Historical Wyoming County Jan 1980 - Old Fulton History

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/ / Vol. XXVI JANUARY 1980 

/ NO. 3 Warsaw, New York 

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Pioneers Of Java 

About Feb. 1st, 1814, Milo Warner, his 

brother-in-law, Lemuel Paul, and their wives 

started on a journey from Vermont to the 

wilderness of Western New York. At the land 

office in Batavia the site they selected was in 

the vicinity of present Java Village. Lemuel 

Paul settled on 150 acres just north of the 

community where he remained until he died. 

Milo bought a farm, then an unbroken forest, 

half way between Java Village and Strykersville, 

most recently the homestead of the Glen 

H. Sergei family. Milo was destined to live 

on his farm the remainder of his days and he 

often remarked that he had lived in two counties, 

three townships and never moved. It was Genesee 

County, Town of Sheldon, when they arrived; 

then the Town of China in 1818; Java 

in 1832; and finally Wyoming County in 1841. 

For years Java Village was known locally as 

Compiled By Harry Douglass 

"Pekin" and was connected by the "Egypt 

Road," to China, now Arcade. 

The 1814 journey was made in twenty-eight 

days by ox teams and sleds. They crossed the 

Genesee River where the city of Rochester now 

stands and at that time they saw but one house 

there. Milo remembered that just before they 

left Vermont, that they committed the remains 

of their first-born to the grave, bid, as they 

then supposed, a final adieu to home and kindred, 

near the Green Mountains, in what was then 

the "new state", and set forth for the Genesee 

Country, the land of song and story, and toiled 

their way behind the breeched steeds since 

their oxen had breeching for their easier descent 

down the rugged hills. They went through 

sunshine and storm, cold and floods, and along 

the way they met up with "lookers" and 

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Mary D. Wilson 

A MEMORIAL 

As you will note on the masthead of this 

journal, it says, "Mary D. Wilson, Assistant 

Editor." That was an understatement. She was 

much more than that. She was the guiding 

light, the technical expert and the inspiration 

behind each issue. Since July of 1975 this 

little magazine has found its way into your 

homes because she devoted her time without 

recompense, save for the joy of recapturing 

the stories of the past. She did this because 

she loved people and the stories of their lives 

both past and present. Along with this love 

of humanity, she was a woman of unusually 

high intellect and cultural attainment. She had 

a B.A. degree from Barnard College and a 

Bachelor of Literature from Columbia University. 

It is not hard to understand why the 

Historical Wyoming has maintained such a 

high degree of excellence in journalism. 

Mary D. Wilson died unexpectedly on December 

13, 1979, and with her passing will 

go her direct influence upon this publication. 

We know that in her estimation it was an 

unfinished task and could be improved with 

each passing issue. 

We will continue the task of County Historian 

and Editor of Historical Wyoming praying 

that her inspiration and lessons, both technical 

and humanitarian, will remain with us and 

guide our efforts in the future. 

Beyond the Loss of Mary to the Historical 

Wyoming, the loss is personal, one which 

cannot be described in words. Her family, 

friends and colleagues will miss her dearly. 

(The Warners Conl) 

"crookers", all seeking wealth in the new 

country. 

Arriving at the chosen spot in the forest, their 

first task was to erect a long home. This abode 

soon appeared as a rude cabin of logs piled 

one upon another so as to form a hallow square 

and the roof was covered over with the bark 

of trees. On the east side was an entrance; on 

the south, a place for a fire, and on each of 

the other sides were aperatures through which 

the light of day found the occupants. All of 

the country was covered with forest and nothing 

could be raised until the ground was cleared, 

which called for a great deal of labor. The 

first summer only a small piece was cleared 

too late to sow any seed but turnips, of which 

they had a fine crop. An older settler came 

with a bushel of buckwheat to exchange for 

some of the turnips. Milo told the man to take 

what he thought the wheat was worth. The man 

loaded his cart so heavily that it broke down. 

It was evident that he did not observe the 

Golden Rule in that exchange! During the early 

years cattle got their living in the woods eating 

the leaves and small shrubs. During the winter 

they fed upon the small limbs and buds from 

trees that had been cut down to clear the land. 

In the log cabin house, the back-logs used 

in the fireplace was too large to be put in 

place by hand so it was hauled into the house 

by oxen. The oxen were not driven into the 

house but there was an opening opposite the 

door through which the chain passed. The 

log was drawn close to the door, then the 

oxen taken to the other side of the cabin, 

and thus the log was drawn into the house 

and then rolled into the fireplace. Such a log 

might last a week. The fire was never allowed 

to go out, as it was difficult to start a new one 

with flint and steel, for there were no matches 

in those days. The coals and brands were 

covered with ashes to preserve the fire. Later, 

when there were neighbor's nearer, if the 

fire accidentally went out, it was common 


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to go to the neighbors to get a brand. 

Hardly had Milo began his struggles with 

the frontier when he was ordered as one of 

the militia in Sept. 1814, and sent to Canada. 

He left at home a young wife, a son only a month 

old and no neighbors nearer than three miles 

except her sister and brother-in-law (The 

Pauls) were living with them at that time. 

Fortunately he was gone but a month but 

came back with rheumatism and could do little 

with but great pain for two years thereafter. 

LOST BOY 

Milo had brought a nephew, Omri Fuller, 

son of his sister Chloe, whose husband had 

died. The boy was then but nine years old 

and rather odd and later as a man he never 

married and seldom said anything about himself 

or anyone else. Since Milo was unable to 

walk, he sent the boy Omri to fetch the cows 

from the woods. About dark the cows came 

home but the boy did not. Believing the boy 

had lost his way, Milo blew the horn several 

times to attract him home but he did not come. 

Neighbors three and four miles away heard 

the horn and came to find out what was the 

matter. They were anxious about the boy 

and thought he would be running through the 

woods in fright. Milo, however, thought he 

would more likely crawl under a log and go 

to sleep. It began to rain and the neighbors 

started out with horns and lanterns to look 

for him and tramped through the forest all 

night. They did not find the lad. Shortly after 

daybreak the boy came home dry. He had 

found the cows but could not make them go the 

way he thought was home. When he found he 

was lost and could not tell which way to go, 

he crawled into a hollow log. Asked if he 

were afraid of wolves, he said, "Didn't see 

any; thought I heard them howl." It is believed 

he heard the horns and thought it was 

wolves howling. 

Money was very scarce; about the only way 

to get any was from furs, but Milo was not 

hunter or trapper. He leached lye from ashes 

from the burned trees and boiled it down into 

potash and hauled it to Albany. It took three or 

four weeks to make the trip and then the expenses 

left very little. As late as 1850, one of 

the leaches he used could be seen near the 

brook north of the frame house, then on the 

site. 

EARLY FARM BUILDINGS 

J.K. Warner, a son, who remembered the 

log cabin, said there was an outside well, the 

ash-pen, a cheese house, and the smoke tub 

which alternately served the purpose of a smoke 

house and a goose nest. About the yard and 

adjacent shop were the log cheese press, the 

grindstone, the scythe and bush-hook hanging 

from the projecting logs of the shop. Sometimes 

a honey bee colony would make a hive 

in the hollow of a log and fill the space with 

treasured sweets. The front door was made 

of two and a half hemlock boards in the rough, 

fastened with cleats nailed on the inside. There 

was a hole in the center through which the 

children might peep upon coming home from 

school to see if Ma had any visitors and 

whether you might enter with the accustomed 

noise and frolic, just as you did when there 

was nobody there but "our folks". It was said 

that this hole was made by the discharge of a 

gun, fired for the purpose of awakening a lone 

corporal on the morning of "training day". 

The wooden latch was pulled up by a string 

through a gimlet hole a few inches above, 

just as in the days of Abraham. J.K., one of 

the older children, recalled the Sundays when 

he had to stay at home with the younger ones 

while the parents went to meeting. He would, 

in imagination, create robbers, savage Indians 

and mad dogs so you pulled the string that 

you might feel a little safer. There was a cathole 

in the corner of the door with its door 

swinging on leather hinges which old Tom 

understood so well how to open. The sound 

of the door crying for grease as it swung on 

its great wooden hinges was never forgotten. 

The familiar old door served other purposes 

after the cabin was replaced and was finally 

consigned to flames under a kettle of soap. 

The logs of the original cabin were not 

even rough-hewed except for a few in the 

southwest corner where the shelves were. 

Some of the logs there were hewed and a 

sheet served as papering and as a covering 

to screen the chinaware from the dust that 

shifted through the great cracks above. Chinaware 

consisted of old brown bowls and iron 

spoons and tin basins from which you ate 

pudding and milk; the pewter plates and the 

"big pewter plate" which always held the 

mush at night, pot, victuals at noon, and held 

the cold victuals the next day. The red potatoes 

they raised were especially tasty. 

CABIN FURNISHINGS 

There was an old looking glass on the parlor 

side of the cabin, always with an inclination 

forwards -at an angle of 45 degrees, thus 

giving the shortest as well as the tallest 

an opportunity to see his "phiz" and also 

furnished a convenient place for knitting work, 

combs, patches and the like. Ma's bed was 

in the northwest corner and the trundle bed 

under it where all the children slept at one 

time or another, sometimes three or four at 




a time. The rows of chests which extended 

along the whole north end of the east side 

included Pa's old blue chest, Ma's little red 

chest and the hair trunk. The children would 

mount these chests, starting with the smallest, 

and then from the highest leap down on the 

bed. Contents in these chests consisted of the 

wardrobe for the family, sundry articles of 

provisions besides dried apples, berries and 

currants. In the blue chest Pa kept his razor 

and missionary money. 

In the "chamber" above the cabin's main 

floor was the place for rows of beds on each 

side -- the spare bed, the boys' bed, the girls' 

bed and the low beds. A family of nine children 

needed lots of space. This was the space for 

drying corn and butternuts. Yarn and herbs 

hung from the rafters and there was also the 

vinegar barrel. The way to the chamber was not 

a winding stair but a short ladder. Children 

used this ladder for their first gymnastics; 

you went up the ladder on the under side, on 

the top side and in many ways. Sometimes 

you came down forward and sometimes backward, 

sometimes feet first and sometimes head 

first. 

Quoting from Myron Warner, "Not long after 

the settlement a good-sized apple orchard was 

set out, some four or five acres. This was in 

good condition in 1850, and some stood as late 

as 1880. Father says that cider for drinking 

was more thought of than fruit, but by the time 

the orchard began to bear father had come 

to the conclusion that drinking hard cider or 

any intoxicants was injurious. As the trees 

were all natural fruit there was little of it 

that was good for eating and had to be grafted. 

This was done by contract and the selection 

of fruit was poor. There were a great many 

Pound Sweets, and 

member we would 

them in the barn 

from 1850 to 1855, I reput 

a good many loads of 

to feed the cows. When 

father moved to the farm in 1850, and years 

succeeding, he had much of it regrafted to 

more marketable kinds of fruit. There were 

Rhode Island Greenings,Spitzenbergs, Porters, 

Harvest Sweetings and Snows and some other 

varieties as good as we now have, and better 

than any they have anywhere outside the region 

around Lake Erie." 

Milo Warner taught the first school in the 

area, teaching winters. He also organized Sunday 

Schools in three or four places in adjoining 

neighborhoods and for a time was superintendent 

of all of them. Of his nine children 

that lived to adulthood, all but one taught school. 

An infant son, born in Dec. 1826, died less 

than a year later and it was necessary to locate 

a burial ground which became the pioneer 

Strykersville cemetery. Milo helped organize 

the Strykersville Congregational Church 

from the original body that had held religious 

services back to 1825 at Barber's Hill, between 

Johnsonburg and Humphrey's Hollow. 

In 1824, a Sabbath School was organized at 

Strykersville and known as the Union Sabbath 

School. Milo was the first superintendent and 

from that school the Congregational Church 

was born. At least four young men, including 

members of the Warner family, went out from 

the church as ministers. In 1867, when the 

present Strykersville cemetery association was 

formed, Mr. Warner was a trustee and first 

secretary. 

THE NEW HOUSE 

About 1830, Milo built a new house. Most of 

the timber for it was cut on the farm, but some 

came from elsewhere. The weather - boarding 

was of cucumber, a species of magnolia, and 

probably did not grow locally. The cornice 

on the front of the house together with the 

eavestrough, all in one piece, were of that 

timber. 

"The main building of the house was about 

18 x 40 feet, with the eaves fronting on the 

road. It was divided in the middle by a hall 

about 3 1/2 feet wide, from which stairs ascended 

to the upper rooms. There was a small 

hall at the top of the stairs, with a door on 

each side to the two upper rooms, a door in 

each side of the lower hall to the two rooms 

below. To the rear of the main building was a 

one-story lean-to about 12 feet wide. From 

the north end of this lean-to was a small 

room, entered from the main north room, 

called the parlor bedroom; then a small closet; 

then a bedroom about 14 feet, with doors 

opening into both the north room and the south 

room, the latter used as a dining room. Lastly, 

there was a lean-to pantry about ten feet; this 

brought it even with the main building. At the 

south end of the main building was a wing; the 

east side of it even with the lean-to (the house 

faced west), about 16 feet from east to west 

and 18 feet from north to south. This was the 

kitchen and well room, the well being under 

the room near the east side. There was a door 

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from the front and back of this room near the 

north end. 

"At the south end of the kitchen there was a 

large brick fireplace with a brick oven at the 

west side of it in which all of the baking used 

to be done; but after 1850 it was seldom used, 

as stoves were common and were considered 

more convenient. The fireplace was used for 

ten years or more for sugaring off the maple 

syrup. 

"Sometimes after the house was built, a room 

about 10 by 16 feet was added to the south end 

of the kitchen for the use of Great Grandfather 

Omri Warner's widow, who died about 1856, and 

that was my room from '56 as long as I lived 

at home. In the north and south ends of the 

main building there was a chimney with fireplaces 

on the lower and upper floors. . . . 

Open fireplaces seem pleasant in the evenings 

when it is not very cold, but are not comfortable 

in real cold weather. 

"Just east of the north end of the house was 

a building about 20 feet square used as a milk 

and cheese room. This was clapboarded and 

plastered. There were shelves on the east 

and west side and a double tier through the 

middle. At the south end of the wing there 

was a building about 16 by 40 feet running 

east, one and a half story. The lower part 

was open on the south side and was used for 

storing the winter's wood fuel, the upper part 

for storage. 

"Soon after the house was built a number 

of maple trees were set out in front of it. About 

1870, these had become so large they were 

cramped in growth and more than half of them 

were cut. Father had one of them sawed into 

lumber and he had some light stands made as 

souvenirs, one of which I still have." In after 

years these trees suggested the name for 

"Shadow Nook", a name which was applied 

to the large homestead erected in 1880 by 

Cordelia Warner Morrill, daughter of Milo. 

The place still stands. 

C.O. Warner, writing many years later about 

the cabin and frame home, wrote that the 

original large fireplace had no jams and was 

large enough for a back-log and a forestick 

with brands between. In the cold corner, by 

the shop door, was the place where the oldest 

child usually sat and the warmest spot, at the 

end of the fireplace where the dye tub was 

usually, became the seat for the younger 

children. The large smooth hearth-stone had 

a little cavity that was the best place on earth 

for cracking butternuts. Also the stone had another 

deeper hole where the cat used to lap 

up its milk. Never did the puss find such conveniences 

in the newer frame house! Even 

the cat-hole had vanished! 

The Warner's House 

The stick chimney had a great trammel pole 

high above the blaze with its array of hooks, 

big and little, supporting one above the other, 

pots, dish kettle, and tea kettle. Warner remembers 

the long stout string that was let 

down occasionally on a Sunday morning and a 

great spare rib attached to it to spew and 

frizzle as you turned it all day till the parents 

got home from meeting. Then there were poles 

above that groaned with the weight of drying 

apples and pumpkins. What a place to dry 

sausages above the door! The old shop contained 

the warping bars, the noisy quill wheel, 

the little wheel and the great wheel, and the 

loom where mother spun the threads for the 

family's garments. 

