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 39
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 39
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Mary, who married Charles F. Williams and lives in Chau- tauqua county.
Dennis, married Rachael Ritman of Hamburg and removed to Chautauqua in 1876, and afterwards died with the typhoid pneumonia.
Edwin 1 ves in this town.
David E. Scott.
David E. Scott was born on Townsend Hill, in this town, April 26, 1849, and has resided here all his lifetime, except when absent on two hunting expeditions that he has taken to the Far West. One in 1867, when eighteen years of age and the other several years later. He hunted buffalo, deer, elk, antelope, etc., for over six months, in Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. Oct. 10, 1872, he married Loraette Smith, daughter of William Smith. July 10, 1875, she died, leaving one child. Edith, then about a year and one-half old. He purchased land on Buffalo street, Springville, on which he built a house in 1875, in which he resides. Sept. 5, 1879, he was married to Clara B. Williams, by whom he had one son. He is a farmer and owns a farm on Townsend Hill.
Fanny M. Sherman, A. M.
Fanny M. Sherman was born Jan. 12, 1842, in Ashford Cat- taraugus county, N. Y. Her father's name was Charles
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Sherman ; her mother's maiden name was Mary Whitney. Miss Sherman graduated at the Springville Academy in 1862, pre- vious to which she had taught nine terms of school; after graduating, she taught one year at Lawrenceville, Pa., and at different places in Erie and Cattaraugus counties, until 1865, when she entered the Genesee College at Lima, as a student, and remained about two years. In 1866, she became precep- tress of the High School at Ypsilanti, Mich., which position she occupied two years. From Ypsilanti, she went to Califor- nia, and taught seven years in the high schools of San Fran cisco. In 1875, she returned to Springville and accepted the position of preceptress of Griffith Institute, which position she filled until 1882, when she accepted a like position at Hamburg, N. Y.
While in California, Miss Sherman was granted a Teacher's State Life diploma, and since her return she has had the hon- orary degree of A. M. conferred upon her by Alfred University and Allegany College.
Miss Sherman is one of a family of eight, who have all been more or less engaged in teaching.
Her father, Charles W. Sherman, died April 2, 1883, aged seventy-two years, eight months and twenty days.
Calvin C. Smith.
Mr. Smith is a brother of S. R. Smith, and was born near Springville, Sept. 27, 1838, where he has ever since resided. He was married Nov. 15, 1864, to Josephine Flemings. They have two sons :
Grant, born Aug. 19, 1865.
Ira W., born Oct. 12, 1871.
Mr. Smith has followed the occupation of farming, with the exception of three years, when he was in trade in Springville : one year, 1863, as grocer, and two years, 1864 and '65, in the boot and shoe trade.
Stephen R. Smith.
Mr. Smith was a son of Calvin Smith, one of the earliest pioneers of Concord, a sketch of whom will be found in an- other part of this work. He was born June 27, 1830, in Con- cord, on the farm now owned by him, and the one which he
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has always either resided upon or occupied, with the exception of three years spent in California-1854 to 1857-where he was successfully engaged in mining in the Sierra Nevada moun- tains.
Mr. Smith's farm of 225 acres is one of the finest in town and under his careful cultivation has been made to yield suffi- cient produce to maintain a dairy of sixty cows, while, when he first commenced its supervision, only twenty-five were kept.
Mr. Smith was married in 1859 to Mary E. Gardinier. In the Spring of 1865, he moved to Springville, and erected the first cheese factory built in town. He continued to purchase and build factories until he is now probably the largest individ- ual cheese manufacturer in the world, being now sole proprietor of sixteen factories: Five in Concord, six in Cattaraugus county, four in Sardinia, and one in Colden. During the year 1880, nine hundred tons of cheese were made; two hundred cheese per day being made in the best of the season; the pro- ceeds of this immense product of cheese amounting to a quar- ter of a million dollars. The Yorkshire Corners factory, now owned by Mr. Smith, was the first cheese factory built in Cat- taraugus county. In 1864-it was then owned by D. J. Wood- worth-it probably made the largest sale of cheese for the high- est price that was ever recorded, the sale amounting to about twenty-five tons, at twenty-six cents per pound.
