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spected by his townspeople. He and his wife were members of the M. E. Church, in which society Mr. Edwards was for a long time the chorister of the choir, and superintendent of the Sunday School. He was descended from Alexander Edwards, who came from Wales in 1640, and settled early in Springfield, Mass., as follows: Edwin, Solomon, Solomon, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Alexander. (No stone.) (Spafford.)
Ruth Coon, wife of Edwin S. Edwards. Born December
22, 1805, died in Spafford. (No stone.)
(Spafford.)
John O., son of Edwin S. and Ruth (Coon) Edwards. Died June 30, 1843, age 1 year, 5 months, 5 days.
" Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
(Spafford.)
Esther Lowery, wife of Julius A. Edwards. Died March 7, 1894, age 52 years. (No stone.)
(Julius and his wife Esther had one son, Edwin W. Edwards, who married Jennette B. Haskins, and has one daughter.)
(Spafford.)
Ebenezer Edwards, son of Solomon and Catherine (Clark) Edwards. Died January 11, 1830, age 52 years. " Come hither mortal, cast an eye
And go thy way and prepare to die."
(Ebenezer Edwards was an uncle of Edwin S. Edwards. In his will, dated December 15, 1829, and probated April 10, 1830, he mentions his wife, Sybel Edwards, his adopted daughter Calista Mead, and his children : William; Solomon ; Sereno; and Polly Edwards. The branch of the Edwards family through which Ebenezer and his nephew, Edwin S. Edwards, trace their descent from Alexander Edwards, the emigrant ancestor, came to Skaneateles from Nothampton, Mass., in the year 1809: Ebenezer, Solomon, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Alexander.)
(Thorn Hill.)
EGGLESTON.
Dea Benjamin Eggleston, left us January 9, 1868, in the full assurance of a blissful immortality, through Christ his Saviour, age 85 years.
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" Precious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saint."
(He married Elizabeth Wiltsie. In his will, dated Feb- ruary 18, 1865, and probated March 23, 1868, he mentions his wife, Elizabeth Eggleston, and his children: Myron; Rolfe; John; Theodore, married Sarah A. Gardner; Delilah Goodridge; Adeline Wood; Catherine Coon; Rebecca, mar- ried Austin Wyckoff of Navarino, N. Y .; Mary, married Augustin Vanderburgh, son of Stephen and Maria (Cal- kins) Vanderburg; Ruth M. Eggleston, and Sarah E. Patterson.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Our Mother, Elizabeth (Wiltsie) ), wife of Dea Benjamin Eggleston. Departed this life August 31, 1874, age 85 years, 5 months.
" With a good Hope in Christ of a Blessed and glorious Resurrection to Eternal Life."
(Thorn Hill.)
Sarah A. (Gardner), wife of Theodore Eggleston. Died February 20, 1874, age 37 years, 6 months.
" In earnest of Heaven was her pillow in Death."
(Theodore Eggleston was a son of Dea. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wiltsie) Eggleston.)
(Thorn Hill.)
EGLIN.
Isaac D. Eglin. Born October 4, 1824. Died Novem- ber 22, 1904.
(He married (1) Elizabeth Dedrick, daughter of William and Thurzy (McCausey) Dedrick; and (2) Ailce Case, daughter of Aaron G. and Rebecca (Monk) Case.)
(Borodino.)
Elizabeth (Dedrick), wife of Isaac Eglin. Died April 14, 1886, age 58 years, 10 months, 25 days.
" Dearest husband ! thou dearest friend of my Mortal years, thou trusted one thou tried,
Thou art still living in the valley of tears, But I am at thy side."
(In her will, dated June 25, 1878, probated July 7, 1890, she mentions her husband, Isaac D. G. Eglin, but no chil- dren. She also mentions her brother, William J. Dedrick, of Spafford; her uncle, Samuel Dedrick of Rhode Island;
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her uncle, Henry Dedrick of Rhode Island; Tilson Wood and his sister, Louisa, children of her Aunt Harriet Wood, late of Rhode Island, deceased; her aunt, Sally Reed, of Rhode Island; her aunt, Catherine, sister of her father, William Dedrick; and Mrs. Helen Williams, daughter of Charles Mc- Causey of Spafford.)
