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 68
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 68
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Alta L., born May 7, 1869. Flora, born March 4, 1875. Hattie E., born Dec. 12, 1880.
Mr. Childs had two brothers in the Rebellion-Myron and Decatur, both of whom were taken prisoners at Nashville, Tenn., and Myron died in Andersonville prison.
His father Samuel was born in Aurora, Nov. 3, 1841, and died in Sardinia, Jan. 29, 1866. His grandfather, Henry Childs, a native of Vermont, attained the remarkable age of ninety-eight years, six months and sixteen days, and lived with his wife seventy-one years.
Hiram D. Cornwell.
Mr. Cornwell's father, Levinus Cornwell, was a son of Ben- jamin and Hester Carrington Cornwell. He was born in Con- necticut in November, 1791 ; moved first to Cortland county, N. Y .; then to Springville in 1822, and to Sardinia in 1830, onto lot thirty-six, township 7, range 5. Mr. Cornwell was a tan- ner currier and shoemaker, but he gave up those professions after moving on to the farm, to which he gave exclusive atten- tion up to his death, Nov. 3. 1878.
He was married to Lois Wheat, who was born Nov. 28, 1794, at Whitehall, Washington, county, N. Y., and died in Sardinia, May 5, 1871. They had four children :
Asher, born Dec. 22, 1820; married Delilah Stone; is a farmer and lives in Holland.
Levinus, born Sept. 4, 1822 ; married Charlotte Soule ; is a practitioner of medicine at Alden, Erie county, N. Y., and has been Supervisor of Alden. Miles C., born in Sardinia Jan. 12, 1831 ; has been married three times-first to Harriet Weeden ; second to Mary Weeden ; third to Dorcus Doty. He is a wagon maker and lives at Randolph, N. Y.
Hiram Cornwell was born at Springville, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1823, and came to Sardinia in 1830, where he has since lived. He is a farmer ; was married in 1855 to Martha J. Weather- low, who was born Dec. 8, 1822, at Waterloo, N. Y. They have seven children, viz .:
Lois V., Charles H., S. Alida, Nellie M., Willis L., Ernest J. and Marion E.
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Mr. Cornwell attended school at Aurora under Principal Barney three terms, about 1840. He taught school five or six Winters, three terms of which were in the town of Holland. Mr. Cornwell has been Supervisor of Sardinia two terms.
Hiram Crosby.
Mr. Crosby was born March 30, 1814, in Sardinia, where he has always resided ; his occupation is farming. He has been. Assessor and Commissioner of Highways in Sardinia. He was married Dec. 22, 1837, to Susan Jackman, who was born Dec. 9, 1818. They have had twelve children, viz .:
Levi, born Nov. 8, 1837; married Mary Anderson ; re- sides in Wisconsin. Alden, born Feb. 26, 1839; married
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Mary Johnson ; resides in Sardinia. Morton, born March 30, 1841 ; died July 14, 1864, in Andersonville prison. Jeremiah, born March 27, 1843; died May 2, 1845. David, born Nov. 17, 1846; died July 10, 1864, in Chicago; he was a soldier in the Rebellion. Emily N., born June 26, 1849 ; married Duane Fuller; resides in Concord. Lucy M., born April 6, 1851; died March 28, 1853. Albert, born June 28, 1853; married Ella Smith ; resides in Concord. Clark F., born May 3, 1855.
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Millard F., born Jan. 5, 1857. Alice A., born July 9, 1859; married Alva King. Hiram E., born Feb. 28, 1863.
Morton Crosby.
Morton Crosby was born in November, 1776; came from Herkimer county, N. Y., to Sardinia in ISII ; was by occupa- tion a farmer ; he died in Sardinia, April 1, 1840; his wife's maiden name was Charlotte Wilcox, who was born Sept. I, 1777, died March 13, 1865. Morton Crosby served as a sol- dier in the War of 1812, and was at Buffalo when it was burned.
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Parley, born Dec. 16, 1800, in Litchfield, Herkimer county, N. Y .; married to Charlotte Heacox ; now lives in the State of Wisconsin and is a hotel keeper. Lucy, born about 1802 at Litchfield, Herkimer county, N. Y .; married Jonathan Mathew- son, who died in April, 1879. Sanford, born about 1804 in Litchfield, Herkimer county, N. Y .; died in Illinois about 1850. Mary, born in 1806; married Chauncey Hakes ; died in Illinois in October, 1864. Eleanor, born in 1808. John, born in Sep- tember, 1810: married Sarah Hakes in 1830; his second wife was a Mrs. Hyde, who was a widow. Hiram, born in 1812. Mahala, born July 29, 1814, in Sardinia. Solomon, born in 1818; married Ellen Sweet ; he died in Iowa in 1869. Porter, born in 1820; married Katie Clover; he died in Minnesota in 1863.
