., N. Y. ; Sarah Wamer, wife of Kirtland Wamer of Jackson, Washington Co., N. Y.; Hannah Peters; and Asiba Hall, wife of George Hall, each of Hebron, Conn., aU of fuU age.) (Borodino.) Lydia C, wife of Dr. Benjamin TrumbuU. Died July 14, 1837, age 50 years. (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 259 Jane, (adopted) daughter of Benjamin and Lydia C. Trumbull, Died Mavch 15, 1839, age 17 years, 5 months, (Borodino.) TUCKER. Henry Tucker. Died February 4, 1885, age 7U years, 4 months. (Mr. Tucker in his will, dated September 3, 1881, and pro bated April 6, 1885, mentioned his wife, Mary Ann Tucker, and his children : Adeline ; Jenetti, married Sullivan Carr, son of Almond Carr; Norman; Mary Jane Edgecomb of Scott, N. Y. ; Maria Coon of Skaneateles, N. Y, ; and Harriet French of Aubum, N. Y, The first three mentioned above were then of Spafford, N, Y,) (Spafford Hollow.) Mary Ann, -wife of Henry Tucker. Died September 20, 1886, age 69 years, 4 months. (Spafford Hollow.) TURNER. Mary, daughter of Oscar and Caroline (Case) Turner. Died November 7, 1882, age 4 years, 9 months. (She was accidentally burned to death, by her clothes catehing fire. Oscar Turner married Caroline Case, daughter of Aaron G. and Rebecca (Monk) Case.) (Borodino.) TUTTLE. Daniel Tuttle, (son of Oliver and Abigail Tuttle) . Died January 2, 1854, age 73 years. (Oliver Tuttle, son of Gershom Tuttle, was bom in Clare- mont, N. H., and from Ms native place first settled in Oneida County, N. Y. From there he went to Cincinnatu^, Cortland County, and then to Otisco, N. Y., about 1798, and resided on lot 14, Tully, in Otisco Hollow, until his decease. He is kno-wn to have had a son, Daniel, who came to Otisco when he first settled there, a son William, and perhaps other children. He and his -wife Abigail were among the first members of the Congregational Church, organized at Otisco Center. 260 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Daniel Tuttle (son of Oliver), married Mary Rogers, daughter of Benjamin Rogers, and by her had: John Rogers, bom July 13, 1819, died February 7, 1899, in Spaf ford Hollow, married (1) Lucy Gambell, daughter of Squire Gambell of Otisco, N. Y., and (2) widow of Joseph Clark, deceased, he never had any issue by either vsdf e, but by the last wife he had five step children : Frances, Anna, Joseph, Sarah, and Alice Clark, he was buried in Spafford HoUow Cemetery ; William Nicholas, bom November 25, 1828, mar ried Lucy Seviah Howe, daughter of Perley and Dorris (French) Howe, of Otisco, N. Y., and widow of Joseph H. Stanley, (he has a son, Rev. Henry William Tuttle, residing at Manchester, Iowa) , he resided in 1899 on the Skaneateles and Hamilton Turnpike road, in the town of Otisco, P. 0. Vesper, N. Y. ; Emily A., married Hiram Ingerson, (has four children : Mary, Emma, Darius, and Sarah) ; and Darius D., married Abigail Cowles, daughter of Samuel Cowles of Otisco, and died in Otisco, December 11, 1870, without issue. The widow of Darius D. Tuttle, in her peti tion for letters of administration upon her deceased hus band's estate, dated September 4, 1871, besides herself (Abi gail C. Tuttle) mentions Mercy Tuttle, his mother, of Otisco, John R., and William N. Tuttle of Otisco, N. Y., his brothers, Emily A., wife of Hiram Ingerson of Clay, N. Y., a sister, and Mary L., wife of Elisha S. Cowles, of Oconomowoc, Wis consin, a child of Louisa Price, a deceased sister of Darius D. Tuttle, then all of full age.) (Spafford HoUow.) Mary, widow of Daniel Tuttle. Died June 30, 1887, age 93 years. (Spafford HoUow-) JuUa Ann, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Rogers) Tuttle. Died June 27, 1847, age 20 years, 6 months, 23 days. (Spafford Hollow.) UNCKLESS . Mary A. (Snook), wife of John Unckless. Died Septem ber 10, 1876, age 69 years. (John Unckless was bora Febmary 5, 1814, near Bristol, England; he marride Mary A, Snook, daughter of Dr. William Snook, and by her had the following chUdren : Ann SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 261 Elizabeth, died unmarried in Minneapolis, Minn,; Mary Ann, married Mark HarVey, son Of Paul and Sally (Hiscock) Harvey, as his second wife, resides at Borodino^ N. Y. ; John A., married Alice Van Allen, he was a member of the 122d Regt. N. Y. Vols. Inft in the War of 1861, been Super^ ViSor of this to-wn, and resides at Borodino, N. Y., carpenter and teacher; Edward, resides unmarried iri Friend, Nebraska; and Frank, died unmarried, buried in Borodino Cemetery. Mr. Unckless came to this country about 1832, and settled in this to-wri in 1862. He was also a member of Company " D," 122d Regt., N. Y. Vols, in the War of 1861. He died January 15, 1899 and was buried in this cemetery. Age 85 years.) (Borodino.) Ann Elizabeth Unckless, daughter of John and Mary (Snook) Unckless. Died December 15, 1888, age 50 years. (Borodino.) UNDERWOOD. Timothy W. Underwood, (son of Chester Underwood). Died March 18, 1877, age 61 years, 7 months, 25 days. (He married Hettie Ariti To-wnley.) (Cold Brook.) Hettie Ann (Townley), -wife of Timothy W. Underwood. Died February 5, 1882, age 63 years, 5 days. " At Rest" (Cold Brook.) Theodore D., son of Timothy W. and Hettie Ann (To-wn ley) Underwood; Died April 1, 1863, age 12 years, 10 moriths, 14 days. " None but a parerit's heart can tell, How much it cOsts to bid a child farewell." (Cold Brook.) Frank C, son of Timothy W. and Hettie Ann (Townley) Underwood, Died August 14, 1861, age 7 years, 3 months, .^ days. " Our Little Son, gotie but not forgotten." (Cold Brook.) 262 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION VAIL. Lucius Vail. Died March 24, 1852, age 54 years. (He married Irena ChurchiU, daughter of John and Martha Churchill ; after his decease his widow married for a second husband Harvey Anthony.) (Cold Brook.) Irena (Churchill), wife of ^iucius Vail, Died May 8, 1881, age 78 years. (Cold Brook.) Daniel Vail. Died August 13, 1844, age 73 years, 5 months, 3 days. (Thom HiU.) Sarah, wife of Daniel Vail. Died November 10, 1844, age 69 years, 11 months, 25 days. (Thom HiU.) Daniel S. Vail. Died October 27, 1873, age 73 years, 3 months, 12 days. (In a petition for letter of administration upon his estate, dated February 1, 1875, by Esther P. Mason, -wife of Mor timer Mason, son of Hiram and Maria (Green) Mason, the petitioner states she was the only child of deceased, and mentions no -widow.) (Thom Hill.) Ida, wife of Daniel S. Vail. Died January 2, 1863, age 62 years, 4 months, 21 days. (Thom HiU.) VAN BENSCHOTEN. James Van Benschoten. Died June 13, 1885, age 74 years. (Mr. Van Benschoten married (1) a Miss Price and (2) JuUa Knapp, and had the following cMldren by his first wife: EUen Dunbar; Edwin S., married Sarah EUot daughter of Andrew J. and Sarah Ann (Bulfinch) Eliot he is now deceased, leaving one son Eliot, who married Minnie Odell, daughter of John and Anna (Rounds) OdeU; John G., married (1) Mary E. EUot, daughter of Andrew J. and Sarah Ann (Bulfinch) EUot and (2) NeUie Hookway, he is a merchant residing at Spafford Corners, by his first wife John had two children, Andrew and Grace, and by his second wife one smaU child) ; Richard P. ; Nancy I., married SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 263 Perry Norton, son of Erastus and Mary (Isdell) Norton, she is now deceased, leaving her husband and several chil dren, residing in Scott, N. Y. ; Louisa M., married William Joslin, of Homer, N. Y., no issue; and by his second -wife Mr. Van Benschoten had : Ruth E., resides unmarried -with her mother in Locke, N. Y. ; Charles K., died of yellow fever, unmarried ; Mary E., died unmarried ; and Herman, married Augusta Hunahoe of Locke, Cayuga County, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Mary E., died August 21, 1882, age 16 years. Charles K., died June 6, 1885, age 21 years. Children of James and Julia (Knapp) Van Benschoten. (Spafford.) Mary E. Eliot, -wife of John G. Van Benschoten. Died October, 1891, age 45 years. (Spafford.) Schuyler, son of Byron and Charlotte (Brown) Vari Benschoten. Died November 20, 1886, age 17 years. " Too pure for earth, he has gone to Heaven to blossom there." (Byron Benschoten married Charlotte Bro-wn, daughter of Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown. After his decease his widow married for a second husband Charles Hurd.) (Spafford.) VANDENBURGH. Stephen Vandenburgh. Died February 8, 1882, age 82 years. ¦ _' -;^ (He married Maria Calkins, daughter of Abram and Eliz abeth Calkins, and by her had the following children : John, married Minerva Dedrick, resided at Stiles, N. Y. ; Augustin, married Mary Eggleston, daughter of Dea. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wiltsie) Eggleston, resided in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Charles, married and died in St. Paul, Minn., he was a graduate of Yale College, read law and became Judge of the Supreme Court in the State of Minnesota ; Abram, -was a druggest; Ann, married Jacob Chapman and moved to Michigan; Caroline and Elizabeth died unmarried at the ages of 20 and 14 years. Mr. Vandenburgh came to this to-wn from Stephento-wn, N. Y.) (Thom HiU.) 264 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Maria (CaUcins), wife of Stephen Vandenburgh, Died August 25, 1885, age 51 years, 8 months. (Thom HiU.) Caroline, daughter of Stephen and Maria (Calkins) Van denburgh. Died August 5, 1854, age 20 years, 2 months. (Thom HiU.) Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Maria (Calkins) Vandenburgh. Died September 2, 1855, age 14 years, 2: months. (Thora HUl.) VANDERLIN. Francis E., son of James and Betsey Vanderiini Died November 2, 1844, age 2 years, 2 months. (Borodino.) VAN PATTEN. Samantha, wife of Aaron Van Patten. Died December 15, 1858, age 39 years, 3 months, 2 days. (Spafford Hollow.) VARY. Richard and Charles Vary were important early residents in the northern end of this to-wn ; the latter was at one time Supervisor, and at another time Member of Assembly from the town of Spafford. Charles R. Vary died in California,. but was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y.) WALLACE. Benjamin Wallace. Died . Age . (He came to this town from Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., with his son, Daniel Wallace, Sr., who married Mary Low.) (Old Borodino.) Daniel Wallace, (son of Benjamin Wallace). Died Nov ember 21, 1854, age 84 years, 8 months, 21 days, (He was bora in Pittsto-wn, Rensselaer County, N. Y., iri 1768, and came to Skaneateles -with his father Benjamin, wife Mary Low, and four eldest children, Washington, William, Daniel and Lucy in March, 1805, and from there SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 265 moved upon Lot 88, Marcellus, in this to-wn, in February, 1808. By his wife Mary he had the following children, ^ all bom in this town except four eldest above named, who were bom in Pittsto-wn, N. Y. : Washington, married Deborah B. Eddy, daughter of John Eddy, Sr., he died in this town and was buried in this cemetery ; William, married Amelia Eddy, daughter of Seth Eddy, he and his wife are dead, and buried in this cemetery; Daniel, Jr., born April 20, 1802, married Caroline Marshall, daughter of Joseph Marshall; both dead and buried in this cemetery; Lucy, married Baker of Onondaga Valley, N. Y. ; Alice (EUis) , married John Babcock, Jr., as his second wife, both dead; Benjamin, married Laura Davis, daughter of Col. Le-wis C. Davis, both dead and buried in Davis Yard (no stone), he died at New Hope, N. Y., August 11, 1879, age 70 years ; David ; Morgan L., married Olive Eddy, daughter of Seth Eddy; Charles, married Amanda Wheeler, sister of Orrin Wheeler of Cold Brook, and (2) Matilda , he is dead, and buried in this cemetery (no stone) ; and Mary, married Norton Van Sickland, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.) (Borodino.) Mary (Low) Wallace, Wife of Daniel WaUace. Died October 7, 1846, age 68 years, 11 months. (Borodino.) Washington Wallace, (son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace). Died May 11, 1841, age 42 years. " If ever my children do come nigh And on this mari)le cast an eye. Then on this willow drop a tear For one that always loved you dear." (Mr. Wallace was born in Pittstown, N. Y.; he kept a public house in the village of Borodino. By his -wife, Deborah B. Eddy, he had the following children: John Daniel, married Althea Case of Floyd, Oneida County, N. Y., he resides (1898) in Geneseo, Livingston County, N.Y. ; Edwin R,, married Annie F. Freeman, daughter of Jeffer son Freeman, former President of the Merchants' National Bank of Syracuse, he resides in Syracuse, N, Y,; George W., married Eunice Barker, daughter of John Barker of ^i'loyd, Oneida County, N. Y., resides in Borodino N. Y, ; Harriet, died at 22 years, in Floyd, N. Y., unmarried ; Julia, 206 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION died young in Borodino N, Y,; and Franklin Henry, died young in Borodino, N, Y.) (Borodino,) Franklin, son of Washington and Beborah B, (Eddy) Wallace. Died March 23, 1837, age 1 year, 10 months. (Borodino.) Julia, daughter of Washington and Deborah B. (Eddy) Wallace. Died May 15, 1838, age 7 months. (Borodino.) WiUiam Wallace, (son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wal lace) . Died January 2, 1881, age 81 years. (He married Amelia Eddy, and by her had three sons: Corydon, went West; Benjamin, died in Pennsylvania; and Ichabod, married Laura Havens, daughter of Ebenezer Havens, dead.) (Borodino.) Amelia (Eddy), wife of William Wallace. Died March 7, 1872, age 71 years. (Borodino.) Daniel Wallace, Jr., son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wal lace. Bora April 20, 1802. Died April 13, 1890. (By Ms -wife, Caroline Marshall, he had the following children: Helen M., died young; Simon Bolivar, married Mary Ann Cornell, daughter of John and Miranda (Cady) Cornell, he resides in Borodino, N. Y,, farmer and la-wyer ; Napoleon Bonaparte, married Harriet D, Redway, daughter of Almond T, and Martha (Wheeler) Redway, he was a member of the 13th N. Y. Inft. and 15th N. Y, Cav. Vols., War of 1861; Santa Anna, bom March 2, 1841, mar ried 1866, Florence M. Redway, daughter of Almond T. and Martha (Wheeler) Redway, (three daughters living), resides in Borodino, N. Y.; Maria Antoinette; Demetrius Ypsilanti, married (1) and (2) , resides in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Andrew Jackson, died at three years; Andrew Jackson, 2d, died in 1868. Mr. Wallace was a farmer, and at one time a very large land owner in this town ; in politics he was a Democrat, and in his party a man of potent influence ; he was a pubUc spirited man, a good citizen, and was generally respected by his to-wnspeople.) (Borodino.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GBNBALOGICAL NOTES 267 Caroline (MarshaU), wife of Daniel Wallace, Jr. Died July 25, 1878, age 76 years, 4 months. (Borodino.) Andrew Jackson, son of Daniel, Jr., and Caroline (Mra- shall) Wallace. Died February 7, 1837, age 3 years. (Borodino.) Andrew Jackson, 2nd, son of Daniel, Jr. and Caroline (Marshall) Wallace. Died October 28, 1868, age 30 years, 4 months, 25 days, " None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise." " Faith, Hope and Charity.' (Borodino.) Helen M,, daughter of Daniel, Jr, and Caroline (Mar shall) Wallace, Died August 19, 1832, age 4 years, 11 months. (Borodino,) Napoleon Bonaparte, (son of Daniel, Jr,, and Caroline Wallace) , A member of Company " F," 13th Regt., N. Y. Vols. Inft., and Sergeant Company " B," 15th Regt., N. Y. Vol. Cav. Bora 1829, died 1878. (He died in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; by his wife Harriet D. Redway he had two children: Hypatia and Florence Wallace.) (Borodino.) Harriet D. (Redway) , wife of Napoleon Bonaparte Wal lace. Bom 1841, died 1894. (Borodino.) Amanda (Wheeler), -wife of Charles Wallace. Died September 11, 1844, age 33 years, 1 month. (Charles Wallace was a son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace; he is also deceased and buried in this cemetery. (No stone.) (Borodino.) Morgan Wallace, son of Ichabod and Laura (Havens) Wallace. Died June 9, 1891, age 28 years. (Ichabod Wallace, son of William and Amelia (Eddy) WaUace, and grandson of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wal lace, married Laura Havens, daughter of Ebenezer and Laura (Pettis) Havens, and by her had one son, Morgan WaUace, married Flora B. Havens, widow. Ichabod Wal- 26S ONON^AOA K18T0BieA]b AJXiJIWte lace is also deceased and buried in this cemetery. (No stone.) (Borodino.) Flora B. Havens, wife of Morgari Wallace. (Living in 1899.) (Borodino.) ' 'Our Josephine." " Gone Home." Mary Josephine, daughter of WiUiam and Maria (Briggs) Wallace. Died April 23, 1866, age 21 years, 7 months, 18 days. (William Wallace was bom in the North of Ireland, and came to this country with his cousin, John Wallace, and first settled in Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y. He and John came to this town from the latter place, about May 10, 1836, and settled first on the Dakin Fisher farm, on Lot 11, Tully. He married Maria Briggs, and after the death of his daughter, Josephine, he and his wife moved to Michigan and left no descendants here.) (Borodino.) John Wallace. Bom May 22, 1811, died May 24, 1893. (He was bom in the North of Ireland, and came to this country when a boy, and first settled in Cambridge, Wash ington County, N. Y., and from there came to this town, with his cousin William Wallace, and purchased the Dakin