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CLARISSA, born October, 1807, married Lemuel Smith, of Portage. Their children are, Sarah, Hiram, Jane, Emeline.
ZERA, born Aug. 9, 1810, married Ruth E. Foster, and died Nov. 27, 1836, leaving a son, Zera L. [See Sketch.]
EMELINE, born December, 1812, married Willis Pettibone, and died Jan. 20, 1832. Mr. P. also died early. They had a daughter, Martha, who married Clark D. Munger. [See Family of Samuel Munger.]
ZERA L. TANNER, son of Zera Tanner, Jun., was born in Warsaw in 1836. In the spring of 1855, he went on busi- ness to England, where he remained about one year, when he was employed on a British merchant vessel, trading between Liverpool and Bombay, in which service he continued about two years. He then returned in an American vessel to New York, where he engaged in the American merchant service. The vessel in which he sailed, after her arrival at the English port to which she was destined, was chartered by the British to carry supplies to the English army in China, at the time of the war between those two countries. In this service he was engaged about two years. Next he was employed at Hong Kong, China, on board the King Fisher, in which he sailed across the Pacific, by way of California, to New York. IIe sailed on this vessel about one year. The war having commenced, he engaged on board an American merchant vessel employed by the government to carry supplies to the
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Union army, in which service he continued one year or less. He then engaged in the blockade service a year or two, and assisted in the capture of the British blockade runner, Vixen, and took command of her to New York. Desiring to take a more direct and active part in suppressing the rebellion, hc enlisted on board the war vessel, Rhode Island, and assisted in the capture of Fort Fisher. He remains in the navy, in the service of the government.
WILLARD THAYER was born in Windham, Mass., March 3, 1784, and married Phebe Harris. They removed to Gainesville, (then Batavia,) in 1807, where they resided until they died. He was several times elected Supervisor of his town, and three times Justice of the Peace. Only once, however, was he induced to be sworn into office. It is re lated of him that he was so averse to litigation, that he never tried a contested snit. This he avoided by bringing about a settlement, which he sometimes effected by relinquishing his fees. Mr. Thaver had by his first wife three children:
ISAAC II., who married Mary Parks, and removed to Can- ada, where he was a practicing physician, and died about the year 1860. He had several children.
LINUS W. [See Sketch.]
MERCY married Peter V. Lucas; settled in Castile, and had four children: Eliza, Phebe, Samuel, and Delia.
Mrs. Thayer died March 19, 1817; and Mr. Thayer married a second wife, Rebecca Thomas, by whom he had seven chil- dren, of whom but two are living: 1. Stephen D., who married first, Catharine Spencer, and had by her a daughter, Caroline, who married Cass Kendall. He married, second, Lucretia Streeter, and resides in Wisconsin. 2. William F., who mar- ried Jane Brown. After her death, he married Mary Brownell, by whom he has three children living: Delia Belle, Clayton, Jennie.
LINUS W. THAYER, son of Willard Thayer, was born in Gainesville, May 23, 1811. Until the age of seventeen, he worked on his father's farm summers, and attended the dis- trict school winters. From this time he taught winters and labored on the farm as before. Having commenced the study of the French language under the private instruction of the late Hon. John W. Brownson, of Gainesville, and the Latin under a graduate of Geneva College; and having attended a select school at Lima, during the summer of 1831, he entered the Seminary at that place in the spring of 1832, with the in- tention of preparing for college. From this purpose he was
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diverted by the kindness of his father, who, unsolicited, con- veyed to him a part of his farm, subject, however, to a claim due at the land-office. To cancel this claim, he found it ne- cessary to work his small farm in the summer, and teach in the winter. Though he had now given up going to college, he adhered to the purpose of becoming a lawyer. Unable, as yet, to enter a law-office, he purchased Blackstone's Comnen- taries and Cowen's Treatise, to the study of which he devoted his leisure time while farming and teaching. He taught his last school in Perry village, in the winter of 1836-7, spending his evenings in the office of I. N. Stoddard, Esq., who, in the spring, offered him a co-partnership. This had hardly gone into effect, when a more liberal offer was made him by Levi Gibbs, Esq., who had just commenced practice in Perry. Mr. Thayer had not at this time been regularly in a law-office three months, nor been admitted to practice in any conrt. With a view to his settlement where the new county seat should be located, he dissolved his connection with Mr. Gibbs, and formed a partnership with James R. Doolittle, Esq., at present senator in Congress from Wisconsin; and both came to this village in 1841. This partnership continued about four years. He has for more than twenty-seven years enjoyed a successful practice in this place: and, without the advantage of a liberal education, but with the more important aid of a discriminating mind and a sound judgment, he has attained a prominent position among the members of the bar in West- ern New York. In 1866 or 1867, he took into partnership his son, Linus L. Thayer, with whom he is still associated.
