Edward1 Fuller came
to American aboard the Mayflower in 1620. The story of the Pilgrims
had been memorialized and is a traditional American story often retold
each Thanksgiving time. Fuller descendants abound across the United
States. Keeping track of them all, requires endless effort.
The earliest generations of
this group have been documented, so only the merest outline will be included
here. Edward1 Samuel2 and Samuel3 resided in Rehoboth, MA.
The next generation Barnabas4 Fuller married Elizabeth Young. They
lived in Barnstable, MA. Samuel5 Fuller also of Barnstable wed as a second
wife Lydia Conant Lovell on 20 December 1727. On 18 September 1733
Lot6 Fuller was born. In 1759 at Colchester, Tolland Co., CT Lot6
married Rachel Webster.
Lot6 and Rachel had a son Lot7
born 6 May 1760 in Bolton, CT. This family removed to Sandisfield,
MA by 1769 when they were admitted to the church there.
Lot6 served in the militia
9 June to 1 December 1756 during the French and Indians War. Sons
Simeon7 and Lot7 enlisted during the Revolution as privates.
Lot7 served in September 1776 when Burgoyne was taken. He also served
in July 1778. Overall his term in the militia was considered to have
been seven months.
Lot7 wed 11 January 1787 Submit
Jones. They had ten children. His mother Rachel died 28 February
1812, age 75 at Sandisfield, but by then Lot7, his brother Simeon7 and
their families had gone west to settle on a track of land now called the
Steuben Patent.
Baron Steuben of Revolutionary
War fame was awarded 16,000 acres of land in Oneida County, NY. He
leased tracts to soldiers and their families. When he found a worthy
soldier he would give them 40 to 100 acres. Simeon7 received a farm
directly from the Baron which in 1932 was still owned by Fuller descendants.
There was an historical marker by the house. Simeon7 and his wife
Wealthy Woodward and some children were buried in the property.
Six square miles of this patent
comprised the town of Steuben, NY. This area was famous for Steuben
butter made from the milk of cows grazing on prime pastureland. Steuben
historians frequently mentioned Simeon7 and his children, but Lot7 lived
on land that later was made into the town of Floyd, NY.
In the 1800 through 1820 Oneida
County census Lot7 resided at Floyd where most of his children were born.
The records reveal Lot7 served on a jury in 1801. On 11 September
1832 he applied for a Revolutionary War Pension as did his brother Simeon7.
Each brother vouched for the other. Lot7 was placed on the pension
roll 2 May 1833. He received an annual pension of $23.33. He
was still on the roll in 1840. He died on 18 November 1845.
His namesake son Lot8 Fuller,
born 11 March 1804, married Eliza Ann Potter on 10 December 1827.
She was the daughter of John and Hannah Potter of Floyd. By 1850
the couple resided in Hastings, Oswego Co., NY. Lot8 ran a farm.
His net worth was $2000, less than most farmers in the area. The
1850 census enumerated Lott [sic], age 45; Eliza A., age 40; and children:
Sarah J., age 13; Montgomery, age 12; and John W., age 6; and Maria, age
3.
This couple had a daughter
Margaret who died 1 September 1851, age 9 months. Her stone, in the
Allen Cemetery at Hastings, identified her. There was another stone for
Harrison Fuller, age 11 months, who may have been their child.
As in so many families of the
time, son Montgomery, age 23 on 15 September 1861, enlisted in Co. C of
the 101st Infantry Regiment New York. The 101st were known as the
Onondaga Regiment. They first saw battle on 7 March 1862. They
fought in various small battles, but then participated at Second Bull Run.
Montgomery was transferred
to Co. A, 40th Infantry Regiment on 29 May 1863. This unit suffered
the second highest losses of men killed and wounded of all the NY regiments.
Its major engagements were at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House,
Cold Harbor and Petersburg, VA. On 1 March 1865 Montgomery was promoted
to a full corporal. He was mustered out on 27 June 1865 in Washington,
D.C.
Returning home Montgomery became
a farmer. He wed Palmyra ____. In the Hasting 1870 census Montgomery,
age 31, was head of household with wife Palmirch [sic], age 26, and three
month old Ina May Fuller. He had a net worth of $2700. On 16
July 1870 Montgomery was approved to receive pension #881596.
In the same census father
Lot8 had a net worth of $6200. Lot, age 64, continued farming with
wife Eliza, age 62 and children: John, age 26, and Annette, age 23.
Lot8 lost his wife Eliza on
28 July 1877 when she was 70. She was buried in the Allen Cemetery.
In the same year Montgomery Fuller’s wife Palmyra died and also was laid
to rest at Allen. Her stone said “1844-1877.”
Montgomery remained a farmer.
He remarried a widow Jane_____ Austin of Canadian parentage. By the
1880 Hastings census Montgomery, age 41, and his wife Jane, age 36, were
in a combined household of Palmyra’s children: Ina, age 9; Florence, age
7; Hattie, age 5; plus stepdaughter Ida Austin, age 17; and a nephew William
Simpson, age 14. Ida taught school.
By the 1880 Hastings census
Lot8 was head of household for his son John’s family. John W. had
wed Hannah A. ____. They had three children. The enumeration
showed:
Fuller, Lot-76-farmer-NY
Fuller, John W.-36-farmer-NY
Fuller, Hannah A.-29-wife-NY
Fuller, Millie E.-8-granddaughter-IL
Fuller, Charley R.-4-grandson-NY
Lott [sic] –11 months-grandson-NY
In the 1900 Hastings census John
W.’s family had expanded. John, born September 1844, was head of
household with wife Hannah, born October 1850. This couple had been
married for 30 years. Hannah stated she had born 9 children with
only five surviving. Their oldest son Charles, born August 1874,
lived apart while working as a barber. The other children were Lot
E., born July 1878; Edith S., born June 1881; John, Jr., born August 1889;
and Floyd F., born March 1891.
Brother Montgomery, born September
1837, was married in 1900 for 22 years to Jane, born August 1841.
She declared she had one child who was still living. Living in the
household was daughter Harriet, born February 1875. Unmarried she
taught school.