Besides Mr. Smith's extensive cheese business, of which he has the sole proprietorship and management from the time the milk is received at the factory until the patron receives his money ; he conducts a general business in furnishing building materials, and also manufactures all the boxes used for ship- ping the cheese, besides large quantities for others.
For the successful management of Mr. Smith's business, much is due to his efficient clerk, F. O. Smith, who has been in his office nine years.
Mr. Smith has made it a rule to expend all moneys earned in improvements and the extension of his business.
He takes an interest in all industrial projects that have for their object public improvement.
In 1883, he was elected President of the Farmers' Bank of Springville.
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Samuel D. Stevens.
Samuel D. Stevens was born March 1, 1814, in Vermont, and came to the Town of Concord in the year 1832 ; his occu- pation a farmer ; was married in 1838, to Sarah Philips, daugh- ter of Deacon Asa Philips; she was born in Salem, Mass., Nov. 3, 1814 ; his father's name was Levi Stevens; his mother's maiden name was Rhoda Hazeltine. Deacon Asa Philips died at the age of seventy-one years and eight months ; his wife died at the age of seventy-one years and seven months. They came to Concord in 1817; settled one mile south of where they now live on a farm, and subsequently came to live at their pres- ent location ; have no children.
Henry D. Sterns.
Henry D. Sterns was born Aug. 16, 1832, in Vermont ; came to Concord in 1837 ; is a farmer ; was married in 1856, to Barb- ary Vance, who was born in Canada; his father's name was John Sterns ; his mother's maiden name was Polly Preston ; his farm consists of one hundred and fifty acres ; it was all a wild- erness when he came here, but he has cleared most of it. Their children were :
Holland, born May 3. 1857 ; died June 28, 1863.
Ida A., born March 31, 1863.
Charles H., born Dec. 19, 1864.
Elmer J., born Aug. 12. 1869.
Alvin E., born March 1, 1872.
Grace A., born March 22, 1874.
Ray W., born May 1, 1876. Eva M., born April 15, 1880.
We came to Vermont with horses and sleigh. When we first came here the road was not cut out, and we had to follow marked trees ; we sometimes went to meeting with oxen and słed in the Summer time.
John Becker was the first settler on our street between Woodward's Hollow and the town line.
Then came Truman Vanderlip, Zacheas Preston, Henry Sterns and Mr. Dingman.
A Mr. Babcock came from Canada and located and was the first man that died in our neighborhood.
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Ira Stebbins, John Lynde, Daniel Horton and William Mor- ton located here soon after.
Orrin Sibley's Statement.
I came from the town of Wellington, Tolland county, Conn., in 1816. Benjamin Sibley and Joshua Agard came out in the Spring and bought land and returned, and we all came out in September. There was Joshua Agard, Benjamin Sibley, Abi- jah Sibley, Mr. Cunningham and their families and myself ; I was nineteen, nearly twenty, when we came. Agard's first wife was my sister ; her name was Lucy Sibley. Mr. Cunning- ham settled on the hill north of us. The rest of us located on lots sixty-three and fifty-five, township seven, range six, adjoin- ing each other. We settled on what has been called the "State Road." It was marked through when we came, but was not cut out. We cut it through to Griffith Corners two or three years after we came. When we came there was not a house between the dye factory and East Concord.
Lyman Drake and Mr. Thurber lived down the valley tow- ards the Boston line. I helped raise a log house for a Mr. French in 1817, where Orville Canfield now lives, near the dye factory.
Aaron Cole came in about two years after we did, and so did Ephraim Needham, and Mr. Chapin's people came about that time also.
Mr. Cunningham did not live but a few years ; he left only one child, Elizabeth Cunningham ; she married Moses Calkins and died a few years ago.
Mahala Eaton taught the first school, I think in 1820 or 1821.