Linus W. Thayer married, Oct. 28. 1840, Caroline M. Lock- wood, who was born Jan. 12, 1823. They had seven children: Linus Lockwood, who married Emma A. Hurlburt; Luella, who died at 16; Clara, who died at 6; Carrie A .; Gertrude, died at 3; Lillie d. inf .; and Florence Louisa.
DANIEL II. THROOP was born in Franklin, Conn., Oct. 14, 1791; went to Granville, N. Y., in 1811, and thence to Warsaw. He married Mary Curtis, Sept. 21, 1815, and set- tled on East Hill, where he lived, on different farms, until he removed to the village. He had six children:
GARDNER E., who married Alta Marchant. Their children are: Nellie, J. G. Whittier, Minnie, and Charles.
SIMEON S. married Adelia Jackson; lives in Illinois.
MARY married Allen J. Reddish, who died March 21, 1864, aged 48. They had a daughter, Millie, who died at 15.
BETSEY married John M. Fargo, and resides in Iowa. They have a son, Frank.
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HENRY E. married Ellen Johnson, and removed to Ne- braska.
NANCY B. married Edmund B. Noble. They reside in Albany, Wis., and have two children living, Henry and Flora.
JOHN TRUESDELL was born Sept. 8, 1784; married Betsey Webster, Jan. 16, 1806, and removed the same year from Hampton to Warsaw, and settled in the south part of the town, where their son, Philander Truesdell, now resides. Mr. Truesdell was an upright man and a good citizen. He enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens, and was fre- quently elected to town offices. He was an early member of the Baptist church. He had thirteen children, of whom three died young.
PAULINA married JJohn F. Clark. [See Sketch.]
PILANDER. [See Sketch.]
LUCINDA married Alonzo Choate. [See A. Choate.]
CALISTA married Thomas W. Blowers. They had two chil- dren: 1. Galusha W., who served in the war, was taken sick, returned home, and died, Ang. 2, 1862, aged 22. [See War History.] 2. Paulina, who died Nov. 22, 1865, aged 24.
MELVINA married Cyrus D. Blowers, who died in 1866. They had seven children: 1. Angusta. 2. Ellen, who mar- ried Edwin Curtis. 3. Josephine, who married Albert Enther. 4. Lucia, who married William W. Allen. 5. Sally, who mar- ried John Relyea, Jun. 6. Frank. 7. Elmer.
BETSEY married Elijah Chamberlain. [Sce E. Chamber- lain.]
ELON GALUSHA married Lucy Popple. Their children are: Marian, John Wallace, and Frank Earl.
SALLY married Alonzo Cleveland, and died childless.
ELEANOR married Gurdon G. Clark, and removed to Mich- igan.
ISABEL married Mortimer M. Clark, and had two children. He died, and she married Stephen McCulloch, by whom she has two children.
PHILANDER TRUESDELL, son of John Truesdell, was born in Warsaw, April 15, 1815, and lives on the homestead of his father, in the south part of the town. He has been six times elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, which office he still holds. In addition to his farming business, he was for many years engaged in the manufacture of matches. IIe married Eliza Lincoln, of this town, by whom he had four children: 1. Edwin G., who married Mary Atwell and has two children, Charles and Fanny. 2. Emma A. 3. Edith Frances, d. inf. 4. Ida Mand, who died at 7.
