Genealogical and family history of western New York; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume III, Part 66

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 598


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(VI) Cyrus Craine, son of Roger Craine. was born June 23. 1790, died in Groton, May 25. 1867. He was a farmer. He married Sarah Snow, born November 24, 1787, died in Groton, January 1, 1864. Children: Ed- gar, born August 15, 1813, went to Tennes- see ; Sarah Ann, March 25. 1815: Mary, March 27. 1817, died February 14. 1844: Ca- milla. December 27, 1818; Sybil Marilla, May 29. 1821 : Ruth Marilla, August 22, 1823; Cyrus S., mentioned below : Rosanna, March 26. 1827 : Henry Martyn, April 13, 1829.


(VII) Cyrus Snow Crain (as he spelled the name), son of Cyrus Craine, was born May 23. 1825. either in Ohio or in Groton, Tomp- kins county, New York, died in Harpersville, Broome county, New York, July 10, 1895. He received his education in the academy at Gro- ton, and then studied medicine. Later he studied for the ministry, and became a Bap- tist clergyman. He fought in the civil war. enlisting in the Forty-fourth New York, called "Ellsworth Avengers," as a private, but was appointed chaplain. He preached in the towns of Georgetown, Plymouth, Fabius, Del- phi, McDonough and Harpersville. He mar- ried ( first ). May 20, 1849, Merab Evaline, daughter of Stephen and Sally (Ives) Yale :


she died in 1862. He married (second), April 24, 1864, Mary Augusta, born in Guilford, New York, in 1841, died in 1897, daughter of Joseph and Susan R. (Myers) Lee. Chil- dren by first wife: Herman Leslie, born May 15. 1850, at Groton, lives in Upton, New York : Stephen B., April 7. 1854, lives in New Britain, New York. Children by second wife : Jessie A .. born June 29, 1865. married M. F. Marsh, of Nineveh, New York: Joseph Henry, mentioned below.


(VIII) Joseph Henry Crain, son of Cy- rus Snow Crain, was born in Georgetown, New York, January 22. 1870. He attended the public schools of Delphi and Plymouth, New York, and the high school in Oxford. He took the classical course in the State Nor- mal School at Oneonta, New York, and was graduated in the class of 1902 with one of the best records ever made in the school. He taught in the graded schools before attending the Normal school and afterward he became principal of the schools at Sharon Springs, New York, continuing from 1902 to 1906. In the latter year he came to Afton, New York, and became the owner and publisher of the Afton Enterprise, a weekly newspaper, which he successfully conducted until No- vember 1, 1911, when he sold it and purchased the Chronicle-Journal, at Franklinville. Cat- tarangus county, New York, and has since that time devoted his energies and talents to the management and editing of that journal. In politics he is a Republican. He is a mem- ber of Franklinville Lodge. No. 626, Free and Accepted Masons, Franklinville: Lodge No. 453. Independent Order of Odd Fellows : Henry Van Aernam Camp. No. 54. Sons of Veterans, and of the Baptist church.


He married, July 19. 1899, Nellie M. Skill- man. of Greene, New York, daughter of John C. and Mary ( Philley ) Skillman. Their chil- dren: Leonard Austin, born November 12, 1906: Margaret Lee, March 25, 1910: both were born at Afton.


Joshua Pratt, of an old New PRATT England family. was born in Connecticut, and lived at Pom- fret, Windham county, Connecticut, whence he removed to Truxton, Cortland county. New York. a pioneer of that town. He cleared a farm on which he resided the remainder of his life. Among his children was David, men- tioned below.


