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(Mr. Smith came to this town from Fabius, N. Y., before 1848, and settled on the farm now (1899) owned by Col. Edwin S. Jenney, on Lot 32, Sempronius; from there he moved to a farm on Lots 32 and 33, Tully, in Cold Brook, about 1855, and there remained until his decease. His children, excepting the youngest one, were by his first wife, whose name is not given; he married for a second wife Clarissa G. Reynolds, who survived him, and after his decease married Albert Foster, for his second wife. His children, mentioned in the petition of his wife, Clarissa G., dated August 25, 1862, for Letters of Administration upon his estate, were: Joseph R., of Salmon River, Oregon Terri- tory; Harriet E., wife of David Spaulding of Monticello, Cowlitz County, Oregon Territory ; Mary C., wife of Henry S. Alvord of Homer, N. Y .; Horace, of Homer, N. Y .; Maria J., wife of Thomas H. Alvord, of White Water, Kings County, Washington Territory; Levi G., of White Water, Kings Co., Washington Territory ; Rollin C., of Jacksonville, Oregon Territory; and Frederick R., (then a minor) of Spafford, N. Y.)
(Cold Brook.)
Eliza Smith, (wife of David Smith). Died September 26, 1887, age 64 years.
" Dear Mother."
(David Smith lived in the Kellogg Settlement, in Cold Brook, in the town of Scott; his wife Eliza was from Caze- novia. Josie E. Smith, daughter of David and Eliza Smith, married a Mr. Collins. Flora A. Smith, another daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, died unmarried.)
(Cold Brook.)
Josie E. Smith, daughter of David and Eliza Smith. Died November 14, 1880, age 26 years.
(Cold Brook.)
Flora A. Smith, daughter of David and Eliza Smith. Died June 19, 1885, age 28 years. (Cold Brook.)
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Lucilla, daughter of Lemuel D. and Polly (Seeley) Smith. Died October 31, 1842, age 2 years, 3 months, 14 days.
(Lemuel D. Smith resided in Cold Brook; he married Polly Seeley, daughter of Samuel G. and Adah (Fowler) Seeley, and by her had the following children, in addition to the two whose deaths are here recorded in this cemetery : Melvina, unmarried; Parmelia, married a Mr. Harrington; Julania, married a Mr. Goodwin; Welcome S., married a Miss Knight; Dwight, married a Miss Knight, a sister of his brother Welcome's wife; Jane, unmarried; Louisa, unmarried; and Alvira, married a Mr. Webster.)
(Cold Brook.)
Ann Eliza, daughter of Lemuel D. and Polly (Seeley) Smith. Died January 21, 1852, age 19 years, 8 months, 29 days.
(Cold Brook.)
Isaiah D. Smith. Died November 28, 1868, age 78 years, 2 months, 11 days.
(Mr. Smith came to this town from Bennington, Genesee County, N. Y., January 24, 1819, and settled on Lot 10, Sempronius; his first wife, Rachel, died in 1826, and he then married the widow Juliette Hall.)
(Borodino.)
Rachel, wife of Isaiah D. Smith. Died March 5, 1826, age 30 years.
(Borodino.)
Juliette (Hall), wife of Isaiah D. Smith. Died Decem- ber 15, 1861, age 55 years, 6 months.
(Borodino.)
Caroline, daughter of Isaiah D. and Rachel Smith. Died 1822.
(Borodino.)
Helen, daughter of Isaiah D. and Rachel Smith. Died April 13, 1842, age 3 years, 2 months, 22 days.
(Borodino.)
Sarah L. (Smith), wife of William B. Smith. Died August 8, 1874, age 21 years.
(William B. Smith, son of Isaiah D. and Juliette (Hall) Smith, married Sarah L. Smith, daughter of Jessey Smith) . (Borodino.)
In memory of Job Smith. Died January 16, 1827, age 80 years.
