Pioneer History of Camden, Ohio

PIONEER HISTORY OF CAMDEN TOWNSHIP, LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO

(By Dr. F. E. Weeks, Kipton, Ohio)

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Truman Holcomb, son of Moses, married Clara Campbell in Camden in 1877, and had children, Mamie and Frank, both born in Iowa. The wife died in 1883 and he married Mrs. May [Walker], widow of Melvin Whitney, of Camden, and they had a daughter, Leita Louise born in Iowa in 1900.

HOOVER, JACOB, born in Pennsylvania May 3, 1818, married, Nov. 2, 1841, Jane M. Morgan [born in Ithaca, N.Y., June 18, 1817. After their marriage they lived in Carlisle, Lorain County, O., but removed to Russia Township before 1853. Mr. Hoover traded farms with the Porter brothers and came to Camden, to the farm now occupied by George Miller. He built the brick house there. He died Nov. 26, 1890 and the wife Aug. 27, 1895.

They had children:

Horace,	born in Carlisle Dec. 6, 1843, married Sarah Hill of Camden and died at Mt. Dora, Florida, Jan. 23, 1917.
George H.,	born in Carlisle Sept. 21,1846, married Lizzie Herold, of Penfield, who soon died, and he then married a girl in Lorain, and died in Elyria June 3, 1912.
Franklin,	born in Carlisle April 11, 1849, married, 1^st, Celia Morgan, 2^nd, Dellia Hathaway, of Owosso, Mich., and died in Detroit Oct. 6, 1915.
Wilson K.,	born in Russia Tp. July 23, 1853, married Nora B. Springer of Berlin and died at his home in New London Township.
Harriet M.,	born in Russia Dec. 8, 1858, married Frederick Sanders, of LaGrange.

HOUSE, H. K., born in New Jersey, bought the Henry Hand farm in 1860. The frame house stood across the road from the present brick one, which Mr. House built. He must have gone to Kent, Ohio, and later to Norwalk, Ohio, where he died Sept. 2, 1899, at the age of 70. He served as Mayor of Norwalk. He had either five, or six, wives. The first one was a sister of the wife of Henry Whitney, Margaret, by name, and they had a daughter, Lorana, who married Francis Howe. [One account gives the name of the first wife as Eva Mina Huston, which may be an error.] The second wife was Mary, only child of Charles Gunn, of Camden, who died Oct. 24, 1866, at the age of 21, leaving a daughter who is the wife of Ed Shedd, of Detroit. [The first wife died March 7, 1860, at the age of 27.] The third wife was Sally M. Shook, of Henrietta, and who died in Kent, Ohio. The fourth was Emily Arnold, daughter of George Arnold, and widow of William Arnold. The other wives he married in Norwalk.

HOVEY, JOHN F., a native of Vermont, came to Camden in 1835 and settled on the Maybelle Whitney farm, receiving the deed from the Stow estate in 1845. In 1853 he deeded 1½ acres to Alvan. He died Feb. 8, 1870 at the age of 84 years. His wife, Elizabeth, died April 14, 1864, at the age of 70. They had sons, Alvan S., James P. and Rufus G., and a daughter Abigail. After the death of the father the two oldest sons remained upon the farm. Alvan was a shoemaker and had a red shop near the house, next the road. He married Sarah, daughter of Newell Cook, of Henrietta. He was born March 31, 1823 and died March 21, 1904. He died in New York state and the wife in Holland, Michigan. In 1862 Alvan and James had a factory at "Skipper Hill", where they manufactured rakes and other farm implements. The factory was removed when the cheese-factory was built.

James P. Hovey, born May 21, 1833, and died in Clarksfield Jan. 14, 1877. He married Melissa Cook, a sister of Alvan’s wife, and who died in 1906. He became a cheesemaker and operated the factory in Clarksfield known as the "Hovey Factory." In 1860 he bought the Ernest Leininger farm but sold it the next year.

HOVEY. In Lyme, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, there was a large family of Hoveys.

John Fairfield Hovey, born April 11, 1785, at Lyme, married Elizabeth Hill at Milton, Chittenden Co., Vt. Both died in Camden, he April 14, 1864, and she Feb. 8, 1870.

