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Samuel Rice married Hepsibah Flint, daughter of John Flint and Hepsibah Brown, named in the last foregoing list. Their children were Hepsibah Rice, born Aug. 15th, 1766; John, born March 18th, 1768 ; Samuel, born Jan. 5th, 1770 ; Abigail, born May 6th, 1776; Elizabeth, born April 18th, 1778 ; Ephraim, born May 26th, 1780; Sarah, born March 4th, 1784; Abisha, born March 20th, 1786; Eleazer, born May 20th, 1790.
Shortly after the birth of Eleazer, June 4th, Mrs. Rice died, and her husband, Samuel, married Mrs. Davis about 1792, and they had two children; Thomas, who was born July 30th, 1794, and Amos, born Feb. 5th, 1797. All of Samuel Rice's children were born in Ashby, Middlesex County, Mass.
Thomas Rice, the youngest but one of Samuel Rice's children, married Charlotte Flint, daughter of Edward Flint, named hereafter in the next list of Flints, Jan. 25th, 1814.
Their children were Elizabeth F., who was born in Ash- by, Mass., December 16th, 1814; Thomas was born in Ash- by, September 17th, 1817.
The following four children were born in Pompey :
Samuel F., born February 3d, 1820; Elmira C., born June 20th, 1822; Amos, born June 27th, 1824 ; Edward F., born July 2d, 1831.
Thomas Rice and wife, with two children, Elizabeth and Thomas, moved from Ashby to Pompey, and settled on a farm half a mile east of Oran, in March, 1818; he lived on the farm for several years, and then moved into the village of Oran, where he died March 25th, 1843. Elizabeth F. Rice, daughter of the above Thomas, married Erastus P. Williams, of Pompey, July 31st, 1842, and died without 20
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children, November 23d, 1844. Thomas Rice who is a resi- dent of Syracuse, and engaged in the grocery trade, married Mary Dorsey, of Genera, September 2d, 1846; their chil- dren were all born in Syracuse, and are all living except the eldest, who died September 12th, 1852.
The following are their names and date of birth :
Eva Mary, born August 26th, 1848; Ella Elizabeth, Jan- uary 12th, 1854 : Thomas Dorsey, March 29th, 1858; Paran Flint, September 11th, 1759; Ernest, September 11th, 1860 ; Arthur Cleveland, June 7th, 1866; Mary Sera, November 14th, 1872.
Samuel F. Rice, son of the elder Thomas, died Septem- ber 25th, 1840, and was not married.
Eimira C. died March 29th, 1843, and was never mar- ried.
Amos married Mary Gilbert, October 24th, 1854, in Ly- ons, N. Y .; they had one child-Charles Edward, who died, and Amos died, February 19th, 1858.
Edward F. Rice married Ellen A. Eaton, in Fayetteville, August 31st, 1854; they reside in Syracuse, and he is en- gaged in the dry goods trade.
The following are the names and date of birth of their children :
Nellie, born June 30th, 1857; Lizzie Elmira, May 25th, 1860; Edward Eaton, June 11th, 1866,and died August 22d, 1866; Edward Irving, born July 12th, 1868. They were all born in Syracuse.
Amos Rice, who was born in Ashby, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, February 5th, 1797, married Betsey Fairbank, of Ashburnham, Mass., April 3d, 1817. They moved to Pom- pey in the fall of 1821, and remained about twenty-two years, when they moved to Tecumseh, Michigan. They both died in 1859; the wife January 1st, and the husband August 15th ; they had five children-the first two born in Mass., and three in Pompey, as follows : Samuel Leonard
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Rice, January 27th, 1819: Mary Ann, Aug. 30th, 1821; Elizabeth F., August 31st, 1829; Artemus F. January 24th, 1831 ; Ellen M., May 7th, 1837 ; the youngest died May 8th, 1839.
