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. It followed inevitably that this vital, warm and generous nature was rich also in friends and in influence. It was amazing to see the strength of the hold she had on those who were pupils in the famous old Collegiate Institute, her husband's school for so many years. Her girls that she mothered through their happy school days never forgot her. They returned to her again and again with loving acknowledgment of all that she had meant to them. Her years of successful work in the primary department of the Sunday-school, in the Mission- ary Society and in the social life of the church were just so many opportunities .for touching and molding other lives. So, when she came to the dim valley of age and weakness, there was a host of people, rich and poor, young and old. simple folk and wise men, who remembered her with love and spoke often of what she had been to them. Her children also called her blessed.
Richest of all was she in spirituality. She was a woman who had never lost the vision of the eternal. Prayer was no luxury, but her daily bread, and her Bible was really her guide. All her life long the springs of comfort and strength rose for her in these uplands of the soul-the Bible and prayer. From these fountains of living water she drank. And so she, being dead, yet speaks ; speaks not only of human love and goodness, but of a human life whose strength was in God. HELEN B. MONTGOMERY.
THE PETER MYERS FAMILY
This family from New Jersey settled in 1824 or 1825 on the Myers home- stead, where Peter Myers, Jr., and his sister, Sarah still reside. Mr. Myers and his good wife Elizabeth and son James S. were among the first that settled in the north eastern part of the town. The other children of this worthy couple were Wesley, who is still living in the west and was, like James and Monroe, a carpenter and who worked on the second Baptist church. He is now about 80 years of age. Anna, the next younger, married Peter Youells and lived in Michigan until her death. Her husband is still living. He is about the same age as his boy friends, Peter VanDorn and John Creveling of Tuscarora, i. e .. about 84, and like them enjoys a fair degree of health. William the next son is not living. Monroe, who celebrated his 75 birthday April 6th, has long been identified with the interests of this village, having built six of the buildings, on South Church Street. James Myers is remembered as a musician who played all kinds of keyed instruments in the old Baptist church along with Quartus Bar- ron, who played the bass viol before the days of the "Camps" and their pipe organs. He also made and played violins and viols. He went to California in '49 with his brother-in-law. Reuben Hungerford, who is still living, but re- turned a cripple. I remember well their home coming for they were my neigh
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bors, genial and gentlemanly. Mr. James Myers and family moved to this vil- lage and with his brother-in-law. Virgil Hungerford, built the present Univer- salist church and the cement walk, one of the first in front of it, in 1871. He was building the large house on Fair Street, Patridge Park, for himself in 1873 when he fell from the roof and was instantly killed.
Mr. Peter Myers married for a second wife Betsey Stivers and this couple had five sons and a daughter : Martin, who died in the Civil War, Albert, Peter, Sarah, Duane and Adelbert. all of these five are still living. It is my privilege to be able to tell them of a pioneer incident that reflects great credit to their father's kindness of heart. Zadock Sherwood, the revolutionary soldier pio- neer, told in my hearing, that when he had cleared some land, he needed some seed wheat and hearing that Mr. Myers had some he went there and inquired :f he had some seed wheat to sell. Have you the money to pay for it? asked farmer Myers. The veteran took out a well filled purse. Then you can't have it, I must save it for those who have no money to buy with; you can get it ot any one. Was there another man in the whole town like this big hearted Jer - sey man? The luster of this deed shines with diamond splendor after full four score years. A score of years afterward when Peter Youells married Anna Myers, Uncle Dick, his father said (everybody called him Uncle Dick ) in his funny way: "It is all right she belongs to the best breed in the town" and no one disputed him.
THOMAS TWIST
Settled in 1824. became the owner of several iarge farms.
