PIONEER HISTORY OF CAMDEN TOWNSHIP, LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO
(By Dr. F. E. Weeks, Kipton, Ohio)
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ALLEN, MORTIMER, a son of Dr. Allen and a relative of Ezra and Hiram, lived west of the Norman Lee Home. He married Marian Waugh, a daughter of Dan, August 18, 1842. In 1852 he went to California with a party of Camden Men, and died there.
Ezra and Hiram Allen had two sisters who married Camden men: Lydia, married Selden Tennant; Amy married Samuel Morgan.
ACKERMAN, JOHN D. owned the north part of the Vosburgh farm which he bought in 1854, but sold it to Hiram Vosburgh in 1858. His wife’s name was Levanchia.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM, married Harriet Hardy, daughter of Samuel Hardy, Sr. He was a school director in 1864. He owned the portion of the Frank Twining farm on the east side of the road, where the house burnt.
ANDREWS, ALBERT, came from Stockbridge, Mass. His wife came from Orange County, N.Y., with parents to Brownhelm at the age of thirteen. Her name was Rebecca Ann Newberry, born in 1817, died in 1908. Albert Andrews and wife lived in Henrietta, then moved to Camden and lived on the Alva Gibson farm and died there. They had children: Luman A., born April 19, 1836, married Mary, daughter of William Hawkins, as his second wife; his first wife, Lizzie Adams having died in 1868 at the age of 28. He died in Toledo, Ohio, in 1907.
Ellen, who married Banks Daykin and died in Mechanicsburgh, Ohio, 1884. William Henry, who married Caroline Newcomer, settled in Fremont, Ohio and died Jan. 3, 1886.
Hattie, who married W. L. Johnstone and died in Toledo in 1921.
Morris, who died at the age of -- and Florence, born in Henrietta Oct. 1, 1854, married Floyd Hinman and died in Toledo, Ohio.
ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM HENRY - born at Albany, N.Y., Feb. 3, 1796, married Dec. 25, 1820 [possibly Sept., 1821] Eunice Gibson, and died in Norwalk, Ohio, June 24, 1894. The wife was born March 26, 1800, and died in Wakeman March 31, 1884. They came to Ohio in 1854, living in Sullivan, Huntington, Russia and Camden, moving to Wakeman in 1861. They lived on the Kemp farm in Camden, which he rented from the Porters. They had children: Daniel David, born 1821, died in Wakeman in 1890; Andrew Stores, born 1826, died in N.Y. in 1859; Elizabeth Eliza, born in 1828, died 1899 in N.Y. William Henry, Jr., born in 1833, died Jan. 18, 1886 in Camden. Ann Lovina born in 1835, married Abraham Dereemer and lived in Camden. Manderville Valancourt ["Cort"] born in 1837, married Clarie, daughter of John Cyrenius, July 11, 1861, and who died Oct. 6, 1864; married 2nd, Jan. 30, 1870, Ruth E., daughter of Lemuel Kingsbury, of Camden. They lived in Wakeman west of the cemetery, where he died Dec. 23, 1910. Harriet C., born in 1824, married Nelson Hendryx and died in Wakeman in 1905. Emmer Marie, born 1839, married Joe Dereemer of Camden, 2nd Joe Latham, 3rd, William Dudley. Ellen Rosalind, born in 1842, died in 1914, lived in Wyoming. Polly Jane, born in 1845, married James Shafer of Camden July 3, 1866, 2nd Byron Peck, and died in Wakeman.
ARNOLD - GEORGE A. and JAMES ARNOLD were sons of Anthony Arnold, and George came to Camden in 1834 – possibly in 1833 - and James came soon after. Anthony Arnold and his wife must have come with George, as Anthony was drowned at Vermillion while fishing, on Nov. 16, 1833, according to his tombstone, aged 74. Eleanor, his wife, died May 3, 1845, at the age of 74.