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(II) David, son of Joshua Pratt, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, in 1795, and died at Homer. New York, September 26, 1864. He came to Homer with Samuel Gregg. for whom he worked until the time of his mar- riage. Then he bought a tract of land, com- prising a hundred acres, a mile and a half north of the Gregg farm. Subsequently he sold this farm and bought another in Homer township, in the little valley lying between East and West River valleys. In 1839 he ex- changed his farm in Homer for a hundred and sixty acres of land in the forests of Mich- igan. For about fourteen years afterward he followed his trade as mason in Homer, and afterward removed to a small farm in the eastern part of Scott, New York. Soon after- ward, however, he removed to a farm of fifty acres near Little York, in Homer, and there spent his last years. In politics he was origi- nally a Whig, but when the Republican party was formed he joined it and continued to sup- port its principles and candidates as long as he lived. In religion he was a Presbyterian, a member of the church.


He married Electa Alexander, born 1801, died April 5. 1866, daughter of Leonard Alex- ander. a native of Vermont, who came to . East Homer, New York, in 1816, and engaged in farming. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt : I. Caroline E., married John Davenport, of Cayuga county, afterward of DuPage county, Illinois, and had one son, Homer A. 2. De- Witt Clinton : was a photographer, at Aurora, Illinois ; married Mary Burdick, of Scott, Cortland county, New York ; children : Flora, Eva, Fannie and Edmund. 3. Francis Nelson, a real estate dealer of Lake Forest, Lake county, Illinois ; married Emma U. Cowles, of Otisco, New York: children: Dora, Fannie and Charles. 4. Washington B., died in Napa county, California, 1879 ; was a farmer in Illi- nois and Missouri ; was a gold-seeker in Cali- fornia and Australia; married Alzina M. Page, a native of DuPage county, Illinois ; children : Eugene and Ella. 5. Sarah A., born 1830: died November 16, 1849. 6. Augusta M., married Collins S. White, of Homer ; children : Emma A., Lottie S., G. Frank and Burdette H. 7. Franklin Fayette, mentioned below. 8. Celina J., born 1839, died October 23, 1849. 9. Amelia ( an adopted child), mar- ried John Doubleday, of Scott, a farmer.


(III) Franklin Fayette, son of David Pratt, was born at Homer, New York, July 17, 1835 ;


died there March 13, 1911. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and then attended Homer Acad- emy. At the age of eighteen he became a teacher in the public schools, working in the summer on the farm. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in Company A, Sev- enty-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteer In- fantry, which was recruited at Cortland, and was mustered into service October 4, 1861. This regiment became one of the best in drill and service. At first it was with the First Army Corps, and afterward with the Fifth. Mir. Pratt took part with his regiment in the battles of Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chan- cellorsville, Spottsylvania,. North Anna River, Cold Harbor, and in the assault on Peters- burg. He was recovering from malarial fever, contracted in the camp near Fredericksburg, Virginia, at the time of the battle of Gettys- burg, and was unable to go into that fight with his regiment, but after it was detailed to care for the wounded and was on hospital duty until November, when he was again as- signed to duty with his regiment in the field. He became corporal of his company, Decen- ber 20, 1863, and reënlisted in 1864. During a furlough of thirty days he visited his friends and relatives in New York state. Upon his return, he joined his regiment at Spottsyl- vania Court House, Virginia. After taking part in the battle at that point, the regiment marched towards Richmond and Petersburg and was skirmishing or fighting every day during the following month. In August, 1864, while in camp near Petersburg, he and a com- rade were transferred from the army to the Marine Corps, at their own request, by an order from the Secretary of War, and he re- ported to the commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard. Soon after arriving at Brooklyn navy yard, and becoming familiar with the marine drill, he was appointed a corporal of marines, and, with a sergeant in command, went aboard the United States gunboat "Pa- tuxet," and soon joined the blockading squad- ron along the Atlantic coast. On the voyage southward the vessel put into port at Nor- folk, Virginia, to make some repairs. Just at this time he received notice of the death of his father. His presence was necessary at home to care for his widowed mother. The other sons had settled in the west. A peti- tion was signed by many of the leading citi-


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zens and presented to President Lincoln, ask- ing for his discharge from the navy, and was favorably acted upon, and Mr. Pratt received the order December 1, 1864, while in port at Beaufort, North Carolina, and took passage homeward on the prize steamer loaded with five hundred bales of cotton captured while trying to run the blockade. On the same boat were many Confederate prisoners. At the headquarters of the United States Marine Corps, Washington, he received his discharge papers, and arrived home December 21, 1864. He followed farming on the homestead until his mother died in April, 1866.