(Borodino.)
Alice (Case), wife of Isaac Eglin. Born January 16, 1859. Died December 14, 1905.
(Borodino.)
Lehana Delbert, only son of Isaac and Elizabeth Dedrick) Eglin. Died July 5, 1877, age 24 years, 6 months, 5 days.
" No sin, no grief, no pain, Safe in my happy home, My fears all fled, my doubts all slain, My hour of triumph come."
(Borodino.)
ELDRED.
Louisa M., daughter of James and Juliett Eldred. Died April 17, 1843, age 2 years, 3 months, 21 days.
" None but a parent's heart can tell
How much it costs to bid this lovely child farewell."
(Cold Brook.)
ELIOT.
Andrew J. Eliot, (son of Elias and Charity (Warner) Eliot). Died September 27, 1886, age 70 years.
(The paternal grandparents of Andrew J. Eliot were Andrew and Jennie (Ayers) Eliot. Their children were: Daniel, married Hannah Carpenter; Lucretia, married Ste- phen Giles; Elisha, died young; Jacob, married Patience Tripp; George, married Jennie McCarthy; Mollie, married William Seward; Peter, married Jerusha McCarthy; Luke, married Betsey - - -; Hannah, married Daniel Hoyt; Betsey, married Nahum Thompson; and Elias, married Charity Warner.
Elias Eliot, born in Decatur, Otsego County, N. Y., in January, 1793, died in Spafford, May, 1841 age 48 years, and buried in Geddes, N. Y., married in 1813 Charity Warner, born April 9, 1795, and died in Deadwood, S. Da., September
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2, 1895, age 100 years, 4 months, 23 days, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Stockwell) Warner, and by her had the following children: Sarah Jane, born March 1, 1815, mar- ried (1) David Ripley, son of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey) Ripley, and (2) Willard Doty, son of Warren and Sarah (Wood) Doty, and by her first husband had seven children (see Ripley) ; Andrew J., born February 11, 1817, married Sarah Ann Bulfinch, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Harrington) Bulfinch; Lucy Ann, born February 17, 1819, married Joseph H. Bulfinch, son of Joseph and Lydia (Harrington) Bulfinch, she had three children, only one surviving: Mrs. Alice M. Cramer, with whom in 1899 she resided in Yanton, South Dakota (see Bulfinch) ; Charles, born December 1, 1821, married Lodemia Hawkins, and has one child, Nellie; Elias E., born July 28, 1822, married Helen Morey, had two daughters, Nettie and Nellie; Wesley S., born January 5, 1824; married Jennie -, and has one daughter Jennie; Lewis H., born February 13, 1826, married (1) Henrietta Morey, (2) Mary Treadwell, no issue; James M., born October 11, 1828, died at the age of 26, unmarried, at the Globe Hotel, in Syracuse, N. Y .; George W., born November 11, 1831, mar- ried in Chico, Cal., no issue; Warner A., born January 31, 1833, married Lottie Spaids, and had seven children: Charles, Chauncey, Craig, Willie, Kathlyn, Flora, Raymond; Helen C., born April 9, 1836 married Col. Gideon C. Moody, her husband has been United States Senator from South Dakota, she has had five children : Nellie, Charles, James, Burdett, and Warner, she now resides in Deadwood, S. Da .; and Mary Elizabeth, born April 5, 1838, married Thomas Chandoin, Louisville, Ky., five children, Alice, Thomas, George, Eliot and Charles. She is now deceased. Elias Eliot, when he resided in Spafford, lived on Ripley Hill, south of the Ripley Place. so called, on Lot 42, Tully.