Samuel Leonard Rice married Charlotte H. Tracy, March 31st, 1844 ; and the following are their children : Joseph E., born July 29th, 1845; George W., September 8th, 1851 ; Charles H., November 25th, 1854 ; John T., August 23d, 1856 ; Frank T., May 13th, 1859: Herbert E., November 13th, 1863.
Elizabeth F. Rice married Henry B. Wier, of La Porte, Iowa, November 27th, 1859.
Mary Ann Rice married Charles Strong, of Tecumseh, Michigan, March 7th, 1841, and died April 12th, 1845, leav- ing one child-Mary E., who was born February 23d, 1843, and lives in Tecumseh.
Artemus F. Rice married Eugenia II. Chaplin, of Tecum- seh, April 24th, 1860; they have one child, Alice ; Frances, born January 28th, 1868 ; they reside in Tecumseh, Mich.
Of the children of Samuel Leonard Rice, who was born January 27th, 1819, two are married; Josephine E. Rice married Lucius W. Parish, October 1st, 1868.
George W. Rice married Francis L. MeGregor, Novem- ber 2d, 1871, but in a few months, death severed the tie- the bride only living till February 14th, 1872.
We will now return to the Flint family, and conclude this extended record. The Edward Flint who was born as before related, August 14th, 1749, married Hepsibah Fletcher, February 28th, 1770 : their children were as fol- lows :
Ephraim,¿born September 14th,1770, and died September 9th, 1774 : Rebecca, born February 2d, 1773, and died Sep- tember 13th, 1774; Hepsibalı, born February 22d, 1775, and died June 21st, 1851; Rebecca, born June 22d, 1777, and died April 6th, 1861 : Samuel, born March 16th, 1780,
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died March 18th, 1855; Ephraim, born August 5th, 1782, died September 21st, 1868 ; Elizabeth, born April 22d,1785; Abigail, born December 6th, 1787, died October 12th, 1859; Edward, born March 30th, 1790 : Charlotte, wife of Thomas Rice above named, born December 22d, 1793; John, born February 20th, 1797, and died October 14th, 1844.
Samuel Flint, named in the last family above, was born at Concord, and as before stated March 16th, 1780. He ob- tained a liberal education, and was an excellent mathemati- cian ; many of the years of his early manhood were spent in teaching, and for several years in New York City. In 1819 he came to Pompey, and engaged in farming, having pur- chased and settled on the farm north of the one so long owned by Timothy Butterfield.
On the 27th of January, 1825, at Pompey, he was married to Betsey McKnight, who was born Sept 11th, 1802, at Ox- ford, Chenango Co., N. Y. Mr. Flint continued the pur- suit of agriculture till his failing health prevented him, and he continued to occupy his farm till his death, which occur- red March 18, 1855. His wife survived him only a few years. They left only one child, Charlotte, who was born June 16th, 1826, and was married to John Soule, July 12th, 1843. Mr. Soule and his wife retain the Flint farm to which they have made additions more than doubling the area.
Their children are as follows: Edward F. Soule, born May 24th, 1844, and died January 14th, 1850.
Samuel Fletcher Soule, born November 2d, 1847. He re- sides in Pompey, and is agent for the American Sewing Machine.
Ida Elizabeth Soule was born May 2d, 1851, became a teacher, was married to Mr. Clark, June 16th, 1875, and re- sides in Fabius.
John Flint, born May|12th, 1855, and resides with his pa- rents in Pompey.
Delia :A. Soule, born February 23 1858. Is a teacher, resides with her parents during vacations.
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Eudora Josephine Soule, born June 24th, 1862, and lives with her parents.
Edward Lawrence, born May 8th, 1865, and died June 14th, 1872.
JOSEPH W. GOLD AND MRS. RHODA GOLD.