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(He was born in Norwalk, Conn., and married there Elizabeth Keeler; from there he first settled in Greenfield, Greene County, N. Y., and from there came to this town, about February 25, 1806, and settled on a part of the State's Hundred Acres, on Lot 74, Marcellus. He was Paymaster in the War of the Revolution. By his wife, Elizabeth Keeler, who was also born in Norwalk, Conn., he had the following children: William, married Mary -, he was a farmer and settled in Richmond, Ontario County, N. Y., he never came to this town; Sarah, married Mr. Shepard in Greene County, N. Y., she never came here, she had a son, Cyrus Smith Shepard, who resided with his maternal grand parents in this town, and went to Califor- nia, where he died; Elizabeth, died unmarried at Thorn Hill; Stephen, married Freelove Green, he was a farmer and carpenter, and died at Thorn Hill, December 27, 1825; Phebe, married Amasa Sessions as his second wife, she died at Thorn Hill, she had a son, Alonzo Sessions, who settled in Ionia, Michigan, and became very wealthy, he was Presi- dent of a bank in Ionia, Member of the Michigan Legislature on several occasions, Sheriff of the county of his residence, President of the State Constitutional Convention of Michi- gan, and once Lieutenant Governor of that State. Another of her sons : John Sessions, was a lawyer in Brooklyn, N. Y., and married Elizabeth Fisher, a niece of Bishop Hunting- ton, of Syracuse, N. Y. She also had a grandson, John Sessions, Jr., who was also a lawyer, and married a daughter of Bishop Huntington; Lewis, married Chloe Ben- son; Charles, married Sophia Bull, he died in Skaneateles at the age of 34 years; Seth, married Lois Hecox, sister of Col. Warren Hecox of Skaneateles, he moved to Lyons, N. Y .; and Cyrus, married Lucinda Harvey, daughter of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey, he was a merchant and settled in Marengo, Wayne County, N. Y. From there he moved to Clyde, and then to Chautauqua County, N. Y. From Chautauqua County he moved to California, where he was engaged in the milling business at the time of his decease.
Lewis Smith, (the fourth son of Job), was a Lieutenant in Col. Warren Hecox's Regiment of New York Militia, in the War of 1812, and served in a short tour of duty in defence of Sackett's Harbor, in the year 1814, and was dis-
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charged at Smith's Mills, N. Y. He was prominent in town and county politics, he served as Supervisor and Justice of the Peace in the town of Marcellus, (now Spafford), as Sheriff of the County of Onondaga (1826 to 1828), and was Member of Assembly in the New York Legislature, 1820, 1821, 1829, and at the time of his decease, which occurred at Thorn Hill, at the age of 43 years. He was a farmer and resided on a farm on Lot 74, Marcellus, adjoining that of his father, Job Smith. His wife was Chloe Benson, daughter of Elkanah Benson, a native of Mendon, Mass., and who, at the time of the marriage, resided at a place known as " Benson Street," at the southwest corner of the town of Skaneateles. By his wife Chloe, Mr. Smith had the follow- ing children, all born in this town near Thorn Hill: Hon. Sidney, born in 1815, married (1) Adeline E. Blodgett, of Chautauqua County, N. Y., and (2) Jennie E. Calkins, daughter of Charles A. and Diana (Shelden) Calkins, after marriage he resided on the old homestead until 1870, and then settled in Skaneateles Village, where he resided until his decease in 1900, he held various offices in his native town, among which were: Justice of the' Peace, Supervisor, Town Superintendent, and Inspector of Schools, and Mem- ber of Assembly in the New York Legislature, in the year 1857, he claimed in 1899 to be the oldest living native of the Marcellus end of the town of Spafford; Mary, residing (1898) in Skaneateles, unmarried; William, he was educated in Homer Academy and Yale College, and first settled in Baltimore, Md., where he taught school and studied law. From there he moved to Missouri, and then to Sacramento, Cal., where he engaged in the mercantile business. He died of cholera at the latter place in 1850, unmarried; Stephen, married Lucy Culver, daughter of Judge E. D. Culver, of Brooklyn, N. Y., he is a prominent physician in New York, City, where he was appointed Commissioner of Charities in 1881, Commissioner of Lunacy in 1882, and Delegate to the International Sanitary Congress, held in Paris in 1894, he is especially remembered for his generous gift of a valuable medical library, to the Medical College connected with the Syracuse University; and Job Lewis, married Mary Ann Hana and settled in New York City. He was a graduate of Yale College, and became a prominent physician and surgeon in the latter city, he was also an instructor in the medical
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schools in New York City, and is well known to the medical fraternity, as the author of a valued work on the Diseases of Children. He died in New York City in 1897. There are no known descendants of Job Smith at this time residing in the town of Spafford.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Mrs. Elizabeth (Keeler), wife of Job Smith. Died August 31, 1835, age 87 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Elizabeth Smith, (daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Keeler) Smith). Died August 14, 1848, age 72 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Stephen Smith, (son of Job and Elizabeth (Keeler) Smith). Died December 27, 1825, age 46 yars.
