Historical Wyoming County July 1956 - Old Fulton History

Page 112 July 1956
A REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE (cont.)
he and his family left by ox team from Rensselaer 'County, N.Y. for
western New York0 They reached Bristol, N.Y. where he was obliged
to leave his team and family. With a son, Henry, then fourteen, and
Daniel Gates, he struck out on foot to the area of Buffalo Hill,
Sheldon, where he began to clear the forest. He built a cabin, but
in July l801|, he sickened of a fever and died, one of the first
pioneer deaths in this end of the state. The son and family settled
on the claim in October of that year.
Attica Veteran
A weathered and broken stone in Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica,
is dedicated to Eliphalet Hodges, Revolutionary Soldier, who died
March 13, 1849, at 87 years. His wife, Sibyl, died Oct. 11, 1843,
when 86 years old. He was born in Pomfret, Windham Co., Conn« and
died at Attica. His 1832 pension application states that he enlisted
in 1777 at Gloucester, R. I., under Col. Crary and served two years;
again in 1779, at Wilbraham, Mass., he enlisted for three months,
serving under Capt. King, and was in New York State. Finally, he
volunteered in Nov. 1779 at Pomfret, finally being discharged in
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