I was awfully scared the first night we were here at the owls hooting ; I had never heard an owl before, and I thought they were panthers. I heard a hog squeal one day in the woods not far from my house, and I went to see what was the matter, and found a bear killing and eating the hog ; I got a gun and shot and killed the bear; it was a large she bear and very poor; I sold the skin in Buffalo for five dollars ; the hog was not mine, but belonged to my neighbor, Aaron Cole. I once chased
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three bears over to the Buffalo creek, but did not kill any of them.
One night I heard a noise out in the woods resembling some- what the crying of a child, and I imitated the noise as well as I could, and the noise in the woods was repeated at intervals and came nearer and nearer ; I supposed it to be a panther, and concluded it was not best to call him up too close, and there- fore stopped imitating him.
Marshall D. Scoby.
Marshall D. Scoby was born Feb. 5, 1846, in Ashford, Catta- raugus county ; his father's name was Alexander Scoby ; his mother's maiden name was Sarepta Boss; his grandfather, Samuel Scoby, died in Springville in 1872, aged ninety-three years. Marshall has been farmer, and in the flour and feed business, clerk and salesman and hotel keeper. Dec. 1, 1874, he purchased the Sandusky House, in the Village of Sandusky, Cattaraugus county, and has conducted the same successfully since that time. Sept. 23, 1874, he was married to Miss Adella Thomas, of Yorkshire. They have two children :
Edna J., and Lottie L.
Edwin A. Scott.
Edwin A. Scott was born on Townsend Hill in this town, Dec. 26, 1858. His father's name was William J. Scott ; his mother's maiden name was Hannah Parsell. He attended school at the Springville academy, Hamburg and Forestville ; he studied law in the office of C. C. Severance, Springville ; he taught school on Townsend Hill and in Waterville. He was married to Miss Mary Stowell, of Ashford, Sept. 17, 1879, and is at present practicing law in Springville, N. Y.
Henry M. Scott.
Henry M. Scott was born in this town, Oct. 16, 1851. His father's name was Phineas Scott, and his mother's maiden name was Hannah E. E. Smith, daughter of James Smith, of Chau- tauqua county. In 1867 he went West and remained one sea- son in Wisconsin and Minnesota ; he also spent two years in Buffalo ; the rest of his life has been spent in this town. He
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owns a farm on Townsend hill, but his occupation at present is selling marble for a firm in East Aurora. He was married in the year 1871 to Miss Loraine Smith, daughter of William Smith.
Their children are :
Floyd, born April 25, 1873.
Bianca, born Nov. 19, 1879.
Lanson A. Stanbro.
Lanson A. Stanbro, son of Henry C. and Catharine Griffith Stanbro, was born in Concord in 1842, where he has since lived ; by occupation he is a farmer; he enlisted in August, 1862, in Company C., One Hundred and Sixteenth regiment New York State volunteers. At the siege of Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, he lost an arm, and the subsequent September he was dis- charged from the service for reasonable disability. He was married April 10, 1862, to Thyrsa Bryant.
They have five children :
Catharine E., born in March, 1863; married William Land. Julius, born April 3, 1865 ; died May 2, 1883.
Frank, born in January, 1867.
Alice, born in September. 1872.
Clark, born in June, 1877.
Laban W. Smith.
Laban W. Smith, son of William Smith, Jr., was born in Concord, March 8, 1835. He was married March 27, 1862 to Mary Pingry, daughter of Ezekiel Pingry, of Yorkshire, Cattar. augus county, N. Y., an early pioneer in this vicinity. Mr. Smith has always been a resident of his native town and is a farmer by occupation ; he is at present a member of the board of education in Springville. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had five children, viz .:
Wallace, born June 17, 1865.
Alice and Albert, twins, born March 10, 1868. Albert died June 16, 1869.
Herbert, born Sept. 27, 1874.
Isidora, born Oct. 13, 1876.
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Clark C. Sibley.
