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USA > New York > Oneida County > Remsen > A narrative history of Remsen, New York, including parts of the adjoining townships of Steuben and Trenton, 1789-1898 > Part 26
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SAMUEL ROBY settled in the section known as Ninety Six, about 1820. He took up a large tract of land, and hired upwards of twenty men to fell and burn trees in order to obtain ashes to make potash. For many years he manufactured that commodity very extensively. His children were Aaron, Samuel, Jr., Stephen, Jacob, and Betsy.
BENJAMIN PERRY, father of the late Benjamin and John Perry, of Trenton, was an early settler in Trenton township, locating on a small farm later known as the Wilson place, opposite the farm of Grif- fith Hughes. Benjamin Perry, Jr., married Ellen,
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daughter of William Griffiths, of Steuben. He was long a deacon of the Welsh Congregational church, Capel Ucha'. He died February 19, 1871, aged seventy- nine years, his wife having died April 22, 1850, aged fifty-eight years. John Perry married Mary, daugh- ter of John Evans (Boon), and their children were Mary, first wife of Morvin M. Jones, of Utica, son of Judge Pomeroy Jones, the first historian of Oneida county; John, of California; Capt. Benjamin, of An- napolis, Md .; Sophia, who married William Vincent; Cornelius and George, who removed to the State of Indiana; Luther, who was drowned in childhood; Dr. Winfred; Josephine; and Anna, widow of the late Dr. Crane, of Holland Patent.
DR. DANIEL ROBERTS, who emigrated from Llaniestyn, Carnarvonshire, in 1818, died in Steuben, September 13, 1820, aged forty-five years. His chil- dren were Mary, wife of Griffith Evan Griffiths; Jane, wife of James Davis, of Pen-y-mynydd; and William D. While the latter did not devote his time to the practice of medicine, he showed much skill in the treatment of chronic diseases, and was very success- ful. He married Mary, daughter of Philip Thomas. Their children were Daniel, a soldier of the civil war, who died in the service; Edwin; John; George; Mar- garet, who married Richard Whitman; Josephine, who married Owen R. Thomas; Roscoe C., of Remsen; and Mary Jane, wife of Owen J. Evans.
OWEN ROWLAND came from Wales to Phil- adelphia, thence to Trenton township, locating on the road leading from the Prospect station of the R. W. & O. railroad to the village of Prospect. His daughter Jane married Robert R. Jones and had a family of
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several children. The family lived for many years on the Rowland homestead.
WILLIAM FRANCIS, from Wales, was an early settler in Steuben. His children were Joseph I., a prominent farmer and very capable business man and long-time resident of Remsen village; George; Wallace; and Jane.
Wallace Francis, son of William and Ann Francis, was born in Steuben, January 24, 1822. When a young man he came to Remsen to take the position of first station agent for the Utica & Black River railroad, which position he held for about fifteen years. In the early '70s, in partnership with John B. Jones he opened a bank at Independence, Iowa, which they conducted for several years. Always a shrewd finan- cier, Mr. Francis left much wealth, a portion of which built and endowed the Didymus Thomas Library, in Remsen. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Didymus Thomas. He died May 14, 1895.
OWEN CHARLES, from Wales, was in Steuben prior to 1819. About that time he removed to the easterly part of Remsen township, where he located on Lot 27. He had several children who became allied, through marriage, with well-known families of this section.
JOHN HUGHES came from Aberdaron, Carnarvon- shire, in 1818, and settled about a mile and a half south of Remsen village, on a farm adjoining on the north that owned by Horace Powell. His wife was Cather- ine Owen. Children: Robert J .; Hugh J .; Eleanor, who married Lewis Jones; John; Jane, who married Wil- liam Williams; and David. Hugh J. married Eliza-
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beth, daughter of Robert M. Jones, and their chil- dren were John; Jane, who married Matthew Jones; Cornelius; Lewis; Lydia, who married Evan Thomas; Robert-who spells his name "Hewes"-a physician of Rockwell City, Iowa, who married Martha, daugh- ter of William Lewis, of Steuben.