The Allen Cemetery contained
three more Fuller stones for children who died young. It remains
unclear whether Montgomery or John W. was the father of each child.
These stones were for “Anna Fuller/1873-1874”; “Thomas Fuller/1877-1879”;
and “Clarence Fuller/1888-1889.” The last marked Fuller burial was
for “Montgomery Fuller/Co. B 40th Regt. NY Vols./1838-1910.”
After Montgomery’s death in
1910 his widow Jane received a pension #713956 for his Civil War service
beginning 21 September 1911.
John W.’s son Charles R., age
43, was enumerated in the 1920 Hastings census. He was a dairy farmer.
He had married Edna S. ______, age 33. Their children were Theo R.,
age 15; Lot E., age 13; Ella R., age 8; and Charles H., age 4.
Charles, Edna, Lot10, Ella
and Charles H. all lived together on Fulton Rd. in the 1930 Hastings census.
Now in the 21st century generations 13 and 14 have been added to these
Mayflower descendants.
In virtually every town in
19th century Oswego County there were Fuller families most of whom were
Mayflower descendants. Therefore, they were all cousins of some degree,
but not closely related. All of Edward Fuller’s descendants are eligible
to apply to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants in Plymouth, MA.
Information can be found online about the society.
SOURCES:
Allen Cemetery, Rte. 49, Town
of Hastings, Oswego Co., NY. Available [online] https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyoswego/towns/hastings/allencemetery.html
[10 March 2004].
American Civil War Soldiers.
Available [online] http://ancestry.com
[10 March 2004].
Civil War Pension Index.
Available [online] http://ancestry.com
[9 March 2004].
Congregational Church Records,
Sandisfield, Massachusetts, 1756-1905. (LDS microfilm #0234572 item
1).
Fuller, William Hyslop.
Genealogy of Some Descendants of Dr. Samuel Fuller. Palmer: Fiske,
1910.
Fuller Cemetery. Available
[online] https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyoneida/cemeteries/steuben/fuller.html.
[7 March 2004].
International Genealogical
Index. Available [online] http://familysearch.com
[9 March 2004].
MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell.
Edward Fuller. Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
1990.
Military Records Revolutionary
War Pension Lists. Available [online] http://www.genealogy.com
[9 March 2004].
New York Pensions, 1835.
Available [online] http://ancestry.com
[8 March 2004].
“Steuben.” Roman Citizen
newspaper , Rome, NY 3 July 1850.
U.S. Census, Floyd, Oneida
Co., NY 1800, 1820 & 1840.
U.S. Census, Steuben, Oneida
Co., NY 1800, 1820 & 1830.
U.S. Census, Hastings, Oswego
Co., NY 1850, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920 & 1930.
Wager, Daniel E.
Our County And Its People. Boston: Boston History, 1896.
WorldConnect Project.
Available [online] http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com
[9 March 2004].
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Biography
of Rev. George Grout Hapgood,
Mexico, NY
Shradrach Hapgood was born in England
during 1642. When he was 14 he embarked at Gravesend for New England.
On 21 October 1664 he wed Elizabeth Treadway. They had a son Tho
Hapgood on 1 February 1670 at Sudbury, MA. On 2 August 1675 Shradrack
was killed by Indians at Brookfield.
Tho wed Judith Hapgood. They
had another Tho born on 16 April 1702 at Marlborough, MA. Tho Sr.
lived a long successful life, dying on 4 October 1763.
Young Tho wed Damaris Hutchens.
Their son Seth was born on 20 October 1732. They lived in Shewsbury,
MA where Tho died 5 October 1745 well before his father.
Seth Hapgood married 31 May 1757
to Lydia Bowker. They resided in Petersham, MA where Seth died on
23 April 1804. They had two sons. One of whom was Eber Hapgood,
born on 5 August 1770.
Eber wed on 13 July 1803 Dolly Grout,
born 1 May 1772. She was the daughter of Jonathan Grout and Sarah
Page. Sarah was the daughter of Governor Page of New Hampshire.
Jonathan Grout, born 23 July 1737 in Lunenburg, MA, settled at Petersham
on a farm owned by Gov. Page. Jonathan served in the French War by
carrying dispatches. He was at the Siege of Boston in the early days
of the Revolution. In 1789 he was elected a member of the first Congress
of the United States of America. He was a friend of President George
Washington. At this point Jonathan was described as “very fleshy”,
of medium height and fair complexion. He was deemed handsome.
Jonathan at one time owned 40,000 acres of land in Vermont and New Hampshire.
He left a large estate of which his heirs were cheated out of. He
died at Dover, NH.
Eber and Dolly had seven children.
Their oldest son was George Grout Hapgood born on 11 February 1804.
Eber was described as a good citizen, a kind neighbor, industrious and
pious man. He died on 6 July 1861. Dolly died 16 July 1822.
Genealogist Abner Morse suggested
George G. Hapgood, whom he described as a superior man because he had a
“superior mother, distinguished in her time for education and refinement,
ingenuity and enterprise, and in her latter days for the consecration of
herself to God in a profession of religion and of her children in the ordinance
of baptism.”
George grew up working on the farm
having a sketchy education in local schools. At age 18 the doctors
said he would die of consumption (TB). While ill he began his interest
in religion. His consumption disappeared by 21 when he began to long
for more education. He attended Amherst. In 1827 he taught
for six months at Cazenovia, NY where he entered the Oneida Conservatory
Seminary to study for two years. In 1830 he entered the senior class
of Union College and graduated.
George then taught school in Truxton,
NY. In 1834 he entered the ministry as a junior preacher on the Bainbridge
Circuit for a year. Then he became the principal of the Mexico Academy
at Mexico, Oswego County, NY where he remained for five years. Then
the family removed to Cazenovia where for four years he was the principal
of the Seminary. He returned later for two more years as principal
at the Mexico Academy.
Next he preached at Jordan, NY, Oswego,
NY and then on to Belleville, Canada. By 1850-4 George was the presiding
Elder of the Syracuse District and of the Oswego District in 1855-6 when
sickness struck his wife. He felt he must resign and live at Fairfield,
Herkimer co., NY. He did live at Fairfield in 1857.
