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The next place is that of James Osborne, whom we have already noted as having married Helen Covell. Like his brother, he has built his habitation of brick, and it is a fine substantial edifice, obviously useful,
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and certainly creditable to the street. These good people having no children have adopted two, Carrie and Edna. The former is the wife of John Stopfel and they occupy the next house west, but on the south side of the road. It is the property of Mr. Osborne. These gentlemen, James and Francis, emulate the virtues of their ancestors, and are pillars in the Rose Presbyterian Church.
Still to the west and facing the road running north is the home of Frank Garlick, son of Henry of North Rose. The farm of ninety-two acres was for many years in the possession of Hiram Hart, who came hither from Junius, the farm having been given to him by his father, who probably took the land from the office. The Harts had no children, and after selling to Henry Garlick, eighteen years ago, went to Ohio and there died. Mr. G. has repaired the house and built barns till the place is very much improved. On the east corner is the home of Charles Crisler, whose father, Adam, lives in the northeast part of Rose. His wife is Sibyl Day ; they have two sons, Ernest and Sidney. A cooper shop near by indicates one of Mr. C.'s avocations. From the data in an old Wayne county atlas, I conclude that this location once went under the name of Alvord, for next west, a quarter of a mile away perhaps, was the nominal residence of William and Mary Alvord, whose son, George, dwells next north of Mr. Crisler. His home is on the west side of the road ; his wife is Etta Johnson.
Nearly across, and somewhat back from the road, is the residence of Henry Dunn, whose wife is Nettie Correll of the Glenmark district. They have one child-Nora. The house was built for him by his father, who lives a short distance north. Before getting to Hiram Dunn's, we must pause a moment at the abode of "Jimmy" Wraight, who is rearing a second family of youngsters with the aid of his much younger wife.
The last estate in this district on this road is on the east side, and here for many years have dwelt Hiram Dunn and family. He was one of Saratoga county's contributions to Rose. His farm was bought of John Adams and Col. Cook of Sodus. The log house found by him has been followed by an ample framed structure. His wife is Jane E. Thompson, and their son, Henry, we have already passed. They have had three daughters-Mary, Hattie and Rosa. Both Mary and Hattie became wives of Monroe Seagar, of the west part of the town. Hattie was first married, and on her death Mary became Mrs. S. Rosa is Mrs. Andrew Brower.
Coming back to the corners, and again going west, we encounter first the house belonging to Eli Riggs. It is, however, occupied by other parties, while the owner resides in the new house of George Wraight. The latter is the son of James, frequently called " Jimmy " W., who, on this spot in our centennial, 1876, in October, was most cruelly set upon and robbed. He then lived in a log house, and it had in some way become
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known that he was in possession of a large sum of money. Certain parties came to his house in the night, and after nearly killing him, forced from him the location of the treasure and carried it off. The robbers were, however, soon found, and one turning state's evidence, the other was sentenced to a long imprisonment, from which he emerged only a few years since. Jimmy, as we have seen, survived the shock to his nerves and frame, and is now rearing a new crop of Wraights. Eli Riggs married Frances Wraight and has two children, Norman and Hannah, still at home. (Mr. Riggs has since built a new house on his old site. The Wraight house is now owned by the widow of Walter Messenger.)
A little further to the west, were we to look very sharp, we might find the remnant of a blacksmith shop, at whose anvil William Riggs once worked. Beyond it and on the same (north) side of the road, William lived. He came here in 1866, and took up the farm from the land office. Of course there had been many predecessors there; but they had gone, one after the other, he being the first to secure a clear title. Mr. Riggs came here from Lyons, apparently a new family in our midst. His wife was Betsey Purdy of Dutchess county, and it is possible that the Riggses also came thence. Their oldest son, Henry, married Emily Finch, and lives in the north part of Rose ; Eli we have just passed ; James we shall meet in District No. 11. George died at the age of seventeen. Mr. Riggs has lost five children. He sold to John Creek, an Englishman, but the place is now controlled by Lucy Weeks. In the little house, just a few steps further west, his son Eli once lived. Both houses are now unoccupied and are passing into decay. Mr. Riggs after selling here moved a little south into the Jeffers neighborhood, following Harley Way in the old hill-top home. This place is the last in the district. A few rods further and we should be at the end of our long road in the Wayne Centre district, and very near the Sodus line.