Milo's fifth child and second son, Philetus, 

had two goslings given to him when he was 

a small child and he thought a great deal of 

them. When a traveling preacher offered to 

trade (in jest) his watch for them, the boy 

thought it not a fair deal since the goslings 

were a good deal bigger than the watch! A year 

later when the goslings grew up, they proved 

to be both ganders and very pugnacious and 

quarrelsome and once pitched upon the boy and 

bit him and whipped him with their wings. Luckily 

someone drove them off. The next time the parson 

came around, the boy was willing to trade 

for the watch. They were a terror to the cows 

and fought one another till neither could stand. 

They would catch a cow by the tail and compel 

the animal to drag them, but when the animal 

would stop from weariness, the ganders would 

strike them with their wings to drive them on. 

During the early years the family had a sled 

that they went to church on; made of two 

stoneboat planks about a foot wide, held in place 

the proper distance and apart by pieces of wood 

pinned with wooden pins across, and a box to 

sit on and drawn by a pair of oxen. Such a sled 

was drawn easily over snow or mud, but not 

on the dry ground. Such a conveyance was not 


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thought as odd in that time. Myron had a pair 

of oxen that could trot as fast as many horses. 

TREE SLASHING 

Since the labor of cutting down large trees 

was great they were often girdled which soon 

caused their death. The ground under was 

planted to corn and sown to grass seed for 

pasture. Several acres of such areas existed 

down to 1850 and later. There were also 

some 20 acres of meadow on which the stumps 

were so thick the hay had to be raked by hand. 

C.O. Warner remembered his father Milo partly 

cut trees on a hillside, used three in a row, 

and then cut a fourth one till it fell against 

the next one and all four went down in one 

crash. They were all large trees. Such a 

cutting was called slashing. Farmers would 

cut a piece of timber in June or July when in 

full leaf and let them lay till August when the 

leaves were perfectly dry and still hanging 

on the limbs. On a day of no wind, two men 

would take torches and starting near together 

walk or run around the field in opposite directions, 

setting fire to the leaves as they ran. 

As the fire started it caused a great draft 

and the flames rose to great heights. The 

smaller limbs and branches were thus burned 

and afterwards the trunks were cut, piled 

and burned. This burning would darken the 

sky for days and the smoke would drift for 

miles. Timber then had no value, but less 

than 60 years later these same areas had 

to import timber from Oregon! 

For the smaller children, who usually went 

to school in the summer, reading and spelling 

were the main concerns. The children were 

aligned with their toes to a crack in the floor 

and words pronounced for spelling, beginning 

at the head of the class. If a word were missed 

it was passed to the next and onward until it 

was correctly spelled. That child then went 

to the head of the line. One teacher in Java 

used to give a cent to the scholar that led off 

at the head at night. There were usually two 

or three girls that almost always got the 

pennies. 

Nature in pioneer days was carefully observed. 

The Warners remembered the 1858 

beautiful comet that was visible for nearly 

a month. On the 8th of June 1859, it snowed 

in the afternoon and that night a freeze destroyed 

even the small apples, about the size 

of walnuts and they fell; corn had to be replanted 

and the hay crop was hardly worth 

harvesting. There was suffering in some 

families and they received aid from relatives. 

Cordelia Warner Morrill, who had the last 

family home built, was the fourth child of 

Milo and Luncina Kent Sykes Warner, and was 

born in Java in 1817. She began teaching at 

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JANUARY 1980 

the age of 17 in Strykersville, and a similar 

school in Warsaw under the direction of Miss 

Sill, who later was president of the Rockford 

111., Seminary that became Rockford College. 

Miss Sill persuaded Cordelia to go West to 

teach botany at Rockford. She returned to 

western New York, taught at Ellicottville and 

Springville. About 1850, she went to Brooklyn 

as governess to a wealthy family. Soon she 

was persuaded to join the faculty of Packer 

Institute where she remained eleven years 

until she marred Dr. Henry E. Morrill in 

1863. He was a homeopathic physician, a widower, 

and both were members of Dr. Henry Ward 

Beecher's Plymouth Church, she as a teacher 

in the Sunday School and Dr. Morrill as superintendent. 

Morrill had been a classmate of 

Beecher's in Amherst and they were closely 

associated in church work. The Morrill home 

was across the street from the church. When 

Dr. Morrill died in 1874, Cordelia and her 

step-daughter traveled to Europe and remained 

a year and a half. After the daughter's marriage 

in 1880, Mrs. Morrill decided to return to Java. 

She bought the interest of a brother in the old 

family farm and began the erection of the new 

spacious home. There she lived until her death 

in 1906, after which she was interred in Greenwood 

Cemetery, Brooklyn. 

A Neighboring House Near Warner's 

WARNER GENEALOGY 

The immediate progenitor of the Warners of 

Java was Omri Warner and his wife Prudence 

Hillister Warner, married in 1787 according 

to a Bible record that is incorrect. He wrote 

that he was born May 1, 1762, and listed nine 

children, including Milo, the Java pioneer who 

had married Lucinda Sykes, Dec. 9, 1813. 

Omri was a soldier of the Revolution. His 

record in the Massachusetts archives stated 

that he was 17 when he enlisted in 1778, had 

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a light complexion and was 5 feet 8 inches 

tall. He went from Sandisfield and is credited 

for several days service. In April 1818, his 

pension application, accepted by the Government, 

stated that he enlisted in August 1777, 

and served nearly eight months. In May 1778, 

he began nine months service in the Continental 

establishment. He also listed several 

short militia terms. In March 1780, he reenlisted 

and served alternately with his brother 

Levi until 1788, when the brother died of 

yellow fever in Philadelphia. Apparently during 

the year 1820, he moved from Massachusetts 

to Rutland, Vt., since his name appears in 

both the Sandisfield and Rutland census 

schedules. He moved from Vermont to Wales 

in 1821. 

His wife, Prudence, died about that year 

and he married a second time, June 12, 1825, 

Catherine Evans. He died in Wales Dec, 20, 

1841 and was buried in the Strykersville Pioneer 

Cemetery, where it is believed his remains 

are undisturbed. However, there is a 

marker on the Warner family plot for him 

in the newer Strykersville cemetery. His widow 

was pensioned in 1858, aged 79. She lived with 

Milo and family during her last years. Milo 

said he and his wife, when they were first 

married, lived with Omri, and the wife recalled 

Omri's fondness for reading aloud to 

her from books and papers while she was t 

working about the house. 

Milo Warner, son of Omri, as stated above, 

served in the War of 1812 in Canada. Many 

of the Warner clan were in the military. 

Grandsons of Omri who served in the Civil 

War included Marcellus W. Warner, son of 

Hyman Warner, killed at Vicksburg; Adne Mio 

Hyman Warner, killed at Vicksburg: Adne 

Milo Warner, son of Philetus, who died in 

Saulsbury Prison in 1865; and Adoniram Judson 

Warner, son of Levi, who rose to the rank 

of Colonel in his Pennsylvania regiment, was 

severely wounded at Antietam, but went to 

the battle at Gettysburg. President Lincoln 

named Col. Warner to the Indianapolis trials 

of the notorious Knights of the Golden Circle, 

a group that opposed the North and performed 

traitorous acts. Col. Warner served in Congress 

from Ohio, 1870-81, then moved to 

Georgia where he owned gold mines and was 

connected with the electric railway system 

and power plants in and around Gainesville. 

He died at Marietta, Ohio, in 1910. 

C.O. Warner (Orville C.), grandson of Milo, 

was in the 44th New York Regiment for three 

years. He remembered seeing Lincoln and 

Seward on occasions as he was stationed around 

Washington. He was made a prisoner in Libby 

Prison, but was released and took part in lateF 

battles. 

For some forty years, it is thought, the 

Warner families gathered in Java Village for 

an annual reunion and on these occasions members 

of the family would give a talk or write 

their remembrances in letters or poetry. One 

family history was deposited by Mrs. Morrill 

in a box in a corner stone laid for the new 

home in 1880. C.O. Warner collected family 

records and copies of these "annuals", as 

they were called, and in 1916 published a 

bound volume under the title of Genealogy 

of the Descendants of Omri Warner and a 

more extended History of Milo Warner and 

his Family. It was published by the Wolfer 

Printing Company of Los Angeles. It is from 

the more than 200 pages of this illustrated 

volume that this material has been taken. The 

Warner clan was long prominent in Java and 

descendants have lived in many states of the 

union. 

- AT THE OFFICE - 

Our office recently received a copy of the 

major histories of the Aldrich, Arnold, Claeys, 

Edwards, Shaver, Schepke, and Stewart families. 

It was presented to the county with the 

following note: 

"This book is a gift to the people of Wyoming 

County in care of Mr. Wilson, County Historian. 

Please make this information available to anyone 

doing research.. 

If I may be of service I will be glad to share 

any other information I may have. 

Sincerely, Wesley Arnold, 

3972 Dallas, Warren, Mich. 48091 

- QUERIES - 

Beer's History of Wyoming Co. states that 

a Smith girl and her grandfather, Mr. Bangs 

were buried very early just north of the Pioneer 

Cemetery in Portageville. It also says 

that Dr. Nathan Bangs left some money for 

a gravestone to be erected for his father. 

Mr. Gordon McCoy of Rochester wants to 

know if anyone knows of the existence of 

this gravestone. 

JOSEPHINE BERGENER of Rochester, has 

the family bible and Revolutionary War documents 

of the Thompson family from New Britain 

in Albany Co.; also some references to 

Merrill family: Hannah Merrill, mother of 

Samuel W. Merrill (d Dec. 21, 1844). Are 

these Merrills related to family of S.W. Merrill 

& Sons, merchants in Perry? The writer 

wishes to pass on these documents to some 

descendant of Merrill family.

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Village In The Valley 

By Anita Ripstein 

(Continued from October 1979 Issue) 

The Area Known as "Slusher" 

Once you cross the west end bridge you enter 

the area known over the years as Slusher. The 

origin of the name is unknown. Here the old 

Thomas Road forms an intersection with the 

present Rt. 20A and the hill on Thomas Road 

known as Knab Hill. The little house just over 

the bridge is believed to have been built by 

Emory Bennett at the turn of the century. To 

the rear of this tiny house is another which 

was built in the 1830's by Belus Calkins Sr. 

Across the road he built his village blacksmith 

shop, in later years owned by Henry 

P. Phinney, Theodore Bishop and Henry Boneman. 

Just north of this shop Belus Calkins 

built a little red framed house for Mrs. Polly 

Blighton, which was known as "The Red House 

of Slusher" in the history of this area. 

In 1913 Emory Bennett built a greenhouse 

behind the house he built on the corner. On the 

site of the present home of Burt G. West, once 

stood the Feed Store of Sylvester Farr, and 

just a little way up the hill was the pioneer 

ashery operated by Luther Barnum. Across 

Rt. 20A, where there is now a small cottage 

and a small business building, once stood the 

former home of Thomas Crawford, brotherin-law 

of Alexander Graham. George Curry 

was the next owner of this house, and here 

he built the first evaporator in Varysburg. 

It was destroyed, along with the house and 

barns in the fall of 1888. The little business 

building that stands today was the shoe and 

barber shop of Frank Lincoln, who met a 

tragic death in an auto accident. The previous 

Mar. of 1932, as his wife stood on the porch 

of this little cottage, an auto crashed into it, 

killing Mrs. Lincoln. 

A short way over the hill was located the 

Railroad depot, operated by the Attica & Arcade 

Line. The first passenger train passed through 

Varysburg, Sept. 11, 1880, with Gad C. Parker 

as agent. Henry Wilcox ran the first bus line 

in Varysburg, in a long black enclosed wagon, 

which had horizontal seats running along both 

sides. It transported travelers to and from 

the depot for the regular fare of 10£. 

The Home of the First Newspaper 

Returning to the other side of Main Street, 

crossing the Tonawanda Creek bridge from 

the west, the first house on the map was 

the former home of L.S. Scott. In 1912 he 


was looking for a location to publish a Democratic 

newspaper, and decided that Varysburg 

and the Town of Sheldon, with nearby Java, 

would be more receptive to this type of paper. 

Here he and his family took up residence 

in the former Jay Crippen house. He immediately 

set up his presses in a small attached 

shed. On Thursday, Aug. 12, 1912, the 

first and only newspaper ever published in 

Varysburg rolled off the press, "The Sheldon 

Democrat." As the name implies, it had a 

very strong leaning towards the Democratic 

party. As the paper prospered, he moved the 

presses to a small building which was located 

approximately where is now the Varysburg 

Post Office. In 1921, the building burned, along 

with the presses, and with it a complete file 

of all the copies of the Sheldon newspaper. 

Mr. Scott chose not to rebuild and continue 

the paper, so he sold the business to Levi A. 

Cass, of Warsaw, who continued to print "THE 

SHELDON DEMOCRAT" in that location. 

Miss Harriet Calkins of Varysburg, who was 

also the Sheldon Town Historian, was editor for 

many years under Mr. Scott and Mr. Cass, 

her writings contributed a great deal to this 

history. 

Mr. Scott also opened the Varysburg Photograph 

Gallery in 1912 in this house, now owned 

and occupied by Norman Durfee. 

The Free Will Baptist Parsonage 

The present home of Ronald Wert was formerly 

the home of the Baptist ministers. The last 

resident pastor to occupy the parsonage was the 

Rev. William Walker, around 1933 on July 

29, 1882, the church had purchased the land 

from Miss Anna Grinold for $1.00. Her father 

was George Grinold, who contributed a great 

deal towards the church building. The house 

was built shortly after the purchase, when the 

Rev. Washington Parker was pastor, who was 

the first to occupy the house. 

R.C. CHURCH FORMED 

In 1805 George Grinold settled in the area 

of Varysburg on lot 14 overlooking the valley. 

He built his cabin, and later his home, on the 

farm known over the years as the George 

Knab farm. Around April 1856, he and his 

second wife, Mrs. Polly Burke, widow of Robert 

Burke, Sr., purchased the land from John 

Parker and erected their village home. His two 

daughters by his first marriage, Anna and Esther 

and his stepson, Robert, also lived with them. 

The girls at one time operated a millinery 

shop in the village, the location of which is 

unknown, as the Grinold sisters owned other 

places in the village. Deacon Grinold died 



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July 23, 1859, three years after his house 

was built. 

On August 7, 1910, a petition signed by the 

Catholics of Varysburg requesting Holy Mass 

to be offered at least twice a month in the 

village hall, was presented to Most Rev. Charles 

H. Colton of Buffalo, by Miss Mary Sheridan, 

a summer visitor in Varysburg, and resident 

of Buffalo. On Sept. 8, 1910, a meeting was 

held at the home of Louis Shreder, of Varysburg, 

to form a church, with, the Rev. Edmund 

Gibbons, of Attica, present. Pending 

the purchase of a lot and the building of a 

church, Rev. Father Gibbons rented this house 

from John W. Whitney. Here on Oct. 9, 1910, 

the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was celebrated 

for the first time by Father Gibbons, and 

thereafter every Sunday and Holyday until Feb. 

4, 1912, by a priest from St. Vincent's R.C. 

Church in Attica. 

THE FILLMORE HOUSE 

The present home of Richard Laird and 

family was believed built around 1856 by James 

Hart Fillmore and his wife, nee Julia Rozella 

Clapp, when they came to the village from 

Bennington. Their families had been pioneers 

in that area. Mr. Fillmore, a manufacturer 

of boots and shoes, built his shoe shop to 

the southwest of his house, upon a site now 

occupied by Robert Embt III. During the Civil 

War Mr. Fillmore had the government contract 

for manufacturing boots. 

