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he died a member of a Connecticut regiment, at Hatteras, N. C., on Burn- side's expedition ; Harry, who married, first, Elizabeth Graham, and second, Maria Fowler, whose children are Ambrose, who married Cora, daughter of John H. Davis, of Clyde ; Sarah married Edwin McMullen; Helen married Edwin Gulett ; Clarissa and Eliza. Harry Smith was a member of Company H, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery. Solomon's third son was Halsey M .; then came Eliza and Frances, of whom the former was the wife of Albert Graham, of Clyde, the latter of Richard Garratt ; the youngest was George, who married, first, Armene Lake, of Huron, and second, Ida Sedore. His only daughter, Georgie, is the wife of Ed. A. Bradburn, of Clyde. Solomon Smith, who died in 1875, aged 74, was in the War of 1812, in some capacity, and on this account his widow draws a pension. He must have been a very young soldier ; but no one begrudges the stipend which serves to soften some of the widow's rough lines in her old age. She is eighty-nine years old, but quite well and vigorous, and retains her faculties remarkably. Her birthday is the same as that of her sister, Mrs. Tucker. Her home now is with her son, George, on the Rob- inson place, west of Carrier's corners. (D. 1889.)
Retracing our steps, we pass Halsey Smith's, and there find the pleasant home of Richard Garratt. I think some of his old friends call him "Dick." Mr. G. comes of that Long Island family that we found in District No. 5. He was himself born in Westchester county, and in early life, in spite of home protests, followed the sea, but when, in 1838, his folks came to this town, he came too, and some readers will remember him as the unfor- tunate victim of the accident at the " horning " given to the newly married Willard and Betsey Peck. In 1846 he married Frances Smith, and for many years has lived where we now find him. He built the house and the barns, and the tidy appearance of everything is owing to his watchful eye and diligent hands. He tells me that his west line marks the western boundry of the original Lovejoy purchase. His daughter, Sarah, married Frank Jones, and lives in Aurora, Ill., while Mary was the wife of Michael A. Fisher, of Clyde. Mr. Garratt showed his devotion to his country by enlisting in Company H of the Ninth Heavy Artillery, at an age when most men thought duty called them to stay at home.
Continuing to Harvey Mason's home at the Four Corners, we turn west and go toward the school-house. Before we ascend the next hill, there are traces at our right of a house, where, in the years long past, dwelt Charles Lake and family. The Lakes were from Rindge, N. H., and Charles had married Betsey Murray, a member of the family that we found in the early days on the now Alonzo Chaddock place. Mr. Lake was a carpenter and joiner, and presumably there are yet standing specimens hereabouts of his handiwork. The children in this home are Miranda, Murray and Byron. The sons went to Michigan, while the daughter mar-
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ried Wm. Ray, and lives in Pittsford, Monroe Co. With her the mother died, while the father ended his days in Michigan. (Geo. Byron Lake died in Northville, Mich.,"June 12, 1891, in his 58th year.)
The next house was for many years the residence of Ira Lake, from whom the school district takes its name. He was born in Weathersfield, Vt., in 1797, May 29th, and married Adaline Wellington, of Rindge, N. H. She was born in 1806, and is yet living, though now she bears the name of Tupper, having married a second time. Although obliged to use a crutch in getting about, on account of a fall, she yields very little to the infirmities of age, and passes her time in Rose with her daughters, in- Oswego with her son, or makes visits to her old home in the Granite State. (Since died. ) They came to Rose in 1831, and here reared their family. The oldest son, Henry, married Rosanna T. Deming, of Newark, and now resides in Oswego ; Nancy became Mrs. James Lovejoy ; Eliza married Silas Love- joy; Wellington, who married Emma Potter, of Rose, was a member of the 111th N. Y., and was killed at the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, aged twenty-eight, and a flag upon his grave in the Lovejoy cemetery proclaims his patriotism ; the youngest son, Hermon, married Anna Houston, and lives in Northville, Michigan. During the War Ira Lake went to the south, expecting to secure employment as a carpenter, but illness drove him home, where he died February 5, 1864, aged sixty-six years, eight months and six days. The house is now the home of Silas Lovejoy, born and bred in the district. A citizen of worth and repute, he keeps in excellent condition the acres so long tilled by his wife's father. Here are three daughters- Anna, Florence and Nellie. (Anna is now Mrs. Alfred G. Jones ; Anna, Mrs. David W. Harper ; Florence, Mrs. Nelson Graham. The farm is owned by Augustus Lovejoy.)