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EZRA WALKER was born in Becket, Berkshire, Co., Mass., Feb. 6, 1773. He married Prudence Allen, and removed from Granville to Warsaw, in 1807, and settled on West Hill. They were two of the ten persons composing the Presbyterian church at the time of its formation. He was ' early chosen a Deacon. He removed about the year 1818 to Leicester, and after his return to Warsaw, about the year 1834, he was elected an elder, which office he held until he united with the present Congregational church. He lived to see all his children professors of religion. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, Stephen D. Alverson, in Michi- gan. Mrs. Walker died in Warsaw, April 14, 1837. They had ten children:
ZEBULON C. was born in 1793; died in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1819.
PARMALEE A. removed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; was one of the first to organize the first Presbyterian church in that city, of which he has been an elder over forty years. He was also several years Mayor of the city. He married there Mrs. Sarah Gardner, who died in 1866.
TRUMAN W. removed to Evansville, Ind., and died in 1818, unmarried.
ELAM IT., was educated for the ministry; was a missionary to the Choctaws in East Tennessee; preached successively at Brooksgrove and Fowlerville, N. Y., and was finally settled at Dansville, where he died of a tumor on his throat. His wife was Alice P. Bacon, sister of Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, Conn.
PALMYRA married Thomas HI. Jeffers, of Perry, where she died in 1852. They had nine children: Christopher, Betsey, John II., Delia, Ann, Elam, Ezra, Engene, and Frances, all living but one. Elam, a Methodist minister, died at or near Newstead, Erie Co. John II. is a practicing Lawyer in Rochester. Ezra is a merchant in Geneseo, Ill.
ELIZA married Stephen D. Alverson, of Perry. About the year 1850, they removed to Meridian, Mich. Their children were, Henry, (dead,) Lovina, Minerva, Thomas, (dead,) and Cary.
EBENEZER married Frances D. Blanchard, was many years a merchant in Geneseo and Rochester, and afterwards at Okemos, Mich., where he now resides. He has two children: 1. Henry W., who married Jennie B. Adams, and lives in Lansing, Mich. 2. George N., who was married and had two children, and is a merchant in Okemos. Ilis wife died in 1867.
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LOVINA P. married Stephen D. Alverson, of Perry, after- wards the husband of her sister Eliza, as above stated. They had two children, Elizabeth, (dead.) and Edward.
MINERVA married Rev. Merritt Harmon; removed to Mich- igan; thence to Iowa. They have a son and two daughters. ANN IRENE married Josiah Hurty, a teacher in Western New York. They have since resided in Ohio and Kentucky, and now reside in Paris, Ill. They have two sons and two daughters.
WARILAM WALKER was born in Massachusetts, Jan. 21, 1769. He married Freelove Hatch: removed to this town in 1810, and settled on West Hill. Mr. Walker died April 6, 1840; his wife Sept. 7, 1857. They had nine children.
LEVI, who married Laura Capen. Their children were, 1. Royal C., who married in Pike, and resides there. 2. Edson, who married Miss Metcalf, of Pike, where they reside. 3. Henriett, dead. 4. Arvilla, dead. 16. Sybil. 7. Jane, who is married, and lives in Pike. S. Newbury. 9. Ezra, who mar- ried Miss Raymond, resides in Gainesville.
ORLEY married Betsey Jagnish, and removed to Cattaran- gus Co., and had four children: Franklin, dead; Lucien, dead; Freelove, and Francis.
IIIRAM F. married Almira Munger, and had seven children: 1. Elzever, who married Ann J. Rackard, and lives in Wells- ville, N. Y. 2. Cornelia. 3. Samuel, who married Esther Seely, lives in Kilbourn City, Wis. 4. Luzerne, who married Christiana Macomber, in Kilbourn City. 5. Parmaly, who married Harriet Hoisington, and resides in Kilbourn City. 6. Fayette. 7. William, who died at 11. Mrs. Walker died in 1867.