It was here that Thomas Bryson also made 

shoes when he came to Varysburg in 1860 

working for Mr. Fillmore. The house was 

later occupied by the Fillmores' daughter, 

Cora Mae, and her husband Fred William 

Embt. His place in later years was the millinery 

shop of Mrs. Fidelia Cornish, and during 

the 1940's became the electrical store 

operated by Robert Embt Sr., and his son 

Robert Embt Jr. After the family moved to 

the Corner Store, it became the home of 

Maurice Cooper and John Cooper, his father, 

who also had moved to the village from Bennington. 

Located behind this house is now the firm 

of Laird Bros., Dry Cleaning, which was established 

around 1947 by Richard and Hurley 

Laird. Their present shop was the former 

barn of Irving Duschen, which was moved 

to this location from "Slusher". An addition 

was made to the front to house their equipment. 

The firm remains today. 

WILLIAM GOODRICH VARIETY STORE 

The Grinold sisters occupied this house 

for a number of years and it is thought this 

was the location of their millinery shop in 

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the village. Following the death of Anna Grinold 

in 1891 William Goodrich and his mother 

Agnes Graham Goodrich, widow of Charles 

moved here from their home on Attica Street. 

William who was a peddler had moved his 

variety store business into a small storelike 

addition to the house around 1890 and 

continued here until 1920. The story is told 

that this house had a board rail white fence 

about it and each Halloween the village boys 

would take it down and the next morning William 

D. would put it right back up again. 

In 1923 Millard F. Embt, Bert Cooper, 

and Louis E. Cornish formed a corporation 

and purchased the corner lot from the merchant 

Goodrich. They dismantled the old house 

and built the present structure and opened for 

business Jan. 1, 1924 operating a Ford Agency. 

The operation, however, was not a financial 

success. Louis E. Cornish became the owner 

and continued alone until about 1941 when 

Louis Donnelly purchased the building for his 

trucking business. Around 1945 Theodore Cornish 

rented the garage for six months until 

1946 when Vincent Almeter and Donald Keenan 

purchased the building. They continued their 

partnership until 1960 when Mr. Keenan worked 

alone. In 1962 Sonny Treeman purchased the 

automobile service station where Vincent Almeter 

bought the garage in 1965. 

Here at the intersection of Rt. 20A and Rt. 

98 (Main and Attica Streets) a large Republican 

pole was erected in the summer of 1876. It 

was 50 to 60 foot high, painted white with red 

and yellow metal rooster on the top. No other 

account of this pole and its existence is found 

but it is said it remained a number of years. 

THE CORNER STORE 

The original structure was supposedly built 

in 1820 by a Mr. Stewart but nothing exists to 

prove this fact. Asa Baldwin and Charles 

Brown operated the store before 1850 under 

the firm name of Brown and Baldwin. Mr. 

Brown moved West and Mr. Baldwin returned 

to Humphrey Hollow. It is believed they sold 

the store to Wyman H. Ainsworth, the son 

of Dr. Ainsworth around this time. Mr. Ainsworth, 

who was born in Vermont around 1819 

was a dealer in dry goods, groceries, crockery 

ware, hardware, patent medicine and all else 

usually kept in a first class country store. It 

was here that John M. Bryson first entered 

the world of business in 1867 as a clerk. About 

the year 1878 William W. Beane purchased 

the store with his son Clarence H. Beane and 

operated under the firm name of W.W. Beane 

and Son. Mr. Beane, who was a professor 

at Keuka College, never actually conducted 

business here; his son came directly from 


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school, and opened the grocery business. He 

grew tired of this and soon took up the study 

of law and in June 1887 he and his wife the 

former Florella Jackson, daughter of Rev. 

Jackson, removed to Attica where he opened 

a lawyer office.. Horace N. McCray and his 

son William were the next to operate the 

corner store after L.J. Parker failed and they 

took F.W. Embt in as their partner. Mr. Embt 

took over the business in 1910 and in 1920 his 

son Millard F. Embt joined the business. The 

firm name was F.W. Embt and Son. Upon the 

death of the senior Embt, the son continued 

alone until 1948 when he sold the store to 

Elmer Hardie. Since that time the owners 

have been Irving Librock, Robert Rude and 

during the summer of 1979 Thomas Gioelo 

opened under the name of The Country Mart. 

The living quarters were built onto the 

corner store by F.W. Embt upon a site formerly 

occupied by the old J.M. Bryson Hardware 

first built in 1880, and later moved across 

the highway. Mr. Embt's wife at one time 

operated a millinery on one side of her husband's 

store. 

In the spacious hall located on the second 

floor of the store were the first meeting 

rooms of the 100F and Masons. And the store 

also served for a number of years as the 

village Post Office. 

THE FIRST UNDERTAKING PARLOR 

The present home of Clarence Riber and his 

wife, nee Helen Lewis, was once located directly 

on the street edge. It has been written that to 

walk along the sidewalks one had to cross the 

front porch of this building. It was here that 

Harlow McCray, another son of William and 

Ann Button McCray, began his business in the 

village. Harlow was a cabinet maker by trade 

and made the village coffins along with the 

needed furniture of the villagers. Following 

the Civil War it became the home of Frederick 

Riber Jr. who moved the building back from 

the road to its present location. 

THE MASONIC TEMPLE 

The original building was built for use as a 

store. Eugene Peck, son-in-law of Harlow 

McCray, operated a furniture store upon this 

site. It has been written that Mr. McCray kept 

his hearse in a room off the store and one 

night he slipped into the hearse previously 

knowing that Mr. Peck would be in the store 

unpacking furniture that night, and he began 

to rattle things about in the darkness terrifying 

Mr. Peck. William Goodrich operated 

his business here until he moved to his home 

on the corner. F.W. Embt also had a store 

here before buying the corner store. George 

M. Wolf owned it until 1882 when it was oc- 


cupied by the Masons. In January 1901 Elbert 

K. Cooper and Maurice Cooper opened a store 

in the lower story until 1905 when Bert sold 

his interest to his cousin Maurice and he in 

turn turned his interest over to his brother 

Clyde. The Coopers had the first ice cream 

parlor in Varysburg. Around Oct. 1913 the 

Masonic building was moved east on Main 

Street about the distance of its width and in 

Nov. 1913 an addition was added to the west. 

The lower floor of this addition became the 

site of the village barber shops. John W. 

Whitney and Leigh Laird operated their shops 

here along with a pool room. On the shelves 

one could see the shaving mugs with the owners' 

names marked upon. Mrs. William Gaitner 

was the last barber to occupy the addition. 

Today it's owned by Laird who has an upholstery 

shop. The upper floor is occupied 

by the Masonic rooms. In 1906 the Masons 

purchased the building. 

THE LODGES OF VARYSBURG 

Paola Lodge IOOF #186 - Sources record 

that this lodge was instituted March 20, 1863 

but other sources including the diary of Jeffrey 

Thomas state the lodge was in existence in 

1861. This author believes the lodge started 

around the year 1848. From available minutes 

we have learned that in June and July 1849 members 

included: Wyman H. Ainsworth, who was 

serving as Secretary; Clark R. Reynolds, Harrison 

G. Parker , Dr. Lindorf Potter, Lyman 

Jackson, Alanson Coats, Ebenezer Beck, Andrew 

Pettingill, Henry Kew,Stafford Godfrey, James 

H. Fillmore, Alonzo W. Wood, Charles Parker, 

John Holly, Ira Thomas, Cyrus Turner, John 

Beck, Alexander H. VanBuren, Freedom Merrell, 

Charles Richards, Gad C. Parker, Dennis 

Birmingham, Luther B. Walker, James H. Potter, 

Jonathan Turner, Joseph Stanton, Alfred 

Gill, David M. Hall, Nelson Parker, G.M. Hooper, 

Peleg G. Thomas, Ephraim J. Wheeler, 

Charles Weaver, Ephraim Johnson, Collister 

Ballard, Childs Johnson. Sometime around 1863 

the charter was resigned. 

Sheldon Lodge #418 IOOF - Was chartered Aug. 

20, 1875 with meetings every Friday evening. 

Charter Members were: Henry H. Parsons, 

Joshua A. Godfrey. H.M. Kittle, E.W. Spencer, 

H.E. Patrick, and Gad C. Parker. This lodge 

continued until the late 1950's. Both of the 

IOOF lodges held their meeting in the Corner 

store until 1925 when they removed to the 

Masonic Building until purchasing the old M.E. 

Church where the final meeting was held and 

the chartered surrendered. 




West Star Lodge #413 F. & A.M. This lodge 

was named in honor of the first lodge West 

Star Lodge #205 which was the first lodge 

instituted in Western New York on the Holland 

Purchase Mar. 17, 1812 located at Sheldon 

Center. Their charter was surrendered during 

the month of June 1833. The present lodge 

was granted a charter June 5, 1857 after 

the first communication under dispensation was 

held at the corner store June 23, 1856. The 

charter members were: Eli Williamson, the 

first master; George A. Johnson, the first 

Senior Warden; Joshua Coughran, first Junior 

Warden; Harrison G. Parker, first Junior Deacon; 

Chauncey Beebe; Owen Cotton, first 

treasurer; Roswell Gardner; William Tanner; 

Amasa Barret; Harvey Johnson; first Senior 

Deacon; and Dr. Lindorf Potter, first Secretary. 

Their meetings were held the 1st and 3rd 

Saturday of each month. Today's officers are: 

Merle Robinson, Master; Max Leslie, Senior 

Warden; Stephen Licht, Junior Warden; Kenneth 

Kolhagen, Secretary; Harold Raut, Treasurer; 

Frank Cherry, Senior Deacon; Earl Dickerson, 

Junior Deacon; Richard Sikes, Marshal; Harold 

Spink and Tyler G.S. Flaminger, Trustees and 

John Dike, Chaplain. 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

OF VARYSBURG 

No records were kept prior to July 28, 

1836 but it is believed that a society previously 

existed. On this date the First Society 

of the Methodist Episcopal Church inVarysburg 

was incorporated, at which time Rev. DeForest 

Parsons was the pastor. The following members 

were elected the first trustees: Cyrus Houghton, 

Samuel Parker, David Knapp, Almon Perry, 

Peter White, Jonathan Gates and Leonard 

Parker. On Nov. 18, 1836 another meeting was 

called in the minutes of which a partial description 

of "a house suitable for the worship 

of God" is given. It is expressly stated in the 

old subscription that other Christian denominations 

are to have the privilege of using the 

house when not occupied by the Methodists. It 

is recorded in Liber 27, page 120 of the 

Genesee County Deeds, that on Dec. 16, 1836 

Almon Perry and his wife Sally sold to the 

trustees of the church for $50.00 a plot upon 

which to erect the church. Very litte history 

exists concerning the church. Among the names 

of pastors: Rev. Henry Hornsby in 1861; Rev. 

Brown; Rev. William B. Cliff; Elder John F. 

Derr; Rev. Isaiah B. Hudnutt; Rev. William H. 

McCartney; Rev. Sparrow preached here Dec. 

1893; Rev. E.A. Ahderson arrived Oct. 1918; 

Rev. A.J. Bailey; Rev. G.W. Archibald. 

On April 1, 1929 the remaining and last 

trustees of the church, Charles A. Lewis, 

Carl W. Clor, and James H. Davis held a 

meeting at the Potter/Watson house for the 

purpose of discussing the disposal of the church 

property. At this time no Sunday services had 

been held in the edifice for a number of years 

and the building which had been repaired in 

1880 and a new bell hung in the steeple was 

fast deteriorating. Shortly after this meeting 

the building was sold to the Grange and the 

money was used to restore the old section of 

the Village Cemetery. After the Grange moved 

to the former fire hall the IOOF took possession. 

Today the edifice minus its steeple is 

owned by Burt G. West. 

FIRST MURDER TRIAL 

This church on Nov. 1, 1848 was the scene 

of the Court of Special Sessions for the first 

murder trial of the present day Wyoming County. 

It was here in January 1849 that John Shadbolt 

was indicted for the murder of his wife, 

Cornelia D. Tuttle Shadbolt whom he had married 

Oct. 8, 1848 and whose body was discovered 

on the morning of Oct. 19, 1848 in a 

well. John Burleigh was also held with Shadbolt 

in Varysburg for the murder of Mrs. 

Shadbolt. William M. Ceonies Esq was the 

counsel for the people at this court session. 

The "Western New Yorker" stated in their 

Nov. 1, 1848 issue that a crowd of 400 to 500 

people were constantly in attendence at the 

church and a great excitement prevailed through - 

out the village. The report further states that 

20 or 30 members of the gang of which Shadbolt 

and Burleigh were members, rode into the 

village between one and two o'clock on the 

morning of the trial to effect a move of the 

prisoners, but they were soon discovered and 

speedily retreated. The murder trial itself was 

held in Warsaw in April 1849 lasting a number 

of days but, there being no evidence, direct 

or circumstantial, the jury after being out 

three hours returned with a verdict of not 

guilty. 

THE VILLAGE CEMETERY 

The original ground was donated by William 

Thompkins upon the death of his son. He was 

the first adult to be buried here dying Oct. 25, 

1816 at the age of 44 years. Mr. Thompkins, 

who was a soldier of the War of 1812, it is 

said, also donated land upon which a church 

was to be erected. Years after his death two 

wild cherry trees grew from his grave. By 

1880 2 and one-half acres had been added to 

the original one-half acre. The first cemetery 

association was formed July 3, 1877 at a meet- 




ing held at the schoolhouse. The first trustees 

were: Gad C. Parker, James H. Fillmore, 

Dexter S. Davis, Herman J.Conger, Jeffrey 

F. Thomas and John Coughran. On June 27, 

1941 the former North and South Cemetery 

Association joined to reorganize into one association, 

the Varysburg Cemetery Association. 

Following the selling of the M.E. Church, the 

oldest section of the village cemetery was restored. 

"A tangle of briars and brambles and 

tall weeds partly concealed the tipsy, broken 

crumbling tombstones and ankle deep myrtle 

covers hummocks of unmarked graves. A rotting 

fence worm eaten and moss grown partly 

encloses the old burial plot." All were cleaned 

up and today the pioneers of Varysburg lie 

upon the neatly kept hill of the village they 

founded. 

THE FIRE OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY 1922 

Another disastrous fire of unknown origin, the 

third in the previous 13 years visited Varysburg, 

on Thursday, March 16, 1922 as the villagers 

were attending a St. Patrick's Day Dance 

in the Masonic Temple. Again the village was 

without adequate fire protection aside from a 

rural fire department with a chemical engine 

that was formed in 1920. Once again the alarm 

was given over the phone switch board. Warsaw's 

fire truck broke down on the way to 

render assistance. The Attica department was 

likewise delayed in their arrival until danger 

was past. Within an hour and 30 minutes three 

buildings had been consumed. The path of destruction: 

THE BELL TELEPHONE OFFICE 

During the 1880's H.M. Kittle ran his harness 

shop upon the site and later built onto the southeast 

side to house the post office in. He sold 

the building to C.N. Davis who ran a store 

here in competition to his father. The Bell 

Telephone Company in 1905 had installed their 

switch board in this building, after Elbert 

K. Cooper had purchased the C.N. Davis stock 

in Jan. 1901 and removed it to the Masonic 

building, including the old soda fountain equipment, 

and where John J. Barnes had conducted 

his undertaking parlor. The building was destroyed 

in the fire. 

JOHN j. BARNES IMPLEMENT STORE 

The building was erected by Frank A. Lincoln, 

the village barber around the turn of the century, 

on property owned by Mrs. Margaret Schaublin. 

It was in this three story building that the fire 

of 1922 started. Attention was first attracted 

to the interior of this building by the Varysburg 

Fire Department when a small explosion sound - 

ed and a small fire began. Moments after 

their arrival a second explosion occured blowing 

out th£ large glass front and the entire 

building was turned into a roaring furnace. 

The building had recently been sold to A.G. 

Wolf from John J. Barnes and his wife. Mr. 

Barnes had purchased the building from Mrs. 

