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II. 4. Martha Sphoon, married #Adrian Rathbun, veteran, resides Oak- land, N. Y.
II. 5. Emma, married J. Campbell Walker (see Walker family).
Children of William A. and Elise Fay Sphoon.
IV. I. Charles Sphoon (teacher) Principal, Tonawanda; 2. Wells A. Sphoon, married Charlotte Waters.
The widow Woodard, married second, Smock : Cordelia Woodard. married John Merithew ( see Merithew family) ; Louise Woodard, single ; Rus- sell, single: William M .; * John married Amanda Sphoon; half brother Oliver Smock.
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LOCKWOOD, PIONEER
Settled Nunda 1826 ( Lot 105), died of cholera 1852.
I. Michael Lockwood, married Salina Nash, sister of Alfred Nash.
II. I. George, married Julia Cleveland ; Catharine, married William Haines : Clarinda, single : Johanna ; Harriet, married --- Combs ; Alva Lock- wood, single.
HAINES
I. James Haines and wife, children :
II. I. William Haines, married Catharine Lockwood.
III. Son Henry W., Nunda; 2. Mary ( *Mrs. Gage) ; 3. * Henry Thomas Haines, (produce buyer ), married Catharine McLane, son, Arthur Haines, N. Y. City ; 4. George ; 5. Phebe.
JOHN WAGOR FAMILY
Farmer and Mechanic. Lot 111, married Melissa E. Johnson.
II. I. Franklin, married Mary Barnes; 2. * Johnson (veteran), married in Iowa, died in 1905: 3. * Bernard, a carpenter, married *Ellen Geer, buried at Oakwood.
Mrs. Wagor married second. Havillah Brewer. Children :
IV. Walter Wagor, married Cora Gordon.
Their children: V. Robert and Frank.
Son of Havillah Brewer. * Clark R. (merchant ). Hunt's, married Lizzie Whittaker, C. R. B., died in Colorado of consumption.
II. Mary Wagor, married Luman Brace. I. Louise Brace. married George P. Bond, daughter Onolee Bond; 2. Eva Dot, married Edward Laughlin : 3. Leo DeForest Brace married (elsewhere).
1825 AND 1827-THE RICE FAMILIES
Amos Rice took up a farm No. 100, and lived there several years, he in- duced his brother Elijah to come west and purchase a farm next to his own. He did so, but a year after. Amos and family moved away.
I. I. Amos Rice. Mrs. Anna Rice: sold farm to Abraham Burgess, 1828. Children :
II. I. * Erastus : 2. Alanson, 91 years of age is living: 3. * Aamanda: 1. *William : 5. Esther, in her 85th year : 6. Mary Ann, in her 83rd year : 7. * Ed- win ; 8. * George ; 9. * Marana.
1827. I. 2. Elijah Rice. Mrs. Rice. Children :
II. I. * Samantha, married William D. Paine, millwright. (see Paine family) ; 2. * Diantha, married Jonas Warren, (see Warren family ) ; 3. Zervia (single ). has lived on the same farm eighty years: 4. * Alvin, bachelor; 5. Anna, married Holland ; Zervia alone survives. The Rice family were Presbyterians.
1825-THOMAS DUNN FAMILY-A FAMILY DESCENDED FROM A CENTENARIAN
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Katyann Clarissa Dunn, was born in England in 1753, died in Nunda 1857. age 104 years.
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I. Nathaniel Dunn (half brother to Thonias ), born 1768, died 1849; 2. Leonard Dunn, brother to Thomas, born 1783, died 1866; 3. Thomas Dunn, born in New Jersey, 1794, died 1876.
Thomas Dunn Family settled in 1825, married Anna Bark. Children of Thomas :
III I. * Sarah Ann, born 1822, married I *Henry Miles, 2 *Levi Boone ; Sarah Ann, died 1900: 2. Selina, born 1826, married 1854, *Eliphalit Doane; 3. Elijah, born 1831, married 1861. * Louisa Marshall, Elijah Doane, died 1907: 4. Jane M., born 1834, married 1854, 1 #Wellington Guy, 2 William Wood; Jane M., died 1905: 5. Albert M., born 1836, married 1864, Sarah Armilla Gearhart, daughter of George Gearhart. Jr .: 6. * Mary E., born 1839, married 1856, *Amos B. Eldridge ; Mary E., died 1898; 7. Christopher A., born 1842, single.