Opposite is the school-house, whose frame has seen more than fifty years of existence. The covering has been renewed, but the skeleton goes back to the earliest days of many a middle-aged resident of the district. Passing on again we behold the quiet farm house. It is just west of the school house and on the same side of the road. It is on the Harvey Mason farm. It was built by him when he and his wife were young, and here they passed the long years-short in the retrospect-of their married life. After the the Masons moved to the corners, the place has been occupied by a succes- sion of tenants.
Before reaching the old Chaddock place, on the north side of the road, we must go down a hill, at whose foot, on the south side of the road, is a. large sulphur spring. I know of no other in the town. A little judicious care would make the place worthy of resort. As it is, many people have carried away barrels of its waters on account of its medicinal qualities. The water is not so heavily impregnated as at Clifton, but unless one is fond of venerable eggs, the water contains sulphur enough. Passing along:
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a pleasant valley and then climbing again, we shall stand where industry has for many years been the prevailing characteristic of man and woman. It is now the home of William H. Cole; but we must go back many a weary year to find the earliest occupant, William Chaddock. He was a Massa- ·chusetts man, born in 1786, probably in the town of Rutland. He married there Dorothy Brown, and there they began their life journey. Afterward they moved to Cayuga county in this state, and there some of their chil- dren were born. Coming to this town Mr. C. located on lot 136, which I find earliest assigned. to Robert Mason, father of Harvey, but I suppose he must have given it up. The firstlog house was put up in the orchard, or where the orchard is now. This was burned, and then a second one was erected nearer the road, and also near the present framed structure, which came in due time. The story goes that one of these houses, by mistake, was erected over a boundary line, so that a neighbor could claim it. The neighbor forbade his moving it, and proceeded to take legal measures for holding it. But when he came with his process, he was too late, for Mr. .C. had gathered his neighbors and, in the night, had moved all the house and a part of the cellar. There was nothing left for him to attach. The most of Mr. Chaddock's Rose life, however, was passed in the primitive log habitation. He died in 1854, October 27th, in his sixty-ninth year- not as old as men and women live to-day. It is noteworthy that the most of the very first comers did not live so long as their children have. They did not become acclimatized, or the excessive labor incident to break- ing up a new country broke them down. Chills and fever was a complaint which all suffered from and from which some never fully recovered. Mr. C. was a life-long member of the Baptist Church, and always maintained the respect of his neighbors. It is said that he had to pay for his farm twice, through some rascality. His widow survived him until our centen. nial year, when she died at the age of 81. As was usual in the olden times, Mr. Chaddock's family was a good-sized one. His oldest son, William, was born in Massachusetts, but accompanying the family to this state, married Miss Lydia Bigelow, of Brockport. Her father was both Baptist clergyman and surveyor, and in the latter capacity surveyed the site of Rochester. The second son, Watson, married Maria Drown, and lives in Huron; Alonzo we have met as a resident of the Stewart district ; Winfield we shall return to presently as his father's successor on the farm; Wesley married a Thomas, and lives in Huron. Why a staunch Baptist should name his boy after the founder of the Methodists is more than I can -devise. There were daughters, too, viz .: Lydia, who became Mrs. Norman Seymour, of Huron ; Mary, wife of Clark Eldred, of North. Rose; Caroline, who married successively Francis and John DeLong, of Huron, and Elsie, the wife of Newton Lee, of Cleveland, Ohio. (Mrs. DeLong died July 30, 1893.) Winfield, his father's successor, was twice married. His first
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wife was Almanda, daughter of Harvey Mason, who died in 1859, at the age of nearly twenty-seven. They had one daughter, Lucetta, the wife of Wm. H. Cole, who now occupies the old homestead. His second wife was Sophronia, youngest child of Silas Lovejoy, and thereby own cousin to Almanda, the first wife. She is the mother of two children-Edith, wife of Ernest O. Seelye, of Dakota, and Winfield, born after his father's untimely death. Winfield Chaddock was one of the town's most substantial and respected citizens. Stalwart in form, he was just as erect in character, and when sudden illness carried him off, in 1873, he left a large void in the Baptist Church, and the neighborhood. His widow managed the farm herself until June, 1883, when she followed her daughter to Dakota. Now in Okobojo, Sully Co., she is with her son, Winfield, waiting for the country to grow up. William H. Cole, having married the older daughter, Lucetta, purchased the farm on Mrs. C.'s departure, and now manages matters in the home of his wife's ancestors. He is himself a son of Isaac Cole, who lives on the old Carrier place, further west. He is a native of Saratoga county, but has lived many years in Galen. Like all the dwellers on this farm, he is a member of the Rose Baptist Church. Just what the peculiarities of the hill lot are, that they should make Bap- tists of all dwellers, even of those of Methodist antecedents, I can't imagine ; for, lo! there is not much water near. One son, Charles S., is growing up, no doubt, to maintain the Baptist traditions of the place. (Mr. Cole evaporates apples extensively, and, with Louis S. Town, is interested in large peach orchards in Georgia.) 1
