USA > New York > Erie County > Sardinia > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 35
USA > New York > Erie County > Collins > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 35
USA > New York > Erie County > Concord > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 35
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Hugh was married to Miss Hannah Feigh in 1863. Their children are John E., James, Hugh, Sarah and Jessie.
Lewis Nichols.
Lewis Nichols was born June 12, 1773. He married Betsy Hovell, who was born July 18, 1774. They came to this town from Scipio, Cayuga county, N. Y. in 1818, and located at what has since been known as Nichols' Corners, where Mr. Nichols, always lived until his death in 1862 ; Mrs. Nichols having died in 1854. Their children were :
Abijah, born March 5, 1792 ; married Anna Pixly : died about 1872, in town.
Lucy, born March 9, 1794; married Stephen Knight, F. W. B. minister ; died about 1871.
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Polly, born July 3, 1796; married Arza King; died about 1865, in Cayuga county.
Sally, born Sept. 3, 1798 ; married William Elliot ; resides in Cayuga county.
Isaac, born March 12, 1801 ; married Zilpha Ford; died in town.
Betsy, born April 29, 1803; married Orrin Lewis; died about 1844, at Dubuque, Iowa.
David, born May 28, 1805 ; was a M. E. minister ; died about 1876, in Kansas.
Lewis, born Feb. 14, 1808 ; died in Illinois about 1860.
Aner, born April 28, 1810; married Joshua Steele ; died about 1871, in town.
John, born Aug. 11, 1817 ; married Clarinda Richardson in 1840.
Nancy, born Sept. 5, 1820 ; married Orrin Lewis, resides in Dubuque, Iowa.
John Nichols.
John Nichols come to town with his father and always resided upon the homestead until 1869, when he moved to Springville, where Mr. Nichols died in 1875. He has held the offices of Assessor and Overseer of Poor. Their children are :
Betsy, died when a child.
Charles H., married Elva Styles in 1870; resides on the homestead.
Levi L., married Elizabeth Carroll in 1869 ; resides in Buf- falo ; cattle dealer.
Carlos J., married Addie Campbell in 1870; resides at Rich- wood, Ohio; dentist.
Lawrence, married Addie Davis : have one son, Arthur ; drug- gist in Springville.
Isaac Nichols.
Isaac Nichols, son of Louis and Betsy Nichols, was born March 12, 1801, in Huntington, Conn. When seventeen years of age, he removed to Concord, where he resided until his death, Dec. 10, 1864. He was married Dec. 24, 1820, to Zil-
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pah Ford. The following is the family record of their chil- dren :
Luther F., born, Oct. 3, 1822; married, first to Julia Ann Woodbury ; lives in Iowa.
Harriet P., born Nov. 5, 1823 ; married Dewey Tift ; died June II, 1882.
Martha H., born June 25, 1825 ; married Alanson Ford ; lives in Iowa.
Julia Ann, born July 19, 1827 ; married Jacob Lampman.
Lucy M., born Nov. 21, 1829 ; married William Woodbury ; lives in Hamburg.
Alvin L., born June 26, 1831 ; married, first to Ellen Hyde, second, to Maria Styles.
David B., born Feb. 3, 1835 ; died July 23, 1856.
Isaac N., born Sept. 18, 1837 ; married Helen Smith ; killed by a falling tree March 7, 1862.
Mariette, born Nov. 5, 1841, married Jasper Luther ; lives in Collins.
Almon Nichols.
Almon Nichols was born March 12, 1819. His father, Abi- jah S. Nichols, was born in Connecticut, and removed to Scip- io, Cayuga county, N. Y., and subsequently came to the town of Concord in the year 1818; his mother's maiden name was Anna Pixley. Almon Nichols is a farmer by occupation ; was married in the year 1842 to Melissa Griswold, who died in the year 1847 ; was married to Clarinda Webster Feb. 10, 1850, who died April 15, 1851, and was married to Diana Richardson, his present wife, Aug. 25, 1851, who was the daughter of Jeremiah Richardson, and was born July 4, 1824. Mr. Nichols has taught fifteen terms of school in this and other towns. He was elected Justice in 1870.