In 1852 he had received his Doctor
of Divinity from Union College. He began to publish various papers
and books on topics both religious and otherwise.
George married on 28 October 1830
Marcia McGraw, daughter of Samuel McGraw of McGrawville. The McGraws
came originally from Dublin. Marcia was born 3 January 1811.
She became the mother of ten children. Her second son Charles, born
17 June 1834, died young on 6 August 1834 at Guilford, NY. This baby
was buried in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
Their fifth child also called Charles,
born 18 October 1838, died 17 October 1839 at Cazenovia. This child
was also buried in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
Their eighth child, Emeline Angeline,
born 2 September 1845, died 26 September 1845. She too was buried
in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
The family was enumerated in the
1850 Ellisburgh, Jefferson Co., NY census. Note the census worker
listed only the birthplace of the head of household.
Hapgood, George –46-ME Clergyman-MA
Hapgood, Marcia –39-wife
Hapgood, Marcia E. –15-daughter
Hapgood, Mary F. –13-daughter
Hapgood, Harriet E. –10-daughter
Hapgood, Catharine –7-daughter
Hapgood, Charles –3-son
Hapgood, George W. –18-son
On 29 November 1852 the oldest son George
Washington Hapgood died at Oswego. He supposedly spoke these last
words, “Death is a joy.” He was buried in Mexico Village Cemetery.
As if these early deaths of their
children were not enough, Marcia died 2 April 1855, crying out, “Saved,
saved, saved.” She was buried with her children at the Mexico Village
Cemetery.
Two years later young Marcia Elizabeth,
born 16 June 1835 at Mexico, died 1 March 1857 at Fairfield, reportedly
saying, “Jesus come.” She was buried with the rest of the family
in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
The oldest surviving daughter Mary
Francis, born 24 April 1837 at Mexico, died 4 April 1862 at Boonville,
NY. She was buried in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
From Boonville Rev. George
removed his family to Martinsburg, NY. The next year he was living
at Madrid, NY and then in Waddington, St. Lawrence Co., NY. After
that he went to Jordan where he saw his daughter Harriet Ellen Hapgood
become principal of the academy.
While in Belleville, Canada he was
Professor of Ancient Literature at Albert University until 1874.
He left this post to join the faculty at Syracuse University as Professor
of Hebrew. There he became ill. He was tended to by his three
daughters and his son, Charles Henry.
On 27 April 1876 seated in an easy-chair
with his doctor at his side, he married his daughter Harriet Ellen Hapgood
to Madison Paul Sawyer of Nashua, NH. She was his first child to
marry. The couple then took up residence for a time in Brooklyn,
NY.
After the ceremony on May 4 he was
taken to Charles Henry’s home in Apulia (near Fabius), NY where he died
on 17 May. His body was interred at the Mexico Village Cemetery with
the Mexico Academy Trustees acting as pallbearers. He was laid to
rest next to his wife Marcia (McGraw) Hapgood.
Charles Henry had removed to
Apulia to open a store which became quite successful for nearly twenty
years. He had studied with his father intending to follow in his
footsteps, but lack of money prevented his further education. Instead
he entered the dry-goods trade in Syracuse. He devoted his spare
time to studying law until he set out to operate his own store at Apulia.
His sister Rosalette, born 25, 1850,
married 28 July 1878 at Apulia Frank Wheelock, an engineer. She was
always described as a good scholar, teacher and musician. She was
considered “sweet” by her relatives. After her marriage in July she
died in Apulia on 1 December of the same year. She was buried at
Mexico Village Cemetery as R. Lettie Hapgood Wheelock.
Charles H. remained in Apulia operating
his dry-goods store and being the local postmaster. The 1880 Fabius
census showed Charles, age 33, and his sister Little E., age 26, living
together. Eventually Catharine (Kittie) left to teach in Brooklyn.
Later Charles’ health became so poor
he sold out his business. But like so many men the inactivity bored
him, so in about a year he returned to the store. He died of apoplexy
(heart failure) on 8 January 1895. He had never married. He was buried
in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
On 29 August 1895 at Brooklyn sister
Catharine Emma Hapgood, born 10 June 1843, married Howell Negus Webster,
a widower with six children. She joined him on his farm in Fabius,
NY. She had no children of her own.
Daughter Harriet Ellen (Hapgood)
Sawyer was the only child of George and Marcia to have children.
In the 1880 Nashua, NY census Harriet and her family lived with her in-laws.
Sawyer, James M. –57-farmer-NH
Sawyer, Jane T. –60-wife-NH
Sawyer, Madison P. –34-son-NH
Sawyer, Hattie E. –30-daughter-in-law-NY
Sawyer, George H. –6 months-grandson-NH
George Hapgood Sawyer was born
20 November 1879 at Nashua. On 13 February 1883 his brother James
Madison Sawyer was added to the family. A daughter Kittie Clark Sawyer,
born 2 September 1884 at Grafton, NH, died 11 August 1885. Harriet
died in 1907. She was returned to Mexico Village Cemetery where she
was the last of the family to be interred.
Harriet’s son James M. Sawyer
wed Mary E. _____. In 1920 they lived at Canterbury, CT on a farm.
They were childless. Mary E. was the daughter of German immigrants.
By 1930 the couple, still farming, resided at Eastford, CT. James
was 47 and Mary 45. They were still childless.
SOURCES:
Cemetery Census of the Town of Mexico,
Oswego County, New York. Mexico: Mexico Historical Society, 2002.
Hapgood, Warren. Hapgood Family
Genealogy. Boston: 1898.
History of the Town of Fabius.
Available [online] https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyononda/FABIUS/FABHIST.HTM
[13 April 2004].
Morse, Abner. The Grout Family.
Boston: 1857.
U.S. Census, Canterbury, Windham
Co., CT 1920.
U.S. Census, Eastford, Windham Co,
CT 1930.
U.S. Census, Nashua, Hillsborough
Co., NH 1880.
U.S. Census, Ellisburgh, Jefferson
Co., NY 1850.
U.S. Census, Fabius, Onondaga Co.,
NY 1880.
