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Asa Town built the next house, using cobble stones as his material, and though there are several buildings in the town thus constructed, I never could see that any stones were missing. Certainly, hoeing corn time revealed all the boys cared to turn over. Mr. Town's wife was Hannah Stacey, whom he went down Utica way to find. She died in Chippewa
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Falls, Wis., in 1873, at the home of her eldest son, Henry M. He had mar- ried Malina Chamberlain, sister of Hamlin T. Chamberlain, from Monroe county, who, by way of reprisal, had wedded Mary Almanda, the only daughter of Asa and Hannah Town. Another son, David H., married Cornelia Valentine, sister of Jackson V., at the Valley, and lives at Strong's Prairie, Wis. These two brothers had placed their log houses near a spring, and the houses themselves were separated by scarcely more than a walk-being in all respects, like their occupants, brotherly. One enthusiastic narrator says, " I shall never forget the sweet flag near the spring, nor the sweet gooseberries in the garden. There were no yards nor gardens like them in these parts." In time, the first houses disap- peared, and then came Asa's stone house and Silas's framed structure, which he placed further north than the old one. Asa died in 1848, and lies over the eastern hill in the Collins burial ground. Before saying " good-bye " to this family, I must echo the oft repeated praises of "Aunt Polly Town." No one can remember when she was not a remarkably handsome woman, and her beauty of face was fully equaled by that of her character. She kept her house a model of neatness, and trained her family in the most exemplary manner. Skilled in all the necessary accom- plishments for house-keeping in those early days, she taught her children to be virtuous and industrious, and when her girls went out to other homes, they carried with them, in addition to great quantities of linen woven by their mother, the ineffaceable impression of her womanly
example. "Aunt Hannah," Asa's wife, went from the neighborhood years since to dwell in the west with her sons, but she left an excellent memory of intelligence and worth. Some people, in these too practical days, affect to sneer at the Puritans and Puritanical ways. I, for one, could wish that their tribe might indefinitely increase. After the decease of Asa Town, his widow managed the farm for a time, and then sold to William Desmond, who came to this neighborhood from west of the Valley, though his name proclaims him from one of Ireland's proudest families His first wife was Lucy Ann Way, who, in a period of temporary insanity, committed suicide, leaving one daughter, Agnes, who now lives in Clyde. Her husband is Alexander Weeks. Mr. Desmond's second wife is Lucy Toles, from the Lovejoy neighborhood. They have three sons-Albert E., Truman T. and Charles H. (December 28, 1892, Albert was married to Aurilla Transue, daughter of the Rose M. E. minister. They are at the old home.)
We next come to the corner and to the school-house, where the children of the district are taught. The present pretty, white building is a great improvement on its red predecessor, which was the first one built after this part of the town was set off from the eastern district. The old red house was not beautiful, but it was useful. Like all other similar edifices
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in these parts, it had its weekly and Sunday use. Here preaching was often heard, and at times Sunday schools were maintained. The middle- aged citizens, and older ones too, could tell of the days when the spelling school was a delightful occasion, and the singing school also. What facilities for seeing the girls home, and what life-long intimacies were here begun! To enumerate all the teachers who have held sway here were a task too great; but suffice it to say that almost every amateur user of the birchen rod in these parts, at one time or another, has here taught the "young idea how to shoot."
Across the way is the house of Richard Vedder. The place has changed hands often. The earliest occupant whom I can recall, was the Mr. Stickles, who was Delos Seelye's favorite farm laborer, though doubtless the house long antedated him. Henry Decker lived here for a time, as did Major Wm. Snyder. Very likely the original founder was Hiram Van Dusen, who had married John Deady's daughter. (Mrs. Vedder, born in Saratoga county, died, 1893. Her first husband was a Leaird. Her daughter, Ida E., is the wife of Wm. H. Sowls ; a son, Charles Leaird, though better known as Vedder, now lives here with the Sowls family. The Sowls children are Charles E. and Marion E. The parents are natives of Saratoga county.)