Andrew J. Eliot, by his wife Sarah Ann Bulfinch, had five children : Jane Ann, married Newton Bates (no issue) ; Mary, (now deceased), married John Van Benschoten, son of James and - (Price) Van Benschoten, two chil- dren : Sarah, married Edwin Van Benschoten, son of James and (Price) Van Benschoten, husband dead, one son, resides at Onondaga Valley, N. Y .; Andrew, died young; and Lewis Henry, died young.
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Mrs. Charity (Warner) Eliot, the mother of Andrew J. Eliot, was in many ways a remarkable woman, of strong personality, high Christian character, and full of kindness and motherly tenderness. Her father, Charles Warner, was a soldier of the Revolution, and died at Geddes, N. Y. By his wife, Sarah Stockwell, he had nine children : Esther, Lucy, Charity, Sophia, Betsey, Mary Sarah, Charles and Israel; several of whom, besides Charity, lived to a remark- able old age.)
(Spafford.)
Lewis Henry, son of Andrew J. and Sarah A. (Bulfinch) Eliot. Died September 12, 1851, age 9 months, 11 days.
(Spafford.)
ELISON.
Hannah, wife of George Elison. Died August 1, 1841, age 28 years, 4 months, 12 days.
" When ere my children do draw nigh
And on this marble cast an eye,
Then on this willow drop a tear
For one who always loved you dear."
(Spafford.)
Mary, daughter of George and Hannah Elison. Died December 24, 1830, age 4 months, 15 days.
(Spafford.)
EMMONS.
Mary A. (Abbott), wife of Lewis Emmons. Died April 14, 1884, age 54 years.
(Lewis Emmons came from LaFayette. By his wife, Mary A. Abbott, he had two children : George, married Mary L. Grinnell, daughter of Ansel and Asenath (Bennett) Grin- nell; and Milton, married Laura Stanton, daughter of Samuel H. and Sarah (Patterson) Stanton.
(Borodino.)
Anna M. Patten, wife of William A. Emmons. Died February 2, 1869, age 40 years.
(William A. Emmons came from LaFayette; his wife was a daughter of William and Fanny (Rathbone) Patten.) (Borodino.) Frank, son of William A. and Anna M. (Patten) Emmon. Died June 2, 1868, age 3 years.
(Borodino.)
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ENGLISH.
Mary (Taft), wife of John W. English. Died November 14, 1849, age 33 years.
(John W. English, son of Richard and Eliza English, married Mary Taft, daughter of Ellis and Cynthia (Knapp) Taft. The English family, through mistake, were from Ire- land. The family left Spafford about 1836, and settled in Ohio and Michigan, where its descendants remain.
(Cold Brook.)
ENOS.
Chloe, wife of Joseph Enos. Born May 4, 1777, died January 19, 1843.
(Joseph Enos also died at Thorn Hill, September 20, 1852, age 73 years.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Jessie, daughter of Charles H. and Josephine (Williams) Enos. Died July 18, 1878, age 1 year, 2 months. " God's little angel gone home."
(Charles H. Enos was an adopted son of Joseph Enos, Jr. In 1898 he was residing at Rock Creek, Minn.) (Borodino.)
FAY.
John Fay. Died June 23, 1857, in his 68 year.
(Mr. Fay, by his wife, Isabel, had the following children : Andrew, married Milly Harris, daughter of William and Nancy (Davis) Harris; Jeremiah, who died unmarried at the age of about 28 years; and Mary Ann, married Robert Randall, son of Silas and Mercey (Harrington) Randall.) (Spafford.) Isabel, wife of John Fay. Died June 2, 1859, in her 68th year.
(Spafford.)
Jeremiah Fay, (son of John and Isabel Fay). Died June 3, 1859, age 27 years, 10 months, 14 days.
(Spafford.)
FERRY.
Asa Ferry. Died January 9, 1864, age 84 years, 3 months, 12 days.