PIDELIA married Alva Sherman, of Cohoeton, who is dead.
POLLY married Timothy Whiting. [See Whiting Family.] OLIVE, born Dec. 25, 1S08; died March 7, 1842.
SALEM HI., born July 28, 1812; lives in Michigan.
PATIENCE ARMENA, married Mr. Mckean, who died in Brady, Mich.
WILLIAM WALKER was born at St. Albans, Vermont, March 13, 1793. Ile came, when a young man, to Pavilion, (South Le Roy.) After four years he removed to Middlebury, near Wright's Corners, where he worked at his trade, (saddle and harness making,) three years; and then, 1823, came to this place, where he still resides. He married Abigail En- sign, of Middlebury. He continued his business here for
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many years, until, by industry and prudence, he had acquired a competence, upon which he retired. His wife died March 8, 1854. She was at the time of her death a member of the Methodist church. They had seven children:
LEWIS E. [ Sce Sketch.]
MARY A. is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, and has taught in the Seminaries at Rockford and Petersburg, III. She married Win. M. Cogswell, teacher, of Petersburg, who has since died.
CHARLES B. went to California, and settled in Washington Territory, and was shot by the Indians in 1855, while em- ploved as one of an exploring party in search for gold. Ile died at the age of 24.
ADELIA C. is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, and taught in that institution; in Detroit, Mich., and in Oxford and Rockford, Ill.
ALBERT married M. M. Silsby, of Rockford, Ill., and is a Hardware merchant in Petersburg, Ill. He has two children living, Flora, and Henry.
GEORGE W. is a graduate of Oberlin College. He married Emily E. Gilman, and is pastor of the Congregational church in Wanseon, O. He has a son, Lewis Calvin.
WILLIAM H. married Jennette A. Tabor. He was in the war, [See War History.] and is at present a Druggist in West- field. He has a son, Charles Taber.
LEWIS E. WALKER was born in Warsaw, July, 1826. He received his education in this village, and commenced teaching in this town. He afterwards taught four years in Vermont, and four years in Ohio. He married in Ohio, Susan A. Brown, also a teacher, and for a time his assistant. Ile returned to Warsaw, and in July, 1864, commenced the Book trade, having bought the stock of Nehemiah Park; in which business he still continues. He is a member of the Congregational church. He has had four children : William A., John F., and Henry L. d. inf., and Fanny E.
IIEZEKIAH WAKEFIELD was born Feb., 1774, and came to this town in 1805 or 1806, and settled on West Ilill, where Tillotson Gay now resides. Ile married in 1SOS, Patience McWhorter, a daughter of John Mc Whorter, and sister of Samuel McWhorter, Esq. Mr. Wakefield and his wife, carly became members of the Presbyterian church; and his house was for many years a stated place for religious meetings in that part of the town. Ile died Oct. 31, 1830, in
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his 57th year. Mrs. Wakefield died Oct. 31, 1861, in her SSth year. They had five children:
LYDIA B. married Benjamin Bishop. [Sce Sketch.]
LOPHELIA married Willis Pettibone, who died leaving two children: 1. Martha, who married Clark D. Munger, who died in Kilbourn City, Wis. 2. Hezekiah W., who married Delia Ellis and lives in Attica. Mrs. Pettibone married for her second husband, Tillotson Gay, by whom she had five chil- dren : Helen, Edwin T., Flora, who died at 4 or 5, Walker, and Charles. They reside on the homestead of her father.
LUCRETIA E., married Alanson Holly. [See A. IIolly.] LAURA and Jour died in infancy.
LINUS WARNER was born in New Canaan, Columbia county, in 1784, and removed, when young, to Lima, where he married Hopey Thayer. In 1806, he removed from Lima to this town, and settled in the south-east part of the town, where he resided until his death, Feb. 26, 1846. Mrs. War- ner died Sept. 5, 1846. They had eight children, of whom three died infants.
WILLARD T. was born May 24, 1808; married Roxana Dixon, and had four children: Harriet, and three who died infants. Mr. Warner lives on a part of the farm on which his father settled in 1806, and on which himself was born. He is a member of the Free-Will Baptist church, and a lib- eral contributor to its support; and is a decided friend of temperance and other reformatory and benevolent associa- tions.
