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OLD RESIDENTS.
OLIVER COLVIN. ERON N. THOMAS. IRA MIRICK. HIRAM MIRICK. GEORGE SEELYE. CHAUNCEY COLLINS.
GEORGE MIRICK. JOSEPH SEELYE. MILTON TOWN.
DELOS SEELYE. HARVEY CLOSS.
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"The latter bears the date "1850." In the gable end of the largest barn may yet be seen the numerals 1817, cut into and through the boards. If these truly represent the date of building, it must be one of the oldest structures in town. The Mirick youths were Nelson, Amnelia, Milton, Ira, James and Janette. All went with the parents to Lyons, where Nelson died. All became identified with the interests of that village. The daughters are at home with their mother, who, an aged lady, has survived her husband many years. She has always taken intense interest in politics and passing events. Married to a Democrat, she ever shared with him his views. Well posted, it was a scene to remember when she and her Republican and equally well-posted sister, Mrs. Almanda Seelye, had a friendly set-to on the state of the country. "I am surprised that so sensible a woman as you should persist in such insane ideas," was the sentence with which each ended many a protracted discussion. How much better do masculine disputants make out ? After Mr. Mirick's sale to Charles B. Sherman, the farm was divided several times, so that it no longer was the large estate of the Southwicks and Collinses. After Hiram Mirick as dweller in the stone house, came Harvey Closs, who had sold his farm on the corner, north, and had bought of Sherman this part of the old estate. His successor and present occupant, though the name of William K. Rider intervenes, is William Fisher, who came here from Palmyra in 1875. Mr. Fisher is a native of Holland, as was also his · wife, Susannah Day. We can't help thinking that names in Holland have grown shorter singe the times when that country sent to America her Van Rensselaers and Van Der Hoffens. Mr. F. came to America when a boy, fifty-five years ago. He has made good use of his time and opportunity, and is to-day one of the solid men of the county. Ten children have been born to him, but only five of them have been any considerable time in Rose. These are: Adrian, who married a Miss Koon, of Sodus, and now lives in Butler ; James, who married Alice Smith, of Rose, and lives in Palmyra; Charles, still at home; Cornelia, who married Byron Rumsey, and Lizzie, who married and lives in Arcadia. The other children live in the western part of the county. In addition to his regular farm work, Mr. F. maintains a well patronized mint still. Mrs. Fisher died November 23d, 1891, aged sixty-six years. ( In 1893 Mr. Fisher married Mrs. Rachel [ Beidick ] Marshall, of Rochester, who brings with her to the old stone house her daughter Gertrude. )
Still on the east side and going south, we find the house built by Mr. Fisher for his son, Adrian, but now occupied. by his daughter, Cornelia "Rumsey. Mr. Rumsey is a railroad man, and some time since was unfor- tunate enough to lose one of his arms. He is now in Connecticut iu the employ of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.
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Romaine C. Barless and family hold the next place, and the location is: noteworthy as indicating the site of the first home of Thaddeus Collins, 2d, who built a small house here, on his marriage with Harriet Shepard, and here he lived for a number of years, at any rate past 1829, for in that year George Seelye's first wife, Mrs. Collins' sister and the writer's grand- mother, died here. Years afterward, the building was moved down into- the village and is now the small house on Main street occupied by Daniel Johnson, a few doors beyond Pimm's Hotel. The present house was built by Mr. Barless, generally called "Doc," who combines the vocations of lawyer, dentist and pension agent. I believe that the majority of recipients. of government bounty in Rose had their claims or cases presented by Mr. R. He was born in Hoosic, N. Y., away up on the Bennington battle field, though Vermont celebrates the victory as peculiarly one belonging to her. If once started, "Doc" will tell the whole story of the battle and how New York's reputation is overborne by the Green Mountain boys. Also when it comes to narrating the deeds of the Heavy Ninth, Barless is without a rival. As he was a member of that regiment, Company H, he feels that the reputation of the organization is, in a measure, in his keeping. Mr. Barless' wife was Helen J. Thompson, of Saratoga county. Himself a. twin, he has made the record good by being the father of twin boys. His children are Carrie H., who married Wm. H. Moulton, of Lockport ; the- twins, Clayton L. and Clinton J .; Arthur F., and Elmo R. One child, an infant daughter, died in 1874. Clayton has recently married Lena Mark- ham, of Rose, and Clinton, who prints the Rose Counsel and Times, married Jennie Hickok. She died in 1889. Arthur F. married James Colborn's `daughter, Rosa Belle. Mr. Barless came to Rose in 1858, and, before- building his present residence, constructed several in other parts of the: village.