George bought and lived on, the Kothe farm. In 1838 he sold the west half of the lot to his brother James - the Lewis Searles farm. He died Dec. 22, 1877, aged 84. His wife, Mary, died July 13, 1891, aged 85. In 1850 George and William Arnold received a deed of the Searles farm from the estate of James. In 1842 George bought 50 acres east of the Rob Davidson farm. George had children: Seth W., George M., Charles, William, Ezekiel, Emily, Lewis and Mary. George M. married Mary Breckenridge and died Oct. 31, 1909, born May 12, 1834. Emily, born Jan. 29, 1833, married 1ST, William S. Rowell [who died in 1866], 2nd H. K. House and died July 25, 1887. Ezekiel was born in [1841] – 7], married Emma Cook, of Camden and died in 1918.
James Arnold, born in 1806, married Eliza Carrington, who died July 20, 1843 [tombstone gives her name as Susan F.] She had a son Franklin. James married, 2nd, Jane Ann Powell, of N.Y., and had children, Anthony, Susan and Emma. In 1851 he removed to Pittsfield and died Jan. 13, 1864. William W. Arnold bought the Holden farm in 1835, but never lived here. Ezekiel W. Arnold settled on the Holden farm. He died March 4, 1841, at the age of 40, and Mary, his wife, died Oct. 21, 1851, aged 46. Henry G. Arnold died Feb. 28, 1877, at the age of 49.
John Arnold’s first wife, Harriet, was a sister of the wife of Austin Bradley, and daughter of Phebe Burgess. She died July 11, 1855, at the age of 35. His second wife, Samantha, died Sept. 12, 1889, aged 54. In 1840 he bought the portion of the Herb Howe farm on the north side of the road. In 1851 he was living in Brighton, when he bought the Barzilla Gibson farm, which he sold in 1859, and was then living in Minn. He and his first wife were living in Wellington when the wife lost her mind, killed her baby and committed suicide. He died in California. His children were James, Francis, Isadore and Eugene.
Henry A. Arnold died in Collins, Ohio.
George A. Arnold married Mary Moore.
It is probable that Ezekiel W. and John Arnold were sons of Anthony, judging by their ages.
AVERILL, DAVID JR., bought the Roy Sheffield farm of Marshall Bonney in 1852.
BABCOCK, ROSWELL. He must have lived with William W. Cook, perhaps, as his wife was Mr. Cook’s mother. He built the frame of the first frame house in Camden, but sold it in 1839. He died Sept. 27, 1844, aged 51. A son, Avery D., died in 1839.
BAILEY, JOHIEL, came to Camden in 1835. He bought the Blackwell farm, but later bought the south part of the Will and Rob Davidson farms. The lane which used to run east from the Frank Twining farm led to this farm. He lived in Pittsfield in 1835. In 1837 he bought the Clarence Parker farm and sold it to Avery Rood in 1848. His wife was a daughter of William Bates – Hannah - and sister of Hiram, Francis, Otis and Norton Bates, of Camden, and five more in Henrietta, and sister of Mrs. William Prentice and the wife of Peter Sigourney, St. They had a daughter Eliza who married Amos Spooner. The Bailey and Spooner families went to Iowa with Francis Bates.
A Hiram Bailey sold the Dowdell farm in 1859.
BALDWIN, LEVI, died Nov. 25, 1853. He was from Bridgeport, Conn., and lived at Truman Lee’s when he died.
BARHYTE, JAMES, lived opposite the William Jackson farm, and died there. His daughter Christina married Newell Waugh.
BARKER, MOSES W., bought the J. E. Davidson farm in 1856, and sold it to John D. Williams the same year. He was a school director in 1857. He had a baby daughter buried here in 1858.
BARTLETT, MARCUS S. – is said to have taken up the Horace Green farm at an early day but the first real estate record was in 1851, when he received a deed of 30 acres of the Horace Green farm. He later sold this and moved to a small farm in Wakeman. He went to Massachusetts before he bought the Wakeman property. He sold the latter and returned to Camden and lived in part of the house with E. G. Wightman [the McCullough house], and he died there. His first wife was Julia A. Cuykendall, a daughter of Henry, whom he married Jan. 16, 1842. She died Aug. 23, 1869. His second wife was a Webster, sister of Mrs. Wightman. After Mr. Bartlett’s death the widow went to Cleveland to live with a nephew, Arthur Colton, and from there to Florida, where she died. Mr. Bartlett had by the first wife, a son Levi, who married Ellen Yockey and went to Michigan, and a daughter Mary who married Steve Snyder.