(He married first Ruhama - -, who died Novem-
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ber 5, 1818, second, Christina Buffington, who died May 11, 1852, in her 73rd year, and third, Harmony In the petition for letters of administration upon his estate, made March 9, 1864, by his wife, Harmony Ferry, mention is made of the following children: Chester, married Saba Buffington, of Spafford, N. Y .; Harvey, then residing in Wisconsin; Malinda, married Joseph K. Lamb, he then deceased and she then of Wisconsin; Dolly, married Asa Keen, of Ohio; and Lavina, married Clark Bowker of Wis- consin.)
(Borodino.)
Mrs. Ruhama, wife of Asa Ferry. Died November 5, 1818, age 40 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Christina (Buffington), wife of Asa Ferry. Died May 11, 1852, in her 73rd year.
(She was a widow when she married Mr. Ferry, and the mother of Charles H. Buffington, who died January 6, 1852, and was buried in this cemetery.)
(Borodino.)
Chester Ferry, (son of Asa and Ruhama Ferry). Died March 16, 1876, age 76 years, 6 months.
(He married Saba Buffington, whom he survived. In the petition for letters of administration upon his estate by his son, Charles H. Ferry, dated April 21, 1876, mention is made of the following children : Charles H., merchant, resid- ing in Syracuse, N. Y .; Asa P., of Rockford, Kent Co., Mich .; George H., of Canonsburgh, Kent Co., Mich .; Jane, married Sylvester H. Sheldon, they are both dead, and buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y .; Harriet Davis, of Rockford, Mich .; Henrietta Miller, of Canonsburg, Stevens Co., Mich .; Martha Barnes, of Navarino, N. Y .; Ruhama Ida, of Ellery, Stevens Co., Illinois; Americus V., of Skaneateles, N. Y., and John T. Ferry, of Rockford, Mich. Harriet died young.)
(Borodino.)
Saba (Buffington), wife of Chester Ferry. Died Feb- ruary 16, 1873, age 70 years.
(Borodino.)
Harriet, daughter of Chester and (Saba) Sarah Ferry. Died March 31, 1836, age 3 months, 27 days.
(Borodino.)
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FILKINS.
George D. Filkins. Died March 30, 1855, age 42 years.
(He married Margaret Fisher, daughter of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, and by her had three children: Ensign D., who was a soldier in the War of 1861, and died unmarried at the age of nearly 26, in the year 1863; Angeline, married George Spencer Carr, son of Thurston and, Lorane (Green) Carr, at Spafford, March 5, 1871 resides in Heber, Arkansas; and Orrissa, married Marcus N. Seeley, son of Hiram and Betsey Jane (Jacobs) Seeley, her husband died in 1892 and she now resides in Syracuse, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
Margaret (Fisher) Churchell, former wife of George D. Filkins. Died March 1, 1879, age 66 years, 2 months, 21 days.
(After the decease of her first husband, George D. Filkins, she married Alexander M. Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell, as his third wife. She was buried by the side of her first husband.)
(Spafford.)
Ensign D., son of George D. and Margaret (Fisher) Filkins. Died September 28, 1863, age 25 years, 10 months, 13 days.
(He was a Union soldier in the War of 1861.)
(Spafford.)
FISHER.
Sacred to the memory of Amos Fisher, who died October 28, 1833, age 82 years, 6 days.
(The Fishers came to this town from Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., before 1820, and settled on the southeastern part (of subdivision No. 6) of Lot 1, Tully. By his wife, Mar- garet, Mr. Amos Fisher had the following children: Rachel, married Osmer Orton of Spafford, N. Y .; Dakin, married Sally Youst, of Spafford, N. Y .; Clarissa Cone of Mayville, Chautauua Co., N. Y .; Amos, of Otsego, N. Y .; Rebecca married William Billings, of Spafford, N. Y .; Sarah, married Ossage Cone, of Pomfret, Chautauqua Co., N. Y .; Eli, married Nancy , of Spafford, N. Y .; Mary, married Erastus Wait, of Chagrin, Ohio; Orrissa, married
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Jeremiah Crane, of Bane, Orleans Co., N. Y .; John, died in Spafford, unmarried; and Margaret, married Col. Lewis C. Davis, Margaret died before her father and left the follow- ing children : Judson, Joline, Laura, John, and Lewis Davis. Mrs. Margaret Fisher survived her husband, and is supposed to have been buried with her husband in the Davis Yard. (No stone.)