IV. Children of Salina Doane: Myron E. Doane, unmarried ; S. LaFay- ette Doane, married, lives in the West; Mary E. Doane, married Charles Kline ; Jennie M. Doane.
Son of Elisha and Louisa Dunn : Marshall Dunn.
Children of Jane and Wellington Guy: Edward E. Guy, married Mary Hark : Nellie M. Guy, married Harry J. Stuart.
Children of Albert and S. Armilla Dunn : Fred E. Dunn, unmarried ; Bert E. Dunn, married Lulu Sokup, resides in Chicago, Ill.
Children of Mary and Amos Eldridge: * Samuel C. Eldridge, married ; *Carrie M. Eldridge, married Milo S. Lowell.
I. * Hiram Merithew settled on Lot 65, married ( first ) Lydia McKenney, (second), Laura Bailey, first white child born in Grove-Nunda, January 26, 1820, who died 1907.
II. 1. Mordecai, married Christina Goodamont, of Nunda.
III. 1. Sarah, married Silas Wicks, of Canaseraga; 2. Ella, married William Couter ; 3. Lydia, married Miller ; 4. Emma, married Whipple.
II. 2. Sarah, married Lewis Wetherley. .
II. 3. Lodiska, married Josiah Yencer.
III. Charlotte Yencer, married Charles Criddle. Children :
IV. I. May Criddle, married Manley Stevens ( daughter, \. Charlotte Ruth Stevens ) : 2. Belle Criddle.
III. 2. Ambrose Vencer (Company F. 136th New York), killed.
III. 3. Flora Yencer. married Charles Beardsley ; sons :
IV. I. Joseph, 2. Elmer, 3. Clarence, and 4. Charles Beardsley.
III. 4. Emory Yencer, married Emma Steih of Grove; sons : IV. I. Lloyd, 2. Floyd.
III. 5. George Vencer, married Ella Maybee ('. * Lottie, age 16, Jen- nie ) : 6. Morgan, married in New Jersey : 7. William Vencer.
I. 3. Lucy Merithew, married Jolin Miller ; 4. Achsah, married Samuel Jones : 5. Jane, married Friend Scott.
11. 6. Hliram, married Jane Barnes, died. 1907.
Children of lliram and Laura Bailey Merithew :
11. 7. Seneca Merithew, married ( first ) Town: (second) Post : Dalton.
II. 8. Willis ( bachelor). R. F. D. Portage.
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1. 2. John Merithew, brother of Hiram, Sr., married (first) * Woodard, (second) Mrs. ----- Elwell. He was killed in a saw mill in S. E. Nunda.
Children :
II. 1. Maria, ( Mrs. Randall).
II. 2. Martha, married ( first) *Simpson Colton, died at Dalton ; (second) Hemingway Tyler.
III. Grace, Mrs. Brownell; Mary, married *Ernest Wilson, lives at Barkertown ; John, married Grimes ; Harry (at home).
II. 3. Clara Merithew. married - Thompson. Children of Mrs. Elwell : Willis Elwell : Ada Elwell, Canaseraga.
I. 3. Philander, married Lydia Vencer.
II. I. Euphenna, married Knowles.
II. 2. Hiram ( veteran), married Adelia Hiram Merithew was killed by falling down the stairs of the Annex, Livingston Block, 1905; Philander, Jr. (veteran), lived in Michigan; * Laura; * Lucy; Belle, married (first) - - Clark; (second) -Piper.
Josiah Smith family, settled next to the Grove line, sold farm to John Kelly.
II. I. Daniel Smith, married Hannah Snyder.
II. 2. Henry Smith, married (first) Fanny Swift. (second) Mrs.
Hinman Nolan, sister to Alexander Hinman. Children :
III. Melissa, married Joseph Guptill (veteran) ; Emily, married George Wheeler.
II. 3. Josiah, married Burge ; 4. Benjamin, single ; 5. Lucy, mar- ried Thomas G. Lockwood : 6. Sarah, married Benjamin Aldrich : 7. Jane, married Jacob Warner ; 8. Eunice, married Timothy Mabie ; 9. Eliza, mar- ried Armenian Bibbins, son, George Bibbins.
Children of Sarah ( Smith ) Aldrich : Alphonso, a Lieutenant, Civil War. married Mary Beech of Oakland ; Mary Jane, married (first) Ovid Wheeler, (second) Havens ; Milan (veteran ), married Mary Cook.