Joseph Durant, who lives next, married a Tarbell, whose mother is the owner of the very pretty house. The Durants have one child, George.
Going back to the west side and beginning south of Mr. Fisher's, we- shall find a series of lots extending a number of rods back into the level region lying westward of the village. Several of these are ten acres in extent. Ira T. Soule owns the first house, though on his north side Stephen Waite has a lot of seven acres. Ira is an old friend of the writer, for they were fellow members of the Ninth Heavy Artillery. After war's alarms were over, Ira returned to the pursuits of peace, and essayed the business of painting and paper hanging. He beat a drum in war times, and has been interested in all the musical enterprises of the village. At. one time his father, his brother and himself were all in the band. He- found a wife in Dr. Dickson's daughter, Rose, who died April 3rd, 1891, aged thirty-five years. Building a house here on this lot, he has begun the- rearing of his family. This consists of Gilman, Edna, Marvin, and a boy-
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baby only a few months old. He has lost one child, Wyman. I never envied Ira so much as when, marching along with gun and the inevitable forty rounds, he strolled by my side with only his drum. Ira says that at Monocacy, where we were sacrificed, he just jammed that drum down over a gate post and lighted out. As a drum it was of no earthly use to the Confederate finder. (Mr. S. was married, October 20th, 1892, to Miss Kate Youngs, of Detroit, Mich.)
A vacant lot of ten acres, belonging to Charles Tillson, follows, then the neat home of Joseph Talton, an excellent ditcher and layer of ground tiles. Mr. T. and his wife, who was Catherine Dring, were born in South Witham, Lincolnshire, England. Next we arrive at the home of Stephen Waite. The latter is a native of Massachusetts, coming here from Great Barrington with the Harmons, whose second daughter, Abbie, he married. They have two daughters-Allie, who married George H. Oliver, of Clyde, and lives in Rochester, and Ella. Mr. Waite was a member of the Ninth Heavy Artillery, and was wounded at Cedar Creek. He follows the trade of a painter. This house was the old John Harmon home, and here John Harmon died. Mrs. Waite died in November, 1891.
The next house, in which Lucien Osgood and family live, was built by Orrin Sherman, who sold to Joel N. Lee. It was to this place that Mr. Lee came when he left his farm, a mile or so north. Here he and his wife died. Their daughter, Mrs. Theresa Kingsley, held the place for a time and then sold to Lucien. The latter has been met in different places-in Districts No. 7 and 6. After the death of Eudora Seelye, his first wife, he married Matilda Wickwire, and has a family of five children, viz., Eveline, Herbert, Eudora, Ray and Grace. Mr. Osgood is a son of Artemas Osgood, and he maintains all the traditional uprightness of the family, being a member of the Baptist Church, a justice of the peace, and a straightforward man in every respect.
The next house, built by "Doc" Barless, is owned by James C. Church, of Clyde, and is occupied by Arthur T. Barless.
Chas. Relyea built the adjoining house, now owned by Julia (Sedore) Milem and occupied by Dr. F. H. Hallett. This gentleman is from Huron, though born in Palmyra, and his wife is Katie Scott, from Ontario, Canada. They have a son, E. Bruce. The doctor is a recent comer to Rose, but he is already winning golden opinions. (Mr. and Mrs. Milem are now residing here, 1893.)
George Adelbert Sherman lives in the next house. In Rose, young and old call him " Deb." He combines many callings in his trade, being ready to drive a well, repair an engine, or print an advertisement, His lineage is from George and Charles B. Sherman, already met. He married Hannah Walmsley, of Rose, and has five children-Leon A., Florence E., Nina S.
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and Charles Ephraim, whose names recall two of his great-grandfathers, and Elsie May. The house and barn are of Mr. Sherman's building.
The next lot marks the site of Chauncey Collins' barn, burned some years ago, and the final place before reaching the corner is the house built by Mrs. Lampson Allen, who, some time since, came hither from her farm in District No. 6. The site is that of the first Methodist Church. Her younger daughter, Florence, having graduated from the Albany Normal School, is a teacher in Massachusetts.