(Thorn Hill.)
In mmory of Asa Smith, who departed this life Septem- ber 11, 1821, age 56 years.
" Within this tomb by death o'er come A tender husband rests,
With love sincere his children dear He frequently caressed,
A master's part with generous heart It's known he acted well;
May those he's left of him bereft His virtuous ways excell." (His wife and children moved to Michigan.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Jared Smith. Died March 26, 1870, age 76 years, 16 days.
(Jared Smith married Rhoda Harvey, daughter of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey, and by her had the following: Emeline, married Shepard Earl, son of William and Polly (Pitts) Earl; Harriet, married Ebenezer Corning Cowles of Otisco, N. Y .; Lydia, married William Briggs, son of Daniel Briggs; and Seth, married and resided in Michigan. At the time of his decease Mr. Smith was the owner of what is now known as the Alanson Colton Farm, near Borodino.) (Thorn Hill.)
Rhoda H. (w.), died August 16, 1890, age 91 years. (Thorn Hill.)
Among the members of the Smith family who have resided in this town, whose names do not appear above, are
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the following: Isaac Smith and family, who resided on the east side of Spafford Hollow: Azariah Smith, resided on or owned 160 acres of land, in a square farm, in the north west corner of lot 34, Tully; Alvah Smith and wife, Clarissa, settled on lot 69, Marcellus, on or before 1804; Amasa Smith and wife Mercy purchased land on lot 77, Marcellus, March 9, 1818; Chester H. Smith purchased land on lot 12, Sem- pronius, January 18, 1859; David Smith purchased land on lot 77, Marcellus, in 1803, and sold to Lemuel Smith in 1803; Daniel S. Smith of Owasco, N. Y., purchased land on lot 69, Marcellus, September 3, 1817; Ephraim Smith sold land on lot 75, Marcellus, September 25, 1815; James Smith and wife, Sarah Ann (Barber), lots 32 and 33, Tully, 1827, to 1840; Jedediah Smith and wife, Caroline, lots 22 and 23, Tully, 1832-4; John Smith and wife Lois, lots 89 and 76, Marcellus, 1828; John Smith and wife Lucinda, lot 22, Tully, 1811 to 1823; Josiah Smith, lot 89, Marcellus, 1822; Lemuel Smith and wife Sally, lots 77 and 76, Mar- cellus, 1803 to 1830; Lemuel P. Smith, lot 77, Marcellus, 1827-8; Levi Smith and wife Lucy, lots 76 and 89, Marcellus, 1828; Lester I. Smith and wife Lydia, lots 10 and 11, Sem- pronius, 1827, 1830; Lyman Smith and wife Sally, lots 10, 11 and 12, Sempronius, 1827 to 1857; Oliver Smith and wife Abigail, lot 77, Marcellus, 1808 to 1828; Oliver S. Smith, lot 77, Marcellus, 1811; Samuel Smith, lots 44 and 45, Tully, 1825; Sylvester Smith and wife Lucretia, lot 24, Tully, 1814 to 1821; Thomas Smith and wife Lydia, lot 32, Tully, 1827; Welcome Smith, lot 89, Marcellus, 1829, 1832; and William S. Smith, lot 12, Sempronius, 1859.
SORNBORGER.
In memory of Eliza Sornborger, daughter of Henry Sornborger. Died September 4, 1852, age 16 years.
(After her decease her father and mother moved to Chau- tauqua County, N. Y.)
(Thorn Hill.)
SPAULDING.
There were several families of Spauldings who resided in this town in years past, many of whose members inter- married with other well known Spafford families, but the
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history of these has been so fully and well told in the excel- lent genealogy of that family, that we omit any further statement of them here, referring the reader to that valued work for further information on that subject. None of that name are here now.
SPENCER.
Ellen Brown, wife of Clark Spencer, and daughter of Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown. Died September 22, 1859, age 21 years, 9 months, 15 days.
" When lingering disease involved this house of clay, How sweet to look beyond my house and long to fly away." (Spafford.)
SPRAGUE.
Franklin, son of Solomon and Lucy Sprague. Died Jan- uary 9, 1835, age 6 years.
(After the decease of Solomon Sprague, his wife Lucy married John Babcock, Jr., as his third wife; she survived her last husband, and was one of the administrators of his estate.)
(Borodino.)
STANTON.