Fisher farm on the East Side Hill, on Lot 11, Tully, May 10, 1836. He married (1) Mercy R. Woodworth, daughter of James and Hannah (Fish) Woodworth, and (2) Cor nelia M. Barker, daughter of Darius and Mary (Cooper) Barker and widow of George W. Lyon. By his last wife he had no issue, but by the first he had : Marion, married George Bishop, resides in Otisco, N. Y. ; John Irving, married (1) Julia Thompson, and (2) Eva Donaldson, resided in Jackson, Minnesota; Hannah, bom Aprli 16, 1845, died November 11, 1846 ; Helen M., married Miles Thompson, resided in Clarence, Mo.; Lillian, bom bora Febmary 26, 1856, died November 16, 1865; Lucas, born April 24, 1851, died February 13, 1880, Unmarried; Hannah 2ttd; married Jay Grout, son of John Grout, Jr., died in lOwa, (leavirig two children: Carlton John, and LiUian Haririah Grout of Rock Rapids, Iowa) ; James, mar ried Deborah Hurd, daughter of Charles and Charlotte (Bro-wn) Hurd, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Hugh M., resides atXVTGKB MORTUARY BBOMBS WITM SBNIALOGICAL NOTES in Selegman, Missouri ; and Eureka, married Earl Hazzard and resides in Homer, N. Y. Mr. Wallace for a short time resided in Otisco, N. Y., and part of his children were bom there, the balance in this to-wn. His widow still (1899) resides iri Spaffoi-d.) (Spafford.) Among the brethers and sisters of John Wallace, who came to this country from Ireland, were : Robert, resided in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. ; Nancy, married Robert Nesbit, she died in this toAvn, leaving descendants here; Matilda, mar ried Alexander Gordon, she resides in this to-wn with her ^on-in-law, Ljrman C. Bennett, (died 1900) ; and Jane, married Robert O'Neil, resided in Michigan, (Uriah Roundy thinks the latter married John Faris instead of Robert O'NeU.) Mercy R. (Woodworth), -wife of John Wallace. Bom June 22, 1822, died August 7, 1865. (Spafford.) Hannah, bom April 16, 1845, died November 11, 1846. Lillian, bom February 26, 1856, died November 16, 1865. Lucas, born April 24, 1851, died February 13, 1880, Children of John and Mercy R. (Woodworth) Wallace. (Spafford,) WALKER. Rhoda Walker. Died June 2, 1842, age 88 years. (Stanton Yard.) WATSON. Jennett, wife of George R. Watson. Died November 29, 1850, age 52 years, 7 months. (George R. Watson was a Scotchman, and a weaver by trade; he married (1) Jennett and (2) Elsie Peck, daughter of Samuel Peck.) (Borodino.) WAINE. John Waine. Died October 19, 1848, age 48 years. (Thom HiU.) WALCH. Mary, wife of John Walch. Died November 26, 1837, age 57 years, 4 months, 20 days. (Thora HiU.) 27d ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASBOCLATION WEBSTER. Mary, "wife of William Webster. Died March 10, 1868, age 85 years. (William Webster and his -wife Mary were bom in Ire land; after the decease of her husband in the old country, Mrs. Webster came here with her son, Edward Webster, who married Betsey Alvord, and settled in Cold Brook, where she died. Mr. and Mrs. Webster had a daughter, Sarah A. Webster, who married Thomas Al-vord, a brother of Edward Webster's -wife.) (Cold Brook.) WELLINGTON. Sarah A., wife of Nathaniel Wellington. Died April 10, 1853, age 56 years. (Cold Brook.) Charles, son of Nathaniel and Sarah A. Wellington. Died February 26, 1840, age 11 years, 9 months, 15 days. (Cold Brook.) Theodore A., son of Acil T. and Polly C. Wellington. Died August 17, 1839, age 1 year, 11 days. (Cold Brook.) Helen. Died February 11, 1846, age 3 years. Henriett. Died March 6, 1846, age 1 year. Children of Acil T. and Polly C. Wellington. (Cold Brook.) WESTON. Edmund C. Weston, (son of James and Ruth (Lincoln) Weston) . Died August 23, 1874, age 76 years. (Edmund C. Weston was bom July 15, 1798, in Portland, Me., and came with his parents at an early age to Smith- field, Madison County, N. Y.He was a clothier by trade, and came to this town and purchased an interest in the Clothing, Fulling and Carding works located in Factory Gulf, on the Skaneateles and Homer road, on Lot 74, MarceUus. Here he met and married Clorinda Rathbone, daughter of James and Margaret (Ashley) Rathbone, and by her had the fol lowing children, aU bom in this to-wn : Edward, bom June 9, 1822, died July 7, 1853, married Ulyssa Earl, daughter of William and Polly (Pitts) Earl, both dead; James R., SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 271 bom April 24, 1824, married Delight Clark, daughter of Zoroaster Clark of Scott, N. Y., he was a physician and surgeon, President of a bank in Townsend, in Montana, where he resides, also Probate Judge ; Harriet C, bom Feb ruary 5, 1827, married Cyrus Lyon, resides in Borodino, N. Y.; Henry, bom August 3, 1830, married Sarah Earl, daughter of WiUiam and Polly (Pitts) Earl, he died January 28, 1897, and wife resides in Borodino, N. Y., no issue; and Daniel W., bom February 10, 1834, died September 8, 1898, married Sarah A. Briggs, who died March 19, 1890, both buried at Soule Cemetery, Sennett, N. Y. (One child, Mrs. W. D. Seaman.) (Borodino.) Clorinda A.Rathbone, -wife of Edmund C. Weston. Died June 19, 1883, age 85 years, 10 months. (She was bom in Pittsfield, Mass., August 14, 1797.) (Borodino.) Henry Weston, (son of Edmund C. and Clorinda A. (Rathbone) Weston) . Bom August 3, 1830, died January 28, 1897. (He was a farmer by occupation ; had been Super-visor of the town.) (Borodino.) Sarah Earl, wife of Henry Weston. Bom in 1830, stiU living in 1899. (Borodino.) Edward Weston (son of Edmund C. and Clorinda A. (Rathbone) Weston) . Died July 7, 1853, age 31 years, 28 days. (Thora HiU.) Ulyssa (Earl), wife of Edward Weston. Died January 28, 1869, age 40 years. (Thom HiU.) WilUam Weston, (son of Edward and Ulyssa (Earl) Weston). Died April 16, 1854, age 2 years. (Thom HiU.) Edward Weston, Jr., (son of Edward and Ulyssa (Earl) Weston). Born December 19, 1853, died May 8, 1872. (Thom HiU.) James Weston of Portland, Me., married (1) Ruth Lin coln, and moved to Smithfield, Madison County, N. Y., where he married for a second wife, Lois Fish ; by his first 2f2 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION wife he had: John, married Jane HiUebert, daughter of John C. Hillebert of Borodino, N. Y., he died in Michigan ; Edmund C, married Clorinda A. Rathbone, daughter of James and Margaret (Ashley) Rathbone; and Lydia, mar ried Gilbert Vanderhoof, she died in Illinois; and by his second "wife, James Weston had : Stephen, and James, both of whom married and went West. WHALEY. Mr. Charles Whaley. Died July 26, 1834, age 64 years, 8 months. (Spafford.) WHEELER. Julia Amelia, daughter of Orrin and Mary Ann Wheeler. Died September 27, 1855, age 6 years, 3 months, 19 days. " This lovely bud was nipped so soon, To rise and bloom beyond the tomb." (Orrin Wheeler was a pedler; he died in the War of 1861, and his widow, Mary Ann Wheeelr, was accidentally killed by falling off the hotel steps at Glen Haven, N. Y. Mr. Wheeler's children were: John, married a Miss Law rence; Mary, married (1) a Mr. Manley and (2) a Mr. FuUer of Homer, N. Y. ; Charies, married in Michigan, and retumed to Spafford where he now resides; and Carrie, married and resides in Binghamton, N. Y.) (Cold Brook.) WHITING. Ira B., son of Thomas and Esther Whiting. Died August 10, 1830, in the 27th year of his age. (He died of smallpox, unmarried. Thomas and Esther Whiting had the following children: Thomas S., married Polly Crane; Esther, married Russel M. Burdick; Ansel, married a Miss Nancy Burdick; Ira B., died unmarried; Arlo, married and moved to Michigan ; Eliza ; Harriet, and Lovina, married Joel Nash, the latter was the mother of Avery Burdick's wife, Eugenia Jane Nash. Mr. Whiting resided where Edwin Morris now (1899) resides on Lot 31, Tully.) (Cold Brook.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 273 WHITNEY. Clorinda, wife of William B. Whitney. Died May 23, 1854, age 71 years. (Spafford Hollow.) WILBER. James B. Wilber, son of WiUiam T. and Olive (Orton) Wilber. A member of company " B," 15th Regt., N. Y. Cav. Vols. Died August 3, 1870, age 26 years. (WiUiam T. Wilber married Olive Orton, daughter of ^enas and Sally Orton.) (Borodino.) WILCOX. Matilda Wilcox. Died March 29, 1852, age 20 y^rs, 4 months, 20 days. (Spafford Hollow.) WILLIAMS. Abigail Williams. Died April 11, 1891, in her 71st year. (She was the mother of Jane Williams, "wrife of Jeremiah W. Nodine, Jr.) (Cold Brook.) Louisa, daughter of John and Catherine Williams. Died June 22, 1855, age 18 years, 9 months. (Borodino.) WILLIAMSON. " Our Father," Comelius Williamson. Died December 30, 1858, age 78 years. (He married Eliza Ostrander, and by her had the follow ing Children: Aaron, died unmarried; Henry, died un married ; Maria, married Nathan Raymond ; Eliza, married Thaddeus Dunbar as his second wife ; Hannah, married Dr. Zachariah Derbyshire as his second wife; Mary Jane, mar ried Joseph Harmon, both dead; Nancy, married Peter Ostrander ; and Catherine, married Charles Bartow of Earl- viUe, Madison County, N. Y.) (Spafford.) "Our Mother," Eliza Ostrander, wife of Comelius Wil liamson. Died December 11, 1864, age 82 years. (Spafford.) 274 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Eliza, daughter of ComeUus and Eliza ) Ostrander) Williamson. Died March 18, 1853, age 35 years. (She married Thaddeus Dunbar as his second wife.) (Spafford.) Aaron WiUiamson, (son of Comelius and Eliza (Ostran der) WiUiamson) . Died February 23, 1867, age 60 years. (In the petition for letters of administration upon his estate, by Mary Harmon, his sister, dated Febmary 28, 1867, mention is made of the foUowing sisters : Catherine Bartow of Earlville, N. Y. ; and Mary Harmon of Spafford, N. Y.; and the follo"wing nephews and nieces: John H. Ostrander of Tully, N. Y., child of his deceased sister, Nancy Ostrander; John W. Raymond of Rockville, Kankakee Co., Illinois; Aaron Raymond of Oseo, Hillsdale County, Mich.; and Eliza Benschoten, residence unknown, children of Maria Raymond, a deceased sister ; all of full age, except John H. Ostrander, a minor.) (Spafford.) Henry WiUiamson, (son of Ck)melius and Eliza (Ostrander) WiUiamson). Died March 7, 1834, age 22 years. (Spafford.) James Williamson, Jr. Died February 1, 1833, age 60 years, 19 days. (Mr. Williamson came to this town from Minden, Mont gomery County, N. Y., about April, 1806, and settled on a farm of 193 acres, on the northeast comer of Lot 12, Tully. In the petition for letters of administration upon his estete, made by his -wife Hannah Williamson, dated February 12, 1833, mention is made of the following children : Charles, married Charlotte , resided in Grant County, Wis. ; Jon athan, married Esther , resided in Italy, Yates County, N. Y., and subsequently in Parma, Ohio ; Catherine, married Samuel BouteUe, of Spafford Hollow, N. Y. ; Hannah, mar ried Thomas Andrews of Potter, Yates County, N. Y.; Barber, died unmarried ; Jane, married Orasmus C. Hutehi- son of Willoughby, Ohio; Richard, married Miss Van Hoosen of Preble, N. Y.; Calvin, married Miss Jacobs of Spafford, N. Y. ; Harriet, died unmarried ; Esther, married James V. Skellie, son of William I. and Betsey (Boughton) Skellie, she died and was buried in Scott, N. Y. ; and James R., married Charity Rainey.) (Spafford Hollow.) SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 275 Hannah, wife of James Williamson, Jr. Died March 29, 1857, age 74 years. (Spafford Hollow.) James B. Williamson, (son of James, Jr., and Hannah Williamson) . Died May 31, 1830, age 30 years, 8 months, 10 days. (His wife, Charity Rainey, after his decease married Peter Churchell as his second -wife.) (Spafford HoUow.) Barber Williamson (son of James, Jr. and Hannah Wil liamson) . Died October 25, 1857, age 46 years. (Spafford Hollow.) Harriet Williamson, (daughter of James, Jr. and Hannah WiUiamson). Died May 16, 1861, age 38 years, 19 days. (Spafford Hollow.) WILLIS, George H. Willis, son of John and Mary Ann Willis. Died August 31, 1864, age 1 year, 6 months. (Mr. and Mrs. Willis were from TuUy, N. Y.) (Spafford Hollow.) Frederick W. Willis, son of John and Mary Ann Willis. Died June 5, 1864, age 1 week. (Spafford Hollow.) WILTSIE. John Wiltsie, died August 24, 1852, age 84 years. (Thom HiU.) Mary, wife of John Wiltsie, died August 19, 1845, age 75 years. (It is claimed that John and Mary Wiltsie were the common ancestors of all of that name in to-wn.) (Thom HiU.) WINCHESTER. Ann W, (Berry) , (wife of Winchester) . Died January 10, 1849, age 44 years. (She was a daughter of Jonathan and Thankful Berry.) (Borodino,) 275 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION WIRTH. Jennie F., daughter of Henry and ElUen (Moore) Wirth. Died November 10, 1881, age 1 year, 8 months, 18 days. " Budded on Earth to blossom in Heaven." (Henry Wirth was a native of Switzerland, and his -wife Ellen Moore, daughter of Joseph Moore, was a native of England.) (Borodino.) WOOD. Mary, daughter of Peter and Helen (Van Hoosen) Wood. Died October 15, 1868, age 3 years, 7 days. (Peter Wood, son of Cyrus Wood, married Helen Van Hoosen of Scott, N. Y.) (Borodino.) Lydia, -wife of Orry Wood. Died May 24, 1826, age 29 years. (By his wife Lydia, Mr. Wood had no issue; after her decease he married Rebecca Copp of this to"wn, and moved to Chautauqua, N. Y., where he left issue by his second wife.) (Thom HiU.) Harriet (Stevens), wife of Warren Wood. Died October 7, 1838, age 26 years, 6 months. (Jonas Wood, the father of Warren, care at an early date from Milton, Saratoga County, N. Y., first to Skaneateles, and soon after settled on a farm between Amber and Nav arino, then in Marcellus, now Otisco, where he remained until his decease ; he had a large family ; most of whom were sons, who like their father, were tailors by trade. His wife was Elizabeth Easton, by whom he had : Charles, he was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in Marcellus, unmar ried; Stephen, died young; Warren, married (1) Harriet Stevens and (2) Henrietta Van Hosen, moved to Clinton, Michigan, where he died ; Himaaz, married Mary Salmon of Onondaga, he died in Marcellus and his wife out West; Caroline, married Martin Christler, both died in Sumpter, Mich.; Ann Eliza (twin), married James Benham and died in Bridgwater, Mich. ; twin of Eliza, died young ; Seymour N., married Lizana Roundy, daughter of Capt Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy, he died in Syracuse, and his SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 277 -wife in 1899 resided in Onondaga Valley, N. Y. ; Stephen C. (2nd), married Ursula Whiting, "wife and he both dead; Marcus, married Caroline , he died in Clinton, Mich.; ComeU J., married (1) Sarah Carter, and (2) Sarah Easton, member of Company " H," 149th Regt., N. Y. Vols. Inft., lost a leg at the Battle of ChanceUorsviUe, Va., resides in Brewerto-wn, N. Y. There were one or two more, making thirteen in all, who died young.) (Borodino.) WOODWORTH. James Woodworth. Died October 11, 1858, age 79 years, ll months, 17 days. " He sweetly sang on Earth, Now sings in Heaven." (He was a native of Connecticut and first settled in Mayfield, Fulton County, N. Y. ; from there he came to this town about 1820, and settled on Lot 23, Sempronius. By his wife Hannah Fish, he had the following children : Joel C, married Sarah Eadie, daughter of James and Martha (Smith) Eadie; Jonathan F., married Emma Legg, daughter Capt. Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg, and widow of Truman Cross; and Mercy R., married John Wallace, both dead.) (Spafford.) Hannah (Fish) , -wife of James Woodworth. Died March 28, 1850, age 72 years. (Spafford.) Joel C. Woodworth, (son of James and Hannah (Fish) Woodworth). Died December 1, 1873, age 65 years, 5 months, 5 days. (He was born in Mayfield, Fulton County, N. Y., in 1808 ; by his wife Sarah Eadie he had : Cyrenus, married Char lotte Norton, daughter of Seymour and Sally (Lyman) Nor ton, farmer and surveyor, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Perry F., married Martha Norton, daughter of Seymour and Sally (Lyman) Norton, was member of the 122nd Regt., N. Y. Vols. Inft., War of 1861, farmer, has been Supervisor of the town, and held other minor to-wn offices, resides in Spafford, N. Y.; Arlo, married (1) Emma Bacon, daughter of WiUiam and Phebe (Isdell) Bacon, first wife dead, (2) Helen Norton, daughter of Erastus and Mary (Isdell) Nor- 278 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCTATION ton, and -widow of Wallace Gordon, he resides in Spafford^ N. Y.; Justina, married Charles Rich of Borodino, N. Y.; Vestilina E., married Alfred G. Harrington, son of Jenks Harrington, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Elizabeth M., mar ried George Case; Hannah Martha, married James Bacon^ son of William and Phebe (Isdell) Bacon ; and James Irwin,. and James Henry, each of whom died young.) (Spafford.) Sarah (Eadie), "wife of Joel C. Woodworth, Died June 17, 1884, age 75 years, 9 months, 15 days. (She was bom in Rensselaerville, Rensselaer County, N. Y., in 1808,) (Spafford,) James Irwin, died September 13, 1840, age 3 years, 11 months, 26 days. James Henry. Died May 16, 1843. Sons of Joel C. and Sarah (Eadie) Woodworth, (Spafford,) Joel C„ son of Perry F, and Martha (Norton) Wood- worth. Died October 10, 1879, age 5 years, 9 months, 10 days. " Our Darling Boy." (By his wife, Martha Norton, Mr. Woodworth had two children besides those here recorded : Gertmde I., a teacher and graduate of Cortland Normal School; and Olin F., who resides at home in Spafford, N. Y.) (Spafford.) Lucretia E., daughter of Perry F. and Martha (Norton) Woodworth. Died October 1, 1879, age 12 years, 9 months, 17 days. " Rest in Peace." (Spafford.) Emma (Bacon) , wife of Arlo Woodworth. Bom in 1851, died in 1894. (Spafford.) Leona. Bom 1875, died 1887. Phebe. Bora 1878, died 1882. Daughters of Arlo and Emma (Bacon) Woodworth. " We miss thee." (Spafford.) .SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 279 Ambrose, son of Elias and Deidamia (Bassett) Wood- worth. Died September 16, 1829, age 21 years, 10 months, 24 days. (Mr. and Mrs. Woodworth resided at one time near the Center, but eventually moved out of town. Besides Am- l)rose they had three other sons : Enos, he moved to Michi gan; Henry, died here unmarried; Elias, Jr.; and one daughter, Esther, who married Jonathan Johnson, both died Jiere.) (Nunnery.) WORDEN. Truman Worden. Died May 22, 1876, age 68 years. (He came to this town from Victory, N. Y., and married Phebe Harrington, daughter of John and Catherine Har rington, and by her had two children: Frances, married TJriah Morris, son of Samuel and Jane (Springer) Morris, resides at Glen Haven; and Walter, married Margaret Wood, daughter of Cyrus Wood, resides at Spafford, N. Y. Walter Worden, (son of Truman) , by his wife Margaret Wood had five children: Alvin, married Adelle RandaU, -died in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Alice, married WiUiam C. Randall, resides m Spafford, N. Y. ; Fannie, married Frank RandaU, resides in Spafford, N. Y. (the three Randalls above were children of Nathan and Mary (Wadsworth) Randall) ; Oliver, died unmarried; and Dora, married John Brown, son of William Brown. Mrs, Worden is also deceased and buried in this cemetery,) (Spafford,) Phebe (Harrington, wife of Truman Worden, Died -December 27, 1887, age 76 years. " Dearest names to mortals given Is Father, Mother, Home and Heaven." (Her father and mother came from Foster, R, I.) (Spafford.) WORTHINGTON. Stephen Worthington, Died February 3, 1830, age 33 .years. (Spafford Hollow.) 