I am thrilled we have a New York genealogy list. While I have
ancestors from all over, in the last couple of years I have mostly
studied early 19th century New York state.
I will be posting my various problems over the next couple of weeks,
but I will start with my surname: EVERINGHAM. I don't really have a
problem with them, but I would love to hear from anyone who is
interested in them or related families.
Adoram EVERINGHAM (1783-1812) was the son of a United Empire Loyalist
from New Jersey who lived in Chippewa just across Niagara Falls in
what is now Ontario. As a young man he apparently rejected his
family's Tory tendancies, moved across the river into New York,
married the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier and helped found the
town of Niagara Falls. He fathered 4 children before dying young in
1812. Perhaps his death had something to do with the War of 1812
which was then raging in the area.
His widow, Patience (SMITH) EVERINGHAM, whose parents, Edmond and
Patience (SUMNER) SMITH had also both died within the last couple of
years, retreated from the frontier to the relative civilization of
Geneva, Ontario county. She soon married Ansel TEALL, the son of
another Revolutionary soldier, Nathan TEALL, by whom she had many more
children. This family stayed in Geneva the rest of their lives.
Patience died in 1844. Ansel married again, had more children, and
died in Geneva as well.
Adoram and Patience's second son, John Stoughton EVERINGHAM, was born
at Niagara Falls in 1809 and named after a friend and co-founder of
Niagara Falls, NY. He was raised in the TEALL family in Geneva after
his mother remarried when he was 5. He married Jane Maria COWLES,
daughter of Josiah COWLES, another Geneva family. Then he got
religion and became a Baptist minister.
He appears first to have moved back to Niagara Falls in the early
1830s, perhaps to be around his father's family he never knew. Then
back to Geneva in the late 1830s. In the early 1840s he was in Ira
and Victory, Cayuga county. He was briefly in Parishville, St.
Lawrence county in the late 1840s. Then settled for many years in
South Richland (now Ferndale), Oswego county beginning in the early
1850s. Finally he moved to Sandusky, Chautauqua county where he
served as the minister until his death in 1885. Along the way he had
11 children, 8 of whom survived and had children of their own.
His tenth child, John Judson EVERINGHAM, was born in 1850 in Oswego
county. He worked for an education at the Mexico Academy there. In
1874 he married Lucy Adell THORNTON of South Sodus, Wayne county.
Eventually he moved his family out of New York to the mid-west.
Kim Everingham
everingham@methane.sri.com
3115 Roosevelt Avenue
Richamond, CA 94804
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