On the east side of the road, a few rods north, is the most desirable building place in the village, and here lives the widow of Harvey Closs. With her, for some time, have resided D. C. Markham, a retired lawyer from Syracuse, and his wife, who is a cousin of Mrs. Closs. To this spot belongs much of the Collins history, so bound up in the early annals of the town. The first Thaddeus Collins was Massachusetts born, and like many of that state, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, sought a home in Vermont, where several of his children were born. But the Green Mountains were not sufficiently inviting, and he brought his lares and penates to Phelps, Ontario Co., very late in the century. One more move, in 1814, brought him to this his final haven. His wife was Esther Foster, a half sister of Jonathan Melvin, a noted name in Rose history. He was a soldier during the Revolution, and also in 1812. On coming to this wil- derness, he bought 400 acres of the Rose-Nicholas tract, located just in the present village. There was only one road then, viz., the one extending from Clyde to Wolcott, and it indicates taste on his part in building his log house near the centre of his purchase and on the most sightly place in it. At this time there was only one building near and that was a log house, near the present home of Frank Closs. My grandfather's notes make this the property of Charles Woodward, but it is elsewhere ascribed to Capt. John Sherman. Mr. Collins placed his son, Thaddeus, Jr., next north, and then Alpheus. Foster was to the northwest, where Andrus is now, on the old Chatterson farm; Stephen in the same direction, but nearer ; Chauncey remained at home. There were also two daughters, Esther and Sally ; the former married George Wilson, of West Vienna, Ontario Co .; the latter became Mrs. Uriah Wade, and moved to Michigan. This first generation of the Collins family died in 1828 and 1844. Their last home is on the land that was devoted by them to burial purposes. Chauncey B. Collins married Caroline (Appleby) Thomas, the widow of Nathan W. As the village grew, the paternal acres lessened till, on his moving to Clyde, there was little more than the house and lot left. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Collins were Josephine and Louis Dell. The daughter became the wife of Aaron Vanderburgh, of Clyde (now living in Grand Rapids, Mich.), and died in 1879. The son, for some years a resi- dent in New York, has married, and lives near Geneva. Mr. Collins' wife
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died March 12th, 1874. Mr. C., who is a true disciple of Nimrod and Isaak Walton, flourishes in a vigorous old age, a notable figure in Clyde. Among other dwellers in this house was Dr. J. M. Horne, who, a native of New Hampshire and a graduate of Harvard Medical School, '55, came here as the successor of Drs. Whedon and Neeley. He now resides in Boston.
There is just one building more on this side of the street, and that is the brick structure owed to William Deady. Were it to be destroyed by an earthquake shock or other means, the beauty of the village would not be lessened in the slightest degree. Built as a storehouse, sold to Darwin Dickinson, who continued its use thus, and since occupied as a hardware store, when used at all ; its upper story, either empty or employed as a lodge room, latterly for the Good Templars,-there never was a moment when it was not entirely out of place. When Rose gets her village improvement society-and it can't come any too soon-there will be many changes in the topography of this village of ours. In some other place, this edifice would be all right, but where it is, it is like a sore thumb, always in the way. Suppose it were to be removed, and the road entering the Valley from the east to be extended in a direct line past the Baptist Church, thus forming a large triangle, to be enclosed or left as a common, does any one hesitate to say that our already beautiful village would be vastly more interesting ? In the centre of this might be the soldiers' monument, which some day should recall the prowess of the sons of Rose in the Rebellion. I would have the old well, long since filled up, dug out and a pump placed in it for public use. When this time comes, and let us hope that I am not portraying a Utopia, the Presbyterian Church will come out from its hiding place, though to accomplish this effectually, one more removal will be necessary, viz., that of the unsightly evaporator, which has too long cut off the south site of the church. I hope I am not misunderstood. Evaporators and storehouses are useful and necessary, but they are better in other places than in those where they hide public edifices and displease rather than gladden the eye.
On the south corner of Sodus street is the house of Mrs. Emily Vanderoef, whose late husband, William, himself a carpenter, built here. As Mrs. V. says, it was built by inches, beginning forty years ago. The place is the old John Bassett home. His house was further south, nearer the site of the church, and his blacksmith shop was about where the present house is. The old house was moved to the west, and was long the home of Matthew Crisler. The Bassetts sold to Henry Lyman, and he to Vanderoef. Mrs. V. has only one son, Clarence E. (The house is now owned and occupied by George A. Collier.)