(Davis Yard.)
John Fisher (son of Amos and Margaret Fisher.) Born at Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. July 15, 1794, died December 31, 1874.
(He died unmarried.)
(Davis Yard.)
Dakin Fisher, (son of Amos and Margaret Fisher). Died June 21, 1849, age 68 years, 10 months, 8 days.
" How suddenly he's called away Eternity to view,
No time to regulate his house nor bid the world adied."
(He married Sally Youst, and by her had the following children : Philip, married Harriet Legg, daughter of Capt. Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg; Elihu, married Lydia Ann Collins, daughter of John and Lucy (Burdick) Collins and widow of John Orton; George Y., married Lavinia Burdick, daughter of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick; Margaret, married (1) George D. Filkins, and (2) Alex- ander M. Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell; Celinda, married William Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell; and Orrissa, married Franklin Roundy, son of Capt. Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy; Mercy, died at 22 years, unmarried.)
(Spafford.)
Sally (Youst), wife of Dakin Fished. Died December 2, 1860, age 77 years, 6 months, 13 days.
" Our Mother's gone but not forgotten."
(Spafford.)
Mercy, daughter of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher. Died April 8, 1844, age 22 years, 9 months, 24 days.
(Spafford.)
Harriet (Legg), wife of Philip Fisher. Died June 8, 1844, in her 34th year.
(Philip Fisher, son of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, married Harriet Legg, daughter of Capt. Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg, and had the following children : Otis, married
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Maria Maxson ; Oscar, married Ann Eliza Frederick, daugh- ter of Jacob and Rachel (Newkirk) Frederick! Angeline, died unmarried; William Eaton, married Phebe Ingerson, adopted daughter of Peter Ingerson ; and Mary, married (1) Nelson Boughton at Spafford, October 2, 1854, and (2) Silas J. White, March 19, 1863. In 1885 she resided at Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa. By her first husband, Mary has one daughter, Angeline, married James Allen, Jr., and by her second husband she has a son, who is a West Point graduate and now in the regular Army of the United States. Philip Fisher is also deceased.)
(Spafford.)
Angeline, daughter of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher. Died March 27, 1853, age 20 years.
" To live in the memory of those we leave behind is not to die."
(Spafford.)
William E. Fisher, (son of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher). Died March 30, 1868, age 32 years.
(A soldier in the War of 1861.)
" Our son is gone but not forgotten.)
(He married Phebe Ingerson, adopted daughter of Peter Ingerson of Spafford Hollow.)
(Spafford.)
Nancy E., daughter of Eli and Nancy Fisher. Died January 11, 1835, age 8 years, 2 months, 23 days.
(Eli Fisher was a son of Amos and Margaret Fisher; he was born probably in Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., before 1802, married his wife Nancy before October 15, 1823, at which time she joined him in a deed, conveying land in Spafford Hollow on Lot 23, Tully. A few days subse- quent he purchased 25 acres of Cornelius Williamson, on Lot 12, Tully. There are no descendants of this marriage known to the writer. For many years Eli Fisher ran the Potashery at Spafford Corners, before 1850; he was then an old man and worked for Levi Hurlbut and Asahel M. Roundy, and boarded at their houses. He and his wife have been dead for about fifty years. They have no stone mark- ing their graves in this town.)
(Borodino.)
Alice, daughter of Edgar and E- - (Brown) Fisher. Died October 18, 1881, age 1 year, 3 months, 3 days.
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(Edgar Fisher is an Englishman, and his wife is a daughter of Truman and Abigail' (Moore) Brown of Thorn Hill, and a granddaughter of Zenas and Abigail Moore. In 1898 Mr. Fisher was residing on the Cornelius Williamson Farm, on Lot 12, Tully.)