I. Thomas Twist, married Mary Burkhart.
II. I. Sarah Twist, married Calvin Reed. Their children :
III. (1). Josephine; (2) Mary: (3) Ennis Reed.
II. 2. Julia A. Twist, single (mildly insane) ; 3. Elias Twist; 4. Delia, married Warren Babcock. Children :
III. 1. Mary; 2. Kittie Babcock.
II. 5. William Twist, married Miss Rathburn, children :
III. I. Willie. 2. Louis.
II. 6. Martha.
II. 7. Abbie.
II. 8. Hillary Twist, veteran. Mexican War, married Lucy Babcock.
II. 9. Mary Jane Twist. Teacher. married Andrew Salts.
II. 10. Thomas Twist, Jr .. died at the age of 16 ( from trying a perilous experiment. )
II. 2. Helen Twist, married Jackson Batterson. Children: I. Clar- ence : 2. Nellie : 3. Josephi.
II. 12. Alice Twist, married John Flory.
II. 13. Milton Twist, married Their children.
III. I. Clarence : 2. Nellie : 3. Joseph.
1826- THE BABCOCKS
Mr. and Mrs. David Babcock. Their children : *Warren Babcock, a teacher, married Cordelia Twist: 2. Lucy Babcock, married Hillary Twist: 3. Worden Babcock: 4. Washington Babcock. The family were Universalists and went to Ipsilanti in I845.
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CURTIS-BALTY FAMILIES
The Curtis family settled in Nunda in 1826. Mr. Curtis did not live very long after coming to Nunda. His widow afterwards married Mr. D. Mack The family consisted of the parents and four girls of more than ordinary ex- cellence.
I. Betsey, married Ethan Gilbert, son of Andrew, who built the grist mill at Coopersville in 1836. Ethan had a twin sister who married P. Dudley Ken- drick. Judge Ethan Gilbert was a relative.
2. Emily, married Hiram C. Grover, four children. (See Grover fam- ily 1830. )
3. Aristeen, was a life long teacher, always in demand, she married late in life.
4. Alice M. (one of God's best women), married Robert J. Balty, who with R. G. Bennett, purchased the grist mill at Coopersville, of Gardener, the successor of Gilbert. The mill was run night and day, it took four coopers to supply barrels, in which to ship the flour they mnade. The canal furnished cheap transportation. They sold to Kellogg and Hammond and both came into the village. R. J. Balty became a banker.
The family of R. J. and Alice Balty consisted of a son and daughter, the daughter Emily died in childhood, while the son lived to be a part of the social life of the village, to which he came after the sale of the mills. Robert had a quick wit, became a good scholar and excelled as an Amateur actor. He mar- ried Belle Shant, a daughter of J. E. Shant of the firm of Lampart & Shant, Nunda Tannery. They have one son Robert E. Balty, bank clerk, who closely resembles his father in appearance. Robert Balty contracted consumption, al- though it was not hereditary in either family, and died at the early age of forty.
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His parents survived him, but both have since passed away. Robert J. Balty was a banker and as successful in that as in milling.
Mrs. Alice Balty, became the best known of the elderly ladies of the vil- lage. How she found time to call on nearly every family in the village, yearly, monthly or weekly, is a social problem hard to solve. No other person had so long a calling list. Beloved by all, of every grade of society, her short sick- ness and sudden death ieft a whole community bereft. If her faith (she was a devoted Universalist ), had given her this unusual fellowship of spirit, then, the doctrine of Divine Fatherhood and Universal brotherhood, had ripened the- ory to practice. Were all like her. Heaven and Earth would have a common atinosphere of love.
We present a picture of the family, as the writer knew them. There was . a half sister, Cornelia Mack, who died recently.
Allen Curtis was a brother of Daniel. He married Sophia Hamilton, daughter of Daniel.
Mrs. Allen Curtis as she became elderly, was troubled with sleeping leth- argy. On one occasion while visiting a neighbor she became sleepy, and tried to excuse her condition on the plea of early rising, she said, "I got up this morning just-as the sun -was-rising-in the-west," and was fast asleep, unaware of what she had said.
Asa and Mrs. LaRue, whose pictures we present, represent a class of peo- ple, who retired from the active duties of rural life, and chose Nunda as a place conducive to long life with pleasant surroundings. Mr. LaRue was nearly 90 years of age, when he died and Mrs. LaRue is still living.
*Abraham DeGroff (teacher ), farmer 280 acres, born Cayuga County 1810, settled 1830, married ( 1) Sarah Duryee, born Cayuga County 1813, mar- ried 1832, died 1838. He married (2) Sarah Perry, born Schoharie County, 1813, married 1839, died 1879.
Children : Eliza A., born 1835, married Chauncey Hagadorn, had a son and two daughters; Margaret A., born 1843, married Paul Willey; Myron P .. born 1845. single, died 1907 : Ennis J., born 1848, a son Archie served a term in the Navy ; Herbert L., born 1850; Marion W., born 1853.
