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victory gained, he was found some yards in advance of his company, dead. His companions buried him on the heights of Fredericksburg. A history of his life, and a poem commemorating his bravery, were prepared by his college class by whom he was held in great esteem.
In September, 1861, the town of Nunda fur- nished thirty-six more men who enlisted in Captain Tuthill's company, which constituted Company A of the Wadsworth Guards. Failing to procure men enough to form a complete regiment, they went to Albany and joined the 104th Regiment, and these men were afterward known as Company K.
Of these thirty-six men :-
Captain E. A. Tuthill died December 30, 1867.
Corporal Daniel White died in prison, date un- known.
James Macken, died in service Feb. 1, 1864.
Sergeant Lewis W. Shepard, Co. A, died from wounds received at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
George Flint, Co. A, died at home from disease contracted in the service.
Frank Russell, Co. A, died at home from wounds received in the service; date unknown.
Elijah White, died at home from disease con- tracted in the service ; date not known.
Cicero C. Clark, died at Mount Pleasant Hospital, June 30, 1862.
Corporal Lewis Sutton, died in prison Dec. 13, 1862.
Charles Crawford, died from wounds received at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
Hiram Passage, died in prison ; date unknown.
George Britton, died in the service; date un- known.
Octavius Clark, killed at the battle of the Wild- erness, 1864.
Samuel Wright, died at the Soldier's Home, Bath, N. Y., 1879.
Corporal John Gruber, Co. F, died in prison ; date unknown.
Corporal Daniel Swinder, Co. F, died in prison ; date unknown.
William Hooson, killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.
Sergeant Thomas J. Curtis, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
Lucien Carpenter, killed in service, 1864.
Abram Carpenter, killed in battle of the Wilder- ness, 1864.
Corydon Smith 'Thompson, was wounded at Fred- ricksburg, May 4, 1863, taken prisoner and sup- posed to have died soon after.
James L. Thompson, was taken prisoner at Get- tysburg, July 1, 1863, and died at Richmond, Feb. 16, 1864.
William George Chislett, was wounded at Fred- ericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, and died at Washington, January 1, 1863.
Sergeant John S. Satterlee, served his time in the 104th and reënlisted in the same regiment; died from wounds received at Spottsylvania, on the 13th of May, 1864, and was buried on the battle ground.
George Satterlee, served his time out, going through all the battles with his regiment, and reën- listed as a corporal, Jan. 4, 1864 ; was taken pris- oner, and died of starvation at Salisbury, N. C. ; place of burial unknown.
William Davis, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
Perry Haynes, was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. Was afterward paroled ; came home and died from the effects of his starvation, Dec. 28, 1864.
Richard B. Connett, died in hospital at Balti- more, Jan. 7, 1863.
Mortimer Herrick, was wounded May 7, 1864, in battle of the Wilderness ; was taken to Wash- ington and died there from the effects of his wounds.
William Woodruff, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1 863.
Corporal Stephen P. Havens, was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, on the first of July, 1863, and sup- posed to have died in Salisbury prison.
Under the call of July and August, 1862, for three hundred thousand men in each month, the 130th Regiment was organized, and the town of Nunda sent out under Capt. James Lemen of Company I, forty-three men. By an order from the War Department and of the Governor of this State, dated July 28, 1863, the 130th was changed and designated the First Regiment of New York Dragoons. There was afterward added to this regiment twelve other men from Nunda as recruits, making fifty-five in all.
Of the N. Y. Dragoons from Nunda :-
Sergeant Seth H. Weed was killed at Todd's Tavern, May 1, 1864.
Corporal Charles A. Kinney, died at Newberne, N. C., Sept. 25, 1864.
Z. E. Barney, died at Suffolk, Va., January 4, 1864.
James H. Foland, died in Andersonville prison, May 7, 1864.
Josiah H. Flint, died in Andersonville prison ; date unknown.
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Nathaniel Marr, died June 3, 1865.