Sodus, West or Cooper street, west of Mrs. Vanderoef's, the first house, was begun by Parsons Hunn and finished by Rev. Charles Baldwin,
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after his retirement from the active ministry. Mr. B. and his interesting family are recalled by many. He died in 1879, at the age of forty-eight years, and was buried in Rose. His daughters-Flora, Mattie and Nettie -all married Methodist ministers, and the mother makes her home with them. The place is now owned by Mrs. Wilkins, the widow of the late Rev. Andrew W., of the Baptist denomination. He was twice the pastor of this church in Rose-first, from 1845 to 1849, and second, from 1881 to 1884. In March of the latter year he resigned the pastorate. In April he moved from the parsonage to this house, and in September he was moved to a narrower one in the cemetery. No one has other than the most affectionate memory of this loyal laborer in the Lord's vineyard. He was born in Eaton, Madison county ; his wife, Laura J. Barnes, in Ira, Cayuga county. A faithful, helping wife, the people of her husband's old parish are glad that her home is among them. There are four Wilkins boys, and all save the second are graduates of Rochester University. Hervey D. is a very successful teacher of music in Rochester ; Hartwell A. is a business man in New York City, and was a member of the 75th New York Regiment during the Rebellion ; Frank is a Baptist minister in Davenport, Iowa (now in Chicago) ; while Fred. H., the youngest, is in the electric light business. It is noteworthy that the entire record of this house is one of parsons.
Samuel Lyman resides in the next house. He is of that Lyman stock noted in District No. 3. His wife, Sarah Vanderburgh, was from the same district. They have two children-George Frank, who married Florence Dodds, and is in Detroit, and Anna E., at home. Jonathan Wilson built the house and John Nichols once owned it.
Next is a house that was built by R. C. Barless, who sold to Silas Holcomb, and in it both he and his wife died ; likewise their daughter, Mrs. Francis M. Johnson. It now stands in the name of the latter's husband. The Johnson sons were three : Frank E., now of Salem, Mass. ; William, and George.
The house adjoining Mr. Johnson's was the long-time home of Lawrence Crisler. His widow still holds it. He bought of Julius C. Smith, now of Sodus. We have encountered the name of Crisler frequently in Rose. The father of the family was Martin, who was from Herkimer county originally. He settled first in Savannah, where his wife, Mary Frank, died. He had married her in the same town. He died in Rose. The children were : Matthew, a long resident on this street ; Lawrence ; Adam, met in York settlement ; John, of District No. 7; Mary Ann married George Burch, in Oswego ; Jane, in Herkimer county ; Margaret ; Eliza- beth married Edward Dean ; Jeremiah, formerly on this street, and Nancy, who married Samuel McIntyre. Lawrence Crisler, like all the men of that name, was a cooper and worked long at his trade. His wife's maiden
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name was Mary Ann Wilson, a daughter of Jonathan. Their children are : Willis Addie, who is Mrs. Wallace Williams, of Niagara county, and John, at home. Mr. C. died August 18th, 1874. His wife has woven many yards of carpeting, one of the very few to continue the trade once so common in Rose.
Mrs. Sarah Knapp dwells next. She is a daughter of the late " 'Squire " Philander Mitchell. Her husband, Hiram, was Sodus born. They have one son, Fred R. The house has had many owners and occupants. It was built by R. C. Barless, and owned in succession by Jerry Crisler, Abner Osborn, P. R. Tindall, John Winchell and Albert Harper. (Mrs. Lucinda Mitchell now resides with Mrs. Knapp.)
Matthew Crisler, the oldest of the brothers, lived for many years in the next house. This is the old John Bassett residence, standing formerly near Mrs. Vanderoef's house. His wife was Hannah Harmon, and she, with her sister, Mrs. Isaac Race, still occupies the house. Mr. C. died in May, 1890. Near by was the cooper shop where the brothers, Matthew and Lawrence, made many barrels, used in sending abroad the products of this fertile town.
In a house painted dark yellow, lives Willis Crisler. It was built by Jonathan Wilson, a brother of Ephraim B., of this district. Wilson for many years was the most noted shoemaker in town. Quick'and racy in speech, his cobbler's bench was usually surrounded by many listeners. It was a favorite joke of his that he had married only one-half of his wife, Mary Ann Caywood, meaning that she weighed twice as much as she did when they were wedded. She was of the Caywood family once living in the extreme southwest part of Rose. Her grandfather was that John Cay- wood, a Revolutionary veteran, who lived to be more than a hundred years old. The Wilsons had only two children-Mary Ann Crisler, Willis' mother, and Walter, who died in 1860, a young man of twenty-five years. He had married Caroline Genung. Mrs. Jonathan Wilson died about four years since, surviving her husband several years. Willis Crisler, Jonathan's grandson, married Hattie Hughes, of Herkimer county, and has one child, Florence. He is a carpenter by trade.
The next house was built by George Seager, now living north of the Valley. In it died several years since, Daniel Converse, father of Eugene, who lives in the lower part of Griswold's. It is now owned and occupied by John Osborn, son of Abner.
