Historical Wyoming County April 1957 - Old Fulton History

April 1957
A REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE (cont.)
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Mass., where he was born May 1, 1 7 62, and was a Private in the Massachusetts
Continental Regiment, 1777-' ? 8, in Capt. Stone's Co. Col.
Brewer's Regt. He has been mentioned as a "Minute Man." He married
Prudence Hollister (1763-1822 )s and among their children was Levi
(179l;-l8]+9) who married in 1818, Hepsibah Dickinson (1799-1855).
Omri appears on the l8l8 Rutland, Vt. pension list and then transferred
to Erie County, Town of Wales, xvhere he died. Members of
his family continued to live in the Strykersville area over many
years. There Is a DAR bronze marker to him in the New Protestant
Cemetery, Strykersville, but it is said his remains were never removed
from the abandoned original ground, nor those of his wife. On
the same plot stand markers to a Charles Warner and to a daughter of
Hyman and Sally Warner.
Joseph Warren, Wethersfield
A veteran who saw several historic moments in the Revolution
lies buried in Hermitage Cemetery, where a marble shaft still commemorates
his life. Joseph Warren was born June 26, 1756, at Thompson,
Mass., and died at Hermitage, May 26, l81;9, aged 93 years, one
of the oldest veterans in the county. It is said he enlisted at the
age of twenty in the year 1 77 6 under Capt. Stephen Childs for one
year in the Massachusetts Lines. The next year, he reenlisted for
three years under Capt. John Draper in the 3rd Connecticut Regiment.
The Wyoming County Mirror (Aug. li)., I8I4.9) states that he was at the
battles of Bunker Hill, Crown Point, Princeton, Bennington, Stony
Point, and at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was also said to have
been with General Israel Putnam when he rode down the declivity at
the Horseneck. DAR membership records state only that he was at the
battles of Harlem Heights, Monmouth and in the Rhode Island Campaigns.
In 1778s he was discharged in consequence of a wound. He
became a pensioner in 1820. Mr. Warren married first Miss Elizabeth
Woodward (1758-1821) and second, Mrs. Hannah Groger, a widow of Hermitage.
No other graves are marked at Hermitage so there is no data
on the burial place of the wives.
Ira Wheeler, Reynolds Whaley
A lad of sixteen when he entered the Revolutionary Army, Ira
Wheeler of Castile lived to be almost a centenarian before his
death, Jan. 23, 1865, aged 99 years 11 months and 1+. days. A native
of Stanford, Dutchess County, N.Y., it is supposed his service was
with the New York troops. No monument remains to Mr. Wheeler, but
we were informed in 1953 by Mr. Dana Wheeler, Gainesville, that he
was buried in Grace Cemeter:/-, Castile Village, on the family plot
near the memorial to Dr. Cordelia A. Greene. The stone became
broken and before the family had a chance to repair it, the cemetery
sexton or someone else removed it.
Reynolds Whaley, born in 1761; at North Kingston, R.I., is said
to have enlisted as a fifer when but thirteen years old. His pension
application reveals that he first enlisted in March 1777, and
served at various times until October 1782^ amounting in all to
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