Milan Parker, died September 10, 1864.
George I. Philips, died in the service, Dec. 28, 1862.
Corporal Hiram J. Woodard, died in Anderson- ville prison ; date unknown.
Simeon Gelzer, died in Andersonville prison ; date not learned.
Leonard Russell died from wounds received in action, May 22, 1864.
Alexander Drake died from wounds received in battle, October 22, 1864.
Levi C. Davis died Jan. 4, 1864, at Mitchell Station, and was buried at Culpepper, Va.
John Gothard was killed in battle at Newtown, Va., on the 11th of August, 1864.
James Christie was taken prisoner at Todd's Tavern, May 7, 1864, and died Oct. 15 of same year at Andersonville, Ga.
William Black was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 7, 1864, and was buried near Todd's Tavern.
Corydon C. Lovejoy was wounded and taken prisoner, and died in Andersonville Prison in All- gust, 1864.
Hiram O. Seeley, after more than two years' service, died at home of disease contracted in the army, Nov. 3, 1864.
William J. Wright died at Suffolk, Va., Nov. 6, 1862, and was brought home and buried.
John Callahan died Aug. 14, 1864, at Winches- ter, Va., from wounds received at Newtown, Va., Aug. 11, 1864.
Isaac Johnson, after two years' service, was dis- charged on account of ill health, and returning home died in June, 1864, of consumption.
In August and September of 1862, the 136th regiment was organized. The town of Nunda, as near as can be learned, furnished for this regiment about twelve men, who went out under Captain Arnold, of Conesus. Of this number :-
David C. Wade died while home on a furlough at Nunda Station, Feb. 27, 1864.
Rufus P. Wescott died from wounds received in action, May 24, 1864, and was buried near Resaca.
David Close was killed May 15, 1864, at Resaca and was buried on the field.
There were also several men from Nunda who, for different causes, joined various regiments of this and even of other States. Of this class from or representing some one of this town :-
Corydon Crossett, supposed to be a recruit
credited to Nunda, joined the 3d Michigan regi- ment, Jan. 20, 1864, and died in August of that year a prisoner at Andersonville.
Alpheus C. Willett, of Nunda, joined the 8th Heavy Artillery, Jan. 4, 1864, and was killed in battle at Cold Harbor on the 3d of June, 1864.
Alva J. White, credited to Nunda, entered the 97th New York Volunteers, July 26th, 1863 ; died May 28, 1864, from wounds received in battle.
Orin Nickerson joined the 6th New York Cav- alry, Oct. 14, 1861, and died at Point Lookout from sickness produced by hard service.
George W. Fuller, of Nunda, joined the 126th Regiment of New York Volunteers, Aug. 6, 1862, and was killed in battle at Romeo Station, Nov. 25, 1864.
Philander Maker enlisted in the 27th New York Volunteers in 1861, and died March, 1865, at Blackwell's Island, from disease acquired in the service.
Gardner Milleman, credited to Nunda, joined the 22d New York Volunteers ; supposed to have died of starvation at Andersonville, September 7, 1864.
Philander McGee served his time out in the 27th New York Volunteers, was wounded in the hand at battle of Petersburgh ; reënlisted, and died of disease contracted in the service, at New York Har- bor, March, 1865.
Charles Harris was drafted and then enlisted ; was sent South, lost his health, came home and died in the winter of 1864.
George Fay, 188th New York, was killed in action, but at what date is unknown.
L. E. Willey, 4th Heavy Artillery, died 1863.
In the latter part of Aug., 1863, thirteen men from the town of Nunda joined the ist New York Veteran Cavalry under Captain John J. Carter. Of this number :-
Perrin Page was killed in battle of New Market, May 17, 1864, and is supposed to be buried near that place.
Martin H. Myers died from wounds received in battle at New Market, May 17, 1864.
Abram Burdick died about the same time from wounds received in battle of New Market.