MR. AND MRS. ASA LARUE
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1830
I. William Renix. Mrs. Renix.
I. Dolly Renix ( a sister ) married Previse Perry, Sr. Children.
II. Mary Eliza Renix; Jane Ann, married Seneca Perry; Henry; John; Agnes.
Cousins. Eliza Renix (Mrs. James Duryee ) ; Renix Duryee, son of James and Eliza Duryee : Jennie Brodt a niece of Mrs. Eliza Duryee, married Ralston Conklin ; (1) Flora Conklin, married Dan'l Suydam ; (2) Ella Conklin.
1828
I. Allen Beach. born in Massachusetts 1800, settled in 1828, died 1851.
II. I. Allen J. Beach, born 1829.
II. 2. Lauren Rowland Beach, farmer 110 acres, and teacher for many years, born Livingston County. June 12, 1832, adopted by William Coon, mar- ried Bridget -- , born Connaught County, Ireland, 1832, married in 1852.
III. Children. I. Eva Maria; 2. Ida May, teacher ( Mrs. Fulton) ; 3. Jessie C., teacher, Nunda, N. Y.
THE LATCH STRING OUT
Reuben and Patty Pierce settled on the State Road in 1828. They were childless but had adopted a daughter named Relief Ladd. She was married to Ralph Carver about 1830. "The Latch String of the Pierce Homestead was al- ways out" a saying that implies great generosity and hospitality.
The children of this household with a double set of parents. were: Henry Ladd Carver, who served under Gen. Sibley, of Sibley tent fame, in the Indian war of 1860, and was breveted Capt. and Quarter Master, U. S. A. He also be- ing a regular, served to the end of the Civil War. He died in 1894, is buried at St. Paul. Edward one of the younger sons, served in the Ioth Wis., was taken prisoner at Chickamauga. and was in Andersonville several months. He lives at Tomson Falls, Mont., Charles P. Carver married MI. J. Baylor, and lived many years at St. Augustine in one of the most ancient houses of that first southern settlement. where he died. Albert S., died in Wisconsin in 1890 Frederick Carver, whose musical voice, and handsome face most of us in Nunda remember so well, has a home at Fruithurst, Ala. Mary Carver Barker, lives in Rochester, N. Y. Jennie Carver Hubbell, writes from Elkhorn, Wis., and tells the writer all of this, but the praises of Fred which the writer adds as a part of the Auld Lang Syne of which the younger Carvers formed a part.
1827-THE MORSE FAMILY
Doctor D. Morse ( Doctor was simply his Christian name) was a farmer on the State Road. He was born 1784 and died 1855. Pearl, wife of D. D. Morse, died 1834.
II. D. D. Morse. Jr., a wagon maker. State Street, wife, Susan ; a sister married Lewis Tuthill. when quite elderly. Mrs. Tuthill died. aged 90.
Truman Morse, married Jane E. Eames. Mrs. Truman Morse. an excel- lent nurse, came from the west to care for her aged sister-in-law, but died in 1888, age 69, while Mrs. Tuthill survived her feeble brother and his younger wife. The family of B. A. Rinevault, then cared for the old lady till she died. Hiram Morse, born 1806, who remained on the farm, died in 1890, age 84.
IV. Allie Morsc, single, lives on the homestead.
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A STORY WITH A LEGAL MORAL
At one time D. D. Morse, Jr .. was in partnership with D. P. Bard of musi- cal fame, he got vexed at Prof. Bard, and told him he would kick him for two cents. The musical man handed his partner the specified sum, the kick was administered, when Bard went for a warrant for Morse for assault and bat- tery. The Justice heard the story but told the "battered" man he had no cause for action as he had hired the man to kick him. The moral to this story is, when: you need kicking, kick yourself, don't hire any one else to kick you.
THE BURGESS FAMILY
Came to Nunda in 1828 and bought the farm of Amos Rice, brother of Elijah Rice. Mr. Burgess, was a pioneer teacher of District Schools. He became County Superintendent of Schools (Alg. Co.) He was a prominent Presbyterian.
I. Abraham Burgess. married Mrs. Sarah Moreton. Mrs. Burgess was 97 when she died.
II. * Seneca Burgess. veteran ; Solon Burgess, teacher: * Imogene Bur- gess, teacher, married Jonathan Dake ( see Dake family) ; Teressa, married Hoppin ; Isaac. married Adelaide Lamb: * Louise. teacher, died young ; Frank a teacher of merit went west, became School Superintendent. Family went west about war times.