Mr. Bartlett bought the Coon Heidrich farm in 1851. A Mrs. Bartlett died in 1858, probably the wife of Marcus.
Bartlett, Rev. Asher C., lived in the old hotel building at Samtown. He came here about 1858 –9 from Eagleville, Pa. His wife, Mary Sloan, died elsewhere and was brought here for burial. They had children, Fritz, in Toledo, Franklin, William and Eva. They were all good singers.
BATES FAMILY. Four brothers of this family and three sisters were early settlers in Camden, and five more brothers and the parents settled just over the line in Henrietta, and a considerable number of their descendants are living in this and adjoining communities, hence a sketch of the genealogy of the family is appropriate.
"In the county of Kent at the extreme southeastern corner of England lies a point jutting into the straits of Dover, consisting of a low marsh, a considerable portion of which has been reclaimed from the sea since the earliest days. This point is called Dunge Ness - the marsh, Dunge Marsh. In this marsh lies a picturesque old town, in which are clustered the various dwellings, some quaintly pretty, with their low thatched roofs and ivy clad walls, amid which rises the stately tower of the historic church of lydd, which venerable and majestic, and visible from all parts of the district, well deserves its appellation of the Cathedral of the Marsh.
For the greater part of 600 years, this old church has looked down upon the comings and goings, the struggles and successes of the generations that have fought their brief fight in this old town, and among the many who have thus made history and strutted their brief hour upon the stage the men of the name of Bate made no little noise.
The name of Bate was perhaps derived, by corruption, from Bartholamew, one of those saint’s names which "the church" was in the habit of giving in the earliest days to those native or semi-civilized people, who were received into the church by baptism.
The pedigree of the Bate family is given in the History of Hingham as follows:
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Thomas Bate |
of Lydd, Parrish of All Hallows, died 1485, leaving: |
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John Bate |
who died 1522, leaving: |
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Andrew Bate |
of Lydd, died 1533, leaving: |
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John Bate |
of Lydd, died 1580, leaving: |
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James Bate |
of Lydd, died 1614. He was the father of three sons who emigrated to New England. |
Clement Bate of Hingham, Edward, of Weymouth, James, of Dorchester, Mass., with whom the American families commence their history.
Edward Bate, the first, lived 150 miles from Lydd, in England, hence could hardly have been of the Lydd Bates family, according to Samuel A. Bates of Weymouth.
The line of the Camden Bates’s begins with Edward Bates who came from England, probably Boston, in Lincolnshire. He was in Boston, Massachusetts as early as 1633. He took an active part in the affairs of the colony. In Boston he was called "man servant to our brother, Thomas Leverett." Leverett came to Boston in 1633 and Edward Bates probably came with him.
Bates seems to have been a follower of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, as he and 57 others, men of Boston, were disarmed for heresy, and "for fear they will make some sudden eruption." [Ann Hutchinson, by her preaching some theories of religious worship not in accord with the established forms, was banished from Massachusetts and removed to Rhode Island, but later removed to Manhattan Island, N. Y., where she and four of her children were murdered by the Indians.]
This decree was issued Nov. 29, 1637, and he was then called of Boston. But he must have recanted and disavowed his heretical opinions, as we find him made a freeman March 13, 1638 / 9, and this would not have been done had he not been a member of the church in good standing. May 22, 1639, we find him one of the deputies of the General Court sitting at Boston, of which body he was continued a member for three years. There is no doubt but that he represented Weymouth at that time as he was appointed June 6, 1639, chairman of a board to end small business in Weymouth and was reappointed to same office May 10, 1643. He was also elected deputy from Weymouth Dec. 19, 1660.