280 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION YORK. John York. Died May 28, 1892, age 73 years. (Mr. York's first "wife was Sarah A. Clark. In his "will dated April 30, 1891, probated July 6 ,1892, he mentions a second "wife, Leleah York, against whom he obtained a divorce, December 6, 1882, and who was then living under the name of Leleah Adlam, and her child May Adlam, then 10 years old ; he also mentions : Mary A. Cook, and Lucinda Gamble, whom he made executrixes, and a son, John York, then a minor residing with Stephen Masters, this last John was probably John 2nd, he ha"ving lost a son John, who died in 1871, age 13 years. (Spafford Hollow.) Sarah A. Clark, wife of John York. Died August 12,. .1874, age 43 years. (Spafford HoUow.) John, son of John and Sarah Ann (Clark) York. Died November 29, 1871, age 13 years. (Spafford Hollow.) WilUam York. Died May 29, 1881,* age 58 years. (His first wife was Elizabeth York; in his will dated May 24, 1881, proabted July 16, 1881, he mentions his second wife, Sarah Ann York, and his children: William Henry,. then of MarceUus, N. Y.; George Seymour, Fanny J., and Lydia York, each residing in Spafford, N. Y., and all of full age, except George Seymour York, who was then a minor.) (Spafford Hollow.) EUzabeth, "wife of William York. Died November 5,. 1865, age 33 years. (Spafford Hollow.) 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Just south of Mr. Churchell's blacksmith shop Mr. Loami W. Johnson had a cooper shop ; he came from Cambridge, in this State, and first settled north of Borodino. From there he came to this village at an early date and carried on a profitable business as cooper until his decease, which occurred in 1861 ; he had no successor in business. There never was but one resident tailor at the Corners, William Quick, who was born in London, England. He first came to Canada, and from there to this viUage, where he married a Miss French. He remained here a few years and then moved to Borodino. Before his coming a tailor residing in some other place came -to the tavern on stated days, cut the clothes of the people, and they were then made up in the family or by a practiced seamstress who went from houses to house for that purpose. The business of a tailor and seamstress in those days was a respectable and profitable one. Another lucrative business in olden times was that of currier and tanner and shoemaker. There are those still living who can remember when a shoemaker, carrying his kit of tools with him, went from house to house, shoeing the family from skins taken from the domestic herds, and prepared by a neighboring tanner and currier. Among the itinerant shoemakers who came to the "Corners" was David Havens, father of Clark and Ebenezer Havens. He came from Rhode Island, was a Seventh Day Baptist, and was buried in their cemetery at Scott, New York. Among the early tanners and curriers were Sumner Allen, father of William Bulfinch Allen, now a resident at the Corners, and Da-vid T. Lyon ; each carrying on business west of the main road, in the northern part of the viUage at Spafford Corners. Mr. Lyon was also a shoemaker, and with his coming here the itirierant business came to an end; he and his sons Charles B. and Cyrus Lyon were expert craftsmen, and for many years made the foot wear of the southern residents of the town. Another industry of considerable importance in early times, now in disuse by reason of changed conditions, was tiiat of Potashery. At a very early date a building for the manufacture of potash from wood ashes stood where the 70 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION present residence of Mrs. Benjamin McDaniels now stands, on the south side of the east and west road, just west of the " Corners." Here " Uncle " Eli Fisher, under the manage^ ment of Levi Hurlbut and Asahel M. Roundy, year after year gathered wood ashes from all the neighboring farmers, and in the Fall of the year boiled the lye from them into potash, for the eastern market ; and here many a good house wife came with her pot grease to have " Uncle " Eli assist her in making her annual barrel of soft soap for domestic use. Uncle Eli was a familiar character of those early years, and his coming and going, as the years went round, was watched by the villagers with pleasurable satisfaction. His glowing open arch fire always gave out a generous heat and light, and many a man will recall with pleasure the memory of, when a boy, he spent the cold Fall evenings in that light and heat with Uncle Eli, as the latter pursued his evening toil. Jeremiah Van Rensselae Coon and his father David Coon, at an early date carried on the business of harness making, the former at the Corners, and the latter at the cross roads east of Spafford Cemetery; David Coon died in 1857, and his son moved away soon afterwards ; they had no successors in business. The following business references to the Village of Boro dino are taken in part from Bruce's History of the County of Onondaga. The first merchant there was Daniel G. Burroughs, who kept a store in a log cabin on the site of the present dwelling house and store of Alphonso Deerman, east of the Skaneateles and Homer road, as weU as the one leading to Thom Hill. It is said he was an expert s^wimmer, and at one time swam from Borodino Landing to Mandana, a distance of thee miles. Borodino at one time had three stores for the sale of general merchandise, thee taverns, three tailor shops, three blacksmith shops, and other things in proportion ; but, like Spafford Comers, was materially affected by the building of the Binghamton and Syracuse Railroad, and the conse quent diversion of travel to that road. Mr. Burroughs was succeeded in business by Stephen and Horace Childs, said to have been natives of Connecticut, but before or after coming to Borodino resided in Owasco, N. Y, Other merchants in Borodino were Daniel Baxter, Messer BORODINO STORE AND TAVERN SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 7I Barker, Washington Wallace, William Legg, David Becker (his son-in-law), Thomas B. Anderson, Charles M. Rich, ChurcheU & Eddie, Grinnell & Howe, WiUiam Quick & Son, Captain Zach Berry, Caleb E. King, and Alphonso Deerman. The first tavern was built by Ira Rider in 1823, on the present site of the Churchell House ; the second was erected by Col. Le-wis C. Davis, where John Uncless now resides; and the third was kept in the house lately occupied by Mark Harvey as a residence, on the northwest comer of the crpss road in this village. The two latter taverns were discon tinued many years ago, and the former is stiU in use and occupied as a hotel by Mr. Churchell. The first blacksmith shop was kept by Eleazer Hillebert, on the site where the Legg Block recently stood. Other blacksmiths in the village were William Legg, Mr. Stowell, Isaac Wallace, Orrin F. Eddy, A. Griffin and John Weston. The first wagon maker was William Legg; who had as workmen John Babcock, Solomon Sprague, Seymour Warner, and Simeon Morchell. Among the early shoemakers were Milton Streeter, Renona A. Cady, and Harman Cady. Thomas Howard at one time had a tannery here; Daniel Baxter a Potashery; and William Hayford a tinshop and foundry. In May, 1856, a fire destroyed the tinshop and foundry, a tailor shop, and other things, entailing a loss of about $8,000.00; and on September 12, 1871, the business places of William W. Legg & Son, WUliam Quick, Charles M. Rich, H. Linus Darling, and Charles Benton were burned; destroying nearly the whole business center of the viUage. The site of the major portion of the burned district was subsequently built upon by Col. William W. Legg, for a business block adapted for the use of stores, shops and offices ; this was also destroyed by fire in 1901, and has not since been restored. Since the destruction of the Legg Block three stores have catered to the wants of the Borodino people, two on the site of the original Burroughs store, and one in the building kno-wn as the To-wn Hall. In early years the country merchants purchased their goods direct from the wholesale dealer and importer in New York City, and for that purpose made at least one trip annually to that metropolis, and the particularly smart ones made two, one in the Spring and one in the FaU of 72 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION the year. These sojourns from home generally lasted from two to three weeks at a time. By reason of their much travel and their extensive business experiences, the society of these gentlemen was much sought after in the communi ties where they resided; and their patrons never wearied of the relation of their travels and their business experi ences in the great City of New York. Their comments on facts coming within their personal observation seemed to have force and certainty, which comes from special knowl edge and privileged information, and were received by their auditors accordingly. If they were good fellows, and their business instincts generally led them to be, their stores naturaUy became club-houses, where men and boys con gregated, not only to look over the latest importations from New York, but to hear the latest news from the outside world. Newspapers were not as common then as now, and consequently the country merchant was a power politically and socially in the community. Men naturally congregate together during the relaxation of business, and in early years, what better place was there for a country man or boy to spend a long winter evening, than around the big box stove in the rear part of a country store? Here the- elders smoked their pipes, told stories, and aU listened to the merchant as he related his adventures, and expounded matters political and otherwise to his patrons congregated about him. A popular merchant has always been a great power in the community, and it is a pleasure to note that in this town the store, as a club-house, has always taken precedence in popularity over that of the tavern. HIGHWAYS. Joshua V. H. Clark, in his History of Onondaga, in speaking of the original town of Spafford as organized in 1811, says: "The first settler in that part of the town taken from Tully was Jonathan Berry. He first settled a short- distance south of the village of Borodino, in March, 1803. In April, the same year, Archibald Farr located himself on the southwest corner of Lot. 11. " To facilitate the progress of Mr, Farr's imigration. Berry sent his teams and men to clear out a road, that Farr might proceed to his place of destination. This was the first road attempted to be made within the limits of the SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 73 town, and is the same that now leads from Spafford Comers to Borodino." The next year " the road was cleared from Farr's, on Lot 11, to the Comers; and the next year, 1805, Elisha Sabins and John Babcock cleared and cut a road from Scott (then kno-wn as Babcock's Comers) to Spafford Corners." The same time they moved their goods on sleds over this newly made road from Scott to their new abode in this town at Spafford Comers. Mr. Goodwin, in his history of Cortland County, say that the next year, 1806, Isaac HaU, who had ecently settled at Spafford Comers, drove a wagon over this road from his home to Babcock's Corners, loadea it with hemlock boards, and then drove it back to his residence in Spafford. Goodwin, in this same history, says that Peleg Babcock, accompanied by his brother Solomon Babcock, coming from Leyden, Mass., settled on Lot 82, Tully, now Village of Scott, in the year 1799 ; and was soon afterwards followed to that place by John Babcock, Jared Babcock and others. How these latter gentlemen were rlated to Peleg, if at all, is not known. Soon after taking up his residence in Scott, Peleg Babcock puchased Lot 21, Tully, on which Spafford Comers is situate, and immediately afterwards commenced the sale of it in parcels to purchasers. Among his early con veyances is one to John Babcock, dated October 8, 1806, one to James Cravath, dated September 7, 1805, and another to Elisha Sabin, dated September 8, 1811; probably preceded by contract of anterior date. Mr. Babcock never o-wned the State's Hundred Acres on this lot, which was puchased by Isaac Hall, August 1, 1805; perhaps by contract of an earlier date ; it is claimed he was in occupation as early as 1804. In view of these traditionary statements, it is interesting to note the survey bill of this first highway in town, which has been transcribed in the first book of records o± the town of Spafford, from an earlier record in the town books of Tully. This is the first road record in this book of records : "Survey of a road, beginning at the north west comer of Lot 12, in Sempronius ; and running from thence S. 47° E. 185 chains — thence S. 35° E, 60 chains — thence S. 14° E. 183 chains — thence S. 7° E. 245 chains — thence S. 30 chains — thence S. 7° E. 40 chains — thence S. 15° E. 10 74 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION chains to the north line of lot No. 82, Tully, Nicholas Howd, Surveyor. ? Recorded this 3rd day of July, 1804. Amos Skeel, Clerk. James Cravath, Solomon Babcock, Commissioners of Highways." This is a survey of the main highway, running north and south through the original town of Spafford, (now kno-wn as the Skaneateles and Homer road) , commencing at Jona than Berry's house, on the north line of the then to-wn of Spafford, and the south line of MarceUus, and extending to the Village of Scott, in the County of Cortland. That would indicate that, at least, the portion of this highway from Dr, Archibald Farr's location, on the southwest corner of Lot 11, to the Village of Scott, was surveyed before the tradi tionary opening of the road. The lands purchased by James Cravath of Peleg Babcock, on Lot 21, TuUy, were the same now o-'-vned and occupied by Joseph Cole in 1900; and this survey bill also indicates that he must have occupied his purchase early in 1804 or he must have formerly resided in Scott, before settling in Spafford. The town books show the record of another survey biU, of a cross road leading from the Skaneateles and Homer road, easterly on Lot 11 to Lot 12, in the direction of Farr's MiU at the foot of the Bucktail; this road ran along the northem line of the Breed Farm of to-day, and was aban doned years ago and taken up. This bill is also dated in 1804, showing the early date of Dr. Farr's efforts to locate a grist mill, and perhaps a foundry in Spafford Hollow. Other survey bills of roads are recorded, commencing January 7th, 1807, and rapidly thereafter until the original to-wn was well supplied with these means of intercommuni cation, before it was organized as a separate corporate body in 1811 ; in fact in early days there were more roads than there are to-day,- many of those first laid out have either been regularly condemned and taken up, or abandoned to the use of the adjacent o^wners of the land. Among those abandoned or gone into disuse, was one extending along the county line between Onondaga and Cortland, commencing in the Skaneateles and Homer road, and extending easterly to the main road, running northerly and southerly in Cold SPAFFORD HILLS FROM SKANEATELES LAKE SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 78 Brook ; another cross road, extending from the Skaneateles and Homer road to the Cold Brook road, ran along the southern line of the Barker farm of 1900, and was aban doned years ago, and fenced in by the owners of the land. The cross road along the