MATTHEW married Sally Fluker, and had two children : Esther, and another, infant.
LINUS married Maria Fluker, and owns and occupies the homestead of his father. He has three children : 1. Marion, who married Sarah Nash, of Perry. 2. Romaine. 3. Wil- lard.
EMILY married William Seymour, of Castile, who is dead. They had a daughter, Harriet.
HARRIET married Job M. Relyea. [See Sketch.]
JABISH WARREN was born in Windham, Conn., March 29, 1775. He removed to No. 10, now Middlebury, just north of the present line of Warsaw, where he purchased a farm on which he resided until his death, July 11, 1849. ITe mar- ried Rosamer Owen, who died Ang. 16, 1854. They had eight children:
ALVINA married Wm. Havens, and resides in California. They have eleven children.
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PAULINA married Horace Watkins. They reside in Illinois, and have six children: Almeron, Blighton, Arthur, Eliza, Car- oline, and Annis.
ELIZA married Job Hill, Jan. 24, 1828. They reside in War- saw, and have three children: 1. John W., who married Harriet Blair, and after her death, Mary Curtis. and resides in Warsaw. 2. Lucius H., who married Clara Hibbard, and resides in Warsaw. 3. Henrietta, who married Hezekiah Fargo, and lives in Perry.
ROSAMER married S. S. Poppino. They reside in William- son, Wayne Co., and have two children: 1. Belle, who mar- ried George Nichols, of New York city. 2. Franc, who married Rev. S. S. Bemer, who was a chaplain in the army, and died in the service.
POLLY married Gad Case. Both are dead.
JABISH, born May 4, 1816, married Mary B. Lathrop, of Bethany, Dec. 25, 1840. He has been a farmer and an ex- tensive produce dealer in Genesee and Wyoming counties. Hle was in the regular army one year. In 1862, he was ap- pointed Colonel of the 61st National Guards. He resides in Warsaw; has one daughter, Rose E., who was born June 12, 1846, and married, Dec. 18, 1868, George C. Otis, and resides in Middlebury.
VOLNEY O., born Jan. 26, 1818; married Elizabeth Curtis, of Wayne Co., Feb. 2, 1842, and resides in Warsaw. They have a daughter, Martha E., who married E. C. Upton, of Spencerport, Monroe Co.
DARWIN C. married Mary Scovel, June 5, 1841. IIe died June 20, 1859. They had two children, Stimson and Volney O., both living.
LEONARD WATSON was born 1804, in York, England, where he married Mary Brough. He came to Warsaw in 1830, and purchased a farm on East Hill. He settled on his farm, where he resided until he removed to the village. Mr. Watson, when he bought his farm, offered in payment or part payment several sovereigns, which the seller, not knowing their value, refused. Ile then tried in the village to get them ex- changed for current money; and failing in this, he was com- pelled to make a journey to Canandaigua, where he had no difficulty in making the desired change. [Who doubts that a similar exchange might be made in Warsaw now, at par ?] Mr. W. has a daughter,
MARY, who married Thomas Agar, who resides in the vil- lage, and is in the marble business. They have a son, Leon- ard W.
