Historical Wyoming County July 1958 - Old Fulton History

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Page 126 July 19 58 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.
July 1958 Two Revolutionary Veterans Thanks to Donald Foste of Buffalo and Ferry, the following data has been made available to us concerning two Soldiers of the Revolution whose graves have not been located within the Town of Gainesville o Gad Warriner, son of Benjamin and Fersis (Willardj) Warriner (brother of "Benjamin of Bennington) , b0 Jan. 29, 1762 in the part of Springfield, Mass. now known as Wilbraham, d. June 12, 1837 aged 75 at Silver Springs, N.Y. He married Lucy Reed of Springfield, who died June 13, I8I4.9 aged 85 at Silver Springse They came to Wyoming County in 1812 and died in Gainesville (later Silver Springs area). His children were Chester, Willis, Lucy (who m. Aaron Wing), Ezra Bushnell (who m. Ruth,daughter of Samuel Warriner) and Lydia (who me Ezekiel Gardner). He was a pensioner for service in Massachusetts® Samuel Warriner, son of Samuel and Ruth (Bliss) Warriner, first cousin to Benjamin - of Bennington and Gad of Silver Springs, was born at Springfield, Mass., May 2\±, 1760, died at Gainesville, N.Y. sometime during the year l8l20 He married Keziah Pease of Norwich, Conn, daughter of Job Pease. Their children were Polly (who m. James Lowing), Keziah (m. Joseph Thayer), Betsey (it, Zephron Broughton)p Pliny, Samuel, Ruth (who m. Ezra B. Warriner, son of her father's cousin Gad), Eunice (m. Richard Brownson), Lucy (m. Gordon Kennedy). According to his grandchildren as quoted in the Warriner Genealogy, he was a soldier of the Revolution.. Acknowledgments In the preparation of the history of Strykersville, the compiler wishes to recognize his indebtedness to Mr.Charles Keem and his son, Francis Keem for aid In the more recent history of the community; to Mr. Leon G. Herrmann for a history of St. Mary's Churchjto Mr.Ho Ernest Barber, Clerk of the Baptist Church, who made its archives available and loaned a manuscript history of the church written in 1910 by his aunt, Amy J. Barber;and most importantly for the earlier history to the late Howard B. Bennion, Arcade, who prepared his reminiscences at our request, and thus preserved aspects of the community's life that would certainly have been lost. For the story of the Garrett Stryker family almost all the facts came from Mrs. Mildred H. Anderson, Castile author, and a great granddaughter of the pioneer. The history of the Congregational Church was prepared from notes furnished by Mr. Bennion and from the remaining record book of the church, now in our possession. It is also our annual privilege to acknowledge the entergetic and volunteered labors of Mr. Robert W. McGowan and his class in Secretarial Practice. Without their assistance this bulletin would not appear.
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