In 1816, Abijah, Benjamin and Orrin Sibley, brothers, came to Concord from Willington, Connecticut, where they were born, and bought land of the Holland Company on lots sixty- three and fifty-five, range six, township seven. Here they lived many years. Benjamin died at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, about 1850. Orrin lives in Boston, N. Y. Abijah, father of Clark C. Sibley, was born Nov. 1, 1788. He married Lucy Mercy in 1816. He always lived where he first located until his death on June 3, 1856.
His wife died March 19, 1859; they had a family of seven children as follows :
Adaline and Edwin, twins, born Oct. 4, 1816 ; died 1880.
Joseph, born Dec. 19, 1817 ; died March 7, 1864.
Anson D., born July 2, 1819 ; died April, 1875.
William A., born May 3, 1822 ; died Jan. 17, 1867.
Clark C., born July 19, 1828.
Lucian G., born July 12, 1834.
Clark C. Sibley was married Oct. 1, 1851, to Sally M. Fris- bee, by whom he had six children, viz .:
Sarah, born July 19, 1852 ; married Morris P. Baker.
Carlton, born Jan. 2, 1854; married Mattie Gardner.
Charles L., born July 17, 1855 ; married Adda Wilcox. Anson, born March 16, 1857 ; married Emma Hancock.
Clark E., born May 14, 1864.
Orrin, born Feb. 12, 1868.
Mrs. Sibley died Jan. 9, 1869, and Mr. Sibley was married a second time Nov. 12, 1873, to Miss Ella L. Smith, by whom he has three children, viz .:
Bessie, born July 13, 1875.
Earl, born Sept. 26, 1877.
May, born May 1, 1881.
With the exception of three years spent in Sardinia, Mr. Sibley has always been a resident of Concord ; he moved from the homestead farm to East Concord, in 1869.
Benjamin Sibley.
Benjamin Sibley came to this town in 1816, in company with his brothers Abijah and Orrin, and his brother-in-law, Joshua
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Agard. They all settled on farms joining each other ; Benja- min, Abijah and Joshua on lot sixty-three, and Orrin on lot fifty-five.
In early times, this place was called the "Sibley settlement," from the three brothers.
He lived here about thirty-two years, and cleared up a farm, after which he sold out and moved to Sheboygan county, Wis., where he died May 16, 1849. Anna, his wife, died March IO, 1876, at Sheboygan Falls, aged seventy-two.
Benjamin Sibley was a good neighbor, a good citizen and an excellent man.
They reared a family of six children :
Jonathan, the oldest, married Louisa Hatch, of Boston ; he died at Pentwater, Mich., March, 1875, in his sixtieth year.
Mary Ann married W. H. Prentice, of Aurora. She is still living, at Sheboygan Falls, Wis.
Amanda married John Shadbolt, and died at La Crosse, Wis., March 23, 1882, aged sixty years.
Juliet married John Gardinier, and lives in Waupaca county, Wis.
Charles is now living at Lind, Waupaca county, Wis. His first wife was Hattie Eels; his second, Ellen Crippen ; third, Mary Rice ; fourth, Mrs. Anna French.
Clark married Martha Monroe, and is living at Waldo, She- boygan county, Wis.
John Gardinier.
John Gardinier lived in this town when a young man for a number of years. He married Juliet Sibley, daughter of Benjamin Sibley. A few years after he moved to Waupaca county, Wisconsin, where he now resides. He is a farmer and stock-raiser and has been Sheriff of Waupaca county several years. Eight children were born to them :
Lucas, the eldest, was killed by lightning June 23d, 1858, aged ten years.
Julia, married Dr. Levi H. Pelton, of Sheboygan Falls.
Anna, died in Concord, Feb. 16, 1853.
Charley, lives in Lind, Wis.
May, married Edward Jeffers and is living in Buffalo, N. Y.
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Morgan L., died Oct. 21st, 1860.
John, Jr., died March 11, 1877.
Hattie, is living with her parents at Lynd, Waupaca county, Wisconsin.
Epaphras Steele.