James Monroe Prouty Hovey, son of John, born Feb. 9, 1833, in Milton, married in Clarksfield, O., June 15, 1856, Nancy Melissa Cook, born at Soriba, N.Y., March 22, 1834, daughter of Newell and Esther L. [Shattuck] Cook. They had two children, Wilbert Newell, born Jan. 3, 1860, Esther born in 1870.

HOWE, FRANCIS FUMAROY, born in Royalton, Ohio, April 15, 1819. His parents were Francis Howe and Sarah McClaflin, whose ancestors were among those who landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620. Mr. Howe settled at Kennington, Addison County, Vermont. After the War of 1812, he settled twelve miles south of Cleveland, Royalton. Sarah McClaflin married 1^st, - - Sprague and had two daughters. The youngest one, Sirlinda, married 2^nd, Benjamin Meacham and died in Townsend in 1892.

Francis P. Howe married Elizabeth Turner May 6, 1837. She was born at Seabrook, Conn., Oct. 1, 1821. In 1853 he bought of Isaac Wyburn and Peter Haynes lot 23, tract 11, the Henry Weeks farm, and in 1857 he bought of David Wells the portion of lot 18 south of the railroad, Gower farm. In 1861 he sold the last purchase and an additional five acres to Aaron Gager. In 1875 he sold his farm to John D. Williams. He erected on the farm the house now standing. He also owned the Norman Lee farm, which was his woodlot.

The Howe children were Mary Elizabeth, born Feb. 16, 1838, Albert Lucious, born Jan. 29, 1839, Willoughby, born Aug. 13, 1841, Henry, born July 9, 1843, Edwin Ruthvan, born Oct. 26, 1846, Francis Wilford, born July 23, 1848, Herbert Hernando, born July 22, 1851.

Mary Elizabeth married Seth C. Wing, of Camden Nov. 24, 1857 and died in the west.

Albert O. married Susan A. Douglass, of Camden, Oct. 27, 1858 and died at Willoughby, O., May 25, 1904.

Willoughby married, 1^st, Elizabeth H. Twining, of Camden, April 5, 1865, 2^nd, Elizabeth Porter, of Akron, May 19, 1879 and died in the west.

Henry died, unmarried, Aug. 23, 1867.

Edwin R. married Agnes C. Morgan, of Camden, Nov. 30, 1871, and removed to Lodi, Ohio. He lived for a time on the Guernsey farm.

Francis W. married Lorana House, of Camden, Sept. 23, 1869 and died in Lorain, Ohio, Jan. 20, 1920.

Herbert H. married Ella A. Tennant, of Camden, Feb. 12, 1874, 2^nd, Katie [Becker] Bell Jan. 22, 1919. He died in 1933. He used to own the Tennant farm and lived there, but sold it and removed to Kipton.

Lewis Howe, a brother of F. P., with his wife, Emily, were living in Cuyahoga County, [Royalton] in 1844. Her name was Tupper. On Dec. 31, 1859 she was married to A. J. West, in Lorain County. He lived on the Guernsey farm. He went to Missouri and lived until his death. He had a son Burton by the first wife and "Vollie" by the second one. He was director in Dist. No. 1 in 1861.

HOYLE, SAMUEL C., a tailor, from LaGrange, Ohio, married Sabrina, widow of Ira Hill, and they lived in a house just west of the Hill farm. He was born in 1798 and died in 1871. Mr. Hoyle had three sons, George, Henry and Clark.

George Hoyle received a deed of the Ira Hill farm from the heirs, in 1852. In 1853 he deeded 56 acres of the farm to his father. He bought land at Cedar Springs, Michigan and lived there, but removed to Missouri and then to Indiana, then went into the army, then back to Cedar Springs where he died. His wife was Betsy Stoddard, of LaGrange.

Henry Hoyle married Mary Grout, of Camden, and he and Clark also removed to Michigan.

HUMISTON, THOMAS, a brother of the wife of Daniel Lucas, lived south of Samtown.

HURD, HARRISON, a son of John [or Norman] Hurd, was born July 11, 1904. He married, March 4, 1830, Rebecca Stilson, born Feb. 11, 1807, a daughter of Phineas Stilson. He came from Lewis County, N.Y. to Camden in the fall of 1833 or 1834, having bargained for a farm, where Herbert Davidson lives, and built a log house. The next spring he brought his wife and three children. He did not receive the deed of his farm until 1844, from Nehemiah Hubbard, original Proprietor. He later built the new house, into which he moved on January 1, 1853. The farm included the portion owned by Davidson on the east side of the road.