Across what was once a lively stream, which we shall call Marsh creek, is a small estate of nineteen acres, on which, nearly or quite thirty years ago, George Calm, an industrious Englishman, built a small house. His wife was Mary Smart, sister of the brothers Smart, who lived just south of him. Mrs. Calm's parents, William and Mary, lived with them, and here the father died. The mother survived to a great age, dying December 30, 1864, aged 82 years. A familiar sight, in the early sixties, was that afforded by Mr. and Mrs. Calm riding comfortably on the only seat in their wagon, while mother, sitting upon a stool or board, hung on behind; but the old lady asked no odds of teams and vehicles. She made nothing of stepping off at a lively pace to the Valley or Clyde, and returning in a way that would discourage many a pedestrian. She bore good evidence to the virtue of her English training. A Lee intervenes, then Josephus Collins held and sold to a German, John Wyke, who was noted herea- bouts for the fervor of his religious manifestations. The story has never been contradicted that when John was married, and reached that part of the ceremony where the minister prays, John and his frau knelt also, but, being led away by the words of the clergyman, he forgot all about the business of the hour, thought it was a prayer meeting and prayed on him- self, till the gentleman of the cloth had to inform him that the marriage was not yet over, and he must attend to one thing at a time. I am fearful that another yarn is somewhat apocryphal, but I give it as I received it. It is to the effect that some years subsequently, he was not pleased with
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the character of his better half's prayer ; and she refusing to stop on any milder plea, instead of flinging a stove lid at her, à la Jerry Cruncher, he incontinently stopped her mouth with a hot potato. John had always claimed that the Lord told him to marry Margaret Nusbickel. Whether the hot potato incident altered his opinion or not I cannot state. After Wyke came Maurice Cleary, the present possessor. (Mr. C. is from Cork, Ireland; his wife, Mary Cavanaugh. Their children are Mary, a graduate of Geneseo Normal School, teacher in Long Island City ; Nora, a nurse in the Canandaigua Insane Asylum ; Julia, at home ; John, educated in Clyde, a teacher ; Nellie, also a teacher and educated in Clyde; Michael and Edward, at home ; William, died at the age of five years in 1880. )
We next find, west of the highway, several substantial barns, but the house is wanting. It, a log one, once stood opposite, and was constructed by Martin Van Buren. The only trace of Van B. in the vicinity now, is a child's grave in the cemetery. It bears the date of 1834. He, with his brother-in-law, Henry Ferris, had taken up an extensive possession in the immediate vicinity. After him came James T. Vandereof, about whom more will be written when we reach the Stewart neighborhood. Ananias Smith then bought this portion of the farm, though his home was on the Andrus place, further east. The next possessors were the brothers, William and Newton Smart, who, after a few years' ownership, sold to John Finch and moved to Illinois. John Finch was a son of Jeremiah Finch, about whom there will be more anon, and he lived here till he built his brick house, twenty-six years ago. His wife was Deiademie Chapin of Wolcott, but she had lived for some years in the home of Thaddeus Collins. Their children are Harriet, who married Abram Vanderburg, now in Selma, Kansas ; Loania, married Warren Drury of Wolcott ; Mary, died in 1859, aged fifteen; Frank, married Mary Jordan and has three daughters and one son. He is the present owner of the farm, succeeding his father, who died in 1874, aged nearly fifty-nine. His mother's home is here. Mr. Finch was one of the most energetic and progressive of the second generation of the farmers who, early in the century, sought this farming region. The next house, standing well back from the road and, long since, painted red was John Finch's early home, and is now a tenant house belonging to the farm. In addition to managing his farm, Mr. Finch is an extensive dealer in garden seeds. ( He now has a family of four girls and one son.)