JOHN ROBERTS (Ty-niwliog) came from Wales in the early part of the last century, and bought a small farm about three miles southwest of Remsen, adjacent to the Dr. Maurice district. His children were John; Robert; Henry; William; Ellen, who mar- ried Griffith Francis; and Ann, who married Benja- min Richards.
RICHARD W. JONES (French Road) emigrated from Carnarvonshire, locating in this section. In 1820 he took up one hundred acres of land on French Road, that vicinity being then a dense wilderness. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Owen Griffiths, and their children were Peter; Owen; Josiah; William; Ann, who married first Griffith Jones (Farm), and second a Mr. Dean; John; Cornelius; and Elizabeth, who married first George Nichols, and second, Francis Perry.
GRIFFITH JONES (Ty'n Cae) came from Wales about 1818, and lived in Steuben. He died Decem- ber 11, 1826, aged thirty-three years; and Mary, his wife, died October 22, 1855, aged seventy-seven years. Mary, their eldest daughter married and removed to Utica. Ellen, another daughter, died July 26, 1891, aged seventy-two years; and Gwen, died October 29, 1891, aged sixty-eight years.
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ROBERT OWEN came here from Wales about 1820. He married here Jemima, daughter of Robert Jones (Tyddyn-y-Felin). Children: Ellen, who mar- ried Thomas Powell; Ann, first wife of Rowland An- thony; Sarah, first wife of Hezekiah Owen; and Rob- ert, a Baptist minister, who moved west.
REV. EVAN ROBERTS was born in Hanfyllyn, Montgomeryshire, North Wales, and came to Steu- ben in 1820, during the latter part of which year he was chosen assistant to Rev. William G. Pierce, pas- tor of Capel Ucha', in Steuben; and was engaged "to preach half the time to the English, on the Turn- pike." This was to the English Congregational Society, who held their meetings in the old school- house in what was later Remsen village. He was a most earnest advocate of the temperance cause, and active in all good work. His wife was Hannah, daugh- ter of Rev. John Roberts, of Steuben. On September 10, 1836, while in Albany he was murdered and robbed, his body being found in the Hudson river. He was forty-six years of age at the time of his death, and his widow died May 10, 1853, aged fifty-two years.
WILLIAM WHELDON, from Carnarvonshire, Wales, after a voyage of eleven weeks landed at Phil- adelphia, in June, 1817. In the winter of 1820 the family came to Steuben, stopping first at the Morris Ellis place, opposite Capel Isaf, and later settled near Pen-y-graig, remaining there two years. Later Mr. Wheldon bought of Stephen Brooks a farm on the hill north of Steuben Corners, which had been cleared by one Newton Dennison, though no buildings had been erected on the place, and in April, 1828, the family moved upon this farm.
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ROBERT WILSON, a carpenter and cabinet- maker, settled on a small place opposite the farm now occupied by Griffith Hughes. He married Cather- ine, a widowed sister of Daniel Thomas, of Steuben, she having one son, John Lewis.
MORGAN OWEN, son of Owen and Margaret Owen, was born in Carnarvonshire, Wales, and about 1820 emigrated to this country with his parents, three brothers, and sisters. He married Ann, eldest daughter of Griffith O. Griffiths, by whom he had two daughters, Helen and Elizabeth. In his youth Mr. Owen learned the trade of shoemaker in the shop of Col. Mather Beecher, later established himself in the boot and shoe business here and continued in it until a few years prior to his death, which occurred April 1, 1882, in his sixty-seventh year. He was twice appointed postmaster, serving from 1861 to 1866, and from 1867 to 1881.
