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She married (2) in West Newark, Tioga Co., N. Y., 26 June, 1867, Henry
Seth (son of William Henry* and Eliza Surdam) Akins, b. 8 June, 1828,
Caneadea, Allegany Co., N. Y. Mechanic. P. 0. address (1884) Speedsville, N. Y.
No children by the second marriage. [They have two adopted children: (i) Orlo
Anthony Baker, b. 11 Oct., 1S70, Newfield, Tompkins Co., N. Y. ; (2) IMartha
Emily Baker, b. 29 Jan., 1873, Newfield, N. Y.] Child (by isl marriage J :
3152. i. Charles Burdette ' (Goodrich), b. 17 July, 1S57, Caroline, X. Y.; married, at Speedsville,
N. v., II Jan. 1S77, Jennie R. Aldrich. He is a mechanic. Res. (1882) Binghamton,
N. V. C/iild: (I) Albert Elizur" (Goodrich), b. 5 Dec. 1879, Speedsville, N. Y.
3153. I\'. William Henry,* b. 3 Jan., 1836; married Hannah Jacobs. Family 439.
3154. V. Edward Leroy,* b. 22 Apr., 183S; married INIanette Smith. Family 440.
[Clarissa Cook, b. i Sept., 1820, was an adopted daughter of Dca. Hiram'
Humphrey, and took his surname. She married Lebbeus H. Wilbur. She died
in July, 1875, at the residence of Mr. Henry S. Akins, in Speedsville, N. Y.j
3'55- Lucius' Humphrey, ['SS+J
FAINHLY 233.
(Roswell,^ WHHam,^ Lieut. Samuel,* Ensign Samuel,^
Lieut. Samuel,- Michael,^) was born 2 July, 17^9, in Canton, Ct. In 1813, he went with his
parents to reside at Caroline, Tompkins Co., N. Y. He married (i) at Speedsville, N. Y., in the
latter part of January, 1820, Caroline (dau. of Allen and Caroline Casef) Woodruff, of Farmington,
Ct., born there, 28 Nov., 1800. She died at Speedsville, N. Y., 12 Mch., 1820, se. 19 years.
She is said to have been very beautiful. He married (2) at Canton, Ct., in- October, 1821, Lydia
Cowles (dau. of Timothy and Lydia Cowles|) Chidsey, of Candor, N. Y., b. 8 May, 1801, in
that part of Farmington which is now Avon, in Hartford Co., Ct. She died at Candor, N. Y.,
II Oct., 1840, ae. 39 years. He married (3) at Owego, N. Y., 17 Apr., 1841, Eliza Maria (dau.
of William and Rachel Taylor) Bell, of Owego, N. Y., b. 15 Mch., 1803, in Ballston,
Saratoga County, N. Y.
Mr. Humphrey, after his second marriage, resided a short time in Ithaca, N. Y. ; removed,
in 1823, to Speedsville; in the winter of 1829-30, to Candor, Tioga Co., N. Y. ; antl, in November,
* William Henry Akins was born in lierkshire County, Mass. He married Eliza Surdam who was born in 1799, at Salisbury, Ct.,
and died at Speedsville, N. Y., 18 Jan. 1839, a;- 39 years.
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t Caroline Case was born 26 Nov. 1776, in Simsbury, Ct. She was a daughter of Sylvanus Case and his second wife, Hcpzlbah
(Merrell) [Humphreyl, widow of William Humphrey, [Family 27, S.) She married Allen WoodruflF, who was bom 29 Aug. 1779, in
Farmington, Ct.: and died in Berkshire, Tioga Co., N. Y., 18 Apr. 1868, x. 88 years. Mrs. Woodruff died in Caroline, Tompkins Co.,
N. Y.,'9 Feb. 1833, X. 56 years. Children:
1. Caroline, b. 28 Nov. 1800; married Lucius Humphrey, (3155).
ii. Savilla, b. 13 Apr. 1805, Farmington, Ct.: d. 9 June, 1820, ae. as years.
iii. Lorinda, b. 5 Oct. 1808, in Connecticut: d. 19 Nov. 1837, ee. 29: married William Douglass,
iv. Thomas, b. 27 Nov. 1811, in Connecticut; d. 17 Sept. 1837, a. 25 years.
V. Laura, b. 10 Jan. 1816, Hamden, Ct.: married, 17 Sept. 1840, William I^wrence. Res. (1884) Owego, N. V.
vi. Calista, b. 12 Oct. 1818, Caroline, N. Y.;—unmarried. Res. (1884) Owego, N. Y., with her sister Mrs. Lawrence.
t Lydia Cowles was the hcrome of the story entitled "The Puritan .^pple-Tree," which was published in the Ilarl/ord Courant
of September 14th, 1S67. It is as follows
"Nearly a century ago, in West Avon, formerly called Northington, Ct., two children, on a Sabbath, in the absence of their
parents, found an apple sprout in the field which they pulled up and set out in the door-yard. The parents on their return, learning
how the little ones had broken the Sabbath, were righteously indignant. The jdant had not only been pulled up, but set out before sundown
! The children were severely reprimanded, and to make the admonition effectual, according to the custom of the good old times,
they were also punished, and with the instrument of transgression. The parents—this time, and before sundown—uprooted the fatal
apple-tree, and gave the children a lively switching with it, and then threw it over the fence into the ditch. The little lolks had now
obtained a personal interest in that apple sprout, and as soon as the sun went down they again carefully set it out in the yard. It re-
mained, and grew to be a great and useful tree, which is now two feet through in the trunk, and still yields a fine crop of apples annually."
Mrs. Lydia (Cowles) Chidsey died in Candor, N. Y., about 1870, aged nearly 100 years. Her husband, Timothy Chidsey, was
bom in Connecticut: and died at Candor, in May, 1840, a;. 70 years.