Mrs. Rhoda Gold was born in Harwinton, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, in the year 1777. At the early age of thirteen she commenced teaching in her native town, and although the opportunities for acquiring knowledge where not what they are now, she possessing a studious and enquiring mind, dignified and pleasing manners, soon became a suc- cessful teacher. At the age of eighteen she was confirmed by the venerable Bishop Seabury. At twenty-five she was married by the late Bishop Griswold, then her beloved pas- tor and predecessor in the Parish school. Soon after her marriage to J. W. Gold they removed to the then almost wilderness of Pompey, where the fifteen years of her mar- ried life were passed. Mrs. Gold was one of the members of Christ's Church in Manlius, from its first organization, and although she lived at a distance of four miles towards Pompey Hill, neither storm nor sunshine detained her from her accustomed place in the church. Waited on by her faithful negro Prince, Sunday morning always found her at her post of duty.
She was always interested in the advancement of educa- tion and was one of the original subscribers to the fund for founding Hobart College. She was a constant reader of the Gospel Messenger from its first publication, and when age and infirmities prevented her hearing the word preached in church she solaced herseif with her paper, her prayer-book and her Bible. The last years of her life were spent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, having survived her husband nearly fifty years.
Joseph Wakeman Gold left his paternal inheritance in Cornwell, Connecticut, to endure the hardships of frontier
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life in the wilderness of Pompey, in 1796. He was in pros- perous circumstances but afflicted with the asthma for thir- teen years, which he bore with fortitude, and closed his life at about the age of forty with resignation.
DAVID GREEN.
The early citizens of Pompey will remember David Green. He was born in New Milford, Connecticut, in 1760, and with his wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Pease, im- migrated to Pompey in 1796. He took up three hundred acres of land around the Corners which still bear his name. Physically he was a man of large size, weighing three hun- dred and twenty pounds. As a citizen he was held in high esteem by his neighbors. He was an exemplary christian and a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. He has long since gone to rest with his fathers. Two daughters were the fruits of his marriage, Ellinor and Hannah. The latter of whom married Benj. F. Freeman, of Ray, Michi- gan. She is dead having left a large family. Ellinor mar- ried David Southard, and she also is dead, having left one child living, David Green Southard who is a resident of Pompey, owning and occupying the same land his grand- father, as a pioneer, reclaimed eighty years ago.
CALEB GREEN.
Caleb Green, son of Jedediah Green, was born in the State of Rhode Island, in 1753. Arriving at the age of man- hood he married Miss Elizabeth Moon, and moved to Dutchess county, N. Y., just before the outbreak of the war of the Revolution. From information in possession of the family, it is probable that he was with one of the expeditions which marched to the relief of Fort Schuyler in the valley of the Mohawk, in the Summer of 1777, and that he did much other service during the continuance of the war. A few years after the conclusion of peace he removed to Eas-
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ton, Washington Co., where he engaged in farming. In 1806 he came to LaFayette, then a part of the town of Pom- pey, and purchased a farm of Joseph Rhoades. Here he built the homestead which is now occupied by his grandson, Mr. George II. Green. One acre of the farm was donated for church and school purposes, and on it now stands the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Green died March 29th, 1817, aged 63 years. His wife died Feb. 6, 1828, aged 73 years.
The following were the names of the children of Caleb and Elizabeth Green :- Zilpha, wife of Johnson Babcock, of Tully, (born in 1774); James who died in Bridgeport, Ct .; Comfort, wife of Job Andrews, of LaFayette; Russel, late of Cardiff, (died Nov. 1871, aged 86 years ;) Griffin, of New York city ; Betsey, wife of John Norton, of Ellery, Chaut- auque Co., N. Y .; Sally, wite of Minot Hoyt, of Harmony, Chautauque Co., N.Y .; Turpin, who succeeded to his father's estate in LaFayette, and where he died Dec. 20, 1851; and Ransom, the only surviving member of the family, now in the 76th year of his age, who resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
HON. DANIEL GILBERT.