WorldConnect Project. Available
[online] http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com
[13 April 2004].
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Biography
of Joseph M. House,
Parish, Richland
& Mexico, NY
John Christian Hauss/House
came from Alten-Staden, Germany to England then to America with the Reverend
Joshua Kocherthal immigrants, the first Germans to arrive in the colonies.
His name can be found on the Hunter Lists which said that he arrived in
July 1710 with four persons over 10 and 3 under 10. These immigrants
began their new lives in West Camp, Ulster Co., NY, but they soon were
taken to Albany Co., NY just up the Hudson River. In 1717 he was
recorded as a resident of Neu-Husberg which later was called Fox Town,
a place where the Old Stone Fort now stands (Stone Arabia, Montgomery Co.,
NY). On 26 August 1725 land was transferred to Christian and Henderick
Klock. He was naturalized to status as a British colonial in 1715.
His wife was recorded as Maria Catharine _____. All these German
immigrants are now called Palatine Families. They all worshipped
in German Reform Churches which they established throughout the Mohawk
River Valley.
Georg Hauss born in Germany
ca. 1690 came with his father to America. He married Maria Catharina
Ehrhardt who was baptized 5 November 1711 at Stone Arabia, NY. The children
of Georg have not been documented with certainty, but among the supposed
children was Conrad Hauss born ca. 1730. Many supposed descendants
of John Christian and Georg resided at Stone Arabia throughout the 18th
century. Several Houses fought in the Revolutionary War which raged
fiercely in their area. Conrad Hauss, sometime after 1768 when his
son Johann Jost House was baptized on 1 September 1768 at the Reformed
Church in Stone Arabia where the family had membership, left Montgomery
Co. and removed to Otsego County one and a half miles east of Richland
Springs. His cabin stood on a trail between Albany and Federal Corners.
Indians also used this trail.
During the Revolutionary War Indians, who were on the British side, visited
the House cabin. Mrs. Engelge House escaped into the woods, but a
13-year old daughter was caught and carried off. After several
years she reappeared with a child fathered by her Indian captor.
This child was called Mary Manton. She became well-lnown in the area.
She stayed visible until 1812 when she disappeared. Conrad and his
family lived in Richfield all during the Revolution.
Conrad’s son Jonathan Joseph
House, born ca. 1760, may have served in the Revolutionary War. Family
records place him at the Battle of Oriskany as Lt. John Joseph House, but
a 17-year old lad was unlikely to have been a lieutenant. John Joseph
was probably Jonathan’s cousin.
Jonathan married first ca,
1778 Lena Van Slyke who had nine children and secondly ca. 1793 Rhoda _____
who had at least one child. Two of Lena’s children were baptized
at the German Reform Church in German Flatts, NY. These records were
under the name Hauss. Engelge, born on 6 June 1784, and Abraham,
born 25 April 1786, were baptized. The baptisms for the rest of the
children were not located. Son Nicholas was born ca. 1786/88.
Family records say Jonathan was buried in Richfield Springs. Around
1800 their German family name became House in public records.
Conrad House still resided
in 1800 and 1810 census at Otsego, Otsego Co., NY. He must have died
between 1810 and 1820. In the 1820 census his son Abram lived at
Otsego, but in 1830 Abram resided in Oswego County at Parish, NY.
His brother Nicholas G. resided at Amboy, NY where he married a woman named
Margaret ______. They had one son Henry, born in 1832 and three daughters
born between 1820-1825, according to the 1840 Amboy census. In 1850 Nicholas
G., a farmer, age 64, with his wife Margaret, age 58, lived with son Henry,
age 18, a cooper. Family records indicate that Nicholas died ca.
1857. By 1880 Henry, still residing in Amboy, a farmer at age 48,
had married Mary D., age 45. Their children were Friend H., age 17;
Oscar, age 17; Fowler C., age 10; and Ola T., age 6. Also in residence
were Adam Christman, age 77 and Lanie Christman, age 78 who were called
uncle and aunt. Henry died during 1900 in West Amboy, NY.
Abram married Nancy Hannah
Mabie, a daughter of David Mabie and Nancy. They had 12 children:
Andrew, Philana Hannah, Joseph M., David, Simon, Caroline, Abraham W.,
Alonzo, Leonard, Norman, Conrad and Emily Catherine, residing in Parish,
NY. Nancy Mabie died 4 October 1856. Abram died 20 March 1865,
age 79. They were both buried in Bidwell Road Cemetery at Parish, NY along
with some of the children of their son, Alonzo and his wife Maria.
Family records give Joseph
M.’s birth as 17 September 1813, but the 1860 Richland census put his age
as 42 or born ca. 1818. The 1880 Mexico census gave his age as 65
or born ca. 1815. Joseph was a farmer who wed Eliza Wright, born
ca. 1815. They had four children: (ages from 1860 census) Stanley
J., age 21; Mary, age 12; Jenny, age 9; and Charles, age 6. Joseph
and his family were not enumerated in any New York census in 1850.
Both Mary and Jenny throughout their lives always stated they were born
in New Jersey. It has not been possible to establish why Joseph may
have been over 300 miles south of Oswego County during the 1840’s.
By 1870 Joseph removed to Mexico,
NY. His daughters were married and out of the home as was Stanley
J. Only Charles, age 16, remained with his parents. The census
records need careful reading as the handwriting is poor. The record
has been misread by modern transcribers. Joseph and Eliza were both
56 years old
In 1880 all of Joseph and
Eliza’s children were out of the home. The reason that Joseph moved
to Mexico from Richland seemed to be to live next door to Theodore Gothier
who wed Joseph’s daughter Mary Winifred House on 24 March 1869 at Colosse,
a section of Mexico inhabited by early French immigrants. The Gothiers
had four children, but only two daughters survived. Minnie Gothier
died in 1890 at age 20. Bertie Gothier died as an infant in 1874.
Theodore died in 1908 at age 59. Mary W. died in 1913 at age 65.
These four were buried in the Maple View Cemetery, Mexico, NY.