Nearly opposite, and on the corner of the private way, leading up the hill, forty or more years ago, Henry Snyder bought eight acres of land of the Finches and Deadys and put up a log house. Here his numerous children-four girls and seven boys-were born and reared. Mr. S. was originally from the Mohawk valley and settled first in Conquest. His wife was Margaret Rose, from Schoharie county. She is now living in
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Sidney, Neb., with her daughter, Margaret, while Mr. S. died years ago and is buried in Conquest. His oldest son, William, was a valiant and efficient officer during the war, coming home with the rank of major in the 10th Cavalry ; his wife is Melissa, daughter of William Benjamin. They now reside in Clyde. The place passed into his hands at the death of his father. He sold to Manly Benjamin, and finally it came into the possession of William Desmond. There is not a vestige of the house standing, only a few apple trees serving as a reminder of earlier days. The other children reared here are Harvey, who married Julia Blood, and is a resident of the Valley ; he also was in the army ; Charity C., as Mrs. Ruger, lives in Cortland ; Mary J. married an Olmstead and dwells in Seneca Falls ; Wilbur, as will be seen, later was drowned ; Charles H. married after going to Michigan ; John W. and Azro C. both migrated to Missouri and married there; Amariah is in Nebraska. His wife is Eliza Moore of Conquest. Margaret Ann, as Mrs. Worden, lives near Sidney, Neb. When families like this crowded the old school-house, there must have been lively times. Modern customs will render school-houses almost useless in some localities yet, and through their lack of material, districts will have to be merged. Outside of the village of Rose, probably there is not a school in the town as large as it was twenty-five years ago.
Pursuing our way up the hill, we come to a building that enjoys one of the most sightly outlooks in the town ; but our road terminates here. To the northeast of the house and nearer the foot of the hill, I think there must be a spring hard by, there was once a log house, in which lived a Mr. Burgess. Afterward Pendar Marsh lived here, and subsequently built the house near the top of the hill, though the house has been ascribed to one Crampton. Philetus Chamberlain also lived here, but whether he followed Marsh or not I cannot state. Col. Briggs, also Millard Olmstead, were owners before Major Wm. Snyder, who held it for a time, from whom it passed to James Benjamin, who rents it to various tenants. A private way leads over the hill to a place owned by Wm. Matthews, where once lived David Benjamin and possibly others.
Coming back to our north and south road and going further south, we come to what was the south part of the Van Buren-Ferris purchase. Here Ferris built a log house, and after some years of occupancy sold to a- Mr. Van Amburg and moved to Cayuga county. Following him came Lorenzo Dow Thomas. He was the youngest son of Charles Thomas, one of the very first comers, and was familiarly known in town as Dow Thomas. His wife was Hepsie Andrews. It is more than thirty years since he sold to George Aurand and moved to Illinois. After Aurand, Harry Shepard and his wife, Mary Barrett, lived here. They had one daughter, Libbie, who died when her parents lived south of the Valley, one of the prettiest, merriest girls ever born in this town, noted for its beautiful maidens. Mr.
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and Mrs. S. never recovered from their loss, and died several years ago. In his business as a buyer and seller of cattle, " Hack " Shepard had a wide circle of acquaintance, and everywhere was known as one of the jolliest men who ever drove a herd. He belonged to the large family of Shepards who live in Galen and on the Clyde road. Asa Traver followed, and after him Wm. Jordan was the next possessor to live on. the farm. He came from near Lyons and still remains. Since his holding the place he has had the misfortune to lose his house by fire, but this has been rebuilt. His family, a large one, consists of twelve children. One daughter, as we have seen, is the wife of Frank Finch, next neighbor toward the north. (The place now belongs to Timothy Donovan, who has lived for several years just over the town line in Galen. He is from Waterford, Ireland, his wife, Mary Daly. Their children are John and Maurice, who have contributed no little to their father's success. A daughter, Mary, died in April, 1891, in her sixteenth year. Mr. D. has effectually demon- strated that farming can be made to pay, even in Wayne Co. Before 1894 appears, Mr. D. expects to move to this Rose farm. The town line co- incides with the line of fences next south of this home.)