The Steeles are of English descent, In 1861, one George Steele emigrated from Essex, England, to Cambridge, Mass. He and his brother John soon after settled in Hartford, Conn., where Epaphras Steele's father, Jonathan Steele, was born. He died in Boston, N. Y., aged ninety-four years. Epaphras Steele removed in 1806 from Hartford, where he was born Dec. 12, 1792, to central New York, where he resided in Cayuga and Onondaga counties until 1819, when he settled upon new land in the east part of Boston, N. Y., where he became familiar with pioneer life in its roughest forms. He had a good educa- tion for those days and was highly respected by the commu- nity in which he lived, as is shown by the fact that he was thirteen times elected Supervisor of Boston. He was also Cap- tain of militia many years. While a resident of Boston he became a member of the Free Will Baptist Church in that town. In 1846 he moved to East Concord, where he lived until his death, in 1876. He was married Feb. 15, '1819 to Dimmis Blakeslee, from Massachusetts. The Blakeslees were originally of Scotch-Irish origin. They had a family of five children, all living, married and having families as follows :
Emily, married George Bridge and resides in Colden. They have two daughters: Mary, married a man named Smith, and Emily, married Edwin Isintrout.
Eliza, married Burroughs Norton ; lives at East Concord : have one son living : Herbert, married Mary Fuller, and one daughter, Ellen.
Esther, married Michael Hollister; lives at East Concord ; have one son : Byron, married Carrie Johnson.
James, married Sarah FitzPatrick ; they have one son and one daughter.
James L., was a Lieutenant in the Ist Regiment Oregon Vol- unteers, serving three and one-half years, his Regiment doing service in guarding the Oregon frontier. Here he became also somewhat famous as hunter of elk, panthers and bears.
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Rev. John C. Steele, now of Dale, N. Y., married Carrie Griffith ; they have two daughters. Mr. Steele is a minister in the Free Will Baptist Church.
George Shultus.
George Shultus, brother of David, came to this wilderness soon after he did. He settled on lot nineteen, township six, range six, clearing up his farm as soon as possible, where he built and conducted a distillery. When the road from Wil- liam Warner's place to the Potter place, along the Eighteen-mile creek was laid out he had the contract for cutting it out and for building the bridges. He also was one of the parties that built the Bloomfield mill and at one time was part owner and manager of an iron foundry in the village of Springville. He was the father of nine children :
Ann, the eldest, is dead.
Leonora, married a man by the name of Hulbert, and lives in Minnesota.
Chauncey, is dead. Jerome is dead.
George, is now living in Minnesota.
Jane, married A. Lambert, and lives in Illinois.
Perry, Elmer and Ward, are now living in Springville.
George Shultes died Jan. 20, 1870.
Jonathan Spaulding.
Jonathan Spaulding came to this town from Lancaster, Coos county, N. H. His wife's maiden name was Abigail Meader. They started from Lancaster Aug. 8, 1815, and arrived at Con- cord Oct. 9, 1815 ; they stopped about ten days at Bloomfield, Ontario county. They came with horses and wagon, and were six weeks traveling on the road. For about two years after they arrived here, times were extremely hard, and it was very difficult to get enough to eat. Money would not buy provisions because nobody had anything to sell. At one time, Mr. Spaul- ding's family lived six weeks on pudding and molasses, with nothing else to eat. At another time, they procured a piece of pork, and Mrs. Spaulding abstained from eating any of it herself, and did not allow the children to have any of it,
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although they were all very hungry, but saved it all for her hus- band so as to give him strength to chop.
They had seven children, who were all born before they came to this town :
Sally, the oldest, married a Mr. Kibbie.
Daniel, the second child, in company with his sister Sally and her husband, and Mr. Kibbie, Sr., went over to the Alle- gany river and built an ark or boat, and lived in it through the Winter, and in the Spring floated down the Allegany, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Alabama, where they all died soon after with the yellow fever, except one child.
Jonathan Jr., was born in 1800, married Mary B. Higgins, and died in this town Oct. 30, 1845.
Abigail married Samuel Fairbanks, and died in Ashford about 1870.
Joseph Meader.