Across the road is the pleasant home of Dorman Munsell. As we have noted, he is the second to bear the name-a son of that Dorman who moved from ancient Windsor of Connecticut. The farm itself was the early home of Paine Phillips, who, a half-brother of Mrs. Chaddock and Mrs. Norton, came here from Massachusetts, and here his life was passed. The log habitation was near the present house, possibly a little further west. For his wife he married widow Wood, whom the neighbors called "Aunt Peggy." She had several children by her first marriage, and to one of these, Abner, the farm passed on the death of the old people. I have been told that they are buried in the Briggs or Bishop cemetery. If so, they have no memorial to mark their graves. Abner Wood married Mary Ann Barnum, daughter of Roger, whom we encountered on the western confines of District No. 6. Like all the others hereabouts, he went west. After several short ownerships, the farm was bought by Harvey Mason, who passed it along to its present proprietor. Paine Phillips had several children by his marriage with widow Wood, and three of these we have already met as the consorts of three of widow Lampson's children. She was herself a sister of Roger Barnum's wife. Dorman Munsell married Laura Ann Mason, and has a family as follows :
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Josephine ; Emogene, who married Byron Brayton, and lives in Hubbard- ston, Michigan ; Anginette is the wife of Henry Ward Clapper, and lives with the Masons on the corners; Elnora married Daniel Lewis, and we have seen them on the old "Holl" Drury farm ; the only son, Harvey D., and the youngest daughter, Lizzie A., are at home. In common with nearly all the denizens of this town, Mr. Munsell has had the Michigan fever, and in the Badger State lived for some years; but he appears to have survived the attack, and now lives comfortably in the neat house of his own construction, for he is a good carpenter and joiner. ( Mr. M. is now in Clyde, and his son, Harvey, manages the farm.)
Going down the hill and across the railroad, we find an orchard on the north side of the road. This marks the site of a former home. There is. a shanty standing now, but once a log house held the family of Daniel Norton. The mother was Mary Brown, a sister of the first Mrs. Chaddock. There were sons-Joseph, Elijah and Darwin-and daughters-Emeline- and Mary. Mr. Norton, after selling to Zadoc Taylor, moved to Lima, Livingston county. He must have been one of the very first owners of the farm. Eli Garlic may have been there before him. It now belongs to the family of Zadoc P. Taylor.
Further west and on the corners, southeast side, is the home of Isaac Cole ; but it was long the home of the Carrier family, and the cross roads are still known as Carrier's corners. The first holder of this farm was- Robert Mason, whom we have frequently seen in these parts. A widow Babcock, former wife of Stephen, was the party, who, fifty or more years. ago, sold to Amaziah Carrier, and went to the west. When the Babcocks took the place, the father was living. There were five children-Betsey, Jane, Stephen, Willard and Caleb. Mr. Carrier was born in Conquest, Cayuga county, but of Massachusetts stock. His wife was Lois Jane Bottum, born in Conquest also. She was a sister of the late Dr. Bottum of Lyons, but who, years ago, practiced in this and adjacent towns. The name was originally Longbotham, and as such is still a common one on Long Island. Mrs. Carrier's immediate family came from Schoharie county. The wedded life of the Carriers began in Conquest. From there they went to Huron and thence to Rose, where we find them. No people in this town ever enjoyed more thorough respect from their neighbors. Members of the Methodist Church, they gave a permanent respectability to the place- of their dwelling. Though only their youngest two children were born here, yet the others were small when the family came, so here all were reared. Their oldest son, W. Seward, was a young man of much promise, who, after several years' study in Fulton, had begun the reading of law ; but the war of the Rebellion found him ready to sacrifice all personal ends for the good of his country. He became a member of the 10th Veteran Cavalry, and as such died in Baltimore in 1862-one of the first whose
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body was brought back from the seat of war to his old home to sleep its last sleep. With his kindred he rests in the Lovejoy burial ground. Mary died in 1859, at the age of nineteen years; Elbert E., after taking a diploma in medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., began the practice of his pro- fession near Syracuse, but died soon afterward, viz., in 1870, aged twenty- eight years; Ella J. married George Aldrich of North Rose, where they live, having one son, John C .; Lillie Estelle married Burton Partridge from Chautauqua county, and now lives in Wolcott. He is a Methodist clergyman of the Genesee Conference, though not now in the active minis- try. Amaziah Carrier himself, after a useful life, died in 1872, at the age of sixty-two. His widow now makes her home in Wolcott. From the
Carriers the place passed to David Waldroff of Galen, who sold in a few years to George Fry, from whom it soon passed to its present proprietor. Mr. Cole is a native of Galloway, Saratoga county; his wife is Juliette Northrop. His home for some years before moving to Rose was in Galen. His older son, Wm. H., we have met on the old Chaddock place ; Sidney is at home ; the only daughter, Harriet, is the wife of John Gillett of Clyde. Mr. Cole is a prominent member of the Free Methodist Church.