We are once more at the school-house and a few paces to the north bring us to the home of Seymour Covell. To-day there is no man in Rose better known than " Seem" Covell. He has traversed this and neighbor- ing towns in buying stock till his rubicund and merry visage is recognized without introduction. As Mr. C. is an excellent talker, he may tell his own story : " You see, I married a school ma'am, and, with all of her folks, went to Michigan, Oakland county. I had just got things cleared up and was in a good way when I thought I'd come home and visit my folks. After I got here, I found them old and very anxious to have me stay with them. I couldn't refuse them, so back I went to Michigan, sold out and came home." "Yes," says Mrs. C., " and took me away from all my folks. You never thought of that." Mr. Covell is used to interruptions, so he placidly proceeds : " One day, after we had been back some time, some parties stopped, as I was working near the road and asked the loca-
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tion of certain landmarks. Uncle Ira Lathrop, who lived where I do now, remarked : 'I'd sell all I have for so much per acre.' I tell you it set me to thinking. I told him to wait a little while and I'd think about it. I hated to run in debt so much, but I thought it a chance I couldn't afford to lose. After a while I mustered up courage to tell him I'd take the farm. And then I was afraid he'd back out before the writings could be drawn. But he went down to the Valley, and we had the deed drawn there, and I was to have twelve years to pay in. Then the old lady wouldn't sign the deed." "And I don't blame her a mite; I wouldn't if I had been in her place," interrupted Mrs. C. "The idea of signing away one's home. I never would." Taking breath, Mr. C. proceeds : "In spite of the old lady's failure to sign, I got possession, and have been here ever since. The times were good, and the farm laughed. I made big payments. Corn fetched a big price. The hogs were heavy and sold well, and at the end of three, instead of twelve years, I was ready to square up. So I said to Uncle Lathrop, 'I'm ready to pay you if you can get Aunt Jemima's signature.' He managed to get her to sign by giving her a mortgage on certain property in town that had every prospect of running a long time. It did. She never got a cent of interest or principal. I was mighty sorry for her, but what was I to do ? Yes ; they were nice folks, Uncle Ira Lathrop and his wife, who had been Jemima Parrish. They came here from Phelps. They hadn't any children of their own, but they raised three adopted ones, one boy and two girls. The son finally went west, while Ann married Clinton Hart, and for a long time lived up west of the corners. Martha is the wife of George Correll of the North Rose district, and Henry Dunn married her daughter. Somehow or other things didn't go first rate after the Lathrops sold the place. Both are dead now. Uriah Wade was here before the Lathrops, and he built the log house. He was a son of Alverson Wade, over east, and he may have taken the land from the office, but the orchard was planted by a man named King. After leaving here, Wade took up the next farm north and had a saw-mill away down in the glen." So far from Mr. C. himself. Now, I may say, that as the evening shades of life appear, he and his companion have every reason to congratulate themselves on their happy situation. Mrs. Covell was Clarissa Crafts, and her father, Abram, was one of the earliest settlers near Wayne Centre, where she was born. She was the school teacher in the district when her future husband fell in love with her. Their union has resulted in the birth of Helen, the wife of James Osborne ; Charles Henry, whom we shall meet on the next place north; James Egbert, who married Hannahett Vanderburgh, and is now in Jackson county, Michigan ; Abram Delos, married Helen Griswold and lives south of the Valley ; Irving Seymour, who married Florence Dodge, of Hartford, Connecticut, and is in business in New Haven, Conn .; and Huldah Ann, who is
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at home. The house, much improved by Mr. Covell, was built by Lathrop. (Since writing the foregoing, Mrs. Covell has ceased to be interested in things earthly, and has passed to her reward, dying Saturday, September 28th, 1889. Her health had been steadily failing for some time.) (In 1893 Mr. Covell lives in the Valley, and the farm belongs to Joseph Phillips.)
