The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 91 through 100
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Their first house was made of bark with bark floor up through which the water would come when it rained. In this they lived for a few weeks while they were building their log house. Six weeks after Mr. Canfield came, Amiel Pierce (Squire Pierce he was always called) came with his family of wife and four children, and selected their home one fourth of a mile north of the Canfields. These two log houses were the only buildings in the town, until the next summer (same year), when Samuel Bristol, another Connecticut man came and settled one fourth of a mile north of the Pierces. No one who has not been placed in like circumstances can imagine how close the relationship must have been between these three families, shut out from all the associations and friends of other years and shut in the thick forest with only themselves for society.
There was soon a beaten path from one log house to the other, but the forest was dense, and mighty trees shut out all views between. Every man carried a pocket compass, but in its absence it was the easiest thing in the world to become lost in the tangled wilderness. It was just at night once that Mr. Canfield with his oldest son, a lad of eight or nine years, started for home from Mr. Pierce’s. He was on horseback and though he was within calling distance of his own home, he became confused, lost his way and had to face an all night’s sojourn in the woods. He took the saddle off his horse, threw it over his boy, who composed himself to sleep on the ground and slept till morning as if nothing had happened. It is needless to say that the father’s eyes never closed the whole night through. The hooting of the owls and the howling of the wolves intermingled with the other noises of a forest at night, made sleep impossible. When daylight came he found he had passed the night only a few rods from his own door.
Those early days were full of toil and hardship. For years the only place where grain could be ground was six miles to the north at a place now called Mason’s Mills. It was an all day’s job for a boy to take a bag of grain in front on a horse’s back, and go to the mill and back with his grist.
(Note: Mr. Green overlooked the mill at Clarksfield Hollow, which was built in 1818, no further than Mason’s Mill).
For years the cattle would die with the murrain, and money was at first almost an unknown quantity. But they had some things which settlers on our western prairies would consider as unheard of luxuries. Plenty of fuel could be had for the cutting and when those immense fireplaces, which every house was supplied with, were filled with their blazing backlogs and lighter wood piled on in front, they filled the plainest house with light and warmth and cheer. While they had no luxuries, they always had substantial food. The woods were full of deer, turkey and squirrels, to say nothing of smaller game. Every man owned a gun and of necessity became expert in its use. Wild plums and blackberries were abundant in their season, and the giant maple trees gave delicious syrup and sugar."
(He also adds the names of the Canfield grand-children.) Sarah Canfield and George Denton had Leman C., who died in his junior year in Oberlin College; Mary E., who married J. H. McFarland and was then living in Oklahoma; Margaret A., living with her mother in Wakeman; Edwin C., who married Anna Hart and was living in Nebraska.
Alban Canfield had a son, Charles D., who married Annie Quigley, and died in Norwalk. William A. Canfield had children, Calvert C., who married Katherine Weigh, and was then living in Cleveland. (He is the one who has come to own all the original Canfield, Sherman, Pierce, Manvel farms.)
Frances Adella Canfield had two children, Anna E., who married Pierce Van Alstine, and Jane, who was living with her parents in Sandusky. Darwin Canfield had a son, Jude.
George E. Canfield was living in the house where his father and mother commenced their married life. A daughter, Mary, was living with them.
Royal Canfield settled in Kingston, N. C.
Sarah Canfield (St. John) had three children, Edward and Ellen, twins, and Francis. Ellen and Francis died young, and Edward married Angeline Wilcox and was living in California.
Harriet Canfield married Curtiss Burr and had four children, John Elmer who lived and died in Florence township; Ellen who married William L. Bissell (not of the Clarksfield family) and lived in Connecticut, where she died in 1895; Royal A., who died young, and Velma, who married Charles Ellis and lived in Michigan, and died in 1902.
After he became of age, Calon Canfield with Lemuel Pierce hired out to a man to take some horses to Connecticut. Each rode one horse and led two others. They started early in the morning and rode till dark, only stopping long enough at noon time for a short rest and feed for their horses and themselves. When they reached Connecticut, Calon hired out to his uncle, Burton Canfield of South Britain for a year, and the money which he received for that year’s labor gave him his first start in life. A stream called the Chappelle wound through the northwest corner of Mr. Pierce’s farm and on it in time he erected a sawmill, as did Calon Canfield a half mile to the north of him. These mills were the source of great profit to the owners, and on still nights Mrs. Canfield could stand in her door and hear the steady clip clop of the saws from both mills as they were cutting their way through the logs. The sawing season would sometimes extend over five or six months of the year. Mr. Canfield had a little experience with patent right men in connection with his mill. He bought a devise for setting the saw quickly, of an agent and paid for it. After using it a few months he found there was a patent on it and had to settle over again costing fifty dollars.