Thomas Fitzpatrick.
Thomas Fitzpatrick was born in County Clare, Ireland in 1815; came to America, to Springville, in 1848; became a permanent resident of Sardinia, "Prattham," in 1859, where he lived until his death, May 12, 1876. By occupation he was a blacksmith and farmer. He married Mary Cotteral who was born in Utica, N. Y .; she died in 1879. They had thirteen children, viz :
Thomas, born 1850. Sarah A., born 1852 ; married James L. Steele. Maggie E., born 1853 ; married Clifford Firman. Frank, born 1855 ; died at two years of age. John, born 1856 : married Luella Hopkins. Daniel, born 1858. Francis, born 1859 ; married Lizzie Flanagan. James, born 1862. Ella,
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born 1863. Mary, born 1865. William, born 1867. Patrick Henry, born 1870. Andrew, born 1871,
John Garfield.
In 1792, John Garfield, of Lincoln, Mass., purchased of John Colburn, the farm formerly owned by Moses Cutting. Garfield was a patriot of the Revolution. Having made provisions for his family he entered the army at the beginning of the war and served his country until the war ended After the war he resided in Lincoln about nine years, then, with his family, con- sisting of his wife and nine children, removed to Marlboro, and settled on the farm before mentioned. Here he spent the remainder of his days. He has the reputation of having been a good citizen, a kind husband and father, and his children now living largely inherit his virtues. John Garfield had fourteen children :
Sarah, born 1770; married Lucy Davis; died in London- derry, Vt. Abraham. born 1779 ; married Eunice Thurston ; died in Jeffrey. Lucy, born 1781 ; married Eastman Alexan- der ; died in Troy. Samuel, born 1782; died in New York. James, born 1784; died 1844. Thomas, born 1786; married Lois Davis ; died in Londonderry. Isaac, born July 7, 1788 ; married Submit Alexander ; died March, 1883. Thankful, born 1790 ; married Israel Davis ; died in Montgomery. Abel, born 1792 ; married Martha Faller; died in Troy. Elisha, born 1794 ; married Polly Pierce; died in Sardinia, N. Y. Enoch, born 1796 ; married Lucy Hopkins ; died in Troy, May, 1883. Aba- gail, born 1798: married Newel Lay ; died in Hlinchendon, Mass. Hepzibeth, born 1798; married Amos Ray; died in Gardner.
Isane Garfield.
Isaac Garfield, the eighth child of John Garfield, was born July 7, 1788. He married Submit Alexander, by whom he had eight children, three dying in infancy. The names of the five living are: Eliza, born in Vermont ; married Gideon Tilling- hast ; lives in Sardinia. Antis, born in Vermont ; married George Furman; lives in Sardinia. Issac, born in Vermont ; married Lititia Cochran ; lives in Sardinia. Joseph A., born in the Town of Londonderry, Vt., May 10, 1826; married Mrs.
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Long, formerly Miss Mary Ann Hopkins, Jan. 20, 1866, and lives in Sardinia. Chancey, born in Vermont ; married Ellen Tolman and lives in Sardinia.
Joseph A. and Mary Ann Garfield have two children : Burt, born in Sardinia Nov. 16, 1865. Addie M., born in Sardinia, Sept. 22, 1867. Mr. Garfield is a farmer. He located on the central part of lot fifty-nine, township seven, range five, in 1860 ; afterwards bought one hundred acres on lot sixty, town- ship seven, range five, and at another time fifty acres on lot four, township seven, range six, making in all about two hun- dred acres of choice land.
Although his principal business is farming, Mr. Garfield is frequently called by his fellow townsmen to fill offices of pub- lic trust. Mrs. Garfield's children by her first husband, (Zelo- tus Long) are Mary A., born April 7, 1851. Willie, born April 27, 1858, all born in Sardinia.
Chauncey Garfield.
Chauncey Garfield is a farmer and lives in Sardinia. . He married Ellen Tolman, by whom he has one child, Ella, born June, 1867. Mr. Garfield owns and occupies a farm of over three hundred and fifty acres. He is an energetic and success- ful farmer and a respected member of society.
