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Mr. Blackney was the son of N. Blackney, Esq., an old resi- dent of Gowanda ; was married and twenty-nine years of age.
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Burleigh M. Briggs.
Mr. Briggs was born in Collins in 1854. His father, Isaac Briggs, was born in the town of Hamburg and came to Collins about 1840 ; was one of the first settlers in that part of the town, frequently designated as New Michigan. His mother's maiden name was Margaret McMichael. Mr. B. is a brother of George W. Briggs, of Concord. He was married in 1875 to Esther Burnap ; they have one child, Glen Ira.
Mr. Briggs is a teacher, and at present (October, 1880,) is a Deputy Supreme President of the Empire Aid Union, and en- gaged in organizing lodges of that order. His present resi- dence is Collins Center.
Henry Beverly.
Mr. Beverly's father, John D. Beverly, came to Collins from Schoharie county, N. Y., in the Spring of 1817, driving an ox team. He located on lot fifty-two, range seven, where he has always resided except four years' residence in Otto, N. Y.
Henry Beverly was born on the farm his father settled on in 1817, Sept. 6, 1834, where he has ever since resided. He was married in 1880 to Idelia Burroughs.
John Beverly.
Mr. Beverly was born in Collins, in 1827 ; always resided in the town of his birth and been engaged in farming, His fath- er's name was John D. Beverly ; his mother's maiden name was Susan Chichester. Mr. Beverly was married in 1848 to Lucy Johnson. They have had two children : Clementine and Lucy, both of whom are dead. Clementine dying at twelve years old and Lucy while an infant.
Matthew Beverly.
Matthew Beverly, a brother of John Beverly, was born in Collins in 1832, where he has since resided in the capacity of a farmer. He was married in 1857 to Mary Smith. They have two children ; Frank, born in 1859 and Susan L., born in 1868.
Bartlett Family.
Smith Bartlett was born April 11, 1790, in Vermont ; mar- ried Sarah Allen, in 1815, who was born May 16, 1796. They
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came to Collins from Danby, Vt., in 1815 and located on lot fifty-eight, where Mr. Bartlett commenced the tanning of leather in a very primitive manner. About 1828 he built a tan- nery on the same lot. In 1850 he moved on to lot fifty-seven, where, notwithstanding his advanced age, he displayed his usual energy and perseverance in modeling a farm from the wilderness. He died at this place Sept. 11, 1859 ; Mrs. Bartlett dying Aug. 9, 1861. Mr. Bartlett's ancestry were related to Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett reared a family of nine children, as follows :
Z. Allen, born April 23, 1816; married, 1838, Ruth White ; died Sept., 1874. Mary, born Jan. 14, 1817 ; married, 1835, John G. Pratt; reside in North Collins. Jane, born Nov. 9, 1819; married, 1838, George Lawton ; died in Evans. Seth, born Jan. 4, 1822 ; married, 1847, Marietta O'Brien, 1849, Aurilla Peasly ; reside in Collins. John S., born Sept. 14, 1825 ; married, 1851, Mary Kelley ; banker in Gowanda. Silva, born Jan. 29, 1828; died young. Richard, born Nov. 28, 1829 ; married, 1851, Phoebe Smith ; reside in Pontiac, Mich. Silva, 2d, born May 7, 1832 ; married 1850, Elijah Willit,; farmer in Collins. Sarah, born Sept. 24, 1834; married, 1854, Andrew Allen ; died in 1876, in Michigan. Ann O , born Oct. 26, 1837; married, 1864, George Taylor; reside in Collins. Seth T. Bartlett is a wealthy farmer of Collins. Up to twenty- three years of age he worked at tanning, carriage aad shoe- making. He has two daughters, Julia and Alice.
Curtis I. Bates.
Mr. Bates was born in Collins, in 1843. He was a son of Jacob Taylor Bates and his mother's maiden name was Mary Nichols. In the Fall of 1859, he became a clerk with S. T. White, engaged in general mercantile trade at Collins Center. He remained until he became a member of the firm, now known as Bates & White. He was appointed Post-Master in 1872 and has occupied that position ever since. He was mar- ried in 1867 to Calista E. Briggs ; they have two children' Alton C. and Mary E.