Daniel Gilbert was born in Sheffield, Mass., Sept. 12th, 1786. He was the youngest son of Rev. Joseph Gilbert, who was at that time pastor of the Congregational Church in that place. In 1790, he moved with his father's family to Waybridge, Vt., and thence, in 1799, to Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., and settled on Lot No. 66, on the farm lately owned by Albert H. Butterfield, where his father died in 1806, and was buried in Pompey Hill Cemetery. Of his childhood we can learn but little; but very likely he was reared in the industrious and christian manner of such fam- ilies in those times, and hence the virtue and stability of his riper years. He studied law in Cazenovia, N. Y., and in 1812 was admitted to practice, at which time he moved to
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Salina, now the First Ward of Syracuse. He was soon ap- pointed Justice of the Peace, which office he held for twelve years in Salina, and afterwards for about the same length of time elsewhere. In September, 1817, he was married to Miss Harriet Clarke, eldest daughter of the late Dr. Heze- kiah Clarke.
In 1832 he removed to Fayetteville, N. Y., where he re- mained only one year, moving then to Gaines, Orleans Coun- ty, N. Y. While there, he was appointed Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for that County, which of- fice he held for five years, being at the same time Justice of the Peace and Postmaster.
In 1844, he moved to Coldwater, Mich., whither his sons had preceded him. There his infirmities were such as to prevent his engaging actively in business; the only office which he held there was that of Circuit Court Commissioner.
He was a patriot as well as a christian. When traitorous hands sought to rend the country, to destroy the glorious unity of a nation born in the agony of his fathers, and pap- tized in the blood sweat of his brothers, old political lines and shibboleths were of but little note in the presence of the question, whether we shall be, or shall not be, as a nation; whether we shall have and maintain a national government or not.
Too old and infirm to bear arms, he gave his first-born, (Henry Clarke Gilbert, Colonel of the Nineteenth Michigan Regiment, who fell at the battle of Resaca, gallantly leading a successful charge upon a battery); and when that son was borne home and laid in the tomb, leaving him sonless, he calmly said : " He was dear to me, but our country is worth the life of many such."
He died at the city of Coldwater, Mich., Feb. 15th, 1865. Having faithfully " served his generation, by the will of God he fell asleep," and was laid by the side of kindred dust, to rest until the morning of the resurrection.
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HAYDEN FAMILY.
Allen Willard Hayden, a direct lineal descendant of the English baronet, William Hayden, (who came to this eoun- try in 1630 and settled in Dorchester, Mass., and who served in the early Pequot Indian War with some little distinction and notoriety,) was born at Harrington, Litchfield County, Conn., in June, 1783, and, together with his father, Allen Hayden, and his three brothers, Zora, Harvey and Allen, Jr., came to Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., in Sept., 1800, and settled on what was since called the Todd Farm, about one mile east of Pompey Academy. They cleared about three acres of land and sowed it to wheat that fall. The spring following they cleared the land and set out the orchard west of the house, where it now stands. Four years after, Allen Willard married Abigail Castle, sister of' Gen. Jabez and Philo B. Castle, and with his father bought Lot No. 94, situate about two and one-half miles south of the village of Pompey, on which he lived about fifty years. In personal appearance he was commanding, standing six feet in height and very heavily built, being well calculated to bear his part in the hardships of those early times, and many stories are told of his great strength and courage. A man well liked by his neighbors and of a kind and genial disposi- tion. By profession a farmer, he did his work well and was successful, having a large and fine tract of land under good cultivation. He reared a family of eleven children, seven boys and four girls, who all lived to a good age, and to see both father and mother close their earthly career. When the father died, in June, 1858, in his seventy-fifth year, and the mother in January, 1864, in her seventy-ninth year, the whole family, in an unbroken circle, gathered around their remains as the last few words were said before depositing them away from sight forever. Then that united circle of brothers and sisters, all of whom had reached the years of maturity, and some of whom were verging upon old age, and were themselves the heads of families, could feel, as perhaps they had never before felt, that in each they
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had lost a parent indeed-one who had reared them in the paths of sobriety, honesty and rectitude. Having but little fortune to bestow upon their children, they left them the noble example of a moral and religious life-a heritage which the subsequent history of their descendants has shown that they knew how to appreciate and to profit by.