THE HITCHCOCK FAMILY
I. Merritt and Sophronia Hitchcock.
II. Joseph, Lieut. Ist Vet. Cavalry; Julius; Ella, married W. H. Paine (see illustrations Civil List ).
Nathaniel Bacon and his brother Asa settled in Chautauqua Hollow, about 1832. They afterward moved into a log house near Tuscarora about 1852: here the entire family had the small pox. Dr. Meechem attended them, they all lived, but were much disfigured by the disease. The family were zealous Meth- odists of the primitive order and several of their sons, without special prepara- tion became preachers or exhorters. The family came to the village of Nunda for its school advantages and remained there several years. The youngest son, Gardner, whose eyes were never very good, after having the small pox. en- listed in the 33rd Regt .. and died of sun stroke. He was the first soldier from Nunda to die in the service.
I. I. Nathaniel and Mrs. Achsah Terry Bacon.
II. Volney, married Mercy Jane Hay : * Aurilla. died aged 19; Otis. mar- ried Saffard: Elisha. married --- Knights, sister of Needham and of Mrs. Long : Daniel, married in Nunda, - Cochrane: Louise: Helen, died single ; Clarissa, married John A. Wright, son of Bela W .; Amelia: Gar- dner, a veteran, died 1862: Sarah, married J. George of Ridge, N. Y.
I. 2. Asa Bacon, married Chloe White; George Bacon, married Press ; James Bacon.
1825-THE BRADLEYS
Samuel and Bethuel. (brothers).
I. I. Samuel, born 1764, died 1843, buried in Oakwood Cemetery.
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I. I. Bethuel, wife Rosanna.
II. I. Josiah. born 1801, farmer, died 1855, aged 54, buried in Oakwood. married Emily Page, a teacher. born 1809, died 1860, buried in Oakwood; 2. Hugh married Iliza Morey. born 1803, died May, 1861.
III. Children of Josiah: 1. Maria; 2. Louise, born 1838. died 1861 ; 3. Alvaro, died age 21 : 1. James: 5. Mary
Children of Hugh : I. Miles ; 2. Hugh, if living at least 75 years of age ; 3. Eliza ; 4. Jane.
Daniel Hamilton. buried in Nunda, Mrs. David Hamilton, 'buried in Hunt's Hollow ; Jonathan Hamilton, brother of Lee Hamilton, married Helena Huggins, sister of William and Ira Huggins, lived in Nunda after 1825: * Ed- win Mortimer, Co. I. 136th N. Y., died at Dalton, married Sarah Dunn, had several sons ; Charles H. Hamilton, married *Harriet Hagadorn, buried in Oak- wood Cemetery, they had sons and daughters; Mrs. C. H. Hamilton was sister to Chauncey, John and James Hagadorn, the last named were soldiers, all buried at Nunda, they were the children of Jonathan and Effy Hagadorn. Mt. Mor- ris ; Daniel Hamilton at the age of 16, served as cow boy in the Revolutionary War, was employed, but not enlisted, he was not therefore a pensioner.
SETTLED IN 1825
Alfred Goldthwait. farmer East Hill. married Caroline Fuller (daughter of Joshua ).
II. 1. Gilbert N., married Mary Hunt, he died April, 1908.
II. 2. Helen. married I *George W. Fuller of East Hill, Nunda (not a relative ) ; 2 *George Breen : 3 *William Close ( veteran 136th N. Y.) of Nunda. III. Children of G. W. Fuller and Helen: William and Caroline Ful- ier ; of Mr. and Mrs. Breen, I - 2 3. Walter.
II. 3. * Norton S. (veteran Civil War) farmer, married Jane Seagers. Children :
III. I. Jerome, farmer : 2. * Adelbert, farmer, died 1907.
II. 4. Milo S., ex-merchant, commercial traveler, veteran Civil War, re- sides Nunda, married Elizabeth Mills, daughter of *George Mills, stock buyer. ยท Children :
III. I. Howard, resides Brooklyn: 2. Bessie, trained nurse, Nunda.
II. 5. Harriet married Robert Craig of Nunda, resides in Canasaraga.
Children: 1. James. 2. Bessie. 3. Grace.
VELEY. 1.