WILLIAM LEWIS (Llanbadarn Fawr) was born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, and emigrated with his family to this country in 1822. He purchased a farm which had been largely cleared and improved by Edward Jones, a retired New York brewer. This farm, located. about two miles southeast of Remsen, is still called "Llanbadarn," and is now occupied by the Richard Owens family. Mr. Lewis was in a class above the rank of yeoman in Wales, and entitled to write "Gentleman" after his name, as was formerly permissible in Great Britain for all classes above the yeomanry. The estate of Llanbadarn Fawr, in Wales, was very ancient and in early times rather extensive. The head of each successive generation down to and including William Lewis, bore the title of "Squire,"
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and it was obligatory on them to be in attendance at the Assizes. The house at Llanbadarn Fawr was of stone, cruciform, and built in the eleventh century, and hence was about eight hundred years old when the family left it. The children of Mr. Lewis were John, Hugh, Thomas, Mary, William, Richard, George, and Lewis, of whom only the last three ever married. George married Janet Thomas; Richard married Mariette Evans; and Lewis married Jane, daughter of Robert R. Jones. Mr. Lewis died February 25, 1850, aged eighty years; and Ann, his wife, died July 19, 1847, aged seventy-four years.
THOMAS T. JONES, son of John Maurice, of Plas- Newydd, Aber, Carnarvonshire, North Wales, mar- ried Eleanor Rowlands, daughter of Rowland Wil- liams (Tyddyn Isaf), Llanllechyd, Carnarvonshire. Their children were Hugh T. Jones (Y Coed); John T .; Griffith; Elizabeth, wife of Ellis Jones (Tyddyn- y-Felin); Ellen, second wife of Rowland Anthony; Catherine, wife of Thomas E. Williams (Bryn Gola); and Margaret (Mrs. John Johns). The family came to this country in 1828, though the eldest son, Hugh T., came in 1823, living for some years with Capt. Simeon Fuller. Thomas T. Jones died December 23, 1843; and his widow died August 7, 1847, aged seventy-two years.
CALEB STEVES, a justice of the peace and hence generally known as "Squire" Steves, owned and oc- cupied the Smith Nichols house, about half a mile . north of Remsen. His first and his second wife were daughters of Barnabas Mitchell, the first settler in Remsen township. Mr. Steves was a large stock- holder in the Northern Plank Road Company, which
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eventually proved a financial failure, and for some years he kept the toll-gate which stood hear his house. He left here about 1856 or 1857, when an old man, to live with relatives at Geddes, now a part of Syracuse, and died there.
WILLIAM ROBOTHAM came from South Wales to Philadelphia in 1790. Here he married Ann Wil- liams, a native of Carnarvonshire, who came to Phil- adelphia in 1795. They came to Steuben about the year 1818, we believe, for in that year a letter was received by the Welsh Baptist church of Steuben from the Baptist church at Blockley, Pa., stating that "as our beloved brother, William Robotham, has re- moved in your vicinity, and requests from us a letter of dismission to join your body. We cheerfully com- ply with his request, etc., etc., signed William E. Ashton, Pastor." Mr. Robotham was a tailor, and continued in that business at Sixty Acres for many years.
HUGH JONES, familiarly called "Huey," came from Wales to Philadelphia between 1790 and 1800, and became an early settler in Steuben, locating on a small place about half way between Capel Ucha' and the residence of R. Fremont Jones, his house standing about twenty-five rods north of the highway. In Philadelphia he married Catherine Williams, a sister of Mrs. William Robotham.
THE MAURICE FAMILY early was prominent in northern Trenton. The father was called Morris Griffith, while the children took the name Morris, later spelled "Maurice," for their surname. Chil- dren: Griffith, who married Catherine, daughter of
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Hugh Jones (Bod Isaf), and Robert. They located west of the Hughes (Wilson) place.
JESSE SMITH, born in Hallowell, Mass., married Hannah Farnsworth, born in Stoddard, Mass. After marriage they went to Mt. Holly, Vt., to live, sub- sequently removing to Ludlow, Vt., and thence came to Remsen, about 1825, locating at Ninety Six. Their mode of conveyance was an ox-team, a horse, for leader, and a covered emigrant wagon, the latter con- taining all the worldly goods they possessed. On their journey they stopped to refresh themselves at a tavern kept by Matthew Hoyt near Prospect, at the junction of the State road and that leading past Pen-y-caerau church. The place subsequently for many years was known as the Jenkins homestead.