While the boys from these first families were growing up they were, of course, much together. In the language of Mr. Betts before the white man ever came here, God had visited the place by a tornado which tore down a large tract of timber in the northwest part of the town. This was called the Windfall and was a famous place for blackberries. One day Royal and Calon Canfield with one of the Pierce boys, all three on one horse, went to the Windfall for berries. They had been there but a few moments when they espied some Indians who were there for the same purpose. The boys did not want any more berries that day, but started for home as fast as their horse could carry them, followed by the loud laughter of the Indians.
CARLEY, ALBERT – a son of James A. Carley, of Clarksfield, bought 40 acres of Lot 33, north of Bacon’s Corners, in 1856, after the "Whiskey war" in the house on this farm. Two years later he sold it to Amos Pierce. His wife, Rosanna Brown, died May 19, 1859, at the age of thirty years. He entered the army and died there.
James R. Carley, of Collins, and Harry M., of Florence, were brothers of Albert.
CARY, Seth - married at Putney, Vt., Sarah Gleason. They came to Wakeman in 1833 or 1834, and lived west of town near Merritt Hyde’s. The wife, who was born Aug. 2, 1779, died in Wakeman, Feb. 2, 1838. Mr. Cary, after this went to New York State and was found dead of heart disease in a field.
Their children were:
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1. Sally, |
married Jason Wing, in Vermont, see his history, |
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2. Seth, |
married Eunice Thompson, Feb. 26, 1838, further history not known, |
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3. Lydia, |
married Garwood Camp, which see. |
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4. Joel (Rev.) |
was born in 1814, moved to the town of Texas, Ohio, (in the Maumee valley) in 1847 and died there Sept. 21, 1848. In 1836 he married Harriet Wickham Ransom. They had issue, Henry E., Harlon, Fidelia, and Glory Ann, |
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5. Mary Cary |
married Isaac L. Carpenter in 1839 and died in New London, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1863. |
The other children of Seth Cary were Polly (Mary?) Lyman Zebulon, Jane and Joseph.
Mrs. Nancy Cary, the widow of Seth Cary’s brother, lived in the family at the time of her death, May 7, 1843, and also her half-witted daughter, who died May 23, 1843.
In 1837, Joel Cary bought of Isaac Hill, 15 acres of the northeast part of Lot 26, and in 1845 sold it to Weldon Mott (the Pease place, west of Carl Green’s.)
CASHMAN, Patrick - a native of County Cork, Ireland, married Johanna Savage of County Galway. They emigrated to the United States in 1847. They lived in Camden when the railroad was being built through here and he was one of the first men to lift a shovel of dirt in the construction of this part of the road. He afterward bought a farm in Wakeman on the Butler Road, being 30 acres of the north part of what became known as the Cashman farm, receiving the deed in 1857. He died July 23, 1891, at the age of 71, and the wife died Nov 14, 1894, at the age of 84. They had two children, Thomas, who died on the farm, Nov. 4, 1921, aged 65 years, and Ellen, who also died on the farm, Jan. 4, 1911, both being unmarried.
Tom Cashman was one of the most brilliant young fellows, in this community. He studied law under the famous John McSweeny, but unfortunately, he copied McSweeny in his unrestrained appetite for intoxicants, and lost out in opportunity for a brilliant career.
CHANDLER, Daniel - a son of Daniel Chandler and Sally Summers, of Florence, bought a part of Lot 84, on the east side of the Butler road in 1854, and also a part of Lot 94 on the east town line road. He lived on the Butler road for a few years. He sold the land on the Butler road to Michael Ford and Thomas Fahy, and the other land to Stephen Trowbridge. He was born Nov. 5, 1830, and married Sarah Belknap in 1854. He lived the rest of his life near Birmingham and died in November 1920.
CHRYSLER, Morgan L. – born at Toughhannock, Columbia county, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1809, married Lovina Moshier (born March 27, 1809), and had three children: Robert H., born Oct. 29, 1835, died in Wakeman Dec. 24, 1868; Sarah E., born July 1, 1837, died Sept. 14, 1838; Hannah E., born Nov. 26, 1839, died Nov. 30, 1840.