Maude E. Gothier, born 22 September
1877, wed Burdette E. Snyder ca. 1901. They had a daughter Winifred
E. Snyder born ca. 1909. As of 1900 they resided at 1408 1st N. St.,
Syracuse, NY. Maude died after 1911. Mabel B. Gotheir, born
24 June 1880, married _____ Quintal.
Joseph and Eliza’s daughter
Jennie Lynn House, born 18 October 1850, wed Lavillier Willis. They
had five children.
The youngest son, Charles W.
House, born 3 September 1854, married in 1878 Emily Webb, daughter of John
Webb. They had one child: Ethel L. Charles with his brother
Stanley in 1873 organized The Colosse Coronet Band. The people of
Mexico for years were extremely proud of its Coronet Band. Members
were required to sign a contract not to drink liquor while playing.
This contract certainly suggests that the House Family were devoted “drys”.
Charles worked on the New York,
Ontario, and Western & West shore Railroad Line. Later he taught
school in Pennsylvania for seven years. Then the couple spent 14
years in Bound Brook, NJ. Next they resided for 13 years at Holmesville,
NY where he farmed. Lastly they removed to Mexico where they lived
in the 1920. His daughter Ethel married George Young and had three
children.
Stanley J. House resided at
Red Mill west of Parish. He was the well-known owner of a sawmill
and a leader in the lumber industry of the area. He wed Louisa M.
Smith. They had four children: (ages from 1880 census) Hattie, age
15; Frederick W., age 11; Laura, age 8 and Nellie, age 4. Louisa
died in 1884. Stanley J. died in 1926. They were both buried
in the Maple View Cemetery. He had a second wife named Nellie Holdridge
Drake and a third called Helen True.
Joseph M. House died in 1893.
His wife’s tombstone gave her full name: “ElizaWright House, d. 1893”.
She was age 74. They were also buried in the Maple View Cemetery.
Stanley and Louisa’s daughter
Hattie married George H. Sampson. George was the son of Asa L. Sampson.
George and Hattie had three children. Hattie died in 1896.
George remarried Minnie C. Drake. He died in 1937. George and
Hattie were buried in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
Hattie’s sister Laura E. House
wed first Arch G. Harter and secondly Frank Everts. Laura Eliza died
in 1923. She was buried at the Mexico Village Cemetery.
The youngest sister Nellie
A. wed Ralph C. Thomas. They had two children. Nellie died
in 1952. Ralph died a year later. They were both laid to rest
in the Mexico Village Cemetery.
Frederick W. House, Stanley’s
son, born 11 December 1868, wed Myrtis Hatch. They had two children:
Hazel and Harry. Hazel, born 4 December 1892, wed William Weaver
and Roscoe Stanard. There was one Weaver child and two Stanard heirs.
Harry House, born 7
January 1898, married _______ Carlton. They had two children.
In the 1930 Mexico census Frederick, a farmer, age 61, lived with his wife
Myrtis, age 57. Also with them was Eva Hatch, age 79, Myrtis’ mother.
There were other House relatives
in Oswego County. Some were also descendants of Conrad Hauss of Otsego
County. Not every House family in New York State were of Palatine
origin. There are many Houses of English birth who arrived in New
England in the 17th century. Some of these descendants lived in Herkimer
County. Tracing the various lines requires effort as the naming and
renaming of each generation with the same names causes confusion. It would
be helpful to recall the Oswego line of Joseph M. House never included
the House cousins of Minden, NY. The line ran basically Stone Arabia to
Otsego to Parish, NY.
SOURCES:
Bidwell Road Cemetery, Parish,
Oswego County, New York. Available [online] http://searches.rootsweb.com
[23 December 2003].
Cemetery Census of the Town
of Mexico, Oswego County, New York. Mexico: Mexico Historical Society,
1984.
Churchill, John. Landmarks
of Oswego County, New York. Syracuse: Mason, 1895.
From the Simmendinger Register.
Available. [online] https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyschoharie/simmen.html
[20 December 2003].
Greene, Nelson. The
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Biography
of Schenck Family in
Granby/Fulton,
NY
In 1950 before the Oswego Historical
Society (OHS) on 31 October in Fulton, William Schenck presented a paper,
“Reminiscences of Fulton.” In this paper Schenck included biographies
of his maternal and paternal families, both of which helped to settle and
civilize Oswego County. The Falleys were from New England of English
origin and the Schencks were Dutch from New Amsterdam.
For descendants the material
remains invaluable and unique. However, there have been problems
for modern researchers. One difficulty had been a availability.
The Oswego Historical Society Publications, v. 30 (1950) is not found easily.
There is a copy on microfiche at the LDS Library in Salt Lake, but most
local libraries out of New York State do not have this item in their collections.
The other problem regards the sourcing. Mr. Schenck wrote his paper
from memory and family items he owned. He did not include a bibliography.
(None of the articles in the OHS publication used a bibliography.)
Mr. Schenck said, “I have
my father’s scrap book of newspaper clippings, historical and biographical,
as he corrected and annotated them – and a History of Oswego County quoting
my grandfather as to some matters – and a History of Fulton which describes
Fulton as I knew it in 1901. I also have many original letters dating
from 1812 onwards.
“I also have some vivid personal
recollections of reminiscences of the last of the early Schenck settlers
in this area as heard in my boyhood days at the family gatherings in the
home of my grandmother on Sunday afternoons.”
To assist those researching
the Schencks, a new biographical sketch has been assembled, done with more
detail where necessary and without political observations used by Mr. Schenck,
a man of opinion. The data includes sources.
In Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
on 16 September 1620 Roelof Martense Schenck was born. He immigrated
to New Amsterdam where ca. 1675 he wed Annetje Wyckoff who had five children.
His second wife was Neeltje Genetse Van Kouvenhoven. Roelof died
ca. 1794 in Flatlands, Kings Co., NY.
Roelof and Neeltje’s son Garret
Roelfse Schenck, born 27 October 1671 in Flatlands, NY, wed ca. 1693 Neeltje
Coertse Van Voorhees. They had eleven children.
Roelof Garretse Schenck was
their son, born on 27 April 1697 at Flatlands. In 1718 he wed Engeltje
Jacobus Van Doren from Brooklyn. They married at Penn’s Neck, Mercer
Co., NJ where they resided having a family of 11 children.
