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Rochester, Monroe, NY
Daily Democrat
Jan. 1, 1852

MARRIED

In this city, on the 30th ult., by the Rev. S. H. FLOOD, of the State of Ohio, Mr. Alva WINANS and Miss L. DEMICK, both of Genesee co.

In Clarkson, on the 21st inst., by Henry C. RICE, Esq. Mr. Wm. GOLDEN and Miss Sarah HASKINS, both of Parma.
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DIED

At East Troy, Wis. Dec. 18th, of Typhus Fever, Edward H. CHURCH, son of Henry CHURCH of this city, aged 27 years.

In Batavia, on the 12th inst., at the residence of her son, Susan DINGMAN, aged 70 years, 6 months and 5 days.

At Milford, Mich., on the 19th ult., S. T. MUDGE, aged 34 years.
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CITY MATTERS

Death of Dr. Matthew BROWN - Public Meeting At a meeting of the citizens of Rochester, held at the City Hall, for the purpose of paying suitable respect to Dr. Matthew BROWN, deceased, James K. LIVINGSTON, Esq., was appointed Chairman, and E. F. S----, Esq., Secretary.
-The funeral of Dr. BROWN will take place at the Unitarian Church at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
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A PIONEER GATHERED TO HIS FATHER'S

Died in Wheatland, on the 25th ult., George GOODHUE, aged nearly 83 years.

........................."Verily A Patriarch Has Departed."..................
Mr. GOODHUE, since the demise of Peter SHEFFER, is believed to have been the oldest living pioneer west of the Genesee river. In 1793, he settled at Painted Post, and in February, 1797, he changed his residence from thence to the town of Parma, and was the third settler of that place. He was twelve days making his way with an ox team and sled, on which were his family and goods, from Painted Post to the present site of Rochester, and spent three nights of this time in the woods. At this time. "Indiana Allen's" mill and saw-mill, were the only buildings, not only where the city of Rochester now stands, but for many miles around. The only inhabitant that he found on crossing the Genesee river, for many miles, was Mr. Josiah FISH, who lived in the mill and had the charge of it.
At the time of Mr. G.'s advent, the whole site of the present city could have been purchased for a trifling sum, but a densely timbered swamp offered but a poor inducement to wring a subsistence from its soil, and he passed on to a more promising locality.

For many years he was actively engaged with other early pioneers in opening roads, &c. In 1804, he assisted in cutting out the road from Parma Corners to the Greece Meeting House, and had previously helped to open the Ridge Road from that point to the Genesee landing. He also drove the first wagon-train that came west of Rochester on the Ridge road. He, in company with Jonathan LEONARD, chopped and cleared that part of the city of Rochester now known as Main and St. Paul streets.

After struggling with hardships, sickness and privations such as none but an early pioneer to this country can appreciate, he, in 1805, left Parma for the present town of Wheatland, and settled on the farm which he has since occupied until the day of his decease. For several years after Mr. G., settled in Parma, the territory was known as the "town of the two rivers," from its being bounded by the rivers Niagara and Genesee. It was subsequently called Northampton, and for several years the town meeting were held at the house of Peter SHEFFER for that whole territory.

In the year 1800, there was on the tax roll for all the township, but 140 names and many of those now residents and Peter SHEFFER was the Collector of taxes for that large territory. (The writer of this notice has in his possession a copy of the assessment roll for that year.)

As a sample of what materials those early pioneers were constituted, it will, perhaps, be well to mention one circumstance. In the year 1802, (a very sickly year) Mrs. Simon KING, with a young child in her arms, made her way, leading a horse, down to the river, near what is called "Buell's Avenue," and crossing herself in a canoe, she swam her horse to the opposite side of the river, after which mounting her steed, she made her way to Canandaigua, and there procured for her sick family medicine and other necessaries - nor were such things of rare occurrence.

The wife of the subject of this notice, a woman of wonderful resolution and energy, whose death has preceded her husband's several years, has been known often to mount her horse and ride from Parma for Wheatland to Canandaigua on the same errand. But the space allotted to notices of such a character, will not suffice for many details, and admonishes me to be brief.

The subject of this notice has lived to witness, what might almost be regarded, a fairy tale, or the baseless fabric of a vision. He has lived to see the country, once covered with a dense and almost impenetrable forest, the home only of the savage and land of the wild beast, converted into the garden of the United States. Where then the savage hunter pursued his prey, unmolested by the white man, now stands populous cities. Where then the wolf and the bear roamed unmolested, the te----- of the mighty forests, now stands the flourishing village or the highly cultivated farm. Where then the lonely pioneer made his way, after days of toil, from one small opening in the forest to another, the ponderous engine, with a village at its heels, now passes from point to point in a few brief minutes.

Mr. GOODHUE was a sober, industrious, kind and benevolent man. No one entered his dwelling without feeling that he met a cordial welcome, and none appealed to him in vain for any benevolent object. He was in a word one of God's noble man - an honest man. At a good old age he has departed, and leaves a numerous kindred and a wide circle of friends to mourn his loss.
......Wheatland, Dec. 25, 1851.

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Jan. 3, 1852

MARRIED

In this city, at the 3d Presbyterian Church, on the 30th ult., by Rev. Dr. A. G. HALL, Mr. Jerome HART, of Irondequoit, and Miss Eliza BARRINGER, of the former place.
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Funeral Discourse - A discourse upon the death of John J. STRATTON, will be preached by Rev. Dr. HALL, to- morrow morning, in the Third Presbyterian Church. Mr. STRATTON was a member of the choir of that church, and his remains were attended to the place of burial in Le Roy, on Tuesday, by nearly the whole of that body. About thirty of his former friends in this city accompanied the body as a funeral escort.

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