A large barn, with conveniences equally good, north and south, stands midway between the homes of Seymour Covell and his son, Charles. The latter has been for some time the county superintendent of the poor. His first wife was Jane Haviland of Rose, who was the mother of his only child, Rose Adele, the wife of Frank Kellogg of District No. 7. He married, second, Miss Lillian York of Sodus, daughter of Norman York, who was a sergeant in Company D, Ninth Heavy Artillery. He was taken prisoner at Monocacy, and never saw the child born to him after his enlistment. A comrade in Danville, Va., I have seen him walk the floor hours at a time, talking to all who would listen of the wife and little one he was never to see. (Mr. and Mrs. Covell have a son, Ross Granger, born June 19, 1890. ) -
Our dwellings along this road are all on the west side, facing the gorge, which was to have been the site of the Sodus canal, an institution whose building scarcely more than destroyed the mill privileges along the stream. Below us may be distinctly seen the old dams of Hunn's and Wade's mills. A short distance north of Charles Covell's is the home of Seth Woodard, whose father, Charles, bought of Henry Young. The latter obtained of John I. Smith, who probably took from Uriah Wade. Of the latter we can give the following facts. He was a son of Alverson Wade, encountered in District No. 6, and was an exceedingly busy, active man. His wife was Sally, a daughter of the first Thaddeus Collins. He was born in Chicopee, Mass., July 30, 1782, and was married in 1807. They had seven children, and all were born in Wayne county. In 1835 the family went to Michigan, taking a water route, by canal and Lake Erie, to Detroit. He settled in Concord, Jackson county. In Michigan he married again, his second wife being Mary Gates, by whom he had three children. Having been injured by a train of cars, he died October 11, 1871. Of these Rose children, the oldest son, Thaddeus, lives in Illinois ; the next, Lawson, in Grand Rapids; Mich .; the next, Clinton, in Dakota ; the one following, Chauncey, in But- ler, Mich .; the oldest daughter, Paulina, Mrs. Samuel Eddy, in Jamestown, Dakota; her sister is Mrs. Cordelia Tripp, of Concord, Mich. The youngest son of the children by the first wife is M. D. Wade, of Indian- apolis, Ind. Sally (Collins) Wade died in Concord, May 14, 1837. Mr. Smith was one of the early emigrants, but I understand that he was for several years a justice of the peace here. Mr. Young had a mill in Glen- mark. He, too, migrated. Chas. Woodard came from Ontario county, in 1854. His wife was Caroline Horn, of Lyons, where he now is. His son,
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Seth, the present occupant, married Louise M. Messenger, of Glenmark, and their only son bears his grandfather's name, Charles. Levi B. Wood- ard and wife, parents of the first Charles, came with him, and for several years lived here. They were Canandaigua people. The old house to the north, now unoccupied, was built by Uriah Wade of hewed basswood logs. Clapboarded without and plastered within, no one would suspect it to be a log house were it not for the thickness of the window casings. If I .could get all the town history that the successive residents here could recount, I should have little lacking. The most of the dwellers, however, are " beyond the smiling and the weeping."
The very last citizen in District No. 10 is reached when we come to the home of David P. Barnum, whose home we find just south of the railroad. He is a native of Putnam county, but went early to Junius and thence to Wisconsin. His wife is Catharine Burch, of Junius. He came here more than twenty years ago. His children are Laura M .; Mary, who married Albert Ellis, of Glenmark, and Ara, who is at home. In politics Mr. Barnum is an uncompromising democrat. (Mrs. Barnum died December 30, 1889. Mr. B., October 20, 1890.)
Coming back to the school-house, we will journey southward, and near the corners, on the east side of the road, is the home of James Phillips. I think his neighbors more often call him "Jim." He is a son of the first comer, William. Years ago he married Electa Bradshaw. Of his children, Stephen went into the army, served his three years in the 10th Cavalry, and died in 1864, on his return. His grave is one of those decorated by the Rose veterans. George married in Syracuse, and went there to live. He once managed the cider mill just south of his father's, under the hill. Laura became the wife of Charles Hurst, once well known in and about the Valley. Elizabeth married Charles Miner, of that very large family descended from the Baptist elder. Lovina, as Mrs. Charles Ditton, we passed on the road east of the corners.
Near James Phillips' home was the old home of his father, to whom passing reference was made as we went along the east and west road. His log house, one of the most primitive in these parts, covered once the fol- lowing children : Israel, who, on reaching manhood, went west ; James, already mentioned ; Isaac, who married Louisa Palmer and went to Gene- see county ; Mary, the wife of Leonard Lombard, who went to Michigan ; Levi also went to the Badger State; Hannah, as the wife of Benjamin Snyder, followed her kin to the Peninsular State, as did Lovina, who mar- ried John Geer; William, too, joined the same procession and married west, but, having returned, he lives now in the old Samuel Hunn house. The youngest of the family, Joseph, we encountered west of the corners. After a time William Phillips bought land opposite, and put up the frame of a large house. This, however, was never finished, and finally fell down.
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In it old Mrs. Phillips was bed-ridden for many years. Just under the hill is a building used now as a peppermint still ; but it has been a cider mill and possibly an evaporator. It is the property of James Phillips.