Turning to our right and going toward the west, we come to the early home of the Benjamins. Two brothers, Riley and William, came from Westmoreland, Oneida Co., and took up land from the company, though Riley came first and sold to William. I understand that Riley returned to his former home. William's wife was Nancy Shaver, and both, after long lives of usefulness, sleep in the White School-house burial ground on the Clyde road. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Valley. Riley B. built the first log house and William finally replaced it with the cobble stone house, now standing. His children, reared on this site, were nine in number. Maria died young. Henry, who was in the army, has been twice married. His first wife was a Loveless. His home is in Butler. Emeline, also in Butler, married a Calkins. Manly, who followed his father on the home farm, married Jennie Stewart and resides in Clyde. David, a soldier during the Rebellion, married Mary McDougal and lives in the district. Melissa is the wife of Major William Snyder. William, with his wife, Mary Weeks, lives south of Clyde. Eugene died unmarried at the age of twenty-one. Jerome married a Gerald, from Monroe county, and lives in San Francisco. After several changes, between Major Snyder and Manly B., the place passed to the ownership of William Desmond, who now holds a monopoly on cobble stone houses in this district-a good place for one of Mr. D.'s boys to locate when he takes unto himself a helpmeet. (Trueman T. Desmond, having married Mary Shaver of North Rose, has acted on the suggestion and is here installed. The parents are rejoicing over a baby girl, born in July, 1893.)
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Opposite is another homestead, long associated with the name of Benjamin. Years ago Nelson Benjamin bought of one Decatur, who was possibly the first settler at this point. Mr. B.'s first wife was a Pressor, who bore him two children-George, who married Mary Loveless, of Butler, and Louise, who, as Mrs. Caywood, lives in Butler. Nelson, who sold. to his brother, Alanson, now resides, an aged man, in Clyde. Alanson's pet foible was Scriptural argument, and he would leave work or play any day for his favorite diversion. On his death, Manly, his nephew, purchased. Then came William Benjamin, and, finally, Abner Garlic, who had once lived on the Wright farm further east. Alanson's widow married a Gordon, and is now dead. (As tenant, Jason Cleveland occupies. )
Our western limit is reached when we climb another hill and enter the home of William Finch. The Finches have been identified with this part of the town for many years, and the children went to school in the old wooden building of the Seelye neighborhood long before the old red house of the Town district. Jeremiah Finch, with his good wife, Eunice King, came from Saratoga county. He first took up the farm now held by Eugene Hickok, west of the Valley, but, owing to some informality, lost it. He then came to this place, where he abode until his death, in 1859, at the age of seventy-five. His wife survived him until 1864, when she died at the age of eighty. They are buried in the Seelye district. Their family of children numbered no less than twelve. Their daughters became Mapely Willoughby, of Clyde; Tansey Ann Hastings, who went west; Charity Scott, of Clyde ; Sophia Hadley, of Michigan; Jane McCamly, of Lyons; Mary Lape, of Clyde, and Eleanor and Lois, who married in succession John Seaman, of Cortland. Jeremiah, 2d, married a Wilcox and went to Michigan; John has already been named; David married Ann Brush, of Buffalo, and lives on the Bliss farm in Galen; William, who retains the old home, married Clarissa Overton, daughter of Sheldon R., and has two children living-Eva J. and Elvin H. (Eva J. Finch is the wife of Mr. Geo. E. Brisbin, formerly of No. Rose, but now with his father-in-law, and Elvin H. is in the coal business in Clyde. They have one child, James William.) The house opposite is Mr. Finch's tenant house, but the farm was once owned separately. Perhaps Elias Sherman was the earliest pro- prietor. The house was built, I think, by Mr. Reynolds. Successive owners, or at least occupants, were Joseph Preston, Mr. Wykoff and Henry Decker.
We must now retrace our steps to the road leading eastward from the school-house. A few rods along on the south side is a house many years old and standing on a farm that has had many owners. There may have been earlier ones, but I have no trace of any before Elon B. Andrus, who was a Connecticut acquaintance of Deacon Aaron Shepard's family.