Diagonally across the way is the home of the Taylors, but it was here, in the years ago, that the youthful Robinsons sported. Henry Robinson, the first of his family here, was born in Eniskillen, Ireland, in 1797. His ancestors had migrated from Scotland to Erin in Oliver Cromwell's days, and to the last he was a stout champion of Orangeism and all that the name implies. The mother, Elizabeth, was born in the same place, though of English antecedents, in 1799. Together they sought a home in this western world, and first located in Phelps, Ontario county. After coming to Rose, his first work was done for Gen. Adams, on the famous Sodus canal, and on the general's Clyde farm. His trade was that of a stone mason, and a more thorough master of his art never handled a trowel. Many a foundation securely laid and walls compactly built, attest the reliableness of his work. I would defy anyone to find a specimen of Henry Robinson's work that, through any fault of his, was or is imperfect. If devotion to the Orangemen's principles begets such probity and upright- ness, let us pray for an increase of the tribe. An exemplary member of the Methodist Church, he finished his course in 1874; his wife in 1875, and both are found in the Rose cemetery. On taking this farm, there was standing on the corner a log house, and in this for several years the family lived. Then they sold to Wm. Underhill from Tyre, and bought of Wm. Chaddock the next place west. Later, in the fifties, he bought of Wm. Havens six acres of land across the road, and having moved the Chaddock house over the way, there he and his wife lived until their deaths, as stated above. The children of these good people were numerous, and some of them are well known in their respective communities. The oldest, James,
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married a Johnson of Phelps, and resides near Newark ; the second son is the Hon. Thomas Robinson of Clyde. A lawyer of eminence, he has represented his senatorial district at Albany. Always of scholarly char- acteristics, he taught and worked until he secured a good education. With trowel in hand, he has borne no mean part by his father's side. As a teacher, he is remembered most vividly in Rose, Butler and other towns, where his school was always the best. As county commissioner of public schools, he won additional honors, and as lawyer and senator, he has still further enhanced the luster of the name, always of good repute. His wife is a daughter of Rev. R. N. Barber, whom he wed in 1863. His pleasant home is in the western part of the village of Clyde, the site of Gen. Adams' old residence-a striking illustration of the vicissitudes of fortune in this land. The elder Robinson dug in "Adams' ditch," the younger owns Adams' old home. Who will dare to say that the poor man has no chance in America ? To-day one man drives, another rides. The next generation just reverses the order. The third son, William H., married Lena Hall of Morrisville, Madison county. He died September 30, 1872, and is buried with his parents in Rose. John W. Robinson, as did all his brothers, worked more or less with his father, but he desired an education, and was for a time a schoolmate of the writer at Falley Seminary in Fulton. Teaching and working, he secured an education, fitting him for the place he now holds at the head of the Wolcott union school. His wife, whom he married in Manchester, Michigan, divides with him the honors of the successful management of the school. ( Mr. R. is now at the head of the Newark, N. Y., high school.) Another son, Irving J., died in 1875, at the age of twenty-eight years. The eldest daughter, Catharine, was graduated from the Albany State Normal School in the second class fitted there. She died in 1849, at the age of twenty-two. Eliza A. died in 1875, at the age of forty, while Jane, who makes her home with Thomas, is a teacher in Macedon. The family, from the begin- ning, took an active interest in education. First and last, five of the children were teachers. Three of them taught in the home or Lake dis- trict. The only regret, as we end the chapter, is that those in the cemetery are the only ones of this family who remain in the town. It is possible that the first settler here was Orrin Morris. He had children -- Hiram and Lucinda. All went to Wisconsin.