That he took an active part in the business of the General Court is evident from the fact of his being selected as one of their number both June 6, 1639, and May 13, 1640, to make a levy or tax upon the several towns, then composing the colony of Massachusetts. January 28, 1640/41, he, with two others, was appointed to settle a dispute. June 2, 1641 he was appointed commissioner to see people join in marriage and keep a record thereof. He was an elder of the church at Weymouth for more than thirty years. This was an important position at that time. According to the Cambridge platform, it was the duty of the ruling elder "to open and shut the doors of God’s House [officially] by admission, ordination, excommunication and restoring: to call the church together: to prepare matters in private for public church meetings: to moderate church meetings: to be leaders and guides in church actions to see that none of the church live without a calling: to prevent and heal offences in life or church doctrine: to feed the flock, visit the sick and pray with them when sick and at other times." He removed from Boston, probably about 1638. He was probably married while a resident of Boston, but the name of wife and date of marriage are not known. His body was buried in the cemetery at Burying Hill and a gravestone erected which is still standing and bears the following inscription: "Here Lyeth Buried ye body of Elder Edward Bate aged 81 years departed this life ye 25 day of March 1686."
The wife of Edward Bates was named Susanna, and they had eight children. The youngest one, a daughter, received the unusual Bible name of Jehoshabeath, meaning "The oath of Jehovah." She was an imbecile. The youngest son, Edward Jr., born Dec. 10, 1655, died Aug. 21, 1725, married Elizabeth Shaw. They had eleven children, of whom Benjamin, born in Abingdon, Mass., 1701, died 1789, married Rebecca Eager and had eleven children. Moses Bates, a son, born Dec. 23, 1740, married Elizabeth Norton and moved to Cummington, Mass., in 1778. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and died March 31, 1781.
William Bates, son of Moses, born in Abington March 3, 1764, married Sally Snow and had five children. She died and he married Sally Wood and had ten more children. He went with his father to Cummington, and in 1803 to Lowville, New York. He was a Soldier in the War of 1812. Four of his sons and one or two daughters had come to Camden and he came to visit them. He went back, sold his property and came back to Ohio, probably, with five more sons, and settled in Henrietta on the Peter Buchs farm, where they both died. William Bates was a very large man measuring more than six feet in height and weighing more than 300 pounds, and his sons averaged a little more than six feet each, in height.
We now take up the Camden members of the family.
Francis Bates, born in 1800, married Maria Obitts in 1820 and came to Camden in 1835. He settled on the Blackwell farm, which he bought in 1837. In 1842 he bought the Ambrose farm and part of the C.B. Ingersoll farm, but sold both farms in 1854 and removed to Iowa, where he died four years later. The wife died in 1869. He was a shoemaker by trade. They had children, Nelson, Sallie Ann, Justin, Elbirge and William A.
William A. Bates, born in 1821, came to Camden with his parents and was married to Sarah, daughter of Thomas Sigsworth, of Camden, June 29, 1848. His father sold him twelve acres from the north side of the Blackwell farm and he lived there in a log house and worked at his trade of a shoemaker, until 1854, when he deeded his land back to his father, and who sold both his farms to Walker Cole. They then moved to Iowa but William returned to Ohio in 1867 and bought and lived upon the farm in Henrietta now occupied by his son, Clement Bates. He died in 1906. His wife was born in 1825 and died in 1900. They had three children born in Camden, Olive S., born 1849, died 1850, Duane W., born 1851, died 1853, Ella M., born 1853, died 1854. While living in Iowa they had more children, Ella M., Mary A., Francis W., Elma R., Willnettie and Lyman Clement.
Otis Bates, born Feb. 13, 1802, died at Osawatomic, Kansas, April 5, 1866. He married Cynthia Blinn, and had children, Phineas C., Lafayette, William Pitt [Called "Pitt"], and Kimble. His wife died July 17, 1852, at the age of 48. He bought the Guernsey farm, both the home place and the portion further west and sold both places to David Smith in 1855. He removed to Kansas. In 1850 he bought the southeast corner of the Norman Lee farm. "Pitt" Bates went to California with Burtis Bayless, Andrew Hinman and others and died there. His wife, known as "Eliza Pitt" kept house for Otis Bates, his wife being dead, and went to Kansas with him and married him.