Their youngest son John, born
3 February 1739/40, wed Maria Van Doren on 12 November 1763. He served
in the Revolutionary War as a captain of the militia. They lived
at Penn’s Neck for many years, a location near Princeton, NJ. One
of their children, Jacob, born 19 January 1773, wed Maria Lott, born 28
July 1774. Her great grandson, William Schenck called her Anna Lett
or Grandmother Lett. In trying to verify the correct name, no Lett records
of relevance were found, but there was a Lott family living near the Schencks
in Flatlands, NY.
Jacob and Maria/Anna left New
Jersey and moved about New York State. For a time the family lived
at Oswasco, Cayuga Co., NY. But in 1808 Jacob visited Granby, Oswego
Co., NY where he purchased part of lot 74. The family, however, did
not move there until 1811. They had nine children with them.
Their children in 1811 were John, age 17; Peter, age 15; Anna, age 13;
William, age 11; Isaac, age 9; Mary, age 7; Daniel, age 5; Sarah, age 3;
and Phoebe, age 1. Later there were three more births: Caroline,
Alfred and George.
Jacob built a house at Granby
of poles which were covered with broad pine boards to make four rooms.
This place stood on the west side of the Oswego River which today is West
1st Street in Fulton which in those days was called Oswego Falls.
Son Daniel arrived last in
1815. He had been apprenticed and required to work a certain number
of years. His apprenticeship likely occurred in Auburn, NY.
By 1814 Jacob partnered with
Cyril Wilson and erected the first sawmill in Granby. But the lumber
industry was never easy. The weather was a constant problem. Too
little or too much snow created financial problems. Rain also posed
many hazards. Before 1826 a spring downpour swept away a dam William
had built and need to control the flow of water. The damage was so
extensive he lost all his property. Conditions were so poor then
in Oswego County he took his wife and younger children moving to the Rochester
area. He corresponded with the sons he left behind, but his great
grandson William knew little further about him.
Due to Jacob’s move only sons
William, John and Peter spent their lives at Granby. Isaac and his wife
Esther lived there in 1850 at Fulton, but only for a time.
John Schenck worked on the
Erie Canal which ran along the east side of Granby opening in 1828.
When younger her served as a toll keeper for the first wooden bridge across
the Oswego River above the falls. He also operated river- boats between
Salina and Oswego until the canal opened.
John lived in a homestead at
the southwest corner of Worth and Third Street, Fulton. In the 1890’s
John’s daughter Alice occupied the home with her invalid mother.
Alice also lived there alone, except for servants, in the 1920 Fulton census.
John and Isaac plus their families
were Methodists. The family supported Andrew Jackson and his ideas.
John Schenck died between 1848/60.
He had wed Hannah ______, born ca. 1804. This family was enumerated
in the 1860 Granby census. John had fathered nine children, but only
five survived.
Schenck, Hannah –56-domestic-NY-$45,000
Schenck, Martin B –27-son-carpenter-NY
Schenck, Marcus V –22-son-farmer-NY
Schenck, Mary A –20-daughter
–teacher-NY
Schenck, Mercy O –17-daughter-NY
Schenck, Alice A –12-daughter-NY
Marcus and Martin were both to serve
in the Civil War. Hannah received a pension as the widow of a War
of 1812 soldier.
In 1880 Martin Schenck, age
39(?), John’s son lived in Fulton with his wife, Margaret, age 38, and
two children: William, age 13, and Jessie, age 8. Martin ran a hardware
store.
His brother Marcus P. Schenck
wed Louise Jones. They had three children before the death of Louise
between 1876/80. In 1870 he manufactured rakes, but moved on to manufacture
cider presses. Marcus P. lived in his father’s house in 1880.
He was age 42. His children were as follows: Hattie, age 13;
Vernon, age 8; and Grace, age 4. Also with his household were his
mother, Hannah, age 75, and his sister, Alice, age 32.
Grace married Henry Shepherd
Smith on 27 September 1898. He was the son of Albert Edward Smith
and Catherine Tyrone Shepherd.
Jacob’s son Peter as a youth
worked as both a clerk and a painter. For a time he lived with relatives
near Auburn, NY where he learned surveying. By 1829 his reputation
for honest work was established. He blocked out landlines in both
Fulton and Oswego Falls.
He was appointed to a State
Commission to drain the swamps around Lake Neah-tah-wan-tah. Peter
lived in the home of his parents Jacob and Anna Lett(?). Later Peter’s
son Henry became a member of the Fulton Presbyterian Church. He was
on its Board of Trustees.
Peter had considerable involvement
with civic and political affairs. He was President of Granby 1853-4;
1856-9; 1861-2; and 1864-5.
Peter wed Eliza Daggett on
12 September 1826. They had eight children before her death 1 April
1848. By 1850 Granby census Peter’s enumeration included the following:
Schenck, Peter –52-surveyor-NY-$3,000
Schenck, Laura –26-daughter-NY
Schenck, Charles –21-son-NY
Schenck, Henry –18-son-NY
Schenck, Mary –17-daughter-NY
Schenck, Ellen –12-daughter-NY
Schenck, Hermon –11-son-NY
Schenck, Edward –9-son-NY
Schenck, Lucinda –4-daughter-NY
Daggett, Betsey –66-mother-in-law-MA
Peter died 6 October 1868.
Charles Schenck, born 13 June
1829, wed on 2 December 1858 Margaret Robinson. Charles died 5 April
1898. Their son Allan Schenck, born 23 October 1861 in Elmira, NY,
married Maud Delamater of Charlotte, MI on 21 December 1887. The
couple moved to Knoxville, TN. There they had a son Henry Schenck,
born 19 March 1896. Allan died 2 January 1906.
Peter’s son Henry in the 1870
Granby census was listed with his family. Henry worked as a carpenter.
He married Catherine.