north line of the Breed farm, above spoken of, was also abandoned ovei; fifty years ago. There are others which have suffered a similar fate, but a recital of them would be wearisome and unprofitable. There are other roads which have been laid out or re- surveyed, since the organization of the town in 1811, and particularly since the addition of the Marcellus acquisition. The early records of the original to^wn of Marcellus were burned before 1830, so a re-survey of that portion of the town was ordered by vote, early in the thirties. The last survey bill appearing of record in the to^wn books, is one of the road leading from Edwin Morris' house, (1900) on Lot 31, to the head of Skaneateles Lake, by way of Spafford Landing and the cottage of the writer on that beautiful sheet of water. In this connection it seems appropriate to remark, that the main road running northerly and southerly through this to^wn, from the village of Homer on the south to the village of Skaneateles on the north, is one of the most attractive and picturesque in Central New York, so cele brated for beautiful drives, and in early times, before the cross-country railroads had diverted the natural course of travel, was much used by travelers, passing from the north- em to the southern portions of the State. A regular line of stages passed daily both ways over this route, to accom modate the demands of travel, and taverns at stated places along the road did a prosperous business. In the Fall of the year, large droves of cattle and sheep were frequently seen going along this highway, and the farmers along the route found a ready sale for their surplus fodder to the drovers accompanying these domestic herds, destined for the New York Market. The Stage Driver and Tavem Keeper were important personages in those early times, and held a position in the community entirely different from their successors of the pesent day. The highway from the village of Homer to Skaneateles, a distance of twenty-five miles, is nearly in a direct course, and so gentle in its rise and descent that a traveller can trot 76 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION a smart team, attached to a light conveyance, nearly the whole distance between tiie two places. Leaving the Village of Homer, the route to Scott, eight miles, is up a wide and fertile valley, and from thence to the counly line, two and a half miles, is up a gentle ascent along a small water couse. As the traveller approaches the county line, there is sud denly opened to his view an expanse of fifteen or twenty miles of landscape, covering part of the county of Cayuga, nearly all of the to^wn of Spafford, parts of the to-wns of Skaneateles and Marcellus, and the whole of Skaneateles Lake, with its surrounding hills and wooded points mirrored in its placid waters. The highway at this point, is over a thousand feet above the waters of the Lake, less than a inile away on the left, and thence, in its northerly and parallel course to that body of water, gradually descends to the sur face level of the Lake at Skarieateles Village, fifteen miles away, the traveller never losing sight of that beautiful sheet of water, from the time it first came in view in the hills of Scott. This old stage route may have lost some of its points of interest, by the removal of the old time stage coaches, and the discontinuance of travel by pivate equipages, once so frequently seen on this favorite route of travel, yet there is a satisfaction in knowing that the graceful Spafford Hills, the fair waters of Skaneateles Lake, and God's pure air and the sunlight of Heaven spread over all, are still there, and cannot be diverted by the commercialism of man. Another road in town, known as the " Bucktail," leading from Spafford Comers to Otisco Hollow, wiU always attract. the attention of the traveller, by reason of its wild and rugged character; without question it has no counterpart in Central New York, and possibly not in the whole State of New York. It was laid out about 1818 by Captain Asahel Roundy, and surveyed in May, 1819, by Lauren Hotchkiss, Surveyor. The naming of this road was mentioned under the head of First Settlers, in connection with the name of Captain Roundy. PROFESSIONAL MEN. PHYSICIANS. The first resident physician, in the southern end of the town pf Spafford, was Dr. Archibald Farr, who, according SKANEATELES LAKE FROM SPAFFORD HILLS SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 77 to tradition, settled on the southwest comer of Lot 11, Tully, in the Spring of 1803. Very littie is known of him, beyond the fact that he was the first settler in the southern portion of the town, that he opened his log cabin for the entertain ment of guests, and that he built a grist-mill in 1806, and perhaps a foundry, at the foot of the Buck Tail Gulf, in Spafford HoUow. He must have moved away before 1811, for according to deed records in the County Clerk's Office, the Leggs were in possession, that year, of the land where he is reputed to have resided. Dr. Farr was followed by Dr. Ashbel Searls, who first settled east of the main road, on Lot 42, Tully, on land purchased of^ Elijah Knapp. He erected there a log house, but did not remain long before he re-deeded the land to Mr. Knapp, and moved to Spafford Corners, where he pur chased a house and lot on the southwest corner of the cross roads, of Lauren Hotchkiss. From there he moved to Otisco about 1815, and finally to Onondaga VaUey, where he died in 1875 at a great age. He became a member of the Onon daga County Medical Society in 1816, while a resident of Otisco. The next physician in the southern part of the to-wn, of whom we have any recrod, was Dr. Zachariah Derbyshire, who resided on the west side of the highway, half way between the residence of Lyman C. Bennett and that of Mrs. Isaac Fisher, on Lot 22, Tully. His first -wife, PrueUa Derbyshire, died August 12, 1823, and was buried in Spaf ford Cemetery; he then married Hannah Williamson, daughter of Comelius Williamson, for a second -wife. We have no record of his coming or going, but it is probable his stay in town filled the interregrum, between the going of Dr. Searls as above stated, and the coming of Dr. Collins, who came about 1830. He at one time had a foundry, just above the upper falls in the Buck Tail Gulf. Dr. John Collins came to Spafford Comers from Brook field, Madison County, New York, where he was born, about 1830, and remained here in active practice of his profession until his decease, August 15, 1853. Among the early students who read medicine In his office was Daniel G. Frisbie, who after being admitted to prac tice, entered into partnership ¦with him. Dr. Frisbie was admitted to the Onondaga Counly Medical Society in June, 78 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1845. Dr. Frisbie, while associated in business with Dr. Collins, married Mary Bulfinich, daughter of Joseph Bul finch, and a short time afterwards went West, where he became a successful practitioner and business man. A short time before the decease of Dr. Collins he sold his last residence (the late T. Maxson Foster residence) and business interests to a Dr .Davidson, who continued practice here for a few years and then moved away. Since the departure of Dr. Davidson, the southern portion of the town has been sevred by resident physicians, in the persons of Dr. H. D. Hunt and Dr. G. Eugene Barker. Dr. Hunt was admitted to the Onondaga County Medical Society in June, 1875. He moved to Cortland County. Dr. Barker, son of William Barker, was born in this town, and after a successful practice in other places finally retumed here, where he has had a prosperous career in his chosen profession, for a number of years last past. He is a Homeopath, and was admitted to the Onondaga County Medical Society of that persuasion in 1891, while he was a resident of the village of Tully. He now has a residence and office at Spafford Comers. In the northern, or Marcellus end of the town, the first resident physician was Jeremiah Bumbus Whiting, who is reputed to have located at or near the present village of Borodino in 1802, and continued practice there until 1819, when he moved to Sempronius, N. Y. He afterwards went to Michigan, where he died. Dr. Jonathan Kneeland, who commenced the study of medicine in his office, said of him ; he was a good classical and medical scholar, well skilled in the use of indigenous remedies, but too much addicted to the use of spirituous liquors to make a successful practitioner in the field of medicine. Dr. Whiting was succeeded at Borodino by Dr. Benjamin Trumbull, who came in 1816. He was admitted to the Onondaga County Medical Society in 1822, and was Presi dent of that body in 1832-3. He continued practice in this village until his decease, which occurred May 28, 1835, at the age of 46 years. He was invariably represented by physicians, who knew him, as a gentleman, scholar and a skillful physician. He was a nephew of " Brother Jona than " TmmbuU of Connecticut, the intimate friend and associate of Washington, and one of the most noted War SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 79 Governors of the Revolution. It is claimed that this viUage is indebted to him for its name, Borodino, and that during his residence here he did much to foster the churches, public schools, and the Chistian morality of the community. He died of heart disease. Dr. Jonathan Kneeland, born near Borodino in 1812, early had a predilection for medicine, and when a small boy, entered the office of Dr. Whiting as a student; but this engagement was soon terminated. He then entered a medical school in Ohio, but his entry into the practice of his chosen profession was interrupted by severe illness, v/hich delayed the fruition of his desires until he was over thirty years of age. He first opened an office in Tully, but soon afterwards settled at or near Thom Hill, where he had a successful career as physician and surgeon, among his old towns people near Borodino, for several years. He then moved to Onondaga Valley, where he remained until his decease. He joined the Onondaga County Medical Society in 1842, and in 1892 was honored by that body by a public banquet, on account of his long and honorable career of fifty years, as member of that society. He was President of that body in 1852. Dr. Trumbull was succeeded at Borodino by Dr. Isaac Morrell, who continued a successful practice there until 1866, when he moved to Fulton, N. Y. After a short absence he returned to Boodino, but soon after went to Elmira, N. Y., where he died. He was admitted to the Onondaga Medical Society in January, 1841. Since the departure of Dr. Morrell this end of the town has been served by Dr. Van Dyke Tripp and Dr. WiUiam G. Bliss. Dr. Tripp was admitted to the Onondaga County Medical Society in 1869, and represented his to-wn in the Board of Supervisors of the County of Onondaga in 1881-3, He is now deceased. Dr. Bliss was a native of Georgia, in the State of Vermont, and after a successful business career at Borodino for a number of years, moved to Tully, N. Y., where he is now engaged in the pactice of medicine. Several of Spafford's sons have gone forth from this, their native place, to other localities, and risen to eminence iri the profession of medicine, among whom are Jonathan Kneeland (spoken of above) , Stephen Smith, who went to Brooklyn, N. Y., and there became a leading physician and 80 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION surgeon; who was at one time Commissioner of Charities there, was Commissioner of Lunacy in 1882, was selected as a Delegate to the Intemational Sanitary Congress at Paris in 1894, and is especially remembered for his valuable gift of a medical library to the medical department of the Syracuse University. J. Le-wis Smith, who was a graduate of Yale College, became a prominent physician, and medical instructor in the schools of the City of New York. He is also weU known to the profession as a medical writer and the author of several medical works, particularly for a Treatise on the Diseases of Children. Dr. Edward Cox, son of Silas Cox, studied medicine with Dr. Trumbull at Borodino, and then went to Michigan, where he established a lucrative practice at Battle Creek. Dr. Polaski Prindle, son of Moses Prindle, born near Spafford Comers, studied with Dr. Morrell at Borodino, and located first at Cashtown, and afterwards in Michigan, where he died. Dr. James R. Weston, son of Edmund C. Weston, studied medicine -with Dr. Collins at Spafford Comers, and finally moved to Montana, where he became a successful physician, a Bank President, a Judge of the Probate Court, and a successful business man. Dr. S. Elis Crane is a successful physician in Syracuse, N. Y. Dr. John E, Lyon, son of David Lyon, died soon after coming into a lucrative practice ; he was buried at Spafford Cemetery. LAWYERS. There has never been a resident practicing lawyer in this town; although there has always been some one skilled in the practice of Justice Courts, and able to serve the people in that tribunal ; among these were Captain Asahel Roundy, Jonathan Johnson, James H. Isdell, Uriah Roundy, H. Linus Darling, and Simon B. Wallace. The latter is the only one now living; he resides in the VUlage of Borodino, and is ready to serve the people when his services are required. While there are no resident la-wyers, there are several persons born here who have settled in other localities, and risen to eminence in their chosen profession ; among whom SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 81 are Hon. Martin A. Knapp, Judge Elliott Anthony, Captain George K. Collins, Hon. A. Judson Kneeland, late practicing attorney in the Village of Homer, N. Y., William Smith, a graduate of Yale College, an attorney and counselor at law, but who died early in California; Lee Olmsted and Harley J. Crane, each of whom is actively engaged in the practice of law in the City of Syracuse ; Judge Charles Vandenburg, a graduate of Yale College, an attorney at law, and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota; and Mr. Harmon, son of Elder Harmon, an eminent la^wyer, late of Washington, D. C. MINISTERS. Among the ministers who have gone from this to^wn and risen to prominence elsewhere, are Amasa Spencer Knee land, Stella Kneeland, Josiah N. Knapp (died a young man) , and David M. D, O'FarreU. TEACHERS. The following, bom in Spafford, have graced the profession in other communities : Prof. Charles 0, Roundy, first principal of the Syracuse High School, Prof. Silas M. Betts, bom in Borodino in 1828, was at one time principal of the High School in Niles, Michigan, for several years principal of grammar schools in the City of Sryacuse, and a teacher in the Normal School in the State of New Jersey; Prof. Alfred G. Harrington, at one time a successful teacher in the high grade of schools in this State, now retired to his farm in the town of Spafford; Prof. Joseph Addison Prindle, at one time a successful teacher in one of the Norm-al Schools of this State, now retired and residing in the Village of Skaneateles, N. Y. ; and Prof. James Foster, an old time teacher, moved to South Dakota, but now deceased. ARTIST AND SCULPTOR. Sanford Thayer, son of Sanford and Sally (Miner) Thayer, Portrait and Landscape Painter, was bom July 19, 1820, and resided in boyhood in Cold Brook. Of the works of Horace Kneeland as a sculptor, very little is known by the writer. 