The wife died Nov. 16, 1842, and Mr. Chrysler was married to Permelia, daughter of Samuel Bailey (afterward a resident of Wakeman), on May 21, 1843, at the village of Springwater, N.Y. In 1846, they emigrated to Ohio, living in New London for eight months, then coming to Wakeman. Their home was on the Wakeman- Clarksfield road, near Brushwood schoolhouse.
They had issue:
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1. Lewis B., |
born Aug. 27, 1844, died Oct.1, 1845, |
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2. John M., |
" March 27, 1846, died July 27, 1914, married Mina Whitmore, daughter of T. J. Whitmore, and grand-daughter of Samuel Russell Barnes. |
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3. Samuel S., |
born April 24, 1847, died Nov. 13, 1890, Adrian, Mich., |
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4. Hannah M., |
born June 7, 1848, now the widow of William Brewer, and living in Norwalk, Ohio. |
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5. Amarilla L., |
born Dec. 26, 1850, married Elmer Denman, son of Samuel Denman, of Wakeman, died Oct. 25, 1872. |
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6. Franklin P., |
born Aug. 24, 1852, married Docia Gwinn and died in Peru, Ohio, Jan. 30, 1938, |
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7. Frances Jane (Jennie), |
born Oct. 2, 1854, married Charles Shafer, of Camden, Jan. 3, 1877, and died July 1, 1892. |
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8. James B., |
born Sept. 1, 1856, married Celia Rice, and died in 1927, |
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9. Emily E., |
born Oct. 29, 1858, died April 4, 1883, |
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10. Ella L., |
born Jan. 23, 1861, (now Mrs. Sprinkle) lives in Greenwich, O. |
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11. George B., |
born March 22, 1863, married Cora Rice and died in Townsend in 1935, |
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12. Charles E., |
born July 17, 1865, married Jessie Campbell, and lives in Kipton, Ohio, |
Mrs. Permelia Chrysler was born at Barrington, N.Y. Aug. 15, 1825, and died April 2, 1895.
Morgan L. Chrysler died Jan. 7, 1905.
CHURCH, Elisha – lived in New York State and had children, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Frances, George and Daniel. The wife died and he and Daniel came to Wakeman. He bought the Samuel Webb land in Lots 19 and 20, in 1854 and 1855. He lived on the Warren Peck farm. He sold the Peck farm and lived in a log house further north, where Stewart had lived. He removed to Crown Point, Indiana, and died there. He married for a second wife, Nancy Waldron, the widow of Darius Rounds, who had a daughter, Julia, who married 1st, Richard Brewer, 2nd, James M. Gray, of Clarksfield. She also had a son Hiram (adopted by a Northup family and called by their name.) She had by Mr. Church children, Lilian, Melissa, Emma and Elias.
The daughter of Elias Church, Martha, married Cornelius DeHart, and her history is given with his.
Daniel married Eda McKim, daughter of William McKim, of Wakeman, and died in Clarksfield, March 4, 1910.
CLARK, Dr. Hermon Munson - the eldest son of the eight sons of John Clark, Jr., was born in Waterbury, Conn., Aug. 29, 1789. His mother was a daughter of Capt. Hermon Munson and Anna Bronson. The lineage of Capt. Munson has been traced back to Capt. Thomas Munson, born about 1612, and lived in Hartford and New Haven, Conn. On the Bronson side, it has been traced back to John Bronson, of Hartford and Farmington, Conn.
The family of John Clark consisted of Dr. Hermon M., Polly, Ransom, Dr. Bela Bronson (Clark), John, Amos, Rev. Anson, Dr. Abel, and Dr. Jeremiah, there being four physicians and one minister among them. Rev. Anson organized the Episcopal Church at Elyria, and was the rector until 1839, and again from 1851 to 1853.
CLARK, Hermon M. – studied at Harvard College and received his degree as Doctor of Medicine there. He served in the war of 1812 as Assistant Surgeon on board the ship of war, Prometheus, in New York harbor. At the close of the war he was discharged and began the practice of medicine at South Britain, Conn. He was married to Laura Downs, Feb. 8, 1816. She was a daughter of Philo Downs and Hannah Mallory, and a grand-daughter of Benjamin Downs, Sr., and was born at South Britain, Conn., April 18, 1798.
