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Jones,
Cornelia A. - The late Charles Jones was born in the township of Darien,
N. Y., April 12, 1829, educated in the common schools and followed
the business of farming. On May 1, 1855, he married Cornelia A. Stiles,
then of Darien; they had three children: Martha E., Clara, and Clarence
who died at the age of twenty-two years. Martha E. married Orlando
W. Reed of Pembroke; they have one daughter, Bessie M.
Clara married Newton Johns of Pembroke; they have one daughter, Bertha.
Mr. Jones died May 31, 1893. His father, Nathaniel Jones, was born
in Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., August 30, 1790, and came here
with his parents in 1810. His grandfather, Levi Jones, was born September
2, 1757. They cut the trees on the Allegany road through the wilderness
from Corfu north for at least two miles. Mrs. Jones's father, Warren
Stiles, was born in Westfield, Mass., May 19, 1802, educated in the
schools of his day and was a farmer; he married Betsey B. Holcomb
of Granby, Conn. The family came to the township of Darien in the
year 1834. Five children were born to them as follows: Mary E., born
at her mother's old home, Simsbury, Conu.; four born in Genesee County,
Cornelia A.. Henry T., Alvira A. and John F. Mr. Stiles died August
14, 1875. One of the forefathers was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary
war; his commission bears date of April 6, 1776. The ancestry of family
is Dutch, Welsh and English. Henry T. and John F. Stiles were both
soldiers in the war of the Rebellion; the first named died there from
exposure.
Source:
Our County and it's people
A descriptive work on Genesee County, New York
Edited by: F. W. Beers
J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890
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