Adaline married Nathaniel M. Jones, of Boston, and died about 1852.
John T. G. married Minerva Spaulding, and died at Wood- ward's Hollow, April 1, 1874, aged sixty-four years.
Joseph Meader Spaulding.
Joseph Meader Spaulding was born in New Hampshire, Sept. 19, 1803, and came to this town with his parents in 1815 He was married to Betsy Wilson, June 17, 1832. He always lived on the old farm which his father cleared up, from the time he came here until his death, except two years, during which time he went to Ashford Hollow and bought a saw-mill and grist- mill, and built a store, and in company with his brother-in-law, Daniel Wilson, he carried on business for two years, and then returned to his farm in Concord.
He had three children :
George W.
Abel A., born Dec. 28, 1834, and died Dec. 27, 1852, aged eighteen years.
Mary J., born May 25, 1838 ; married Otis Davis in 1859, and lives in New Auburn, Sibley county, Minn.
Mr. Spaulding died April 22, 1871, aged sixty-seven years, seven months and two days.
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His wife, Betsy Wilson, was born in the Town of Putney. Windham county, Vt., and died in Concord, April 25, 1876, aged sixty-eight years, five months and sixteen days.
George W. Spaulding.
George W. Spaulding was born in Concord, July 21, 1833. He has lived on the old homestead all his life except five years -two years he served as clerk for Alanson King at Ashford Hollow, after which he bought Robbins & Cronkhite's grocery store in Springville, in which he carried on business for three years, when he sold out to Drake & Stanbro ; he then taught school four Winters, and lived at home with his father Sum- mers. He was married to Orcelia O. Washburn, Jan. 1, 1861 ; she was born in North Collins in 1844. Since his marriage he has conducted the old homestead farm.
He has five children : Allie M., born May 3, 1863.
Howard M., born Nov. 8, 1866.
Aba L., born June 20, 1869.
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Bertha, born April 17, 1873.
Ralph Hoyt, born Sept. 19, 1875.
David Shultus.
David Shultus was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. N. Y., March 4, 1779; was one of the first settlers in this town ; and moved here in IS10; he settled on lot twenty-two, township six, range six, near what is now called " The Shul- tus Bridge." He was a successful farmer and reared a large family of children. When he first came here, and for many years after, the forests were filled with bears, panthers, wolves and other wild beasts, with which he had many an exciting adventure.
His children were :
Eliza married J. Reynolds ; he is dead and she is living in Buffalo.
Emeline married Griffin Wiley, and died in Cattaraugus, about 1848.
Adeline married Jacob Siebold ; she died in Buffalo, about 1878.
Washington is supposed to be living in Arizona.
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Wellington married Jennette Crossman ; died about 1860, in the West.
Julia Ann married S. H. McEwen ; died in Springville, Dec. 5, 1845.
Harrison was shot by an Indian in North-west Wisconsin, about 1865.
Charles died at sea, about 1850.
David Shultus died June 7, 1859, aged eighty years. Lucy, his wife, died Jan. 16, 1848.
Amos Stanbro.
The Stanbros are of English descent. Amos Stanbro was born at Hopkinton, R. I., July 6, 1791. He lived in the New England States until the Spring of 1825, when he came to Concord, where he resided until his death, which occurred Jan. 20, 1864. The first year or two after coming to Concord Mr. Stanbro lived where Frederick Clark now resides; he then bought land on lot fifty-one, range six, township seven, where he lived until his death. Mr. Stanbro was a good neighbor and a good citizen ; he was an active, industrious and energetic farmer, and acquired quite a large property by hard work and good management ; he sometimes held town offices, and he also served as Captain in the militia. He married Hannah Wilcox at Stonington, Conn., where Mrs. Stanbro was born ; she died April 3. 1846 ; Mrs. Stanbro was a good woman.
Eleven children were born to them, as follows (the four old- est were born in New England) :
Mary Ann, married Orley Perkins ; died Oct. 9, 1858.
Lucy, married Sanford Mayo ; lives in Springville.
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