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THE DEVOE FAMILY-A MURDER
Jacob, Isaac and Henry lived on Oakland and Dalton Road on the Fred P. Smith farm. Jacob was called Colonel : Isaac was a hunchback and made essences. There was also an Elijah Devoe, and a Widow Devoe, who, with Jacob, was a member of the Baptist Church.
Henry Devoe is best known of these Devoes because of the manner of his death. He was murdered in his bed by a burglar who called himself Henry Wilson. Mr. Devoe had carelessly. the day of his death, exhibited a roll of money, several hundred dollars, in the presence of a stranger. His death was the result. He was plucky and refused to tell where the money was or to keep still. His son. Nelson, did not come to his aid. A granddaughter. Laura Thompson, and another girl were frightened into silence. However, the murderer was captured, tried, and executed by Sheriff Thomas Chase, for- merly a citizen of Nunda. The daughter of Henry Devoe was Jane, Mrs. William P. Thompson, and the son, Nelson Devoe, who remained a bachelor. Almy Devoe, Mrs. George Williams, was a younger sister of Jacob, Isaac and Henry Devoe.
The family of Solomon Williams, Sr., were mostly teachers. The twelve acre orchard this pioneer set out soon after his settlement on the Short Tract road in 1816 has made the Williams' farm one of the most profitable of small ·farms in the section. For many years after. apples were barreled and shipped to city markets. These twelve acres were good for $1,200 a year.
The sons of this family were Solomon, Joseph, Daniel, Fosdick and Frink. and the daughters, Phebe and Mary. Fosdick. Frink and Mary were leading scholars in the first Academy days from 1840 to 1845. All three died about 1845. Solomon and Joseph were good business men and secured a competence by a right use of opportunity. Solomon married Catherine Averill. daughter of Daniel Averill, a pioneer teacher and farmer. He lived in Hume, near Mills Mills, and was Supervisor of that town. After the death of his father he re- turned to Portage, bought out the heirs of the estate and made the orchard. though old, keep up its financial record. The writer, whose farm and orchard adjoined the Williams farm, took lessons by observation, and made his smaller orchard keep up its proportion.
Joseph moved to Wellsville and lived there until his death. Phebe died suddenly while comparatively young. Daniel was the most versatile of the family, was a teacher of district school, singing school and had a class in pen- manship. Financially, he was not as successful as his brothers. He married a daughter of Daniel Olp, and had three very bright children. An excessive use of stimulants, especially tobacco, produced a mild form of insanity. His family left him, and his schools ceased to be successful. As a gardener, pruner and grafter, he was still skillful. It is said of him that somnambulism also became detrimental to health and comfort. On one occasion he resumed work while lodging at the hotel at Brooksgrove by sawing off the posts of his bed- stead and inserting several choice grafts. This made lodging places for him scarce, and finally he was taken to the Binghamton Asylum, where, deprived of stimulants of any kind, he regained his mind, but his physical condition weakened as his mind strengthened and he completed his life in this palace like structure. His love of tobacco remained the dominant want and his few
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guests were allowed to give him a cigar. Knowing this to be so, the writer gave him a cigar. "That's a God-send," said Daniel, "come early and often and don't forget to bring a cigar."
The children of Solomon. Jr., were Augusta J. and John J. Williams. Augusta was married to E. Adelbert Nash, and John J. to Carrie Tousey. Williams and his cousin, Henry E. Averill, built a store at Hunts and were successful merchants there. Williams sold out his interest and went to Mich- igan, where he conducted a large lumbering business, but lived only a few years.
The family of Daniel Averill came to Portage while it was still Nunda. He taught school winters successfully. He had two daughters and two sons. Catherine, the eldest, married Solomon Williams. Jr. William lived in Vir- ginia. Latham married Catherine Van Allen. They had two sons, Henry E. and Orren. Henry E. married Carol Edmund, who survives him, and is his successor in the dry goods and general store line. Mr. Averill was a prom- inent Republican and the postmaster of the place. Both Williams and Averill deserve the gratitude of the community for inaugurating a business that has tended as much as any to benefit the community and led to making a quiet railroad station a shipping point of prominence and an enterprising village with three stores, two churches and several warehouses. Miss Sarah Averill married William Prentice. and they still occupy the family homestead. They have one son. Their only daughter died soon after her marriage.