JACOB LEWIS was born near Amsterdam, N. Y., September 14, 1795, and died at Yorkville, N. Y., September 13, 1872. On May 17, 1817, he married Martha Wood by whom he had two daughters, both dying in infancy. Mrs. Lewis died June 22, 1826, and Mr. Lewis married second, Susan Hatch, born February 22, 1806. Their children were William E., born December 22, 1827; Martha (Mrs. Wilgus), born November 22, 1829; Mary Cornelia, born De- cember 5, 1831, married William S. Evans; Laura Elizabeth, born November 17, 1833, died December 31, 1848; George LaFayette, born March 13, 1837; and Jacob Jefferson, born March 6, 1842. William E. Lewis married first, Eliza, daughter of Oliver Higby, by whom he had one daughter, Lida, who married first, W. Sawens, and second, Claude Walker. For his second wife Mr. Lewis married Laura E., daugh- ter of the late Chester Wells, of Trenton. When a
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young man Mr. Lewis taught school, later became proprietor of a hotel in Remsen, and subsequently engaged in the same business at Waterville, and Yorkville, in this county.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS (Tociau) came from Car- narvonshire about 1825. He married here Cather- ine, daughter of William Roberts (Trefach), and their children were Ellen, Isaac, William, and Mary. Mrs. Williams died January 5, 1841, and her husband sur- vived her nearly twenty years.
WILLIAM S. RICHARDS (Penrhiwder) came from Llancaer, near Pwllheli, North Wales, in 1828. He settled first about two miles south of Remsen vil- lage, on the road leading to the Prospect station of the R. W. & O. railroad, a short distance from the turnpike. He later moved to the vicinity of the Wetmore lot, near the Higby tavern. He married Mary Williams, in Wales, and their children were Richard; William; Jane, who married Josiah Davis; Ellen, who died at the age of twenty-six years; Eliza- beth, second wife of Charles O. Charles; Sarah, who married Richard Williams; Robert; and Thomas. The last named married Jeanette, daughter of John O. Roberts, by whom he had two children, Howard and Jeanette. William married Sarah, daughter of Richard M. Jones, removed to Millen's Bay, on the St. Lawrence, and their children were Ella, Frank, George, Jeanette and Cora.
WILLIAM ROBERTS (Mark), from Wales, set- tled in east Remsen. His children were William, who married Sarah Roberts (Felin); John O., who married Jeanette, daughter of James Owen; Griffith;
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Mary, who married John Roberts; and Thomas O., who married Catherine, daughter of William Prich- ard (Y Glyn).
EDWARD JENKINS, from Picketston, parish of Llanamais, Wales, arrived in this country July 23, 1823. He located on a farm about half a mile north- east of Remsen village which was settled first by a man named Storms, and later owned successively by Henry P. Jones and Thomas Philip Thomas. His children were Margaret, who married a Mr. Alexander; Ann, who married a Mr. Cary, and moved to Chicago; Edward; William; Catherine; Elizabeth, who mar- ried a Rev. Whitehead; Thomas; Mary, who married Obadiah J. Owen; Jane, who married first, Thomas Roberts, and second, James Owen; George; Celia, wife of Evan Jones; and Maria, wife of Benjamin F. Gray. The family removed to Utica, where Mr. Jenkins died.
FREDERICK WILLIAM WALL was born in Hamburg, Germany, about the year 1775, and when seventeen years old shipped with Captain Cook as cabin boy, and was with the latter on his voyage around the world. After retiring from the sea, he settled at German Flats, Herkimer county, where he . married Margaret Keller. There were born to them ten children-seven sons and three daughters. The sons were John, who married Betsy Crimm, of Canajo- harie, N. Y .; Godfred, who married Polly Wilcox, of Remsen; Lawrence, who married Laura Sanderson, of Remsen; William, who married Betsy Ross, of Cana- joharie; Peter, who married Nancy Ingersoll, of Rem- sen; George, who married Delia Ross, of Canajoharie; and Michael, who married Mary Ann Roby, of Rem-
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sen. The daughters were Margaret, who married Jeremy Wolover, of Herkimer county; Nancy, who married first, William Miller, and second, a Mr. Bill; and Betsy, who married Anthony Bronson, of Remsen.