Schenck, Henry –39-carpenter-NY-$2300
Schenck, Catherine –36-wife-NH
Schenck, William –12-son-NY
Schenck, Eddy –7-son-NY
By the 1880 Oswego Falls census
Henry’s family had grown. This enumeration included:
Schenck, H.L. –49-carpenter-NY
Schenck,Catherine – 46-wife-NY
Schenck, William H –22-son-NY
Schenck, Edward E. – 18-son-NY
Schenck, Lillie –20-daughter-NY
Schenck, Addie –10-daughter-NY
Schenck, Hermon –7-son-NY
Jacob’s son William became
friends with the Falley family who came to Fulton in 1813 from Westfield,
MA. Daniel Falley had five children among whom was Mary Falley, born
28 July 1805.
William, in partnership with
Thomas Wright, built a sawmill. He stayed in the sawmill and lumber
business until 1847. Then being in poor health he opened a store
in Fulton with Cyrus Phillips. This store operated in the same building
that later was occupied by Kenyon’s Savings Bank. Phillips and Schenck
also manufactured furniture.
William first purchased farmland
of 600 acres on the South Hannibal Plank Road. Next he bought a farm
at Granby Center. He did well until the general financial depression
of 1857. William with John E. Dutton and Charles G. Case owned the Fulton
Water Company.
William wed 6 November 1830
Patience Earl who died early in 1835. William had just finished building
a house when he was left with a daughter, Minerva, age 3. William
wed a second time to Mrs. Mary Carrier on 15 December 1835 at Fulton, NY.
She was the widow of Levi Carrier. Her maiden name was Mary Falley.
She had lost two babies when married to Levi, but became the mother of
eight with William.
Prior to the Civil War William
participated in the Underground Railroad assisting escaped slaves.
Such activity was highly illegal. All the details were kept secret.
Even Mary, his wife, was told nothing. In later years she insisted
she had never known anything was amiss in her cellar where slaves were
kept overnight on the last leg of their journey to Canada.
In the Civil War six Schencks
from Oswego County participated. John Schenck’s sons Martin and Marcus
enlisted as did Peter’s son Hermon and Edward. William’s son Daniel
and William P. also participated.
Daniel Falley Schenck enlisted
as a sergeant 1st Class on 21 August 1861 at age 24 in Co. D, 50th Engineers
Regiment NY. He was promoted to a full captain on 28 May 1863.
On 21 October 1864 he was mustered out.
Daniel’s brother William P.
Schenck enlisted as a lieutenant 2nd Class on 30 August 1862 at the age
of 23. He was commissioned in Co. D, 147th Infantry Regiment NY.
He was promoted to a full lieutenant 1st Class on 4 February 1863.
He fought at Gettysburg. On 1 July 1863 he was wounded in the neck.
On 27 July 1863 he died of his wound.
The family gathered for William’s
funeral. A daguerreotype was taken of the group around the coffin.
There family there included George Frederick, Daniel home on leave, Schuyler
and daughter Minerva and Elizabeth. John’s sons Martin and Marcus
also home on leave attended the grim affair. Peter’s sons Edward,
home from the war, and Henry attended.
After the war life went on.
There were marriages, births and other deaths. In the 1870 Granby
census William Schenck, age 69, was still farming. His wife Mary
was age 64. They lived with their children: Elizabeth, age 31, and
Schuyler, age 28. Residing with them was Daniel F. Falley, age 83,
a chain manufacturer, the father of Mary.
Next door were the Eggleston’s.
Charlie, age 46, a book dealer, was married to Augusta Schenck, age 37,
William and Mary’s daughter. They had a son Charles H. Eggleston,
age 12.
Daniel Falley Schenck, the
Civil War Vet, wed Cornelia S. Robinson on 7 November 1872. Unfortunately,
Daniel died on 7 December 1875. His widow Cornelia applied for a
Civil War pension in 1885. She received the pension #254001.
At the time she resided in Michigan.
William’s daughter Elizabeth,
born 5 February 1839, wed Henry E. Buckingham on 29 October 1874.
Little more is known of Elizabeth except it is believed that she died 22
June 1928 in Toledo, Ohio.
It was likely that during this
period William knew Historian Crisfield Johnson who wrote the History of
Oswego County, New York. William supplied much data to Johnson according
to his grandson William Schenck.
On 6 August 1877 William, son
of Jacob, wrote his will. By that time only four of William’s children
still survived. The will was presented for probate on 31 January
1878. The contents of the document follow:
“In the name of God Amen –
I, William Schenck of the Village
of Oswego Falls, Oswego County, NY of the age of seventy-seven years being
of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of life, do make,
declare and publish this my last will and testament; that is to say –
“First, I direct the payment
of my just debts and funeral expenses.
“Second, I give to my beloved
wife, Mary Schenck, the use of my household furniture together with blocks
one hundred and six and one hundred and seven (106 & 107) in the village
of Oswego Falls aforesaid as laid out upon the map thereof made by Peter
Schenck for James R. Voorhees in 1848 being the premises upon which I now
reside for and during the term of her natural life. And I also give
to her an annuity of five hundred dollars which I hereby direct my executor,
hereafter named, to pay to her during her natural life as follows, to wit:
one hundred & twenty-five dollars thereof at the expiration of each
three months after the time of my decease to be holding free for all claims
by her of dower in my lands of which I may be owner and to continue during
her life and to be paid without expense to her.
“Third, I give and devise all
the rest and residue of my estate real and personal unto my daughters,
Augusta M. Eggleston and Elizabeth F. Buckingham and into my sons Schuyler
C. Schenck and George F. Schenck being my only surviving children and to
the heirs of such as may not survive me to have and to hold the same themselves
their heirs and assigns jointly and in equal proportions so that my so
that my said sons and daughters share, own the same in equal proportions.
It is my will and I direct that the same remain joint property for the
space of five years but not exceeding the time when the lives of two of
my said children shall terminate at which time to wit upon the if said
term of years from my decease or whenever at any time when three-fourths
of the survivors of my aid children shall consent in writing then and in
either case aforesaid. It is my will that either of my said sons
and daughters have free power at their option respectively to see and dispose
of their respective interest in my estate or my part thereof and then cause
their respective shares and proportions to be set off and divided among
them or severally.