Soon after his marriage, he bought the homestead, a farm of fifty acres, and after nine years of thrift and hard labor he paid off the indebtedness he incurred in buying it. In 1875 he exchanged his hill farm for a place of 125 acres in the valley, on the main road from Homer to Little York. During the next twelve years he was saving to pay off a debt of $6,000 incurred in this transaction. He continued in the dairy business as well as general farming, improving his property all the time. He built a new stable for his horses, and a large dairy barn with basement having cement floors and driveway. After 1892 he gave up the making of butter and shipped the milk from his dairy to New York City. In religion, he was non-sectarian, but an optimist, charitable, religious, and full of good deeds. In politics he was always a Republican, cast- ing his first vote for John C. Fremont for president. He was a typical farmer, of the self-made kind, energetic, ambitious, industri- ous, winning success by his own hard work, and commanding the utmost respect of his fellowmen.


He married, October 25, 1866, Mrs. Sarah Brayton Wilson, a widow, who was born in England, July 18, 1844. Children : 1. Lillian E., born November 23, 1867 ; married Seward E. Hollenbeck, of Tully, New York. 2. Ro- sella A., born January 12, 1869; married Frank L. Burnham, of Little York, town of Homer, New York. 3. Nellie M., born Feb- ruary II, 1872; married Orrin P. Gallup. of Homer. 4. Grace E., born January 1, 1880: married Clayton F. LeRoy. 5. Charles Frank- lin, mentioned below.


(IV) Charles Franklin, son of Franklin Fayette Pratt, was born in Homer, New York. June 3. 1883. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Homer


Academy. He has followed farming on the homestead all his active life, and since his father's death has had the management of the property. He is a member of the Lodge of Odd Fellows of Homer, and of Little York Grange. In politics he is a Republican. He married (first ), July 19, 1906, Elizabeth Col- lier, of Preble, New York, daughter of Frank J. and Lydia ( Van Buskirk) Collier. His wife died March 5, 1908, and he married (sec- ond), December 29, 1910, Nina McCormick, of Little York, a daughter of Peter and Lucy (Collier ) McCormick. By his first wife he had one child, Elizabeth Sarah, born July 10, 1907.


PRATT Jacob Pratt, of an old New Eng- land family, was brother of Joshua Pratt (q. v.), a pioneer of Truxton, New York. He married He resided in Windham county, Connecticut. Children : John, born December 12, 1803; Esther, January 20, 1807: Daniel, March 3, 1809; William, August 2, 1811; Jacob, July 2, 1814; Orrin, mentioned below; Francis, January 13, 1819; Janna, December 7, 1824.


(II) Orrin, son of Jacob Pratt, was born May 14, 1816, in Connecticut, it is thought, and died in Preble, New York, in 1892. He came to Central New York in youth and was educated in the public schools. He followed farming at various places in the towns of Ho- mer, Scott and Preble. He was active in pub- lic affairs and served as justice of the peace of his town. He married (first ). September 10, 1837, Ruth Eliza Capron, born November 26, 1817, died April 5, 1849, daughter of Ben- jamin Capron. He married (second) Sophia C. Howard. Children by first wife: Sarah Climena, born September 4, 1838, married Daniel Cummings, of Preble ; Mary Amelia, February II. 1841, married Nicholas Collier, of Preble; Melvin Jacob, mentioned below ; Clement C., died young; Esther Eliza, born April 5. 1849, married Lafayette Churchill, of Michigan. Children by second wife: Carrie, Rosilla, Nellie, all died young.