(Spafford.)
FITZGERALD.
Mrs. Anna, wife of Jeremiah Fitzgerald. Died August 15, 1834, age 85 years.
(Jeremiah Fitzgerald came to this town from Walkill, N. Y., in the Spring of 1806, and settled on 300 acres owned by him on lot 70, Marcellus. He died in 1817 (and was buried in the old Boodino Cemetery, on the farm of Alex- ander Becker, north of the Village of Borodino, now in dis- use.
(Thorn Hill.)
Jeremiah Fitzgerald. Died September 25, 1816, age 65 years.
In his will, dated August 20, 1810, and probated Feb- ruary 17, 1817, he mentions his wife, Anna Fitzgerald, and the following children : William; Elizabeth, married Warren Kneeland, son of Jonathan and Mary (Spencer) Kneeland; Susanna; David, married Phebe -; John, married Abigail - -; and Jeremiah, married Sylvia
He also mentions his two grandchildren, Jane and James H. Fitzgerald, children of his daughter, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, who subseuent to their birth, married Warren Kneeland. James H. Fitzgerald married Jerusha Eadie, daughter of James and Martha Smith Eadie.)
(Thorn Hill.)
FORCE.
Sally Force, wife of Henry Force. Died October 8, 1843, age 54 years, 3 months, 5 days.
" Here let me rest my weary head
'Till Christ, my Lord, shall raise the Dead."
(Henry Force resided on Lot 75, Marcellus. He died September 25, 1847, in this town (no stone). In the peti- tion of Dr. Isaac Morrell, a creditor, dated October 6, 1847, for letters of administration upon his estate, no mention is
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made of a wife, but of the following children: William; Kellogg; Jane; Sarah, married Dorwin Day; Adeline, mar- ried William Campbell; and Henrietta, married Annariah Manley. All were then of full age except Jane, who was a minor.)
(Borodino.)
FORD.
In memory of a son of John and Chloe Ford. Died April 14, 1821.
(Cold Brook.)
Daniel, son of John and Chloe Ford. Died April 3, 1820, in his 10th year.
(John and Chloe Ford resided on the west part of Lot 44, Tully, in Cold Brook. Among their children, besides the foregoing, were : Elisha, married Smith, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y .; John B., married Sally Miner, widow of Sanford Thayer, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y .; Lydia, mar- ried Orrin Town, of Cold Brook, N. Y., and -, married Ansel Bacon.)
(Cold Brook.)
FOSTER.
Albert Foster, (son of Samuel Foster). Born July 24, 1800, (in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) Died January 8, 1879, (in Spafford, New York.)
(He married (1) Clarissa Maxson, daughter of Thomas and - (Sessions) Maxson, at Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn., January 2, 1823, and settled first in Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y., where he remained about eight years, and from there came to this town and settled in Cold Brook about 1833. He finally settled on Lot 33, Tully, about 1841, where he remained until the time of his decease. After the decease of his first wife he married (2) June 5, 1867, at Spafford, N. Y., Clarissa G. Reynolds, widow of Horace Smith, but by her had no issue. His children by his first wife were: LaFayette, born July 23, 1824, married October 23, 1850, at Spafford, N. Y. Sarah Jane Ripley, born De- cember 3, 1832, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, resides in Sioux City, Iowa, and has three children, Albro; Emma and Ernest, each married and each having
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three children; Thomas Maxson, born October 1, 1826, merchant in this town to the time of his decease, December 26, 1898, unmarried; James S., born November 20, 1828, died September 29, 1890 at Mitchell, South Dakota, married April 6, 1852, in Spafford, Frances Ann Ripley, born January 17, 1835, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley; Charles W., born May 19, 1832, died April 11, 1875, near Yankton, S. Da., married February 27, 1853, at Spafford, N. Y., Mary A. Burroughs, born October 29, 1835, daughter of Alvin Burroughs, and had four children ; and George I., born December 29, 1837, mar- ried at Davis, Ill., December, 1873, Phila Smith, resides at Fargo, North Dakota, and had two children.)