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His wife was a Connecticut woman. Of his family I have only scattering facts, but one daughter, Mary Ann, married a Caster and went west. Benham married a Miss Caywood and moved to Huron. Another son mar- ried a Cox and went to Huron also. Lydia became the wife of Gerritt Cay- wood and moved to Michigan. The parents followed their children from the district. Then came Ananias Smith, from Patchogue, Long Island. His wife, Betsey Rose, very aged, is still living with her daughter, Mrs. Horton, in Galen. (Died Nov. 7th, 1887, in her 85th year.) Mr. Smith himself, after selling here, lived many years in Clyde, where he died, in 1872, and was buried in the Seelye neighborhood. The Smith family was noted, far and near, for the remarkable quickness that every member showed in repartee. I can imagine what a circus the devoted school mas- ters of those days must have had with "Wash," "Marsh" and "Tim " Smith, all in school at one time. There ought to be no lack of variety, and the boys and girls who looked on must have had less than ordinary crav- ing for outside shows. When T. R. S. was a small boy, he was sent to one of the Towns to borrow some lard. Being told that the family was out of lard, he says, "Well, I'll take some hog's fat then!" When, in later years, he went to Round Lake camp meeting and there came a time for testimony giving, the speakers would invariably begin by saying, "I am from Syracuse, Albany, New York," or other places, as the case might be. Our Wayne county Methodist thought the form was getting monotonous, and effectually ended that stereotyped preface by saying, "I am from every place in the world but this, and, thank the Lord! I shall be from this in about ten minutes." His mother, in her younger days, was one of the most gifted women in prayer and exhortation who ever tried to draw humanity from its erring ways. But even she could not restrain expres- sions that would cause the unregenerate to laugh, as, when wishing to illustrate her Christian brightness, she said, "I feel like a newly snuffed candle." She acknowledged the weakness of chewing gum occasionally, but always insisted that when doing so, one should go behind the door. It has been told me by Long Island people that Uncle Ananias once, before moving from the Island, found his cow one night trespassing. He sallied forth in great haste to drive her away, and after chasing around the house two or three times, was amazed at her sudden and absolute disappearance. He could not account for such an effectual vanishing, until the next day, when the poor beast was found in his own cellar, having, in her race, fallen into an open bulkhead. The remarks of the Smith family at this dis- covery, much to my sorrow, were not taken down, but the readers can imagine what a quick-tongued woman would be likely to say at finding her preserves mixed up, more or less, with cow. Their children married as follows : Washington, Harriet Avery, of Long Island, and lives in North Huron ; Timothy, Fanny Roe, and is in Clyde ; Marshall, Mrs. Ann Armi-
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tage, and also lives in Clyde; and Ellen, John Horton, and lives in Galen. Silas Holcomb followed. He came from Oneida county. After selling to S. R. Overton, he and his wife settled in the Valley and there died, in 1878 and 1875 respectively, and are buried in the Seelye district. His son, Willard, died in 1858, aged 24. There are four daughters living, viz .: Mrs. B. G. Bloss, of New York City ; Mrs. S. C. Maxon, of Milton June- tion, Wis .; Mrs. F. M. Johnson, of Rose; and Mrs. Jacob St. John, of East Galway, Saratoga county. Mrs. Holcomb's maiden name was Free- love Remington, a distant relative of the Ilion Remingtons, famous the world over for the manufacture of firearms. There are forty-nine acres in the farms. Mr. Overton lived here several years and sold to Horace Per- kins, of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., and he, moving to Galen, passed the farm along to Michael Meehan, whose father lived just north of the Lockwood farm, in Butler. (No farm in town has improved more than this under Mr. Meehan's care. He is from Waterford, Ireland ; his wife is Annie Finnigan from Lyons. They have children-Thomas, Edward, Martin and Ellen. Could former owners return, they would hardly recog- nize the fine, white house into which the old wood colored one has been turned.)