(III) Melvin Jacob, son of Orrin Pratt, was born in Homer, New York, December 28. 1843. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He enlisted, August 16, 1862, in Company D. One Hundred and Fifty- seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, and was in the active service for three years of the civil war, being mustered out in 1865.


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He took part in the battle of Chancellorsville and the battle of Gettysburg. He was in the hospital sick for a time. After Gettysburg he was ordered north to receive and forward drafted men and for seven months was en- gaged in this duty at Elmira, New York. He was in the offices at Hilton Head for a year. He had the rank of corporal. When he left the army he returned to Homer and since that he has followed farming on the place where he is now living. He has a herd of fifty cows and does a large dairy business. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and for eight years he was justice of the peace and member of the town board. For seven years he was su- pervisor of the town, making a total of fif- teen years on the town board. He is a mem- ber of Little York Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry, of Homer, and of Willoughby Bab- cock Post, Grand Army of the Republic. In religion he affiliates with the Methodist Epis- copal church.


He married. December 18, 1867, Cornelia E., born at Preble, New York, April 12, 1848. daughter of Stephen F. and Mary E. (Jacobs ) Salisbury. Her father was born in 1815 in Rhode Island, died February 20, 1892: her mother was born in Vermont in 1818, died in 1882. Thomas Salisbury, father of Stephen F., came from Cranston. Rhode Island, to Homer, New York. David Jacobs, father of Mary E. (Jacobs ) Salisbury, came from Guil- ford, Windham county, Vermont, to Preble. New York, in 1826. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt: I. Rev. Stephen Salisbury, born October 23, 1868: a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, living at Clyde, New York : mar- ried Alida W. Lung, daughter of Roland and Missouri Lung ; child, Marjorie, born May 3, 1902. 2. Melvin E., born September 2, 1877 ; has the management of his father's farm in Little York, town of Homer ; married. October 10, 1901, Beryl Taft, of Homer : chil- dren: Ruth Cornelia, born March 17, 1903: John Taft. December 2, 1905.


The surname Mover is also MOYER spelled Mayer, and is of German origin. In the revolutionary war we find that Henry, Fred, Joseph, Margeris and Peter served in the American army from Tryon county. The family located there be- fore the revolution. Jacob, John and Henry Moyer came from Switzerland, and settled upon adjoining farms in the town of Minden,


at what is often called Dutchtown, then Tyron county, afterward Montgomery county, New York. Margeris Moyer lived near them, and is supposed to have been a brother. Peter, Fred and Joseph, of the revolutionary record, who lived in the same section, were of the same family, as no other family of the name was in that section, and were probably also brothers. Following the German custom, sev- eral tised the name Henry as a middle name, and it is believed that Henry was the father's name. Whether he came to this country or not is not known. In the first federal census, taken in 1790, we find Henry, mentioned be- low; David, who had two males over sixteen, one under that age, and four females at Pala- tine town, Montgomery county ; and Joseph, in the same town, with two males overy six- teen. two under that age, and six females. Joseph was the revolutionary soldier, but Da- vid must have been old enough to have been in the war.


Another member of the family, according to the "History of Herkimer County." was Solomon, who settled also at Minden, and died during the revolution. His children, as given in this work, were: Andrew ; Solomon S. ; Jacob S., born December 18, 1781, served in the war of 1812 at Sacket Harbor, and died June 30, 1871 ; Nancy. Solomon was probably also a brother of Jacob, Henry, John, Mar- geris, and perhaps Fred, Joseph and Peter.