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The Parmalees were also early pioneers. Dr. Amos and Frederick, his brother, a pioneer teacher of ability, were from Vermont.
Dr. E. D. Moses. Dr. Carpenter and Dr. Parmalee were the three first physicians in Portage-Nunda.
The home of Dr. Parmalee. a large frame house on the hill-side leading to Hunt from the Hollow. is still in existence and is owned by C. L. Parmalee, for many years agent at Hunts Station.
The children of Dr. Parmalee were not numerous. Betsey married Horace Hunt : Harriet married Elijah Bennett; Charles L. married Harriet Lake, daughter of D. P. Lake, Esq.
Jonathan Parmalee, an uncle of Dr. Parmalee, settled a few years years later near his nephew, and was Justice of the Peace for several years of the Second Nunda.
The children of Charles L. and Harriet Parmalee were *Fred, Mary and William. Mary is Mrs. C. B. Bennett. Fred died in New York City whne still young and unmarried.
1822-A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
Joseph Hosford came to Portage-Nunda in 1822. He was a drummer in Sullivan's army. 2nd Regiment.
II. Charles: Eunice, who married Gad Sheldon of Bristol: Mary, who married Alvin H. Parker. Bloomfield. N. Y .: Abigail L. (teacher), married Joseph Clark Ervin (their Son is Alfred H. Ervin of Omaha, Neb. ) ; Franklin Hosford. A. B., Oberlin College, pioneer teacher in Portage, married Ann
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Kingman ; Lydia Ervin, sister to J. C. Ervin, married Russell Barnes, of Nunda, and lived to be 90 years of age (see Barnes family) ; Alfred Ervin, who was deputy postmaster at Nunda, married Harriet Cain.
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I. Record Taber, born April 17, 1798, died February 19, 1894, aged 95 years 10 months, married Sally Meeker March 2, 1820, who died November. 1877. They came to this town in March, 1825. Children as follows:
II. I. Louisa A. married Charles H. Gearhart. 2. George (date un- known), died. 3. John, married Aurilla Morse ; he died in 1854. 4. Alfred, married (1) Adelia Gearhart, who died in 1856; (2) Mrs. Caroline Barber. who died in 1865; (3) L. Emeline Lapham. 5. Martha, died 1839. 6. Albert O., served in Civil War, died 1862 or 1863. 7. Clark W., married (1) Sarah Lake, (2) Kate Lake ; he died in 1883. Minnie, daughter of Alfred.
Arad French and wife came to Oak Hill in 1817, kept house for Col. George Williams, then settled on farm (Hiram Miller place). Abner. born in 1814, married Margaret Thompson, born December, 1819. Samuel French, a teacher, died young. Lucy, born December. 1818, in Nunda, married Merrick Brigham. Jane married James Brigham. Merrick and James Brigham were half brothers to Benjamin Brigham. Emily died young.
Arad French was deacon of the first Presbyterian church, formed at Oak Hill in 1819.
Children of Abner, born in Portage : Orpha. Sophia, Curtis, *Lucy, Samuel, Clara, Ellinor. Alpha Omega. Curtis served in the 58th N. Y. N. G. Joseph Russell, husband of Orpha, served in the same regiment. William Holmes, husband of Lucy, served in the New York Dragoons.