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Daniel Brown.
Daniel Brown, son of Isaac C. and Judith A. Hopkins Brown, was born Nov. 12, 1837, in Collins, where he has always resided, except five years residence in Allegany county. He was married to his present wife, Betsey C. Conger, in 1867.
Mr. Brown was a union soldier and the manner in which he performed the duties of a soldier reflect great credit upon him. He often performed service that entitled him to promotion, but he preferred to remain a private.
He enlisted Sept. 8, 1862, in Company L, 10th New York Cavalry, and was mustered out of the service Aug. 5, 1864. He took part in all the battles in which his regiment partici- pated except those which occurred during the interval from May 2d to Nov. 27, when he was in the hospital sick with yel- low fever, besides the battles of Spottsylvania Court House, Bloody Run and the surrender of Appomattox Court House. At the last named place a lucky incident placed him in a posi- tion in which he overheard the terms of the capitulation between Generals Grant and Lee.
Nathan M. Bailey.
Nathan M. Bailey, son of Morgan L. and Mary Ann Bailey, is a native of Collins and was born April 7, 1838. He was married Jan. 1, 1862, to Esther Burke, daughter of Cortland and Ann Burke, of Collins. Shortly after his marriage he moved on to his father's farm which he now owns and occupies. For the last two or three years he has also rented William A. Johnson's farm.
The names of their children are: Ellis C., born Dec. 23, 1863 and died Sept. 24, 1865. Ella M., born April 20, 1866. Preston L., born Feb. 4, 1868. Arthur W., born Jan. 28, 1871. Alvin H., born Feb. 18, 1876. Cora E., born Feb. 3, 1880.
As a farmer he is prudent and industrious, but has labored under pecuniary disadvantages, by being left at an early age with the care and responsibility of his father's large and de- pendent family.
His father, Morgan L., was born in 1804 and passed his early life in Clarence, N. Y. In 1830 he removed to Collins and bought a farm formerly owned by Charles Barden, at which
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place he resided to the time of his death, which occurred March 16, 1850. He had a family of ten children : Maria, born May 6, 1833, and lives in Michigan. Emmons, born Jan. 24, 1835, and lives in Wisconsin. Nathan M., born April 7, 1838. Eme- line, born Feb. 12, 1840, and lives in Pennsylvania. Cynthia, born Aug. 17, 1843 and died in Collins in 1874. Minerva, born in 1845 and lives in Michigan. Rosette J., born in 1847 and lives in Michigan, and Lucinda, Morgan and Monroe, who died young.
Emily Becker.
Emily Becker, daughter of Austin and Maria Shaw, was born in Danby, Vt., Dec. 23, 1832. When young she removed with her people to Erie county, N. Y., and also to Washington Township, Erie county, Pa., and in 1846 removed to Collins, their present place of residence. In 1854 she married Jacob Becker, son of Isaac and Nancy Becker. The names of her children are as follows :
Charlotte M., born Feb. 13, 1855 and died Dec. 3. 1871 Isaac, born Oct. 9. 1857, unmarried and lives with his parents. Ella R., born April 28, 1859 and died May 31, 1859. Helen R., born April 22, 1872.
Margaret Becker.
Margaret Becker, daughter of Dr. Levi Goldsburrow, of Waverly, N. Y., was born in Waverly, Dec. 13, 1831. July 22. 1849, she married John Becker, son of Isaac and Nancy Becker.
The names of their children are as follows: Laura, born Oct. 3, 1855, and died April 17, 1861. Ettie, born Dec. 12, 1856; married Vird Button, and resides in Collins. Frank, born March 19, 1862, and died July 1, 1865. Levi G .. born July 9, 1867. Charles, born Sept. 5, 1868. Clarence, born June 10, 1870.
Savid Bartlett.
Savid Bartlett was a machinist and edge-tool manufacturer. In 1810, he established himself in this business at Danby, Vt., and carried on the business there for nearly thirty years. In 1846, he removed with a large family to Collins, and com- menced the manufacture of scythes, axes and hoes, near where
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Collins Station now is. Mr. Bartlett claims to have made the first cast-steel scythe in America. He had the reputation of being the best scythe manufacturer in the country.