"Deacon Hurd", as he was commonly known, died July 11, 1895. The wife had died April 20, 1885.

They had children:

Malvina	born Dec.30, 1830, married Mar. 8, 1855, died Feb. 9, 1912.
Alexina	born Mar.28, 1832 married Nov. 23, 1854, died No date given.
Albert 1^st	born July 8, 1833, died Oct. 8, 1835.
Ann Eliza	born June 1, 1835, married Mar. 8, 1855, died Nov. 29, 1927.
Elizabeth	born Mar. 19, 1837, married Oct. 17, 1861, died Dec., 1920.
Marietta	born Nov. 17, 1839, married Feb. 11, 1863, died Apr. 8, 1906.
Egbert	born Jan. 29, 1841, died Aug. 20, 1844.
Sarah	born Aug. 19, 1843, married Feb., 1871, died Sep. 11, 1883.
Andrew	born Apr. 1, 1845, married 1^st, Oct. 8,. 1867, died Jan. 29, 1912. married 2^nd, Apr. 30, 1876
Albert 2^nd	born Mar. 8, 1847, married Jan. 2, 1868
Judson N.	born Dec. 21, 1849, married Oct. 12, 1871, died May 10, 1917.
Frances	born Apr. 25, 1853, married Dec. 16, 1873, died July 21, 1926.

Melvin Hurd married J. Randolph Bonney, a preacher and she died at their home in Michigan. "Alzina", properly Alexina, married George Carpenter of Camden and died in Olmsted, Ohio. Ann Eliza married John James Weeks, of Camden, and they lived in Michigan until his death in 1901, then made her home with her sister, Mrs. Norman Lee. Elizabeth married Gilbert Riley Parker of Aurora, Ohio, and died in Lorain. Mariette married Allison Parker of Aurora, a cousin of Riley. Sarah married Joseph Thurlby and died in Bronson, Michigan. Andrew J. married, 1^st, Ella Briant, 2^nd, Fanny Doane, of Litchfield. Albert married Suzie Leffingwell of Litchfield. Judson N. married Nancy Bartlett, of Pittsfield, and died on the home farm, owning the portion on the west side of the road. Frances married Norman Lee, of Camden and died on the home Lee farm.

INGERSOLL, WILLIAM W., son of Major William Ingersoll of Berkshire Co., Mass., born in Grafton, Ohio, September 30, 1820, married July 24, 1845, Elizabeth Welburn, daughter of Jesse Welburn, an immigrant from England who had settled in Grafton. In 1854 William W. Ingersoll came to Camden and bought the farm of Norton Bates. He purchased the lot south of the Bates farm and in 1859 entered suit against Norton Bates, Julia A. Hall, Cornelius Hall, Susan E. Atkins, Albert Atkins, Horace A. Miller and Laura L. Miller, for undivided two-thirds, and obtained a court deed for the land.

Mr. Ingersoll died Jan. 25, 1879. His wife, born Aug. 17, 1825, died Nov. 22, 1909. They had children, Charles Bostwick, born Jan. 21, 1847, married Anna Watson in 1887, and lived on the home farm until his death Dec. 15, 1930, Mary, died an infant, Mary 2^nd married - - Brooks, Kate, married - - Boyed, Emma Jane, Walter and Debbie, who all died within a few weeks of scarlet fever, and Frank, who died March 10, 1922.

Egbert H. Ingersoll, a brother of William W., born Jan. 29, 1830, married Eliza Hawkins, of Camden, and died Jan. 30, 1889. He was married Jan. 10, 1884. He lived at Camden Center, on the William Brumby farm. He had no children.

IRISH, CHARLES, a blacksmith, born in 1824, died in 1894, married a daughter of Manning Ware, of Camden, but they were divorced when the children were small. The wife, Jane M., married a Dale and died in 1894, born in 1839. A son, Charles Irish, lived in Lorain, Ohio.

JOHNSON, JOHN, and wife, Clarissa, lived here and in 1851 deeded land to the railroad company.