Kimball, or Kimble, Bates married Sarah, daughter of David Shafer, and in his last years lived in this neighborhood.
It is told that when Otis Bates was ready to have the frame of his house raised, he proposed to have a temperance raising, and notified his neighbors that he would furnish cider, but on whiskey. So he sent some men to get the barrel of cider, but on the way home they passed a distillery, where they emptied out a couple of gallons of the cider and had it replaced with whiskey. The cider was soon in great demand and several men got drunk at the temperance raising.
Norton Bates, born July 24, 1813, married, 1st, 1833 or ‘34, Jane M. Cyrenius, who may or may not have been a relative of John Cyrenius, of Camden, but not a daughter. She died August 3, 1844, buried in Camden. He married 2nd, Mary Polly Kinney, who died Sept. 5, 1850 [born Aug. 23, 1816.] He married, 3rd. Rachel [Lane] Bedford, and who was living when he sold out here. He married 4th, Mary Hunt. He died in Toledo, Iowa, Nov. 29, 1869. He had children, by the first wife, Sarah J., Margaret M., George M., Cyrenius H., and by second wife, Mary A., Clarinda C., and Charles O. We do know when he came to Camden, as the date of deeds does not show when the land was contracted for. In 1841 he received a deed of a portion of the William Ingersoll farm, on the east side of the road, and in 1851 the portion of the Ingersoll farm, north of L. B. Hudson’s. In 1854 he sold his land to William Ingersoll, receiving a deed from Bates, but in 1859 Mr. Ingersoll entered suit against Norton Bates, Julia A. Hall, Cornelius Hall, Susan E. Atkins, Albert Atkins, Horace A. Miller and Laura L. Miller, for undivided thirds and obtained a court deed for the whole of lot 16, south of the home lot. The Morse girls called him "Uncle" and used to visit him. What the possible relationship was we do not know.
Hiram Bates was born in Cummington, Mass., Dec. 14, 1798 and died at Tama, Iowa, in 1874. He was a farmer and one of the earliest settlers in Tama County, Iowa. He married, 1st, Eliza Woodcock, born March 14, 1804. She died [but not in Camden, as said in one history]. He married, 2nd, Lois Newton, born Aug. 24, 1810, died April 13, 1837, in Camden. [Her tombstone says "Louis, wife of Hiram Bates, died April 13, 1836, aged 25 yrs. 7 months and 19 days." If the year of her birth was 1810 and her age was given correctly, then 1836 was the year of her death.] He married 3rd, Sarah [Knowles] Nay, who must have lived here. By the first marriage he had children:
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Helen Augusta, |
born March 14, 1823, married James Rosa and lived in Henrietta, had 10 children, d. July 31, ‘85 |
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Anna, |
born Aug. 13, 1824, married Bold Dighton Welch, 6 ch. See Samuel Welch history. |
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Lucy Ann, |
born April 8, 1827, married Daniel Welch, 10 ch. See his history. |
By the second marriage these were:
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Wealthy Jane, |
born Sept. 27, 1829, married July 29, 1847 Washington White and died Jan. 27, 1904, at Lake Charles, Iowa. |
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Wallace Deru, |
born May 19, 1831, married Lucevia - - d. Iowa, no ch. |
By the third marriage:
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Amanda Amelia, |
born April 1, 1847, married Edwin D. Todd and died in Wakeman Jan. 18, 1903. |
Hiram Bates came to Camden when Lucy was nine years old - 1835. He had lived for some time at Lowville, N.Y., after going there with his father in 1802-3. He settled on the Little Lake farm, the part of the Kemp farm west of the road. In 1834 he bought of Mr. Hubbard 110 ¾ acres, which was the south part of the Ingersoll farm and the main part of the George Miller farm, on the east side of the road, where he may have lived instead of on the west side of the road. In 1838 he deeded the land to his brother, Bennett Bates, but received a deed again in 1839, but sold it to J. Norton Porter in 1842, which is probably the year when he emigrated to Iowa.