82 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION SURVEYORS. This brief sketch of the professional men who were bom or resided in Spafford, would be incomplete -without some reference to the old time surveyor, who with compass and chain divided farms, settled disputes, and fixed boundaries between contending factions. One of the most skillful, accurate, and tactful of the old surveyors in this to-wn was Joseph Bulfinch. He was bom in Boston, and when a young man, as principal taught school in a young ladies' seminary in the State of Vermont, and at an early date, when the country was new and the land boundaries undefined, settled in this town, just west of Spafford Comers. He was a man who took pride in his calling, spared no pains for accuracy, and for that reason his decisions were respected as in the nature of a judicial conclusion. In Summer or Winter he served his patrons as occasion required. He died at the advanced age of 88 years in 1873, and was buried in Spafford Cemetery. After his decease he was succeeded for a time by his son, Joseph H. Bulfinch ; he moved years ago to South Dakota, where he died; and later came Cyrenus Woodworth, whose decease is a matter of recent occurrence. POSTMASTERS. It would be unprofitable at this time, to make the neces sary search to obtain the names of all persons who have held the impotant office of Post Master, at the different postal stations in this town, but the foUowing are given as the major portion of those holding this important office under the General Government, at Spafford Corners. Cap tain Asahel Roundy was the first to receive this appointment in 1814, and he has been succeeded by the folio-wing: Isaac Knapp, Joseph R. Berry, Thomas B. Anderson, Dr. John Collins, William W. Legg, Uriah Roundy, Benjamin Mc Daniels, and Mr. Lieber, the present incumbent, SKANEATELES LAKE AND COTTAGES, Ekaneateles Lake is about seventeen miles long, averaging about one mile in width, and contains an area of not far from seventeen square miles of water, two-thirds of which are ¦within the bounds of the town of Spaffbrd. The water in HEAD OF SKANEATELES LAKE FROM WINDOW OF SWEET BRIAR COTTAGE SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 83 depth is from twenty-five feet, at the foot and head, to two hundred sixty-five feet throughout the major portion of its course. There are no marshes or swamps along its shores, which are for the most part rocky and precipitous. The Village of Skaneateles, of two or three thousand inhabitants, conies do^wn to the water's edge at the foot of the lake, and extends for a short distance up the gentle slope of the hills encircling its northem extremity. Passing from the Village of Skaneateles and going southward up the lake five or six miles, the hiUs on either side come do^wn to the water's edge, in a gentle decline, graced -with culti vated/fields, and picturesque farm buildings environed with fruit and other shade trees. At Five Mile Point the lake makes a change in course to a more easterly direction and, passing this Point, there is suddenly presented to the eye of the travellei; an extended view of pure limpid water sur rounded by bold, wild, and rugged highland scenery, such as is seldom seen elsewhere or excelled in beauty and picturesqueness. On the west side of the lake, at the beginning of this highland district, is the hamlet of Man dana, and, on the east side, the pretty little village of Boro dino. Proceeding southward' Point after Point successively come into view, extending outward from either shore, with their green verdue and graceful sweeping elm trees mirrored in the placid waters of the lake. The view from every steamer landing is most entrancing, and impresses the mind of the beholder. From Five Mile Point upward the shores of the lake become more and more precipitous, and the sur rounding lands increase in elevation, until reaching the head of the lake at Glen Haven there is an amphitheater of precipitous hill's, rising to a height a twelve or thirteen hundred feet above the surface of the water. The foUow ing is an abbreviated and adapted extract, taken from a recent publication concerning this lake, by the well kno-wn artist, John Barrow of Skaneateles, who for half a century has studied and deUghtfuUy painted the woods, hills and waters of Skaneateles Lake. " The water of Skaneateles Lake is of the clearest and purest. I believe it has a color and beauty not reached by any other lake in our land. All the other lakes of our region have a clear and beautifully tinted water, each a little different from any other. Ours has a deUcate emerald 84 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION tint, less pronounced than that of the great lakes, a tint of its o^wn, I think it the fairest of all. " We know how gracefully the shores rise from the lake as far as Mandana, and then rise more precipitously, until they pass around the head of the lake in a grand amphi theater of hills, still partially clothed ¦with forests. " Trees are standing and increasing around the Village of Skaneateles and its adjacent shores, flUing up gaps that once were there. Nature still plants trees along the shore, and already we see a great change in that respect in the last twenty-flve or thirty years. In some places the second growth has reached the height of the old trees, and in other places the saplings are covering the ground. There is still a grand wood on the west shore, half way up the lake, that keeps green the memory of the primeval forests. " The Points that were barren a few years ago, are now owned by men who o^wn summer cottages there, and have taken care to add to such trees as have been spared to them. Ten Mile Point has a new and beautiful grove, freshly planted a few years ago, and also a fine old group, marking the end of the Point as it was since the lake was kno-wn. Three Mile Point, o^wned by Mr. Hooker, has since his occupancy become a charming spot. Fall Brook Point has changed some since I knew it, but not to its detriment, with its fine cottage, pleasant la^wn of flowers, and summer houses planted there. I notice with satisfaction the same improve ment at Nine Mile Point, Sycamore Point, Randall's Point and others. " There is a ra^dne and brook at every Point, for the brook makes the Point, and some are very interesting and beautiful. The gorge at Appletree Point is one of the finest on the lake. It has a stream of water more copious than the Inlet at the head of the lake. There are two fine falls in its course, one seventy-five or eighty feet in height, the waters falling over a cavern in the slaty rock beneath, from a ledge of Tully limestone above. Another one lower down the gorge, of forty feet in height, is most picturesque in time of freshet. There are other ravines at Ten Mile Point, Hall's Point, Jenny's Point, Collins' Point, Hooker's Point, and Gregory's Point. All these and many other smaller brooks, with their varied rocky architecture and plant life, are of interest to the lover of Nature. SKANEATELES LAKE FROM SWEET BRIAR COTTAGE SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 85 " Of the scenery of the lake much can be told. The region in which this beautiful sheet of water lies is very rich in varied landscape; its hills, valleys and woods are very beautiful; and the -views from the hills bounding the lakes are very charming. It would take too long to enum erate the different places where good views can be obtained, but some of the best are from the head of the lake. There are some excellent ones from the hills back of Three MUe Point, and from there down to Mandana. From the hills south of Spafford Corners to the village of Skaneateles are m.any charming views. Anywhere along the shores of the lake it is very beautiful, but I think the finest views of all are from Captain George K. Collins' cottage on Randall's Point. This cottage commands splendid views up and down the lake, the former being supplemented with the finest view of the vaUey beyond Glen Haven. On the eastern shore of the lake the summer sunsets can be seen in aU their variety and glory. "There is a view from Ripley Hill, iri the town of Spafford, near the head of the lake, that ought to be famous. From there the beholder has spread out before his vision a stretch of county extending from the spurs of the Adirondack Mountains on the east, to the hills of Seneca County on the west, and from the mountains of Pennsylvania on the south, to the waters of Lake Ontario on the north. One may well be impressed with the beauty that is spread before him here of our county and the setting of our lake ¥/e only need great artists and poets to make the people understand and appreciate how generous Nature has been, in giving us this beautiful lake and surrounding hills." STEAMBOATS. The first steamboat on Skaneateles Lake was the " High land Chief," brought here from the Hudson River by Cap tain William Fowler, its owner. It came by canal, and from thence was trucked to the lake by oxen. It was forty feet in length, a side wheeler, and had a very uncomfort able habit of careening on sUght provocation. According to John Barrow it was introduced here about 1824; but we have no record of it on the lake prior to 1831. As a steam boat it was not a success, and it was eventually remodeUed into a sail boat for carrying freight and wood. 86 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The next boat was built here, was about one hundred feet in length, a side wheeler, and was named " Independence," because launched on Independence Day, July 4, 1831. It was built in part by public subscription, had a cabin partly below decks, and, like its predecessor, was a losing venture. After a brief struggle for business and meeting with indif ferent success. Captain Wells, its pincipal owner, converted it into a sail boat for carrying wood to the village of Skan eateles. It is said that D. B. Hillis, afterwards District Attorney of the County of Onondaga, and then a student in the law office of F. G. Jewett, delivered the Fourth of July oration at Skaneateles, the day this boat was first put in the water. These two disastrous failures in the steamboat business seemed to deter any further ventures in that line for many years ; but the opening of the Water Cure Establishment at Glen Haven, at the head of the lake, and a hotel and bowl ing alley at Fair Haven on the opposite side, each connected by daily stages with the village of Homer, gave fresh encour agement to men who were anxious to open lake transporta tion ; so in 1848, about the time of the opening of the Water Cure, the side wheel steamer " Skaneateles " was placed on the lake. This boat was o-wned or managed by Thomas Hecox, a son of Warren Hecox, one of the promoters of the Water Cure Establishment at Glen Haven. On July 4, 1848, a rival steamer named " Homer," made its maiden trip up the lake in company with the Skan eateles, each soliciting and carrying passengers on that occasion. The " Skaneateles " appeared to be a steady and safe boat, but the " Homer " was top hea-vy and had an uncomfortable way of careening from side to side, alter nately lifting one after the other of its side paddle wheels out of the water; in windy weather this was particularly noticeable, and people for that reason were afraid to ride on the boat. Whatever increased trade the Water Cure Establishment may have contributed to lake transportation, it certainly was not sufficient to sustain two boats; so one evening, after returning to Skaneateles from an unsatisfactory voyage to Glen Haven, Captain Hecox, with a full head of steam, ran the Skaneateles on to the western shore of the CITY OF SYRACUSE, APPROACHING SPAFFORD LANDING SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 87 lake, where he subsequently removed her machinery and boiler, and then converted her hull to other uses. The Homer was never popular, and after making a vaUant fight for three or four years, gave up the struggle and sub mitted to the inevitable transformation into a sailing craft for hauling wood. The Ben. H. Porter, built soon after the close of the Civil War, was a propeller modelled after an ocean steamer, and altogether too slow and clumsy to meet the requirements of lake travel. This, after a few years, went the way of the others, and about twenty-five or thirty years ago was supplanted by the small but very serviceable steam propeller " Glen Haven," still in use. The latter boat is now o-wned by the Skaneateles Railroad Company, which in 1901 put upon the lake the " City of Syracuse," modelled after its sister boat but much larger in size. No steamboat has ever paid running expenses here until after the erection of summer cottages on the lake, since which time traffic has steadily increased, so that now, during the summer months, one or both of these boats are con stantly required to meet the demands of travel. A number of years ago a small steam yacht was placed on the lake by private parties, and named "Ossahinta," but by reason of commutation tickets and cut rates on rail roads connecting with the regular boat, this opposition line was put out of business ; what the effect of trolley lines of raUroad running into Skaneateles may be on lake transpor tation, is yet to be seen. Sailing yachts for pleasure have for years been a special feature of the lake, and during recent times numerous steam and gasoline launches have been introduced to its waters. "^ GLEN HAVEN SANITARIUM. In the winter of 1847-8, a Water Cure Establishment was opened by Dr. Jackson at Glen Haven, on the west side, near the head of the lake. The first building used was a large white house, with a chimney at each end, built in 1846 by Deacon Hall of Skaneateles. The soft water for the Water Cure was taken in pipes, from a large sprmg issuing from the steep and almost inaccessible mountain side in rear and several hundred feet above the house. At 88 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION the beginning of its career the rules and regulations of the Water Cure were stringent and exacting, and many who were ill, or thought they were, flocked to the new Sanitar ium. Among other regulations the patients were required to wear skull-caps, kept constantly moist by dipping in water, to partake of a rigid coarse diet, drink copiously of the cool soft water of the establishment, take baths once or twice a day, exercise frequently in the open mountain air, and all women patients were to wear bloomers. The skull-caps, bloomers, and coarse diet of the old regime eventually passed away, and this old time Water Cure under the liberal management of Dr. Thomas and John Mourin,. who have been in charge for the last twenty-five or thirty years, has at last become well kno^wn throughout the United States as a popular Sanitarium and Summer Resort, for the latter purpose its reputation has long been established. The first house was destroyed by fire about 1850, and a new and more commodious building erected in it s place. The new building was soon outgro-wn, and numerous cot tages from time to time were added to supplement the main establishment. After the lake became popular, by reason of private parties erecting summer cottages at different places along its shores, a large and commodious hotel build ing was added to the other structures of the Water Cure property, to meet the demands of summer trade. No spirituous liquors have ever been sold on the Sani tarium grounds, a fact which no doubt has contributed to its popularity as a place of resort for women and children. This institution, during its long career, has at times been subject to adversity, and probably justly open to criticism for unsatisfactory management, yet on the whole there is much to be said in its favor. Its future seems established, and its many pleasant surroundings ought to make it bright. and prosperous. COTTAGES. In the Spring of 1881 the writer erected on RandaU's Point, now kno-wn as Spafford Landing, the first summer cottage on Skaneateles Lake; this at the time produced a mild sensation among the people residing in the vicinity, and scores of people visited the place to look upon the new SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK gg innovation. No one before had even suggested Skaneateles Lake as a place for private summer homes, and certainly no one had ever ventured an outlay of money in that direc tion. The general comment of those who visited this un pretentious first effort, in the direction of a summer cottage, was that it was a foolhardy thing to do, and summer cottages on the lake would never amount to anything. This first building is now in vise, as it was desig-ned at the begin ning, as a dining room and kitchen ; the family of the writer were then sleeping in tents. The writer had one guest that first summer, however, who came, stayed over night, said he never enjoyed himself better in his life, in the morning bought a piece of land on the lake shore, and soon after commenced the erection of a cottage of his own; that was E. M. Ford of Syracuse, That property and cottage is now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Weed, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Soon after Mr. Ford's purchase, in 1881, he sold a part to Mr. James H. Blair of Syracuse, who erected the third cottage on the lake; this property is now o-wned and occupied by Mr. Cronell, of Skaneateles. In a year or two after his first venture, the writer supple mented his belonging on the lake by erecting his main cottage, on the bluff or elevation just north of his first building. From this time forward, the following cottages were erected in quick succession upon the lake : Mr. Allen built " Rockland " Cottage, on the high rocks just south of Mr. Blair ; a Mr. Ford built on Barber's Point the cottage now owned and much improved by Col. James Manning of Syracuse; Dr. Pease erected the cottage now kno-wn as Jenny's, on Havens' Point, and Mr. HaU and Mr. Bench, both of Skaneateles, built cottages farther down the lake. All that have been now mentioned were in the town of Spafford. On the opposite side of the lake, in the County of Cayuga, about this time were erected four cottages on Pray's Point (Glen Cove) , by three Gregory Brothers of Skaneateles, and by Prof, R. Bruce White (a brother-in-law) of Syracuse. Mr. Carpenter and Mrs. Casper erected two elegant summer and ¦winter homes on Appletree or Sa\vmiU Point. The last two were soon supplemented by ten or tv/elve other tasty 90 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION summer cottages on the gentle declivity of the shore south of Carpenter ; these are kno^wn as the New Hope Colony, From this time forward the popularity of the lake as a summer resort was established, and year after year elegant summer cottages were added, until there are now about a hundred in all, distributed along the shores and points of the highland portion of the lake. Among the most note worthy of these, in addition to those already mentioned, are the foUowing: Two owned by Mr. Pennock and Mr. Cooper in Pine Grove, one by Mr. E. C. Stearns on Wheat Point, four o^wned by Mr. Salem Hyde, Mr. Maslin, Mr. James Eager, and Dr. Marlow on the shore between Wheat and Ten Mile Point, three o-wned by Dr, Wright, Mr. Stone and Mr. Willett on the shore between Ten Mile and HaU's Point, one owned by A. C. Chase on Barber's Point, one owned by Rev. Samuel Calthrop on Stag Horn Point, one owned by Dr. A. C. Mercer on the shore further south. In addition to these there are five or six others belonging to a Homer Colony perched on the high rocks south of