Schaublin in 1901 and converted it into a 

hardware and implement store which was 

managed by Frank Herbert Laird. On the 3rd 

floor Mr. Barnes conducted a mortuary establishment 

at the time of the fire. There 

was but a few feet between the last 

two mentioned business building. 

THE BLACKSMITH SHOP 

The original shop had been destroyed by 

fire on Feb. 25, 1920 and it was this shop 

that the pioneer blacksmith Ezekiah Parker 

operated. Later smithies were Ernest Schaublin 

who was a native of Basso, Switzerland; 

James S. Barnes the original owner of the 

cooper shop that burned in 1908 moved to 

this location about 1890; the next and last 

blacksmith in Varysburg was Edward Donnelly 

who came from Buffalo to the village 

in 1903. At the time of the 1920 fire Mr. 

Donnelly operated the shop and after he rebuilt 

it. Now again in 1922 the shop was 

completely destroyed. Today this site is occupied 

by the village post office. 

THE VARYSBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT 

In 1920 the Varysburg Fire Department was 

organized by John M. Bryson who served as 

its first President. At that time a chemical 

engine was purchased. Following the fire of 

1922 a truck costing $3000 with 1000 feet of 

hose was purchased from funds raised mostly 

by a huge bazaar held in the old cheese factory 

on Attica Street. On July 3, 1922 the firemen 

purchased for $270 the site of the burned 

J.J. Barnes building and on July 1, 1930 that 

of the former C.N. Davis building for $200. 

The following month the firemen erected a two 

story hall measuring 30 x 90 foot with the 

second floor having a dancing space of 2700 

square feet of matched maple flooring. Russell 

S. Matteson was the chairman of the 

building committee. The men who were employed 

in its construction were Bert Hoy, 

Edison Hathaway, Walter Cannon, Maynard 

Glor, Roy D. Glor, Leroy S. Parker, and Hayden 

Spink. Being built when depression already 

set in and the firemen found the new building 

too costly and were unable to pay their mortgage 

resulting in foreclosure. Millard F. Embt and 

Stephen Smith purchased the former Ben Ames 

antique shop which stood upon the site of the 

former Sheldon Democrat office which burned 

in 1921 with the blacksmith shop for a sum of 

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$600 and the firemen moved to this building 

and paying back the money in one year. This 

little fire house is still used by the Fire 

Department today. The present fire hall was 

built upon the old hotel livery site in Nov. 

1952. The old fire hall constructed in 1930 

was purchased in 1942 by the Varysburg Grange 

#1046 which was organized in Jan. 1906. 

JOHN WOLF HOUSE 

This home in 1866 was the residence of John 

Fields and was by 1902 purchased by John 

Wolf, partner in the firm of Wolf Brothers 

across the street. Today this home is a two 

family residence. 

GEORGE M. WOLF HOUSE 

This home was built by George M. Wolf, 

father of John Wolf, around the 1870's. 

LUMAN P. LAWRENCE HOUSE 

Luman P. Lawrence came to Varysburg 

from Marcellus, Onondaga County, N.Y. in 

1828 with his wife nee Catherine Parker, 

daughter of Samuel and Asenath Lawrence 

Parker who also were pioneers of Sheldon. 

Mr. Lawrence served the village and town 

as justice of the peace for many years. It 

is also thought the post office was located 

in this home when he served as postmaster. 

Upon the death of his widow in 1880 the house 

became the home of his daughter Josephine 

and her husband John Coughran who also was 

a prominent business man of Varysburg. Following 

their deaths it became the home of the 

undertaker and businessman John J. Barnes. 

Today this fine home is a two family structure. 

GEORGE W. WOLF HOUSE 

The site just southeast of the present telephone 

building was the location of the third 

schoolhouse built in Varysburg. This school 

was built in 1860 by Belus Calkins Sr. for the 

sum of $600 with lumber* selected from Mr. 

Calkin's woods, sawed in his saw mill and 

kiln dried in his blacksmith shop on the present 

day Rt. 98. This house for education was nearly 

opposite the old school house which had been 

located across Main Street. The work was 

completed on July 4, 1860. When George W. 

Wolf erected the present structure upon this 

lot, the old schoolhouse was moved a few 

roads south to the John West lot. The first 

school house in Varysburg was a log structure 

built in 1814 on Attica Street and was taught 

by a Mr. Crow. Some of the teachers who 

taught in the second and third old framed 

schools were: Miss Louisa Cowdin, 1844; Miss 

Mysanda Goodale, 1847; William S. Keene, 

1848, 1849; Miss Elizabeth Curtiss, 1849; Miss 

Wood, 1850; Andrew Crosby 1850; Miss Lorinda 

Parsons, 1850; Nelson L. Button; 1851; George 

C. Davis, 1852-55; Gad C. Parker, 1855; Miss 

Sarah F. Lawrence, 1856; Miss Peck, 1857; 

Warren Brown, 1856; Miss Maria Castle, 18- 

58; B.F. Chipman; Antoinette M. Case; Daniel 

Lewis, 1851, 1861- he was paid $67 per year; 

Sarah J. Bates, 1855; Josephine Lawrence, 

1861; and Mary L. Stevens, 1847. 

JOHN P. WEST HOUSE AND MILL 

After the Union School on School Street was 

built in 1887 John P. West purchased the old 

framed schoolhouse and used it as a residence 

for a number of years until he built the present 

house in 1907. He moved the schoolhouse 

to the rear of his lot and used it for part 

of his saw and planing mill until a flood undermined 

it and was torn down. 

THE BASIN 

Situated about a mile up Stony Brooke from 

the site of the West house was once a well known 

picnic resort. The bed of this curious place 

often called the Devils Hole is smooth solid 

rock and the banks high and preciptious It 

was to this spot during Major General Sullivan's 

Expedition against the Six Nations in 

1779 that Mary Jemison and the other women 

and children were sent away from the danger 

at Little Beard's Town. The creek at this 

point in history was called Catawba Creek 

and it was on the Indian trail that lead to 

Buffalo. In the stone of this basin are deeply 

worn marks that resemble footprints and wagonwheel 

ruts and the older residents as children 

were told they were mady by the Devil and 

thus the name of the Devil's Hole. Around 

the turn of the century people flocked from 

all over to picnic and swim in this spot which 

attracted attention for its natural scenery. 

At one time a movement was under way to 

have this area turned into a National Park 

but nothing materialized. Although the state 

did erect a marker in memory of that fall 

and early winter that Mary Jemison and the 

others waited to return to their Indian Village. 

As we conclude our journey along Main Street 

in the valley of the Tonawanda and proceed along 

the east side of Attica Street, I might note that 

this area of Varysburg was not developed until 

the late 1870's when the chief carpenters and 

stone masons were Daruis Munger, John W. 

Johnson, John J. Raab, Ebbin Libby and his 

son William Libby Jr. The trees along this 

street were planted about 1865 by Wyman 

H. Ainsworth and the Calkins brothers, Belus 

Jr. and Veranus. The first house on this street 


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Varysburg Views 

Masonic Temple, Varysburg, N.Y. 

JANUARY 1980


Wolf Bros. General Store and Grange Hall, 

Varysburg, N.Y. 

J.J. Barnes, Farmers Supply House, Varysburg, 

N.Y. 

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was the home of the merchant W.H. Ainsworth 

and his heirs sold the home in 1900 to J.M. 

Bryson. On the vacant lot next to this once 

stately home, once stood the house of Dr. 

Samuel Kennedy. On the knoll where the new 

home of the Hogle family was built was the 

site of the Thomas Bryson homestead when 

his family settled in the village. 

The present home of George Laird occupies 

the site of the first log school. The house was 

built during the late 1850's by William Service 

for Dr. J.W. Watson but the doctor never 

lived in this home. It became known as the 

Kittle place throughout the years for various 

members of this family occupied the residence. 

The site upon which the late Millard F. Embt 

built his new home was the original site of the 

structure that housed the Yellow Dog Saloon. 

At the time it was moved it was known as the 

Wilcox place. In earlier history it was the home 

of James H. Potter who operated a tannery 

near the site during the 1840's and 1850's. 

During the exacavating of Mr. Embt's home a 

pipe which supplied the water to the tannery 

was unearthed. The house presently occupied 

by Miss Norma Donnelly and her brother Louis 

was built in 1883 for Avery Thomas who was 

the village undertaker. His hearse building 

stood to the southeast of his home. Only two 

families have occupied this home,the Thomas' 

and in 1924 Edward and Mary Donnelly, parents 

of the present occupants purchased it. The 

next stately home was built by Frank Godfrey 

in 1889 for his family. Today the house is 

occupied by his grandson Roger West. As we 

come to the intersection of School and Attica 

Street I would like to note that School Street, 

formerly called Cobblehill Road, was the original 

road laid out in 1803 running directly 

east and west across the valley. The grade 

out of the valley both ways were so steep 

that the section from a point above Varysburg 

to the top of Cobble Hill was abandoned 

and the easier grade through the village was 

used. Colonel Vary was the first to propose 

the new route and it has been recorded that 

the Colonel with his cane in hand laid out the 

line of the proposed highway. 

THE CHEESE FACTORY 

It once was located on the northeast corner 

of School and Attica Streets. Originally it had 

been a two story frame building 125 x 35 feet. 

Hewn logs put together with huge wooden spiles 

had formed the interior as well as the exterior 

walls. The long battened board siding transgressed 

by two uniform rows of eight each 

small twelve paned sash windows, and unpainted 

had weathered to a silvery grey on 

the west side while the back exposure was of 

pale gold to brown hues. There was no base- 

ment but was erected upon a low wall of 

loosely constructed field stone selected from 

the Tonawanda creek's deserted bed. During 

the summer of 1863 Wyman H. Ainsworth, 

Charles Richards and John Coughran engaged 

Thomas Crawford, a carpenter from Ireland 

to erect the structure. On May 1,1864 according 

to agreement the Varysburg cheese factory 

with living quarters in the north end for the 

cheesemaker and his family was completed. 

The first cheesemaker was John Coughran 

assisted by his sister Mary and Miss Ella 

Lewis. Soon woman villagers and local farm 

women were employed in the new dairy manufacturing 

business: LenaGrover, GertieGrover; 

Emma J. Wilcox, Adelaide Burbank, and Eva 

Lincoln. The first sale of cheese from this 

new factory brought 14? per pound, but it 

would be 10 years before it brought that price 

again. One year the cheese was stored in the 

old Nick Conrad place until it was sold the 

following spring when the price rose. Upon 

the return of Erotas H. Wilder from the Civil 

War, he became the resident cheesemaker until 

1870 when he joined with a Mr. Hutchinson 

and built his own factory in Orangeville. The 

succession of owners have been the original 

three men to John Coughran and Marshall 

Cowden, to Erotas H. Wilder to George Hoy 

to C. Decoate Winchester in 1892, to John 

L. Gibbey to George E. Hogue in 1903. Mr. 

Hogue sold the factory to the corporation 

Merrill - Soule Co. who in turn sold the 

building to George A. Scott. The manufacturing 

of cheese ceased in 1918 and during the fall 

of 1924 the building was sold to George J. 

Smith who had it dismantled during April 1925 

using the lumber to construct his home on the 

west hill. 

Once a residence stood just north of the 

factory and in 1902 was owned by M.G. Maxon 

but shortly after this date was torn down. Approximately 

where the church grounds of St. 

Joseph's R.C. Church lie today was the home 

of John J. Spink which burned during Feb. 1928. 

This house was the one moved in 1882 from 

the Persons lot by George Jones. 

ST. JOSEPH'S R.C. CHURCH 

The lot for this church was purchased from 

Frank Godfrey and John B. Spink upon which 

was erected a 32 x 65 foot edifice. Upon the 

completion of the plastering within the church. 

Rev. Edmund F. Gibbons celebrated the first 

Mass in the church on Feb. 11, 1912 before 

the building was entirely completed. The dedication 

of the church was held Sept. 22, 1912. 

The total cost of the building, including furnishings 

was about $8700. Members of the 

original society which was incorporated Aug. 



(Village In The Valley Cont) 

28, 1911 were: John Barnes, Thomas Murphy, 

Edward Donnelly, Andrew Bauer, Mrs. Kate 

Zahler, Mrs. Julia Lawrence, Mrs. Kate 

George, Frank Zahler, Louis Schreder, Frank 

O'Connor, Bert Chatfield, Joseph Calteaux, 

Charles Streicher, Peter Zahler, Gus Zahler, 

Albert Zahler, Mrs. Roy Calkins, Jacob Bohn, 

Peter Balling, John Newell, Charles Hasselback 

and their families. 

The remainder residences on east Attica 

Street were: The John Raab house which was 

torn down.; the house of F.W. Munger the 

home today of the town constable John Malovich 

and his family; the former J.S. Barnes house 

built in 1887 by D.R. and F.W. Munger for Lott 

Shaw now occupied by Charles Gerhardt. The 

next site is occupied by a new home owned by 

William Gerhardt. 

THE WILLIAM PEASE FACTORY 

Upon the site of the home presently owned 

by Jack Helm on Oct. 14th and 15th of 1864, 

William Pease erected by public raising a 

40 x 25 two and one-half story framed factory 

built over a flowing spring in which to manufacture 

small wooden items. Machinery was 

installed; a huge wooden vat was filled with 

water and the yard was heaped with logs 

waiting its opening day. But the dreams ended 

when Mr. Pease's credit vanished and work 

stilled. The logs were sold by auction's to 

the county and sawed into fire wood for the 

County Home. The building stood vacant until 

1869 when Veranus Calkins purchased the property 

and converted the second floor into living 

quarters for his family and had the lower floor 

equipped for a blacksmith shoji and livery. 

In 1875 he sold the building to his brother Belus 

Jr. who removed it to the west side of Attica 

Street. In 1876 Veranous moved an abandoned 

house from the old Alonas Edison place a mile 

north and converted it into a fine dwelling. Mr. 

Dexter S. Davis was the next owner who added 

to the home and raised the wing renting it out 

to Mrs. L.J. Parker whose husband had failed 

in business at the corner store. In Oct. 1887 

it was sold to William and Pheobe Gifford 

Jones. The remainder of the homes on east 

Attica Street have little history and here we 

proceed back to the corner and continue along 

the west side. 

The first structure as we pass the corner 

garage was built in 1933 by Millard F. Embt 

in which to house his maple syrup plant. The 

original house upon this site was the home of 

James Kernan the village house painter and 

paper hanger who came to Varysburg in 1858. 

Before his residency it was the house of Nelson 

Parker and the only house besides the James 

H. Potter house on the entire length of the 

street. The next house occupied now by John 

Lakas was built during the 1870's for Horace 

N. McCray and his wife Ella C. Gleason and 

later occupied by the village grist mill operators 

Gad C. Parker and Clarence Seeley. Rev. 

Daniel Jackson erected the neighboring house 

also about this time and lived here until his 

death in 1890. Around 1899 his widow sold 

the property to the brother and sister Henry 

and Mary Ann Madden. In 1903 the house was 

sold to Andrew Bauer, the village contractor 

and builder, who added the beautiful stone 

porch to the front. Today it is the home of 

Richard Eck. The next house, the present 

home of Sylvester Fields a wagonmaker and 

it is believed to have been erected by him 

during the 1880's. The Brewer House is the 

next in line and was the home of William 

Brewer and his wife Mary Thomas. The cottage 

that once set north of this former house was 

burned and torn down and replaced by a newer 

home. It was built also during the late 1870's 

by Charles Rundle who along with his brother 

inlaw Edward Gleason once owned all this 

stretch of land until selling off bit by bit 

and moving in 1882 to Ohio. 

The land over the hill at the foot of School 

Street and now occupied by the junk yard of 

Vincent Almeter once was the mill pond of 

Othneil Brown which supplied the water for 

his saw mill located where Walter Conrad 

lives today. The flats were drained and during 

the 1870's the firm of Rundel and Gleason operated 

a tree nursery upon the drained mill 

pond selling their trees for 10£ each. Later 

Sylvester Fields had his lumber yard here. 