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ELIZUR WEBSTER was born in Connecticut, Aug. 24, 1767. Ile went, when a youth, to Hampton, N. Y., where he was married to Elizabeth Warren, who was born May 15, 1774, and where he resided most of the time until he came to this town in 1803, and commenced its settlement, of which an account has been given. [See pp. 25-27.] In 1808, at the first town meeting for the election of town officers, he was chosen Supervisor, which office he held by successive elections for seven years. He also held for many years the office of Justice of the Peace, to which he was several times appointed by the Council of Appointment. [See Council of Appoint- ment, elsewhere described.] Ile was averse to litigation, and discouraged it in others. Ile often incurred displeasure by refusing to issue precepts when the applicants were under the influence of passion or a spirit of retaliation. In 1813, he was appointed one of the Associate Judges of the County Court. In 1816 and 1817, he was a representative of the county of Genesee in the Assembly: and in 1821, a member of the Constitutional Convention. His labors in that Con- vention terminated his public career. He was in an unusual degree exempt from political aspirations. Ile enjoyed him- self best in private life, which afforded him opportunity for gunning and hunting, a favorite employment. Few men have discharged important public trusts with so limited an educa- tion. His school learning, if the writer's memory is not at fault, was acquired in only one or two terms' attendance at a common school. Ilis common sense and discriminating judg- ment more than supplied the meagerness of his literary acquirements. Ile has been heard to say that, when acting as a Justice, he paid little attention to the " pettifoggers," and seldom looked into a law-book; but law being said to be founded on reason and the principles of justice, he had made these the guide of his decisions, not one of which had ever been reversed. He possessed an independent mind, being generally guided by his own judgment in forming his opin- ions. Although he acquired a good property, he never seemed in haste to be rich. Ile made no ventures in hazard- ous enterprises or speculations. In 1836, he sold his real estate in Warsaw, consisting of 640 acres of land, to F. C. D. McKay, Esq., and about 500 acres in a single body within the towns of Orangeville and Wethersfield, near Wethersfield Springs, to David McWethy. In the winter of 1837, he removed to Ripley, Chautauqua Co., where he resided until his death, which occurred in March, 1854. in the S7th year of his age. Ilis wife died Dec., 1848. Judge Webster had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, all of whom were living at the time of his removal from Warsaw.
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ARVIN was born Nov. 28, 1792, and married Sylvia Nichols, by whom he had several children. In or about the year 1818, he removed to Illinois, where, after the death of his wife, a second marriage, and the birth of a number of children, he died.
WARREN was born Nov. 11, 1795, and married, Dec. 29, 1819, Rebecca Tanner, who was born Oct. 31, 1800, and re- moved to Orangeville, near Wethersfield Springs, on the farm on which David Mc Wethy recently resided. In 1833 or 1834, he removed to Franklin, Erie Co., Pa., where he resided five or six years, and removed to Ripley, and after a few years' residence there, to Gowanda, where he died Jan. 27, 1864. He was buried in Ripley, where his widow and only surviv- ing daughter reside. He held in Orangeville, several years, the office of justice, and was, both in Ripley and Gowanda, an elder in the Presbyterian church. His children were: 1. Walter, who for many years carried on the leather and shoe manufacturing business in Gowanda, and in 1862 re- moved to Illinois, where he now resides. Ile married in Gowanda Mary Johnson, and has had five children: Charles, d. inf., Mary L., Helen R., died at 5, Carlton W., died at 2, and Walter. 2. H. Jennette, who married Dwight Dickson, in Ripley, and had four children: Walter H., Warren W., Ada J., d. inf., and Carlton A. Mrs. Dickson died July 30, 1860, aged 34. 3. Martha A., died at 5. 4. William P., who married in Gowanda, Lucy F. Perry, and died March 21, 1864, aged 30, having a son, yet living. 5. Martha, who mar- ried A. Milton Miniger, of Ripley, where they now reside. 6. Albert S., d. inf. 7. Albert H., who died at 16. Mrs. Rebecca Webster lives with her daughter and son-in-law in Ripley.
CHIPMAN, born Dec. 26, 1797, went to Illinois when a young man, where he married twice, and had a numerous family, and where he now resides.
LUCINDA, born May 26, 1800, married Elijah Norton, in Warsaw, where they reside. She is the only one of her fa- ther's family remaining in this town. [See Family of Elijah Norton.]
CLORINDA, born May 3, 1802, married Orson Hongh. [See Family of Samuel Hough.]
ELIZA, born June 9, 1804, married Andrew W. Young. [Sce Family of A. W. Young.]
LEMUEL Was born March 6, 1806, and went to Gowanda, where, for several years, he carried on the tanning and curry- ing business, and where he was married to Miss Hall, and after her death, to her sister, Lois Hall. They removed to
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