Chauncey Hastings.
Chauncey Hastings was born Jan. 20, 1792, in Wilmington, Vt., and came to Sardinia in 1822. He married Elarcia Titus, who was born in the Province of Lower Canada, Sept. 10, 1803. When Mr. Hastings first came to Sardinia he boarded with Willis Cornwell and sold goods in his house. There was no other house at that time, where the village now is. There were three other families by the name of Clark living over on the east side of the creek. Mr. Hastings built the hotel in 1824 or 1825, and also built an ashery about the same time. He was a merchant, hotel-keeper and farmer, also run an ashery and made potash and sometimes bought and drove cattle east to market. He was an energetic and enterprising busi- ness man. He died in 1864. His children are :
Seymour, born July 4, 1824; married Sarah Mosier and lives in Aurora ; Chauncey J., born May 16, 1826; married Lydia
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Chaddock and lives in Buffalo. Julia Frances, born Sept. 13, 1828. Beattie Samantha, born Aug. 11, 1831; married Joel Powel and resides in Buffalo. Minerva Maria, born May 26, 1834; married George Strong and resides in Sardinia. Mary Abigail, born April 24, 1827.
Newell S. Hosmer.
Newell S Hosmer was born Nov. 26, 1821, in the town of Sardinia. His occupation a farmer. Was married June 25, 1855, to Clarissa Rider, who was born in Sardinia in 1825. His father's name was J. B. Hosmer, his mother's maiden name was Lura Abbc.
Newell S. Hosmer built the cheese factory in 1869, near where he lives and known as the Cloverfield factory. Sold it to Johnson, Richardson & Horton in 1873. He run the factory four years and started a factory near James Hop- kins the same year as factory No. 2. In 1872 he built a fac- tory in Holland and run it one year. During the time he owned the Cloverfield factory (from April, 1869), he made in round numbers about six hundred tons of cheese. Mr. Hosmer lives on the old homestead, having bought out the other heirs in 1854. John B. Hosmer first located east of Sardinia village, near where the Cherry Tavern was kept. Then removed to the place where Newell S. now lives in 1814 or 1815. The first school in the east part of Sardinia was taught in 1814, in a log house near Newell S. Hosmer's residence, by Miss Melinda Abbe. They had one child : Lucien, born March 25, 1856.
John B. Hosmer.
John B. Hosmer was born Nov. 10, 1787, in Windham county, Conn., in the town of Mansfield, and came to Sardinia in 1813. Was a farmer. Was married to Lura Abbe, June 9. 1809, who was born Jan. 30, 1791, in Chatham. Came to Sar- dinia in 1813. Ancestors were early settlers in Connecticut ; they came from Scotland. John B. Hosmer was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in Sardinia July 2, 1854. Mrs. Hosmer lives at Racine, Wisconsin : Their children were :
Arvilla, born Oct. 5, 1810 ; married Alonzo Fitch. Alonzo, born March 8. 1812 ; died Jan. 21, 1814 ; Ezra S .. born Oct. 31,
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1814 ; died Dec. 28, 1819. Mariam B., born Jan. 25, 1819 ; . married Orson Phelps and lives at Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. Newell S., born Nov. 26, 1821; married Clarissa Rider and lives in Sardinia. Harry W., born Feb. 26, 1823 ; married Jenette Wright and lives in Wisconsin. Anna S., born April 14, 1826; married Nicholas Montpied and lives in Wisconsin. John F., born May 20, 1828, lives at La Crosse, Wis. Babe, born Dec. 14, 1830; died Dec. 17, 1830.
Thomas Hopkins.
Thomas Hopkins, son of Thomas N. and Sarah Howe Hop- kins, was born in Windham county, Vt., Jan. 16, 1802. His grandfather, James Hopkins, was a native of New England and a soldier of the Revolution ; was Lieutenant, and at one time had command of a company at Peekskill, N. Y.
John H., a brother of James, served in the same war, was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and when the ammunition failed he says " they threw stones like Hieton."
His grandmother's maiden name was Mary Ann McGregor, and supposed to be from the North of Ireland, as were the an- cestors on his fathers side. They were of Scotch-Irish descent.