His children are :
Wallace, born Feb. 16, 1845 ; married Jenette Briggs.
Betsey Clarinda, born April 12, 1851 ; married LeRoy Mil- lington.
Helen, born June 4, 1852 ; married Edward Hatch.
Manley, born Aug. 14, 1854; married Hattie Sherman.
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Benjamin Nelson.
Benjamin Nelson came to this town from Brandon, Vt., about 1818 ; his wife's maiden name was Annie Morton. He settled on the Cattaraugus creek on the farm now owned by H. T. Wadsworth ; from there he moved to the place where John Vosburg now lives; this he soon after sold and bought the place where Charles Pingrey now lives; he then moved to the Horton place on Vaughan street, where his wife and three chil- dren died ; he afterwards moved to Springville, where he died April 14, 1861 ; Mrs. Nelson died Sept. 12, 1850.
They had ten children :
Wilbur A., died Sept. 21, 1850.
Jonathan M., died in 1846.
Aurora A., married George Kingman and lives in Spring- ville.
Abercia, married Damon Dodge ; lives in Minnesota.
Alberto O., lives in Michigan.
Franklin J., lives in Dansville, N. Y.
Wells C., lives in Machias.
Julius G., died in 1850.
Maria A., married William Joslyn ; lives in Springville.
Harriet M., died in 1850.
Laban A. Needham.
Mr. Needham's father, Oliver Needham, was born in Massa- chusetts; was married there in 1813, to Lodisa Green ; came from there to this town in the Fall of 1819, and settled on lot six, range seven, township seven, where he always resided until his death in 1873. In the earlier days of our town he was Supervisor several years, and afterwards served as Assessor a number of terms.
He had five sons, viz .:
Laban A.
Charles, married Eveline Martin ; resides in Boston.
Aaron G., married Melissa Blanchard ; reside in town.
David, married Lovina Fields; resides in Wisconsin.
Warren, resides in Florida.
Laban A. Needham was born Nov. 6, 1813, in Massachusetts. He came to this town with his parents when six years of age ;
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in 1827 he purchased land of the Holland company on the same lot that his father located on, which he has ever since owned and occupied ; between 1830 and 1840 he taught seven terms of school in Concord ; he was Captain of Militia four years, from 1839 to 1843. In 1843 he was married to Mariam Twich- ell. Mr. Needham has served the town as Assessor twelve years in succession, from 1859 to 1871.
Theodore B. Norris.
Theodore B. Norris was born Aug. 3, 1844, in Oneida county, N. Y., and came to Springville in 1847 ; he enlisted under the call of July 2, 1862 ; was mustered into the service at Buffalo Aug. 18, 1862, Company F, One Hundred and Sixteenth regi- ment, New York volunteers; left September 15th and went into camp near Baltimore, under command of General Wool : left for Louisiana November 5th ; on arriving at New Orleans his regiment was transferred to General Banks' command, first division of the nineteenth army corps, under Brig .- Gen. Wil- liam H. Emory ; he was a member of the volunteer storming party known as " The Forlorn Hope," which was selected for the storming of Port Hudson ; in this siege he lost an eye; he participated in the Red river expedition and the battles result- ing from it ; he left Louisiana for Virginia July 5, 1864, arriv- ing in time to take part in opposing General Early's raid upon Washington ; his regiment next joined Sheridan in the Shen- andoah Valley campaign, and took part in the battles of Win- chester, Cedar Creek, &c .; after doing three months guard duty at the national capital, he was mustered out of the service June 5. 1865 ; he was Corporal of his company.
Mr. Norris was married in 1872 to Lucinda Hazard; they have one child, Mabel Norris. Mr. Norris has been Town Clerk and Collector, and on Jan. 9, 1875, he was commissioned Postmaster at Springville, which position he has ever since ably filled.
Ephraim Needham.
Ephraim Needham was born in Massachusetts in 1791 and came to this town in company with William and Lucy Chapin.