Mr. Bartlett died in 1856, his wife, Prussia Allen, dying in 1868. Of the children, six are now living :
Marcus resides in Buffalo. Pliny married Susan Chase ; resides in Collins. Ruth married Albert Wilber. Smith is proprietor of the Collins Center Hotel. David A. resides at Tarport, Penn. Jeremy resides in Collins.
Daniel D. Barnhart.
Daniel D. Barnhart, son of Stephen A. and Hester Barnhart, was born at Hoosic Falls, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1831. When three years of age, his people removed to Collins, where he resided until the Spring of 1854, when he went to California, and was there engaged in farming until the Fall of 1859, when he returned to Collins, where he has since resided, owning and occupying a farm located two miles northeast of Gowanda.
Oct. 30, 1868, he married Sarah Pratt, widow of Cyrenius Pratt, and daughter of Jonathan and Temperance Soule, of Collins. He has no children.
Chauncey Becker.
Chauncey Becker, son of Isaac and Nancy Becker was born in Dansville, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1826. In about 1833, he came to Collins, where he has ever since resided, now owning and occu- pying a farm located three miles southwest of Collins Center. Oct. 2, 1852, he married Hannah Poland, daughter of Tru- man and Sally Poland. They have a family of two sons :
Adelbert R., born Aug. 25, 1853; married Mary O'Brien, and lives with his father. Willis A., born March 24, 1860.
Sarah E. Beverly.
Sarah E. Beverly, daughter of Henry and Rachel Palmer- ton, was born in Collins, March 14, 1829. In July, 1879, she married James F. Beverly. In July, 1879, she purchased a farm of 107 acres, formerly owned by George Valentine, which place she now owns and occupies. Her father, Henry Palmer- ton, was born in the eastern part of New York, in 1794, and at
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the age of seventeen he came with his brother Joshua to what is now the town of Collins, where he remained for one year when he returned to Vermont for two years. During these two years he served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and was present at the burning of Buffalo, at which time he narrowly escaped being killed. He and a companion, Calvin Cary, of Boston, Erie county, N. Y., were pursued by the Indians. Cary, being a large, heavy man, became exhausted and was not able to keep up with Palmerton, who was encouraging him to run, when the Indians came up and Cary was killed but Palmerton succeeded in escaping.
His widow, who still survives him, receives a government pension. In 1814, he returned to Collins, and Nov. 28, 1816, he married Rachel Albee, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Albee. Soon after his marriage he took an article of land in Collins where he resided to the time of his death, which occurred Sept. 9, 1870. They have four children :
Julia Ann, born Jan. 15, 1819 ; married Medad Towilegar, and lives in Angola, Erie county, N. Y. Warren A., born Dec 4, 1820, and died Sept. 25, 1822. Sarah E., born March 14, 1829. Albert T., born Feb. 17, 1833, and died Nov. 19, 1852, and they also adopted a son, David Akins, who was born Sept. 18, 1822, and died in 1876.
Col. Sylvenus Cook.
I was born in Richmond, Mass., Jan. 14, 1795. My father moved to Danby, Rutland county, Vermont. I came to this county in February, 1814, came to Hamburgh first, then to Collins, and finally located at Nichols' Corners, on the John Nichols place. In April, 1814, Jehiel Albee and I went from his father's house, near Collins Center, to Nichols Corners, in Concord, and built a log house or shanty on my lot and finished it all off and returned the same day. We used no boards, no nails and no shingles. When I located at Nichols Corners there was no other settler in that part of the town of Concord. The next settler was Nehemiah Paine, who located on the next lot west of mine, the same Spring and soon after I did. Jere- miah Richardson came in the Spring of 1815. He was not married then, but said he had a wife picked out He stayed
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and chopped, and put up a house that Summer, and boarded with me most of the time. We frequently assisted each other by exchanging work. He went to Batavia in the Fall, and worked through the Winter and returned in the Spring. John Battles came about 1815 and located on the Morton place. Mrs. Pike came about two years after I did. Simeon Holton came and settled on the lot south of me. Luke Simons came not many years after I did. Seymour Newel settled north of me, up toward Goodels. While I lived there I went to Townsend Hill to training, and sometimes to Springville to town-meet- ings. Four or five years after I came I sold out to Levi Nich- ols, father of John and Isaac Nichols, and I removed down below Bagdad in Collins.
