Historical Wyoming County July 1956 - Old Fulton History

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A REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE (cont.)
costs. Mr« Edgerly frequently said there was nothing he so much regretted
as the loss of the orchard, Frank Roberts, in his Perry
history, stated in 1915 that some of these fine old trees were still
growing on property adjoining Bradford Street.
Mr« Edgerly was pensioned in l8l8, and it was renewed again.
At his death in I83O, it is presumed he may have been interred in
the Pioneer Cemetery where the Public Library now stands. However,
it is thought his remains were taken to Hope Cemetery and are on the
lot with those of Joseph Edgerly who died in l8[|_7. No stone remains
for him or his wife.
In Hope Cemetery, Perry, a stone dedicated to Ann Erickson, who
died April 17, I8I4.I, in her 79th year, bears on its reverse side
mention of Michael Erickson, a Revolutionary Soldier, husband of
Ann, but who died at Monmouth, N. J., Nov. 2, 1815, age 60 years.
We are indebted to Mrs..Hazel B.^Simpson, Sewell,;N. J. .historian,
who searched that state's archives and reported Mr. Erickson to have
been buried in the Old Tenment Cemetery, near Freehold, N. J. For
many years members of the Erickson family were prominent in Perry
and several are buried in Hope Cemetery.
John and James Ewe11
War service by a father and son is also recorded in Wyoming
Village Cemetery, where lie John and James Ewell side by side nearly
under the sheltering branches of a nearby large pine. John Ewell's
death occurred August 15, 1825, at the age of ninety-two, and his
grandchildren dedicated a most unique epitaph to him:
"Here lies our grandfather
Mouldering into dust
And we his grandchildren
Do hope he's gone to rest."
Family records tell that John Ewell Jr. was born in Scituate,
Mass. in 173^. He married Deborah Bates (1737-1801) in 1757. During
the Revolution he was a Private in Capt. Killam's company, Col.
Rufus Putnam's regiment of Massachusetts militia. He came to Middlebury
in 1825 to be with his son, James Ewell, and grandchildren.
After his death in 1826, his widow and second wife returned to the
Bay State.
James Ewell, son of John and grandson of John, is memorialized
by a similar marble as to the parent, both quaintly carved with the
traditional weeping willow. He was born in Scituate, Mass. in 1757,
served in the State Militia under Capt. Joseph Warner, and was wed
to Sarah Holbrook in 1778. Of their thirteen children, ten came to
Middlebury, and all the Ewells in western New York are from these
children. The children were Samuel, Henry, Peleg, Eli, James, John,
Deborah, Mercy, Nancy and Louisa; Deborah married Jonathan Perry,
Mercy married Jeremiah Curtis, Nancy married Cordillo Curtis, and
Louisa became the wife of Dorus Perry.
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