Mary (Shearman), wife of John Stanton. Died August 4, 1838, age 88 years, 9 months, 1 day.
(Samuel H. Stanton, in 1898, in speaking of his grand parents and their family said: "My grandfather, John Stanton, was born in Rhode Island, and there married my grandmother Mary Shearman, who was also born in that State. After their marriage my grand parents moved to Pownal, Bennington County, Vt., where my grandfather died. After his decease my grandmother moved to this town, and resided with her son, Benjamin Stanton, until her decease. The children of John and Mary (Shearman) Stanton were: John, died in Otsego County, N. Y .; Thomas, died in Otsego County, N. Y .; Samuel, died in New Lisbon, Otsego County, N. Y .; Clark, died in Italy, Yates County, N. Y .; Joseph, died in Michigan; William, died in Mayfield, Chautauqua County, N. Y .; Lodowick, died in Michigan; Benjamin, married (1) Sally Noble, and (2) Amy Perkins,
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sister of Hopkins Perkins of this town; Sally, married John Noble of this town; Susannah, married John Lawrence of Spafford; and Polly, married Russel Johnson. John Stan- ton, my grand father, was a brother of Mary Stanton, the wife of Joseph Lewis, formerly of this town, buried in Lewis Yard.")
(Stanton Yard.)
Benjamin Stanton, (son of John and Mary (Shearman) Stanton). Died February 5, 1871, age 91 years, 22 days.
(He was born in the town of Pownal, Bennington Co., Vt., January 11, 1780, and married (1) Sally Noble, and (2) Amy Perkins. By his first wife he had one child: Sally, married Israel Knapp, she died in Alleghany County, N. Y .; and by his second wife had: Sheldon, married Ruth Shearman, daughter of Peleg Shearman of this town, died in Allegheny County, N. Y .; Melinda, married Samuel Shearman, son of Peleg Shearman, died in Allegheny County, N. Y .; Allen J., married (1) Anna Rainey, and (2) Aurilla Clark, died in Spafford; Julania, married Sylvanus N. Grout, son of John Grout, died in Scott, N. Y .; John, married Rebecca Fish, died in Eau Claire, Wis .; Polly, married Samuel Shearman as his second wife, and moved to Alleghany County, N. Y .; Samuel H., married Sarah Patterson, daughter of Calvin Patterson, he died February 14, 1899, age 76 years, and his widow now resides on the old Stanton Homestead, on Lot 13, Sem- pronius, in this town; and Rhoda, married Delos Billings, moved to Alleghany County, N. Y.
Samuel H. Stanton, born in this town, at the time of his decease left surviving his widow, Sarah Patterson, and the following children: Emmet; Mark Stanton, Mrs. John H. Purchase; Mrs. Milton Emmons, residing in Spafford; C- P. Stanton of Luddington, Mich .; Mrs. W.
F. Fairbanks, of Scottville, Mich., and Elmer E. Stanton, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.)
Samuel H. Stanton, 1821-1899.
Sarah T. Patterson (w.), 1825 -.
(Stanton Yard.)
Amy (Perkins), wife of Benjamin Stanton. Died March 31, 1872, age 89 years, 4 months, 20 days.
(Stanton Yard.)
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Frank, son of Samuel H. and Sarah (Patterson) Stanton. Died March 25, 1876, age 21 years, 10 months, 10 days.
(Stanton Yard.)
Infant sons of Samuel H. and Sarah (Patterson) Stan- ton, who died March 6, 1858, and October 12, 1860.
(Stanton Yard.)
STEBBINS.
Asaph Stebbins, who died April 21, 1828, age 61 years. (Letters of Administration were issued upon his estate to his brother, Sylvanus Stebbins, of Little Valley, of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., but, the petition not being pre- served, no statement of the family connections are given. In the sale of his farm of 100 acres, in the north west corner of Lot 89, Marcellus, and 171/2 acres on the south- west corner of lot 76, Marcellus, the following persons con- veyed to his brother, Sylvanus Stebbins, in 1828: John Stebbins and Mary, his wife, Heman Stebbins, Erastus Stebbins and Ruth, his wife, Levi Smith and Lucy, his wife John Smith and Lois, his wife, Chester Ferry and Roxa, his wife, Fowler Preston and Melissa his wife, Joel Lanson Preston, and Dwight Preston of Granby, Mass. In 1831 Russel Preston of Clyde, N. Y., son of Joel Preston of Granby, Mass., also quit claim his interest in the same land to the same grantee.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Charles W., son of Menzus and Adeline E. (O'Farell) Stebbins. Died August 28, 1881, age 4 years, 8 months, and 18 days.