William A. Ecker was taken prisoner at New Market, May 17, 1864, and died while a prisoner at Florence, S. C., Sept. 30, 1864.
Samuel S. Tallinadge entered the service Sept. 18, 1863, and served in the army till the spring of 1864, when, on account of ill health, he was sent to Martinsburg Hospital. While in that hospital he
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was taken prisoner on the 3d of July, 1864, by a force under Breckenridge, was kept until the 5th and was placed in prison at Lynchburg on the 11th day of July. On the 20th he was marched to Dan- ville prison, and on the 22d he was again marched South, and on the 25th reached a prison in Au- gusta, Ga. On the 27th of July he was taken from there to Andersonville, where he remained until the 28th of September, when he was again moved and placed in prison at Savannah. At this place he remained till the 13th of October, when he was sent to Milan, and after a few days was re- turned to Savannah to be exchanged. He was finally paroled November 19, got back on his way home as far as Annapolis on the 25th of Novem- ber, but was too feeble and reduced in flesh to go any farther. He died at Annapolis, Dec. 8, 1864, of inanition, the result of systematized starvation.
The following is a further list of those who en- tered the service for or from Nunda, but whose lo- cation, if living, or place of burial, if dead, we are unable to learn.
104th Regiment N. Y. Volunteers.
William Magee, Judson D. VanSlyke, James L. Toms, John A. Wright, Philetus Mayhew, Edwin Wilcox, Abram Foland, Lucius H. Barron, George H. Graham, Abram Youells, Christian Smith, Jos. Moyer, Jacob Lieb, Albert Bennett, Theodore Magee, William C. Cain, Geo. W. Snyder, William DeMocker, Patrick Gould, William Brown, Edgar J. Whipple, A. W. Skinner, W. H. Boyd, Michael Emo, Randall Haynes, William Barton, Joseph C. Dean, Lewis C. Skinner, DeLancy Smith, Michael Welch, David E. Taddler, Nelson Craft, Adelbert S. Haver, Edwin Hinman, John C. Haze, C. G. Lowell, Edgar M. Chipman, William E. Keen.
33rd Regiment N. Y. Volunteers.
Aikin Aspinwall, John J. Carter, Volney O. Car- ter, Geo. W. Daggett, Clinton Guy, William J. Marshall, James Norris, Martin L. Porter, Francis W. Sargent, Irvin I. McDuffie, John F. Barker, Justus H. Cain, James Christie, Geo. W. Dennis, Gotiep Koeffie, Geo. D. Martin, Rufus H. Newell, Phillip Smith, Henry A. Hills, Charles R. Len.
First N. Y. Dragoons.
Sidney S. Morris, Charles F. Wilkins, David C. Lamb, Romeo St. Clair, James Lemen, C. S. Strickland, B. F. Town, W. C. Mayhew, H. H. Wheeler, F. M. Town, I. M. Barker, G. W. Piper,
C. M. Havens, G. D. Waldo, O. F. Record, Geo. W. Durfee, John Provo, Chester C. Carter, Russell A. Britton, C. C. Bowen, N. H. Spicer, J. W. Rog- ers, Eli H. King, Havella D. Baker, W. E. Town, Gilbert Freer, Horace Howe, Milo Goldthwait, W. C. Hendershott, R. H. Greenfield, W. B. Wagor, Philo Mosier, H. O. Seeley, C. E. Lewis, F. S. Adams, N. H. Shute, N. S. Goldthwait, D. C. Town- send.
A somewhat noteworthy fact in relation to these men is that in the above list the oldest man was but forty-three ; thirty-four of the number being considerably under thirty years of age, and ten being but eighteen years old at time of enlistment.
The cemetery at Nunda contains the remains of the following soldiers :-
Capt. E. A. Tuthill,* Company A, 104th Regi- ment.
James Macken, Company A, 104th Regiment.
Perry Haynes, Company A, 104th Regiment.
Sergeant Lewis Shepard, Company A, 104th Regiment.