Barney Veley, pioneer. Creek Road near Nunda village, Mrs. Veley.
I. Rosanna, and 2 Morgan. .
CHAPTER XV. DALTON AND GROVE BOUNDARY.
I. Adam Snyder. (Snyder settlement) and Mrs. Snyder. Their children : II. David Sr., married - - Hyde: Hanna, married I Daniel Smith, 2 Edward Bush, 3 Simon Sphoon ; Sally Ann, married *Matt Jackson, Albert Remington . Sarah Jane, married 1. * Henderson Morrison, 2 *William Bat- terson.
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III. Rose Morris, married 1, Arthur Fuller, 2 ( Lawyer) Evans, Athens, Pennsylvania.
II. William, married Mary Miller.
II. Julia, married Edward Newman; Mary Snyder, married *Abram Foland, who died in the service; * Hinman; Lucetta Christine, married Alonzo Davidson, she was drowned in a cistern, at Canisteo.
1824
I. Jacob Goodamont, a veteran of the War of 1812, lived in Snyder set- tlement, Mrs. Goodamont died many years before her husband, both buried at Snyder.
Children : I. * Isaac Goodamont, married Mary J. Burdick, she married. second, G. W. Smith, veteran : 2. * Jacob, a bachelor : 3. Catharine, married James Storks, of Nunda: 4. Christina, married Mordacai Merithew, son of Hiram of Nunda ; 5. Cornelius, married Elvira Town, died 1898.
SHERMAN LINDSLEY
Once a thrifty farmer, moved into the village, kept a temperance saloon, became the Angelica and Nanda mail carrier, developed insanity. To make his vehicle vibrate less, he carried a huge stone around over the entire route. He was an enthusiast in the prayer circle and had to be checked sometimes for excessive emotionalism. He married, his wife survives him. It is possible. his unbalanced mind was due to peculiarities of his parents. His father being emotional, and his mother went to the opposite extreme, gave heroic treatment to her prayerfui husband, upsetting him, as well as his peace, and making his journey heavenward, "a hard road to travel." Probably the wife of Socrates, or of John Wesley, could have given old Mrs. Lindsley a few points, but it is not probable she needed any instruction.
The other children of the household fortunately did not share in poor Sher- man's peculiarities. they were all level headed.
2. Olmstead, married (in the west) ; 3, *William Lindsley, married *Amelia Rawson; one son, named for his father, survives.
II. 4. * Mary Lindsley, died single.
EWART FAMILY-OF SCOTCH-IRISH ORIGIN-ANOTHER CENTENARIAN
I. George Ewart. born in Ireland, settled in 1828, married Susanna Lemen; 2. Mary Ewart, married L. L. Rathbone, resided in Angelica. L. L. Rathbone, Assemblyman, represented our County, Allegany , in 1824-5: 3. Nancy Ewart, married Leonard Marshall, an uncle of Rev. James Marshall, D. D., President Coe College: 4. * Rachel Ewart. born 1806, married Aaron P. Day, born 1808, a farmer, one of L. Ayrault's principal produce buyers, died January 1, 1885.
III. * William E. Day. born 1834 in Birdsall, married 1, *Selura M. Whit- ney ; 2, Mattie Miller. W. E. Day, moved to Missouri, dropped dead from heart trouble, in 1900.
2. Susan Electa Day. born 1835, a retired milliner, (single), Dalton, N. Y.
Note .- A lady with a marvellous memory of individuals and of dates, to whom the author is greatly indebted.
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III. 3. Mary N. Day, born March 21, 1838, married Edgar S. Pettys.
IV. I. Cora A. Pettys, born 1859, married Alfred L. Augustus, foreman Construction Work, when the Erie R. R. was double tracked ; 2. Will E. Pettys, married Clella .\. Lowell.
II. Margaret, married (43), Thomas Fuller, moved to Genesee Co., Mich.
II. Martha Ewart, born 1810, married Andrew Hill ( see Thomas Hill family.)
II. Hugh Ewart, married Mary L. Hill.
III. James Ewart, married Elizabeth Preston; Helen, married James Babcock; Victorine, married Frank Christopher ; George, single.
1827-HILL AND EWARTS
*Thomas Hill ( a surveyor, Holland Purchase) married Susan McEarl.