Next in the line of homes is the present 

Roman Catholic Church rectory and to the 

north of this house was the former home of 

Noel Matteson Sr. It was to this house he had 

built following his retirement from his farm 

on Cotton Hill he bought his second wife and 

married his third the widow of George C. 

Davis and Hiram Peck. The present home of 

Donald Corwin was built by a Mrs. Marshduring 

the 1870's. She decided that Varysburg 

was the place to stay after visiting her 

Madden relatives. In 1893 it was sold to Orla 

Lawrence and later became known as the 

Zahler place, where William Vincent Almeter 

resides today and the garage and barns to the 

rear were erected around 1881 in which Belus 

Calkins Jr. assisted by George Broadbrooks 

manufactured farm wagons and sleighs. They 

had moved out of the old Pease factory which 

they had moved to this site in 1875 and later 

sold it to Orla Lawrence and is presently 

owned by Roger Durfee. 

Shortly after the Civil War the next house 

was built by John W. Johnson, a carpenter 

and joiner, from lumber drawn to the former 

Nelson Parker lot from a Bennington Center 




Store which was being torn down. Sometime 

between 1870 and 1873 he sold the property 

to Mrs. Sophia Newman who sold it March 

30, 1875 to Johnson's brother in law Belus 

Calkins Jr. for $500. Around 1883 a select 

school was opened in this house with Hattie 

R. Johnson, daughter of John W. and Laura 

Calkins Johnson as the teacher. The following 

children and young adults were her pupils: 

Alice Madden, Nellie Bailey Bean, Harriette 

Calkins, Zelma Calkins, Jessie Graham, Donald 

Graham, Dena Schaublin, Kate West, Dottie 

Tuttle who was blind, Olin Spink and Edward 

Madden, III. 

The six room cottage now occupied by Miss 

Irene Walker was built by George Curry for 

Wyman H. Ainsworth during 1878 as his retirement 

home but Mr. Ainsworth died before 

its completion. The house was then rented 

for a number of years until it was sold in 

1898 to Miss Welker's parents. 

The final stop on our journey through time 

in the tiny village in the valley is the present 

home of Walter Conrad. The cellar wall was 

lain up by John Angle of Bennington around 

the middle of the last century for the miller 

Othneil Brown. Mrs. Salem Davis owned this 

house and here lived her oldest son George 

C. Davis who was buried in the front yard 

during that tragic day in 1864. It seems this 

house saw much of the history of Varysburg 

and its people for it was home for one of the 

most prominent families who made Varysburg 

survive through time. 

Varysburg today remains nestled in the valley 

of the Tonawanda as it did 174 years ago when 

the Vary family settled upon its land. It has 

proceded with time but remains a quiet countryside 

village with a uniqueness within its history. 

Federation News 

And Historical Societies 

Expressions of appreciation and praise have 

been pouring in to the Manpower Office in 

Warsaw, which was responsible for the operation 

of the CETA funded Wyoming County 

Heritage Project. 

This was one of the most successful of the 

Wyoming County CETA programs, and most 

of the museums in the county have greatly 

benefited from it. Now, nearly all of the artifacts 

held by the various historical societies, 

are cataloged in accordance with the AASLH 

museum classifications. Museum volunteers 

have been instructed how to keep up the system 

as more artifacts are acquired. 

The larger museums including Attica, Castile, 

Middlebury, and Warsaw have been renovated 

and in many cases the exhibits have 

been given a "new" look, so that they are 

more meaningful to the visitors. They should 

be in excellent condition for years to come. 

The Societies and this office appriciate the 

cooperation of the workers, especially with 

the exhibits at the Wyoming County Fair during 

the past two summers. A special thanks from 

all of us to: Angeline Crawford, Carol Grisewood, 

Helen Flynn, Paula Shreder, Susie Flint 

and Don Darling. Mrs. Crawford, the director, 

Miss Grisewood and Don Darling served full 

time on the team. 

Officers and trustees of the ATTICA HIS- 

TORICAL SOCIETY entertained the Heritage 

team members at a farewell luncheon held 

in November at THE PEWTER ROOM restaurant. 

The ladies were presented with corsages. 

About twenty-five attended. 

The Arcade Historical Society elected officers 

at its October annual meeting. Newly 

elected officers include Elizabeth Reinhardt, 

president, and Llenis Mason, recording secretary. 

Officers who were re-elected included 

Phoebe Chaffee, treasurer, and Francis Connors, 

corresponding secretary. John Morgan 

of Pike showed part of his collection of crocks 

at the November meeting, and Evelyn Connors 

presented a program on antique Christmas 

ornaments at the December meeting. The Society 

is selling 1980 calendars showing 15 local 

photographs of various vintages; profits from 

these calendars, as with the 1979 calendars, 

go to the Arcade Free Library Building Fund. 

They are available from the Society by mail 

for $3.00. 

Sheldon Historical Society 

In September of 1978, we held our first 

regularly scheduled meeting of the Township 

of Sheldon Historical Society. At that meeting 

a board of Trustees was elected, namely: 

Jack Roberts, Jean Dominisey, Darwin Almeter, 

Betty Reisdorf, Terry Marlin and Lawrence 

Victor. 

The officers elected were President: Ray 

Caryl; Vice President: Curtis Wheeler; Sec.: 

Barbara Logel and Treas.: Mary Lou Roberts. 

After the elections were completed, the meeting 

continued with the presentation of a gavel 

in memory of Mrs. Ethel West by the members 

of the West family. 

At the 1978 October meeting considerable 

discussion took place on what we could do to 

preserve the two room school house in Strykersville. 

The Sheldon Town Board had asked 


Once in a while, we come across a packet 

of yellowed pages that lift the lid on the past 

and afford us a glimpse into the lives of those 

who have gone before. A glimpse of their 

thoughts, their dreams, their loves, their heart 

aches. Sometimes the thoughts on these faded 

pages evoke a familiar response in our hearts. 

The individuals who wrote them become alive 

to us again - not just names on gravestones 

but living souls capable of the same emotions 

that we can feel. 

Such a person was Philena Keith Fisher. 

Who was Philena Keith Fisher? A faded obituary 

tells us the simple story of her life but 

the poems that she wrote tells us more. This 

Charles Fisher Cobblestone House, 1840's 

The Old Stone House 

On The Hill 

John and Mary Wilson 

obituary and a copy of her poems was brought 

to us by Tom Maimone who had previously 

purchased them at Mrs. Merle Webster's auction 

in Warsaw a few months ago. 

Philena was born in Wyoming in 1831, the 

daughter of Daniel & Louise Holland Keith. 

Daniel and probably his wife came from Aberdeen, 

Scotland and had settled in Wyoming when 

it was a hamlet of only six houses. It was here 

that Philena grew up. Because it was there 

and because of the refinement of her writing, 

she probably attended Middlebury Academy. The 

Keiths were Presbyterians and her obituary 

reveals that she was a fine musician with a 


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(The Old Stone House Cont.) 

beautiful soprano voice. In the accompaning 

poem, she writes that standing on the hill 

she could see the spire of the church where 

she used to sing soprano in the choir. 

We are told that she was married at nineteen 

to Noah J. Fisher of Covington and went 

to live in the "Old Stone House on the Hill". 

Her husband's father was Thomas Fisher who 

came from Sheldon, Mass. to Covington in 1817. 

Here is the census record of the family in the 

Stone House on the Hill in 1850; 

Thomas Fisher - 54 - b. Mass. 

Desire Fisher - 50 - b. Mass. 

Sarah Fisher - 20 - b. N.Y. 

Noah Fisher - 22 - b. N.Y. 

Thomas M. Fisher - 30 - b. N.Y. 

Mary M. Gater - 36 - b. N.Y. 

Martha Gater - 9 - b. N.Y. 

Charles Garter - 7 - b. N.Y. 

Philena Fisher - 19 - b. N.Y. 

Lucius Olmstead - 24 - b. N.Y. 

Only a stone house could have resisted the 

pressure of such a family! 

Noah Fisher's obituary reveals that he too, 

was an accomplished singer and that the Fishers 

were well known in the area for their musical 

talents. We are told that their home was the 

focal point for the musicians of the region, 

so we can imagine that the rafters of the old 

stone house on the hill must have echoed with 

song on many occasions. According to this 

record, for nearly 40 years, their home was a 

veritable conservatory of sacred music and all 

the music lovers who frequented that happy 

home felt as did the sweet singer of Isreal, 

"Oh come, let us sing unto the Lord a new 

song, let us make a joyful noise unto the God 

of our Salvation." 

Mr. Fisher died in 1901 and Mrs. Fisher 

in 1915. Although apparently it was a happy 

marriage, strong family ties led to separate 

burials. He was buried with the Fishers in 

the Pearl Creek Cemetery and she with the 

Keiths in Wyoming. 

We do not know for certain who built the 

stone house but we are quite sure that it was 

built in the 1840's. Thomas Fisher's ownership 

of the land on which it stands goes back 

before the records begin in 1841 in the County 

Clerk's office in Warsaw, so it's likely that 

he had it built. If so, it was in the Fisher 

family for over one hundred years. It has 

stood there, silently for nearly one hundred 

and forty years but if it could speak what 

stories it could tell of the people who dwelt 

within its sturdy walls. 

"The Stone House on the Hill" 

By Philena Keith Fisher 

When the day is gently fading, 

And the busy day is o'er 

I put down my work or reading, 

And I close the open door. 

Then I take a quiet journey 

To the land of long ago; 

See once more the dear old faces 

Of the loved ones I used to know. 


With what cheer they come to meet me, 

I the twilight soft and still, 

As I reach the dear old homestead, 

Dear Stone House upon the hill. 

Hand in hand we walk together, up the path 

that windeth through 

Beds of blossoms, bright and fragrant, 

Laden with the evening dew. 

The tall locusts nod their welcome, 

As I pass across the sill 

Of that home where love enfolds me, 

Dear Stone House upon the hill. 

From the window facing eastward, 

From the windows facing west, 

I can see the waving cornfields, 

See the woodland's leafy crest. 

From the top of the long gulf hill, 

Pointing heavenward, see the spire 

Of the old Church where I used to 

Sing soprano in the choir. 

There the brook winds through the gulf 

road, 

On its journey to the mill, 

Sweet memories lie about thee, 

Dear Stone House on the hill. 

All the world for me grows brighter, 

And sweet peace my heart doth fill, 

When I've been to the old homestead, 

Dear Stone House on the hill. 

Noah and Philena moved to Warsaw in 1876 

where they lived until 1898 when they returned 

to Wyoming and remained there until Mr. 

Fisher's death in 1901. Mrs. Fisher lived 

with her daughter, Mrs. William Fisher until 

her death in 1915. Beside her five daughters, 

she was survived by a son Thomas, who retained 

the old stone house and farm in Covington 

until his death, after which time it remained 

under the ownership of his sons and 

daughters for several years. His son Charles 

lived on the farm and operated it until his 

death in 1951. Subsequently, the remaining 

brothers and sisters sold the farm and so 

the Old Stone House which for so long had 

been a part of the lives of the Fisher family 

passed into other hands.


(Sheldon Historical Soc. Cont) 

for our consideration in accepting the building 

for use as a museum. For so young an organization, 

such a large project caused great 

concern as to our ability to handle it. 

By the March 1979 meeting an agreement 

had been reached with the Town Board on 

the care and use of the school house. A general 

clean up brought out several members and 

served notice that our program was under 

way. 

Edward Logel was elected trustee in place 

of Lawrence Victor who had resigned. 

Our first flea market was held in August 

and was a great success, financially and in 

calling attention to the program of the society. 

On Sept. 2, 1979 an Olde Tyme Picnic was 

held at the Firemen's grounds in Strykersville. 

It was a time of fun and excitement. 

There were games for young and old. Music 

by the Strykersville Town Band, displays of 

antiques and crafts, a bazaar booth and dancing 

in the evening. 

Our Provisional Charter was received September 

25, 1979. This was a fitting conclusion 

to our first year. Remember-become involved. 

Help preserve the history around us. Let us 

all enjoy it and record it so future generations 

may enjoy this wonderful heritage we 

share. 

- MILESTONES - 

Arcade 

The end of an era came to Arcade this 

year when the Village of Arcade officially 

ended its steam service. When first begun 

in the 1920's, the municipal steam system 

heated most of the downtown buildings; in 

recent years, it's only customer was the Arcade 

Elementary School, which this year replaced 

its 51 year old heating system with a heat 

pump. 

The Emkay Trading Corporation has purchased 

and re-opened the former Borden Co. 

plant on Church Street in Arcade. Some sections 

of the plant dated back over half a 

century, when it was owned by the Merrell- 

Soule Company; the plant had been vacant 

for several years, and extensive renovation 

and modernization was necessary. Emkay, which 

has another plant in Blasdell, began producing 

cheese for wholesale and commercial customers 

at its Arcade plant when it began production 

earlier this year. 

A new congregation, the Pioneer Christian 

Fellowship, purchased the Sherman-Warner 

farm, just east of the Cattaraugus County line, 

and has converted the barn into its church. 

The Calvary Alliance Church, just south of 

the Village of Arcade, recently dedicated a 

new sanctuary that was added onto the original 

1957 church building. The Hope Lutheran 

Church, just east of the village, recently began 

operating a nursery school for 3 and 4 

year olds four days a week; this is the community's 

first nursery school. 

An open house in October climaxed a renovation 

of the Arcade Elementary School that 

lasted over a year and cost in excess of 

$1 million. The program included a new heating 

plant, new windows, rearrangment of some 

walls, and extensive redecorating. The building 

consists of three sections, built in 1928, 

1939, and 1954, and is part of Pioneer Central 

School. 

Editor's Note - Arcade, by way of historian, 

Jeff Mason, seems to have provided all the 

milestones for the county this issue. 

- CHANGE OF ADDRESS - 

If you are going to move, please notify this 

office of your change of address. The Postal 

Service will not forward 2nd class mail. They 

simply tear off the old address and mail it 

with the new address to us and charge a quarter 

for the service. The old magazine is thrown 

away. The result, if you receive your journal 

at all, it will be late. 

ARCADE 

RURAL CEMETERY 

The first cemetery in Arcade Village was 

located on East Main St. near Allen St. It 

was owned by the Congregational Church. In 

the early 1850's interest was shown in establishing 

a new community cemetery. Under 

the guidance of Col. Shephard, an Association 

was organized, land purchased and a public 

dedication held Oct. 9, 1855. Since that time, 

more land has been purchased until the Association 

now owns approx. 28 acres. The 

number of burials is now considerably more 

than 2000.

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ADAMS 

Florence Niles Adams, 18- 

91-1937 (Dau. Charles N. 

and Clara A. Niles). 

ADDINGTON 

Burt W. Addington 1885- 

1961. 

Delia E. Addington 1862- 

1933. 

ALDRICH 

Amaca, 1856-1929 

Dora, 1862-1933 

ALLEN 

John J. Allen, 1827-1900 

(Fireman) 

Amanda M., 1837-1911 

George, 1879-1939 (Fireman) 

(John J. Allen was a 

brother of Stephen (1876- 

1881) and son of Jesse (17- 

79-1832) 

ALLEN 

Herbert D. Allen, died Jan. 

15, 1914, 58 yrs. 

Nellie S. Allen, d. Mar. 

7, 1939, 80 yrs. 8 months, 

20 days. (Buffalo) 

ALLEN 

Angeline McArthur Allen, 

wife of Harvey B. Allen 

and Dau. Alexander and 

Sarah McArthur, died April 

11, 1857, 38 yrs., 8 mons., 

19 days. 

ALLEN 

Harvey B. Allen, son of 

William and Charlotte, b. 

May 20, 1814; d. February 

19, 1894. 

Elizabeth Welles, wife H.B. 