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The Hunt family, who came to Portage-Nunda in January, 1819, and set- tle'd in the then busy burgh that had already borne several names, Kishaqua. Greigsville, and Nichols and Bennett's Settlement, because this firm had the first saw mill there, was destined to have still another name, and an increase of business as well as of population. The family consisted at this time of San- ford Hunt and wife and seven children. Mrs. Hunt's maiden name was Fanny Rose. She was the daughter of Surgeon Rose of the Continental Army, and a niece of the unfortunate Nathan Hale. whose mission to General Benedict Arnold to make terms for the surrender of West Point, cost him his life. Samuel R. Hunt, the bachelor member of the Hunt family, says of their com- ing that in coming from the town of Mt. Morris we passed much of the way over corduroy roads and through the six mile woods between the present river and State roads across the White Woman's Tract. We came out upon an old clearing east, called the Shaver place (afterward owned by Capt. Rich- ard Church and John Angier). Fording the creek twice we came to anchor as far south as the road was opened. There was not a bridge on the creek ( Kesh- equa ) from source to mouth. though one was built the following spring. There were but three families south of this for eleven miles. These were George Gearhart. Sr. : his son-in-law, John Greening, and Andrew Smith. He also mentions of the settlers at this Kashaqua town. Henry and Walter Ben- nett and Nathaniel B. Nichols. The latter two had built a saw mill the year before. There were also some single men. Enoch Miller, Henry Devoe, Elijah
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Bennett, who afterward became a Baptist clergyman. Deacon William Town and Henry Root lived near, and last but not least, Elias Alvord, potash boiler. He also mentions Ephraim Kingsley and Solomon Williams, Sr., and their orchards ; also Warren Carpenter ( Dr.) and Samuel Fuller (a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner from Rhode Island).
Sanford Hunt became the pioneer storekeeper of the town, had an ashery and a farm, and soon after a postoffice. But the chief product of this worthy pair was a family of boys who equalled their parents in education and in ability and made the name of Hunt well known throughout the State. Here one of this family of boys, in a log school house, but with excellent instructors, laid the foundation of a thorough, practical education which led to an advanced course at Geneseo Academy and finally made him Governor of New York State.
But Sanford Hunt himself was one who seized every opportunity that came his way. His manner created confidence, and those "children of Nature" who could not read books but could read men, the Indians, from all the neigh- boring reservations, came to his store to trade. He was the first man from Nunda who made the Genesee River below the Lower Falls serve his bidding as a canal to carry the products of his mill, farm and ashery to Rochester, and then through the Erie Canal to Albany, "in his ark." "The Hazard," in 1824. He, however, lived to a good old age and died in Portage, in the place named for him. He was a liberal. public spirited, quiet, unostentatious man. He died in 1849.
The children of Sanford and Fanny Hunt were Samuel R., a teacher. He never married but lived and died at Hunts Hollow. Horace married Betsey Parmalee, daughter of Dr. Parmalee. He was Supervisor of his town, mem- ber of Assembly, was mill owner with O. H. Thompson, had store and post- office, failed in business, went west to Jackson, Mich., where he was Justice of the Peace until his death.
Sanford Hunt, Jr., became a merchant at Mt. Morris. John H. Hunt hield for some years a position in the Custom House at New York City. Eliza. the eldest daughter, was, in 1826. married to Colonel Greenlief Clark, who suc- ceeded Eli Slater in the tannery business at Hunts Hollow. John Clark. now of Nunda, is their son. He is a tanner by trade. The late Gertrude Clark. who excelled in scholarship but failed to make her learning practical, was a daughter of Col. Clark by a second marriage. We mention these for they both became citizens of Nunda. Mary Hunt was the wife of Charles Williams, a prominent teacher in pioneer days. She left no posterity. Fanny Hunt was married to her cousin, Sanford Hunt. Frederick Hunt died when comparatively young. Edward Hunt. the youngest son, born in Nunda, had military aspirations fostered, no doubt. by seeing Col. Clark maneuver his battalion at the general training. He went to West Point, and in due time was graduated as a Lieu- tenant of Engineers. The military career of Major Hunt we give elsewhere. What he sought to do if it had been carried out. would have given him an immortality of fame, but he perished at his task and his engine of destruction for the enemies of his country found its first victim in himself. To-day the name of Major Edward Hunt, Engineering Department, United States Army, is elsewhere forgotten. but that of his wife and widow. the talented "Helen
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Hunt Jackson," through her "Ramona" and other books, are kept in remem- brance by her picturesque burial place, located where all the globe tourists will see it, may serve to keep both names alive for successive centuries.