Three of their neighbors in South Britain, Messrs. Canfield, Pierce and Bristol, had emigrated to Wakeman, and Dr. Clark was led to go there too and get a farm. In the spring of 1818, they started for Wakeman with ox teams and after a journey of six weeks reached their destination on the 19th of June. Dr. Clark purchased 50 acres of Lot 24 (the Max Keller farm). They first occupied the little cabin which Mr. Canfield had built for his temporary use. Dr. Clark soon set about the task of getting a log house built on his own land. When he was ready for the raising, he got men from Florence to help, as there were so few in Wakeman. In three or four days the house was completed and they moved in on the 15th of July. They had no bedstead, table or chairs at first. (See page 44 for Mrs. Clark’s diary.) Dr. Clark did not expect to practice his profession when he came here but there were so many calls for his services, and no other physicians were near, that he felt obliged to answer the calls and was soon traveling through the woods on foot with his saddle bags (containing his medicines) on his arm. His territory extended from the Lake on the north to New London on the south. His fee was from fifty to seventy five cents a visit, and at that, very little money was received. He took his pay in whatever he could get, home-made cloth, wheat, maple sugar, etc.
He was elected a Justice of the Peace soon after he came and performed the first marriage ceremony in the township, that of Marshall Johnson and Marinda Bradley, and received his fee in lard.
He spent some time as a missionary among the Indians in the Maumee country (about 1824). After a few years he built a frame house on the farm and lived there until 1856, when he sold the farm to Harriet M. Van Wagner. The price, $1500, represented the savings of thirty eight years of toil. Mrs. Clark’s health was too poor for her to keep house, so they went to live with their daughter at South Amherst, Ohio, and two years later to Ashland, Ohio, to live with a son. In 1860 they went to Iowa to the home of another son. In 1863, Mrs. Clark went to South Amherst to visit her daughter, was taken sick and died on May 20, 1863. In 1864, Dr. Clark went to Ashland and died there March 15, 1865.
Mrs. Clark opened a school soon after she arrived in Wakeman, in the Canfield house, and her diary tells all about her life at that time.
Mrs. Clark had two sisters who became Wakeman residents, Caroline Downs, the wife of Justus Wheeler, and Nancy, wife of Chester Manvel. Dr. and Mrs. Clark had children: Philo Henry, Leander, Hannah Maria, and Theodore F.
Philo Henry (called "Henry") Clark was born Aug. 3, 1819, was a student at Oberlin College 1837- 38. He was in the drug business in Port Washington, Wisconsin, in 1846. In 1850 he settled in Ashland, Ohio. He probably studied medicine and practiced before he graduated, as was allowed in those days.
In 1862, he graduated from Buffalo Medical College. He was an Assistant Surgeon in the army in 1862- 63. He practiced medicine in Ashland for many years and died there Nov. 28, 1911. He married, 1st, Dec. 18, 1844, Sarah Jane McDougal, who died in less than a year. He married 2nd, May 18, 1847, his cousin, Elizabeth Clark, who died in 1909. He had no children.
Leander Clark was born July 17, 1823. In 1846 he was in Fort Washington with his brother. In 1848, he went to California and engaged in mining, packing and trading. In 1854, he settled in Tama county, Iowa, where he lived until his death, Dec. 22, 1910. He served in the Civil war and rose to the rank of Major. He became County Judge and a member of the State Assembly. He was a successful business man. He endowed Western College of Toledo, Iowa, with fifty thousand dollars, and the name of the college was changed to Leander Clark College. He married Maria A. Barker, Feb. 14, 1867. They had no children.
Hannah Maria Clark was born Sept. 17, 1828. She married John Collins Bryant, May 21, 1851, and lived in South Amherst, Ohio. Later they moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where Mr. Bryant became one of the founders of the Bryant and Stratton Business College. They had three children. She was living in 1918 in her 90th year.
Theodore Frelinghuysen Clark was born March 27, 1831. He married March 4, 1858, Lucia Jane Tuller, a daughter of Mrs. Dexter Bacon, of Wakeman. (See page 49.) He lived for many years at Traer, Iowa, and became wealthy, owning some thousands of acres of land and being interested in a chain of twelve banks. He died Nov. 9, 1919. The wife died March 15, 1917.
They had two children, Hermon, who died at the age of 31, and Edith May.
CLARK, Amos – a brother of Dr. H. M. Clark, was born in Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 3, 1801. In 1818, his parents moved to Medina county, Ohio, and he went with them. (See Clark Diary, page 44.) While living in Medina he once went to Cleveland with an ox team. The road was only a trail cut through the woods. So many trees had fallen across the trail that he was much delayed and had to pass the night in the woods, far from any human habitation. It was in the month of March and quite cold. To keep warm he crawled in between the oxen after they had lain down.