George Flint, Company A, 104th Regiment.
Frank Russell, Company A, 104th Regiment.
Needham C. Knight, 104th Regiment, died All- gust 13, 1870.
Sergeant Prosper Swift, Company I, First N. Y. Dragoons.
Elisha T. Ames, Company I, First N. Y. Dragoons.
William J. Wright, Company I, First N. Y. Dragoons.
Isaac Johnson, Company I, First N. Y. Dragoons. W. J. Nolan, 33d Regiment N. Y. Volunteers. Alfred H. Cain, 33d Regiment N. Y. Volunteers. Charles R. Lane, 33d Regiment N. Y. Volun- teers.
Charles Harris, 157th Regiment.
Schuyler Duryee, 136th Regiment N. Y. Vol- unteers, died in the service, date unknown.
Samuel Tallmadge, First Veteran Cavalry, N. Y.
Rufus Chandler, Fourth Heavy Artillery, died at the general hospital in Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1863.
H. Smith, 33d New York and Veteran Cavalry, died in the service in 1863.
Henry Fuller, 33d Regiment N. Y. Volunteers, died March, 1875.
John B. Paine, 33d Regiment N. Y. Volunteers, died March, 1869.
Captain John P. Wood, staff officer killed in the service.
* Time and cause of death of those belonging to the 104th Regiment has been previously given ; also of those of other regiments when not especially mentioned.
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Captain Wood entered the service from Ohio, and was promoted and appointed by the President Assistant Adjutant, and assigned a place on Gen- eral Gibbon's staff. He died on the 6th of March, 1864, and was brought to Nunda and buried, where his wife and children resided.
The town of Nunda contributed liberally in money and material as well as in men, toward putting down the Rebellion. Early in the war the ladies of Nunda organized a society called " The Ladies' Hospital Relief Association." This society sent to the soldiers eleven large boxes containing clothing and hospital stores. Three boxes were sent to Suffolk ; one to Washington, two to Roch- ester, three to Buffalo, and two to the Howard Hospital. The freight and all charges being paid by the society. The entire cost was estimated at $750. This society also raised and paid out in cash $144.27, making in all $897.27.
There was raised by subscription and paid to Nunda's men in the 130th Regiment, by and through Mr. B. F. King, the sum of $380. There was raised and paid out through Mr. Page $392. The town paid out in the year 1864 for the sup- port of soldiers' families $250, and in 1865, $142. There was raised on subscription $1,000 to pay the taxes of those women who had lost friends in the war, or whose husbands were still in the service.
Under the President's call of July and August, 1862, for six hundred thousand men, the town raised $2, 250 and paid as bounty to forty-five men. Under the call of July, 1863, for five hundred thous- and men there was raised and paid to forty-seven men the sum of $8, 100. Under the call for two hundred thousand men of March 14, 1864, the town raised and paid $9,000 to eighteen men. Under the call of July 18, 1864, for five hundred thousand men, there was raised and paid to fifty- one men the sum of $44,050, besides the sum of $1,225 called "hand money ;" and under the call of December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand men, the town paid $19,600 to twenty-eight men. The town also paid connected with the draft the sum of $817, making a total of $88,103.27, exclu- sive of the numerous boxes sent by individuals to their sons, brothers and friends in the army, and the large sums expended by relatives and friends in going to the camps and battle-fields and bringing home their sick, wounded and dead.
Nunda also furnished one company of men who, in the fall of 1864, served three months at Elmira, guarding rebel prisoners. In all Nunda sent out and furnished for the war three hundred and twen-
ty-three men. Of that number, as near as can be learned, two hundred and forty-five were actual residents of the town. Of those who were actual residents, with perhaps two or three exceptions, twenty-five were killed in battle, three were taken prisoners soon after being wounded and died in the hands of the enemy ; four are known to have died of starvation : seven have died in rebel prisons ; and twenty-two died from diseases contracted while in the service.