THE FIVE SANFORD HUNTS
Dr. Sanford Hunt. of Portage, who succeeder Dr. Parmalee in 1845, was a cousin of the other two Sanford Hunts, and a nephew of Sanford Hunt, Sr., pioneer, while Sanford Hunt, third son of Horace (known at the Nunda Acad- emy as Yankee Robinson), was the fifth of this name in Portage.
Under the heading of "Navigation of the Genesee," published in 1824 by a pioneer newspaper, we have this item of extraordinary interest :
COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE
A Geneseo local announces, under date of May 27, 1824. "the passage by Geneseo, on the river of the canal boat "Hazard" from Nunda on her way to Albany, loaded with pine lumber, ashes (pot and pearl ashes), etc. The boat was owned by Sanford Hunt of the former place." (Mr. Hunt lived at Hunt's Hollow which was at that time in Nunda). The boat was built at the Lower Falls, after the manner of the Arks from Arkport that carried goods a quarter of a century before this time. Such an enterprise would have been impossible before the completion of the Erie Canal, which was opened for navigation in 1824. This was the first of famous shipments of lumber that was made after the Erie Canal was in operation, and preceded by sixteen years any shipments by canal from Mt. Morris or by 28 years by canal from Nunda. Azel Fitch, of Oakland, Fitch and Messenger, and later, John F. Barber, utilized in spring floods this improvised canal-the Genesee River-for transporting their sur- plus products to city markets.
STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION ON THE GENESEE (IN 1824-26)
The Livingston Journal of July 28, 1824, has the following interesting local: "We can congratulate the public on the arrival of the steamboat 'Erie Canal,' Captain Bottle, at our village last evening from Utica ; a more welcome arrival could not have happened."
For two years this river was navigated by steam. The semi-annual floods, creating almost insurmountable obstacles to impede safe and profitable navi- gation, drove the steam boats from the unmanageable stream, and the scow with poles until 1841 continued to bring the most of the pioneers' goods up the river. In 1837 my father's goods were brought from Rochester to Geneseo in this manner. Many of the later pioneers from 1824 to the autumn of 1840 used this method of transportation.
THE GIFFORDS OF PORTAGE-NUNDA
Captain Gifford had a large family of sons and daughters. * Rhoda mar- ried *Joseph Cole. She died at the age of go. Their son. J. Monroe Cole. born 1824, married *Julia M. DeWitt. He is still living. His children are Frank and Mary. * Robert Gifford married (first ) *Mary Ann Wetherly, (second) *Mercy Herrington. ( third) Mrs. Delia Clark, who is still living. Children :
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Lorenzo D. Gifford, veteran, farmer, Portage ; Rhoda, his sister. Children of Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Youmans Nunda. children of Robert and Delia: Merrett Gifford, Silver Springs: Stella, married Homer Elwood, Buffalo, N. Y. Jasper Gifford married Mrs. Wetherly. Their son is Daniel B. Gifford, merchant.
THE D. P. LAKE FAMILY
The D. P. Lake family lived at Hunts Hollow. The family claim rela- tionship with Roger Williams, and. like him, are, first and last, Baptists. The daughters were teachers, the sons were soldiers. Harriet, married Charles L. Parmalee ; Elizabeth. married I. Bradley Clark : Sarah and Kate, married Clark Taber. Mrs. Lake accounted for her boys being soldiers because her father. Mr. Lindsley, and other relatives were soldiers of the Revolution. Of the sons, John lived in Michigan, served as bridge builder in Sherman's army : Mathew, in the Ohio Heavy Artillery, returned home and died in 1866. War- ner W. served in a Wisconsin regiment, Charles R., quartermaster sergeant in a Wisconsin regiment, both buried at Hunts Hollow; William D. Lake. 146th New York, died in Andersonville.
Evidently Mrs. Lake taught her sons to
Speak plain the word country, * *
But oh! the surprise, when one sits quite alone, Then one weeps, then one kneels, God -, how the house feels."