JOHNSTON, JOHN, came to Camden in 1833 with William Scott, and was related to him by married. He bought the fifty acre farm just north of Kipton on the east side of the road. He had a son Frank, who married a Shattuc girl. In 1849 John Johnston and wife, Philura, signed a deed, and in 1853 he and his wife Clarina signed.

Francis N. Johnston was director in Dist. No. 9 in 1865.

A Frank Johnston married Edna, a niece of William Scott. He was killed on the railroad and his widow lived in Oberlin.

JOYCE, JOHN C., son of Lansing Joyce and Sophia Haskins, and a grandson of Mrs. Polly Haskins, who lived to be so old, was born in Massachusetts, and came to Huntington, Lorain County, Ohio, with his parents when a boy. He was born in 1820, and died Sept. 15, 1914, at the age of 94. He married Jan. 1, 1845, Harriet Bunce, of Huntington, and who died Jan. 4, 1910. As early as 1856 he owned the farm opposite the Josiah Hilliker farm. He died at the Hilliker home. He had children, Emma, born June 6, 1849, married, 1^st, S. Valorus Carpenter, of Camden, 2^nd, Israel Bursley, of Wakeman, 3^rd, Albert Wilson. Freelove, born Oct. 22, 1851, married Josiah D. Hilliker and died at the Hilliker home. And Rosanna, born April 11, 1854, died at the age of eleven years.

Joyce, Solomon C., born at Greenbush, N.Y., Sept. 16, 1823, a brother of John, married Eliza Lesher, of Camden, who died in 1875, 2^nd, Azalia Goff, March 21, 1900. He enlisted in a Michigan regiment and served through the war. He was in many battles and served as a scout around Lookout Mountain. In 1867 he removed to Kansas, and seven years later to Michigan. He married, 2^nd, the widow of Horatio Bronson. At the time of his death he lived in Vermillion, but died in Lake County, Ohio, March 15, 1907, when on a visit there. He had children, Marilla, Emery, Alfred, Everett, Frankie and Franklin. The son Alfred, lost one eye, and was known as "Black Peter." He married Anna Hill, of Brownhelm. He once lived in the brick house of Rufus Lucas.

James Joyce, another brother, lived on the Hilliker road but removed to Michigan.

JUCKETT, EBENEZER, born October 3, 1795, married Lucena Jones January 28, 1818. She was born Nov. 11, 1791. They came to Camden from Clarkston, Monroe County, N.Y., about 1836. They all removed to Michigan, except Mary Louisa who had married Hiram Whitney. Mr. Juckett died Dec. 3, 1861, and the wife on October 11, 1863.

They had children:

Darius,	born May 16, 1819, died August 12, 1848.
Mary Louisa,	born Jan. 20, 1821, died March 1, 1906, married Hiram Whitney of Camden.
George Washington,	born Sept. 25 1823, died Feb. 12, 1897, married, Jan. 15, 1846, Elmina Gillett of Pittsfield.
James Madison,	born Nov. 22, 1826, died April 1906.
Jason Van Reneselaer,	born April 8, 1830, died Aug. 4, 1851.
Lucena Ann,	born May 29, 1834, married William Epley June 14, 1848.

KELLOGG, LEVI CHARLES, was reared by Mr. and Mrs. Bettis. He was born in 1837, and died at St. Johns, Michigan in 1913. He was a wagon maker and had a shop at the Center. He married Eliza, daughter of John Haynes. In 1860 he purchased 6 acres of land and gave Mr. and Mrs. Bettis a life lease of it.

Martin Heath Kellogg, a brother of Levi, married a daughter of Lem Root of Wakeman. Was he known as "Steve" Kellogg?

Minerva Kellogg, a sister of the above, also raised by the Bettises, married John Williams, son of John D.

KELSEY, ZENAS, bought the Duane Perkins farm of his brother-in-law, Lewis Gibbs. He moved from there to Brighton. Then he went to Cleveland, where his wife died, then to Michigan and died at the home of his son Da. He had a daughter Lepha who married Dan Hall of Brighton.