He settled on lot forty-five, township seven, range six, in
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1817. He was married to Sally Foster, April, 1820, and went to Illinois in 1847 and died there in 1855. They had five children :
Huldah, Lysander, Albert, Roana and George, all of whom are dead except Lysander and Albert; who live in Illinois. Mrs. Needham is living with her son Lysander, in Brant.
Lysander Needham.
Lysander Needham was born in Concord, Jan, 12, 1823, and was married to Almeda Cranston June 16, 1834. After her death he was married to Catharine Tabor, Aug. 30, 1837. By his first wife he had two children :
Roana, born Jan. 17, 1847 ; died Aug. 24, 1871.
Ephraim A., born Sept. 18, 1853 ; is now living in Brant.
The children of his second wife are :
Josie, born June 16, 1868.
Emma, born April 3, 1874 ; died Sept. 12, 1874.
Mr. Needham was Captain of Co. E, 67th Regiment and was at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1863.
Solomon Ostrander.
Solomon Ostrander came to this town from Montgomery county, N. Y., in 1848, and settled in East Concord on lot thirty-five, township seven, range six, where Lyman Smith now lives. Here he lived until his death, which occurred April 18, 1862. He had fourteen children, three of whom died acci- dental deaths.
Tunis, married Alida Veder and lives near East Concord.
Margaret, married Christopher Bradt ; died cast.
Maryette, married a man by the name of Cool ; he died in the east , she afterwards married Berlin Hurd, of Springville.
John, married Rachel Graff ; after her death he married Kate Odell. He died May 10, 1883.
Peter, lives in Montgomery county, N. Y. Albert, died April 21, 1871. Catherine, married Vincent Cole. Jacob, died June 11, 1864. William, died in Montgomery county, N. Y.
Solomon, Jr., married Margaret Williamson and lives in Ohio.
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Aaron, married Dianthe King and lives near East Concord. Cornelius, died in Montgomery county,
Sarah, died in Montgomery county.
Jacob Oyer.
Jacob Oyer was born in the town of Ashford, Cattaraugus county, in 1823. His father's name was David Oyer, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Frank. His grand- father, Jacob Oyer was taken prisoner by the Indians and taken to Canada and sold for one crown. His great-grandfather was killed at the battle of Oriskany. He has lived in Ashford, Sardinia, Checktawaga, West Seneca and Concord. He has fol- lowed the business of farming most of his lifetime. He was Justice of the Peace in West Sencca for eight years. In 1847, he was married to Amanda J. Spaulding.
Their children are :
Clara E., married to Dr. R. S. Hambleton and resides in Buffalo.
Eddy Jay died in West Seneca, Nov. 5, 1867.
Margaret Ann lives in Basel, Switzerland, and teaches English.
Frank E.
Ella De Emma.
Harlan E. is now in a drug store in Buffalo.
Charles W. Pingrey.
Charles W. Pingrey was born March 11, 1843, in the town of Sardinia, came to reside in Concord in 1866; is a farmer ; he was married to Sarah A. King, daughter of Alvah King, March 7, 1866, and now lives on the old Homestead farm one mile cast of Springville ; his father's name is William Pingry ; his mother's maiden name was Mary Ann Wilder. For particulars of his ancestry record is had to the record of his father, Wil- liam Pingrey.
They had three children :
Albert L., born Feb. 3, 1869.
Frank E., born Aug. 17, 1873 : died Jan. 7. 1877. Clarence A., born Nov. 8, 1878.
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William Pingrey's Statement.
I was born Aug. 1, 1806, in the Town of Mt. Holley, Rut- land county, Vt .; came to the Town of Concord (now Sardinia) in 1817 ; am by occupation a farmer ; was married May 15. 1839; my wife's name was Mary Ann Wilder, daughter of Charles Wilder, late of the Town of Sardinia ; she was born in Wendall, Franklin county, Mass ; my father's name was Jona- than Pingrey ; he removed to Concord (now Sardinia) in 1816; was born in Rowley, Mass., in 1765 ; died May 4, 1840; my mother's maiden name was Eleanor Pease; father and mother were married in 1794; mother died June 4, 1850.