The first child of Allen Willard Hayden was born in 1806, and lived only a short time.
Rowena, the next child, was born on July 4th, 1807, and was married to Archibald H. Colby, and reared a family of five children, Helen, Henry, Caroline, Spencer and Imogene, all of whom are now living. Rowena died in Rochester, N. Y., in March, 1872.
Samuel P., the third child, was born in July, 1809, and was married to Sarah A., the youngest daughter of Elias Conklin, a short sketch of whose life may be found in this volume. Samuel P. Hayden was a successful farmer, and also a carpenter and joiner, and carried on that business for about thirty years. He lived on the farm adjoining his father's till 1855; he then sold his farm and bought the Wheaton and Jesse Butler farms adjoining, and also the stone store at the village of Pompey Hill, built by Beach Beard, and there carried on the mercantile business successfully for sixteen years. He held prominent positions in society and church, and was a very active member of the Board of Trustees of the Pompey Academy, being one of the executive committee and its President for fifteen years. He was well known, and was often appointed to town offices and filled them with sat- isfaction to all; he was also appointed Postmaster in 1860 and held the position for six years. He reared a family of six children : Sabra A., born in 1834, and now married to Homer J. Crandall, and living in Syracuse, N. Y .; Ellen L., born in 1837; Elizabeth M., born in 1839; Daniel E., in 1844 ; Elma D., in 1847, and George, in 1854, Daniel E. served in the Union army during the late rebellion, and is now (1876) residing in Syracuse. In 1869, Samuel P. Hay- den left Pompey with his family and moved to Syracuse and
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engaged in the lumber business. The family all remained together, an unbroken circle, until the spring of 1872, when Mrs. S. P. Hayden, a very amiable, Christian lady, a good mother and an ornament to society, died at the age of sixty- two years, and was buried in the beautiful cemetery at Oak- wood. Samuel P. Hayden died in 1874.
The fourth child of Allen Willard Hayden was born in January, 1811, and died in March of the same year.
Seymour, the fifth child, was born in 1812. . He was a suc- cessful farmer, and lived both in Pompey and Cazenovia, N. Y., and afterwards moved to Syracuse and there died, the first of an unbroken chain of brothers and sisters so long united and without a missing link. Seymour Hayden mar- ried Mary Ann Coburn, of Cazenovia, in 1837. They had two children-Loren C., and Sarah A.
Willard, the sixth child of Allen Willard Hayden, was born in 1813, and married Almira Hanchett, of Pompey; he was an active and hard-working farmer, and lived on the old homestead for a long time. In 1870, he with his family moved to Iowa, where he is now living and engaged in car- rying on a large farm. His oldest son, Wilson, died when about two years old ; Cora J. is married to L. B. Curtis, of Pompey; Oscar E., the third child, now resides in Roches- ter, N. Y., and is engaged extensively in the manufacture and sale of furniture. William is with his father.
Charles J., the seventh child of Allen Willard Hayden, was born in 1816. He married Esther Dannals, of Fabius, and removed to Rochester early, and there engaged exten- sively in the furniture trade and manufacture. He was, in 1855-6, mayor of Rochester, and has held other prominent positions. He has been very successful in business, estab- lishing large warehouses and manufactories of furniture, and has amassed a large fortune. His family consisted of Frances J., Oscar E., Omar D., Ella and Charles, Jr. Oscar E. died when quite young, and Omar D. when about twen- ty-two years old.