The three daughters of William Bates, Sarah Prentice, Wealthy Sigourney and Hannah Bailey have their history written with that of their husbands.
BATES, HENRY BURTON - no kin to the other family, as we know - said to have been born in Leicestershire, England, a relative of Lord Wellington Bates, was a soldier, at the age of 17, in the English army, in Canada. The history of New London, Ohio, says: "Henry Bates, an English deserter, who, in company with Peter Kinsley, crossed the Niagara River under the fire of the British army in 1815, came to New London in 1818, did valuable service as an honest, hard laborer, and his name is often mentioned to this day [1870] with great respect." Also: "The first lawsuit in the township was held at the house of Mr. Abner Green - I. P. Case, Chief Justice, presiding – Miss Margaret Van Deusen [Green’s wife’s daughter] plaintiff, versus Mr. Henry Bates, defendant. He made no valid defense but settled the controversy by giving to the said Margaret a horse."
Mr. Bates married, 1st, Phebe Hendryx, a daughter of Anthony Hendryx, a native of New York, but one of the earliest settlers in new London. They had a daughter, Phebe, born March 22, 1821, and the mother died at her birth. The daughter was brought up by a family by the name of Hull, in Florence. She married Gilead D. Knapp and lived in Clarksfield, where she died Nov. 19 1898.
Mr. Bates married, 2nd, Phebe Root on June 12, 1822. We have no record to show the cause of dissolution of this marriage, whether by death or otherwise, and there were no children as we know. He married, 3rd, Mrs. Polly [Mary] Parker, widow of Ezra Crandall. See history of Henry Crandall. By this marriage Mr. Bates had children, Mary Ann, born March 10, 1828, Sarah Ann, born Jan. 9, 1829, William Wellington, born Feb. 1, 1831, Emeline, born Aug. 11, 1834, and Betsy Jane, born Jan. 1, 1839. Of the children, Mary Ann married David Potter and died in Wood County, Ohio, June 9, 1882. Sarah Ann married 1st, Uriah LaDow, Jr., of Camden. They separated and she married, 2nd, William Sigourney, of Camden, as his third wife, and after his death in 1882, married 3rd, Joseph Nelson Twining, of Camden, as his second wife. She died in 1912, childless.
Emeline Bates married James D. Fisher and died in Norwalk, Ohio, April 21, 1904.
Betsy Jane Bates married, 1st - - Young, 2nd, - - Parks and died in Wood County, Ohio, Nov. 28, 1910.
William W. Bates, [Familiarly known as "Black Bill", perhaps to distinguish him from William A. Bates, of Henrietta, married Amelia French Dec. 14, 1855, and lived on his mother’s farm in Camden. He left his wife and entered the army where he received wounds in the early days of the war, which caused his death. He had children, Henry Burton, born March 17, 1857, married Fanny Boeple, of Norwalk, and resided in Barberton, Ohio: Alice Josephine, who married Frank Allgood of Florence: Emma, who married Frank Twining and lived in Camden until her death; Hattie, who married Charles Gibson, son of Dow Gibson, and half brother of Milo Gibson of Kipton. William W. Bates’ widow married Ira Gilmore and had a daughter, Cora, who married Clarence Briggs, and lived in Elyria. After Mr. Bates’ death the widow sold the home place - the Powers farm - and after her marriage to Mr. Gilmore, bought the Ed Radcliffe farm. She sold this and moved to Florence and died at the home of Mr. Allgood. Mr. Gilmore was drowned in the Maumee River near Toledo.
We find that Sarah Ann Bates was born in 1829 and married William Sigourney July 8, 1866. Emeline Bates, born Aug. 11, 1834, married Feb. 28, 1856, died April 21, 1904. Adeline Bates married - - Aukland and died on a farm between Monroeville and Bellevue.