(Cold Brook.)
Clarissa (Maxson), wife of Albert Foster. Born De- cember 26, 1798, died May 5, 1866.
(She was born in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.)
(Cold Brook.)
Clarissa G. (Reynolds), wife of Albert Foster. Born June 1, 1809, died November 5, 1873.
(At the time of her marriage to Mr. Foster she was widow of Horace Smith, (second wife), with one son by Mr. Smith, Frederick R. Smith.)
(Cold Brook.)
Bennie, son of James S. and Frances A. (Ripley Foster. Died March 1, 1860, age 6 months.
(James S. Foster, son of Albert and Clarissa (Maxson) Foster, married Frances A. Ripley, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, and by her had, in addition to the above, the following children : Clara J., married Osgood H. Carney, and had three children : Foster Dewitt, married Cora Westfall and resides in Yankton, S. Da .; Kate Morri- son, married Carl E. Bigelow and has one child, Ruth, resides in Galveston, Texas ; and Carol Earl, died in infancy ; Cora, married George H. Miner and had six children: William Vance, married Blanche , two children, Helen and Grace; Frances, married Ory P. Shaw, one son, Miner; Cora, unmarried; Charity Eliot, unmarried, and Laura, died in infancy; Albert David, married Hattie Whalen and had four children: Fannie, James, Clara, and Martha; James and Martha died in infancy; Fannie An- able, unmarried; Martha Aldrich, unmarried; and Thomas
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Maxson, unmarried. Mr. James S. Foster died in Mitchell, S. Da., September 29, 1890.)
(Cold Brook.)
In memory of Lydia, wife of Levi Foster, who died April 21, 1827, age 45 years, 3 months, 1 day.
(Levi Foster came from Onondaga, N. Y., January 2, 1816, and settled on Lot 21, Tully, on the farm now occupied by Joseph L. Cole (1899), and from there moved to the Nunnery neighborhood, and resided on Lot 12, Sempronius, where his wife died. He moved away from town after the death of his wife, and very little is known of him or his family at the present time.)
(Nunnery.)
FREDERICK.
Jacob Frederick. Died March 18, 1865, age 69 years. (Jacob Frederick came to the Marcellus end of this town before 1823, and settled at or near the Village of Borodino, but soon afterwards moved to a farm near Spafford Village), his wife was Rachel Newkirk, and by her he had the follow- ing children : Sarah M., married Roswell Brown of Moravia, Cayuga County, N. Y .; John W., married (1) Miss Jennings of Poughkeepsie, N .Y., by whom he had a son, William J. Frederick, member of Board of Underwriters, Syracuse, N. Y .; he married (2) Mary Antonette Atwater in 1868, she died in 1879, leaving a daughter, Georgia, who in 1879 married Dr. Ernest F. Clymer of Syracuse, N. Y .; Lewis W., married Louisa Beeman, resided at Homer, N. Y., and Cold- water, Mich .; Lucetta, married Horatio Smith, resides South Butler, Wayne Co., N. Y .; Ann Eliza, married Oscar F. Fisher, son of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher, resides in Homer N. Y .; Minerva J. married Darius Applebee; George P., died prior to his father's decease, married S F -- , and had one daughter, Mary C. Frederick of Brooklyn, N. Y .; Alanson S., married Sarah Thompson, daughter of Nathan P. and Margaret (Hutchins) Thomp- son, he and his wife are both deceased ; he is buried in Liver- pool, N. Y., and she in Spafford Cemetery, left two children, Roswell T., married Catherine Kingsbury, daughter of Andrew E. Kingsbury of Homer, Roswell is a real estate broker in Syracuse, N. Y., and Caroline Frederick, un- married, resides in Homer, N. Y .; Calista B., married C. B.
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