COMMISSION OF COL. SYLVANUS COOK, JR.
The people of the State of New York, to whom all these pres- ents shall come :
KNOW YE, That pursuant to the Constitution and Laws of our State, we have appointed and constituted and by these presents do appoint and constitute Sylvanus Cook, Jr., Colonel of the 198th Regiment of Infantry of our said State, (with rank from July 28, 1838), to hold the said office in the manner specified in and by our said Constitution and Laws.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have caused our seal for mili- [L. S.] tary commissions to be hereunto affixed.
Witness, William L. Marcy, Esquire, Governor of our State, General and Commander-in-Chief of the militia, and Admiral of navy of the same, at our city of Albany, the 24th day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Passed the Adjutant General's office.
WILLIAM L. MARCY.
ALLAN MACDONALD, Adjutant General.
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ERIE COUNTY, SS.
I hereby certify that on the 3d day of September, A. D. 1838, the within-named Sylvanus Cook, Jr., personally appeared before me and took and subscribed the oath required by law to
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qualify him to discharge the duties of the office to which he is commissioned.
JEIHIEL HILL,
Brig. Gen. 54th Brig. N. Y. S. Inf.
Norman Cook.
Mr. Cook's father, Peter Cook, came to Collins from Ver- mont, in 1825. He was married at the residence of Hosea White, in Collins, in 1827, to Lydia White. He died in Ham- burg, in 1873, aged sixty six. His widow resides in Buffalo with her daughter, Mrs. Johnson.
Norman Cook was born in Collins in 1828, where he lived until nine years old, when his parents moved to Concord. He lived there until twenty-two years of age, when he returned to Collins, where he has since resided, a farmer.
Mr. Cook was married in 1852 to Alzora Ashman, who died in 1854, leaving a daughter, Eva, who died in 1871, aged seven- teen. He was again married, in 1857, to Cynthia Bartlett, by whom he has had two daughters: Helen and Clara ; Helen died when three years old.
Mr. Cook came onto his present farm of two hundred and three acres in 1862.
John V. Cole.
John V. Cole, son of Vincent M. and Julia Squires Cole, was born in Concord, N. Y., May 2, 1857. He attended school at the Springville Academy, and in 1879 studied dentistry with E. R. Vaughan, of Lancaster. In June, 1881, he established himself in the dentistry business at Collins Center.
He was married in December, 1881, to Jennie E. Beverly. They have one child.
Nicholas J. Coon.
Mr. Coon was born in Otsego county, N. Y., July 26, 1815. He afterwards lived in Susquehanna county, Penn. He came to Zoar in Collins in 1846, where he has since lived. He has a family of three daughters and one son.
He married Sarah Fitch, in Otsego county, a lineal grand- daughter of Capt. Isaac Davis, of Revolutionary fame. Mary Fitch Coon has just reason to be proud of her ancestry. She was born Feb. 22, 1811, in Hancock, N. H., and came to Otsego when eleven years old. Her father, Noah Fitch, was a native
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of Acton, Mass. He married Mary Davis, youngest child of Capt. Davis. History relates that Captain Davis was a gun- smith of Acton-which was a village near Concord and Lex- ington, Mass. He was Captain of the Acton company of Minute men, being at that time about thirty years of age- brave and thoughtful, and having a wife and four children, one of whom was afterwards the mother of Mrs. Coon. Captain Davis and his company led the way in the march to meet the British at Concord Bridge, exclaiming as he drew his sword, " I haven't a man that's afraid to go." At the first volley from the British he fell, shot through the heart, being the first one killed in the Revolutionary War. His remains now rest under the Bunker Hill monument. In the language of James Russell Lowell :
" The Concord Bridge which Davis, when he came, Found was the bee-line track to Heaven and fame."