Note :- When Mrs. Hill was living on Holland Purchase, far in advance of the frontier settlement, being lonesome while her husband was away with the Ellicotts surveying. she saw what she supposed to be a black pig and fed it daily. It proved to be a young, black bear, but it served to break the mono- tony of her days of solitude. It seems that this botancial doctress was a better judge of medicinal plants, than of animals. "Better than half the male doctors of that early day, was Aunt Susan Hill."
II. I. Mary Lemira Hill, born July, 1805, married *Hugh Ewart, great grandson of Hugh Lemen of Ontario County. This Centenarian of this sec- tion died while on a visit to Canaseraga, February 8, 1907, in her 102nd year.
III. 2. George, grandson: Mrs. Ewart lived on Mill Street with her grandson, George, a few years ago.
II. 2. Andrew Hill, Pioneer of Grove-Nunda, 1827, afterward of Port- age, afterward again of Nunda, married Martha Ewart.
III. I. Dr. Hugh Hill. born April 16. 1836, married Mrs. Mary Foland : 2. Slyvia Haight of Swains. Sons of Dr. Hill: 1. Guy W., born 1880; 2. Ward L., born 1884.
III. 2. Harlan Hill, born 1840, was Sheriff of Livingston County.
I. William Hill : 2. Mercy Hill, married Doyle ; 3. Maria Hill; 4. Fanny Hill, married Henry Bisbee.
1825-AMES FAMILY
I. Rufus R. Ames, Mrs. Ames. Children :
II. Levi, Eliza Ann Starks.
III. John Ames: George: Delivan ; * Charles ; Jane, married Wirt : Celia, married Thomas Parker : Henry, married -Boardman : Olive, mar- ried Frank Steward, who has two children.
DANIEL AMES FAMILY
I. Daniel Ames, married Jane Rowley; Mrs. Ames, married second, Syl- vester Ames.
II. Albert Ames, married - - Hill.
II. Ruth Ann Ames, married Richard Warren; Louisa Ames, single ; Joanna, married *Hiram Rowley: #Mary, married William P. Thompson, ( see Thompson family ). * Elisha, died in the service.
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1824-THE BOLSTERS
This pioneer family settled near the Snyder Settlement. Mirth, eccentric- ity and pathos often blend in local history, that records "The short and simple annals of the poor."
Richard Bolster, and Mrs. Bolster had but two children, John and Phebe.
Jolin was not scholarly, Phebe tried to be, and succeeded in getting a Sum- mer School with no large scholars. Some one asked John if Phebe was at home, he replied, "No she is tautin school, and if she likes tautin, she will taught riglit along." After this there were many others who. asked the same question.
Another story told of poor John was, that he wanted a tooth pulled. but did not want to pay for the pulling of it, so he hailed the doctor daily as he passed along, asking. "How much would you tax me for pulling out a tooth?" After the doctor had stated his price on several occasions he became annoyed, at being stopped daily, so he told him he would pull it for nothing. John con- sented to this liberal proposition, and the doctor procured an old discarded set of turnkeys, partially pulled the tooth. let the turnkey slip and tried and retried. till poor John was nearly frantic with pain. then he finished the job and told John, it was the worst job he ever had. and he didn't want another like it.
When the work commenced on the Deep Cut excavation, John was em- ployed there and was the first to lose his life in that gigantic enterprise.
Phebe not only taught school, but liked "taughting" so well she took a school of one scholar and became Mrs. Austin Holliday. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Holliday were. Clark and Clarissa Holliday, who no doubt becanie teachers and enjoyed "teaching."
1827-SPHOON FAMILY
I. Simon Sphoon, pioneer. married Nancy Passage.
II. I. * George A. Sphoon ( was killed in the war).
I. Mercy Jane Blowers, who married Henry Fox, for her second husband.
II. 4. Amanda Sphoon, married I John Woodard ; 2 - Smock. Their children :
III. Rastus Woodard, died in the Navy, was sent home with an escort, and high commendations : Jessie ; George Woodard.
Children of George. I and, 2. Rennie and Glenny, (twins), reside Perry, N. Y .; 3. Alfred: 4. Carrie.
I. Children of George ( II. I) Sphoon.
I. William A. Sphoen, married Elsie Fay, photographer at Nunda, ( see Baldwin and Lowell Families) : 2. Hattie, married Charles Fuller ; 3. Eva Ann, married Mordacai Blowers.
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