Mr. Hopkins came to Sardinia in 1823 ; was married Oct. 26, 1826, by the Rev. John Wiley, to Sally Hall, who was born June 17, 1805, at Deerfield, Oneida, county, N. Y. About 1828 Mr. H. located on the southeast part of lot nineteen, township seven, range five, where he now lives, and as the lot was then mostly covered with timber, much of his time for a few years, like other early settlers, was spent in " wielding the axe." Mr. Hopkins has been one of the leading men of his town as the records show. He had five children :
Mary Ann, born Aug. 7, 1827; married March 28, 1850, to Zelotus Long, who died in September, 1857 ; she was married a second time to Joseph Garfield March 31, 1867, and lives in Sardinia. Eliza Mariah, born March 21, 1834. Harriet Caro- line, born May 29, 1837 . married to Edward K. Farrington March 31, 1861. Wilson N., born Jan. 31, 1842; lives in Sar- dinia ; Charles D., born Oct. 8, 1844 : married Gertrude Holmes Sept. 8, 1870.
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Thomas N. Hopkins.
Thomas N. Hopkins was born May 4, 1776, at Londonderry, N. H. His wife's name was Sarah Howe, who was born March 8, 1780, in Westmoreland, N. H. His father's name was James Hopkins ; his mother's maiden name was Mary Ann McGregor ; came from the north of Ireland, near the Scotch border; were Scotch-Irish. James Hopkins, the father, was a Lieuten- ant in the Revolutionary war; had command of a company at Peekskill one Winter : his brother, John Hopkins, was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and got out of ammunition and then threw stones at the enemy.
FAMILY RECORD.
Thomas, born Jan. 16, 1802 ; married Lucy Hall; lives in Sardinia. Eliza, born Nov. 21, 1803 ; married Samuel Crocker ; not living at the present. Dudley, born Jan. 6, 1806; married Maria Wilson ; lives in Sardinia. James, born Dec. 2, 1801 ; married Charilla Ballard ; lives in Sardinia ; Nehemiah, born March 1, 1810; married Maria Butler ; lives in Corfu, Genesee county, N. Y .; Robert N., born June 10, 1812 ; married Sarah Ann Canahan; lives in Batavia ; she is not living ; Mary Ann, born July 4, 1814; died young. Nelson, born Feb. 28, 1819; married Mary Couch ; both are dead. Clarissa, born March 3, 1824 ; married Amos Vandenburg ; lives in Brocton, Chautau- qua county, N. Y.
Robert Hopkins.
Robert Hopkins was born Dec. 11, 1787. Dec. 26, 18II, hc was united in marriage to Miss Submit Howe, by whom he had six children :
David M., born at Londonderry, Vt., Oct. 15, 1812 ; died March 29, 1815. Daniel, born Nov. 23, 1814; died June 10, 1815. James, born March 1, 1816 ; lives in Sardinia. Clarissa, born Dec. 21, 1818 ; died Feb. 29, 1870. Nancy, born Nov. 13, 1820 ; died Sept. 10, 1873. William, born Nov. 4, 1824 ; dicd Sept. 10, 1873.
Mr. Hopkins came to Sardinia in 1823, and located on lot two, township seven, range 6, where he opened a farm upon which he resided until the time of his death, which occurred
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May 24, 1846, at the age of fifty-eight years, six months and fourteen days.
James Hopkins.
James, the only surviving member of the family of Robert Hopkins, was born at Londonderry, Vt., March 7, 1816. In early life he came with his father to Sardinia, where he shared in the toil required to open a farm in the primitive forest. Mr. Hopkins married Miss Abigail Rider, daughter of Horace Rider, May 19, 1844. He continued to reside on the farm which he had assisted in clearing until within a few years, when
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he removed to the farm formerly owned and occupied by Hor- ace Rider, leaving the homestead in charge of his son. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have had three children :
Horace, born Dec. 20, 1845 ; died Feb. 4, 1848. Robert, born July 13, 1849. Frankie, born Dec. 25, 1854.
Mr. Hopkins has always been a very industrious, thorough- going and successful farmer and business man.
Harry House.
Harry House was born in Hartford, Conn., Nov, 6, 1787 ; re moved to Cazenovia, Madison county, N. Y., where he married Annie Martindale, by whom he had nine children :
Hiram H., born Dec. 20, 1813; Alexander, born Sept. 18, 1815. Samuel, born Feb. 4, 1818. William M., born Oct. 15,
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1820. George W., born May 10, 1823. Harry L., born June 14, 1826, died Nov. 7, 1834. Joel D., born Aug. 17, 1828. Dwight F., born May 2, 1831. Harriet P., born Oct. 10, 1833.
Mr. House moved from Cazenovia, Madison county, in 1824, and located in Concord, Erie county, where he resided for many years.