“Fourth, I hereby appoint my
son Schuyler C. Schenck to be sole executor of this my last will and testament
with full power to convey by deed by me & all my real estate pursuant
to the terms of this instrument and I hereby revoke and annul all former
wills by me made.
“In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of August A.D. 1877.
Wm Schenck”
The 1880 census for Oswego
Falls showed the household of the widow Mary (Falley) Schenck. She
lived without her family at age 74 with a man to help with the farm and
a Canadian female housekeeper. At the time of the census Mary’s sister
Minerva Hoes, age 72, was visiting.
It was the custom of the family to call on “Aunt Mary” after her son died
at Gettysburg.
Mary died on 30 December 1891,
the year her grandson William E. set off for Cornell. A contemporaneous
obituary was not preserved, but in 1926(?) some local reporter described
her life. “Mary Falley, daughter of Daniel Falley was born on a small
farm in Middlefield, Mass. July 28, 1805. Her father from there
to Chester Village where he was engaged in business. Mr. Falley soon
after moved with his wife and family of five children to Fulton, arriving
here on the 12th day of June 1813 having been many days on the way.
He bought a part interest in his brother-in-law’s business (Samuel Holland)
who had just died. They moved into a part of a house on the bank
of the Oswego River, known them as Clute House situated nearly across the
road from now ‘Mission Chapel’. In this house she learned to spin
flax and linen at the early age of twelve, and to weave linen, cotton and
woolen, at fifteen being able to weave in a few months from 5 to 6 yards
per day, which was considered a great accomplishment in those days.
“They afterward moved into
the house across the road on the ground where the ‘Mission Chapel’ now
stands, known them as the Hyde House. It was from this house that
she was subsequently married.
“We find her next in Oswego,
teaching school, with sixteen scholars –a large school in those days.
“She was married to Levi Carrier
Jan. 20, 1825. Two children by this union died in infancy.
Mr. Carrier became the proprietor of the old ‘Fulton House’ which stood
where Chappell, Goodjon & Co.’s store now is (the Johnson Block) and
so became the first landlady of the town. It was at this house that
the Masonic banquet was served by Mrs. Carrier at the time of the laying
of the corner stone of the of the first lock on the Oswego Canal July 4,
1826, when Hon. David Brewster of Oswego, read the address and Rev. Mr.
Irwin was chaplain (who is still living) of the occasion. After a
few years they moved into a house which stood near D. W. Gardner’s present
residence and from there to the house now occupied by Mr. A.J. Thayer which
was built for Mr. Carrier. There he died.
“Mrs. Mary Carrier married
William Schenck around the 15th of December 1835 and moved to the house
at Oswego Falls where she died having lived there fifty-six years and a
few days. In this home were born to them eight children three of
whom still survive her.
“Her Christian life commenced
very early, for the home influence was in that direction and her father’s
home was the home of all ‘itinerant Methodist’ and other ministers.
It was in the summer of 1817 that we find one Mrs. Betune, a Presbyterian
lady, in his home interesting his daughters in Sunday school work and they
formed the first Sunday school in Fulton, with Mary Falley as one of scholars.
It was the next season that great reformations in this locality commenced
and she was one of four hundred converted, then only 12 years of age.
The subject of the
minister, Mr. Betune was, ‘What
Hath God Wrought’. She always tried to live a consistent Christian,
with little outward appearance but deep feeling and a forgiving spirit
toward all erring humanity. Her heart yearned for the conversion
of all mankind. She always tried to present herself and family at
the means of Grace and
many times when the cold blasts
of winter kept most people at home she was always present and particularly
was it noticed that on one occasion when the minister supposed no one would
be present he found Mrs. Schenck and … (and line not legible) present.
He therefore preached as usual in the old brick church. In her declining
years she was seldom able to attend religious services. The last
sermon she heard was by Elder Danforth, ‘In My Fathers House Are Many Mansions.’
She seemed particularly happy after it and the promise (unlegible) vouchsafed
to her. Just before her death she left a token of her Christian energy
to the ‘Peck Memorial Home’ in New Orleans by work from her own hands.
“Her last hours were full of
hope and acknowledgement that she was ready for the great hereafter and
seeing those beyond, she passed over …(clipping not legible after this)
{Newspaper clipping is hand dated 1926}.
Also residing in Oswego Falls
was the Eggleston family. In the 1880 census C.S. Eggleston, age
55, still sold books, stationery, etc. He had been born in Oneida
County settling in Fulton in 1849. His wife Augusta, Mary’s daughter,
age 45, had no issues. She probably died before 1891 as Mary was
described as only having three surviving children. After Augusta’s
passing Charles remained, dying at Oswego Falls on 2 February 1893.
Schuyler Schenck married Elizabeth
Harriet Dow on 4 October 1871. He removed to Toledo, Ohio where he
died on 3 June 1913.
In the 1880 Granby census George
F. Schenck, age 31, ran a farm with his wife, Mary D. Andrews, age 30.
They had two sons: William Elmer, age 6, and Leon Horace, age 4.
George and Mary had we on 30 October 1872. After the death of Mary
(Falley) Schenck, this family moved into William’s old home. The
house was used until the death of Mary (Anderson) Schenck when it was razed
as Peter Schenck’s home had been. Only the home of John Schenck remained
in 1950.
In the 1930 Fulton census only
one Schenck family was enumerated. Hermon, son of Henry and grandson
of Peter, was cited. Hermon labored as a machinist in a fan factory.
His daughter toiled in the “chocolate works” (Nestle’s).
William Elmer Schenck, born
on 19 October 1873, maintained the family’s interest in preserving local
history. He tried to make the roles of the Schenck and Falley families
clear. His speech before the Oswego Historical Society added much
to illustrate the difficult lives of the pioneers. In the 1930 Madison,
NJ census William E., a lawyer, lived with his wife Edna M., age 55.
It was the depression when so many were homeless, but William lived in
a $20,000 home. William, named for his hardworking grandfather, had certainly
lived the American dream. From a house built with poles and rough
boards to a mansion which in today’s terms would be close to a million
dollar abode. William died in January 1870 at Madison, NJ.
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