(Menzus Stebbins married Adeline E. O'Farrell, daughter of Rev. D. M. D. O'Farrell of Spafford Hollow. Mrs. Steb- bins died at or near Shawville (now called Bromley), in Spafford Hollow, February 3, 1899, at the age of 60 years, leaving her susviving her husband and two children: David and Menzus Stebbins) .
(Spafford Hollow.)
STEVENS.
Lovina (Nodine), wife of Elisha B. Stevens. Died October 16, 1862, age 42 years, 3 months, 19 days.
(Elisha B. Stevens, son of Elisha Stevens, married Lovina Nodine, daughter of Jeremiah, Sr., and Maria (Strope) Nodine.)
(Cold Brook.)
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STONE.
Mrs. Sally Stone, wife of Benajah Stone. Died June 16, 1825, age 41 years, 11 months, 10 days.
" Afflictions sore a long time I bore, Physicians were in vain, 'Till God was pleased to give me ease And free me from my pain."
(Spafford.)
In memory of Norman, son of Joseph and Polly Stone. Died January 9, 1831, age 17 years, 3 months, 5 days.
(Joseph and Polly Stone conveyed lands on Lots 10 and 12, Sempronius, and Lot 89, Marcellus, to John K. Stone of Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, October 16,. 1829.)
(Borodino.)
STREETER.
Alexander R. Streeter. Died December 8, 1863, age 80 years, 3 months.
(He settled on Lot 10, Sempronius, on or before 1815; by his wife Susan Carpenter, he had at his decease the follow- ing children: Calvin, married Malentha Babcock, daughter of Elihu and Hannah Babcock; Harriet, married Orrin Eddy of Borodino, (both dead) ; Ada L. Howard, of Oak Grove, Wisconsin ; Dorcas Garthwait, of Bolivar, Alleghany County, N. Y .; Milton, married (1) Mary Manley, and (2) Nancy A. Clark, his death preceded that of his father; Sarah A., married Ashbel Baker, she and her husband both died before her father, leaving one daughter, Sarah A. Baker; and one daughter who married a Mr. Manley, she died before her father and left the following children : Rob- inson, Henry, Alanson E. Manley, and Jane Robinson.)
(Borodino.)
Susan (Carpenter), wife of Alexander R. Streeter. Died August 23, 1864, age 83 years, 3 months.
(Borodino.)
Calvin Streeter, (son of Alexander R. and Susan (Car- penter) Streeter). Died February 22, 1889, age 84 years, 4 months, 22 days.
(He married Malentha Babcock, and by her had two sons who survived him: George J., died at Borodino, May 10,.
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1891, age 50 years, married Lucinda Crane, he had a daughter Dora, who married David Becker, son of John Becker; and Cyrus Streeter, who at one time resided on Lot 12, Sempronius. Calvin Streeter also formerly resided on Lots 10 and 12, Sempronius.)
(Borodino.)
Malentha (Babcock), wife of Calvin Streeter. Died May 6, 1875, age 66 years, 8 months.
" What peaceful hours we once enjoyed, How sweet their memory still,
But they have left an aching void This world can never fill."
(Her father and mother were buried at Thorn Hill.)
(Borodino.)
Mary (Manley), wife of Milton Streeter. Died December 25, 1848, age 39 years, 7 months, 16 days.
(Milton Streeter died January 13, 1864, and was buried in this cemetery. (No stone.) In the application for letters upon his estate, made by his widow, Nancy A. Streeter, mention is made of the following children: Alex- ander Streeter, Franklin W. Streeter, and Caroline Case, wife of Alexander Case.)
(Borodino.)
By the record of deeds, it appears that a Josiah Streeter at a very early date resided on Lot 10, Sempronius, and died there; that on February 18, 1812, letters of adminis- tration upon his estate were issued by the Surrogate of Onondaga County, to Lydia Streeter, his widow, and that, among three or four others, Alexander R. Streeter was heir by descent to his lands, and conveyed the same.
Another family of Streeters formerly resided at or near Borodino, whose descendants still remain, and whose lineage is traced to Stephen Streeter, born in England and settled in Gloucester, Mass, in 1639, as follows: Stephen, Stephen, John, John, John, William.