This is a sad catalogue for relatives and friends, but on the scroll of honor are inscribed the names of these sixty-one young, strong and brave patriots who gave their lives that Nunda might continue to have the protection of a united government.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
SETH S. BARKER.
The subject of this sketch was born near Oris- kany Falls, N. Y., August 30, 1801. His parents whose ancestors came from England in the seven- teenth century, and settled in New England, were from Connecticut. Feb. 8, 1821, he married Sarah Durfee, who was born in Fall River, R. I., and whose mother was a descendant from the old warrior, Col. Church, of King Phillip's time. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Barker set out on foot with his knapsack on his back to seek a home in the West. In August, 1821, he came to Nunda and took an article for the farm on East Hill, where he now resides, selecting it on account of the large timber growing thereon. The place where the village now stands being then covered with pitch pine and scrub oaks, he considered it valueless. He then went for his wife and her mother, and re- turned in November with them to his forest home. The house to which they moved scarcely deserved the name, blankets being suspended instead of doors and windows. He was a person of few words, but deep thought, and though not appearing to be as vigilant as some was silently conquering troubles and overcoming difficulties little known to others. He has held several offices of trust, serving several terms as Assessor and Commissioner of Highways of the town. Being quite a mechanic, he manu- factured many of his tools, while most of his neigh- bors had to purchase theirs. He kept well in- formed as regards the news of the day, both in our own and foreign countries.
Mrs. Barker, as a weaver and spinner, was un- excelled. She wove cloth for her neighbors, made cloths and exchanged them at the stores for her pur- chases ; also worked considerable at the tailor's trade. While her husband was working in the timber, she nobly did her part working at her loom,
MR. & MRS. S. S. BARKER,
FARL J. PAINE.
JOHN H. TOWNSEND.
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and to show her skill it is stated that when only 1 I years of age she wove 1, 100 yards of checked dress cloth for a factory in Fall River. Mr. and Mrs Barker have been married 60 years, and have had four children, three of whom are now living, as follows: Munson O., who married Adaline Raw- son; Orlando W., who married Mary E. Swain, and Justus L., who married Olive L., daughter of Richard Bowen, who moved to this county from Fall River, Mass., in 1825.
Time has dealt gently with this pioneer couple. and the severe hardships and trials through which they have passed have left but few impressions. They have been members of the Baptist church for over fifty years. Surrounded by their sons, who are living on adjacent farms, their path of life is, in return for untiring energy and industry, being beautifully strewn with flowers of filial love and veneration.
JOHN H. TOWNSEND.
The subject of this memoir deserves especial mention from the pen of the historian as being one of the few hardy pioneers who lived to see the usher- ing in of the year 1880.
John H. Townsend was the son of Gideon and Freelove (Haynes) Townsend, and was born in Putnam county, October 25th, 1793. November 22, 1818, he was married to Betsey Barnuni, and in 1822 moved to this county bringing all his worldly effects on one wagon drawn by an ox team, and settled on what is now the State road and of which he was one of the founders and builders. During the first winters he spent there he walked to Hunt's, a distance of four miles, and chopped wood at 2s. 6d. per cord, the cold being so severe at times that he was obliged to bury his dinner in the snow to prevent its freezing. He " articled" for 85 acres of land and made additions to it until he had 275 acres. In 1830 he overworked in the harvest-field, bringing upon himself a sickness from which he never recovered. He was an invalid for fifty years and though suffering great pain at times, his indomitable nerve and happy disposition showed itself in his greatest trials. He died September 4, I 880.
After the death of his first wife he married Mary Van Deventer, November 7, 1824, by whom he had three children as follows :- John V., Peter H., and Gideon. She died March 4th, 1881, surviving her husband only six months. He served in the war of 1812, and was drawing a pension at the time of his death.
EARL J. PAINE.