KEMP, JOHN, a native of Yorkshire, England, born in 1821, came to this country at the age of 25. He married Susan H. Welburn, a sister of William Ingersoll’s wife. He came to Camden from Ridgeville, Ohio, in 1865, and lived on the farm now owned by George Miller, across from the Little Lake. He died in 1902, and the wife in 1909. Children: William, died at the age of 25, John, died at the age of 47, Edgar ["Eph"], Mary [Stevens], Belle [Barnes], Lucy [McClintock], Elizabeth [Linderman] and Maybelle [Whitney].

Some members of the family have been afflicted with an heredity tendency to bleeding. Mrs. Kemp lost a brother, one of her sons was subject to it, and one daughter’s children have been afflicted.

KENNEDEY, ROBERT, whose wife Hannah LaDow, of Camden, lived on the south farm of Conrad Heidrich, and also owned the Noble Hurst farm, on the south road, and sold it to Lewis Rood. In 1856 he was director in Dist. No. 4.

Albert Kennedey, a brother of Robert, married Emily Dorinda Tennant, of Camden in 1876, lived at Springfield, Ohio, and Rockport, Indiana.

KENYON, ELIJAH, was a shoemaker and had a shop at Samtown. In 1858 he was a resident of Huron County. He died in the Dan Lucas house at Samtown.

Elias W. Kenyon, a son, owned the Dowdell farm. He married Lydia LaDow, of Camden, Feb. 16, 1865. He died Nov. 7, 1891, aged 53 years. His wife died Jan. 28, 1886, aged 39 years. Their son Burr, died Aug. 30, 1893, at the age of nearly twenty.

KINGSBURY, LEMUEL HUTCHINS, was a son of Lemuel and Mrs. Lovica [Hutchins] Kingsbury, and a grandson of Phineas and Hannah [Hutchinson] Kingsbury. He was born at Berkshire, Massachusetts, September 24, 1807, and married Jerusha Miller Durban, in Bethany, N.Y., Feb. 20, 1834. She was born in Ledyard, N.Y., Aug. 28, 1813, and died in Clarksfield April 28, 1881. They came to Wakeman between 1848 and 1851. As early as 1851 they lived in Camden, south of the Little Lake, and in the Jennie Shafer house, removing to Clarksfield, west of the Advent Church. He died June 27, 1879. They had children: Mary Ann, born 1835, married John McDonald of Clarksfield, as his second wife, and died at her home in Wakeman in 1915. James Monroe, born 1837, killed in the battle before Petersburgh, Va., June 17, 1864. Romaine James, born in Wakeman in 1839, killed at Fort Republic, Va., June 9, 1862. Daniel Durbon, born in Wakeman, 1841,died in Michigan in 1914. Martha Augusta, born in Wakeman in 1843, died in Mich. in 1909. Sarah Almira, born in Wakeman in 1845, died in Michigan in 1916. Ruth Elizabeth, born in Wakeman in 1848, married M. V. Armstrong and died in Wakeman in 1916. Lemuel Manning, born in Camden in 1851, married a Fox girl from Clarksfield, lived south of the Advent Church, separated from his wife and went to California. John Alvin and Jane Alvira, born in Camden in 1853. John lived on the corner near the Hoover farm, but removed to Wakeman, and is deceased. Jane died in Wakeman in 1875.

Kingsbury, Charles B., brother of Lemuel, born May 22, 1812, married Betsy Tennant, daughter of Selden Tennant, at Sweden, N.Y. In 1847 they came to Camden with the Tennant family. Mr. Kingsbury might have come out here earlier, for he bought the A. W. Davidson and Tom Whitney farms, and was reported as of Camden. In 1840 he sold part of lot 13 to John Arnold, and in 1842 sold to Hiram Allen part of lots 6 and 13 [Davidson]. He lived on the Lewis Searles farm, and died there Oct. 16, 1865. His widow married Albert Bronson, a brother of Horatio G.

Charles Kingsbury had children:

Selden B.,	born in 1840, married at Mentor, O., Huldah Corning, lived at Mentor, married 2^nd, in Winnepeg, Canada, Katydid Jones in 1907. In 1909 he was appointed Circuit Judge in the Territory of Hawaii and was living there in 1914.
Lydia J.,	born in Sweden, married Jerome Culver and died at Saginaw, Michigan in 1913.
Alice,	born in Camden, married a Mr. Huckins and died in Salt Lake City about 1890.
Charles Henry,	married Rena Abbott at St. Louis, Michigan.
James D.,	born in 1856, married at Saginaw, Michigan.
Amy,	born in 1859, married Edward W. March at Farrington, Mich., and later lived at Pontiac.