In August 1823, he came to Wakeman and bought of his brother 60 acres of Lot 24. In 1828, he bought 27 acres of Lot 25. In 1833, he bought 65 acres of Lot 15, the farm afterward occupied by Alban Canfield, and this was his home in later years. He probably lived on one of the other farms before this.
He was married to Ruth Ann Manvel on May 31, 1827, by Rev. Ludovicus Robbins. She was a sister to Chester Manvel and her family genealogy will be found with his on page 136. She was born in Woodbury, Conn., Aug. 23, 1804, and died in Wakeman April 2, 1878. Mr. Clark died at the home of Mrs. Haskins, Sept. 6, 1884.
Their children were:
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1. Edwin A., |
born July 25, 1828, married Mary A. Coon, daughter of Joseph Coon, of Wakeman. He died in Ashley, Mich., May 27, 1882. In 1852 he bought 50 acres in the center part of Lot 6 and sold it to Joel Whitcomb in 1857. He also owned and lived on the Augustine Canfield farm. |
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2. Cyrus M., |
born July 17, 1830, died Feb. 19, 1872. He spent his life in Wakeman and suffered from spinal trouble and was confined to his chair for twenty years. |
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3. Albert Clark, |
born Feb., 1835, was unmarried and spent the most of his life in Wakeman, and died Dec. 22, 1895. |
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4. James M., |
born Aug. 27, 1836, married Mary E. McComb, Feb. 1873. |
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5. Mary L., |
born Dec. 5, 1838, married Henry B. Foote, Dec. 12, 1866. |
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6. John M., |
born June 19, 1840, died March 8, 1851. |
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7. Julia, |
born June 23, 1847, married Isaac P. Haskins, of Wakeman, Dec. 24, 1868, and lives in Wakeman, (1938). See page 122. |
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8. David H., |
born Sept. 17, 1849, married Evarilla Duffy and died March 16, 1871, in Mexico while with a surveying party. |
CLARK, David Stiles - a son of Enoch Clark, was born in Milford, Conn., April 3, 1828. He was married to Esther A. Boyd, of Orange, Conn., Sept. 9, 1850. She was born in South Britain, Conn., June 26, 1830, and was a daughter of Francis Boyd, who was a brother of the wives of Merritt Hyde and William Beers. She died Oct. 30, 1918.
Mr. Clark was a shoemaker by trade. He and his family came to Wakeman in 1856. In 1857, he purchased Lot No. 1 in the village, where his son now lives. In 1859, he purchased of Eliphalet Brooks the 50 1/2 acre farm in Lot 46, south of the road. He died Feb. 7, 1887. Their children were:
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1. Ella Christine, |
born in Orange, Dec. 23, 1852, died Oct 10, 1858, |
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2. Walter, |
born July 13, 1854, died Jan. 31, 1857, |
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3. Rollin B., |
" Jan. 3, 1858, " 1874, |
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4. Charles Shelton |
" March 20, 1860, married Sarah T. Smith, June 12, 1888, and lives in Wakeman, where he has built up a business of handling seed corn which is supposed to be the largest in the world and it was. |
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5. Harriet Augusta, |
born Aug. 21, 1865, married Prof. George Whitfield Andrews of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. |
CLOUGH, Winthrop, born in New Hampshire July 25, 1793, and died at the home of his son, Josiah, in Wakeman, Feb. 21, 1878. He was a captain in the war of 1812. He and his wife, Susan, had children, Josiah, born in 1818; Mary, born 1820, Allen B., born 1822; Andrew, born 1828, and Emily, born 1830. Clough, Josiah, born in Strafford, Orange Co., Vt., June 12,1818. He married Chloe Parker, of the same county in Vermont. She was the daughter of Levi and Eunice Parker, and was born in Thetford, Vt., May 19, 1810, and died Feb. 17, 1899. She was a sister of Zachariah Parker of Florence and of the wife of Esquire William Parker, also of Florence.
Mr. and Mrs. Clough came to Wakeman in 1853, where they lived on the east river road near the north line of the township, where he died Jan. 3, 1897. They had children:
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Adaliza, |
born Sept. 26, 1839, married John Cole. |
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Emily S., |
" June 1842, married at the age of 17 Woodruff Parkhurst and they moved to the West. She lived in Eaton, Colorado from 1885 until her death Dec. 31, 1908. |
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Uretta, |
born June 13, 1851, married Dr. George R. Fox and died at Canton, Ill., Jan. 7, 1876. |
There were three more children who died young.
