Historical Wyoming County September 1949 - Old Fulton History

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Information is requested by a^children? George Washington was
Cortland, N. Y.,resident as to the born in 1798 (Where?), and he and
birthplace within Wyoming Countyjhis wife were property owners in
of one BRADFORD FLOWER, supposedlyjEagle "and Pike; he had brothers,
the son of GABRIEL FLOWER, who may{Andrew, Amos, John and Durastus,
have come to the County before or::
about l8l8. Bradford Flower laterjij.8. A Pennsylvania resident wishes
became a resident of Cattaraugus I information concerning the date
County, land place of marriage of AARON
fSILLOWAY to SARAH COLBY, and of
14.6, From Baltimore comes a request j their son, HARVEY SILLOWAY, who
for the burial place of thefmarriod EUNICE CHENEY. Harvey is
following persons, presumably one-jsaid to have come from Berlin, Vt.
time residents of the Town of fabout 1812 to the vicinity of
Middlebury: JOSEPH EASTLAND, | Punk shire, towns of Arcade and
husband of Freelove Shepherd;Java. Are these persons buried in
Eastland; ASA EASTLAND, born infPunkshire Cemetery?
1776 or 1777; JOHN EASTLAND, bornI
1777; JOSEPH EASTLAND, husband offIt-9* The County Historian would
Sally Eastland. If any of our!like to purchase a copy of t the
readers have inscriptions or aIBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF LIVINGSTON
plot map of the Wright's CornersfAND WYOMING COUNTIES. Please write
Cemetery, Middlebury, this familyl'price and condition,
may be buried there. I
i50. Again, data is requested con-
14.7. An Illinois descendant wants!corning a SIMON LATHROP, who
information as to the origins inlmarried a Vienna of
the East of ISAAC DENNIS; his son,fLeicester, N. Y. They had 'twin
ISAAC N. DENNIS, and of EPHRAIMidaughters, Mary Jane and Maria,
DENNIS, Isaac Dennis came tot and possibly ' others. Mary Jane
Arcade in 1.812; his son was bornldied in Sept,,l8!;9, age 20; Maria
there in 1327, married (l)|married Carroll Henry Cocher in
Clarinda Chandler in I8I4J4., (2) L.fl350. It is thought Simon was the
M. Potter in 1871, and he moved tot son of Isaac, who owned land in
Pike in l86l; while Ephraim Dennis]Perry in l8l8, and the grandson of
came early to Arcade. Also, what* Simon Lathrop of Lima, N. Y.
relationship was GEORGE WASHINGTON:Vienna had been married before
DENNIS, who
Partridge about
married Phoobefi836, to Lewis Newman, Leicester.
1820 or 1821, whofData on this family will be greatin
lSljlj. c&me to Illinois with tonfly appreciated by a 1 Rochester
!reader,
NECROLOGY V"(cont.)
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- Polio claimed as a victim=Warsaw High School, from Hamilton
August 21, JOHN HEW.. WAGENBLASS j College and Harvard. Following
39, son of Mr. & Mrs. Henry {two years on the faculty of
Wagenblass Wetherafield, atb ^Northwestern University, he was
Rochester, N. Y. A. professor ®ff Icommissioned in the U.S. Navy,
-English, at ther?-University ^{taught at Annapolis, and served
'Rochester since. Wg^d .War I^tJte^ kn the Far Eastern Theater, re-
Wagenblass wa-s-a native of Bagino, {tiring to inactive duty as Liou-
-Philippihe Islands» where his- ; {tenant Commander. His widow ana
p-ar-pnts wore posident during ;> -thOi I two children survive. Burial
iqight .years following his. birth, |made in Union Park Cemetery,
in 1912. He was graduated from Iwethersf ield Springs.