Children of Lucy ( Smith) Lockwood: George M. Lockwood, veteran, chief clerk, Interior Department, Pension and Real Estate Agency, Washing- ton, D. C .; * Sarah, teacher and artist, single. died ; * Lias, teacher, Department Clerk in New York City : Frances Winifred, married Harry J. Decker, Depart- ment Clerk, Washington and elsewhere, son of Rev. Wm. P. Decker.
POST OFFICE AT EAST HILL-THE ROBINSONS
About the year 1831 a post office was established at East Hill, simultane- ously with the change of the post office from Wilcox Corners, to Nunda. The latter was called Nunda Valley.
William Robinson and his son, Rufus, were the only postmasters. The office was discontinued in 1860. The sons of William Robinson, Leonard and Rufus, the latter but fifteen years of age. carried the mails on foot from Nunda to Dansville, via East Hill, and from Dansville to Nunda. This office served also for a part of the town of Ossian. It was afterward moved across the town line into the Bisbee Settlement. and called Bisbee. It is now known as West View.
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William Robinson and his wife, Marion Caswell, and their three children settled on East Hill not far from the Ossian boundary. There were only blazed bridle paths at the time. Their neighbors were the Coys, the Austins and the Walsworths. The children were Leonard, Rufus and Sophia. Rufus, who afterward lived in this village, was but fourteen years of age. Leonard was older.
II. I. Leonard, married Eunice Walsworth. Children of Leonard and Eunice Walsworth Robinson: Walter, a veteran of the Civil War; Pauline, a lecturer and elocutionist : Jane, Mrs. Gammon ; Daniel, killed in the Civil War; Louise, married Jolin Colar of Dansville, who died in 1908, aged 83.
II. 2. Sophia Robinson, married Signor.
II. 3. Rufus Robinson. born in 1817. married Sarah Walker, born in 1821, who at this time is living but in feeble health, with her youngest son. Frank E. Their children were seven in number: William, married Hannah McMillan ; George, married Esther Moore; Franklin, died at the age of 17; Edward, married Sarah Beecher : Emma, married William L. Brown; Her- bert, married Alice Armstrong; and Frank E. Robinson, married Hattie Her- rington, and lives in this village. For the last few years he has been in the furniture and undertaking business. His widowed mother lives with him. He has a son and a daughter. Ralph (grad. N. H. S. in 1908.)
THE COYS
*John and *Jane Coy were doubtless early settlers on the Hill, as they were buried at Wilcox Corners, which indicates that there was the principal burying place at the time of their death.
Their children: 1. * Harvey: 2. * Elma: 3. * Calista ; 4. * Joyce, married M. Reichard ; 5. * Hoel. bachelor, died 1906: 6. Sally, single.
The farm is still in possession of the family. Sally is the only survivor.
WALSWORTH
I. Avery Walsworth (veteran, 1812).
II. Daniel (was eighteen when he came to Nunda), married Sarah Reichard ; Nancy, married Gammon : Eunice. married Leonard Robin- son ; Abigail, married Charles King : Sherlock, married.
Children of Daniel and Sarah: Anna, married Thomas Keating; John, married Elizabeth Juggard : Daniel Avery. married Henriette Woolworth, Rawson Street, Nunda. have daughter and son.
Children of Eunice and L. Robinson: * Walter Robinson, veteran of Civil War; Pauline Robinson, a lecturer and elocutionist ; Jane, married
Gammon ; * Daniel Robinson. killed in the Civil War : Louise (single ).
Children of Abigail and Charles King (see Amos King family).
THE RULISONS-CHITTENDEN FAMILY, NEAR EAST HILL POST OFFICE-1830
I. John and Mrs. Rulison. Children :
II. Mercy Ann, married Alonzo Veeley, son of Barney V. Veeley ; Maria, married William Consalus; Betsey, married Harvey Chittenden ; John, mar- ried - - Booth: Charles, married - - Mosher ; Emily, married (first) Torrey Smith, (second) Amos King.
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Children of Harvey Chittenden :
I. Oscar, clerk for Paine Bros., clerk for produce buyers, T. J. Batterson & Co., married - Angier ; 2. Edgar, married (first) Laura Farnsworth. (second) Anice Farnsworth.
Children of Edgar and Laura: Frank B., married (first) Carrie Paine. daughter of Wells Paine, (second) Mary Searles. Children of Frank and Carrie : Harry and Florence.