The Paine family were among the first settlers of the State of Connecticut. James Paine, the father of the subject of this sketch, and the pro- genitor of the Paine family in this county, was
born in Litchfield county, Conn., January 27th, 1783. He moved to Herkimer county, N. Y., about the year 1800, and married Polly Dana, the result of the union being five children, three of whom are now living, named Earl J., L. F. and J. A. A deceased daughter, Mary A., was the wife of Rev. Mr. Stilson, a celebrated Burmah missionary.
Mr. Paine moved with his family to Nunda, March 15, 1817, and was one of the earliest pio- neers in this region. The limits of the town of Nunda at that time were so extensive that three days were consumed by him in attending town- meeting, being obliged to walk from his home to the voting place. He died April 8, 1866.
Earl J., the subject of this brief sketch was born at Paine's Hollow, Herkimer county, March 24, 1807, and was ten years old at the time of his father's settlement in this town. He was married to Catharine, daughter of Richard Grimes, of Nunda. Four children were born to them, two of whom are now living, Wells and Ann. Mr. Paine by his untiring industry has succeeded in carving a fine farm out of the wilderness that he settled in.
He possesses a powerful constitution, which has succeeded in carrying him through several very severe trials during his life, and at present, (April, 1881,) is rapidly convalescing from a painful malady that has confined him to his room for more than a year. Although having lived more years than are usually allotted to man, his friends have hopes of his companionship for several years to come. His wife died Feb. 25th, 1879.
He and his brother L. F. are the only ones left of the early pioneers who were here at the time they moved in. Of his children, Ann married Mr. Buck, of Vincennes, Ind., and Wells is one of the most extensive and successful farmers in this sec- tion of the county, having over six hundred acres of land on " East Hill," conveniently located and under a fine state of cultivation. Mary Jemison, the celebrated "White Woman," was a frequent visitor at the early home of the family.
E. O. DICKINSON.
Emilus O. Dickinson, asketch of whose residence appears in this book, was born in Oneida county, N. Y., August 30, 1818, and is the son of Wm. and Lois Dickinson. At the age of eighteen he com- menced droving, between Oneida county and Bos- ton, and for a few years has been shipping cattle from the West to New York. When twenty years of age he purchased a farm of So acres in Oneida county, at $25.00 per acre. In 1849 he went to Davenport, Iowa, and engaged in the lumber busi- ness, but remaining there only a short time, returned to New York State, and settled in Nunda. Novem- ber 10, 1850, he was married to Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Elvira Starkweather of Nunda. Was elected Supervisor in 1861, returning the year fol- lowing, and also in 1874-5. On his farm, which
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consists of 236 acres and is situated one-half mile east of Nunda, there is a mineral spring which issues from a rock and the water of which has been analyzed and found to possess great medicinal qualities. It has unusual alterative and eliminat- ing power, and one gallon of it is said to contain many more grains of valuable medical substances than the water of any other spring in the State of New York, and some even assert its superiority in that respect, over any other spring in the United States. It is one of that class of springs whose water contains those natural combinations of med- icines that occasionally cure cases of some forms of (lisease which the most skilled among our profes- sional men cannot. No chemist can exactly imitate these natural compounds, and these waters do not operate alone by means of their predominant min- cral constituent.
Mr. Dickinson was very instrumental in securing to Nunda its free Union School. He was a Repub- lican until after the death of Lincoln, and then not agreeing with the party became a Democrat. He has four children, as follows : Nellie M., Allie J., Mattie E. and Neva L. His place is one of the finest in the county, being almost unequalled as re- gards its handsome and commodious buildings. The land is very fertile and watered by several large springs, one of which has been analyzed by S. A. Lattimore, as follows: "One U. S. gallon contains 203.58 grains sulphate of magnesia, 184.41 sulphate of lime, 104.10 carbonate of lime, 6.82 chloride of sodium, 1.05 carbonate of iron, . 12 sil- ica, and traces of alumnia." He also says this water belongs to the magnesia class of mineral waters, and will be a powerful agent if judiciousły applied.
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