Kingsbury, Henry, another brother of Lemuel, was a carpenter. He married Ann Kingsbury, of Brunswick, Ohio, a daughter of Phineas Kingsbury. She was a sister of Mrs. Roswell Allen, and an aunt of Philip Ritzenthaler’s wife. Kingsbury and his wife separated and he died in Michigan. The wife died in Wakeman. Henry owned the Will Hewitt farm and sold it to Harvey Ordway in 1852. He was born Feb. 20, 1815. He lived in Samtown. His children were George, of Lansing, Mich., Henry of Indianapolis and Addie who married Morton Brown of Camden, and died Jan., 22, 1875, at the age of 31.

Kingsbury, Ebenezer, an old soldier, used to live here but removed to Pittsfield, and was no kin of the other family of that name.

LaDOW, URIAH, Sr., married Katy Knowles, a sister of Hiram Bates’ last wife and had children, Seth, Lucy, Abram, Hannah and Uriah, Jr. In 1836 he bought 40 acres of land on the Gore, and in 1848, two acres additional, so as to bring him to the Center road, the John Kingsbury farm. He also owned the John Hales farm which he deeded to Uriah Jr. in 1852. He bought the Hoover farm from Thaddeus Rappleye. When he left here he removed to Fulton County, Ohio, and later lived with his brother Alexander, in Iowa. He died March 9, 1855, at the age of 69. The son Seth died March 20, 1840 at the age of 26.

Uriah LaDow, Jr., married Sarah Ann Bates, of Camden, daughter of Henry B. Bates. They separated and he went to California, and he died there.

Alexander LaDow was a half brother of Uriah, Sr. In 1834, when a resident of Camden, he bought the William W. Cook farm, but sold it to Cook very soon. His wife was Harriet. He removed to Iowa and died there. He had a large family of children, but we do not have the names of them. In 1837 he bought the William Davidson farm and sold it to John Cyrenius in 1844.

Abraham, or Abram, LaDow married, April 22, 1845, Louisa, daughter of Freeman Hammond. In 1852 he bought of the Western Reserve College land on the Gore and in 1857 bought 50 acres more. [The Samuel Hanes farm] In 1852 he bought the J. E. Davidson farm and sold it to John D. Williams. He had children, Lydia Ann., married Elias Kenyon and died January 28, 1886 at the age of 39. Freeman Uriah, who went to Michigan to lived, where he married Mary Elizabeth Case, but lived with his son in Covington, Kentucky, and died January 18, 1923. Robert Delos, who died in Elyria July 27, 1924. Etta Altheda, born Nov. 13, 1855, married May 20, 1880 Bidwell Baird, of Brighton, and died June 22, 1925. Dow Baird of Elyria is her son. [Robert Delos married Arminda Gillett, of Brighton.

Abraham died Feb. 20, 1883, aged 60. His wife died Sept. 25, 1905, aged nearly 79. He lived north of the Advent Church, on the George Freeman farm.

LaDow, William, born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 25, 1825, came to Ohio when a young man and lived with his brother John in Oberlin. He worked at rafting logs down the Ohio River at one time. In Oberlin he met Julia Elizabeth Wiborn, who was teaching school there, at the age of twenty. She was born Nov. 20, 1835. They were married and went to live in Camden where he bought the Manning Kingsbury farm, south of the Advent Church, in 1855, and in 1855, and in 1880 bought 30 acres of the Alvah Gibson farm. In 1880 they removed to Clarksfield, where he died March 24, 1887. The wife remarried and died in Brighton, Feb. 16, 1911. They had children, Minnie, Carrie, Zepha, Orrie, Lepha and LeRoy.