Wells Chittenden, married; Charles, married Loup, also three sisters of Oscar and Edward; Mary Chittenden, married A. B. Dunn, School Commissioner ; Aline, married Emory Booth, Springwater; Laura, married Wellington Walker.
1829
Henry Chandler, Mrs. Sally Chandler. Melancy, married Philip DePuy, uncle to Peter ; Eunice died when a young lady ; Rufus, born in Nunda, 1822. enlisted and died in the service, 1864, aged 41, married Electa Frost, left one daughter ; Sarah, married Joshua Pittenger : Jane, married Byron Seelye.
I. Amos King, farmer near Ossian line, married Rulison. Chil- dren :
II. Charles King, married Abigail Walsworth, and while he was de- spondent, suicided. Mrs. King wandered away, and was never found.
III. I. Eli H. King enlisted in Company I Dragoons, received an injury that led to his discharge. He married Eleanor Alvard, daughter of Simeon : his daughter. (IV.) Anna, married Howard Dana, formerly of Nunda. They have two sons. Eli H. King, died January 2, 1908, and is buried at Nunda. 2. Sylvenus King a cousin of Sylvenus Ellis, married Spencer, resides in Nunda.
II. 2. Henry King, married Lemira Hay, daughter of Warren Hay of Nunda. Daughters (III.) 1. Della King ( Mrs. Robert Holmes) ; 2. King, Mrs. Hay.
IV. Belle Holmes, married Harry Kellogg; Clarence Holmes, married Kate Marsh ; Grace Holmes, single.
II. 3. Eliza King, married Wesley Ellis (see Ellis family). Wesley Ellis. married Eliza King; * Sylvanus Ellis, A. M., Superintendent of Schools. Rochester, ( see College List for Nunda) ; married *Sarah Manette Peck, teacher of District Schools in Nunda; Mary Ellis, married Michael Mundy ; Clarissa, married James Norris, veteran ; Rachel.
1831-JOHN CLOSE FAMILY-FARMER AND SHOEMAKER, 86 ACRES
I. John Close, born in Pennsylvania 1804. married in 1827 (first) Re- becca VanDyke, born Eagle-Nunda 1808 and died September 28, 1863, chil- dren nine ; married (second ) in 1869 A. -- Hynes, born Livingston County 1812. Their children :
II. I. Sarah A .; 2. Mary E .: 3. William A., born 1833. a good soldier. married Catherine Boyd, born in Cayuga County 1836 ( married 1857), enlisted in Company I, 136th New York, 1862, wounded, served term of enlistment. married (second) Mrs. Helen Goldthwait-Fuller-Breen (see 136th Regiment), buried at Oakwood. His children :
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III. Harriet A .; David L., born 1867; Katie R.
II. 4. Eleanor, married Henry K. Havens, veteran, 136th Regiment, died 1907, aged 79; Richmond Havens, married Mertis Fay, (second) Mary Clos- ser ; William, married Mariam Fay; Clayton Havens, married; Georgia Hav- ens, daughter of William, married Charles Rathbon; Edith Havens, daughter of Richmond (a member of family).
JOHN AUSTIN FAMILY
It is not known if this family are descendants of the Austins of the first decade of settlement or not ; their location would indicate that they are. The family were patriots during the Civil War, for four of their sons were in the service. The children's names were: Albert, George, Benjamin, Church (be- came a clergyman), Silas, Miranda and Almira.
THE WALSWORTH-WOOLWORTH FAMILY-ESTIMATED TIME OF SETTLEMENT 1831
The heads of these families were veterans of former wars. The Wals- worths settled in Nunda ; the Woolworths, across the line in Ossian. The pioneer Woolworth father was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, and the pioneer Walsworth of the war of 1812-14.
I. Avery Walsworth, veteran, married Anna Brown.
II. Daniel (eighteen when he came to Nunda), married Sarah Reichard ; Nancy, married Gammon ; Eunice, married Leonard Robinson, son of William, pioneer, brother of Rufus; Abigail, married Charles King (see Amos King and family ) : Sherlock, married elsewhere.
Children of Daniel, Sr. and Sarah (R) Walsworth:
III. Anna, married Thomas Keating; John, married Elizabeth Jaggard ; Daniel, Jr., married Henrietta Woolworth. This family live in Nunda village ; they have a son and a daughter.
CHAPTER XVI.