Dwight Bradburn, who married Mary Ann Miller, built and occupies the next house. He is a son of David, who lives next, west. Mr. Bradburn is a brother of Andrew, who once lived on the west road, north, in the Covell district. His wife was Jane Winchell, Jacob's daughter, and in her home, her father died. They have only one son, Dwight, though they lost Nelson at eleven, and Louisa Ann at about twenty years of age. The
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house was built by Daniel Johnson, now on the Main street. Mr. Bradburn died recently.
A very small house owned and built by John Gibbs, now in Rochester, follows. At present it is unoccupied.
When the Chauncey Collins house was fixed over, a part of the back L was moved down to this street, and it is the very next edifice. In it dwells James Johnson, having a very lively family of three sons and two girls. Very few people of the African race have made Rose their dwelling place, but the Johnsons, James and Daniel, belong to this class, and are reputable citizens. (Mr. Johnson has recently erected here a fine residence. )
The expression, "the last ditch," is one with which Americans are familiar, and we reach it when we come to the home of Jacob Lyman. Beyond him is the famous Thomas creek, by the perseverance of General Adams transformed into the beginning of the Sodus canal. Mr. Lyman has five and a half acres of land, a small house, but no children. His wife was Caroline Vanderpool in girlhood, coming from the eastern part of the state. His father was Levi Lyman, a half brother of Jesse. Thereby Jacob is a first cousin of Milo, who lives in the Griswold district. Levi lived further along on the creek, near the old Wyckoff possessions. His wife was Maria Winchell, and their children were : Frank R., now in Michigan ; Catherine, the wife of Jeremiah Crisler ; Ella died in infancy, and Jacob.
Beyond the ditch, on the south side, are fields belonging to Chaddock, Hickok and Jeffers. Crossing to the north side are found several acres, nine or ten, belonging to Jackson Valentine. Then comes, toward the east, a like amount, owned and tilled by the late William Thomas. This brings us to the ditch again, on whose banks Foster Moslein has his abattoir, this being on Thomas' land. (Now Leader. )
Crossing the bridge, we come first to the home which the well-known " Tom " King so recently left for his final one in the Rose cemetery. Few Valley people fail to recall the stalwart form of King, so long in care of horses at the village hotels. During the War, "Tom" was severely wounded during the seven days' fight at Gaines' Mill. It was the reopened wound that finally caused his death. His wife was Hannah Taylor, from Lyons, who continues to live with her children in the old home bought from Calvin Winchell, now in North Rose. Their children are : Ambrose, in Michigan ; Helen, the wife of Fred Goodnow ; Grace, Eliza, and Lena. Mr. King was born in England, and, in the Rebellion, was a member of Co. B, 27th N. Y. S. Vols.
A new but vacant house follows. It belongs to Jackson Valentine, who moved hither the old shop, once near his store, on the north. It is doubtful whether Mrs. Hannah Marriott would recognize it as the place in which she, as Miss Genung, for years sold hats and general millinery.
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The widow of "Jerry " Crisler resides in the next house. She was Catharine Lyman, a daughter of Levi. Mr. Crisler was the youngest of the brothers, long famous as coopers. During the War, he served two enlist- ments : first, in the 33d N. Y., and afterward in the 45th Engineers. He was a very large man, the heaviest in the family. On the 15th of January, 1887, while logging in Seymour Covell's woods, he was killed by the springing back of a tree which he had felled. He was in his fifty-first year. The children are : Marsden, who married Alice Green, of Glenmark ; Minnie M., the wife of Albert Shepard, of North Rose; Adam, and Maud. Few would recognize Marsden by that name, for in town he is known as "Manny "; he has one child, Elmer H. Minnie Shepard has two children, Delbert and Frank.
Samuel Bigelow built the next house and sold it to Postmaster Houghton, and he to the present owner, Sally Burch.
It is always a pleasure to meet a member, of the Samuel Lyman family, and in the next dwelling is David, of the good old Connecticut stock. His wife was Emma Chalker, from Seneca county. The house was built in part by Philander Winchell. Mr. Lyman bought of Eron N. Thomas, and has extensively repaired the premises.
Charles E. Tillson, our next neighbor, resides in a house built by Peter Hilts, whom we met on the State road, north of George Worden's, in the Jeffers district. Mr. T. is from Camden, and is a carpenter by trade. He has four children-Etta, Stanton, Arthur and Frank. (Etta is Mrs. Geo. D. Johnson, and Arthur died March 30, 1892.)
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