Historical Wyoming County July 1956 - Old Fulton History

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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. (continued on pagel09)
July 1956 Page 1? 5 A REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE (cont.J Major Joslah Gardner Still erect in the Vernal Cemetery, east of the Attica- Middle bury line and the East Transit Line of the Holland Purchase, is a marble slab to the memory of "Major Josiah Gardner, Died June 29, 1843; Aged 88 yrs„ Here rests a soldier of the Revolution." The burial site has been long neglected and is overgrown and the tombstones scattered. Born at Brimfield, Mass., he enlisted in August 1776 from South Brimfield and served four months in Capt. Jehiel Munger's company under Col. Woodbridge's Massachusetts Regiment. Again, in May 1777, he enlisted as a Private in Capt. Caleb Keep's company with Col. William Shepherd commanding. He made application for a pension Wo. 13,126, Oct. 16, 1832, when 77 years old, and was allowed >#36.66 per annum. This claim was located in the National Archives by the late Miss Miriam Edwards, Attica archivist. He died at Attica. Quite probably Gardner's rank of Major came from the State Militia, possibly in New York- State as he came to Attica about l8ll or 1812. His wife was Katherine Penton. The biographical review of Livingston and Wyoming counties claims that Major Gardner was an officer of the Continental Army, for which no proof was found, and was a man of substance and a farmer of good circumstances in the East. Major Gardner died at the home of his grandson, Patrick R. Gardner. The Veteran accompanied his son Asher and family into Attica, and the grandson Patrick, born in 1812, was said to have been the very first white male child born in that section of town. The biographical sketch further states that Major Gardner was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature and was on Washington's staff. Again, we have no substantiation for these claims. Samuel Gates, Pioneer of Perry About the career of Samuel- Gates is woven one of the most robust tales of hardship and pioneering that befell any local veteran of the War for Independence. It is a tale of inspiration and challenge. Gates was born in Colchester, i\lew London County, Connecticut, in 1752, and at the age of twenty-three enlisted and was under the command of General Gates at Saratoga and witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne. Writing in 1879, his old friend Amos Otis recorded his later career in the following manner: "Immediately after the War he shipped on board a vessel and made a voyage to the West Indies under command of Capt. John McCarty, and on the outward bound voyage they were overwhelmed by a violent thunderstorm, a perfect hurricane with mountainous; waves.. cthey finally rode out the storm and reached port. They freighted their ship with rum, sugar and molasses and returned safely. The experience cured Mr. Gates of seafaring life. "The next spring, Gates shouldered a knapsack and started for the far West...went as far as Canajoharie, N.Y., then the western (continued on page 110)
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