William Streeter, was born in New Cambridge, New York, January 6, 1788, resided in Charlton, and died in Skaneateles, N. Y., March 1, 1846. By his wife, Elizabeth Russel, born in Berne, Albany County, N. Y., died in Skan- eateles, January 16, 1847, he had the following children born at Charlton : John, born October 13, 1813, died in Wis- consin in 1866; Joseph R., born April 21, 1817; James
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Alonzo, born September 7, 1821, married November 2, 1848 Chloe North, resided at Maple Grove, Mich .; Reuben, born April 10, 1824, died September 4, 1838; Sarah E., born October 11, 1826, died November 9, 1845; Phebe, born Jan- uary 23, 1829, died about 1850; Jane Ann, born March 19, 1831, married James Nesbit, son of Robert and Nancy (Wallace) Nesbit, resides near Borodino, N. Y .; Marvin Timothy, born October 25, 1836, married January 15, 1860, Mary D. Tinkham; Nelson R., born October 7, 1838, married June 20, 1860, Adeline F. Randolph, resides at Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y .; and Caroline E., born November 25, 1843.
STRONG.
Charles Strong, (son of Capt. Strong of Tully). Born September 17, 1830.
(He married Margaret M. Hultz.)
(Borodino.)
Hon. Sidney Smith says: " William Strong was a large farmer in the Marcellus part of Spafford, owning more than 300 acres; residing upon the farm now owned and occupied by Frank Harvey. He sold out and left about 1836, and went to Chautauqua County, N. Y .; he had a large family."
Margaret M. (Hultz), wife of Charles Strong. Born April 18, 1828, died December 10, 1893.
(Borodino.)
Parnal, widow of Asher Strong. Died December 27, 1823, age 71 years, 5 months, 11 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
STROPE.
Mary, daughter of William and Lydia Strope. Died June 27, 1835, age 2 years 11 months, 26 days.
(Before 1815, Peter Strope (sometimes called Strobe) came to this town with his wife Louisa, and settled on ten acres of land on the southwest corner of lot 12, Sempronius, and there remained until his decease between 1829 and 1831. On March 3, 1831, the following persons united in quit claiming the lands above mentioned, to George Strope, (Strobe) supposed to be his son: Levi Applebee, Gilbert
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A. Applebee, Mary Golden, Jeremiah Nodine and Maria, his wife, John Strope (Strobe), Nicholas Strobe, William Strobe, Delaney Strobe, Israel Russell and Catherine, his wife, and Joseph Strobe, all of Spafford, N. Y.
(Cold Brook.)
TAFT.
Ellis Taft. Died July 3, 1857, age 75 years.
(He was born at Woodstock, Tolland County, Conn., and from there moved to Mameroneck, Westchester County, N. Y., where he kept hotel for several years. From there he moved to Cold Brook, in this town, where he remained until his decease. He married at Mameroneck, October 8, 1809, Cynthia Knapp, daughter of Peter and Dinah (Guion) Knapp, and had the following children born at the latter place: Sally Ann, married Ziba D. Baker, son of Josiah Baker, she was the mother of Mrs. Benjamin McDaniels of this town; Mary, married John W. English, she died in Adrian, Mich., but was buried in this cemetery; Emily, died young; and Peter E., married Caroline B. McDaniels, daughter of John and Polly (Hankins) McDaniels, he died in Oswego and she in Auburn, N. Y. Mr. Taft was a brother of Bezaleel W. Taft of this town, and of Mrs. Mary Mellen, wife of Dr. David Mellen of Hudson, N. Y. Mr. Ellis Taft's family are all now deceased.)
(Cold Brook.)
Cynthia (Knapp), wife of Ellis Taft. Died April 18, 1868, age 88 years.
(She was born May 13, 1780.)
(Cold Brook.)
Bezaleel W. Taft. Died February 17, 1872, age 72 years. (He was also born at Woodstock, Tolland County, Conn., and before coming to this town resided with his brother Ellis, at Mameroneck, N. Y. He married (1) at New York City, Nancy Palmer, who was the mother of all his chil- dren, and after her decease he maried (2) Lucia Norton, daughter of David and Dinah (Wilton) Norton, and widow of Peris Miner. He came here about the same time as his brother, and settled near him in Cold Brook, on the western part of Lot 44, Tully. His children were: John P., married Laura I. Miner, daughter of Peris and Lucia (Norton) Miner; Marcia, married Gilbert E. Smith, formerly of Syra-
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