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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 459
January, 1865; tAvice promoted for bravery; served as colonel of regiment
over a year.
A brief biographical sketch of Gen. Henry LaAvton is given in the
history of Margaretta ToAvnship.
Garry Bard Hyde
Son of Daniel Hyde
&
Eunice Bard Hyde
Born in Oxford, Conn., May 1st, 1795.
Married July! 7th, 1831,
To
('aroline Wooster—Daughter
(born in Oxford, Conn.,
September 17th, 1812) of
Joseph Wooster, Jr.
and
Elizabeth Ann.Hull.
In the spring of 1833. G. B. Hyde, wife and infant son, Henry
Wooster. left Oxford, Connecticut. Avith Chicago as their intended destination.'
They journeyed from Buffalo by steamboat to Huron, Ohio.
Avhere they stopped for a feAV days 1 visit at the home of his brother,
Merrieft Hyde, who resided at\ Wakeiiiaii, Ohio. They Avent from Huron
by Avagon. They engaged a'driver AVIIO bad a double team. They left
Huron late in the afternoon. The trail AVIIS through a thickly Avooded
country, rough and muddy roads. When about an hour's drive from
Huron tA\o men sprang out of the bushes and seized the horses' bridles.
The driver gave the horses smart cuts. and. leaping fonvard, they caused
the men to loosen their hold, when the driver lashed the horses into a
run. Continuing to run for scA'eral miles, mother recognized the tAvo
men as the party she had noticed folloAving them around while they Avere
in Huron. She AVIIS greatly terrified during the entire ride as they did
not arrive at Wakeinan until about midnight and the woods Avere dark
aTuTdisiiial. and it AVIIS the latter part of March. They Avere persuaded
to abandon their journey to Chicago, and he purchased a farm in Vermillion
Township. He cleared the farm, selling the Avood in Huron
to steamboats. He AA'as the pioneer vineyardist in Northern Ohio. He
AVIIS reared in the Church of England, the Episcopal, of which church
his ancestors had been members for many generations.
His ancestors settled in Fairfield. Connecticut, about 1669. Humphrey
Hyde coming over at that time. Subsequently, Mr. Hyde removed near
Athens, Alabama, Avhere he passed away August 8, 1879. He sleeps
in the XCAV Garden Cemetery. Mrs. Hyde returned from Alabama to
make her home\i Toledo, from 1882 until 1891. She departed this life
August 14. 1902?lt Waco, Texas, where she Avas buried.
' Henry, the oldlst son. sleeps in Chester. Florida. Daniel Bard found
rest in a cemetery lhvChicago. The four daughters are yet living. Hen-