Mrs. Browning.
Greenlief Clark settled in 1824, married (first) Mary Hunt, daughter of Sanford Hunt. John Clark (married in Montgomery County). Mary Clark married Oscar F. Sharp, two children, Lizzie and Edwin; married (second) Mary Wheeler of Nunda. 1907.
III. Ethel Clark resides in Nunda, married George Barber. Mr. Clark was called Colonel (probably a militia officer). He was a tanner by trade and bought the tannery built by Eli Slater.
His son, John, also a tanner, was his successor.
Mr. Clark had a bachelor brother, Henry Clark, who lived on a farm near Mudville.
Amos Clark and I. Bradley Clark were not relatives to him, or to each other.
THE PHINEAS LAKE FAMILY
The large family of Phineas Lake of Mt. Morris and Portage, 1829, fur- · nished numerous citizens for Nunda, although the parents never lived here. Among the children of this household who came to Nunda were : 1. Janet. wife of Rev. Gershom Waldo: 2. Adelia, wife of Isaac McNair; 3. Laura and 4. Sarah, first and second wife of Utley Spencer ; Edwin P. Lake ; Franklin D. Lake, and Martha, wife of Sandford Johnson.
Thomas Lake. the oldest of the family. married at Portage a niece of Dr. Chittenden, Catherine Hill. The Hill family lived at Portage.
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For the family of Utley Spencer, see Spencer family.
The family of Rev. Gershom Waldo were Gershom and Janet Lake Waldo. Mr. Waldo was an Episcopal clergyman, and after his voice failed was a teacher at Portageville and elsewhere. He was the rector at Hunt's Hollow. Henry Waldo and Martha were the oldest of the family.
George Waldo was a veteran of the Civil War. He married in the West, and had a son and a daughter, Mrs. Taylor, and Heber Waldo, now at Military School at Milwaukee.
Sarah resides with her aunt, Mrs. Johnson, on Church Street.
Heber ( married in the West ).
Sarah is the only one living of the children.
Minerva Waldo was a niece of Rev. Waldo and taught the classics under the Barrett regime for one year in the Nunda Literary Institute. She is now Mrs. Joseph Cooper of Warsaw.
Edwin P. Lake, married Mary Shave, a milliner.
Mrs. Lake had the first store in Nunda kept by a woman. Her husband assisted as the business increased. They built a store on the south side of the Plaza, which is now in use as a hardware store.
The children of this family were: Adelia, a musician, who married Har- rison Peck. They have one son.
Julia, married Byron Nugent, of St. Louis. Mr. Nugent, a merchant of the Wanamaker type, died in April, 1908, leaving a wife and two sons.
Fred D. Lake, merchant, St. Louis.
The family of Isaac and Adelia McNair lived for several years in Nunda. He was a wagonmaker, and started a manufacturing enterprise in Nunda, with F. H. Gibbs and Minor Stout as assistants, about 1835. His children. who were here at this time, were : Helen, Wells. Cornelia and Edward.
Wells McNair, who afterward married Caroline Nash, who died recently. Mr. Wells McNair is still living at Castile. His father died at the age of 90 and his mother at 93. * Helen McNair married Mr. Rodgers of Warsaw, N. Y. *Cornelia married Chambers. * Edward married Adelia Quick, of Silver Springs.
Franklin D. Lake was a business man of Nunda, had some farm lands, and conducted a large hardware establishment for many years. He married Emily Fitch, who survived him, but has since died. They left no children.
Martha taught at one time a select school at the Session House after it had ceased to be an academy. She also taught in Mission schools in Chicago for ten years, where she was married to Sandford Johnson, who lived but a few years after his marriage. She has since lived in Nunda, now residing on Church Street.
1820
Biographical notes compiled by Jackson W. Alward of New York City concerning Nathaniel. William and Squire Alward, Mrs. Mary Alward Bar- ber, Mrs. Betsey Ann Alward Van Dusen, and Mrs. Sara Alward Guthrie, chil- dren of William and Betsey Cross Alward of Basking Ridge, Somerset County, N. J., who removed in 1809 to Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y., and later to Nunda, N. Y.
