Historical Wyoming County July 1956 - Old Fulton History

Page 108 July 1956
A REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE (cont.)
and was discharged In 1781 at the close of the war. Trie following
year he married Mehitable 3roughton (1760-1832). They had a son,
Zephen (1787-1860) who uiurried in 1815, Margaret R. Glazier (loOO-
1875)c
Ithurial Flower came to the region west of Gainesville village
and north of Hardy's about the year l806o Family records say that
he died in Gainesville but no trace has been found of his grave or
that of his family. The Gainesville or Silver Springs Pioneer
cemeteries may hold his remains. The 1830 Census lists the names of
Lamrock Flower, Zephon Floxirer, Abraham Flower, and Perl Flower resided
there from an early aay.
Perry Center cemetery contains a monument to James Foskett, a
soldier who died July 31,l8i|5, aged 83 years. His widow, Sarah,
died May 15, 1866, almost 100 years o±d. We are unable to locate a
service record for him. Likewise, little is known about Aaron
Francis who died in Java, LJov„ 22, I8I44, at 79 years, and was buried
in Union Corners Cemetery east of North Java. His name appears on
the pension list for service as a Private in the Massachusetts militia,
and he was first- pensioned from Madison County, N. Y„, from
which place he applied in 1833 when 68 years of age. His stone remains
but that to his wife Ann(or)? is broken and the record incomplete
.
Joacob Franciseus, credited with service as a Private in the
Pennsylvania Continentals, resided in the town of Wales, Erie Co.,
N.Y., but was buried in the Strykersville Pioneer Cemetery. His
year of birth Is given as 1752, but there seems to be uncertainity
as to when he died; one pension list gives the year as 1831, but he
still appeared on the 1833 list. No stone was found in the survey
of the now-abandoned cemetery.
The memory of Nathan Fuller Jrc, who died Nov. 23, 1840, aged
81 years, and of his wife, Hannah (Welch), who died May 22, 1848, at
the age of 82, are commemorated in a tall marble shaft in the West
Grounds of the Warsaw Village Cemetery. He was born in Hebron,Conn,
and died in Gainesville. The couple were married in 1786. He served
as a Private in the Connecticut troops under Col. Ledyard, and was
pensioned in Genesee County in 1833. Their son was William (1789-
1872), who with his wife, Candace (1790-1.858),are buried on the lot.
Confusion has developed over the supposed Revolutionary record
of Solomon Finch, to whom a stone in Grace Cemetery, Castile, was
erected. The inscription states that he died June 23, 1866, at the
age of 96 years. He was a native of i^iew Jersey, Moved to Yates
county, N0Y. and after his second marriage to Pyylura Markham,
moved to Castile. When his widow died in 1880 it was stated that
she was the wife of a Revolutionary soldier who died at an advanced
age. Her age' was 92 years. Cleveland's history of Yates County
says his death occurred In 1855 at 96 years, but states that it was
the father of Solomon who was killed in the Revolution. ,The Finch
Family Association is convinced that Solomon saw no war service although
he may have been born as early as 1759.
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