Herbert Clark.
Mr. Clark, son of Adam Clark and Margaret Bennet, was born June 14, 1854, in Collins, N. Y. He has been a mercan- tile clerk in Springville, Belfast, Allegany county, and Gowanda, N. Y. He is a druggist by occupation. He was married Oct. 28, 1878, to Lillian F. Emmett.
James Colvin.
Mr. Colvin was born in 1816. He is the second son in a fan- ily of four sons and one daughter; the daughter being the oldest. His father's name was John Colvin, his mother's maiden name was Lucy Frink. His grandfather, Luther Col- vin, settled in Danby, Vt., in 1765 ; he was a Quaker and a noted hunter and trapper.
Mr. James Colvin married Lydia Gilbert. They resided in Vermont until February. 1873, when they moved to Missouri, remained there until December of the same year when they came to Collins and located on their present farm ; they have had nine children, viz :
Lucy Ann, married Jared L. Cook ; reside in Danby, Vt. Lucinda, married Wesley J. Leach; reside in Pawlet, Vt. David, married Ursula Kelly ; reside in Collins, N. Y. Emma,. died at fourteen years of age. Nora, married J. C. Williams,
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author of a history of Danby, Vt., where they now reside. Merrit L., dead ; Noah, dead ; Henry, Willie, died young.
Anson G. Conger.
Anson G. Conger was born at Danby, Vt., on the 26th of Oct. 1812, and was consequently in the sixty-eighth year of his age at the time of his death, which occurred Feb. 12, 1880. He was born of Quaker parentage, his father, Noah Conger, having been a preacher in that denomination. When quite young he was left in the care of his father's family. He taught school in Vermont when a young man and afterwards engaged in sup- plying district school libraries in this state with books.
He was married to Miss Portia White, daughter of Isaac White, in September, 1845, and then settled in Collins, where he resided until his death.
He was Supervisor of Collins in 1859 and 1860 and again in 1878. In 1862 he represented his district in the Legislature, and in whatever body he appeared he made himself felt. He actively engaged in business up to the time of his death, and was known for his shrewdness, industry and enterprise.
Soon after taking up his residence in Collins, he entered upon the business of buying and selling lands and negotiating loans, and possessing a speculative turn of mind, together with a sound judgment, soon succeeded in accumulating a handsome fortune.
Mr. Conger was a man of character and force and had the qualities of a leader. His brain was large and active and he was known as a man of quick and ample resource. He was a man of gentle qualities, a kind husband and a most indulgent father.
Mr. Conger had a son, J. Anson, who died in 1864, aged two years, and two daughters, Ella P. and Emma M., born repect- ively in 1853 and 1857.
Ella P. was married in 1876 to Charles W. Goodyear, Esq., of Buffalo, where they now reside. They have a son and daughter, Anson C., born June 20, 1877 and Esther, born May 20, 1881. Emma M. was married in 1880 to Charles W. Lap- ham, of Chicago. They have one son, Anson G., born July 14, 1881.
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Noah Conger.
Noah Conger, son of Almond D. and Sophronia Conger was born in Collins April 26, 1841. He was married May 8, 1864 to Mary Ann Heath, of Collins, N. Y. Shortly after his marriage he bought and occupied a farm situated one and a half miles north of Collins Center, and formerly known as the Stephen White- farm, at which place he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred April 27, 1873. He was by nature a very ingenious mechanic, possessing a mind gifted with more than ordinary intellectual and originating power, which, with the limited means. and opportunities afforded him, he had improved to the best advantage.
As a farmer he was thrifty and industrious and commanded the respect of the community in which he was known. His widow still resides on the farm. He had a family of three children : Willie H., born Aug. 30, 1866 and died April 11, 1870. Ada, born May 4, 1871 and died July 27, 1875. Almon N., born March 27, 1873.
David B. Conger.
Mr. Conger was born in North Collins in 1847. His father's name was Noel Conger ; his mother's maiden name was Bet- sey Sherman. Mr. C. resided in his native town until twenty years of age, when he moved to Collins, where he now resides. on a farm of 160 acres. He was married in 1867 to Angeline. Foster.