OUR THIRD DECADE, 1828-1838-STORES. STREETS AND CANAL MAKING, WITH MORE SETTLERS. .
A S our first decade of our first town of Nunda inaugurated log school houses, saw mills and asheries; and the second town and decade, grist mills and tanneries, and river navigation from the vicinity now known as Portage, so the third town with its circumscribed boundaries inaugurated during the first part of the third decade, a village of stores with two church edifices. The latter half may be called Canal days, when the longest branch of the Erie Canal was to be constructed. This brought into prominence a class of energetic men, known as contractors, and the building of locks, bridges and excavations of a canal channel of ordinary depth, and the Deep Cut (extraor- (inary-through a hill), and the tunneling through Portage rock and shale for a channel for a tunnel, inaugurated an enterprise greater than any the State had ever engaged in. The forests of Allegany were calling to the City
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SAMUEL SWAIN, JR. Pioneer Merchant
HIRAM C. GROVER Pioneer Merchant
UTLEY SPENCER, EsQ. Merchant and Postmaster
WALTER WHITCOMB Born 1808
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by the Sea to come and possess their treasure if they could transport it. The Legislature heard this "Call of the Wilderness," voiced by the representatives of Cattaraugus, Allegany, Livingston and Genesee Counties, and the ready response from the Hudson to Manhattan, and the decision to do this strenuous task, let it cost what it would, was pronounced and decisive, and a survey was made from Rochester to Olean.
The proclamation having been made that this was to be, and that farmers and lumbermen along the entire length of the Genesee were to have a means of supplying a long felt want in the East, from out the abundance of the West, led to a speedy settlement of the available lands, especially on heavy timber lands, and the eastern forests of the town found rapid settlement.
1828
Some of the settlers of this year it is more difficult to name. In and near the village were, first of all, an accession from Oakland of the Swains, Blanch- ard, J. H. Osgoodby, from Oak Hill of the widow of Jesse Adams and Utley Spencer, of Rev. Elijah Bennett's family, and the same year Lyman Herrick and some of the Dakes. Others who settled on farms were Wilson Roberts, Stephen Haynes, William Stephenson, William Hoyt, Jonas Ructer, Dr. Barnabas Wright, Henry Townsend, and the widow Smith, the last in the village ; also Warren Daniels, the cloth dresser from Oakland, and Allen Beech, on the county line.
THE SWAINS
The narrative of the coming of this family by team from their far eastern home I have seen and read. It was written down from the statement of Alfred Swain. They came with a team, and brought with them a cow. The cow would, after a few days of their journey. feed along the way, then come on and rejoin the family without any driver or driving. This was very pleasing, and saved the boys many long walks. The oldest son, if born in 1804, was fourteen and the youngest four or five. At night the parents would get per- mission to spread their bed on the floor of some pioneer, or at some inn, while the five boys slept in the wagon or on some hay loft. After many days' jour- ney they arrived by the river road to Nunda. Oak Hill, near or at the Latham Coffin farm. Here a squatter, one of the MeNutt's, was, by the owner of the premises, made to give up his cabin to the new comers; and here life com- menced anew under many trials. First of all their trials they found that they had only $5 of money left. and. to add to their tribulations, the main source of their food supply gave out, the faithful cow having died. She had won all their hearts by her fidelity to the traveling household, and there were more besides young Jamie who shed tears over her sad fate.
What in this day would a homeless family of seven, with only a team and the few articles that could be carried in a wagon along with seven persons, do? Well I expect conditions have changed. There were axes and a gun, and every one of that household was ready to do his part. The writer does not know what they did first; but one day in 1818 the two Samuels took a gun --- may be two of them-and tramped through the woods from old Onondao, to what is now Nunda village, an uninhabited place. and there. where the Truth office now stands, and where the Eagle Hotel barn once stood, Samuel, Sr.,
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shot a bear : and down by the Mill Street bridge-the first one-a deer had come for drink. and that also was killed, so there was no scarcity of meat in that household for many days to come. A Mr. Lane of Hume-Nunda, a cousin, supplied the money to start business, and a saw mill was erected where a small stream furnished water power, and business commenced in earnest. The stream, however, proved inadequate in summer, and the family came, a few years afterward, to Oakland. and built a small frame house on the very spot where the Edgerley place is to-day. David Edgerley, who knew these people, came to see them, and fancying the place with its new frame house, bought it, and the Swains moved to the Orton farm, and bought it, too. How could $5 have added two ciphers to it in so short a time? In ten years from the time they landed at Oak Hill they had grown from poverty to a comfort- able competence, and the older boys to men, and when they arrived at Nunda they were ready for business. Where had they gained the money to build and equip a grist mill? By carrying his goods by water to a good market. The market would not come to him so he went with his goods to the market. Samuel, Sr., was one of those who took the Genesee by the throat and made it carry his lumber to the Erie Canal without paying it or any one a cent of toll.