Eastward, on the corner, is a very pleasant place that also has passed through many hands. As far as I know, it was first occupied by Uriah Marsh, a brother of Pendar. His wife was a Caster. They had, while living here, no children of their own, but had adopted a girl named Jeru- sha Knapp. This family, too, took up the line of march for regions further west. One of Ananias Smith's Long Island neighbors, Richard Garratt, followed Marsh. Afterward came Charles Wright, an Englishman and a blacksmith by trade. He was an active, energetic and exceedingly indus- trious man. There was no loitering when he was about. Just a trifle eccentric, he is still remembered for offering to a neighbor, with whom he had some difficulty, his coat, with the Scriptural quotation, " If thy neigh- bor sue thee at the law and take from thee thy coat, give to him thy cloak also." His boys were all girls, and he had seven of them. One is Mrs. Selah Finch, living on the Clyde road; another became Mrs. Turner, and still another was Mrs. Scutt, of Clyde. After selling the farm Mr. Wright worked at blacksmithing some years in Clyde, where he eventually died. Mr. Edward Burrill followed, who now lives in North Rose. Then Abner Garlic for a time. His wife is Mary, daughter of Capt. Wm. Graham, who came from Washington Co. to Galen. The place is now owned by George Rodwell, an Englishman, who came from Lincolnshire in 1870. With his brother, he lived for several years near Briggs, and came to this farm in 1883. He long ran a threshing machine, using for this pur- pose the first portable engine in this section. It is now in use in the mint still opposite. He is unmarried, his mother keeping house for him. He has sixty-nine acres in the farm.
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We reach the confines of Rose and the end of the district in the next farm south-that of Horace Hallett. To get to this home we must cross Marsh creek, just below the pond whose water so long ran Briggs' saw- mill. The mill is going to decay, and as the need for one no longer exists, it will doubtless soon entirely disappear. The first mill on the site, I am told, was built by Elias Sherman, one of the pioneers (it is also ascribed to one Barnes), but this went down and afterward Colonel Briggs rebuilt the structure of our own day. The name of Hoag is also associated with this mill. The men who managed the mill had a convenient house near, in which have dwelt a long list of occupants ; the only one whom we can mention is Jenner, whose son, James, was killed at Cedar Creek. Mr. Wm. S. Hunt owns the house and pond. The pond itself was a very con- venient accessory to the neighborhood. Here the boys swam in summer and skated in winter. Farmers have washed their sheep, and clergymen baptized their converts. One of the saddest events in the chronicles of this neighborhood was the drowning here, long before the War, of Wilbur Snyder, who, having aided in the sheep washing fun, or work, just as you choose to call it, thought he would have a still merrier time on a raft that he had improvised from a barn door. The door tipped him off, he could not swim, and sorrowing forms about a white coffined face, tell the rest of the story. This is one version. Another and more probable one is, that a sheep escaped from the washers and swam out into the pond; young Snyder followed, and being taken with a cramp perished. The Hallett place was taken up by John Caywood, whose name is borne by numerous descendants in the adjoining towns. He lived to be more than a hundred years old. His grandson, Abram, was associated with him in the manage- ment of the place. Twenty-five acres on the south part of his farm he sold, in the forties, to George Seelye, but this part with the rest of the farm came into the hands of Josephus Collins. He sold to James Sears, and he, in turn, to Jackson Harper, and he to Wm. Whitehead. Then came Hallett, whose wife is Barbara, daughter of Wm. Aurand. They have two children, William, and Kittie May, the wife of Frank Haugh of Clyde, Galen's town clerk. Mr. Hallett, a native of Wolcott, served in the army during the Rebellion. The farm has ninety-five acres. At this point a high hill confronts us, long known as Briggs'. Colonel Samuel S. Briggs for long years was the most noted man in these parts. Though his residence was in Galen, many of his acres were in Rose. He lived a worthy life and died in 1865. To him succeeded Mr. Wm. S. Hunt, his son-in-law, who for nearly forty years has managed this immense farm of more than three hundred acres. Mr. Hunt has one son, Wm. A., who is in Briggs' Bank, Clyde; a daughter, Martha L., died in 1875, in her eighteenth year, Mr. Hunt is a member of the Clyde Methodist Church, and is about taking up his permanent residence in that village.
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