COE, Bela - In 1634 there emigrated from England to America one Robert Coo (as the name was then spelled), who grandfather suffered martyrdom during the reign of Queen Mary, because he would not renounce his religion. (A sideboard which used to belong to him was owned by Julius Coe, one time postmaster of Norwalk, Ohio.)
Robert Coe, Jr., came to America with his wife and three sons, Robert, John, and Benjamin, and from these are descended the numerous family of Coe in America.
Israel Coe, a descendant, born July 22, 1756, at Granville, Mass., came to Rootstown, Portage county, Ohio, in 1809. He was reared to farming, a vocation he followed through life. He prospered, owned a large tract of land and a sawmill, and several years before his death gave to each of his children a good farm. He married Miss Artemesia Wright, who bore him six children, as follows: Samuel; Harvey, who became a prominent minister of the Congregational Church; Betsy ( wife of Reuben Hall, of Wakeman, page 117); Fanny, Bela and Israel D.
Bela Coe was born in Massachusetts in 1796 and came to Rootstown with his parents. About 1819 he married Maria, daughter of Isaac Hill (then of Rootstown, but later of Wakeman, page 124), who was born in South Britain, Conn., in 1795. In February 1827, Mr. Coe came, with his family, to Wakeman. In 1829, he received the deed to 100 acres of land in Lot 15 (comprising the Viola Moore farm and that portion of the Charles Parsons farm in Lot 15). This was their home until 1847 when they sold to Rev. Joel Talcott. Mr. Coe died Oct. 5, 1850, and the wife died Oct. 20, 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Coe had but one child:
Almon Bela Coe, born Nov. 6, 1820, in Portage county, and was six years of age when his parents brought him to Wakeman. On June 4, 1843, in Edinburgh, Portage county, he married Mariette M. Bostwick, born in that county August 7, 1820, daughter of Edmund Bostwick. (Or Edward and Aurelia Hawley Bostwick). The wife died Dec. 13, 1865. They had moved to Ste Marie, Ill., in 1864. After the death of his wife, he came back to Wakeman, and on Aug. 13, 1868, he married, 2nd, Nancy, daughter of Isaac Russell, of Wakeman, page 160. He died in Wakeman, March 13, 1898. His house used to stand just north of the site of the Congregational parsonage, in the village.
His children were:
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1st marriage, |
William Henry, |
born July 3, 1844, died July 26, 1850. |
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Edwin Wallace, |
born Jan. 31, 1849, lived in California. |
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Justin Bela, |
born Aug. 26, 1851, lived in Toledo, Ohio, |
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Arthur B., |
born July 14, 1854, died Feb. 9, 1873. |
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Aurelia M., |
born Sept. 1, 1857, married Alonzo Rice and lived in Shelby, Ohio. |
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Alice Marietta, |
born July 14, 1862, died Sept. 15, 1866. |
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2nd marriage, |
Mary A., |
born Aug. 3, 1869, m. Charles Kenyon, of Florence, |
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Frances O., |
born June 3, 1871, lived in Wakeman, unmarried, |
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George A., |
born Dec. 15, 1874, killed by accident on R.R. |
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Harriet E., |
born Oct. 24, 1875, died May 15, 1886, |
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Alida, |
born March 18, 1878, m. William Shafer, lives in Wakeman. |
COLLINS, Widow Julia - a sister of Michael Dunn, of Wakeman, married John Collins in Ireland, and they came to Oberlin in 1854. Mr. Collins died of sunstroke in four weeks after their arrival. The widow then removed to Wakeman and lived in a house on a five acre tract of land which is now a part of the Dunn farm. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Connolly in 1903, at the age of 83. Her children were Bridget, wife of Matthew Dunn, of Camden; Mary, widow of Michael Connolly, of Wakeman; Elizabeth, wife of John Carr, of Wakeman; Patrick, of Toledo, Ohio.
CONRY, Thomas - came from Ireland to America in 1847 and to Wakeman as early as 1858. In that year he purchased of DeWitt Ennes 30 acres of land on the south side of Lot 83, on the Butler road, south of the Cashman farm. He died March 5, 1879 at the age of 74. Their children were Honora (Murray), of Elyria; Mary, widow of Michael Dunn, of Wakeman; Patrick T., of Townsend; Bridget (Tully), of Cleveland; Thomas, deceased; Catherine (Grady) died in 1894; Julia, of Cleveland. Mrs. Conry died in 1903 at the age of 84. She was Julia Burke and was a sister of the mother of Thomas Fahy, Sr. of Wakeman.
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