Allen, dau. William and 

Caroline Welles, 1835-18- 

84 (husband of Angeline, 

Elizabeth and Mary Allen) 

ALLEN 

Ella S. Allen, died May 17, 

1949, 80yrs, 3 mons., 21 d. 

ALEXANDER 

Cornelia Alexander, wife 

Bradford Alexander, 1824- 

1868. 

ALEXANDER 

Marvin Alexander, died 

Dec. 27, 1921, 9 months 

ALLEN-LEWIS 

Esther Clough Allen-Lewis, 

1840-1903 

ALLES 

John J., 1891-1956 

Rose E., 1887-1944 

ALSWORTH 

Ernest Clark Alsworth, 18- 

65-1937 

Effie Thrall, wife, 1869-19- 

ARCADE RURAL CEMETERY 

42 

Victor R., son, 1908-1976 

ALTMAN 

Edward H., 1880-1951 

Edie Kitterman, wife, 18- 

87-1970 

ALTOFF 

Eva Wilbor Altoff, dau., Albert 

and Helen Wilbor, 18- 

67-1886 

ALTVALEE 

Infant Altvalee, died Nov. 

6, 1910 

AMES 

Jesse H. Ames, 1814-1882 

Father 

Jane R., wife, 1815-1882 

Mother (He died first and 

she four days later in January 

1882). 

Marion V. Ames, dau., 18- 

48-1901 

William H. Dutton, adopted 

son, Jesse and Jane, d. 

Sept. 1, 1854, 4 v. fim. 

Infant, age one year, 1893 

Jane R. Jackson Ames 

ANDERSON 

Clair L., 1889-1966 

Ethel M., 1892- 

Dorothy M., 1913- 

ANDERSON 

•John Anderson 1880-1920 

(Mason) 

Margaret, wife John Anderson 

and Philip Morgan, 18- 

85-1965 

Charles J., son John and 

Margaret, 1909-1937 

*Born Scotland, son of John 

and Elizabeth Mar Anderson. 

ANDERSON 

John Anderson, 1864-1933 

Marion L, wife, 1866-1943 

Hazel M., 1897-1965 

ANDERSON 

Charles L. Anderson, 19- 

00-1947 

Emily M. Gutzmer, wife, 

1892-1967 

ARMBUSTER 

Charles Armbuster, died 

May 18, 1916, 3 days 

ARMSTRONG 

Jason Armstrong, d. Aug. 

9, 1880, 66 yrs. 

Susan, wife Jason, d. Aug. 

31, 1879, 58 yrs. 

Eugene, son, 1849-1877 

ARMSTRONG 

'Wellington Armstrong, 

Feb. 18, 1842 - Aug.22, 18- 

96 

Marietta W., wife, Sept. 3, 


1840-Feb. 10, 1924 

*L.W. Armstrong, 1844-18- 

94 (Lorenzo) 

*Son of Verandus and Sarah 

A. Kent Armstrong 

ARMSTRONG 

Fred L., 1865-1944 

Mattie E., 1870-1957 

Carlton Edwoard, son, 19- 

01-1907 

ARMSTRONG 

Mina J., 1873-1956 

ARMOUR 

Volney Armour, died Dec. 

31, 1913, 84 yrs. 

Lucinda W., wife, died May 

2, 1919, 83 yrs. 

Josephine B., dau., died 

Sept. 1, 1920, 45 jTs. (Born 

in Illinois) 

(Family came from Iowa to 

Curriers Rd.) Two sons of 

Volney and Lucinda were: 

(1) Richard, father of Volney 

and Lucian, who moved 

to Los Angeles. 

(2) Brown, unmarried, who 

died and is believed to have 

seen buried in DesMoines, 

Iowa. 

ARNOLD 

James Henry, son Charles 

W.and Dolly F. Arnold, d. 

Mar. 2, 1846, 5 months. 

My lord hath need of his 

sweet flower the angels said 

d. smile. 

ARNOLD 

Harvey L., 1827-1892 

Susan M., wife, 1825-1910 

Ella M., 1856-1893 (dau.) 

Mary L., dau. 1857-1927 

ARNOLD 

Gideon Arnold, d. Sept. 17, 

1876, 87 yrs. 

Lovina Williams, wife, d. 

May 3, 1862, 73 yrs. 

Harriet B., dau., Missionary 

to the Freedom, d. July 

26, 1864, 45 yrs. (cemetery 

record: 47yrs, 11 mons. 

ARNOLD 

•Earl A., 1906-1968 

Frances B., wife, 1914- 

*Son of Ambrose 

ARNOLD 

Washington E. Arnold, 18- 

75-1945 

Alta B. French, wife, W.E. 

Arnold, 1867-1914 

C.M. Goodwin, wife W.W. 

Arnold, 1884-1916 



(Arcade Cemetery Cont.) 

ARONSON 

Jill Barney Aronson, May 31, 

1949-Dec. 5, 1949 

JoAnn Barney Aronson, April 

28, 1965-Feb. 3, 1966 

ARTHURS 

Walter F.-Arthurs, 1871-1949 

Hazel R., wife, 

(Mr. Arthurs was Editor and 

Publisher of Tri-County Weeklies). 

ATWATER 

Nancy Atwater, wife Dea Asa 

G. Atwater, d. Dec. 18, 1866, 

69 yrs. (second dau. Thomas 

G. and Nancy Alvord, b. Oneida 

Co., Jan. 24, 1798, Died at 

Arcade). 

ATWATER 

Henry Atwater, son Dea. Asa 

G. Atwater, died in the service 

of his country, Jan. 20, 1862, 

24 yrs. His dust reposes in the 

Soldiers' Home, Washington, 

DC. 

AUSTIN 

MalvinJ., 1828-1902 

Adelia A., 1829-1910 (Adelia 

Ellithorpe) 

AUTSIN 

AUSTIN 

Eveline Magee, wife Clark Austin, 

1848-1898 

(Dau. Benjamin and Harriet Magee) 

AYERS 

Edward Ayers, 1875-1953 

Emma, wife, 1884-1942 

Lucille, dau., 1910-1932 

AYERS 

Mary Ayers, 1905- 

BACKUS 

Charles Backus, July 15, 1814- 

Oct. 6, 1881. (Son of John). 

Etna Smith, wife, died May - 

1889, -- Yrs. 

BACKUS 

Permelia Backus, wife, Charles, 

and Dau. Pat'' and Sarah E. 

Burno, died Aug. 15, 1892, 

-- Yrs. 

BACKUS 

Child Backus, interred Oct. 31, 

1874. 

BAILEY 

Theophilus Bailey, 1782-1853 

(Mar. 3, 1782 - Mar. 21, 1853, 

71 yrs. 18 ds.) 

BAKEMAN 

Elmer A. Bakeman, 1863-1944 

Susie, 1863-1940 

Clifford E., 1895-1917, son 

Ina W., 1891-1907, dau. 

Alton E. Bakeman 1899- 

BAKER 

Frederick W., 1879-1959 

Winifred Chapman, wife, 1887- 

1969 

BAKER 

Adelaide R., 1916-1952 

BAKER 

Adelaide Rose Baker, died April 

24, 1952, 13 days (self-inflicted 

gun-shot wound, Punkshire, 

Java.) 

BALL 

Rueben Ball, d. Feb. 9, 1889, 

76 yrs. (Mason) 

Mary A., wife Rueben, died May 

10, 1878, 63 yrs. 

Augustus Earl, son, d. Aug. 

1, 1856, 14 yrs. 3 mons. 19 dys. 

Emmons A., 1878-1957 

Mae Wetheral, wife, 1883- 

BANTLE 

Rebeca Ruth Bantle, 1952-1961 

(Dau. Rev. Ronald and Marion 

Anderson Bantle) 

BARLOW 

Hiram Barlow, d. May 20, 1872, 

68 yrs. 

Eurilia (Nichols), wife, May 3, 

1811 - July 24, 1894 

Julia Ann. 1st dau., d. May 2 

1837, 3 yrs. 2 mons. 13 dys. 

Arabelle, 3rd dau., d. Jan. 21, 

1851, 3 yrs. 1 mon. 13 dys. 

BARLOW 

Charles Judson, 2nd son Hiram 

and Eurilia Barlow, d. Mar. 

17, 1854, 17 yrs. 11 mons. 

Emma, dau. Hiram and Eurilia 

Barlow, d. Mar. 25,1864,21 yrs. 

1 mon. 15 days. 

BARLOW 

Sarah L. Barlow, wife Nathan 

Barlow, and dau. of Rev. Wm. 

and Rhoda Lyman, January 26, 

1791-Nov. 24, 1887 

BARNARD 

Lawrence B. Barnard, 1836- 

1914, 2nd N.Y. Heavy Artillery 

BARNES 

Gustavus A. Barnes, 1853-1927 

Margaret E. 1861-1924 

BARNES 

Hyder Barnes, d. Dec. 3, 1879, 

75 yrs. 

* Daphne P., wife, d. Aug. 10, 

1882, 70 yrs. 

* Daughter of Asa Palmer 

BARNES 

Sarah M. Barnes, wife Hyder 

Barnes, Mar. 20, 1848 - Jan. 

10, 1901 

BARNES 

H. Dana Barnes, 1835-1907 

Satie M. wife, 1848-1901 

BARNES 

Fred Barnes, 1885-1957 

Katherine, 1885- 

BARNUM 

Martha Barnum, d. Dec. 30, 18- 

64, 32 yrs. 11 mons. 13 dys. 

"Underneath this clod of solid 

dust I dwell when all the living 

must. 

The gayest youth and fairest 

face, 

In time must dwell in this dark 

place." 

(Dau. Azor and Abigail Barnum) 

BARROWS 

Irena, wife Doct. D.L. Barrows, 

d. July 19, 1841, 34 yrs. 2 mons. 

1 da. 

Ellen, dau. Doct. D.L. and Irena 

Barrows, d. Aug. 29,1838, 9 yrs. 

4 mons. 12 dys. 

Child Barrows - (no date) Died 

before 1862 

Jerome Barrows, son David L. 

Barrows M.D., 1827 - 1883, 

Father. 

BARRY 

Sarah E. Barry, 1837-1929 

(Interred with Edward and Elizabeth 

Jones) 

BARTH 

Michelina C. Barth, 1929-1972 

BARTOW 

Eurilia Nichols, wife Hiram 

Bartow, May 3, 1811-July 24, 

1894. 

Dau. Col. Samuel and Sarah 

Nichols, the first white female 

born in town of China Arcade) 

Hiram Bartow, died May 20, 

1872, 68 yrs. 

Emogine Bartow, dau., Hiram 

and Eurilia Bartow, died March 

25, 1863, 21 yrs. 1 mon. 11 dys. 

Julia A., dau. Hiram and Eurilia 

died Aug. 2, 1837, 3 yrs. 2 mons. 

13 dys. 

Arabelle, dau. Hiram and Eurilia 

died Jan. 21, 1851, 3 yrs. 1 mon. 

13 dys. 

Charles Judson, son Hiram and 

Eurilia, died March 17, 1854, 

17 yrs. 11 mons. 25 dys. 

BARTOW 

Mattie M. Bartow, dau. R.S. 

and Mary Bartow 1867-1884 

BARTOW 

Eloise Bartow, Dec. 26, 1856- 

Feb. 8, 1883 

BARTOW 

Removals in 1862- 

Child supposed of F.J. Bartow 

Infant Bartow of F.J. Bartow 

Child supposed of T.J. Bartow 

BATES 

Nancy Bates, wife George Bates, 

daughter Joseph Kelly, 1832- 

1888 

BATES 

Ruth E. Bates, Nov. 22, 1922- 

Feb. 28, 1923 

Robert E. Bates, Jan. 8, 1922- 


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Sept. 12, 1946 W.W. II Am. 

Legion 

Ernest M. Bates, d. Sept. 2, 

1962, 61 yrs. 

BAUER 

Grace E. Bauer, 1895- 

BAYLISS 

Rev. Edward Ebenezer Bayliss 

born Abingdon, England, March 

5, 1843, died Arcade, Oct. 14. 

1914 

(Father of Rev. Edward Bayliss, 

Arcade Baptist Minister, 1914- 

1920) 

BEARDSLEE 

A. Carl, 1890- 

Alma Bray, wife, 1891-1952 

Baby 1914 

Robert 1917-1918 

Rebecca 1925- 

BEARDSLEE 

William E. Beardslee, 1862- 

1941 

Eliza A., wife, 1865-1926 

BEARDSLEY 

James H. Beardsley, d. Jan. 

12, 1949, 83 yrs. 1 mon. 25 dys. 

Clark Beardsley, 1839-1923 

Clara, his wife, 1845-1926 

Child, interred 1862- 

Ferdell J., 1875-1954 

Ora Weed, 1878-1951 

Hiram J. Beardsley, 1834-1915 

Lucy, wife, d. Apr. 19, 1871, 

31 yrs. 3 mons. 4 dys. 

Pliny S., son Delos and Daisey 

Beardsley, d. Jan. 13, 1865, 16 

yrs. 2 mons. 17 dys. (killed by 

fall of tree) 

* Lucy Spring, dau. Leverette 

and Lucy Spring. 

•Christopher H. Beardsley, 18- 

35-1891 

Lucinda E.,wife, 1841-1924 

Infant Dau. (no dates, no age) 

Flora Ida, dau., d. Feb. 6, 

1885, 2 yrs. 3 mons. 

Nellie Wingar, dau., 1863-18- 

92 (died in Michigan) 

Lucinda Nichols 

* Son of Delos and Daisey 

Bearsley 

Henry J. Beardsley, 1860-19- 

35 

Harriet J., wife, 1858-1934 

Harold, son, 1891-1892 

Gilbert H., son, 1884-1948 

Delos Bearsley, 1809-1883 

Daisy, wife, 1809-1879 

Infant child of Delos Jr. and 

Mary Beardsley, died July 9, 

1864 

Phiney S., son Delos and Daisy 

killed by fall of tree, Jan. 13, 

1865, 16 yrs. 2 mons. 17 ds. 

Delos Beardsley, died August 

9, 1913, 71 yrs. 

Mary Beardsley, died May 12, 

1917, 74 yrs. (Varysburg) 

Mate Beardsley, died Mar. 20, 

1917, 50 yrs. 

BEEBE 

Dana Beebe, 1861-1917 

Nellie A. Wade, wife, 1857- 

1947 (Nellie Wade Beebe married 

Morris Bentley for her 

second husband) 

Villette C. Beebe, 1851-1918 

(Mason) 

Elizabeth McKerrow, wife, 18- 

62-1910 

Dewitt C. Beebe, d. May 10, 

1889, 60 yrs. 

Azelia E., wife, d. Nov. 10, 

1909, 81 yrs. 

D.C., Jr., son, d. Dec. 30, 

1868, 3 months 

Robert, son, d. Jan. 30, 18- 

88, 16 yrs. 

Infant, dead at birth, Nov. 21, 

1864 

Wellington Beebe, d. Oct. 31, 

1905, 66 yrs. 

* Ellen A., wife, d. Oct. 2, 

1884, 45 yrs. 

Ella C., wife, d. Mar. 26,1939, 

76 yrs. 

* Ellen Edson, dau. Cyrenus 

Darius Beebe, d. Mar. 26,1880, 

54 yrs. (Son Charles and Elizabeth 

Train Beebe) 

Jane M., wife, d. Oct. 28,1886, 

59 yrs. (Mrs. Beebe was burned 

in a train wreck at Rio. Wisconsin, 

but remains never 

found.) 

Donald W., 1900- 

Margaret Brace, wife, 1900- 

Baby Girl, Dec. 3, 1928 

BEESING 

Elizabeth Beesing, 1870-1935 

BEHM 

Edward A. Behm, d. April 23, 

1951, age unknown. Died Collins, 

N.Y. 

BELLIS 

*S.W. Bellis, 1822-1915 

Lucy A., wife, 1831-1903 

* (Samuel W. Bellis) 

Dau. David and Lucy Babbit 

Lucetta, dau. of Oct. .-- 

18--, 6 yrs. 4 mons --ds. 