Do you find the story of all pioneers alike? There are those whose energy fund is so large that it bridges all chasms of difficulty and seizes opportunity by the forelock and makes it junior partner in successful enterprises.
Is pioneer history dull? It would be if all of the pioneers were patient plodders, gathering moss along the same ruts or routine of life. But some rolling stones roll up success in large wads and take the chances on its adhesive qualities. And when it was rumored that the Swains were going to use the Keshequa and make it turn the big wheels of a grist mill, there was big joy in the little village, for a grist mill was a recognized necessity.
We will let imagination have her innings as to the welcome these win- ners of former success received.
The writer is of the opinion that the big six-fold family of Samuel Swain, Sr., was, from 1828 to 1830; the most useful family that made Nunda for those years expand like a green bay tree.
There is nothing like a grist mill in a new community to encourage agri- culture. So well was this known that the Land Agents, like Williamson and the Wadsworths, built them in various places. But Lindsay Joslyn and Samuel Swain, Sr., unaided by Judge Carroll, started this needed improve- ment. Why live in this annex to the richest valley then known of, and fail to utilize its advantages ?
THE SCHOOL HOUSE ON MILL STREET
The frame school house that served the growing village for the next seventeen years, though not fine in architecture or anything to boast of as to size, was a great improvement on the McSweeny log school house.
The Tobey grocery, with Yankee notions and possibly some of the loom productions of Mrs. Seth Barker and others, was a real improvement. Then Waite Joslyn got his leg crushed in a threshing machine and so a store had to be built for him. and L. Joslyn built the W. B. Whitcome store, and Riley Mer- rill built another. Samuel Swain, Jr., built the Durx building, and had a store
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and an ashery, and the writer has seen the books where he trusted out the goods. It would be mean to tell how inany of the very best meeting house people got trusted for something to use for medicine, or what rich people like Lewis Gould worked for $10 a month for this enterprising merchant.
At the imminent risk of filling his book full, the writer tries to name the members of the Swain family.
GENEALOGY OF THE SWAIN FAMILY
I. Samuel Swain, Sr., born 1778, died 1851, married Betsey Prescott, both buried in Oakwood.
Second Generation
II. Alfred, born 1804, married Gertrude Pittenger ; Samuel, Jr., married ( first) Cynthia Jefferies, (second ) Clara Jefferies, died 1885, aged 75; Edward, born 1808, married Almira Waite. daughter of John, manufacturer and super- visor ; David, born 1812, grist miller, died 1881, aged 69, married Malina Smith, the only living member of the six heads of families; James, a druggist and school-book and newsdealer, married Adeline E. T. Morrison, a teacher in the Nunda Literary Institute, and moved West. James Swain died at Fort Dodge, and Mrs. J. Swain at Odin, Ill.
Third Generation
Children of Alfred and Gertrude :
III. I. * Mary E .. born 1835, married *Orlando W. Barker, son of Seth ; 2. Harriet, married Alexander Thorp. (Captain Ist Dragoons, killed) ; 3. Sophia, married - Pittenger; 4. * Susan, married - - Van Alstine ; 5. Cornelia, married Scott Barriger, resides at Portage, N. Y .; 6. Jane, single. art teacher, Norfolk Seminary, North Carolina ; 7. Samuel A., married Van Ostrand; 8. W. Edward. married (second) - Veley, Grove, N. Y. 9. * Fred F., inventor of a lubricator that bears his name. He was shot by an employee, but not fatally.
The widow of Edward Swain married (second) Hon. Samuel Skinner. Children of Edward Swain :
III. I. Helen E., a talented musician, died young ; 2. Agnes Almira ; 3. Flora Estelle, married W. S. P. Mathews, a singing teacher ; 4. Septrina At- lanta : 5. Martha ; 6. John T .: James (married in the West).
II. * Samuel, Jr., married ( first) Cynthia Jefferies, (second) Clara Jef- feries (sisters). Children of Samuel and Cynthia :
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