My ancestors removed from England as early as 1041, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., and engaged in active military ser- vice in the several wars that occurred at their time, and what was known as the French and Indian war and fighting Indians generally as circumstances required, and in the Revolutionary war one of my uncles was in command as colonel at the battle of Lexington.
When my father moved from Mt. Holley, Vt., he came with a two-horse wagon heavily loaded with furniture, farming tools etc .; was twenty-one days on the road ; left part of his load at Canandaigua, and returned afterwards for it. We moved into a log house 18 x20 feet, built by Horace Ryder ; the floors were made of split basswood ; the roof was made of shakes rived from elm timber ; this apartment accommodated the fam- ily (nine persons) until we raised the upper story and made sleeping room up stairs. Our furniture consisted of a cross- legged table 3x4 feet, three chairs, some benches and a loom ; we had two iron bake kettles ; these served us very well until we built a stone oven on top of a hemlock stump that stood near the house ; at one time for a few days we were out of bread while father was gone to Canandaigua after provisions ; but one of our neighbors, Mr. Charles Wells, furnished us with flour and venison.
Our farming tools were better than those of most of our neighbors, as we brought some with us.
The woods were full of deer, wolves and bears and other smaller wild animals, so we had wild meat very often; and I being the small boy, it was my business to bring in the cows,
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and it was often after dark before I found the cows ; one night I was driving the cows home and a wolf howled near me, and then he went off a distance and howled to get other wolves to come, but soon returned and followed me near the house ; my sister hearing the wolf howl, blew the tin horn to guide me towards home.
We had raised a fine crop of rye, and having one new-milk cow we calculated to live well, but while our first grist of rye was at the mill to be ground we lost our cow by an accident in the woods ; this made us rather short, and mother looked sol- emn.
The cause which led father to leave Vermont and come to the Holland Purchase was that to assist a young man to start in business ; he became responsible pecuniarily and met with such a loss as compelled him to sell his farm and leave his old home, and his advice to me on a subsequent occasion perhaps saved me from a similar disaster ; when father moved into the Town of Concord the Town of Concord embraced what is now Collins, North Collins, Concord and Sardinia, but when the Town of Concord was divided our location was in the Town of Sardinia ; before the division town meetings were held some- times at one point and then at another, to suit the people.
Religious meetings were held by Methodist circuit preachers at Ezekiel Smith's; I recollect that the name of one was Locke: the Freewill Baptists held meetings at Uncle George Richmond's; Elder Richard Carey and a man named Patchin and some others from Boston officiated at these meetings.
Two schools were kept about equi-distant from us-four and half miles each way-one at Dr. Colegrove's Corners and one at Liberty Pole Corners, one and one-fourth miles east of Springville ; I first attended school taught by Patty Long in Jerry Wilcox's horse stable, six miles cast of Springville ; my next school, the Winter following, was kept by Benjamin George, father of Rev. Isaac George, at Morton Crosby's, on the Cattaraugus creek, five miles east of Springville ; the schol- ars ranged from five to twenty-five years of age.
Ail my father's family but two settled in Sardinia and one settled in Yorkshire. My oldest brother, Jonathan, went to Texas, and we have never heard from him.
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I lived on the farm I first took up fifty years ; began with sixty acres, and when I sold out I had three hundred ; I settled where I now live in 1866.
My children are :
William H., born June 5, 1840. .
Charles W., born March 11, 1843.
Orange Parmenter's Statement.
Was born Sept, 4, 1817, in the Town of Concord ; am a farmer ; was married to Sally Andrews, daughter of Harvey Andrews ; my wife died. My father's name was Elijah Par- menter; my mother's maiden name was Sally Miles; my father came from Rutland county, Vermont, in the year ISIO, and made a beginning on the farm now owned and occupied by Harrison Pingrey, three-quarters of a mile east of Springville ; after living there about one year, he removed to what is now the Stephen Tefft farm on Cattaraugus creek, about three miles west of Springville ; he moved from Vermont with an ox-team ; subsequently settled on a farm in Ashford, Cattaraugus county, near Scoby's mills, where he lived until the time of his death, being a period of fifty years or more. He was drafted into the military service and served in the War of 1812 until dis- charged.