(West of Bellis lot; surname 

not determined) 

BENNETT 

Bennett, born in 

Vermont, crushed by a band of 

earth near Col. Rowley's Mill, 

Feb. 2, 1812. about 25 yrs. 

"Said to be the first death in 

town, by some." 

Daniel J. Bennett Sr., N.Y. 

Pvt. U.S. Army Viet Nam Aug 

17, 1949-May 25. 1971 (Killed 


in auto accident in Germany) 

BENNION 

Howard B. Bennion, 1873-1951 

L. Estelle Hoy, wife, 1874- 

1939 

BENTLEY 

* David Bentley, 1830-1872, 

(Civil War) (Mason) 

Mary E., wife, 1841-1929 

*Son of Noah Bentley 

Gideon Bentley, 1828-1909 

'Emma H., wife, 1829-1879 

Martha J. Sowerby, wife, 18- 

43-1912 

•Emma McClinton, dau. Thomas 

Morris Bentley, 1856-1948 

(Mason) 

Helen J., wife, 1851-1918 

Lynn S., son, 1889-1934 (Mason) 

Sara H., wife, 1887-1938 

Nellie Wade Bentley, wife, of 

Morris, 1857-1947 (First wife 

of Dana Beebe (d. 1917) and 

second wife of Morris Bentley). 

D.C., 1882-1969 (Son of Gideon) 

Selena K. Morgan, wife, 1890- 

1964 

Donald D., son, 1915-1965 

Mittie L., wife, 1917- 

Reuben A. Bentley, died Jan. 

11, 1948, 67 yrs. 10 mons. 

7 ds. 

Will Bentley, died March 19. 

1921, 49 yrs. Wellington R. 

(Yorkshire) 

Edith Bentley, died July 21, 

1914, 35 yrs. 9 mons. 23 ds. 

BERNARD 

•James J. Bernard, 1846-1884, 

Father 

Charlotte Thompsett, wife, 18- 

49-1904 - Mother 

Frederick J., son, 1871-1939 

Anna May, wife, 1872-1927 

•Co. H, 9th N.Y. Cav., G.A.R. 

37yrs. 

BEUEL 

Beyrl A. Beuel, wife George 

died Sept. 9, 1909, 19 yrs. 

9 mons 20 ds. 

BIGELOW 

Ernest E., 1892-1949 

Bertha L., wife, 1892-1963 

Carl Bigelow, died June 23, 

1933, 93 yrs. 

B1XBY 

Anson E. Bixby, 1856 - 1935 

Maggie A., wife, 1859-1906 

Barnes Bixby, d. Feb. 16, 18- 

75, 89 yrs. 

Hannah Barnes, wife, d. April 

3, 1876, 82 yrs. 

Lucy E., dau.. d. May 27, 18- 




41, 19 yrs. 3 mons. 

Almira, dau. d. May 15, 1847, 

29 yrs. 

Sarah A., dau., and wife William 

Dailey, d. Sept. 1, 1866, 

35 yrs. 3 mons. 

Clara O., wife, d. March 16, 

1888, 22 yrs. (Dau. of Jesiah 

Oliver) 

Daniel Bixby, d. Feb. 12, 18- 

87, 70 yrs. 9 mons. 15 ds. 

(son Barnes) 

Vashti Root, his wife, died, 

Oct. 14, 1860, 33 yrs. 4 mons. 

26 ds. 

Amelia, wife, (no data on 

stone), dau. Wm. and Polly 

Hinckley Wood. July 3, 1822- 

Jan. 19, 1901 

William Bixby, d. Nov. 15, 

1893, 69 yrs. 8 mons. 14 ds. 

Salome Clough, his wife, died 

Jan. 2f, 1896, 71 yrs. 6 mons. 

24 ds. (dau. Abel and Ann 

Clough). 

W.A. Bixby, 1858-1916, (William 

A.) 

Mrs. Bixby, interred 

Aug. 22, 1874 

Mary Bixby, died March 17, 

1942, 87 yrs. 11 mons. 1 da. 

BLAKELY 

* James W., 1852-1920 

Harriett H., 1857-1931 

M. Isabelle, dau., 1890-1929 

'Son of Orlando and Jane Harper 

Blakely, b. Hume. N.Y., 

Mary I. Blakely, died July 20, 

1929, 37 yrs. 

Glenn Blakely, died Oct. 6, 

1959, 76 yrs. 

Jean H. Blakely, died July 

16, 1949, 57 yrs. lOmons. 3ds. 

Claudie Jean Blakely, died Feb. 

7, 1916, 20 mons. * 

BLANCHARD 

*Revilo A. Blanchard, 1855- 

1921 

Clara E., his wife, 1851-1936 

"Anson R. incemetaryrecords 

Levi Blanchard. 1815-1895 

(son) 

Rhoda . wife, 1818-1873 (Rhoda 

H. Chaffee) (dau. Rev. Chester 

Chaffee) 

Jeremiah Blanchard. d. April 

21, 1867. 81 yrs. 5mons. 18ds. 

Laura Ackley. wife, d. Nov. 1 

1846, 60 yrs. 

Jennie M., wife. A.R. Blanchard, 

d. June 20. 1887. 27yrs 

5 mons 20 ds. 

BLISS 

Roy Daniel Bliss. N.Y. Pfc. 

Co. A. 112 Inf. W.W.I. Jan. 

29. 1889-May 4. 1958 

Violet Barber, wife. d. Dec. 

4, 1969. 69 yrs. 

Carrie M. Bliss, d. Nov. 10, 

1944, 85 yrs. 10 mons. 8 ds. 

Mother 

BLOOD 

Mrs. Blood, wife of 

Blood, of Yorkshire, 1876 

Blood, died Sept. 4, 18- 

72, Yorkshire. 

BLOWERS 

•Laura L. Blowers, 1844-1899 

Mary A. Pike, wife J. Blowers, 

1812-1902 (Jacob) 

Ellen M. Blowers, 1849-1932 

•Son of Jacob and Mary Blow 

ers 

Hattie Blowers, dau. Ed and 

Abby Blowers, 1876-1885 

BOARDMAN 

no stone record. 

Cemetary records state this 

person died of typhoid fever; 

was interred in the Old Ground, 

but removed 1862 to Lot 930 

N W Cor. #288. 

BOOKMILLER 

Charles Bookmiller, 1847-19- 

27, Co. D., 98th Regt., N.Y. 

N.G. (Father) 

Hattie L., wife, d. July 1, 

1887, 34 yrs. 11 mons. 

(Mother) Hattie L. (Bates) 

Vinnie, infant dau. Charles and 

Flora Bookmiller, April 30, 

1889 - Aug. 17, 1889 

Flora Bookmiller, d. July 29, 

1927, 61 yrs. 8 mons 14 ds. 

(Buffalo) 

William H. Bookmiller, 1855- 

1915 Father 

Charles F., 1879-1942 

Kathryn E., 1887-1968 

Flora H., dau. 1909-1972 

Robert C. Bookmiller, 1913- 

1975 

Jeanne M. Howlett, wife, 1914- 

Nancy J., dau., d. 1936- 

Duane G. son, d. 1945- 

Marie Anna, wife Martin Bookmiller, 

July 14, 1814-July 6, 

1891 

Edward, son Martin and Marie, 

died Oct. 15, 1861, 1 yr. 6 

mons 19 ds. 

We miss his little charming 

voice 

We miss his pleasant smile 

We miss him everywhere we 

go 

We miss him all the while 

Lelia. dau. Martin and Marie, 

Oct. 25, 1858-Feb. 6, 1882 

BOSER 

Francis, born Hall. 1884-1914 

Twin Girl and Boy Boser. died 

April 8. 1951. one day 

Fred Boser. died Jan. 31. 19- 

50. 77 yrs 5 mons 20 ds. 

Infant Boser. died Feb. 2. 19- 

13 

BOSTWICK 

Samantha Bostwick, dau. Moses 

and Mary Lilley, relict 

John Bostwick, Feb. 9, 1781- 

Oct. 24, 1863 

Seymour Bostwick, son of John 

and Samantha Bostwick, died 

April 10, 1859, 50 yrs 6 ds. 

BOTSFORD 

Elmira Relief Twitchell, wife 

B.H. Botsford, d. Mar. 16, 18- 

49, 23 yrs 3 ds. 

Barnabas H. Botsford, died 

Jan. 28, 1902, 83 yrs. 10 mons. 

at Gaines, N.Y. (Son Ephraim 

B. and Ruth Hatch Botsford.) 

Mary C. Botsford, wife B.H. 

died Jan. 16,1903, 90 yrs. 

Deacon Ephraim B. Botsford 

d. Oct. 27, 1858, 74 yrs. 9 mo. 

8 ds. 

Happy in the sight of the Lord 

In the death of his saints 

Ruth Hatch, wife, d. Mar. 4, 

1855, 66 yrs. 11 mons. 4 ds. 

(Dau. Barnabas and Rachel, 

born Manchester, Vt.) 

BOWMAN 

Almon J., 1887-1971 

Susette I., 1888-1970 

BOXSTANZ 

Alta J. Hill, dau. H.M. and 

M.L. Hill, wife Joseph Boxstanz, 

died April 3, 1880, 23 

yrs. 5 mons. 24 ds. (Mother 

of Edna) 

BOYLE 

Mildred Boyle, dau. George 

Nov. 11-Dec. 10, 1904 

BRAMER 

George T. Bramer, 1821-1880 

•Mary A. Lewis, wife, 1823- 

1900 

Juddie, son, d. June 20, 1868, 

4 yrs. 9 mons.' 

•Mary A. Clark Bramer, 

Elna A. Bramer, died, Sept. 

4, 1942, 89 yrs. 11 mons. 

23 ds. Madison, N.Y. 

BRANDT 

Anna Clough, wife, James 

Brandt, 1874-1904 

Infant child of Charles and 

Anna Brandt, died Aug. 2, 19- 

00 

Infant child of Charles and 

Anna Brandt, died April 25, 

1898 

Harriet Clough Brandt, dau. 

of Charles and Anna, died Aug. 

29. 1895, 3 yrs. 

BRASS 

Lucas R., 1900-1969 

Mildred S. Cole, 1905-1963 

BRAUN 

Louise Braun, died Aug. 17, 




1936, 65 yrs. 3 mons. 14 ds. 

BRAY 

J. Milton, 1894-1950 

Pearl E., 1896- 

John D., son, 1932-1943 

Child of Milton and Pearl 

Bray, died May 19, 1930 

Mary E. Baker Bray, 1917- 

1969 wife of Leland Bray: 

mother of Philip Gunn and 

Richard Bray 

Harold A. 1918-1957 (W.W.II) 

Virginia, 1919- 

(Harold A. Bray, N.Y. Sgt. 

Hq. Bat. 494 Armd Fa. W.W. 

II Dec. 8, 1918-Oct. 25, 1957) 

(Son of Milton and Pearl Bray) 

Richard C., 1882-1968 

Edith L., 1886-1961 Natives of 

England 

Caroline Bray, died Sept. 9, 

1926, 63 yrs. 

Demetrius H. Bray, 1860-19- 

33 

Carrie A. wife, 1863-1926 

Ernest C, son, 1889-1940 

Clifton D., son, 1887-1888 

Arthur C., son, 1895-1977 

Clayton E. Bray, 1884-1951 

Edna Lewis, wife, 1879-1944 

John W. Bray, 1857-1918 

Effie L., wife, 1862-1929 

John D. son Milton 1932- 

1943 

Baby, son, Milton and 1930- 

Betty Marie, died May 5, 19- 

41, no age 

BREWER 

Earl L., 1887-1958 

Eulah A., 1889- 

Milton E., 1925-1944 (Son of 

Earl) 

Rita M., 1920- 

BRIDENBAKER 

Clarence Bridenbaker, 1884- 

1940 

Oscar D., 1874-1919 

Carrie Bridenbaker, died Feb. 

4, 1955, 80 yrs. 6 mons. lids. 

Elizabeth C. Bridenbaker, died 

Oct. 5, 1929, 83 yrs. (Yorkshire) 

Bessie Bridenbaker, died May 

17, 1937, 37 yrs. 1 mon. 25ds. 

(Buffalo) 

Stanley A. Bridenbaker, d. 

Sept. 23, 1952, 54 yrs. 2mons. 

7 dS. 

Paul R. Bridenbaker, 1908- 

1964 

Elmira F. (Lounsbury), wife, 

1910-1937 

Priscilla R., dau. 1936- 

BRIGGS 

Frank W., 1874-1941 

Nettie J., 1875-1944 

Mabel E. Jackson, wife, Frank 

J., 1902-1953 

BROWN 

Sophronia S. Brown, died Jan. 

4, 1861, 50 yrs. (Dau. Roswell 

and Lucy Brown) 

Lucy Brown, 1790-1872 (Born 

and died at Homer, N.Y. Buried 

on or near Grange Hitchcock 

lot.) (Wife of Roswell Brown) 

William L. Brown, d. Aug. 

3, 1887, 51 yrs. 5 mons. 12ds. 

*Hattie A., wife, 1841-1939 

Willie G., son, d. June 12, 

1874, 3 yrs. 1 mon. 3 ds. 

Myrtie M., dau., d. April 14, 

1875, 1 yr. 10 mons. 20 ds. 

*Hattie Tisdale Brown, 97 yrs. 

4 mons. 

Dixie Marie Brown, d. April 

13, 1962, 1 mon. 12 ds. 

BRUSH 

Fred L. Brush, 1882-1920 

Fred Brush, 1859-1933 

Emma J., wife, 1861-1939 

BUCHMAN 

John N. Buchman 1863-1919 

(Mason) (Fireman) 

Bertha L., wife, 1866-1962 

Baby, 1914- 

Charles Erdix, 1892-1970 

Antoinette Van Valdinburg, 

wife, 1891-1963 

BUMP 

Infant child John Bump, March 

1881 

Hattie Bump, dau. John C. 

and Mary E. Jackson Bump, 

died June 22, 1863, 3 wks, 

5 ds. 

BUNCE 

Clarence E. Bunce, 1875-1927 

Father 

Lily, wife of Clarence, 1885, 

Mother. 

William Bunce, died March 

12, 1907, 

BURLESON 

George H. Burleson, died Nov. 

12, 1947, 75 yrs. 7mons.lids. 

Carrie I. Burleson, d. Mar. 

21, 1937, 60 yrs. 5 mons. 

26 ds. 

Glenola Dietzman Burleson, 

(Daughter), 1912-1952 

BURNO 

Lewis, 1860-1945 

Eunice F., 1868-1961 

BURNS 

Sarah E. Burns, d. April 4, 

1888, 62 yrs. 2 mons. 24 ds. 

Mother, wife of Paul Burns. 

Lewis L. Burns, died March 

13, 1945, 85 yrs. 2 mons. 

15ds. 

BURTON 

William Bela, died Jan. 29, 

1950, 70 yrs. 7 mons. 19 ds. 

Flora, wife, 1883-1939, Mother 

Homer W. Burton, 1847-1917, 

Father 

Emma, wife, died Feb. 4,1932, 

80 yrs. Mother (Marker) (Mrs. 

Burton died at Hornell, N.Y.) 

BURZETT 

Clarissa Maria Bushnell, dau. 

Jonathan and Sarah Hill, wife, 

James Bushnell, died May 8, 

1837, 44 yrs. 5 mons. 24 ds. 

Caroline Hill, wife James 

Bushnell, died May 8, 1837, 

45th yr. (dau. Jonathan and 

Sarah Hill) 

Sarah Hill) 

James Bushnell, 1799-1881 

BUSING 

Elizabeth Busing, 1870-1935 

BUTLER 

Addie Butler, dau. Seymour 

and Mary E. Butler, died May 

1, 1863, 1 yr. 11 mons. 1 da. 