Zadoc P. Taylor, who succeeded the Underhills, found the log house still there. He built the frame house and the blacksmith shop on the corner, where he long worked at his trade. His wife was Aldula Allen, oldest daughter of Solomon Allen of the Stewart district. Both husband and wife were natives of Vermont, where the former was born in Pawlet, in 1800. He died in 1881. To them were born three children-Geliza, who now (a Reed) lives in Savannah ; Ruth, who, with her mother, holds the 8
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old place ; and Allen, who, having married Elizabeth Lund, lives on the Clyde road. Ruth has been for many years a teacher, having had excep- tional early advantages at Oberlin College in Ohio. She has recently married William L. Brown of Orleans county. The Taylors also bought the Robinson place north of the road, and there Allen T. built the house now standing. (Mrs. T. has since died, and to the Browns has come a daughter, Aldula. )
To the next place opposite, we have already had an introduction as the home of the Robinsons, from whom it passed to George Smith, the present owner, and him and his we met when visiting the family of Solomon Smith. William Havens, who once lived here and in other places in the district, came from Cato. He had two sons and several daughters. One of these married Elias Wood, who taught the first school in the district. He after- ward became a Baptist minister. A man by the name of Mandigo also lived here. He moved over to the Roger Barnum place in District No. 6, and there died.
After crossing the road again, we find the site of the house which Wm. Chaddock, 2d, built many years since, though it succeeded a log house which he constructed after leaving the paternal farm. He had here twenty acres, and these he held until he bought and built opposite the Grahams, further west. Subsequently he bought and managed the grist mill in Glenmark. After selling that he moved to the Valley, and there died, in 1883. His widow, whom we have met as Lydia Bigelow, lives in the Valley home with her daughter, Mrs. Cephas Bishop. His children are Sarah, mentioned above as Mrs. Bishop; Jared, who married Miriam Durfee of Marion, and lives on the Samuel Garlic place, west of the village. ( Now in the Valley. ) He was a member of the 67th N. Y. during the War. Judson has been twice married, first to Addie Hoyt of Weedsport, a cousin of Mrs. Orson Toles, and second to Katie Cuyler of Cato, another cousin of Mrs. T. His home also is west of the Valley. The youngest, Rosalie, is at home with her mother and sister. William Chaddock was a reputable, reliable citizen, and it goes without saying that he and his were or are all Baptists. From Mr. Chaddock the farm passed, first to Henry Robinson, and finally to the Taylors, who now own it.
Only a short distance beyond is the house built years ago by Ebenezer Toles, who, when he took the place, found there a log house, built likely by Joel Mudge. Of the former I wrote in connection with the Orson Toles farm. Mr. Toles sold to Josias Vincent, who now lives in Clyde. After Vincent came Columbus C. Collins, whom we have met repeatedly in Dis- trict No. 7 and elsewhere. Collins was a dry joker at times, and to the writer's brother he once said, standing in his porch : "You see, we have Biblical surroundings. Over there is Shadrack ( Chaddock), yonder is a mere shack (pointing to a log house), and here-well, here to bed we go."
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Since Collins' day there have been many possessors, as Ambrose Cope- man, who died there. He was a son-in-law of J. Baker, who lives further west. Thomas Robinson came next, then John Barrick, Alonzo Streeter and Robert Jeffers, from whom it passed to John York of North Rose, who still holds it.
Our course is ended in this direction, and we must come back to the corners. Here we shall journey to the north through a valley with a stretch of woods at our left. The road is between the old lots 134 on the west, and 135 to the east. We shall go just into Huron, where the road divides lots 114 and 115; i. e., the lower part of these lots is in the town of Rose, the greater part in Huron. After climbing the hill, we find at our right evidence of industry and thrift in the pleasant home of Edmund G. Smith. The earliest trace of ownership that I can find is that of Dar- win Norton, who probably took the place from the land office. Norton has been met as a member of the family west of the first William Chaddock. His wife was a Lovejoy. Then came Alonzo Chaddock, during whose ownership the framed house was built, and with him his brother-in-law, Frank De Long, died. He sold to S. Garlic, and he to Deacon Guthrie. The latter's daughter, Louisa, is the wife of Chas. Deady of District No. 5. Then came Mr. Smith, the present owner. He was born in Notting- hamshire, England, and came to this country in 1850. For some years he traveled with circuses and menageries, among others that of Van Amburg, where I suppose he repeatedly " saw the elephant go round." It was in 1871 that he came to this place, where he keeps things in apple-pie order. No circus around him now. His wife was Elizabeth Livermore, a widow whose maiden name was Parker. Having no children, they give a home to their niece, Eliza, a daughter of Mr. Smith's brother, who died in England. (Married, Sept., '93, to Samuel V. King.)
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