Historical Wyoming County July 1958 - Old Fulton History

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NECROLOGY (cont.)
Lucius B. Davis, 58,of Varysburg, died suddenly Feb. 21, 1958. His
career as a civil engineer for the N. Y. State Highway Dept. was
supplemented by activity in veteran and fraternal groups.He was one
of the supporters of the Attica Historical Society and for many ysais
carried on historical research throughout that area, and was consulted
as an authority on local history.
Frances Harris Smith, 8l, well known newspaper executive, died at
Perry March 31, 1958. With her late husband, Carl D. Smith, she
became associated with publications at Wyoming,and in recent years
in the Finger Lake region. She was an area correspondent for the
Associated Press.
Alvah B. Davis, 57, supervisor from the Town of Genesee Falls,1956-
57, died at Lancaster, Pa., April 5, 1958. He was a merchant for
several years, operated the Glen Iris Inn, Letchworth Park, and at
the time of his death a motel owner.
William S. Tozier, 66, retired Sheldon dairy farmer, bank and railroad
director, and one of the leading producers of maple syrup products
in the county died May 3$> 1958 in Buffalo. His farm in
Tozier's or Humphrey's Hollow included lands cleared by his grandfather,
Theophilius Humphrey, more than a century ago.
Q U E R I E S
A great-granddaughter, now resident of Virginia, is seeking data on
Asa Curtis, a native of Wellington, Conn., and a nephew of Francis
Curtis, who lived in Warsaw and died there in 1826, In the 1820
census of Gainesville was one Asa Curtis, who may have been the same
Asa Curtis who married (1) Lois Holt, and had a son, William, born
in N. Y. State in 1820. Lois Holt Curtis died Feb. 20, 1821. Within
a few months Asa married (2) Emma . and they were living
in Warren, in October 1821.
A Silver Lake resident would appreciate any information on the
family of Lucy Bebbins (or Bibbins), a daughter of Luther and Hannah
Bibbins, who married Rufus Morris. Rufus and Lucy lived at South
Warsaw on the farm where the thirty-foot falls are located,and there
Lucy bore seven or eight children, of whom Sarah K0 was the youngest.
Lucy Morris died March li]_, 1852 and is buried in Warsaw Village
Cemetery. Nothing is known of the ancestry of Lucy B. Morris except
as indicated above. Three daughters, Laura, Uerissa and Eliza
married and went to Michigan. Another daughter married Alva Baker
of Warsaw;a daughter Ellen married Charles Holly; and a son, Luther,
was father to Mrs. Bertha Rensign of South Warsaw.