Going back again to Henry B. Bates, he bought land in Clarksfield May 1, 1828, being then a resident there, and while still there, bought land in Wakeman Oct. 23, 1828. He was a resident of Wakeman in 1833, 1834 and in 1837 and of Lorain County Feb. 10, 1838. He died in Wakeman Township Aug. 15, 1848, aged 50 years, 7 mo. and 18 days, and was buried in Florence Township, in the cemetery on the James Wood farm. His widow, Polly, died in Camden in 1869, aged 74 years, and 22 days. Polly bates sold land to H. G. Bronson in 1859. She had received a deed of it from Mark Whitney in 1852, the south 50 acres. Wm. W. Bates sold 30 acres to A. T. Powers.
BAXTER, J., whose wife was a Danzy, lived south of the Watkins farm. They had a daughter buried here in 1856, and a son in 1870.
BAYLESS, BURTIS, born August 26, 1813, came from near Auburn, N.Y., and settled on the east part of the Frank Sigsworth farm, in 1835, having purchased the farm of his uncle, John Bayless, of Henrietta. The next year he purchased of Obadiah Holcomb seven acres more, adjoining on the west, bringing him out to the north and south road. He married, May 26, 1836, Nancy, daughter of Robert Douglass, of Camden. They had a family of thirteen children:
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Edward, |
born April 13, 1837, died at Victoria, British Columbia. |
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George H. |
born Oct. 30, 1838, died Nov. 5, 1839. |
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Angeline |
born Sept. 11, 1840 died Jan. 20, 1841. |
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Charles H. |
born Nov. 19, 1841, married Elizabeth Dent May 11, 1868, lived in Kipton until his death March 14, 1923, his wife dying the same day. |
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Emeline Lucinda |
born April 19, 1844, married Norval Whitney, a half brother of William E. Whitney, and died April 22, 1903. |
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William H. |
born July 29, 1846, died in Lorain County Infirmary. [Known as "Putt", not quite normal, intellectually]. |
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Permelia |
born Nov. 20, 1848, married James H. Farrar Jan. 10, 1867, he died in 1872, and she married George W. Dewey March 27, 1876, and died Sept. 8, 1922. |
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Maria |
born June 21, 1851, married - - Farr and lived in Cleveland. |
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Lois |
born April 6, 1852, married Fred Osgood, and is deceased. |
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Susan A. |
born October 10, 1856, married Fred Pierce of Lorain and is deceased. |
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Nett |
born March 19, 1859, married Will Little, and lives in Elyria. |
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George E. |
born Aug. 9, 1861, died in Illinois. |
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Frank |
born Jan. 5, 1864, died in Indiana. Both these young men left home and never returned. |
Mrs. Bayless died Sept. 17, 1886. Mr. Bayless married, 2nd, the widow of Lewis Breckenridge. Mr. Bayless died Jan. 23, 1893. The widow then married John Arnold and went to California.
In 1852 Burtis Bayless, Pitt Bates, Mortimer Allen and Andrew Hinman went to California, and of these, Mr. Bayless only came back. In 1858 Bayless bought a lot in Binghamton [Kipton village]. He kept a store where the hardware store now stands.
BENNETT, FRANCIS, came from Michigan and in 1856 received a deed of 28 acres, in tract 9, north of the schoolhouse, and also of 30 acres where the buildings are. He returned to Michigan.
BETTIS, JOHN and his wife, Mary, French Canadians, a childless couple, lived next west of Ira Hill’s in the little house yet standing. They brought up two or perhaps three children, Levi Charles Kellogg and his sister Minerva, and perhaps a brother, Martin H. Kellogg. In 1860 Charles Kellogg gave to Mr. and Mrs. Bettis a life lease of six acres, where the house stands. Mr. Kellogg uses to carry the mail from Kipton to Deacon Taylor’s house at the Center. [Probably a branch post office.] These old people were much respected and friends used to help them in their old age by supplying them with wood and provisions. Mr. Bettis became so feeble and childish that he was taken to the Infirmary, where he died August 16, 1885, at the extreme age of 107 years. The wife went to live with Minerva, who had married John Williams, and died March 8, 1890, at the age of 103 years. They were both buried in the Camden cemetery.
BLISS, GIDEON, a native of Wakeman, was school director in Dist. No. 1 in 1856 and resigned in 1857, and probably returned to Wakeman.
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