The family came to Remsen about 1825, and set- tled near Twin Rock Bridge, at Ninety Six. In 1832 Mr. Wall was followed here by his son John, who also settled in the same locality, having a family of five children, and who served twelve months in the war of 1812, with Cronk, of Delta, N. Y. Cronk was the last survivor of that war, dying at the age of one hundred and fifteen years.
WILLIAM ROBERTS (Trefach) came from Pen- y-graig, in the parish of Llangwnad, Carnarvonshire. He sailed with his family from Pwllheli in the brig "Gomer," Captain Prichard, it. the latter part of May or the early part of June, 1827, and after a voy- age of four weeks landed in New York. A daughter, Catherine, had preceded the family here by several years, and lived with an aunt, the wife of William Evan, or Bevan, near Ty Coch Corners. Before the arrival of her father's family, the daughter had mar- ried William Williams (Tociau) of Steuben, and it was to her home that they came. Later they occupied a house which stood a short distance north of the farm owned by the late Dr. Everett, and after residing there for a few months bought a farm north of Fairchild Corners. Mr. Roberts married Mary Williams (Careg Lefain) of Carnarvonshire, and their children, all born in Wales were: Catherine; Mary, who married in Wales William P. Williams, and came to this country in 1831; William, Jr., who married Ann, daughter of Timothy Griffiths, of Steuben, died May 8, 1833, aged twenty- seven years, his widow subsequently marrying John Rob-
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erts (Felin); Robert W., who married Ann, daughter of Hugh Hughes; Isaac W., who married Mary A., daugh- ter of Robert M. Jones; Henry W., who married. Jane, daughter of Moses Jones; Griffith, who married Jane, daughter of John Evans, of Trenton; and John, who married Ellen, daughter of Humphrey Roberts, an Elder of the Sandamanian sect and removed to Catta- raugus county in the early 50's. They also had a foster son, Griffith G., who became a merchant in Utica, and in later life served for several years as charity clerk of that city. William Roberts, Sr., died at East Remsen, from the effects of a fall, February 17, 1831, aged fifty-six years. His widow died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William P. Williams, in Trenton, December 23, 1844, aged sixty-eight years. They are buried in Capel Ucha' Cemetery.
GRIFFITH W. ROBERTS was born at Tanfon- went, Carnarvonshire, North Wales, January 16, 1802. When a young man he emigrated to America and located at Mobile, Ala., where, in partnership with a young friend he engaged in business. But the death of his partner occurring within a few years, he came north and located at Remsen where he engaged in mercantile trade, and became active and prominent in the business, social and religious life of the commun- ity. He married here Sarah, daughter of Rev. Wil- liam G. Pierce, of Steuben. Mr. Roberts died in Rem- sen March 6, 1881.
JONAH HOWE began his business career in Rem- sen, as a clerk for Andrew Billings. Afterward he was of the firm of Howe & Billings, the latter being John Billings, of Trenton, and later he was of the firms
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of Hawley & Howe, and Howe & Douglas, commission merchants of New York city. He married Sarah, daughter of John Billings, and for his second wife, Nancy, daughter of Dr. Luther Guiteau, Sr., of Tren- ton. Mr. Howe was very successful in business, and amassed considerable wealth.
WILLIAM T. JONES (Tan-yr-allt), of Carnarvon- shire, set sail with his family for America in 1828, in what now would be considered a very inferior craft, called the "Swallow;" and, after a voyage of thirteen weeks landed in New York, whence they came to Utica by boat, the Erie canal having then been opened three years. Leaving his family in Utica, Mr. Jones proceeded on foot to Remsen, where he borrowed an ox-team of a friend, Owen Jones, who had preceded him here. Returning with this to Utica, he brought his family on to the home of Mr. Jones, where they re- mained for about three weeks, while he and his older sons were building a log house, on what was called the "Commons Clearing." They moved into the new house July 1, 1828. The township of Remsen even then was but sparsely settled, "clearings" be- ing connected by trails or blazed pathways through the forest. In this family were ten children, Elias, Hugh, John, William, David, Gwen, Ellen, Anne, Sarah and Jane. David, the youngest of the boys, born at Tan-yr-allt, August 3, 1825, remained at home and became the successor to the homestead, where he reared a family of eight children.