(I) Henry Moyer, the first in this country of the line, was born in Switzerland, about 1750, perhaps earlier, and settled at Minden, Montgomery county, before 1775. He was a soldier in the revolution, an ensign in Colonel Campbell's regiment of Tryon county militia, and was wounded in the shoulder at the bat- tle of Stone Arabia. It is said that he was afterward captured by the Indians, taken to Canada, but escaped. He died about 1811 or 1812, and his will was admitted to probate in the surrogate's court of Montgomery county in 1812. In 1790 the census shows he was liv- ing at German Flats, in Montgomery county, and had in his family two males over sixteen and three females. He married three times, and each time had children. Among his chil- dren were: 1. Frederick, born August, 1782, died August 1, 1855, grandfather of Fayette E. Moyer, of Johnstown, New York. 2. Tina, married Wright (possibly her name was Christina ). 3. Betsey, married Barker. 4. Andrew. 5. Sophia. married


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Adolph Walrath. 6. Solomon H., mentioned below. 7. Henry.


(II) Solomon H., son of Henry Moyer, was born in 1789, at Minden, New York, died Au- gust 25, 1839, in town of Schroeppel, Oswego county. He was regularly enlisted and served at Sacketts Harbor in war of 1812. He was a German Lutheran in religion. He married, in 1810, Betsey Timmerman. Children : Charity ; Josialı, mentioned below; Abram ; Eliza ; Nancy.


(III) Josiah, son of Solomon H. Moyer, was born in Minden, Montgomery county, in 1814, died September 25, 1887. In 1835 he removed to Oswego county, New York, and followed farming during the remainder of his life. He married, July 12, 1835, Maria Diefendorf, born September 17, 1817, died December 5, 1884, daughter of Colonel Au- gustus D. and Maria (Wagner) Diefendorf. Children : Augustus; Alexander, mentioned below : D. Solomon ; Ellen ; Elizabeth.


(IV) Alexander, son of Josiah Moyer, was born August 27, 1840, in the town of Schroep- pel, Oswego county, New York, died July 12, 1897. He was educated in the public schools, and followed farming in early life, later be- coming a carpenter and cabinet-maker. In politics he was a Democrat. At Phoenix, he married Sarah Van Surdam, born at North Hoosick, New York, November 25, 1841, daughter of Cyrus and Sarah N. ( Hastings) Van Surdam. Her father was of Dutch an- cestry. (See below.) Children : I. By- ron L., mentioned below. 2. Seymour J., born June 1I, 1868; married Lizzie, daughter of William E. Sparrow, and had children : Foster and Marshall. 3. Lucella M., born July 21, 1879; married Guy R. Burleigh, Sep- tember 19, 1908. 4. Arthur C., mentioned be- low.


(V) Byron L., son of Alexander Moyer. was born August 14, 1864. He attended the public schools of Phoenix and the Phoenix high school. Since 1905 he has been engaged in the manufacture of cigar boxes. He is a member of Callimachus Lodge, No. 369, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Oswego River Chapter, No. 270, Royal Arch Masons. In religion he was a Congregationalist; in politics a Democrat. He married, June 13, 1900, Ada S., born in Jefferson county, New York, daughter of DeWitt and Ella (Skinner ) Remington. Children : DeWitt R., Marion,


Howard.


(V) Arthur C., son of Alexander Moyer, was born in Schroeppel, New York, June 15, 1876. He was educated there in the public schools. He is a member of Callimachus Lodge, No. 369, Free and Accepted Masons ; Oswego River Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Golden Rule Lodge, No. 77, Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Demo- crat. He married, June 29, 1904, Myrtie, daughter of Daniel and Mary Harrison, born in Canada. They have a daughter, Luella, born February 27, 1909.


Cyrus Van Surdam, father of Sarah (Van Surdam) Moyer, was born at North Hoosick, New York, in 1810, and removed to Oswego county, in 1845, where he was a farmer for many years. He married Sarah N. Hastings, who was born in Connecticut, in 1811. Sam- uel Van Surdam, father of Cyrus, lived at North Hoosick. Rensselaer county, New York; he married Sallie, daughter of John Milliman Jr., who was born in 1735, in Rhode Island, moved to Rensselaer county, New York.