Peter Prior.
Peter Prior was born at Back's Hill, in Sussex county, England, in 1831; came to this country in 1834, on the brig Emma ; was nine weeks crossing the ocean. His father was lost overboard on the voyage. Came to Buffalo on the canal, and came to Springville in the year 1865. In 1863, enlisted in the army, in the One Hundred and Forty seventh New York volunteers, from Oswego; afterwards was transferred to the Ninety-first regiment ; was in the Army of the Potomac, and was in most of the engagements from the Battle of the Wilder- ness to the close of the war; was in Wadsworth division, Fifth corps, when he was killed. His occupation is carriage painting. In the year 1852, he was married to Mary Ann Meachan, of Mansfield, Cattaraugus county, N. Y.
Their children are :
Levi, a carriage painter : married to Loretta Pratt in 1879. Mary, Emma, Lucy and Jennie.
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H. Evans Potter.
H. Evans Potter's grandfather, Hosea Potter, married Mar- cia Latten, and came from Cooperstown, Otsego county, N. Y., to this town in the Fall of 1816 or '17, and located on lot seven, township seven, range seven. He resided here until his death, in 1862.
H. Evans Potter's father, Theodore H. Potter, was born in 1813 ; he was first married in 1836 to Sarah Stancliff, by whom he had two daughters :
Marcia P. married David P. Hale ; resides in Michigan.
Harriet married Osero Churchill ; resides in town.
Mr. Potter was married a second time in 1843 to Naomi Can- field, by whom he had four children :
H. Evans.
Mary married Lorenzo Vaughan ; reside in town.
Augusta married Elmer O. Leland, cashier in Springville bank.
Willic S. died in 1861.
H. Evans Potter was born in this town in 1844: he has always lived in this town with the exception of five years that he resided in North Collins. He was married in 1866 to Eunice Hale. Their children are :
Eva M., Willie H., Beulah N., Lizzie N. and Hugh E.
James Prior.
James Prior was born in the Village of Hollington, Sussex county, England, in 1826. His father's name was James E. Prior, and his mother's maiden name was Babcock. He came to this country in 1834, on the brig Emma ; was nine weeks on the ocean to New York ; his father, during the voyage, was lost overboard ; his mother being left with a family of nine children. They came to Buffalo on the Eric canal, and, owing to the death of his father and the circumstances of the family, he was immediately put to work-at the age of eight years- and was deprived of the privilege of attending school. When of proper age, he learned the trade of carriage and sign paint- ing. He came to Springville in 1849, and worked at his trade until 1861 ; in that year, he formed a co-partnership with Philip Herbold, and since that time the firm has been engaged
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in the manufacture and sale of household furniture, and have also carried on the business of undertakers. In 1874, they en- larged their business, and have manufactured and sold doors, sash, blinds, flooring, etc., and have also been engaged to some extent as builders.
In 1848, he was married to Elizabeth Bath, who was born in London, England. Their children are :
Frank H., who married Helen Wadsworth, lives in Spring- ville.
Thomas B. married Mary Stanbro ; carriage and sign painter, Springville.
Edith.
Thomas Pierce.
The ancestors of our family came from England in 1634 and settled in Massachusetts. My father came to this state in 1793 and settled in Fairfield, Herkimer county, in 1807 : he removed to Frankfort a short distance east of Utica, where he lived with his family of eight children until they became separ- ated by marriage. I was born in the year 1800, and in 1829 married the daughter of Jacob Weber, late of Ashford. In 1837 we removed to a farm that I had purchased in Ashford, where we lived nearly thirty years. My father and mother and oldest sister, myself and wife and two daughters, became mem- bers of the Baptist church in this village, where those of us still living now retain our membership. My father died in Ash- ford, in 1850; my mother in 1842. In April, 1865, I buried my first wife in Ashford and in October, 1866, removed to Springville and married Miss Maryette Scoby of this place. My oldest daughter married B. A. Lowe, and resides in Spring- ville. My second daughter, Ann H. Pierce, lives at home. She is an artist and her place of business is on the south-west corner of Main and Buffalo streets. My son Weber T., resides in Min- nehaha county, Dakota Territory, near the village of Sioux Falls, where he purchased a homestead of 160 acres. My old- est brother, Chauncey, died in Ashford, in 1842 ; my youngest, Gifford, resided in this town a number of years ; he married, and buried two wives in this town ; he married a third time and removed to Kansas, where he died two years ago. He left a daughter, Helen A., who lives in East Pike, Wyoming county.