Near by, on the west side of the road, is the house of Mr. Stopfel, one of whose sons married the adopted daughter of James Osborne. He has another son, Louis E., and two daughters. Before him was John H. Rup- pert, and from a tombstone in the Rose cemetery, I copy this inscription : " John H. Ruppert, born May 29th, 1822, in Willinghausen, Germany ; died April 1st, 1882. Co. H, 148 Regt., N. Y. Vols." One instinctively thinks of that Prince Rupert who came from his German home to the help of his hard-pushed uncle, Charles the First, of England. This Ger- man's grave is another of the cherished ones in our cemetery.
Between this house and the next turn to the east were once the homes of Messrs. Hollafolla and Fink. All these names, i. e., these last two and the preceding two, are reminders of that very quiet German invasion which was made in the fifties. George Hollafolla died in 1878, and is buried in the Rose cemetery. His holding was a small one and passed into the large Barrett farm. Christian Fink had a place of twenty acres, but he, too, sold to the Barretts and moved away. Both Fink's and Hol- lafolla's houses have disappeared, leaving not a vestige on the former sites, though it is proper to state that Fink's abode was moved over the way by Lewis Barrett, and, considerably changed, stands to-day opposite the residence of Jerry Barrett, the property of the latter.
On the east side, a little further north, resides Charles Stephens, whose wife was a daughter of the Mr. Fink just passed. This place is a part of the old Wm. Phillips lot-some ten acres in all. Eli Garlick held it years ago, and built the house. He also had a blacksmith shop near, an invari- able accompaniment to any house owned by him. He sold to George Hollafolla, who once lived opposite. Mr. H. passed the place along to LaRock, who in turn sold to Abram Covell, a native of the district, but now dwelling south of the Valley.
Our way southward is ended when we reach the road running east. At. our right is a small shop where Simeon I. Barrett formerly wielded his hammer and fashioned iron. Opposite is the house erected by him, and' in it he passed the later years of his long and useful life. He was born in Fishkill, Dutchess county, New York, February 22, 1794 ; so, if he lives till next Washington's birthday, he will be ninety-four years old. He came to this town forty-seven years ago, but he left his old home long before that. It was in 1815 that he came to a place sonth of this. The next season was that of the famous cold summer of 1816. His wife was Matilda, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, Ebenezer Pierce, from Massachu- setts, and she was worthy of all the affection with which her husband regards her.
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Mr. Barrett is of a very active temperament, though he has done very little farm work for the last twenty-four years. Like Isaak Walton, he is a great fisherman, and at least once a week has to go to Sodus bay for his favorite amusement. He reads a great deal and has never used glasses. For many years an anti-Mason, he peruses most diligently the columns of the Christian Cynosure, a paper managed in opposition to Free Masonry. His chief delight, however, is in his Bible, and this he reads constantly. He has read it through, consecutively, many times, in addition to the desultory reading that forms his chief occupation. With his faculties unimpaired, he has his opinions on all current topics. He does not, like so many aged people, live only in the past, but he is actively alive in the present. May his good works continue, and may he live to see his fully rounded century! Living with his son, Jeremiah P., he has a happy home. He has had seven children, some of whom have preceded him to the other world. (Mr. B. died in 1887.)
Uncle "Sim's" wife, to whom he was devoted, died July 30, 1863, at the age of sixty five. Near them, in Ferguson's burial ground, lie Mrs. Barrett's parents, the Pierces, Mr. B.'s mother, Tamar, who died in 1839, and several children. Their children, who survived, were John R. who married Mary Pitcher, and lived on the Wayne Centre road further south. Luman Lewis Barrett married Betsey Brown, of Galen; her mother was Seymour Covell's sister. He formerly lived in Rose, owning, among other places, that on which Jared Chaddock is now, and for a time was opposite the old home place. Till lately, however, he has been in Huron, where his only child, Gardner, who married Alice Bradburn, now resides. In the spring of 1889 he came to the Valley to live, occupying the house north of the corners, owned by Julia Sedore. Mary was the wife of Henry ("Hack ") Shepard, and died several years since. They had but one child, " Libbie," one of the merriest of girls, who died some time before her parents. Catharine married Anson Cady, of Galen. The youngest son, Jeremiah, made Anna Collier his wife, and, till this season, ran the farm. He has no children, and now lives in the Valley, leaving Edward Klinck in care of the home acres, one hundred and forty in number. (Mr. B. is again on his farm. ) It should be added that Simeon Barrett bought of John Rhea, who, I find, in 1837, selling to Thomas J. Lyman subdivi- sion No. 1, part of lot 425, in Robertson & Howard's tract, three acres, deeded by Fellows & MacNab to Henry Dodds. This covered, I suppose, some part of the old Barrett place. Rhea had a son, Arnold, and his busi- ness was largely the care of saw-mills.