Rockland Cottage. All of these are in the town of Spafford. On the western side of the lake the following have been added to those already mentioned : One by Mr. Allen, near the grounds of the Glen Plaven Water Cure, and one by each of the following named persons on the shore and points on the west side of the lake: Mr. Olmstead, Dr. Guilford, Dr. Darby, Mrs. Fields, Mr. Paul, Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Van Esseltyne, Hooker Brothers, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Posthill, Mr, Weeks Mr. Holden, and several others whose names are not kno"wn to the writer. Skaneateles Lake has been recently appropriated as a water supply for the City of Syracuse ; what the effect may be upon this beautiful sheet of water as a place of resort and for / summer homes is yet to be determined. The matter of cottage building has been one of great importance to the to^wn of Spafford and has added very much to its material wealth and prosperity. Its revenue from that source has been a constant and increasing one, from the time the first building was erected within its limits, and barring the effect of this appropriation of the lake as a water supply, its future revenue from that source looks better than ever before. The facilities for reaching and enjoying Skaneateles Lake were never in the past what they COTTAGE WILLIAM S. TEALL, SKANEATELES LAKE SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 91 are to-day, and certainly, in salubrity and attractiveness, this beautiful sheet of water has no equal in Central New York. MISCELLANEOUS. Within the last fifty or sixty years there have been great material changes in the welfare of the world, and especially in the United States. The most noticeable of these have occurred in our great cities and along our routes of com merce; and yet even an isolated country section, like the town of Spafford, has been affected by this current of passing events, which has marked the progress of nations. The discovery and application of steam and electricity as motive powers, and the invention of the telegraph and telephone, have had the effect, to a greater or less extent, of annihilat ing time and space; while the invention of a multitude of modern labor saving devices has revolutionized the ordinary methods of man, and the manner of obtaining his daily bread ; even his tastes and habits have changed. It would seem as if the country farmer would be the last to be affected by these modem innovations, and yet a careful study of the situation shows, that even he has succumbed to the force of modem ideas. These changes are unregretable, because they are the logical sequence of current events, so it is not our purpose to speak of them farther than to note the fact, without expressions of regret; but of other changes we desire to speak : MAPLE SUGAR MAKING. Fifty years ago the ordinary sweet used in a farmer's family, for domestic purposes, was made from the sap of a maple tree, and a farm without a " sugar-bush " was in complete. Maple groves were preserved and protected, ¦with all the care and attention of an apple or fruit orchard. Early in Spring the sap buckets were taken from their storing place, repaired, hoops tightened, and the buckets carefully washed, soaked and put in readiness to catch the first sap run of the season. The boiling was generally done in long copper pans, set in brick arches covered by rough wooden sheds, to protect them from the inclement weather of Spring. The sugar season, always a short one, some times required a day and night service of the attendant. 93 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Sugar making was always a happy service for young people, who generally attended the " sugar off," and delighted to make the hot sugar into wax, by dropping it on a panful of clean snow or a cake of ice. In olden times it was not an unusual thing, to behold in an early Spring evening, the fire light from half a dozen sugar bushes from the village of Spafford Corners. The early farmers, in this to'wn, not only made sugar for themselves, but had a surplus to seU to people in their locahties. Muscovado, or a crude sugar made from Southern sugar cane, never was a very desir able sweet, and the clarified and granulated article is a matter of comparatively recent origin. The making of maple sugar, in this locality, is growing less and less every year, and v.- ill soon be a lost art; there are even now very fev/- maple groves worth the tapping. A cake of maple sugar will soon be a curiosity, and maple syrup on pan cakes a luxury that the wealthy only can indulge in. MAPLE GROVES. Another noticeable and very regretable matter, which has occurred within the last fifty years, and which naturally affects the physical aspect of this town, is the destruction of- nearly aU the fine groves of trees, which once existed in close proximity to the villages and residences of the people. From appearances, the people who have possessed the land had an antipathy against both trees and shrubs, and have wielded the axe with an unsparing hand. With the trees have gone the Spring flowers and native birds, and all that feasted the eye and stirred the soul of man to higher aims and brighter thoughts. There is some satisfaction, however, in knowing there are some places in to-wn so steep and rugged as to stay the course of the woodman's axe, and where there is still a retreat for trees, birds and flowers. There are a few shade trees along the waysides, particularly in the two villages, but even these are a memory of fifty years ago. Very few, if any, fruit trees have been planted in a half century. We are very glad, however, to note that. along the lake shore, where the summer residents have a foothold, there is a reaction from this general tendency to destruction and decay; here Nature, aided by sympathetic hands, is fast restoring the land to its primitive charms. We trust that the coming generation ¦will catch some in- SPAPPORB, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 93 spiration from the Lakers, that will result in restoring the lands in this picturesque town from the vandalism of the last fifty years. HUNTING, PIGEONS, BIRDS, ETC. In the forepart of the nineteenth century every man and boy was a marksman, and possessed a rifle or a firing iron of some description. Fox hunting, hunting for black and gray squirrels, partridges, pigeons, rabbits, and other small animals and birds, afforded abundant sport for those who were so minded. Others found pleasure and profit in trap ping fur bearing animals and in hunting for bee trees. All these pastimes are now practically a memory of the past ; and perhaps it is well it is so, for certainly it has always been a question whether the companionship of these birds and small anmals has not always been of more value to the people, than the temporary pleasure of the few who prac ticed the art of killing them. There are a few who will remember when flocks of wild pigeons darkened the air with their Spring and Fall migra tions; now, not a bird is left to tell the story; a few bobo links still frequent our meadows in Summer time, and enliven our labors with their sweet warbling song; but, like the pigeons, their days will soon be numbered and their song cease in the land. With the rapid flow of current events have also passed the old time quilting bees, paring bees, husking bees, and the old fashioned singing school ; possibly there has something succeeded to take their place, but in innocent fun and generous sociability, we doubt if there ¦wiU ever be a sub stitute for these old time gatherings. JUDGE ELLIOTT ANTHONY. (From The Syracuse Herald of February 26, 1898.) " Elliott Anthony, one of the most illustrious sons of Onon daga County, died on Thursday night, Febmary 20, 1898, at Evanston, Illinois. For twelve years he was Judge of the Superior Court of Illinois, and one of the leading author ities on law in the Middle West. He was born in Spafford on June 10th, 1827, of Quaker ancestors. His father, Isaac Anthony, married Pamelia Phelps of Vermont, and to them were bom sons and daughters. The sons were educated in 94 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION the academy at Homer. In the autumn of 1847, EUiott entered Hamilton CoUege at Clinton, as sophomore. He was graduated in 1850 with high honors. " In the following year, he and his classmate, Joseph I. Hubbard, had charge of the Clinton Academy, in which Grover Cleveland was then a pupil. Anthony's first experi ence at the school showed his character and determination. The school had the reputation of being hard to control, and had, pre-vious to Mr. Anthony's advent, sent away in quick succession five or six teachers. When he entered the school-room on the first morning and called for order, there was a violent slamming of books and slates on the desks. He repeated the order, and a like demonstration followed. Without a word he walked through the center aisle to the back of the room, took two of the largest boys by their collars and dragged them to the front, where he knocked their heads together, and sent the lads to separate corners of the room. He again issued his command for order and it was obeyed. From that day on he had no further trouble with his school. A gray-haired man came into his Court room, where he was a Judge on the Chicago benc'h, and thanked the jurist for that trouncing, saying that he had leamed more in that one day than he had in all his pre-vioUs schooling, "Young Anthony pursued a course in law under Prof, Theodore W. D-wight, and was admitted to the bar at Oswego at 24 years. A year later, and after pleading his first case into a Court of Record in Sterling, 111., he returned to the East, married Mary, the sister of Professor D-wight, and a grand-daughter of President Dwight of Yale College, on July 14th, 1852. Returning West he went to Chicago, celebrating his first year of married life by compUing "A digest of the Illinois Reports," which was received with great favor by the legal profession. In 1858 he was elected City Attorney of Chicago, during which administration he became the means of establishing many new points in law, such as, that special assessriients cannot be enjoined by a Court of Chancery, and that the City of Chicago cannot be garnisheed to coUect salaries or wages of those employed by it "Five years after his election he was chosen general solicitor of the greatest failway corporation then in the SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 95 Northwest, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Com pany. He was -with it when the great fight over its con solidation with the Chicago and North Western was on, and led the minority stockholders, in one of the most stub bornly contested cases in railway law, and enlisted some of the most eminent capitalists of the country, among them Samuel J. Tilden. All the contentions of Mr. Anthony's brief were sustained, and the parties patched up their diffi culties. Out of this brief grew " The Law Pertaining to the Consolidation of Railroads," which stiU remains a standard work on that important subject. " He was one of the leaders of the two great constitutional conventions held in Illinois in 1862 and 1870. In the second he was chairman of the executive committee, and also served upon the committee on judiciary and railroads. " Mr. Anthony was one of the founders of the Republican party in Illinois, and was a delegate to the first Republican Convention in Cook County. In 1880, when the confiict over the third term idea came up, he was elected chairman of the Cook County Convention, and delegate to the State Convention, where he became contesting delegate to the National Convention, where, in a stormy debate, he answered Green B. Baum, General Logan and Emory Storrs, and was finally admitted to the Convention which nomi nated General Garfield for President. In the following Autumn he was elected to the bench of the Superior Court, where he sat for twelve years. While on the bench Mr. Anthony devoted much time to the com pilation of legal treatises, which included a work entitied " Law of Self Defense," " The Trial by Jury in Criminal Cases," and " New Trials in Criminal Cases." His sketches of the Courts of England, pubUshed in "The Legal Adviser" attracted much attention about this time, as also did his treatise on " The Law of Arrest in Civil Cases." " In 1889 Mr. Anthony was honored by the degree of LL.L., conferred upon him by his Alma Mater, Hamilton College. "Among other works that have come from his pen are: " The Constitutional History" of Illinois," " The Story of the Empire State," " Sanitation and Navigation," a series of articles pubUshed in the Western Magazine of History on "Old Virginia." 96 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Mr. Anthony's first -wife died in 1862, and eight years later he married her younger sister. For forty-five years he lived in Chicago, but for the last four years he made his home with his son, Charles E. Anthony, at Evanston, He is survived by two other sons. State Senator George D. Anthony, and Dr. Henry G. Anthony, making three in aU." PROFESSOR SILAS M. BETTS. The following is an abridged extract, taken from Prof. Edward Smith's History of Syracuse Schools: " Silas M. Betts was bom in Borodino in 1828. When a child he moved with his parents to Memphis, in this county, where he attended the public school. He also attended school at Warners, Onondaga Academy, and Homer Academy when Samuel Woolworth was principal. His first teaching was at Belle Isle in the winter of 1844-5. After this he attended the Normal School at Albany and graduated in 1849. Soon after, he became principal of School Number Nine in this city. In 1851 he was principal of Number Eleven, where he remained until his transfer to School Number Seven, in 1855. He taught in the latter school until his appointment as principal of a High School at Niles, Michi gan, in 1859 ; and was instrumental in making the schools free in that State. While teaching in Michigan he held teachers' institutes in that State during vacation time. His health being impaired by overwork, he resigned the prin- cipalship of the Niles High School about 1860. After a rest for about a year, he accepted the Vice Principalship of the Normal School in the State of New Jersey. He con tinued in this work for about three years, and then resigned to accept the Presidency of the American Guernsey Cattle Club at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Writing Mr. Smith from that Club, he said : " I have Uved to see the schools made free in the State of New York, Michigan and New Jersey, and I trust they have aU been made better by my labors. My most pleasant memories are connected with the schools of Syracuse." DR. JOHN COLLINS. Dr. John CoUins came to Spafford Corners from Brook field, Madison County, New York, where he was bom, about SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 97 1830. His father and mother were of New England origin and came from Stonington, Connecticut, on or before 1796. He was educated in Hamilton Academy (now Colgate Uni versity) , and in the Medical College in Castleton, Vermont, where he graduated in 1829. He came to Spafford Comers the next year, joined the Onondaga Medical Society, June 14, 1831, and remained here in active practice of his pro fession until about the time of his decease, August 15, 1853 ; he was buried in Spafford Cemetery. He first opened an office in Roundy's Tavern, where he boarded, but soon pur chased a lot adjoining the hotel property on the south, where he erected an office. In 1831 he married Miss Mary Ann Roundy, daughter of Captain Asahel Roundy, and soon after remodeled his office into a dwelling house, where three of his first children, including the author of this sketch, were born. He then purchased a farm of fifty acres on the opposite side of the highway, which, prior to that, had successively been o-wned by Peleg Babcock, John Babcock, Silas Cox and Joseph Cole. He continued to reside on this farm until a short time before his decease, when he moved into a new house built by him just south, and adjoining the Union Meeting House lot; this he sold to a Dr. Davidson, preliminary to moving to Syracuse, but died prior to the transfer of his family to the latter place. In Bruce's History of Onondaga County appears the following : " Dr. John Collins came to Spafford about 1830, and practiced medicine until his decease, August 15, 1853. He was a descendant of Henry Collins, starchmaker, who came to America from Stepney Parish, London, England, in 1635, and settled in Lynn, Mass. ' Dr. CoUins was of the seventh generation, in an unbroken line of Johns from Henry his emigrant ancestor. He was graduated from Castieton, Vermont Mediacl College in 1829, settled first in Madison County, but soon removed to this town, where he acquired a wide professional business. He was one of the leading physicians in the County during his career, and a prominent member of the County Medical Society. He was a fine botanist, knew the medical properties of almost all varieties of plants, held several important town offices, and was one of the first to espouse the cause of temperance. " Owing to the intermarriage of his ancestors with weU known famUies of Washington County, Rhode Island, a full 98 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION account of his lineage would involve the recital o± nearly every tradition, and nearly every early transaction of the State of Rhode Island, which is not within the province of this article ; but of him it can be truthfully said, every drop of blood in his veins was English, pure and simple, in the strictest sense of the word. His boyhood was spent on the farm of his father in Brookfield, and was subject to all the hardships and deprivations of pioneer life; yet, with indomitable pluck and perseverance, he was able to acquire an excellent education for his time, and far above the average of the community in which he lived. Like many other young men he taught school several winters, to obtain the means to meet the expenses for a higher education. Soon after settling in Spafford he acquired an extensive practice in his chosen, profession of medicine, and ever led an active life; commanding respect from all, and by merit alone was able to retain possession of his chosen field of labor, against the encroachment of all new comers. He was never an aspirant for office, yet for several years acted as School Commissioner and Postmaster, because the first was congenial to his tastes, and the latter involved no part of his personal attention, its duties being performed by his wife. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Epis copal Church at Spafford, and generally supported any good and worthy cause, whiph he believed would advance the moral interests and material welfare of his townspeople. " On the 4th day of April, 1831, he was united in mar riage with Mary Ann Roundy, daughter of Captain Asahel Roundy, and sister of Prof. Charles O. Roundy, first prin cipal of the Syracuse High School, and by her had eight children ; two only of whom are still surviving. One of his sons. Captain George Knapp ColUns, is a prominent attorney and counselor at law, in practice in the City of Syracuse, and during the War of the Rebellion served as Captain in the 149th New York Volunteers Infantry, with distinction. Dr. CoUins was generally respected by his brethren of the medical profession, for his social and professional attain ments. After a lapse of near half a century since his decease, his memory is treasured in nearly every household embraced with the scope of his labors, with affectionate regard." SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 99 CAPTAIN GEORGE KNAPP COLLINS. Captain George K. Collins, author of this work, and son of Dr. John Collins and Mary Ann Roundy, his wife, was born at Spafford Corners, April 15, 1837. As President of the Collins Family Re-Union, which holds its annual meet ings in Madison County, New York, Captain Collins in 1901 prepared and published a short genealogy of his branch of that family, by which it appears that his ancestors were originally Rhode Island Quakers, descended from Henry Collins, who came to this country in 1635, from Stepney Parish, London, England, and settled in Lynn, Mass. On both sides his family are of New England origin and patriotic stock; all four of his great grand-fathers having served in the patriot cause in the War of the Revolution, and his grandfather, on his mother's side, having com manded a Company as Captain, during a tour of duty in the War of 1812 ; it was only following natural impulses of the blood -that flowed in his veins, that he gave his services to the cause of his country, in the great War of the RebeUion. ,The following extract is taken from a recent publication concerning the subject of this sketch : " Ca,ptain Collins was mustered into the service of the United States, Septem ber 18, 1862, as First Lieutenant in Company 1, 149th Regt., N. Y. Vol. Inft., in the War of 1861, served for a period of near, two years, and was brevetted Captain at the close of the war for meritorious services. He participated in all ¦the battles, skirmishes and marches of the regiment, bpth in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Cumber land, up to the time of his discharge, excepting the battle of Ringgold, from which he was prevented by injuries received in battle a few days previous. Among the engagements and campaigns in which he saw service were ChanceUors viUe, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, and Lookout Mountain. He was twice wounded, flrst at ChanceUorsviUe and again at LjOokout Mountain ; the latter was the occasion of his dis charge, which occurred April 24, 1864. He was admitted to the bar of the State of New York soon after his discharge from the Army of the United States, and soon after to the District Court of the United States and Department of the Interior. He is now engaged in active practice of his pro fession at Syracuse, N. Y. He is Past Commander of Root 100 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Post, G. A. R.; Past President of Central N. Y. Micro scopical Club; Member of the National Microscopical Society; for fifteen or sixteen years he was Grand Treas urer of the Royal Arcanum for the State of New York; he is a Companion of the Loyal Legion, New York Com- mandery; he is the author of the history of his regiment, entitied " Memoirs of the 149th Regt. N. Y. Vol. Inft., 3d Brig., 2 Div., 12th and 20th A. C.;" is a member of the Central New York Genealogical Society, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. " Captain Collins' father, who was a physician and sur geon, died while residing in Spafford, a small country village, when the subject of this sketch was sixteen years of age, and a country boy living on a farm. A few months afterward Captain Collins, accompanied by his mother and two infant brothers, moved to the City of Syarcuse, and commenced the struggle of life under very discouraging circumstances, working alternately at whatever he could find to do, and going to school until the Spring of 1858, when he was graduated from the Syracuse High School, then considered an excellent educational institutinn. He then entered the law office of the well kno-wn firm of D. and D. F. Gott, at Syracuse, as a student, but his labors were soon intermpted by the event of the Civil War, and his admission to the bar was delayed until about 1866. Whatever success the Captain may have achieved at the bar, or otherwise, he owes to himself and the indomitable pluck and perseverance inherited from an excellent father and mother. He has never professed religion in the general accepted interpretation of that term, still he has generally attended the M. E. Church, of which his parents were members, and among other church offices was at one time Superintendent of the Sabbath School connected -with that society. In habits of mind in relation to religious subjects. Captain Collins has a strong penchant to many of the characteristic tenets believed in and adhered to by his Quaker ancestors, for whom he cherishes a devout attach ment." Captain Collins married early in life Catherine Sager, daughter of Jacob Sager and Rebecca Groot his -wife, a member of a typical New York Knickerbocker family, by whom he had seven children, five of whom survive : Kath- SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK iQl arine Mary, Grace Virginia; Helen; Flora Belle, wife of William W. Wiard, and Clara Bessie, wife of WUliam S. Teall, all of Syracuse, New York. PROFESSOR EZRA BABCOCK KNAPP. Ezra Babcock Knapp, son of Peter, Jr., was bom in the to-wn of Scott, Cortland County, N. Y., February 26, 1830, where he resided until three years of age. He then moved with his parents to Spafford, where he was brought up a farmer boy, on a farm near Spafford Corners, and received a common school education. He then attended the Cortland Academy at Homer and prepared himself for a teacher, an occupation which he foUowed from 1848 for twenty- three terms, and then entered the service of the well kno-wn school book publishing house of A. S. Barnes and Burr, and later with Taintor Bros, and Company. His field was mainly the New England and Middle States. Mr. Knapp has been closely identified with the Public Library in Skan eateles, his place of residence since 1870, and donated to that institution a geological collection. In 1884 he was elected School Commissioner, and was re-elected in 1887, but declined the nomination for a third term, three years later. The honorary degree of Master of Arts was con ferred upon him by Colgate University in 1887. He was elected President of the Village of Skaneateles in 1892, but, after having served in that capacity about six months, resigned on account of ill health. He married in 1857 Miss Loretta E. Wilson of Skaneateles, where they now reside. Mr. Knapp has been an ardent Republican since the organ ization of that party, and takes a lively interest in State and National questions, and in all local matters which affect the community in which he resides. He has a well stored mind on scientific subjects, and particularly in matters relating to local geology. He has spent much time and research in the prosecution of the latter study, and in refer ence to it his knowledge and opinions are deemed of great value. HON. MARTIN AUGUSTUS KNAPP. Hon. Martin Augustus Knapp, son of Justus N. and Polly P. (McKay) Knapp, was bom in Cold Brook in this town, and educated in Homer and Cazenovia Academies, 102 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION and the Wesleyan University at Middleto-wn, Connecticut, After his graduation and the completion of his college course, he entered the law office of Oliver Porter, Esq,, at Homer, N. Y., as a student, and afterwards accepted a clerkship in the law office of Hall and Chamberlin in Syra cuse, N. Y., where he remained until he was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in the year 18 — . Soon after Mr. Knapp was admitted to the Bar the latter firm was dissolved, and by the retirement of the senior membei", and a new one organized, of which he was the junior and Mr. Chamberlin the senior member; the latter firm con tinued for several years, doing a prosperous business, when Mr. Knapp withdrew, and for seven or eight years continued in business alone. The new firm of Knapp, Nottingham and Andrews was then formed and has continued without interrupation and with signal prosperity to the present day. During Mr. Knapp's business career in Syracuse, he has been City Attorney for one or two terms, has been School Commissioner of the Ward in which he resided, has once been a candidate for Mayor on the Republican ticket, but defeated, and is now Interstate Commissioner, by appointment under the General Government, an office which he has held for upwards of eight or ten years. Mr. Knapp possesses all the elements of busienss success, being a fine scholar, a good lawyer, a fluent speaker, affable in manner, and possessed of great industry and unexcep tionable habits. He was united in marriage, many years ago, with Marion H. Hotchkiss, of Middletown, Conn., whose acquaintance he made when attending the University at that place, but by her has had no issue. DR. JONATHAN KNEELAND. On the occsion of Dr. Jonathan Kneeland (son of Warren) attaining his 50th year in the Onondaga Medical Society, at a banquet held in the City of Syracuse, Dr. H. D. Didama of Syracuse, N. Y., in speaking of the guest of honor, said : " Dr. Jonathan Kneeland was born February 20, 1812, in a log cabin in Marcellus To-wnship, between Skaneateles and Otisco Lakes. His father, Warren Kneeland, was an accomplished Yankee Schoolmaster, who taught in district schools for 30 years in Saratoga and Onondaga Counties — training, in 1798-9, the twigs which grew into sturdy trees SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 103 on Pompey Hill. When but eleven years of age he (Jona than) was apprenticed to learn the art of healing to Jere miah Bumbus Whiting of Sempronius. Bumbus was a college graduate, and agreed to reward Kneeland for faithful services in ten years, with a horse and saddle-bags. This delightful experience and prospect was rudely ended, by the relapse of the learned Whiting to his old but relinquished habit of quaffing the flowing bowl. Jonathan retumed to his father's log house, left home without leave when but fifteen years old, attended district, select, and academic schools, and taught for two winters at the encouraging remuneration of $10 and $18 per month. After this he went to Lane Seminary, where he taught for a while, and then entered the Collegiate Department a year in advance, under the old Presidency of Dr. Lyman Beecher. Prepar ing about this time to go as a medical missionary to Persia, China, or Burmah, he attended medical lectures at the Ohio Medical College. This was in 1832, the year when the great epidemic of Asiatic Cholera devastated the country. Jona than was sent to Cincinnati to study the disease, and came back to care for his fellow students at Lane Seminary, working day and night without undressing, and witnessing the death of ten of his associates. Then he was attacked himself by the dire disease, and under the eminent treatment of the leamed Doctors Eberle and Drake, he became an altered man, his shrinking nature manifesting itself to such an extent, that his weight came down from 140 to 71 pounds. The doctor was brought home to Marcellus, a distance of nine hundred miles, to die. For nine long years he was an invalid. His inteUect during all this time, and ever after, remained clear and unclouded. He regained health, and with four relapses, has exercised delightfully ever since his faculty of fiuent speech. In 1841 he gave up his life plans to the practice of medicine in his native land. He open an office in Vesper, then removed to Thom HiU, where he remained twelve years. "Dr. Kneeland has received the honorary degree of M. D. from the Regents of the University of New York,, and also from the Ohio Medical CoUege. These were con ferred for well known merit, and were unsought by the deserving doctor. Dr. Kneeland faithfully attended at the various county. State and National Medical Societies to 104 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION which he belonged. He was a delegate to the State Medical Society for four years, and an active member for twenty years, serving many times as censor. He has been for thirty-five years a member of the American Medical Asso ciation. Bright, witty, humorous, leamed and instructive, he has often awakened a dull and prosy meeting into one of vigorous activity. He has written many papers on various diseases and medical subjects. He held the office of Coroner eighteen years. Superintendent of Onondaga Indians twenty-five years, and for ten years was their physician. He has many friends. He has observed strictly the golden rule, and is generally loved for his affectionate disposition. " Dr. Kneeland married Mariam Dwelle, February 7, 1845, and to whom were born three children : Frank Joel, bom December 10, 1845, married Etta Edwards at White hall, Wisconsin, December 5, 1883, died October 15, 1898; Martin Dwelle, born September 24, 1848, married Sarah A. Lord, and resides at Roxbury, Mass.; and Stella, born February 20, 1864, graduated at Holyoke Seminary, teacher in Syracuse High School five years, married Fred erick Colburn Eddy, Cashier of the Bank of Syracuse, and resides at Syracuse, N. Y." Dr. Kneeland died and was buried at South Onondaga, N. Y., where he had been physician and surgeon for many years. COLONEL WILLIAM W. LEGG. The following is an abstract from a published obituary notice, appearing in the public press at the time of his decease : " Col. WiUiam W. Legg died arthe residence of his son- in-law, William H. Bass, near Borodino, on' Sunday last,, in the 79th year of his age. He was born in Spafford, February 18, 1814, and continued to reside in his native- town until his decease. He married Minerva A. Prindle, daughter of Hon. Joseph Prindle, formerly of this town, ¦with whom he lived in happy marital relations for over fifty years, her death preceding his o^wn by about four years.. In politics he was originally a Whig, and subsequently accepted the nomination of Sheriff on the Know-Nothing Ticket, but on the breaking out of the Civil War joined the-. PROF. CHARLES O. ROUNDY SPAFFORD, ONONBAGA COUNTY, NEW YOEK IO5 RepubUcan Party, with which he afterwards continued, ¦vigorously sustaining its principles and giving to it his full support, in suppressing the rebellion and preserving the Union. When a young man he joined the State Militia, and continued his connection with it until he had risen from rank to rank, to that of Brigadier General in that organ ization. At the time of the breaking out of the Civil War, he was offered the 'Colonelcy of a regiment in the volunteer service, but on account of age and sickness in his family, was obUged to decline the fiattering offer. Colonel Legg was not an aspirant for political honors, yet occasionally was induced to serve his to^vm, by the acceptance of minor offices within its gift; among these was Supervisor. He also received the appointment of Postmaster from the General Government, both at Spafford Corners and Boro dino. Col. Legg Avas a public spirited and useful citizen, and he had many friends; his death was generall^ regretted." '¦ u.:,iiJ:J''" PROFESSOR CHARLES .0. ROUNDT i'f'f'' ¦ ,¦:,;¦ Mr. Edward Smith, formerly Superintendent of Syracuse Schools, in speaking of Prof. 'Roundy, said: " Prof. Charles 0. Roundy, son of Captain Asahel Roundy, was born in Spafford, Onondaga County, New York, May 23, 1823. He received his education in the public schools of his native town and in Homer Academy. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Hamilton College in 1853. Almost his entire active life has been spent in teaching, beginning in his native town at eighteen years, soon after leaving Homer Academy. He afterwards taught as Prin cipal in the Skaneateles and Baldwinsville Academies, coming from the latter place to Syracuse in 1852, and taking the Principalship of old No. 5, where he remained in charge until the establishment of the Syracuse High School in 1855. He was then installed as Principal of the latter school, and remained as such until failing health compelled him to resign, in the Spring of 1871. After a year or two of travelling, combined with some light work, he again began teaching as Principal of the Union Free School at Moravia, N. Y., and remained there ten years. Leaving there he spent a year or more in Dakota, and then returned to his farm in the town of Skaneateles, N. Y. Mr. Roundy was 106 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION always noted for his zeal and enthusiasm as a teacher, and when engaged as such spared no labor, however exacting, that he iriight have something new to present to his classes the coming day, illustrative of the principles to be eluci dated, or to awaken interest in his pupils. Until late at night, with his books about him, he would continue to study and investigate until he had mastered his subject, and then would appear before his classes the next day, to inspire them with something of his own spirit. His pupils in this city, graduates of the High School, for sixteen years, will never fotget the love for study, and the ambition awakened in them for learning by his eneregtic spirit." One of his former pupils, and now a successful teacher herself, in a recent publication, said of him: " Professor Roundy's personality was wonderful. The pupil must have been obtuse indeed who could successfully resist his forceful logic. Other principals may have been more polished, but none were better loved than he. The snows of many winters have fallen upon his grave, over which has been erected a monument by his former pupils, attesting a love that endures beyond the grave. Pupils who through his teaching have attained eminence in the sciences, on the rostrum, at the bar and in every walk of life. " Professor Roundy was a student to the day of his death, digging and delving as a day laborer in the rich mines of abstruse sciences, and making himself a master of all he sought. He died at his home in Skaneateles, September 30, 1892, and a few days afterwards was buried in Indian Mound Cemetery at Moravia, followed to the grave Jjy many of his former pupils, sincere mourners of a dear teacher and friend." HON. SIDNEY SMITH. The following are extracts taken from obituary notices appearing in the public press, at the time of the decease of Mr. Smith, September 10th, 1900. "In the death of Sidney Smith, which occurred at his residence on West Lake Street, in the viUage of Skaneateles, Monday moming, September 10, 1900, this village lost one of its oldest and most respected residents. He was bom in the to^wn of Spafford, in the ¦vicinity of Borodino, January 29, 1815, on the farm of which he was the o^wner at the SANFORD THAYER, ARTIST JEFFERSON J. BROWN SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 107 time of his decease ; he moved from this farm in 1870 and come to this village, where he resided ever afterwards. His ancestors were of New England patriotic stock, his grand father Job Smith, being an officer in the Connecticut Line in the War of the Revolution, and his father Lewis Smith being a Lieutenant in the War of 1812. His father was also a Member of Assembly in the New York Legislature, and at one time Sheriff of the County of Onondaga. Mr. Lewis Smith came to the to^wn of Spafford, (then MarceUus) , with his father. Job Simth, about 1796, married Chloe Benson of Owasco, and brought up a remarkable family of children near Borodino, in the old New England way, among whom was the subject of this sketch, Mary Smith of Skaneateles, Dr. J. Lewis Smith of New York City, WiUiam Smith, Esq., an attorney at law, late of Sacramento, California, and Dr. Stephen Smith, also of New York City. " Mr. Sidney Smith first married Adelia E. Blodgett, who died in 1843. He then married Miss Jennie A, Calkins, by whom were born his only children : Adelia, wife of Prof. H. F. Miner, Principal of the Skaneateles Academy, and Anna W. Smith, both residents of Skaneateles. Mr. Smith's last wife died in Skaneateles in 1887. " Mr. Smith, while on the farm (in 1856) , was elected a Member of Assembly in the New York Legislature, and after coming to this village was elected Justice of the Peace, an office which he held for about ten years. He was fre quently called upon to act as executor and administrator, a function which he performed to the satisfaction of every one. He was made administrator, with the ¦wiU annexed, of the estate of the late Charles Pardee of this village, and, after seventeen years of litigation, finally settled his accounts to the satisfaction of every one concerned. "During the later years of his life he lived quietly, managing his Spafford farm, in which he took great interest, and attended to his insurance business in this viUage. ' He had a clear recoUection of the early events of his native town and vcinity, (and the writer of this work is pleased to acknowledge his indebtedness to him for much valuable information in the preparation of this work.) " Mr Smith was a Republican in politics, and attended the Baptist Church in Skaneateles viUage. The writer of one of his obituary notices says of him : " His Ufe was one 108 ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION of faithful service to daily duties, a life of unusual good health and genial disposition, a life of many friendships and no enemies ; all men at all times found him reliable." SANFORD THAYER. Sanford Thayer, Artist, son of Sanford and Sally Miner Thayer, was born in Cato, New York, July 19, 1820, and in early boyhood moved with his parents to Cold Brook. His father, who was a wheelwright by occpuation, died at the latter place, August 26, 1836, leaving him surviving a large family of small children in indigent circumstances. Soon after his father's decease young Thayer who was then about seventeeT-i years of age and the oldest of Sally Miner's chil dren, left home and sougrht employment in John Legg's wagon shop, in the village of Skaneateles; here he met CharlesEUiott, who was then engaged in painting pictures on the back of the old fashioned high back sleighs and cutters, then in use, and which were then being manu factured by Mr. Legg. The life of Thayer up to this period had been spent in the woods and fields; he was an ardent fisherman, and had become a lover of nature in all its forms and features; it was therefore natural, when these two artistic loving natures met, that an abiding friendship grew up betv/een them. In these early years, when Thayer was. in his prime and beauty, Elliott painted his celebrated portrait of him, which was exhibited in this and foreign countries, and first called attention to the latter, and estab lished his reputation as one of the great artists of the world. Young Thayer, under the tutelage of Elliott, made rapid progress in the use of pencil and brush, and his reputation as an artist was also soon established in Central New York ; from the time of the meeting of these two men the course of Thayer in the realm of art was ever onward and upward. At an early date he estabUshed himself in Syracuse as a portrait painter, and retained a studio there until the time of his decease. As a painter of portraits he had in early years many fiattering commissions, and after the decease of Elliott, it can be truthfully said of him that in this field of art he stood for many years ¦without a rival in Central New York. His inherent love of nature led him frequently to visit the Adirondack Wildemess, and his numerous eketches of that ¦wild and rugged country have always been EDWIN S. EDWARDS SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 109 sought after, and demanded a good price. He was a true lover of Nature, and always interpreted her in his pictures m her happiest mood. The woods, the lakes, the fields, the fruits and the flowers, seemed to inspire him with their beauty and charms, and in his portrayal of them he appeared at his best. He married Nancy H. Smith in 1850, and by her had two chUdren: Mary BrowneU, born in 1852 and died in 1853, and Albert F. Thayer, born in 1858. The latter lived to manhood, married a Miss Carrie Cook, but died -without issue. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Thayer died in Syracuse, the former in the Fall of 1881. TOWN OFFICERS. On the first Tuesday of April, 1812, one year after the formation of the to-wn, there was held a to^wn meeting at the house of Elisha Sabins, at which were elected the follow ing officers, constituting the first public officials of this to-wn: John Babcock, Supervisor; Sylvester Wheaton, Town Clerk; Benjamin Stanton, Asahel Roundy and Elijah Knapp, Assessors; Asahel Roundy, Jonathan Berry and Adolphus French, Commissioners of the Poor ; Levi Foster, Constable and Collector; Sylvanus Learned and James Williamson, Commissioners of Public Land; Elisha Sabins, Pound Master; Nehemiah Billings, Ebenezer Grout, Samuel Holmes, Daniel Scranton, James Whitman, Joel Palmer, Cornelius WiUiamson, Asahel Roundy, and Amos Reed, Pathmasters. From the foregoing the reader will discover the names of some of the first residents of the to-wn, and their status among their fellows. It would be a very unprofitable matter to give the names of aU who have held office since this first meeting, and besides any list would be more or less imperfect, for the reason that some of the first officers were appointed, and not elected, and no to^wn record made of them ; also some of the leaves in the first book of records have been lost and destroyed, leaving the record incomplete. The following is believed to be a perfect list of the Super visors elected in town, from the beginning to the present time: John Babcock, 1812; Asahel Roundy, 1813-19; Peleg 110 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Shearman, 1820-22; Erastus Barber, 1823-4; Peleg Shear, man, 1826 ; Asahel Roundy, 1826 ; Phineas Hutchens, 1827 ; Asahel Roundy, 1828-9; Daniel Baxter, 1830-2; John R. Lewis, 1833-36; Charles R. Vary, 1837-8; John R. Lewis, 1839-41; Joseph Bulfinch, 1844; William O'FarreU, 1845; Joseph Bulfinch, 1846; William W. Legg, 1847; Russel M. Burdick, 1848 ; WiUiam W. Legg, 1849 ; Oscar E. Moseley, 1850; Thomas B. Anderson, 1851; James H. IsdeU, 1852; John L. Mason, 1853-65 ; Reuben T. Breed, 1856 ; Samuel S, Kneeland, 1857-59 ; David Becker, 1860; Edwin S. Edwards, 1861-3; Orrin Eddy, 1864-6; Uriah Roundy, 1867-6;^,; Samuel H. Stanton, 1870-1; Justus N. Knapp, 1872; John McDowell, 1873-74; Henry Weston, 1875-7; Benjamin Mc Daniels, 1878-80 ; Van Dyke Tripp, 1881-3 ; Perry F. Wood- worth, 1884-'6; Harry J. Haight, 1887; WiUiam H. Bass, 1888; Willard Norton, 1889 ; WiUiam H. Bass, 1890; Marcus Patterson, 1891-3 ; Willard Norton, 1894-5 ; John Unckless, 1896-7; Caleb E. King, 1898-9-1900; Marcus Patterson, 1900-1903. COMPANY AND GENERAL TRAINING. From a very early period the American people have been accustomed to the use of firearms. Nearly every household in the to^wn of Spafford, in early times, had a gun of some sort for the purpose of defense ; and in fact a man, entering the primeval forests which at first covered these hills, would have been foolhardy without a trusty rifie at his side. Our emigrant ancestors had hardly landed on American soil, before they discovered they had not only, to deal with the wild beasts of the forests, but the American Indian was disposed to contest every advance made by them in the occupation of the land ; so, almost at the beginning of their settlements about Massachusetts Bay, they were called to gether for military drill and Company organization. This first organization is now known as the " Ancient and Honor able Artillery Copmany of Boston." When new colonies were established other military organizations were formed, so that, eventually, every community throughout the inhabit able portion of these United States had its separate rnilitary company or organization, which was fully armed, equipped, drilled, and ready for any emergency that might arise. This universal military organization, kno^wn as the SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK HI Militia, was continued in the to-wn of Spafford do-wn to a period subsequent to the War of the United States with our Sister Republic of Mexico. Every man in town capable of bearing arms, not exempt by law, was enrolled in some Company or military organization and obliged, under penalty of Court Martial to keep himself armed and equipped, and to attend Company and battalion driU when ordered. There was generally at least one battalion driU, kno^wn as " General Training," in each year; these were holiday occa sions, looked forward to by old and young as periods of general festivity and enjoyment. A man holding a commission as an officer, in one of these early military organizations, was generally looked up to and respected in the community where he resided, for the distinction conferred upon him, and was generally addressed by his military title. Soon after the Mexican War compulsory service in the State Militia was discontinued, and that organization ever since has been maintained by volunteering. SOLDIERS. Among the Soldiers of the American Revolution who settled in the town of Spafford were the following: Paymaster Job Smith Oliver Hyde Captain Samuel Holmes Elias Jackson Stephen Albro Peter Knapp Allen Breed Joseph Lewis Thompson Burdick Jesse Manly James ChurcheU David Owen John Churchell Gilbert Palmer Elias Davis Samuel Prindle Robert Fulton Job Smith < John Green Isaac To^wn James Hiscock Benjamin Wallace Samuel Holmes Henry Wentworth Among those who served in the War of 1812 were : Captain Asahel Roundy Jabez Melvin Lieut. Phineas Hutchens Isaac Mills Lieut. Lewis Smith Moses Norton Stephen Applebe Samuel Parker Samuel Barber Silas Randall 112 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION John Beelar Samuel G. Seeley Thompson Burdick, Jr. Russell Tinkham Kelley Case Cornelius Williamson William Dedrick Samuel Gale The town of Spafford contributed the following soldiers to the Union Army, during the War of the Rebellion of 1861: Lieut. George J. Foster WUliam B. Allen George C. Anderson William H. Brown John M. Churchill Porter Davis William Derbin Ensign D. Filkins William E. Fisher Horatio Harrington George L. Hines William Henry Lyon Phineas B. MarshaU William H. Moon George Anthony John Anderson Ira W. Burdick Daniel Bradley George W. Case Sidney Case Asa Clark Van Buren Davis Lewis Da-vis Edgar Alonzo Eddy Charles H. Enos William Nesbitt Parmenus Norton Perry Norton Willard Norton Jacob Pollock Francis H, Patterson Charles Weston Roundy John Unckless John A. Uncless George A. Patten Edwin S. Van Benschoten Napoleon B. Wallace James B. Wilber Perry F. Woodworth Martin Goff James Nesbit James McCausey George Phippins George W. Ripley Cal-vin P. Stanton James Stringham Henry Sage Santa Anna WaUace John Worth Samuel Williams ILLUSTRATIONS Captain George K, Collins _ „ —Frontispiece Captain Asahel Roundy _ 23 Uriah Roundy, Esq 27 Colonel Phineas Hutchens _ _ _ 29 Thomas Maxson Foster._ _ 33 Borodino School House. __ 38 Borodino Town Hall 44 Borodino M, E. Church _ _ _ 45 Union Meeting House, Spafford Comers 53 Berry's Store, Spafford Comers. 66 Roundy's Tavem, Spafford Comers ._ ..... 68 Borodino Store and Tavem _ 71 Spafford Hills From Skaneateles Lake. 75 Slraneateles Lake From Spafford Hills. 76 Head of Skaneateles Lake From Window of Sweet Briar Cottage. — _ _ 83 Skaneateles Lake From Sweet Briar Cottage 85 City of Syracuse, Approaching Spafford Landing 87 Cottage William S. Teall, Skaneateles Lake. 90 Prof, Charles O. Roundy. - — _... - 105 Sanford Thayer, Artist. _ _ _ 108 Jefferson J. Brown — - - 109 Ed-win S. Edwards - _ ~ 110 INDEX Introduction and General Description of Spafford. To-wn and County Organization 5 Military Tract 10 Names of Soldiers Dra-wing Bounty Lands in Spafford... 15 First Settlers _ 17 Gilbert Palmer and Son John. 17 Names of Other Settlers 20 Biography — Captain Asahel Roundy 23 Uriah Roundy, Esq _ _. 27 Pullman Family..... 28 Colonel Phineas Hutdhens. 29 Roswell Hutchens 30 Amos Miner... 32 Daniel Wallace, Jr 86 Shadrack Roundy . 51 Lorenzo Wesley Roundy_ 51 Jared Curtis Roundy.. 52 Hall Washington Roundy. 52 Judge Elliott Anthony. 93 Prof, Silas M, Betts. 96 Dr. Jolm CoUins 96 Captain George K, Collins 99 Prof. Ezara Knapp _ 101 Hon. Martin Augustus Knapp 101 Dr. Jonathan Kneeland 102 Colonel William W, Legg. 104 Prof. Charles O, Roundy...— 105 Hon. Sidney Smith - 106 Sanford Thayer. 108 Bam Mo-ving. 33 Schools - - 38 ohurches and Libraries. 41 Mormon Exodus 47 Union Meeting House.... 53 Other Corporations 58 ivxiUs, Distilleries and Furnaces. 59 Taverns Stores, Shops, Potasheries and Tanneries 66 High-ways _ — - 72 Professional Men — Physicians _ _ 76 Lawyers _ _ 80 Ministers 81 Teachers _ 81 Artists and Sculptors ...j. 81 Surveyors _ 82 Postmasters 82 Skaneateles Lake and Cottages _ _ 82 Steamboats ._ __ 85 Glen Haven Sanatarium. _ 87 Cottages _ _ 88 Miscellaneous _ _ _ 91 Maple Sugar Making... 91 Maple Groves _. , 92 Town Officers ._ 109 Company and General Trainings _ 110 Soldiers of All Wars.. __ _ 111 Hunting, Pigeons Birds, etc _ 93 iWf