JOHN L. HUGHES (San Pant) came from Wales about 1830, and settled first in Steuben, whence after a short residence he removed to Ninety Six. He married in Wales and all his eight children were born
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there, as follows: John X .; Hugh; Jane, who married William Roberts; Ellis; William; Thomas; Mary, who - married Robert Roberts; and Ellen, who married Ca- leb, son of Morey Nichols.
OWEN M. GRIFFITHS was an early settler in this section. He purchased of Joseph Halstead the farm and inn located on the turnpike two miles south of Remsen, about 1830, and on April 29, 1835, he bought an adjoining ninety acres of Alexander Frazier and Filkins Beadle. About a year later Mr. Griffiths' hotel was destroyed by fire, but was immediately rebuilt. He married Mary Williams, and their chil- dren were Annie, who married Isaac Davis, a brush manufacturer, of Jersey City; Ellen, who married a Mr. Suiter, and also lived in Jersey City; William; Morris; Robert; and Elizabeth, who married Wil- liam Lansing, of Greenbush, N. Y.
MAJ. ANDREW BILLINGS, of New England birth, came to Remsen between 1825 and 1830, engaged in mercantile business and farming, and eventually became one of the most prominent citizens of the community. He was the third postmaster appointed for Remsen village, continuing in the office for two terms, and was honored with other public offices. His first store was on the south corner of Main and Steuben streets, but before 1840 he built the large store building now owned by Dr. E. G. Williams and the house now occupied by Dr. Williams. He mar- ried Abigail, daughter of James Sheldon, a pioneer of the township. Their children were Abbie, who married Henry Murray, of Binghamton, N. Y .; Mary, who married first, William McK. Paddock, and second, Isaac W. England, of the New York Sun; Katherine,
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who married Hugh Williams; Maria, who married Robert Douglas, of Trenton; Andrew, Jr .; and L. Gui- teau, for many years paymaster in the United States Navy, who married a Miss Tremain, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Maj. Andrew W. Billings, son of Andrew and Abigail (Sheldon) Billings, was born here. He went west when a boy, and at the outbreak of the civil war enlisted as a private from Iowa, rising to the rank of Major and acting Provost Marshal for the Western Division. For five years prior to his death he was engaged in business abroad, with headquarters in London, where he died.
RICHARD THOMAS was born in Merionethshire, North Wales, in June, 1812, and came to this country in 1830. His wife, Dorothy, was born in Anglesey, Wales, also in 1812, came to America in 1830, and died the same year as her husband. Mr. Thomas learned the trade of tanner and currier, and for twenty-one years was employed by William J. Owen, of Steuben. In 1853 he moved to Remsen and built a tannery at Bardwell, where he conducted business until his death, September 15, 1872. Their children were John R .; Elizabeth, wife of William P. Jones; Mary, wife of Rev. Dr. Evan G. Williams, of Remsen; Bezaleel; Jefferson, who died in 1861; and Clinton R.
WILLIAM P. WILLIAMS married Mary, daugh- ter of Williams Roberts (Trefach), and they came to this country in 1831. Their children were Hugh, Catherine, William, Mary, Anne, Henry and John. Hugh, the eldest, born in Wales in 1828, went to Rus- sia, Herkimer county, when he had attained his ma- jority, where he became a very successful farmer,
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owning one of the finest farms in the county. About 1870 he removed to Rome, engaging in the stone and marble business. He married first, Mary Ann Wil- liams, of Herkimer county, who died shortly after their removal to Rome, leaving one son, Oscar D., now of Utica. His second wife was Helen, daughter of Orien Brown, of Canastota. He died in 1888. William P. Williams died April 24, 1873, aged seventy- four years, and his wife died March 18, 1872, aged seventy-two years.
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