John Mack was a native of Con-


MACK necticut or Rhode Island. He settled in Potter county, Pennsyl- vania, and died about 1880, aged ninety-seven years, at the home of his son Israel in Ohio. In religion he was a Freewill Baptist. He married Mary Children : Israel, lived in Ohio; William S., mentioned below ; John ; Julia, married Palmer ; Eliza- beth ; Nancy, married Asa Richardson ; Chloe ; Adelaide. married John Robbins; Amanda, married Lewis.


(II) William S., son of John Mack, was born in Potter county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, died at Marathon, New York, November 22, 1897. In his younger days he came from his native place to New York state and lived at Taylor, Cortland county, and at Sherburne, in Chenango county. About 1861 he came to Marathon, New York, where he resided for the remainder of his life and where he died. He was a farmer all his active life, and after coming to Marathon also had a trucking business. He was married to Rox- anna, born 1824. died 1891, daughter of John Hunt, granddaughter of John Hunt and great- granddaughter of Dr. Japeth Hunt, who was one of the first settlers of Marathon. Chil- dren of William S. and Roxanna Mack: I. Randolplı, born 1845; lives in Utica, New


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York. 2. Delos, born 1847 : married Mary S. Squires and has a daughter Irene. 3. Clark A., mentioned below. 4. Burdette, born May 10, 1865 ; married Florence Conrad and has one daughter Ruth. 5. Burdelle, born May 10, 1865, twin of Burdette, married Vir- ginia Wentz, and has two children, Clifford and Dorothy. 6. Hattie, deceased; married John Boyd ; children : Lewis, Henry, Mary and Julia Boyd.


(III) Clark Adelbert, son of William S. Mack, was born in Taylor, Cortland county, New York, August 7, 1851. He removed with his parents to Sherburne, Chenango coun- ty, New York, when less than two years old, and was educated there and at Marathon in the public schools. Since 1861 he has made his home at Marathon. He engaged in busi- ness as a general merchant in partnership with William M. Bently. and continued in this business about three years. He also learned the painter's trade when a young man. For a period of six years he was in the employ of Swift & Company of Marathon. In 1908 he embarked in business as a hardware dealer and plumber in Marathon and has continued since then with gratifying success. He is a member of Marathon Lodge No. 167, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Marathon. In religion he is a Presbyterian.


He married, September 23, 1869, Miriam. daughter of Ira and Caroline (Tarbell) See- ley, of Marathon. Children: I. Eva H., born March 9, 1872: married William A. Bently, of Oxford, New York, a real estate dealer. and they have one child, Raymond Bently, born August, 1895. 2. Earl, born December 20, 1876: now in the employ of the Warren Tanner Company, of Cortland, New York, dry goods dealers: married Gertrude Bow- dish : child, Rachel, born November 28, 1907.


BURGESS The name Burgess is a title. civil or official. In England the inhabitant of a burgh or borough is a burgess, and the orthography of the name in England is well preserved and may be traced back four centuries. In Amer- ica various spellings have been used, Burgness, Burges, Burgis, Borgis, Burge, Burg and the most common spelling is Burgess.


(I) Thomas Burgess, immigrant ancestor, came from England about 1630, landing at Salem, and remained for a time in Lynn. He brought his family with him, and July 3. 1637.


was granted land in Duxbury. This he for- feited by his removal to Sandwich, the same year, and it was assigned to Nicholas Robbins, who paid him for the improvements which had been made upon the land. Thomas Bur- gess was one of the first settlers of Sand- wich, and Savage calls him "a chief man of them." He was an original member of the church in 1638, and became a large land holder. He served the town in nearly every `office and was deputy to the general court at Plymouth for several years. The estate which he occupied remained in the family for many generations, and in 1863 the cellar of his house could still be seen. He died Febru- ary 13, 1685, aged eighty-two years, and his grave was marked by a stone imported from England. "It was the only monument," says Amos Otis, "set up for any pilgrim of the first generation." His wife Dorothy died February 27, 1687. His will was dated April 4, 1684, and proved March 5. 1685. Children : Thomas, John. Elizabeth, Jacob, Joseph.




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