Carmi, and a twin brother, who died, the eighth and ninth
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children of Allen Willard Hayden, were born in 1818. Carmi Hayden married, in 1847, Ellen Butler, who was a daughter of Merritt Butler, one of the first settlers and at the date of this sketch the oldest resident of Pompey. Carmi is a far- mer, keeps a summer boarding house, is also a carpenter and joiner, and is at present (1876) post-master of the village. He is now the only one of the family left in Pompey. He has but one child, Nellie.
Angeline, the tenth child of Allen Willard Hayden, was born in 1819, married Solomon G. Chesebro, of Manlius, in 1842, and removed from there to Syracuse. They reared a family of three daughters-M. Dorleska, Anna L. and Frances M.
James E., the eleventh child, was born in 1822, and mar- ried Catharine Ives, of Oswego, in 1848, and settled early in Rochester, where he has since carried on very extensively and successfully the furniture trade. He too has succeeded in establishing a large manufactory and warerooms, and has amassed a large fortune. He has had five children, of whom only three are living, Eloine, Alexander and Aggie.
A. Louisa, the twelfth child of Allen Willard Hayden, was born in 1825, married Salmon P'. Bishop, of Pompey, in 1859, and lived with her mother on the old homestead until the latter's death. She then, being broken down in health, removed to Syracuse, where she died in 1867, at the age of forty-two years. She left no children.
Mary Ann, the thirteenth child, was born in 1826, mar- ried Lucius A. Nearing, of Pompey, in 1851, and now lives in Syracuse, where Dr. Nearing is a successful and promi- nent dentist. They have two children-Jennie and George.
Sely C., the fourteenth child of Allen Willard Hayden, was born in 1830, married Anna JJ. Coburn, of Cazenovia, in 1855, and the same year located in Syracuse, where he has since been extensively engaged manufacturing and deal- ing in furniture, has established a large business and amassed a good fortune.
This is, in brief, the record of one of the largest and old- est, as well as one of the most successful families of Pompey.
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PELATIAH HAYDEN AND DESCENDANTS.
Pelatiah Hayden was born in Newington, Connecticut, moved into Pompey from Kingsboro, N. Y., with his wife Hepsibah and three children, Almira, Lucy and David Ellsworth. This was in February, 1816. He settled two miles south of the present village of Pompey, on a farm par- tially cleared, joining the farms of John C. and Ira Jerome. Here he remained till his death. His father was a soldier of the Revolution. Almira married Erastus Colton, of Pom- pey, and died without heirs, November 13, 1838. Lucy married James H. Child, of Sullivan, Chenango county, whom she still survives, also without issue, but the foster mother of two or three, making her home with her brother in the village of Pompey Hill.
David E. was eight years of age, when the family moved from Kingsboro. Arriving at suitable age he married Lu- cinda Cooley, and continued on the old homestead more than fifty years, bringing up a family of four children-Hi- ram C., Caroline, Hector and Lucy. Two others died in in- fancy.
Hiram C. became a minister of the gospel, having gradu- ated at Amherst College, and Union Theological Seminary of New York. At the time of this writing, (1874,) he has preached at Montville, Conn., a year and a half, four years as pastor of the First Congregational church, of Meriden, Conn. Four years as pastor of the First Congregational church, Painesville, Ohio, and is now pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Cleaveland, Ohio. At intervals of labor he has traveled in Europe, Egypt, Palestine, Sinai and California. He has been twice married, first to Elizabeth R. Coit, of Norwich, Conn., May 1st, 1861, who died thir- teen months thereafter, leaving an infant daughter who is still living. His second wife was Sarah J. Merriman, of Meridan, Conn., who is the mother of two children.
Caroline Hayden gave herself to the vocation of a teacher of music, and is now located at Lester, Michigan. Hector,
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married Amelia Jones, of Pompey, after serving his coun- try in a cavalry regiment during the civil war of 1861 to 1865, and settled in Meriden, Conn., pursuing the calling of a carpenter and builder. They have one child. Lucy mar- ried Richard Bishop, of Pompey, a farmer, and now resides in Lester, Michigan. They have four children.
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