Samuel House.
Samuel House, third son of the preceding, was born in Nel- son, Madison county, Feb. 4, 1818. When he was six years old, his father removed from Madison county to Concord, and located on land covered with the primitive forest, which afforded young Samuel and his brothers excellent opportunities to develop their muscles and acquire that manly courage which enables them to meet the responsibilities of life with courage -and the habits of industry acquired in early life are a sure guaranty against penury and want.
Mr. House has been twice married ; first, to Sally Holman, Jan. 18, 1843, by whom he had four children :
Mary A., born Oct. 29, 1843, and Helen L., born Aug. 21, 1847 ; both accidentally drowned, July 12, 1851. Henry A., born July 25, 1850; married Emma Bond, Dec. 13, 1876; Leora, born Sept. 14, 1852 ; married Austin Olmsted April, 1875. -
Mrs. Sally House died July 13, 1854. Mr. House was united in marriage to Mrs. Lydia M. Ballard, March 4. 1858. They have one child, Stanley G., born March 21, 1859; mar- ried Emma Crosby, March 21, 1880. Mr. House is a black- smith by trade, but for several years past has owned and worked a farm lying on the Cattaraugus creek in the Town of Sardinia.
Albert Hall.
Albert Hall, son of Louis and Sarah Hall, is a native of Sar- dinia, and was born Jan. 19, 1848. He occupies a farm situ- ated four miles northeast of Sardinia viliage, it being a part of the quarter section bought by his grandfather, Daniel Hall, in 1812. March 2, 1873, he married Mary Tiffney, daughter of Jared and Louisa Tiffney, of Wales, Erie county, N. Y. His
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father Louis, died Aug. 25, 1866, and his mother, Sarah, lives at Marilla, Erie county, N. Y., having married again, to Albert Adams of that place.
Mr. Hall has a family of three children : Louis, born Aug. 1, 1874. Glenna, born Aug. 2, 1879. Ora, born Aug. 6, 1881.
Benjamin Johnson.
Mr. Johnson formerly resided at Coventry, R. I., where he married Miss Alzada Briggs. They have had four children : Horace C., Burrell L., Nancy A., and Mary Jane.
Horace C. married Helen Bailey, of Holland and lives in Sardinia. Mary Jane died in 1879.
Benjamin Johnson came to Sardinia about 1829, and located the land on which he now resides.
Burrell L. Johnson.
Burrell L. Johnson, the second son of the preceding, was born in Sardinia, Erie county, Dec. 21, 1831. Was united in mar- riage with Miss Eliza Edith Scott, Nov. 9. 1853, and settled in Sardinia. They have two children :
Lillie Isadore, born Sept. 17, 1858, in Sardinia ; married Fred Bigelow at Sardinia, Aug. 12, 1877. Mr. Bigelow died at Sar- dinia, March 1, 1881, leaving one child-Flora, born Feb. 20, 1879. Halsey S., born in Sardinia, Nov. 12, 1862, lives with his father.
Mr. Johnson is a farmer and owns and occupies a very con- venient and desirable farm of two hundred and seventeen acres near Sardinia village.
Reuben Long.
Reuben Long was born in Coventry, Conn., March 29, 1764. In the Spring of 1816 he and his son Silas came to Sardinia and bought one hundred acres of land of Mr. Persons of Gen- eseo, at six dollars per acre. In the following September, Mr. Long having previously returned to Connecticut, the family came on. Their mode of conveyance consisting of two yoke of oxen with a horse hitched ahead and twr one-horse wagons. They came via Albany, Cayuga Lake and Genesco to Sardinia, where Mr. Long lived until his death, April 27, 10 46. His wife,
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Esther Bingham, was born April 12, 1776, and died Jan. 26, 1851. Mr. Long's father's name was Lemuel Long; his mother's maiden name was Martha Brewster.
Two of Reuben Long's brothers, Rufus and Joseph, were killed in the Revolutionary war.