John LaDow, a brother of William, and also of Patrick, Lewis Owen, Mary and Nancy, of Pennsylvania, married September 5, 1848, Experience Gifford, and lived at Camden Center, where he made grain cradles, which were so much superior to those in use before then, that there was a great sale of them, and a farmer considered himself lucky if he was able to obtain a "LaDow cradle". Some of them may yet be found in barns. They had the "Grape Vine Twist", which made them so superior. In 1850 he bought the J. E. Davidson farm and sold to John D. Williams in 1854. [We think this latter is an error, as it was probably Abraham who bought it.] In 1860 John LaDow bought six acres at the Center, which he sold to Joseph Cross. John and family removed to Minnesota. There were children, Ruth, Eva and Cylinda.

LARNED, CORTES C., a blacksmith, lived at Samtown in 1853, and had his shop on the south side of the road, just east of the corner. He built the house in which Daniel Lucas lived later.

LATTEMAN, GIDEON, a native of Germany, came to Henrietta in 1851. In 1867 he married Christina Ginste and came to Camden in 1867 and bought the Ray Green farm, where he died in 1897. His children were Elma [Perkins], Amelia, died in 1932, and Eda [Betts]. Mr. Latteman received a very severe wound while in the Civil War.

LEDYARD, WALTER, whose first wife was a Powers, lived on the Bricker farm but removed to Huntington. He bought the south part of the Bricker farm in 1858. He volunteered in the army in 1861.

LEE, THOMAS, born in Frankfort, Herkimer County, New York, January 30, 1799, was a son of Thomas, and grandson of John, Jr. The ancient Lee Genealogy, which we copy, is found in a Bible, printed in 1769, and a Book of Psalms, printed in 1758, the books now being in possession of Mrs. Marguerite [Lee] Buchs.

Thomas Lee, His Bible given by his father in the year 1798.

Thomas Lee was born in the year 1769, Feb. 11.

John Lee, Jr., his father, was born in the year 1743, Feb. 15.

Elizabeth Lee, his mother, was born in the year 1748, May 26.

Thomas Lee, born in the State of Rhodeisland, town of Coventry, Feb. 11, 1767 [above says 1769]

Deceased July 30, 1830.

Thankful Crandall was born in the State of Rhodeisland, town of Hopkintown, July 22, A.D. 1771, Deceased Oct. 17 1810.

Our marriage was intended and married then was we.

Our days Goes on in pleasure while peace it doth abound.

Kind heaven it has Bless’d us & with Children has us crowned.

John Lee died Jan. 6, 1822.

Grandfather Lee - father’s Father - John Lee, his two brothers, names was Thomas and Joseph, came from England together. Grandfather’s first wife’s name Wheman.

John Lee, Jr., b Feb. 17. Elizabeth Lee b May 26 1748. John Lee died 1800, January. Elizabeth died 1788 May 3.

John Lee, son of Thomas, born State of N.Y., town of Stephentown, Oct. 17, 1791. Whitman Lee born Frankfort, State of New York, Sept. 30, 1793. Christopher Crandall Lee born Frankfort Aug. 5, 1795. Thomas Lee Jr., born Frankfort Oct. 15, 1797, died Oct. 20, 1797. Thomas Lee born Frankfort Jan. 30, 1799.

[The Bible contains the pen portraits of Thomas Lee and Thankful Crandall.]

Thomas Lee, last listed above, married Lucinda, daughter of Norman Waugh of Scriba, N.Y., in 1826. As two daughters of Norman Waugh became Camden residents, and his second wife had descendants who married in Camden, we give their genealogy.

WAUGH. The name Waugh may be found in nearly every state in the union. A certain John Waugh settled in the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, and he is supposed to have come from Ireland. He and his wife Margaret are buried in Litchfield. He was born in 1687 and died in 1781. Of his four sons, we take up Alexander, who served through the Revolutionary War. He married Elizabeth Throop Feb.12, 1766. They had children, Dan, Norman, Freeman, Irene, Rhoda and Elizabeth. The family moved from Litchfield to Camden, Oneida County, N.Y. about 1800.

Norman Waugh, born Jan. 6, 1779, died Oct. 10, 1820. Lucinda, his wife, born Feb. 8, 1782, died March 11, 1813, married Nov. 29, 1798. Their children were Susan, born August 26, 1799. Sally, born April 14, 180--, died April 9, 1856, married Robert Douglass. Truman, born March 14, 1803, died Sept. 20, 1823. John P. born March 15, 1805. Norman, Jr., born March 15, 1809. Lucinda, born July 10, 1811, married Thomas Lee.

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