Clifford I. Butler, died Dec. 

17, 1920 yrs. 

Infant son of Clifford and 

Esther Bishop Butler 

CADY 

Stephen P. Cady, 1817-1882 

(Stephen Patrick) Father 

Clarissa M., wife, 1818-1892 

Mother 

CALEB 

Lurana Caleb, wife Elijah, 18- 

14-1889 

CAHOON 

Daughter of James Cahoon, 18- 

62, Removal 

CALKINS 

(1) Levi B. Calkins, d. Aug. 

25, 1901, 81 yrs. 

* Matilda Willey, wife, d. August 

16, 1858, 37 yrs. 

Infant dau. L.B. and Matilda 

d. Aug. 11, 1858, 26 ds. 

Anna Amelia, dau. Matilda and 

L.B., d. June 6, 1859, 13 yrs. 

5 mons. 

CALKINS 

(2) Emily, wife Levi B. Calkins, 

d. Dec. 6, 1887, 61 yrs. 

(Emily Farrington Reed Calkins) 

*Judson Calkins, son Levi and 

Matilda, d. Aug. 23, 1855, 11 

yrs. 3 mons. 1 da. (no dates) 

*Judson, 4 th son David and 

Patience Calkins, d. Dec. 23, 

1841, 20 yrs. 2 mons. 12 ds. 

Killed in saw mill cemetery 

records. 

Theodore W. Calkins, d. May 

1, 1879, 38 yrs. My husband. 

Husband of Adelaide Derome 

Charles K. Calkins, 1881-19- 

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Clara W., wife, 1881-1931 

Helen Timm, wife died June 

18, 1977, 78 yrs. (1899-19- 

77) 

Rodorpha, E., wife, Leonard 

G. Calkins, d. May 31, 1846, 

21 yrs. 8 mons. 

Lucinda J., wife, Alfred R. 

Calkins, d. Aug. 17, 1873, 35 

yrs. 

Our little Louie, son Alfred 

R. and Lucinda, d. March 27, 

1874 

CALKINS 

Children of Daniel and Patience 

Calkins 

David 2nd d. Apr. 2, 1829, 

14ds. 

David 1st, d. June 26, 1826, 

8 mons. 

David 3rd, d. May 1, 1831, 

10 \yks. 

Judson W. d. Dec. 23, 1841, 

20 yrs. 3 mons. (killed in 

saw mill) 

Jonathan Calkins, d. July 29, 

1853, 34 yrs. (son David and 

Patience) 

•Amanda, wife, d. Mar. 17, 

1874, 53 yrs. 

Clarence G., only son, d. July 

17, 1853, 1 yr. 3 mons. 25 ds. 

•Daughter of Horace Ryder or 

Rider 

David Calkins Jr., d. June 26, 

1826, 8 mons. 8 ds. 

David Calkins Jr., 2nd d. Apr. 

2, 1829, 14 ds. 

David Calkins Jr., 3rd d. May 

1, 1831, 11 wks. 

Judson, son David and Patience 

Calkins, d. Dec. 23, 1841, 20 

yrs. 2 mons. killed in sawmill 

Affa Shedd Calkins, wife of 

Samuel Calkins, 1793-1889 

(sister of Andrew Sheed; 

(sister of Andrew Shedd; born 

Gafton, Vt.) 

CAMPBELL 

Dexter Campbell, interred July 

28, 1874 

Arthur J., 1931- 

Fred C., 1904- 

Ariel M., 1906-1959 

CARR 

Sarah Phillips Armstrong Carr 

wife V.E. Armstrong and 

James Carr, 1817-1907 

CARTER 

Egbert P. Carter, died April 

8, 1904, 79 yrs. 

Eliza A., wife, died July 23, 

1881, 56 yrs. 

Albert H. Carter, d. Nov. 24, 

1898, 47 yrs. Fireman 

Ella G. Shallies, wife Albert, 

1850-1903 (Dau. Nelson J. 

Shallies) 

Miles, father E.P. Carter, May 

25, 1795-July 27, 1852 

CHADBOUME 

Cassius Henry Chadboume, son 

of Henry and Julia Ann Chadboume, 

died Dec. 1862, 1 yr. 

3 mons. 

Grosvenor Jay Chadboume, son 

of Henry and Julia Ann, died 

May 26, 1862, 8 yrs. 6 mons. 

Arthur Beecher Chadboume, 

son of Henry and Julia, died 

Oct. 23, 1857, 8 mons. 19 ds. 

CHAFFEE 

Elder Chester Chaffee, b. 

Grafton, Vt., Oct. 7, 1791, d. 

Arcade, Sept. 5, 85 yrs. Minister 

of Free Will Bapt. denomination 

for about 50 yrs. 

Lydia, wife Rev. Chester 

Chaffee, d. Aug. 13, 1869, 82 

ys. 6 mons. 11 ds. 

"A guility weak and helpless 

worm 

On Thy kind arms I fall 

Be Thou my strength and 

righteousness 

My Jesus and my all." 

(Lydia Chaffee was the first 

wife of Abraham Jackson Jr.) 

Born Templeton, N.H., 1787. 

Came from Vermont in 1810; 

baptized a F.W. Baptist, the 

first person baptized in Catt. 

Creek in 1816.) 

Richard W., 1909-1958 

Genevieve, 1910- 

CHAMPLIN 

James H. Champlin, Co. A. 

44 N.Y. Vols. 1842-1902 

Antoinette, wife, 1848-1920, 

(dau. William and Emma Childs 

Hall. b. Sardinia, April8,1848) 

(Parents of Mrs. Dana Shedd) 

Stephen R. Champlin, 1867- 

1942 (on Benjamin F. Lewis 

lot.) 

CHANDLER 

Sarah Chandler, widow of 

Chandler, former widow 

Alexander McArthur, dau. of 

Ward. Died Aug. 5, 1854, 

60 yrs. 8 mons. 6 ds. 

CHAPIN 

of William E. and Mercy 

H. Chapin. Removal 1862. 

Mary Isabella Chapin, dau. 

Wm. E. and Mercy H. Chapin, 

died Oct. 30, 1854, 3 mons. 

26 ds. 

CHAPMAN 

Clyde W. Chapman Jr., died 

April 3, 1920, 2 days 

Son of Clyde W. and Evelyn 

Crosby Chapman 

CHASE 

Lucy Maxson Chase, wife David 

Chase, died Feb. 27, 1856, 64 

yrs. 14 ds. 

CHILDS 

Charlie B., 1867-1924 (Mailman) 

•Minnie L., wife, 1870-1942 

Jay D., son, 1896-1944 

•Minnie Simons. 

James F., 1856-1941 

Harriet A., 1858-1939 

GuyH. 1886-1943 

Annie C., 1886-1952 

Anthony Edward Childs, May 

2, 1941-Dec. 8, 1946 

Baby Leon Frank Childs - 

no dates. 

James E., 1905- 

Pauline E., 1917-1959 

Guy H. Childs, 1886-1943 

Annie C., Wife, 1886-195? 

Leon Eugene Childs, d. Feb. 

26, 1960, infant 

CHRISTIAN 

William H. Christian, d. Aug. 

15, 1923, 78 yrs. 

Sarah Adell Christian, died 

Dec. 24, 1923, 69 yrs. 

Laura Christian, died April 

8, 1915, 4 yrs. 1 mon. 7 ds. 

(Maybe dau. of Bert Christian) 

George Christian son William 

and Adda, 1875-1895, 20 yrs. 

15 ds. 

Child of Wm. and Adda April 

14 --19, 1894, (child weighed 

two pounds at birth) 

Bessie, dau. Wm. and Adda, 

1886-1893 

Howard Christian, died Feb. 

4, 1920, 48 yrs. 7 mons. 2 ds. 

CHURCHILL 

Ella Churchill, died March 26, 

1943, 90 yrs. 6 mons. 28 ds. 

Clark E. Churchill, died Jan. 

31, 1923, 75 yrs. 

Esther, wife Silas Churchill, 

d. April 29, 1844, 47 yrs. 

1 mon. 6 ds. 

O Esther dear, the wife, the 

Mother 

And Art thou gone and gone 

forever 

And hast thou crost that unknown 

Stream 

Esther, wife, Silas Churchill 

Life's dreary bounds 

thee 

Where shall I find another the 

world around 

CLARKE 

Rev. E.W. Clarke, d. June 21, 

1856, 35 yrs. 

Louisa Steele, wife, d. April 

11, 1897, 74 yrs. 3 mons. 6ds. 

(dau. James and Miranda Steele 

E.W. Clarke, d. Sept. 24,1882, 

36 yrs. 9 mons. 30 ds. (Elbert 

W.) 

CLEMONS 

Carrie Folts Clemons, 1876- 

1954 

Earl P. Clemons 1919-1937 

CLOUGH 

Abel Clough, d. Nov. 1, 1869, 

72 yrs. 2 mons. 10 ds. "To 

die is gain." 

Anna Clough, 1800-1885, (dau. 

John McCarthney) 

Eliza Jane, dau., died July 22, 

1861, 17 yrs. 9 mons. 7 ds. 

Abel Clough, 1st N.Y. Dragoons. 

Killed at the battle of 

Cedar Creek 


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Oct. 19, 1864, 31 yrs. My 

husband. 

"Life's battle is over the victory 

won and our loved Abel 

is now enjoying the sweet peace 

of Heaven." 

R.W. Clough, 1836- 

Priscilla Blanchard. his wife, 

1841-1892 

Belle D. Clough, dau. Solomon 

and Minet Bond, wife John 

Clough, March 18, 1828 - Dec. 

6, 1871 

Jane Clough, 1838-1895, wife 

James and Dau. David and 

Mary Powell 

James Clough, Pvt. Co. G. 

87th N.Y. Vols., 1837-1903 

Our Jeannie, dau. Chauncey 

and Abbie C. Clough, d. Aug. 

25, 1869, 5 yrs. 10 mons. 

5 ds. 

* Homer W. Clough, 1869-1957 

Eleanor L. Clough, d. June 

5, 1948, 1864-1948, 84 yrs. 

(children of Silas F. and Lucretia 

W. Clough) 

*Meterologist, U.S. Weather 

Bureau, Washington; Fellow, 

A.A.A.S. 

Deloss Clough, died July 7, 

1908, --yrs. 

Priscilla L. Blanchard, wife 

of Deloss W. Clough, 1841- 

1892 

Ephraim Clough, 1806-1879 

Emeline Fitch, wife, 1806-18- 

94 

Silas F. Clough 1831-1914 

Lucretia N. Woodworth, wife 

of Silas, 1838-1917 

Elmer, son Silas and Lucretia 

1858-1864 - 6 yrs. 3 das. 

Infant son of Silas and Lucretia, 

d. 1857 

Eleaner L. (Nellie) Clough, 

d. June 5, 1948, 84 yrs. (dau.) 

Homer W. Clough, son Silas, 

1869-1957 

Esther Clough Allen Lewis, 

dau. Ephraim, d. July 6, 1902, 

61 yrs. 

Jennie E. Clough, dau. Chauncey 

A. and Abbie C. Clough, 

died Aug. 26, 1869, 5 yrs. 

10 mons. 5 ds. 

Mary Annette Clough, dau. John 

C. and Belva Clough, died Jan. 

15, 1855 3 yrs. 6 mons. 28 ds. 

COBB 

Nancy Jane Cobb, died June 20, 

1916, 92 yrs. 

Caroline M. Cobb, 1830-1901 

COLBURN 

Josiah D. Colburn, 1836-1904 

Fireman 

Charlotte, 1848-1928 

Mr. Colburn was a founder and 

cashier of the Citizens Bank, 

1882- 

COLE 

Roland J., 1902-1964 

Loretta B. Eggert, wife, 1909- 

COLLINS 

George Collins, d. April 8, 19- 

15, 51 yrs. 

COLOROSS 

Philip Coloross, died Oct. 13, 

1925, 56 yrs. 

Louis, 1872-1946 

Florence Aldrich, wife, 1883- 

1971 

COLTON 

John C. Col ton, d. Sept. 7, 18- 

74, 67 yrs. 

Lucretia Brown, wife, died 

March 28, 1896, 80 yrs. 

Little Gardy, son, died July 1, 

1856, 1 yr. 10 mons. (Gardner 

C.) 

"These winds were too rude 

for that delicate flower." 

(John C. Colton, b. Georgia, 

Vt., son Dea. Walter and Thankful 

Cobb Colton.) 

Ellen L., dau. John and L. Colton, 

d. Feb. 4, 1860, 18 yrs. 

10 mons. 2 ds 

"The thought of life and 

death may lead 

us more than all in 

life hath taught." 

COLTON 

(2) Lucretia Brown, wife, John 

C. Colton, was a daughter of 

Samuel and Phebe Rockwell 

Brown, b. Addison, Vt., Married 

in 1835, and came to Arcade 

in 1836. Her dau. was Mrs. 

Sidney Richardson, and gd.-dau. 

Mrs. L.A. Davis. 

Addison Ely Colton, 1803-1883 

(Bro. to John C.) 

Lucy Brown Colton, wife, 1809- 

1894 

(Parents of Jane C. Colton 

Graves.) 

COMFORT 

Richard A., 1916- 

Margaret McNair, wife, 1918- 

CONDE 

Frank Conde, 1847-1921, born 

Wisconsin, son of Simeon P. 

and Minerva Runals Code, a 

carpenter. 

*S.C. Conde, 1849-1936, Fireman 

Ann, wife S.C. Conde, June 7, 

1851 - June 1, 1900, 48 yrs. 

11 mons. 23 ds. (Dau. of David 

Plucker) 

•Sanford Conde 

CONKLIN 

Glen Allen Conklin, died March 

7, 1959, 73 yrs. 

CONLEY 

Cora L. Conley, 1878-1918, 

(Olean) 

CONNORS 

John W. Connors, 1940-1940 


CONSHAFTER 

William G., 1861-1945 

Murta E., wife, 1864-1933. He 

served as Penn. R.R. station 

agent many years. 

COOK 

Seymour C. Cook, son Ebenezer 

W. and Delphia E. Cook, died 

Arcade, Aug. 11, 1858 1 yr. 

1 mon. 

Philander Cook, d. Sept. 8, 18- 

78, 79 yrs. 4 mons. 5 ds. (Mason) 

Esther Granes, wife Philander, 

d. May 17, 1843, 45 yrs. 

*Oscar R. Cook, son, d. Dec. 

28, 1866, 34 yrs. 7 mons. 9 ds. 

(Mason) "To the memory of 

Oscar by Wells" 

•Husband of Mary Powell Cook 

COON 

Elizabeth A., wife, Robert M. 

Coon, and dau. of Charles and 

Etna Backus, d. June 13, 1875, 

33 yrs. 11 mons. 6 ds. 

COOPER 

Ellis B. Cooper, 1890-1935 

Florence Davis, wife, 1891-19- 

27 

Betty Jane, dau., 1921- 

Harry J. 1884-1955 

Jessie L. Brush, wife, 1888- 

1967 

Helen Louise Cooper, died July 

7, 1911, infant (Dau. of Harry 

Cooper) Sandusky 

Doretha Minnie Cooper, June 

3 - June 28, 1910 

Harry B. Cooper, died July 15, 

1907, 68 yrs. 11 mons. 

Mrs. A. Cooper, died Oct. 16, 

1930, 80 yrs. (Anna) Arcade 

CORNWELL 

John Cornwell, d. Jan. 21, 18- 

75, 82 yrs. 4 mons. (Sergeant 

in British Navy) 

Viletty, wife, d. June 29, 1879, 

72 yrs. 9 mons. 13 ds. (Dau. 

of Peter Seaman) 

Clara Cornwall, d. July, 1918, 

74 yrs. 

DUE TO LACK OF SPACE 

THE ARCADE RURAL CEME- 

TERY WILL BE CONTINUED 

IN A FUTURE ISSUE OF THE 

HISTORICAL WYOMING.

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