Joseph H. Conger.
Mr. Conger is a brother of David B .; was born in North Col- lins in 1830; came to Collins in 1861, where he resides on a farm of 10212 acres. He was married in 1853 to Amanda M. Foster.
They have two sons: Burt M. and Charlie F. A daughter, Elnora G., died when seven years old.
Sally C. Clark.
Sally C. Clark, daughter of Lewis and Serrepta Trevett, was born in Homer, Cortland county, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1814 ; while young she removed with her parents to the Town of Concord, where she resided till 1849, when she married Timothy Clark,
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of Collins, in which place she now lives; her husband died Aug. 7, 1873. She raised a family of five children :
Florence, born Nov. 14, 1850; married Andrew W. Conger and resides in Collins. Fillmore, born July 14, 1852; died Dec. 3, 1873. Charles, born Oct. 25, 1855 ; married Jennie Canfield ; lives in Collins. Arthur, born March 21, 1857 ; mar- ried Antoinette Spaulding and resides on the old homestead. Douglass, born Sept. 21, 1860, and lives in Collins.
Theodore A. Canfield.
Mr. Canfield was a son of Sillick Canfield, who was born in Armenia, Dutchess county, N. Y. The following is Sillick Canfield's family record :
PARENTS.
Sillick Canfield, born Sept. 12, 1791 ; married Jan. 22, 1814, to Susanna Tousy ; died Sept. 20, 1865. Susanna Tousy, died March 4, 1857.
CHILDREN.
Orrin S., born Nov. 29, 1814 ; died Dec. 6, 1816. Orville S., . born March 29, 1816; married in 1841 to Sally Briggs ; resides in Minnesota. Lyman D., born April 28, 1818; died March 28, 1822. Jane E., born April 20, 1820; married in 1839 to Bijah Gray ; died Feb. 5, 1844. Theodore A., born Feb. 13, 1823; married in 1848 to Nancy S. Sampson. Newmon O., born Nov. 26, 1825 ; died July 8, 1829. Sarah A., born Feb. II, 1828 : married in 1846 to A. G. Needham ; died Oct. 3, 1851. Helen M. (twin), born Jan. 1, 1831 ; married in 1851 to Warren Gates : resides in Minnesota. Ellen S. (twin), born Jan. 1, 1831 ; married in 1848, to John Sampson ; resides in Missouri. Cecelia, born June 21, 1834 ; died Sept. 26, 1855.
Theodore A. Canfield was born in Concord. When three years old the family moved to Boston, and back to Concord again in 1833. Mr. Canfield moved to Collins in 1866, where he has since resided ; has always been a farmer. The follow- ing is his family record :
Florence, born in February, 1850 ; married in 1872 to Frank Hunt. Walter S., born Dec. 31, 1852 ; married in 1876 to Ida
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May Potter. Jennie L., born Dec. 15, 1857 ; married in 1876 to Charles Clark. Mary A., born Aug. 7, 1860.
Mrs. Canfield was born Oct. 15, 1825.
Crandell Family.
Luke Crandell, Sr., a soldier of the Revolution, came to Col- lins from Vermont about 1815, with three sons-Darius Wil- liam and Philander, another son, Luke, Jr., having come several years before and served in the war of 1812. They were promi- nent among the early pioneers of Collins. They all resided in Collins till their death, except Luke, Jr., who died in Illinois.
William Crandell was born in Danby, Vt., in 1795, and died in 1861 or 1862. He married Betsey Harrington, also a native of Vermont ; she died in 1855 or 1856. They had nine chil- dren. all living :
Three of the sons, Watson, James and Delos, settled in Mis- souri. Watson was a Major in the Union army, and was twice a prisoner in Libby prison. Jefferson lives in Collins and Phi- lander in Steuben county. There are four daughters : Rachel lives in Wisconsin, Phœbe in Illinois, Sophia in North Collins, and Olive, who married Hiram Stage in 1843, and resides at Collins Center.
Mr. Stage served in the war of the rebellion. They have four children :
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