The house across the road has already been noted as the old Fink build- ing, moved from the west side of the north and south road. Now it serves a valuable purpose as a tenant house.
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Quite a distance back from the road is an old red house, which for many years was the abode of Samuel Hunn and family. He has been referred to. before as the purchaser of the eastern part of the old Phillips lot, and as the builder of numerous saw-mills. He came to Rose from Phelps. His wife was Sally, a sister of Samuel Otto. For many years he was a prom- inent member of the Rose Methodist Church, valuable in all her counsels. He died in 1875, his wife in 1877, and both lie in the Rose cemetery. They had two sons, James and Parsons. The former married a neighbor's- daughter, Catharine Winchell. He died in 1861, leaving children-Clay- ton, now in Indiana ; Sally Ann, who married Fernando Miner, and. Margaret, the wife of Peter Paine. Mrs. Hunn married, for her second husband, Andrew Andrus, of Huron, and for her third, Albert Harper, a twin brother of Almon H., sons of Daniel Harper. Both were very large men, together weighing more than 500 pounds. Again a widow, she is liv- ing in the Valley. Parsons Hunn married Martha Weeks, and had two. sons, Jerome and Harrison. After Mr. H.'s death, in 1868, Mrs. H. married David Brower, of the neighboring town of Sodus. The sons went west. I have the impression that the elder Hunns passed their latter days. in the Valley. The old Hunn house is a tenant house belonging to Charles Miner. His wife's uncle, William Phillips, lives in it now.
A very pretty white house marks the home of Charles Miner, a son of Riley. His wife is James Phillips' daughter, Elizabeth. The house was. built by Parsons Hunn, the place being a part of the old Hunn property. Miner bought directly from Peter Ream. His children are Ada L., James O., and Lydia Jane (and Myrtle). This is a favorite neighborhood for mint stills, and just before reaching the house, on the side of the hill, is- one of these tokens of Wayne county's peculiar industry. Mint stills are infinitely better for a section of country than mint juleps.
Mrs. Abram Phillips dwells in the next house, though the same belongs. to John Phillips, her son. Our first mention of this family was in connec- tion with the Chatterson farm in District No. 7. They were Hudson river people, and, after living in Huron some years, Mr. Phillips died; so his- widow, with her aged mother, Mrs. Tipple, came here to live. The place was first occupied by James Winchell, a son of Riley, who married Esther Collins, and now resides in Huron.
Mrs. Jacob Tipple, on Saturday, the 31st of July, 1887, was congratu- lated on the one hundredth return of her natal day. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Abram Phillips, about two miles west of Rose Valley. As Margaret Pultz, she was born in 1787, in Wittenberg, Dutchess Co. She is of good Dutch stock, her father having been Sebastian Pultz, a lineal descendant of the early settlers of New Netherlands. Mrs. Tipple always in her speech betrayed the race from which she sprang. In her father's family there were six sons and three daughters, and though all grew up,
MRS. MARGARET TIPPLE. Aged 100 years.
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none attained remarkable old age. She was next to the youngest child. Her father, who was a farmer, did not live beyond the ordinary span of life, but her mother died at eighty-eight. Those who dwell much on hereditary will see here a reason for the daughter's protracted living. Early in her life her father moved to Kinderhook, where she married Jacob Tipple. Here her children were born, though her family hardly equaled that of her mother. Her daughter, Eliza M., with whom she now lives, married Abram Phillips, who, years ago, worked a farm belonging to one of the noted Van Buren family. A son, Philip, married and lived to middle life, though he has been dead many years. His widow is living now near the lake. Many years since Mr. and Mrs. Tipple moved to Otsego county, and after living there a while, came to Rose, settling first in the Seelye neighborhood. Here Mr. Tipple died in 1853. Afterward his widow went to live with Mrs. Phillips. Years ago, though conspicuous for the neatness of her home and person, she did not consider hers a strong body, and counted perhaps as many ailments as do most persons of sixty and past. She was short and stout, and the word " comfortable" would apply to her appearance as well as any that I am familiar with. What a genial smile always wreathed her face when she greeted her friends. Middle-aged people remembered her as " old Mrs. Tipple " in their child- hood.
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