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Nathaniel Alward was born February 17. 1794. in Basking Ridge, N. J., removed to Scipio, N. Y .. in 1803, six years in advance of his parents, where he died July 29, 1848. On February 18, 1818, he married Betsey Freeman, daughter of William and Jerusha Wilcox Freeman, of Lee, Mass., who sub- sequently settled in Scipio. She was born July 18, 1799, in Lee, and died March 30, 1844, in Scipio. The graves of both herself and her husband are in the Alward family lot in the cemetery at Scipioville, N. Y. On December 17, 1845, Nathaniel Alward married his second wife, S. Van Arsdale, daughter of Isaac and Mary Van Doren Van Arsdale, of Shepardstown, Jefferson Coun- ty, Va. She was born October 10, 1819, in Shepardstown, and died January 18, 1903, in Bound Brook, Somerset County, N. J .; grave in cemetery at Somerville, N. J.
Nathaniel Alward began in June. 1834, to invest in farm lands in the towns of Nunda and Portage. Livingston County, N. Y., driving to and from Nunda as his business required. The late John F. Barber, his brother-in-law, acted as his agent for many years and subsequently became the owner of one of the farms upon which Mr. Alward had partly completed a dwelling house, intend- ing to make it his permanent home.
Nathaniel Alward had five children by his first wife: William Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Andrew Jackson. Dennis Robinson, and Sarah, all born in Scipio. He had one child by his second wife, Mary, also born in Scipio.
William Alward was born June 15, 1798, in Basking Ridge, N. J., and came with his parents, in 1809, to Scipio, N. Y., and removed from there in 1820 to the town of Portage, then in Nunda, and died at his residence on Oak Hill, March 18, 1844. On July 17, 1821, he married Lucy Hubbell, of Nunda, born in 1798, and who died November 12. 1826, in Nunda. The graves of himself and of his wife are in Oakwood Cemetery. He married his second wife, Louisa Walter Hubbard, widow of Eli Hubbard and daughter of Stephen and Mercy Mills Walter. She was born January 16, 1800, in Norfolk, Conn., and died April 24, 1885, in Randolph. Dodge County, Wis.
William Alward learned the art of tanning leather and after this removed to Hunts Hollow, then in the town of Nunda, where, in about the year 1820, he established a tannery. Shortly afterward he was associated with Mr. Ashley and established a tannery on Mill Street in what was then called Nunda Valley. William Alward. Eli Slater and Sanford Hunt purchased jointly a tract of land conveyed to them by deed from Nathaniel D. Nichols. dated May 14. 1822, which included what is now the public square of the vil- lage of Hunts Hollow. William Alward had three children by his first wife. Mary, Harriet and Jarvis, all born in Nunda. By his second wife he had four children, William Walter. Nathaniel Pomeroy, Louisa K. and Ann Elizabeth, all born in the towns of Nunda and Grove.
Squire Alward was born May 18, 1800, in Basking Ridge, N. J., and came with his parents in 1800 to Scipio. N. Y. He removed from there in 1846 to a farm purchased from his brother, Nathaniel, situated on Oak Hill on the River Road in the town of Portage. From there he removed to a farm near Hunts, and from there to a residence, situated on the southwest corner of West and Seward Streets in the village of Nunda, where he died October 29, 1873; grave in Oakwood Cemetery, Nunda.
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On December 31, 1824, he married Abigail Boughton, daughter of John and Currence Downs Boughton. She was born March 8, 1801, in Ledyard, Cayuga County, N. Y., and died July 25, 1840, in Scipio, N. Y. On October 20, 1842, Squire Alward married his second wife, Eliza Helm daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Perrine Helm, of Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y. She was born in 1801 in Groton and died there in 1879. Squire Alward had five children by his first wife-Cyrus, M. Charlotte, Harriet M., George Henry and Albert Nathaniel, all born in the town of Scipio, N. Y. He had no children by his second wife.
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