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John Prill.
John Prill was born in Scherber, New Sterlits, Mechlenberg, Germany, in 1826 and worked at farming in the old country. He embarked at Hamburgh, May 1, 1850, and came on a sail- vessel ; was seven weeks crossing to New York: went to East Otto, Cattaraugus county, and staid two years ; came to Concord and settled near Morton's Corners. in 1852, and lived there twenty years. He bought a small farm, improved it, and added to it until he had 225 acres.
He sold his farm and cows to Emery D. Albro in 1872, for $11,000, and came to Springville to live. In 1875, he purchased the farm lying one and one-half miles east of Springville, on which he has since resided.
He was married in 1859, to Miss Mary Tardell. in Hamburg, Erie county. She was born in Germany in 1832, and came from near the same place in the old country, that he did. Their children were :
John, who died in 1852. an infant.
Mary, who died in 1867, aged twelve years.
Lena.
Emma.
Meina, died in 1863, an infant.
Albert G.
Lena, married Horace Van Slyke ; they have three children. Emma, married George H. Kuchner; they live in Port Alle- gany : they have one child.
The Pike Family.
Isaiah Pike was one of Concord's very earliest pioneers. He was born at Plymouth, N. H., Aug. 12, 1786. His father's name was Uriah D. Pike, who came from England ; was a rev- olutionary soldier, enlisting when sixteen years of age. In 1810, Mr. Pike walked all the way from his native place, with knap-sack on his back, to this town and located lands on lot twenty-two, range seven, township seven. Here he encoun- tered those privations and incidents which only the pioneers of a forest country experience. He was an active participant in that part of the war of 1812 which was enacted in the vicinity of Buffalo and the Niagara frontier. He was Sergeant. In
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1816 he returned to New Hampshire, married Charlotte Hickok, and came back to his land, upon which he always resided up to his death, in 1866. He kept hotel at the Pike homestead from 1821 to 1837. Their children were :
Almira, who died in 1843; Uriah D., Albert, Sofina, Cyrene, Isaiah N.
Cyrene married Loran Vanderlip ; they now reside at Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Isaiah N., married Isabelle Ross ; they now reside at Evans- ville, Wisconsin.
Uriah D. Pike.
Uriah D. Pike was born Aug. 25, 1821, upon the farm which his father took up in 1810, and upon which he has ever since resided. He was married in 1846 to Julia Chase, who died in 1869. Their children are:
Charles, Isaiah and Ida.
Charles was married in 1873 to Cornelia Doty.
Ida is a graduate of the Buffalo State Normal School and was married in 1880 to Dr. E. A. Vaughan.
Mr. Pike was re-married in 1872 to Caroline Trevitt. Mr. Pike is a farmer and in his chosen calling has been very suc- cessful.
Mrs. Joshua Pike.
Whose maiden name was Esther Sharp, was born in Rutland county, Vt., in the year 1799, and came with her father's family to Wyoming county, N. Y., in the year 1812. In 1816, she was married to Joshua Pike, came to Concord and settled on the farm now owned by John Ballou. Mrs. Pike was the mother of thirteen children, of whom there are but five liv- ing. Her life has been a checkered one and if duly written would fill a volume, gifted by nature, with a strong consti- tution, she has far outlived the alloted span, yet posses- sing a happy disposition and remarkable powers of memory, she belongs to the past and yet lives to enjoy the present. Hardly any incident of note has transpired during the past three-fourths of a century, but what she has some knowledge of it, and upon local affairs she can recite incidents that belong to another age, that there are but few who live to remember.
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