Family Record : Silas, born March 3, 1796, in Connecticut ; went west in 1817; his friends do not know whether he is alive or not. Eli, born Feb. 4, 1798. unmarried , died Dec. 8, 1856, in Sardinia. Patty, born Nov. 23, 1799; married Joseph McClure in 1823. who died Sept. 1873 ; she died recently in Sardinia. Erastus, born Oct. 17, 1802; married Hannah Putnam; he died April 10, 1809, in Michigan. Esther, born May 2, 1805 ; married Luke Smith ; died Sept. 10, 1876, at Arcade. Joseph, born May 26, 1807 ; married Angeline Jewett and lives in Sardinia. Nancy, born Dec. 9, 1809 ; married Lu- zerne Hunt and lives in Sardinia. Melinda, born Oct. 28, 1811, unmarried ; died April 19, 1865. Lemuel, born Oct. 29, 1813 : married Jane Shumaker ; lives in Iowa. Charles, born Oct. 9, 1816 ; lives in Sardinia.
Charles Long.
Mr. Long was born Oct. 9, 1816, in Sardinia, where he has always resided. He was married in 1846 to Cordelia West, who was born March 22, 1818, in Tompkins county, N. Y. Mr. Long's occupation is that of farmer, He owned the Sardinia grist-mill from 1858 to about 1869, when he sold it to Nicholas Bolander. He also owned the saw-mill north of the village at one time. They have five children : Ada Eliza, born in 1846 ; married Judson Carney : resides in Sardinia. Edgar, born in 1848 ; married Mary Winston ; resides at North Branch, Minn .. where he went about 1868. He taught school at first and sub- sequently engaged in trade : he is now largely engaged in lum- bering and is an extensive owner of timbered land. Ida, born in 1852 ; married Albert Hawkins; resides in Sardinia. Eu- gene, born 1857; resides in Minnesota. Frank, born in 1861 ; lives at home.
Joseph Long.
Joseph Long was born in 1807, in Coventry, Conn., and came to Sardinia with his father's family in 1816; his occupation is
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that of a farmer, He married Mary A. Jewett, who was born March, 1820. in Cayuga county. N. Y. They had a family of nine children :
Reuben E., born Dec. 20, 1840 ; married about 1861 to Eliza Truesdale. Melissa. born March 15, 1842, Levi O., born Sept. 17, 1844 ; married Nov. 14, 1872 to Libbie Golden. Josephine W., born March 15, 1846; married Nov. 27, 1873 to Clark Ferrin. Georgiana E., born June 21, 1850; married Jan. I, 1872 to Clark Ferrin ; died Sept. 10, 1872. Silas A., born April 17, 1853 ; married April 15, 1875 to Emma Lake. Lemuel A., born March 12, 1855; married Jan. 21, 1876 to Julia Robbins. Luella, born April 22, 1862 ; married Dec. 24, 1879 to Nelson Ferrin. Maryette, born July 12. 1853 ; died Aug. 12, 1869.
Charles D. Madison.
Mr. Madison's grandfather's name was Eason Madison. His father, Obediah Madison, was born May 29, 1790 ; was married July 7, 1816 to Martha Hull, who was born May 28, 1789, and died July 22, 1873. He died Sept. 1, 1857. They had three children :
Charles D, born Dec. 20, 1820; married Aug. 29, 1845 to Diana Briggs, who was born Oct. 23, 1826. Louisa, born Dec. 23, 1822 ; married Wilber Tillinghast. Irene S., born July 2, 1830; married E. H, Stickney.
Mr. Madison says: "My father came to Sardinia with his family in the Winter of 1818and '19, from Benington, Vt., with oxen and sled, located on the south part of lot forty-eight on one hundred acres where he lived until his death. The place called Madison's corners was named after him." In speaking of wild animals at an early day he says: "Sexton Bigelow was over at John Weller's, sitting in the door, and as he looked over to the north, on the rise of land, he saw some kind of ani- mal and asked "whose black hogs those were ?" Weller looked and saw three bears, and started in pursuit with his dog but no gun. The dog attacked the bears and the old she bear turning upon Weller he escaped by catching hold of the limbs of a friendly tree and swinging himself up out of her reach. The bears then went away, but the neighbors rallied in pursuit and shot all three.
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On another occasion I remember my sister and I were out where mother was milking; the wolves commenced howling near by, and we were sent to the house for safety."
Charles D. Madison has had four children : Martha Jane, married Austin Stickney, of Holland. Edgar, married Edith Wells. Ida, died young. Clara, married M. Frank Cottrell.
Alden J. McArthur.
Mr. McArthur was a son of John McArthur, a prominent business man of Buffalo, where he died in 1828. He was born June 4, 1824, in Holland, N. Y. At the death of his father he went to live with his uncle, Moses McArthur, a prominent citi- zen of Holland, who for thirty-six years in succession (one year excepted) held the office of Supervisor in Holland and . Wales.
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